skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit surprised why such news keep coming to the front page? I mean is there really much interest in psychology and especially PTSD treatment here or is it about drug use (doubt that, too)?
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These scumbags are the only ones willing to provide financing for undocumented immigrants to get to their jobs. Cognitive Dissonance.
Same in the grocery stores in the US midwest. If you're lucky, the available options are 80% non-fat (loaded with sugar), 15% low-fat (most sugary, but not all), and 5% full fat. In smaller stores there's no full-fat option at all, typically.

The non-fat ones are the "healthy" single-serving cups advertised in commercials with skinny women eating them in really nice kitchens just before they go running, or whatever. Probiotics, yoghurt's supposed to be healthy I think, blah blah. They're fat-free sugary dessert cups. Candy.
> No accepted medical use AND high potential for abuse?

That is Schedule II.

21 U.S.C § 812.b states:

(2) Schedule II.—

(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.

(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions.

(C) Abuse of the drug or other substances may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/812

Additional reading at wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Sche...
Can someone explain to me why this so-called "privacy" is such a big deal on internet? Can't internet, or at least a major part of it, be considered a public place? I mean, when I walk in the street, I do not wear a mask (I suspect that'd be illegal in my country), yet I do not worry about someone using surveillance cameras to track all my activities. Sure, it could technically be done but I'm not that important : nobody would bother. Therefore I vaguely consider myself anonymous when I walk in the street, not because my identity is hidden, but because it's mixed in thousands of others : "hidden in plain sight", as they say.

Couldn't things be similar on internet? Or do we really all have to hide our identity like criminals?
whether you have low or high fat in your diet, you could fill a good portion of that total caloric intake with protein instead of carbohydrates and that would still satisfy the claims that you can mitigate against "Higher carbohydrate intake was associated with an increased risk of total mortality"

This doesn't contadict any of your points here, but: my understanding is that excess dietary protein is broken down into glucose via gluconeogenesis, in which case I suspect that the high-protein and high-carbohydrate diets wouldn't have significantly different results.
Hence why it is available only for Pixel (which Google controls) and the Samsung Galaxy 8 (a large partner) because it can be precisely calibrated.

Why is it Google "me too"? Tango was released in 2014.The basic plane detection functionality that's in Tango is derived from the same mechanism that Apple uses. Facebook released an ARKit-like library at their conference before ARKit was even announced.

When Apple is late to the party, it seems people say "it doesn't matter if you're first, Apple waits till its 'ready'", but when Apple is perceived to have done something first, suddenly everyone accuses Apple's competitors of being thieves and copying.
Aftermarket alarms, installing stereos and removing unwanted 3rd party electronics on newish cars are all cake compared to mechanical work for the most part.

I find it hard to believe that there isn't a car stereo/alarm/electronics shop in Sherbrooke that isn't known to other shops for removing these sort of things. You'd probably have pretty good luck going to the U-pull on a Saturday AM and asking the girl at the desk to point out someone who's a regular then offer them $50 to remove the system.

Obviously those sorts of actions are slightly outside of the box for most people but if dealerships want to act scummy then the workarounds become more widely known.

Edit: Please do some googling, window shop a few models, read a few installation instruction pdfs for trackers and aftermarket alarm systems before saying they're impossible to remove.

If you can install a stereo or aftermarket alarm then you can install/remove on of these. They are not designed to be Ft. Knox. They are designed to be a deterrent for the layman.
"I lean extremely far right, but in this case, this seems like one of the few things that the federal government should be doing-- breaking up stout monopolies that can't be competed with."

Doesn't sound like you are far right at all then. I'm wondering if we're actually a good judge of our own political leaning. I think that I'm libertarian (little 'l'), but Facebook ad policy thinks I'm far left. Maybe Facebook knows me better than I do.
That's why I try to avoid putting all of my eggs in the same basket

This is what I had been trying up until six or seven years ago. At that point it just got too complex to build and maintain.

With ISPs selling our location and traffic data, I think there's no engineering your way around the problem now. Perhaps the best we can do is damage mitigation.
> Existing release artifacts for Solaris will continue to be made available, but no new releases will be issued, barring a critical issue raised under an existing support contract covering MongoDB versions 3.0 through 3.4 running on Solaris.

Sounds like those with a support contract can get a patch/update. I suppose everyone else is SOL.
I agree with you in theory, except that the artificially high prices and higher interest means that the people most at-risk for default are then made MORE RISKY. I understand that a bank has to be careful with high risk loans, but this is effectively like tying a ball and chain to an olympic runner, and then sending them to prison when they lose the race.

And frankly, all of that is forgivable; what is not is when the dealers then use these remote GPS devices to disable the vehicles, with NO GODDAMN IDEA what the vehicle is currently doing: Sure, they could tell if it was on the highway but would they actually care? And what if the person is working a night job, as many in poverty do? How do they get home?

Or what about the case awhile back of the woman who's baby was in the damn car when it was towed?

I get it, it's a business risk, but these things are DESIGNED, purposely, to fuck people out of their money and do tons of damage besides that. Exactly how much is a bank allowed to ruin someones life over a CAR LOAN?

Crap like this is why we need a Consumers Bill of Rights.
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Apple and now Google are making it easier to produce AR apps, but the tech has been there for years. I made my first AR demo some 8 years ago for a big event I was working with (on a laptop).

IMO AR in smartphones and tablets is a fad that in 2 years nobody will care about. Remember all those gyroscope/accelerometer based games? Yeah me neither.

Maybe AR will be awesome when someone (Apple? Microsoft?) releases a pair of lightweight glasses that can produce stereoscopic images superimposed seamlessly over reality, but we are still very, very far away from that.
Very regrettably, most newspapers still do not link to the original journal article when discussing academic work. Even places like the NY Times started doing this routinely only a few years ago, more than a decade after it become trivially easy to do technically.
Not an easy task when the medical profession and governments have said that fat in nutrition == fat in the body for decades.

With this kind of "science" in our history it isn't surprising that many don't believe today's climate scientists.
Informed conjecture from https://medium.com/super-ventures-blog/why-is-arkit-better-t...:

Ogmento was founded by my Super Ventures partner Ori Inbar. Ogmento became
FlyBy and the team there successfully built a VIO system on IOS leveraging an
add-on fish eye camera. This code-base was licenced to Google which became
the VIO system for Tango. Apple later bought FlyBy and the same codebase is
the core of ARKit VIO.

...

I don’t have any hard insider confirmation on this, but I think the Metaio
codebase would have helped with the plane detection and probably helped with
the mapping/relocalization pieces of the visual tracker. FlyBy had by far the
best Inertial tracker on the market, and it’s this piece that makes ARKit
magic (instant stereo convergence & metric scale in particular).
On iOS you can put find in page in the bottom row of the screen that pops up when you hit the share button. I also put request desktop site there for easy access (although I recently accidentally discovered that that's available by long pressing the reload button.)
It depends on whether you need it to be free as in free beer.

Couchbase is an enterprise grade NoSQL database, it scales very well, and it has a full SQL-like query language, and a lot of large companies use it.

The community edition is free as in free beer and it is also open source. For enterprise use, you can buy a support contract, and there is an enterprise edition.
I would love to know what mongodb offered you above MySQL/Postgres?

I always hear you can iterate fast but for most usecases I cannot see how mongodb is quicker to iterate than a relational database. Would love to learn though.
Evacuating the Randstaad is feasible within a few days, at least in theory. Most people live walking distance from a tram, bus or train station.

Even equating civility, which is not the case, between the NL and TX, there's literally no public transport available, period. Roads are not an option (just check any daily commute between say Montrouse and Katy).

Houston is a dead trap in events like this, with no recourse available other than holing up and hoping it's not your time.

Evacuation or not, I'm sure to leave the city at the slightest sign of heavy rain, and I haven't regretted so far.

Source: I lived in both places for the last ten years.
But still, what's the point? This can easily be done without a blockchain.
Blogging on Paper
The Longest Approach: A Thru-Climb of the PCT
Self-driving pizza delivery cars to be tested in the US
Is offering breakfast not normal for fast food chains in Canada? Most of them do in the US, including Burger King.
> and support zooming in in a sane way

Or, just don't fiddle with it. One does not have to do anything to support zooming, other than to not obstruct it.
Really enjoyed William Hertling's Kill Process on this very subject.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30658546-kill-process
Contemporary design is overly focused on curb appeal. IMHO, it's an understated problem.

IMHO, the cause is a combination of commercialism and of visual designers being inculcated with inappropriate values and training from traditional print design.
> Your cost will be the single biggest obstacle to your employability, for your entire life.

This is only good advice if being "employable" is the most important thing to you. We work to make money, the money is not some kind of weird coincidence of being employed.
> for most usecases I cannot see how mongodb is quicker to iterate than a relational database

Neither can I. What part of RDBMS make it hard to iterate exactly?
> Looking at this issue more broadly, I definitely agree that non-IT industries need to take into account Agile methodology to improve their results.

Non-IT industries are often ahead of the “Agile” movement in IT, having adopted Lean methodology and related approaches that actually applying engineering approaches to solve the problem identified, but not actionably addressed, in the Agile Manifesto.

Most so-called Agile methodologies (the exceptions mostly being adaptations from Lean methodologies, either in other industries or from the Lean Software Development movement) fail to do this, and Agile has largely become exactly the kind of cargo cult, situation-blind consultant-driven, value-blind nightmare that the Agile Manifesto was a response against.
It is in this case (originally), because it's a leased vehicle. It's not "your own car" in any meaningful way. You aren't allowed to do maintenance on a Hertz rental either. Legally there's nothing wrong with this device being on the car.

But in this particular case, they had already sold the car to the guy's family and didn't own the title any more. Yet the kill switch was still in place and they decided to use it over some random fee (which seems to have been for the kill switch itself, per the article). That's pretty obviously illegal.
At least HTML can be trivially converted to text. Who wants to bet that your conversations in WhatsApp, or WeChat, or Facebook, or whatever the kids are using today, are binary blobs that require a running, proprietary "app" to view, or only available through a cloud service?
it doesn't work at all.

you're all idiots.
I do not believe that. For one, those high interest rates and markups can often exacerbate the problem.
I'd be very surprised if the buyer didn't sign something upon purchase that gives the dealer the right to disable the car on lack of payment.
Interesting premise. Could even be the plot of a present day sci-fi novel (an executive goes about their day of seemingly random inconveniences amidst a high-stakes battle between advertising firms directing the exec towards their clients). Almost reminds me of The Game, which was the greatest film ever made and I will hear NO argument.

That being said, most of the wealthy people I know personally tend not to use computers when they can call up concierge services to handle complex tasks for them. That most wealthy people I know happen to be older and not as used to using computers for every problem may just be more of an age rather than economic dissonance.
> Computers were a mistake and represent the greatest threat to freedom in human history. The ability of those in power to mass produce perfectly obedient machines that can perform complex tasks without rest allow for a nightmare society.

I think about that a lot. It suggests to me that the real problem lies not with technology, but with something unavoidable and self-destructive about human nature.
Can anyone who currently runs X on top of Wayland comment on how ready it is for daily desktop use?

If I installed Wayland and ran X on top of it today, would it be as stable and feature-rich as a standalone xorg server?
The outlook is much better in 2017 than it was just a few years ago. Another +1 for PyQt. I wanted a native Mac look and you can get get pretty darn close with Qt. I've also used PyInstaller, which is superbly well documented.
It gets more difficult when you're cooking for/dining with your family and not everyone's on board with sandwich and egg dinners all the time. Kids, yeah, they'll eat what you give them (sooner or later) but a spouse/SO is another matter. Not impossible, but harder.

Exercise, diet, just so much easier when you're single. Stupid-easy. And before kids, especially the exercise part.
> My own opinion is that phone's viewport is too small for a great AR experience. It's a nice initial experience and visually impressive, but will quickly become tiring. The long term form of this has to be some form of glasses, because waving around a phone in all directions and holding it in midair while touching the UI is kind of awkward.

I'm 100% certain that's what Apple is preparing for.
AR in a phone is a neat toy, a gimmick. The most perfect AR toolkit ever made still won't change the fact that you're holding a phone in your hand, interacting with it through a screen, etc.
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I'm waiting for "Show HN: How to blog with a static site generator". Medium is getting to be too much. If you're a programmer, at least use a static site generator (Metalsmith, Hugo, Hexo, etc.). You can deploy to Github pages with git or
via drag-and-drop to a service like Netlify.
Looks like they have a few examples here, not all of them have download/source links yet though: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ar
Stupid question: Why can't you just take an array of all the pixels, randomize it and then iterate it to draw?
I believe there's a more recent version of this document available here: http://statistics.zone
I have fond memories of Solaris, but I'm pretty much on OpenBSD for good these days. It's really head-and-shoulders above anything else available these days, IMO. The closest alternative that I'd find acceptable might be Arch, but gosh, systemd is one of those things that just make me hate running systems.
I'm having horrible performance issues on Chrome.
Building Enterprise Software Companies That Reach Large Exits
Sure.. but that didn't happen here. He paid off the car. And they still disabled it.
Isn't there anything notable you could talk about that has already been released?
Yev from Backblaze here -> Saw this go off in my twitter feed, I'll be here for any questions if you have them.
I actually had these thoughts when reading the bitcoin whitepaper. It seemed to me that the author had surely written other research whitepapers, and thus there should be definitive artifacts and writing styles that can be used to attribute authorship [1].

I don't see why this has to be limited to the capabilities of an intelligence agency. Perhaps they have the motive, but I'm sure private citizens could perform the same data mining queries (without mass surveillance).

Either way, this post presents zero information and just unsubstantiated speculation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
Plus, as soon as you have 1 coin = 1 burger, you can't ever reduce the value of a coin without upsetting people. People still get mad when you devalue rewards points, but they are less likely to noticed.
I'm not a customer of Backblaze, but I really love how they publish this data for the public. I wish more companies did this kind of thing.
Chromebooks are going to be awesome whenever Webassembly comes to maturity.
How Silicon Valley could be part of the solution to North Korea
Same here, also broken on Firefox for me.
are you not successful? i'm successful... i don't have linkedin. i never will. i will be more successful.

you're all idiots.
...authoritarian, yet in a manipulative fashion rather then upfront.

Rings a bell?
I think ARKit-style SLAM will turn out to be a fad, they'll be a lot of interesting toy apps, but AR without environmental understanding or persistence I don't think offers much beyond that. The basic ARKit demos we've seen are the same stuff we've been seeing for a while now demoed with third party libraries.

Including depth sensing HW was the right solution, but Google doesn't have its own popular smartphone as a forcing function. I predict eventually Apple will include a depth camera, or they'll use dual-cameras to try and synthesize it, and once that happens, then all Android manufacturers will follow suite.

If AR is to be useful, it's got to be a lot better at tracking and drift, at making sense of the world, of supporting occlusion and mapping.
Wonder if it's mining in the browser as you watch the demo :/
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It's about ease.

Before the internet, it was very hard for the average person to find out stuff. Maybe not having a ring on the finger meant they are single. Or are they divorced?

Now, it is just too easy. And commonplace.

Sure, all if our lifes events could have been collected. They were called biographers. Now they are called everyman.

Data had always been collected. Just never easily retrieved.

For me, i am appalled that some people i know think absolutely nothing about googling a person they just met. To me, they were not reared properly of they do that.
Also get a copy of https://www.amazon.com/Where-There-No-Doctor-Handbook/dp/094...

Slightly more focused on pediatrics, but super useful resource when other literature says "At this point, head to the emergency room or call 911".
It's not just academic studies, journalists very frequently don't cite their sources for many factual claims. Their editors and them knowing what or whom it is is way too often enough for them.

It rubs me the wrong way. It feels a lot like: "We know better and can tell you what to think. We don't need to show our work."

That said, it has been getting better, especially for the tech savy younger generation with Twitter links (:P), but their editors are probably trying to keep the number of hyperlinks relatively low.
It is very slow for me on Firefox too, both stable and nightly.
who gets to decide what's censored? you?
Dear web designers:

Tall screen? Use a topbar.

Wide screen? Use a sidebar.
We don't allow individuals to choose a flag of convenience.

Otherwise, every December 31, every Wall St banker would change residence to New Hampshire to avoid bonus taxation.

On the flip side, you probably don't want insurance companies to decide that your winter home in South Carolina is your bona fide residence based on where your car is insured. States like NY, CA and MA generally have consumer rights that are better for the individual.
Android won't even let me use my SD card as I wish and Google disabled ad-hoc WiFi... it's getting pretty bad already...
Happy to see HN is starting to catch on to Bitcoin after going on 7 years now of nay saying.
Thank you for finding the link to the actual study. Can we have this edited to point to it, rather than the Telegraph's clickbaity reblog of it?

From the study:

> "Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality (quintile 5 vs quintile 1, total fat: HR 0·77 [95% CI 0·67–0·87], ptrend<0·0001; saturated fat, HR 0·86 [0·76–0·99], ptrend=0·0088; monounsaturated fat: HR 0·81 [0·71–0·92], ptrend<0·0001; and polyunsaturated fat: HR 0·80 [0·71–0·89], ptrend<0·0001)"

This is the sentence immediately before the one you quoted, and I believe it is deceptive to quote the non-result on CVD in particular, rather than the positive result on all-cause mortality.
You might not be important now. But you might be "important" in the future due to your affiliation with a political group, religion or even your skin color. You never know which way the political winds will blow. And data is kept forever.
Yev here -> Thanks, so do we! Honestly we always thought that once we published what we see in our environment that others would follow suite, but that hasn't quite happened yet!
This is a great look into Feistel networks!

One thing:

> Doing this with a pseudo random generator, as noted in the blog post, is slow, but is also visually very unpleasant, since the more red pixels you have on the screen already, the less likely is that you hit a new yet-not-red pixel, so the final pixels take forever to turn red

I'm not sure if the author of this article was confused by the original article, or if the wording is just weird here, but...

The original article presents Wolfenstein's algorithm which _is_ fast and efficient, and which fills the screen lineraly. It visits each pixel on the screen, in random order, exactly once. And it does it using just a conditional and an XOR.

The technique scales to any resolution (we have maximum-length LFSR for any number of bits you'd need).

So there were no problems to be solved here. Wolfenstein already solved them.

Feistel networks are interesting, but ... they don't solve this problem any better than Wolfenstein's LFSR technique. Both can scale to any resolution in exactly the same way. But Feistel networks are terribly inefficient for this task. It's hard to beat a conditional + XOR per pixel.
I didn't know they added that. The intrinsic could be useful to parallelize the computation using SSE/AVX.
That's why I like the BBC; they link to the study the article is discussing, and have always done so.
If the device could simply be removed, it would be pretty easy to circumvent.

I'd imagine there is some sort of phone-home that indicates the device is still connected, and any tampering of the device could result in heavy penalties--including forfeiting the vehicle.
Why the iPhone 8's face-scanning tech could be a privacy disaster