skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could be a camera or sensor quality/feature issue. Or could be they just haven't built a lens map for it yet, so they don't have fov and distortion metrics.
I know of a successful exec who was a less-than-stellar exec at Amazon, a terrible VP of Engineering at my current company (valued at 2.5 billion), and went on to be a CTO at his current company (valued at 1 billion).

He basically used his experience to catapult him into VP Engineering/CTO roles even though he isn't a good executive. A good example of success by association or faking it until you make it.
ZFS needs a lot of RAM for good performance. Like 10s of GBs. How were your boxes configured?
you mean clean "meat"
There are two different legal regimes at play: property law and contract law. You can put whatever you want in a contract, and if the buyer breaches the contract you can sue them for breach. But as a general matter, there are no "self help" remedies for breach of contract. Remedies like repossession are the domain of property law. You can leverage property-law interests in a contract (e.g. providing in a contract that buyer retains title property until payment for goods), but as a general matter you can't mess with peoples' property to enforce a contract.

I'm not sure how Canadian law works, but in most U.S. states, an auto lender holds a lien, which is an encumbrance on your car title. Liens cease to exist when the debt obligation they are tied to is repaid. (Your lender will send you a letter or notice of satisfaction, but that is merely evidence of the fact that the lien has been extinguished.)

Because property law has its own mechanics, you can't just assume that the dealership can give itself arbitrary self-help rights in the contract. It's possible that the dealership has clever lawyers and set things up to allow it to lock out the car even after repayment. But it seems more likely that the dealership simply fucked up, and tried to collect a fee using a self-help remedy it was no longer entitled to use after repayment of the loan.
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So you don't think it is a big deal because you believe your private data is not important.

The issue is that perhaps your data is not as important right now, but it is possible that one day you might do something that might upset someone in the power and any information about you might be used against you (and that would be years and years of your past since that data wouldn't be gone).

Just look at Snowden, how they tried to use every petty detail about him. He was careful though and did not leave much, but there were strong forces trying to discredit him.

Maybe you think you would never did anything like what Snowden did, but what's considered bad depends on what current administration thinks. With our current president it feels like insulting him on twitter might be good enough cause.

Second issue is that Big Data done on you, it can infer a lot about you based on the data that you provided, often it can know more about you than yourself.

That data then can be used against you, here's one example of a company that does this and in fact not only tries to learn about people but actually influence them[1]. It's suspected that they are behind Bexit and Trump victory.

[1] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-li...
An interesting thing about this is that it could actually benefit ARKit by making it less risky. If you develop an ARKit app now, you can be pretty sure you'll be able to port it to Android in a year or two as ARCore rolls out.
It's already out there. https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/28/8th-wall-wants-to-put-awes...

The kit works on Unity and supports both Android and iOS, using the right library on the right phone.
The Atari 2600 video hardware used these all over the place instead of traditional counters. It saved them a lot of gates that counters would require.
Having used this, its not without its issues.

* Adds a performance penalty over straight Mapbox-GL.
* No support for animations / flyovers / etc.
* You have to give width/height in pixels for map size.
* Can't introspect map to get layer / point data w/o hacks.

The recent ver 3.0 was a big improvement.
I was highly confused until I read the article. Here is a summary:

1. Guy's mom pays off his car loan

2. Dealer says we installed a remote immobilizer to protect our loan

3. Dealer demands $200 to remove the device since the loan is paid off now

4. Guy understandably refuses

5. Dealer immobilizes car

I think this sort of behavior should mean the end of your dealership. I cannot quantify/identify the actual wrongdoing here but I'm pretty sure there is something illegal.
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> There are definitely "shadow spaces" in even an ideal Vive setup where you're body could be occluding one base station and your hand holding the controller could be occluding the other.

Huh, I've never really experienced that. Or if I have, it doesn't happen frequently enough for me to notice. It does happen in some spaces outside my play area, beyond the guardian system, but inside it tracking is near perfect. I have a Rift, not a Vive though, so maybe this is an issue specific to the Vive? My Rift uses 3 sensors, not 2, so perhaps the occlusion issue is lessened by that. Or perhaps your Lighthouses are just positioned a bit strangely?

> I think gun-games are quite far from the best uses of VR. I am sure a certain class of gamers will like it, but I don't think that class intersects well with current, 2D-display FPS gamers

Agreed. There are other games which would suffer from this type of occlusion issue though. Echo Arena, for example, often requires you to grab onto a surface with one hand while turning your head in a completely different direction to look at your surroundings. Any game that requires you to interact with something not in your field of view would have this problem.

For non-game applications like Tilt Brush, Google Blocks, or Google Earth though I can see this headset working just fine. Casual games which involve primarily working with your hands might also work well. (Job Simulator, Rick and Morty VR, etc. Not Fantastic Contraption though; that one requires you to reach behind your head to grab new parts, if I recall correctly.)
I am not scared. I will take thus tech, as soon as they ask for volunteers.

I've been onlne for a long time. I'd happily take these risks. I'd risk death, with nary a question asked. I will sign up today, for such a tech.
The build process is significantly better in Android world once you actually take a look at how the build process works and need to start doing automated testing and deployment. Xcode tools for actual continious development beyond manual clicking are horrendous and waste a huge amount of people hours.
Well, you're allowed to your opinion.

But I've never seen anybody mention say something about members of a group, ethnicity, nationality, whatever, etc in casual conversation and really mean it absolutely applies to everybody in that set with no exceptions (e.g. "Scots are stingy" or "Californians are into health").

And when I say "never seen anybody", consistent with my rule, I mean "I only seen very few do that".

So, I'm sure you can find some counter-examples. But do you really believe what I say is not true in the large majority of cases?
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> - Probably need an iOS device, as the emulator is very slow

Only if you're doing OpenGL, as that's actually rendered in software (not sure about if you're using Metal). Otherwise, the simulator (not emulator!) is fast, which is as it should be as it's running native code (which is why it's a simulator, not an emulator). If anything, it's important to test on devices because the simulator can mask performance problems (though as devices become more and more powerful that becomes less of an issue).
> Your body has minimum protein (and types of protein, AKA essential aminos) and fat (and types of fat, essential fatty acids) requirements, or you will die. And that is not a clickbait headline.

Yeah it is. Well, it would be, if people ever talked about amino acids in headlines.

People die of malnutrition, but good luck finding a population where people dying because they missed out on a specific amino acid is even remotely commonplace. Seriously, to whom does that happen?
I'm glad to see that HGST have the lowest failure rates across the board for the 3rd(?) year in a row. I was concerned they'd lose their place when they were bought by Western Digital.
Kia's are pretty nice vehicles these days (it's a marque within the Hyundai empire).
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George Iny, president of the Automobile Protection Association, said Quebec has strict rules on how GPS immobilizers can be used. In this case, he said, the dealership's actions were against the law because it no longer owned the car.

Seems clear to me. What am I missing?
I deeply respect Elm and think many other teams members do as well. The fractal architecture concept was one of the influences to how we write Luna2 code. My main concern with Elm for Asana is long term risk. Choosing Elm means choosing a framework and a language. You can see more of our thoughts here: https://blog.asana.com/2014/11/asana-switching-typescript/
VNC and RDP work pretty great without it.
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AFAIK Uber switched back to Google Maps... does anyone know why they are still working on Mapbox code?
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Well sure if we're talking about cyberpunk 'heist' novels/rpgs like Shadowrun & Neuromancer. But it's really interesting to see just how 'cyberpunk' our society has become isn't it? We even have most of the technology in place nowadays.

(Well other than the advanced tech they use like cyberdecks and stimsims which aren't really feasible)
Xcode is best for things like managing certs, not actually working in. The intellij version is pretty good; it integrates well with the build system and debugger.

I find it curious you bring up Expo as i've found that is the most opaque and user unfriendly IDE i've used in some time; i don't get why they don't just leverage VSCode and quality tooling over Yet Another Goddamn IDE.
But I guess the point is that each of those LFSRs have a different polynomial and this is a general solution.

The context is related to these notes [1]:

> Note : Because the effect works by plotting pixels individually, it was hard to replicate when developers tried to port the game to hardware accelerated GPU. None of the ports managed to replicate the fizzlefade except Wolf4SDL, which found a LFSR taps configuration to reach resolution higher than 320x200.

> Note : The tap configuration on 17 bits generates 131,072 values before cycling. Since 320x200=64000, it could have been implemented with a 16 bits Maximum-length register with taps on 16,15,13 and 4 (in "Galois" notation.). My assumption is that LFSR literature was hard to come across in 1991/1992 and finding the correct tap for a 16 bit maximum length register was not worth the effort.

[1] http://fabiensanglard.net/fizzlefade/index.php
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I think it's warranted - the OP wrote an insultingly dismissive post with claims which are downright wrong.

It would be fine if he only criticised the newbie experience (where he's very right), but he also decided to add a bunch of wrong things in there.
~7 yrs at CrashPlan. Never backed up more than 30-50GB at a time and it's not gonna dramatically change at all in the near future.

I use it strictly for "personal" and critical data that I cannot recover or get from anywhere else once lost - personal pics, personal videos, my notes - diary, some mails. No, not all mails - most of them are left with Google, MS, on my VPS and if they are gone, I am not gonna miss them terribly. I don't even store my code on CrashPlan servers - for that's there gitlab and bitbucket (mirrored there) and my external hard disk.

In fact I have a ~3GB folder in Dropbox that I have named "Emergency Backup" and if all is lost I might be happy with just that.

It's not that I am being a model "low storage" customer so that CrashPlan can function. But I want to keep my backup habit disciplined (in my own way, of course - many would find my backup strategy as stupid for their own use cases and that's fine).

So please, for the love up proper backup, bring unlimited versioning and file retention for customers like me :-) Or float a cheaper plan where you limit the storage. Or hell, bring something like cold storage and dump my backup there
(I know B2 but that's not what I am looking for; something baked in your main backup service). All I would do is periodically keep checking whether my backup is there or not and I will just leave it be. (Okay, if not really unlimited then something close to it).

We need a CrashPlan alternative. I am willing to stick with and wait for almost a year but after that I would like to move to a better alternative and more trustworthy which you are - except, in all honestly - that glaringly missing (or omitted) critical backup feature. Also, my backup is something I want to pay and let someone else handle in a very solid way.

Here's a discussion I had with Brian few days back and there are some points I have raised. I am not saying they are brilliant ideas, actually that is a wish-list but please have a look if you can - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074647
Thanks - that is good feedback. Yeah the UI on mobile is another thing that really needs a ton of work. Hopefully the worst of it can be fixed soon
I guess we don't have the same understanding of what high speed actually means.
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The Enterprise/Sparc base isn't going to be enough to sustain Solaris, they'll move to Linux on Sparc.
I wonder if this is something insurance should handle.
No, that's not what he said. You just reiterated your (misguided) post.
From my experience in the 90s rave scene the most common adulterants were DXM and speed since they're cheap and press more easily than meth. Acid was the drug of choice when I started going to parties in 94 but then ecstasy overtook it by a long shot and acid pretty much dried up.

I think RCs as adulterants like 2cb or similar phenethylamines started to creep into the scene in the early 2000s. Then cat was _huge_ mid 2000s until it and the other RCs started to get prohibited.

This is just what I picked up from people I knew doing these things btw. I was there for the music and girls.

This sort of subject matter is absolutely fascinating to me. The intersection of pharmacology, law, society and culture and the actual evolution and changes they all go through.

I feel like you could tie phases of electronic music to the drugs people were taking at the time.
At least part of the problem is that no one knows exactly what the fix should be, legislatively.

How do you define what info Google and Facebook shouldn't be able to collect?
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A bit OT but my favorite way to approximate tanh is to do g(f(x)) where f(x) is an odd polynomial and g(x) is 1/sqrt(1 + x^2). The recip sqrt can be computed very quickly using Newton approximation, and many SIMD instructions have an instruction for it. Highly recommended for audio applications.
Glad this made me remember Cory Doctrow riffing on similar scenarios in 2012 with his talk "The Coming Civil War over General-purpose Computing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI
Horseshit. The fact that this comes from a political website pretty much explains the problem.
I based my assumption on the FAQ, but I haven't looked into this network too much and it sounds like you have.

Thanks for the clarification, I guess I shouldn't trust wikis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> What is Waves’ advantage over traditional crowdfunding platforms? Waves is a coloured coins blockchain platform with an integrated decentralised exchange. Our unique selling point...

http://www.waveswiki.org/index.php?title=FAQ

Someone needs to consolidate data about these cryptocurrencies in a wiki with the same standards/format as Wikipedia...
This was my largest gripe with Asana and why I was so happy when we moved away from it.

The simplicity of Asana is nice BUT the web app is terrible in how bloated it feels.

I hated clicking Asana links to a task because it would have to load the entire app and wasted what felt like so much time.
There's not much you can do about a demanding family life (unless you want to prioritize work over it, which I wouldn't recommend) and getting older. Your options are limited for a stressful work environment, but you could try to negotiate some changes to improve that situation.

Learning on off hours seems to be where you have the most leeway. Depending on when you were 23, you may have started web development before its transformation into its current state of an unfathomably complex abomination. If that's the case, I would argue that you got your start in greener pastures, but those times have since passed. You will have to buckle down and learn as much of the "new way" as you can stomach each sitting. Compile a (what will likely be an absurdly long) list of every tool that you're currently using or will be using soon and try to build a working understanding of it. Your best hope is to learn everything you can in a big push and hope that your employer doesn't do the flavor-of-the-month bullshit.
Use clear tape, electrical tape or some tape that matches the color of your machine.

Honestly though, your explanation should be sufficient. If it isn't, you'd have to wonder the tech. understanding of the person who's questioning you in the first place.
A great writeup! A lot of startups face the situation that you need to do significant architectural changes to pay the technical debt and re-enable development speed, or improve the performance and scalability of the service. At the same time, stopping feature development altogether for months is impossible.

Incremental rewrite is often the only way to go. I liked how you approached the rewrite with adapters. I'd be very interested if somebody would collect these kind of "rewrite war stories" to a book form and maybe synthesize common patterns from the stories.
> and constant breakagaes of code when new iOS is released […] We literaly spent a month of man-hours every year to fix up […] iOS API breakages

Unless you're referring to the Swift 2 -> 3 migration process, then I have to seriously question what you're doing that causes so much breakage with iOS version updates. With Obj-C there's usually just a couple of deprecation warnings to handle. With Swift (outside of the 2 -> 3 migration process) there may be a few more updates, due to the Swift SDK wrappers, which may be hard errors instead of merely warnings, but it's still usually pretty easy to fix. And if you are talking about the Swift 2 -> 3 migration, good news, you don't have to do that again!

Which makes me wonder, when you say "iOS API breakages", do you really mean you're using SPI, method swizzling, or subview diving and have to deal with the fact that you're doing something against the rules?
I had something like that happen when I refinanced a car loan. The old lender released the title and sent it to me. About a year later the new lender finally noticed they didn't have the title and asked for it.
Money laundering is doublespeak for Financial Surveillance and Censorship (my labour and money is not your business to restrict or control how I spend it).

This is the end of government monopoly on currency and breathetaking.

HSBC was caught laundering billions of dollars in one of the largest scale terrorist laundering operations ever.

Their punishment? Nothing... because it would "shake confidence in banks".

Well the people have spoken and blockchain is an unstoppable force.

With 0x and liquidity pools for tokens, we will have a centralized barter system that bypasses fiat entirely.

THE BLOCKCHAIN INTERPRETS FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE AS DAMAGE AND ROUTES AROUND IT
I think there's more to it than that. A significant portion of the public sincerely believes that the government should not regulate anything.
Having these rule of thumbs as guidelines doesn't mean that they're actually followed. :-)

One thing I've seen in tech companies is they invest heavily in engineering at the beginning, justifying it as a fixed cost. As the company grows, they stop growing the so called "fixed" cost, and hire more in sales, services and support. (So called "variable" costs) The reality is these salespeople sell custom deals to hit their revenue #s (especially in tough quarters) so the engineering work goes up. If staffing doesn't go up, you wind up with tremendous technical debt.
> It suggests to me that the real problem lies not with technology, but with something unavoidable and self-destructive about human nature.

Or the people in power not being fully clear about their means.
Here's the thing, all rights are arbitrary and granted by people to people. Some are easy to agree on (right to life) and some are more contentious (right to bear arms) but all are intended for the benefit of society. If it would be in the best interest of a functional society to grant the right to reasonable transportation to everyone, then it is something we ought to consider.

Some things that were previously considered rights are no longer necessary or desirable as society advances (the right to own slaves) while other things that were not previously considered rights (guaranteed access to the internet) might start to make sense as our world changes around us.
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I used MongoDB in production. About 6 years ago, I have bad experience with it and abandon it.

In a new job recently, I picked up it again and to my surprise, it performs super well and have lots of new concepts.

1. TTL index: the data automatically remove after a certain time

2. Hidden Replica: we can do whatever on this node without slow down producion

3. Very easy to use oplog: It's super easy to get access to oplog, just as you work with a normal collection

4. Aggregation Framework is awesome: It's tedious to write at first, however, it become very clear with the pipeline design

5. JOIN: I'm suprising when I discover this. But it does have a similar concept to join now with `$lookup`

6. Very low storage: If you used MongoDB as a log/timeseries database/event you will appreciate WiredTiger

7. Metric exposing is awesome: Lots of userful metrics

8. The cluster is much easier to manage nowsaday and very stable: adding a new node is just a matter of booting up server and evrything handle automatically. Think of MySQL, where you have to export data, get the position of bin log and file name to config the slave.

One thing remains same is we still have to deal with migration and back fill data.

Careful planning and design the database are still requirement, not just dump whatever you want to it.
These immobilizers are commonly installed on cars from "buy here, pay here" used car dealerships - the kind of place where customers physically bring cash every month for their car payment. I'm very surprised to learn than an official Kia branded dealership would install these, and then act this scummy - not a good look for the brand.

> Iny said Lallier's case is a good example of the conditions faced by borrowers with bad credit.

> "Immobilizers are most often seen in cases of sub-prime borrowers with questionable credit," he said. "The devices are very effective at keeping people on time with their payments."
AR is taking off, why haven't we been seeing the explosion of AR glasses? How far off do you think it is until everybody is recording with their glasses and no way of telling so?
I'm not saying you should switch to PG, but since version 9.5 it does allow you to update JSON keys: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35349699/221786

Full docs: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-json.ht...
Any non video link?