skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right; it would be useful to see a more complete breakdown, and get a better sense of what specific aspects are riskier. Hook turns are definitely a significant culprit, I agree with you. The BPA website (link below) has some claims about what the risk factors are.

> 90% feels high to me.

Well, I'm guessing on top of the unsourced 350k number you shared, so maybe it would be best if we stop guessing. But most non-members that jump are doing a tandem jump. A tandem jump in the US involves a USPA member doing a repeat jump, and most of the time a non-member making their first jump.

All we can say firmly is that 1 in around 1,600 trained and qualified USPA members die each year. That is the actual mortality rate for people who continue to participate in skydiving. Since you're in the UK, the BPA also publishes safety info separately http://www.bpa.org.uk/staysafe/how-safe/

The one thing you can't say is that canoeing is more dangerous than skydiving. According to the sources we have, canoeing mortality rate is 1/10k while skydiving is 1/1.6k. Skydivers die ~6x more per year than canoers.

Drivers in the US die at the rate of 1/6k per year according to the sources you shared. So skydiving is ~4x riskier than driving. And canoeing is less risky than driving.

We can ignore the question of how many jumpers are USPA members if we look at the per-jump fatality statistics. The 1 death per 101k jumps lets you evaluate the risk of doing a single jump vs doing 100 jumps in a year. Let's use the current USPA numbers instead, which is now averaging around 1 death per 140k jumps (shown here http://www.uspa.org/facts-faqs/safety).

Your chance of dying doing a single jump is 1 in 140k. That seems low, but it's a single jump. Your chance of dying in a given year, if you make 100 jumps, is 100 in 140k, or 1 in 1,400. Some people do more than a thousand jumps per year, so if you jump 1000 times, your odds are 1 in 140. Looking at it this way, it's easier to gauge the risks because jumping more means risking more.
Do you think you'll ever offer the $5 a month plan for desktop GNU/Linux users? I have an office full of Ubuntu users.
Jaguar Land Rover is backing DOVU to bring the Blockchain to the mobile future
There are two support levels for GitLab EE (Enterprise Edition) users: Starter (response by next business day) and Premium (response within 4 hours).

As a GitLab reseller, I offer HN users 10% discount on GitLab EE. My email address is in my profile.

The pricing plans are at https://about.gitlab.com/products/
Google retires the Tango brand as its smartphone AR ambitions move wider
Cyberpunk is a fiction because it peddles the naive fantasy that anarchistic actions would be feasible in such a world.

There's not going to be any clever tricks to avoid being picked up the mass physical surveillance network.

Hacking is simply infeasible for the vast majority of people given the complexity of systems and how much intelligence and knowledge is required.

Action movie heists of high value targets are basically impossible to get away with these days let alone in a decade or two.
CEOs often lead to partnerships and strategy. I wonder what connections in travel this new CEO is going to leverage and how that will affect the uber operations in the short term, and the ridesharing product itself in the long term.

Uber's success has been about evolving a core product in an emerging category whereas Expedia is all about maximizing revenue from the existing mess of travel product categories.

If uber starts to retain customers with miles or try to diversify revenue sources, I think it'd be a bad sign. But, who knows.
ok go ahead and publish all your email, chat messages and bank account details here now
What are some free and open source alternatives to this tool ?
US states are pretty aggressive about people like that. Baseball players owe multiple states income taxes based on where they sleep for away games.

I have an acquaintance who keeps detailed records of his physical presence on a daily basis due to audit issues with state tax authorities.
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> And I say this a linguist and lexicographer who has written three language-related books.

I know this is an easy mistake to make but in this context the irony is palpable.
As we all know these marketing strategies works well only for the initial bubble. For the long term, its just going to be whoever providing the perfect content.
Everything can eventually kill you all studies show.
> Doctors generally recommend 20-35% already

I did not know that. So it was useful at least for me.
However, thanks for reading.
For what product? Unless I missed something, the only thing he mentions is an open-source project for attempting to defeat stylometry.
Being poor is fucking expensive.
I don't see a particularly good reason to ever have a balance over 1 burger anyway. It's unlikely you went to burger king and spent money and didn't want to eat a burger.
"It's not against the law to have a monopoly - it's against the law to exploit having a monopoly to enter another market."

What about the breakup of Ma Bell?
Optimizations and their impact on Debuggers
Thanks ! I will look into it :)
This was written in assembly and to do that you'd have to make a new register of all the references while randomizing. Your approach works great in modern, high level languages where there's no issue copying an array in memory and calling array_shuffle or something, and doubling the memory requirement for the effect is no problem. This approach however seems to only require 17 bits of additional memory.
There's plenty of cross platform tools for games now. If you build with Unity or Unreal, you hit multiple platforms at once, including Steam and consoles.

If you're doing a 2D game, theres lots of middleware options as well. Yes, people build for iOS first because you only have to test for a few devices -- its like developing for fixed console HW -- and because iOS users tend to spend more. But most indie games that make money eventually quickly saturate on each platform, and so devs go multiplatform relatively quickly when they make out revenue on a given platform.

The games business is pretty tough if you're not a triple-A breakout hit.
This is part of the reason why they institute fatigue standards, to try to keep people from being over tired and still working, which led to people being hurt.
Absolutely horrible for readability. Nothing makes me give up on an article faster.
But for a lower rate, you can lend your money to someone much less risky. Why buy a 1% junk bond if you can get 1% government bonds?

The real long term solution is good public transit, so poor people don't have to go into debt to commute.
How we hired a team of 300+ top software talent remotely
This article is an example of one reason why AMP is bad. I'm on a laptop and still seeing the AMP (restricted) version. I just saw a blank screen and it took about 4 seconds for any content to appear. The publisher was prevented from displaying their full website to me, because someone linked to the AMP version.
because this would take a huge amount of memory. something like xy(sizeof x + sizeof y). not only memory wasn't available cheaply at the time. it would be slow to generate, write to memory, then fetch back to draw.
> So in the end we have 100s of theses kinds of "boilerplate" starting apps.

There's nothing wrong with this at all. Any time I want to get up and running with a new stack, I look around for a boilerplate. I choose the one which has the easiest-looking learning curve and just start trying to solve problems with it.

If it works well and requires a minimum amount of customization, I just put my customizations into a personal repo. Hopefully it's useful, a lot of the times it gets outdated.

Boilerplates are a nice thing to have in an era of constantly-improving software. Not having to do everything yourself is awesome.
remove the battery first?
2nd, I was about to upgrade my Crashplan service to multi user to add my Linux laptop. Now they're going away entirely so I'm back to square one.
Spot on.

The test at https://www.politicalcompass.org/ works reasonably well.
It's not a good question from someone who aced a class in digital communications. What did the guy think was being communicated?
Occasionally I'll write an app for my kids or wife. Every time I'm thoroughly impressed by the Apple development ecosystem and thoroughly disgusted by Google's for Android.

This is no different. The Android development process is painful (the most verbose, cruft and boilerplate filled Java), cumbersome to organize and build (Gradle is terrible, and buggy) and debug (the integration with Studio is just clunky). About the only thing Google does better is testing releases through the developer console.

It's nice to see them finally providing something similar to ARKit. I just wish they'd work on all the other things that make Android development a horrible experience.
Trackers have internal battery backups for exactly this reason.
Uber drivers in India receive free insurance as company looks to improve rep
"Air traffic controllers can issue changes directly to the autopilot, usually altitude adjustments."

Let's hope no one learns to hack that system.
What do you mean by artificially high price and interest? I'm not familiar with Canada's auto sales market, but unless some organization has a monopoly on selling cars and there is a monopoly of lenders, then there are usually a sufficient number of buyers and sellers in the auto market so that price discovery is happening in sufficient manner such that neither the buyer nor seller are at an advantage.

Also, unless there is data, I don't believe a company would disable a car in a manner that would be unsafe for anyone, at the least since it's a massive liability for them and there's no reason to. If anything, the GPS/car disabling would allow for lower costs for buyers since there is less risk for the lender, which would benefit the buyers who are responsible.
I use Just Read[1] for things like this. It attempts to pull out the relevant text and put it in a user editable style sheet (the default is fine for many).

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-read/dgmanlpm...
I spent nine months as the conning officer on an aircraft carrier and qualified as OOD. On numerous occasions we narrowly averted disaster because the helmsman misunderstood the command, or repeated back the correct command but did the opposite.

In many cases those helmsmen were undertrained or tired, as a direct result of cuts in manning/funding and additional requirements.

The "old" people in the navy, including many of the admirals at the time (ten years ago) had many of the same opinions as those expressed in the article (they need to stop looking at radar!!!)

What those people didn't seem to realize is that we were doing the same things they were doing 20 years prior with about half the crew they had.
Curious, why the downvotes?

I wanted to also add that it makes a difference if you only want one server or not. A good small Couchbase cluster has at least 3 nodes.

If you have VirtualBox, puppet and vagrant, this makes it ridiculously easy to bring up a small cluster:

https://github.com/couchbaselabs/vagrants

Note: you still have to use the UI to configure the cluster but this gets the nodes (VMs) up and running quickly.
I'm glad to see this, I'll enjoy experimenting (probably via the aframe ar api) BUT

What are the useful applications for AR outside of verticals?

I've not seen anything compelling in the phone only incarnation.

The headsets have a lot of engineering issues ie many years to overcome.

Even with headsets its unclear the value of adding the visual clutter and noise that most ambient/immersive computing demonstrations seem to assume.

Whatever value you can add generally requires constant headset wear for it to be ready to hand. This puts even harder engineering problems on the industry as it forces super light and easy headsets (google glass was not AR nor a technical path to it).

Not seeing it yet.
Well, it does say "reallyhyped.com" not "reallyused.com".

Joking aside, SQLite is on a ton of devices, yes. But that's primarily because it ships with OS's and is in lots of embedded devices. For web development and other server-side things, I get the feeling that SQLite is not as heavily used as client-server databases.
"As Evans alluded, the demand for rare earths could lead to their commercial demise. Access to the metals has always been tenuous, leading to worries that one day demand for them may outstrip supply."

I understand that starting up a mine takes many years, but if you are not under a command economy where the Bureau of Rare Earths "demands" 1 million tons of Neodymium per year and the mines only produce 1/2 million tons, the use of the word demand does not make any sense to me. I heard demand used in a similar way in the oil industry sometimes and I could never really figure out what they meant or have it explained well.
> A good tool to have in a programmer mental box.

Relates well to Shannon's problem solving process' [1] "Step 2: Fill your 'mental matrix' with solutions to similar problems."

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/engineer-claude-shannon-probl...
We're all screwed. But at least we're all screwed together!
Out in the real world you are seen but most are quickly forgotten. On the internet you are seen and it is logged for an eternity.
That's not an assumption, that's an answer to "how is it possible?". The answer to "how do we know that's the case?" is "polling": http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/329404-poll-bernie-sand...
These guys need an Internet tip jar.
I will attempt to make a shitty, hacked-together version :)
3rd. Another Crashplan refugee. I loved using Backblaze when I was on a Windows & osx.
> I just wish they'd work on all the other things that make Android development a horrible experience.

Even worse is you're describing the improved Android development experience.
Why do you think Backblaze is able to maintain cheap unlimited support in the wake of so many other providers recently jumping ship? Amazon, SOS and now Crashplan. I've heard stories of people using Amazon to store over 1PB of data which would be thousands of dollars monthly even at Glacial cost. Do the "ultra" users weigh down on your margins?
Because with ideal packing it would take 150 kB (320·240·log2(320·240)/8). Wolf3d needed 640 kB of RAM and using quarter of it just to display death animation wouldn't be a good idea.
Continuing with my analogy that would be like shouting my name and address in the street. Why would I do that?

My point is that I tend to consider myself as anonymous on the internet because I believe nobody is interested enough in me to bother gathering the data. Or if it's done, it's a robot that does it for statistical purpose[1]. No human cares.

But if I publish personal infos in plain text, like email, phone number and stuff, surely there will be trolls that will have fun with it, or thieves that will try to use it for profit. I have zero reason to do that.

1. BTW I believe this has tremendous scientific value, from an anthropological point of view. It'd be a shame not to do it.
What Is Intel Innovation Engine and Why Does It Matter?
But AR glasses/implants will be the evolution of smartphones. There won't be a quantum leap from phone SoC to glasses SoC. Google Glass was an early demonstration of that.

So if one needs to evolve AR hardware from phones to glasses, then putting it on the phones is a prudent next step, isn't it?
Hey Matt! Doubtful. For our consumer backup service allowing servers, NAS boxes, or Linux would skew our unlimited model in an unfavorable direction. We've been sending folks over to our Backblaze B2 service (it's still relatively inexpensive at $0.005/GB - so depending on the amount of data it might actually be less expensive). We have a lot of integrators, and one of them Duplicity ships with a lot of Linux boxes already (https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001518354). They don't have a GUI, but Deja Dup (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup) does offer one, though Backblaze B2 isn't integrated in to it yet - we're crossing our fingers. The are some GUI tools like Cloudberry, qBackup, and Duplicacy that do have GUIs you can use as well. I know it's not the same as an unlimited plan at a fixed cost, but it does offer a bit more flexibility for the end user.
You could just jump the ignition lockout part without disturbing or touching the unit at all. The dealer would still have your gps location, but couldn't lock you out.

The devices are pretty simplistic. No deep integration with the car, they just are wired inline to the ignition switch.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-remove-a-GPS-disabler...
1 - I guess only Google with its rather expensive Pixel device, and probably Samsung and Huawei flagships only, in the same price category.

3 - I would really like to be proven wrong here. Still waiting for my Android 7 update on a newly bought device.
Whenever I ask who we should send to colonize Mars, I humorously propose Bedouins since they are use to living in the harsh desert climate. Joke aside, inside our cultural realm the most sustainable group seems to be the "family in 50s". I take the same approach to dieting, eating a normal portion of variated traditional food will give you all the nutrients you need. Naturally not arguing that you should reject scientific studies.
Our numbers aren't comparable to MongoDB, but when we dropped support for Solaris in Virtualmin a few years ago, we had a couple dozen active Solaris installations left (and we had maybe 75,000 active installations on Linux at that time), only a couple of which were paying customers. At its peak, it was never more than a few thousand Solaris installations (and most of those were because Joyent installed Virtualmin GPL on their containers, and they also used it for shared hosting on Solaris before that, by default, but when they shifted their business model those disappeared).

I don't know anything about MongoDB usage, but I do know Solaris/Illumos is a tiny blip on the radar of usage in web dev and web hosting. We just don't hear about it at all. I think we still get Solaris bug reports and patches every now and then, like once or twice a year, for Webmin on Solaris (which is still supported in a "we won't intentionally break it" sort of way and Jamie still builds Solaris packages), but even that's very rare, and Webmin has a million or so installations.

The biggest factor for me wasn't the raw number, it was simply that usage was shrinking rapidly. You can't reasonably devote a bunch of effort to maintaining support for an OS that has a small number of users today and will have half as many in a year. Software is a bet on returns with interest; I'm betting that putting in weeks of effort to support a new OS (or Linux distro, or platform, or web server, or language, or whatever) will keep paying for months or years. There's no way to count Solaris usage that I'm aware of that doesn't show it being smaller next year.

That's unfortunate, perhaps; there's a lot of cool stuff in Solaris (and Illumos). But, market forces aren't sentimental and Linux is a juggernaut that rolls over everything in its path and consumes the best features (and some of the bad features too) of everything it touches. It's funny that the old wisdom of Microsoft being like the Borg and Linux being a scrappy upstart has kinda turned on its end. Linux now absorbs the best of other operating systems and just keeps multiplying and spreading into more and more markets from mobile to big iron.
I find most implementations of this jumpy and distracting - just too eager. Often I'm scrolling up to reread the top line of text. Then the bar pops up and blocks my text, it is daft!
It's such a strange arbitrary law though. At the root, it's about preventing companies from using their position of power to gain an unfair advantage in other markets.

But huge corporations like Google, Facebook and Amazon are using their scale and their positions to take over markets. They can easily take control of any market they want, for them it's just a matter of doing so in a way that doesn't upset regulators. Regulators are already the bottleneck for them.
Instead of showing people what can be done with a restricted computer, why not encourage them to use non-restricted computers instead? Data science on a Chromebook that has Linux installed would be better.
React-map-gl – React components for Mapbox GL JS
Whenever I'm very engaged in a conversation I like to walk back and forth. It always made my parents mad.

To this day, I can't sit if I'm on the phone. I walk around my apartment in circles the entire length of the call. Only now, my parents don't know I'm doing it.
We had an alternative. It was Maemo (spiritual predecessor to Sailfish) and was on a pretty good first device, the Nokia N900.

This very same "we" engineering community chose to give all its mindshare and attention to Android at the time so this is basically the scenario we deserve.
I'm no expert on Canadian law, but if I were the dealership I would have had a clause in the contract requiring return of the GPS tracker as a condition of title being transferred (in addition to payment of any outstanding amounts on the loan)

How else are you going to get the tracker back?
It might take weeks for someone to identify you in real life based on a grainy still image from a camera. And then one would still have to correlate among people, other cameras, and locations to learn anything about you without surveillance.

With the internet, because of data aggregation, I can go on piple and find all of that about you and more in 2 minutes.

The power with which one may invade privacy over the internet is unprecedented. Let's say you frequent a coffee shop commonly visited by republican groups. In just a few minutes, in theory, someone could find out about every single time you visited, and use that against you. Replace republican coffee shop with sex shop, doctor, psychologist, democrat gathering...some things are better left hidden, because people are terrible.
as a consumer I don't know what to believe.

It seems like every other day some counter study is released.

I gave up and just decided to eat whatever the fuck I want.
Hi, co-author here (and co-founder of www.snips.ai). We are building a voice platform for IoT which runs 100% on-device, because we don't want our devices to stream everything we say to a server.

At Snips, we've been using a bunch of mic arrays connected to Raspberry Pi devices, with various degrees of success. We realised that resources on the topic are scarce, so we decided to do a thorough benchmark of what we found to be the most popular mic arrays accessible to the maker community.

We'd love to have your feedback. If you have other microphone arrays you'd like us to include in this benchmark, let us know!
Start a meetup. =)
This is misleading - a bit like saying "ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde". Technically true, but you can't just take acetaldehyde and expect the same effect as alcohol. Alcohol itself is bioactive. You also don't want to injest acetaldehyde directly since you don't want high concentrations of it in your blood (its quite a bit more toxic than alcohol).

MDMA is itself bioactive/psychoactive, and MDA is more neurotoxic.
I really dislike Twitter threads.
Tsunami Warnings, Written in Stone
How NASA’s Johnson Space Center is riding out the hurricane
(But at least with this tool they will be well done...)
Mosquitoes fatally attracted to deadly, sweet-smelling potion
Sorry, I might have misunderstood something. But OP said - " if you are computing sin/cos after atan2,", and I don't need any sin/cos computation after atan2. Just the atan2.
Chromium-WebAR is a similar project, but backed by Tango, and currently exposing a different experimental Web API than WebARonARCore and WebARonARKit. Soon we hope to update Chromium-WebAR (with a rename to WebARonTango) to have API parity with the ARCore/ARKit-backed browsers

https://github.com/google-ar/WebARonARCore