skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I'd also like to point out that the review process itself is pretty broken. People sometimes behave like sociopaths (e.g. torpedo a paper that is competing with your work), personal grudges etc.
Face Tracking with ARKit
I'm sorry, but if you have headphones of such grade why are you sticking them into phones in the first place? As opposed to something like Astell and Kern offerings?
I hope that 300KB refers to the backend code size, since one of the selling points is organizations run their own version. There's no way you need 300 KB of frontend code to render HTML from a database.
This is just not right.

Apple didn't cannibalize iPod with iPhone: it recognized that people wanted it to build a phone and did just that.

Apple didn't cannibalize Mac for iPad: it recognized that people were buying tablets in lieu of PC's and thus invested heavily in making iPad's more user friendly.

Having spoken to many Apple engineers, the company is now as corporat-ey as any other BigCo and will NOT actively cannibalize a product unless it sees an expanding/new market.
Doesn't work if you have Ghostery turned on. The Washington Post has 15 trackers, and the comment thing has a cross-site scripting request.

This thing writes many messages to the browser console. The last line apparently prevents even displaying comments.

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Belief should always be optional. Behavior based on that belief shouldn't.

I'm fine with anyone who wants to question climate change, evolution or even something as accepted as gravity. Questioning is how we refine our thinking.

Where I get less okay is when people use their questioning to justify behaviors that, should they be wrong, are detrimental to society and the world. Question climate change all you like, but stop polluting until you've convinced the majority of climate scientists. Question evolution, but stop preventing schools from teaching it or forcing them to give creationism an equal standing until you've got something that is, at least, equally supported.

Science rarely does black and white, but you can still get a lot of benefit from altering behavior based on a scientific prediction that is 60%, 80%, 90%, 99% or 99.999% likely/accurate. Forcing belief doesn't honor that small bit of doubt that's inherent in any scientific study. But betting against what science believes to be likely when there are negative consequences to being wrong is stupid and we need to stop doing it.
Yeah I could see how if you are used to seeing such posts it would come as more of a slight but from my perspective it's good to know people's gripes about a product having not followed much about this before - especially if some people might be trying it out as a result of the article. The ambiguity of purpose is the bane of internet comments.
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Interestingly enough, they iterated to something that I think is far uglier than any other model, and then frustratingly have stuck by it for three years, four years by the time they might possibly replace it.
Try finding one with a serial port

I just did. Found three or four modern motherboards with serial ports with much effort.
It would, but then there would be no one left to comment.
Doesn't explain why Debian and derivatives followed suit.
“I believe now is the right time for SoFi to start the search for a new leader,” Mr. Cagney said in a statement.

What's with these cowardly statements? Admit your mistakes, say you're no longer the right leader, and that's why you're stepping down.
You're pointing out an orthogonal issue.

If the US government wants your data and it's being held in a US company, then IT security isn't the issue, it's the legal framework. No IT security will help when armed agents of the government legally enter your business and coerce you into handing over your data.

The US Government can equally detain you directly and coerce you into handing over all of your data if that's what the law allows.
The distinction is place of articulation - velar versus glottal - not voicing. And, according to Wikipedia, "The letter Һ is used only in Arabic-Persian borrowings and is often pronounced like an unvoiced Х".
If you've got a 1080TI you likely don't need gsync - it's only really useful when you're running slower than native refresh rate.
I agree and I think most of the comments here cover why this should mostly be OK.

Another neat feature in iOS 11 is the ability to disable Touch ID quickly, but touching the lock button five times. I assume this works for Face ID as well – this would help those who have immediate concerns that they would be coerced into using biometric data to unlock their device.

edit: updated to five touches
Yes, wisdom is vital, but if you don't have it then it's hard to develop. How are you supposed to bootstrap? It's like learning with no feedback.
IntelliJ ultimate doesn't include C++ support, though, which is an additional $100 to get the "all products" package. $250 for a fairly basic C++ IDE that insists you use Cmake is not exactly an "insane value" to me, but ymmv.
For many years prior to the current mindfulness wave, I have been practicing and preaching what I call "weather transferance". We humans do not become angry when harm comes to us because of weather, and so to avoid useless negative feelings, I suggest regarding annoying people as a form of bad weather. For example, I frequently find myself saying "What a shame. Too bad it is raining morons today".
> Who drives into a concrete barrier or the middle of a tractor trailer truck?

It happens all the time, dude. Most famously with Jayne Mansfield, but commonly when people are paying attention to their damned phones, or trying to sort out a fight among the kids, or just distracted by their marriage, or work problems, or...

I used to know a woman who drove right into a city bus that was stopped at a bus stop, lights flashing and everything. Fortunately no one was injured in that accident.
That's changed in the latest insider build - you can now have multiple projects open
Doesn't seem like a huge improvement over the 7 - I guess they're trying to put all the focus on the X, but it'll be curious to see where they go from here.
Does Mozilla have a copy of the data, e.g. does it work like Disqus?
After spending a week in London this spring, my (already high) appreciation of my Apple Watch went way up. Paying for my tube rides using my watch - even through sleeves and jackets - was really like magic. Don't think I could live there without one...
Some days my phone feels like an LTE modem I have to carry around for the sake of my Apple watch.

Going to work, listening to music, replying to messages, going for a run and then stopping by the shops to pay for things...all using my wrist. It's a great experience. But I have to keep my phone nearby. And LTE watch sounds great.

There are a lot of UX issues with the watch that makes it frustrating at times. But it's getting better and more capable every OS update.
The top of HN for an article which says nothing much at all, really?
yes and no?
Unlike a traditional daemon, this isn't a system service that always runs in the background.

The IDE (in this case atom) spins up the process and shuts it down when necessary, and then both sides communicate to each other using an implementation-defined IPC mechanism.

So it's a server more in the sense that the IDE requests info as a client, and then the server provides it (pull, not push).
Considering most bank transactions take days to settle you probably have more time than you think.
False. CBP yes. Police no. You do not have for follow their orders except for their safety. They'll have to drag you before a judge to force you to unlock it. And even then it is questionable is providing a password is protected constitutionally. Courts have ruled differently on this.
AR Glasses
Let me distract you from the actual content of the article first (I am sorry), because I am a little frustrated (I usually don't, and always almost give credits to the awesome works done by Mozilla; disclaimer: used to be a Mozilla intern).

This article is too shy from actually showcase the product. Half of the article is devoted to PR announcement (which IMO is really a waste of time for most readers, even for the non-technical ones). Just first paragraph into the article, I had already given up reading through, but instead put my effort in spotting keywords to understand the motivations behind this new system, instead of jargons.

The second half is a brief overview of the new system, but only two lines are relevant to what I was looking for.

It’s filled with features that improve interactions, including functions that show the best comments first,
ignore specific users, find great commenters, give badges to staff members, filter out unreliable flaggers,
and offer a range of audience reactions.

Then the rest of the bullet points are the usual "privacy" and "open source" speech which of course are important nonetheless. So I still don't have my answers (also badges system is really an unnecessary feature for a commentary system, espeically at the scale of a news site like WaPo).

I suggest next time the writer should:

* tell readers the challenges/flaws in existing system concretely and perhaps showing examples

* the finding from their research participants, the hypothesis ,and how they conducted their experiments

* explain concretely how the proposed system will help address the prominent flaws and issues

This perhaps should turn into a research paper, but even as a blog post it should have more substances. At best, this article feels like a company quarterly performance announcement, which I just scan for keywords and move on, then I forget about all of it. So, what is the point of reading this anyway? README would have been far more interesting. I am disappointed.

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Anyway, I don't really read comments on news sites. I can't explain why exactly but I feel disconnected and buried (much like what @creagpatr said about fixed commentary). I'd rather go on FB and comment there, even though there is a fairly good chance no one can read mine. Perhaps the social part of FB feels more lively and often comments are funny as hell. Yes, I know that comments on FB are just as echo chamber as many other places do.

There is a site allows people to take side and debate to death. I forgot the name though...
New metrics covered at https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/fall2017/801/
It seems like a mix of Reddit google's network algorithm could work - don't just upvote/downvote the post, but lend the commenter's credibility. So upvotes from hordes of poo-flinging monkeys aren't weighted as heavily from upvotes from credible sources.

Then the hack: this is a newspaper. They have no reason to be fair. Give community moderators super-credibility. So they can upvote people and not just give their comment visibility, but by upvoting they incidentally give them credibility for future comments. And in turn, those commenters' upvotes are more powerful as well, thanks to the credibility lent by the community mods.

It creates an echo-chamber, of course... but ultimately, that's what people want.
>Starting again from the standard normal, adding 0.10 SD to the male mean would lead to a 1.2 to 1 male to female ratio (at ≥1.5SD); but adding a full SD would give almost 5:1. Remember, a 1 SD shift is a pretty big one (e.g. a difference of 3 inches for height), so not suprisingly, the evidence seems to suggest that the 10% increase in the mean is the more realistic scenario for most variables where differences seem to exist.

The average male is about 6 inches taller than the average female. If a >1SD difference is possible in height, why not other areas? Or am I missing something here?
Though it didn't run iOS (and the little detail that it never came out) the "single computing device" model was one of my favorite selling points of the Ubuntu Edge [1]:

"From mobile... to desktop. Yes, it’s the full Ubuntu desktop OS used by millions on a daily basis -- and it runs directly from the phone, so you’ll be able to move seamlessly from one environment to the other with no file syncing or transfers required. The core OS and applications are fully integrated with their smartphone equivalents, so you can even make and receive calls from the desktop while you work."

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge#/
A sufficiently motivated and legally-empowered government official will always be able to find a way to unlock your phone. If nothing else, plenty of governments would simply torture you until you gave up the passcode.

Biometric/facial ID/etc. are conveniences for the masses. They're not ever going to stop the secret police, and bringing up that they won't stop the secret police is not a useful objection, since nothing you can do will stop sufficiently-motivated secret police from being able to force you to access something you have access to.
> The very nature of US political discourse itself leaves no space for healthy debate.

I am quite convinced that the nature of US political discourse is largely determined by the predominant media, and not by the individuals participating in the discourse.

–– Cable news is incentivized to sensationalize any minor event, and to frame stories centered around conflict

–– Social media rewards the most emotionally potent messages, consistently pushing aside calm discourse in favor of messages that hit emotional hot-buttons

–– Newspapers, magazines, etc have adapted their style of writing in order to gain more traction on social media, furthering the cycle of increasingly strong emotional engagement. Sure, newspapers are also often quite dispassionate, but those stories rarely gain much attention in the political realm.

–– Social media also increasingly creates identity bubbles, where like minded individuals can support one another's beliefs. This grouping of people has lead to identity being the primary consideration; facts are secondary.
Off topic, but mind linking the paper you mention?
Woe be to the person still on dialup modem. 300kb on a 56k modem is around a full minute download if memory serves. Of course said modem user is probably already drowning in javascript frameworks anyway.
You've made an excellent point here.
I wonder is this a line of thinking borne of weariness? The dreadful nature of political discourse everywhere is surely something that should be up for improvement. I'd like to think technology could be used to improve this, even though lately it seems to have been confusing things. I'd be given to thinking that once the public at large become more familiar with, and respectful of the power of social media, it will be the means through which this discourse is improved. I think we already see this in many spheres, just that the ugliness usually tends to undermine effectiveness. The trolls need to go, and they will in time but it's as much a social issue as a technological one. I think what we're seeing here is a "long 1997" similar to the "long September" phenomenon being played out as whole new massive chunks of the population join the online world.
Except that by doing so it leaves a vacuum for more reasonable commenters to fill.

It's not a culture change that happens overnight, but the potential long term benefits make it worthwhile.
Coffee, Bees and Climate Change Are Linked in Ways You May Not Have Expected
Except for communicating discreetly.
All these problems exist with fingerprints too. At least Face ID requires you to look at the phone before it unlocks.
If he presents code then a HTML/CSS/JS system should be prefered aince syntax highlighting is easier. Something you can't get automatically done with the alternatives you mentioned.
I live not far from there and I'm confused just reading your post. What street are you referring to? I can't seem to find a street that intersects Alcatraz and is broken by telegraph (not sure what you mean but doesn't come out on to it).
You're a shill.
Within seconds, I really got the impression that he's been working on his presentation skills. I agree; much improved. The dramatic tension was noticeably better.
I'm about to buy my third Apple Lighting to 3.5mm adapter since last September, so yes it "works", but I don't have to pretend that this flimsy junk is how it should be.
Just from this thread, several:

With dnsmasq: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15231319

With systemd: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15232027
Because people are lazy to remember passwords and or setting pin numbers on their phones.

FaceID and TouchID are compromises for an actual password or pin. Also, setting these things up force you to set a 8 digit pin.
> the primary driver of this is the promotion and funding structure of science

Well, yeah, obviously. I'm saying that structure is there because it's a holdover from previous generations where novel results were easier to obtain.
>So, that's how it went down. Just sayin. Sorry for all the Eve Jargon.

Thanks for the report from the field. All the jargon takes me back to my days in TEST.
Hmm, the watch really has done just that for me. Most of the times, I leave it in my pocket. When I get a text, I glance at my watch to read it. Any notifications come directly to my watch.

Honestly, I really don't see the benefit of going through the additional burden of getting a new cellphone plan, SIM, paying more for ... what? One advantage is definitely that in emergency situations (i.e. on a run without the phone, hike etc) you can now call from the watch. But I just don't see any other benefit.
I pinged the product lead (and told her to get a hacker news account of her own!)

Answer: we've definitely talked about how it would be great as a lightweight client management system for a freelancer or consulting firm. We're definitely looking ahead to possible integrations, too!

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From myself - we talk a lot about "teams" with Topicbox, but it's really any group of poeple who share a common interest or responsibility. One market we've identified is homeowners' associations or "body corporates" as they're often called here in Australia. They have membership turnover as people buy and sell, and they have long running projects with a need to keep history. Finally, they consist of people who use different mail services, because unlike a business where everyone is on the same solution, a set of homeowners share nothing other than the locality in which they live. So a heterogeneous system like Topicbox with archivable topics and searchable history is ideal.
Many commenters seem to be relating this post to the Reproducibility Project, which showed problems with reproducing around 100 psychology studies. It's important to understand the real conclusions of that project, which is not at all that 'only a small number of studies are accurate'.

Strictly on the basis of significance — a statistical measure of how likely it is that a result did not occur by chance — 35 of the studies held up, and 62 did not. (Three were excluded because their significance was not clear.) The overall “effect size,” a measure of the strength of a finding, dropped by about half across all of the studies. Yet very few of the redone studies contradicted the original ones; their results were simply weaker.[0]

Also, as one person pointed out in the same article:

Dr. Schwarz, who was not involved in any of the 100 studies that were re-examined, said that the replication studies themselves were virtually never evaluated for errors in design or analysis.[0]

And finally, that's how science is supposed to work. Research isn't a hard conclusion but an argument in a long debate:[1]

But the failure to replicate is not a cause for alarm; in fact, it is a normal part of how science works.

Science is not a body of facts that emerge, like an orderly string of light bulbs, to illuminate a linear path to universal truth. Rather, science (to paraphrase Henry Gee, an editor at Nature) is a method to quantify doubt about a hypothesis, and to find the contexts in which a phenomenon is likely. Failure to replicate is not a bug; it is a feature. It is what leads us along the path — the wonderfully twisty path — of scientific discovery.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/28/science/many-social-scien...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/opinion/psychology-is-not...
Import a JS Framework or two and you'll easily blow that 300kB.
For all the things Essential Phone didn't do well, it actually did do this part correctly and letterboxed videos & games to avoid the camera cutting into the content.
I think the first reason people don't care for installing e.g. Thunderbird is that they check mail on a) mobile, b) work (which is usually outlook, or at least mandated by someone else).

If I asked 100 friends "did you use email today" 99 would say yes. If I said "did you do it on a computer" then 50 would say yes (those that work at an office). If I said "was it your own computer" then maybe 1 would say yes.

I think for us that sit at our own computers regularly, it's hard to imagine just how extremely rare it is for people to actually use desktop/laptops for personal use these days.
Is this journalism or just a publicity stunt for journalists? And why is everything a "battle", "war", etc. War against drugs. War against terror. Battle against heroin.

And must everything be a "crisis". Maybe just knowing how the news industry works has me a bit cynical.

Anyways there is always a "crisis". A few years ago, there was the meth crisis. A few years before that, the ecstasy crisis. Before that there was the crack crisis. Before that the marijuana crisis. All the way to opium.

I guess as more things change, the more they stay the same.
Not likely - they used professional hollywood mask makers to test against... Remember, this is infrared with a 30k dot projector - the most accurate 3d visual record you could make would appear to be insufficient.
What you probably want is this combined with some privilege escalation technique. If you feel like doing the work, have at it.[1]

1: https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/1224/Google.html