skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is augmented? Or to phase it another way, what from the real world is integrated into the game?

It is just using the camera and other motion sensors to track movement. It isn't augmented reality in any sense.
No that is not the real or the key question. That is your assertion.

Debates about autopilot in cars have many more dimensions than simply number of deaths.

There are many effects of this technology way beyond number if deaths.
Bwaahahahahahahaaaaa! Dual-process theorists, repent!
Are you actually interested in debating? If so, I am still interested in seeing that happen.

Pulling nominally related stories up, and then referring to them as a "spectacular yet tragic failure" without citations does little to make me believe you. What makes it a spectacular failure? What makes it a tragic failure? Quickly scanning headlines, it looks like it isn't raising as much as some predictions, but 40 million is not nothing. Nor is a marked reduction in sugary soda consumption. I'd be curious to know if any health benefits can be seen in the city.

And again with the rhetoric. Telling me to take my "lawyer ball" elsewhere is showing that you don't intend on having conversation. So, are you?
In a very literal sense, sure.

But it isn't very interesting, now is it?

What's the point over a rendered plane? Gameplay would be identical.
Wireless charging finally made it, probably the biggest user-noticeable feature.

True-tone display is great too (previously on iPad Pro), but I doubt the average user will be very aware, even if they love it.

Remains to be seen how much the processor and camera calibration help with AR.
Sounds like you are anticipating a better world! For commuters you have tablets or laptops still.
Cash is even more vulnerable to theft than cryptos. Yet I don't see you criticizing cash.

Regardless, the problem of cryptocurrency theft has been largely solved by hardware wallets and multisig wallets: there hasn't been a single documented case of bitcoins stolen from such a device. Also phone wallets, as long as running on a stock iPhone or Nexus/Pixel with recent security updates, are decently secure. And you can back up the seed of hw & phone wallets, so there is no risk of losing the coins if the device gets destroyed/misplaced.
>My graduate advisor told me that I should be designing experiments that had counterintuitive results that were solidly significant.

This is the advice of a true scientist. I'm refreshed to see that they're still out there.
Can someone compare this to Visual Studio Code?

It seems to be the exact same thing?
Seems like a small spec bump with some added camera features. Can't say I'm particularly excited about this, I was expecting quite a bit more. I guess we'll have to wait for the iPhone X for the more jaw-dropping features.
I think the idea is you keep the charger plugged in all the time (say, beside your bed) and when you go to sleep you just throw the phone on the charger. Seems kinda convenient to me.
Before doing an experiment, you can often see that with your settings, if you'd get the counterintuitive result, then it wouldn't be statistically significant, so you'd need to plan a larger experiment or not do it at all.

You can look at any experiment as having essentially two possible outcomes - you need to ensure that at least one of those outcomes is publishable, because there are many experiments where any possible outcome will be weak.
I think people will prefer risking being killed by their own mistakes than by the mistakes of an AI, even if that risk is somewhat higher, maybe even considerably higher.
>Bitcoin fell to trade around its session lows after Dimon's comments. As of 2:05 p.m. in New York, bitcoin traded at $4,154.04, down 0.8 percent.

What percentage of bitcoin users actually use it often for its practical value, as opposed to hoarding and speculating? How to estimate this?
i doesn't ask "why add _the_" far enough: "The freeway through the Cahuenga Pass thus became the Cahuenga Pass Freeway, and Angelenos knew the freeway to San Bernardino as the San Bernardino Freeway."

i would have said "the freeway through Cahuenga Pass."
> On the dividend, you don't end up paying toward FICA. Effectively saving you up to 15.3%.

The dividend is taxed at 15% for incomes over $37,950.
And yet they skipped over the "S" branding, for this tiny change that would barely even warrant the S.

Apples gone real weird lately.
Sure. But if one central planner is better than two, because price controls would work better without competition, then it should stand to reason that even more than two planners would be even more effective. If the entire market were involved in price-setting, it should be optimal. Sure, there's probably a point of diminishing returns on how many people are needed to make price controls more efficient, but it seems likely that the point of diminishing returns isn't proximally close to 2.
UK’s Financial Watchdog Releases Warning of ICO Risks
I had wireless charging on a Samsung Note. Meh, kinda handy but I wouldn't pay a dollar extra to have it again. Mostly for the same reasons as you: still have to plug something in, still have to carry something in luggage. The only thing saved is plugging a cable into the phone.
I'm very happy to read that they plan provide full backward compatibility in nearly all cases. Way to go! If you really must make a breaking change, this is how to go about it.
Whoa, I did not expect them to adopt an open standard for wireless charging.
And then there are potential backdoors in hardware (or microcode). Supply-chain attacks really are a nightmare.

Suppose you are a medium-sized IT company (large enough to be a valuable target, but not google-large where you can employ a really good security team that knows their hardware in an out). And then think of all the hardware you buy from all different vendors and manufacturers, and make a list of those that could totally own you if there was a backdoor. What can you even do except shudder in horror?
Tim Cooks oversold the thing massively. I expected something innovative, but it's more a evolution than a revolution.

It was so confusing I thought the introduction video was showing old 7 and expected them to be shattered or replaced by the 8.

Phil Schiller spent probably 5 full minutes without an audience reaction (until the sky star map AR thing).

hold on: one more thinging
The NYT frequently uses full company names, for example they used to refer to SpaceX as "Space Exploration Technologies", and they still put periods in places where other journalists won't (I.B.M.).

I wouldn't read anything into it other than the NYT marches to the beat of a different drummer.
The public will trust it as long as it is properly regulated.

Have you examined the history of air travel? Entire airliners have crashed and killed everyone on board and people still continued to take flights. Today airplanes are safer than even trains. The reason is simple: the industry is very heavily regulated and everyone has to adhere to strict processes with tight controls.
Also somebody who's been blinded by a bright light, or is suffering from a medical event, or is looking at their cell phone. There are lots of things that cause people to hit objects that should be easily avoidable.
Just curious, does it list itself in the list of app subscriptions? :)

Anyway, great product!
It is unsafe, but it is not unusual as far as I know. You're not an alarmist but most people won't care until it bites them in the ass.
So... daemons?
Apple iPhone X
Don't have a developer account yet. Looking forward to give a try after Xcode 9 releases!!
So in other words no way to get this directly rather than from a carrier and no way to switch carriers unless they explicitly support it.

Sounds great.
agreed. just do it like cars.

"I have the iPhone 2017 LE."

"I have the iPhone 2016 SE."

you get two logical identifiers - the year it was released (basically the same thing as the "version") and the "trim" of the phone.

Right now it's a mess - you've got the iPhone SE that describes the trim but not the year and you've got the iPhone 8 that tells you the version but not the "trim" and then you've got something like the iPhone 5S that seems like it's describing the trim and the version but really just describes the version.
The system was warning him more or less constantly, according to the report.
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This is the iPhone X
I'm not upset, but A1234 looks like a chip name, "pentium" is not a dictionary word, fine. But "bionic" has a meaning, following the dictionary:

bionic |bīˈänik|
adjective
having artificial body parts, especially electromechanical ones.
• informal having ordinary human powers increased by the aid of bionic devices (real or fictional): working out in gymnasiums to become bionic men.
• relating to bionics.

Clearly nothing related to this chip. In my book that is crossing the line between PR and BS.
iPhone X announced
As well as the demo about the "AR" sky with stars. I remember there was an app [1] working on iPhone 4 that was doing exactly that.

[1] : https://www.engadget.com/2014/08/24/star-walk-2-mostly-impro...
What to you study? (assuming you are a student because you had to "look back" to see other laptops)

I imagine it is dependent on major.

Go to any tech conference and it is 90% Macs as well and a good portion of the remainder is Linux. But I'm guessing other industries / fields of study are mostly Windows.

The only developers I know still on Windows are either writing Windows software or using hardware that only works on Windows. And even some of them use a Windows VM on Linux or OSX. That is of course anecdotal.
Ah, sorry, the X one appears!
I lived on a house in Oakland on the Berkeley border - the street crossed Telegraph Ave (which is a diagonal across the grid) - our street had 4 segments, most of which didn't touch the main streets (one bit touched Alcatraz, another was broken by Telegraph but didn't come out on to it) - at out corner the street numbers from Berkeley which increased going southward met the numbers from Oakland that increased going northwards.

We'd often find confused people staring at the street signs .... at one point we put up a sign "So you are lost ...."
Thanks! Very meta, we haven't thought about it.. probably should add it if people request it.
The limits in Firefox must be really high then, it was almost funny looking at the difference in behaviour between the two browsers in the situation I was testing.
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There's lots of ways to compensate a cat! Not all sales compensation plans are commission-based (a percentage of the sale). Commission-based plans are much less common for sales engineers vs. salespeople, unless they are working with only a single salesperson.

In general, sales engineer variable compensation plans are going to be based on some mix of sales numbers, with less variability and risk than the salesperson's plan. Ideally providing goal alignment with money, smoothing out the stresses, but also encouraging some level of independence for the sales engineers. A ward against salespeople who might be seduced by the Dark Side.

The less obvious case you raise, a single engineer directly responsible for causing a customer to spend more money: structurally or ad-hoc, that person should probably be getting paid. Maybe the customer-facing people aren't engaging efficiently, and it's a sign of something a bit out of alignment with customer operations.

Salespeople can provide big value in getting engineering attention to the right customers at the right time... but the best ones know it's a team sport. I know salespeople that give envelopes of cash to difference-makers, though that's exceptional.
I don't think English spelling not being perceived as phonetic does much here. For example, a lot of Russian speakers think Russian spelling is phonetic, and yet there has been no shift to pronounce words as written there either, as is surely the case in most other languages: there are not many writing systems that are truly phonetic, and often this happens because the spoken language has shifted away from the written form.
These self driving systems need to use machine learning models more in line with the what humans see. Nobody just recognizes the rear of a car... we look at the rear of a car and we are aware of its entire three dimensional shape and the three dimensional structure of the universe around the same car. Are there any machine learning models that can achieve this level of recognition or is it all just associating names with pictures?
Lots of folks are saying: too early. Let me make the opposite argument.

My wife has to do regular weekend interstate travel. She also has serious RSI issues with her hands and arms. The ability to keep focus, but completely disengage from the steering wheel for a while and accelerator for the length of the trip is incredibly valuable to her. It's why we purchased the car.

Tesla is clear on the limitations. The feature is turned off by default. Turning it on presents the limitations to the user.
Yeah as much as I dislike Apple laptops (now), monopoly != consumers making one choice more often.
I have a wireless charger at home, and one in my office. I find it super convenient, even if usb-c has reduced the benefit somewhat. Also solves the problem of where the fk did I place my phone yesterday night...
What exactly does "water resistant" mean in IP terms?
you obviously missed this part: "Speakers are 25 percent louder"
You don't carry the disc or plug anything... It rests on your desk/nightstand so you can place the phone there without having to plug anything, or unplug anything to check a notification or run to a meeting.

It's not a fundamental change of course... battery lasts long enough you probably could just skip charging instead (other than the night-stand case) and it's only slightly more convenient than plugging in a cable.
Come to think of it, generating decent verbal description of graphs automatically would be a worthy (and probably hard) challenge.
I closed the live stream when they started to explain how 'magical' wireless charging is. They don't have to explain that, I've been charging my samsung wirelessly for the past 2 years...
>Once doctors start prescribing Apple Watches

I wouldn't hold my breath on that, for a few reasons:

- The sensors likely aren't good enough yet

- To be prescribed and paid for by insurance cos and medicare, it would need to be an FDA approved device, an onerous and years(maybe decade) long process that I doubt apple would want to go through. You can't have an FDA approved device that you constantly update for example

- There is no evidence that this kind constant vital stats recording is medically useful. You'd think it would be, but the literature suggests otherwise

So, there are a ton of hurdles for medical use. They would need to establish the utility with a years long peer reviewed study, get FDA approval, convince payers to cover it, convince doctors to prescribe it, and brand it as a health device. I'm not convinced that this is feasible.
So it's now 4 years since the iPhone got a major design refresh, unless you get the X, right? Also, no design refresh on the watch. Are the days of Apple as a design-oriented company over?

That's a little provocative of a question, but seriously, plenty of manufacturers have shown that you can make a small-bezel phone for the low low price of $700. Why can't Apple manage it?

(And they don't have a lot to say about the iPhone 8. Better camera, wireless charging.)
Yes. Here's the actual NTSB abstract.[1] The full report isn't out yet. Main recommendation:

To manufacturers of vehicles equipped with Level 2 vehicle automation systems (Audi of America, BMW of North America, Infiniti USA, Mercedes-Benz USA, Tesla Inc., and VolvoCar USA):

5. Incorporate system safeguards that limit the use of automated vehicle control systems to those conditions for which they were designed.

6. Develop applications to more effectively sense the driver’s level of engagement and alert the driver when engagement is lacking while automated vehicle control systems are in use.

The NTSB points out that the recorded data from automatic driving systems needs to be recoverable after a crash without manufacturer involvement. For plane crashes, the NTSB gets the "black boxes" (which are orange) and reads them out at an NTSB facility. They want that capability for self-driving cars.

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2017-HWY16FH018-B...
Read the blog post for Atom 1.19 then. They've been making efforts there and there's been great improvements.
That's still not on the level of what Equifax has. Honestly, no one else is going to care if I did do that. Evil hackers aren't going to be able to use that info. Stuff in my credit report, however...
I don't know about the author, but FB and Google do not have my SSN. I don't even think FB has my exact address. How is this the same or worse than the Equifax breach?

The point about "private messages, photographs, and most of our secrets" being vulnerable is laughable, unless you are some prime-time celebrity that may be targeted individually. Please tell me how attackers are going to sift through terabytes of completely innocuous or boring communications to find that you were cheating on your S/O or whatever. How would a criminal even monetize such information? They are after personally identifiable information in a reasonable format that is ready to be used for fraud, ie in a table, not sprinkled throughout millions of individual messages.
As the world around us becomes more and more saturated with sensors (not least of which the ones we carry around with us), and the more the transactions of our lives require submitting to these sensors, the less compelling is the "well, you don't have to sign up" argument.

Technology today is more like language than product. There is no law requiring that you speak, or even learn how to speak; but if you choose not to speak you consign yourself to an underclass of mutes.
I wonder then why those Uber drivers so adamantly oppose a path to riches.
yes, thanks - looks like the ACM hands out temp URLs
My thoughts exactly. I want to know full story behind this.
Can I use my Palm Pre charger?
It's convenient, but not essential. You don't carry around the wireless charger; you put it somewhere where it would be convenient to set the phone on a regular basis. When I had a phone with wireless charging, the charger was next to my bed. My current phone doesn't charge wirelessly, but I use a magnetically-coupled USB cable with it instead, so I can just yank the phone off the nightstand without damaging the charging port.
That is a false alternative.

One very simple example from a complicated issue:

If Autopilot saves lives when used correctly, but Tesla's marketing material implicitly encourages people to use it incorrectly (e.g. video of Musk with no hands on the wheel), then the marketing is dangerous.
"Currencies have legal support. It will blow up."

Diamond reminds me of a bartender warning his patrons not to smoke pot. (Because alcohol is mostly legal, while pot is mostly illegal.)

Also, fiat currencies need to maintain public confidence, part of which comes from a legal code. The remainder comes from management of the currency and its underlying domestic economy. I suspect a great deal of the value of Bitcoin may come from an eroding confidence of the U.S. dollar; especially after the events of '08 and the ongoing weak economy.
Yeah pg agrees with that. In the early days downvoting for disagreement was discouraged among the heavier users, but things change.
I have a magnetic phone mount in my car. When I get in, I put my phone on the mount, then connect it to the charging cable. Just because it's a pain to fool with cables in the car (especially if I remember after I start driving) I've found myself wishing that (1) my phone allows wireless charging and (2) the phone mount doubled as a wireless charging pad.

That's the best use case I can think of.
Not to mention the energy lost in the process.
Yep, it's the iPhone X
In EU it will be 1k.
> FYI, LinkedIn has somewhat fine-grained email/notification configuration so you can stop these at the source.

Facebook does too, but it's also slimy too. You can't preemptively opt out of specific notifications, but you can unsubscribe to types you've already received via a link in the email. The slimy thing is that some of these are fairly generically named and you can never be sure exactly what you're unsubscribing from sometimes.

I want to receive ONLY event invites and messages notifications from Facebook, but there have been a couple times where those stopped and the only way I was able to get them back was to resubscribe to stuff until I hit the one that suppressed them.
As good as this comment is, don't reddit on hn please.
If you listen closely to older people in San Francisco, the accent situation is a lot more complex than I've heard anyone acknowledge.

- There's what I've sometimes heard called the "Mission accent", which can easily be mistaken for New York or Boston if you're unfamiliar with it. Rs get soft or disappear and vowels get very east coasty. I heard the origin of this is from decades ago when the Mission was an Irish neighborhood.

- There's an accent which to my DC area ears sounds kind of southern, almost like the Ozarks. Maybe that has similar roots to the one described here as pin=pen in the San Joaquin Valley, but I'm not too familiar with those parts.

- Nancy Pelosi came from Baltimore and has the accent to boot (I heard a lot of people talking like her in my DC area childhood), but her speech patterns don't sound too far off compared to older San Franciscans. I presume that's a phenomenon from the "pocket of Midland accent" that I've seen on this and other maps.

I think most of this is probably dying out in younger people. (And of course most 20s-30s types you meet in SF are from somewhere else.)
I've been looking to "upgrade" my OSX laptop to Linux and on a whole have been disappointed by the hardware build quality on the Linux machines.

What I really want is a thin and light unibody aluminum frame and high density screen on a Linux machine. But since I can't find that, OS X is a nice substitute.

Edit: Thank you for the suggestions everyone.
Are you saying that simply because he's the head of a large financial institution or is there some specific accusation against Dimon?

If it were a binary decision, I wouldn't put him in the bad guy camp. At least based on what I know about the guy.
Similar rhetoric has been spewed in the past by brick and morters related to technology. The masters of the Universe no longer exist. We're witnessing the final flailing of old institutions.
I think that the X is supposed to be the massively-innovative one, not the 8.
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Just looked it up and cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year. I'm guessing they don't all have their licenses revoked.
I think it's strange that there isn't any Linux distro yet that successfully mimics the good parts of the UI of OSX.
Nature itself is to blame for this. Read their guide to authors.

The criteria for publication of scientific papers (Articles and Letters) in Nature are that they:

-report original scientific research (the main results and conclusions must not have been published or submitted elsewhere)

-are of outstanding scientific importance

-reach a conclusion of interest to an interdisciplinary readership.

"Outstanding scientific importance" screams no boring replication studies that confirm pre-existing work.
Would love to see Awesound listed. I see it's not in US, UK or Ireland lists. (I was in Ireland before YCF2). Thanks!