skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes 100%. They imposed 7c bag tax in Chicago and I happened to wait 30 mins near the checkout lanes. Just observe the insanity. People bring the dirtiest nastiest bags and put them right on the conveyer belt. It must be literally a massive exponential increase in physical transmission of microscope matter between shoppers compared to issuing every shopper new bags.

This stuff is insanity. Planners gone wild trying to save us or the planet I guess and basically killing people instead. Dumb as rocks liberal
politics.
I remember thinking that when I read the article (I totally agree), but I thought you had summarized it earlier instead of a literal copy.

Sorry.
Who cares about power? Squeezing out 20% more expressiveness is only going to reduce that million line code base down to 833k lines. At that scale a single human simply can't keep every spooky possible action at a distance inside their head. And not every line has been written by that single human so understanding the code someone else has written is far more important. What pisses me off the most is the emphasis on reducing constant overhead at the expense of adding more linear overhead after a certain threshold has been reached and that threshold isn't very high.
It is absolutely a win, no question there. Just being able to recapture any of the energy going down hill and applying it to the return trip is better than the existing practice! I just enjoy the physics of the question, the sort of "How would we compute just what it would take to achieve this?" kind of thing.
Ask HN: Any statrups to fight terrorism?
Are there any startups that aim to fight/prevent terrorism in any way, on any level, be it government or personal? Predict it or deal with consequences more effectively?
It's not dumb at all.

But this truck would need to be able to back up, make u-turns, etc, while fully loaded.

So the motors must be strong enough to drive it uphill even when fully loaded, if only simply for the sake of positioning and maneuvers.
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Law enforcement don't have to guess which of your 10 fingers you used for touch id, they don't need your consent to handcuff you and then point the phone at your face to get into your personal info. With touch if they have to get you to do something you comply it's your fingers with this it seems much easier for authoritarians to abuse.
yes, it's called the "slut" gene
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It supposedly works in the dark, too - it doesn't just take a picture, it projects an infrared grid on the face to scan.

It would be kinda stupid to introduce a feature that may not work 50% of the time.
That makes me think of Rick and Morty:

Beth, do you still love me?

Ugh, what kind of question is that?

The "yes or no" kind?

Jerry, do you want homeless people to have homes?

Yes.

Are you gonna build them?

No.

Then what good was the "yes"?

Wait, is loving me the house or the homeless people?

Loving you is work, Jerry hard work, like building a homeless shelter nobody wants to say no to doing it, but some people put the work in. So, what do you say? Do you see me working here? Does this conversation seem tedious to me?

Sort of.

Then I obviously sort of love you, don't I?
Well, they include an error metric in the paper - basically average vertex distance of predicted face and actual face model (in interocular distance units). They seem to show that they are much better than state of the art with respect to that error, but of course if you want to interpret what that actually means then it's probably easier to interpret the error with your suggestion of actually visualizing it.
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Sure, because facial recognition has many applications outside of unlocking your phone, including the trivial ones like Animoji and the new selfie features that were demoed at the Apple event.
If you're going to use your phone while driving, then you're going to have to look at it to do so. How you unlock it is irrelevant.
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> without horrible hacks like sticking the asset checksum in the URL.

What's wrong with this approach?
For the sake of argument, I'll grant that encryption is easy.

Key management is not easy. Most people don't even understand, let alone appreciate, the problems, which is why there's substantially less bike-shedding in this domain. In the context of sell-and-forget (intentionally or unintentionally) IoT devices, there often may be more real security in simply giving up, to mitigate a false sense of security.
This company invests in them:

https://www.iqt.org/
See my reply to the sister comment.
Yea bag taxes are dumb. They should just ban plastic bags entirely like in Seattle or Portland. You can just get paper bags. Some stores charge 5 cents, but some stores its free. And you can always bring your cloth bags. I do that all the time.

If you're complaining about reusable bags at the store, you should take a good long think about every questionable surface and hand those groceries touched on the way to the store and your cabinet.
Decision making is a skill, and parents need to help train it in their children. This is a huge hole where most advice seems to have parents actively digging deeper rather than filling it.

Take advantage of the fact that your child probably doesn't understand false dichotomy and let them make A/B decisions with controlled positive and negative outcomes. Then hold them to those choices and negative outcomes, reminding them of the positive outcomes.
Could someone launch a DDOS attack in a smart contract? (Probably not.)
Well who you pray to affects who pray with, which in turn affects who you vote for. Doesn't it?
Indeed - but it's a much more difficult problem than it seems at first glance (unless you're okay with an always on, always streaming to the cloud microphone).
"Nullis" has nothing with Ukrainian as it uses Cyrillic alphabet. And if to use transliteration then "нулис" is not an Ukrainian word either.
So do you think they'd get some market share like Lyft and Uber have?

Do you think their driveless cars (that are way ahead of everyone else) might help them lower some of their biggest costs on the supply side on sunny days when passengers need to travel low risk routes?

Your argument was that they failed with G+, so that equates with this situation. I'm saying it doesn't equate. Success & failure are more granular than the binary thing you are making it out to be. G+ brought Google other benefits.
Or maybe fix the low cost housing problem and maybe create better homeless day centers and public bathrooms? Just an idea...
I'm surprised to see so many people saying they will miss TouchID. I still find the idea ridiculous compared to a much more secure PIN.

But I'm still using a Galaxy S3 so I'm not in the target demographic for sexy new phones.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/josephsteinberg/2015/03/05/why-...
"Planners gone wild trying to save us or the planet I guess and basically killing people instead. Dumb as rocks liberal politics." Your intelligence is seeping through, it's so hilarious.
We still get hepatitis outbreaks here in Canada despite our universal healthcare. Universal healthcare does not automatically solve the problem of getting vaccinations to vulnerable populations or prioritizing the right interventions at the right time given limited resources.

Maybe our situation is better here in this regard, I don't know the statistics, but it's demonstrably false that universal healthcare automatically prevents hepatitis outbreaks.
On some crops yes, you spray all kinds of things after plating. On other crops you don't dare passing a tractor around them, else they would be ruined.
Unbelievable that a little Worms clone ever made it so far.
Social networks have momentum.

Youtube is still secondary to Twitch when it comes to serious online gaming streams. I guess Youtube has a big "Lets play" audience, but that hasn't really eaten into Twitch's core audience.

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The thing about Patreon is that its multi-medium. I've seen good video games, webcomics, books, AND yes, Youtube Channels, which are funded through Patreon.

Unless people start selling their Art, Video Games, Books, Webcomics and so forth on Youtube, I think Patreon will be fine.
The size of the transaction grants it higher priority.
>How long until the next big idea? The last "AI winter", after expert systems, was 15 years.

Oddly enough neural nets languished in the frozen tundra for 50+ years if you take it back to perceptrons (mid 60's)[1]. Misnky and Papert's take down of perceptrons set the field back years. If you want to be more strict then it's been 31 years since Rummelhart and McClelland published their book[2], based on their earlier work that Hinton co-authored. They laid out multilayer NN with back-propagation. I got hold of the book in the UK in '87 and used it to code a multi-layer back-propagation network. It was a machine that would read out aloud given some text, even for words it had not seen before (good luck with through, though, and trough.) The problems were data and processing speed. I had to hand code features and wait for overnight training runs on VAXen and later a Sun-3 clocked at 16.67MHz[3]. It took big data an brute force to get the glimpses or magic that we see now. The fundamentals have been around for a long time.

It may be the case that one of the many approaches that fell by the wayside will make a comeback a al NN. NN added more layers and tweaked backprop, plus data and speed. It may be the expert systems will rejuvenate as something "new" with machines writing their own rules and somehow getting over showstoppers like the unmanageability of a large rule bases. It's probably going to be some combination of things that we already know about, along with yet more data, and processing power that will get us to the next level. The odds are that whatever that beast is will be self-training and regulating in an analogous way to back-prop but with logic thrown in. Good luck to us all for inventing such things, and for trying to understand what they are really doing.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron
[2]https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/parallel-distributed-processi...
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-3
Eh, no thanks. I'll continue to live in the woods in Alaska.
How does the boundary layer scale with size, if not linearly?
Its entirely IR based though, including a built in IR projector, so whether its night, or even completely pitch black, should theoretically in practice not matter at all. Given humans can't see the light from the IR projector I doubt it's going to wake anyone up either!
It is not really that much! 1.1 B in 6 years on a moonshot project.
Simple to pronounce. Spelling is hard.
Doesn't seem like Youtube was particularly good at copying established business models in the past (streaming, video on demand, etc.). But you knows, at least for the video-producing crowd (what fraction of Patreon users is that even?) raising money through Youtube donations might be an alternative.
Just because the server gives it a year timeout doesn't mean browsers must hold onto it for a year! The max-age is just a maximum age, not an exact age. Browsers can of course discard any cached responses that they don't think they're going to need again.
Do you know if anyone has suggested this variant:

* CTRL-T opens in DefCon

* Right-clicking a link and selecting "Open in New Tab" opens in SameCon

That's what I would expect the default behavior to be.
Maybe it would have succumbed to the Boeing juggernaut, but Howard Hughes was so keen to get 30 Jetliners for TWA's New York - Miami route that he was almost able to set up a deal for Convair to build them under license, after Avro declined to do so itself. I imagine it might have been attractive for the NY - Chicago, Boston - NY - Washington and LA - SF routes as well.

In the end, the first turbine-engined airliners in North American service were Vickers Viscount turboprops, with a 1400 mile range.
Those things could have prevented it, like giving everyone housing could solve homelessness.

But given the actual conditions San Diego started in, did the lack of plastic bags cause this specific outbreak? Which is the actual prompt. Seems inconclusive from the article, but not casually dismissable.
Farmers might be interested in reclaiming the data for themselves, though. Right now, they're in a situation where John Deere uses sensors in the tires of the tractors the farmers license (they can't buy them) to get soil density and similar data as the farmers use them... then they sell that data to Monsanto and other seed companies. The farmers are completely cut out of it and can not benefit from the data. In fact, it would be against the law for them to try to intercept or peek at the data themselves.
>I've heard people say that one reason why we shouldn't bother with electric cars is that they still generate a lot of carbon from their production supply chain. All the minerals and metals mined, the parts being shipped around, the energy in manufacturing, etc.

"A lot" = 15% more.[1] Approximately 1 ton of extra emissions, which it takes a daunting 4,900 miles to pay back- less than 5 months of the average American's driving. A great deal of this pollution comes from energy use- that report[1] says that if the grid was powered by 80% green energy then manufacturing a BEV would produce 25% less pollution than a normal car.

[1]: http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/11/Cle...
In a company created electricity metering, I heard a similar story of a train fetching logs in the mountains in Scandinavia.

The train left the station in the valley empty and returned fully loaded with logs from the mountain.
At first they didn't believe their own measurements, but it was effectively generating electricity.
If we can ban ISIS we should be able to ban NAZIS.
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A 1 year cache time doesn't force the browser to hang on to it for a year, it just lets the browser know that if it's seen that resource in the last year it shouldn't bother getting it again. The browser is still free to dump whatever it wants to reduce its footprint.
You could use an expert system to classify the face by race. Then fit it over the appropriate model.
I know. It sucks terribly, and Google just doesn't care. It's total bullsh*t.
Vaccinations are free, per TFA.
Look into self-exciting generators as a way to (mostly) avoid big permanent magnets. Tldr:

> Modern generators with field coils are self-excited, where some of the power output from the rotor is used to power the field coils.
>How could it be risky to Bitcoin?

By creating a bubble that bursts and drains all confidence from it.

>Also, Bitcoin isn't investing. It's speculation.

All the more reason for people that don't even know what index investing is to stay well away from bitcoin.

>But everyone knows that.

I've seen plenty of people defending bitcoin as an investment.
I've been a designer/programmer pretty much my entire career and currently work on a research-centric UX design team. So while I've been designing my own language (THT, a language that compiles to PHP, aiming to fix most of the issues with that language), I've been applying usability concepts to the design.

A few principles:

- Acknowledging that the user is probably familiar with other languages, so stay within those conventions when possible. This is inspired by Jakob Nielsen's maxim that web designers should acknowledge that their users send 99% of their time on other websites.

- Making the most common activities the easiest. Larry Wall refers to this as applying Huffman coding to the syntax itself.

- Safe defaults. Making dangerous operations less convenient than the safe path. PHP has pretty much the opposite behavior, where many of the default design choices lead to security issues.

- Cognitive Load. Minimizing visual noise and the number of micro-decisions the user has to make. i.e. There should be one (good) way to do it.

- Preferring shorter, clearer terms over technical jargon. e.g. I use the terms "Flag" instead of "Boolean" and "List" instead of "Array". One can get pedantic over the exact meanings of symbols, but during the actual act of programming, simpler terms can help reduce friction.

The project is at https://tht.help if anyone is curious.
This would be like what, NSA as a service?

It seems like a very tough problem to me.

You would probably be best to narrow the scope of the problem, like, "ok I want to predict the probability of an attack happening on just one train station."

Then you would need real time data of everyone coming and going. Real time data of metal detectors, fluid detectors, contents of garbage bags, pressure plates on floors and walls (for bags that are left behind).

There are a lot of vision, AI, GPS, demographic data problems that would all go into solving this problem. And there will be a ridiculous amount of false positives.

You probably would be better off training AI to identify needles in haystacks, or flakes of gold in a pan
Sure, they can... but they generally will not if the evidence doesn't back it up, and it isn't covered, and it wasn't taught in med school when they went through.
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The 6.5 days plus 4 hours rule is the exact same rule we've had with TouchID all along. Nothing changed in that respect.
> People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual

Except so many video tutorials aren't "to achieve x, do y and z", 90% of the running time is bloat. And that's not even counting the apparently mandatory intros and outros which talk about what is about to happen, or what just happened. I learn very little on YouTube because I'm must constantly distracted by how people misuse language. There's a whole lot of "content", sure, but precious little contained in it in relation to the bloat and the repetition.

> especially since documentation is rarely the first concern of most companies

That good documentation is less of a focus for "most" (do they have a clue or anything else to offer, or do they just come in large numbers?) companies is hardly an argument that worse documentation is actually better documentation.
Is is possible to disable Face ID? If so, would disabling Face ID prior to ever committing a crime / getting arrested result in some sort of non-compliance / bad faith charge against the accused?
So disturbing... "Our child is extremely happy in an environment where he is empowered and independent. We're going to force him into an environment where he is powerless and functions in a subservient role to every person he interacts with. And we expect him to be happy and pliable, dammit!"
Oh man such ugly vehicles. Daimler, you should be ashamed of your selves.
Then how did they "hack the election" if the content was so benign?
> virtualenv

Running "pip install" as a user that has access only to the virtualenv directory is sounding like a good strategy.
This isn't enough.
Were not before the outbreak.
But you should just be able to add a 3rd party repository to the Android update system, in the same way you can add a repo to Yum or Zypper or Debian/apt .. or an overlay in Gentoo or OpenBSD.

Amazon's app store can't do automatic background updates unless you're on an Amazon/Fire device. F-droid can (which I just learned from other comments on this thread) but it takes a little extra work to give it that system privilege.

I'm saying you should be able to add a 3rd party repo to the stock Google system, without needed to root or mod the phone. Even for F-droid to do automatic updates, you need to give it special privileges (which I just learned about from another comment in this thread -- honestly didn't think that was actually possible).
>> I unlock it to peek at messages in meetings under the table.

> If you can look at the screen from a reasonable angle then it can see you and unlock.

You don't need to be able to see the camera to respond to messages in the bottom half of the screen. And even so, larger iPhones already allow double tapping home to bring the top of the screen down for one-handed interaction, which means you can already do everything but camera stuff (right?) with the camera obscured.
Touch ID had the same 4 hour rule. Note that the 4 hours time limit only comes into play if it's been 6.5 days since you last used your passcode. The full rule ensures that you need your passcode approximately once a week, and the 4 hour thing basically just means you won't be surprised with a passcode request 5 minutes after you successfully unlocked it with your face.
Ever tried to open a magnetic lock?
If you retire, how do the dynamics of a criminal prosecution change?

What is the chance that these executives flee to a non-extradition country such as Russia or China for a bit, "just in case"?

Some people flee to the EU because they can make a plea against extradition based on the appalling human rights abuses in the US prisons.

I hope Lauri Love wins on that front.
Wow. Impressive, but I sure wish that drive and creative energy could have been put to getting off RHEL 4... My hat's off to you.
I have no idea why you're getting downvoted for stating facts, and not in an argumentative or derogatory way. You're stating the truth, perhaps one people don't want to hear, but it's immature for them to downvote you.
There are other ways, and they are used, but they aren't scientific enough (even if useful) to be published.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15257541
Thank you! This is absolutely essential for a good container experience.
They need to take a look at their software development area as well.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40468811/heres-why-equifax-yanke...
>you can't take action against them if you are using React.

Umm, no. You can still sue them, but the patent grant is nullified, which takes you back to the place where no such patent grant exists.

Hence, you're strictly better off with the grant.
I'm not sure what kind of developer works for 10 years and doesn't use knowledge of the chemical properties of silicon. Is their code being executed by something other than silicon?
Or aim lower and just build and maintain some proper public toilets we all can use. One shouldn't be guilted into purchasing more diuretic just to relieve themselves while out.
TIL their Chief Security Officer is a music major...
Yep, my wife's iPhone won't respond to me, and vice versa. We can use our Siris at the same time in the same room with no interference
One of the richest and largest polities on earth doesn't have the resources to guarantee basic sanitaion for all residents.
Anaconda gives a healthy amount to open source, either by donations to foundations like NumFOCUS or paying salaries of contributors. Is that what you're looking for?
The EU is way more serious than the US is about consumer privacy though. Might not help them in this case.
It was disclosed in the depositions that the 510 systems acquisition was worth about $20 million:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/05/23/how-star-engi...

The bonuses were paid out at the end of 2015. It was shortly after that that Levandowski revealed Otto to the world. Plus Chris Urmson started Aurora, and Brian Salesky went on to become CEO of Argo, which is Ford's autonomous Driving subsidiary.

They all got some kind of huge bonus. It supposedly amounted to a 14% rise in the aggregated quarterly expenses of Alphabets 'other bets', which lumps together a bunch of Alphabet's moonshot subsidiaries.
There is no original AST. The Python outputs the AST classes, so it is the source of truth.
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Some people might not vaccinate their kids for dumber reasons than not having insurance.
I wonder how much they get in their retirement package ?
As I replied above, this takes you to the same place without a patent grant.
Video on the NYC steam system: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/10/nyregion/miles-of-steam-p...
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Are you a bigot or something? Don't you understand the requirement to hire based on diversity?