skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on whether the wearer is:

- facing the threat, whereupon the parabolic antenna focusses the energy on a single part of the brain (and the wearer loses, say, her grandmother or perhaps all words ending in "-ed", etc.) or

- facing away from the threat, whereupon the energy is safely dispersed by the foil.

So one could cleverly use the parabolic foil as a one-time direction detector, asking their friend to wear it for a moment and to please turn to their left or right until something happens? Do this twice with two former acquaintances and you can use their positions and last facing angles to triangulate to the location of the offending equipment.

To protect oneself, one should do a complete head foil wrap (the neck might still be a thruway for danger, since the transmitter could be embedded in the floor, so maybe foil soles for your footwear?) Seems the spies would be significantly easier to spot if this were the typical modus operandi.
Thanks, after seeing the logos of both it is readily apparent.
One thing to consider if you're going to provide a service like this:

What happens if a vulnerability nevertheless sneaks through?

The whoever did the vetting could conceivably get sued. So then they might want to take out insurance or try to protect themselves from lawsuits in some other way -- all of which is likely to make such a service even more expensive.
As interesting as the Avro Arrow was, it's capabilities have been exaggerated, and there were a decent number of Mach 2 capable jets of the same era. More interesting is the downfall of Avro and the effect it had on Canada's engineers and brain drain...
For the average user, hiding the UI that much is a terrible and confusing experience.
There was no mention of Unix, just Linux/Windows/macOS. So Solaris or any of the BSDs could fit.
a couple of my favorite links about VTOL of 195x (the postwar decades was a beautiful time of explosive exploration of designs, today's nostalgia and interest toward that time coupled with modern control electronics and the rise of independent tech explorers like Musk brings hope for the second golden age of tech) :

AirGeep : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SERvwWALOM

Hiller flying platform (latest version is here in the San Carlos museum) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3FS3D1rCos

WASP (that one was somewhat later) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARrc40imk
Batesian Mimicry
A Chat with Browsium Founder Matt Heller about IE6 on Win7 (2012)
So you think everyone's going to want to call a cab to go anywhere? Why don't they do that now?
Was this old enough to be a CRT TV? Their flyback transformers [1] very often emit a sound of 15.6 kHz, which is very obvious to all younger people and unnoticeable for older folks. I feel I was especially susceptible to this noise, and would frequently change rooms to escape it if the TV was on.

I whole-heartedly welcomed the change to flat TVs and monitors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_transformer
This stuff has some really cool implications but...

> For example, flexible electronics — from knee patches that capture range of motion in arthritic patients to patches that use sweat to detect fatigue in athletes or soldiers — hold great promise for collecting medically relevant data.

Sorry this just sounds lame, whenever people try to suggest applications of new technology they almost always seem to be A) not particularly useful and B) unimaginative.

> sweat to detect fatigue in athletes.

Really? don't you think it might be simpler, faster, cheaper (better in every single way) to just ask them?
Why hackathons should insist on free software
There was a fourth bomber [1] in case there had been any delays with the three types that went into production. None of them were supersonic though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sperrin
Wow looks a bit like the venerable MiG-25 foxbat
What about FreeDOS?
I have heard this several times, people really like Dropbox sync. What I cannot understand is what prevents Google from making a kick-ass sync client?
This must be fixed long-term by segregating browser capabilities into tiers that are clearly visible to the user, and severely limiting defaults on data size, compute time, etc. especially when your site claims to belong in the "simple web site" tier. In other words, unless the user thinks it makes sense for you to download lots of data and do complex things, you can't.
I came upon this realization very recently too.
My equivalent is to use incognito/private browsing (depending on browser of choice). However, once again, browsers are opinionated, and don't offer to save passwords in private/incognito mode (with no overrides). Which means I just avoid the whole experience when possible.

Similarly, things like Focus let you access a throwaway experience even more easily. Still no password saving though.
Variadic templates can be exceptionally useful in certain circumstances
Isn't this explicitly allowed? Amazon has an app store for android and there's things like F-Droid as well. Also there are many Chinese app stores. If all else fails users can simply sideload the APK.
Where does all this "equalizing" money come from? Does it just pop into existence because you want it to?
To be happy.
What are the odds someone who can prove whatever those things are can also talk about harmonic resonance equations and the practical matters of designing instrument-compatible chording arrangements, two topics entrenched heavily in mathematics (and physics, and materials science, and human usability concerns) but with a completely different specific focus?

The odds are near zero. Everyone learns their own domain. Quoting random properties of a specific subdomain of a branch of all possible learning demonstrates your knowledge, not disproves theirs.
> How do we build roads in rural areas that don't kill the environment while also not creating a ginormous network of roads throughout our entire country which allow tons of people to own cars and rely solely on them for all travel?

Nobody is actually proposing to build a bunch of new highways in rural areas. The real problem is congestion in cities.

> I replied to this in another comment of yours, but this actually doesn't work.

It does work, it just doesn't work linearly. You can add a lane and discover that there was already a lane's worth of unsatisfied demand. And maybe there were even two. But there most certainly were not 1,000,000 lanes worth of unsatisfied demand, and in most places there probably weren't even two.

> A large part of the reason that real estate prices are high is because of cars.

A two bedroom apartment is at least five times the size of a parking space, so the area allocated to parking is less than 20%. That is not the main source of the cost.

Of course, minimum parking requirements are still ridiculous, because if landlords can attract tenants to a less expensive building without parking, why stop them?

And is is requirements like that which combine with each other to cause high housing costs.
> In a statement, Google described the lawsuit as "baseless," and said it would defend its decision in court, if necessary. "In order to be on the Play Store, social networking apps need to demonstrate a sufficient level of moderation, including for content that encourages violence and advocates hate against groups of people," Google said. "This developer is welcome to appeal the suspension if they've addressed the policy violations and are compliant with our Developer Program Policies."

This is going to be fun. I hope they're forced to clarify what exactly they mean by "sufficient level of moderation". If that's going to be their angle I have to say it sounds wobbly. I'd be more comfortable with a, "It's our platform, get bent!" approach.
It sounds like you're confusing the App Store and Play Store.

You can still install Gab.ai on any Android phone. You can also use a non-Google app repository with automatic updates, if you want.
Doesn't the flash code have metrics based on size? Size and closeness to the top seems pretty good.
The Purism Librem 5 phone is building a shared platform, not walled gardens
I have to think some significant portion of parking benefits paid to suburbanites are getting used on park-and-ride, and so are in a sense subsidizing public transport. Certainly that's where mine go.
Soon after this was posted, I presume that Browsium was ordered by MS legal to stop using IE6 binaries. When EMIE was created two years later, "avoiding many performance, security, and other problems associated with running older Internet Explorer 8 binaries." was mentioned in https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2014/04/02/stay-up-to-da...
So yes, the same standard applies.

So I won't be able to find hate speech, racist speech, and speech inciting violence on Facebook and Twitter?
Breitbart is not a reliable source by any stretch of the imagination, and I cannot see why you linked the personal Wikipedia article of their attorney.
There are people doing research into this, for example comparing how quickly various styles of loops are understood by beginning users (I wish I could find the talk on that right now). Like you said, it's not taken very seriously though.

The problem I have with that is that it seems to be limited to verifying existing structures and solutions. That kind of quantitative research has its use, but is not really helping with exploring novel ideas in human friendly interfaces.

For example, I stumbled across Céu a few years back and I have never seen concurrency and timing done in such an intuitive style before[0]. Other things that have blown my mind in the last few years include Halide's decoupling of algorithm and scheduling[1], Jonathan Edwards' experiments with schematic tables as an alternative to if-statements[2], vega-lite's grammar of interactive graphics to declaratively construct interactive plots[3], and aprt.us' hybrid graphics/text programming environment[4].

These are all novel ideas that you cannot find through quantitative measurements about which syntax is optimal. Not that the latter is without use, since it can make people shut up about pointless disagreements (although I think the better solution to ending a holy war on bracket style is to get rid of it altogether and use something one default style like elm-format[5]). And maybe we're also not looking outside of our own field enough.

For example, I recently read Steven Pinker's "The Stuff of Thought". There was a chapter discussing all kinds of (human) language paradoxes and hidden rules based on how humans have different ways of thinking about aggregates, and how we use those subconsciously in our daily language. As I was reading it, it made me think "this makes so much sense of how different languages use collections differently, they're just applying different styles of intuition described here!"

The funny thing about most language paradoxes is that they require very specific ways of framing a question, and that they disappear when framed differently. Which sounds a lot like how some problems are easier in one style of programming or the other. And that makes me wonder if we can't learn a lot from these branches of linguistics about how we might set up our computer languages in such a way that humans are less likely to make errors of thinking in them.

[0] http://www.ceu-lang.org/

[1] http://halide-lang.org/

[2] https://vimeo.com/177767802

[3] https://vimeo.com/177767802

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Xack9ufYk and http://aprt.us/

[5] https://github.com/avh4/elm-format
Get the version of Ubuntu medium you want to install on to a usb drive. you can use dd (not for the novice), use startup disk creator in ubuntu, or get pendrive linux (www.pendrivelinux.com) in windows to create the bootable usb.

Then boot your machine from the usb drive. go through the install process, it will ask you how you want to partition your machine. there is an option for erase everything.

Hope this helps!
Off topic completely, but is there a long bull case for energy? Are we seeing a bottom in oil and natgas prices or will secular changes and renewable consumption dominate? And are infrastructure funds such as $ALPS, $ENFR a good way to get exposure and long term income distributions? Thanks in advance!

As far as Chamath's Hedosophia, not sure I'd bet against him just yet. He's got a pretty good track record of winning ;)
Edit: Derp. HN needs to bring back the delete feature for total failure to grasp context such as mine.
You don't have to be a literal monopoly to be a legal monopoly. Microsoft has never literally been the only place to get an operating system, not even the only place to get a consumer operating system (Apple has been there for Microsoft's entire OS run, at varying levels of health, sure, but always available). But they were found to be legally a monopoly in terms of abusing monopoly power anyhow.
A given server can effectively have any hostname because of Host:, and that might even be desirable, so Apache's behaviour doesn't seem reasonable.
The problem is that HTML 5 video is really useful for replacing animated image formats. The technology in modern video codecs is way superior than gifs, etc., and the real impact of that is greatly reduced space/bandwidth consumption, like orders of magnitude better.

Just as we start to leave gif in the dust, Facebook pulls the dick move of auto-enabling sound on all auto-played HTML 5 content.

I think that Google's solution of refusing to autoplay videos with soundtracks is a good compromise which will allow us to continue to enjoy the benefits of modern video codecs while simultaneously preventing built-in video support from gaining the bad rap that got attached to Flash.

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EDIT: Reply to rhizome, since I'm not allowed to post for a while for having an illegal opinion on Kubernetes.

I'm not suggesting that the technology would be eliminated in its entirety, but disabling autoplay of all HTML 5 video neuters its use as a replacement for animated gifs.
>I get the impression they don't care about security at all. They seem like children

I had the absolute pleasure of working with dstufft for 6 or 7 months years ago and learned a ton from his breadth of knowledge and willingness to teach (and I had more than a decade of experience at the time). I can appreciate being unhappy with the situation and not agreeing with the approach, but personal attacks and assuming ill intent don't help. It is, of course, possible the developers actually do pay attention to the details and just see the issue better than you do.

I read that link at the time and I do wonder how you would address the issues he raises. The concern seems not so much not wanting to apply security but actually thinking about the underlying issues. Which is worse: an open but dangerous Pypi or one with a bunch of security theater around keys and hashes and other stuff everyone pays lip service to but never actually checks?
Is it illegal to curate the Play Store?

It's an important question that might define the future generation of programmers. Hacking used to mean something specific: it meant you were free of channels. It didn't matter if you owned a channel when people were tinkering in their basement on something they owned.

Now it's all interconnected, and questions of ownership are critically important. I respect Stallman, but he was hard to take seriously. Then, suddenly, even his outlandish ideas seem pescient.
I have a lot of respect for the Amish, I think they are true hackers. It's pretty amazing the things they build with the resources they have.

Of course I love technology, the internet, etc and couldn't imagine my life without all that, but yes I am addicted to my phone and being able to look up anything whenever I want. This is extremely powerful, but this quote gives me something to think about as I type this at my desk job:

“If you can just look it up on the internet, you’re not thinking,” said Levi, another woodworker. “The more people rely on technology, the more we want to sit behind a desk. But you can’t build a house sitting behind a desk.”
Thank You Google!
Selective policy enforcement like this are exactly why being a common carrier makes more sense.
Interesting, do you have an example in mind?
I don't think there is much what-ifs there, too small (40 passengers) and range too short (1200 miles). The advantage of jetliners over props/turboprops wasn't in cost, it was in speed and comfort (higher cruising altitudes) and both advantages are reduced on smaller routes.

The 707 held 140 passengers and had a 2400 mile range. They sold a thousand of them.

The Comet was similar in size to the C102, but had more range. They only sold 117 of all variants up through the Comet 4 (though obviously the metal fatigue crashes affected sales).

The Sud Caravelle, which launched a few years later, eventually sold 280 units, but it was twice the size and twin engined, so it's operating economics were likely much better.

Avro was really early, and their original funding from TCA had ridiculous conditions that would have crippled them. Fortunately they pulled out. But still too early, and I think they would have only had a chance if they designed significantly more range. Then they could have stolen the Comet market after it's crashes, and probably sold even better, given their use of round windows from the beginning.
i.e. google is setting themselves up as the multi-national censor and nanny state.

I guess we should be glad that Google wasn't founded by militant fundamentalists. Otherwise they would ban mentions of homosexuality, abortion, inter-racial relationships, etc.

Since Google was found on more "liberal" standards, we just get left-wing oppression instead of right-wing oppression.
> Law is distinctly negentropic

Meaning? In a closed system of your choice, law decreases entropy, i.e. increases complexity? Your comment is quite cryptic to me.

However, negentropy seems to be in violation of the laws of thermodynamics, so you are really saying that the law can't be described as a closed system. Is that right?
Not quite 15 years, but I'm happily using an 11 yr old laptop. When I need something beefier, I turn to my 9 yr old desktop. And, you're correct, I am running GNU/Linux on both.
I'm not too up-to-speed with Patreon, is it like twitch but for any type of creative content?
Only against white American men because apparently that's the only hate speech supported by those platforms.
It is striking that the iPhone with A11 is reportedly slightly more powerful than the current entry-level MacBook Pro. What more will it take for Apple to abandon Intel?
When you tap the header status bar on mobile safari this site doesn’t scroll back to top. Why?
A less inflamed take on the topic I found illuminating: https://pagely.com/blog/2017/05/exploitbox-unauthorized-pass...
https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers/issues/462
Machine learning may be nearing its ceiling.

The history of AI goes in cycles. Someone has a good idea which solves some problems, followed by "strong AI Real Soon Now" enthusiasm, followed by that idea hitting its ceiling. AI has been through search, backtracking, the General Problem Solver, hill-climbing, and expert systems. Each was overhyped at the time, and each hit its ceiling.

The big difference this time is that the ceiling with machine learning is high enough for large-scale profitable applications. That wasn't the case with the previous rounds. AI used to be a dinky field - about 30-50 people each at Stanford, CMU, and MIT, plus a few tiny groups elsewhere. Now it's a huge field with big companies and big profits. That makes it self-sustaining.

Hinton has a point in that we're missing something. Back-propagation is an extremely inefficient method, especially since the slower you do it, the better it seems to work. More generally, most of machine learning is "turn the problem into an optimization problem and bang on it really hard with lots of compute power". This works for a useful class of problems. But it has limits.

How long until the next big idea? The last "AI winter", after expert systems, was 15 years.
The Android story is pretty good. As good as it could be, I think, in a reality where 97% of users don't care.
Gab is probably going to lose. Apple has capricious and inconsistent rules for what's allowed, why not Google?
You might try pleading directly to the devs—it worked for me before I got a job (I was still in high school).
This is, in large part, still a popular sentiment in Japan.
Technically, no. Since the minute you take money for work you are no longer amateur but a professional. In reality, yes it is possible. Unfortunately you'll most likely be stuck with low paying crappy gigs until you build up experience/brand.
So it's just another platform. It happens to be a platform people flock to because they are 'no platformed' in another service.

The big companies are really limiting speech. You can't have separate black/white bathrooms, in many places your business can't allow indoor smoking, you can't limit employment based on certain things if you want equal opportunity employer benefits, yet we have no protection for speech.

Daily Stormer (which is honestly so crazy I couldn't tell if it was a parody) can't be hosted by any major or minor providers. No one will give them space to speak. When that many companies gets to control all the platforms, when Google can fire a guy for a well thought out opinion, they effectively censor dissenting idea.

I'm not saying I like gab. It's seriously full of voat type users, but they should have a place where they can speak.
Should browsers be required to censor the web to meet this standard?

Apple was applying this standard to Web Browser software in iOS in what had the affect of being a deliberate ploy to exclude all non Safari web browsers from the iOS App Store.
Suing Google will use up the majority of that $1 million.
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That article is pretty light on details. I wonder if he pointed towards a specific form of unsupervised learning.

Anyway it's pretty funny in light of an intro I remembered from one of his old papers:

"It would be truly wonderful if randomly connected neural networks could turn themselves into useful computing devices by using some simple rule to modify the strength of synapses. This was the hope that lay behind the original Hebb learning rule and it is the vision that has driven neural network modelers for half a century. Initially, researchers tried simulating various rules to see what would happen. After a decade or two of messing around, researchers realized that there was a much better way to explore the space of possible learning rules: First write down an objective function [...] and then use elementary calculus to derive a learning rule that will improve the objective function." [1]

ie. backprop

So actually backprop was the solution to all that initial "messing around" with unsupervised rules. Though of course to be fair (if I understand correctly) those rules had very little to do with modern "unsupervised learning" methods (e.g. autoencoders, which still rely on backprop or similar optimization).

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/hebbdot.pdf published in 2003
I would agree with this approach. In evolution, it would be the equivalent to a conditional lethal mutation. In humans and even non-humans, may behaviors are learned through a form of adaptive behavior that oftentimes becomes a form of abductive reasoning. What is learned is "good enough" to serve as ground truth until there is evidence to contradict.
I always found it weird how Apple allows reddit and Tumblr apps but does not allow 4chan apps - all three have the same amount and kind of porn.
Apparently the Gutenberg Element concept (https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/tree/master/element) wraps React to minimize contact with React itself. So converting to Preact might not take over long. Note that I haven't dug very far into the Gutenberg codebase so at the moment I am just supposing.
Can you explain to me the difference in reliability of information between the version posted on WaPo and Breitbart?