skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bought by Apple for $360M in 2013. I've been wondering when did they start thinking about this feature (or rather this kind of implementation for it). It seems that even when you have a lot of money and experience, there's still a pretty long way from an idea to its successful execution.
On the gold thing maybe I was too harsh...shouldn't judge him because I read Wikipedia some 300 later.

But, basically a great actor or scientist's opinion, outside his field, shouldn't be given extra attention or credibility.
PirateBay probably won't make any money. I'm considering adding this to an online game, which would probably generate a modest income. Video and social media sites could definitely benefit as well.
This is what the world is built on
I live on the east coast, and I already cut th e cord like that. I have no ISP anymore.

It started as an experiment. I still have several mobile devices, each with own unlimited plan, through different operators. AT&T is providing access to the TV doing Netflix/amazon/hulu. Sprint is providing access to my tablets, laptop and iphone. My main phone is a windows phone dual sim with AT&T for data, and Tmobile prepaid for voice service. I am comparing coverage, costs, and see what fits my needs.

My conclusion so far: I don't miss my ISP, and hardly feel a difference. I plan to cut service further. It will force me out of my home to socialize more, which is a good thing.

I think I will be keeping unlimited access only for my laptop, likely through sprint (because you get routable IpV4s with the right APN!) and Tmobile prepaid service on my windows phone for the rare occasion I need to be called even when my laptop is turned off.
I wouldn't take everything in the Wired piece as gospel. For example if you read point 3, "Transclusion Misstated" at http://web.archive.org/web/20001101230424/http://www2.educ.k... , it's clear that 1) Ted Nelson understood content-addressable networking long before eg. Bittorrent came about , while 2) Gary Wolf didn't get content-addressable networking even after researching Xanadu, meeting with Nelson himself, and writing a feature article about Xanadu for Wired. So, yes. See also http://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com.... .
This paper to be presented in ACM SenSys in November actually demonstrates ability to backscatter to distances as high as 3.4 kilometers at 70 microwatts using narrow band FSK transmissions.

http://www.ambuj.se/LoRea-CR.pdf

LoRa while achieves impressive sensitivity levels, this is for very low bitrates of tens of bps. For any practical data rate the sensitivity levels are similar to FSK.
True but incomplete. FB and similar make money on bulk collection. They do care but mostly in the aggregate. More data is directly related to more ad revenue.
But you are still exposed to the market, which can decline significantly. People will withdraw money from their passively managed funds when the market starts tanking. We have no idea what will happen in the next 'fear trade' when everyone starts dumping shares.

Stocks can go crazy and this could create a death spiral on the ETFs, because an ever more frequent decline can lead to significantly more volatility in small and midcaps, and more people withdrawing funds from their ETFs, which in turn will cause more liquidations.

All reasoning (to some extent) is lost as to which assets to liquidate. Actively managed funds will generally liquidate assets that don't cause too much swings in share prices in a downturn. Liquidating $50MM worth of Google won't make a big difference, but liquidating $50MM worth of SmallCap generally will put significant pressure on the share price. On the flipside: imo it does create a significant buying opportunity when it comes to small cap stocks.

Tl;dr: in my view, the more money that ends up being managed passively, the easier it will become to beat the market as an active investor.
Thanks for posting this. For those interested, I would also recommend Howard Rheingold's video "Ted Nelson and Doug Engelbart come to dinner" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLCIw-HSJc
I want finish my studies and take care of my family also
Nice, I'd love to see it released.
Wasn't the kinect susceptible to infrared interference such as from sun light?

Question is, will there be issues with face unlock in bright sunlight.
For BTC, sure. For XMR, maybe not. And the site doesn't carry the load.
I don't know the autobiography, but everything I have read by Nelson tells me he had very specific implementation ideas.

With Xanadu he had very clear ideas, for example, about documents that link to each other (even down to the paragraph/word/character level) and are able to preserve their integrity even in the face of edits, and his collaborators were able to come up with quite brilliant technical solutions. Nelson had a lot of working prototypes made up throughout the years.

One crucial problem was that a Xanadu-style system was a closed system; in a distributed world, the same implementation would have had to be run by every single server. It was diametrically opposite in philosophy to what became the World Wide Web, with its "anything goes" URL scheme, and it was a very clear case of "worse is better" winning over a carefully designed, walled-garden ivory-tower kind of solution.

Of course, Xanadu was completely prescient about link integrity. There was a rather sad post on HN recently about an late-1990s book which had lots of URLs to resources, none of which worked.
Out of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google only Apple pays a dividend.

EDIT: Point being that this isn't just a start up thing.
> It's a matter of incovenice

It's a matter of the moral bankruptcy of supporting a company that does this, and voting with your wallet that this kind of behavior ought to continue.
Here's the addon with the same code on firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-coin/

Can you please share your email to make you the owner of it?
The paradigm works well as long as the designer has a clear idea of what the user wants to do and as long as the designer('s boss') and the user's goals are aligned - and as long as the designer could anticipate all use-cases.

The advice in the article works well for simple things. Simple things can, and should, be perfect.

Unfortunately not everything can be simplified until it makes sense to an unskilled operator (or an unskilled designer). Ideally, complex things are composed of simple things... but if that were true, wouldn't we'd all be running UNIX command-line desktops?

Contrary to the author's leading premise, the best designs don't just work by taking options away from the user. They hide those options until they're needed... and when they are needed, they make those options easy to find.

And that's hard work, the sort of hard work that can't be waved away with a list of trendy bullet points from some respected design guru who mysteriously never seems to be around when you need to use a different printer than the one the OS thinks you want.
Had we taken that approach a century ago most farms would never have never been electrified. It wouldn't have been worth the effort for the utilities to run the lines absent government mandates. (fyi, this has returned as a huge problem today. Utilities charge massive amounts to electrify new developments in rural areas. If it requires more than a pole or two, the cheaper option is to build your own offgrid setup. Poles cost about 15k each in my area.)

There are so many discussions here about information tech changing farms, generally making them better and more efficient. That needs bandwidth. Want retirees to visit their doc via webcam, which saves money/time for all involved? That too needs bandwidth. Bandwidth is the new electricity.
I wrote a grease monkey script that allowed you to annotate a website and save the notes permanently to local storage. It had all of the above features. The only real limitation is the sandboxing.
My neighborhood Nextdoor is full of NIMBY on this topic. Apparently electrosensitivity afflicts some 90-95% of people who have the free time to go to city council meetings at 3pm on weekdays. Shungite pendants have been recommended to fend off the illnesses caused by radiation. Even the local school does not have wifi because some local bozo said his kids were "injured" by EM fields, not just any fields but specifically ISM wavelengths that are tuned to disrupt our precious cells.

I'd be frankly surprised if urban America ever gets 5G service while this kind of ignorance holds sway.
The argument isn't that "No hedge fund will ever beat the market." The argument is that, "You can't tell in advance which hedge fund will beat the market."

The long tail exists, just not for you.
That matches pretty closely with the three year design lead period for the Neural Engine that Apple revealed.[1]

[1] http://mashable.com/2017/09/14/inside-apple-a11-bionic-and-s...
I was an early backer of the LiDAR Lite[0], and I'm really excited to see LiDAR products become more affordable. A recent project called Sweep[1] the $350 super low-end disruptor to the $80,000 Velodyne models. I wonder how long before we have plug-and-play open-source projects for multi-sensor fusion[2] of cameras, LiDARs, and microphone arrays. A common digital trend appears to be subsidizing sensor quality with data volume and processing power. Are there projects for this now?

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14032

[1] http://scanse.io/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Probabilistic_Data_Assoc...
Wondering if he wrote this using Project Xanadu [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
Definitions of “publishing” in various languages
In light of the Wiley story about open access:

From a book by Lionel Bovier: "Etymologically speaking, being a 'publisher' has conceptual differences with the French éditeur and the German Verleger." The first emphasises the "making public", the second textual work, the third a financial advance to make printing possible. So what is publishing, essentially?
>> [..] Yes, every company should have an internal trusted CA. I have no idea why there are people arguing against that.

> An internal CA is simply not the problem here, particularly since you can audit your admins' actions.

If you can properly audit your admins' actions, then that's indeed not a problem.

It's easier said than done; I just tried to mention a few reasons why a lot of people suggest (IMHO rightfully so) that perhaps it's not something just about every company should do.

In particular, it's you don't just have to ensure that the CA is properly defended from outside threats only.

Before letsencrypt we didn't have any choice, but now the landscape is really different and in many cases I believe a company could easily defer dealing with an internal CA, especially after https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...

FWIW, certificate pinning (HPKP) and efforts like Certificate Transparency are attempts to address or at least mitigate weaknesses of the PKI system.
On the other side apple gets depth maps with two cameras that have different lenses.
Different distance to objects, different technologies.
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Ah, PeerJ did the bait and switch too. Thanks for the heads up.

And yes, that's what I'll keep on thinking. I wouldn't be much of a scientist if I'd take an industry shill's claim at face value, 'cuz secrets and all.

And I don't think you're very different from other corporate leeches. Probably the investors take the biggest cut of in the racket, but I'm quite certain many of the minions get compensated quite well too. Plenty of those in the academia as well.
And I still maintain: cock up, not conspiracy. Maybe they haven't handled the transition brilliantly. So what? Either use Caddy, or don't.

To your point that there's no indication that the project is open source: there are at least two links to the GitHub project on the homepage.

And as for the trademark removal from forks, that's sort of fair enough.
Correct, it absolutely would not have been a //e. Not that it really makes a difference, but still, that was a weird thing for an otherwise-decent article (or rather, book excerpt) to get wrong.

His first Apple, circa 1979, was probably an original Apple II with a language card, equivalent to the II+ that came out in mid-year.

Interesting to note that it was so expensive that even a senior NASA astronaut, probably a GS-13, had to split the cost with his son.
Garriott, and more specifically, the Ultimas, are the sole reasons I became a programmer. I first played Ultima 5 on a monochrome C64 monitor. Seeing the technological leaps up until the 8th sequel was mind-blowing to a younger me. There was something there that sadly will never be replicated. The lack of an internet connection meant there was nothing available other than a box, a manual, and a map to feed the imagination. I was even further disconnected from the world given I grew up in the countryside where neighbors were scarce.

I remember me and my brothers all huddling around the screen on rainy days, the four of us trying to assume the identities of the default party members - it literally felt like looking into a portal to another world.
Yeah it's basically just growing pains.

For large enterprise use, Nix is going to need to mature to a point where it's possible for enterprises to host a Nixpkgs cache locally, using a binary repository manager like Artifactory or Nexus, both for sheer cost (to save on bandwidth of thousands of servers downloading updates from the Internet) as well as risk reduction (in case the public binary caches are unavailable at critical moments). If this is doable today, it's not really documented.

I'm sure the project will get there... eventually.
Money has little to do with it. You can only add so many engineers to a project. Therefore, some things just take time.
The sensor in the iPhone X isn't LiDAR, it's structured light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured-light_3D_scanner
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It is ultimately technology and legislation driven rather than 'fashion'.

If a new pigment comes out that enables pure white or black or silver or any other colour at a cheaper, better price then that sets the fashion. If that new pigment later turns out to be a fire hazard or toxic on some way then it goes, for some other colours to be used and therefore 'the new fashion'.

If you look at aluminium finishes, the smooth, polished look fell out of favour just around the time that a variant on the shotblasting process became cheaper. So aluminium became less shiny.

There are many other factors but a surprising amount of what dictates fashion is a new industrial process or chemical discovery.
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this utterly rules. like, i want to fly to your current location to give you a fist bump. in my utopian dream world, every political pundit has to put their thoughts on here.
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I didn't say it was a conspiracy. What makes you think I did? I said they were jerks and instead of apologizing they played the victim and mined for sympathy.
Interesting. I never thought of that. I also asked a question about this on StackOver flow once and no one suggested that. Very useful.
> "where such conformance does not contradict traditional features or common sense"

I'd prefer to have traditional features to move towards standard compliance - and to do have it as a priority - and also to have standards exhibiting the common sense which doesn't need to be questioned too much. Eventually it would be good I think to have DBMSes drop-in replaceable and until that goal isn't reached it's not good enough for some practical purposes. In this sense "sometimes with different syntax" reads surprising and "or function" is even more so.

Did we all forget how and why SQL standards were created in the first place? How customers were demanding a certain level or interoperability? Do we think we don't need that anymore and the past reasons aren't there?
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That and a passport under the name "Unknown Comic" should work just fine, right?

https://www.google.com/search?q=unknown+comic&hl=en-US&prmd=...
I haven't followed 5G planning/predictions in a few years, but the last big deal I recall in this area was having the 5G included in the home broadband offerings. In other words, the current U-Verse/FiOS modem/router would also have a 5G microcell in it.

That would help with some of these issues as it relates to pole access and such.
I've found Python, LUA, or anything else better from an end-user perspective. Integrating Python can be hard, but TCL vs LUA?
I've been tipping away at this side project for over half a year (in full-time employment), but it's finally at a stage where I'm not ashamed to make it public.

By no means finished but it's first time I've shipped a side project from start to finish so it feels good :)
There are two concerns: transaction costs (tracking error relative to index return) and index return.

Those who believe in generally efficient markets want to capture the market return, however volatile, with as little tracking error as possible. Since the ETF holders don't actually sell any stocks when the prices decline, their returns are temporarily depressed. If and when prices recover so too will their value.

There is nothing unique about ETFs in this respect. Your critique is more about index funds in general, not ETFs specifically. ETFs practically differ from mutual funds only in things like transaction costs.

re your tl;dr: Sharpe's theorem shows that active investors will underperform passive investors after costs. Notice that this does not depend on the number of passive investors (and certainly at this point we're nowhere near any of the percentages of passively managed assets which people say may be worrying).

Overall, I do not think your critique is well-informed by the facts.
Free Creative Commons, "Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson"

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-16925-5
Precision Medicine and aging both drive the complexity of medical care up
Worrying what governments will do with this is a little backwards. Worry what Google's and Facebook's ad networks will let their paying customers (including political campaigns) do with this.
More browser extensions means more potential for conflicts, slowdowns and more UI clutter (assuming they have an interactive function like this one). Browser extensions getting hacked or bought and turned into malware is a concern. My adblocker is available for all browsers I use (and not just Chrome) and I know it's UI already - disabling a single block temporarily is done in 2 clicks.

That's why I'm skeptical of new browser extensions for things that the ones I have can already cover.

Doesn't mean everybody else has to feel like that (e.g. I honestly hadn't considered someone might want to install this but not a generic configurable blocker - even if you aren't aggressively blocking ads uBlock would be useful for me)
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> Because I don't trust Mozilla to […] not give in to Google's demands anymore.

Huh? How's Google able to demand anything from Mozilla? If you'd refer to the Search deal, that has long changed. The only way Google can "demand" things from Mozilla is by the force of the market. That's what happened in many regards, i.e. users expect certain things from the browser and Google managed to set the expectations.

> Australis UI ("Looks like Chrome")

Oh come on. This again. And it's been discussed again and again (and, by the way, clearly visible) that the Australis UI is as similar to Chrome as any other tabbed browser out there.

> WebExtensions ("Works like Chrome")

I agree that it's sad to see the maximum extensibility go. But it proofed to be the source of many issues (mostly browser stability and speed as well as complexitiy, speed, and flexibility of development) for the browser developers. But also for extension developers since the API was not stable. The Web Extensions API is far, far better in these regards. Starting from a tried and tested base instead of rolling your own API was a good decision, especially considering that MS was also in the same boat.

Keep in mind that the Web Extensions API in Firefox is already much more capable than what you can find in Chrome. So it's still "Works much better than Chrome".

> They are no different from Opera who capitulated completely

Uhm, Fx still has their own browser with their own engine which they are putting an enormous effort into, especially in recent months and to a great part enabled by the painful decisions they made, e.g. removing support for the legacy extension system. That's far from "capitulating". Quite the opposite, they're doubling down on their engine (paradoxically by developing yet another engine and programming language, but it turns out they were right!).
C4 (the GC implementation you are referring to) is not truly pauseless. It does enormous amount of work with the assist of the "user" threads and has a concept of local (instead of VM-wide) safepoints, but it still (rarely) pauses.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1993491&dl=ACM&coll=DL

http://static.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p46-click....
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We've actually implemented something like this ourselves with our linear algebra library.

We wrote our own gc for cuda:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/nd4j/tree/master/nd4j-back...

as well as:
https://deeplearning4j.org/workspaces

It also integrates with the JVM via weak references as well.

I can attest to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269537 as well, you really need this 3rd party due to the frequency of how often cuda changes. We usually end up having to support the 2 most recent cuda versions.
The manyfacturerer risks increased liability and bad PR if they let people modify these cars and then they end up in flames.

Car modding has gone on for around a century(!) and I can't remember a single instance where someone modified a car, was injured or killed, then blamed the manufacturer, and the latter was found at fault (instead of the modder or driver.) It's just the overreaching paternalism that seems all too common with companies today.

Electric cars are closing the ecosystem simply because the companies can exert more control (= profit) that way; the "safety" justifications are really to divert attention away from that.

Of course, Tesla can't stop you trying to paint your car...
Really? I just returned from a 2-week vacation in Turkey (Izmir, Cesme) and I was lucky to get working internet at all roaming on Turkcell. When it did connect, the speeds were ~4 mbps (iPhone6s - Verizon). Not sure if that's just because I was roaming.
Thanks. I'm sure that's helpful for the member you responded to and anyone else following the discussion.

And you're right. You can't be held accountable for people jumping the gun. Regardless of how they comment or their lack of preparedness, you are responsible for how you yourself respond. And part of that is hopefully to assist when people are uninformed.

Thanks again for the link!