skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not everyplace has Tap water available to fill your bottle. In many tourist locations it is very difficult to find Taps could be considered safe for consumption.
I find this meta HN site quite entertaining:

http://n-gate.com
His garden, is great for a snack or two, let's be serious about the rest. Grains, meat etc not gonna grow in a "forest" and one way or another we need those calories. Like or not we're gonna be 9 billion soon and they will need to eat.
That is not the case. Destructors run for things that go out of scope. When you create a reference to something ("borrowing") that reference is associated with a lifetime. This lifetime represents how long the reference is valid. A reference can never outlive the things it references (or it would be a dangling pointer), but the opposite is not true: you can create a reference with a lifetime that is shorter than the thing it references.

So basically lifetimes are used only by the borrow checker for intelligent linting. Once the borrow checker is done, the compiler loses interest in lifetimes entirely, and they don't affect codegen.
#CCleaner hackers targeted tech giants with a second-stage #malware
That's minuscule compared to how easy it is to parse config files vs to construct and speak to API. The volume slider UX is a better argument. That's the one thing I can think of where faster changes are indeed useful.
New Zealand has some of the same issues when it comes to access. There's recently been a massive influx of foreign companies who've been granted consent to extract near limitless quantities of water from aquifers, giving back very little to the communities they operate in. Sadly there seems to be very little political will to change this.
If I'm driving around your beautiful country, I didn't bring my own containers and I can't bring them back on the plane. Your own containers are much more expensive than the bottled water is. So no wonder tourists buy bottled water.
That is factually a quote from the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, as reported in the article. It is not the journalist's job to provide specifics on the behalf of others.
The same week I read about the Gett-Blackcab bus partnership (woohoo one route, that will make a difference..).
£20 for a hour's drive in a Mercedes E class (with a driver) is hurting the protection racket?

Other news, the government is offering huge subsidies/ grants for conglomerates working on driverless cars and lorries.

Btw: I trust a computer more than most London drivers.
Mine was OS X dictionary IIRC, but here's dictionary.com:

adjective, Also, epical
1.
noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style:
Homer'sIliad is an epic poem.
2.
resembling or suggesting such poetry:
an epic novel on the founding of the country.
3.
heroic; majestic; impressively great:
the epic events of the war.
4.
of unusually great size or extent:
a crime wave of epic proportions.
5.
Slang. spectacular; very impressive; awesome:
Their burgers and fries are epic!

So if (4) is what you mean, it's not exactly the first definition for the adjective either.
Does anyone remember the front-end to HN that categorizes posts according to proper topic categories like "Privacy," "Coding," "Startups," etc. with ML?

I remember it being posted or mentioned in a comment but cannot find where it is.
I remember reading a professor at Wageningen University claiming that vegetables grown with pesticides tended to have less carcinogens because they don't need to produce as many defensive chemicals of their own.

I would like to see some research backing up that claim myself, though.
I've never had that experience with local cabs. Now what?
FTC warns influencers about relying on Instagram's #ads
Governments will close down bitcoin and crypto if they get too big, Jamie Dimon
I think it is also about the insanely large network in the US compared to tiny Netherlands (Netherlands is about 300 km by 150 km). Water has more time to go bad in those long pipes. to see how small the Netherlands is: https://mapfight.appspot.com/texas-vs-nl/texas-netherlands-s...
It also seems that he works at least partially on his own stuff. For me personally, there is a big difference between working on something for someone, and working on my own ideas. The latter tires me much less.
Java: Reducing Garbage Collection Pause Times with Concurrent Scavenge
taggernews.com allows you to see what tags might apply to each story (more info about all of this at https://devpost.com/software/tagger-news)
What is most of the rest of the world? Most countries in Europe recognize it. International medical associations also recognize it. Are there countries where a psychiatrist would never diagnose ADHD?
Microsoft announces PlayReady support for CBC encryption
In my experience Addison Lee, Kabbee and the other private mini cabs are completely useless for uber use case.
Unless you booked them in advance you need to be prepared to wait up to 30 minutes or more.
With uber I can request a ride and I'm pretty sure that at worst in 5 minutes I'm inside the car.
nice short target
I can't speak for anyone else, but if it were me, I wouldn't expect anyone to trust me enough to use it, so why bother?
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I’m not assuming anything. The “heavy cost” you are referring to is obviously not heavy compared to paying US wages and cost of regulations. The proof is the fact that everything you pick up in your room will probably say Made in china and your shirt will say Made in bangladesh.
I went for the simplifying but technically inaccurate "four weeks in a month."

Anyway, I'm not sure that commuting should be counted in the same bucket as work, but, more importantly, you seem to rather glibly gloss over having only one-day weekends. Like, OK, maybe I could do that a few weeks in a year, but all the time? It's a big difference.
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Yes, from 1 Jan 2018 all new registered taxis are required to be all-electric or petrol-electric hybrids. There's going to be a £5k grant for taxis over 10 years old (note there is a maximum age of 15 years that has long been in force), which will hopefully push the oldest third of taxis to get replaced more quickly than normally.
> Some companies are happy to serve a restricted demographic

Right, but whatever their target demographic is, they're still going to want to have an exclusive stake in it. I'm not saying that Taco Bell can/should seek to monopolize all food.
That might be true for a taxi use case where few trips are the same but for regular routes knowledge still wins because you only need to have the software tell you to go a dumb way once to know that's not the best way to that place.
Just as a point of reference, in The Netherlands there is a central agency for recording the debt of people who mostly have fallen behind on payments. They only record debts that last longer than 3 months and of those delete all record of them after 5 years after being paid off. It is forbidden for this agency to record that you have a mortgage unless you fall behind on payments. Only negative information is stored on borrowers. If you pay your loan down on time nothing will be stored about you.

Also, it is forbidden for information in this agency to be used for identifying purposes by banks and the like. This means considerably less risk for me as a citizen, and it also means the information is less valuable for hackers. Mortgage interest rates are currently 1-2 points less in The Netherlands than they are in the USA, so there's no correlation I can see between America's vampire capitalism credit model and cheaper loans.
In the UK we have an excellent 0-to-5 point rating scheme for all establishments that serve or prepare food. It includes Street food vendors, kiosks, even schools. All sellers are required to show their "number" at the front door or POS, you can verify it online. You used to be able to see the inspectors report too (sadly it seems they removed that feature and replaced with a summary).

It's an excellent system that warrants repetition in other industries.

Regulation done right greatly improves one's position soliciting services - I want to know if my driver has had recent accidents, speeding tickets, has poor health, doesn't pass a DBS check, can speak my language (very useful in cities you don't know), that their vehicle is safe.
Tommyscarswash
Naturality (i.e., the absence of either artificial constraints or artificial degrees of freedom) is a good thing.
I figured it out - I hope.
Your suggestion was a major part of the solution - Chrome works great with just setting

osc.gain.value = 1

But for this to work on Safari & FF it needs to be set like this:

oscVol.gain.setValueAtTime(1, startTime)
Take a look at Buffalo, it's very much inspired by Rails.

https://gobuffalo.io/docs/getting-started
Do something, do anything. Set a timer for ridiculously small amount of time, 2mins or something, and do something towards it. Like just logging into the filling web site, or looking at the forms. More often than not this gives me the motivation to do more.

Easier said than done though!
The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales
The problem with PA is that (it appears like) there aren't really any simple errors. For most software, you have a bunch of common problems that you can find on Stackoverflow easily with a reliable solution.

Pulse, on the other hand, while working fine on 99% of systems, usually fails catastrophically in creative ways on the remaining 1% and it's really hard to even understand what the problem is. (And of course, these 1% will shape public opinion. A large portion of the 99% is not even aware they're using Pulse.)
Those numbers include uber drivers, minicab drivers AND black cab drivers all lumped into one - they are people who described their occupation as "taxi driver" or some derivative.

It is fair to say that regulation in London has generally tended towards safer experiences for all.

I was in a car the other day where the driver bemoaned the paperwork. He came to London in the 1980s without knowing English and bought a car for £200 that had six months MOT left on it and would likely be scrapped at that point, and was operating as a driver the next day.

Now cars can't be older than 10 years, are MOT'ed every 6 months, the drivers are all having to do English proficiency tests for safety reasons, and as a result the whole system is better and safer.

Uber is actively trying to skirt around regulations, and is - in the eyes of the London police - not doing enough to protect women from sexual assault and rape compared to other operators, including other private hire and black cab operators.

They are undoubtedly doing so because of their data and experiences relating specifically to Uber as an operator, and not because they don't like Uber.

As such, Uber should be forced to respond by either amending, or ceasing operations. The regulator is doing their job.

And we need to be clear here: the number one reason the Police and TfL are giving are that you are far more likely to be raped by an Uber driver than you are a driver for another firm or black cab driver - if that were not the case, they'd be suspending licenses elsewhere too/instead.
From your description and my personal experience, only London falls under this category. What other cities do you have in mind?
Uber needs to license their software to existing companies. Stop trying to push cab companies out of business, and start trying to be cabOS. The user experience is why we use the thing, I don't give a rats ass who is picking me up, as long as they are safe and courteous. And they come pick me up with a few taps of a phone app.
Was a bit more difficult but that was a step in the right direction. Thanks!

https://gitlab.com/inverted3/drum-machine/commit/79c0eba42ec...
Ask HN: State of the Art for Stereo 2D to 3D?
Hi,

I was wondering what are the best algorithms for recreating a 3D scene video from multiple 2D shooting ?

Recording devices could include stereo cameras (left / right = 2 streams) or multiple gopros strapped together (2 / 6 streams)

I am more interested into the ability to separate objects and put the RGB+Alpha extracted objects in a 3D scene (rather than having a huge 3D cloud points)

Thanks !
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FYI, MongoDB now passes the Jespen test suite. It's just as safe as Postgres, while much easier to use.
"healthy cab ecosystem"? Have you lived in outer London? If you're out as far as one of the houses outside Brixton, the cab system isn't even in existence, let alone healthy.
Oh, man. The Investigators were awesome! Made me as a kid want to play around in scrapyards, also getting kicked out of a fair few.
The > at the end of your sporttechie link is making it 404, but here's the important part:

“What the plaintiffs’ attorneys call a “study” is biased, baseless, and nothing more than an attempt to extract a payout from Fitbit. It lacks scientific rigor and is the product of flawed methodology. It was paid for by plaintiffs’ lawyers who are suing Fitbit, and was conducted with a consumer-grade electrocardiogram – not a true clinical device, as implied by the plaintiffs’ lawyers. Furthermore, there is no evidence the device used in the purported “study” was tested for accuracy.”

Fitbit’s research team rigorously researched and developed the technology for three years prior to introducing it to market and continues to conduct extensive internal studies to test the features of our products. Fitbit Charge HR is the #1 selling fitness tracker on the market, and is embraced by millions of consumers around the globe.

Consumer Reports independently tested the heart rate accuracy of the Charge HR and Surge after the initial lawsuit was filed in January and gave both products an “excellent” rating. We stand behind our heart-rate monitoring technology and all our products, and continue to believe the plaintiffs’ allegations do not have any merit. We are vigorously defending against these claims, and will resist any attempts by the plaintiffs’ lawyers to leverage a settlement with misleading tactics and false claims of scientific evidence.
> We are able to get silicon wafers from TI and then package them...

Wow. I've started to become mildly interested in chip manufacturing tech, and the fact that you can do that is really amazing. I'm very curious how this actually works!
Some anecdata related to this – discussing with colleagues today, one mentioned that she had got into an Uber where the driver was clearly not the person registered with Uber, and the car was not the one she was told would pick her up. She mentioned another case she knew of where a driver was sharing the Uber registration with his cousin to earn more money.

This sort of activity severely impacts the safety and security of passengers, and makes Uber's job of helping the police that much more difficult as well. As far as I can tell, Uber doesn't care about these practices, or turns a blind eye to them.
Yeah, the intro to the article made it pretty clear that this writer doesn't know the first thing about mobile technology. I think, in his mind, "Siri" is the name for mobile text to speech.
>and reach back to older and less safe chemicals.

So organic farming?
to me this looks fair: land does not reproduce, but people do. Give people the right to own a non infinite resource forever and pretty soon you get to the point where 1% of them will own 99% of that resource, which is exactly what is happening now in many contexts.
No banks I'll have heard of, then? Do you use one you'd recommend?
Because having more options, knowing the identity and location of your driver, having a feedback mechanism to report mis-behavior and paying a lower price is bad for consumers. If you don't want it don't use it, stop imposing you will upon others.
> I don't want to give any business to a company that are seeking to become a worldwide cab monopoly

Do you buy from Amazon? Essentially the same thing, and I for one use it regularly. Like you, I worried for a while about a monopoly, but I think capitalism will pan out.

Amazon and any other online retailer that can successfully provide massive selection, good product review system, and reliable and fast home delivery will drive a change in the landscape of retail locally. This will eventually lead to smaller local physical stores through agreements with those retailers where the most popular items are stocked.

(The exception for the short-term will be supermarkets. And you've already seen the attempts at transformation; many generic retailers are half-grocery store now. That's what they will become in full, if they survive. But, home delivery will take that over also, eventually.)

Uber had poor decisions made, but along with Lyft in the US, Mytaxi in the UK, etc.- these are the "early Amazons" of the transportation business. The old method that Taxi services use is no longer relevant now that anyone can find directions easily. London is somewhat unique in that some of its cab drivers are known worldwide as those that have incredible memories, and that's great, but they are the typewriters of the future- used by some, but not by most. All of the dispatch and directions have been automated.
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I've stopped counting how often OS X moves audio streams to the wrong headset on my work notebook.
They do? You sure about that?

Then why not just let them compete?
Had a terrible experience my first trip to London with black cabs. Headed to Heathrow express, late for flight as it is, He tells me 3/4 of the trip through, no cabs accept credit. We pull up to a stop light, and a cab directly to our left, has "we accept credit" on the window. So now I'm sitting here driving around with the cab guy to find an ATM at 5am just to pay him.
The direct path signal is sometimes attenuated by obstructions so the multipath peak is strongest and captures the correlator for that sample.
Yes, but their enforcement team is way too small for the number of taxis and private hires on the road for it to have much effect.
washing a water container every day? using a water container with water is using and cleaning at the same time.

and lifestyle is no excuse for living lavishly and inconsiderate or wasting resources.
If you're interested in the topic, Jane McAlevey, a labor organizer, has done a lot of interviews (and written a book I haven't read) detailing her theories of why unions have become less effective and less appealing to workers, as well as what she thinks they can do.
> spitting in the windows of Uber drivers before

In South Africa the local metered taxis have gone as far as petrol bombing Uber drivers cars.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2017-09-07-wat...
Fiiiinally! Also, an interesting blast from the past, I used to play a MUD with Dan back in the nineties, he was doing well even back then.
"For now, sure, but you may have missed the word "monopoly"."

The Taxi business in every city is a 'monopoly'. Shares in this 'rent seeking entity' are bought by owning 'medallions'.

It's hypocritical that a cabal of local medallion owning rent-seekers want to attack Uber for their 'monopolistic' practices.

The cab drivers who don't own medallions aren't getting much out of it.

Uber is not a monopoly, nor has it been demonstrated that their drivers are 'more unsafe' than other drivers.

Love or loathe Uber - this is a political move - and it's scary. A government can come along and arbitrarily decide they 'don't like you because you're foreign' or whatever and ban you from doing business?

If London wants to make 'cabs outside of those holding medallions' illegal, I would disagree with it, but it would be fair at least.

It seems that there is room for competition in London in terms of taxi services.

40 000 people are going to be out of a job - let's say 1/2 are full time - that's 20 000 jobs.

Literally, a US 'startup' creates 20 000 jobs for people in London alone using tech - and the Mayor squashes it?

'We don't want jobs' is the essence of his argument.

It would seem there's quite a lot of rent-seeking in the Black-cab business if London can sustain an additional 20K full time drivers, that can't be ignored.
> Unlike "stop staying awake" which is not actionable.

That's the problem: you think "stop staying awake" is not actionable, while "leave your phone at home" is actionable for a person with ADHD.

Again, this is not different than saying "just be happy" to a depressed person. To that person, in that moment, "stop wasting time on the internet" is not actionable just as much, otherwise it would not be a problem in the first place.
And that entry is missing a bunch as well. Specifically It doesn't list the most recent T mobile breach. This breach was notable in that it was called a T Mobile Breach but the data was stoled from Experian's servers. T Mobile pointed the finger at Experian and Experian said they were just storing the data at T-Mobile's request. This breach affected 15 million people. The asshole's at T Mobile as well as Experian offered one years of free credit monitoring from Experian as a resolution. In order to elect to participate in the offer you were required to enter your social security number into a sketchy looking web page.

See:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/t-mobile-breach/
It's not some law of nature though; that's the result of legal changes making it more appealing to offshore manufacturing.
flagged for the link i can not read.
Considerably worse. Some people use them as a cab service for the local school and it's like a pinball machine.
We have customers who go to other places for our niche services (art/craft), I don't have a problem with that. We could seek to get those customers exclusively to use our services, I just don't find a compelling reason to do so (of course I'm greedy for money, but other than that?).
Seconded. When Pulse works, it's really magical. Like when you go to the hackerspace, connect to the Wifi, and the room speakers appear in your mixer and Just Work.
How I stopped loving Angular (and started loving Vue)
I've used 2 out of 3 of those, they all work as expected and work with same day deposits
Nothing in South Africa surprises me these days to be honest. I've had too many colleagues from that part of the world :)
In my city, especially as a disabled person, I've had vastly better experience with Uber than with regular cabs. Just being able to indicate precisely where to stop on a map is an incredible improvement for me over having to provide instructions to a cab driver who can't find the spot. Not having to deal with cash, drivers more willing to help etc. gives me a much better experience with an Uber.
nice job, arkit is awesome!