skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is also good to try to have a balanced view and separate signal from noise. Chris Burniske published a few days ago an article about cryptoasset valuations trying to start a serious framework for analyzing cryptoassets [1].

Beyond the valuation, the innovation behind Bitcoin and few others make sense taking into account scaling issues and security thresholds.

Sharing here [2] a work in progress about new insights in the field (e.g. Spectre).

[1] https://medium.com/@cburniske/cryptoasset-valuations-ac83479...

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfvfAA2v7EhAaxKmw95GJ0pv...
Show HN: Envision – AI-powered camera for the visually impaired
Greetings,

We are two guys who have been working with visually impaired people to understand how can computer vision deliver meaningful value to them. Our design centered approach to this has lead to two conclusion: a context-aware AI that anticipates what information user is looking for and an unobtrusive & non-stigmatising wearable camera.

We have been able to achieve the first part of it which we have just launched as a beta app. The idea is to use this as a platform to understand what contexts and feature need to be added to improve the experience. We are also going to use this to derive our hardware specifications for the camera that would compliment it and complete the experience.

We are trying to push this out to as many visually impaired users as possible, so do spread the word to people you might know. We would also like you to take it for a spin and drop us feedback if you have any.

iOS App Store link: http://goo.gl/fptaYQ

Cheers,
I agree with you but third party commenting system are terrible and hosting your own means legal liability.
In like 1910, yes what you said is true, not the 1980s.
The GDPR replaces the right to be forgotten with the right to erasure.
But article 17 also gives the following grounds for refusal:

Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

1) for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

2) for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

3) for reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with points (h) and (i) of Article 9(2) as well as Article 9(3);

4) for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) in so far as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or

5) for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

The first example is effectively a carte blanche to argue nearly any request for refusal in court.

The second one allows member states to pretty much tell companies not to delete information, whilst this was set up with compliance in mind, the wording has likely been formatted to also fit other needs such as security and state monitoring.

The third one pretty much allows you to keep medical records and insurance information.

The forth one is similar to the first with celebrities, public figures and major events in mind (the Gawker clause).

The fifth one has been singled out by dating sites and other services such as ride sharing apps as the reason for them to keep data.

I am not a lawyer this isn't a legal advice, speak to a legal firm or an auditor for proper advice.

I have been working on a few GDPR compliance projects internally for the past year and I've had to speak with quite a few lawyers and they all pretty much said it's actually far better for most companies than the existing framework as long as they can automate data discovery and know where they data comes from and where does it go.

You can fight the right to erase the data of a user pretty easily, what you cannot cockup (Art. 15, 20 and 21 of the GDPR primarily) is the ability to disclose what data you have on them and what is it used for which is like I've previously stated the tricky part for most cases.
And as far as I can see Tinder pretty aced the tricky part.
They do also have their own kangaroo courts that lack due process for some unexplained reason though: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
It also has an offline feature that most other mobile map services would kill for.
My guess is that companies will start closing any offices there, just so they can't be tried by that court.
The Swiss didn't make digital watches. The Germans didn't figure out reliable cars (and still haven't). It's how it is.
Most people think it's a bubble, and nobody thinks they're the greater fool.
It's not about Google, but about Apple being privacy-oriented. The argument is that people wouldn't call Apple privacy-oriented if it weren't for its competitors like Google being even worse in that regard.
Email in Emacs has come a long way in the past few years.

http://cachestocaches.com/2017/3/complete-guide-email-emacs-...
Provide a form so people can write to you without disclosing their email or even having one.
It could very well be a bubble, but I never put more than I am willing to lose.
I think this ruling will severely curtail his future income.

He had managed to attract 25% of all patent cases because those bringing the suites were choosing his troll-friendly court.

However, going forward, those trolls will have to go to the court where the defendant has a physical place?
Specifically, he compares compares blockchains to the Internet and railroads:

"It is a bubble. This is going to be the largest bubble of our lifetimes, and so .. remember, bubbles happen around things that fundamentally change the way we live. The railroad bubble, railroads really fundamentally changed the way we live; the Internet bubble changed the way we live. And so, prices are gonna get way ahead of what they should be. You can make a whole lotta money on the way up. And we plan on it. At one point you're going to have to sell."
I'm pretty old and, as such, I feel inclined to give tradition a nod. There's something to be said for a good dress uniform.

I'd never go so far as to suggest we need more people like Gaddafi. No, that would be morally wrong of me to suggest so. By most accounts, he was a horrible man.

But...

That man could wear a uniform. He had enough medals on his uniform to claim the top pedestal at the Special Olympics. He was a man who understood the value of a fancy dress uniform.

And, back on that same topic, I've done way too much reading now. As near as I can tell, nobody has decided why dress uniforms have become more tame. They don't even usually wear fancy hats, with some exceptions. The Swiss and Britons still have some fancy hats.

I really do wonder why the uniforms aren't nearly as fancy as they used to be. I can understand utilitarian needs, but these are dress uniforms. It's not like they are going to be out in a fancy dress ghillie suit.

I bet there's a reason for it and I'd not be surprised if it were related to something psychological. A layman's guess would be that really snazzy uniforms inspire fear and promote ideas of inequality, or a lack of feelings of shared pain and shared service. Which is probably why Gaddafi could get away with it, but Trump can not.

I have spent way too long pondering this and looking for scholarly studies at Google.
Service Merchandise was awesome in the '80s and early '90s. My parents bought a lot of household items there and they always had a great toy selection around the holidays. That was a decent model.
It might force devs to optimize code more, since there will never be any more spare cycles muhahaha
If a tree falls.. i mean the other well known saying,

"if a bubble doesn't burst while you are in it (invested and cashed out), was it really a bubble?"
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I am really surprised that while everyone talks about SQL vs NoSQL, nobody has mentioned RDF as a model and SPARQL as a language. Graph-like structures based on triples allow the data relations to be represented properly (relational properties), while not limiting the data structure. This is not a shiny hot thing, but instead something developed over many years by (mostly) academics. Take a look at the tutorial: https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/NOTE-rdf11-primer-20140225/

And just to prove that RDF is a model, but not a format, look at JSON-LD as a serialisation format for RDF and at the SQLGraph [1] paper from Google to see how RDF can be implemented on top of an SQL RDBMS.

[1]: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
This is beautiful.
If you could also add the post caption on hovering the image, it would be great.
While at it, OP might also get rid of CloudFlare, Google Analytics, Google Fonts, and the social buttons as they all track users for ad purpose (ok maybe not cloudflare but it is still a smart move to get rid of them)
Cryptocurrencies in the browser are[0] irrelevant. But they're a part of larger ecosystem of cryptocurrency mining, and that ecosystem is a huge problem.

> playing computer games, watching mindless YouTube videos, scrolling Facebook, leaving devices on when not used, lighting places 24/7 where nobody goes at night anyway etc.?

We do. But all those examples are the case where energy use gives us something (fun, convenience) and where the waste is bounded (there're only so many devices I can leave powered, and also I have to pay for the power they use). Crypto mining literally pays you for wasting power, so the more electricity you can burn, the more money you get. And the more people join in, the more you have to burn to keep up. So there's almost no ceiling to how much personally you get to waste, and a strong incentive to waste as much as you can.

And what's all of that for? To replace a system that works fine and does not have a greed-powered feedback loop of waste? That's just dumb.

--

[0] - Currently. Hopefully they'll always stay that way, but there's an off chance this becomes so popular that all new computers will come equipped with additional hardware and drivers to mine crypto for micropayments.
It feels like everyone mixes relational databases with SQL in discussions. Relational databases are fine but SQL is disgusting. It's a query language that's very hard to parse or generate and has multiple incompatible variants. Ironically the Lambda calculus version looks much better, I'd never seen those before. I wish we'd go back to that as default, unify around a standard and expose block text SQL as an extra for users.
I really, really loved that book. It resonates so well with how I think and view the world.
> petrol diesel ki pad rahi hai maar, nahi chaiye BJP sarkar

Please keep idiotic comments like this outside HN
Good point, I will perhaps remove it. On my phone tests if was okay.
I wonder when it will start doing the same (overtly anyway) from US citizens and visitors.
Interesting idea and nice implementation, but it seems like the premise presupposes the conclusion - money makes money.
It just requires enabling it, no special care from applications.

It is disabled by default due to backwards compatibility.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

The file explorer does not support it on purpose.

https://superuser.com/questions/1114359/windows-10-home-anni...
That sounds more amenable to an Excel sheet, honestly. Which I suppose is not that surprising, since spreadsheets were the original freeform notebook style program.
It's not just economics -
Canada doesn't have slave history.

Many of these neighborhoods are predominantly AA and descendants of freed slaves; many residents view these neighborhoods as their territory and however bad the crime might be, at least it is something that is 'theirs' in a country that stole their land, families, etc.

Encroachment is often viewed as racial assault and non-natives are often treated with suspicion at the least, or outright hostility.

The crime and poverty is a separate issue - but if you'll note, when this is solved, the neighborhoods become gentrified and existing poor residents are rapidly displaced.. for these, it was almost preferable to have the crime since they could still live in 'their home' in a neighborhood they grew up in, etc.
Cool. Well since us non-Americans have zero rights when travelling to the US, and government/corporations can't be trusted to keep secrets safe, I guess I won't travel to the US anymore.

Sucks, because they've got some nice nature, but I can go somewhere I'm not hauled over a barrel for every detail of my life upon entry.
Google's personalised search results have already contributed strongly to the political polarisation that we are seeing in the US. And that's to say nothing of Google's internal politics that is seeing the ostracisation of liberal leaning points of view. See James Damore as a case in point.
As a self hosted blogger who uses Jekyll to build the site, and Emacs to do email, that sounds like a workflow that would be easy to automate.
Dating websites are, quite possibly, worse for our privacy than any social network ever invented. Consider this: A website like OkCupid can go much deeper than Facebook in understanding who you are, and what makes you tick. This is invaluable to marketers, and the government for that matter. I avoid dating websites because whose to say this data can't be used by others, such as insurance, employment, or the police? The following exchange from the television program "Person of Interest" I think is quite telling, albeit tongue in cheek, as to this threat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPirWp2oAJ4
"look at them, how cute, they're playing information society like the grown-ups!"

Don't put words in my mouth, I've never said something like that. I just wanted to highlight the fact that most people still prefer local services, either due to language barrier or social/information bubbles to disprove the claim that China would somehow be magically different if there was no Great Firewall.
Wechat = WhatsApp + Facebook + PayPal

Unless you mean Facebook and PayPal are nothing, you are wrong.
Does this include visitors or just immigrants? Or were visitors already targeted by preceding rules?
Transit app raises $5M to make it easier to get around cities
> Genuinely, massively disruptive innovation has always crossed over, and will continue to do so unless something drastically worse happens with censorship/politics.

Some would argue that it doesn't even need to cross over because multiple discovery is an actual thing with plenty of historical precedence [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries
In ads, waste of electricity is a bug. The more lean you can make them, the better (even if only because you can then put more of them). In cryptocurrencies, waste is a feature. The more power you burn, the more money you get.

One of those disincentivizes waste (howewer weakly). The other incentivizes it.
"2. SQL is intended to be accessible to users without formal training in mathematics or computer
programming. It is designed to be typed on a keyboard. Therefore it is framed in familiar English
keywords, and avoids specialized mathematical concepts or symbols."
http://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-dchamber/SQL-e...
What is the product? You should always link to your product if possible when you're talking about it.

It got me interested even if I just want to take a look.
The German constitution set forth that law enforcement is a matter of the states; no federal "general purpose" police may exist. Secret agencies and police may not be mixed (although some commenters liken the excessive powers of the Bundeskriminalamt to a secret police), for obvious reasons. Many other western countries don't have that separation in the first place; e.g. the FBI is quite clearly a secret police.
I'd add seaborn to that, it work perfectly with pandas.DataFrames, often it creates exactly what you want with minimal input (just a dataframe), ie:

import seaborn as sns

sns.violinplot(data=dataframe)

Set %matplotlib inline and you don't need more commands in your notebook.
Not as much really as it is about who you know.
Which is interesting, because one of the reasons I think Google is so good at search is that it personalizes results. When that personalization is removed will it still be as good?
That's good to hear! You will probably encounter some limitations due to the missing support for error recovery. When you do, we'd very much like to hear from you, to get an understanding of what a proper solution should look like.

For example, we probably should not handle "catastrophic" errors like GPU/compiler bugs the same way we handle "incidental" errors like bounds check failures. The former might well poison the entire context, while the latter should permit subsequent entry points to work.
He calls Bitcoin a bubble, and yet, he's launching a new $500 million fund to BUY Bitcoin -- including $150 million of his own money!

WHY would he be doing this?

Quoting from the OP, here's his answer:

"This is going to be the largest bubble of our lifetimes, and so .. remember, bubbles happen around things that fundamentally change the way we live. The railroad bubble, railroads really fundamentally changed the way we live; the Internet bubble changed the way we live. And so, prices are gonna get way ahead of what they should be. You can make a whole lotta money on the way up. And we plan on it. At one point you're going to have to sell."
The one downside I see with SQL is that its a string. Would it be a data structure instead it would be incredibly easier to manipulate, without third party query builders. Even without that its still more convenient than most NoSQL.

Still, Datalog as implemented by Datomic is a breath of fresh air.
Neuromama can only be described as bizzare
Maybe some people here can help answer some questions I have:

1 - Where can you spend Bitcoin?

2 - What percentage of outstanding Bitcoins are used for trade? i.e. exchanging currency for a good

3 - People have been saying it could be used for illegal activities. I understand each transaction is recorded in the global public ledger using the ID. Is it possible to trace who is behind each transaction? Can it be used for illegal activities? If so what percentage of Bitcoin does this make up?
Had you not added the "/s obviously" then I may actually have believed you to be serious.

There are going to be some regulatory changes coming down the pipe, I think. They don't have to try to use tech to prevent the use of cryptocurrency, they need only make it against the law and make use of discretionary prosecution. That's probably one of the weaker tools in their arsenal.
That is true. If crimes are being reported to them which are not reported to the police, that is a problem.
Nice way to take a swipe at libertarians, but it's incredibly obvious that it isn't true. How do you think civilization got started? Was it by some central authority that decreed to build roads and do everything or was it from the ground up by tens of thousands of individuals working together for their own interests? Outside of Rome, it was the latter.

People in Honduras need government reform very badly--because someplace there's some oligarchs living large who have some serious explaining to do. Also, you're talking about a nation of people who are uneducated and living on like $2 a day. You can't be both ignorant and free (in the economic sense), now can you?
everything he says seems fairly obvious but he never seems to answer the tough question: when do you sell?
I’m gonna ride this Ponzi scheme all the way to the top!
Godot 3's renderer design
to me the biggest issue is dietary restrictions with most meal planners. diabetes, lactose intolerant, etc.
The Baltic also has excellent preservation properties. Of course there's the Vasa (absolutely must-see if you're ever in Stockholm!), but there's also other stuff. The other day I listened to a local archelogist who was finding stone-age fish-traps and settlements out to sea which, thousands and thousands of years ago, was on the coast.
6% is a huge GDP growth tbh. Here in Europe everybody celebrates when Germany grows by 1.5% as it means EU economy is booming.

I understand that India is a developing country so growth should be faster but 6% is not that bad.
I almost did this, there are a couple around (remarkbox.com for example). What I contemplated, as a way to circumvent ad blocking, was to offer a "white label" service, so the user could configure "comments.mysite.com" with a CNAME to point to www.hostedcomments.com so the comments would appear to be hosted by the same domain.

I guess that would fool most ad blockers, and users would have to blacklist the "comments.mysite.com" on an individual basis. Seems kind of shady to me. Have you considered this?
I am searching for a Coyote because I would like to see the Grand Canyon without HS invading my personal space ;-)
Unsigned apps can dump the full OS #keychain, including your plaintext passwords
I'm really starting to respect it a lot more as a bubble now that most people have stopped trying to pretend it's a viable currency/transaction
processing system.

It's really, like, the platonic ideal of a bubble, perfect for separating fools from their money: slow growing, with no clear limit in site, but volatile, and decoupled from reality. It's beautiful, really.
> Doing machine learning on-device makes it less effective.

Doing it on-device has other advantages besides privacy (e.g. it works without an Internet connection).

> Apple's directions aren't as good as they could be because Maps randomly segments trips and masks its users identity.

Could you explain that? I didn't really understand what you mean by segmenting the trips and why that should masks the user identity.

> Apple's App Store revenues are lower because they limit how apps can identify users.

You're comparing them to Google here. One could ask why apps can identify their users at all?
and what is prevent locking down accounts to private (the way you should be doing anyways) ?
Once you’re in the country, you’re protected by most of the same constitutional rights that citizens have.
For those that are curious, here's the jurisdiction: http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/?q=court-info

A large portion of it is rural, but it does include suburban areas of Dallas like Plano, which is the HDQ for companies like JC Penney, Frito Lay, and Perot Systems. And, of course, your HDQ doesn't need to be there, just any "place of business".
I know of him through the version of vi that comes with Arch. I really appreciate that there's somebody keeping a conservative version of vi around. Even if I'm mostly going to use vi-like editors with more features, I'm glad there's a vi to fall back on.
> Sorry, but is there any evidence that iMessage or FaceTime has been MITMed? In China or elsewhere?

Yes.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=facetime+OR+imessage+mitm
Funny you bring up the EPA SWAT team. I was reading an article the other day about how the EPA Director had to bring in agents from the field to add additional agents to his security detail [1]. I guess I never thought of EPA agents as providing "security" or being trained to provide protection for officials.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/at-ep...
The Senate can impeach federal judges for high crimes and misdemeanors. That power has been exercised extraordinarily rarely. I can think of only one case in my lifetime, where a judge from Mississippi was removed in the 90s IIRC.

I think Congressional oversight of the judiciary has been the very weakest part of the separation of powers doctrine laid out by the founders.
The current ESTA Visa Waiver form [0] (for non-residents visiting the country) asks for social media usernames, although they're currently marked as "Optional".

[0] https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
Gold is a 6000 year old bubble: https://www.coindesk.com/citi-chief-economist-bitcoin-closes...
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