skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that there're companies like Mapbox and CityMapper challenging Google Maps and Apple Maps.

But giving a blank slate to a user and having them input a text query when they open the App might not be the best idea. In my head I remember the places around me using landmarks; the blank screen at the start makes me impatient.
I understand the reasoning behind such regulation. On the other hand, for example doing a startup is also highly risky. Should it therefore also be regulated, only people with enough savings (and perhaps education) should be allowed to do startups?

I don't think it is easy to answer, clearly not allowing people to take risks is also taking away there freedom and chances for making a better living. Not allowing people to take risks (and consequently, start businesses) ultimately leads towards a communist worlds were people can only pick from a selection of government ordained jobs.
I personally like Vigor http://vigor.sourceforge.net/screenshots/
I have it under my desk, it's quiet compared to desktops from a couple of generations ago, but loud compared to modern laptops (i.e. that are usually silent). I like the ability to run dual 4K displays which my laptop can't :)
You can turn off auto-join for specific networks.
How to measure height of a ceiling with a drone:) in 2017
Hello,

We want to get your opinion on a product we developed. It's called watchX. It's simply an Arduino on your wrist with lots of sensors, screen, Bluetooth, battery and charging circuit. It designed to help you develop applications that are wearable. watchX also has a watch OS which includes two games, some watch apps and beautifully animated UI.

Since we have a compact and lightweight design we wanted to challenge ourself to measure height of a ceiling using modern technology:) We have 3D model of watchX that includes even resistors and capacitors on the real thing. It's easy to draw a case to watch once you have the 3D model.

Here is the video link: https://youtu.be/bHaP2b0yczk

We are currently on Indiegogo receiving pre-orders for watchX: https://igg.me/at/watchx/x

Let us know what you think:)
Running a casino is heavily regulated. Gambling at a casino is open to anyone over 21 where its legal. That was the OP's point.
Hey, congrats on shipping! Unfortunately your app doesn't work for me :(. I've tried it on few sudoku designs on my laptop screen (don't have anything on hand right now) and there were two problems - the camera would not focus on the screen which resulted in blurry image, and second - it didn't recognize the puzzle correctly and returned incorrect results. I did put my screen flat on the table to simulate a paper laying on it, because I noticed the app doesn't work when the screen was upright - it rendered the results horizontally anyway.
This could have an interesting effect on incentives for hackers. Now, any hacker should be able to cash their winnings out instantly and anonymously.
Google seems to want to frequently re-invent common idioms willy-nilly.

They've had several iterations of email client for Android, from the AOSP client to Gmail to Inbox. I don't want a learning curve, just a mail client. (K-9 or Outlook for Android, cheers)

They've also had numerous goes at creating a sms/xmpp/talk/video app. Google Talk/Allo/Duo/Hangouts, it's all a confusing mess.
Why not just do what you like and ignore the stars? This just seems like a weak attitude. "Please, don't judge me anymore I can't take it". If you care, you care, if you don't care you don't care.

It's not like Michelin forces him to do anything. Perhaps put a note on the door: "Sorry, I do what I like and at any moment your expectations based on Michelin's stars may be different from what I want to do with my restaurant."

Anyway, the 500 meals a day are judged, by more important people, your customers.
Sure, valuations are high, but what else are rich people going to do with their money? Buy bonds? All that money has to go somewhere.
I get chills when I listen to some music - I thought that was universal, or at least commonplace. Just how unique is getting chills supposed to be that it might be a marker for a "unique" brain?
Billboard.js 1.1.0 release
The tech sec­tor might be evil
Although I agree, I think the point people are trying to make when they say that is this:

Cryptocurrency breaks down financial barriers usually erected because of geo-political relationships. Other sectors might benefit from the same kind of egalitarianism.

I don't know what the future holds, but there could be interesting applications, but probably not as world changing as people think.
I refer you Thiel's multiple published articles on multiculturalism during his time at Stanford for the journal 'Academic Questions', such as 'Multiculturalism and the decline of Stanford', followed by the book he co-authored called "the Diversity Myth", about how multiculturalism is horrific and how multiculturalism exists to destroy white culture, are where you should look if you wish to get a good idea of what is going on in that man's mind.
Since April/May, infowars organic traffic from google.com dropped from just below 1 million down to just above 500k.

Breitbart.com is down almost a million since April from almost 3 million.

The other sites mentioned are pretty mainstream with the right now, in a “too big to fall” kinda way, except voxday.blogspot.com but according to semrush, every single one of them have seen declines in organic traffic since April/May.

If you look very far to the right, Daily Stormer is outright banned from Google, and Godaddy.
>Peter Shen, HTC’s chief financial officer, said that HTC would still employ more than 2,000 research and design staffers after the deal is done, down from around 4,000, according to the New York Times. That makes today’s announcement more of an acquihire of talent than a traditional acquisition of resources.
> Lots of people don't like xenophobia.

And lots of people don't like foreigners.

> Like the hoteliers who don't allow gay people to stay ?

Even that is OK in my opinion. The market will sort it out. There are clubs where gay people can have a good time. If gay accomodation becomes a niche market, there will be people seizing that opportunity. The law shall not discriminate people, but telling people what to think and forcing them doing stuff they don't agree with is dictatorship.
I use booking sites to find, look at and compare hotels. But I try to book by phone or E-mail. Often the hotel asks what rate are you seeing online and negotiations start from there. Except for the dark patterns I believe these companies are also known for channeling their profits to tax evasion paradises. Yeah, it might cost me a few minutes, but I don't book tens of hotels a year.
It would be interesting to login into that minix.
In a world where the clipper chip, snowden leaks, NSAKey, room 641a, NSA/RSA deal, and national security letters didn't exist, I'd be in the realms of crazy conspiracy theorist and you'd sound like the rational voice of evidence-based reason.

But that's not the world we live in. What I list above are not conspiracy theories, they are proven, factual happenings. There is a clear evidential basis to infer the NSA's intent and capabilities in this area.

There are obviously security/privacy snafus that companies make all the time that have nothing to do with nation-state influence and spying. Superfish, for example, was more-likely-than-not a really bad judgement call on the tradeoff between analytics and customer privacy.

>this is pure business.

If that were true then the ability to disable ME, which clearly exists, would be made available to parties other than the NSA.
Dropping out of "competition" will be better publicity than losing a star.
Personally, I do Android programming and the optimal machine to run Android Studio is not the optimal machine to develop on web. Like for Android Studio or even Java, you'd want a fast drive over high RAM and a lot of the bottlenecks are in CPU speed. But if you're doing web dev, you probably want bash and don't need a lot of HDD speed. So the cost effectiveness might be highest with a MacBook Air.
So the wealthy don't donate to politicians in the rest of the western world?
I think that's also true in Europe. I've never lived in the UK, for example, but I've stayed there for six months while working. Food delivery was very common in London.

At the time, there was no web interface and you had to make a phone call. Still, it was pretty common.

Curiously, when I was really young (1960s America), I remember a grocery store that delivered to our house. We even had a diaper delivery/disposal service, but I digress. I'm not sure if it was a local thing, nor am I sure when it stopped. I do know that it existed in two different localities, because we moved a lot. (Military family.) I'm pretty sure it wasn't always just a grocery list, but that they had meals that came with a recipe card and the ingredients. The recipe cards still existed when my mother passed away. I have no idea if they still exist. I suspect not.

So, at one point, it was at least in use and then fell out of fashion. Now, it's coming around again.

Anyhow, thanks for the info. It seems to be gaining in popularity. Maybe there's room for you to get in on the ground floor and make some money.
Thiel is hardly alone in this view. Many libertarians are in favour of a constitutional republic over a democracy where 51% of the people have absolute power.
Yeah, 2^32 was _clearly_ chosen based on what makes for nice, round numbers in binary, not based on reasonable population and cell-phone-use projections.

On the other hand, Urbit might never become popular enough for this sort of thing to really matter. We're at about 7 billion people now and the second derivative of the world population is negative, so it should level off at some point. If only 5% of 20 billion people care enough about this sort of thing to actually run a planet, then that'll be only 1 billion people, or a quarter of Urbit's 4-billion address space. 5% doesn't seem unreasonably low to me, either; app.net probably didn't even get 0.5% of Twitter's user count.
Distrustful U.S. allies force spy agency to back down in encryption row
Yes if you want something that needs the fastest CPU you probably don't want this machine, but in that case you are probably willing to spend a lot more. The laptop I upgraded from had a score of 250, so for me it's a big difference.

I checked prices for sourcing my own hardware on the same platform, but it would have been a lot more expensive. The problem here in Europe is there is less second hand enterprise hardware available (if I remember correctly, a compatible motherboard alone would have been ~€200, and the RAM was about the same) and importing something from outside Europe means you need to pay customs fees, which in my country adds ~30% to the price.
We call what the founders described a representative democracy, whether they used the word or not isn't relevant as what they meant by democracy is more aptly called direct democracy today. You are objecting to the use of a term because you aren't using the term in the modern way, and that's a silly semantic debate. The United States is a democracy according to the modern use of the word, please just accept it and stop making this silly argument.
On the contrary, the author almost certainly intended to say "like magic", since that's what it says on the page: "Solve sudoku like magic with the power of AR."
Thanks for giving it a shot! Sorry it's not working for you.

I'm working on a hack to get non-horizontal puzzles working right now.

Unfortunately ARKit can only detect horizontal planes at this point so I'm trying to find a workaround since I now realize most people won't have a paper sudoku laying around to try it out and will logically go to the web to find one.

I suspect what's happening with the bad reads is that my neural network for digit classification is trained only on paper puzzles (I chopped up a bunch of books and scanned them to make my dataset). I'll have to get some scans of computer screen puzzles to get better accuracy.

Can you let me know what site you tried to use so I can make sure to get that font included in the dataset as well?

Hoping to get v1.1 submitted tonight yet that will fix the horizontal plane deficiency. Collecting, labeling, and retraining the network may take a bit longer than that.
Not just 100 engineers, but also a non-exclusive license on HTC patents. Not knowing the terms of the license it's hard to value, but I would suspect it's a significant chunk of the $1B.
CVE-2015-9231 has been assigned to this issue.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-9231

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9231
The High Court of Justice of Catalonia, if I’m not mistaken.
On Writing Product Roadmaps
You might be interested in reading about the Tiny House movement. I think you would be surprised by how many people Rdisagree with you, and are upset with draconian housing laws and building codes.

Again, I don't see an enormous difference b/w putting solar panels on an RV, and a backyard, shed, cabin or house, particularly for off-grid power.

You are absolutely entitled to state your opinion though. I just think if other people want to do something that doesn't bother you in any way, it can be nice to warn of the risks, but why tell them they are wrong?
Daring Sharing: Best Practices When Sharing Data with Stakeholders
No news about them currently.

The mail only says he will go to HTC's Taoyuan and Taipei office today. and almost all announcements specified the "Pixel team".

Maybe the team is located at the two office only.
> Doesn't a businessman have the right to choose who to do business with?

Depending on the country no. In France at least, that's not how it works.
I think what parent meant was that the word magic was removed from the HN post to make it less sensational, but that whoever removed that word overlooked removing the word "like".
The amusing thing is that Levandowski comes out of this just fine

I'm pretty sure he regrets what he has done. About half of his money has gone to taxes and the rest has a way of going pretty fast when you have a Google and DOJ on your back. So, I doubt that he will be fine.
And also avoid things like entries in the Oxford English Dictionary to prevent becoming similarly enraged.
> Coming from Haskell and Rust it's nice to see this trend catching on.

It was already like that in older languages like Lisp, Smalltalk and CLU, just C++ made them in a different way.
T-Mobile confirms it may now slow you down after 50 GB, depending on congestion
I recently used booking.com for the first time, as I was in a rush and needed somewhere to stay that night. The hotel I booked through booking.com was a Best Western. After the booking went through, I received a flurry of emails from both booking.com and Best Western.

One of the Best Western emails encouraged me to sign up for their rewards scheme. Having liked Best Western hotels previously, I signed up, and downloaded the app onto my phone. To get rewards for the booking I just needed the Best Western booking ref. number.

There wasn't one. Just the booking.com ref. number on their Emails, and no ref. number on the Best Western ones.

Once at the hotel I asked for the Best Western booking ref. number and was told "As you've booked through booking.com you don't qualify for rewards on this stay, sorry."

So that will be my first AND last use of booking.com. Fool me once and all that.
The left used to opposed multiculturalism in favor of promoting cultural globalisation. Its only in recent 40-50 years that majority of the left has swung on that issue, now being in favor of multiculturalism and against cultural globalisation.
Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was a different build.
Ask HN: Ruby APIs. Which gems/frameworks are you using nowadays?
I'm curious to know which gems/frameworks do you use to build your Ruby APIs nowadays.

Is Grape or Sinatra still a good choice?

Is there something new on the market for this purpose? If I want to start on this field, which path - most in-demand framework - do you guys recommend to start with?

Best,
You must be. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
I want to give urbit a try. I have a planet, but last time I fired it up the latency was so bad that I wasn't having fun. I'll try again sometime.

I can even get behind runes, and I set up abbreviations in Emacs to learn their names. And generally, I like the philosophy of language where short, one syllable, old/middle English words are used in place of the less familiar Latin/Greek derived words. I don't have a problem with revising our existing vocabulary in this way.

But the attitude to type theory strikes me as anti intellectual, precisely because we get nonsense claims about Hindley Milner requiring category theory. This sort of misinformation does no good for anyone.
HTC Messed Up Its Google Deal
Nice. There is https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md . Maybe something equivalent should be done for booking.com .
The question I was replying to was specifically about the US. From the same Wikipedia article:

> The term libertarianism was first used in the U.S. as a synonym for classic liberalism in May 1955 by writer Dean Russell, a colleague of Leonard Read and a classic liberal himself.

What precedes that paragraph is mainly about the French word "libertaire" which is not the French translation for "libertarian" but does shares a root with it (liberty).

Interestingly, the French Wikipedia article[0] claims that the word "libertarian" was coined specifically to distinguish classical liberals from modern liberals in the US.

In the US at least, libertarians very rarely identify with the "left" label.

[0] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianisme
[1] Most libertarians agree with this.

[2] "Enforcement of Multi culturalism" is opposed by most libertarians.

[3] This shows he is supporting conservatives, not really far right.

Perhaps your definition of far right is not what I understand.
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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Analyzing One Million Robots.txt (That Apple and Google Won't Respect)
And small hotels will give you extras as they're not allowed to lower the price but can give you more service. However, wouldn't do that in countries you're not comfortable dealing with as you lose the protection that booking.com gives you.
Agile Life Planning: Defining Tasks to Achieve Goals
These are still a great option if you want a concisely written and highly customized program. I think there's a reason we dont see such a big framework as rails gaining popularity in the node world and thats because people don't want their code hidden behind a big boilerplate. That being said rails is still the best ruby framework for an organization looking for something "safe" and generic.
I don't know if they will keep doing well in terms of stock price If/When Amazon release their ticket master competitor[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ticketing/excl...
Why join rather than bind?
Actually review scores are the one thing I love about booking.com. I never book below 8.0 and always skim through at least 20 reviews (takes max 1 minute). I've never really been disappointed by an 8.0+ hotel and everything above 9.0 was really good.

I'd recommend staying away from hotels with very few reviews. But many (even smaller) hotels have several hundred reviews. They're usually very reliable.
According to CEO of HTC (Live on TV),it's not just 100 but 2000 employees.

Sources(Eng): https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-09-21/htc-mes...
Meanwhile in another timeline

"All I did was miss three calls because I left my phone at my friend's and when I called they'd given the job to someone else, how unprofessional"
Ford's in-house autonomous development team did a Medium post on what they were working with. They avoided hard numbers, but revealed a few interesting things:

>Of course, additional functions require additional power — a lot of it. A standard gas-powered car doesn’t have enough electrical power for an autonomous vehicle, so we’ve had to tap into Fusion Hybrid’s high-voltage battery pack by adding a second, independent power converter to help create two sources of power to maintain robustness.

https://medium.com/self-driven/building-fords-next-generatio...
Nah, it's still conspiracy theories.
At best conspiracy conjecture.

Unlike "... proven, factual happenings", your idea isn't backed by any evidence - at least not any that appear in your post.
They want to recognize the handwriting to give the player feedback on errors made.
Are you the same yeldarb as the one from kirupaForum?
You won't get many responses because the PC thing is to side with Catalonia, but this is the whole story: a money grab scheme. It's been going on for ages. With B- debt rating, collapsing health care system, and massive public spending on things like the one you mention, they simply need money. Plan post-independence is to seize all public assets belonging to the Spanish state (funds, buildings, public companies, ...), while retaining their first customer (the rest of Spain), pay no tariffs (stay in EU), and no taxes to central state.

Before anyone answer with "but the Spanish state too": yes, same shit, which doesn't invalidate anything I said.

edit: wording
What kind of evidence would you imagine one would find, if that were happening?
Is anyone who prefer cultural globalisation over multiculturalism a white supremacist?
Anecdotally, I’ve recently applied for a full-stack position on their website and got a rejection email a couple of hours later. Maybe because I don’t have Perl on my resume?
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"Uncanny Valley of SEO" sounds like the best explanation --- and in my experience, sites with names like you describe have also tended to be content farms.

It's not just domain names, but the paths in URLs too --- an entry with your-exact-search-term.html almost subconsciously gets skipped over when scanning search results, unless the search term is extremely specific and somewhat obscure or I'm specifically looking for a file/path (e.g. spc4r37.pdf)
> Sorry - I used '>' first but instinctively changed it to a block since HN didn't actually format it any differently.

Indeed HN has miserable quoting constructs. I prefer the italics with ">", but dedicated support would be nice.
We are all pretty unique and I'm pretty sure most of the population would get chills when listening to music they really like.
All you need to know about Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Yeah I’m really curious about that too, and I wish the guys would at least give that much detail but I guess they’d prefer to hype up the reveal at their event instead. I want to believe it requires physical access... For now I find comfort only in knowing that it’s a skylake+ vulnerability, and just continue to hope it doesn’t work down to other models as they learn more about the internal workings of the ME.
The "non-exclusive" bit is actually quite important here. This means anyone can get IP from HTC, and I am not sure if that's a good deal at all, if Samsung comes along to pour down couple billions. What isn't clear is whether Google will have access to the exclusive HTC intellectual property at all.