skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on what you're mounting the camera on, it can be a real problem. A moderately-heavy lens attached to a tripod head turned 90 degrees for a portrait can definitely put enough torque on the screw to loosen it. This is most likely just going to be an annoyance, though, because the camera will droop but won't actually come loose. On the other hand, if you're using a "rapid" bottom-mounted camera strap, the possibility of the screw backing out and dumping your camera on the ground is very real.

e.g.
https://www.photo.net/discuss/threads/black-rapid-and-other-...

"I definitly have had issues with the tripod socket mount coming loose during carry. It is rare, and usually only after a very long time of not adjusting it but I came within a wisker of dumping my F5 one time and the D300 has seen it loosen up a couple times."
Does that actually help all that much? I doubt most people know how to, or want to, keep their keys secure enough, so you'd likely end up with them being managed by central services anyway.
Atom the editor?
> I've spent years learning to say could instead of should. It has helped me immensely.

Could you be less condescending and pretentious?
UK politicians would find that far too restrictive!

nearly every Budget affects duty on things like beer and petrol, and go into effect at midnight

people know to fill up their car the night before!
You may also want to include the U.N. in your condemnation, even though they are not specifically mentioned.

Haiti was not well handled by the big boys...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/americas/united-nat...
Many of them also act as partial earplugs, and block out more external sound.
As bad as it is, or as bad as it can be - as not everyone has bad experiences, I'm not sure I can recommend being dishonest with a mental health care provider during a time of crisis.

Unfortunately, the system is designed to deal with a broad spectrum of people with myriad complexities. They do tend to take a very hard line approach and to assume the worst. They also have reason to not always trust the patient.

It's tricky with mental health. In many ways, it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. This is more true during the initial observation period and one of the reasons many facilities do isolation for the first 24 hours, even for voluntary commitments.

It should be noted that voluntary commitments can rapidly and more easily become involuntary commitments. After all, the patient has already admitted that they are unwell.

Nope, I have no idea how to fix this mess.
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There are a few already out there (https://hackaday.com/?s=cell+phone) for proper open source mobile comms, the real problem is the mobile spectrum, I had a similar whinge on my blog a few weeks ago http://rodyne.com/?p=832.
Correctly making webpages is of concern here.
Thanks for taking the criticism so well! Good luck on the feature enhancements.
If the universe isn't infinite, isn't the idea that things sort of "wrap around"?
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Okay, fair enough. Do you agree that getting factory farm meat to taste as good as pastured meat is an easier problem?

As an example, given a pastured chicken, a factory chicken, and a lab chicken, is it easier to get the factory chicken to taste like the pastured chicken, or to get the lab chicken to taste like the pastured chicken?

I have never tasted a factory chicken that compares to a pastured chicken, and I'm skeptical about whether it's possible. But nevertheless I believe that's an easier problem than getting the lab chicken right, which of course implies that in my opinion a good-as-pastured lab chicken is exceedingly difficult.

But I'll readily agree we can make something that most humans would identify as meat in the lab and that a large number of them would be happy to eat it. After all, people enjoy eating all sorts of processed food as it is.

Given this, I guess the real question is, can you make a lab chicken taste as good as a factory chicken? I don't know, probably...
could imply a possibility of perceptual differences

isn't quite the same as

is able to discriminate among shades of green that basically look the same to us
I only really frequent HN these days, and I've been hearing about that phone for a few months at this point.

Not to mention a lot of TV commercials for it.
How many years in a row are people going to make this proclamation? First it was not making screens anymore, then it was Final Cut Pro X, then it was iOS and the iPad, then it was the Mac Pro. Never mind that the Mac Pro is a great machine, and they've already announced the iMac Pro and hinted at a newer Mac Pro that is more in line with people's expectations. At this point, no matter what they do, people will say, "they don't care about the Pro market anymore." It's ridiculous.
My understanding is that this provision applies only to "life or death emergencies" which safe and well linking activities are certainly not. I'm having a very hard time finding the actual letter of the law anyway, only various third-hand retellings that such a rule exists. Certainly it is intended only for narrow situations.
I'm pretty late to this and I'm sure this will get buried...

> Face ID data doesn’t leave your device, and is never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else. Only in the case that you wish to provide Face ID diagnostic data to AppleCare for support will this information be transferred from your device. Enabling Face ID Diagnostics requires a digitally signed authorization from Apple that’s similar to the one used in the software update personalization process. After authorization, you'll be able to activate Face ID Diagnostics and begin the setup process from within the Settings app of your iPhone X.

What is preventing the government from compelling Apple to give up this key, and intercept your diagnostic data?
But those are both Apple apps. I wouldn't expect that, just because I gave access to FB or Twitter to see my photos, that they'd get the location of them too.
That Essence repo hasn't received any new commits in months. Maybe not a good example of a successful fork?
I imagine is like seeing a light source from two vantage points. Using the timing difference you can triangulate a distance. Using the computed distance and received brightness you can compute source brightness. Using source brightness you can compute source power.
You may break the rules in situations threatening life or property (there is an exemption for this), but why send potentally inexperienced technicians INTO a disaster area to drown out potential calls for help when you can send generals or extras who have more understanding and experience?

Communications isn't an all hands on deck problem in the same sense that providing resources and shelter is. Ham nets and repeaters can get traffic jams very easily in a situation like this, so it's better to send a dozen experts than 100 beginners.
I see you are in NYC. A number of us live here as well. If you ever want to get together and talk more, my personal email address is in my profile.
Depends on what kind of hacking. 591 questions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/alexa
Looks right to me. Right to left, bottom to top is what I read their description as being. One thing wrong is that isn't Quake, but Quake 2 which was released in 1997
I'd like to know how iPhone X users control (play pause) apps directly from their lockscreens. That no longer works right? Isn't that a major disadvantage?
So basically the same thing if someone had a stroke violent seizure while at a restaurant, while cutting a steak, and accidentally stabbed the waiter in the heart killing him. In that case, a brain defect caused the person to kill the victim, yet in no way should he be held criminally responsible.
> For all his classy, educated-sounding British accent, this man is a nutcase.

He just seems to not like people at all, over the years he's gotten more and more aggressive and abrasive when debating anyone about anything. He just comes across as a very unpleasant person.
Tampering with devices you own is already a crime in some circumstances. I'm sure they can extend it to these.
That sort of development practice has a much closer relation to engineering than current practice does: it's just that it's extremes are on the other end of that one.
Is this an iOS 11 feature? I don't remember seeing this.
Of course it's a piece of cake with UI toolkits like:

- ExtJS/Sencha Touch: http://examples.sencha.com/extjs/6.5.1/examples/kitchensink/...

- jQuery Mobile: http://demos.jquerymobile.com/1.4.2/navbar/

- Ionic: https://ionicframework.com/docs/components/#tabs-icon-text

- Onsen UI: https://onsen.io/v2/api/js/ons-tabbar.html
> On the flip side, most merchants are honest so chargebacks are rarely needed.

You also lose the convenience factor of that I don't need to care if a merchant is honest. If it's a merchant I haven't heard of it, I can just make the order without worrying too much (providing there are no obvious red flags) as there's very little risk. On the other hand, Bitcoin's irreversibly would mean I'd have to look into the company before ordering, and I'd probably avoid smaller merchants as a result.

> it allows them to avoid chargeback fraud (payments are irreversible.)

How big of an issue is this in practice? My gut reaction is most customers are honest so it's not big enough incentive to add another payment flow, but I've got no idea if that is accurate or not.
A similar oversupply happened right before the Great Depression.

Wheat prices were dropping from too much supply partially attributed to newly expanded prairie farming in the US. But these farmers owed fixed costs on their mortgaged land. So to pay their expenses, they plowed up more prairie and grew more wheat. This compounded the supply problem. Eventually, as wheat piled up at railroad depots unable to be sold, farmers left the plowed prairie fallow and the topsoil blew away.

Source: The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
> they seem to have moved relatively fast about drones

So much so that they introduced the flagrantly illegal drone registration program.
I've been using https://www.clippings.io/ for years and have been very happy with their excellent Chrome Extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clippingsio-for-ki...

At first glances readwise seems underwhelming compared to clippings.io, am I missing something?
I was testing it out earlier and they report success or failure
Oh that's my mistake. I thought by the description "left", it meant "yes, bottom to top but for each row, read left to right". Thanks!
With global warming, Saskatchewan and Manitoba production could really take off.
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You should need access to image & location data to see where the images were taken. Period.
I have an Echo and I feel like the voice features are not as a good as Google's offerings. You can do a few things really well with the Echo but once you go outside of what it can do, it's dumb as rocks. You can't ask it basic questions that Google assistant has no problem with.
> At this point, we should stop considering psychology science. Instead of a real search for how the universe really works, it is about getting a pet hypothesis, acquiring some data, and then torturing the data with various statistical instruments until it confesses what you wanted it to.

That's not how it works in practice. I would encourage you to read up on psych methods and engage with the field.
Also the bottom image isn't Commander Keen, it's Dangerous Dave.
Several of the Borderlands titles work on Linux. Civ 5 (not sure about 6) works on Linux. It's not as bleak as it used to be. :)
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Pimps were higher status than innkeepers and wine merchants?
Thanks. I think I read similar, though maybe I decided in my head that a declared state of emergency was the qualifier. As it is a declared state of emergency, I'd speculate that that's a life or death situation? I suspect it's more nuanced and subjective than that.

Like you, I searched for the letter of the law and wasn't actually able to find it. It may have been ARRL's site or a forum affiliated with them? It was something I noticed while learning and taking the practice exams.
You're right, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been thoroughly disproved. A good book on this is The Language Hoax by linguist John McWhorter.

The main reason it still hangs on is that it is used by people to try to support the left-wing ideological idea that human nature is entirely a product of socialization, and so can be formed to produce a perfect socialist society. And let me add that, as Marxist writer Norman Geras explains in his book Marx and Human Nature, this is not at all what Marx himself thought.
>His message was basically "never say no" to doing extra work, and he described a student who worked hard to produce 5 peer-reviewed papers using the data from a previous "self-funded, failed" study. Wansink would still be venerated today if he hadn't decided to blog that day

What do you mean? The article reports him doing a lot of unethical stuff after that, I don't see why "not making that blog post" would have saved him from derision.
It's also been nearly a week. In all fairness though, it seems like the airports are either shut down or operating at greatly reduced capacity, so it's hard for reporters to get in.
- The world' a hexagon

- What? No it isn't

- You haven't provided me evidence that it's not, so you can't...

- Um, ok, you're an idiot

That's the world I live in. I don't know about you.
+1. Same experience.
Does it have a camera? I didn't see it mentioned in the specs or anything about video calling.
Tesla Model 3 currently has no FM radio and no bluetooth streaming
That's not why. It's because the US government so aggressively subsidizes corn. This is done at the behest of the Ag lobby, which represents corn-buying conglomerates who love low corn prices.
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> Yes, it tangibly and demonstrably does. It means that the process of establishing/asserting your identity is much harder, since now there's someone else running around with the credentials normally used to assert said identity. You now need to spend time and money invalidating whatever credentials you can and hoping that the ones you can't invalidate aren't actually compromised.

None of that is a harm from the fraud, it's all harm from the bank's unjustified claims .

> If someone manages to get your Gmail password and use it to send spam, you're still a victim of cybercrime, even though you weren't necessarily a victim of the spamming.

If someone manages to get your gmail password from Google, then Google is the victim of cybercrime. If Google then reacts by closing your account, you are a victim of Google.

> Same thing here. Someone is using your credentials (like SSN and other identifiers) to defraud someone else. Even though you're not the direct victim of that fraud, you're still a victim of identity theft, since your credentials were compromised and used by someone else.

If you want to call the behavior of the bank (or whatever) in this situation "identity theft", well, sure. Though I would suggest that that is highly misleading. More appropriate terms would be slander or blackmail, maybe?
What do all those acronyms mean?
The middle class referred to in the article is middle class of US. middle class of the bay area, might be a totally different story.

The article is basically saying, those who aren't paying any income taxes are quite happy with their income tax rate. Meanwhile, anyone who lives in a more expensive part of the country like CA/ Bay area is paying higher taxes: 30%-40% for most people, not counting all the taxes paid on the employers side as well as all the taxes you pay with the remainder of your paycheck.

Still, you might think, that's enough to live off. But, if you are working in high tech with a decent salary, you've only got so many years before you get aged out of the work force ~ 50 according to the other article: http://www.businessinsider.com/stressful-lives-of-older-tech....
Neat! I ran a regular non-PR build and I was hoping to see it report that status. Good to know!
If you read the paper cited you will see it is even more dramatic than that: "Thus, the color-naming system of Waorani, like that of Karajá, does not fit the structure of perceptual color space. Although neither Waorani nor Karajá has been regularly held up as a counterexample to universals of color naming, they both are genuine counterexamples"

Also, from the actual Himba study (by the way,the study was conducted and published) "Himba participants show categorical perception only for their own linguistic categories and not for either the supposed universal categories of English" Roberson et al., 2005 (full citation in another comment)
The Google Assistant is spotty at best. It does do some things Alexa can't do but the opposite is true as well.

I can ask the Google Assistant to call anyone in my contacts and it happens, if I ask for a map to their house it fails horribly.
I learned during an energy project at elementary school (begin '90) a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor would be a prime target for military action more so than fission. Tho I forgot the exact details on why, I suppose the reactor is easier damaged, whereas a fission reactor is much more difficult to cause a fallout with. Can anyone confirm that's true or false?
This is true for most charities... you are probably better off helping someone you know personally even if it's not tax deductible...
> The next Evan Spiegel shouldn’t have to

> know what a megabit per second or H.264 are.

Yes, yes he should
I would honestly switch back to a 13 if i could get a real quad core in it. All my work is purely CPU stuff, so all the GPU does is cook my legs and waste battery(and some apps that absolutely have no business switching on the dGPU still do, even years in, and the tray apps that let you restrict this are long since broken... grrr)

I'm still plugging away on a 2012 rMBP, so i'm a prime customer to pitch this hypothetical quad 13in model too. I like the size! I don't need the big screen! I would bite even if this was a BTO or higher end model!
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Yeah, WinLink is also almost completely done on HF as well.

Most hams I know have their General even if they don't use HF regularly.
This is from the Technician class question pool. It indicates to me that operating outside of licensed privileges in the context of this request for volunteers would not be permitted by the FCC. Since I lost the formatting, the (D) indicates that (D) is the correct answer. Exceeding your privileges as part of an emergency plan is not sanctioned, but for immediate life-threatening emergencies, it is. A lot of people use the term "disasters" vs. "emergencies" to distinguish those meanings.

T2C09 (D)
Are amateur station control operators ever permitted to operate outside the frequency privileges of their license class?
A. No
B. Yes, but only when part of a FEMA emergency plan
C. Yes, but only when part of a RACES emergency plan
D. Yes, but only if necessary in situations involving the immediate safety of human life or protection of property

On an unrelated note, I'm actually not entirely sure if the FCC rules even apply to Puerto Rico, being a territory... Do you know?
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Haiti was a far more difficult situation. The death toll was on the order of several hundred thousand people, and Haiti was a difficult place to work in even before that.
Humans can read and write proofs just fine, if they are taught how to.
That's not entirely true either, though. Biometrics cannot be revoked but they don't need to be. Biometrics are just using your face/finger/etc to provide a basis for which to verify identity. If someone is able to fraudulently unlock FaceID on a consistent basis, then Apple just needs to change what information is being generated or secured. Infrared cameras and dot projection offer so many different variations of how that information can be used that the only way someone could break the security permanently would be to make a copy of your face 100%. Just because a specific infrared dot pattern of your face is copied doesn't mean that every dot pattern or feature of your face is useless. Maybe the next iteration of FaceID will also count the pores on your face or the number of hairs. A fingerprint/face cannot be revoked but the method of detection/recognition can be both revoked and changed.
Interesting. I would have thought always that yes, if I'm moving an image around, its metadata goes with it unless I've specifically taken steps to strip it. I guess we've all had different introductions to this stuff.
That other entry is probably the most creative exploit of a language package management ecosystem I've ever seen.
You have the ability to turn off data sharing in your admin settings. You can also opt for a paid plan to turn off ads or if you are small enough then you can use the service for free w/o ads. There are options.
This is so cool. I see you used Erlang for various components like the UI, was your primary reason for using Pony instead of Erlang for the data processing performance? That seems like a safe assumption given Erlang's frustrating performance characteristics. There isn't a lot of information out there about Pony vs Erlang in production, hopefully you guys will write up more in the future about the differences you have encountered.
Good point. I remember Marco Arment said he wouldn’t add ChromeCast support to OverCast because he wasn’t comfortable adding a third party binary blob to his code.
Well start by not saying they support your cause.
> Finally, hash indexes always require that the found row be confirmed in the data table

Probably to avoid returning the wrong result for statistically-inevitable collisions, right?
I'm an Alexa owner, and wish to god the two companies could get along at all. It feels like I'm punished regardless of the ecosystem I choose - if I use the Google Home, I miss out on the Alexa product line upgrades and there's no option comparable to the Dot for sprinkling around my home.

On the other hand, on Alexa I can't say "play fleetwood mac in the living room" (via chromecast). That single feature is nearly enough to send me to Google Home, except for the reasons I mentioned above...but I feel hesitant to stick with Alexa when I know the only reasons it can't do what I want are stupid.
To those who lack the empathy to understand how these devices might be useful to anyone, it's incredibly useful to be able to:

- hands-free set multiple timers while cooking
- set timers for kids to give them structured assignments (clean your room, you have 10 minutes, etc.)
- have ambient music going in the home that any of the kids can participate in as they please (we have 4)
- sound machines as sleep aids
- lamps on/off in the living room on schedule and by voice command

I could go on but I think I get my point across. Households with kids get a lot of use out of these things.
> Is loss of human life an acceptable cost for free speech?

lots of people would say yes.
Any legs left in the ethanol initiative? Could be a decent place to direct a glut of supply.
They wouldn't have to do any work. It'd be an OS level implementation. In the same way that you can customize what apps receive/show notifications, you could choose which apps are sandboxed in the "duress" mode. Anything outside of that would be optional security for developers to implement.