skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Proper" crouton, not getting beeped at, waiting for boot delay & sacrificing security etc would be the only way this could be compelling.
I have no idea about the home, but Google has been "pioneering" (I don't actually know if they are a first here) "federated machine learning".

This lets them use a model trained on their systems, but improve it with real usage on the device without needing to send the data back to google.

Essentially it's a private version of machine learning that doesn't need to send anything back to the server to still get most of the benefits.

I know Google is using it for their "smart replies" and I think in their keyboard app already on phones, so there is a chance they could be applying it more widely to some responses locally on the Home devices.
Most of the time if I'm using a chromebook for anything other than web browsing, it's in a chroot environment--so I have all of the same functionality as my desktop at home.

Then again, my workflows are pretty all light weight, so I probably wouldn't notice the extra horsepower anyway.
Academic credentials do not create truth. If she works at 538 and knowing nothing else about here, I'd wager she is probably better at statistics than most academics, especially those in social sciences who are likely to study this problem. If you actually have a problem with her research, point out the error. Employing an ad hominem like credentialism only makes her findings more credible at first glance.
C'mon. Stop making excuses!!
How does an app predict your sleep cycle? Do you have the keep phone on you?
I'm not in the audio industry. I need the headphone jack.
Something about this piece smells wrong. It's supposedly written by someone who used to advocate gun control, but then "discovered" after doing research that every single policy that has been proposed to limit gun violence is useless and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. This conclusion seems just a little too convenient.

Let's look at some of the specific claims:

> Mass shootings were too rare in Australia for their absence after the buyback program to be clear evidence of progress.

Oh? Just how common do they have to be? Before the buyback the number of mass-shooting was >0 (that's what prompted the change of policy to begin with) and since then the number has been exactly zero. It might be the case that the number before was too small for zero to be statistically significant, the author goes much further than that and concludes that because Australia does not provide enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis that the null hypothesis (gun control doesn't work) is therefore true. And this person claims to be statistician?

> When I looked at the other oft-praised policies, I found out that no gun owner walks into the store to buy an “assault weapon.” It’s an invented classification...

This is true, but all classifications are invented. Just because a classification is invented doesn't mean it is meaningless or useless. The idea that because "assault weapon" is an "invented classification" that it is meaningless is an NRA trope. Why would a statistician fall for it?

Also, no mention whatsoever of background checks despite the claim that "By the time we published our project, I didn’t believe in many of the interventions I’d heard politicians tout." Background checks are probably the single most prominent proposed intervention, and totally ignoring in a piece whose thesis is that all proposed interventions are useless is either journalistic malpractice or evidence of bias.

It would not surprise me a bit to learn that this piece was quietly commissioned by the NRA in the same way that oil companies fund climate-change-denialism reports. It just seems too sloppy and convenient to be genuine.
I've been running the Android App called "Termux," which lets me do C++, Python, Node.JS, git, Subversion, Emacs, Vi... Quite happy with it. I mean, it's not AWESOME, but for tinkering it works very well.
I vouched for it the first time it was flagged-dead, because it shows a person who held one belief, looked at the data, and then revised her belief based on that data, something that I think we should all do more often. And then she communicated her findings, lucidly and IMHO persuasively (the fivethirtyeight article it was based on is also great). It was momentarily revived but flagged dead again within 2 minutes.

Unfortunately, looking at the comments, I'm beginning to think the flagging was appropriate. It seems that this community can't discuss the topic calmly and rationally - both sides just brought their preconceptions into the topic and assumed they were correct and anyone who said otherwise was wrong. In that case, I think flagging is the correct response.
Not at the same level, but my paper about stealing RSA private keys via the use of cache collisions as a side channel -- the first such paper, which has since spawned hundreds of others -- was rejected by the Journal of Cryptology on the basis that it was about CPU architecture and did not involve a cryptanalytic attack.
What mechanism prevents people from applying it all the time in all cases, referring to potential "future criminal proceedings"?
I've wondered myself why supercapacitors haven't been used more for stationary energy storage. If you search the academic literature, it looks like there are many supercapacitor chemistries that can match or surpass the specific energy of lead-acid batteries (~40 Wh/kg), they all manage incredible charge/discharge rates compared to batteries, and almost all of them have incredible cycle life compared to batteries. They can sustain thousands or tens of thousands of charge/discharge cycles with only modest capacity fade.

Here are my guesses why supercapcitors haven't been used for bulk energy storage:

1) The reported specific energy numbers are fudged somehow, so that if you wanted a supercap Powerwall equivalent it'd be much larger/heavier than the reported numbers suggest. Maybe they're excluding e.g. mass of electrolyte?

2) It just takes a long time to industrialize laboratory discoveries. It took 30 years for quantum dots to make their way from laboratory curiosity to consumer display devices. It took 20+ years for the high-efficiency PERC solar cell structure to make its way from the University of New South Wales to the commercial mainstream.
> When they removed floppy drives it was because there was a better alternative.

When they removed that -- or any of the other things -- there was still some backlash from people who still had uses for them, and still wanted them.

> I don’t agree that Bluetooth is a better alternative than a cord that is 100% reliable to pair, perfect audio quality, and never needs to be charged

From what I've heard the ear pods are very reliable to pair and have good audio quality.
This is an intellectual cop-out. The gun control laws aren't there to curb gun crimes directly, they're there to end the stupid hobby and fascination that people have with guns which places them in everyone's hands.

Get rid of silencers and that's one less thing for hobbyists to play with. Get rid of long magazines, sniper rifles, machine guns - one less thing to play with. On and on until you end up with "gun culture" just being a couple of handguns that all look and shoot the same. It becomes boring and people stop collecting them.

Stephen Paddock had 47 guns. He was a gun nut, a collector, a hobbyist. This is what gun control laws are about - stopping runaway gun culture.
Well, the history of killing each other (and others!) in western civilization is nothing to brag about.
But the developer mode notification on bootup kills the laptop :(

It warns you that you're in developer mode, makes a beep, and prompts you to push spacebar if you want to turn off dev mode, deleting everything on your computer.

Maybe you know to never make this mistake. Maybe you almost never turn off your computer. All that needs to happen is for you to reboot the computer once (say, it ran out of batteries while you were gone on vacation). Maybe it's you pressing spacebar on autopilot or a family member who mis-read the warning. The spacebar is pushed and now all your data is deleted.

I love crouton, but the dev mode warning is the most unfortunate user interaction design I've experienced in a product :(
Well, for one, it doesn't run windows.
Interesting. I've never had bluetooth issues with pixel. My current headphones (Bose QC35, but not the fancy assistant ones) work amazingly, and even my older headphones (ancient LG Tones) worked great. My only complaints with my 5X were occasional stutter, and that was gone with Pixel.
I always intended it as "the point beyond which no description is possible", from the mathematical concept of singularity as a point in which a mathematical object is not defined.
Which sort of fits with the idea of a point in progress beyond which no description of the future is possible.
Don't be a savage. Get a tablet and some 3m Command hooks. strategically place the command hooks in various locations in your kitchen. put 2 hooks upright level, and then another hook inverted centered between the bottom hooks, use your tablet to measure the distance, so that you can slide your tablet through the hooks to hold it. So Bottom left a hook, bottom right a hook, invert hook on the top to hold the middle of the tablet.

like this:

https://productreviewsbychristina.files.wordpress.com/2017/0...

I have hooks on the window above my sink, on the outside of the exhaust hood above the stove, on the fridge door, and on the inside of a select cabinet door that can be angled. just have to slide the tablet out, and move it where I need it. Don't have to worry about spills and damaging it because it's not on a counter or table and it's out of the way and eye level.

it's great for looking at recipes, using a Timer app, and watching Netflix while cooking and or doing the dishes.

I'm on the hunt for a decent bluetooth in oven thermometer and app. Anyone have any suggestions?
Another Seattle one, in my 'hood, still haven't bothered to go.

http://www.portalvr.us/
You have a free market in healthcare, vote with your wallet.
I’ve been using a 144dpi 4K screen and 104dpi 1080p screen together with KDE and QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS and it worked fine.
Bear in mind that what the researcher is saying is that they don't have evidence of an effect, not that they have evidence of no effect. The distinction is important in this case: there's a famous one where researchers could find no link between money and happiness. Another 30 years of solid data provided the missing evidence that the obvious was true.

Meanwhile, I live in the U.K. and we haven't had a mass shooting since the laws passed. I'll happily wait for the statistics to go past the required p-values.

Also worth bearing in mind: what statisticians do agree on is that owning a gun is more likely to hurt you than help you. If you live alone that's your own call, but if you have a family I'd say it's something you ought to think about carefully.
* if you have a smartphone connected and a decent connection to the internet to use google translate.
I've become a greater and greater fan of mandatory liability insurance for firearms, and a requirement no sale can be completed until the vendor verifies that the purchases possess that insurance.
Russia Targets NATO Soldier Smartphones, Western Officials Say
It runs Android Apps. There are lots and lots of Android apps.

Among them is "Termux," which lets me run C++, Python, Node.JS, git, Subversion, Emacs, Vi... Without rooting or anything. So, yes, there's a bunch of stuff you can't do, but it's pretty nice.
Oh I agree, and for the most part I'm using equality to mean equal opportunity, or perhaps equal outcome for equal personal investment. Not so much that everyone should have identical lives. Maybe a better way to put it is I don't want anyone getting a raw deal in life.
very good clarification the truth I liked your article, I would love to learn more of this world of technology as a trend to niverl worldwide and develop web pages and develop applications that allow us to go forward and know more about what is new IA
Why would anyone pay money to buy a phone from an advertising company?
Can you give a rough estimate on the cost you pay based on the amount of traffic you get to this app? I'm considering using Firestore for my next project but I'd love to hear from your perspective if the cost outweighs the alternative of rolling your own backend.
I used to do Allegra. But I started getting an irregular heartbeat. (It's called a premature ventricular contraction - basically, the nerves tell the ventricle to contract too soon after the previous heartbeat, and the muscle says "I just did that, I'm on my coffee break now", and the heartbeat gets skipped. The next heartbeat happens reliably, though, so it's not at all dangerous. But more blood has shown up at the heart, so the next heartbeat kind of hurts - kind of like when you swallow something a bit too big for your throat.)

Anyway, that all went away when I quit Allegra. Now I just use the fluticasone. But I had to get allergy shots for a while, because in my case, the problem was the cat that slept on my bed.
It's just an opinion, let the people express their thoughts, comments are here for that reason.
Burr Says Collusion Still ‘Open’ Question in Senate’s Russia Probe
What's the target market? All the marketing material on Google's site seemed to be aimed towards a family oriented theme. Have you ever thought, "oh, let's take a few photos while we make cookies in the POV of the kitchen table"...?

Has anyone needed something that is "candid" but also "not candid" (because you placed the camera there...)?

Maybe if they targeted sports, or security it'll make more sense?
I have had to type jk or kj very rarely that the egronomics of not having to move my pinky to the caps lock key every time that I need to escape is way worth the extremely minor problem of having to wait a second when I need to type jk. Optimize for the common and handle the exeptional.
Most people who take pictures of their kids don't want to be photographers, they don't want to think about composition, or lighting, they just want a good memory.

Cameras have become more and more automated over the years. Auto focus, auto-exposure, auto-iso, burst mode hdr, portait lighting, and pretty soon, computational photography and AI on camera devices is going to just let you take a continuous burst of images, recognize the best compositions, and choose those.

Some people will scream death of art and creativity, but true auteurs can still go manual mode if they want. Other people will be freed up to do other things while not having to worry about taking bad shots.
Flagged because it doesn’t fit the HN echo chamber?
My friend with an iPhone was unable to play his music through the speakers in my car because he forgot his adapter. We had to use a cup to amplify the speakers. Even if he had remembered his dongle, if he'd needed to charge his phone it'd need to be a splitter dongle.
We'd had no problems playing music in the car for the past decade.
Guess it's not a secret anymore!
Even if the thing has zero hardware capability to communicate I can't overcome my gut feeling that the thing is an ad targeting data mining device. There is basically nothing google could say or write at this point about one of their devices that would make me think they respect my privacy.
I've lived in HK, not mainland China, and I avoid China personally (air pollution, increasing nationalism, politics, etc.), so take this with a grain of salt:

- violent crime is rarely an issue, and I'd feel safer taking an MBP and iPhone 7+ there than, say, in the Americas. Having said that, don't flaunt them.

- opportunistic property crime (theft, pick-pocketing) might be an issue, particularly in crowded urban areas, but I think with some basic measures as you mentioned you can handle the risk.

- There are many (non-violent) scams, such as the tea house girls on popular shopping streets, etc. Check wikivoyage for your destination, and the general scam page (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Common_scams)

- I'd look into setting up a good VPN/proxy before you go, or buy a Hong Kong SIM with roaming and massive data allowance and tether. Also, might want to enable disk encryption. (If you use WeChat etc., assume that you're monitored.)

There are many other issues more relevant/specific than the risk of robbery/theft.
You can verify the authors credentials. The idea it was paid for by the NRA has no basis in facts.

You're free to disagree with it.
I think this is what the Moto X4 is.

https://www.blog.google/products/project-fi/project-fi-welco...
I prefer GalliumOS.
The title is the original one.

Techmeme summary: Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: Senate intel panel calls Facebook, Twitter, Google execs to testify at a Nov. 1 public hearing, says it's up to firms to disclose contents of Russian-linked ads
for me personally the bigger issue is the actual 9-5ish work hours. I'm way more productive later in the day, so if the schedule would allow something like a Noon-4 pm/break/8 pm -midnight type breakdown I'm all for that. this is sometimes possible with telecommuting arrangements, whenever I'm able to do that I'm more productive, more rested and feel like my personal work/life balance is better.
I've asked the same things many times, but that's largely irrelevant. Smalltalk is just different. I'm more of a Vim/Awk/Python guy, but Smalltalk is quite beautiful in it's own way and images are really cool.
Sorry about that. I figured that the post I was replying to had done it for a reason that I didn't understand, so I mimicked it. I'll keep your advice in mind in the future.
> substandard audio quality
> literally buy in any convenience store around the world

A substantial drop in audio quality is most likely completely psychological (not saying it isn't a real problem for some). But wired convenience store headphones typically are not great sound quality wise, the SBC codec of bluetooth likely has very little to do with sound quality at that point.

Maybe, if you're comparing actually good monitors. But to bitch about bluetooth sound quality when comparing to typical cheap earbuds is a bit silly.
You call this script simple? Seems more like a hacky work around a bad design decision
Most people in IT already know what distributed databases are. They don't want a distributed database. They want blockchain and nothing else. The only reason they want it is because it's something they don't understand, and they naively hope that it will help them somehow.

But they already understand what a distributed db is and know they don't need it.

Which means people will not suddenly start using FaunaDB just because they try to spin it as an alternative to blockchain. people may not yet have full understanding of the implications of the blockchain but they're not idiots.
She does have a degree in political science – there definitely are political scientists who get seriously into statistical methods. Moreover, I'd humbly suggest that this topic is dead-on for someone with a political science background. Moreover, given her connection to fivethirtyeight and the fact this work is on fivethirtyeight.com ( https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/ ) which itself has a solid reputation for talking about statistics, I think this work has some credibility, at first blush.
Although learning Vim gives you a productive editing environment, another advantage can be health related.

I find it more comfortable to have my fingers on the home row, than stretching them to pull off CTRL key-sequences.
yep. However you cannot code locally on your laptop at google. So you end up either using a web based IDE or just using the desktop workstation they give you (locally, ssh, or VNC).
I think Keybase is more like what Joel Spolsky describes as a "horizontal company" that's appropriate to try to build after already having made money. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...
how can an adjacent pixel be used to calculate depth map. Are they telling me the sensor and their algorithm is that sensitive to generate none binary depth info from adjacent pixels?
>Personally I'm a proponent of mandatory gun insurance and owner liability.

That would just be a way to make people who are young, not white, live in higher crime areas, etc, etc pay more.

Shooting something/someone you shouldn't be shooting is incredibly rare so either premiums would be negligible or they would have be be artificially high (vice tax).

Furthermore it would also be fought every step of the way by anyone who doesn't want a registration scheme since it effectively would create one.

The idea itself should have a positive impact (at least on paper) since it would presumably make high risk groups less likely to own firearms (at a statistical level) but it's pretty incompatible with something that's right. You don't need to pay for free speech insurance in case you offend someone.
Well. I'm getting ideas for Defcon fun.
I came to the comments after a bit of the tutorial to write something along the same lines but less eloquently. I absolutely agree, too much too fast.

My hackles were raised when it starts with "ESC" to enter normal mode and "i" for insert mode. Rather than "i" for insert mode and "ESC" to get out of insert mode. Also, I used the arrow keys to move around in vim for ages before I disabled them.
Thank you. It seems like a lot of people try to reason in an egoless manner, but all they end up doing is transferring their ego-driven hang-ups onto their concept of a universal objective viewpoint.
Author of the blog post here. The standard shortcuts are ctrl+` for toggling the panel and ctrl+shift+` for creating a new terminal. This is what I use on top of that:

{ "key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus", "when": "!terminalFocus" }

This will focus the terminal if the focus is anywhere else, if the terminal is focused it will close it.

You can add this one if you want ctrl+` to only toggle focus between the terminal and the last editor:

{ "key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.focusActiveEditorGroup", "when": "terminalFocus" }

On tmux, Joao from the team did a write up on configuring persistent sessions in the terminal using tmux https://medium.com/@joaomoreno/persistent-terminal-sessions-...
I have a Joust, keeping one classic machine in running condition is enough for me. I don't know how these big arcades do it.
> there is just one company that seems to profit from expensive and overdesigned hardware and we know who that is

Lockheed Martin with the F-35 project? Because it's so hot that it takes my breath away.
Implementing DeepMoji in PyTorch
Airbnb's 10 Takeaways from Moving to Microservices – The New Stack
We are trying to list features, not defects.
Wait, what? Am I understanding you correctly, that you mean the adapter will use more battery?

USB-C allows for analog audio passthrough, unlike Lightning.
Only for visitors. You get to used to the climate pretty quickly if you live there. Many of my neighbors there wouldn't even bother with AC.
The Surface Book is a good $500 more expensive, significantly thicker, and significantly heavier. It's also prone to hinge flakiness with the overly clever electronic release mechanism. You get the nvidia GPU option if you want it, though.

ipad pro is an interesting comparison but it's not just "walled or not" it's also "windowed vs. fullscreen" as the chromebook is a full windowed systems, for better or worse. A fixed hinged keyboard is a substantial difference in terms of usage capabilities as well, so I don't think these are really in that much direct competition.

A more apt comparison would probably be something more like the Lenovo Yoga.
So basically they where American?
You're right, absolutely unacceptable by modern standards.

BTW, the first sentence is about 50% a joke.