skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Japan didn't (over)build that flood control system because they're worried about global warming or thousand year floods.

They did it to create jobs. In the same way the US is said to have a "military industrial complex", Japan has a "construction industrial complex", wherein the government builds a whole lot of infrastructure the country can't really justify or even maintain. Flood control, rail lines, airports, etc. It's all stuff an industrialized country needs, but the Japanese take it up to eleven in an effort to stimulate the economy.
> This sentiment signals bias

While your sentiments are presumably bias-free?
Why don't they base their OS on Replicant?

It's FOSS, Linux-based, has apps and is Mobike-optimized.
I didn’t say “make iOS”.

What I’m saying is that an operating environment built around Office and its functions would be more useful than the cruft built around Windows that is mostly redundant.

Windows is a boat anchor on Office.
Only when you exercise the options.
BrainFuck Interpreter using method chaining – Codementor
Google 'uncovers Russian ad campaign linked to US election'
Right. But this machine is functionally equivalent to a coffee vending machine: punch espresso drink, medium, cappuccino and put your cup under the nozzle. Those machines haven't replaced anybody at Starbucks -- they simply made the lives of the receptionist at my Toyota Dealership easier.

These examples need to be game changers to convince people, a fancy vending machine isn't going to scare anybody.

A replacement fry cook, sous chef or truck driver will.
If this site keeps posting flat-out ads and content marketing I'm done.
Scientists Just Found Half of the Missing Matter in Our Universe
Probably fabrication cost, given that it's a prototype. It's a research project so their estimates are a bit pie in the sky right now. Until it's mass produced it'll be expensive, but who knows, maybe GM will pull it off.

Notable that this is an FMCW system. Very few commercial players use frequency modulation, they all use either AM or pulsed lasers.

Rep rate is not so good. 45 ms = 20Hz maximum. That's poor compared to Velodyne (15kHz or so per transceiver) or surveying stations which can push 1MHz. Even hobbyist systems like the Scanse manage 4kHz. I'd guess that the problem is, in part, because you need to chirp for a certain amount of time. Pulsed systems often use avalanche diodes that trigger from relatively few photons.

It's 1D, so you've still got to scan it which is bad for robustness. I'm more excited for solid state LIDAR that uses beam shaping (or however they're doing it) to scan without moving parts.

The range is good though, FMCW is great for that (and the accuracy should be good too). The main advantage of FMCW is that you can still get the high accuracy of AMCW systems (i.e. at a lower bandwith than direct time of flight), but you don't have the phase ambiguity problem that AM does.
Okay.

> “I think that if we keep things up long enough, we’ll get to a mass extinction, but we’re not in a mass extinction yet, and I think that’s an optimistic discovery because that means we actually have time to avoid Armageddon,” he said. [...]

> “The only hope we have in the future,” Erwin said, “is if we’re not in a mass extinction event.”

* * *

I guess it’s a bit fuzzy where you draw the line. Perhaps mass extinction is not an inevitability and concerted global action or some technological breakthroughs could still save us, but it has an uncomfortably high likelihood considering how bad humans are at staving off uncertain long-term threats.
>See my comment below for more, but essentially it is like affirmative action.

That's what's wrong with it.
Most Tor busts follow a similar pattern, watching both ends of the connection.

There is a real need for a "tor delay" metadata-disruption-as-a-service, where random strangers invoke one another's web callbacks and report back the result in exchange for Bitcoin (Strangers on a Train -style). Someone put it on the block chain and start an ICO!
They must feel like Urbit users.
For OP's benefit, here are some excerpts from the red book that agree with that premise:

> Google MapReduce set back by a decade the conversation about adaptivity of data in motion, by baking blocking operators into the execution model as a fault-tolerance mechanism. It was nearly impossible to have a reasoned conversation about optimizing dataflow pipelines in the mid-to-late 2000’s because it was inconsistent with the Google/Hadoop fault tolerance model. In the last few years the discussion about execution frameworks for big data has suddenly opened up wide, with a quickly-growing variety of dataflow and query systems being deployed that have more similarities than differences

http://www.redbook.io/ch7-queryoptimization.html

Also see Stonebraker's comment at the bottom here:

http://www.redbook.io/ch5-dataflow.html

edit:

To be more charitable, Mapreduce's main concern was fault tolerance (and recovery) and massive scalability, at the cost of all else. Since it's so simple, you could have subtasks die, disappear, and yet you can just respawn them and keep on chugging through the query. You also don't think too hard about job allocation. It's easy to build and use, easy to reason about. You can throw more computers at it when you have a spike of jobs, and it scales fairly predictably. Not many people were really running infrastructure and jobs at the scale google did, and that's quite different from the traditional "data warehouse" style application, and so it wasn't entirely unjustified. The other benefit, of course, is that you can perform arbitrary computation, which is quite different from most RDBMSes which often don't have great UDF support or are frequently highly restricted and, frankly, horrific to deal with.

Of course, they quickly found that "no query optimization" is sort of an extremist and unproductive position, and that you can have a bit of either or both cakes as needed.
GlobalFoundries was estimating $14-18b would be needed for the next generation of chip fabs: https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/01/globalfoundries-next-gene... Their CEO notes that the 3nm or 5m numbers being tossed around aren't really too meaningful, but the budgets speak for themselves.
A (hopefully simple) comparison of analytics packages
They should have also given away free phones to end users. And for the other users who bought stuff, they should have given them 100$ of credit to buy apps.

And then periodically rewarded great users with 100$. it would have been like a tax break for the users to spur the app economy.
Hi! I hope we don't get discarded! We're a new product, so we don't yet have too much data about retention. We do know that 44% of our users code their Jewelbots using C++, many as first time coders! We also are about to ship our 10,000th unit. That makes over 4,000 new coders in the world (many younger than 10 years old)!
GrubHub/Seamless also does this. Additionally they DO charge a commission for phone orders via a system that charges restaurants on a per-call basis. You see it frequently in tiny Manhattan restaurants where the website the owner set up couldn’t possibly have worse on-page SEO (the menu is an image or a PDF link, not responsive, etc) and the GrubHub site is a heavily optimized lead gen funnel.
That makes a lot of sense. How did you decide where to draw the line on what to include and what to leave out?
Just tried to apply online - but the link seems broken. Sent my cv/resume to the email provided instead. Thank you for posting!
> It wouldn't be a suprise if some research team could put out a bot achieving superhuman victories purely by out-microing an opponent with minimal strategic choices.

The chess equivalent would be letting Deep Blue take 10 years to evaluate each move; it's not a very interesting system anymore since it isn't playing under normal rules (~90 minutes per turn).

Any "real" SC AI will have limitations on input, say 300 actions per minute. It'd be pretty interesting to see how few actions per minute an AI could use to defeat the top human players.
'Dear diversity hire' Amazon's weapons-grade fail in recruitment email to woman
Maybe they can adopt an exponential versioning system. Just decrease by a power of ten every revision.
This isn't prisoner's dilemma though - everyone has a full ability to communicate with each other. That breaks a pretty basic assumption.

To stretch your analogy, you are playing prisoners dilemma with someone who is swearing he will snitch, has a lawyer who is saying "my client will cooperate fully with the police" and who has signed a document explaining the facts.
The future of Wayland, and sway’s role in it
What about River? Looks like there is an R package and an abandoned Apache project that use the name, but maybe not that confusing given context.
If we manage to e.g. change ocean conditions enough (and the changes are already dramatic) to take out a significant proportion of the plankton in the world, it’s not going to go well for us.
iOS Safari has always supported Javascript and was never "reduced" in any meaningful way (that's the point of Jobs' demo) except that (as now) it didn't support Flash, and deliberately ignored onmouseover, :hover and other such features that don't work well with a touchscreen interface.
After factoring in industry wide targets of 25% direct food costs, 25-35% staff costs, and 25% overhead - why give the whole profit margin to Seamless?

As an owner of a restaurant and beer garden - experiencing first hand their unreliable technology, driver dispatch, and support staff - I dropped them after a few months.

We also added notes in all our deliveries as a disclaimer that we did not hire the drivers - and that customers could call us directly for future orders - bypassing Seamless - to help support their beloved local business.
Which is a real damn shame because WP was such a fine OS and was the REAL competitor to the iPhone in terms of UX and hardware design (Lumia line).
True, it would be pretty awesome if Cruise had some of their code open sourced to have a peek at their technology. I was looking at Google's Cartographer and it's pretty neat to see some of their SLAM work. It would be nice to see something equivalent from Cruise that shows what they're capable of without revealing all of their tricks.
Even though I adore the concept (remember the original posts by J.Spilman in 2012 and kept rolling it in my head for a while), this introduces new remote SPOF for authentication process, doesn't it?
Brilliant self-referential irony!
How did it ruin Tensorflow? My interaction with it has been largely that it is a good idea but too new to be relied upon.
Fundamentally it's not, but because Docker is a standard, you can throw that anywhere docker images can be consumed and run it. So, for instance, I was deploying to GKE which was easy to do. My docker deployment image was tiny (just the size of the binary) and I could run it anywhere.
While I can see your point, it really depends on usage purpose and taste. For many this is the most valuable feature of the app.
This reminds me of a Timer app I downloaded when I had a HD8 that didn’t actually alert you when your time was up because of the way the native Alarm SDK was written (something to do with being unable to dispatch an alarm notification at exactly a given time). It made things...difficult.
Sure - the current Constitution itself. Just read it and tell me you're okay with Sections 25 and 51.

https://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/12...

Section 25 reads:
"25. Provisions as to races disqualified from voting:
For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted."

Section 51 (xxvi) reads:
"51. Legislative powers of the Parliament:
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: ... (xxvi) the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws;"

Then, there was the abolishment of ATSIC in 2005, which many in the indigenous community view as a betrayal. Even the UN got involved ..

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Damning-UN-verdict-on-ra...

And .. then there is the Nauru situation. Its essentially a detainment camp for undesirable immigrants, and has recently been removed from public scrutiny by way of being made a military base. Still people suffering in that camp daily, but you won't hear many Australians being too deeply bothered by the fact that their government is running a concentration camp... well, its one of 7 that are in operation, and I can guarantee you they won't get public oversight any time soon.
It should also have the same sensor as the Pixel 2, although not the same software, OIS, etc.
A similar technique can be used in embedded systems to enhance the speed that password derived keys become unrecoverable from memory after power off: instead of storing the key directly, store it as a value that must be xored with a hash of, say, 4k of random values that are only stored in memory. Then your key is fully unrecoverable after any 256 bits of the 4k bytes have decayed as long as the RNG used to generate the random bytes is suitable and the executed code (including the OS if there is one) is verified to not store temporary values that could be recovered.

For password authentication, IMO a much better solution is to generate strong random passwords (21 character base64) for users and tell them to write them down and/or use a password manager (I think web browser based storage of generated passwords can be done without the user needing to see the password at all). You can still memorize a small number of those over a few weeks if necessary and there is no good reason to memorize a bunch of passwords.
Yeah I used Google Translate that way in Japan earlier this summer, it was life-saving. I do see the point of convenience the earbuds bring to it, though, not having to hand the phone forth and back.
I did say that I don't know if there's a problem with hormones given to animals.

My point was the original comment implying that hormones are not harmful because they are used for birth control, which is shortsighted and plain wrong.
Do you trust minimum-wage teens to follow procedure to the letter every time? In this arena at least, I feel like it's a wash between malfunctioning robots and stressed-out, underpaid workers.
Is it possible that a person with a terrible quality of life lacks the discipline not to waste a large sum of money? If so, what is the likelihood that such a person will squander all of their lump sum?
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The architect of the Blockcerts system replies to this article here:

http://community.blockcerts.org/t/response-to-blockchain-blo...

“It’s interesting that he focuses on blockchain for identity management, which Blockcerts doesn’t even do.

However, DIDs, which can improve the ability of individuals to own/control their identity, will feature blockchain-based method specs.”
Public tax returns would make it much easier for people to put pressure on others working toward financial independence.

In some poor communities, there's a strong ethic of sharing good fortune. That's good in many ways, but also makes it hard to climb out of poverty. More generally, lots of people have unbounded spending habits, and some will put a lot of pressure on friends/family if they find out they have any savings.
It's still enough to support an extremely healthy global live-music industry. I don't see handmade food being different.
This is why are you struggling to grow your product team
My understanding is that it depends on the secure components that secure the private key and sign the messages. So hacking FIDO means hacking the crypto private key or the wallet.
> This will also free up labor ...

What a silly statement. There's already an excess of available labor.

> ...and capital to do other things.

What a nice, sugar-coated way of saying "This will make the rich get richer."

Of course, I probably sound like I'm against automation and I'm trying to save jobs, and I'm really not. But let's not pretend that lowering business costs helps anybody but the shareholders, and that creating unemployment is a GOOD thing.
> I found online says Windows was the first to have a feature that would automatically connect to your cellular connection if the Wifi didn't work.

If the wifi doesn't work, no phone will use it. If the wifi is BAD, that is completely different.
How sexy is your company to a Top international Engineer?
What do you think Twitter got right? I think real identity was a part of it, but fake identity abounds there as well.
I'm Sean from Zcash, I coordinated the MPC and wrote the software. I messaged you on twitter or emailed you or something about this last year.

> it made it sound like I repeated the number uncritically

I didn't say you regurgitated it. I said the person you talked to did, presumably after looking at libsnark or an unrelated paper.

> The fact that competent experts could be unfamiliar with Zcash's crypto to the degree that they could disagree on basic facts like that is a sign of concern, precisely because it's yet another strong sign that the crypto is quite new.

I claim the person you talked to was looking at the wrong curve construction. 2^80 is quite a torch to carry into an argument and no experts that we know have ever suggested a security level less than 2^96. The only "disagreements" about security were far more subtle and reasonable than what your blog post suggested.
I'd hope so too, but such seemed the way of my daughter and her friends when they were in that age bracket. Friendships were tossed aside at the slightest of reasons. It was a lot of drama.

While probably sexist to note this, my son and his friends didn't seem to have nearly the same drama. I'm not sure what the difference is but it certainly was both real and notable. I'm also sure it isn't universal.
Apple co-chairs the Unicode committee on emoji.
Starting lots of drama, and taking apparently silly things Very Seriously, is hardly unique to teenagers. At least petty teenage drama doesn't bankrupt whole companies, as I've seen happen multiple times with petty adult drama.
Your basic unquestioned assumptions are that humans have a non-negligible effect on global warming and that global warming exists. Instead of jumping to conclusions, we must also question and analyze the existing evidence for the premise.
Telling people who continue to commute by car or use grid electricity or travel internationally that they don’t really care about climate change is idiotic

That's a strawman. What the parent comment says is that people's behavior reveals their preferences. A more clear example is this - someone who drives a Suburban for fun and burns their trash isn't in a good position to demand that others go out of their way to treat the earth better.
Man the more comments I read the more I begin to remember. There was ONE dev who was churning out VERY high quality apps to popular platforms. I think Snapchat or Instagram was what he got known for. Instead of MS embracing his work and helping it flourish, they let him get taken down by a C&D.

LOTS of people got heated when that happened.
This is pretty annoying, but you get used to it. After so long it would be a major pain to break everyone's strings by flipping the syntax.
I think you missed a negation
Introducing Mythril: A framework for bug hunting on the Ethereum blockchain
I made an MVP 2 years ago:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/whatsapp-tracker
Some people do not mature very much, true.
https://www.richestpeopleonearth.com/
Creating a Serverless Uptime Monitor – Lambda, Zappa and Python
Yeah, it's like the end of an evolutionary branch. Slight mutations arent going to get you anything, you have to branch off in an orthogonal direction.
LOOK AT THIS. https://www.richestpeopleonearth.com/
LOL. Sigh. Why does global warming attract this particular brand of sophistry all the time?

"President, what's your solution to the North Korean nukes?"

"Nothing to worry: the problem is self-limiting. If they start a nuclear war, billions will die, and then the survivors will be too poor to build any more nuclear weapons, so naturally there will be no more nuclear wars."

"But what about Puerto Rico? When are the aids coming?"

"The problem is self-limiting. If we do nothing, most of them will die or simply move to somewhere else, and then next time another hurricane hits there will be less people to die!"
> scan a fingerprint (to establish identity)

> annually update information about themselves onto the blockchain (how?)

What could possibly go wrong? Fingerprints alone should not be used as a key.
I've worked in the public sector, where salaries and benefits are public record. It's all on the website of several different media organizations. I can think of no harm that has resulted.

The downside in the private sector is that employees will find out how much they are getting screwed around with. Double downside when those employees figure out why.
The problem with UWP is that it requires Win10. This makes it a no-go for vast majority of developers targeting desktop Windows, given that Win7 is still dominant, and will be for a while to come.
> Also, Most CPUs aren't made at a single process size. They will mix 2-3 generations of process sizes when producing CPUs, and only put the hot-path parts of the CPU in the newest process size (to help improve yields).

No, you can't mix different processes on one wafer.

I think you mean that not everything on a CPU is at the minimum viable size of that process.
> Ask people to go to a world without iPhones, Facebook, Google, Uber/Lyft and they’ll call you crazy.

I did used to the live in that world, and wasn't all that bad. There are times when I wish I still did. But better yet would be some reasonable compromise between the two where we had the convenience of smartphones and social media without Facebook, Google, etc and their massive surveillance, annoying advertising, and addictive practices.
> * SMS don't have read receipt.

Yes, they do. iPhones don't seem to do that, but old GSM phones did it (like my first phone, Ericsson T20, which got released in 2000). Androids have read reports in the default message app, if I'm not mistaken.
Really hope purism finds success with this. An open phone platform has been a long time coming, I hope they can learning from the missteps of ubuntu and firefox.

I like the idea of managing my phone like I manage my computer; install whatever OS and software I want on it. Of course, that comes with the additional effort of keeping it well updated and working, and if this is a primary communication device that effort becomes more urgent. But hey, I think that's just what it takes to not be dependent on a corporation that takes my data/info in exchange for device support.
And then the mind games begin.
I do research on deep-learning based communication systems, would love to get in touch. My contact information's in profile.
I know you didn't fill out the required forms but I've pre approved you for a hug.
I'm curious to know what kind of frontend UI you have on top of this platform.