skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using the Moto Z Play for 6 months and it's my favorite phone yet.

The battery life is insane, easily can make it 2 days and I'm an extremely heavy user. I love the plain vanilla Android stock and I got a deal where I got the Hassleblad camera Moto mod for free which is a great addition.
It would be very interesting to see how eatsa evolves. I hope they reach a point where they could deploy robots like Sally[0] or Spyce Kitchen[1] to automate the backend also.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdhZnP10n6A

[1] http://www.spyce.io/
My relative has had hearing aids for many years. Her loss is profound, and her hearing aids are apparently quite sophisticated. The "tuning" consists of the audiologist fiddling with a GUI while my relative says if it sounds better or worse.

Maybe it's not a racket, but they're trying awfully damn hard to make it seem like one.
There's some marginally useful content buried in that, but wrapped in a pervasive and unpleasant position of "the person you're asking is way more important than you, lowly questioner", and many excuses attempting to justify elitism.

I much prefer Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/answer-questions-well/
It’s good to see the Census Bureau getting coverage. And it is true we don’t have a director, however we have a great deal of staff who have at least one to two Censuses under their belts. The real issue aside from leadership is funding. All through the planning stages we’ve had to cut important tests because of Congress and their inability to pass a budget.
I was just as bothered / put off by the "Zero Knowledge Encryption." But your comment is a little disingenuous. Spider Oak ultimately did the right thing and given your link it is clear you are aware that SO has stopped using the term.
To be sure, the article states, working for the U.S. government, not working for a private company contracted by the U.S. government.

If the latter, then US$120k as a mean sounds about right, anecdotally based on friends who work in that part of industry.
Floppy -> CD-ROM

CD-ROM -> Internet/USB stick

Ethernet -> WLAN

Flash -> HTML

etc -> pp

The only proprietary port on today's Macs and iDevices is the lightning connector, which is quite obviously better than the abomination that is microUSB, which the competition uses.

I can't fathom how people can delude themselves into believing such easily disproven myths.
The literal name of the disease is "adult onset diabetes"
Android Pay, Google Pay, and Google Wallet (I think) are all pretty much synonymous.
On airpods there’s so much background noise and lack of sound isolation the quality drop won’t make a difference.
AirPod concert here, too. I love them things.
The PS3 and PS4 use Bluetooth for their actual game controllers and the PS4 has audio out on the controller.
Fortunately you only need to remember ~? since it tells you the rest.
I haven't touched SL in a long time, but it's quite different. Money plays a very real role in SL. It also lends itself very well to role playing, since you can make your character look however you want. There used to be lots of adult stuff as well. From Playboy mansion, over brothels to kinky, furry stuff. The modeling tools in general are so much stronger as well. I've randomly discovered a strange, Japanese inspirited palace where people dress up as horses and pull others around in wagons. I've watched Hollywood movies in in-game cinemas. It's very different from Minecraft.
> I sure hope this example response doesn't really reflect the current communication style of FLOSS devs.

Not as pervasive as it used to be, but sadly still present in some places, particularly in communities that don't go out of their way to discourage it.

Personally, I would suggest https://jvns.ca/blog/answer-questions-well/ and https://jvns.ca/blog/good-questions/ , the first of which was specifically written to address the lack of availability of documents talking about the issue without that kind of newbie-unfriendly elitism.
Here's a common example: jewelry. Things like necklaces, etc. were modeled as you would a real physical necklace, no "cheating". So every chain link in the necklace would be a distinct polygonal object (prim)...that would then have physics enabled.

And that's neat, but they'd then be shrunken down to the point where you couldn't see them anyway. But it's what "sold" them, so in many ways it mirrors the bloated web dev we see today.
What you're feeling is normal. I just read some of your previous comments, and I think you'd find some help in talking about this with a counsellor of some kind. Many people get bouts of feeling hopeless and unsatisfied. This is the perfect thing to mention to a doctor or reach out to a professional. It is so incredibly common. You don't need to bottle these feelings up. You know there is a problem, please reach out to someone!
holy shit, fucking kill yourself.
Not a physicist but I was explained it was like this:

Anything that has a mass close to the mass of the neutron would work better because we'd want to have a lot of elastic collisions to slow neutrons down. So something with lots of hydrogen would work, since the nucleus of hydrogen is a single proton so about the same mass as a neutron. It would mean water works. But so does polyethylene and it can be molded into various shapes and doesn't leak like water.

Another way to think about it is lead is heavy nucleus, imagine it like a bowling ball. A neutron on other hand are more like tennis balls. A fast flying tennis ball hitting a bunch of bowling balls will not slow down too much and will keep bouncing around at at high speed.

Now imagine this fast tennis ball hitting lots other tennis balls. Then the collisions are more elastic and it will slow down the neutron quicker.
In order to conduct an appropriate vulnerability assessment, you need to be able to classify your adversaries capabilities and motivations. That's hard to do with out some kind of privileged information. Only then can you get down to the stuff that most people think of when they talk about "security" - e.g. the risk mitigation and countermeasures.

Edit - added text

To continue the point, the Russia example is important. Individual commercial ventures are not set up to handle state level attacks. Any company that thinks they are is going to be in for a rude awakening.

Worse, companies like Google and Facebook are going to be vulnerable by their very design and function.

Sure, the credit bureau hacks are bad, but truthfully that's only the tip of the iceberg as far as consequences.

I'm not discounting your point that you may have found government cooperation unhelpful, but I will say if you are one of these large companies that could be the target of a state level actor, you are going to want a state level actor on your side. And in the US that means you are going to have to have employees with access, which means you are going to need to have a government sponsor for clearances.
The data should be very stable unless for some reason they found a way to eliminate the Census Bureau.
A few weeks ago I talked with a guy whose startup was developing a better hearing aid. As a few other commentators have mentioned, a hearing aid does not just amplify volume --- that is useless for people with hearing loss. The problem with hearing loss is generally not so much that you can't hear anything at all. It's that it becomes extremely difficult to distinguish speech from background noise.

The ideal hearing aid will amplify those frequencies at which speech is present, while suppressing frequencies that contain background noise. But currently hearing aids use a pretty dumb set of heuristics to figure out which is which. For instance they'll try to estimate how far the source of the noise is and will suppress it if it's more than, say 15 feet away. But if your SO is calling you from the kitchen that means that you're not going to hear them. Similarly they'll amplify frequencies associated with sibilants (s sounds, for example) because those are really important for speech, but that means that wind sounds or rustling paper also gets amplified.

There's a huge opportunity here to apply deep learning to determine which frequencies to amplify and which to suppress. It's a challenging hardware problem, but the deep learning part of it has largely been solved. (Or at least, the current state of the art using deep learning is way, way better than what commercial hearing aids currently do.)
In California, to my knowledge, it’s only against the law of both earbuds are in.
I use web2py. I find it strikes a great balance between having an elegant API and getting shit done. And it generates Bootstrap compatible forms out of the box :)
I don't see what AirPods do that any other, more affordable, Bluetooth headsets don't. I get the wireless appeal, I like using my cheap 20€ Bluetooth headphones with build in microphone/remote. I mostly got them for the remote, their 7 hour running time lasts me for like 3 days of commuting.

But I also still carry around my wired UE triple.fi because I like having the option for going wired, better sound quality, less latency and especially less drain on my iPhone SE's battery due to disabled Bluetooth.

Even when nothing is paired/active just having Bluetooth enabled seems to drain phones batteries so much faster.
Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018 v12.0.0.224 Patch Full Version
Working in a dev shop with tons of test devices, the Nexus 5 was the most resilient and snappy over the years by far
> These variables were there from the beginning

But not observable given the experiment's configuration. I don't see how bringing these into the discussion clarifies anything. The question the experiment addresses is whether there is any understanding, 0 or not 0. The degree of understanding is out of scope.
I bought my glasses from Costco, even though it's "out of network" for my vision insurance. Still a hell lot cheaper than Lenscrafter, etc.

I imagine the same applies for hearing aside
I mean... Dell and PC still have plenty of options. My Pixel has a headphone Jack. My laptop can be upgradeable...

I am not sure I buy the one size fits all argument. That is mostly an Apple thing.

Also, while it's true Apple quality was higher the last few generations are much worse. We have had numerous service issues come up, keyboards now break... I can't see Apple quality being what it once was.
This is exactly what I feel: music coming from inside my head. The AirPod is a very under-hyped product. Its beauty is that you can wear it and completely forget about it and focus on whatever the hell you want to do. You actually feel that rare freedom. This freedom and focus it gives you is the most precious quality that 99.9% gadgets lack these days.
It would be amazing if we could browse "Latest" by category, and for a certain day, much like: https://arxiv.org/list/math.NT/recent
Ultimately, acceptance depends on who is processing your payments (e.g. Stripe, Adyen, CyberSource). All Apple/Google Pay do is take advantage of tokenization, which allows buyers to send merchants a token/pointer to an account rather than a real credit card number. Every transaction gets a different card number to minimize risk in the event of a data breach. Additionally, both services make it really easy to checkout by providing a simple method to provide the billing/shipping address in addition to the payment info. No more typing. Just click the appropriate pay button, and confirm payment with your fingerprint/passcode on your phone.

Here is a demo I created for edX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axTCbUjWcbI
I'd say the choice really depends on the what you are trying to do. Python, Java (and even Golang) all have their pros and cons. If you are doing personal projects that involve with data processing, and maybe a simple webapp, nothing beats Python and its ecosystem. If you are planning to grow a team, and the projects are enterprise-ish, then Java is a good contender. In my case, while I wrote some 30K lines of Golang in my last job a few years back (and still got compliments from the current maintainers to this day), I just tolerated the language and never enjoyed it. Before that, I did a lot of Java and before that C and Perl. I don't program daily anymore, and only play with data science / ML ideas these days, and so I do Python (mostly in Jupyter notebooks) and run the scripts on real datasets in remote servers, with a simple Flask app to display the results/charts.
Great work.

I've also been working on a similar open-source project "Sharead".

https://github.com/strin/sharead

It has a chrome extension that uploads Arxiv papers, and you can manage papers with tags.

It also automatically converts pdf to HTML using a library called pdf2html:

https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
For bitmap based PDFs it would be possible to segment the document into words and images (just bounding boxes, not OCR), then "reflow" them to a different page size, by allocating less words per row.

Does anyone know if this kind of PDF reader exists? Such a PDF reflow reader would work on scanned old books.
I guess physiological variations are inevitable but for me I have to be a newly showered Labrador to shake it off my head.
I ran a mobile payments app for years that buckled under the weight of machiavellian people constantly trying to find ways to cheat the system.

The problem isn't just the existence of scammers imho, the problem is that the two players with the most power to prevent fraud: The Bank, and The customers are incorrectly incentivised. The Bank doesn't care because it can foist responsibility onto the people moving the money from A to B (eg, Stripe, who then has to pass it onto the merchant) and the customer doesn't care because the bank uses its power to make sure the customer doesn't have to pay the consequences for being unsafe with their credit card information.

Until either the bank gets tougher on fraudulent activity (being more proactive about investigating accounts fraudulent payments went to, punishing customers for being loose with their credit cards, etc) or we can implement some kind of two-factor process inherent to the whole credit card system nothing will change.
I learned this unexpectedly: I run ipmitool on a bastion host, and it uses similar sequences, like ~., to terminate a Serial over LAN session. I've had to remember to key ~~. so that the first tilde is able to get through to ipmitool.
Minimal verification: a better way for visual test automation (smoke)
> Suggests the user base don't care much.

And that's absolutely the case: users don't care that much, despite the teraflops inside our GPUs.

While things have changed in the almost 30 years since "Lessons from Habitat" [1] was written, one of the conclusions is still valid nowadays: the implementation is relatively unimportant.

The entire paper is a gem; worth checking it out. It has aged wonderfully well, and I never get tired of re-reading it over the years.

[1] http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
That to me was always the most surprising thing about SL. It got so many complicated things right, yet they messed up so many things liked the controls which were a solved problem many years before SL was released.
I'm not being sarcastic. It's a kind of anti-filter with proof of work.
A great episode to kick off the Radiotopia fall fundraising campaign:

https://www.commitchange.com/ma/cambridge/prx-inc/campaigns/...
I've been to so many concerts (450+ shows from 300+ bands) and I listen to music all day at my desk. My Gran has hearing aids, and her mum was totally deaf. My dad's hearing is getting worse too. I'm sure that I'm going to go deaf eventually, and it will be a sad day when that time comes.

If you're interested in real-time audio effects on smartphones, AudioGraph is an app I've been playing with.

http://zerokidz.com/audiograph/Home.html

It lets you listen to input signals through the iPhone microphone, do some effects, and pass the output to headphones.

With the right hardware, it's also possible to turn the iPhone into a wireless mic using a Bluetooth headset adaptor (e.g. Sony MW600). Plug the MW600 into the speakers, plug a Kokkia Bluetooth transmitter into the iPhone, run AudioGraph, and speak into the iPhone mic. There's a little lag, but it works well enough for me.

I expect that when my hearing gets worse, I'll use regular headphones (maybe custom-molded Ultimate Ears UE4s) with my iPhone, and do the "tuning" effects using AudioGraph. Being able to pass my smartphone to someone so they can speak into it like a microphone would be much easier than having to lean over so a hearing aid could be closer.
I really liked SecondLife, and ran an early 3d Printing service for Avatars out of it called "Fabjectory" - long since shut down.

Here's how it worked:

1. I'd have avatars come meet me in my "studio" - a floating cube with very basic geometry that was way up in the sky away from other objects.

2. I'd use an app called OGLE (OpenGL Extractor) that was developed at Eyebeam to extract the avatar's geometry and textures.

3. I'd then load up the 3D capture (which would be a mess) and clean it up and make a bunch of manual modifications to make the 3D design print worthy.

4. I'd export the resulting image as VRML and then send it to my printing partner who would print them on "Sandstone" - plaster infused with color inkjet and something like superglue.

Here's a picture I found on Google of them: https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1102/1236026167_49aae2fc0b_b....
It's also one of the main reasons Larry built Google.
What is he promoting that is literally cancer?
That's a blatant misrepresentation of the state of prosecution.

Possibly, although not intentionally. I read the links I sent you for the first time yesterday, and think I summarized them reasonably. Other articles make claims that I think are compatible: http://www.hcn.org/articles/cliven-bundy-why-the-bundy-crowd.... Clearly there are other points of view, many from more reputable sources, although I'm not sure if their reputation means they are less biased, or just differently biased. Some of those reputable sources point out that Burleson's conviction may have been an outlier, since in addition to his overt racism, as a former FBI informant the jury may have been particularly less sympathetic.

Ironically, Burleson's conviction was obtained in part through footage provided by a fake documentary team that was actually the FBI: https://theintercept.com/2017/05/16/the-bizarre-story-behind.... That article claims that as of May there have actually been 7 acquittals vs 6 convictions, but I didn't track down whether that had changed. I think we should ignore the number of those who "plead guilty", since that's often a tactical decision rather than an actual admission of guilt.

My point though is not that there have not been eventual convictions (I appreciate the details) but that the path to getting them seems to involve more hung juries and retrials than one would expect for an "open and shut" case. My larger point is that there is extreme antagonism between certain Western district court judges and the federal government, with the San Francisco 7th Circuit siding fairly consistently with the Feds and reversing local decisions. Judge Jones's Finding of Fact for the Hage trial (decision overturned by the Circuit) is long and dense, but a surprisingly fun read and a good introduction to the debate regarding Western water rights: http://www.inversecondemnation.com/files/usa-v-hage-findings....

I thought that Jones's Finding was extremely well argued, but the 9th Circuit disagreed and vacated and overturned his decision: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/01/15/1.... To my reading, the Circuit willfully misinterpreted Jones's reasing, and then burnt the straw man. The Circuit also took the unusual step of declaring Jones to be too biased against the federal government to be involved in any subsequent proceedings. Locally, many think this the greater example of judicial bias: https://sparkstrib.com/2016/09/15/one-persons-bias-is-anothe....

I'll bow out now, but will happily read any further responses you have or links you think I should look it.
I liked this enough to merit an addition to the write-up. It's not perfect but I'm seeing some great GTA 5 shots that are very nicely balanced overall. Doubly interesting given the substantial age of the game.
The man keeping the world's lighthouses shining
Are your goals really helping you?
When you sell stuff to foreign people that’s called exporting. Exports are good. They bring money from foreign countries to your country.

So SF could stop exporting with some sort of ban on foreign buyers. For what's it worth (not much), I think such a ban would have almost no effect, as unless the US bans all Chinese capital wholesale, all the same money can makes it way to SF real estate through less direct means.

Or we could fix our taxes and regulations. The current regime of taxes and regulations actively incentivize speculation, and penalize land use. We need tax revenue, might as well collect it in a way that discourages speculation.
From what I understand, the worst case is that they confiscate your other passport(s) to ensure that you do not enter or exit the US with a non-US passport. I could be wrong though.
Ah sorry, I didn't read closely enough, mailbox.org looks good. Cheers.
It's only outlawing keto diets marketed as general purpose meal replacements.
i know this is off topic but i never understood this this guy's influence.
Interestingly, the htc-made pixel seems to be the better of the two. The defect-ridden phone is the LG one (at least so far)
Self-doubt about self-driving cars
Ok I am confused, 60k hits in a day? What broght down the website? 72MB of size, network congestion, or 60k hits? Even with authentication for download what can bring the system down? I have handled more traffic on a RPi with 100MBps connection. I really don’t get it.
I'm not necessarily pro-big banks, but JP Morgan and GS were two of the banks LEAST in need of a bailout. GS was short MBS at the time, so your description is .
Yeah, I can see the Lindon board rejecting any UI element that wasn't unnecessarily obtuse or would randomly stab you in the face. It would undoubtedly cause confusion for people who run the official client.
Do you mean in this case, or in general?

I think it's very often the reverse – a disruptive replacement has to really blow past the incumbent in some respect, but it's quite hard for something new to be up to par with the old, polished thing in all respects.

PCs were less powerful than mainframes, MP3 is lower quality than CD, etc. etc.
You obviously don't want to pay for the same app+crap currently offered for free, but the purveyer would happily offer it for a fee. What you say you want isn't actually what you want. What you want is a quality filter. And that is what Apple claims to provide, and Google intentionally does not.
That's awesome. Thanks very much!
I send a verification link to new email addresses before accepting payments. They do click them.
I quit my job in Bellevue WA and moved to Oregon City Oregon. Here's some things it has going for it:

5) It has a train station that connects it to every city from Los Angeles to Portland to Seattle via Amtrak

4) Portland's train system doesn't connect to it yet, but it will soon. At the moment, it takes about 15 minutes to get to the city train station.

3) Portland is overrun with homeless people, but Oregon City isn't.

2) The traffic isn't as bad as Portland

1) You can get a nice house for well under $1800 a month. If you can live with a condo, you can get that down to about $1200.