skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, at least Sidewalk Labs is putting some money behind it. Mentioned in the linked article, and also in The Toronto Star: Doctoroff said his company will spend $50 million on a yearlong discussion, starting at a Nov. 1 public meeting, with citizens, governments, universities and others, about what the project dubbed “Sidewalk Toronto” should be.

https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/10/17/google-fir...

I've attended some of the other consultations hosted by the city planning department, and I agree their timelines are epic. It was good however to engage with neighbours I wouldn't otherwise and hear differing opinions. I can understand why it can take so long when engaging with the general public, land redevelopment can be very divisive.

The town hall meeting is November 1st if you're interested in participating:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sidewalk-toronto-community-town-...
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Yeah, but there was a lot in the middle that more directly inspired the creators and all sorts of stuff around at the time.

Warhammer was much more tied to RPGs with it's first editio and there was all sortsd of overlaps from GW and D&D/Chainmail

Here is an interview with one of the creators that discusses the origins:

https://juegosydados.com/2016/08/26/interview-with-rick-prie...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game)
As far as I can tell it is 100% up to the driver. Until a package does get stolen and then your address is quietly flagged to require a signature for everything for a while.
It's really not that hard to build a relatively optimal GraphQL server. Obviously it requires paying careful attention to performance, and to take steps to mitigate abuse (query whitelists, complexity caps etc). If you were to move the implementation off the server and into the client you'd use a lot of the benefits of GraphQL in the first place (performance being a major one).
Are you talking about switching between Powerpoint and PDF files while you're on stage?
Ask HN: Under Challenged at Current Position – Need Advice
Hello HN!

I am currently working as a C#/.NET dev and have been at my current company almost 2 years.

This is my first position out college, and while I have learned a lot I am beginning to feel un-challenged, bored, and annoyed.

I have relayed this all to my manager (who has only been here for 1.5 months), and I have gotten no feedback. I have also been waiting 5 months for a review (I first asked for it five months ago). The lack of focus/goals at any level in the company is what is most annoying (Aside from my almost 1 hour 45 minute round trip commute each day).

All I really want is to work on software that helps others, keep learning, and work with other intelligent people (I previously worked with 2 other devs, but I am the only dev at the company again).

I just feel like this position is stagnating, and I don't want to feel that way any longer. I'm not sure if I should begin looking for new jobs, or just stick it out and see how it plays out. Any advice is appreciated.
Mux is hiring an iOS/Android developer who cares about video
> If you don't think this is a problem, or businesses have a "right" to pursue profits at all costs, you are a part of the problem and need to kindly find another industry to harm.

You might have a romantic model of the medical system, but I certainly don't think that any business in any industry should be able to pursue profits without any moral restraint.
There were a lot of questions your comment could imply. I couldn’t think of a simpler way to request clarification. Didn’t mean to offend.

On Earth we’re used to power scaling with maximum speed because of drag. In space, there is no drag. The weakest engine can propel something to close to the speed of light given the time and energy.

There is a measure called specific impulse. It asks how long an engine would hover if fuelled with a take-off weight ratio of one in Earth’s gravity (ignoring the mass of structure, tanks, et cetera). I don’t have an answer for this engine, but ion thrusters clock in around 30,000 seconds while most rockets are between 250 and 500.

Terminal velocity relates to the interaction between drag and an object in free fall.
Do not build a movement, build a religion.
Even better payoff, longer lasting and ridiculously easy to market to naive.
Can anyone offer any recommendations on any accessible war games - other than Risk. I've looked around previously and it seems that most are incredibly complex and/or require a tremendous amount of time to play.
Um, sure, or just break a window
Largest RFID system in the US is the U of Iowa Health Care pneumatic tube system
This is actually a reason I am kind of surprised to see Microsoft just shut this down outright. Even as a much more limited run product, Kinect has so many possibilities in robotics and research, and it intersects with the VR/AR developments today.
Airship colonies, take advantage of that dense atmosphere and float over the clouds.
Invest time into building relationships. Even if you have a steady stream of work already, you'll want to have connections in the pipeline for when things dry up.
I have a feeling it is nothing ground breaking. I bet they are just using biometrics to replace the password so it's something like "Two factors: fingerprint + authenticator app code"
sure, be my guest.
Tips are optional.

Often, people who came up from the working class tip because they recall crappy pay, poor conditions etc when they started and appreciate my hard work with a tip. Others do not look at it that way and have your own thinking.

Im okay with either. I get it. Many of my patrons are unemployed due to retirement, living off interest and savings. They all tip. The young up-and-commers hardly tip. I think it's because the young had a different kind of life (ie easier) than the older retired generation.
"but for health" allows a lot. And "never to dullness, weakness, or to the injury of your own, or others' peace or reputation" is a pretty solid policy.
Some attempts at explaining the missing matter involved modifying gravity to the effect that light and gravity waves would arrive at different times. They didn't so those theories are invalid.

"emulator" seems to be a term for a certain sort of model and simulation.
Ah, yeah, the old Republican trick of creating rules that clearly benefit giant corporations and pass it on the basis that it'd hurt "small corporations." I'm sorry, but if your tiny community bank fucked up badly enough to be on the receiving end of a class-action, maybe they deserve to be affected. Same for bigger banks.
> I've asked a few people and haven't gotten a solid answer if its a requirement on setup of a new iPhone X.

I don't know why you would assume this. I think it's very obvious that it isn't. TouchID is also not a requirement for any previous iPhone.

There is nothing about the iPhone X that would require FaceID. If you're happy just using a passcode, then that's your choice. They've given no indicators otherwise.
You just can't take the risk
"Inbound marketing".
Linux Mint Will Discontinue Its KDE Edition
That's.... kind of hilariously self-aware.
I used to play like this with my friends in high school. We'd just start talking about our characters whenever we were together. Occasionally throw in some dice. It was a lot of fun and could be done anywhere and anytime. Create a simple fantasy setting, dream up some characters, and explore your world.
Speech Recognition Is Now Available on Twilio
another universe. and inside black holes in our universe are different universes. goes both directions, who knows how deep. black holes all the way down and up.
A python dev that uses braces?
Astronomers Spot First-Known Interstellar Comet
Annually. They don't die in that time, but better safe than sorry (and locked out on a rainy day).
Apologies then for my other reaction.

I was a reactive gas...
Yes, it really is more secure than exact re-use. Attackers that just try the exact same password on multiple sites on first discovery will be thwarted by algorithmically derived passwords.

I'm not ruling out that there will be attackers that try to harvest passwords from multiple sites, join those sites by username or email, then try some ML to derive people's password algorithms. But there is a whole class of attackers that just won't bother with that level of sophistication.

If your algorithm is any good, you're already not the slowest person running from the bear (cf. easy passwords or exact-password-reuse).
Slightly off topic, but reminded me of an issue I had with Amazon for months. I work for a small agency, the name of which begins with "Box" and then a number. No matter where I put it in the delivery address, Amazon (or the delivery service) would change the business name to "PO Box ..."

I ended up working around it by removing all spaces from the business name in my shipping address.
Ah, I didn't realize those jobs were starting to turn!
Yeah! Literally 18 months of making $0. Such a grind. At some point you just decide you're tired of making $0 and do anything and everything to not do that anymore.

Reach out on our Intercom and we may be able to make something work.

Would love to visit Scotland! Probably next year when it's warmer again. :)
Ok, we swapped "minimal" for "QT" in the title above.
Don't sweat it, it's a common mistake. IIRC some French physicists used the same surface area calculation to try to disprove global warming, for which they got the nickname "knights of the flat earth".
Where'd you learn this stuff? As someone who recently ended up a family man, I'm definitely interested in keeping my place more secure.
At the risk of driving further off topic, but AMZL delivery people being confused and/or unable to get into my building mailroom has been a particular nightmare the last few deliveries for me, too.

I appreciate they are trying to be more strict in their deliveries than in the past and want to try to lose fewer packages than they used to, but the tools at their disposal to handle this (versus UPS, FedEx, and USPS) are woefully under-developed. The web form to respond to delivery failures doesn't have enough options (and is very suburb focused at that), and at this point I would almost prefer a pickup location option and just pickup things from some equivalent of a UPS Store or Post Office.

Maybe they could put Amazon Lockers in Whole Foods or something?

(I guess to end somewhat on topic: the mailroom issue is precisely why Amazon Key wouldn't work for me. It seems like a far more suburban solution to the problem.)
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My apologies,

Appreciate the response.
Matrices, common in statistics because of applications of linear algebra, have long maintained the convention of i,j indexes starting with one.
I ran a startup selling controllers to make this easier, but never got much traction and eventually went back to the full-time employment world.

One problem is that games are a pretty weak application of the technology, but you need gaming-scale numbers of units to have reasonable costs.
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The Linux Foundation Releases Annual Kernel Development Report
Though I also hold concern for Apple’s QA decline, the difference between a deliberate modification to alter the resilience of a tent pole feature and a software bug in a massive codebase are significant.

Given that we all know next to nothing about actual performance of FaceID, I see no reason to assume that this will equate to a broken product. We’ll find out when it ships, just as we would if no change had been reported.
> They've given no indicators otherwise.

FWIW, a "Genius" at an Apple storefront yesterday told me that FaceID will be required. I brought up the exact same objection that TouchID was not required, but clearly the APIs are different.

The crux of my point remains, however. Apple chose to make FaceID a dealkiller for supply of this product.
Yep. This happens to me all the time, and is not an edge case at all. Cooking in particular I think will be a much better experience with FaceId. I'm constantly washing my hands, and (at least on my iPhone 6) this means I'm constantly entering in my ~10 character lock code to have a look at the recipe.
Our part of the universe*... The presumption is that neutron stars are the results of gravity overcoming nuclear forces, and black holes are the results of some other force being overcome, and therefore our visible universe is the inside of a greater collapse... Or the explosive eventual death of a black holes...

It's a novel idea, but it's just turtles all the way down
The title page:

Little Wars

(A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books)

With an Appendix on Kriegspiel
This developed out of sunboxlabs & gridlesskits – and is the "version 3.0" update with a major new direction based on user feedback (retention rate was low previously...). I'm already addicted myself. Heavily inspired by coinspectator.com.
> Apple doesn't seem interested in addressing

Like what? Genuinely curios.
This made me miss perl (but ya forgot $F[2]>240)
> but their reasoning is just a blatant lie.

I would actually try to understand the reasoning from the DOT and then look at the rebuttal from the CFPB before I make statements like this.

If it's as simple as you state, 1 options instead of 2, why hasn't anyone else picked up on this blatant lie?
D.H. Lawrence's take on Franklin's virtues is immortal:

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/lewiss/lawrence.htm

My high school English teacher, Frank McCourt, used to love reading this out loud.
> Both will likely confuse and annoy long time customers and should've been solved with an ergonomic button on the back.

One more reason why the iPhone X isn't "the iPhone" this year. Apple knows this, it's the most fundamental shift in how you use the device since the original iPhone.

Those that feel confused and annoyed can always return the phone and buy the iPhone 8 for less money. Many already have opted to just buy the iPhone 8 rather than wait.

I don't think it's a mistake at all, it's a carefully calculated move to ensure that the vast majority of their customer base isn't alienated by pricing this phone out of reach and making it very clear that this is a glimpse into the future of the iPhone, not the iPhone you know and love.
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Would be nice to have https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=5866 resolved so embedding/extending V8 would be a lot easier.
I'd like to think it would be possible to create a platform where blocs of consumers could negotiate, examine, modify these contracts of adhesion as a class action.
Apple response:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/apple-reduced-iphone-x-facei...

In a statement to CNBC, the company said, "Bloomberg's claim that Apple has reduced the accuracy spec for Face ID is completely false and we expect Face ID to be the new gold standard for facial authentication."

Quote from updated article at least on BBG terminal right now:

Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said “Bloomberg’s claim that it reduced the accuracy spec for Face ID is completely false and we expect Face ID to be the new gold standard for facial authentication. The quality and accuracy of Face ID haven't changed; it continues to be one in a million probability of a random person unlocking your iPhone with Face ID.”
Everything in the solar system is pretty much made out of the same stuff. There is uranium on Earth, the Moon, and Mars, so we can reasonably expect it to be present on other less massive objects in the solar system.

But you also have to consider that materials stratify based on their density and chemical affinity. The Goldschmidt classification of an element defines sort of chemical cliques for the elements.

Lithophile elements like to oxidize into minerals and float on top of any dense metal core. For instance, the dominant aluminum ore bauxite is frequently found close to the surface of the earth. To find those elements in space, you look for a rock-dominant (oxidized) asteroid.

Siderophile elements like to form solid solutions with iron, and may not oxidize to lighter minerals readily. Elements like gold and platinum are considered rare on Earth not because the planet does not have a great quantity of them, but because the vast majority of that mass is way down in the iron core, where we cannot yet reach it. The mass near the surface is only there due to quirks of geology. To find those elements in space, you look for a metals-dominant asteroid.

Chalcophile elements like sulfur, and on Earth their rarity (in terms of the amount we can dig up) is between lithophiles and siderophiles, because they tend to stratify above the iron-lovers and below the oxygen-lovers.

The only elements that may be difficult to find would be those that form volatile molecules, because they typically get gradually blown away by solar wind, or stripped away all at once by a catastrophic cosmic event.

Uranium and thorium are lithophile elements, so they shouldn't be too difficult to find on rocky, oxygen-heavy asteroids. Just look for low albedo and alpha particles from pitchblende. But beware that absent the ore-concentrating processes of large planets, you may have to process a lot of rock to get a usable quantity of fissile elements.
VCs manage to turn a profit?
It is Qt, not QT!
Chrome says your site is using SFUI (which is beautiful) so I did some digging, it looks like that is the Apple San Francisco font, how the hell did you get a license for that as web font?.
Is this the same couriers that throw packages over fences and do long-throws onto porches?
Building a JavaScript Promise from Scratch
I'd be willing give it a try. But if used in typical decorative grass fashion (small clusters as border accents) it should generate about enough flour to make a muffin or dinner roll every year or so.

Is backyard production of quinoa driving its popularity?
Sonar: Linting the web forward
Somehow I was hoping this was open source.
> But it will be the false negatives that will by far be the most annoying and noticeable.

How do you know that's what it means? You have literally no idea if this report is even true, or what the implications of it would be if it were true.

People are drawing a lot of conclusions from an unsubstantiated report on a brand new unreleased feature for a phone that nobody has yet and has never used in the wild.
I wish the USB adapter weren't also $40.

I've wanted one for a while for computer vision projects and $40-50 is a fantastic price. Instead I'm looking at maybe getting a 360 Kinect (Certified Refurbished) at $40 and $10 for the usb adapter.
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Big disappointment. In an age of Echo, and Google Home, I can't understand how Microsoft couldn't make Kinect work.

Also, whatever you may think of Kinect, at least they tried something different. The new XboxOne X is just a spec bump. No attempt at innovating any other aspect of the console.
I'm glad I didn't know who Molyneux was when I first played Fable, because I had a great time.
Yes, ok I understand your confusion to my comment as I had forgotten that terminal velocity applies to atmospheric based objects?

But I haven’t thought about specific impulse much, so I am very naïve (but curious)

So, what, if any, does the mass of the object being pushed by an engine with the 5.4 Newton’s of energy have of the ability of the engine to push it?

If you push a 1-ton thing with 5.4, and a 100-ton thing with 5.4 Newtons will they reach mars at the same time? And what will be the fuel consumption diff?
I'm sorry but it's very hard for me to take seriously Ben Franklin's exhortations to chastity and temperance. I guess he had some awareness of this given his famous dialogue with gout. http://www.bartleby.com/109/3.html
They're the hardest people to defend and that's exactly why their freedom of speech needs to be defended.

When you can't say 'fuck', you can't say 'fuck the draft':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
I've used iPhones since the 3gs, and the iPhone 8 allows me to be more productive than any modern phone (had the Samsung S4, s5 and an early Google nexus device) I've owned since the blackberry.

I'm sure iOS 12 will slow it down, but for now I feel like my productivity is finally getting back to Blackberry days. My nostalgia for the instant response of those devices has grown over the past few years as phone os's and apps have become increasingly bloated. I really think there'd be a market for an email / messaging only device intended to be carried along side a phone if it did that one thing very well.
Strange, I see little to no difference on my 6S. I was considering getting an X, but since my phone still handles iOS 11 perfectly, I don't see any reason to upgrade.

I'd try restoring my phone if I were you - that fixes these issues for a lot of people.
If you make the charitable assumption that the letter's writers are not lying, this relationship is clearly spelled out at the top of the second paragraph:

> Over the last couple years we have been courted by you, worked closely with you on promotion, creation, and even website features, and have been assured by you that Patreon was a home for all types of creators – including those that make adult content.
Speaking of magic, universal uses Kinect for Harry Potter in Knockturn Alley. Was surprised to see a simple Kinect running it (hard to see but it’s in a box to the left of the skeleton magic wand experience).
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Obviously it requires paying careful attention to performance, and to take steps to mitigate abuse (query whitelists, complexity caps etc)

Are these also "not that hard?"
Add some ML to extract common UX patterns and generate highly personalized websites/apps.

The only job of the future will be AI-assisted design.
I gave up after the first screen when I couldn't figure out who was interviewing whom.
> but (afaik) python is not very jit-friendly in general.

It's time for the time honored "Sufficiently Smart Compiler" [0] argument. All programming languages can be optimized in meaningful ways via inferred information. There is a small subset of python programs that I don't see as possible to optimize at all. These programs would be ones using the Pickle library who load code and execute functions from that code. So long as your code is not doing any Evil/Eval() all performance critical portions of your code should theoretically be inferrable.

Note: I said "should be inferrable" NOT "should be easily inferrable". This won't be easy and it takes teams of people to do this on a subset of python's feature set (see Numba).

[0] - http://wiki.c2.com/?SufficientlySmartCompiler
Using my analogy again: if you do research in sorting/searching algorithms, even improving the performance of the best algorithm by a tiny bit would require quite a "special level of insight, or creativity, or whatever." Making a "BIG" advance would require genius level abilities, think a few dozens of people in the entire world.

We are not talking about understanding what has been published in the ML area. We are talking about publishing your own, new ideas in peer-reviewed journals/conferences, and/or pushing state of the art results. That's what "doing research in AI" is all about.

Same applies to doing research in all those other fields you mentioned (calculus, statistics, group theory, etc). There's a big gap between people who can merely understand new ideas, and people who can come up with them.
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This is certainly the most important point. You cannot function in society without internet, a cell phone and some sort of transportation, and most if not all force you to sign away rights that should be guaranteed to all US citizens.

Unless you are wealthy enough to do without or fine being homeless, this means you are living under a sub-government that the rules are set by corporations.
Nobilis was heavily inspired both by the world in Zelazney's Amber books, and also by that system. If you like Amber diceless you'll probably enjoy it.