skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i mean, the amazon echo was a pretty interesting new thing that they created a market for. tthen once they realized people were buying it every big tech company jumped on it to not get behind.

the problem is if google doesn't go into the "speaker with a voice assistant" space, they allow amazon to possibly gain dominance in said space. this is why everyone wants to get in on drone delivery, self-driving cars, vr, etc..

and while "creative", the kinect wasn't a thing microsoft invented either. in fact, primesense, the company that created the original kinect got bought out by apple, and basically that tech is in the iphone x now.
That’s a great way to get sued. The point of performance reviews is to standardize rankings so that you can use them later to fire/promote without being sued for discrimination.
Alternatively if your real goal is just to develop some novel ML techniques, it would be better to not make claims about how the brain works and instead just try to draw inspiration using these thought experiments more as a 'muse'
You’re absolutely correct. I’m still really skeptical of dark matter. It just feels more like a massive black box of not understanding what’s going on than non-visible matter.
Awesome flex grid for front end
Hardly needs 'defending'. It's superb.
So how do they know it's similar ? Is there a distance that could be calculated between 2 hashes and tell if they are similar ?

I don't think so... So are your old passwords stored in plain text somewhere so they can compare ?

Scary...
WATCH Live: Chievo – Milan
Downright Orwellian: journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy
For whatever reason, my finder is to sweaty or dirty for 20% of my TouchID attempts to work. I have to clean the home button with my shirt, clean my thumb, try again. The onstage demo didn't require cradling the iPhone like a babby to get FaceID working -- it can read your face from an angle. This is not like previous, selfie-based face-unlock strategies from other companies.
What do you mean, FUD? Sony's own website pretty clearly lays out that online multiplayer is a feature reserved for PS+ subscribers.

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/play...
What the sibling posters said -- it's not related. Cost of production itself is actually going down because we get ever better tools to make the houses and they don't have a fixed "human content requirement" to the labor.

Costs are spiraling up because of restrictions on building -- both the density, and the transit that could handle it.
I wonder how much the face sensor on the new iPhones is going to cost? Will people be able to buy it as a separate part? I have to think that for repair purposes it will be available, but the price point will no doubt be inflated.
I look at it the other way around: the reason these were so important to Franklin was that he knew perfectly well how bad he was at them.

Somewhere along the line we've conflated valuing virtue with already being virtuous. The hypocrisy of most "moral movements" doesn't help, of course.
What these articles invariably fail to do is name even one single "postmodern professor."
Social Capital has started investing in startups, sight unseen
Back when I did a scan of corporations in Delaware I discovered more than 20 defunct corporations that existed only to infringe on Google trademarks. I assume that they emptied their bank accounts before Google came for them, then Google came, and that is why they are defunct.
Makes me think of the recent headline where a Professor of Math Education supposedly claimed that basic math concepts perpetuate "white privilege."

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10005
Report: Nearly 1 in 3 CEO Email Accounts Exposed in Breaches
The company does have to prove that they didn't fire someone for a restricted reason and basically if there's any hint of that it is viewed poorly by the govt/courts.

I imagine a lot of lawyers will gear up here and there will be a lot of eDiscovery.
Chrome Developer Summit 2017 Summary – Day 2
Sorry, I should have been clearer. Here's what I meant to say:

>It kindof annoys me that the _OpenTimestamp_ wasn't somehow worked into the signature itself (like as a sub-packet),
The cam verifies the delivery person won't come further than a step in, not much to snoop there. Anything further would be easier and less noticed with a locksmith.
Thanks for the reply. Agree w/ you on all counts for StockRover; I like your UI much better.
I've been thinking about switching, but I'm leery of it, as it is the work of a sole developer and it lacks a security audit.
One of the best things about these thrusters is how they look exactly like a science fiction space thruster should. This would not look out of place on a Star Destroyer or a Federation Constitution class cruiser.
Scott Alexander had a blog post recently discussing "moral offsets" and the distinction between axiology, morality, and law. It helped clarify my own mental framework and vocabulary for thinking through these sorts of "do the ends justify the means?" issues. I found it to be interesting food for thought and you may feel likewise, it's a very thought-provoking read (as is nearly everything on Scott's site).

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/28/contra-askell-on-moral-...
I haven't seen anyone in this thread talk about the DOT's report, i.e. what it seems the result of the vote is based on. Or even what the White House has said in statements regarding the reasoning to do it.

Neither have I seen where the simple statement "one option is less than two" is published by any media outlet.
This sounds great, but then how do you enforce it.

- I was just checking the time

- Well check this ticket out

Joking aside. You have in your hand a device that is designed to be addictive, you have spent years nurturing that addiction, in fact society praises you for using the device. If you use it you get a ticket.

Yes I think it is super annoying when people are not looking where they are going, it can even be dangerous, but this rule does not solve the problem.

I think even a just in time reminder is more effective. We have these traffic lights that have audio:

"Please put away your phone while crossing"
The Uber driver will not always be an Uber driver. And probably has something already lined up if he's paying for his new house via a mortgage. The reference to a 100k job was making a comparison between the quality of life in different parts of the country, and not an assumption the Uber driver was actually making 100k.
What is the problem with people want to live in hot spots?

Because hotspots need to be fairly small for the reasons you say, and the demand for that space exceeds the supply.
I'm pretty sure cheap and high quality lidar is coming very very quickly - so many companies working on it. There will be no market for an awkward kinect. Kinect is not great compared to modern lidar systems anyhow, it was just more accessible.
Yup. And yet, it's the very lifeblood of social and economic interactions, for a great many people in the U.S.
It’s weird how much this is not my experience with academia.

I spent _way_ too long getting my BS at a state school, then I worked for Cornell as a programmer in an engineering grad school for several years, and now all my friends are grad students, instructors, and post-docs. Like there was literally no one else at my last barbecue, but I don’t know anyone who talks like this, and I have never seen protests or commotion on campus.

I guess it might be because I mostly know engineering students, but I’m having trouble locating this epidemic of societal breakdown everyone seems to be talking about...
msn.com??? Wonderful 90s throwback. Didn't realize this still existed.
> It depends, if you consider using the phone while laying flat on a desk as a normal or edge case.

Seems like a perfectly normal use-case to me. I have it lying on my desk when I'm at work, which is 40 hours a week. I don't want to have to pick up my phone or enter a PIN every time I want to check an incoming iMessage, news alert, etc.
What SF probably needs is not huge projects downtown, but more incremental growth further out. In Europe, in a city that size, you'd see a lot more 4/5/6 story development, rather than the huge skyscrapers downtown and then 1/2/3 story in a lot of residential areas.
The way the situation is evolving is that they are NOT 'our' electronics. We think we are buying them to own them, but in reality what it gets you is the right to use the device only for as long manufacturer wants, and only in a manner deemed appropriate by the manufacturer. It's more than a fight about tinkering or repairing, it's a fight about ownership.
Inherited an app that was built in Marmelade - a cross platform (Android / iOS) framework. C++ codebase.

(Note the following is a criticism of the previous developer - not of Marmelade)

It was the most rinky-dink setup I’ve ever seen - unrepeatable build system that relied on binary files all over the file system (in .config folders, temporary directories, hard coded paths that only existed on devs laptop)

The texture compressor was able to fit all of the sprites into a sprite sheet with literally kb’s of texture memory left over, we couldn’t change a sprite because it would cause the very exact pattern of all of the other sprites to no longer fit together by the packer

Random crashes of the app we’re common, massive libraries would be included only to use a tiny math function within - to do a trivial calculation causing 100,000x slowdowns

Deployment involved manually building a bunch of object files, then copy + pasting them to other folders, then building more and moving them all around, then delete assetX from here, delete assetY from here, run packer manually, copy files here, run linker - none of this was documented

The code was a mess - major over abstractions 10 layers deep that could have been 2 or 3, each intermediate was instantiated seemingly randomly through the class hierarchy, all over the place, no consistency

There were lots of anti patterns throughout the code base - some god objects holding state they shouldn’t have, which led to lots of unreproducable race conditions. Memory leaking common, so steady memory growth until crash.

The dev was a total nut, huge rants over nothing

I laugh looking back at it now, but at the time it was painful
That name choice is rough. So easy to misread, so difficult to remember and spell.
[Chromium Headless] Save and restore browser sessions
The “with cause” implies they have sufficient reason to deny unemployment iirc. Or that they merely think they do.
Judging by MySQL Aurora (which is still on MySQL 5.6, when 5.7 released 2 years ago) it will be a while.
Uber is banned where I live, and the taxis are a reasonable price.

When I went home to the UK at Christmas, Uber wanted to charge around 3 times the price of the monopolistic black cabs.
It would be cool to pick a few stocks and generate the filtering criteria that's common amongst them.
Iirc the Wii sold at a profit because it deliberately used older technology.
In the U.S is it legal for companies to disclose how former employees were let go (laid off vs. fired). I imagine they just give dates. Otherwise how would fired employees ever gain future employment in competitive fields.
I think anyone who tries can make their own seemingly compelling points about the human experience. We all live a human experience. And it's easy to make proclamations and virtues and tell yourself how you're going to live. It's a different animal to try and live by them.
Which writer? There are 100 initial signers to the letter.
Ponzi schemes don't produce major technological advancement.

SpaceX made reusable rockets a thing.

Tesla made great cars with bleeding-edge EV technology.

SolarCity made "solar roof" a viable & aesthetic product.

All three are still thriving on a lot of tech advancement.

Long-term success remains to be seen in three very difficult industries, but current performance is certainly not the facades of Ponzi schemes.
I get the concern, but I'd say "a few times slower", which suggests 2x/3x/4x, not "an order of magnitude", which suggests something like 8x or 20x or whatever.
Except the Intel RealSense line-up does maybe 1/4th of what the Kinect does, and Intel is known for killing off pet projects quickly (see IoT)
We'll have to see how this plays out in terms of whether FedEx, USPS, the multitude of delivery startups out there get "locked out" of the system and are at the mercy of the user needing to be around to receive packages, while Amazon provides their secure in-home deliveries.

I wonder if that would be sufficient grounds for an antitrust suit if it happens.
Probably this:

Many of us are a bit perfectionist, and therefore are reluctant to call
something "1.0" because it may imply that it's "finished" or "we are 100%
happy with it". This is normal for many open source projects, however that doesn't make it right. (from the post)
Because sometimes the laws are simply bad and should not be enforced at all costs
Regarding implementing GraphQL Servers: You can also check out https://github.com/graphcool/framework (I'm one of the creators) as well as the community driven https://www.howtographql.com/
> FYI, current iPhones already light up the display when you hold them in a position where you can see your reflection.

That's only if the "Raise to Wake" option is turned on under Display settings.
Totalitarian systems are quicker to come up with the rules (in this case for self-preservation). And when time matters, then it has obvious advantages.
Report finds interest in the Linux kernel is stronger than ever
I don't think very many Trump voters spend time thinking about academic postmodernism.
I didn't even realize it wasn't "Magnify" until I saw your comment! And I went and read the entire site!
I always bring this up too. However, when somebody breaks a window, you know what happened. When somebody just randomly unlocks your front door while you're out, it's not apparent.
"unauthorized access" is bs. It was a public ftp server and he notified the owners. It's like telling your neighbor his door is open.
Yeah selective enforcement could make this a pretty powerful tool for harassing anyone you don't like.
Uber rival Grab finally fills its CTO-sized hole with former Googler
I don't know why you got downvoted, you aren't saying that people have to be ideologues or be obnoxious.

Politics is how problems get solved because politics is how society communicates on issues, it may not be working right but thats what it is, it is our sole way of governing our society.

Hens, please stop electing foxes.
The issue is that it's extremely hard to discern between both.
Alan Kay answers what he meant by “Lisp is the greatest language ever designed”
How does Netflix handle applications that don't have certificate/key hot reload capability? MySQL is especially guilty of this. It's a PITA to force a restart just to reload certs or keys even once a year. I can't imagine having to do this every few days.
Is there anyway we can signup to be notified when these features come available? This is fantastic btw.
> Sara Giordano argues that "traditional science" relies on "a colonial and racialized form of power," and must be replaced with an "anti-science, antiracist, feminist approach to knowledge production.”

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10021
Which cause?

Employees are free to convert their paycheck into stocks. The better they (as a whole) do, the more profit each gets.
As a long-time iPhone user who had been using Pixel more frequently recently, the unlock phone-on-your-desk use-case is hugely problematic when you have fingerprint on the back and it is a huge pain point. I have a long passphrase for security but even entering a PIN is so 2012.

Fingerprint on the back is a major UX issue. I hope FaceID would work fine at an angle.
Probably have to do it in non-bourbon Whiskey given the requirements around mashbill for bourbon. Maybe a Rye?
There is absolutely no excuse for a car to hit a pedestrian in or at the end of a crosswalk, regardless of “signaling”. The car should be driving slow enough to make this impossible, and for the worst-case scenario to be the pedestrian walking into the car.
As a tech M&A guy, I'm actually surprised Google doesn't sell off more of it's corporate assets that it no longer wants to pursue. I suspect as revenues/profits start to normalize (i.e. don't grow at exponential rates), the street will put more pressure on them to do so.
And you need about 200 sqm of solar panels to fully power each engine at Martian orbit, double that for the asteroid belt, double again for Jupiter.
Just wanted to thanks the awesome Zulip development community who are incredibly welcoming and helpful!
> Those statements are too broad to be anything other than flamebait. Which specific code did you benchmark?

> Simply tossing around big numbers with no support contributes noise rather than insight to the conversation.

I resent that you characterize my comment as "flamebait" for lacking supporting evidence for my claim, when I was merely responding to your unsupported claim that Python competes with compiled languages. I chose to be broad because (as you point out), the range varies considerably by application and the margin for error is high, so it would be misleading to be artificially precise. It's perfectly reasonable that you want supporting evidence, but it doesn't make my post "lower quality" than yours.

As for "what I benchmarked", my comment was based on a decade of experience with these languages, including translating many proprietary systems from one language to another (sometimes a faster->slower language and sometimes a slower->faster language depending on whether I was optimizing for performance or security or maintainability).

> That’s not to say that CPython isn’t slower than a compiled language but in common usage the gaps usually end up being much smaller because most of us aren’t paid to run fib() and things like I/O dominate or code ends up being in the same C libraries (libjpeg, OpenSSL, etc.).

> I’ve seen multiple cases where Python beat C/Go because the app used something like dictionaries which was heavily optimized C code in the standard library.

I don't dispute that there are cases where Python beats naive C/Go. In particular, Python's csv lib is optimized C code, and it beats Go's CSV parser handily. If all you're doing is parsing CSVs and not actually calling into Python, you should probably stick with Python. While it's true that many applications are I/O bound, my figure was based on CPU time--it wouldn't make sense to judge languages by applications that are inherently I/O bound (although Go's async-by-default is much nicer than Python's async API). Besides, many applications are not I/O bound.
Former intern, that CDN can do plenty of more powerful on the fly transformations for which Amazon product pages use.
Startup of the Week: LuggageHero
What a small world. I was looking at purchasing the Walter Issac's Ben Franklin book from Audible yesterday. I remember seeing a Discovery documentary about him a few years back and found Ben to be fascinating (before that documentary, he was the guy who flew a kite).

I do know that after a while he did do away with his 13 virtues since many of then conflicted with each other (after all, the dude was a ladies man). I guess its a decent experiment to try, but I think its over doing it to have it as your way of life (well 13 virtues anyway).

I do like the virtue of being Proactive and Silence. Maybe I should practice them for a week.
There’s no fundamental reason they couldn’t let you add more than one face the same way they let you add more than one finger now.
Currently a junior employee at a mid stage start up and was wondering if any of you have insights on how someone can break into a product management role.
Scipy 1.0 is released
And according to @SlackHQ on Twitter, Screenhero is shutting down in a little over a month:

> Now that Screenhero is fully integrated into Slack, we will be closing Screenhero on December 1st. https://screenhero.com/ for more info!
I think it boils down to short term vs long term thinking, and my friends and I have thrown around all sorts of crazy theories around this.

In the context of the USA, could just be that republicans (the anti-climate change prevention party) are simply speaking to their conservative values in some way and want the USA to remain coal-powered with gasoline cars. All change is bad change?

Another less tenable theory is that typically conservatives/republicans cater to religious groups, and a tenant of christianity is the only thing that matters on earth is your own works - earth is irrelevant in the face of eternal paradise. I don't buy this one as much but it's fun to chew on.

I do feel very strongly though that not taking climate change seriously represents a fundamental inability to comprehend the term "long term investment."
>We're a society of cowards, who are afraid of everything and want the government to do something about it. E.g. crime rates are at historic lows, but more than half of Americans say that they worry a "great deal" about crime:

That's not a contradiction. You can have a situation where people have to deploy numerous countermeasures[1] to head off crime, and where criminals pounce if any of these aren't active, but where the aggregate effect is to keep crime at bay. In that case, crime warrants being worried about, even if the rate is low.

You might as well say it's irrational to "worry a great deal about crime" in Brazil "because you can just stay in your gated enclave, what's the problem?"

[1] Locking your possessions, carrying little of value, traveling in groups, steering clear of strangers, living far out in suburbia where it's inconvenient for crime to reach, preventing buses (disproportionately used by the poor and criminal) from having stops near your home, etc.
2^n is exponential, but 2^50 is finite
Evidence Mounts: More Porn, Less Sexual Assault (2016)
This violates the HN guideline against calling names in arguments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you have a substantive point to make, please make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. This applies even when someone else is completely wrong, since a reply like this won't convince anyone anyhow.
Mele Kalikeyswipey is the thing to say
to a dead Hawaiian pedestrian
Jaywalking laws were enacted because cars were killing pedestrians. They trotted out a huge PR campaign to call people who crossed in the middle of the street country bumpkins, and made it a crime, so that cars would not have to think about pedestrians.

This is another law aimed at making pedestrians second-class citizens. Instead of protecting pedestrians, these laws protect drivers, because they put the onus of safety on the pedestrians, who are the actual victims of the drivers.

I like the other cities who actually put in signals to the pedestrians, like the lights on the floor, or signs in the way of the pedestrians who are crossing the street. But an even better protection would be bollards that emerge out of the street to prevent cars from running red lights and hitting pedestrians, or other cars when drunk driving. But that might shine a light on the actual cause of death - the vehicle - rather than the responsibility of a passenger to keep a seat belt on, or a pedestrian to not use their phone.