skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way way back when, before I had a professional degree and respectability, I grew up in the sort of neighborhood where this information is... something approximating common knowledge. My father grew up in a similar environment and passed along a lot of wisdom on the topic as well. I parlayed it into some security work in undergrad, where I got to see the way small businesses address these issues.

I’ve never seen it written up anywhere, though I’m sure someone has to have spilled beans on this topic at some point.

If you have specific security concerns relevant to your personal situation (eg, I live In an apartment with a balcony...) feel free to leave an email address or some other contact info and I’ll happily give you some quick tips. Most residences, unless you’re a high value target, need very similar security.
Maybe that was MS' problem. People that buy a 1st gen (2010) and still using it. Not upgrading it. Not replacing it. MS can't possibly profit off of it when only 1 kinect per lab is bought.
But no option to instruct the delivery person to use that for anything other than access to a gate or building common area. He's taking the concept one step further to using the code for the delivery person to open one's main/front door.
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If there is a labor shortage then why are the jobs being created of the kind that are less advantageous to workers? Isn’t the market supposed to “correct” in favor of labor in that scenario? Because it looks like the opposite has happened.
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Yep, thanks to gmail (and other major email services) running your own mail server is more trouble than it's worth.

There once was a time when you could just email postmaster@domain and work out mail delivery issues like civilized people. Bah, I hate the modern internet. Thanks, Google.
Yeah, I'm also in favor of experimentation and a rich ecosystem of ideas. Worst case is one of those heavily-contextual rpg engines that only lives in one system, such as Rotted Capes. It's an okay enough system (but mathematically flawed in some ways), and a pretty neat idea (zombie and b-list superhero mashup), but it would be considerably better if it were built on a different game engine. Then the author could spend more time building out the world and storyline, instead of making lists of superpowers and stuff.

Even then, though, I often back stuff on Kickstarter at the PDF level knowing full well what I'll really be doing is mining the product for ideas, setting, and story rather than mechanics.

Then again, I'm probably just like one of those people who says, "why would you write code in anything but LISP?"
> ridiculously cheap cost

I think that's the problem, I figure it was meant to increase XBox game licensing money, not turn a direct profit.
Molyneux gave a pretty interesting and insightful interview on the whole Kinect/Milo debacle http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/04/11/peter-molyneux-kinect...
They are performing spatial reasoning and GA is a better algebra for that.
There were indirect proofs that the speed of gravity is close to the speed of light since at least 1980-es, based on the 1974 discovery of a pulsar in the binary system (1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for Hulse and Taylor) and the measurements and analysis of that data:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/04/28/why-...

"we have constrained the speed of gravity to be equal to the speed of light with a measurement error of only 0.2%!"

But this one now is the first direct and so precise measurement that there is no more wiggle room for those who needed it for their hypotheses.

Written in 2016 in the article I've linked:

"The best results, at the present time, tell us that the speed of gravity is between 2.993 × 10^8 and 3.003 × 10^8 meters per second, which is an amazing confirmation of General Relativity and a terrible difficulty for alternative theories of gravity that don’t reduce to General Relativity!"

Now in 2017 also confirmed by the direct observation. The Einstein's General Relativity (1915) is more than 100 years old.

Those who designed all the detectors for the gravitational waves were sure decades ago. There were already enough consensus even then that allowed that long work, after all, it's all based on the 1915 theory confirmed in many different ways since. But it's so nice that now we have the real direct measurements of the gravitational waves and the EM signals together. It's really something comparable to the first use of the telescope 400 years ago.
Nexus/Pixel phones got two years support, although the 6P/5X was soured when we got support but didn't get the new Pixel-only features (which weren't at all limited by the hardware).

I don't know of any Android manufacturer with support that lasts for more than two years, though.
I found the official Kubernetes tutorials to be really helpful as an intro: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/
The marketing world has moved beyond honesty.

Seriously, this world is just going into the crapper faster than we can say crapper.
It was so sad in the mid 2000s trying to find a decent quality monitor for a decent price. You had to look very hard for a monitor that wasn't 6-bit dithered up to 8-bit.

I worked for an animation studio around that time. They stuck to their CRTs long after they were discontinued because they couldn't certify anything else--I think I remember hearing they paid something like $150 per monitor when they were still manufactured. The closest LCD was 10x as expensive.

They eventually switched to DreamColors when they were released in 2008.
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> However I don't think fines are the right way to go. Signs and advertising campaigns would be better. Fines just violate the social contract. You're also not really hurting anyone else but yourself. In the fight or car vs person, the car is going to win .. I mean, unless you get hit by a cyclist.

Slowing other pedestrians, endangering bicyclists and yourself, and putting drivers at risk of a traumatic experience due to your recklessness violates the social contract, not fines for anti-social/rude/unsafe or otherwise reckless behavior.

EDIT: Walking while texting or using your phone not held up to your ear? Receive a fine. Doing the same while driving? Lose your driver's license. These are the only ways to fix behaviors that show no regard for others causing a safety hazard.
I guess it never got any traction, mindshare or interest. Looks like another empty HN post elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15544970
I'll note that there are great, thriving G+ communities for both Fate Core and Fate Accelerated, with the designers engaging.

Also the Book of Hanz is a great free resource that highlights what makes Fate distinct, and offers good advice on running the game.
Probably. Do employers pay payroll tax on independent contractors? Those two items together make FTEs really expensive.
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There are mechanical solutions for revoking access (although it can only be done once in this particular case): https://youtu.be/cKDBoE-kYFk
It would depend a great deal on what it was and how it was packaged. This seems to have some good discussion:

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/16608/how-does-the...
Just because it was unclassified doesn't mean it was released...

Im sure there are literally millions of documents that have been "unclassified" due to time, but have never seen the light of day since then. Its not like they broadcast when something is unclassified
How would the cloud be safer? If you have a personal setup you can control the level of security yourself, and a hacker would only gain access to your cameras, and not the cameras of everyone connected to the cloud. A lot less motivation to hack one person, than thousands.
Thermoelectric generators are at the moment not useful for primary propulsion use as the amount of energy generated is so small.

Though nowadays you could maybe improve them with advanced quantum technology, like long wavelength solar cells. The cell itself still has to be cooler than the source, so you still need radiators...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic
Yes, but I'm pretty sure in the past they have also been called Delayed Function Calls in Microsoft documentation. It doesn't change the semantics, of course. Same goes for the old Symbian OS.
Better let it safely collect dust in a very dark cupboard!
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Aren't NSFW filters good enough for family friendliness in America?

There are, of course, things which are not suitable for children, frightening things, disturbing things, content related to immoral behavior.

But if you ask an American, the destruction of life is far more suitable for children than it's creation. Patreon has no qualms hosting videos fantasizing mass murder and death [1] even when those videos are obviously aimed at children [2]. Is this really family friendliness or merely some strange flaw in our psychology without moral or philosophic basis?

[1] https://www.patreon.com/posts/dreadnought-epic-13951713
[2] https://www.patreon.com/posts/103684
What are the other ways to collect payments? Paypal? Nope [1]. Stripe? Nope [2].

See the quote I posted here about someone who tried:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15551817

Generally it's not rare to see websites restrict their content not because its illegal, but because it's impossible to collect payment for any of your content, if some of your content is deemed unacceptable by VISA/Mastercard, etc...

And patreon marketed itself to content producers specifically as not following the paypal/stripe example.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/us/selfhelp/article/what-is-paypal%E2...

[2] https://stripe.com/us/prohibited-businesses
Anonymous? My user can easily be googled...

>> to try to preserve the argument that women are biologically inferior

You clearly didn't read, because I made the argument that women are less INTERESTED, not that they are biologically inferior. Get rid of that chip on your shoulder.

This is why conservatives aren't willing to discuss these issues. Because the moment I call you out on using bullshit arguments you call me a sexist despite not having once made a single comment on the abilities of females.

I used evidence proving that even at the high school level (where there are practically 0 bars for entry), girls constitute a significantly smaller part of the classroom than boys in CS/Physics/Calc 2, and then gave an example of a university system that legally was not allowed to consider gender as part of admissions having similar gender representation - because as it turns out most universities practice gender based affirmative action in STEM, and thus girls are overrepresented at schools like MIT and Stanford.

It turns out that the 3:1, 4:1 ratios of the AP exams and Berkeley EECS department happen to be consistent with the hiring makeup of tech companies.

>> we are steadily approaching them in law and medicine.

The same stats I listed earlier show near equal representation in AP tests for AP History (World, European, and US), Government, Chemistry, and Biology. Some of these even skew towards majority female. So 50/50 representation is to be expected.

Again, at this point in time, equal representation in tech would only be a product of discrimination against males.

Perhaps it won't be the case in the future as there are more outreach efforts now than ever to get girls to pursue science.

But I specifically worded my response the way I did for a reason.
My girlfriend and I play a lot of GMT wargames and it’s not unusual for us both to study the rules for a week, she takes extensive notes, run through the playbook’s tutorial, and still play wrong the first time. They’re worth it tho. Cuba Libre, Labyrinth, Falling Sky, Commands & Colors: Ancients, and Twilight Struggle are some of the best games we’ve ever played.

The tutorial in the Twilight Struggle app is a good, fast-ish, introduction to the game.

Neuroshima Hex! Is one of the greatest games of all time, but it’s more of an abstract than a what people think of as a wargame. You build competing programs (Armies) that execute during battles.
I can see that part, which is why I mentioned FaceID. I just have a hard time seeing it as comparable with respect to the range of the Kinect both in distance and application, as you point out. That’s what motivated my original comment.

Are you aware of anything to the contrary? Definitely interested in learning more if so, given the Kinect is going away. I can also see Apple potentially doing more with this in the future, though they’re not there yet.

It seems more like Microsoft hasn’t been interested in promoting the Kinect (it’s been out for years) or applying the tech elsewhere, and they’re just shutting it down, the timing being coincidental.
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I'm sure that's been thought of. People who walk, take transit, or bike to work probably don't want the hassle of lugging a package home if it's anything larger than would fit in your backpack. Having stuff delivered to your home is a convenience. Hauling stuff home from work subtracts from that convenience.
If I walk around my neighborhood in the late afternoon I see little Amazon packages on everyone's porches. No one seems to be stealing them. I can see people who will want this Amazon Key thing, but I can see a lot of people for whom this addresses a non-existent problem.
>It would do the most harm to interests that pool resources from large groups of regular folks, like unions or environmental groups.

It harms oil lobbyists and big ag and tobacco and all those industries in exactly the same way it's going to hurt the Sierra Club. I'd still call that a win for the little guy.

>That would bias the process in favor of rich people who can afford to spend a week hanging out in DC meeting with members of Congress.

The process is already biased in favor of rich people and I don't see a reasonable way to make it not favor rich people - I'm just saying that this would favor rich people less than our current system. I prefer a system where some CEO has to actually go talk to Senators for a week than a system where a few slick-haired individuals run around the hill year round.
A more apt comparison might be coal fired steam. It was very unwieldy but replaced horses in some ways. Railroads and steam ships changed the world but still the technology was too heavy for personal mobility.

If you can invent any kind of technology at will, sure, it can be great. Then let's have light and reliable space nuclear power plants. At the moment we are very far from that.

It might have looked like a good choice forty years ago, but solar cells have improved a lot, as well as batteries.

We do have some newish things on the nuclear side that could help, like gas cooled reactors or supercritical power cycles.
You need to get the temperature up (to make the radiators small) and the power density too.
Hi Chad, interesting combination of interests/capabilities.
Will email you via your contact link on your website.
how does this compare to Space-X Raptor engines ?
"These two seemingly independent metrics [for light and gravity] can explain the structures of galaxies and of collisions between galaxy clusters, but the idea has consequences. For instance, if a something should emit both gravitational waves and light, the two waves will travel by different paths depending on the masses they encounter. So, light and gravitational waves won't arrive at a distant observation point at the same time."

However,

"The measured delay was so much shorter than the difference predicted by double metric theories that the researchers didn't even bother performing more detailed calculations. There is, in their view, simply no way to include the intervening galaxies and exclude dark matter. This is a dead MOND theory."
it's an implementation detail. not guaranteed. :(
which makes this even worse.
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The more interesting question is what role did the recoil against postmodernism play in the election of Donald Trump? You can't reason with postmodernists since they eschew science and evidence-based reason as tools of oppression. They are quite literally unreasonable. This is not a trivial concern - since they can't be reasoned with I know of several people who took a "Fuck it. Burn it." approach to the election of Donald Trump (I don't agree with that strategy, but that's another matter). That's purely anecdotal, but it does make one wonder what role it played on sending Donald Trump to the White House and what role it might play on his staying there in 2021.
Did you consider bypassing the proprietary detection stuff and using the sensor data with another library, like OpenCV or depthJS?
I mean I don't see why geometric algebra bears on the factual existence of column-like structure perpendicular to the cortical surface in real brains. Geometric algebra may bear on what those columns do, but it is not relevant to whether the columns exist. This is a matter of observing network wiring from brain preparations.
But what if you added some ML to extract common UX patterns to it hmm?
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How did the laws change?
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I have decent grades (3.9 rounded down) and have a coauthored paper (not sure what tier the conference was...). Somehow I doubt that's enough.
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Really? The original Wii? What do you play?
There are a couple of genetic therapy cures in trials...

http://entcolumbia.org/world-s-first-gene-therapy-trial-hear...

Also promising is a solution using Crispr

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608899/the-easiest-place-...
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Well it's not a total fix for our broken system - there's a lot more fixes I could list here to help remove money from the political system - publically funded elections, ranked choice voting, total PAC transparency, etc. - but it would be better than what we have now which is the people with the most $$$ being successful in lobbying for their interests.
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Interstellar refueling stations don't make any real sense because you spend as much fuel rendezvousing with the refueling station as you'd get back.
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We're talking about suburbs where Uber and cab drivers can afford a house in a good school district. Those places aren't bastions of "homogeneous lifestyle" and "isolated affluence." More like ethnic restaurants and lots of economic/racial diversity.
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> After all Bloomberg is straightly not in the news or publishing business.

What do you mean? Bloomberg News was founded in 1990 and has 2300 employees according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News
China's push to clean energy and advanced manufacturing to reduce pollution dated back at least to 2003, because I saw people investigating natural gas in an area that can produce high quality coals really cheap (Shanxi province).
It's a fun way to describe the difference, if possibly not entirely clear to someone who knew nothing.

But the description of the actual result is very clear and very well done.
The article is Peter Norvig critiquing a 50-year old checkers-playing program.
"He should have at least included a test suite."
>12. CHASTITY Get checked for STIs on a regular basis.

I think that even in a modern context you are setting the bar a little low there. But good for you for getting regular check-ups!
Off-topic but I'll ask anyway. Is there any tool you use or know of to match a website to posts on HN or Reddit?

It would be nice to have a browser extension that would show me all reddit/HN posts pointing to the current website.
If someone wants to talk about something, they should at least call in person. I always hang up on robocalls.
Totalitarianism does have some benefits.
>web crypto is better than no crypto.

I seriously disagree on this (our company is facing similar challenges, and I've asked these question myself numerous times). It's not better, it's much worse.

"Some crypto" creates illusion of security, where you don't really know has it failed or not - frequently, there is no functional failure in cryptographic failure. It doesn't stop working, it stops providing the very guarantees you're using it for.

> However, we think that not playing is taking the easy way out, so even though the game is 'rigged' against us, we have a great team of engineers who have decided to play anyways.

Truly so, but you need to play better then ;) Godspeed!
So, let's see...

There's Alexa which can record what you say...and now this CloudCam (not to be confused with CloudJam or CanJam or CloudCan, etc.), which records both what you say and what you do...Perhaps, soon enough there will be the Amazon AnPro to complete the privacy invasion angle?

Oh, you haven't heard of Amazon AnPro? It's Amazon's wifi-enabled, kinetic/motion-powered Anal Probe device; based on some of the same advanced alien technology found at Roswell decades ago. It keeps constant watch over essential data points such as your body temperature, diet (or at least your diet's "output"), ph balance, blood pressure, cholesterol, overall bodily well-being, etc. Yes, you too can capture a complete "picture" of your body - both "inside" and out! The first 100 callers get a free tube of "integration fluid" to ease data connection of the device-to-human interface/web hooks.

;-)
It can be explained by the usual press cycle. Once something becomes famous enough, they are automatically a news hook. Any surprising news about them (positive or negative) gets clicks.
I was thinking this myself. For all of Musk's braggadocio about not needing, and even being hurt by, subsidies, Tesla, whose profits only become more negative every quarter, has had its sales decimated in the countries that ended tax breaks for electric vehicles.

With the specter of a major tax overhaul and massive spending cuts, a major recall, and still not enough strength to stand on its own, Musk has to be at least a little worried about Tesla's future and the futures of his other pet projects.
Fortran hit a half century in 2004, and yes I agree Fortran will still heavily be in use in 2054. There is far too much legacy scientific code for it to vanish.

The only way that won't be the case is if AI is available to translate all that Fortran to a better language...I guess we'll see... :-)
It appears this is based on that cssselect library mentioned above, compiling CSS selectors to XPath. That is, performance should approximate XPath, while convenience should be higher.
Well, in practice we can't really confirm a theory so much as "fail to reject" it. There's a zoo of gravitation theories out there and this new data weeds out some of them.

The problem I see with the "confirms GR" language is that the new data also fails to reflect some of the MOND models, but are we going up say that it "confirms MOND" as well? That sounds really misleading to me.
It is applied to VR. Kinect technology is a part of HoloLens and is used for inside-out tracking in recent crop of Windows VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP and the likes.
Pickpockets or laws, both eventually "fix" this problem. The difference is who the money goes to.
I had the 360 and finally broke down a long time ago to get the PS3 for a few games that were exclusive at the time. I was a PS hater for most of my adult console life. Then I started to realize I was paying Microsoft a yearly fee for a system I already bought and PS wasn't asking anything for the same services. The next system I bought was the PS4. There was some FUD about PS4 to start charging the same way XBox does, but alas, I can play my Call of Duty games ONLINE without paying Sony a cent per year. I believe the yearly subscription killed the Xbox.