skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI, front camera in X uses structural light, while Kinect 2 uses a more modern time-of-flight (ToF) technology, which delivers better depth resolution.

From https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/:

"Face ID is enabled by the TrueDepth camera and is simple to set up. It projects and analyzes more than 30,000 invisible dots to create a precise depth map of your face."
Thank you! That one is my own favorite as well.
Is there anything else that fills the voice recognition "xbox watch netflix" "xbox volume up" space?

Going back to a physical remote feels like I just took a step back in time.
I've read it, but give more thought to points 3 and 4. Obviously people were sometimes having extramarital sex, but they were not freely admitting it and it could be truly scandalous (particularly for the woman) if someone learned of it.
Fingerprints can be hacked, Aadhaar data prone to theft: HasGeek co-founder
How does primesense fit into it? I thought primesense was the company acquired by apple?
Resistive memory components the computer industry can’t resist
Jeff Hawkins gets shit on a lot in ML because his theories haven’t produced models with results as good as the mainstream approach, but I’m glad they keep working at it and keep coming up with interesting ideas.

I just ran across a paper [1] from Numenta on Time Series Anomaly Detection using HTM last night which provide a benchmark[2] with some existing approachs. (But it seems to me there is no NN based approach in them. )

[1] Unsupervised real-time anomaly detection for streaming data
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231217...

[2] https://github.com/numenta/NAB
That is not always feasible. There are also requirements like your passwords should be different in atleast 3 places.
Here's the thing. Fingerprints are uniformly random [1]. Faces aren't. Your average Joe can't use a global online database of fingerprints to find ones that might be "close" to the owners to try to fool it, and that's only after you have the owners fingerprint, not a straightforward task. For faces that database is literally called FACEbook, and getting a picture of the owners face is trivial. And faces aren't random at all: sometimes even distant relatives look alike.

I'm not saying that the 1/1M faceid false positive rate is wrong for the general population, I'm saying that the attack vectors to reduce that number by large factors are much easier and readily available than for touchid.

[1]: Citation needed, I know.

Edit: Apparently I didn't make it clear that I don't think attack vector is to show it a 2D photo (if you had a photo of the owner why would facebook even come into this?), the attack vector is to find a lookalike using 2D photos and show the phone their face in person. Facebook's role is to find the lookalike. This should be trivial to socially engineer after you find the person.
It has allowed them to avoid paying for that part to make business models like Ubers, TaskRabbits etc work.
I hadn't heard that. How disappointing and a step backward for the world's most ubiquitous programming language. All very subjective, of course.

I guess Safari on desktop isn't considered a mainstream browser vendor anymore? Or do they regret implementing it also?

The appeal of the explicit syntax makes sense, but the argument that proper tail calls are hard to identify/create seems silly to me. Devs have any number of ways to create memory leaks which have even harder to diagnose problems than the stack overflow of an improper tail call. The stack without tail calls overflows quite quickly unlike memory leaks which only a minority of users can experience on certain code.
That's a pretty inaccurate way set point a term.

In SolarCity case, that means 0.15% of their workforce.
I just looked around - full-sized versions are pretty expensive; a 30" version I found from one supplier was around $300.00.

Though I did find a 16" version for $80.00 - I'm thinking a tool like this might come in handy for off-roading use.
Not if they are not being paid enough to have the capital to invest. That is why I suggested that in lieu of increased pay, that workers be further compensated in more stock
Machine Learning Predicts Laboratory Earthquakes
This may be mostly correct, but the framing is nonsense.

Republicans, on issue after issue, don't give a shit about conforming to proper legislative processes. To pretend they have converted, on an issue that happens to benefit Wall St, and which all Democrats voted against, is willful blindness.

It's like saying there's something noble about an arsonist refusing to burn down the forest in his own backyard.
Never heard of you before this

Going to give it a spin. Seems a lot better than OpenVPN for client to office communication.. is this reasonable use case for it, or am I misusing zero tier?
>> influenced for example by the presence or absence of role models or the impression of certain fields as not welcoming to women.

Sure it can play a part in the outcome, but that in no way limits anyone from still pursuing the field, and hence there is still equality of opportunity. The latter is what (hopefully) any rational human being wants.

I'm not against more outreach efforts or helping encourage more girls to pursue STEM. I personally volunteer at a science museum and have in the past been a TA for high school STEM MOOCs.

What I am against is accusing the existing system for discriminating against females (unless you provide direct evidence that gender is the sole cause of the outcome inequality, which I will be happy to agree if the evidence is convincing) and then continuously lowering the bar for entry for females (thus achieving diversity but undermining meritocracy) - which is what I see happening right now.
"Truth is absolute" leads to dark places as well. It was the absoluteness of the """immortal science of marxism-leninism""" which gave ideological cover for Stalin's atrocities, and the """application""" of Darwin's theory to the structure of society which gave legitimacy to the ruling classes of the imperial states over their colonies. Saying truth is relative is a statement about the operationality of truth, its status as an aspect of human reasoning, which is fallible, which has no basis in the absolute.

The proposed antidote is exactly the solution supposed by the scientific method: the intersubjective corroboration of individual observations, evidence, reasoning. However, this plainly reveals where truth, science, can fail: It is in this corroboration where atrocities in the name of some transparent, universally available truth are smuggled into society. That is why postmodern thinkers take the footing that they do.

Especially when in the post-war period it was more and more obvious how massive the contradictions were within both liberalism and marxism as they were idealized, and the world as it actually was.
I think this might fall under "doesn't solve the same problem at all".
Are you working from home or from an office? If working from home, here's a humorous take on some issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk

Seriously though, one of the key things is to maintain focus and working standards, but get out of the house at least once a day (take a walk), talk to somebody in person, and be mindful of the clock. One of the biggest problems I faced was just working too much.
It's one thing to have street cameras that are used to investigate serious crimes, or to help direct first responders.

It's another to regularly use that camera footage for petty crimes like j-walking or cell-phone-walking.
It's already a trifle high.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/hT76d6ii...
Is Bootstrap 4 ready for use?
Please note there is s difference between deferred rendering and deferred shading. The latter is here to stay and all major game engines have made it their main technique. (vr excluded)
Unfortunately you're skeptical since you're mistaking philosophy for science.

Here: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.06208.pdf], for example - they use deep learning models in order to classify the behaviour of in vivo neurons.
What are you using for a charting engine? I really like the time period selector
Yes, I'm saying that getting those props to those children in the first place is annoying to do and I'd still have to build a bunch of `context` helpers on top of Relay and Apollo to make doing that nice.

This is the API I want:

<Artist mbid="abc-123">
<Artist.Name />
<Artist.Disambiguation />
<SomeOtherComponentThatHasArtistFieldDescendants />
</Artist>

This is the API you're saying I would have to use with vanilla Relay and Apollo:

<Artist mbid="abc-123">
<Artist.Name mbid="abc-123" />
<Artist.Disambiguation mbid="abc-123" />
<SomeOtherComponentThatHasArtistFieldDescendants mbid="abc-123" />
</Artist>
The new solar roof thing from Solar City may or may not end up being a major leap forward, but it is a product of the Tesla merger.
Is this notification issue entirely localized to one person?
The tools can all be used standalone as well as directly from LR, Capture One and other processing/image editing software.

Before Google made them free they weren't cheap, $500 for the collection.
What's the future of programming? The answer lies in functional languages
So if you get @ed in a Twitter thread that meets the bar of irritating DOJ, it's totally reasonable for them to subpoena the times of day you use your Twitter account?

I guess that fits with throwing legal charges at people that laugh at you.
> Science doesn't need a conception of objective reality or absolute truth to work.

It needs a concept of objective reality, but it doesn't require belief that concept is true, or anything more than a foundational element of a pragmatically useful contingent model.
If the unemployment rate increased 3.6% tomorrow, I guess you wouldn't think it's a big deal, right? After all, it's not even 4%! The lack of sympathy people show these days. Sheesh.
> ability of the engine to push it

Acceleration. For equal mass a more powerful engine would make the object go faster, faster.

> 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?

Force = Mass * Acceleration
Acceleration = Force / Mass
a: 5.4 / 1000 = 0.0054m/ss
b: 5.4 / 100 000 = 0.000054m/ss

As the space-crow flies, the 100 ton thing would take longer - it's accelerating 100 times slower. You also have to factor in the mass of the fuel, both starting weight and consumption. As the engine depletes the fuel reserves it gets lighter and therefore accelerates faster (increased Jerk[1]). So if the 100 ton engine was a chemical engine the situation might be different.

The following would be the same time: "assuming reactionless drives, if you push a 1-ton thing with 5.4N, and a 100-ton thing with 540N."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics)
> Another day, another technology that gained momentum thanks to adult content abandoning that high risk/high cost demographic for less turbulent waters .

Wut? I heard patreon via Crash Course, and the Greens are among the founders, AFAIK. The main guy being a musician. It's only today that I know of an adult community trying to make use of the service.
From a mostly outside point of view, I've wondered a lot about this. It seems a lot of ML/DL research that goes on nowadays amounts to educated guessing and tinkering i.e. "Based on our notion of what seemed right, we tried this other configuration of layers and/or activation functions and look; it worked".

I imagine at some point that the kind of research discussed in the linked post will begin to pan out more and more and will eventually lead to another period of rapid progress like that which followed Hinton's work on DL.
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Yes, and many other laws, including rolling through stop signs or failing to use your turn signal.

It's not just an argument though -- it's a real struggle that impacts people (often minorities) daily.
I don't see how that works when the plaintiff and the plaintiff's attorney still have to show up and make arguments.
This is not a thing but a service : house cleaning. An extraordinary investment which relieved me from something I hate to do extensively.

I do not like to own things, but if I had to single out something : a simple kitchen robot which slices and chops things for me.
Also a good mattress, hard and not that expensive.

What I should invest in but somehow never have the time : a finance advisor, I am bad with money and have zero interest in the subject (I sure like to have lots of money, just not to deal with it)
Hyperloop could conceivably be a scam, but SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity are much too real to be ponzi schemes.

A Ponzi scheme is essentially a investment that promises you a too good to be true return (ex:10% per month). It is actually paid by late investors, unless you "reinvest" it. It is typically backed by promises : shares of a company that doesn't produce anything yet, land that will supposedly become extremely valuable, etc...

The companies you cited have nothing in common with Ponzi schemes. While profitability is debatable, they have real customers and produce real goods and services. They also don't promise you anything in term of ROI. Of course, Elon Musk will tell you his companies are the best, but that's just standard advertising.
Slice and Dice Your Target Audience for Better A/B Testing Results
Except that the go-to solution to every industry problems has been (and continues to be) to regulate it centrally with some agency or shut it down when that doesn't make sense, which in reality only works for a big-company full time salary job oriented economy. Instead of strengthening property laws and other personal liability protections, aka the type of recourses available to contractors, and/or simply offering traditional services and protections to everyone, not just full-time employee or those who meet a byzantine list of special conditions.

Instead of trying to fix these out-of-date legacy systems, a legal and regulatory system designed for a previous generation, everyone seems to want to attack the 'gig economy' and Silicon Valley as some purposefully exploitative entity, as if this is why Uber came into existence. Rather than a natural evolution of the workplace in a high-tech economy.

My favourite are those pushing the idea that unions are the missing piece of the puzzle in 2017.
I do believe that our understanding on how our brain works is very close to what ML is doing.

There is probably a lot to learn about the underlying core structure but the basics will not change that much anymore.
Especially as it was a sharp contrast to the history of the Wiimote, where Nintendo had had the opposite reaction and tried to lock DIY makers out once they realized people were using it for unintended purposes.

I'm glad Microsoft was smarter about this, it enabled a lot of otherwise costly to develop ideas to emerge at the time and the gaming use of the Kinect is almost anecdotal in retrospect.
An ftp client downloads a list of files as soon as you connect.

It's the same as fat fingering a website in your browser. Are you saying I should go to jail if I type the wrong website, it loads, and it turns out that site was supposed to be "private"? My browser downloaded the home page and all the files on it.

What if I click the wrong wifi network and use it all day without noticing? Should I get charged for "unauthorized access"?

There needs to be a reasonable standard for security above "so insecure you could do this by accident" to send people to jail. Whoever set up the server that shitty should be charged with negligence.
I'm somewhat confused, are they talking about just the 360 Kinect or the current ones too?
We are using highstock from highcarts
You should go to small claims court for that. They never sent you a bill, then they lied to you. Slam dunk case.

Or just refuse to pay, and realize that a $100 charge from one vendor doesn't harm your ability to obtain credit.
SaaS companies need to focus on customer experience
Just finished grad school at Big State University. Almost weekly both prior and after the election there were rallies and protests (some related to Trump, some not) where the demonstrators would wax on about “systemic white supremacy” and “cisheteropatriarchy”. White students would ceremoniously “acknowledge their privilege” by publicly declaring themselves an ally. They even had someone with an excel tracker to note who was declaring themselves an “ally” (probably collecting emails for future organizing, I would guess). At one of these things, a female student took the mic and talked about the pain she feels for being “white passing”, which I took to mean that people don’t see her as a minority but as White merely because of her skin color - a startling claim. Professors were starting to put “safe space” stickers on their office doors (I have pictures), and people were wearing safety pins after the election to signal that they are a “safe” person to interact with.

This is absolutely a cult now, and an increasingly a mainstream one. It’s hard for me to gauge exactly how mainstream it was there but it was localized, it seems, to the undergrad institution.
We got tons of use out of the ASUS version of Kinect (Xtion PRO) in my research lab. It worked very well and had a smaller form-factor than Kinect.
> 8. JUSTICE ...

Also, you should pay for other people's work, not demand that they do things for free.
There is the Asus Xtion which is a knock off Primesense Carmine. Google Tango is basically the same technology, as is Apple's Face ID*. Intel's realsense systems are also similar, but I don't know anyone who actually uses them.

Unfortunately Microsoft missed the chance to buy Primsesense before Apple snapped them up. Still, while the tech is good, the ToF sensor in the Kinect v2 is superior for the (gaming) market and Microsoft own the IP via their Canesta acquisition (they licensed the Kinect patent).

What's more interesting is the boatload of cheap ToF systems that you can now buy. The only problem is they're much more power hungry. The new Kinect is crappy for mobile robotics because its heavy (90% of the sensor head is heatsink) and needs a wall power supply. It's fine for static systems, or beefier mechanics though.

(Face ID is literally a mini-Kinect, since it comes out of Primsense IP.)
Don't know about primesense, I was answering to "Wasn't the Kinect technology acquired by Apple?".
Show me how HTM solves any multi-step process. Tic-tac-toe. Anything.
it's literally $325 right now so what's not correct?
Within the first few hours I was in Honolulu for the first time I went to cross a street with the "walk" signal and had a driver blow through the red, probably 5 seconds or more after I'd gotten the "walk" signal. I wouldn't walk around Honolulu staring at my phone if you paid me.
Yes, the CFAA has a low bar for charging with a felony.
Take a look at William Ophuls and, maybe, Thomas Homer-Dixon.
But we don't really just have "street cameras that are used to investigate serious crimes." We have police driving around taking photos of everyone's license plates, allowing them to keep track of where everybody goes; sophisticated facial recognitions; etc.
We use appear.in through our paid Slack accounts. I don't know how our admins set is up but we just type /appear in any channel/chat and immediately get a link.
I completely understand what you're getting at, but I'm curious to know what kind of evidence you would accept. Does the linked Scientific American article do anything for you?

I hate moral panics too, but in my opinion the stories of people such Allison Stranger, Laura Kipnis, Nicholas and Erika Christakis, etc., are decent evidence of a dangerous trend.
It's a complex problem in need of complex solutions. Government's biggest problem is the scale of their actions. They use all the right tools, but at smaller scale/urgency than they should.

Here is the basic toolkit:

— Spend public dollars (budget+bonds) on new affordable housing, aim for 5-10% of annual city budget (now it's 1-2%).

— Create districts with pre-approved building permits (some work on it, but it takes 10+ years to master plan a district)

— Invite non-local developers and give them strong incentives (e.g. joint US-China ventures in real estate)

— Remove risks from permitting process, make it faster, reduce power of local individuals to block/delay major developments

— Raise height limits in certain areas

— Reduce parking requirements. Allow large-scale developments on former parking lots (stadiums, shopping malls)

— Create a new powerful role "Vice Mayor of Affordable Housing", centralize all functions under that person, set ambitious goals, and have the ability to fire that person if the goals are not met
Which is available at the archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-MgN0H1joIoDVoIC7
SUCCESS IS Never FINAL, FailURE IS Never FATAL. IT'S COURAGE THAT COUNTS
I know many Chinese that manage to live in America with minimal knowledge of English. There are many sizeable Chinatowns and "bubble" communities in America where a Chinese/Taiwanese person could immerse himself/herself in and never really have to deal with English.
For the unaware, the Square stock value tripled in the last year.
> Once freed from the widespread and totally irrational fear of nuclear technology here on Earth

Look, I'm pro nuclear, but I"m also really tired of seeing this straw man. Responsible management of nuclear power requires institutions that can act responsibly to manage risk on time scales of the order of centuries. Recent history shows that many of our institutions fall short of what's really needed to do that. An event like Fukushima was a statistical certainty, and warnings prior to the event that warned of exactly what would happen were ignored.

I don't think the answer to this is to turn our back on the potential of nuclear power. I do think we should be unflinchingly real about how hard and dangerous it is.
I use tiingo.com which is also great (no affinity, just a happy user)
Git's underlying data model is simple yet extremely flexible (see e.g. [0]), well just like OpenPGP I guess.

As for the article you're welcome to post it yourself :)

[0]: https://github.com/google/git-appraise
It changed a lot during the alpha phases but it's in beta now and I believe they said they would not make major changes to the api so I'm using it currently in new projects.
It's just a slight misunderstanding. Visa (or Amex/Mastercard/other card networks) don't take 3%, but payment processors take a slice which is in that ballpark. To a business, all that really matters is when you accept a credit card payment you kiss a few percentage points goodbye, so it's easy to misconstrue as the card network taking that cut.
China's too late.

China's Debt to ratio is a staggering 833%

http://www.baldingsworld.com/2017/10/23/everything-we-think-...

Why China Lost About $3.8 Trillion To Capital Flight In The Last Decade

(FDI was only 1.3T over the same decade, leading to a massive loss)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/22/china-cap...

So no money.....and recently it prevented South Korean companies from withdrawing assets from China. Now companies around the world knows. Who's gonna invest in China now?

http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/english/news/national/19352-e...
this is nice, really like the chart. But the stock price does not seem accurate.
In the short term, sure. But larger self-driving vehicles, especially combined with dedicated lanes, could have the potentially to fully realize personal-rapid-transit[1] concepts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
Systematic Discrimination of Indian Immigrants in US
understand basically all of you've said here except this:

>The relationship between Hamilton-Jacobi and Euler-Lagrange is the classical version of wave-particle duality.

in what sense are two formalisms (hamiltonian and lagrange) related to the relationship between time and freq space for fourier solutions to pdes?

also holy shit i would pay pretty good money for a service that typeset these old monographs using latex.