skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just means its made for asian heights and bodies.

Same is true in the US though: American L translates to XL on shirts and XXL on boxers and the like in my country.
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I see it all the time! A couple of years before I could look at the sky in morning or evening and enjoy the clouds. Going to beach and watching sunset was my favourites. Now it's a pain to do the both. I can see star like particles flickering in the sky and floaters. It's also uncomfortable to look at the monitor if the brightness is high. Because of all these visual snow patients also suffer from depression. My vision used to be like watching a movie in Full HD TV before. Now it's like watching a movie in an old crappy tv which is having a bad signal reception.
“block unknown callers” in the call blocking settings.
I hope they both rest in peace. Bose Corp. has made significant changes to how we all listen to music, especially wrt noice cancellation.
I don't understand the objection.

If these incredibly useful ports are not present, they cannot be used. If they are present, they can be used, but you don't have to do so.

This isn't a single laptop design: this is a prototype for building lots of different machines. If you want a NUC-style tiny brick computer, you can build one from this. If you want a RAID server, you can build a small one directly or a medium-sized one by adding a PCIe controller. It's never going to appeal to an ultrabook buyer, since it would be really difficult to engineer all the other components for ultra light weight, but you could replace the vast majority of non-gaming cheap laptops with this.

Oh, and integrated touchpads are usually connected with PS/2, SMbus or I2C.
There are so many things wrong with this analysis that I wouldn't know where to begin, except to say that I'm very disappointed to see this on the front page of HN. Looking forward to the meta-analysis of papers addressing the number of angels we can fit on the head of a pin.
I downloaded Firefox from mozilla.org and configured a ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop file so that it appears in the GNOME Shell menu. It auto-updates and works great.
> That's can happen to bitcoin, as its a fixed supply.

There's endless ways to compute arbitrary numbers.
this is their UI kit:
https://github.com/shoutem/ui

most of the extensions in their platform are open source:
https://github.com/shoutem/extensions
Unfortunately, the first question that popped into my head was not "awesome, a processor that won't spy on me" but "will it be x86 compatible?".

I know, it's heresy--you should only need open-source software, and as long as you can get a compiler running, open source software should work. However, the vast majority of users simply won't care, not if they have to give up their favorite software. "I can't use Photoshop? But I need it!"

If you want an open processor to take off, it'll need some kind of x86 compatibility.
Channels... I remember those.
>> but removing the raw access is removing what made Firefox great in the first place.

The raw access is also what made Firefox slow and cumbersome compared to Chrome. The recent performance improvements would have been impossible with the legacy extension apis.

Honesty I think this is a good move.
If you have not experienced it first hand then believe me it's no obsession. It changes your life completely.

Please refer to my comment here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15681108
The only times we've ever had meetings at work they've been good ones! We only have a few a year.
iPhone X is unresponsive in the cold and has a green line screen problem
A quick search yielded something from a book about Keller - do you have some other good sources for what you mention?
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XL, XXL, etc. are overweight but not particularly long-limbed sizes in the US, too, the long-limbed (and long-torsoed) versions are XLT, XXLT, etc.

Put, yes, different countries have different sizing standards and you can't blindly assume US sizing when buying from elsewhere.
> "Why is it so hard to configure my phone to only allow my friends to interrupt me at any moment of the day, rather than any rando?"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vladlee.bl...

Also, some Android phones seem to allow you to block calls from unknown numbers:

https://community.ee.co.uk/t5/4G-and-mobile-data/How-to-bloc...
For me the biggest advantage is that ES often lends itself better to multi objective optimization. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584858
The PS/2 port is probably for the wide range of trackpad/keyboard components that still use that still use that protocol internally, not a physical external port.

Lots of devices do this - even high end network gear that have a "USB" port externally wire it to a USB to Serial converter internally, where Serial is the actual protocol in use.
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> integrated touchpads are usually connected with PS/2, SMbus or I2C.

Yeah, my laptops mostly show up as PS2 devices.

So long as usb is present, I support having other ports.
This. I think it’s an interesting idea, however it will be relegated to hobbyists and enthusiasts, not the main stream.
It's a shame there's so much money, probably the difference between some people being equal to their colleagues and being paper millionaires, that there doesn't seem to be anywhere to read about this stuff any more as an interested observer. I remember a few years ago /r/bitcoin was somewhere you could read about news and stuff, today it's just people attacking BCH and going insane. I get it, this is like politics except it moves way faster and the result impacts these people immediately and directly - but I wish there was a way to understand the fascinating cryptocurrency world without all the passion. /r/btc seems to be the same on the BCH side.
https://www.amazon.com/Dealers-Lightning-Xerox-PARC-Computer... is a much better account. Great book.
I would say it's the opposite. A unit conversion is not fundamental at all, but a matter of arbitrary convention. 0C and 32F are exactly the same temperature. Mass and energy are exactly the same property. c^2 is a constant, so E doesn't even vary as the square of anything - it's just a linear unit conversion. If you follow it further, you find c is only even in there because some other units are defined in terms of it. That is, the ME equivalence doesn't really have anything to do with the speed of information propagation per se - but our chosen unit conventions do.

It's because of people's fondness for legacy and backwards compatibility that we don't use natural units all the time, and still write "e=mc^2". I find this insane, personally, but that's just the way it goes.

I guess I should add that apparently this is still controversial? But in my mind, the only reason for this is that people find meaning in units. In this case, ME being the same property implies duration being exactly the same as length, which implies spacetime is a unified, regular 4D manifold. ME not being the same property implies time is special. I've been fully persuaded that duration is fundamentally exactly the same thing as length, so I've chosen my side, in case there's any serious controversy.
> There's not even an option to silence the ringer for any call not from my contacts;

It's called Do Not Disturb, with Allow Exceptions, Calls from My Contacts Only. Android has it, and iOS does to (I think the options are even similarly named.)

> Why is it so hard to configure my phone to only allow my friends to interrupt me at any moment of the day, rather than any rando?

It's not that hard. EDIT: or maybe it is, because phones are complex devices with opaque UIs with poor discoverability. But the information is out there.
It should. But Unicode's mandate included incorporating common existing character sets, and ISO8859-1 had ² and ³, and it all when down from there, so that now you can write 𝘌 = 𝘮𝘤² which isn't the same as E = mc².

A number of early computer systems used teletypes for I/O, and had programming languages in which exponentiation was expressed by moving a half line up, and array subscripts by moving a half line down.
Although if you just use the generic 个 for everything besides (formal) people, people will understand what you're saying and give you a pass for being a non-native speaker.

At this point for me, the measure words are actually a help instead of a hindrance when I encounter a new noun that I don't know -- it hints strongly enough at what sort of noun I'm dealing with that the context usually allows meaning to more readily snap into place. More useful than memorizing generic masc./feminine/neuter for most Indo-European languages.
now i have the courage to write a blog post about how i dont like toasters and have nightmares about them and how they chase me around corners and assault me in my sleep, to see how many comments it can gather. let's keep discussing this important one first though.
The speculation driven movement of the BTC cannot be compared to the speculation on the USD or any other currency. 0.01% and 50000% are all percentages, but the number is so different as to completely change what we are talking about.

> Speculation is unquestionably a good thing.

Maybe, but usual only if the resulting volatility results in lower price for the consumer, or makes a market.

But then again, BTC has no market for goods nor services compared to the currency it is bought and sold with (its legitimate non-fictional market is so low as to be non-existent).
My point was that it couldn’t last. And damn it, I don’t miss the backup sounds of the electric trikes beneath my apartment (we lived 13 floors above a small depot in taiyahggong).

Sorry your amazon experience has been so horrible. We live in Bellevue and it has worked out well for us. Sometimes we have to use the amazon delivery lockers at the 7-11 across the street, though.
> Let's ignore ... synchronising stock inventory for now.

That's ignoring the most important part?
Individuals don't care, but the corporate surveillance state cares a lot. Face recognition, voice recognition, and speech recognition alone are an Orwellian dream come true.

Cardinal rule of everything else: follow the money.

Cynicism aside, I tend to believe the OP's premise that these methods will contribute to a new and unrecognizable kind of software development (for better or worse).
The truth of this statement cannot be emphasized enough. I think one of the real weaknesses of the crypto world is the complete absence of a community where people whose mouths are not connected directly to their brainstems can talk and discuss issues related to crypto -- and I mean not just about investment (I'm not very interested in that) but about relevant technological and social issues. There is literally no place to have a sane discussion on any of this that I've found -- would _love_ to be corrected if someone knows better.
What about decaf?
Some of these “low tax” states bury costs in other areas. Things like sales tax on food, user fees for basic services like fire protection, poor regulatory environment for things like ehalth care, etc.
If I were a developer making loads of apps for clients, then maybe. But then reseller might be the way to go? https://new.shoutem.com/pricing/agency/
Cyclops: 1-Click Video Conferencing with Screen Sharing, Whiteboard Broadcasting
I wonder if the author is referring to the oft-repeated claim that Minsky's and Papert's proof that a perceptron cannot learn the Xor function had a chilling effect on research into neural networks generally, even though Minsky and Papert themselves had shown that multi-layer networks were capable of doing so [1][2].

I realize that even this alleged misunderstanding is not the same as a claim that AI is impossible. The closest attempt of a mathematical proof of the impossibility of AI that I am aware of is the Lucas-Penrose argument from Gödel's first incompleteness theorem [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book)

[2] Minsky M. L. and Papert S. A. 1969. Perceptrons. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[3] http://www.iep.utm.edu/lp-argue/
I am developing a program using a webbrowser control, for my own use, to aid in learning the Jouyou Kanji and their readings. I need some text controls to be exclusively latin, hiragana, or katakana.

The state of IME support in Windows is very poor.

WPF (legacy software?)does not support this at all with reported bugs going back five years.

Winforms does, but doesn't meet my requirements.

Html does define the inputmode attribute, but this only works as a hint to smart phone on-screen keyboards. The inputmode attribute is totaly ignored by desktop browsers.

The Microsoft IME does not appear to have any API which can determine the current state or switch between modes. However, there is currently a Html5 working group on an API for IME control.

In this day and age of multinational software, this is truly pathetic.
Looks like pricing/more detailed info is on their main (non-Github) website: https://new.shoutem.com/
It makes a giant difference in the amount of time it takes to mine blocks, especially during hashrate fluctuations, where a currency without a responsive difficulty adjustment algorithm (e.g., Bitcoin) can be 'stranded' with a too-hard difficulty, which means transactions don't get processed, which means there's a giant lag in money movement and fee escalation, etc. etc.

The interplay between hashrate, difficulty, txs, fees, price, and sentiment is pretty complicated and definitely important. See http://www.fork.lol to see this illustrated.
+1 to this. I upvoted you comment, someone had downvoted it.
The paperclip story is usually about an AI whose purpose is in fact to make paperclips, but it realizes that it can only create maximum paperclips if it prevents anyone from ever shutting it off. Then it solves the problem of subjugating humanity as an auxiliary task for the much more important goal of creating more paperclips.

To stay with the analogy, cryptocurrency may be such an auxiliary task for the actual goal (whatever that is, I'm not really convinced that Coherent Extrapolated Volition can be made to work).

There's an interesting game about the paperclip optimizer that was submitted to HN recently: http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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Besides, heavy math people were also those who proved that recurrent multi-level neural networks were Turing complete and pushed the field up from the ground.

But sorry, I don't have citations. It's stuff I've read a long time ago, in random books picked at library shelves by looking at the covers :)
While it is hardly "left out" (it has, in fact, been a massive national discussion for at least two decades), it also suffers from the classic folly of considering history where one side is assumed to act under only the worst motives, and the other under only the best.

Reality is, as always, much more nuanced. Right now many aboriginal communities in Canada are like third world nations, with overwhelming rates of substance abuse, etc. The government keeps pouring billions and billions in, and has given in to every demand (self-governance, no accountability), but the result is something that is absolutely shameful for a first-world nation. Racism is always blamed, while Canada's largest city is more than 50% visible minorities, many prospering.

Trying to maintain a "traditional" lifestyle in the modern world is not sustainable. The world doesn't stop because a people's hang on a grievance from many years ago.
California is one of the lower property tax states by rate.

https://taxfoundation.org/how-high-are-property-taxes-your-s...

Texas is higher, and Illinois + many north eastern states are much much higher.
REP OUTSW writes to an I/O port. Duff's device writes to memory-mapped I/O. It's not the same thing.
Millennial crypto FOMO
Firefox 57 has a new UI ("Photon") that you might like, and the DevTools are seeing significant UI/UX work during their rewrite from XUL to HTML (https://github.com/devtools-html/).

You can see some mockups on Victoria Wang's Twitter: https://twitter.com/violasong/status/926189788486557697
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everyone sees visual noise, especially in low-light
Thanks, the first ref looks like it may be the one.
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> The reason why we put up with the "lesser of two evils" is because the 3rd and 4th evils are the Libertarian Party and Green party respectively.

> Which I don't believe represent the people's interest in the slightest. Anti-vax and "What is Aleppo" stain those two.

This isn't the reason we put up with the lesser of two evils; it's simply a symptom. The real reason is that, time and time again, the majority votes for a loud extremist instead of picking a quiet and reasonable candidate, and the majority has shown time and time again that once they have chosen a political stance they will happily overlook anything their candidate does, because their candidate is the lesser evil.

> Its more legitimate to attempt to usurp the parties from within (ie: Trump / Bernie) to represent another option. And lo and behold: 16 of the 17 "standard" Republicans were defeated by Trump.

Theoretically correct. It's theoretically easier to convince a majority to vote for me as a "Republican" or a "Democrat" than it is to convince everyone to stop voting for the lesser of two evils, or to implement an alternative vote. However, all three of these options would require that I dedicate my life to a topic which infuriates me, instead of going about my own business.

> In any case, if you want a "3rd option", participate in the primaries. There were 17 Republicans to support (with ~5 very serious contenders: Bush, Kasich, Rubio, Cruz, and Trump) and something like 4 Democrats to support (with ~2 very serious contenders: Bernie and Clinton, although I was partial to Jim Webb).

But again, the issue of the majority comes up--because the vast majority of people would rather vote for the lesser of two evils, and guarantee a tyrant they agree with, instead of voting for a decent leader, and risking a tyrant they don't agree with getting voted in by people who think that tyrant is the lesser of two evils.

> I personally managed to find someone in both parties that spoke to my viewpoints: Both Bush and Kasich from the Republicans, and Jim Webb in the Democrats. Lawrence Lessig didn't seem to be running a serious Democrat campaign, but if he were more serious I probably would have supported him. Its a shame that "The Wire" was so popular, because it stained Martin O'Malley (who otherwise looked like a solid candidate).

It also doesn't help that 90% of the coverage of an election is focused on the two most questionable candidates. It really doesn't help that most people are expected to vote even if their only understanding of the political climate is from flawed news.

> There was a lot of choice actually.

There was a lot of choice, but as of right now, none of these choices are going to end well. I am stuck in a Prisoner's Dilemma in which I know the other party is always choosing A. I am now choosing not to play, because I am frustrated and have better things to do with my time than play a game of Prisoner's Dilemma every four years.
Do Not Disturb has a variety of options on iOS that can allow calls from your contacts and blocks all others.
I am not taking sides here.

But maybe a university-campus-size city is beneficial for human interaction and symbiosis.

And a 1M people metropolis with an abused under-class , squeezed middle-class and entrench NIMBY land owners is not ?!
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Not really. It comes to downtown from the north, and then goes west, but stops at I440. So that has zero benefit to the people who commute from the west on I40.
Delivery services charge for value added services. We are talking about payment processing fees.

For someone making minimum wage in the US, that $5 is on the order of 40 minutes of labor just to make a single payment. That's simply not viable.
The only way to compare high vs low taxes is government spending / GDP. Anything else is just comparing how things are taxed not how much people pay.
‘nm’ became a marketing term a while ago. (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node)
Professional Disagreement Over Galaxies Escalates into Bullying and Harassment
That's odd, in that I've probably noticed visual snow-like artifacts ever since I was a child, but it never bothered me even a tiny bit.

Couple of personal observations:

- Most of the time I only notice snow or artifacts if I'm consciously looking for them or don't have anything else conscious occupying the brain (e.g. staring at a wall out of boredom, or closing my eyes and still paying attention to visual input)

- Once you start looking for visual artifacts, you'll see them everywhere. Right now if I stare at my ceiling in dim lighting, I see little multicolored 'heat wave' patterns roiling about as my visual sensory system works overdrive to extract more signal that there actually is. I also notice a slight 'ringing' halo around bright objects. But as soon as I try to do anything at all, my brain apparently decides that other things are more important and actively filters all this stuff out

Don't discount the possibility that you're putting yourself in a vicious cycle here:

perception of something wrong -> heightened subconscious threat processing (your brain starts looking for a problem in your visual perception) -> more conscious awareness of visual artifacts -> perception of something wrong

The way to break that cycle is to just worry about more important matters, and it'll either go away by itself or you'll stop caring.
Do you really not need familiarity with the relevant math to be admitted to AI doctoral programs? I wouldn't have thought that was the case.
Well, most of them were suspended but I believe there were still a few that were active at the time.
I wrote a Web Component
WebExtension Experiments are effectively that escape hatch. They have more or less the same access to the internal APIs as legacy add-ons, with the only restriction being that you can only install them on Nightly and Developer Edition.

The intent is to have a way to prototype new WebExtension APIs (like hiding individual tabs, or the entire tab bar, or new theme APIs), but there's no requirement that they ever get merged upstream. You're welcome to build and distribute your own for whatever purpose you might want.

https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Oh that's cool- so if they are talking about CERN and say "one particle accelerator" the counter might help you figure that out?

(Assuming it isn't just like.. "parutikkuru akuseroreta" or something)
Wine+QEMU seems to be a reasonable way of executing many Windows programs on non-x86-64, non-Windows platforms. Alternatively, you could install a real Windows in a full-system emulator and run on that.

It's not like there are no options at all.
The entire "banks create money" argument is based around the question of whether a money-like obligation is in fact money. See the two different definitions of "money supply" in macroeconomics.
I don't know of anywhere to do that in the Bitcoin world, but some newer cryptocurrencies have communities that are a lot more like the early years of Bitcoin.
You actually don't need to have the same storage data layout if you use a time series as a starting point; because you can maintain different data layouts in parallel, and the time dimension permits strong consistency across them all.

If this is what you mean by a "database frontend", I am really confused as to why you object to this?

I think this property of time series is going to prove very important in the 2020s