skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) The ARKit "Face Mesh" seems to be a standard model that is scaled and skewed to fit your face (for example, it ignores glasses, still works if you put your hand in front of your face, etc). It is _not_ a 3D scan.

This is how most (all?) state of the art acquisition methods for standard objects (faces, hands, etc) work. By warping a high res template to fit the data in some optimal manner, you get guarantees on the output topology without having to do tons of messy cleanup.
There are millions of n=1 studies across the globe. Most of the ones I’m familiar with reached a similar conclusion, but YMMV.

That’s the thing about parenting: you will have to make thousands and thousand of decisions without the benefit of rigorous peer-reviewed studies. You can’t wait for the science, because your kids are growing up now.
Simple language, complex programs.

Complex language, simple programs.
Sounds like a cop-out to me. GitHub and GitLab are strengths of Git, just as L3 networks, Verizon, CloudFlare, AWS, and Akamai are all strengths of TCP.
You decide what you want to do and you set goals. Look to the future, not the past.
> Our main problem as a society is that half the country believes the above, and the other half believes that the half that isn't them are all lawless savages who need order imposed by a heavy hand.

I have just completed an 18-month tour of the country by land (thisisthebus.com). I've met people from every corner of the land and talked politics, technology, religion, and all sorts of other things with literally hundreds, probably a couple thousand, at urban watering holes, suburban campfires, and rural churches.

Please point me to the place where I might find the latter half of the population you've described.

From the Everglades to the Oregon Coast, from the desert to the Hudson Valley, I've searched long and hard and haven't found them.

Everybody in this country wants peace. And a chance for their families to live in harmony in their communities. Nobody - (excuse my language) fucking nobody - wants two million people in prison. Nobody.
This is off topic a bit, but there is a solution for this:

> Slow compilation: more than a minute (makes to start browsing HN, missing the end, thus losing even more time)

See the thread here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/409611/desktop-notification-...

TL;DR install undistract-me, add 2 lines to bashrc, and you will get a desktop popup when a command that takes longer than 10 seconds to complete is finished.

Fedora does this by default on install and I have found it so handy. Kick off a compile etc, then just browse HN/reddit til I get the popup.
Rabies is deadly: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html
The UK Starstreak [0] missile seems to be trying for a compromise with a combination of relatively high speed (Mach 4.0) kinetic tungsten penetrator with a very small (again, relatively) 450g high explosive charge. It's an odd looking thing, because the sub-munitions aren't faired over at launch so you get this normal looking tube shaped missile with three tiny missiles stuck on the front. It seems they rely on proximity fuzing with time delay, so once the penetrator has breached the aircraft skin, causing a reasonable amount of damage, it waits until it knows its inside and then detonates for maximum effect. I guess three of the penetrators hitting your plane at M4.0 within a ~1.5m group is enough to make you have a very bad day, even if the explosive warheads turn out to be all duds!

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starstreak
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so we appoint a free citizen, not a woman or slave, randomly out of a few thousand in an independent city state to serve for a short term like greeks did (read: not all, but it happened). or do we vote directly on issues. or do we not run for candidate at all and play "i was (not) in favour of who was going to play entertainer for the next four years whether I went to the ballot or not?"

edit: to the point: what does my vote help if the chance is small that my educated opinion isn't honoured?
Yeah, I'm not super clear on how they chose the 3 either. I think mentioning the positives about the cars they didn't pick is normal though.
With GDPR do we need to get consent from users before we can set any cookies?
StoreKit is broken
Did you send a card along with the money explaining this to the executive?
Super afraid for this technology to be applied to fetuses. Parents can't decide on an abortion? They can check if they think he or she will be ugly or not.
Dissecting LLVM Obfuscator Part 1 – Control Flow Flattening
> The Python community agrees that in order to combat performance, Python developers would write C extension and/or compile code with Cython before considering a language migration.

Not sure if this is what they're doing here, but you can also write extensions in Rust instead of C. If that were what's happening here, I don't think that it would say anything more about Python than writing a C extension would (although it might say something about C vs. Rust)
> I keep wondering what the panorama would have been like if we had HgHub instead of GitHub.

Yeah, I think that the Linux process and jargon both came along for the ride with Git, so it would probably be even more different than you think.
> It's the reason you might choose to pay more for a handmade Italian shirt made in a small workshop that has been running forever compared to a mass-produced one made with the cheapest labour in Myanmar (though functionally equivalent at a basic level). The Italian shirt will have better fabric, stitching, a more expensive split-yoke that hangs better on your body - real tangible things.

I'd be curious to see if you could tell the difference under blind testing. In just about every other area it turns out that most people can't tell the difference.
My current company has some people in customer service and business development who work remotely.

Some of that is related to the work (customer service especially) not requiring much collaboration with the in-office team, and long-time employees who moved out of town arranging to remain employed remotely. The rest is the fact that the business development folks are more effective if they're already located in and have networks in and a finger on the pulse of the specific geographic markets they're targeting.

That said, the business development job postings do specify markets where we expect the candidate to be located, just not the same one where our central office is located.

We also employ contractors in a few departments who work remotely.
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I believe Ada suffered from its DoD origins, from the era of giant monolithic project management and its verbosity.

Rust is a different kind.

Also, I've seen people doing generic low level network stacks (or at least articles about it) in Ada, seems lovely.
> It's quite possible in 20 years that 0.000000000001 of a bitcoin will make the average house payment

No, it isn't.
Preliminary, "ITT": They hodled
How is a class like a microservice?
The Beauty of Bayesian Learning [with Demo]
Or they're just so confident the product* won't care, because they're too heavily invested and can't imagine life without FB.

* a.k.a. users
Ironically, the first fire effects I saw were on QBasic, found via various webrings in the mid to late 90s, like this one: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tutorials/fire...
The EU wasn't even a governing entity when this tax deal was created.

That isn't an easy point to defend.
To be honest I think that would probably work best as:

"this truth is so well fixed in t'minds of surrounding families"

Simply drop the second definite article because it is redundant. Actually you could drop the first one as well. I can hear it in a generic North England accent and "in t'minds" would actually sound more like "int minds" but trying to run the word "of" into "t'" is a bit harder so it would probably be dropped entirely.

I speak RP English with a touch of Mummerset ...
I agree in general, single word emails either are or run the risk of being ambiguous and in many cases end up requiring followup to extract the necessary information. However in some cases they're all that's needed;

"Hey boss, here's a quote for the thing we buy, can I please get your approval for the spend?"

"approved"

That's perfectly sufficient, and it's a single word.

Also I've found single word replies are a nice way of telling if it's actually the big boss that's replying to you, or their PA :)
My point wasn't that file deletion is the goal, my point was a single bit could change the entire meaning.
That github page and the apng made my firefox eat multiple gigabytes of ram and almost killed my system.
Am I the only one that doesn't see a strong correlation between the sketch and the actual suspect, other than "generic white guy"?
There is nothing suspicious about it. You might say it's abnormal given that the majority of people choose to keep their money in a bank, but it's not suspicious to merely keep money in an unusual place.
I started looking at Amazon's Trademarks for the word Echo and here are a few I found. I'm not sure if they apply or not but some of them sound very close to podcast related:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4807:3pl...

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This game needs a highscore...
So sloths are a no go?
You’ve got it backwards. Higher population is a result of advances in civilization. Humans will naturally make more humans up to the carrying capacity of the environment, and our level of development determines that limit.
Also Podchaser
I have nothing at all to say in favor of the Trump approach other than that talking about not-war with North Korea is truly scary stuff as well, as their capabilities are increasing by leaps and bounds. There just seem to be no good answers there.
I’m inclined to agree with you regarding your last full paragraph.

This topic also seems to clearly fall within the “if you have to ask the question, then you probably already know the answer”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweet about ‘attacking FBI’ goes viral after Trump tweet
You claim "I know a little about Waymo. They seem ok."

Then go on to explain:

"Waymo: Code written by professionals. A system using models trained on vast amounts of data. Written slowly, meticulously, exhaustively, heavily reviewed, and intended to be reliable."

Quality shitpost.
whats a good podcast player for an underpowered android device?
The theory behind it's lawfulness is that property doesn't have rights. That's why when the property is taken, the cases are named things like "United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency" or "State of Texas vs. One Gold Crucifix". Those are real case names, BTW. They basically separate property from the person owning it with the argument that the property itself is guilty because it was used in commission of a crime, with or without the owner's knowledge.

I didn't say it was a good theory. But that's basically what is boils down to. Personally, I find it repugnant and I do believe it is an egregious violation of our constitutional rights related to search and seizure.

Also, the USSC has already ruled in part on this issue and the opinion was not great:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/16-122_1b7d.pdf
Not only did they generally uphold the practice, but they weaseled out of ruling on other parts of it (not unusual for the USSC), this time because part of the argument presented was only first presented to the USSC and no lower court. So they basically said that since that other stuff hadn't seen a lower court, they weren't commenting on it.
Waterfall sucks. I say this as a guy with experience in the kind of systems you mention (though not the F-22). Waterfall itself leaves little room for early feedback which means schedules are always delayed and problems are pushed to the next block cycle (a 12-24 month activity). Integration of changes is delayed until the last minute (versus the lean software concept of the last responsible moment). Testing turns into a massive clusterfuck at PFQT and FQT which is the last stage of a waterfall cycle.

Waterfall assumes you can know too many things at the start and have everything go right. It fails when it encounters the real world but is still pushed by program offices across the DOD despite extreme cost and schedule overruns and quality issues.

I’m out now and on mobile. But I can write in more detail later if you want about the problems of the pervasive waterfall method in DOD projects. Even the DOD systems acquisition documents have endorsed iterative/incremental (a slow motion agile/lean when you dig into it) development models since 1985 but still Waterfall lives on.
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>In my opinion Sprint right now is where T-Mobile was 5 years ago.

I send >30K SMS per day to the continental US and a large percentage of those receive replies. With the replies, I get carrier info.

For the entire US last week,

'Verizon','0.48'
'AT&T','0.31'
'T-Mobile','0.10'
'Sprint','0.09'
'Other','0.02'

For the entire US one week starting 5 years ago

'Verizon','0.46'
'AT&T','0.33'
'Sprint','0.08'
'Other','0.07'
'T-Mobile','0.06'

T-Mobile hasn't hurt Sprint. Sprint is basically in the same spot it was 5 years ago. AT&T and Verizon are also largely unchanged. The only action is in T-Mo eating up subscribers from the small carriers like cricket and metropcs.

T-Mo has eliminated all the smaller competition. The US gov did not create/preserve competition by blocking a Sprint+T-Mobile merger. Neither Sprint nor T-Mo alone are mounting a serious challenge to the big two.
Lots of malicious Office macros and Javascript redirects come to mind. Less than 100K (minus the container) in most cases.
"If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

The book "The Cheating of America" goes in to great detail about how this works (for individuals, not corporations) and it is pretty much guaranteed to make your blood boil. It goes through case studies on a number of specific people - how much they owed, what they did, what the government did, and how it all ended up - but the tl;dr is that it's fairly common for very rich people to end up negotiating a settlement for ~20-40% of their tax bill, 2-5 years after it was due. The quote I remember from it was something like "For those who have tax lawyers on retainer, the number at the bottom of a return is less like a final offer than an opening bid."

0: https://www.amazon.com/Cheating-America-Avoidance-Evasion-Bi...
Tin whiskers were really only a thing with lead-free solder that was mandated in a stupid fashion by the EU (I won't go into specifics, but it really didn't make any sense once you started to look into why it was done, and the exemptions, etc).

That solder used more tin in the alloy than lead-based solders did, and grew "whiskers" like crazy. Various methods and means were attempted to slow it down (the best way was complete conformal coating - but that made rework very difficult), but it took a while for manufacturers to understand what and how it was happening. I think since then, lead-free solder has a different formulation to make it not as bad, but it still happens. Technically, it can happen in virtually any tin-based alloy, but for some reason lead-based alloys with tin didn't grow them anywhere near as much or as fast.

So - a 1974 radio is probably not going to be an issue. The computers, though, are a different thing. It will depend on when they were manufactured vs when the EU directive came around, and when the manufacturer switched over, etc. A lot of small variables come into play.

Likely, though, there won't be any problems. I still have computers and electronics from the early 1990s and before that all work fine. The issues with capacitors should be looked at, but it was only a problem for a certain time period (late 1990s IIRC); prior to that you'd only have to worry about "reforming" capacitors if they were very, very old (like power supply caps from a computer of the early 1970s or such). If you had - say - an Altair from the 1970s - yeah, you wouldn't want to try just plugging it in, that could lead to a fire even if the caps looked ok.
You are not alone, friend. I too was disappointed. I was excited for something like this because I frequently have trouble finding worthwhile podcasts but it'd be much more convenient if I could use it from a browser to "stage" things for my phone.
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I'm curious whether the Carnegie Mellon IRB approved this study, if so how they addressed the issue of informed consent? CTRL-Fing for "IRB" and "Instutional" and "informed consent" all produce zero results.

While Facebook has a wide latitude as a private company, there are certain legal requirements once you bring someone affiliated with a university which receives federal grants into the mix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board#Uni...
It's pretty difficult to search for this. What exactly do I type in google to find it? `Echo Podcasts` will give me results with the Amazon Echo. It's a great idea, when I saw it, it seemed like a no brainer. If you can rebrand this and release a web app I would be all over it. (If you need help with the web app reach out to me)
FYI, you can use the Datastore API with Firstore, you just don't get the real-time features. Firestore is backwards compatible with Datastore AFAIK.

(I work for GCP)
Would it be unconstitutional for a law to prohibit employees from asking each other what their salaries are?

If so, it's hard to see how this could survive scrutiny.
They say people in the Pearl river delta have the very varied and peculiar delicacies due to periodic famines driving people to eat all sorts of things people didn't regularly eat and still don't eat in more northern latitudes, like Beijing.
come on you can do this without tech, it's called discipline.
I say using it like a "staging" area would be awesome. A lot of stuff just isn't fun to manage from a phone it would be awesome if I could go to the site, do the things that I need to do to manage everything and find stuff, then move to my phone.
Depends on the context. Also, it was a smaller organization, gotta make due. We frequently delivered on time and on budget, so, I don't think we lost much with that structure.
Videos are usually decoded in hardware.
The tool chain there is still quite irritating and “old school”.

At least for me, part of the attraction of Rust is the development tools around the language itself (e.g. cargo).
Ask HN: Is there a hackable Network Switch?
What is the closest hardware and software to realize this and generally play/hack the switch using custom software ?
You're not sticking to the narrative.
Why can't they keep the box until it is broken?
We care about code quality up to a baseline, but only because that contributes to the getting shit done part.

The baseline may vary depending on how experimental the feature is (proofs of concept are written to be rewritten; upgrades of existing major and heavily used components are written with the long term in mind) and how business critical it is (we put a lot more time and effort into e-commerce related code than into "share this listing on twitter" code).

As our codebase and feature set stabilize, and as the drag of tech debt has become more obvious, things like automated testing have transitioned from being discouraged to optional to encouraged and now required for significant new development. We don't enforce code coverage standards, but our team is now fully on board with the idea that tests help us move faster with higher quality.

In short, be pragmatic. Quality and speed are always a balance, and the right balance depends on company and development stage as well as the particular piece of code you're working on.
"Things used to be worse" cannot be used to excuse "things will not get better."

Certainly not. But we shouldn't forget that we have it pretty good and make sure we keep it that way and build upon it.
Truth-Telling and the Power of Norms
Yes, ILP is NP-hard[1]. I don't know how many constraints Jet's problems require, but I believe there are approximation algorithms that can do quite decently on most problems (perhaps even Simplex might do decently?). Would be interested to hear about this from someone with a strong algorithms background though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming
If labor makes up 50% of the cost of a product, doubling the labor cost doubles the money the worker gets but only increases retail prices by 50%. This is still a great deal for the worker.

Why do you feel it's okay to bring in desperately poor brown people to do work that you claim Americans won't do at even 5x the rate we pay the desperately poor people? Why shouldn't back-breaking work bring in a wage that is competitive with the broader market? Why is it okay to flood the market with an over-supply of desperately poor people? Do you think it would have any impact on your income if we brought in 10s of millions of workers to compete against you in whatever you do for a living?
In other countries it is called corruption. In US the current Atorney General called for expansion of civil forfeiture recently...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/session...
how Yemeni defenses work in light of a US backed Saudi bombing campaign

What Yemeni defenses? There are none, and there is no story about it.

The NY Times has covered the outrageous Saudi behavior extensively.

"Saudis Try to Starve Yemen Into Submission"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/saudi-arabia-yeme...

"Yemen’s War Is a Tragedy. Is It Also a Crime?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/world/middleeast/yemen-cr...

"2 Paths for Yemen’s War-Scarred Children: Combat, or Marriage"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/world/middleeast/yemen-wa...

"‘It’s a Slow Death’: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/23/world/middlee...

"U.S. Fingerprints on Attacks Obliterating Yemen’s Economy"
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/world/middleeast/yemen-sa...

I could keep going. Trying to characterize them as excusing the Saudis somehow seems to misrepresent their reporting.
At the very least, we should try to control the vocabulary here. Instead of using their terms (like "seize" or "asset forfeiture"), we should call this theft, robbery, and so forth, to reflect what's happening. Those would make for very different headlines.