skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite sure if this is sarcasm...

Here's my counter-argument in case you were serious.

Dimwit #1: 555's fail when hell freezes over. An engineering intern can make changes and see it work. The PCB will cost more than the electronics. 555 as a component will be available for years.

Dimwit #2: Arduino/ATMEGA are so well documented that the next engineer supporting this should have no problem making appropriate changes even 10 years from now, assuming Microchip sustains the ATMEGA product line.

Senior Software Developer: You've introduced an attack vector [the web interface], increased the BOM cost [the Linux board], programmed it in a language that changes on a yearly basis [node.js]. Not to mention having to provide a Linux image source programmable [preferably eMMC], and ensuring compatibility of the web config for major browsers for the lifetime of the product. All for a blinking LED.
This is what will happen.
Its a miscarriage of international justice.
Ex-WaPo man Krebs pulls claims of Russian links to Shadow Brokers
Staying at home with children is marvellous. Interactions with adult friends are staid and stereotypical by comparison. Plus with the internet one has access to the world's knowledge. Any boredom is therefore one's own problem.

>Yet we long for more than just that one perfect mate — we need to be a part of something bigger to feel happy and alive. We need community and a variety of ages and friends. No one person can be everything to us.

Some equivocation there. Isn't sexual adventure really just another version of 'Valium and liquor'?
Did not know SEC has jurisdiction over Canada, thanks.
Watch this 1970 audience as Kraftwerk plays their first recorded concert video
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I remember coming to US, Chicago specifically, less then 15 yrs ago, coming to suburbs and discovering weird silence and lack of people. It freaked me out so much that I am still in the city /w my wife and 3 kids. Suburbs are weird and can make you crazy.

I don't want to comment on other parts of the post, as I just don't share same concerns.
And all of this erases the very real issues I face as a cishet woman. Being lectured that I need to educate myself on the needs and issues of trans individuals and make tremendous effort to serve their political goals while my needs are trampled under foot and my name is publicly dragged through the mud is no means whatsover to win me over.

When trans people can figure out how to speak to their issues without silencing cishet women trying to speak to their own, I will be happy to ally with them. But my experience so far has been that my interactions with people who identify as trans or nonbinary have been completely poisonous.

I am fine with supporting their desire to live as they choose. But I am really fed up with their agenda actively harming me and other cishet women. Trans individuals get vastly more friendly, sympathetic support on HN than cishet women do. The idea that I have some obligation to invest more of my time and energy in benefitting them when they have done nothing but actively harm me is deeply offensive to me.
Feds Shut Down 'Longest-Running' Andromeda Botnet
Pick up a cheap Arduino Uno (Chinese clones are fine, IME: I pay around $6 each and usually buy about 5-10 at a time from AliExpress or eBay).

Blink the onboard LED.

Read the onboard ADC channels (touch pins with your fingers to vary voltage).

Feed serial text from the terminal app and have the onboard LED on pin 13 blink the text out in Morse Code.

If you have the bug by this point, get more advanced. If not, put it back on the shelf and you haven't wasted much :-)
Migrating to Kubernetes
Not 'spot on' - it's 'totally wrong'.

Being isolated is a social function that has nothing to do with marriage.

At least within a family there is a micro community. There's no reason not to be active and engaged as families.

If anything - the 'problem' is modernity and consumer culture.

When people lived in villages, and everyone knew everyone - it may not have been great, but I suggest people were less lonely.

Even the more isolated people in small towns - have places they can go 'where everyone knows their name'. This is fulfilling - to know that 'people care' even if they don't know you very well. It's something to be 85 years old in a town where basically every resident knows you, and knows about you.
s/unit tests for 3rd party APIs/ => /acceptance tests for 3rd party APIs/
The app is basically the exact plot of one of the schemes from Nathan for You s2e6
Lol. When I saw the headline I though this was a rehash of the Gulf War "intercepts" that did fail. If 20+ years later Patriot is still failing at the same task ... much is wrong with the procurement system. As a kid I was on the ground during the first gulf war. We thought these things were working. They put pieces of them in hotel lobbies on plinths. Only years later did we learn that all those explosions in the sky were meaningless, that the scuds were not being intercepted but rather simply missed their targets.

The article has issues. The plume is irrelevant. The cited pic from syria looks similar but that has more to do with wind and temperature than similarities in warhead. Conclusions based on the launch angle of the patriots may also be incorrect as there the outbound patriots need not follow a strait line. The best intercept for their warhead might not be a head-on approach. We don't know if they turned mid-flight to intercept, which they can do.

And don't criticize patriot for firing five times. This thing was coming down as several objects on very similar trajectories. Each missile might have been targeting a different inbound part, any one of which might be the warhead. If 4/5ths of the inbound objects were intercepted, but the one that wasn't turned out to be the warhead, it wasn't a total failure.
As far as I know there's no "Attention" API. It also seems intentional that Apple has omitted an eye-tracking API as well (even though it seems like that would be trivial for them to add from a technical perspective)

Is there anything stopping them from doing this with the front-facing camera on existing phones?
That's interesting - but it seems like the absence of kids playing outside is very recent in US culture. I grew in, in SF west of twin peaks, and all kids played outside unsupervised for hours. This had been true for generations, going way back, through wave after wave of families, both immigrant from overseas, relocated from other parts the US, or born and bred in SF.

This really doesn't happen where I live in SF neighborhood (with two kids), nowhere near to the same extent. And it still is a very immigrant heavy neighborhood, and unusually diverse in terms of country of origin, even by SF's (perhaps diminishing) standards.

Part of the reason, I think, is critical mass. of kids I'd happily allow my kids to play outside, but there isn't a giant mass of kids already out there, which was the case when I was younger. This may partly be due to the collapse in the child age population in SF (not a collapse, it seems, in infant or toddler ages, it's stroller bumper cars around, but people often move when their kids get older). In my time (early 70s to today), it's gone from like 25% to below 14%, which in such a short time does represent a kind of collapse.

But even that doesn't seem to explain it, since the less expensive SFH neighborhoods south of 280 are still the parts of SF with percentages of under 18 residents similar to the more remote 'burbs.

But it got to the point where I enrolled my kid in the YMCA school after-care program, because it seems like that is where most of the after school socializing goes on now. It is somewhat unstructured, schoolyard play, but there's an authority figure around to appeal to. I don't want to overly nostalgize the lack of any supervision when I was a kid, there actually was some bad shit, but no doubt, kids are growing up in an environment that is different from the zero supervision environment I had when I was a kid. Something is probably lost in all this as well.
That's not really how trademark works.

It is only similar/same industries where that applies.

The rule of thumb is consumer confusion. Is an average person going to mix up the 2?

In this case, the answer is likely No.
Using the Natural Motion of 2D Materials to Create a New Source of Clean Energy
> if Apple was to behave "ethically" and pay the taxes that technically the law requires that they dont, then the shareholders can sue the company

Well yes, but you know there's a shade of gray between engaging in complex, aggressive tax planning schemes and handing out unsolicited donations to the IRS.

A company's board is perfectly within its mandate to say it pays tax for its profits where it is incorporated, when the profits are made (and not delaying foreign profits in a tax havens). Because this is the very normal thing that almost all normal corporations do. The board is just as well within its mandate to say they do it for PR reasons to demonstrate corporate social responsibility.

For example, Nokia during its heyday happily paid a fair share of its taxes in Finland, eventhough they definitely had access and capability for all the tax dodging schemes in the world.
GH::watch GitHub Notifications android app gets Dark/Night theme
The Science of Sensory Deprivation Tanks in 'Stranger Things'
The apotheosis of this would be Michael Craig-Martin's An Oak Tree,[1] which some consider nonsense and I think is superb. All's fair in art and so on! That said, in the case of Bourgeois I find a lot of her work powerful without explanation.

[1]https://offthewalls.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/an-oak-tree-mic...
Racism implies race. I am pretty sure she would go along with other white nations that weren't involved, likely viewing Russians favorably. You can probably call it anti-americanism (or anti-usanianism if you are British). She didn't call him "gringo" nor "farang".
I totally forgot about the Firefox shirts I owned in college until I read this. I can't believe they closed it.
Judge orders Wyoming to return $92k seized by officers
And it will get better BECAUSE people are trying crazy new things, like ICOs.

Sure, there are problems, as with all new things. But the problems will be fixed eventually, and the legal system with be better because of it.

People doing something weird, and different and new and probably illegal, is THE way that our legal system gets better, as we learn to deal with new things, that might be bad OR good. And decide whether these illegal things should stay illegal, or become legal.
Nix-build freezes system on macOS High Sierra with multi-user install
Non-Paywall version: http://archive.is/N7JvW
Monoprice is selling 10' DP cables for $5 and 10' HDMI cables for $6. Maybe you need to find a new place to buy cables. Amazon Basics has a 10' DP cable for $12.
That's a great argument in theory, but that isn't the way those laws work. The thought experiment is trotted out frequently to justify any type of corporate race to the bottom.

It isn't anything more than a misleading misreading of corporate law.
Maybe I'm wrong here, but doesn't investing in normal startups require being an accredited investor?

I see ICO's as marketing investment opportunities to unaccredited investors. I thought unacreddited investors in the U.S. are legally allowed to invest in public stock, and approved securities (like bonds, precious metals, etc) and only a handful of other things.

The notion of accredited investors legal requirement to invest in tech startups is that tech startups are inherently very risky, and the average person shouldn't be allowed to put their life savings behind something so risky. By this logic, it strikes me as very odd that ICO's are legal for U.S. citizens to invest in, and my guess is it's because the SEC hasn't come around to regulating them yet.

Does that sound correct, or is there reason to believe the SEC (in the long-term) will be okay with unaccredited investors investing in ICO's of tech companies? Are there other things with a similar risk profile that unaccredited investors can invest in?
"We take privacy and security very seriously," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said.
It's possible but I 3D printed the face mesh from their API and it didn't work to unlock Face ID on my phone.

It did a pretty good job of scanning my face though: https://twitter.com/braddwyer/status/930594896523567104
Government data: How open is too open?
They funded a review for Apache HTTPD before, and basically all other candidates are international projects: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/ec-audit-apache-http-serve-...

I wouldn't be surprised though if EU-centric communities were more likely to know/care about this initiative (and thus voted), putting 2 european projects in the top 3.
Can't remember whether I had seen UnixWorld earlier or not. Thanks. Will check it out.
The fact they chose to reference Einstein as somebody who, implicitly, succeeded in part because of privilege is peculiar. He was a Jew born in Germany who ended up renouncing his citizenship when he was 17 to avoid compulsory military service - leaving him stateless at a time of growing across the world antisemitism. He also chose to drop out of high school, finding the curriculum restrictive and contrary to his views of education. He would then apply to university - and was rejected for poor score on the language section of the university's entrance examination - though he scored phenomenally on math/science. Back to high school.

After improving his language skills he was admitted to a university. Following graduation he was unable to find any teaching post at any university after searching for 2 years, leaving him working as an assistant patent examiner -- where he was passed over for promotions for perceived lack of competence. Interestingly enough his 'miracle year', where he would publish four groundbreaking papers, happened while he was still working at the patent office! And even then it would still be years before things really started to rapidly progress for him, turning him into the namesake that he is today.

Something else I find trite in these articles is the constant assumption that people have to be precisely demographically matched to function as role models. In a survey recently carried out in Russia on role models, Putin actually lost out to Elon Musk [1]. A soft spoken South African man who immigrated to American is now one of the biggest role models for Russians. And this article is talking about matching not only demographics, but down to the precise state somebody lives in!

And one final critique. The article basically says "stop giving tax breaks to the wealthy, reinvest the money where it's needed." So where is it needed? Well, of course that's not at all discussed. There is 0 reason to think the failure of the American education system has anything whatsoever to do with money. We already spend vastly more per child than nearly anywhere in the world, yet our quantifiable educational performance continue to deteriorate by nearly all metrics compared to the rest of the world. [2]

[1] - http://www.newsweek.com/putin-beaten-jesus-elon-musk-and-par...

[2] - https://rossieronline.usc.edu/blog/u-s-education-versus-the-...
Urgh!

You just nailed one of my pet peeves. This is what I like about Adafruit's Arduino interfaces and I'm willing to pay a bit extra for: MOUNTING HOLES! Some of us build stuff that moves or vibrates and needs to be held down.

Connectors are not mechanical restraints!
Is this like a Craigslist, with option to pre-pay? If so, it would be a convenient way to reserve something instead of racing out to the actual seller's location first. I don't know how many times I went to the seller's house only to find out that it was sold earlier that day. I once drove almost 2 hours to buy a used car, which I confirmed it was available before I left the house, only to find that it was sold by the time I got there.
Re 3)
I don’t know any details of Apples implementation, but typically computer vision algorithms integrate data from multiple sensors to generate a 3D model. The more data you have, the more robust the output will be.

It’s possible to generate reasonable 3D models of faces from a single photograph. [1]

The highest resolution 3D scans I’ve seen are produced by aligning data from multiple high resolution photographies.

The big problem with that aproach is that it requires a lot of detail in the source material. Smooth surfaces, blurry images, or noise because of poor lighting makes it impossible for the algorithm to find features to align.

This is where the dot matrix projector comes in: by projecting a bunch of dots on your face, you get features that the algorithm can align, making the scan faster and more robust in low light.

[1]: http://kunzhou.net/2015/hqhairmodeling.pdf
Is Your DJI Drone a Chinese Spy?
You'd be surprised; that KSA and Israel are strongly co-operating along an anti-Iranian axis is a fairly open secret these days.

With that said, if anybody's going to block a sale like that, it's Israel, not KSA. The Israelis don't trust KSA anywhere nearly enough to trust KSA with domestically developed systems.
The difference between legal and ethical is irrelevant in this case. Both Apple and Ireland had an agreement regarding Apple's taxes which was deemed illegal by the EU.

Apple and Ireland can count themselves lucky not to be additionally fined, since the likelihood that Apple's or Ireland's lawyers were unaware of the existing EU state aid laws are very slim.
Well, from my point of view, I can either:

- Choose to think you are right, dear random HN commenter

- Choose to think the corpus of papers and articles saying the opposite of what you claim is in fact right (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_as_a_tax_haven#R... - I'm not quoting wikipedia, this is a link to sources)

Guess what? :)

EDIT: Please, by all means, do produce articles from reputable sources that support your claim that the US is not an enormous corporate tax heaven! I would be very interested to educate myself on the subject with differing opinions from experts such as investigative journalists or economists, bankers, or tax lawyers.

I just don't believe random HN commenters on face value :)

TL;DR: [citation needed]
Let's weight the good and bad. First, what is possible today that wasn't then? I see only multimedia and games. Text forums like this one were totally possible in the 90's. They just weren't as pretty.

Then let's examine why stuff is so bloated now: is it because we have more features? For the most part we don't. It's just abstractions piled on top of each other, images, and ads.

I'm not even sure the costs are even related to the benefits.
how about not linking to a paywalled article?

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/apple-agrees-...
I'm not sure the isolation she mentions is because of a nuclear family unless there is something about her family that prohibits her from doing things with other people. For example, going to the park as you do.
The investigation in the linked Go issue [1] is also impressive.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427
Ask HN: Finding the right collection agency for Saas startup
Does anyone have advice for finding a collection agency for startup. We have a few contracts in the 10K+ range that have failed to pay. I am looking for a collection agency that isn't shady but can get the job done well enough that we can at least settle the debts.
Indeed, particularly (though not in this case) when the behavior is criminal.

I would love to be able to rob a bank and then tell the court, "How about I give back half the money I stole from the bank, in exchange for no admission of guilt?"
According to https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/patriot-ac-3-fo... , as of 2006 the PAC-3 was 19 of 22 on intercepting ballistic missile targets.
That's quite a conclusion to draw from one article about one test about an early-generation system deployed in a developing country. How does that lead to believing that no such system currently works or could ever work?
My point was simply that saying “immutability works when everything is immutable” often sounds confusing and/or wrong because people know they need to mutate things. Saying that you're using a language with more advanced concepts to ensure that things only change in the desired manner avoids that initial point of confusion.
Honestly, I can't fathom why you're being downvotes, and this is exactly the predicament I'm most concerned about, personally.

Like, its a cool technology - sure. But has nobody thought of the militarisation of it? Sheesh.
I noticed that the application requires disclosure of metrics related to fundraising. Is this a major consideration for approval? Are there any specific things are you looking for? (hyper-growth, good product, high revenue, etc)
It's unclear whether he's talking specifically about the ARSCNFaceGeometry[1] or the ARFrame.capturedDepthData[2] or some combination of both.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arscnfacegeo...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/arframe/2928...
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I appreciate that my pointing out the extremely mediocre reporting by the NY Times and Washington Post on this matter has swayed you to such a degree.
> And all of this erases the very real issues I face as a cishet woman

How specifically? What specific issues faced by cishet women are erased by recognizing that becoming pregnant is not uniquely associated with women (cishet or otherwise)?
> useful and not used for programming a computer

So you are mainly interested in GUI applications for laypeople to use, right?

I think there is a simple reason for that not existing as much as you'd think or hope: writing a GUI framework from scratch is a lot of work. So what people do nowadays is try to bind to existing libraries, GTK, fltk, DOM, Qt, etc...

But that comes with a cost: Those libraries need mutation to work, and therefore feel alien, and pointless to use in an immutable functional programming context. Most of your app would need to live in `IO`, basically. Why use Haskell at that point?

But there is a way to tame this beast: Functional Reactive Programming, or FRP for short. This way one could compose pure functions, events and behaviors that drive an underlying mutating GUI library in a deterministic way.

reflex-frp comes closest to this in my experience so far, which with reflex-dom and jsaddle is able to drive a browser window through a low-latency, local websocket connection. Meaning that you can, for example, run native Haskell code and only run a very thin layer of JS to interface with the DOM. This way you can build apps that have a GUI window on the desktop (e.g. with WebkitGTK) and is much faster than Electron.

You can also build the same reflex-dom apps to Android and iOS, and I've heard others remark that due to the native code doing most of the work in the background it is able to run faster on an ARM CPU than the comparable JS on the desktop. Though I've yet to try this myself to confirm.

At any rate, I think we are getting very close to a tipping point where GUIs become easy enough to write and then you'll see more and more written with Haskell.

Edit: Another potential "attack-vector" will be WebAssembly: Instead of compiling Haskell to JS via GHCJS, you could compile it to wasm and use it on websites' front-end much more performantly. When there is a working Haskell-to-wasm compiler, (hopefully soon) you'll also likely see more and more GUIs written with Haskell on the web.
Don't confuse static/dynamic typing and weak/strong typing. A language can be both dynamically and strongly typed (Python, for example). The thing you like about a "strongly typed language" is the static typing, meaning a variable's type can't change once it's been created.
H.264 has hardware support and is already supported by the video tag. It was a battle during the video tag debate on WHAT-WG, but the decision was made a long time ago.