skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has repeatedly stated that Touch ID and Face ID data does not leave the device, including for backups.

“Face ID data doesn’t leave your device and is never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else.” (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108)

“[Your fingerprint data] can’t be accessed by the OS on your device or by any applications running on it. It's never stored on Apple servers, it's never backed up to iCloud or anywhere else, and it can't be used to match against other fingerprint databases.” (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208108)
If you define an objective function based on some set of predictors, none of which contains a Black variable then it is not possible for your model to discriminate against Black people because it doesn’t know if anyone is black.

Assuming, ridiculously conservatively that redlining ended in 1979 any dataset will have 37 non redlined years in it, 1980-2017. Given that the further away in time a datapoint is the less weight it’s given in predicting anything redlining will have bigger all impact on any model.

Asian people in the US on average have higher credit scores than white people. This is not anti-white discrimination because white and Asian are not used to determine credit score, it’s based on on-time payment, capacity used, length of credit history, types of credit used and past credit applications.

There are many wonderful MOOCs and textbooks on ML, AI and statistics. If you want to understand how statistical modelling works I can recommend the Georgia TechX MicroMasters in Analytics.

Don’t listen to statistically illiterate journalists.
Except that when any of these companies starts getting successful, they always find that they need to move to a more startup-friendly area in order to get to the next level. (see ModCloth, for example).

The other problem is that venture money wants "lottery tickets" rather than "sustainable businesses". This is a real problem because there are lots of businesses that cannot access startup capital because they don't have a "10x" story. Causing a large funding increase for "sustainable businesses" would employ far more people than generating one or two new unicorns.
I live in SV and love the quality of here. Honestly though, the situation for early stage startups here is becoming untenable.

My theory is the following:

- Seed money is drying up (there's legitimate data to support this) because it's all being saturation in Series Alphabet companies that are all raising on legitimate growth or legitimate track records (but with zero growth and very good connections).

- The housing situation is atrocious, and the tech scene is getting older (read -> having kids).

- This means employees are saturating towards Google/FB/Apple/etc because that's the only thing you can afford to do in the bay area. When you can afford pay hundreds and thousands of developers $500k all-in packages because your yearly profits alone can sustain the whole of the bay area (looking at you Apple) then it's almost impossible to compete for talent in anything that isn't Google/FB/Apple/etc or a Series Alphabet with strong capital.

- The rest of the world has learned all of the failures and lessons of SV and caught up. And yes all of the "inbound content" you created was free consulting to the 5 man shop running out of Madison, WI who is now competing with 3 man Stanford drop-out of the mid 2000's.

My bet is on this fund and other similar funds, like the middle market PE funds in tech (PSG, KKR, GSV, etc), Indie.vc, Venture for America, etc. This is the next big horizon in money making tech investing, not the next Instagram...those days are over.

It's amazing how many tech companies no one here has heard of but are making very legitimate money and are based in very unconventional locations. Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, Charlotte (and the tech triangle), Knoxville, Orlando, Atlanta, Provo, Boise, St Louis, Denver...you name it. I think we're gonna see many more Bandwidth.com's, MailChimps, Kabbage's, Outcome Healths, etc in the very near future.
The biggest advantage of systems like this isn't even the money. You can use the same data warehouse/SQL/BI tool stack to do sales reporting, analyze marketing spend, track support KPIs---everything in your business. My company (Fivetran) does the data-pipeline part of that, we event have a Mixpanel connector for people who want to operate both systems in parallel or migrate over time.
Are any apps already doing this? Facial recognition isn't exactly exotic technology, and pretty much all phones has a front facing camera these days.

Face ID really doesn't change that.
Yes. Engagement always beats sanctions. As in, it's impossible to sanction China - China has no issues kicking out Google, Apple, and anyone else who doesn't want to follow the laws.

Apple is wise enough to not suddenly engage in a battle for human rights. It's not the place of a company to change the laws.

What they can do is remain there, implement strong encryption everywhere, protect their users. That's what they're doing.
Funny you should say that. Reminds me of this video[0] where Alan Kay, almost impolitely, tears into today's computing while talking at CMU.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFc379hu--8
Nor do they in Russia. I’m not sure what your point is.
"don't feel like your burdening the congressperson's aide by working with them directly, as resolving your complaint/issue is exactly the reason they exist"

surely it's why their job exists, not them selves? :D that would be a weird answer to have to your existential questions, like the butter passing robot in Rick and Morty
Not sure what you mean? A big plank in Brexit rationale is restricting freedom of movement. I think some hope for a scale back on multiculturalism.

Due to once owning an overwhelming empire, I think a lot of people forget "British culture" is inherently "multicultural". A national British dish is chicken tikka masala, a curry, and nobody can tell if it was invented in India or the UK.
GoodReads has a website and it's perfectly usable for doing everything they provide as a service. Also, this is not a listening app, by the way, according to the author, so there goes that point.
You also can't save the video. At least not in firefox.
It's not supposed to replace GIFs for the things they're actually good at, like your examples. It's supposed to replace the abuse of GIFs for things they're not good at, like long, high frame rate, and/or high color depth videos.

The majority of the GIFs being produced today are not things the GIF format was designed to handle.
We've been doing something similar using keen.io.

Our goals were to get high volume web data (pageviews, clicks, etc.) alongside application data already saved in our Firebase DB and synced to BigQuery.

We picked Keen because it has an open source web tracking lib https://github.com/keen/keen-tracking.js/ that easily plugs into our React/Redux stack.

They also have built-in streaming to BigQuery:
https://keen.io/docs/integrations/google-bigquery/

Keen pricing is about 10% of mixpanel, so for our limited needs it has been working well.

Long term if our volumes really grew the original post looks like a good option, but figured we'd pass along this lower dev approach.
They're working on it...
From what I know, this is not only a normal thing to do, everybody is doing it. The reason for renting the car and not buying it is not only because it is much faster to get your hands on the car, much cheaper and much easier, but what would they do with do many cars that should be bought after disassembling them and doing whatever they want to do? They do not do this for every car, but with so many manufacturers and car models every year this could well be 50 cars a year.
An interesting thing I know is that it could take 2 days to disassemble the rented car, one day of photoshoot and then two days of assembling the car back. And even for experienced people like them breaking some parts while disassembling is also a normal thing. So very often cable ties are used to hold some plastics or other parts together. Important is that they are not visible during visual inspection when they return the car back
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This reminds me of a peculiar condition my mother was suffering from. She had to consume this particular tablet everyday to keep her cough and cold at bay. When she began carrying my sister, she was told by the Gynac that she had to stop consuming the tablet as it would harm the baby. She stopped the tablet and after 3-4 days of trouble, her cough and cold problem simply disappeared. Ever since, she never had to consume the tablet again.
For certain kinds of content, possibly.
Use the extra money to fund a scholarship
Is amazon trying to hit Apple hard? This is the second critical article about Apple on the same day. Where are the articles about amazon‘s practices?
My memories of Alaska were small lakes filled with floatplanes as parking lots. My great uncle and aunt also has a cabin that we could reach only by boat...this was in the anchorage area.
This headline is overstating it. Yes, there have been two cases in the past few months, but this is two cases out of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of booked rooms.

That said I'll probably check for this next time I stay in an AirBnb.
It's simpler than that. They're held in an iron ring. This confines the field nicely, the permeability of the iron is quite high.
This breaks the HN guidelines. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow them regardless of what you think of someone else's comments.
Writing compilers definitely is.
Back in the day, Orange were truly innovative although their promise of a wire-free future was a bit optimistic.
You're free to have your preference, but as pertains to clarity of agency neither of those is any better than the other.

In fact as agency goes, it was not bombed "by an F18", it was bombed by a person using an F18, probably on orders (or by mistake when attempting to follow different orders) given by other people.

I've certainly enjoyed Orwell's writing, but his recommendations mostly aren't very well thought out (and he doesn't follow them very closely himself, or probably his writing would be worse). See also: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
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This, Sea World in Shenzhen, [1] is a mall built to look like a landlocked cruise ship. Google's building is not.

The U.S. Government used to build office buildings a few stories high but huge in length. The Pentagon is the most notable example, but there were many others built in the 1940s through the 1960s. They were built sturdily and cheaply, like parking garages.

[1] https://youtu.be/NTcx0OHehdE?t=35
No offense, but this is clearly a marketing fluff peice.

It looks like every other mid-rise commercial building development.

Is it the future? Absolutely, if by future, you mean the 80's, but everything is shiny and labeled with the adjective "smart" for some reason.

Almost as innovative as Apple's relabelling of the suburban office/business park.

When the hell did everything become marketing...
You could try Shadertoy, which looks to be in the same spirit: https://www.shadertoy.com
Some of you might recognize Daniel Friedman as the author of The Little Schemer. If you liked that book, you might check out The Reasoned Schemer. Short, accessible, and a bit mindbending, it offers a compelling introduction to logic programming that culminates in the "invention" of a Prolog-like DSL from basic Scheme primitives. Terrific little book. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
On HN, it's necessary not to use the site primarily for political or national battle, and not ok to have a single-purpose account. You're welcome here as long as you want to use Hacker News as intended, but that means using it for intellectual curiosity, not lashing out at perceived national slights.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Because the community is Western-oriented and most of us are rather ignorant of things Chinese, I'm sure that many things people say on China topics can be hard to take. Nevertheless, we can't have nationalistic flamewars. If you know more, the thing to do is to teach us, in a good spirit. If you can't or don't want to do that, that's fine, but then please refrain from posting. I realize that it's not easy to hold a minority viewpoint under such conditions, but it's not in your interest to break the rules like this; it ends up representing your viewpoint in a bad way, which doesn't help.
I think the irony being implied is that normally when you're shooting video and your camera is jittering, you're effectively losing resolution compared to a static camera because of motion blur, whereas this depth mapping benefits from minute movements. Though looking at individual frames of video is different than combining them into a single sharper image, I get the counterintuitive feeling they were driving at.
Only if they actually pay out withdrawals.
Wow, I was about to dismiss your comment because one would have to be some sort of sadomasochist to actually seek out IE 11 on a Windows 10 machine and use it on purpose.

But according to Netmarketshare, fully 7% of Windows 10 users use IE.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?opt...

Insane.
That's very good advise. I wonder if the armed forces of other countries have the same emailing guidelines
Available on archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20171205060015/https://lareviewof...!
Classifying anything related to people is a political act; it isn't possible to be apolitical and "just make a classifier". The classifier either accounts for the biases already present in the data, or they are present in the output, obscured (laundered) behind an opaque wall of machine learning.
Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
I want to keep up with politics and current events, but the bias on each end feels overwhelming with more commentary than information.

Any reliable sources for current events you find informative?
You could also say they have enabled the rise of Baidu and with it a Google clone that is completely under the control of the Chinese government.

I do respect Google for pulling out - this was actually the last time Google actually really tried to "don't be evil". Since then, they've thrown that overboard. But that one time, they did it.

The problem is that the outcome was worse than remaining there. That was a lack of wisdom on Google's part.

Apple could pull out, lose Billions of dollars and a hundred million users, Chinese wouldn't be able to get their hands on iPhones, and Samsung, Meizu, Huawei, and so on would be having a field day selling their government-approved devices, which, in terms of privacy, are infinitely worse than iPhones.

Apple is actually implementing some pretty serious privacy features, like end to end encryption in iMessage and so on.
A weird thing about apng is it doesn't do any interframe compression. Even GIF has that. It's just a series of png images crammed into a single file.
Hypothetical question - inspiring though. Travel more, writing books, being more selective in general, with people and countries visiting , meet Emily in person ; boost my ig Nicecotedazur1 , play Golf, live healthier yet , spend more time in prayer .. That's all folks
Lot size is a major factor. In many cities, the block sizes are just way too small to support sprawled campuses.

Apple's lot in Cupertino is approximately 2400 ft by 3400 ft (although it's trapezoidal, not rectangular). For comparison, that's roughly the entirety of downtown Providence. Or, superimposed on Manhattan's grid, 9 streets by 4 avenues. It's roughly the dimensions of the elevated loop tracks in Chicago.

The Empire State Building occupies 1 street by ½ avenue. Sears Tower is on a lot about 450 ft square (one slot in the Chicago grid system). You just simply can't acquire the land in cities that you would need to build landscrapers.
Looks very interesting!

A quick scan of the docs, it looks like we can extend the filtering via LUA ("chisels"). No python love?
> Not everyone is "living in the moment"

Nor is everyone obsessed with being winners, of the moral high ground as in this case.

Sure working your ass off 80h/w will make you a penny or two more but you may die in the process and will have to sacrifice something to make time.

My father passed away with 200+ days of unspent holiday, and I cannot remember a moment with him. I for sure won’t make the same mistake
> You've given no reason why.

I don't have to. It's my opinion.

> You're assuming OP is a mindless fanboy who will pay for something that has a free and more hackable alternative.

I'm sure that's your neckbeard interpretation. There's a reason the Apple Watch is the most popular smart watch by far. You probably think it's solely due to marketing. You would be wrong.
The permissions model is the same as the cameras.

I think the visual-spectrum cameras provide _a lot_ more sensitive data than the rough facial depth data. What does your phone “see” on a daily basis? Have you taken your phone into the bathroom with you lately?

Being able to handle the dark doesn't seem like that big a deal — most of the time people use their phone in well lit areas, and if they aren't, their phone generally lights up their face.
This guy is a class act. Smart AF
He was talking specifically about texting, when he mentioned the iPhone. And he’s right, Americans didn’t start texting until the iPhone made it cheap
Please refrain from taking HN threads into flamewar hell. Even assuming you're right, doing so destroys the community.
But does it run Crysis?

This seems nothing related to real Emacs except for a name and ideas...
My point was that I'd prefer Norilsk to Fairbanks for the pretty women. Not sure why I had to write that twice.
What facts? You boast about might being right like a caveman, and call that progress. You're not even capable of hearing the words of truly progressive people, and what I criticize the US, European countries and others for, I could never admire about China. A few lines from a poem by Erich Friend come to mind:

the imprint of their naked feet / in the desert sand / will outlast the silhouettes / of your bombs and tanks

That goes for everybody, everywhere. Past, present, future. Identifying with a nation, religion or race is not a sign of greatness, it's a sign that a person didn't get to develop. Having reached the local optimum available to you does not equal maturity, having no room left to grow does not mean you're big. Tens of billions multiplied by zero still equals zero.
No time to protest if you have to be at work all day.
Google was getting their butt kicked by Chinese competitors, namely Baidu. They weren't exactly making tons of money anyway. So they gracefully did a PR move and pulled out of China.
You dont say if its self hosted?

I get this error when first booting a docker instance. Gitlab is bloat so takes a while to launch all processes. Likely related to too few resources on your server... could also be permissions based if it is indeed self hosted. Logs are usually helpful
Each user who reads the article is welcome to talk about their subsection of interest.
For war-related news I like to use Twitter. For example for the war in Syria it seems you can get much better news from reporters on location compared to the general media. The general media (to me) seems to be much more influenced by politics.

So for this purpose I followed Harald [0] and his wife Jenan Moussa [1].

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[0]: https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos

[1]: https://twitter.com/jenanmoussa
One of older articles linked from HN said the very name "stress" is wrong, because it conjures incorrect expectations. That you can forever endure a certain level of pressure, but will break after a certain point.

The term "stress" comes from the world of physics. Instead, the article argued, stress resistance is like a muscle. To develop it, you need to exercise it a bit, then STOP. As someone who made working out his hobby, I know rest is an essential part of training. Newbies often utter nonsense like "I will do pushups 7 days a week". It works for the first few days, then you get overtraining and your performance falls below normal.
I'm not familiar with ModCloth but I looked them up and they have Engineering positions open in Pittsburgh (as well as SF).

Lots of companies follow the Israeli model: sales and money raising in SV, engineering elsewhere.
I'm beginning to sense that it wasn't my clearest comment.
There is plenty of GHC Haskell in the codebase. It's very common for banks to have proprietary in-house scripting languages. Mu, is at least based on a language standard and is not some ad-hoc design.
The codebases of Facebook and Google would be no less "ancient legacy enterprise monolith".
The question was what did it do for the Chinese people. The answer is not that much really.

Google was also doing terribly business wise in China, its revenue was a small and it was losing the search war against local giants like Baidu anyway.

It wasn't much of a courageous move but more so of a smooth PR move.
Such a simple but effective effect. Came in super useful for the N64 port of Killer Instinct 2 (couldn't afford the memory for the pre-rendered fire that the arcade machine used, Jare to the rescue). Thanks for saving a junior programmers ass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8fph9nhq4k
if you think you can build startup culture without immigrants sweat and hard work you are kidding yourself. There is a reason for the way things are.
How does that work with people with non standard features? Think glass eyes, acid burns, missing fingers, etc.
Ha, article commenter suggests that angels have shifted to investing in crypto instead of startups. I’m curious if there’s truth to that...
I'm not sure about that that argument - in the same way you could argue below minimum wage work is okay because unemployment (or the alternative) is worse.
> the west is slightly better in that you may not be sent to jail over a dissenting opinion

As someone who is personally a big fan of not going to jail, I consider this more than "slightly" better
You don't have to convince employees, who are eager to try it and unwind. How do you convince employers ? Surely not by pointing out THEY don't work as much as we do.
Uber lost the battle against didi, so was forced to merge with didi. Just a loser case.

WhatsApp never entered into China market, never register as a company in China, so how it could follow the regulation?
I really appreciate Tim Cook being very pragmatic and non-confrontational in China. We have great products and fierce competition. This in itself gives us much more freedom.

The last time a company did the opposite it literally caused death--Google quitting China led to Baidu's ruthless ads for fake hospitals, which claimed many many lives.
I don't doubt that this is a good thing for the flyover states. But I am little skeptical of the whole goody two shoes and "impact investing" angle.

With the amount of money sloshing around it is becoming increasing difficult to find places to generate alpha on investments. While people can be like Softbank and bet money on a unicorn becoming a super-unicorn but the risk reward is skewed.

Then there is this:

> In other words, if they discover a nascent but promising e-commerce company in Allentown, Pa., they will not only invest in it, but they might also help it establish a relationship with one of the fund’s investors — Mr. Bezos, for example — who might invest even more.