skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To conclude on how useful the tailing feature is – unfortunately, at the moment I don’t have enough data to provide (it’s on its way, though.)

I wonder if this post was rushed to publication, to manage Mozilla's public image and reestablish it as a friend to user privacy, after the 'Looking Glass' fiasco a few days ago.

(I'm not exactly opposed to such PR efforts, as long as they're accompanied by actual internal change in the company.)
> Our lightfield photonics generate digital light at different depths and blend seamlessly with natural light

ooooook... How many cameras? Can I make a 3D photo with those cameras? That would be nice.
Also, my understanding is that initially there was supposed to be a corss-feed system that would increase the total delta-V considerably, but it isn't ready yet
The thing will need some serious tech in it, there's really no way to make it not look ugly. I think aesthetics are somewhat overrated: If a device is useful, people (including the "cool kids") will use it regardless.
Having IE pre installed is a necessary. How do you use the internet with nothing installed?

What's next? We're going to force shipping cars without wheels. It's unfair to decide what brand people should use without their consent.
I traveled recently in a foreign country where I did not speak the local language. Uber allowed me to enter my destination and location without confusing the driver. I could never have done this with a traditional taxi cab.
Since the 1st iteration of the design is apparently ready, why can't they just show a small demo?

It's supposed to be shipping in 2018. They could easily have hired a team of top notch creators to showcase some of the capabilities of the device live -even if the device is still not 100% ready- instead of this silly Manhattan project secrecy. I hope they deliver as promised, but something smells fishy.

It's a pity, because unlike VR I think AR has huge potential both for consumer and industrial applications.
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
Wow I was, wondering what the heck was happening with my Iphone 6 plus. I new it had something to do with the software update, but it makes sense now, they had to make a choice, so they limited the CPU based on battery...

At least it wasn't because they are trying to force us to upgrade. I'm going to try an update the battery and see if it makes a difference.
> My sense is that the map data that can be acquired programmatically is very good on Google, and anything requiring human input or verification is relatively weak, especially outside the USA.

Their Local Guides program in Maps is clearly a direct reaction to this, they even explicitly ask you to sign up with a message saying "we need help from a human". Once you're signed up you'll occasionally be asked a series of yes or no style questions about places you've visited, ranging from "Does this place have disabled access" to "Would you consider this a classy place". They also encourage you to do things like adding the opening hours of places they don't know about, or confirming that places are still in business.
great video, thanks
How can we fight against these patterns? Amendments? Force bills to be broken up? Only allow a bill to be submitted once a decade?

Our system is definitely broken, but I have no idea what type of changes might prevent these abuses
It is largely a matter of standing. The Unfair Commercial Practices Directives leaves most of the details up to member states, but has a hard requirement that competitors have standing to bring legal action against unfair commercial practices [1]. Spain – where this case originated – also allows for consumer organizations to bring suit (but not individual consumers), but those will generally focus their resources on areas where competitors fail to act.

[1] Which was already a common approach in Europe before that directive was enacted.
It probably is, but the screenshot is just standard IE 11.
>Is the contractor thing a little bit on the suspicious side? Definitely. Should they pay their "driver partners" more? Definitely. Do I think that this problem is uber's fault? Most definitely not.

The contractors thing is a tax avoidance scheme at the sole advantage, and responsibility, of Uber.
After a few more design iterations I'm sure it'll exceed 30.

http://i.imgur.com/BX1HXkr.png
So, I don't know how this sort of thing works.

When do investors start suing for fraud?
Hailo was a really brilliant App and service that connected independent drivers with their customer base in a manner very similar way to Uber does, except they did so within the existing marketplace to the advantage of both customers and drivers.

It worked really well and made ordering taxis around Dublin a dream.

Sadly they were taken over by a poorer competitor called "MyTaxi" who have proceeded to torpedo the whole business. I wonder if they had some interest in Ubers success because really until now Uber were effectively redundant here.

Anyway, since there should be no clear impediment to somebody doing something similar, since there is a ready and willing customer base I'd be wondering why nobody had yet.

Hopefully these guys can do it.
Expect a revival of the word 'glasshole' if that ever became a burgeoning trend.
Yes, it took them literally years to fix it and it wasn't a particularly difficult fix. That's why companies prefer paid software - if something doesn't work, they can complain to the company and the company is obliged to fix it... as opposed to waiting years for the right volunteer developer to prioritize one of many issues.
To say nothing of whether magic leap is real - when vr/ar technology catches up there's a trick to get around this. It should be possible to track gaze precisely and only render the high resolution 'fovea' at high detail. The rest can be very low res and nobody would know. This will probably be important in graphics and gaming first though, where they can focus all of the gigaflops on sampling illumination raycasts in the most sensitive area of vision. It's actually pretty wasteful to render an entire UHD monitor at full resolution when the eye can't even discern a word at one end of a sentence when the fovea is focused on the other.
So long as they don't actively mess with customer owned BTC (as in: only stall transaction orders, not outright take them away if that is even possible) I would not even be sure that provable personal gains would be courtroom material. (At least for and user vs exchange company, not for exchange company vs employee)
Technically snapchat and scummy apps can keep collecting private data indefinitely. Demands for API levels only apply for either new apps or new updates to existing apps. They could simply leave a version in the app store, use that for collecting, and have new versions have their own play entry like an unlocker app currently does it.

Not even the August 2019 deadline prevents that.

So really, there's nothing in here that stops personal data collection.
Looks like good design choices to me. Separating the power and compute from goggles reduces weight on the headset. Its ideally suited to be integrated into a special ops soldier's helmet for use on the battlefield. Or a surgical visor for a telemedicine operating theatre.

It's very much Day One for this. HoloLens has been a stealth hit for Microsoft this year. Its the kit ($3K) I'm most excited to try out. Its quite possible all design prototyping and additive manufacturing software interfaces will have a head-mounted 3D input component soon.

And that's just the enterprise market. For retail consumers, check out Fragments to see the possibilities of turning turning home or public spaces into immersive gaming environments:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/apps/fragments
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Article 83, paragraph 5 says I can be fined 20 mil EUR (or 4% of revenue, whichever is greater...so 20 mil would be the number for me). You might say, "well don't break the law" (like that's an excuse for punishments some types of companies can afford and others can't) or "no, that's only for big companies" (like it's ok to rely on subjective enforcement). I'd rather just not risk going bankrupt or prevent myself from doing business in the EU until I'm big enough to handle that.

> All this data

What, from my two large customers? So EU says I violated article 5 and the personal data wasn't "processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject". Ug, such subjectivity. It is so sad to see so many people want solutions to these problems that they assume the GPDR is it. I can't do business there just praying I don't misstep and go bankrupt or subjecting myself to the whims of these loaded terms like "transparency" until I am large enough to absorb the blow.
I couldn't disagree more. Perhaps you can help me out but I see no way to correct invalid addresses on Google Maps. How did you do it?
Hello tptacek,

I am really interested in knowing how you reached your conclusions based on seeing the js file. I am quite new to analysing the source files of a given website using the firefox web console. I tried copying it to a text editor but, man, it was a mess to read. Any pointers as to how I might proceed ?
Nexus 6P the phone will die randomly at random percentages. Sometimes you can turn it back on hours later and it'll last thirty minutes. Sometimes you have to "charge" it a little bit first. This issue happens at all percentages and I've had it for over 8 months now.
Disclaimer: developer of Hops.
This blog basically argues that systems like Horovod (Ring AllReduce) are architecturally superior to Parameter Server models (like TensorFlowOnSpark).
A number of friends of mine in the US only want to deal with Coinbase. It is probably a combination of having already set up there and not wanting to submit ID to other exchanges, and having trust issues with other ones.
I recently took a tour of SpaceX due to a friend and learned that their rockets, unlike most others, are constructed horizontally. This makes logistics for getting them upright an engineering feat, but it also makes construction and maintenance easier for crew - you can rotate the rocket and access almost any part of the rocket from ground level.

I'm curious to know more about the engineering constraints/trade-offs this puts the rockets under, so if anyone knows more I'd love to hear it!
As a customer you're already paying the ISP to access the Internet. The websites you're paying your ISP to access already pay for bandwidth and whatnot from their providers. But now they need to also pay your ISP to ensure you get optimal performance.

So you've got 30mbps internet? Sorry, Netflix is in the 256k lane so your speed doesn't matter. And this is Netflix's fault because they haven't paid us. Also Netflix costs $19.99 a month to cover the costs of paying your ISP. And now maybe your ISP wants to also charge you a premium on to of your normal bill to view Netflix.

It won't be a bigger pipe, this won't create a fast lane. It's just going to create a slow lane.
Never Say Die [2014]
I’ve thought the same. There are these rock carvings from forever ago around here, and whenever somebody visits who’s never seen something like that before I just say they are probably tweets from forever ago.

“This one over here is what someone had for lunch. I think ‘twas chicken.”

That sort of thing.
> You think I’m letting that pass without pointing out that the fuel tanks are a sunk cost?

That is true, yet it makes no difference to my point.
Unix sockets (AF_Unix) comes to Windows
> Exactly. Three letter agency abilities were expanded hugely under Obama. Why people can’t grasp this, I’ll never know.

Partisanship is one hell of a drug.
>I don't think the FCC did, nor can they, create a new "federal law" though, right?

That's a tricky question. At a high school civics class level, no they cannot create new law because only Congress can. But the reality of the modern regulatory state is that Congress has delegated much of its law making powers to specialized experts in executive branch agencies, including independent agencies like the FCC. So they can adopt regulations that have the force of law but are not statutory, though only to the extent that Congress has authorized them to do so.

Those regulations are for all intents and purposes laws. However, a federal agency's regulations cannot preempt state law on their own; they can only preempt to the same extent that Congress preempted state law in the statute delegating authority to the agency.

And yes, states can regulate where their laws don't conflict with federal laws or regulations. But there's a limit. Congress can enact laws which implicitly preempt state regulation because the federal regulatory scheme is so complete that it "fully occupies the field" leaving no room for supplemental state regulation. In which case, states cannot regulate.

I would be surprised if a court held that the feds have field preempted internet regulation, given how much it ties into areas of traditional state primacy such as property law. But who knows these days.
No. Also because it's nearly impossible, has only downsides including worse performance.

How could WebAssembly offer a single API to different languages with different internal datastructures and calling conventions and different memory allocators and garbage collectors?

They would have to pick a weakest/most-low-level common denominator, like the C calling convention.

If say the language you are compiling to WebAssembly is Haskell, Ruby or Go .. you will still need to bindings that are going to feel as 'calling into another language with non native (to this language) datastructures'.

And they will have to be implemented for each language that targets WebAssembly. And kept up to date.

If this calling out happens with typical C datastructures and calling conventions, you would need a complete reimplemention of the DOM, including meetings about every detail of the new API surface since in this world something as simple as a getting the boundingbox would not be easily expressible.

Also: since it's unclear who manages (owns) these datastructures and how, it means that most implementations will just always copy the data over.

So you have worse performance, double the attack surface, even worse performance because now the DOM needs to run in the same sandbox for it to be safe. And I'm not even sure all security policies can be implemented at all, even then. What about the rule that only code triggered by a click may open a new window? Is that even something we can implement on the WebAssembly level? No.

And after we finally all agree on what the API surface should be, you'll need at least 2 to 3 years to get a first implementation. Since the only way for browser vendors to do this is to implement their DOM completely for scratch.

And while we are doing that we also have to keep the feature set in sync, and maintain the current DOM because JavaScript isn't going anywhere.. and what if you want to use both?

The notion that WebAssembly could or should itself support bindings other than 'call JavaScript and interact with the DOM from there' is quite delusional and hints at a fundamental misunderstanding of how programming languages are actually implemented and what WebAssembly actually is.
Hailo brand drives off into sunset as MyTaxi arrives
Yes exactly. The only ones who stand to lose if uber fails are the investors who put money into it. Oh boo.
As is frequently the case, I would give credit to Opera. They didn't have a central list but the browser had an easy-to-use element blocker that was suitable for blocking many obnoxious ads of the era. The central list ideas I've seen come out of projects built on squid proxies with known-advertiser black holes.

ABP may have packaged things up nicely, I dont remember that evolution of history. And they may have other good will now to balance out the "acceptable ads" monetization. But the tools to "fight back against abusive advertising" should be credited elsewhere, IMHO.
So what does this thing do?
It is even easier using conda.[1] Install whichever you use the most (likely python3) using either the full anaconda installer or the simpler miniconda installer. Then use conda to create an environment that uses the other python release. One has another benefit: one can create custom environments for analyses where "dependency hell" is a common problem...

[1] https://conda.io/docs/
Note that in many areas within the US, the only competition to Uber is Lyft and taxi cabs.
Pre-Uber, cabs near me worth horrendous. I'd book a cab to go to the bar on St Patties day a week in advance, and they'd just not show; they found someone else on the way and that maximized their profit so they grabbed that fair. So 30m after I'm supposed to be inebriated; I call company, they say they sent another, and 30m later it also never shows. One of us then bite the bullet and play DD for the night (group of 5 congregated to share the cab and hitchhike back).

I think 'Cabs Suck' was pretty ubiquitous comment in many many areas of the country pre uber/lyft; it's an industry that needed to be disrupted badly.
>How can we fight against these patterns?

Elect enough people willing to self-regulate and pass those bills. The current climate with lobbying money won't ever pass something like that.
I wonder if these (in contrast with the glasses you get for a 3D film) are usable in combination with normal glasses?
Working with Ceph Object Storage
Not much. This is actually a common reactor type, and you don't have to worry about things like cooling pumps going bad or high-pressure pipe breaks.

> The water acts as neutron moderator, cooling agent and radiation shield. The layer of water directly above the reactor core shields the radiation so completely that operators may work above the reactor safely. This design has two major advantages: the reactor is easily accessible and the whole primary cooling system, i.e. the pool water, is under normal pressure. This avoids the high temperatures and great pressures of nuclear power plants. Pool reactors are used as a source of neutrons and for training, and in rare instances for processing heat but not for electrical generation....Most research reactors are of the pool type.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool-type_reactor
> Californians, remember to vote Feinstein out in the Democratic primary. She's been one of the main champions of this bill and type of mass surveillance (as well as the anti-encryption bills, which she's not giving up).

Senate Minority Leader Schumer has been the other main proponent. Unfortunately, New York is not really a democracy, so there is no way for us to get rid of him.
Apparently it's real:

https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/lightwear-intro...

Common concerns, like FOV (not very big), are addressed in this article:

> The viewing space is about the size of a VHS tape held in front of you with your arms half extended. It’s much larger than the HoloLens, but it’s still there.
no one mentioned this, and maybe I got things wrong, but python 3 is significantly slower than python 2. at least this is certainly true using spyder (maybe its not in other cases)

laptop py 2.7 (4 cores 3ghz, 16 gb ram) vs desktop py 3.5(6 cores 4.5 ghz, 64 gb ram) - both windows. When I am running my models for kaggle competitions, my laptop usually finishes first by about 20% total time, unless the model I am running can take advantage of my GPU.

edit: I never figured out why, but if I generate a submission with 3.5x, 75% of the time its accuracy is significantly worse.
Most people get off work between 4 and 6pm. (this is not 50% of the population, but it is still a large number). They all go home and plug their car in then take a shower. Many days the peak electric use for the day is at 6pm when all those people start cooking dinner (electric stove) or jump in the shower (electric water heater). When a significant number of people start plugging their car in when they get home the peak will go up much more.

Of course as has been pointed out repeatedly a smart charger can manage exactly when the battery starts to charge. However it isn't quite that simple: many of those people will go out again for their bowling league or whatever, and need enough charge in their car.
Don't be so quick to judge. Answering any question might have been enough to pass the screen, but you will never know that because you didn't try.

My current workforce had to pass tests much deeper than that. Using database queries, graphs and regex is part of the day job.
Wishful thinking:

Could modern programming languages adopt isolated heaps with message passing like Erlang does? This is the easiest solution to GC pauses and allows other nice features like hot code reloading.

The majority of programming languages invented in the last 10 years don't seem that different from each other. I'd love to see a programming language that combines the strength of C++ and Erlang for soft realtime workloads.
CanYa Acquires BountySource [pdf]
I agree. On a related note, I still believe this to be most plausible explanation of the Voynich Manuscript:

https://xkcd.com/593/
Which database to choose for your React Native application?
I was always wondering why HoloLens is insisting on packing the batteries/processor on the headset. I'm very pleased to see Magic Leap going the other way. There is just more room for volume and weight in a pocket than on a user's head.

Yes, the wire would be somewhat annoying, but I'm optimistic wireless tech will get there soon enough.
It's literally impossible for most holders of pre-ipo options to sell them, or their stock, but their tax bill is due the day the leave their employer, not the day that those options/stocks become liquid.

Surprise, tax law isn't fair. Surprise, nobody is looking to change that.
It looks like it collects payment info via Paypal but it does leak personal info (name, address, email) via HTTP.
It hurts entrepreneurs a lot more than the end user. With tiered internet comes tiered pricing and tiered access. 'Basic' internet will get you google.com, facebook, etc. If you get the 'sports' package then you get espn.com. If you get the 'DIY' package you get some howto sites, craftsy, maybe thingiverse.

But what if you come up with a brand new DIY site that you wish to host ads, have logins and accounts with monthly fees, etc. How will anybody ever see your site with tiered internet? Your new site is not be in any of the predetermined packages. You would have to go to the ISP and beg/pay them to get your site added to the 'DIY' package just to even get any traffic at all, let alone users. It totally destroys innovation and tilts the playing field towards the existing incumbents.
What do lobbyists have to do with the NSA?
So is it still 1500 bucks?

And I guess they don't remember Trip Hawkins overpriced bid at entertainment dominance, the 3DO? Cause this thing has a the whiff of 3DO all over it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_3DO_Company
Come on, as if ABP innovated so much? ABP wasn't the first. I remember using an adblocker native in Firefox back around 2004 (and IIRC I even used on on Mozilla milestones). Back then, there were already /etc/hosts based alternatives (which also have always worked in Windows btw) as well, and a so-called personal firewall could also block ads. These existed for Windows 9x. We're talking end of '90s here.

As for the current direct comparison: uBlock yields better performance and doesn't have a shady track record [1]. Other than "I've always used this" or "I benefit if other people use this" (ie. am affiliated which you're not) I just do not see your point. So could you explain us why you pick ABP over uBlock?

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-effic...