skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am only guessing, from what I know of Apple. So dont take my word as concrete information.

Apple uses Opus too, I think IETF announced it as a RFC standard. ( If my memory serve me correct )

But Apple only support the usage of Opus in limited ways.

So why would Apple not use it? If we forget about the patents and royalty fees for the moment. AV1 isn't necessarily better then HEVC from Apple's prospective.

HEVC is actually a standard, and has been for many years. There are many difference implementation of HEVC encoder and decoder, all adhering to this standard and conformance. Even Apple has their own implementation, there are Open Sources like x265, and many other commercial solution as well. AV1 isn't a standard, ( yet ) and there is one and only one implementation. Now before any geeks starting arguing about software benefits of implementation as standard over written standard, you need to think of this not as a pieces of software ( While it certainly is ), but a tools for professionals. Those who do TVs, and movies, etc all wanted something different and they want choices.

Google, or On2 to be precise; continuing its tradition of over hyping its codec. AV1 at its start was no where near 30% better then HEVC. And since they claim AV1 is now another 30% better then their initial version, you would have expect it to be 1.3 x 1.3 better then HEVC. But truth to be told AV1 when tested by panel of expert provide tangible better results then HEVC, at the cost of much slower encoding time. While that was done a while ago and AV1 has since improved a lot more, we shall wait and see when it finalized.

Everyone has been saying they will be forced to support AV1 because of Netflix and Youtube. Well that is only half correct because Netflix are already encoding in HEVC. And Netflix, has yet to provide their newer results of HEVC vs AV1. My guess is that they are waiting for AV1 to finalize. VMAF is a lot better then all other PSNR or SSIM, but it is still not perfect.

There are zero Full hardware AV1 decoder ( There may be partial Hardware decode that could be enabled with update, but you be the judge how many hardware manufacture is going to enable that then to sell you something new ) , but there are billions of devices capable of decoding HEVC already.

So apart from being royalty free, AV1 doesn't have a lot of advantage to it. The question is, for most business, will using AV1 saves me more money in the long term then using HEVC.

Apple joining on board, with No Press Release from AOM, and only Cnet manage to pick up, suggest this may be an Intentional leak. Or one way of Apple saying, HEVC Groups, you either do as I say and lower your fees, allow free software decode implementation ( One of the group already allows that ), or you know what? You can hold on to your patents for as long as you want and you wont earn a single dent in the billion of iOS devices in the future.
I think this is too dark a post, but it shows a useful shock: Computer Science likes to live in proximity to pure mathematics, but it lives between EE and mathematics. And neglecting the EE side is dangerous - which not only Spectre showed, but which should have been obvious at the latest when Rowhammer hit.

There's actual physics happening, and we need to be aware of it.

If you want to prove something about code, you probably have to prove microop semantics upward from verilog, otherwise you're proving on a possibly broken model of reality.

Second-order effects are complicated.
My understanding is that this tweet https://twitter.com/taylorotwell/status/590281695581982720?l... kickstarted the Vue popularity. Taylor Otwell is the creator of Laravel.

Here's Evan You (creator of Vue) https://youtu.be/D_z-RAweP1k?t=3m9s talking about the tweet.
Adidas and Berlin created sneakers that give free access to public transport
Amazing that there is supposed to be a $100B of value here and the big announcement is a pilot program.
Better now than later, because the other one is pretty famous open source cross tool.

BTW: what does that name mean?
OK so do we finally get proper lisp machines now?
> "Allowed"? She phrases that to make it sound like Equifax just left the front door open. In truth, they were hacked by sophisticated criminals (possibly state sponsored), who pinpointed a flaw in their security and exploited it.

Maybe you haven't heard about one of the exploits, but leaving the front door open is what I would call using "admin" as both username and password. This also implies no further configuration was done past install and setup...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/14/equifax-used-admin-for-the-l...
>Do you want me to keep going?

Yes, I'd really like to gather all this up and look into it.
An opinion about religion is not a religious belief. Saying "I don't believe Muhammad was a prophet" is a religious belief, but saying "Islam breeds terrorism" is not.
Just to advertise this addendum a bit more!

The Kempe-chain proof of the 5-colouring of any planar graph is easy and beautiful.
Vibot| key-based video creation tool (no video file is required)
'AI' is such a meaningless buzzword that you could simply rename a product to sidestep any pointless regulation.
I've heard it with "rots" in place of "stinks", but otherwise verbatim.
My sister works for Disney and I am polite about, but I still place Disney on the same tier as Backwater(Academi) in terms of evil.

If you are an Animator I get it they treat you well and it's a small industry. However, objectively they cause an immense amount of direct and indirect harm.
The lack of self-awareness in this piece is staggering. For the record, I don't consider myself right wing or left wing but to paint anyone who differs with yourself as a bigot is short-sighted. The very definition of a bigot includes someone with an intolerance of opinions that are different from your own.

> The new right feeds off this narrative of victimhood.

The left in the U.S. dug it's own grave this last election by pandering to victimhood culture. Everyone who disagreed with their opinion was labeled racist, sexist, etc. Victimhood has utterly polluted the left in the U.S. It should not be surprising when the right starts to co-opt this narrative.

> Liberals, for example, value “compassion”, whereas conservatives value “authority”.

It's amazing how the left fancies itself as anti-authority, yet turns to the nanny-state government and shaming to impose political correctness on everyone else. Instead of letting free markets sort out problems, there is endless insistence that we should turn to the government and new laws to impose equal outcome. How much authority we should implement is a valuable discussion, but trying to pretend the left is anti-authority is laughable.

> I discriminate against people who are right wing and conservative. I’m entirely happy to say so. I don’t view it as hypocrisy to judge people by their personal qualities, rather than their background and appearance. If people are bigots and bullies, I will judge them for that.

bigot (bĭgˈət)►
n.	One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

> It used to be conservatives who were more concerned with “character”. It is odd that the idea of decency and personal responsibility has now become the domain of progressives.

It used to be liberals were more concerned with judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin but now prefer to group people into race, sex, sexual preference, and scream about inequality. The most important thing to the left is diversity of outward appearance like skin color rather than diversity of opinion.
I'm pretty sure you let your defenses against invasive advertising rot if you live in your adblocker bubble. You know, pathogens and immune systems and such...
Have one process block on waiting for user keyboard input and send the keyboard input to your main process for actual reaction. That way the input is only blocking a completely separate process and not your main worker process.
> against anti-discrimination provisions

Says who?
> bitbucket.org is just Atlassian's copy of BitBucket, which you can buy from them and hose yourself.

This is incorrect. Bitbucket Cloud and Server are two completely separate codebases. On the other hand, GitHub Enterprise is basically a snapshot of the production GitHub application.
I am curious if the FM chip is able to listen outside of the typical 88-108 MHz.
"Anti-Diversity" is a dog-whistle for a slew of brain-dead progressive groupthink, in the same way that "globalist" is, essentially, an anti-semitic slur.

If you believe that your company should hire the best and most qualified people for the job, you probably hold "anti-diversity" views.

If you do not believe me, below are some examples of "rascist" and "sexist" statements, per the University of Minnesota:

http://sph.umn.edu/site/docs/hewg/microaggressions.pdf

Examples:

“I believe the most qualified person should get the job.”

“America is a melting pot.”

“Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.”

“Where were you born?”

“You speak good English.”
This would be my use case too. But data is extremely cheap here in India (as of now at least; after Jio happened). My main concern was huge battery drain while using data.
Cause of symptoms affecting Canadian diplomats in Cuba remains a mystery
It seems like all signal has to do is to take the step of validating that the member sending the "group management" message is already in the group first.
Canada passed a law against it, the Proceeds of Crime act.
HFTs == market makers. You need market makers in order to have a functioning, liquid market. Absence of market makers -> higher volatility.

Market makers can lose a lot of money under certain market conditions. Their profit margins are rather small. Market makers are practically heros.
my initial comment was about each tweet in that thread misrepresenting what was said. Your willingness to accept those misrepresentations and try and have an argument about that is not germane to my original point. But downvote away.
> Team Mill - we're immune too and will put out a light paper on how these attacks apply to in-order processors that support speculation and what we're doing to prevent them

Will this be sent to the mailing list when released?
W. James was on the border of philosophy and psychology, and is probably better read as the former today.

Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/325

(Thanks to rusk) Internet Archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22James%2C+W...
Ugh, people are still using Skype?
Just a random op-ed (read: Rando with an opinion that happens to be under the auspices of NYT) that provides nothing new to the discussion.

Poo-poos concerns of AIs influence on the economy and human safety, with laughable comparisons.

For example it argues that people don't agree on what AI is therefore somehow regulating it is premature... (Why would that matter?).

The clarity of thought is this piece is negligible.

So let's clarify:

- Some people are [rightly] concerned about technology in general. As it becomes more powerful (knives then guns then nukes) the ability for a few people to ruin the world for everyone increases.

- Some people are [rightly] worried about technology's role in concentration of wealth.

- Some people are [rightly] worried about existential threats "grey goo"/black-mirror/robocop/Ex-machina.

The role in AI is that it makes each of these threats much more dangerous (e.g. putting AI in drones, AI's effect on the uneducated people's employability, Robocop)

[Author doesn't attempt to provide evidence against any of these claims, but just argues the concept is used in a vague way therefore somehow doesn't count]
>in the summer of 1970, Newsweek ran a cover story titled “Is Privacy Dead?” detailing the “massive flanking attack” of computers on modern society. Growing awareness of that threat led to broad appeals that echo modern proposals to regulate A.I. “Eventually we have to set up an agency to regulate the computers,” Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina said in 1970.

>But instead of regulating all computers, the government sought a targeted approach tailored to specific problems, passing regulations like the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1974.

Thereby solving the problems of digital intrusions on privacy, and credit scores forever. Oh wait, no, I guess those both those things are incredibly broken. Digital privacy is notoriously non-existent, infringed on by the state, criminals, and business. Credit and financial information is impossible to keep safe and available to any cyber criminal who wants it.

It's odd that the author's two examples of when the government got something right by not preemptively intervening both turned out so poorly.

AI is fundamentally different from privacy, credit, or any other invention that has happened before. The implications of this technology are too vast for us not to spend time and money thinking about how to proceed safely. We may only get one shot at developing true AI correctly, and establishing a public office to help figure out how to do that seems like the least we could do.

If anyone finds themselves agreeing with this author, I highly recommend Nick Bostrum's book Super Intelligence. If you don't have the time for a whole book Sam Harris has a good TED talk on the subject.
Over the years I have come to understand that comparing USA with other countries for healthcare etc is comparing apple's to oranges. As the variance from state to state in the USA is too wide. Here is an interesting stat http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/teen-death-rate
> ...this doesn't seem like it is at all worth giving up 1% of battery life.

I view it differently. Percent of battery life isn't an interesting metric in a vacuum. It's whether you easily/regularly get the phone back to a charger without it feeling burdensome. That is to say, does the phone last all your waking hours without threatening to turn off.

I own one of these fancy new Pixel 2's. I find that the phone is usually above 30% when I'm returning to bed at night. The music detection has proved useful at times, and a single percent of battery isn't going to make me sweat.

However, in a year or two, when the battery starts losing performance, you may be right. My old phone, a 5X, often dipped close to 5% by the time I got to bed. I had to go out of my way to find a charger, which was frustrating. Sacrificing yet another bit of battery for this feature would only make that worse.
Bitcoin is no long the only game in crypto-currency town
I once had a dream where I grew a second body out of my spine, then it separated and I was both. I saw what both pairs of eyes were seeing, and had independent motor control over both bodies. So I experienced that one in plural first-person, I guess, as an "us".

As I recall it, the major problem was trying to decide which would be the one to go to work, and which would stay home, and whether making the obvious choice was sexist or not. The bodies were not identical. And they could have an argument of sorts. I eventually sent the "wrong" one to work, and I was disappointed when no one noticed that I was a different me that day. I spent most of my day at work playing video games at home.

Even just remembering this one makes my head hurt. Our brains are definitely not designed for that kind of multitasking.
If i look at the effects of piracy - which is a humanity happy and busy without environmental damage, and the damage which is one guy not getting to buy his third yacht- yes, thats a good trade. Its also one of the reasons why most governments of this world are in so lackluster pursuit of piracy.

Why would one want to take away the opium from the masses?
Might be better to actually post a rebuttal.
Yeah, Microsoft moving to a model where "lawful intercept" is no longer possible would be hugely surprising.
Hype Meets Reality as Electric Car Dreams Run into Metal Crunch
Same can be said of CryCash: https://crycash.io/

CryTek was on the verge of bankruptcy a year ago when they were unable to pay their employees. The one-time payment from Amazon in exchange for the engine distribution rights is probably running out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/7l640w/crytek_has_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/5wzlf2/crytek_empl...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-12-20-crytek-breaks-s...
yeah right.
It seems you guys missed the point of the comment. It's not a generic rant about Bezos being rich. That would be against HN posting guidelines.

Bezos has enough money to feed the world BUT doesn't even pay his own employees enough to feed themselves. "Evil corporations" like AT&T and Comcast have taken their Trump tax windfall to pay bonuses to all hands. Amazon takes the money and pockets it... while their employees are food insecure.
This is like saying a compiler bug in a safe language ends langsec. Which is obviously absurd. It means the implementation had a flaw, but that doesn't make the whole thing worthless. And when the flaw is fixed the same guarantees are restored.
I guess I'll be downvoted to hell, but.... This absolutely stinks. Signal is most likely blessed by the NSA. This is a ruse to get people comfortable with using Skype again for confidential conversations. Ever since Microsoft bought Skype and completely gutted it, it's been an open secret that they only did so to fulfill an $8B RFP by the NSA to break Skype's encryption.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8106721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254925

edit: added sources
Ask HN: Download Hacker News user list
Can I take a snapshot of all the hacker news users somehow? I looked at the API and it seems I can only get 1 user at a time. Do I have to crawl all the stories and their comments to find the folks who actually use the site?

api:
https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Based on what do you respectfully disagree? I'd be curious to hear your reasons for thinking the "good" reasons you mention aren't in fact good.
With 100B XRP eventually in circulation, $10 would give it a preposterous market cap. The current price is based on only 38B tokens in circulation.
Walden, a game
For what reasons?
Sadly this is only for SnapDragon based Samsung S8s. No good for my Exynos-based version in the UK.
You can't make a claim like that and not cite any sources.
Gitcoin already exists :) https://gitcoin.co/
Did they remove some e2e encryption or did they just start running the supernodes themselves/move closer to a centralized architecture?
I'm less familiar with Spectre than Meltdown but part of the issue to me seemed to be that everything hinged on the principal of memory isolation. To the point where all of physical memory was mapped from the kernel which was mapped to the user address space. It felt to me like having 1 great big lock and assuming it couldn't be broken.

I get that when you make the assumption that you cannot depend on memory isolation a lot goes out the window, but could there be a more layered approach that lessens the damage done when some assumption like that is challenged or is it appropriate to wait until that time to make changes?

The amount of damage possible when that assumption is chosen to be false seems to warrant considering changing the way process memory is mapped. This is at a software level but its similar to what you were saying, when is speed and performance going to be sacrificed for preemptive security measures? I'm sure that it already is in some ways since all security has a performance hit, but allocating processes and virtual memory is such a core feature of the kernel that I can imagine the performance hit could be significant (or was it just laziness to map all of physical memory to the kernel address space?)
It is that as well, but the group that always shows up to comment on these threads isn't going to understand that.
I don't think that there is any philosophical difficulty in distinguishing an animal from a coffee table. Intelligence is a broad concept which can be defined or measured in several ways. One definition is the ability to act upon the environment to achieve one's goals.

In contrast, there is an epistemic problem about whether other minds exist: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/other-minds/
Ah, that makes sense. I figured they wouldn't have anything blasting out of the ISS, so I was wondering if it was some sling shot or mini-trebuchet apparatus.
Ask HN: What are the career opportunities?
EDIT : I am 30 years old. I am changing my career. I want to learn programming. But I have not programmed ever before. How can I start my career in tech world?
Regulations generally start out by defining the thing they're regulating. You can call it whatever you want, but if it fits the law's definition, it's going to be covered.
http://ir.moneygram.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1046981

$900 million in debt. Assets minus liabilities is around -$184 million.
Try emailing the mods hn@ycombinator.com ,they may provide more info.
The problem with voting
My point was indeed to highlight the EU as a source of peace/stability.

But, excess profit taxes are a thing, used to prevent the perverse incentives of capitalism during wartime.

Bankrupting the country and bankrupting corporate interests are different things.
I'm not following too well.. what is the exact motivation for including FM chips that are going to be disabled in the first place?

What series of events lead to FM capable hardware being incidentally included, but disabled in modern smartphones?
Some ex-Skype developers created http://Wire.com with open-source E2E encryption and mobile apps that are usable by regular people.
You know what else absolutely stinks? Skype in general. I cannot fathom why something so simple as remembering conversation history is beyond their engineers.
>but there still is a transaction cost.

And that will be higher if they're using the same token that the general public are speculating on.
How GlassDollar is using machine learning to better connect founders and investors
Make more sense be just an simple "App" in phone.

Customers drive to a store, order with the app, wait in the car or in store. When the food is ready, pickup in drive thru/in person.

Also, with the "App" it is easier to "log" customer's preference, allow customer to feedback on quality and select from older orders or suggest trying out new choices.
That's a good point about long past experience shading future interactions, but I don't feel it exempts from harsh judgment. The ability to consider individuals separately from some of their membership groups is a core skill of being a mature adult.

If Doctorow doesn't have the mental "executive control" we expect of adults, we need to be aware of it. This includes being ready to defend people he insults and to give him less opportunity for it.

The grandparent poster might actually be doing the hard labor of doing good within Disney, as are thousands of others. I contrast that with how easy it is to stand outside the castle (almost literally in Disney's sense) and throw stones at the walls. If GP is someone working for good within a bad organization (aren't a lot of us?) then I have respect for them. That is really hard, wearing work.

Anyway, on the sliding scale of judgement and forgiveness, just stating that I judge Doctorow more harshly than you and am less forgiving of his attacking a person for the behavior of one group they happen to be a member of.
How did he get the data? It's pretty hard to pull the reviews and the data from yelp. I tried to do that to do some querying, but their search isn't so great and they pull a lot of stunts to prevent you from scraping.

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Oh, I see he's using the kaggle data. That's not guaranteed to be reliable.
You realize this pretty much proves the people arguing in favor of diversity's point right? (rhetorical question)
Nope, he's being sarcastic.