skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should but the reason it will never happen is political. Just look at the comments here. Dozens of cyclists throwing a fit because you have the gall to suggest someone operating a vehicle on a public road might be subject to licensure. They'd never vote for a politician supporting that, and they'd work to defeat any who did. On the flip side, the folks who agree with this are not going to vote for a politician they otherwise wouldn't simply because they suppose bicyclist licensure.

It's the same reason why you need a dog license but not a cat license in many areas of the US. The cat people will freak out when you suggest a $10 license and nobody else gives a shit.
http://archive.is/oXuF8
Well, having to buy a new player every year just because the codecs change is not really great so I believe open codecs are better than proprietary ones.

Even worse you can't buy a license to play the content on the device of your choice(i.e your PC).
I hope Dolby will get the same medicine.
This is really exciting to me.

I know a lot of folks will probably see this as an old company trying to catch a ride on the cryptocurrency hype train, but to me this has always been the dream of cryptocurrency; a new class of technology to help solve types of problems previously very difficult to address, and it's awesome to see a >125 year old company taking a shot at adopting it for a novel use case (licensing of and payment for photography).

I'd very much rather see more stories like this than more early stage ICOs from alt coins made by a handful of people with unknown/dubious intentions.
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You can inspect the WhatsApp binary and prevent updates. Having to trust the server is a big deal.
I have seen it done similarly with sets of rumble strips as you approach an intersection in the middle of nowhere. No idea how effective they are at slowing people down, but generally the noise/vibration makes you at least a little bit more alert.
You load it into a register. If you're trying to drive it from a high level language, I guess you can do something like an add which will get compiled into instructions to load it into a register first.
Cant blame the higher minimum wage in some states (that still does not pay an actual living) on fast food firms using automation. It just makes sense for firms to do this.

If a job is pointless to a human (ie a human is STILL using food stamps while gainfully employed) then its a garbage job. We need to get rid of all the garbage jobs and the companies that supply them.
A non-profit architectural foundation of which I am part is proposing to rebuild the original beaux arts Penn Station: https://www.civicart.org/rebuilding-new-yorks-original-penns...

More: https://www.wsj.com/articles/campaigners-step-up-fight-to-re...

If there's demand, I could ask the team/architects to do an ama of some kind.
Yeah its one of those handy hacks. I like these because they allow changing the input data to be a substitute for a different algorithm/formulation. Transforming the input is often easier to do under a deadline than deploy a well tested new algorithm.

All that said, the typical regularized version of linear regression with the 'append 1' trick is no longer equivalent to the affine version one may have in mind. The difference is the weight that corresponds to the appended dimension would be regularized by a typical implementation of a regularized linear regression. Unless, of course, special care is taken to remove regularization on the appended dimension.
> Why shouldn’t cyclists need a license to ride on the road?

I don't think cyclists should need licenses to co-habit the roads with other vehicles. However, I think road safety education should be mandatory, perhaps in schools? When I attended (ordinary state) primary school we were all put through the RoSPA[0] Cycling Proficiency Test[1] at around ages 8-10. This was back in ~1977/78 so I'm showing my age :)

As I remember it the course was good fun. You got to use your own bike - I had a Raleigh Chopper :) - and the instructor set up different road layouts in the school playground to negotiate - he even had traffic lights and road signs. We were then lead out on the actual road where the instructor shepherded us through various real life challenges. We were even taught to perform "life saver" looks over our shoulders before carrying out any manoeuvres. At the end of the course we sat a test and were given wee metal triangular RoSPA badges.

I'm not sure if this is still a thing in schools now (I don't have any kids of my own), but I think it should be. Even basic education such as this prepared me to be a better driver, biker (i.e. life saver looks) and pedestrian.

[0]: https://www.rospa.com/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_Proficiency_Test
The GDPR (AFAIK, IANAL) applies to people inside the EU. An EU tourist traveling abroad would be subject to local laws.
Especially if your full-time job contract specifically prohibits you from getting a second job or doing side jobs.

If the company is buying all of your working time then they had damn well better be paying you at least a living wage.
Games designed to be played in 4K 60FPS HDR can feel pretty "future-proof". Playing Horizon Zero Dawn, an open world rpg with mech dinos, on the PS4 is stunning. Even if rather buggy. You are reminded it has been some time since you last were awed by the quality of snowflake particle effects.

I realize a $2K+ setup is beyond the reach of all but hard core enthusiasts. Especially as Gigabit connection speed availability is all but required. But 4K video will probably remain the standard for the next 4-5 year time frame.
Assuming startup you mean a tech businesses, how have you found moving to a town? Do you think having a wife is the primary reason you don't get bored to death doing that?

I grew up in a glorified shed on a small fishing island hours off the coast of Australia so the simple life in beautiful nature is something I miss. However I imagine it would be so boring not being able to work or socialise with similar people (tech minded.)
You're suggesting that requiring bicyclists to be licensed would kill people?
The issue is inescapably tied up with how you define consciousness. Note that it is not generally considered to be synonymous with self-consciousness.
The whole fluffy, purr machine gig is a ploy to lead you into a false sense of security. Evil and cunning.
Woah, after reading this article, my eyes have some lingering "lines", really messing with my head right now. Note to journalists/designers: DO NOT use black background with sharp contrasting white text.
> A few weeks later, a sewage pipe spewed waste onto a heavily trafficked concourse—an honest-to-God shitstorm. “I’m like, ‘Literally, it’s raining in Penn Station,’ ” recalls Marigo Mihalos, a booking agent from New Jersey who witnessed the fecal deluge on her way to work.

For those who have never been to Penn Station, this is an accurate description of it on a typical summer day.
Even if this is true, don't forget that in WhatsApp you don't get the message history when you join a group. Plus, everybody sees that someone joined. That doesn't take the problem away, but it makes the impact much smaller than it sounds.
I don't think the patent issues are at all resolved or easy. Variousparties hold patents and have no intention of designing a product around them and simply exist to extract rent from others.

They will wait till the format gains traction and then sue the players with the biggest bank accounts.

Most companies understand this, and will accordingly take it slow, preferring to deal with the known risk of existing codecs.
This country never fails to amuse me.

We lost a president without proof of any crime. The new president was NOT impeached because recordings of him talking about killing people is "not evidence enough". Taking away people's rights to retire at old age.

What's next? Heavy government surveilance like China? Maybe even higher surveilance, like the USA?
Ask HN: How about losses from crypto trading and tax deductions?
Everyone is talking about paying taxes from trading cryptocurrencies. But what if I buy a bitcoin at $15000 and then convert it into ETH a day later when a bitcoin is worth $14000. Can I claim that as a loss anywhere in my taxes?
One major concern about "turning bottom-tier jobs into more productive roles" is about the number of jobs. If 10,000 cashier jobs gets turned into 1,000 maintenance and guidance jobs, you've still put 90% of your workforce out of work.

While I don't think we should artificially protect such bottom-tier jobs, this transformation is still going to be very disruptive.
I used a Jack in the Box kiosk in San Diego. It was awesome; I almost always order the same thing and it would ring my usual by just swiping the credit card to pay for it.
Normally, I wouldn't bother to the cashier with the extras, since I had only ok success with them being done correctly. The kiosk order was always on point though.
The only friction was the time to make the food. (and in retrospect, the caloric content).
Penn, the Western Hemisphere’s busiest train station, serves 430,000 travelers
every weekday—more than LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark airports combined

That would surprise me.

According to Wikipedia Zurich main station served on average 441,400 per working day. And that's in a city of roughly 400'00 people (or 1.2M if you count the metropolitan area).

That's peanuts compared to monsters like Shinjuku in Tokyo, which was used on average by 3.64 million people per day in 2007.

So I'm wondering where they come up with the "western hemisphere busiest train station"
While I still trust Signal more than whatsapp, Moxie's "you can definitely trust Facebook" PR tour left me wondering if he had been compromised in some way.
or even better make torrenting over i2p
a) what about the economic incentives for early users? That is a pretty huge deal too, even if ICO funding wasn't possible.

b) it's not literally useless outside, you just have to exchange it for other coins to use it outside. Isn't that how cash in most countries work too? Besides, remember there's far less friction in exchanging app-specific tokens by another coin than there is in exchanging cash today.

Even if app-specific tokens do not become standard in the future, it's an interesting idea worth exploring. But the whole point is how different kinds of business models can be created due to the decentralized nature of blockchain, this is just one of them.
> What happens when a country decides to imposes its laws on the EU and demand that data in the EU is removed or blocked that it doesn't like.

I suspect that has happened before. The tool to resolve these disputes is called diplomacy.
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Unfortunately this doesn't have enough RAM or storage to do much of anything. Even basic asymmetric crypto usually requires more.
It is a short term capital loss.
This is so true: "quite afraid, scared of the fact that this beautiful thing that came into my life can be taken from me at any time by an uncaring cosmos."

That fear doesn't go away, and, as I indicated, it actually got worse over time for me. Not crippling/anxiety or anything like that, but comes out at random times, not to mention all the expected times (e.g., reading news, watching media, etc.).
Its always about the buzzwords... a few years ago I tried to buy a TV without 3D-support because I didn´t want to spend the money on a useless feature (for me). Guess what, no major brand offered a TV without 3D, I ended up buying the usual suspect. But now the situation has improved ! It got easy again to buy a TV without 3D-support at least :D
Same for the current must-have features...

I think the common nerd would love a dumb display with decent calibration etc. out-of-the-box, so he could just connect his favorite media-box and have fun for a reasonable price. But this isn´t where the profits are made!

edit: Because you could just replace your mediabox after a few years, when e.g. netflix stops playing on it. I´m really waiting for a new player who gives us this dumb high-quality display so many nerds are waiting for.
Which really is a shame. I think the terminology ought to be the other way around.
I was referring to the normal road itself, not the bicycle specific infrastructure. London for example would be fantastic for bikes if vehicles were removed. Most of the roads (even the narrow ones) are exactly the right size to accomodate a large number of bikes, but instead it is used to accomodate a very modest number of private cars. Even if there were no bikes or pedestrians our roads would still be wholly unsuitable for the volume of traffic. The country is riddled with narrow and windy single lane roads with very high commuter traffic.
Two of my family members take Vit D3. It has really helped them a LOT. Going from continuous pain in the legs to negligible pain.
I think having to ride a moped is a sufficient disincentive.
Most Jack in the Box orders are through the driv-thru, there’s not nearly as many people coming in to eat compared to McDonald’s. Adding Kiosks to their 10 urban locations would be a waste of money at this point.
The pyramid principle is probably the book you want to read on this.
Zurich, Tokyo and pretty much every other large train station aren't in the "Western Hemisphere":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere
Presumably because Zurich is not in the Western Hemisphere.
I think that adding a (permissive) license is the missing step from this "tutorial". If you want people to use your project you are going to need to give them permission to do so.
The other problem is that the 10,000 cashiers likely won't be qualified to fill the 1,000 maintenance/programming positions.
We wrote the same sentence, but I am posting it anyway...”greed and speculation today becomes genuine mass distrust and dislike of all things cryptocoin/token tomorrow.”

It’s all fun and games until the IRS comes knocking at your door for failing to pay taxes on each and every cryptokitty transaction.

People thought blockchain and Bitcoin was a way to escape fiat...turns out mining is taxed as ordinary income, investing transactions as capital gains, and the IRS only accepts fiat.

People thought Ethereum smart contracts were a way to escape the legal system (the code being Law and all)...turns out people could’nt trust these smart contracts to do what they thought and were marketed to do (DAO); turns out the code isn’t the Law because the parties to the smart contracts could just fork and break the contract; and it turns out the SEC can actually regulate and prosecute ICOs that violate securities laws.

Who wants to file a tax return and pay ordinary income on every cryptokitty they birth or capital gains on every cryptokitty they sell?

Maybe I can get ahead of the ball and start offering “stripe atlas for self directed IRA LLCs for tax free cryptocoin/kitty trading”.
Like others, I specifically picked Signal over WhatsApp due to the problem of trusting proprietary apps. I think that the UK Govt Ministers that use WhatsApp to coordinate their actions should switch to whatever GCHQ recommends for givt business – I'm sure that they haven't approved WhatsApp.
Do a search and see a thread from several days ago. Just started, first 6K and later on 10K/day. No conclusions for me yet.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16062697
Cycling is similar KSI (killed-seriously-injured) per hour travelled as driving and walking according to some measurements. The trick is in calculating exposure: per-trip, per-distance and per-time all give different results. Per-time often suggests that cycling is safer compared to other modes of transport[1]. Per-trip and per-distance flip between cycling and driving[2]. Interestingly, being a public transit user works out the safest under both of these metrics.

" I also understand that there are bad chauffeurs on the road too, but from my experience, far less than bad cyclists..."

Your comment, which to be fair is not unusual, is essentially concern trolling. This impression is reinforced by your retailing of your measureless anecdote about how cyclists are worse than car drivers for being "bad".

Essentially, cycling is safe enough. Cyclists are not worse than any other road users. However compared to other road users they are not contributing to CO2 and are substantially less likely to kill other road users or suffer health problems stemming from low exercise levels.

[1] http://careymcandrews.org/pdf/McAndrews_et_al_Accident_Anal_...
[2] https://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/article/download/3621...
I’ll put basic stuff in here, which should be obvious but from talking with ophthalmologists, often doesn’t happen:

- visit an eye doctor on whatever schedule they recommend (usually every other year) and immediately if your vision changes.

“Immediately” is not “I’ll call/go if it’s still a happening in 2-3 days” like it might be for, say, going to the doctor with fever. Don’t wait.

- When I’m wearing contacts, I usually take them out and re-wet them (not just eye drops) in the middle of the day.

- Obvious but statstically, someone reading this probably does it: don’t ever reuse contact solution.
I stand corrected.

Thanks
I talk to more cryptographers over WhatsApp than Signal.
You can basically apply your logic to every single patent free item in the human history.
What do you mean? I didn't see any details on how this will work on Kodak's site.
I'd be interested to know as well. I bought a 50" Emerson "dumb" TV a few years ago, and anytime I consider upgrading all I ever see is smart TVs.

I plug the TV into a HTPC so I really don't need any smart TV feature, ever.
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"Speculated instructions" is ambiguous, because it includes instructions that are retired, and we specifically care about the ones that aren't.
This is sad. Flight is the most contaminating form of transportation.
To state the obvious:

Build two new tubes besides the existing ones, the take the existing ones out of service, renovate them, bam.

Now you've got 4 (?) tubes and much fewer delays.
Ok got it. You can try anything in the PRC, it’s just that the results are either unpredictable or perversely predictable.
An ancient 'City of Dwarfs'?
Which then freeze up 9,000 low-skilled workers to do ~anything else that was impractical 5 years ago.

98% of US population used to be farmers for sustainability. Automation of farming freed up that workforce, today only 2% of the population directly farms. That (insanely high) percentage of displaced workforce is what allowed other other industries to spring up. Yes, jobs don't exist for those 9k workers - but the workforce being freed is exciting as it opens up entire potential markets that were simply impractical prior. There will always be growing pains - how do you retrain a cashier to be ~anything else? Same with Toll Booth workers on highways and the like, what else will those people do? But that's where the Govt should step in, ease the point edges of progress. Free market is great, but it does leave significant portions of individuals behind in the shortrun.
> a bit like complaining that it is problematic marching a centuria down the middle of the A59 out of York, given that is what the Romans designed it for.

Thank you, this observation has brightened up an otherwise mundane Wednesday.
Look at the Guinness World Records book, finding strange hobbies to master is a very common hobby.
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You could be right but the businessmodel of most of these companies is that you pay with your data.
For those of us who are less informed, could you recommend a couple of them?
For people interested in this:

"A capital loss realized on the sale or exchange of a capital asset that has been held for exactly one year or less. Net short-term losses are limited to a maximum deduction of $3,000 per year, which can be used against earned or other ordinary income.

Short-term losses are determined by calculating all short term gains and losses declared on Part II of Schedule D. If the net figure is a loss, then any amount above $3000 must be deferred until the following year. For example, if a taxpayer has a net short-term capital loss of $10,000, then he can declare a $3000 loss each year for three years, deducting the final $1000 in the fourth year following the sale of the assets."
I have never understood the "fixed supply" fetishism.

I have never understood why people dismiss the issue as unimportant. Any new coin that uses a scarcity model similar to Bitcoin's (which is almost all of them) should be immediately criticized and forced to prove its suitability as a currency sufficient to meet the demands of the market it's hypothetically supposed to serve someday.

Consider Monopoly. The entire game is based around the the dynamics of an economy that grows faster than the money supply[0]. As the economy grows (via house and hotel upgrades), it becomes harder and harder for players to maintain a usable amount of money due to the higher rent charges on upgraded properties. When they're unable to pay a charge, they are declared bankrupt and must leave the game. As players leave the game, the economy slows and shrinks again, but the deflation is still sufficient to bankrupt all but one player.

You can run a simple experiment to test this dynamic. Play the game with "house rules" that give $500 to anyone who lands on "free parking." When I was a kid, we played this way. The resulting inflation causes the game to never end. Another, more interesting option would be to allow players to borrow money from the bank, and see how long that would extend the game. Maybe even tune the lending terms to see what works best.

Any "currency" with a fixed supply will encounter this problem. Divisibility does not help, as the problem is what payments wealth-creators will accept for their goods and services. If none of their target audience can afford to pay using crypto, but CAN afford to pay using local currency... they're going to use the local currency every single time.

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/426022/inflation-game-monop...
Samsung’s TVs are the best in the game, it’s ashame that they are “noisy”. No matter how much I try to disable leaky software features, there’s always something I miss: I had a roommate ask if he could connect to my TV because he could see it broadcasting a signal to Samsung phones =(
And that is why I/they specified that we where talking about this particular corner of the Sahara, not the whole desert.
At the same time, those same CEOs will create jobs and add employees if they think it will drive revenue or improve the business.

An easy example with the fast food restaurants is that they keep opening new locations.
Not sure what this means, but while I'm mining Monero on the CPU with xmr-stak the PoC is thwarted.

First, the "Direct physical map offset" comes back wrong in Demo #2. Second, if I use the correct offset, the reliability is around 0.5% in Demo #3 - but not consistently... after a few tries it did come back with >99%

Basically, screw up your caches continuously.
Wait:

- Curb Weight: 1100lbs

- Max Takeoff Weight: 1500lbs

So... you, your passenger, and any cargo combined can't weigh more than 400 pounds? That's a pretty serious limit for people hoping to transport multiple adults. And "precision agriculture" or the sorts of practical uses they discuss all go right out the window.
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Facebook and Xiaomi will release a VR-helmet specifically for the Chinese market
I'd say the licensing regimes should be set at a level that's proportionate to the number of deaths of others caused by that kind of vehicle, i.e. consider the number of other road users killed per year by every 10000 cars/bikes/bus-passengers/pedestrians/.... (perhaps as a QALY calculation to take into account serious injuries as well). Modes where that number is higher should have their licensing requirements made stricter, modes where that number is lower should have their licensing requirements relaxed.
"Flaw"
Side project income 2017