skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We Must Fight Even Harder Against Trump's Authoritarian Impulses Now That We've Voted To Enable Them" is another true to life, accurate Onion article. Obama administration certainly made no effort to correct any of the Bush DoJ authorized spying programs, until Wired and then Snowden forced some kind of response, resulting in FISA. Which seems to be a star court that refuses to answer any questions from congress or deny any request. https://politics.theonion.com/pelosi-we-must-fight-even-hard...

It's a shit show everywhere. Very very few congress-people seem to have any backbone what-so-ever. Ron Wyden of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is one of the only people that seems to even try to ask questions, and he is shut down and denied by the military at every turn. https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/dont-pass-surv...
Also TreeSize: https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
Simple sorted text works nicely too: https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
> 1-2Tb

What blockchain are you talking about? The Bitcoin blockchain is between 150 and 160 GB
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is great and all, but you also have to factor in the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy. How many news articles are you reading which comport with your pre-existing knowledge?

We remember the times when you're sure an article is wrong, we have amnesia towards all the of the other times.
> the baby does not arrive brain damaged.

Or the woman dies.
Whole Foods is the retailer equivalent of an in-vogue celebrity. News about celebrities are far more interesting than competent businesspeople.
The housing market formulas did not make sense. They assumed that default probabilities were uncorrelated.
I feel blue balled. Article ended before we learned how and why he stopped robbing banks. We barely scratched the surface of his thoughts on Kant.
I want this in Go!
If they allowed tinkering with the Hero4, I think quite a lot. Live action VR came to life from using Hero3 & Hero4 cameras right off the shelf. There were people that figured out how to control the hsync & vsync of the Hero3 to help capture stereoscopic recordings. This solution was broken with the Hero4. However the lack of this level of sync made the GoPro footage incredibly difficult to get good stitches in VR.

When GoPro teamed up with Google to develop the Odyssey, they created a back pack to communicate with all of the attached cameras to get the desperately needed syncing between all cameras. Not only did all 16 cameras start/stop in sync, all 16 were in hsync & vsync. It's as close to a genlock as one could get with a GoPro. However, this was a closed system as the only way to get these backpacks was with an Odyssey camera system. I tried to acquire additional backpacks to add to the existing 16 to add top and bottom coverage to complete the sphere, but GoPro said no.

There are many camera people that love/hate GoPro. Loved because you can put them anywhere, and the picture quality is actually decent for what it is on the Hero4. However, they are crap to work with interface and control wise. Allowing tinkering in this world would also allow camera techs to possibly do some cool stuff that GoPro might not care to invest time. The Canon firmware hack, MagicLantern, specifically comes to mind. The exact same hardware with different programming pretty much makes it a different camera. Canon can't incorporate it, as it would cannibalize their other verticals. GoPro could have embraced/encouraged this level of tinkering as they only really have one camera type.
You realize there are several fortune 500 companies whose products are based on FreeBSD, right?

The same cannot be said for netbsd or dragonfly. To call FreeBSD a "hobbyist OS" shows a distinct ignorance of the market.
you can buy a 200GB microSD card for ~$70 or $0.35/GB ...
I have been waiting for this conversation.

I do the grocery shopping in our house 90% in-store shopper (I like to pick out my produce and discover new stuff) 10% online delivery - San Francisco, Franklin Location. Here are the the things that they have gotten really wrong for me...

1. Quality Eggs. This is expensive. It requires sourcing locally and refrigeration at every step. I use to have options to buy from 3+ fantastic pasture raised egg options (almost farmers market quality). This has deteriorated to 1 option. I happily pay $9 a dozen.

2. Don't put the tofu with the dairy. They moved a lot of vegan/vegetarian favorites next to the milk and butter. Customers were complaining while I was in the store. They did not fix it. This might save on energy in the long run but is a tone def move.

3. Staying Local. I will stop shopping at WF if they don't carry local produce. This is expensive and managing each supply chain goes against lowering pricing.

I don't think Amazon wants to keep the demographic. I think they will be a Ralphs or Safeway in 5 years. The next conversation will be quality and keeping the historical whole foods demographic, in these early days I am not sure that is their vision.
Article doesn't really say much of anything.
You act as though they don't run code exposed to the internet that could be used to leverage this privilege escalation. Talk about short sighted...
That's why I said would have. I don't know whether this has yet occurred to a significant degree or not. I just can't imagine any investor confidence in something that's so easy clones by generics, especially when people were using the trademarked name for the general product category.
huh. On the other hand,there's costco, which quite often doesn't have the same things they had the last time you were there, not because they are out, but because they switched to a different product for that section.
NEW EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR TINNITUS
Pretty much all new deployment of Power that IBM has sold since the release of POWER8 is little endian. Distro support is very quickly shifting to be little endian only as well.

(disclaimer: IBMer)
Hawaii’s false alert shows the sorry state of government technology
> Why isn't it law that Hospitals provide transparent pricing for non-emergency procedures?

Medicare would oppose this tooth and nail. The lack of pricing transparency enables them to keep reimbursing less than cost, because they can expect private insurers to be forced to pay the difference.
From what I noticed at other SJCAM isn't great in low light conditions.
The missing word in this title is "yet". It's kind of hard to know the definitive outcome of this incident on Google's profits and reputation, Pichai's own employment and legacy, etc. at this point.

He doesn't regret it right now, but he may yet regret it someday. Either way this lawsuit goes, Google is going to lose from it. Bloomberg nailed it when it said:

"There are expensive, time-consuming, exasperating lawsuits, and then there are radioactive lawsuits that poison everyone who comes within a mile of them. And this lawsuit almost certainly falls into the latter category."
> and a software bug inadvertently created by Theurer, where a 12% chance of 40 credits being obtained by a player scoring 170,000 points in one game can occur

I'd love to know the details of that bug. All I've been able to find is this quote which doesn't really explain things:

The fact you can earn 40 free games with a certain score was the fault of developer Dave Theurer himself. He had created a special security code to protect against piracy which checked the placement of different objects. If the objects were not in the correct place, the game would shut down. Before the game was shipped, however, Theurer, who would fuss over minute details, noticed an Atari logo was off-center. He adjusted it slightly. This small change caused the code to malfunction and the player to earn 40 free credits if a certain score was reached.

Also, I seem to recall the bug makes an appearance in the plot of Ready Player One.
His hypothesis is that Amazon will ship prime items first, even when the prime order is placed after non-prime orders.

Non-prime items won't see similar shipping priority until near the end of their deadlines.

It's to minimize prime-order shipping latency as much as possible. Incenticizing prime is a happy side-effect.
The assumption is that there are only "a small number of faulty or corrupted sensors."
I'm in the "love it" camp. Most of the time, anyway. I guess everyone has a bad day every now and then. To me, it seems like getting paid to solve puzzles.

Writing new code is way more fun that maintaining old code. Creating a new application is almost like a form of art.
hashgraph?

https://hashgraph.com/
Killer UX Design
Maybe as a hardware company, but what if they just became a content producer? They already have a GoPro channel. Although, I think RedBull has them beat. RedBull uses lots of action cam footage, but what makes their footage great is that they take full cameras and rigging out to crazy places to get that cinematic look as action video. Yeah, maybe they are finished...
You ignored the parts where I said "already has a different meaning" and "that seems more confusing".
MSB0 is convention in basically all IBM documentation (including PowerPC/Power Architecture stuff), hence all the Freescale/NXP PPC manuals follow.

The main practical problem with MSB0 is that you need to consider the width of whatever field or register you're looking at to work out the correct bit shift.
I wish more websites would go back to header/sidebar/content layouts and rather than trying to impress with all the gimmicky crap and random layout, would again start trying to inform.
People often confuse engineering and design. Slack has a very good design team, the UX is far above IRC or competing solutions and everything flows and works in a way that most users expect. The engineering itself is not the strong point, that's for sure. Slow, bandwidth hungry, memory intensive, strange syncing problems, security issues, etc.
How to MAKE THUMBNAIL
If you own a GoPro, you probably have had to buy a second one. I personally do not know of a single GoPro owner that has not damaged/lost/whatever their camera. After you buy the first one at full price today, do you buy a second one or go out and buy something else? It used to be that you could only get another GoPro, so GoPro sales looked good. Now, for $70, why not try the something else? Based on sales, looks like a lot of people are choosing the latter.
“Data collected by EFF from across the state show that only .08% of vehicle plates captured by police ALPRs are connected to a crime.

Lol. What percentage of cars are connected to crime?
During my brief time working for an Icelandic company they flew me over and we had a party the final day together. I had asked about the shark and they obliged but they told me it's essentially for tourists at this point. Regardless it was pretty awful and I'm quite an adventurous eater.
> Wrong. Property taxes (even those limited to residential property) hit renters at least as much as people living in homes they own. Sure, the landlord gets the tax bill, but that immediately goes into setting rent.

To a degree; see the argument for land value tax which is close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency

If the supply of homes are relatively inelastic, the landlords are already maximizing the rent the market will pay. So they can't pass tax increases on to renters -- as they are already charging the maximum renters would pay!

(This starts to break down only if new housing is no longer built due to lower returns or owners devalue their housing to cut taxes)
The writing style is pretty nice but yeah it feels like an introduction more than an entire article.

Would read more though.
Iris Automation Is Hiring a Hardware Engineer – Collision Avoidance for Drones
And the storage space could be put to better use -- important in cities where cost/sq ft is high.
In Austria if you are self enployed there is a mandate for medical insurance and pension contributions. If you are employed there is a mandate which is shared with the employer.
We probably believe morally monstrous things. What should we do about that?
I wouldn't be so sure DJI already makes better cameras. For whatever reason, DJI made a decision to go their own way. Maybe irreconcilable differences with GoPro, maybe GoPro unwilling to work with them, whatever the reason, DJI cameras have long since marginalized the need to a GoPro on their gear.
Hmm. Why top level comments are closed?
Not sure about Storage Spaces, but for non-local files in Onedrive on Windows 10 there are two size columns in WizTree for size and space on disk. Not sure it lets you select which value is used for ordering though.
> This is just giving UX a bad name.

It's a question if UX already isn't an orwellian term for "be cheap on UI" or "target lowest common denominator of users". I don't know, but you should ask that question yourself.

If you're more interested in name than substance, it might be an indicator.

> There cannot exist the best UX for regular users.

Categorical claims of non-existence require extraordinary amount of evidence.

> Every case is different and not simple.

That might be the thing. UIs (and usability) in the 90s focused on consistency. But then interactive websites ("applications") became a thing and the consistency (for example in the looks) was thrown out the window.

So everybody has to target the lowest common denominator (aka "regular users") now, because of the mess that this artistic explosion created. (There are other factors, too, such as that touch screens by definition lead to worse UIs.)

I don't entirely lament the mess (the artistic explosion is nice). But please, don't claim that we made progress in usability.

> But you can't really say there are UX trends.

I would say UX itself is a trend. As someone already noted, it had a name before - ergonomics. It's really similar to "data scientist", which is largely a modern trend of how to call a statistician.
The Bit Bomb
Depends on where i suppose. State hospitals have a sigificantly better outcome rate than private hospitals in Austria and they generally need to send mothers and the newborns to a state hospital in emergency reasons.

Why? Because they are too small relatively speaking and don’t have enoughs births.
Yes, in the emulator.
Which seems to be a star court

Did you mean a "star chamber" court?
> I'm always surprised by the only-in-this-circumstance libertarian philosophy of people who support congestion pricing. I think if you took the exact same logic and applied it to say, schools, supporters would feel completely differently about it.

so, I think you are confusing people that believe that markets are useful tools with people who believe that markets are things that decide what is most ethical (which is, I think, what you mean by 'libertarian' in this context.)

That's the thing. I (and many people) believe that markets are good tools in many (but not all) situations for organizing production and distributing goods. I don't believe that using a market to distribute goods organize production is any more or less ethical than using any other method for deciding those things, any more than I think that using a drill or a saw when building something is an ethical choice, (I mean, except to the extent that avoidable suffering is caused by using tools that are grossly mismatched to the goal)

I think markets are great for matching up workers to jobs and schedules... and that's what we're doing, largely, with congestion pricing. If it costs a lot to get a worker to place x at time y.... well, that should be factored into the cost of whatever that worker is doing; because of this, I support congestion pricing.

I think markets would be terrible for allocating public school slots, because the whole point of having public schools is to see to it that everyone has some minimum level of education... and to give those who are smart and/or ambitious a chance of climbing the ladder, even if they came from poor families. Markets would produce results that moved in the opposite of those goals, that's why we have public schools rather than relying on a private school system in the first place.
Yes, I have seen businesses die, both ways. The problem is that YAGNI cashes out to "make the right decisions" - it's logically a tautology, but an emotional encouragement to drop features. Dropping is usually the correct decision - but too often catastrophic when it's not. If you invoke YAGNI you have to be careful you aren't "picking up nickles in front of steamrollers" - a great idea until suddenly it's not. Fortunately, frequent iteration gives people a more realistic view of the cost of raisins.
Totally agree with you. I bought a Hero a few years back, used it once and then tossed it in a storage bin. The UI on the camera was just too much of a pain. It was too easy to get wrong. I wanted good control software on my iPhone to make it easier and that just didn't exist. I just switched to using my iPhone for most stuff or my Canon 5DMk4 for the high quality needs. I think GoPro screwed the pooch by not opening it up. I would have the latest, greatest GoPro camera today if they were more open.
Why Solo Travelling Is the Best Self-Development Tool
Entitlements from enormous privileges.
I also get the flu shot every year but I always catch the flu.
There’s a pretty great post from the Ghost founder about it (on mobile so can’t look it up easily).

https://blog.ghost.org/moving-to-singapore/
How to Analyze Performance of Your Ad Campaigns on Google Display Network
The saddest part of GoPro to me is that they own the Cineform codec. I love Cineform, and cried when GoPro acquired it. I liked it better than ProRes to be honest. Apple ProRes won because Apple. I worked for company (said company no longer exists) that was internally talking about purchasing Cineform way before GoPro, somewhere around 2008/09. However, this company was going to submit it for ISO standardization. It's a lovely codec, but it did not take off because it was always surrounded by questions of longevity. GoPro's purchase of it did not improve the longevity question, and made it seem Prosumer at best.
Billionaire Valley VC Drools Over Chinese Workaholism – DHH
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NO. Just before the war, the war scare blew up the exchange system. It's in the book cited. History. Empiricism. Data.

Now you want to change the topic away from EITHER economic stability OR exchange rate stability? To money supply stability, a whole other topic? Yikes.

Nixon - cavilling. Choose any illustration and the logic and semantics of "fiat" remain. Once again, you're off on a new topic, a new distraction. Not only is that not logical, it's not civil, either.
Its easy to go through a couple containers and find/replace a few sensors. But it would be a lot of work for Bob to go through every single yogurt container and corrupt all the sensors.
Rejected by Wells Fargo and no transparency. No reason to trust them. I'd go 30-40% of my portfolio short on Tether if it was possible.
U.S. government shutdown begins as spending bill fails in Senate
Try LIFX.
> Would it not be devops 101 to monitor what updates are available to your fleet (and selectively apply).
Why are you running data if you don't suspect a crime?

A friend of mine moved to a new neighborhood. Apparently, her neighbor was in the police. She said she was out walking her dog and the neighbor greeted her with her first name and middle name when she had barely moved in. We didn't know her legal middle name was different from what we called her. So we pretty much know he looked her up (driving licence info?) and he wants her to know he looked her up.

Why? Who knows but he did.
>This despite that they know that the device in that room is a filtering device and that Snowden's documents specifically show that the NSA filters the traffic for targets' communications. (previous post)

>Secret government documents, published by the media in 2013, confirm the NSA obtains full copies of everything that is carried along major domestic fiber optic cable networks. (EFF, emphasis mine)

It goes pretty far beyond that one room. It is a bit like nailing down a noodle, though, I see where you're coming from.

Edit: How could a single excerpt from a single letter make any kind of claim about the activities of an entire agency?

(edited)
I can't wait to try it. I also assume the next version of Reactos will use this code to run more Windows apps?
It depends... If I'm paying for an update that fixes bugs/issues released in a prior version then I don't expect to pay for that.

If the new version has a lot of new features I would be OK paying for that.
iOS offers more than just app review when it comes to sandboxing applications.

From tptacek's comment: "[...] it's more difficult (technically and logistically) to set up a deployment process that gets an application installed on an iPhone that can do as much as these backdoored Android apps can."
The largest infection vector for Signal are people that don’t use the Play Store. (Well, used to be).

For a long time, Moxie refused to offer it on any other store, or official APK downloads, so users then just googled for it, and downloaded the first result.

Whenever you make it hard to do something securely, users will find a way around that. And that will usually break all your security precautions.
If they had a top notch engineering team somebody should have tested their product on a non stable internet connection. Living out the country now and I now dream of going back to IRC just for the ability to read messages while offline.
Ron Wyden, Al Franken, and Rand Paul are the only consistently good guys on this, imho. I believe Wyden and Paul have worked across the aisle many times. Paul was set to filibuster the PATRIOT act extension until both dems and republicans banded together to vote to block the filibuster, limiting discussion to 30 hours.
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Then there’s this study, which contrasts with the author’s anecdotal statements regarding aspirin use during the Spanish Flu Epidemic.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441
No they are not unified. Going by the congressional vote about 25% of Republicans and 70% of Democrats voted against the spying. If this issue is important to you you're generally better off voting Democrat unless you have a Ron Paul type of Republican.
Something that can help. Thanks.
Yes- A very compelling introduction or first chapter.
They have open sourced CineForm in October last year ( https://gopro.github.io/cineform-sdk/ ); also, "SMPTE has standardized the CineForm codec as the SMPTE ST 2073 VC-5 video compression standard".
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I only know American unions from stories (such as the ones in this thread, or the one where a Hollywood director got in trouble for using a towel to wipe some sweat off the face of an actor - that was someone else's job), but wow.

Both American political parties are (from a socio-economic perspective) more right-wing than all mainstream parties in my country. Even the most right-wing party we have is pro (partly) subsidized health care, pro minimum wage, pro decent unemployment and disability benefits, etc etc. You could say my country is way more left wing than the US.

But the unions! Wow USA unions appear to be little communist islands. I've never seen unions so extremely, maybe obscenely left wing than those in the USA. Again, this is just from stories so maybe I have it all wrong, but the unions appear to me like the last remaining instance of "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" in the Western world.

If I'm not mistaken (and I might be), then I wonder whether maybe this is because US politics is so bizarrely (from a European perspective) right-wing. If you can actually die from hunger in your trailer home after a bad day at work, then extremely protective unions make a lot more sense than if you know you'll stay alive even if you lose an arm or your boss screws you over.

Not sure whether there's a point I'm trying to make but I wonder what HN thinks about all this :-)