skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technology is not an issue related to this problem. Bigger corporations in general make this inevitable. How meaningful of an interaction do you have with the tired cashier at Walmart or any other big retailer? Even at Trader Joes, the few minutes of interaction are rarely meaningful, even if I try to make them so, and that is the absolute best example. Small talk is not that engaging.

Even more so, technology for not having to interact with cashiers ever already exists: the self-checkout system. If I walk into a chain store like Meijer, people will be piled up at the self-checkout even if there is a completely free human cashier waiting for customers!

But even so, people are not checking out to socialize. Even what they do say isn't so substantial. Things move too fast, there's too many customers and too little time. How often do you remember the name of your cashier? How often are they still working there a year later?

Amazon's store actually represents a potential departure because as they say, they introduce humans in ways they think will improve the customer experience. Quote:

>“We’ve just put associates on different kinds of tasks where we think it adds to the customer experience,” Ms. Puerini said.

So there are people. And those people, with their hopefully less hectic roles, are almost certain to interact with customers in ways that will be more meaningful than the overworked cashier with a line of 10 carts and a full bladder. And perhaps, if the job doesn't suck (unlike many of Amazon's jobs, unfortunately,) they might actually stick around to become a normal you can interact with.

Of course, that's completely just conjecture. I actually believe Amazon's store will be around the same as any other in terms of the social value you get out of it, which is to say minimal at best. If people actually had meaningful value to get out of visiting marketplaces in modern times, they'd look forward to it instead of looking for how to eliminate it.
The facebook page is a legal (or rather private) entity as described in the city's law, an article about the city of Sarajevo is not. If you write a book about the city, the book is not a legal entity and you'll be fine using "Sarajevo" in the title. If you name your publishing house "Sarajevo books" it is a legal entity and you might want to talk with the city first.
AMP’ing Up the AMP Framework
> This calculated value determines, for example, what they're willing to offer you in salary.

It doesn't. This is mostly a binary thing of whether the company can afford to pay an employee a bit above his market value or not, if we are talking about engineers of course. Such employee cannot actually get paid proportionally to the value he brings to the company.
This may or may not apply to you but in the UK you can get R&D tax credits, so it's beneficial to pay yourself so you can claim back a portion of your salary as tax credits. This works even if you personally loan your company the tax free allowance (which is about £10k) that then gets paid back to you.
I mean, your post posits a logical possibility but merely posing the possibility does not make it likely (like your post seems to imply).

Also, a dimension has some degree of continuity or, at least, regular discrete nature that I'm not sure your idea for the 5th dimension really fits naturally. Surely, we can relate to positions in your concept of a dimension, but does a relation require a dimension? I'm not sure. Maybe it does. Maybe my above thoughts are all locked in the concept of a euclidean geometry. My topology studies were always in the context of function spaces, so it was a bit too abstract to think about it this way.
But when you need to polyfill an entire browser’s worth of functionality, at some point you need to ask if it’s worth the trouble.
If you are using a ten year old software and can’t install a package, that’s your problem. Quit acting like it is the default situation.

Or you could put the wrapper functions in a module and call it a day, either way problem solved.
Sure you could :) There are many.
I thought they were going to use some kind of RFID system.

Using cameras and shelf sensors seem a little archaic for tracking retail purchases in real time. I wonder what happens when the store is extremely busy or people are taking things off shelves and putting them back.
Techcrunch article with additional technical details: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/21/inside-amazons-surveillanc...

> ordinary RGB cameras, custom made with boards in the enclosure to do some basic grunt computer vision work, presumably things like motion detection, basic object identification, and so on. They’re augmented by separate depth-sensing cameras (using a time-of-flight technique, or so I understood from Kumar) that blend into the background like the rest, all matte black. The images captured from these cameras are sent to a central processing unit.

> In addition to the cameras, there are weight sensors in the shelves, and the system is aware of every item’s exact weight
Looks like something I'd really want.

FWIW, I've already cloned it and was preparing a comment to say I had done it but instead it became:

> + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (Couldn't find b...ball to extract:String) [], RuntimeException

> + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Couldn't find bootstrap tarball to extract

> The install of meteor was NOT successful.

> Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\meteor\tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1'.

> See log for details.

> Chocolatey installed 0/1 package(s). 1 package(s) failed.
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).

Couldn't even get Meteor to install on my Windows machine.
Not for driving clicks.
Sounds like you need some regularization that optimizes for whatever you call not 'too sparse' or 'too dense'.
The law does specify it when it: "Legal and private entities".

A blog post about Sarajevo can mention the city's name without falling under this law. The blogpost's title and introduction are simply wrong.

Screaming wolves doesn't help the case of the facebook page, sensationalism cannot be justified here.
I think a good game lets everyone play till the end AND gives them the opportunity to win at any time. Otherwise you lose too early OR have to look at the rest of the crowd winnig...
Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 8: Randomism
I love Q&A on that page:

Q: We are talking 'digital' audio, correct? 1's and 0's ... not analogue audio that really benifits from serious quality??!!!!

A: This cable is such good quality that it supports the transference of 0's, 1's and 2's.

Q: If I wrap this cable around my arm, can I punch faster than the speed of light?

A: No, that requires their 16 meter length version.
I'd argue that the future of games consoles is still in jeapordy, but the doom and gloom arguments of 2012 were premature.

The Nintendo switch is a perfect conceptual example of what the smartphone could turn into, in terms of gaming. It all runs on mobile hardware, with Nvidia Tegra powering the graphics.

What's to stop Apple or other companies supporting slot in controllers on the side of the phones? I think it's inevitable that companies take influence from the switch.

Once we have 'switches' using the iPhone or Samsung galaxies, etc, I think there's no turning back. Then you can just cast that video feed to the TV a la Switch dock, just over wireless connection.

Of course it will take a while to build up the infrastructure for it, but this idea seems obvious.
Will do! It might not be soon, though, depending on when/whether I find time for it.
SREcon17 Asia/Australia: Golang's Garbage
Even if you think the machinery of trading is a negative (I don’t) that’s no argument against firms like this. If anything it’s an argument for them as these firms do the same thing as their predecessors at lower margins and with fewer people.

The empty trading pits in the South Loop Chicago and all those new condos downtown NYC are a testament to that.
How Philly’s Social Media-Driven Gang Policing Steals Years from Young People
One challenge there is that it liquified the ground on impact because so much energy was release.
Highly appreciated if someone could summarize this. Thx
> because the Impossible tastes and feels just a bit too much like meat for my tastes

Many, this industry has quite a dilemma. On the one hand, some folks want their products to taste as much like meat as possible. But others will avoid products that taste too much like meat.
"All you can contribute is what your own two hands can code."

The value of which has no obvious bound. The failure rate of software projects is huge and each failure can easily cost millions of dollars, or much more if it amounts to a product failure or business failure.

A single engineer's technical choices can easily make or break a project. It's hard to tell later which were the crucial choices, though.
Not sure how doable this is with mobile, but I would say blocking ads + javascript and teaching them to whitelist sites in case it's needed for functionality.
Out of curiosity, where is the spacetime curvature coming from in the single particle universe? And if the particle curves spacetime, what effect does it have on itself?
I think this is amazing, and credit should be given where credit is due. Are you basing your concept on learning management systems like moodle. Is that what you are? I know, you're probably so much more. But I need to ask, how do you organize content that's already available into bite-sized lessons easily digestible by children? And it's easy to get muddled into providing content, along with a medium for that content. And then you go into grade levels, standardizing, not to mention having proper internet access, along with power. I mean how do you do it?
Don't forget it is the voters who gave the city this power. Laws can be changed by the next government.

It would be interesting to know the history of the law's article 21. As a programmer I'm used to the transparency of my code repo and who contributed which bit. Is git-driven law-making utopian?
Gorenje was founded while former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was in blooming, it was a thing to call factories by city names, so there's that.
California lawmakers propose raising corporate tax by 7% to offset Trump tax cut
I completely agree re: sponsoring company - although react seems to be orders of magnitude more popular, so someone is going to have to be supporting these apps that people are creating now you'd expect, right?
Retail is not a place where you will find a "real social interaction".
The official rust book [1] is a great place to start. So are the exercism tutorials [2]

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[2] http://exercism.io/languages/rust/about
The CLARA Method of De-Escalation
Thank you @tyngq! Chrome OS will be beneficial to us, as it already supports all of our web based solutions. But even with the prices of refurbished solutions, it still expensive, as we target a maximum 50$ solution for each child. Also, our business model is not the hardware part.
Does your pillow have a sealed plastic cover? Do you constantly buy new ones?

If not, how is it that you aren't miserable? Dust mites can live in there. You can end up congested, with teary eyes, with a runny nose, with a cough, etc.
The question might or might not be relevant to this post. But you might or might not want to think of this as a supplant to books, or books as a suppliant to this. Maybe?
Zuckerberg PAC: Keep US Government Shutdown Until DREAMers Permanently Protected
Capability-safe languages in the E family, like E and Monte, have perfect isolation, or as it's known in the community, "working encapsulation." In a capability-safe system, only bugs in the implementation, such as runtime or CPU bugs, can violate isolation.

Here's an introduction to E: http://www.erights.org/talks/promises/paper/tgc05-submitted....

The Monte language's manual starts with a tutorial and an explanation of what capability-safe languages do: http://monte.readthedocs.io/
I wondered why we were still using barcodes in shops when you could do the checkout in one go with RFIDs. Turns out that the last time I checked, RFIDs are quite expensive, something like 10 cent a piece. A minor cost if you are selling electronics, but too expensive relative to the price of a chocolate bar.
Your phone is a phone. You could game on it, but I don’t see hardcore console gamers using it as their primary console for tv gaming. Better to have a dedicated device with it’s own storage and environment built for games.
As someone who had to use AngularJS for a while, just wait until those template directives get replaced in future versions to support random-use-case-17483 and force you to refactor a bunch of template code for literally no tangible gain. Then you’ll understand why using native JS to generate elements makes more sense.
Wikipedia's lamest edit wars
If you want to use Vulkan on Windows 10 UWP apps, yes it might be useful.

Vulkan is only supported in desktop mode using the same ICD driver mechanism used by OpenGL drivers, which is not currently supported in UWP sandbox model.
Fellow engineers: your (loose) money comes from overcapitalized companies fighting for talent that can multiply their investor's bets or, at least, their investor's hopes.
I'm aware. Quite pleased that distributors/retailers have started doing checks of their upstream suppliers. Just as manufacturers have done the same with upstream parts/materials suppliers- there is no requirement that meat eaters tolerate unnecessary cruelty.
I love playing board games with my kids, gets them away from anything digital: nintendo’s, ipads or tv stuff.

And hey having a 8 year old thinking about his Stratego setup, is a good thing!
Free player movement and static worlds – a look at the “Skyrim Problem” in CRPGs
No, the author of that post mimics an understanding of tradeoffs (proof[1]). As such, it is perfectly reasonable to chide him/her for it. Also he/she does not make the same observation that I made, "theoretically technical excellence directly translates into profits" is not even close to what I claimed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7mgp1m/h...
I posted this a few days ago... I wonder why HN didn't keep the original post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16159589
That sounds like a premise for the next black mirror episode.. though they will make it a lot more scarier!
I always assumed the whole thing was mostly to demo the tech, which they will then sell to other retailers.
>What can we hack together that can be used to filter seizures?

I think a video filter could do this. See this video on Eulerian Video Amplification from SIGGRAPH 2012: https://youtu.be/ONZcjs1Pjmk

A similar technique to reduce the amplitude of strobing seems plausible.
or, like in my case, when you've got umatrix running.
How Writing Fiction Can Influence the Future [video]
Maybe I'm weird, but I enjoy self checkout line. Picking up each item, looking for barcode, scanning it, and bagging, is kind of fun activity to do every once in awhile. The only lame part is, "please place the item in the bag" mechanism.
none of these things are a "revolution"
> What's interesting here is not that these guys did or didn't have historical influence—obviously they didn't, end of story. It's that their ideas were surprisingly similar to later, more famous thinkers in a place few would have expected. That easily clears the bar for interest on Hacker News.

I agree with you on this-- it's definitely interesting, but the point you're making here is very different from the thesis of the link. The thesis restatement in the last paragraph of the article makes the case that these authors have high historical relevance in philosophy, and that argument is what I was responding to.

I understand the goal of the guideline, but as a starting point it's unreasonable to expect someone to respond to an argument as it could be rather than as it really is. I think we're on the same page.
A /. article on HN. How cute.
YouTube is trying to satisfy its users as cheaply as possible. You cannot use it as a benchmark for state-of-the-art transcoding services (for which you would need to pay a reasonable fee)
I don't think it's hardware at all. I think it's quality of the games. The vast majority of mobile games are all the same type we've seen since they first crept-up on Facebook a decade ago: Farmville-clones, Tower Defense or Endless Runners with an all-encompassing focus on cash shops and in-game advertising.

Console and PC gaming (with the obvious exception of certain conglomerates) tend to be focused on a gaming experience that isn't just a monetization treadmill.
Meltdown is a bug in the same sense that a crypto routine that uses a timing-sensitive memcmp has a bug. Memory protection is designed to prevent ring 3 code from reading memory in ring 0 (assuming the appropriate page tables are set). The implementation fails to do that.

The fact that speculative reads don't check the permission bits is arguably a design bug, not an implementation bug, but I'd still call it a bug.
It is really hard to just read the right and left wing feeds objectively. The level of polarization, misrepresentation, lying, and smearing is too great. The best I can do now is just read the source feeds from news agencies like Reuters, do independent research, have in-person conversations, and hope for the best.
Apache Guacamole 0.9.14
That software in ring 3 cannot read memory in ring 0 unless the appropriate permission bits on the page table entries are set.
I'm saying when a species exists in its current form and cannot exist except for the support of its creator species, there is no ethical dilemma in harvesting the results of raising it.

Unless and until we reach 'uplift' level sentience of client species the death of a husbandry animal creates no more ethical conflict than cutting down wheat.
>Throughout history, "the marketplace" had been one of the major centers of interpersonal interaction

If you mean "the coffee shop" (there's a long history there) or "the pub" (a longer history, in the western tradition there) sure, I agree. I'm not saying randos approach me all the time when I'm in those sorts of places, but it happens. It doesn't happen at the grocery store hardly at all.

It happens a lot more often in the ride sharing services than even the pub; Yesterday I took my Saturday afternoon ride to Fry's for sandwiches, (The Fry's Sunnyvale Cafe is passable. Not bad. Not as good as the dedicated food places on Murphy, say, but it is super nostalgic for me, so it's something of a weekend tradition.) and while nobody talked to me in the Fry's cafe (I mean, aside from the procurement of food. I have met other interesting people there in the past.) the driver actually apologized to me because he spent most of the ride there speaking with another rider in a foreign language, which was mostly interesting in that he seemed to think that I had some expectation of being included in conversation as he drove. But yeah, I talk to the drivers often, a lot more than talking to strangers in retail spaces.

I guess what I'm saying is that social spaces need space for idling. Sitting in the back of the car does this, as does serving food or drink. Buying groceries, I think, does not.
I wonder how resilient it is to real life shoppers who pick things, then put them back at the wrong place.
I don't really get it either so here's an attempt to justify it with gambler's ruin: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GamblersRuin.html

> Let two players each have a finite number of pennies (say, n_1 for player one and n_2 for player two). Now, flip one of the pennies (from either player), with each player having 50% probability of winning, and transfer a penny from the loser to the winner. Now repeat the process until one player has all the pennies.

> The chances P_1 and P_2 that players one and two, respectively, will be rendered penniless are

> P_1 = n_2 / (n_1 + n_2)

> P_2 = n_1 / (n_1 + n_2)

So if the current order book looks like:

- Sell 5 for $99.00 (best offer)

- Buy 10 for $98.75 (best bid)

And you chomp up orders randomly, flipping a completed order to the opposite position:

- the probability that the price is above $99.00 (all 5 sell got filled first) is 10 / (5 + 10)

- the probability that the price is below $98.75 (all 10 buy got filled first) is 5 / (5 + 10)

So expected value is (99.00 * 10 + 98.75 * 5) / (10 + 5) = 98.9167.

I am not happy with this explanation. It seems like after you execute an buy for $98.75 you need to immediately put a sell for it at slightly above $98.75 (and vice versa) to fit the random walk model described above. And then I took the expected value using the price at two different points in time. Overall I am still confused myself.
Yeah, it's teapot. Thanks, I fixed the link :)
It's been a few years since I updated it, but I probably still have the only blog dedicated to Ethiopian philosophy: https://ethiopianphilosophy.wordpress.com/
In the H.C. Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Pea", the princess sleeps on 20 mattresses and 20 eiderdown duvets[1].

[1]: It seems to be translated into eider-down beds, that seems to be another meaning of "bed" than I am aware of, oxford dictionary doesn't mention it either: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bed - might have been used to mean beddings? The danish word is "edderdunsdyner" which in contemporary usage means eiderdown duvets.
Most American tribalism is already geographic enough that forcing people to interact in shops won’t do anything to fix it.
Monopoly is like that, and your point dovetails with the tendency of that game to end abruptly when someone quits in a rage. Who wants to spend dozens of rounds slowly, yet inevitably losing?
Can’t wait to try this experience. I will be flying up to go see it myself and purchase a few things.
Dojo is literally Satan. Stay far away!
The thing is, org-mode is quite big. No new project will have implemented all of the features.

For myself, I've never used narrow to subtree, but I was struck by the apparent lack of scheduling C-s, agenda view C-a a, tables (org-mode's tables are just fantastic) and source blocks.

Maybe they'll get to some of these later. For now, just having a hierarchy of headings that you can move up-and-down and in-and-out easily seems pretty useful.
Actually, learning Ember.js is quite simple, because of Ember CLI, which was the pioneer and inspired Angular CLI and Create React App. Try this tutorial and you will be an employable Ember expert in a few days: http://www.yoember.com
I do game on my mobile devices, but only non gamers can think that they had any chance against game consoles.

Indies are learning the hard way how the crash of 1983 came to be.

Yes, there are lots of junk games in consoles, after going through the certification process that Nintendo brought to the industry as recovery from the crash, which means even worse ones did not managed to be certified.

Mobile app stores don't have any bar to meet, beyond a quite basic set of checkpoints by console gaming standards, so finding good quality games is quite hard and worse given the race to bottom, most studios don't get to pay the overall development efforts.
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