skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maps are big and expensive, and so is the bandwidth require to distribute them. So it's not a huge surprise that TomTom's weaseling out of updating maps on old devices.

When I worked at TomTom around 2007-2009, they had just gone deep into debt buying Tele Atlas to acquire those maps for a hell of a lot more money than they originally expected to pay:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747015

>The stunt that Garmin pulled of was, in my opinion, an ingenious head-fake that cost TomTom an enormous amount of money, almost a billion euros, and at the same time saved Garmin a whole lot of money by enabling them to renegotiate a better deal with Navteq, who was faced with losing their major customer if they didn't lower their prices.

TomTom was paying Akamai a lot of money in bandwidth charges so customers could download subscriptions of bigger maps more often. So I developed and tested a prototype using BitTorrent DNA to distribute them, but Akamai ended up lowering their prices because they didn't want to lose all those fees to BitTorrent.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601083

>It turned out that BitTorrent would save TomTom about a million euros the first year, and more each year, since TomTom was distributing larger and larger maps, more frequently by subscription, and of course they hoped to get more customers over time. (See: http://www.sadtrombone.com ...)

>But then all of a sudden, out of the blue, Akamai unilaterally lowered the prices they were charging TomTom, saving us a lot of money immediately, presumably to prevent us from switching to BitTorrent (after I had made a bit of a scene at Akamai's GDC booth, in front Travis Kalanick and their sales people, about just having talked Bran Cohen and acquired a quote and beta testing agreement from BitTorrent, and insisted that Akamai tell me what their prices were and when we could start testing -- that may have motivated them to unilaterally lower their prices).

>So in the end, TomTom middle management decided to can the BitTorrent project, in spite of the fact that it was the TomTom founder Pieter Geelen's idea in the first place, and he'd been micromanaging the entire project and user interface all along, to make sure it would not just save us money, but also not have a negative impact on usability or customer perception.
It's clearly unreasonable: a customs search with the reasonable purpose of preventing contraband is used for massive intrusion in the personal life of specially selected people.

It's a way government can eschew all constitutional protection for private data, by simply waiting for the target to cross a border, practical for a majority of citizens. Data is substantially different from physical possessions because it's very portable and most people do indeed carry vast amounts with them when traveling.

Furthermore, in the modern world data import or export offenses (espionage) do not employ physical border crossings, so there is almost no reasonable offense the search could uncover.
Pinker explicitly removes these from his analysis, stating that including them is confusing and only serves to allow people to attach 'violence' to things they dislike, and that physical violence is a large enough topic for a book.

He may be right logistically regarding book writing, but he does not account for the effect of his narrowed scope in his conclusions, nor does he account for the extraction of morality in his definition with the attempt of his project in lauding the progress of humans as good.
Coinbase is complete scum, not surprising.
The French government experiments with venture capitalism
I would suggest you take a step back and think about PayPal. Do you think PayPal changed the world?

What PayPal did was reduce the "friction" of online transactions. Suddenly you no longer needed a merchant account at a bank to accept credit cards online. That was huge, right?

Similarly, a blockchain (Bitcoin's, as the premiere example) allows you to sidestep the credit card companies and banks entirely. This reduces the "friction" even more. Now, all you need is a string of alphanumeric characters, no account, no verifiable identity.

PayPal was a first step in the direction of reducing online transaction friction, blockchains are a second step.
Right...but it stifles progress a bit by encouraging stodgy F500 companies to stay with colo arrangements or worse.

Non elastic, or high egress cost apps are still too expensive to run on public clouds. Or, the transition period, where you're half in/half out, kills you because of overpriced egress.
MSI seems [1] to be fairly proactive right now with patches going back to several X99 motherboards. Asus for example has so far only committed to provide updates for two X99 motherboards.

[1] https://www.msi.com/news/detail/7yJ7XCklfBXt8mFhG8nkfSurJUz3...
The lack of population density is a benefit in many regards. Texas is likely going to soon deploy high-speed rail at a cost not much higher than Western European standards or equivalent (adjusting for economic variance). There are two good reasons for that: Texas is far more friendly toward development, and there is a lot of sparsley settled, inexpensive land.
> OpenH264 is only used for WebRTC and, importantly, there's no AAC support (which doesn't matter for WebRTC because you can just use Opus). Firefox uses the OS platform's H.264 decoder for video element playback.

And Firefox supporting H.264 through the platform decoder came a while before OpenH264 happened.
Great, but what magic key combo–or combos?
That’s not true actually. Barter has different rules than actual cash.

I mean yes, you still have to pay your taxes. But you’re not subject to suspicious activity reporting requirements.
"Sadly, a considerable number of people in the U.S. are dead set against the wall, and don't understand that the requirement for ladders and climbing makes non-customs crossings more conspicuous and time-consuming, making unpredictable and regular patrols considerably more effective whether or not the wall proves to be a total impasse."

YIKES.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/walled-states-waning-sovereig...
Structuring your payments to be multiple below the $10K threshold specifically to avoid triggering AML reporting requirements is illegal.
> if it's not a first-party Microsoft title, chances are it's Win32.

64 bit games, and even 64bit _only_ games are increasingly common.

Turns out for many modern AAA games 3GB of RAM isn't enough.
> We lose the ability to think like that as adults

Exploration vs exploitation
Linux is written in C, not Lisp. So no, not really. Unfortunately.
Survey URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnI5oHioE-0-etLVwY...
This happens every few months, always with one or two sentences “decoded” and never another peep from the researcher. You should take this with a massive grain of salt.
Take a lawyer with you. Mutter "intentional infliction of emotional distress" and a few other phrases s/he may give you.

To me, it sounds like you're treating Coinbase as a friend who's hit a tough patch, rather than as a business.

Requiring them to perform as a business does not make you "the crazy guy yelling in a lobby". It makes you a customer.
This takes a very, very, very long time.

20 minutes in, it is up to 13388 in Firefox.

Funny enough, I ran the same image through Chrome, it said it was finish at iteration 458. I'm guessing it is not completely deterministic?
The sad thing is that there would be probably more work / employment in subway construction in total if subway construction was cheaper...
This is an interesting consumer experiment that should be tried at more Apple stores. Could it simply be that only this Santa Monica location is committing fraudulent practices? One wonder what would have happened if Brian had brought his phone to another store.
I think it's worth remembering that we the people have a lot of power over fighting for these protections, and in many ways we've gained power over the government in the history of our nation. In most respects, we have more freedoms than ever.

The worst thing we can do is check out. The government is merely comprised of regular citizens elected or hired into power, and we have real power in shaping the future.
Buying things directly with bitcoin.
And Germany is about to work some of its grocery magic on the US, likely pushing prices down even further, as Lidl invades. Amazon will also likely have a positive effect.
That makes sense now -- you're not going to be bringing in contraband plants or animals or drugs on your phone.
The IQ test wars: Why screening for intelligence is still so controversial
There is localized cooling in the cell. Some photon energy that would have been thermalized immediately in a dark-colored simple absorber is carried away as electricity instead. But that electricity is, ultimately, used and thermalized somewhere else on Earth, so it doesn't have a cooling effect on the planet as a whole.

Additionally, the albedo of solar modules is lower than e.g. empty desert, so the net effect of installing a large solar array on such land is to slightly increase localized temperature. Accounting for increased albedo is why the IPCC's global warming assessment of utility-scale solar puts its warming impact a bit above that of rooftop solar. Rooftops are already lower in albedo, so adding solar modules doesn't darken them as much. Both rooftop and large desert-based solar have much lower warming potential than any form of fossil combustion, of course.
With Revolut at least you can just pay for better support; with most services you cannot.
No True Scotsman is about moving goalposts within a conversation. Bringing up, say, a lack of transparent pricing for commodity services (x-rays or pregnancy tests, for example) isn't a No True Scotsman fallacy.
Delaunay Triangulation for Image Weaving
The main problem is the environments we have to code in are garbage; the simplest solutions to complexity are often standardized at the language/environment level but implementations are years late.

There is more money in building products and coming up with workarounds than there is in improving the environments we all have to work with. There are also too few smart people in the world available to keep up with demand for both activities.

Instead of 10 people keeping IE up to date with modern JS language features, we had millions of people people trying to come up with and use genius solutions (Babel anyone?) to transpile and polyfill their code backwards. Instead of 4 people adding support for ES Modules to Node.js years ago, we have have many thousands of people trying to work out WTF to do on their own.

The solution is not to freeze technology in its currently deficient state and to be content, that attitude on behalf of environment maintainers is how we ended up here in the first place!

JS will be "mature" and infinitely more productive once basics like modules are implemented in all servers and clients. It will get better eventually.
One thing I noticed when I did the same thing for my region is that players wouldn't enter tournaments if they were just going to sandbag, because they didn't want to hurt their ranking.
You'd have to write a Chess implementation that very carefully respects all possible game-ending pathways, a translation of a chess board into an array that a NN could understand, and a schema by which to flatten the array of all possible moves (both legal and illegal) into a single vector. Then, the MCTS and RL portions would be identical.
Funny how that's what they're worrying about rather than the rampant penny-coins and essentially unregulated securities. Even if you don't invest in an ICO directly, investing in Eth or Bitcoin is essentially funding those ICOs and allowing otherwise unqualified investors to speculate on the ecosystem.
You can avoid the steroids et al. at most any Walmart at this point. Tyson is completely removing such from their chicken products. You're primarily going to struggle to find free range inexpensively in the US.
That was the assertion prior to WWI.
But "OO design itself" had(still has) a major flaw: it was not clearly defined.
Everybody had his/her own unique vision of "OO design".
Do you have a reasonable chance? It seems that unless you are already wealthy, or get a powerful entity to back you up like the EFF or Peter Thiel, that you have very little chance of even having your day in court.
Without going into who is inherently better at design choices, the problem often seems to be with the process: UX/UI designer sits down and builds some mocks, then hands them to the developer to implement. The developer sees that the mocks as designed go against the grain of their chosen framework/platform, and they have the choice of either implementing them in a hacky way, or pushing back and finding out if they were intentional choices or merely weak preferences.

They’re almost always better off spending the time doing the latter, or even better, working with the designer during the design process to both understand which decisions the designer actually cares about as well as communicate the platform constraints/preferences to the designer.
Carapace I’ve been taking the comments here pretty hard. Thanks for this.
ICLR 2018 Accepted Papers
> You can't just dismiss it and hope that it is.

Probably not. The better way is to do a review and have ready rebuttals of fake patent claims. I didn't exactly look into how it was done for DASH, but its big users like YouTube and Netflix should have done it.

> The MPEG LA has been successful with their other patent pools.

And completely unsuccessful with many others. There was the same type of list put out by MPEG-LA trolls for VPx, and I remember there was research published that debunked it all. So there is zero trust in anything that MPEG-LA say, but surely having concrete defense is a good thing.
The passengers would probably prefer a less violent approach.
Just give a shit about all inquiries, or pack it in.

My time should now be deprioritized?
As a philosophy major, the show never ceases to put a smile on my face. And Ted Danson is absolutely brilliant, as always. I would say, though, that "philosophy" is a very broad field, and The Good Place basically deals solely with ethics. We also have logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and so on (which are all very interesting -- and probably deserve shows -- in their own right!).

(The author also misinterprets existentialism, but that's beside the point.)
It seems OBD-III was never implemented.
So. In some cases, which I couldn't isolate, it finds the prime but won't stop the program. On average, it should only need from 400 to 600 iterations.
Build a Distributed Code Hosting Platform That Supports Millions of Users
Im just pointing out an equally horrendous proposal.
Data Science: Perception and Reality (2015)
I'm not very familiar with British Columbia, but does the whole province have public transportation on par with Vancouver? If not, that seems to support the comment about regional sparseness...

The city I live in (Los Angeles) covers an area 10x bigger than Vancouver. Even when you compare the metro areas, Vancouver is ~4 times denser
does it come with a pre trained model/s?
I'm not an expert, but I've known for over half my life not to trust Intel/Microsoft et al - but many mainstream "industry experts" felt safe saying the opposite, until the proverbial "laying in the street" came to fruition.
Isn't the most common date entry field one where you can type directly into, but have the option to use the calendar widget?
In Canada right now there is a lot of buzz around cannabis startups. I think there's definitely a synergy there that could be exploited by the diesel industry: cannabis diesel additives that offset the harmful health effects of diesel fumes, automobiles that double as drug delivery vehicles, aromatherapy and so on.
When I see

> used furniture

All I read is

> bedbugs

And then my skin crawls.
After waiting to hear Coinbase since May / June and missing the Ethereum run up 4x i'll just go to Robinhood now.
Ummm, "confusing"? I'd say more like "inconvenient" for his thesis. I mean, how is having my neighbor beat the crap out of me, and hold me hostage, any more violent than some cop doing the same?
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#1 https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-world...

56 million abortions every year according to Guttmacher.

#2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_camp#Exterminati...

Heinrich Himmler visited the outskirts of Minsk in 1941 to witness a mass shooting. He was told by the commanding officer there that the shootings were proving psychologically damaging to those being asked to pull the triggers. Thus Himmler knew another method of mass killing was required.[51] After the war, the diary of the Auschwitz Commandant, Rudolf Höss, revealed that psychologically "unable to endure wading through blood any longer", many Einsatzkommandos – the killers – either went mad or killed themselves.
The book "Primary Colors" penned by Anonymous was statistically tied to be Joe Klein before he admitted to doing it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Colors_(novel)

Also, if you're curious about the man you discovered it, he went on to work on famous cases trying to unmask anonymous writers, including work for the FBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Wayne_Foster
I Worked with Elon Musk, Intelligence Is Not the Key to Success
Nope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Intermediate_Language
Options vary. The first option is to admit defeat and adopt Moral Nonrealism. Most of academia and global intelligentsia have done this; Pinker finds them frustrating as fuddy-duddy spoilsports for insisting on logically-sound conclusions.

The other option is to adopt Moral Realism (ie, Theism). This won't please Pinker either.

I explain more about this at http://liamk.org/is-love-real and in my comment history on this site.

Lawyer and political commentator Ben Shapiro also explains this on the libertarian-themed and ethics-focused show The Rubin Report here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9IwamztdqA
Whenever you have a real customer service problem, send a written letter, registered mail, demanding a specific action or written explanation why the action cannot be taken, sent to you within 30 days.
If it doesn't clear itself up, consider small claims court or regular court. You can claim attorneys fees when you win, but beware of you lose (or if there are actually enforcible arbitration agreements in place.)
Yes and no. emotionally, its a bad idea. Rationally, it probably isnt an awful idea to hedge against a marriage not working out
>While this may lead to conflict of interest, it can also lead to a better eye exam.

I have very good familiarity with the situation in Germany. It's barely any better there due to the same limitations I've already outlined. Granted, you find more opticians with 1/8 diopter trial frame lenses there, but it's still a rarity and opticians lack orthoptic training, something NOT supplementable by normal optometric training (which already goes beyond optician training), even if the IVBS would like you to think otherwise.

>Why can't SeeVividly vision therapy be made available directly to consumers? Is the reason technical or business, to avoid conflict with eye doctors?

Liability.
You could probably speed things up a lot using isProbablePrime(), at least to pre-filter candidate numbers. (Assuming you're using this library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/big-integer#isprobableprimeite...)
It is often both. The intrinsic problems aren’t always sexy. We create other problems and focus on those so we can stay engaged.

So we have parts of the system that try to abstract away core business concerns and some big in-house framework that is poorly written and that you can’t put on your resume.
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I think it's because the major cost is bandwidth, so everyone is incentivized to optimized on size primarily, maybe at the cost of being more cpu/memory intensive on enc/dec.
Except that's nowhere close to a no true Scotman context.

The US healthcare system is extremely far away from being a free market style system. Healthcare hardly even crosses state lines. It's absurdly regulated. It's about as regressive in terms of markets as it gets these days. Over half the US system is government healthcare now, either directly or indirectly; eg heavy subsidies, SSD, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, VA, numerous other programs.

Part of the reason for the vast cost inflation, is that the system has gradually spread out to cover a lot more people over the last 30 years. 5% of people are half of the cost in the US system. In a market system, if you focus on covering the other far healthier 95%, the system is dramatically cheaper - that's how it worked in the 1970s-1990s, and US healthcare was radically less expensive. 50% of people in the system (in terms of cost) are only 3% of the total cost of all healthcare in the US, you can cover those people for extremely inexpensively in a free market system.

By changing the system as they have, such that you commingle government and quasi-private systems, you risk dramatically screwing up a private market system and the government system simultaneously. Ultimately you can do one or the other, you can't do both at the same time and in the same phone booth where they constantly collide. You get the worst aspects of both worlds, which is what the US now has.
I would add:

- Privacy. A dedicated device with a one-way incoming signal (GPS) and no out-going signal cannot track you. This is not true of any smartphone app no matter what they claim or what their settings are.

I'll grant that the privacy benefit is pointless for the overwhelming majority people since they will leave their universal tracking device[1] turned on anyway.

As an aside: I was impressed that my really ancient Garmin, which displayed only latitude, longitude, altitude, and recorded waypoints, had a special button combination to instantly and securely erase everything it remembered.

[1] cellphone :)
I would love to see more of a road map on where this project is going. It's exciting, but not clear where it's heading.
>Requiring them to perform as a business does not make you "the crazy guy yelling in a lobby". It makes you a customer.

Precisely. The inculcation of the former attitude among the masses has been a huge victory for this wave of monopolistic industries. Companies like Google have effectively trained humans to act like software bugs.
> There was the same type of list put out by MPEG-LA trolls for VPx

No. They didn't succeed in forming a patent pool for VP8 or VP9. It was one of their "pools in formation" but was never established. The DASH patent pool is beyond that stage.
> All of which is to say that I think we've solved some violence with sheer wealth, some with fear of the state, and perhaps very little with our "better angels".

I think moral standards, at large, have certainly improved. The very concept of human rights, as understood today, was alien not so long ago. Same applies to concepts like presumption of innocence, equality before the law, equality of genders and ethinicities, freedom of the press, international laws regarding war/plunder/noncombatants, etc.

Peter Singer's concept of The Expanding Circle is relevant here.
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Why are the topics critical of bitcoin more likely being flagged than not?
New materialisms: key approaches
You haven't a clue what you're talking about.

The Linux Foundation is one way in which corporations subsidize key open source projects that benefit them all. There's nothing creepy at all about corporate sponsorship of key open source technologies. The Linux Foundation started with Linux and has expanded from there, so what? None of their projects http://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/ are in any way sinister. You do realise that it is possible to work for a corporation and and also be into open source and also not sell your soul to the devil. What hyperbole, give us a break.