skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dan Meyer (math blogger extraordinaire) has some commentary here: http://blog.mrmeyer.com/2018/must-read-larry-bergers-confess...
>> there are plenty of countries in the world

citation please? Do they take it down because you don't have a license to transmit in that spectrum band?
That estimate made in ignorance of the relevant technology is all the answer you need as to foolishness.
This one confuses me. What's so safe about rear cameras? I guess if a little kid (or other very short person) is standing behind your car when you're reversing, but that's a failure of common-sense safety measures already.
Then split it across all 3 cloud providers, across all regions/AZ's, and across thousands of accounts.
There are those who get it done RIGHT, and those who get it done RIGHT NOW.
Her entire website is full of impressive demos:

http://www.amandaghassaei.com

The work of a grad student who is unbelievably currently looking for work in the SF/Bay Area:

http://www.amandaghassaei.com/about/

Programming Languages: C++ (embedded), Objective C/iOS, Python, JavaScript, Node, Java, MATLAB, Mathematica

I'd insta offer if she had C# experience, but I'm sure she'd love to hear from SF companies matching her interests and existing skill sets.
Here is a video[1] of the part of the testimony being reported here.

It's also worth mentioning that several years ago, the BT in the UK basically installed Huawei equipment all over their core telecom infrastructure.[2]

[1]: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4714734/zte-huawei

[2]: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22803510
What we need is a phone that neither the Chinese nor American governments can monitor. Failing that, since I live in the USA, perhaps a phone that the Chinese can monitor but the American government cannot (at least until China and USA ink a pact to trade intelligence info).

What irks me is why does the government insist upon having the ability to monitor everyone willy-nilly when it has been shown consistently that by far most of the information gathered is worthless for both espionage and criminal investigations?Why not return to the older court-approval method for warrants (and get rid of FISA courts and the FISA system entirely).
I do want to use Fastmail, but their ToS are no better than Gmail i.e, that they can terminate your account any time for any reason whatsoever. Source : https://www.fastmail.com/about/tos.html
This is the biggest reason I am hesitant to try fastmail.
Out of curiosity, who or what has designated you an “ethical UX designer”? I’m sure you could find an Apple designer who would claim that forcing people to upgrade ensures that their device is patched and secure, preventing many potentially livelihood threatening problems down the line, so they are just as ethical of an UX designer as you are, if not more so since you do not want to protect people from their device being hacked into and their personal info stolen.
US health education lacks a lot topics, one of which is vaccination. Even college graduates will not get exposure, so most US citizens would have to research in their free time to get knowledge of such things.
Many USA transit systems have such a low farebox recovery ratio that they may even save money by getting rid of the overhead of fare collection. Cash handling is not cheap, nor is maintaining fareboxes and electronic fare collection equipment across entire fleets.

Even SF Muni which is heavily used has only a 22% farebox recovery ratio.
The witnesses only answered the question in front of them. Sen. Cotton only asked about ZTE, Huawei, China Telecom, and China Unicom, so Director Wray responded only about ZTE and Huawei. This is standard practice when testifying in front of an oversight committee.
Flipside: copyright is a human construct. So is the GPL and concept of copyleft. It is possible to eliminate one thing (say, overbearing copyright) and protect another. Rather than creating a class of works under license which cannot be constrained, it might be possible to create a set of works under law which may be designated with equivalent protections.

Or find other means to the same ends as the GPL: protecting the three freedoms laid out by RMS.
In light of the horrible events of today, this article strikes me as even more disappointing. I can understand why this and similar efforts are approved: they purport to reduce harm while not addressing the controversial structural issues that lead to school shootings. It pains me, though, to see tactical combat-esque simulations presented as a solution, however partial, to mass shooting events in the United States.

These problems call for social and political solutions, not technological ones.
>If you are paying Google, you are definitely a customer

The question is not if you're a customer, but if you're a customer that matters. By "matter", I mean respected and cared for as a singular entity.

When I worked for Oracle, I was told only 150-to-200 customers formed the lion's share of Oracle's revenue. Think three letter agencies, foreign governments, national banks, and the like.

The other tens-of-thousands of customers contributed to a smaller share of the pie and so they only mattered in aggregate.

Without crunching the numbers, I'd say that Google probably operates on the same, if hidebound, business logic.
Hell, I don't even need a cheap service.

Take my money! I just want to be able to watch stuff.

"Let's watch X"

"Darn it. It's not on Netflix"

"Not on Hulu"

"Not on Google Video either"

"Try VidAngel"

"No, they got shut down by Disney"

"Oh, doesn't Disney have a service?"

"Not yet."

"Oh look it's on Amazon video!"

"Oh, but we have Vizio Smartcast. Can't get it from the phone to the TV because Vizio uses Google and Amazon has some sort of blood feud."

"F--- it, not worth the hassle. We're pirating this."
Maybe. Maybe not.

I think there's a middle ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Irv Teibel’s ‘Environments’ Is Now an App
> He doesn’t seem to make any claim about what they can’t do regarding tracking, he just says that there are likely IR markers in the demo.

From Guttag's article:

> Adding markers to the frames is a crutch to make up for poor registration and SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).

> The counter argument as usual seems to come down to awe at how much money ML raised and from whom, as well as the talent pool they bring.

Hang on: earlier you seemed to be expressing incredulity that Guttag had claimed ML didn't have acceptably-working SLAM by now. Is your position now that in fact Guttag was correct to make this claim?
When and where do you start ascribing morality to software engineering and deciding who are "good people" within that domain? Like any business, there are those of us that agree with their choices, and those of us that disagree with their choices. I can't fault them for taking pride in their work, even if I vehemently disagree with the result of it.
That’s what a cafe that I frequented in Chicago did (buzz). Two hours of WiFi with your purchase. I thought it was a great system
Oh man, the Riva TNT was the 3D card I ever had, back when popular opinion said that hybrid 2D/3D cards would never be as good as a dedicated 3D card.

So amazing to get 30fps with fullscreen trilinear filtering. It really felt like the future... and then you jump back to the present and your graphics card is basically a renderfarm that you send geometry and shaders off to and it does the rest.
Create PDF Bookmark for ChartSheet and Export Document Properties in Excel to HTML
Really happy with its robustness. Able to access in mainland China which is nearly impossible unless using a domestic service. Now if only everyone would move to PGP.
> Your percentage of profits idea is something I liked for a while when I was thinking a lot about reform, but I now think that it would be way too hard to enforce.

You could just do a general per industry tax, which I proposed here a few years ago: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/openmanufacturing/vS4ju1VqXb...
Samsung is "exempt" because they are beholden (in theory) to a government that shares American values (in theory).

It's notable that Director Wray's response included language about "foreign governments that don't share our values":

> "We're deeply concerned about risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don't share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunciations networks."
It’s common in Indian English, as in “I have written a code to do the needful, but I have a doubt about it that perhaps you could answer.” Outside that dialect I’d call it an error.
It's a meme that American transit sucks. But some is very good. Seattle's light rail has been great even though it doesn't go everywhere yet. You might be surprised.
The sustainability of urban logistics is an important issue for rapidly growing cities worldwide. Although many cities have developed strategies to move people more efficiently and safely within the urban environment, much less attention has been paid to the importance of delivering goods to people at work and home.
At least with FastMail you'd have a phone number that will get you to a human to ask why.
Hmm you are right. I thought they had at least a few of the big markets. But no, seems like US only.
Anecdata: I deleted my FB account a few months ago, every few weeks I get an SMS asking if I need help signing in. Also get the same message emailed to original account email address and (!) my work email address - which I've never entered into Facebook.
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Actually, that threshold is an SEC one for being a “frequent trader”. So anyone who doesn’t is just not telling you that you’ll need at least 25k (and IIRC, at all times) to make the volume of trades you want.
The same thing happened to Vodafone (the major cellular carrier and therefore nation's largest ISP) in Australia circa 2013. Next-gen gear bids were under consideration, Huawei came in by far cheapest, but an Australian government agency visited and essentially suggested they were free to buy Huawei however they may not have their licenses renewed.
Clarification on G Suite received and acknowledged! I am not someone who has signed the contract & ToS, and was prior to now, wary of doing so because it was attached to the Google name. I do thank you for taking the time to acknowledge and explain how Google treats G Suite internally.
Agree in general about documentation.

"Ideally, if the sciter launcher in SDK is launched without arguments..."

sciter.exe and sciter.app are official demo "players" - they allow to load and run all examples - button "load".
You run them without any command line parameters.

usciter (and all other u[niversal] demos) are built from the same sources (C++ and HTML/CSS) on all platforms.
usciter can be used for loading all /samples/.

u* samples demonstrate multiplatform micro-framework defined in sciter-x-window.h, check https://sciter.com/forums/topic/native-application-structure....

"The app crashed on some samples. Not a good first look."

Interesting, do you remember which ones?
A government or entity can only seize your coins if they have or find the private keys
Hand-tuning code doesn't scale to the kind of networks people write.
Your list of mistakes seem to me like (to borrow from Fight Club) a list of unpolished brass on the Titanic. There is no right way to implement a software system integral to a car that auto-updates over the air at the whim of the manufacturer. And I'm uneasy about recommending for a safety-critical system any "best practices" from the industry that regularly brings us blue screens of death (or modern equivalents), gaping security holes, megabytes-stuffed webpages full of coin miners and ad tracking, etc.
> FB, annoying as it is, at least let's me know if they are doing ok.

For some arbitrary definition of they. I've had a father of a childhood friend die and I didn't notice for two years. But that weird Australian friend of my former roommate that I helped through public transport from the airport last year? I get her drunk pictures. They didn't even like each other.
Only if the incessant streams of breaking updates were primarily about device security would this be a valid argument.
Like objectively it’s a bad movie but my inner shadowrun playing 15 year old loved it.
Fwiw, I believe you personally, but that doesn't change the top down funding, attention, direction, etc that actually shapes up your ability to treat us like customers. I see Googlers try and share the same message you do. We aren't questioning your intentions, but you can only work with what you're given.

For example, I believe the AMP team, at a low level, thinks they are doing a good thing. Their leadership, however, is pulling the strings. Kinda wish the team was more aware of how they are being manipulated.
Bringing TiKV to Rust Devroom at FOSDEM 2018
Caavo seems to have an interesting idea on how to solve that problem. Early reviews are mixed.
Except for the obvious instant issue, the UConnect infotainment system is actually pretty nice, IMO.
I found this a strange decision in the Grid standard design. Surely most people* would think more in terms of "cells" that "cell-dividing-lines". Then again, compared to the design decisions in much of the rest of CSS including every other standard layout mechanism this is a fairly small gripe, overall CSS Grid is a big improvement. And when using the excellent "grid-template-areas" (compared to ASCII art elsewhere in this thread) you don't really specify start and end points anyway.

* By people, I mean designers (used to bootstrap-style grids), coders (used to arrays) and everyone else (used to spreadsheets).
The possibility that email content could change after receiving a message is worrying.

Is there going to be a way to reject AMP emails? I won't accept any emails that require loading JavaScript or content from CDNs.

If other email providers reject AMP emails with a bounce message explaining why, it might stop a disaster from taking hold. "Please resend your email in standard HTML or text format without JavaScript or external resources."
> "Netflix takes things people already like and doubles down on them, and that's the whole business model."

There's a name for this, it's called "television". Netflix makes television, and they do a good job of it. They're getting better at it too despite having only started doing it for a few years. Compared to the quality standards of the '80s or '90s what netflix produces today is near solid gold. Some of it truly is great, most of it is merely good. Little of it is truly groundbreaking, but that's true of television (and video media) in general. The number of groundbreaking shows that get made every year is pretty close to zero. That's true even at places known for making groundbreaking shows, like HBO.
An hour delay is a few times a month event for Amtrak’s NEC (the best line by far) and that’s with no bombs. And the DC metro... My 26 minute subway ride regularly takes 30-35 minutes, and that’s after a year of single tracking and shutdowns to perform upgrades.
That’s not how Spotify played it. Spotify bet the farm on discovery and won, with users marveling at how good their playlist selections are. When people are using Spotify recommendations, they become immune to content creators threatening to terminate deals because their users are listening to “Spotify” rather than going and specifically searching Taylor Swift.
I think Disney is going to find that it’s harder to build a massive online service than it looks and Netflix will become an attractive merger target if they ever falter too badly.
IMO, all-at-once rewrites are almost never a good option. Ship of Theseus style rewrites where every component eventually gets replaced but there is never a hard dividing line between old product and new product can be a good idea.
This is one reason some folks prefer Apple. iOS had privacy options at the OS level for years before Android got into the game (yes xPrivacy but not everyone can root)
How We Got from Twinkies to Tofu
Automated confluence documentation from your code
I recently wrote a blog engine that's pretty lightweight. Sort of tries to hit a middle-ground between a static blog and a wordpress type of thing. It also . . . doesn't work perfectly. I fucked something up with drafts, and I need to get back to it. But if you are interested, it's not too bad. Insanely fast.

http://actuallysprained.net/

Source code is here:
https://bitbucket.org/tronflux/pyrant
Are they talking about PRISM privacy features? (IE: because the NSA doesn't let them tap into the data)
I feel like proof of work blockchains don't actually solve the problem of "who to trust". Nodes just automatically assign trust to whoever mined the best hash that they know of, which turns out to be whoever holds the most mining power.

But not even that: If you're in China and the original blockchain is censored and all your node will ever see is the StateChain, you have misplaced your trust.
If they allegedly sold organs on the black market and force prisoners to play online games to earn virtual currencies (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoner...), it is not inconceivable they sell data.
>It has already been proven in the past that these Chinese phones send considerable amounts of data to Chinese servers.

Not that I don't believe this, but can you provide a canonical source to support this claim? I don't keep up with this literature.
> What can China do to someone a US citizen, living in the US, using a Huawei phone?

What can the US do to someone who's not a citizen, living outside the US, with access to their communications? It's not difficult to find an answer to this. China would do the same to you and you won't be able to fight against it because you're not a citizen of China.
"Like other VPNs, it acts as a secure connection to protect people from potentially harmful sites."

Ah, no... that's not what a VPN is for

"The app may collect your mobile data traffic to help us recognize tactics that bad actors use"

So, competitors?
Little kids don't observe common-sense safety measures, and can dart out behind a car before a parent even realizes what's happening.

Also the cameras usually have fairly wide-angle lenses. In situations like backing out of a spot in a parking lot, the camera often can spot vehicles or pedestrians that you otherwise would not see if you were just looking out your rear window.
Or rewrite it in LLVM.
Hmm, it doesn't say they can terminate you for any reason at all, but rather only "if you fail to comply with these Terms, or where required to by law," in addition to "non-payment, which is defined as failure to make a renewal after your paid subscription period expires."

Edit:
This is apparently a fairly recent change, they wrote a blog post about it: https://blog.fastmail.com/2017/09/11/tos-update/
Crypto-artwork of a rose sells for $1M
Or you can just configure your client to not run js. Seems easier and less dramatic.
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The real beauty that enables this blue sky opportunity is the personalized targeting Netflix can do AT GLOBAL SCALE! The old school Hollywood model for creating shows and movies is getting turned on its face.

Critics will hate a lot of what Netflix puts out, and it won't matter at all to the fans who can get exactly what they want in the comfort of their home free from judgement and peer pressure.
That would be better for the environment. Unfortunately people buying less stuff would cause a recession. The economy moves because people buy stuff.
Immune?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/ruling-raises-songwr...
Everybody uses power utilities, but what's the search volume for power companies?
Why are so many self-appointed startup CTOs so anxious to share startup advice?
Speaking of geosynchronous satellites, every site or app that I've seen for helping aim a dish works by telling you for your location the altitude and azimuth of the satellite.

This is kind of annoying when trying to figure out something like where on your property you have all of line of sight to the satellite, a place you can mount the dish, and a good way to run the cable from the disk to wherever you receiver will be.

It's especially annoying when you have a lot of potential obstacles blocking line of sight, and so you need to have a pretty good idea of the satellite location to tell if you do have sight. If magnetic north is a little off in your area then using a compass to find azimuth could be uncertain enough to give you the wrong answer.

Unless I'm missing something there is a much better way we could do this. You could tell the app or website your location, and a time in the evening that you can check for line of site. The app/site could then give you a star chart for that time at your location, marking on the star chart where the satellite is.

You could then note that stars near the satellite on the chart, and note how to find the satellite starting from them (e.g,., "go 2/3 from this star to that star, turn counterclockwise 90 degrees, and go half way to this star...and you are staring right at the satellite").

Then you could go outside, find those same stars, and locate the satellite using them. No stupid fumbling around trying to measure altitude and azimuth. It's just go out, and find a place where you can see your reference stars, and with a glance you can tell if you have line of site on the satellite.

Even better, you should be able to give the app/site a range of times you are available, and let it suggest particularly good times to try to find the satellite. It can look for available times where the satellite is very close to a prominent, easy to find star (or planet...no need to limit this to stars), or when it is in a particularly easy to find spot in a prominent constellation.
Amplitude (loudness) has nothing to do with frequency, and changes in amplitude will not affect the frequency perceived. Pitch == frequency.
Vaccination in Poultry Birds
Maybe Project Zero. But it does provide security benefits to the whole world, including Google. It also provides good PR, but that generally be the case for any altruistic product.
Spotify has done well, but what is their moat? If another service becomes better at discovery, won't most of Spotify's users switch to it?
Biohacker's Opal hand implant cancelled, court fight looms
My feedback:

- 1.6M documents. This is a tiny dataset. I bet it's much smaller than RAM size (122GB), which means all data is in memory. Interesting benchmark, but not what I'd typically expect for a database (data size >> RAM).

- All databases are allowed either to use all memory or capped at 10GB. PostgreSQL is capped at 128MB, the default shared_buffers value on PostgreSQL 10! This means PostgreSQL is running off of disk, whereas the other databases have all data in memory.

- Just to insist on the previous bullet: I see the point (even though I don't consider it interesting, compared to a minimum tuning of every db) of using default config, but this puts PG on a very unfair position (it's limited to 1/1000th of RAM!). Just set shared_buffers to 32GB (or 10GB to cap all db to 10GB!) and re-run the tests. I bet PG results will improve significantly.

- Other basic tuning parameters (like work_mem or min_wal_size or random_page_cost) may also affect significantly the performance. This could be left as an exercise to do another benchmark with properly tuned databases. If interested, here's a recent presentation I did with many other PostgreSQL tuning recommendations: https://speakerdeck.com/ongres/postgresql-configuration-for-...

Other than this, congratulations for the work on ArangoDB. Building a database is a really brave, hard work.
And your email account won't take down all sorts of other stuff with it.
I'm still waiting for more info on Near Eye Light Field devices.[1][2]

Actually, it appears there's more on this now[3][4], but the video's audio is a weird translation of some paper or something.

1: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/near-eye-light-field...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwCwtBxZM7g

3: http://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-11_%09Near-eye-L...

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdTycenXID8