skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had occasional lazy eye and went to an eye exam as a kid, which didn't give me any useful info. In my 20s a friend performed an eye exam on me and diagnosed me with astigmatism in my left eye. Since my right eye was seeing much better than the left, my brain would essentially not take care of the left one as much and not move it in sync. Glasses fixed it.

As a side effect of the astigmatism, I did not have stereoscopic vision for most of my life, and thus terrible depth perception. A few days after getting glasses, my brain adapted, and I saw the world in 3D for the first time. It was like getting an going from an old school TV to 4K - there was so much detail in the world that I could not see until now.

I still don't see 3D movies in 3D, but that's not something I miss.
I'd assume things like these are generally difficult to release to the public in any meaningful way, since they often require hardware hacks like desoldering components.
GDPR has a lot of parallels to HIPAA and SOC 2. Many developers here have worked with companies subject to HIPAA, or that do SOC 2 reporting.

One big difference is that the material scope of GDPR is so extremely broad: it regulates any PII that can be touched by EU law. That's important because it means that all of your SaaS vendors that touch this data may be in scope, not just your hosting stack. If you're marketing or selling in the EU, your entire growth/CRM/customer success stack will be regulated. If you have EU employees or contractors, all of their HR data is covered. I'm not sure if most companies realize this. It may be less of a problem for B2B, we'll see.

Questions to ask yourself: What is the scope of GDPR personal data across your business? Are you marketing in Europe? Are you selling into Europe? What business processes touch that data?
Have you looked at this?
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-conf...
We don't have a land value tax in Australia. But I think we should.

> Can’t raise taxable values to be realistic, as a lot of older folk are sitting on fixed income in multi-million dollar homes.

In this situation, maybe we should allow retired/older folks to defer taxes until the sale of the property (kind of a government-based reverse mortgage). Would be messy to administer though.
House Vote on FOSTA Is a Win for Censorship
University, first week. Tried a friend's glasses during a lecture and learned that projectors aren't normally blurry and that it's possible to read the fire escape signs from the back of the theatre. My initial prescription was around -0.25, slight enough that far away stuff being a bit blurred seemed feasible.
Most people hate mathematics. How school teaches it is why.
At 12 years I was studying piano and accidentally realized that the scores on the pentagram would blur out if I leaned backward.

Oh, as I write this comment I realize that the piano event occurred around the same time I started losing interest in school. Given that the distance between a piano player and the score is significantly less than the one between a student and the blackboard, I might have started being affected by myopia months before discovering it; maybe I started losing interest in school because I could not focus the board?
No, with a lot less overhead because you don't need to write custom web server code.

Edit: and if he points the requests directly at blob storage as he's suggesting, we're very close to to flat files on a filesystem again.
I was in my early twenties and my friend's mother commented about my squinting while playing video games. The optometrist said I had 20/50 nearsightedness.

I still rarely use my contacts because it's somewhat overstimulating to see so well; it feels unnatural, though contacts and/or glasses are an obvious inevitability I need to accept.
I agree completely. Back when Adsense for Content was a thing they would ban your account if you had advertisers from other providers on your page (in addition to Google ads) as it was against the terms of service.

Given Google is trying harder and harder to make money on something other than search advertising this is what I expect to happen. I expect the Youtubers will find that Google will stop them from pitching products in their video or putting affiliate links in their description. They may also start cracking down on ads that roll in the video that aren't Google placed. Then I expect them to make it a violation of their ToS to receive third party compensation for your videos, and instead to use some Google supplied version (which they will 'tax' at some rate (probably 30% given the Apple precedent)). There was already rumblings of this in September of last year : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiWNSlHG-9Y
This is the sort of thing that's really neat technologically but also scares me -- what happens when [insert homophobic government here] starts to use this sort of thing to persecute people?
The premise of this article is incorrect. Google has banned gun sales via the Shopping tool since 2012 [1]. Archive.org doesn't have a capture from 2012, but there's one from March 2016 [2]. This is not a new policy.

A few people noticed that you could buy bump stocks and asked about this on Twitter; Danny Sullivan responded [3]. This has had some unintended consequences on wine sales... [4].

[1] http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2012/06/28/google-shoppin...
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160307053138/https://support.g...
[3] https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/967521887914897408
[4] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/27/wine-lovers-cann...
it would be nice if dart had a more expressive type system, why do we say types are the future, then gimpy the language with basically a java type system to which most static type people will say is not the good definition of a static typed language?
> Actually, most iOS games in recent years have been using Metal, as are most “off the shelf” engines internally.

Largely due to support in Unity/Unreal. They would be using OpenGL ES still if they had their own engines except maybe the biggest game studios that always have custom game engines/rendering integration.
It is insane that google did that in the first place. The amount of censorship creeping into google the last few years is rather disappointing.

We need more competition in search and technology. Google would never have done this when they were fighting yahoo, excite, altavista and dozens of other search engines for their survival.

Now that they are a near monopoly, they are playing "political police man"?

There is too much politics seeping into tech.

Google should be displaying results that the user wants, not what they want the user to see.
The Secret Sharer: Measuring Unintended NN Memorization and Extracting Secrets
I have now! Thanks.
Something HTML with local state like "Programmer Competency Matrix" would be great.

http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/

https://competency-checklist.appspot.com/

https://github.com/hltbra/programmer-competency-checklist
We should upzone everything!

Noise sucks, but for some people it's the right tradeoff. We should allow people to choose that if they want.
When I first got started with Java at a time when Javalobby was my Hacker News, there were endless rants and debates about Swing and native widgets. Yet, 20 years later Electron seems to have won the cross-platform platform and no one seems to care about native widgets - only memory usage!
The semitic versioning scheme makes up for it, though; brilliant.
Should be as simple as photo organisers/editors detecting and categorising bracketed or burst-shot photos and displaying them as a sort of batch of the same photograph, i.e. in a list of photos displaying them with one thumbnail and a visual indicator that multiple photos exist in that same thumbnail.
>The story I hear is that Cellebrite hires ex-Apple engineers and moves them to countries where Apple can't prosecute them under the DMCA or its equivalents.

Crazy if true.

Doesn't this also create a weird incentive problem where the FBI (or any other law enforcement agency) who would normally be tasked with helping Apple with this doesn't actually want to?
Why would code being a tree rather than a string necessarily differentiate it from other types of data? Surely, one could have non-code data that were also trees (think, just to pick a concrete example, of coded natural language data which are naturally represented as trees).

I thought the point in lisp was that the syntax for non-code data and code are the same so treating code as data (and thinking about code as data) is easier than in many other programming languages.
Don't let yourself confined by what's "supposed to be". Trust your emotional state derive from what's good or bad from first principles (i.e. from experience).

That said - it's good to do an exercise and imagine it's 10 years later, you've created a company startup for the sole purpose of making one billion dollars, think about what you can do with the one billion dollars, what opportunities you've sacrificed, what you've risked.

How do you feel about it? Was it worth it? Would you do it again?

The answer might be different for everyone.

You can repeat for any other number of ambitious goals - getting married to a very good person; spending two decades raising children; moving to a new country; or even getting divorced; travelling around the world; becoming the best at an activity; become world famous for something, etc.

For any one goal - think, what kind of person tend to achieve that goal easily, then the price of achieving that goal is to become that kind of person. Do you still want to achieve goal? If I didn't want to become the kind of person who'd marry my partner, it means to me I didn't actually want to marry her to begin with. Personally, to achieve X, is equivalent to, to become the person who achieves X easily.

It helps me re-focus on what actions to take.
We know where it starts. Where does it end? What business value are such search filters achieving for Google?

Wouldn't that kind of action lead to a growing number of users losing trust in their search results? e.g. if they manipulate the outcome of searches for a kind of object which one has a right to purchase and keep; would they do the same for certain ideas which one has a right to express and read; or for sets of people which one has a right to vote for?
While I agree with the statement on its surface, it's important to note that there is likely a ceiling as to how far someone can improve a trait as broadly defined as 'creativity'. A large part of your personality characteristics depend on inheritance.
Kabita's kitchen is no doubt good youtube channel for Indian food recipes. But I prefer Nisha Madhulika. Reminds me of Mom :)
It would be interesting to compare to what percentage of 'actors' would make that?

Or the percentage of musicians, writers or game programmers.
I don't doubt making a full time living on YouTube is very difficult. But a few channels I subscribe to at least claim to do it, and are nowhere near the top YouTubers. They all supplement their ad revenue with Patreon. But I would also think doing Patreon is just a standard prerequisite to full time YouTubing now.

I've always wondered if these channels are truly making a living off of just Patreon+YouTube, or if there is more they aren't sharing.
Zelle Moved $75B in 2017, 2X of What Venmo Moved in the Same Period
it's also a pain for compilers
For SF you don't need To stay under the limit. Technically you could apply as a college student, buy a BMR condo, then start your 6 figure job while keeping the place.
Quantum Mechanics Is Putting Human Identity on Trial (2015)
If you like Shark Tank, check out The Pitch podcast. It's very similar in concept, but in execution, I like it a lot better:

- It's one pitch per episode, which allows a bit more depth

- It's narrated, which let's the host cut in to explain nuances

- They circle back to find out what happened after the pitch if the investments actually close

- No gimmick companies

- No Kevin O'Leary
> js objects to change shape

Could you please share more details?
As far as I can remember, that was the proof of concept which ended up emerging for the 5C crack a few years ago, and I don’t see any reason the methods would’ve changed.
Oh sure, you can sue for anything, and defending yourself is expensive. This is a problem in general, but not one worth worrying about in practice (will I get sued for writing this comment - I could!), but I'm a lot more interested in this part of your comment:

> and possibly even win, given that it's probably hard to back up a lot of these accusations in a way that would hold up in court

Assuming I didn't sign any explicit agreement (like as part of a settlement), if I say, "I did not find X to be a good employer because of Y", I do not believe it is necessary to prove Y in court in order to win a defamation suit.

But we're both guessing. I would say that your side would be easier to find evidence of, though, if you're right: do you know of, or can you find, examples of this sort of suit being brought and won?
Man-made earthquake risk reduced if fracking is 895m from faults
I thought they used rubidium, with cesium standards on the ground to broadcast corrections.
You can fix that with css transitions
Ideally one day videomakers will join the audio world in always just recording uncompressed. No longer would you have to think about whether you used the right codec for your editor. It's taking a long time to get cheap because the bandwidth of video is so many times more than other uses. Most people already are way overserved by the standards already in place.

For what it's worth the CompactFlash Association recently ratified CFexpress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress) which uses NVMe and two lanes of PCIe 3.0, for 1.97 GB/sec. If my calculations are correct, that's enough for 10-bit 4K RAW at 178 frames per second.
Unable to direct attack freedom of expression, the spread of informations and small business, the EU developed another bureacratic layer on top all the bureaucratic layers already in effect. This layer is pretty hard to comply with, and requires a lawyer always on retaneir for peace of mind, ensuring that publishing online is de facto reserved to few players. Every other interpretation of the law is naive, just like with the cookie law, if they really wanted to stop the abuses of the big players they could have done so. Instead they're ruining normal people, because that's the real objective.
Since agriculture uses the bulk of water, it is a matter of allocation and proper pricing.

California’s is a knowledge-based economy—Agriculture contributes but a small percentage to it (about 2%). Why should we restrict the number of productive people who can live in the state in favor of crops?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California
The closest I've seen is the Intel compute stick: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/intel-...

I question their commitment to this space though.
Vgo and vendoring
> inherent problem of rapid-transit noise

What inherent problem? Rapid transit is certainly quieter than vehicle traffic. Noise pollution comes from sirens and heavy trucking, not public transportation.
Before the torrent box went up, we used to get notices from our ISP every few weeks. Amazon just... swallow them somewhere, I guess. I do rebuild the instance occasionally when it gets too crusty, but I use an elastic IP for my own convenience.

Funnily enough, I do keep another box in Moscow which I use for more serious stuff than piracy.
Optimizing Performance for Big-Data-based Global E-Commerce Systems
Western corporate types will be freaked out and the dis-investment here will accelerate
> Since that's a marketing page for SB827, can someone explain to me how it doesn't ultimately create an incentive against public transit?

How does building high density housing near public transportation incentivize people to not use that public transportation?
New, new, new TechCrunch
They were called eShares before. But couldn't secure the domain name...So changed their name to something unrelated
This is not true. You cannot just clone the data and run passcodes against it, because the data is not encrypted by your passcode. Instead, each file on iOS 11 is encrypted with a different AES 256-bit key, and cracking even one 256-bit key through exhaustive search is thought to be out of reach of humankind (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6141/amount-of-...). The file keys are wrapped by, among other things, the device's Unique ID, a 256-bit key generated by the Secure Enclave, and accessible only to the Secure Enclave, not any other hardware or software running on an iOS device.

In the end, the only options are: bruteforcing passcodes on the original device while attempting to trick the device into allowing more than 10 failures, or prying open the Secure Enclave to obtain the Unique ID — both options a lot more complicated than just cloning the data and trying passcodes on it.
If it was just “as good as” AWS, then no it wouldn’t be considered - easier to just expand the usage of the existing product.

If it is materially better, then yes, but the barrier to entry for setting it up, signing yet another SaaS contract, etc. is high. Most likely would still go with AWS unless there was a really good reason not to.
I'd say not really. The graph doesn't seem to be linkable, but if you add "Las Vegas" as a comparator, both Fernley and Vegas moved in lockstep. Vegas is way too far away to have its prices affected by the Gigafactory, so I'd say that there was no discernible effect. Or, at least, a very modest effect.

https://www.zillow.com/fernley-nv/home-values/
The same terminology being used for distinct concepts is indeed a potential source of confusion. If you were to say “this is a constant time algorithm” I would need more information to clarify what you meant, rendering the original term less useful.
The parent comment is saying we shouldn't rely on the intent of implementors of the law for our continued well being.

Pattern: propose easily misused overly broad law. When people express concern claim that the law is only to deal with problem foo and would never be used to do what it says in plain language. Proceed to do what it says you are allowed to do.

It could possibly be expressed as don't accept intent and goodwill in place of plainly expressed limits on government or regulatory power.
Never mind, I tried connecting from school WiFi not realizing most ports are blocked.
Any new taxes, even revenue neutral ones, or increases in existing taxes require a 2/3 majority vote in both houses, which was essentially impossible until very recently. A consequence is that loss of revenue from one source could not be made up by taxing other sources. Conservatives even tried to argue that Cap and Trade was a new tax and was not allowed by Prop 13: http://legal-planet.org/2017/04/06/court-of-appeal-confirms-....

The only way to fund new programs was by ballot initiative, which requires a simple majority vote. Ballot initiatives don't pass unless all funds are earmarked for the specified program, even if revenues for the proposed tax or costs of the proposed program change over time. Ballot initiatives that issue bonds are even more likely to pass because they don't require an immediate tax increase. The result of a few decades of Prop 13 is California's ongoing budget problems with high taxes and poor allocation of revenues.
macOS, also the latest version High Sierra, is even certified Unix [0].
Mac has non-standard hardware yes, bespoke software hell yes, but also pretty good standard compliance when it comes to the lower level system interfaces - lower level as in below the various high level frameworks such as the UI toolkit Cocoa.

The Linux Standard Base is a superset of POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix]), with some small incompatibilities [1]

[0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/
[1] ISO/IEC TR 24715:2006 Technical Report on the Conflicts between the ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX) and the Linux Standard Base http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ - there is probably a newer version of this report but that is not freely available
I think it's worth noting that revenue grows superlinearly in views. As channels get more popular they get vetted manually, which puts them in a more lucrative ad share. Also opens up sponsorship deals, etc
Do you have references for doctors there that focus on medical tourists?
Thanks man! Much simpler times, those were the days.
Nobody believes the legislators have ill intent. Then they find themselves ruined but waking up then is hard too.
That’s across the entire surface of the plant. It isn’t going to vary much at all across the distance relative to the base and peak where they made their measurements would it?
I will try and find the book, but their is research behind arbitrary pricing. Hardware stores for example often use exact sounding pricing because the consumer is making a rational purchase rather than an emotional one, and a price that seems calculated based on real value aligns well. The 478 dollar drill must cost that much because of the precise materials used to build it. Compared to the 199 dollar one which is obviously made of cheap materials and marked up.
> and knew what they were getting

The discussion in the sibling thread shows that this isn't the case.
Anyone have advice on pricing strategy on hardware/iot startup?
Yes, this is an actual service they offer - https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Key-In-Home-Kit/dp...
I am very confused how redis could get involved here. I hereby declare this open source :)

import threading
_local = threading.local()

class SessionKeeperMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response

def __call__(self, request):
_local.session = request.session
response = self.process_request(request)
_local.session = None
return response

def my_callback():
do stuff with _local.session
If the selling and the buying happens at different times, then that doesn't seem so crazy. The real cost of electricity is dependent on supply and demand - which varies with time.

In certain parts of USA demand is especially high when the sun is at it's peak and most places on earth see low demand in the middle of the night.
Prop 13 tax rates can also be passed on to family members if they purchase or inherit the house. It’s a great deal for those who can take advantage of it, but it is also unfair and decreases mobility.
Why? Did repealing the 18th set off a rash of destruction of right?
No, they came to the same conclusion
What this law means is that I'll never do any business, even freelance, without being shielded by an LLC.
But I'm not concerned about the money, I'm concerned about the wastefulness. The existing bulbs are completely functional until they reach EOL, at which point they will be discarded into landfill. The less frequently things are replaced, the less waste ends up in landfill (and is consumed in initial production).
Definitely depends on the card. Make sure to read your cardholder agreement!
Totally agreed. It does keep reminding me of Quip.
It really is insane to hear the very passionate thoughts of my Shanghainese friends when it comes to how bad the US system is or how bad Trump is. But then I realize they have no other outlet for expression about their own system, So they direct their energy at what they think they know however badly reported to them by controlled media. The only thing people will talk about in very hushed tones on a completely unsolicited basis is how badly their families suffered under the CR. Even X generation kids know what was done to them by their own government. That's why the military police popped up in Shanghai train stations 2 days ago. Government protecting itself from its own citizens.
The iPhone 5C could be attacked this way because it didn't contain the Secure Enclave that shipped as part of the A7 chip. Attacks on devices with the A7 (or newer chips) would be novel.
It's also plausible that a taxi driver could do the exact same thing. What's your point?