skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The demo video on our website was done with 2D pose. We’re in the middle of transitioning to 3D.
> A single outage, even if its only a minute long, can possibly lose you all your money in all channels.

The channels are open for multiple days. A minute outage wouldn't do the trick.
Scott Kelly’s medical monitoring has spawned some horrific press coverage
Wages have been stagnant for a long time.

You can almost trace it back to when Volcker broke the back of inflation.

That's one thing that makes the current posture of the Fed pretty interesting.
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Google plans to stream vr content including games. So the GPU cost is not such a hurdle for the average consumer
Wages might have been stagnant, but total compensation including benefits has not.
The other advantage of this over w3w is that it the encoding makes any kind of sense.

w3w's feature where it moves an address onto a different continent because you forgot to pluralize a word is the worst idea for an address encoding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change:

”Semantic change (also semantic shift, semantic progression, semantic development, or semantic drift) is the evolution of word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage.”

⇒ you can’t argue Google’s definition is worse because it declares the original meaning to be informal and subsidiary to its corrupted definition. It may just be more up to date (in this case, I think it is)
For those of use that keep computers for many years, these flaws certainly put a dampener on new sales. No way I'd buy a brand new computer today with a known flawed/suboptimal CPU, and be lumbered with that for the next 5-10 years.
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The national average for unemployment is low. Certain areas are higher, much much higher.
I never said it wasn’t being covered by the press. But as an individual, if you were to suggest that these things are happening as a result of immigration policy, you’d run the risk of being charged with a hate crime.
>Wal-Mart sacrificed and betrayed its founder’s key principles of integrity and honesty, pushing those core values aside in its rush to win the e-commerce war at all costs.

Markets left to their own accord incentivize dishonesty and manipulation.

Innovation is only one way to compete, and a rare one at that. It’s one to be treasured, not defended on disgraceful terms like that of how both Amazon and Wal-Mart are content to treat their employees.
If you think that all big consultancies fail so equally, then doesn't that hint strongly that maybe, just maybe, the issues are on the other side?
This looks like a "user first" approach which I, as a user, really dig. Don't forget that Google is likely losing out on adwords revenue as a result of this change.
Is that multiple jobs at the same time or just more than one job in a given year?

Curious how they count it.
The several fake Facebook accounts I use for testing purposes would like to have a word with you. In my experience Facebook doesn't try to filter out fake accounts very heavily unless you use them to create spam. And I prefer to keep Facebook as far as possible away from "real" IDs like my passport, driver's license, etc.
I was wondering how the arctic melt changes our view on the northwest passage. Was it really ice-free enough in human memory such that it could have been a myth?
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Can you provide a source with more information about that, please?
This view that epigenetics is a gene switch is actually pretty misleading at least, and probably just plain wrong, as recent research published this year has shown. It is far more a structural and inheritance guiding factor, as it was conclusively shown that methylated promoters very much do still allow for gene expression, contrary to "popular" belief.
Are you able to talk a bit about your server-side Javascript setup? What was your decision making process for using something other than Node? How does the ecosystem of libraries and supporting infrastructure look like?
It's a lot more user-friendly than Google Sheets, what with the various input methods and the easy 'views' that hide/show/whatever the underlying raw information. Plus, it's really easy to link tables to each other. I might not have looked well enough, but I don't think GSheets can do that without some scripting involved.
They only know which currency they're accepting if they verify that the binary they're running is connected to the blockchain which follows the rules they want.

Admittedly, that's beyond the technical ability of many people, but names don't solve this problem in any way. I can pull a copy of the BCH source code, find/replace every displayed text that says "Bitcoin Cash" with "Bitcoin" but that changes nothing about the currency being exchanged.
I was interested in this topic because people were telling me that SQLite (and other databases) have more sophisticated methods of preventing corruption to database files than just calling fsync (or the platform equivalent) on the DB and hoping that the OS and disk controllers behave appropriately. What this document shows is that while SQLite has a somewhat sophisticated mechanism for allowing rollback of transactions in the case that they are not completed, it does not have a better means of ensuring data actually gets to disk than relying on fsync.

In fact, this document explicitly calls out that the DB can be corrupted if the OS and disks do not implement flushing properly. Further, when I was looking at how SQLite does testing I noticed that there are no power failure or actual disk crash tests (these are obviously hard to test in an automated way). Instead SQLite simulates faults by using an OS abstraction layer that injects fake disk faults, reorders writes, etc. This means that the actual behavior of SQLite (and probably other DBs) under actual power failure situations is probably worse than commonly acknowledged.

Edit: I should add that this issue is obviously an OS/filesystem/hardware bug, and it's not really a criticism of SQLite to say it can't address it.
I'm still waiting to hear if there's ever going to be a hardware mitigation for Spectre variant 1. It's not accurate to call things "fixed" without it. Is anyone even working on it?
I have been a happy user of PIA for quite a while, and highly recommend their service. I've used their proprietary app for a while, and have just trusted their service based on their public image. I'm glad it's going open source, i'll be contributing.
Airtable is such a nice product. My friend actually uses it as a headless CMS, in that regard it's so much easier to use than Contentful IMO.
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Bases are essentially full databases. You can have as many bases as you want. You can share your base (e.g. view only, not edit) to anybody [nonpaying users, nonlogged on users, etc]

If your base has 5,001 records, only users with a $20/month plan can edit that base.

Everyone in your company to my understanding has to have the same plan though. So, you can't have one staff member at a $10/month plan, and another at $20/month plan.
I find it useful for tracking people who attend music camps I run, whatever they have chosen, paid for, dietary issues etc. It’s very friendly for setting up things like Booleans, formulas, different types of data, without having to know much. It’s easy to use and easy to share with others. It’s not perfect. But it’s nice.
>Please note that the extension will protect traffic from the browser only and will offer any protection when using other applications.

I'm assuming an error in the sentence above and it should say NOT before offer. Seems like a little proof-reading would have been worthwhile.
>AFAIK there isn't a way to create an std::string out of that without a copy.

You can use std::string_view, Google's StringPiece or llvm::StringRef.
> Perhaps you had problems with the concepts of Lisp packages (namespaces)?

Rather unlikely. The namespaces are pretty easy to understand conceptually, and their interface is pretty minimal. Same goes for Quicklisp, very easy to start with, practically one function call needed in most cases.

Now there's ASDF. I know, it's a thing of beauty, but it's not simple to use or to understand.

Well, it's actually that way for good reasons: the problem it solves is complex and hard. The only comparable system I know of is Erlang releases mechanism, which is also a solid tool, but definitely not the simplest one in Erlang repertoire.

Anyway, if someone cites ASDF as a reason for struggling with Common Lisp, I find it very believable.
You recall incorrectly. A malleability fix was a prerequisite to Lightning. SegWit is just one of many possible malleability fixes.
It looks like a typical cable-stayed bridge. Often spans are installed in advance of cables by omitting heavy elements, like the deck, so the span is self supporting. The cables are then installed and anchored and the deck is fitted.
How does reducing the number of people who can transact involve centralization? Aren't we discussing centralization of the mining/network power?
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PIA's server is in the US, though.

Isn't that kind of weird for a privacy-focused company?
> unless there is literally no other way

is this a useful standard? this is ostensibly always true - if nothing else, you can grab a sign and walk into any populated area to 'reach consumers'.
As one can see in the installation video from last weekend, the bridge in question was the first span of a larger project, in which at least one other span would have to be installed above an adjacent canal to complete the crossing.

A rendering [1] shows the completed crossing to be an asymmetric harp-type cable-stayed bridge, with cables supporting both the portion above the road (the piece in question), and the piece that's yet-to-be constructed to go above the water. In this design, it's usually not possible to (temporarily) install the cables solely on one side of the tower, as the loads on one side of the tower would collapse the tower.

Therefore, it stands to reason that the cables were either to come into play at the very end, or if the bridge were constructed by cantilevering out from the central tower and attaching cables as you go.

In other words, without trying to pass judgment on the cause, the cables are either a red herring (because the sub-spans are self-supporting), or the bridge was assembled in a terribly incorrect sequence.

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/w...
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Sure. It's both to blame. I know plenty of small companies in other industries that refuse to do work that they expect to fail because they don't want to hurt their reputations. Those guys all probably didn't bid or dropped out when they saw it would fail.
google lost the blockchain race..
Perhaps. One of the things I sort of like about Twilio is that they can do "credits" and I have the option to only pay for a certain amount.
I don't know anything about this lawsuit, but the reason their growth in this most recent quarter went down so much is very simple:

They raised prices for online orders. Now stuff you buy online is not the same price as you get in the store, I used to buy a lot of stuff from them for delivery, now I don't.

I personally wouldn't mind slower shipment and lower prices. But I guess that's a hard sell in today's world.
They most likely did raise this, but when asked to provide a more "competitive" bid, they axed training and who knows what else. This is common in large enterprise sales deals. For professional services deployment engagements, there is always the possibility of an amendment to the services scope (often referred to as a change order or change request).

If the project is estimated to take over a year to deploy, by then you're in a new budget cycle and the vendor has come to an agreement with the procurement department to charge for additional services as required in subsequent phases.
It's more than one job at the same time, during the measured period of time.

The BLS routinely polls for why as well. Typically it's about 1/3 say it's to earn more money, 1/3 say it's specifically to deal with debt, and ~15% will say it's for enjoyment (they like the second job).

Multi-job holding peaked (all-time high) in 1995 at around 6.8%.
unless its not a bubble anf the bubble is when you look at the stock market and america's debt
In what sense? The legal overrides that exist in the US for "national security" also largely exist in the EU.
In the case you cite, advertisers were piggy backing on the feminist movement to sell cigarettes to women because there was a stigma against women smoking.

In what way did this harm democracy? Cigarettes are dying off, because of scientific discoveries, if anything this demonstrates my point.
I don't have a specific recommendation for you, but I feel your pain and agree with all the issues you've raised.

My 9 year old Mac finally died, and I thought long and hard about buying a new Mac as a replacement. I decided against a new Mac because I just couldn't bring myself to buy another machine with something like the touchbar.

My old Windows machine had something like it, and I kept spending mad amounts of time debugging WiFi problems only to realize I had accidentally turned off WiFi with an errant touch. Totally stupid.

My solution was to use my old (hated) Windows machine rather than spending more (lots) of money on a new hated Macbook. The Windows hardware stinks and feels chintzy but I already had it, and only needed to buy some software to bridge a functionality gap between the OSX and Windows X experience.

Then Spectre / Meltdown news broke, and I realized I won't be buying anything new until Intel and manufacturers have a reliable fixed new product line on the market. Anything purchased now will still need a microcode update to fix this issue.
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I'd suggest addressing non-English to non-English translations first, which is usually limited in most engines out there compared to translations to/from English.
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Weird, must be a regression. Read some other comments here yesterday about the clojure repls working well. Looking into it now. For feature requests here https://repl.it/feedback
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For someone looking to learn to code web-app's from scratch, would you advise Django over Vanilla JS, Node, or Vue?
Currency value isn't dependent on a single entity's experience or the starving man would set food prices. SMH
I've been happy with PIA. Except for the increased blocking of commercial VPN's (address spaces, I assume) by services on the Web. Not PIA's fault. Just people looking to solve their problems at the expense of my own security.

I waded into PIA's client enough, months back, to observe that it was using OpenVPN. Along with its reputation, I decided I had enough trust for my use -- avoiding connection monitoring/cracking on public WiFi and keeping Comcast and Verizon from data mining me.

I do sort of wait, with all these services, with breath half-held for some other shoe to drop. Given the rubber hose and lead pipe legal and extra-legal methods available to various and manifold "three letter agencies".

I hope the open-sourcing of the client leads not only to increased trust, but also to some functional improvements. Such as being able to leave PIA switched on on my phone while tethering to it. Without having to root the phone and get into routing scenarios that apparently Android is not designed to support. So, I guess that's an Android problem. But maybe there's some way to address it at the client level.

Anyway. PIA keeps taking substantive steps (e.g. prior financial support for open source projects, now open-sourcing the client, etc.) that put it in a good light.

P.S. I don't mean blocking by Netflix and the like. I mean, archive.is, Google (prove you're not a bot...), commercial services I use, etc., etc.).
> Huynh claims Walmart ... failed to process customer returns

I've had this exact experience. A car seat I returned was "lost" when I shipped it back. It took me 6 months to get a refund, and it was only because I pinged an exec there and he facilitated the refund.

Front line phone customer support was useless in a Kafka-esque manner. I didn't think it was nefarious, but as much as I want competition for Amazon, the thought of buying from Walmart makes me feel like it's going to be a painful ordeal.
> How do you differentiate between blockchains if not at least by name?

By validating the blocks against the rules you've chosen and choosing the longest valid blockchain.

> How will a merchant know which currencies to accept if they have no names?

By choosing the blockchain they agree with the rules of.

> When I'm trading Bitcoin for Litecoin, am I just trading the same thing for itself?

No, but the name isn't the important difference. The important difference is that Bitcoin proof of work uses SHA while Litecoin proof of work uses Scrypt, so the blocks of one don't validate under the rules of the other.
Great commentary by Jeb Lund

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I think being a competitor to Sheets is the business - there's space for 2 online spreadsheet solutions (Excel online is is a step below).
> A small minority of rubes do buy gold because they entertain apocalyptic fantasies in which they’d A. Survive and B. Be able to retain their money.

You don't have to entertain the fantasy yourself to invest in it. You just have to trust that others do. That is what gold investment is, at a fundamental level.
> Because it's [the unemployment rate] really a measure of employment 'churn'

This is not accurate. Almost the opposite is true. More people switch jobs when unemployment is low.

> So employment churn is at historically low rates really.

This is also not accurate. The US government measures job churn---it is called the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS)---and it is as high as it has ever been.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/job-openings-and-labor-turnover/o...
There have been cars in production with steer-by-wire for years now; I believe the Infiniti Q50 in 2013 was the first.
Markets left to their own? And what is your magic solution? Socialism? How come do you trust more people who rob others with tax and enslave society more than the rest of others (the market)?
The tweet author is not ridiculing them because Bitcoin has poor privacy and they think it doesn't. She's ridiculing them for wanting a censorship resistant form of money. It's the derisive attitude toward a reasonable desire that I'm criticising.

>>This shows up in both examples you cited: if the Venezuelan government wants to enforce capital controls, the people who used Bitcoin are going to wish they'd smuggled suitcases of cash out of the country instead because they've left a durable paper-trail of their transactions behind.

It does want to enforce capital controls but it is far more costly and difficult to do so against users of Bitcoin than users of against traditional trusted third party controlled intermediaries.

It's not a simple matter for the Venezuelan government to determine which pseudonymous transactions on a cryptocurrency blockchain belong to which Venezuelan resident. It is also much more costly to enforce a law against many thousands of end users versus a handful of large intermediaries operating in the country.

Do you really think it's equally easy for the Venezuelan government to enforce capital controls with the traditional financial system and with cryptocurrency?

>>even if the technology eventually delivers they'll have the same problem that almost everyone needs to get real money out of the system and that's where the normal banking laws kick in.

Yes it won't be perfect but it will increase the cost/difficulty of mass surveillance of financial transactions. Many of the measures that would be needed for a government to prevent private use of cryptocurrency would be politically unpalatable.
> For a long time there's been an excellent well balanced feedback loop, more productivity = higher pay,

Um, that feedback loop existed until 1972 or so, but has not existed since then. For most people in the United States, it has never existed in their lifetime.

https://cdn.technologyreview.com/i/legacy/graph1.png?sw=600
I can't think of a way to do authority-marking and tables of authorities, auto-updating supra and infra references, different page numbering systems within a single document, etc etc with markdown. Writing a rough draft in a text editor is easy enough but the last bits of formatting and presentation for legal documents are just really, really involved.
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The EU has not been caught spying on everyone.
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That doesn't surprise me in the least; practically everything in biology has turned out to be more complicated than it first looked.
Out of curiosity, how did this happen? Were you on a trial / student plan that expired?
I'm not blaming the users, I'm blaming the entrepreneurs. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

> what caused governments to use regulations instead of alternatives (including doing nothing)

It's the same as it always has been - why are any rules made up? Because someone cheats. Why do rulebooks get bigger and bigger and not smaller and smaller? Because someone sees the rule "do not steal", and threatens the victim into "giving" him the stuff, cause "it's not stealing if he gives it to me, right?" Now you need rules about coercion.

More directly, people flouting the spirit of the law is the cause of this legislation. People ignoring the verbal and written warnings put out there by governments to play nice.

Ultimately, the government has two forces of authority. The law (regulation) and force (police, army, etc). The first is empowered by the second. If the warning signs leading up to regulation are ignored, what else can we expect the government to do?
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/21/opinion/l-good-translatio...

Apparently the translation of the Japanese response to the Allies ultimatum calling for their surrender might have been faulty.
I've been a PIA customer for years, but part of me has always suspected that PIA was setup and is run by some covert arm of NSA or the sort. But, since their service does what I need, no worries.
That is great, thank you!
And long term, this technology will definitely shake up who the little guys and big guys are, as big companies fail to adapt and small companies make hits.
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Yep right there with you. Was hoping to upgrade my OG X1 Carbon laptop this year, now I'm pushing it back another year at least.
Markdown was specifically designed to just be shorthand for HTML tags--most of the missing features don't meet that criterion.
The TeXbook by Knuth. See if you can find it in a library.
There are actually three ways to define a species. The morphological species concept, the biological species concept, and the phylogenetic species concept. Species that can interbreed satisfy the biological species concept but there seems to be more consensus among biologists that constructing a phylogeny is the better way to define species.

This somewhat problematic however because there is rarely enough data about a species to create a complete phylogeny of a species and its common ancestors. Additionally, it is thought that this concept would lead to the naming of many more species than we presently recognize. If you’re interested in this kind of thing I would encourage you to check out the link below!

http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/from_the_lab/species-concept...
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