skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with this sentiment. VR enthusiasts tend to cite 3dof tracking as a non-starter but I have seen enough evidence to suggest that 3dof head tracking is sufficient to deliver comfortable, long sessions for social VR applications. The reason 3dof is not a non-starter is because you can still interact with people in a very natural way in VR with these devices, and the low cost enables access to the experience for people who literally have no other means to interact with people in this way. For many social VR applications people simply need to be able to look at one another, make eye contact, and be able to explore a virtual space together. A 3dof head tracker with a 3dof controller, if comfortable to wear and easy to set up, can deliver this.

What is a non-starter are dropped frames, overheating, or other issues around comfort and ease of use. All of these are solved by Oculus Go (and a subset are solved by GearVR) in a way that are not solved by google cardboard. If a device can hold up for 60 minutes, doesn't hurt to wear, has no cables or messy setup steps, and includes asynchronous timewarp to generate missing frames, I believe that is a sufficient device that could takeover the market for a wide variety of communication use cases and is exactly what Oculus Go is the first to offer in full.
My point is, when the program is the same as the specification then there's essentially no point writing either tests or proofs. Therefore, I think your point would be better demonstrated using a more complicated example.
Generally yes. Otherwise they don’t do them. But when the market gets frothy, a bunch lose at once. (And the life insurance companies and pensions counting on them get hurt)
Additionally, I think the public is now realizing how powerful the friend/follow metadata graph is. It's pretty easy/robust to infer traits about people for whom you don't have explicit information. Alan, Betty, and Charlotte filled out the quiz and all live in Florida; Dave has mutual friendships with Alan, Betty, and Charlotte; Dave probably lives in Florida. You can do this recursively and don't need to have concrete information about the majority of members in a graph in order to make pretty strong probablistic inferences about the traits of a large graph.
I think it's a trick for Cambridge Analytica to gather data on your political segmentation preferences.
They should buy all of them, use them as display space for a wide variety of Stuff, and continue shipping normally except for small items that can be sold at point of sale and stored at low overhead.
Wire works ok for me. I use it on my desktop for video calls. I'm on Ubuntu.
Nope, not "that you know of." Cambridge Analytica got their data from a third party, violating their contract with Facebook. The Obama campaign got their data directly. That is an actual difference between the two actions.

It's possible to say "I think the Obama campaign also took undesirable actions" without saying "and they were just as bad." I agree with that position, as I said.
An embryo is not a baby. Babies form in uteruses. Embryos ride on tampons to the trash more often than they latch unto uteruses
Then we should also pay whistleblowers who report environmental issues a lot of money. I don't think that's the case.
it looks (superficially) a lot like Elm.
No, the debt is intended to give them leverage. Have $300 million but want to get the returns of having a $3 billion company? Use debt to make up the difference, make $600 million if the value goes up 20%, and leave some pension fund dumbasses holding the bag if the price goes down 20%.
B2 doesn't have metadata version numbers, but instead use the globally unique file identifier to refer to specific versions. When you list file versions, you're presented with file ids rather than version numbers.

It's only slightly different from the name+version approach, but I personally like the concept of unique identifiers better. It feels nicer.
> The house of cards is falling.

Or, perhaps the castle is reaching the next phase of construction, where users are supposed to have an appropriate level of fear.
The Outsider: your average Yakuza wouldn't recognise himself in this movie
While I agree with your inference that autonomous vehicles are still safer than human drivers, this incident throws doubt on a lot of my previous assumptions.

A human driver, in the scenario as reported, can be expected to take a certain amount of time to react to an unexpected event, such as a pedestrian walking out in front of it. An autonomous driver, IMO, doesn't have that luxury. That vehicle should be aware of every other object it's sharing a length of road with (sidewalks and medians included). It should be tracking every other object at all times, anticipating a change of course. It should know the proximity of other vehicles, and be able to calculate whether it has space to swerve if necessary, and whether the following vehicle has enough stopping distance in an emergency. It should know EXACTLY what it will do in response to any of the potential hazards it can detect. It should absolutely not be exceeding the speed limit under any circumstances.

I suspect this incident will highlight one of the areas where investigators are not currently up to speed with technology. You can't look at an incident like this as if it was a human driver using multiple dashcams, because "It was dark and she came from nowhere" doesn't cut it. For an autonomous vehicle accident, the video isn't enough - investigators need to see and understand all the sensor readings taken by the vehicle in the lead up to the accident. Did the car detect the pedestrian? If not, why not? Why didn't it notice the change of course? How long before impact did it identify that a collision was imminent? Why didn't it brake?

Unlike a human driver, there's no human factor to consider. Every decision that vehicle made was based on rules. So "The Uber was not at fault" isn't enough - every day, thousands of people are involved in accidents where they're not at fault. That doesn't mean they couldn't have avoided it, and part of being a good driver is allowing for other people doing dumb things. The investigation needs to highlight exactly what decisions that vehicle made which resulted in this tragedy, and what can be changed to make sure it isn't repeated.
I guess the first step is to make a decision about which projects are the best. Then a decision about which project is the best and focus on that one. Good open source projects are not less work than good commercial projects. A project is a project.

Open source may even be harder because price signals value.
>Snopes and Politifact

If these are your enemies, your political views might be a little further than "slightly" right of center.
After reading this, I was surprised to learn that in the 90s I was a sysadmin.
I just tried that and for me neither works.
This is a big issue. There are only a few companies operating in this specific field. You aren't going to find any startups interested in it because making a barebones radio is a multiyear process (to hit all the requirements laid on them from software capabilities to hardware durability).

The established players also have a tendency to layoff or move the experienced engineers after a major update and leave only cheap, inexperienced engineers in their place. So the next big cycle will have mostly people who don't know what they're doing accepting changes that cannot actually be done (in time or budget, if at all) but they don't know better.
I don't think it's so clear. Two things happened:

(a) Users were duped into giving up their data under a false pretense. This alone cannot be called a breach.

Also, one of the following occurred:

(b.1) Facebook was duped into letting a fraudster install an app on their platform. If this happened, it was a breach.

or

(b.2) Facebook knew all along that the academic research was only a cover for duping users into giving up their data. If this happened then it was not a breach, because Facebook themselves effectively sold the data.

So what Facebook appears to be saying is: There was no breach. We sold the data!

[Edit] Judging by what this man says, it was probably b.2:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-c...

My conclusion is that there was no breach.
Building a Chrome extension using Vue.js
Buzzfeed accusing others of using methods akin to religious indoctrination, that's quite a howler.
> Like I said, with Haskell I'd use type-level naturals to ensure the output type is 1+input type.

I'm a bit out of my comfort zone with this one so I may be wrong, but wouldn't that require a lot of coding to define type level naturals for all the possible values of X?

> In C, my first thought would be to define a static value representing ONE, checked via static_assert, and then the increment function becomes input + ONE.

Okay, but do you agree that in this case a unit test would be a better solution?

I'm not saying this as a types versus unit tests sort of thing. I'm saying both are needed tools for writing reliable software.
WeWork puts in overtime to expand Japanese operations
This. The impression of vanilla Google News is that searching for an event will give you stories/opinions from publications of random type/quality/bias/nationality/age randomly grouped (and even more randomly regrouped when you click "view all") and so weakly classified it sometimes surfaces compilations of reader comments as "in depth" articles. It doesn't even seem to bother highlighting paywalls anymore.
Understanding the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Story
Japan buckles up to join China’s Belt and Road
S3 is an abstraction that gives you a limited amount of operations with limited guarantees (e.g. eventual consistency, can only replace whole files). What you get in return is easier scalability and performance.
If you use an S3 API to store files (like minio does) you give up power and gain nothing. So you are better off using NFS, samba, webdav, ftp, etc.
Additionally minio doesn't seem to sync files to the file system, so you can't be sure a file is actually stored after a PUT operation (AWS S3 and swift have eventual consistency and Ceph has stronger guarantees).
This will blow over, Facebook is far too entrenched and without serious competition. Some people will use Facebook less and replace it with Whatsapp and Instagram, but Zuckerberg has that base covered
Every defense software requirements document:

1. Make it do exactly the same thing that the previous version did, right down to replicating the bugs.

2. Then add a unicorn.
It may be that COQ and Agda have expressive type systems, but who is writing programs with them? They are not general purpose.

The paper you linked uses Java's type system for a mechanized proof, meaning...you probably don't want to be writing that out by hand.
Unfortunately, it's pragmatic to prepare for companies to be evil.
Amplifiers can be large-ish if you're going over ~20W depending on how much power is going out to the antenna vs thermal dissipation requirements.
Yeah, that paper is interesting, and I've definitely leveraged Java's types to verify some pretty powerful assertions.
I don't think anybody is allowed to launch rockets from the United States where any part of the boost phase is over land.
Mark Zuckerberg just lost $9B in wealth over 48 hours
I'm with you on sometimes wanting to just rip through a book, not having deep thoughts, but just turning page after page to find out what comes next.

Really enjoyed the Bobiverse series: http://dennisetaylor.org/. Reminded me a little of Greg Egan, but with a lot less maths and a lot more humour. Helps that the hero is a programmer ;_)

Also the Brilliance trilogy by Markus Sakey. Very entertaining..
> It's one thing to take positive action to stop a child from living (abortion)

Until someone creates a fetal transplant procedure it’s really not. You can’t make someone host a baby they don’t want
I based my speculation on tweets by some developers who have been able to capture raw TrueDepth data in their apps. See eg https://mobile.twitter.com/braddwyer/status/9306828799773614...

I can’t swear to you that this is exactly the same depth data that FaceID uses. Maybe it’s been downsampled in some way that makes it safe to give to apps, without enabling attacks on FaceID. I think I’d be a bit more willing to believe that if Apple’s Security docs actually said that. To me it seems more likely that the raw depth maps are available to the app processor (and to apps!) because the SEP isn’t powerful enough to perform the recognition task on its own.
Create Interactive API Console from OpenAPI/Blueprint/etc file
That's because libel/slander law is very broken in the UK (in my opinion -- not to libel the UK!).

When you look to silence someone, you venue shop for the best place to silence them. The UK is a decent place to stop them.
I'm endlessly frustrated that company after company gets their email hacked. And private individuals. It's just the case that you stop stop people from using windows or macos, and opening word docs or spreadsheets sent in email. Put those people on chrome os, and use 2 factor email authentication on google. Give them a yubi key to put in their desktop, a yubi key for their keychain, a yubi key for use at home, an authenticator app on their phone. You can still open those enclosures in chromeos. the 2 factor auth makes it tremendously harder to get their email credentials.

Since they are using chromeos, they won't get hacked when they open an enclosure. The forthcoming support for running vms in chromeos will let people who must run their office's crappy and dangerous c# app if they must. /end of rant
> what I'm pushing back on is the idea some people seem to have that this "someone has to organize an event" way of socializing is the only way.

And I am pushing back on idea that organizing events can be done equally without FB. When you say:

> I'm certain there are lots of other ways, some of which benefit greatly from Facebook, and some of which don't.

then we are basically in agreement.
Wow, sounds like some fascinating side effects (weirdly shroom-like, actually) that I definitely would not have expected. I guess they're vaguely related to "overstimulating" the parasympathetic nervous system.

I'm "into" mindfulness stuff as a mental exercise but now I'm feeling intrigued about experimenting with the breathing stuff (and generally the more physical aspects of Yoga) more. So thanks for the background and reading suggestions.
I’ve had these stories in my news feed. You really need to bring some evidence when you’re spreading conspiracy theories.
A look at the potential impact of EU's GDPR
IMO, Occupy marginalized themselves by refusing to ever stand for anything. It's very easy to say what you're against. It's harder to say, in detail, what you would do differently.
Grafana Heatmaps with the IRONdb Data Source
Score one for the 3270 emulation. I worked for a small company in the mid 90s whose software was used to connect to the mainframes that airlines used for scheduling. We provided software that allowed for dial-up access to those systems from home (among other things). The core software was built in Delphi and was basically a dialer married to a 3270 emulator.
Signal supports video calling on mobile at least. I've used it many times.
Alan Watts on Hindu/Shinto
As someone who has worked with PCI compliance, I'm not sure I'd say it's a great example.

Sure, it's better than nothing, but it's also relatively trivial to bypass, and is done so regularly. I think the governing organization should have much sharper teeth.

That's not to say that self-regulating won't work, but I don't think PCI is a great example of it in action.
I found it particularly bizarre that social media had become such an important aspect of our lives as to demand a “creation myth” account of its inception.

The only thing I enjoyed about that movie were the Elo formulae and the soundtrack (the metal rendition of Grieg’s In The Hall Of The Mountain King that runs behind the rowing race is particularly good, as is the track titled “Painted Sun in Abstract”).
Wow. That's exactly how long I lasted in the video game industry. 3 years.
I have read Hacker News for over 4 years now. I had to make an account to make my first comment: I took a look at your profile history because someone else suggested it here and it's staggering. It's like the epitome of the "paid shill" meme. Please tell us why literally every comment you have given is about Google and how great their products are? It almost reads like PR statements. Are you paid to do it?
Oh please. Aaron Schwartz never said anything like that at his age. Mark Zuckerberg is not a baby, not even at 19.
I am also a professional. Sometimes your job deals with the pretty marigold and sometimes with the nasty slug.

Reality has its thing.

And sometimes you need a jeweler’s tool and other times just your fists.
> They track you and keep a profile on you no matter what.

This is only true because the voting US public believes it to be true.

Meanwhile, the EU simply wrote a law against it. Now any EU citizen can simply withhold consent, and if FB continues to process datasets with their PII they will be brought to court.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
I'm glad we could at least get you to read it, but you're still not caught up. The effect is many orders of magnitude larger than floating point error.

The notion that implicit bias could be corrected by quantization (not "quantification") is an interesting hypothesis, with a low prior probability, which could be tested by experiment and easily published if it is true.
> Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected.

Was Obama 2012 restricted to collecting information of its downloaders? Or did it collect all of the downloaders' friends' information as well? Facebook certainly allowed for this (until 2014, that is).
The Ataribox is now the Atari VCS and will get a release date soon
How to Create a Professional Press Kit for Your Startup
With these practices or lack of restriction on data pulling at Facebook, is it wrong to assume the board knew about this? Too many brilliant minds on their board, including pmarca, to not understand firms were able to do this.
A small point, but one that FB uses in its defense: it does not charge for API usage
I had a similar problem. After I stopped using gmail & google search (for privacy reasons) and started using Duck Duck Go, it almost seemed random in what news it was trying to feed me because it didn't have enough data. I messed with the little sliders, banned fake news sources like HuffPost/WashPost etc, but I couldn't get it to deliver a news feed I actually wanted to consume... so... I just gave up on it.

Finally went back to a combination of InnoReader.com (RSS from sites I know I want) and News360.com (more subject based, varying sources). No need for Google News anymore, particularly after all the news of their censorship and bias has become more and more public.
Using N26 for last 6+ months. Love no fee on transfers, realtime notifications, their masterkey works worldwide (had no problems in eu, us and canada), easy to block/enable internet or abroad payments and daily limits. I don't do atm withdrawals though.
Overall great deal for me sofar. Would recommend.
The very short version:

Probably ignore that person.

The short version:

Reading charitably, what they meant is that they're looking for people with open-ended problem-solving skills. They're confident in your ability to, as you say, solve specific problems whose form is well understood: writing a controller, connecting APIs, and so on. What they're more concerned about is whether, if you had to, you could reproduce that API or write that framework from scratch, design and all.

In other words, they're looking for a person whose skill is "fix a broken car," not "fix the power steering on a 2015 Honda Civic." Maybe they don't have a Honda Civic. :)

The oops-not-long version:

Though it's possible to make a technical distinction between programming and "scripting," people who insist on making it are often doing that for social reasons (which is why I jumped to probably ignore them). I don't know if going into detail would be helpful, so I'll actually stop there.
There is of course, some effect but it's relatively minor for the middle class. Someone who's making a good income is not going to settle for the same conditions an illegal immigrant does, they're not competing in the same market. Your analysis leaves out a bunch of realities, for example: Most illegal immigrants share housing, reducing pressure compared to the normal. They also tend to stick to immigrant neighborhoods due to language barrier and need for cash transactions, this reduces their impact outside these areas. There is such a thing as homelessness more population on the lower income scale doesn't always mean that property values go up due to resources being taken since some will end up homeless. People tend to get the best they can afford, if illegal immigrants are taking the lower end of the market the legal people aren't just going to start buying "better" places.

Illegal immigrants have a negligible effect on the property values of the type of property people putting up walls and fences around their homes own. And lastly I highly doubt anyone who's against the border wall is realistically thinking "this will keep my property values up!"
One Morning in Baghdad
Good scientists are conversational in both languages of probability, even if they are fluent and most-comfortable in one.

Both approaches have strengths and weaknesses; the application of the appropriate tool at an appropriate time tends to have the greatest success.
This is true.

I think it's also true that a fair bit of modern "neo-fascism" does have various degrees of authoritarian streaks. For that reason, falling from "neo-fascism" into something with similarities to 1930s fascism is a potential issue to watch in some cases. Although the worst case scenario probably is not 100% the "fascism" system per se. It would probably be best described as authoritarian nationalism. One current example I'm thinking of that's unfortunately heading this direction is Turkey, eg Erdogan's authoritarian creep combined with strongman nationalist-religious populism. (Erdogan also started out working within the democratic system.)

For that reason, although the term "fascism" was somewhat misguided, I didn't have as much problem with FranzFerdiNaN's post a few posts back as far as intent goes. It is fair to say that concerns about immigration is one of the big reasons behind the rise of nationalism-fueled populist parties in Europe (as well as the Bannon wing of the Republican party in the US), some of which have been called "neo-fascist". And although not a big immediate threat that I know of, I can imagine additional immigrant concerns could possibly fuel drifts more towards the authoritarian side. Fascism, perhaps not, but the possibility of ill effects is very credible, in my opinion.

As far as the original post by tosser0004 goes, though, I think that the increase in population isn't a big deal in increasing migrant pressure itself. What might really be a potential big deal here, in my opinion, is climate change, which from what I've seen (eg: https://www.unenvironment.org/regions/africa/regional-initia...) is going to hit Africa as a whole pretty hard.
Stop trying to fix the user, says Bruce Schneier of Harvard and IBM
As I said, a Windows developer with Stockholm syndrome, that has experience how the games industry works.

Nowadays doing boring enterprise consulting, with focus on UI/UX.

Experience about reality, how people in the industry think, what those people actually consider as project costs.

Gamasutra articles are all available online. Try to find any postmosterm complaining about proprietary APIs on what went wrong section.

Experience, not demagogy.
Haha, we can all see where this is going

“Only miners need the whole blockchain, and the blockchain contains illegal data, therefore mining is equivalent to possession and distribution of child porn...”