skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Auth0 Vulnerability allows for bypassing authentication
I think you may be imagining what a human sees in a foggy camera image, rather than what a neural network can see in it. In fact, atmospheric obstructions degrade Lidar's signal much faster than a camera's.

If you check out NVidia's DriveNet demo from a couple years back, you'll see that they already have a vision-based NN that outperforms humans in fog and snow[1]. We can debate whether people should drive in those conditions at all, but today's expectations will be the baseline that SDVs are up against, and cameras are much better suited than Lidar to achieve that baseline.

[1] Start at 7:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ58dbd5g8g
I'm not sure why:

> tremendous amount of good the US has done

Has any effect on:

> The amount of "bullying and abuse" by the US is grossly overstated.

If I cure a 1000 people and kill 1, in still an evil killer. It's not like some kind of game system where karma is a single number. You can help some people and be abusive to others, and those will never balance out unless there's a strict cause-effect relation between them.
> how is the DMCA this way? Certainly not the takedown notice/counternotice provision, which doesn't create new liability, only a special shield from any pre-existing liability.

The problem is that the shield has value to the search engine in excess of the cost to the search engine (but not the cost to the censorship victim) of removing the information. It reduces their risk, even when the risk is low because they would be likely to win, and removes the cost of having to litigate the issue even if they do win, so the search engine takes the deal and then executes ~all the notices even when they're bogus.

Which is a direct cost to the censorship victim compared to handling it the way Section 230 does it, and an indirect cost to the search engine because it has them paying to process the removal of legitimate information and reduces the value of their service to customers -- just not enough of an indirect cost to give them the incentive to refuse, because the brunt of the cost is on the third party being censored.
What does your buddy do with it?
Currency hedging comes to mind, when having the need to lock a currency exchange rate e.g. options, futures, forwards, etc. This gives you the ability to know, what the conversion rate will be at settlement time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_exchange_hedge

Alternatively, your payment gateway/provider will handle it for you as soon as the transaction is received at their end.
I agree that there are likely negative social consequences from inflation, but the idea that inflation is the reason a business can't reach a steady-state because of inflation seems to ignore Red Queen[1] like affects.

Something I've noticed a lot in tech is that companies will spend a huge amount of money to push new features that aren't core to the business and to launch new products that frequently fail. I've always viewed these as attempting to prevent competition from emerging rather than trying to compensate for inflation.
My brother and I are celiac. Atkins diet was how my dad found what not to eat back when going gluten free wasn't a thing. As someone who had a ton of health problems and solved them by cutting out foods, it's not in our heads. I used to starve myself because not eating is what felt best. Now I know what not to eat and feel great.
DMCA was crappy and we should have never allowed it to be passed in the first place. It has been used to censor more than protect IP.
The paragraph at the top, with the Malleus Maleficarum, seems so disconnected from the rest of the article.
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I think that's highly, highly unlikely in this case.What you also need is a supply of skill and labor sufficient to keep things running.

There is a lot of new hardware out there. Most manufacturers don't even do real updates for their own phones; I can't imagine what it would take to get WebOS running on the variety of hardware in circulation today.

And in this case, having a 2009 v 1.0 phone OS running on new hardware surely isn't sufficient. Our ideas of what a phone should do have expanded significantly. So we're really talking a large development effort. One estimate I see says Apple has 1000-2000 people working on iOS. Given Android's much larger hardware ecosystem, I'd bet the number of people working on Android one way or another is larger.

Matching that with an open source effort seems implausible to me.
I thought here in Germany they also were making respectable inroads (although that might be distorted since the brightly-colored Lumnias were so noticable), but then they let it languish at a point where they would have needed to double down on having up-to-date and interesting devices around. Most people aren't buying new phones every year, so getting market share will mean sticking around for at least a few cycles. Apparently MS didn't think that'd work out in enough markets?
Adding to your observation, I’ve seen far more early 2000s Toyota’s or Honda’s than any other brands that old.
Windows Phone was fun to develop for (not). Especially their native C compilation setup was a nightmare, we had to rewrite most of our code that worked fine on Android and iOS to be ANSI C compatible so that the Visual C 6.0 compiler liked it enough.
If you bothered to actually write an UWP app, the experience would have been great.
It seems as though the last paragraph, where the problem is actually resolved, should be a lot more prominent.
Since at least today, the items have been removed from both the linked page and from archive.org; “The item is not available due to issues with the item's content.”.

Fortunately, nothing vanishes permanently in today’s web, since we have this wonderful thing called archive.org… oh, wait…
I'm an atheist and I believe in God. I also believe in Up and North and Clockwise rotation.

Let me clarify. In my view what we have now with these religions and dogma is a big centuries long game of telephone across generations and languages.

If you've done something good you've done something in the spirit of god. There's no reward, it's just a direction. But see that there, the missing "o"? God, Good, same word. See? No mystery, just a linguistic error.

IMHO God is not an object or actor or creature or person, none of that. God doesn't want anything, takes no action, has no dreams. God is the moral direction of most good. A direction, you know, just like the direction North. North doesn't want you to be more North, North doesn't hate south or East.
I haven't taken it myself (but will sometime in the future), but I've read great things about this Udacity course taught by Eric Haines: https://www.udacity.com/course/interactive-3d-graphics--cs29...

You can read a couple of reviews here: https://www.coursetalk.com/providers/udacity/courses/interac...
I remember all the screetching when Microsoft put in "WiFi Password Sharing." Everyone was saying how awful it was to do this.

Then Apple puts in in iOS and everyone loves it.
Auth0 CSRF Vulnerability allows for authentication bypass
Plus-onned from my Lumia.
Why India Is Failing to Educate Its School-Going Kids and How That Can Change
I had a Nokia N9 that shipped with the ill fated Meego OS. Hands down the smoothest operating system I've ever used on a mobile.
This is interesting and really counterintuitive for me after seeing the results.

I would assume (and still can't shake the feeling) that a blind person would clearly know that a cube/square has corners and a sphere/circle does not. It's hard to understand how that isn't obvious when seeing for the first time. Even if it wasn't immediately understood, one should be able to trace, with fingers or eyes or whatever else, the outline of a cube vs sphere and observe that only one has corners. The act of tracing should match the tactile sensation of moving your fingers around similar objects.
I'm terrified of letting people into my life, and the biggest reason is I'm afraid they'll cut into my work time. Now, sure, there's probably a bunch of Freudian damage that's gone into this. But however I got this way, I am this way, and I don't mind.
It's not that they were missing the mark, it's that they were WAY late to the game on all fronts. When you have stockpiles of cash, this isn't necessarily a horrible strategy (they ran xbox for 10 years in the red before making money). But in the phone ecosystem, they were crippled because developers wouldn't make apps for them and consumers weren't buying because of the lack of apps.

Similarly they made zune in a bubble. While Apple was innovating to make an iPod that also made phone calls.
Obviously not. Did you read to the end of the article?
I have never heard of Software Recommendations Stack Exchange, and I've been frustrated for years by how many useful recommendation questions I come across that are closed. They should put a link to Software Recommendations Stack Exchange on questions that are closed for that reason.
What appears to be missing is the ask versus the sell prices.

Coinbase is about US $35 (ask) higher than all the other exchanges for 1 Bitcoin - - - but most of the arbitrage would be eaten up by the too high exchange fees . . . .
Saudia plans to turn Qatar an “Island”
I was always surprised windows didn't do a real attempt on dockable phone -> PC interface. It has so many consumer and enterprise points of entry.
Right. The one who participates in and wins the most wars or murders the most people becomes the superpower.
Well obviously any lifeform has water problems. Like any other lifeform, our life depends on remaining within osmotic balance with whatever we drink and eat.

That said, the amount of ways your body adapts to osmotic balance problems is in the dozens, so poisoning your body with water, while possible, is hard to the tune of it requires something like drinking 20 liters of water in less than an hour. I mean, it seems to be possible but I cannot imagine succeeding at that even if I'm trying. That's 2 full buckets (and that's just LD50, as in, if you're >70kg it's more than that).

There is an exception: purified water. You cannot drink mineral-poor* or distillated water safely in even small quantities. Why not ? Because that will locally, suddenly and very strongly disrupt the osmotic balance in what you bring it into contact with. It probably not kill you (not without repeated application), but it may cause serious issues in your mouth, throat and stomach. It should also not be used to make coffee or tea and drunk, that merely lessens the effect it doesn't stop it.

* mineral-poor water is something used in chemical and medical laboratories
That's an unusual use for "type soundness". To me, type soundness has more to do with whether all the functions in a program are total, i.e. defined across their entire range of inputs (can't throw exceptions, can't crash, always return values belong to the return type they declare).
>Well that would be an inconvenience

So in other words, restricting your liberty or freedom of movement?
> But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights. All of this is not merely known but in fact fundamental knowledge.

A lot of "fundamental knowledge" in medicine is wrong. The genetic theory of cancer has always been a dead-end, because it reverses cause and effect. The cancer industry has encouraged "kill all the cancer cells" treatments because it's convenient for their business model. The cancer treatment situation is similar to how the use of bloodletting persisted for hundreds of years [0], in spite of the low rates of success.

[0] http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/theodoric-of-yo...

There's no need for new insights, the old insight needs to be fully developed. Your link has a subsection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hallmarks_of_Cancer#Deregu...

Warburg's nobel prize was in 1931; we're finally realizing he was probably right all along.

(minor edit)
"no clear value for survival"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection
There is a lot more bureaucracy built into the systems we have to deal with these days as well (David Gaerber's "Utopia of Rules" is a good read on this).

I have a lot of stuff to do, and was kind of getting on top of it recently. I needed to renew my driving license here in Spain. I needed two appointments (trying to fit them around work). I have been given a temporary license for the time being and am waiting on the new one to be posted. I noticed that the temporary paper has my name spelled wrong, so there is a good chance I will need at least one more appointment just to get that typo fixed when the plastic version comes through.

I guess another factor is the changing nature of jobs. Certainly in IT you need to devote at least some time to keeping up with new tech or you will become obsolete. I find this especially frustrating when a lot of the "new" is just a rehash of stuff from 30 years ago. Its also why I hate fronted work, as the ecosystem is a constantly changing mess.
I have never seen GitHub Issues in a search result. It seems like it is for bug reporting in personal projects. Why would it help with other people's errors?
I imagine a prehistoric tribe dancing in trance around the fire

This is basically how I, and others, tend to feel when attending goa/acidcore/dnb (that one to a lesser extent though) parties. All together in front of the speakers, just us and the music, then the sun coming up. Pure bless. And that's even without drugs, or at least not a lot, go imagine what it's like with certain substances :P.

I tried hard, but this doesn't work for me at all with more popular/known genres, presumably both because of music and audience, too much people just chatting instead of dancing etc, and also never got that connection with metal etc. Would love to see research on that.
Looks like someone found a XSS vulnerability at T-Mobile Austria website [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/fabricio_giglio/status/98236273592413798...
I love my Windows Phones, even ended up buying WP 10, when the upgrade from 8.1 wasn't possible.

My Windows Phones have gotten more updates than all my Android devices summed up together.

The 100% native apps experience, C++ and .NET Native, meant they were more responsive that Android devices on the same price category.

And the development environment runs circles around the chaos of Android tools.
While there are ways to get around the paywall, the Economist is probably one of the few publications I’d say is absolutely worth paying for.

That said - a lot of folks have access to sites like NYT and WSJ through work.
Linguistic Maps of Europe (2015)
Not on a plane, but I've forgotten a bag on a train once. Lost a bunch of dirty clothes I was bringing home to wash at my parents place. The train companies answer was "call lost and found at the 3 major train stations along the line [one of which is in another country] as well as the police in the 3 cities". Never got the bag back.
Utopian 4 contributors: vote-based reward system built on STEEM Blockchain
I hopped on to my PC to actually try the plugin. It's because the buy button and the rest of the top menu are removed when screen width gets small enough.
I agree, I find the entire question to be difficult to define. If you magically bestowed sight upon a blind person with a sphere and a cube in front of them, they wouldn't even recognize them as separate objects. They would be bedazzled by a wave of sensory input they could make no sense of. Then over time, they would start mapping it to their understanding of the world and at some point they would be able to recognize the objects. When and how exactly that happens is interesting, but not really a deep philosophical question in my estimation.
Also, chanting, dancing, etc. could be a strong signal of social cohesion, making predators and other threats think twice about attacking.

Look at the "haka" of the Māori and tell me you wouldn't be scared facing that.
That she is a woman... publicity from Harvard

I'd hate to break this to you, but that's definitely not surprising behavior from Harvard of all places. I mean, we're talking about the same Harvard, right?
>> I do wonder why people who can afford to spend time with their family and not work 60-70 hours per week, actually do.

I've found that being unhappy at home can lead to working late (even subconsciously). The thing is, these things are often related in subtle ways. If I were to over-generalize I might say that having poor boundaries is part of why they stay late, and a part of the problems they are avoiding at home.
> Microsoft tried to make apps for Google's services

Where "apps" means "app", and "Google's services" means "YouTube".
False dichotomy. How is that you can only work on only one front preventing unnecessary deaths?
Many aspects of Windows Phone were thoughtfully designed, but they waded into a market where customers expected to install arbitrary apps.

There were some high-profile holdouts like Snapchat, whose lack hurt the phone (or hurt retention) among the valuable, younger demographics, while everyone else has been conditioned to be used to a zillion single-use apps, from their bank, their fast-casual restaurant, to throwaway games and random tools that try to imbue phones with some productivity utility.

A platform with a low market share and confusing (and ever-changing) developer story couldn't compete in this market, even if they kept putting out decent hardware for not a lot of money.

They could have reframed the expectations, and marketed it as a business OS, but with a rapidly declining BlackBerry, they didn't want to pursue what seemed like a failing niche. Or, they could have not screwed up Desktop Windows' app story so much, which exacerbated the issues with developing for Windows Phone.

Or they could have arrived at the market several years later, when Progressive Web Apps graduate from wishful thinking tech demos to a viable way of authoring software to be distributed over either URLs or app stores. This is the future that Google wants, their medusa-like competitor who tries to balance their desire to preserve and gatekeep the Open Web with their large install-base of Android phones running apps written in quasi-Java that they got sued over.

Windows Phone was a technically sound product positioned awkwardly, and they couldn't persuade enough third-parties to deliver on the expectations that customers expected. But they neither doubled down, nor did an immediate reversal (e.g. Surface RT), so in typical Microsoft fashion they let it flail around for years without any strong messaging to reassure users (remember this from Silverlight? Zune? XNA?).
They were, at a given point it was quite common to see them while commuting.

A few of our customers also had them as official device for their regular employees.
Doesn't that mean you then have to write an event to disk for every write-to-disk event?
I can't imagine having to adjust that way. It's awful. I love everything wheat so much.

I'm sure much of the lax approach to celiac meal care is the recent "gluten free" trend that caused many uninformed people to think it wasn't something worth taking seriously.

My girlfriend's stepmother has celiac and it was eye-opening to learn about. She's kicking ass in spite of having to eliminate easy energy sources like that—Iron Man worlds this fall in Kona.

It certainly explains why her dad went so crazy on the baguettes when we went out for dinner, though :)
I had no clue that such trace amounts would have a meaningful effect. Very interesting. That makes eating out much more difficult. How do you ever have confidence that prepared foods are truly gluten free?
Windows Phone 8.1 + Lumia 920 was by far the best phone I have ever used.

My friends look at me funny when I say that.

There were so many things they did right. Some random things off the top of my head:

- Internet Explorer had the address bar at the bottom of the screen. I don't get how nobody else does this.

- The tiles work really very well (big one). The usability of shortcuts + active information + dense layout on your homescreen.

- The back-button behavior was perfect. It made sense.

- Very snappy response throughout.

- Lots of pros on the hardware of the Lumia 920 itself but that's a different story.

- Best keyboard/swipe setup.

- Lots of thoughtful design elements.

There's all kinds of stuff that was a joy.

I tried Windows Phone 10.1 Dev release and that was horrible.

I do wish Windows Phone continued to live though.
At Phaenomenta in Flensburg there's an interesting exhibit that breaks the link between tactile sensation and visual perception:

An oval is placed flat on a table, so that you can touch it and feel it's shape.

Above it, and parallel to the table, is a lens that distorts the oval so that it looks perfectly circular.

When you trace the shape with your finger and keep your eyes closed, it feels like an oval.

When you trace the shape by looking through the lens, it both looks and feels like you're tracing a circle. The feeling persisted when I used my fingers to grip it.

Only by cupping it with my whole hand did it start feeling like an oval again, despite still looking circular. Pretty cool and weird!
> But how would we ever know Eric's stuff is fake?

Isn't that a point in the other direction? The existence of convincing fakes will teach people not to believe everything they see on the internet.
He is not talking about China but about people on HN who allegedly want this. I don't see how traveling to China helps, you need to travel to this website that you are already on to prove or disprove the claim :-)
I'm proposing a civilized society whereby people cease invalidating others feelings and prior experiences.
Many chinese citizens feel the same way about the "social credit system".
If you have a similar use case, you should probably just setup a Kafka and Hadoop implementation. You could probably get a lot better performance by using a shared memory store to keep the intermittent states.
Native is generally better for both development and the end user. Leave web stuff for the browser.
What about the fact that even the cheapest windows phone ran almost as smooth/fast as a flagship Android phone?
Yea, a refinedment of chrischen's question would be "what did performing this easy indoor experiment in Antarctica tell us that we didn't know before?".
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I missed not having Google Drive
I feel the same way about my Blackberry Passport's BBOS 10. The UI is so nice, functional and polished. A real shame it was cut down in its prime.
I always thought this too, but now chromebooks are so cheap it isn't really a benefit to have a dockable phone.
MS's compiler is annoying, it'll only support anything more modern than ANSI C if you give your files a .cpp extension...
I stuck with WP as long as I could and I still miss it. The polycarbonate Nokia were tough as hell and felt solid in your hands.

IMO the OS was really solid. If they just stuck with it and kept building, albeit targeting the people that didn't use a lot of apps, I think they could've found a niche. They had close to 25% share already in countries like Italy and Brazil and were popular in India, Africa, etc.
Just speaking of the regular reasons I used to see on Gamasutra or GDC talks about creating the own engine in-house instead of commercial middleware

If I recall correctly, Tribes was one of the first ones to have some moderate adoption.
I agree, it also struck me as an odd comment. To be honest parent post gives me the feeling of having a mansplaining tone to it.
I think you are confusing Windows Phone and ancient Windows Mobile.
Could you tell your web developer not to mess with scrolling on the website? It's always a thing that bugs many people, including me.
PVGIS: information about solar radiation and PhotoVoltaic system performance
>> But however I got this way, I am this way, and I don't mind.

You might want to work on that stuff before it catches up to you in ways you don't anticipate.