skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article has a Mad Men -like quality to it. Ivy-elites white males running the business, women related to research roles. Amazon has a series which reflect the news business, based on Newsweek, from the 1960s.

Good Girls Revolt
https://www.amazon.com/Good-Girls-Revolt/dp/B017AOY4WS
What? Apple will have (has?) the biggest AR platform in the world, by far.

One of the next iPhones will have eye tracking and high quality 6dof (positional) tracking. Those two features basically turn your phone/iPad into a hand held portal into AR/VR.

The hand held form factor will be at least as big as the HMD form factor... probably bigger honestly.

Apple has prototyped this kind of experience with Pokémon Go. There is no company better positioned to take the AR market than Apple. In all likelihood your next iPhone will be the world’s dominant AR platform.

This is not fanboying... I think industrial AR and HMDs are very interesting. It’s just clear to me that Apple has the audience in both users and app developers to deliver both sides of this marketplace much faster than anyone else. And it’s also clear to me that handheld has major advantages over HMDs that will especially affect the consumer market.
Well when you cherry pick some facts and present them without context ... Isn't that textbook definition of propaganda?

> euro QE

A lot of shaky implications without much grounding in economic theory or reality. Please study:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
http://eur.exchangeconversions.com/usd/charts
(10y chart)

There was drop in 2014-2015, but ever since Euro has not moved down, rather in opposite direction... So both facts and theory contradicts your continuously-deprecated-currency theory.

> refugees

Now quote the numbers for following years please.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_migrant_crisis

No wonder all refugee scaremongers quote numbers only up to 2015.

But hey, it is worrying! . . . that people on HN spread such lame propaganda.
> If there is no muck to be raked, then you should be in the clear.

This argument seems equivalent to the idea there's nothing to fear from surveillance if you have nothing to hide.
They're propped up by Oppo, but neither company will acknowledge it. Having weight like that behind you is definitely a competitive advantage when trying to enter this market as a new brand.
Microsoft cut-and-run, they could have just stuck to it like they did with the Xbox and in the long term it probably would have worked out for them. But their initial models were rushed to market and their Nokia strategy didn't make much sense.
Explaining the Justice Department criminal investigation into Bitcoin trading
given that the person who died had nothing to do with anything, it's almost certainly the case that there was ZERO corroborating on-site evidence that a highly dangerous situation was actually unfolding.
It seems to me that people today are mostly rewarded for passing exams, not "IQ" tests. Being good at passing exams is different from being good at "IQ" tests, and neither of those things necessarily correlates well with being good at doing useful work.

Provided that the candidates have had similar educational opportunities, I would guess that a traditional exam is a better measure of someone's ability to be good at useful work because preparing for an exam requires studying, which is a kind of work. On the other hand, if you have to compare candidates who have not had similar educational opportunities, something similar to an "IQ" test might be better, though you will end up selecting some people who turn out to be good at very little besides solving those kinds of puzzles, and who are perhaps lazy and disorganised to boot.
I'm more interested in Librem 5. They aren't trying to beat everyone, they are addressing specific market.
Ditto. I hope it does well. looks simpler than TBB/OpenMP/OpenMP/etc. without loosing the power and expressivity. Seems a better link might be http://raftlib.io .
Computer science blog gems I found using stumbleupon were priceless when I was in college. I would spend google portion of night stumbling good blogs of computer science and DIY projects. I could never find them through google because I didn’t know what to look for.
SCUBA tanks have a "burst-disk" or a weaker part of the tank that is designed to fail first, rather than the whole thing exploding and launching shrapnel. It's still violent and can throw some shrapnel, but it's much less. Also when SCUBA shops fill tanks they usually put them into a container that would somewhat contain that.

I imagine something similar could be done. It's not like there are zero safety mechanisms with compressed air.
War Is a Racket, by General Smedley D. Butler
I've not convinced at how effective that is.
Yes, this is absolutely true, right up to the point where the SWAT team showed up and then it was a highly dangerous situation anyway.
In fairness ( I'm Mycroft's CEO ) our product isn't on par with Assistant or Alexa....yet. We've had to do a ton of work around wakeword detection, natural language understanding, device management, skills management, user management, credential management and speech synthesis BEFORE we've had a chance to work on the user experience.

That said....we are on track to have a high quality experience when we go to production in Feb 2019 ( Release 19.02 ). As an open source community we'd welcome any help folks have to offer. Contributors don't even need to know how to code, all they need to be able to do is listen to sound samples at https://home.mycroft.ai and tag them as "Hey, Mycroft" or not "Hey, Mycroft"

Thanks to everyone who is helping make Mycroft a reality!
I was more on the Sybase side and dealt with an environment where the calling program didn't initiate a transaction so it worked quite well for me. We were kind of touchy about having a transaction open longer than it needed to be.
There you go again completely conflating wildly disparate political movements.

I'm primarily AnCom, not pro-authoritarian dictatorship ala Stalin.

Excellent! Then here is how that goes. You form a rosy view of communism, because it really is awesome for communities smaller than ~450. Then you go on to overthrow a national government. Your philosophy is intellectually bankrupt, and does not fit reality, so the new government gets more and more authoritarian as time goes on. (Witness what Lenin thought and wrote as time went on.)

From Wikipedia:

Anarcho-communism (also known as anarchist communism, free communism, libertarian communism and communist anarchism) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour and private property (while retaining respect for personal property) in favor of common ownership of the means of production, direct democracy and a horizontal network of workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

Sounds just like the early stage idealistic version of 20th century communism. Given that you are willing to stand silently by and abet violent criminal actors while wearing a mask, while calling yourself a "pacifist," I don't have a lot of confidence that what you stand for isn't on the same trajectory as the most extreme examples.

In the meantime you still don't have an answer to the crux of the matter, and the above is still just (a weak and self-damning) deflection from the idea that violence is violence. Crapping on human rights is crapping on human rights -- and by your actions, this is how you believe the "righteous" conduct themselves: Exercising force against those you disagree with.
Just shout "self-destruct" all the time and we'll be fine.
Should You Use Accelerated Mobile Pages  (AMP)? What Is Wrong  with AMP
To my knowledge, “Hey Siri” has never been tied to the owner’s voice. I was able to post to a colleague’s Facebook account a couple years ago, using nothing but voice commands. It was sitting on his desk, locked. I haven’t tried it since, and I keep it disabled on my own phone.
Awesome! Meanwhile, I have filed a regression bug report for 2.079.
> Internal vs. external use will in most cases materially impact at least one of the fair use criteria (effect on market for the protected work)

But the creator says: "A fair amount of my footage has been licensed for internal use only"

Doesn't this mean that this violation does impact that market?
I'm not sure how typical I am in this regard, but I was 100% prepared to buy an essential until I found out that it didn't have 3.5mm audio.
I actually feel sick...

> 1.3 seconds before impact ... emergency braking maneuver was needed ... not enabled ... to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior

This wind-up toy killed a person.

Transport is a waking nightmare anyway. Every time you get in your car, every mile you drive, you're buying a ticket in a horrifying lottery. If you lose the lottery you reach your destination. If you win... blood, pain, death.

Into this we're setting loose these badly-programmed projections of our science-fiction.

- - - -

A sane "greenfield" transportation network would begin with three separate networks, one each for pedestrians, cyclists, and motor vehicles. (As long as I'm dreaming of sane urban infrastructure, let me sing the praises of C. Alexander's "Pattern Language" et. al., and specifically the "Alternating Fingers of City and Country" pattern!)

My mom has dementia and is losing her mind. We don't trust her to take the bus across town anymore, and she hasn't driven in years. If I wanted an auto-auto[1] to take her places safely I could build that today. It would be limited to about three miles an hour with a big ol' smiley sign on the back saying "Go Around Asshole" in nicer language. Obviously, you would restrict it to routes that didn't gum up major roads. It would be approximately an electric scooter wrapped in safety mechanisms and encased in a carbon fiber monocoque hull. I can't recall the name now but there's a way to set up impact dampers so that if the hull is hit most of the kinetic energy is absorbed into flywheels (as opposed to bouncing the occupant around like a rag doll or hitting them with explosive pillows.) This machine would pick its way across the city like "an old man crossing a river in winter." Its maximum speed would at all times be set by the braking distance to any possible obstacle.

[1] I maintain that "auto-auto" is the obviously cromulent name for self-driving automobiles, and will henceforth use the term unabashedly.
Yes, it has become a common trend on Twitter to attack your opponents by finding out where they work and complaining to their employer trying to get them fired. Making people lose their livelihood is an effective way to shut them up. I would consider this harassment, but apparently it's the type of harassment that these companies don't care about.

A popular recent example is when people attempted to report a developer of the game Kingdom Come Deliverance. It backfired since he also happened to be founder of the company.

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/345/129/cfc...
> will be solidly violating the GDPR come tomorrow

how do you know that? i mean technically he says they re violating it today, just like we all did the past 2 years because it wasnt enforceable. what changes with their ban tomorrow?
https://github.com/DigitalMars/dmc
We don't. Code of conduct is a way to gain more power and control, to establish authority, to police community, to silence criticism, to make people obedient to authority out fear of not being accepted or being thrown out. Basically nothing is noble about it.
Ask HN: Boring businesses which make non-boring money?
OK HN crowd, I need some help brainstorming. I would love to hear from you about businesses you have experiences with that are extremely profitable but are totally boring and non-sexy. Say, for example, scaffolding rental. Let's focus on businesses with some scale, things that you've seen get to $10-30M+ in revenue and $3-5M in profit. Recurring revenue a plus.
* on public roads, feel free to test that in a safe closed course!
> homicidal behavior

I was not talking about the officer. In any case, I stand by what I said.
Even in this relatively crude form, I already see a wide range of application for fashion design. For instance, you could take some of the textured flower designs the author presents and place them on graphic tees that could easily sell at Uniqlo, or H&M - and in bulk, these new designs would cost much less than paying multiple designers to create them.

(Though as the author points out, you would still need at least 1 designer to train the machine)
While it is a podcast and not a blog, I think Developer Tea is excellent on the topic of technical leadership and professionalism
No surprise - too much competition between all the left wing mags and papers.
I'm not sure why some people felt that was an unfair comment. I remember discussions in the late 70s (in a journalism class) over why you'd have these coincidental covers in Time and Newsweek.And the answer was basically that everyone was from the same background so of course they were seeing and hearing the same things.

I've been a Time subscriber in various ways for decades. It used to be the primary way that I ingested news. But times (ahem) have changed.
>Explicit is better than implicit.

Not necessarily. Being explicit has tradeoffs, both costs and benefits. One of the big costs is that it empowers people to behave antisocially on the "right" side of the explicit line drawn, and teaches people what they can get away with. Like, real life law grants broad discretion to human judges for exactly this reason - so that people playing bullshit games can get benchslapped for it.
Honest question to commenters here, since this seems to be a common trend: Why did you stop using StumbleUpon?
There is a funny blog dedicated to this topic:

http://worldmapswithout.nz
>A stupid person that contributes nothing deserves nothing. People don't deserve things for existing.

Well thank you for being honest enough that I don't feel the need to argue against you. Your hostility towards humanity speaks for itself.

>The ideology you are promoting would have a wife and child beater be treated equally to a doctor.

And the ideology you are promoting would have the disabled murdered for being unproductive. And indeed, it already has.
Slashdot thread:

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/05/24/1750210/robin-robl...
i tried to check it out; the website no longer works :( (that is, there is a website of sorts, and it lists a few games, but none of them are actual links you can click on)
It seems the primary change was to make the scope of the CoC apply outside of just chatter in project spaces. With that in mind lines like this seem particularly troublesome:

> Discussing potentially offensive or sensitive issues; this all too often leads to unnecessary conflict.

I understand the want to avoid unnecessary unrelated conflict within the project, but outside? "potentially offensive or sensitive issues" vary widely between people and groups of people, as I'm sure we all know.

> political attacks

Well that won't end well, or have any hope of being evenly applied, considering the omnipresence of partisan politicking especially in online spaces. It is also by definition a "sensitive issue"

It just sounds like they want everyone involved in the project to be bland generic PR people at all times.

That's the literal reading at least. However since CoC violations are filtered through basically one person, personal biases will weigh heavily in how the rules are applied.

Edit: Honestly this just reaffirms my belief that using anonymous accounts not linked to your rl identity for non-work content is a Very Good Idea. But not very in-vogue these days. Regardless of that even, internet mobs are very good at finding out who the real person behind a meme-posting twitter account etc. is.
I remember liking Time magazine a number of years ago.

Then either they changed or I did, I'm not certain which. Sometime along 2000 or so it seems their point of view took a pointed political turn. (I feel the same towards ESPN, CNN, etc.)

When that happened, it ceased to become news to me. It was more 'entertainment', and I admit they still had some interesting ideas. But I didn't really trust Time anymore. At that point, they had reached the point of no return, it was no longer 'must read' literature. I could easily skip it, and I often did.

I wonder if many others feel the same way.
I have 3 google home devices and they work very well. It also doesn't feel like a bigger privacy threat than my laptop or my phone. Also, we all want JARVIS!
Ive personally unpacked a few hundred returned orders over the course of 5ish years.

Many were completely unopened acompanied by a negative review regarding the quality of the product. Some 'customers' even claimed the product made them severely ill (they didnt even break the safety seal)

Im pretty confident there were some competitors trying to manipulate page rankings
As I understand it, Linux is GPLv2 and you're allowed to make private modifications without publishing the source code, just as long as you don't release your modified version anywhere public. Once you do that, you have to share the source code modifications.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos...

The "internal use" argument for not needing to license the video is more like "I don't need to buy a license of Windows as long as I only use this computer in the office and nobody tells Microsoft about it."
> They also try very hard to make sure it isn't the mom and sister.

did they all come out together?
I recall a few weeks ago how some researchers figured out that the voice-commands could be triggered with subliminal messages, too. i.e., you wouldn't have to go 'Ok Google', but rather just play a fingerprint of that sound that makes the algorithm think you said that, without it being audible or understandable to human beings. And you could hide it in other audio like music.

That feels pretty scary particularly because these devices have such a high mandate. Right now you can shop for things online by voice command. Record and send messages. What's next, sending money, sending a data dump of sensitive data like emails, passwords, contact lists?

We've already heard of some reports where you'd have a smart home device listen to a commercial on television where they were demo'ing a purchase of some product via such a device, and interpret it as a command from the owner. Amazon took steps to avoid that with their superbowl commercial, but it seems to have done so by changing the commercial, not the product itself.

Just another attack vector to worry about. I'd happily buy these home speakers if I could limit them to just downloading information, and only uploading limited pieces of information, e.g. a music playlist. I'd want to be able to shut off any of the commercial/financial or social capabilities. I just don't care about them and they're risky.
Not a good explanation, but yes, they are political tools and nothing more.
I think you are missing some context here.

Firstly if the company is established in the union then they need to be compliant for all their users no matter where they are [1] (so US resident, EU resident, whatever are equally protected).

So the relevant section for this is:

"This Regulation applies to the processing of personal data of data subjects who are in the Union by a controller or processor not established in the Union, where the processing activities are related to:

the offering of goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the Union; or

the monitoring of their behaviour as far as their behaviour takes place within the Union."

So lets look at Amazon. They are a US company offering goods in the EU. So if you make a purchase from them as an EU resident (living in Germany) from amazon.de to your home address, then any personal data you give them as part of that purchase needs to be handled in a GDPR compliant way.

If you now go on holiday to the US and order something from Amazon.com to be delivered to your hotel, even though you are an EU resident, they do not need to handle that personal data in a GDPR compliant way. But just because you are now in the US doesn't mean the data they hold on you about your purchase on amazon.de is suddenly free from GDPR protections.

Or to put it another way. Imagine the law did mean EU resident. What does Amazon.com do? How do they ensure they process an order in the US to a US address in a GDPR compliant way for an EU resident? They can't without asking for additional data to establish each persons residency. Which GDPR doesn't allow.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-3-gdpr/
This information does not have to be made visible to other posters - just to verify that you're a unique human at account creation.

You could still call yourself KatDude420.
Edit: I stand corrected, the summary in the link below didn't agree with the more detailed steps it went into below. While the hash is used as the input to the next round, it is (for reasons beyond my understanding) repeated if necessary to match the length of the original password. But it still seems like if you're prehashing in both cases the performance issue goes away.

Is that true? I thought shacrypt stretching worked by passing the output of a round of hashing as the input to the next round of hashing, so it would go from 4096 bytes to 64 bytes (e.g.) after the first round.

That's how it's explained here: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=33. I'd love to be proven wrong.

So it seems shacrypt and bcrypt would be equivalent. Do the expensive work from 4096 to <72 once, then subsequent rounds are all on the same size of input.

I think my point stands, this is comparing apples and oranges unless you pre-hash the input to bcrypt and include that in the benchmark.
Because, in the current climate, a cop who shoots first is certainly going home to their family at night and is certainly going to retire in good health. Even though the chances of getting injured by a person are pretty low, the chances of getting injured by a dead person are zero. Cops are humans with concrete human motivations and the risk/reward balance of shooting people is biased heavily towards reward.
Please help me in understanding this - are these features built on purpose? If no then what type of testing has their team done?
>The law has been in effect for two years.

"It was adopted on 14 April 2016, and after a two-year transition period, becomes enforceable on 25 May 2018."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...

>And before that one there was another one.

Yes, but that was a different law. It required different things.
Horizontal pod autoscaling with custom metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine
>This is sad but forseeable as Essential sold poorly. It was a nice phone but it can be hard to establish a new brand right now and differentiate oneself.

I don't think it is, everyone is just too afraid of doing something radically different. Essential phone was just another generic midrange Android phablet at a top end flagship price. Until someone completely throws that paradigm away we will be stuck with the bloated nonsense that smartphones have become. I would give ANYTHING for a 5" phone with capacitive touch e-ink display, 3000mAh battery, and a barebones BSD based OS that did nothing but call, text, take pictures, gps, and text-based web browsing.
> Operating on the theory that exposure to blue light has a calming effect on one’s mood, rail stations installed these LED panels as a suicide-prevention measure

Color me completely skeptical. That sounds like superstition to me. It reports that rates declined after installation, but if they preferentially installed the lights in areas with high rates of suicide, then we should expect to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
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Regulators only have so many hours in the day. Prioritizing high visibility infringers can persuade lower visibility infringers to get into compliance.