skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google lawyers will BURY him alive, dragging any legal proceedings out to the absolute maximum to make it as expensive as possible for him - - - then, when they eventually do loose, it's just be a tiny line item write off the Google balance sheet. Big corporations have an interest in setting examples of what will happen to you if you F__K with us.
Dishing out a 20 million euro fine tomorrow would be completely against both the spirit and the wording of the law (fines must be proportional).

So, no, it's not unlikely, it's definite.
Flynn effect stopped in the 1980s and even reversed since then.

Most probably it was due to the increasing ubiquity of K-12 education and fewer bad childrearing habits (smoking/drinking while pregnant, lead exposure, no vitamins).
Seems like a technology that has narrow usecases like where cogeneration is possible. I guess large city's and industrial applications which can use the waste products of the thermal cycle.

For alternatives, my money in the long run is on molten salt batteries [1] for large scale. Technology also has benefit of increased industry knowledge of how to utilize molten salts safely which will benefit LFTR research.

(1) http://news.mit.edu/2018/metal-mesh-membrane-rechargeable-ba...
> Honestly though, I would _love_ to live in a world where you could walk into my home and install your 'adtreckr' eye tracking cameras on my TV. What you're describing is "trust", and I think the amount of it that each person has (for people in general, but also for companies) is a big influence in how they view GDPR (and other regulations that some might argue are unnecessary). Obviously, we're very far away from that world, so this isn't consent for you to come waltzing into my home in the near future. :)

Anarchy is always ruined by all those people! (I'm a big fan of trust, and not a big fan of Hayek,but Hayek had an insight when he talked about the micro and the macro cosma. People are to diverse that we can rely on "trust" to solve things, we need agreed on official rules)

> In my eyes, the satirical representation of what's happening here (from a consumer's point of view) is me placing an order for your awesome new eye tracking cameras, looking forward to the delivery and installation, and then seeing delays and delays as you repeatedly come back with, "well, are you sure you want this? are you sure I can enter your home? are you sure I can touch your TV? are you sure I can modify your TV?" I signed up, I paid for it, I told you I want it, just do whatever you need to do to give me it.

No. If you opt into buying my camera, since it is explicitly necessary to do all of that stuff, the consent is given as part of the buying contract. I just need to clearly state and explain that. If you had to gain access Facebook or instapaper via a huge opt in order form (let's say a pop-up detailing exactly what happens to your data), then it is equivalent...and that is exactly what GDPR requires

> From a business POV, I already treat user data with utmost regard, and my users know that. Similarly, I trust that the companies I willingly give my data to do the same. There are probably some bad actors in the mix, but I doubt they're going to bother with compliance anyway. Having to go out of my way to prove that data trust is there to a third party completely uninvolved with the contract I have with my users, and to spend hours and hours implementing new workflows and pipelines for out of scope functionality that needs to be maintained indefinitely -- this is not good for a business. It's bad for small businesses because it sucks up time, money, and other resources, and it's bad for big businesses because it opens up such a huge area for litigating non-issues. It might have some value to users, as I said elsewhere, but it's a heavy-handed regulation that is too overreaching in its implementation, in my personal opinion.

If you already do everything that is commonsense data protection, which is the bulk of what is required by GDPR, then all you have to do is documen that. If you cannot guarantee that the data is not shared, then the third party isn't uninvolved in the contract you do with your users.

Honestly, think of my data as something I own, like my house or my car, and GDPR becomes easy. Think of it as something you "create" by tracking me on your site, and your point of view becomes easier. I like my world better
> Me, I'd be embarrassed if I didn't tag you as anomalous

So it sounds like these types of strategies need to be turned into fashion trends in order to make the anomalies not so anomalous?
Damn. I knew this was coming but it still hurts.

He was one of the most respectable, honest, and hardworking people in this industry. His death is a massive loss.

I hope he rests in peace.
Ok this micro-dosing trend for adults is starting to fall into the tide-pod category. People LSD doesn't make you smarter, it simply makes you think crazy things are more plausible.
We do indeed! We're adding name pattern matching to our file storage sources (dropbox, box, etc.) and also adding an FTP source. If you send an email to hi [at] parabola.io we can add you to the list to get notified. Also let us know if there are any edge cases you'd need it to support so we can make sure you'll be good to go.
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>Interesting, why not just replace the text then?

Why would one do that? It's destructive. A typeset book is much more than a text file.

Not to mention OCR is not perfect, especially when math / special symbols are involved.
I'd be very surprised if hydrogen vehicles work out. Hydrogen is not a source but rather a store of energy like a battery is. There's a few practical and technical issues:

1 it would require building out entirely new infrastructure, running up against severe NIMBYism at this point. It's incredibly hard to even build new power lines right now. Try a highly combustible, very leaky gas.

2 it's far cheaper to just strip H2 from natural gas, which releases carbon (unless you capture it, increasing cost), so not carbon free unless you force using electrolysis from renewable power sources

3 Electrolysis efficiency is ~70%, fuel cell efficiency is ~60%, so round trip efficiency is <50%. Much more waste than a battery (~80%). You're both using essentially the same electricity to create the power, but hydrogen is wasting more of it, so will necessarily be more expensive

4 in vehicles, fuel cells end up charging the battery toi power the motor anyway, so the energy loss from the battery is a wash

The one thing they have is range and speed to refuel, but as batteries get cheaper and better that will be minimized before H2 gets big enough to take over.

There's lots of big companies with smart people who are still pushing for this so hopefully they know what they are doing (mostly in Japan it seems)
Can't edit, here's the fixed link https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3523382/Me...
Especially considering Amazon and Facebook didn't have to bootstrap a developer community.
>> What else do you use that is 10 times better than it was a decade ago? Google Search? Gmail? Facebook? iOS?

Heh, ironically, the "wired" internet is surely 10X or more faster than a decade ago. Anecdotally, I have a 1 Gbps connection now; year or two ago I had a 250 Mbps connection, and 2-3 years prior to that it was 50Mbps. Ten years ago it was, what, 5Mbps or 2Mbps.
“Even the most technically illiterate users recognize that stock Android (whether they know what that means) is vastly superior to the Samsung Galaxy Whatever they just traded in.”

Not even close to reality. Tech savvy users recognise stock android occasionally however when I worked telco sales frequently the thing that got the sale across the line was some kind of gimmicky feature/addition the manufacturer had integrated. The average user couldn’t even tell iOS and Android apart as long as it had the Facebook app installed.

Manufacturers should of course recognise the massive saving to be had by developing only minimal customisation and being able to quickly roll out updates/new features in the latest Android releases.
Ah, hmm.

Using JS from CLJS is incredibly easy. Like I said, shadow-cljs solved all of our problems there.

Going the other way - using code written in CLJS in JS - is another matter. This is not well supported by the ecosystem. shadow-cljs has much, much better support for this than the standard ClojureScript/closure compiler, but it doesn't hold a candle to what BuckleScript does.

IME, doing a top-down transition - where you convert the top of your app to ClojureScript, that calls everything - works best. From the top, you work your way down into each feature.

ReasonML, on the other hand, works better from the bottom up. Typing your whole app is hard, so you start with some small feature that then you export to JS land (since that's so much easier with BuckleScript). From the bottom, you work your way into writing more and more features in ReasonML.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this will only be line based won't it? As far as I can tell there is no equivalent of FS/RS/OFS/ORS that make awk the record (not line) based language it is.
If it's so easy so fork a cryptocurrency at high value, why don't you make a crypto fork that's worth 0.1BTC.
> You guys chose to make your traffic radioactive

Er. I vote in an EU country, but I don't feel like I "chose" anything. GDPR was mostly developed by institutions (Council of Europe, European Commission) formed of people that were not directly elected by European voters. In any case, given that personal data management issues are not a prominent part of the political discourse (even in the EU), I'd be surprised if any of the people in charge were elected because of their position on data protection.

It so happens that European institutions have come up with GDPR, but I don't think it is fair to see it as a conscious choice from EU voters.

> the reality is that EU residents are going to be blocked from a large percentage of the world’s websites

I'd be interested in seeing supporting evidence for this rather surprising claim. I'd conjecture that the "vast majority" is the long tail of small websites who haven't heard about GDPR or don't care about it; so I'm not too worried.
If this was simply about rounded corners or a grid of icons, they would have been laughed out of the court.

Trade dress not about any single design choice but the combination of dozens of design choices which, when combined together, become an aesthetic trademark. And importantly, Apple spent millions of dollars on marketing to promote the fact that the iPhone looks a certain way and operates in a certain way.

The issue is that Samsung cloned this aesthetic in detail for the express purpose of hijacking Apple's existing media goodwill and advertising spend. And it also dilutes the value of Apple's brand.
> Um, those three words "effective, proportionate and dissuasive" together mean "as high as possible".

No they absolutely do not.
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And even if they don’t, many if not most of their dependencies do.
Are there still phones being made with stock Android and a headphone jack? That's a big part of durability to me since the USB-C adapters seem to constantly break.
Yes still far preferable. The wage in a restaurant often comes out below minimum wage too anyways.
no. use of his clips probably isnt transformative enough.
> The footage was licensed for internal use, and Google has presumably paid for that.

That's a pretty far fetched interpretation in my opinion.

I'm 99.99% sure the article says/means "other people/companies have licensed footage for internal use from the appropriate online stock-footage agents, but Google has not".
I visited Tokyo / Japan after two years living in Madagascar (talk about culture shock) and was so amazed at how orderly a crowd that could have otherwise been chaotic moved throughout these cramped spaces. At first I thought it was just cultural -- but not after reading this. Then again, intentional efforts to shift societal behavior, maybe that is a cultural product?

Regardless, I would love to see what some of these "nudge" gestures look like in the U.S. How can we better design not just spaces but how humans interact with them?
I thought it was a calculated effort to scare the shit out of someone, not actually getting people shot. (I'm admittedly not very experienced in this art, but my assumption would not be that if I called the cops on someone they would just gun them down.)
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17145204
It's a much bigger mistake to overengineer for the highly unlikely event of such a steep growth curve than it is to get to that part of the curve and flail about semi-ineffectually for a couple of years like twitter did at the time.
Have we figured out a good way to store Hydrogen that avoids leakage? I've heard that even thick-walled stainless steel vessels can leak ~1% a day.
TLDR; Scientists believe the Earth's orbit oscillates between circular and more elliptical due to the gravitational pull from Jupiter (big) and Venus (close). It takes 405k years to complete a cycle.
Yup. Send them over to Pornhub.com right now and sign them up. They will love you for this notion of goodwill.
Don't worry, I know it best as Xena's homeland.
It's interesting to try to reconcile that on the one hand:

"Time, as you know it, only exists in your universe. Things are different where I come from"

And on the other hand, there is a clear passage of time implied here:

"This time around, you’ll be a Chinese peasant girl in 540 AD"

"You’re still growing. Once you’ve lived every human life throughout all time, you will have grown enough to be born"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17145204
Fortunately we recorded everything you've ever said, so we'll just check these Alexa logs and figure it out...
On a tangential note, according to QFT, there is only one 'electron field' permeating the entire spacetime; individual electrons are 'excitations' of that field.
How is this different from Zapier or IFTT?
You can realistically only look at one thing at one time. Having 2 windows side by side is useful when referencing one and writing in the other. Otherwise command tab to switch works way better.
The iPhone was always going to happen as soon as capacitive multitouch technology became feasible at the consumer level. It was never going to happen a minute earlier, and it was absolutely inevitable a minute later. It was just a question of who was going to build it.

Apple kept their eye on that particular ball, while Microsoft, Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, and others did not.

As a result, Apple was (properly) rewarded by the marketplace for their insight. There was never any need to grant them an artificial monopoly on trivial and/or obvious design elements.
Because AFAIK there's no standard way to identify them because each website comes up with its own design...

This is all rather silly, given that the choice to allow/refuse cookies, and the prompt, could have been better implemented at the level of the Web browser...
GDPR ahoy
> Jason Goldman, who served as Vice President of Product at Twitter between 2007 and 2010, responded to Weaver’s tweets with the observation that early Twitter was “held together by sheer force of will.”

I would dispute that, I don't think they can take that much credit. Regardless of their "sheer force of will" the site was down very, very frequently.
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Yeah, you coat the cell interior with platinum. Adds significantly to the cost and complexity of production though.
There are many wings in the halls of the left. I'd consider Time as biased to the left but they voiced the ideology of the establishment, coastal, urban leftist elite. They espoused the kind of left wing viewpoints expected of a mainstream Democratic Party politician much the same way as the Wall Street Journal and now Fox News espouses the views of the establishment elite of the right wing. They were to the "Liberals" what those other sources are for "Neoconservatives" while the rest of the wings in their halls find their voice in more fringe outlets.

To someone further out on the left, they appear centrist. To someone on the right the leftist-bias immediately places them in the broader category of "leftist" even if they are far closer to the center than most outlets.
WhatsApp was a pretty well known case for Erlang[1], given that I'd think Phoenix would be a great fit.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...
The article was careful to put that quote in context, which you haven't supplied here.

They were almost certainly referring to the system being used against debtors who are not paying their debts. It's not a case of saying "people who have a bad score should be made bankrupt" but "people who are not paying their debts should have so much social pressure exerted on them that they would rather go bankrupt than not pay their debts".

Their are situations I can imagine under such a system that are unethical, but I'm not as certain that it's unethical by definition.
Well, that made me search for "most expensive potatoes" and sure enough, some exotic potatoes go for $300/pound. til. http://www.luxuo.com/lifestyle/gastronomy/potato-la-bonnotte...
Your outlook on the human prerogative for mastery of his environment is absolutely fascinating to me.
no that's not how it works.

If the client could simply send a hashed password over as an authenticator, then hashing the password database would provide no protection against theft, because you could simply use the stored hash as the password. This solution would only protect users from password reuse from theft.

Hashing with a negotiated salt and computing client and server side protects the password in transit but means storing the password in plaintext on the server. We use TLS (or SSH, or other encrypted protocols) to protect passwords in-flight instead, and hash passwords on the server to protect them from theft.

(Remember, the original attack password hashing was protecting against was a world readable file that contained all usernames and passwords, /etc/passwd on Unix. Eventually the world moved to "shadowed" passwords, where the hashes were stored in a root-readable-only file called /etc/shadow.)

There are systems where the user enters a key locally and it's not transmitted over the wire. Kerberos and SRP are two of them.
Is there any database out there that maps font characteristics with font names?
"Says anyone with common sense."

Where "common sense" means "agrees with downandout, not the more traditional definition of "common sense".
How would room temperature super conduction be used for energy storage?

Or would it just make all of the other technologies much more efficient?
Labster, what's going on, big guy?
For what it’s worth, most swatting calls don’t end with a shooting, and it’s actually unusual to get the SWAT team. Most police departments will make an effort to gather information before escalating so far. When news articles about swatting showed up in major papers, police departments across the country announced that they were aware that some people believed it was hilarious to make false reports, and they would respond appropriately.
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I never said they wouldn't. But showing that they're willing to go after infringers is easier when you use high visibility cases to do it.
Elm is a lang and a FW in one. Very opinionated. Very batteries included.

PS is a lang. It compiles well to JS, but there is no friction against making it compile to native, apart from the time it takes to maintain that compiler backend.

On top of PS you may pick a FW. Some have React.js under the hood, some follow more closely The Elm Architecture.

Only with a FW, PS can be compared to Elm.
You seem so incredibly confident in this that you must be able to point to some evidence or a case study to support your claims?
This is unacceptable, Apple will have to give in on that one. I hope Valve is going to fight them with everything they can do, so this gets resolved in a timely manner. Many people were looking forward to use the app.
>One thing i've never figured out is how Facebook handles search on your timeline. That a seriously complex problem.

From a user's point of view, they don't. I search for things a lot (or at least, I used to before I realized how bad it is) and things that I know I saw yesterday don't come up - even if I put in a very specific search. Sometimes it'll say "no results found", but I'll find it in a tab I hadn't closed yet.
It's amazing how one, admittedly enormous, place in pop-culture history can define an entire country in the mind's of a majority of the first world's population. I imagine you feel the same way as people from Alabama and/or the Louisiana coast feel about Forrest Gump references.
You developed all the SW? You have access to the clients? Can you replicate the business?

Also. PayPal is not a company to trust when you are on the receiving end at least. Learnt that the hard way.
Have you considered making a birdbath type thing close to the ground for them to drink out of?
Now compare the those grid and device designs to those of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S:

https://imgur.com/a/mett6HD

And remember that these are design patents. Here are the relevant ones:

https://patents.google.com/patent/USD593087S1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD604305S1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/USD618677S1/en
To a first approximation, copyright law covers the rights you have to copy other people's work.

There are some extremely limited exceptions based on your reasons for copying it (things like parody, commentary, new reporting), these are very tightly defined exceptions called "fair use".

There are no blanket exceptions for "non commercial" use.

Keep in mind, the creation/ownership of the work gives the copyright holder unlimited authority to ban _any_ use of the work. If I write a song or make a video, I 100% have the right to say "Nobody can use this for any purpose" - then the _only_ legal uses other people can make of it are those tightly defined exceptions permitted by copyright law.

"Fair use" _is_ a legal right to use copyrighted work without permission, but it's possibly one of the least understood and most violated laws in existence... And no - it does not give you any rights to "play something on a large screen in a public park"...
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commodity motion sensors are thermal sensors[0]. Perhaps a FLIR[1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_infrared_sensor
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_looking_infrared
I'd suggest putting it down as a learning experience and moving on. People will rip you off from time to time. Unless you have a good chance at a quick, profitable, resolution I'd suggest getting on with your life.

I've been ripped off for amounts in the tens of thousands of dollars on 3 occasions. I was pretty angry each time, but the only time I pursued it (and got my money) was the case where the counter-party was a large firm with plenty of sensible lawyers. Trying to get money back from individuals or small organisations where people have hurt feelings is an enormous hassle.
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I wanted to know the thought process with which one tackles a machine learning problem.
"2. Stock Android. Stock Android. Stock Android."

How is that differentiating yourself?

"The first company to do all of the above will make waves, I promise you."

I highly doubt it. For one, hardware keyboards are expensive to do right, and they add to the repair costs and warranty costs of the phone. Doing it means either making your phone more expensive (read: Fewer people will buy it) or using cheaper parts elsewhere (read: Most people who claim to want hardware keyboards will complain about this, and then not buy it).
In addition to that, New Zealanders are remarkably familiar with statistics, as the country tends to only ever measure its achievements on a per capita basis.