skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, everything halts then, so that just solved the Halting Problem.
Do you only consider projects that already have users and have gone public? For me I have a working proof-of-concept and infrastructure for a good business, but it's something that I'm only able to work on in my spare free time, having other contracting obligations.
Amazon Echo eavesdropped on couple, sent recording to a contact
The feature/bug metaphor fails to take into account tradeoffs. Every political system has pros and cons, and which one you choose to describe the system reveals your politics.

For instance: the voters are not equal in their right to preference. Delegates are equal in their right to preference. This means the person with the popular vote lost. So, do you value the republican vote or the democratic vote (government, not party)? There’s no objectively better option; it’s a pick-your-poison type deal.
You would only take that liberty if you didn't have much respect for the law and its ability to touch you. I suspect companies are a lot more careful with each years new IRS rules even though they don't yet have case law and are often issued on much shorter notice.
disconnect would be an understatement
Eatzi's is AMAZING. Its more of a market where you can get food and readymade meals.

They make pizza on fridays and the line goes out the door. Highly recommended. They also have opera singers once a week.
Bad news mate, much like we claim anyone famous from NZ, we also claim the entire land mass:

Australian constitution, premable [corrected]:

"The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia [...] and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a State."
> Far too short a time for a human to react to a warning, though.

Simply swerving left would have avoided the accident. Stopping is not the only thing the human driver could have done!
I wonder if Essential is just not a very popular smartphone, or if Samsung/Apple colluded to pressure suppliers in making it 100x hard for E to get anything done. Either is equally probable.
I focus on being a good person (as best as I can) and I care about being happy. Worrying about what a bunch of quarreling children are doing, with very limited scope to impact or change any of it, is detrimental to being happy.
I am under no illusion that the changes driven by Government affect me, in many ways.
There's a decent chance ol' trumpy might let off a bomb, ruining hundreds of thousands of lives. Maybe, if it hits New Zealand, that of mine and my children too.
But I still chose not to care/worry about it. I focus on enjoying the time I have with my family, trying to teach them to be happy. If they find an interest on politics makes them happy and excited, that's great! I'll encourage that 100%.
But I don't care.
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8493/pilot-1000-retrospec...
Companies directly lobby the laws that affect the IRS on a year-to-year basis and have a lot more knowledge about it. It is hardly as vague as this was. I very much do respect the laws when I can, but I'm a US citizen, and my projects don't make enough money for me to ultimately care about the GDPR/EU. I just blocked them for .. ever, probably. You're really targeting people here, sorry I disagree?
If it's built on top of chromium/CEF, it's not "lightweight", and you've missed the entire reason people don't like webapps.
But StumbleUpon did have a comments section right? Could have sworn there was some kind of voting system, which allowed reviews...
And the samsung design is different. The rounded rects have different curvature, and there is no home square.

Apple's design looks the same as Windows 3.0
Except that I'd bet Airbnb's read qps requirement is less than 1% of Twitter's. Write qps would be even smaller.
They key feature you missed,

* devices can operate without user's knowledge

These types of devices are easy to accidentally trigger; it must be vastly obvious when that happens.
No. Normal gas company. But my gas company at the time was a super small one (just the local area), so I think they didn't have a sophisticated billing system. I'm with the regional gas company now and it's normal billing system.
If a company prematurely captures their upside by raising an excessive amount of capital they create a scenario for new employees where they participate in the upside only after the desired (10x) multiple is realised on the prior raise.
The vibration detection is commercially available, in the 3-digit $ range, but it's unfortunately hideous as it needs some mild force against the throat and thus requires a very high neckline or a scarf.
The potential alternative, Subvocal recognition, suffers from the need to have nerve/muscle-sensing electrodes on/around the throat, which have poor long-term bio compatibility (think >10h/day, on average) and the alternative, implants, suffer from growing out if a wire sticks out, at least as far as I know. One might be able to implant special electrodes the skin would not reject, but I don't know of any suitable material.
The obvious benefit is that you use your normal speaking logic, just stop at the point where you actually move your throat (afaik), and don't modulate with your mouth or lungs. It's silent for anyone around, so one could, theoretically, call someone while sitting inside a meeting, and hear both speakers, while being able to selectively talk to the other end of the phone line.

Both of these technologies work in nightclubs and fighter jets. I assume they are very high SNR, as far as ambient noise is concerned. The subvocal one might just be a phonetic/intonation input, which then requires voice synthesis if actual voice is the goal.
Very cool. For more fun shared drawing, I also love Aggie.io. Entirely HTML5 and JS, yet fairly powerful and exports to PSD.

I only wish it supported pen pressure on Linux.
based on my understanding, i think if you're not marketing to eu visitors, data doesn't fall under the gdpr. does the gdpr retroactively apply to data from the past?
There is actually a whole field of research on mathematics education. I'm sure this 28 year old essay is nice, but probably the most up to date and comprehensive guide to evidence-based teaching of college math is this free Instructional Practices Guide from the MAA: https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/curriculum%20re...

For K-12 math education, I haven't been keeping as close an eye, but there are several books and resources, such as work by Jo Boaler: https://www.youcubed.org/resource/books/
Ironically, I am unable to read that page without enabling javascript for a third-party domain (amazonaws.com)...
That's because Apple had a touchscreen, and Google had a keyboard at the time.
It was not popular, they had dismal number of orders when they launched.

I’m curious what suggested that suppliers caused problems - one of their investors was actually Foxconn.
What would the regulators do? Block the service?

But that is one part which is confusing to me, from the UK ICO:

The GDPR applies to processing carried out by organisations operating within the EU. It also applies to organisations outside the EU that offer goods or services to individuals in the EU.

Additionally, the GDPR does not apply to actions taken before and during the transition period (which ends now).

In this case, Instapaper does not offer goods or services to individuals in the EU. It actively blocks any user inside the EU.

Does that mean that Instapaper is no longer subject in any way to the GDPR?

In other words, if you had a company that had operations in the EU, but left the continent 2 years ago, and no longer has any activities with any EU individuals, does the GDPR suddenly apply to you?
How do you (plan to) deal with people trying to stop what looks like a runaway bicycle (esp. when it rolls ^W rides downhill)?
I wonder if purism would have the cash to buy Essential? It would give them a nice head start on getting android apps working with their phone.
Your WiFi led is probably blinking pretty constantly, which would freak people out if they were told that blinking means active listening (as opposed to checking it updates or any of dozens of other things that might use the network). It’s probably also software controlled anyway.

The idea that there would somehow be a dedicated wake word microphone is a little ridiculous. Firstly, no one would trust this supposed 1-way connection. Second, it would require a dedicated processor to make the wake word even work, driving up costs. Third, the echo uses an array of microphones so your wake word would either be unreliable or drive costs up further as you duplicate the entire array. Hardly a net win.

The reality is that if you don’t trust amazon to do the right thing you shouldn’t install their listening device in your home. (Likewise for your phone.)
They spent $100M on the first phone, and $200M left over. They had capital for multiple throws, and even started working on them.
Does Google open source it search algo?
The data seems only want to be free - if its part of others work.
Don't those require more equipment than just access points?
In many places, the trains are always late, but never early. So you get to the station at the appointed time and just wait. You couldn't tell someone to get off the train at "1:11" in the US.
Computers have vastly lower reaction time than humans. Computers have sensory input that humans lack (LIDAR). Computers don't get drowsy or agitated.

And "almost" is always a good idea when talking about a future that looks certain. Takes into account the unknown unknowns. And the known unknowns (cough hacking cough).
Thank you.
True. Simpler is more appropriate.
> How is that differentiating yourself?

Cause nobody else does it.
I felt the same, it lost its charm. It seemed like there were many paid articles coming up and I didn't feel the categories worked all that well.

Ultimately it seems reddit did a better job at categorising links for peoples interests with a transparent voting system...
You think im going to invite you into my beautiful liberal website, start a circle jerk, so I can throw your ideology through a table?
Then why is it a design patent violation to have circles on a square?
I remember SoundJam pre-acquisition being much more in the Winamp/Audion vein - playlist window + player window. I thought most of the library stuff came after they joined Apple. I would believe that Apple bought them and then suggested how they should build it out further.

Looking at old screenshots on Google seems to agree.
> which necessarily implies taking your eyes off the road

Don't we have speech-to-text for this sort of thing?
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I was looking forward to this, but Apple keeps competing stores out of their ecosystem -- you can't buy books in the Kindle app, for instance. If the Steam Link app lets people buy games from Steam, I can see that being a problem, but I'm surprised it got as far as it did before being rejected.

I hope we still get our hands on this sometime soon.
Nice uptime.
If the company had done their job before, they wouldn’t be emailing you now.
Universal argued in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc. that King Kong's plot and characters are in the public domain and therefore they could freely use them in their remake of King Kong (the original being made by RKO Pictures).

Then, in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., they sued Nintendo claiming that Donkey Kong is too similar to their character King Kong. Nintendo was successfully defended by the lawyer John Kirby and named one of their characters in his honor.

It was actually a trademark case, not copyright, but still pretty hypocritical.

More info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_City_Studios,_Inc._v....
I'm curious why it was closed source. Contractual job requirement, proprietary search engine module, or...?
> Netflix has user-by-user, viewer-by-viewer ratings.

(Minor nit: They don't necessarily know how many viewers are watching a screen)

But maybe that's because they don't care, since, does it really matter? If they're not running ads, isn't every unit of screen-time worth essentially the same amount, ignoring the variance in subscription prices for different regions and resolution options.

Actually, I'd go so far as to argue that viewer time is worth, incrementally, a negative amount. I'd expect their goal is to have just enough content to keep subscribers interested, rather than to maximize viewing time.

As such, it seems to me that their viewer data goes beyond being a different generation of ratings, into a completely different thing. Maybe it's closer to box-office (seats, not revenue) statistics for movies.

Now, I know they're not actually ad-free, what with product placement, in which case traditional "ratings" can translate to real money, but I'm not sure if that's a large enough proportion of revenue (or reduction in content production cost) to change their behavior.
The question was why the car doesn’t brake early. “Because scanning every few milliseconds” is not an answer. Scanning frequency is irrelevant to the fact that emergency braking is not a reasonable strategy in general.

Safe driving often does require slowing down in the face of insufficient information. If a human driver sees an inattentive pedestrian about to intersect traffic, they will slow down. “Drive until collision is unavoidable” is a failing strategy.

And anyway, jerky driving is a symptom of late braking, not early braking.
I've been meaning to check out this StumbleUpon thing everyone's talking about. Guess I'm too late.
I haven't seen anyone touch on this, but I remember reading about this in Data Intensive Applications[1]. The way that they solved the celebrity feed issue was to decouple users with high amounts of followers from normal users.

Here is a quick excerpt, this book is filled to the brim with these gems.

> The final twist of the Twitter anecdote: now that approach 2 is robustly implemented,Twitter is moving to a hybrid of both approaches. Most users’ tweets continue to be fanned out to home timelines at the time when they are posted, but a small number of users with a very large number of followers (i.e., celebrities) are excepted from this fan-out. Tweets from any celebrities that a user may follow are fetched separately and merged with that user’s home timeline when it is read, like in approach 1. This hybrid approach is able to deliver consistently good performance.

Approach 1 is a global collection of tweets, the tweets are discovered and merged in that order.

Approach 2 involves posting a tweet from each user into each follower's timeline, with a cache similar to how a mailbox would work.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...
It would certainly increase the heat capacity of the air.

Compressing air into the data center however would not be a win. During compression the air gets hot. In the system that I was pushing the compressed air tanks were outside in the wind so that they were benefiting from the cooling effects of the same wind that was pumping air into them.
Apple rejects Valve’s Steam Link game streaming app over ‘business conflicts’
> According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to alert the operator.

> The more cautiously a car’s software is programmed, the more often it will slam on its brakes unnecessarily. That will produce a safer ride but also one that’s not as comfortable for passengers.

> Yesterday, Uber announced it is suspending operations permanently in Arizona, perhaps in anticipation of the release of the NTSB report.

Perhaps because they hope to avoid manslaughter charges.
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That Groklaw article is quite biased. I see a lot of talk about the rounded rectangle while the case was never just about that. Many other vendors had rounded rectangles and weren’t sued because the phones were clearly different from the iPhone. It’s about a series of elements that were really close and made it confusing to distinguish them.

Also it states Apple was brand new in the mobile space but that was dead wrong. The Newton wasn’t a runaway hit like the iPhone but did quite ok. It was the first device to be coined pda (appeared a few months later than the Palm though). Also it was the first device with an ARM chip which was built in a joint venture with Acorn.
They don't have a monopoly.
> Cops are humans with concrete human motivations and the risk/reward balance of shooting people is biased heavily towards reward.

There is demonstrably little risk in the US for police who shoot people, absent specific evidence of bad faith. There's also no "reward" for shooting people, unless they're actually murdering people opportunistically under cover of their badges.

Then again, consider the case in Baltimore of a ring of officers carrying toy guns to plant on people after shooting them, and how the cooperating member of the ring was found dead of an apparent suicide just before he was going to testify. [0] Or that it's only the happenstance of a bystander with a camera phone recording a cop shooting someone in the back, then planting his taser on the body, and reporting the victim had taken it. [1] Or the car chase that ended in a death, during which the sheriff's deputy's body cam recorded him saying, "I love this shit. God, I tell you what, I thrive on it. If they don’t think I’ll give the damn order to kill that motherfucker they’re full of shit." [2] Those are just what we've found.

I get that being a law enforcement officer is a dangerous job, and that they're risking their lives every time they respond to an unknown situation. The thing is, they signed up for that. It's not like cops getting shot was a surprise sprung upon them only after they were sworn in.

They're also given the authority to use deadly force, and — ideally — the trust that they will do so judiciously. Not only do they sometimes abjectly fail to do that, the system fails to penalize egregious abuses of that trust. We've somehow chosen as a society to lionize the police, and give them incredibly wide latitude and presumption of good faith. Most cops are good cops, and probably can be trusted with substantial latitude. A permissive attitude invites abuse, however, and not only are there bad cops, but the good ones, and the system itself, abet them (which, I submit, severely mitigates their good cop-ness).

[0] http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-gun...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/us/south-carolina-officer...

[2] https://www.salon.com/2018/02/08/tennessee-sheriff-recorded-...
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from Chinese news report: 于某今年35岁，山东人，三年前采购了一批价值11万元的土豆后就消失了，逃到嘉兴西塘开了家民宿，利用弟弟的身份东躲西藏，警方接到报警后，将其列为网上追逃对象。

So it's more like a fraud. He bought some potatoes and then disappeared without paying.
Your immutable identity means nothing to me. If you believe that homogeneous identities produce homogeneous ideas, you’re mistaken.

Good ideas come from good people who are a good fit for their role.

Without meritocracy, how do we discriminate? How do we allocate resources?

Do we just fill the ranks with the prescribed amount of identities? Will any warm body do, given they have the right identity? Or do we pick someone with the right indentity based on how much favor they’ve curried?
I'm a cable cutter (I refuse to call myself a cord cutter), but I agree. I would have Netflix regardless of whether I had cable or not but I wouldn't have DirecTVNow or Hulu ($47/month) even with the bogus fees and when you consider the bundled discounts, cable is not a bad deal for most people. My dad came up and he fell in love with my Roku TV so I got him one for Father's Day. I had to go down and set it up for him because between the individual TVAnywhere logins, the flaky WiFi (they have both slow DSL and cable internet service long story), it was really confusing for him.

On top of that, they understand when cable goes out it just happens. But if thier internet went out and they couldn't watch TV, they would be really frustrated. Besides they live in a small town with a 150GB cap on thier DSL and a 300GB cap on thier cable internet. My family blew right through that when we stayed with them for the summer.
I was so hoping the guy's name would turn out to be Richard.
I think if your app isn't available in European regional Play/App Stores, you aren't considered to be targeting EU residents and you can safely ignore the GDPR.
You want a symplectic integrator (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplectic_integrator) such as Verlet Integration (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlet_integration). Such integrators naturally conserve energy and momentum as long as your forces and energies are self-consistent and you don't use gigantic timesteps.

A classic mistake is to use something like "velocity += acceleration*time" (this is called Euler integration). It looks reasonable, and it's good enough for a toy project, but it doesn't conserve energy unless the timesteps are infinitely small.

A more sophisticated mistake is to use something like Runge-Kutta Integration: highly accurate in terms of position, but it is not symplectic so the total energy will drift over time. Think of your simulated world as a stack of graph paper sheets, where each sheet represents a surface of constant energy. Runge-Kutta will take you very close to the ideal (x,y) point - but not necessarily on the same sheet. Verlet Integration may be a little further from the right point each time, but by its mathematical form it will always stay on the same sheet.
>Then they would privatize the publicly funded station, at which time the service quality would tank and the entire facility would fall in to a state of minimum repair. Or something like that.

The reverse happened to the rail system I ride. It tanked when government took over. Turns out that a company that can't just ask the taxpayers to bail it out if it goes bankrupt runs a more effective train system than the government who answers to (in practical terms) nobody.

The fact of the matter is that if the organization that runs the service has a culture that gives no fucks about delivering good service to customers then you won't get good service. In the US this attitude is more often found in government than private enterprise because the government has a monopoly backed by law so it doesn't have to care about pesky things like customer satisfaction.
My time is more valuable than running, managing, maintaining, and monitoring a VPS just to save $180/mo.

If I've saved 1.5 hours, it's paid for itself, and I've been freed up to be productive on other things, like watching YouTube.
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Musicians seems to be really bad at this.

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus jumps to mind. They used a photo without permission, then proceeded to insult the photographer and tried to blackball him from being a concert photographer, then tried to insult him publicly on Twitter. The photographers main site is down, so this article will have to do: https://petapixel.com/2014/04/21/band-responds-worst-way-pos...

Diplo did a similar thing: https://fstoppers.com/other/famed-music-producer-caught-phot...
I imagine NZ is full of vampires and werewolves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows