skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a matter of accuracy, but precision i.e. low delta-E doesn't matter here. Having bad greyscale tracking / non-flat gamma are what would primarily make this difficult but almost any modern screen is pretty good in these areas.
I am an Indian and I echo your sentiments. Federalism, which was supposed to work really well, is failing at all levels in our country. A single vision to move forward does not germinate and even if it does in one person's mind, it is impossible for that vision to see light of the day. Even a flagship project like the bullet train is unable to take off because of corruption at the grass root level (panchayaths and the like).

In India, a vast majority of the population doesn't realize the growth by letting others grow concept. The predominant sentiment is to grow at someone else's expense, meaning I have to grow and others shouldn't or even if they did they have to grow less than me. This manifests in every step and walk of life. This leads to all sorts of corruption. Some guy who owns a key piece of land won't sell that land for a public project, just because a politician who doesn't want that project to succeed will back him up and prevent him from selling. This happened in Bangalore when a key arterial road was being developed. As soon as word got out, some local politician flooded a key government land with slum dwellers and overnight they occupied that land and prevented the road construction. Stories like this are the norm in any land acquisition.

Of course there are exceptions, and that's how this country is seeing modest growths of 6-8%. I say modest because, our baseline is fairly low, as compared to other economies. I feel so bad, we have the highest inhabitable land mass of any country, some of the most fertile regions, no adverse weather in most parts, bio-diversity to die for. It's like someone handed this climate on a platter, yet we don't realize that. We are just destroying this paradise day by day.
There's the Mozilla Foundation, which is legally a non-profit. More specifically, they are this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization

So, there's actual clear specifications of what they're allowed to do and what not. I don't know the exact ramifications either, but some important points are that they're not allowed to keep more than a set amount of money and that any money they get a hold of, which exceeds this amount of money, they have to invest into their specified mission (which in the case of Mozilla is to make the internet a healthier place: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/).

They are allowed to pay people appropriate wages, but as you've already pointed out, there's no stock holders. No one gets paid out extra money when they make extra profit. They are legally bound to reinvest this money into their mission.

And there's also the Mozilla Corporation. The Corporation is not legally a non-profit. So, they don't get tax exemptions, but can keep around as much money as they want. So, in a way, they can make a profit, which is by increasing the amount of money they keep in their bank account.

However, they are a 100% subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. So, the Mozilla Foundation is their only stock holder. If they do make extra profit, they either have to reinvest it right away, put it on their bank account to reinvest later, or they can pay it out to the Mozilla Foundation, where it's again in non-profit hands, and is therefore legally enforced to be reinvested into Mozilla's stated mission. In other words, it's not possible for the Corporation to make profit which is not at some point reinvested.

The Corporation being a subsidiary also means that the Mozilla Foundation holds sovereignty over the Corporation. They can throw out Mitchell Baker (Executive Chairwoman) or Chris Beard (CEO) and set their wages.

So, the Corporation has motivation to make a profit, because the Foundation could throw out their key people, which in turn could throw out any slackers within the Corporation.

The Foundation also continues to hold the Firefox and Mozilla trademarks and has the final say of what's included into Firefox's source code.
Japan has operated a solar sail near the orbit of Venus, several countries and companies are running experiments on using them to make satellites deorbit faster, the Planetary Society is launching Lightsail-2 on the next Falcon Heavy, and the Breakthrough Starshot hopes to make scifi a reality and shine a huge laser on tiny chip-scale spaceships to send them to Alpha Centauri.

The field has been active.
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In their famous win against the Argentina of Maradona (Spain 1982), Belgium decided not to put an extra man marking defender on Maradona, while back then it was customary to do this. Now, if they would have lost the game, that decision would have been regarded as utterly stupid, while now it's seen as a brilliancy of the coach.
You should take all of this with a grain of salt.
Don’t break up Google – the market will sort everything out
Or, as the saying goes, the more you learn, the more you learn how much exactly you don't know.

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you”
Thanks but no thanks. I don't have this overwhelming pressure to always be "on" or even squeeze every bit of work out of my day.

I use this time to organise my thoughts and take a breath.
From a quick search, Teslas make up about 1/1,000 of the cars in the UK (30,000 out of 30 million, very roughly). If Teslas burned at the same rate as the average we’d expect to see one Tesla fire every 3 days or so. (Of course there are lots of reasons that wouldn’t be true, like a huge amount of fires coming as the aftermath of thefts, and Teslas are harder to steal than average.)
It may be comforting to believe in something. That doesn't make it true. There is no evidence that any of the experiences people have that can't be explained are a result of supernatural causes.
> By that measure, aetheist San Francisco is the most religious place I’ve ever lived

You've constructed a loose definition of religion that approximates the common definition of culture. The term "religion" is generally reserved for "claims to relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements" [1]. (That said, "there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.")

A better term for the behavior you describe might be "zealotry."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
I’d like to read the story about her. It seems like she was just a great self promoter. Being attractive does help, but that goes for both men and women. We tend to like attractive people, that’s why the big 4 consulting firms are full of young attractive kids recruited because they were jocks or cheerleaders.

My point is that if sex appeal was the core factor in her success, we would have significantly more female founders because almost all investors are men. It’s more likely to me that she was a amazing self promoter who didn’t let reality get in her way, similar to Steve Jobs.
I agree. A better version of this type of technology was described by David Brin in the 90s.

Why not measure the minute signals of the mouth to predict word commands instead of hand movements?
> Your way of thinking is not healthy for personal development or long-term happiness.

You don't have a clue how to achieve this because nobody else does either. And if somebody has achieved this, it is almost certain they achieved it in a way that works for them only. If you claim you have figured this out you are lying. Yet you lecture..

My theory is you are just a hypercritical asshole and you've found a way to "justify" it.
In other news, Samsung is in talks to buy Tesla and introduce a Note 7 car ;)
The charity had nothing to do with this. They didn't choose to be the recipients of a 'stolen' bounty.
I used to work with Pivotal's Greenplum, which is also a distributed db, and I quiet liked it. Basically a postgresql with syntax sugar on partition , and distribution across servers. I had the pleasure to never need any index in the database.

This sounds to be an interesting project as well.

The question to me always about "how this will makes the project that use it have little learning curve for the new recruits, easy to understand integration in the code level and low maintenance on the long run"
I couldn't vote but I campaigned to keep it open indeed.

The decision to close it is just a way for insincere and short-term thinking politicians to gain some cheap points.
> By that measure, aetheist[sic] San Francisco is the most religious place I’ve ever lived. The religions focus on the right way living or eating, and the evangelism is off the charts.

This should be a clue that your "measure" is a bad one.
Stanford researchers harnessed AI to generate memes
I evaluated zapcc at one point. Its a fork of clang because the changes are very intrusive to clang, and probably would have had a hard time getting accepted in to trunk without a ton of debate. I believe it actually daemonizes in to a long running server process (zapccs) that then holds the instantiated templates in memory, communicating with the zapcc compiler process over IPC. I think that most clang maintainers would have found that radical of a rearchitecting kind of controversial especially from an outsider to the project.
When you use the word "religious" loosely like this, broader than "supernatural spirituality", I've noticed that it tends to make a certain set of people quite cross with you. It seems to violate the dogma of some very religious (broad sense) people who reject supernatural spirituality and therefore reject being called religious narrow sense. These people respond poorly to being called religious.

I think you're right. But it can be difficult to discuss the topic without either walking on eggshells or throwing caution to the wind and making people upset.
> that Science has explanations for everything now, or at least they'll have it all figured out soon

You don't need to care if they ever figure it all out to "believe in" science.

Quoting Yoda? Hollywood puts a white Anglo-Saxon, Christian, family message in almost every movie. It's also standard movie ending #1.
It's fairly different from my perspective. If you're skating hard, you're generally in transition, where you're going to be noticed unless you already have a numbers advantage.

In your other example, the defense has already made the mistake by throwing a big check that didn't win the puck. They're out of position, and the rare sneaky opportunity isn't worth sacrificing pressure or risking losing the puck. It's fun when it happens, but not a strong game plan.
How pro rata works in venture capital deals (2017)
I'm not sure how what you linked is related, but the only "surprising" thing here is probably `true == 1`. This evaluates to true, and because comparisons are left-associative, we have `(true == 1) === true` which reduces to `true === true`, which, unsurprisingly, is true.
This is due to appeasement and corruption of previous Government. Government passed a Law which allowed constructing 4 floor building in every area of Delhi. This simply killed the city as you cannot increase the population density by a factor of 4 in a already crowded city.

Secondly they grabbed all the land around NCR(National Capital Region) which resulted in prices of properties reaching simply affordable levels. This only increased the pressure on the core part of Delhi.

It is an example of evil Governance.
Experimentation suggests the scores are always even and range from 0 thru 128 (inclusive). And the initial layouts usually score between 70 and 100.

I would expect the initial layout scores to center around 64 instead of 84.

My sample size is not large, about 20.
The article mentions all the big investors too. They had to have impressed a lot of people to get that kind of funding.

Let's hope this device holds up when it's released, and doesn't turn into another Nintendo Power Glove.
It's funny, because out of the things that people complain about in modern navigation apps, "showing the right user location" is usually not that high on the list. There are so many other more pressing problems to solve. Map data is often inaccurate, bordering on unusable in less populated areas, and map data providers are colossally slow to update and correct their data. Navigation app UI is still surprisingly bad, even though this has been an area of fierce competition for at least a decade. Geocoding and reverse geocoding is still not perfect, but it's dependent on good map data. Accurate traffic is hard. Routing is pretty much solved but again, dependent on good map and traffic data, so it's perceived as needing improvement. Business search is hard because the underlying data changes so often, and for most nav system vendors, is not their core business so they ship something crappy. Most of these things are not improved by getting slightly better user position, so it's surprising Uber is investing so much into this research.
Man, I am appalled at your response. What we are seeing in Delih is beyond alarming. In fact, even the so called normal in Delhi is alarming by the global pollution standards. Please avoid making such flippant comments.

PM2.5 is at a hazardous level in Punjabi Bagh.

http://aqicn.org/city/delhi/punjabi-bagh/
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Diesels are much safer than gasoline engines? Because, Diesels require compression to ignite unlike Gasoline, no? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> Information collected passively generally includes IP addresses, which falls within the definition of personally identifiable information under the GDPR and certain US privacy laws.

Your argument is at least formally wrong, the GDPR does not contain any such concept as personally identifiable information. It covers personal data.

An IP address can be personal data under some circumstances.

IANAL, but I would be more than surprised if the interpretation of personally identifiable information and personal data ends up to be identical in legal practice. I'd assume that even lawyers are not sure yet, because there isn't any practice yet.
>as a consumer, i can’t stand the insurance policies of shipping companies. you pay them to ship something, and then you have to pay them more to make sure they actually ship it properly. it’s insane to me. and UPS has gotten exceedingly picky. you cannot insure anything unless you let them pack it. i once tried to insure shipping a synth that i put back into the manufacturer’s own original box with the original packing material. this was then going to be out into a UPS box. the guy wouldn’t insure it because they didn’t pack it. he explained they would have to ship the synth in their own packing and then ship the box separately in the same box. that is just one insane example, but now, it can cost like $70-100 just to ship a normal sized, insured package with them.

I think you're running into the policies of your local, privately-owned UPS store. I insure stuff with UPS regularly, with zero interaction with UPS staff. I login to the website, print the label and go. There's no UPS person approving or rejecting my insurance request.
R1234yf is an HFO and it isn’t practically flammable it’s classified as a mild flammable material and even that’s a stretch.

>”Although the product is classified slightly flammable by ASHRAE, several years of testing by SAE proved that the product could not be ignited under conditions normally experienced by a vehicle. In addition several independent authorities evaluated the safety of the product in vehicles and some of them concluded that it was as safe to use as R-134a...”

As far as Europe goes “traditional” referigerants are not banned they can be restricted depending on the industry and usecase.
HFOs are used by a few car manufacturers and ironically this isn’t even an EU thing the US started using it first iirc GM was the first as these HFOs are produced by Honeywell.

HFC and HCFC are commonly used in Europe.

Also it’s important to note that Daimler and BMW specifically stated that they will not use R1234 and Daimler even recalled the Benz’s that used it.
They claimed it’s unsafe and flammable but the actual reason was most likely the cost that Honeywell and DuPont enforced on manufacturers.
IIRC not only was that R1234 was more expensive Honeywell and DuPont also had patents issued on the evaporators that need to be used in conjunction with this refrigerant.
I'm pretty sure mouse and keyboard movements are a trivial amount of calories, compared to walking down the street.
That was indeed Gretzky, but FYI in hockey it's called a puck.
This post by the developer on the CFE-dev mailing list is a good start - http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2015-May/043155.html
Swapping didn't work when swapping the 2nd and 3rd to elements.
Web assembly trashes that idea of transparency.

Also, maybe bluetooth and USB devices don't need to be on the net.
I consider a lot of the arguments that come out of modern hype movements to be based on near supernatural reaches of selective logic and rationalization.

Also, I think that while parsing religion from culture would be a handy classification, they don’t really decouple that easy.
> You keep repeating the line that D is far more interoperable than Nim. Did you miss my reply below? Or did you simply not believe me and downvote it?

I did not downvote anyone unless it was an accident :)

> Nim is superior to D in terms of interoperability with C, C++, and Objective C because Nim can compile to either of those languages.

I did not try myself. Well, I did not try Nim to the level I tried D, starting bc I know C++ better than D, though I also know quite a bit of Python (my "second" language).

I have a question, though, about interoperability: you can output Nim code to C++, and mix it. Fair point. But that would be useful to integrate my Nim code into C++ (C++ being the "driver" app). What about the other direction where I can consume C++ from Nim? I have no idea and I ask this question with the best of the intentions :) You thought very bad about me and the downvotes before.
I really like the idea, but a part of your program should check the links for contact forms to ensure they remain up-to-date. The one for IKEA didn't work for me.
They have an introductory blog post that explains the database fairly well (summary: it was designed for a shard per user): http://blog.biokoda.com/post/112206754025/why-we-built-actor...

If you are looking at distributed SQLite solutions there is also rqlite/dqlite and bedrock.
This is a great technique; thanks for sharing it. While I knew about all the individual parts that you used, I don't think I ever thought of combining all the parts with the "view -" at end, although I knew that "-" as a command-line arg means standard input (to many commands that support it).

Very useful stuff, and as you say, the possibilities are endless.

I had done something sort of analogous, an experimental Python tool called pipe_controller, which is not about piping commands to each other in the traditional Unix sense; rather it is about "piping" the output of one function to a second one, and the output of the second to a third one, and so on, as many as one needs, under the control of a for loop. The net effect is like normal composition of function calls, like f(g(h(x))), but some other interesting effects can be achieved by doing it with a for loop, and changing some things at run time:

After first creating pipe_controller (which is simple, really), I played around with using it in a few different ways, and found that it can be used for at least a couple of interesting things:

- running a "pipe" (of those functions) incrementally (something like the technique you showed), and saving / viewing the output of each intermediate stage;

- swapping components of the "pipe" at run time, under program control, which again can lead to some interesting use cases.

I blogged a small series of posts about pipe_controller and such uses of it. Here are the two last or so posts, and the previous posts can be reached by following links in those posts:

Swapping pipe components at runtime with pipe_controller:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/10/swapping-pipe-components...

Using PipeController to run a pipe incrementally:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2012/09/using-pipecontroller-to-...

The pipe_controller code is here:

https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/pipe_controller
Start with Knuth, don't end with him. ;-)
I suffer from nocturia (diagnosed as non pathological after many rounds of tests all turning up negative).

In a typical night I get five hours max of contiguous sleep and have started sleeping (by that I mean the in bed duration) nine to ten hours as an attempt to compensate for not being able to stay asleep.

I've always been curious about the difference between time spent in bed and actual time in deep sleep and their equivalence.

Also for anyone with an Android phone that is interested in tracking sleep the app Sleep As Android is really great.https://sleep.urbandroid.org/
Has Agile Programming Lost Its Way?
It was meant as a response to

> Literally every form of transport started as a luxury
Have you considered getting a laptop that lets you export PCIe lanes (i think they do that with Thunderbolt these days, not exactly sure) so you can use the external GPU of your choice?
> you cannot increase the population density by a factor of 4 in a already crowded city

New Delhi isn't even in the forty most densely-populated cities [1]. The city feels crowded because infrastructure has not developed with the population. If you want to see what happens when a government artificially cap housing supply, visit San Francisco.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_population_d...
The sad truth is that the most meaningful job will be the one you design yourself. Did you consider quitting your job and doing something on your own?
I’ve come to appreciate the “-2” reactions to my comments on HN as much as the “+64”.

Sometimes the truth is uncomfortable.
due to high personal costs from leaving home that make migration personally unprofitable.

There is a high cost not just to entrepreneurialism but also our hyper-specialisation. If your niche is narrow enough then you will be forced to move from friends and family. I can see this when I look at the whose hiring thread each month, there are plenty of jobs in London but almost nothing outside.

I suppose remote work is the solution but it seems hard to make it work anywhere but at the most enlightened workplaces.
That's because everyone is. For every rockstar CV you'll get an identical one where the person can't even code a fizz buzz.
This headline couldn't have been worse. People always overstate the importance of what they study. Pretty much period.

Obviously doesn't mean there isn't something to this; but "topic x is something everyone neglects, according to person studying x" is enough to set me on defensive. Hard.
did they literally go "yeah this website can send
anything to the YK device directly, waht could go wrong?".

WebUSB displays a prompt, albeit an uninformative one [1]. The idea is to trick the user into enabling WebUSB when they think they're enabling U2F.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2016-03-02-...
would it be worthwhile to get a job at orgs like AWS?

fulfillment is a really 'problem' to solve not just in career but life in general.
A product like Muse might be useful as a headband interface

http://www.choosemuse.com/developer/#sdk

Key Features

• Discover and connect to all Muse headbands

• Receive raw EEG, accelerometer, gyroscope, and battery data

• Leverage built-in algorithms for band powers, eye blinks, and jaw clenches

• Record and/or playback data to and from a file

• Full documentation

It’s geared toward mobile, but I imagine you could have an iOS/Android companion app that acts as a remote for a computer over Bluetooth/WiFi.

I tried a quick search to see if anyone was working on this as a general input device for people who can’t use mouse/keyboards but it didn’t turn anything up.