skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know that you need internet connectivity to sync a fitbit, but are you sure that you need GPS on? I don't believe that's the case
Not very hard to do, actually. N4 hw is well known
Sure, all of which make the research non replicable. That stuff is all important, you can't just discount it because it's the norm not to include it.
It amused me that the hex file was described as esoteric given how prolific they are in the embeded world.
We are better off with two platforms poaching ideas from each other.

As long as it stays two or three this is a good thing. If it turns into twelve I’ll be right there beside you with a torch and a pitchfork. Until then I’m sticking with popcorn.
Ah, down voted for provided facts again. Excellent.

To mortenjorck and inetknght, I've not said that the typical individual user would have an easy go of things. What I did do was present options for userS to employ, en masse, in attempts to effect the changes they desire.

It's funny to me how people bother to coordinate efforts for all sorts of essentially meaningless events, but when it comes to things that they profess are important they suddenly decide that they'll wait around for someone (who probably doesn't have their best interests at heart) to swoop in and do the hard work for them.

To borrow from a post above "don't ask me how I know" but, your elected officials and "regulators" are unlikely to change these things unless business needs or public sentiment require it. That leaves the onus on you to make it happen.

If you don't like the terms presented to you by a service provider, try to negotiate them anyway. If the provider is unwilling to accommodate, go elsewhere. Worst case scenario, create your own solution. Isn't that one of the big things about this whole tech/hacker scene, creating solutions to unaddressed pain points?

And to the simpler question about striking language from electronic contracts, try paper(?) or making a PDF and amending it(?) You'd be surprised what serves as a passable solution because, as someone mentioned in another thread, a lot of people just don't put much effort into their work.

I now humbly await your down votes.
It's a bit odd that the author justifies a liberal arts education by focusing on two liberal arts majors (music and philosophy) who shone as software developers based on their skills at abstraction. I do not think this is something that the humanities in general teaches better than computer science (or, better yet, math).
Yeah. I'm also like wtf. The website looks about 10 years old.

I assume the owners have good communication, and persuasion skills. Which is admirable, since I lack them.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17702893
Facebook has to stay on top of competitors like WhatsApp and Instagram, which they ended up buying, and now they’re worried about competing with services like Venmo. They have to or they’ll lose marketshare. Although the market mechanism usually creates the right incentives for companies to act in their customers’ interest this could be a new type of market failure. Imposing a cost on customers that wasn’t agreed upon by reducing the cost of surveillance for hackers and governments. The "cost" is lower because the information is already collected and just needs to be obtained.

So how can we fix that? Putting the data in the hands of government, where it’s probably more likely to be stolen? I assume that facebook has better cyber security than any government agency and a better incentive to keep their customers’ data secure. Or maybe breaking facebook up into multiple companies in an anti-trust litigation that will take a decade to settle?

I might end up sounding like a blockchain proponent here. To be honest I think that most blockchain applications are scams or an overly complicated solution where an old fashioned data base would be totally sufficient. I actually think that blockchain technology has a very big draw back, because ownership is an important part of markets and creating the right incentives for companies. I’m very convinced that the majority of people who are working on some blockchain project don’t have a clue about what they’re talking about. I can’t claim to really understand blockchain in every detail either. My credentials are that I studied undergrad economics at Columbia and helped found a bitcoin exchange software company in 2013 and worked there until last year.

So from an economics point of view, my guess is that blockchain, despite the drawback of eliminating ownership, could be a solution to this specific type of market failure. Here's a video that explores the trade off between ownership and censorship resistance in a bit more detail: https://youtu.be/pHOYORGZrps
There are in fact self-cleaning public toilets that ranges from "just" washing the seat, bowl and floor to full pressure washing of the entire interior.
Journalists need to be asking what these companies are using X for, rather than specifics.
Dude, Texas schools are considered some of the best in the nation. It's horrible in nearly the whole country.
Ugh, reminds me of this recent ski lift accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzvt0gTAXvA
Who is going to stop them? Twenty furrowed brows in a congressional hearing? Of course not, and facebook knows this.
FODMAP is real, most of the people I know who are on the diet where it has helped have SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth). The problem is that SIBO can have a bunch of causes. Mostly what I hear is that they get the antibiotic and whatever underlying cause can't be found or fixed so they get put on a low-FODMAP diet to stop the bacteria from growing out of control. Doesn't work for everybody, guess it depends on your gut bacteria and what they can survive on, but it seems to work for enough people that doctors recommend it.
Maybe there is more to it (possibly in the realm of emotions) than body language or pheromones.
There is more to photos than CPU and sensor. There are also lenses and their layout as well as per-device and per-model tuning. This is why even if you side-load google camera app and all the libs it needs unto another phone, even with IMX362 sensor, the photos do not come out as good.
Docile foxes may hold some of the genetic keys to domestication
Yep. This is clear to even a novice player to be a strategically chosen death ball/snowball configuration. Some of the least skilled players in Dota shoot for it but is undone by a broader range of unironically named 'intelligence' characters. It also becomes unwound in longer matches. Snowball/death ball cheese is easily bot-able and a human being would have a hard time winning vs it because you'd have to range and hit point calculations and act on it faster than a computer which a human being cannot.

> That said, my impression from watching the game was that the power of the AI had less to do with perfect reaction time and more to do with their "hive mind" coordination.

Yes, which is why they restricted character selection to favor it. There's no reason to call it a hive mind as it doesn't possess that. There's a global steering function presiding over 5 bots that need to act swiftly based on global dmg/etc. This is why they restricted the game to snowball cheese. A human can't beat this just as a human can't beat a TI-89. This is why, if you look closely, they absolutely destroy the bots when the team is separated and the human players aren't playing like greedy noobs diving towers.

> If an enemy ever gets in the wrong position, they are immediately punished by a concerted attack.

> bot : (10-9) =1 (I win)
Strong AI right around the corner
> Formal methods and verification.

Still emerging.
How I wish we could build European block housing (is this the correct term?) in this country. The buildings are shoulder to shoulder and take up the whole block.

visual example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Prague,+Czechia/@50.079818...
I've heard the same thing. Biopharma does a pretty bad job developing young talent. Too many smart young scientists and not enough jobs, and the scientists are used to less than stellar compensation and treatment in academia

From what I've heard this is a bit worse in Boston than the Bay Area. There seems to be more hierarchy and ageism in Boston and some of the VCs are very vocal in their preference for older employees. Bay Area is a bit better, some tech VCs are trying to get into biotech by supporting young scientists but there's still a long way to go
It is certainly dystopian for civilians, but for military it seems surprisingly reactionary to me. While borders of military FOBs can be observed, these heatmaps offered info extending passed that including approximations of number of personnel.
Those 60 watt bulbs are about a dollar a bulb or more. Before the new rules, you used to be able to buy them for about a fourth of that cost.
A lot of "white" LEDs have a layer that absorbs some blue light and reemits it at a longer wavelength, with the mix looking white:

http://www.photonstartechnology.com/learn/how_leds_produce_w...

It's not a filter of course.
I don't think publishing to a single specific profile is an appropriate use of a desktop video editing application. It's like typesetting a paperback book by pressing "print" from Microsoft Word.

You should be exporting a "master" file from your editor and getting your delivery platform (or at minimum a dedicated transcoding app) to output to the various profiles.

Also, exporting HDR content isn't as simple as changing your export setting. HDR changes the way you handle content from the earliest moments of data capture; the real question is how you choose to crush the high dynamic range down to a standard dynamic range for everyone else.
> Cell phones, wifi, bluetooth, all would be impossible without the FCC

It sounds like you need to read up on the vast regulatory difference between cell bands and wifi.

edit: I can't fathom why I'm being downvoted. Without the FCC we would have much faster wifi, not being confined to a few tiny slices of spectrum. But cell service is debatable. And radio astronomy would be fucked.
Sure. "Hysteria" being a nonsense medical diagnosis from the past that's basically the poster child for sexism in medicine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria).

I bring it up because I'm suggesting that one possible explanation is that maybe this study is revealing yet remaining sexism in medicine. Just like the whole nonsense concept of hysteria, maybe professionals still discriminate by assuming women are just being "hysterical". Not consciously, but more as an artifact of western medicine and society.

I also strongly reccommend this fantastic podcast about the topic: http://www.maximumfun.org/sawbones/sawbones-hysteria

I hope this satisfies your question. I suspect I was just not clear enough that I was not legitimately suggesting hysteria as an actual explanation.
It's been estimated that a space elevator would only cost $50B.
Why this crazy obsession for meteoric growth? If Netflix tops paid subscribers, it's likely doing incredibly well. Hell, even free subscribers make enormous amounts of money to Facebook.
Do you mean the near-piracy of Aurous [1]? It looks like they didn't realise that re-hosting publicly-available music makes them liable under copyright law. Borderless gaming and Netflix Roulette don't seem sketchy. It's not clear what else you might mean. Do you have examples?

[1] https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6723046/aurous-a...
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This is a pretty bad mistake from the customer if this is true. If not done already it would probably be good to expose Prometheus metrics on CPU/Memory usage per node.
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Yep forget about all that stealth nonsense. No customers, no business.
I'm not denying the fact that the homeless crap on the BART stations. What I'm saying, and what the data from the new stations proves, is that it's not a factor and neither is age, nor exposure to rain. The new ones in the middle of nowhere with no rain are still unreliable, and there's no significant difference in available between the paid area and street escalators which you would expect to be different if transient excrement was the cause.
This one is pretty good for Pacific Northwest http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

Another interesting specialist weather site to look at (not a community per se): https://www.windy.com/
I would challenge that censoring sex is perfectly reasonable and nobody cares. I hear adult models bitching all the time that their content keeps getting taken down even when they try not to violate any TOS. It's really hard for them to promote themselves and make a living -- especially now with SESTA and FOSTA. I can understand filtering and flagging something as NSFW or something like that but to remove it altogether is a bit much for such a public platform. I think Twitter takes a good approach to it. It is flagged so you can avoid it but you can opt in if you want it.
Just wanted to say thanks. I think you guys are doing important work.
Why Elixir should be your next language if you’re a Pythonista
Many people (me included) don't trust Google to stay with any business besides advertising. There's been too many times that they have ended services with not much time to get off.
Thats great and all, but really isn't Google the problem for having that information. I trust scammy looking Chinese apps over Google.
It seems to take quite a while for official responses to pass through PA in the DoD. There are definitely considerations in acknowledging whether or not a specific point is a point of concern for security.
Playing devil's advocate: Was there something that ensured only American citizens (or residents or some relevant filter) could submit comments? I suspect there was a fair bit of trolling as well (not excusing the lie that they were hacked though).
Why don’t people trust institutions anymore?
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>But see, I can understand weapons building. The motivation is protective towards one's society, and that is the intended result, even if that might not be the actual case.

Not really.

If you work for Raytheon, you are supporting a company that sells arms to the following countries: https://www.raytheon.com/ourcompany/global

Northrop Grumman have a list of their worldwide presence here: https://www.northropgrumman.com/AboutUs/OurGlobalPresence/Pa...

If you work for a defense contractor, you are not 'protecting your society' - that's not even the intent. The intent is to make money by selling tools designed to kill other human beings.
They are slowly catching the year dead Windows Phone
Basic Jobs Are Better Than Basic Incomes
Designing the Most Performant Row Level Security Strategy in Postgres
These are enormously important processors, the 604 and 620 were invariably checkpoints of modern CPU design to the masses.. OoO, hardware performance counters etc.
Which protocols have you read?
Between code signing and sandboxing, this probably isn’t any more dangerous than the JS that Safari downloads and runs every time you open a webpage.
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While at it: trains are so much more convenient.

Walls and roof protect you from excessive heat, excessive cold, wind, rain, snow, and the sound the mechanisms make.

Seats allow you (or people more tired than you) to sit and work, read, or rest, especially when you ride for an hour.

Also, train infrastructure is vastly narrower than such a collection of moving bands, and is readily available for maintenance when no trains are going.

The downside is that trains have to have stations. But the moving band will have to have a "station" all along it.
> you used to be able to buy them for about a fourth of that cost.

The skeptic in me assumes they are taking advantage of the misconception and luring in people wanting incandescent bulbs before they run out.
Unfortunately, outside of more rational circles, I believe a significant number of people will in fact draw some kind of inaccurate and superficial conclusion from this data.
I took a philosophy class with a professor who had taught it about that many times. Talked to a guy who had taken it before me, he said that the prof has literally word-for-word memorized certain parts of the lectures because he's figured out and internalized the wording he thinks is best. Mathematicians can certainly do the same.
I used to have trouble with this question, until a helpful person pointed out that the person asking almost always doesn't actually care about the answer. It never dawned on me that people would ask questions without caring about the answer, but I knew he was right as soon as he said it. Now, I can just say "fine" and get on with my day.
That's overly simplistic - you can use phosphors (and similar chemicals) to change the color of the light. The phosphors absorb light and emit light of different colors. Many daylight bulbs do this.
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I'd be interested to see this broken down by country. Do Dutch or Danish people draw more correct bicycles than Americans?

Another interesting thing would be to see if there's any reason why people draw bikes facing left or right. I feel like for me it's natural to draw vehicles facing right, so they'd drive in the direction that you read in. It seems that most of the drawings here are in the opposite direction. The cycle lane signs in New Zealand also face to the left [1].

[1] https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/traffic-control-devices-m...
wouldn't it infringe on Apple's free speech to force them to keep the pointers? they're making a political statement by removing them
We are indeed working on more convenient container monitoring and logging on Azure portal.
While this is a possibility it is still strange to not specify something like the protocol version intentionally. Even if in an updated implementation these fields would be used for something like that they still couldn't communicate properly with an older implementation which doesn't understand the new semantics of these fields.

Also looking at the struct it seem the three bytes are only reserved in order to align the following fields on 4-byte boundaries.

If the authors had the intent to allow for some kind of asynchronous update path then surely this would be built explicitly into the protocol right from the start.
Does anyone know any ios apps that can act as a multicast reciever?
I thought that apps that used their own interpreters weren’t allowed to download additional code after installation.

Having a self modifying app is a nightmare from a security & privacy standpoint.
You claimed "We offer the lowest prices on contact lenses online."

This doesn't seem to be true (by almost 50%!).

If your primary method of competing is on price, you NEED to be the cheapest.
During the cuban missile crisis, wasn't there only 3 networks on TV and they broadcast news once or twice a day?

You really can't compare that with today's 24/7 cable news and media barrage.
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the progression towards bezelless phones

I hope not. The bezel has a very real purpose: a place to hold it without your fingers interfering with the screen, whether by activating a touch or just plain blocking the view. I have an older Android with ~5mm of bezel on all the sides and ~8mm of thickness, and trying to get a good grip while not activating or blocking the screen is hard enough. I remember being handed an iPhone 6, and trying not to drop it was the most difficult part. Holding something that thin is just not comfortable, as is trying to pick it up off a flat surface.
Did they control for hand size?
Anything front-end related by Maximilian Schwarzmüller. Or Stephen Grider.
Woohoo!

Nice to know that Microsoft won't send Skype under the Windows Store bus.
Yeah ... about that.

The US seems to be the only country which treats basic optometry like some kind of rocket science. Where did you guys get that idea that prescription should match so very precisely? Unless you have some rare condition +/- 0.25 dioptre doesn't make much difference. Glasses/contacts are the simplest optical instruments, not a Hubble telescope. Why do you need a specially trained person to dispense a box of contact lenses? If I want a 6-set of monthly -1.25 lenses -- just fucking sell them to me. What the hell do you need to verify with a doctor? I'm not buying a controlled substance or anything. Why did you guys make this transaction more complex than buying a roll of toilet paper? US seems to be the only developed country where I would have a hard time getting a trivial (but necessary) medical thing. Land of the free, my ass.

Also, what's the deal with vision insurance? What are you insuring against? Sudden nearsightedness? I would guess that 99% of VSP members already have a trivially managed chronic condition. And once you get a laser correction there is no point in staying in VSP anymore. So VSP is not really an insurance, but rather some kind of medical union. In theory it should help patients by increasing their collective bargaining power. In practice they seem to be doing the opposite.
They are trying to develop a product that competes with Mint.

I get that you would never consent to sharing, even if they competed well with Mint.

But their goal here is at complete odds with your comment, "It's two entirely different things." They are hoping it will be "two products similar enough to be considered competitors."
One example is Bitmain (largest bitcoin asic manufacturer) trying to move into making chips for machine learning.
This is just the paradox of tolerance.
> but for military it seems surprisingly reactionary to me.

probably because they know what one is capable off when able to access/compromise given devices.
What about Colombia?
> Limited access to sensors in background

I'm amazed this took so long. There have been papers coming out for years demonstrating how to extract all kinds of sensitive information from the vibration sensor.
So would this preclude anyone with a medical device form working there? say like an insulin pump?
turns out we can't raise the money to replicate researchers who barely had the money to do what they did.
1) it is not really realistic in practice:

- Permissions are requested incrementally at runtime. For large apps, a LOT of these permissions depend on corner cases BUT you still declare all the permissions you might ask for.

So maybe I will declare that I might ask to see the content of your screen .. because there is an help menu where I take a video of your screen to send to support after asking you for the permission.

Same for camera .. we might use Google Pay for most cases, but in one of the countries where we have the app, a local player has a very popular solution that scans your credit card. So we declare that we might need Camera because of this sdk.

Etc.

This is one of the reasons why the previous model where you asked the permissions at install time did not work very well in practice.
> Boston is the world-center of biotech startups and VC

Beijing is likely far ahead. Beijing's total VC investment is much higher, it accounts for over 1/3 of Chinese domestic VC and Chinese firms have accounted for over 40% of the biotech investment in US drug startups in the beginning of this year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-18/chinese-m...