skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah; say for example you're trying to recognize a swipe with a certain velocity on a touchscreen:

def touchDown():
velocity = 0
lastTime = now
def touchMoved(from, to):
velocity = (to - from) / (now - lastTime)
lastTime = now
def touchFinished():
if velocity.x > threshold:
performGesture()

You test it out, and discover that the gesture is kind of flaky. Sometimes it works properly, but just as often it fails when it feels like it should have worked. It turns out that maintaining a constant velocity is hard—as your finger moves across the screen, the velocity can fluctuate around between samples. The test in touchFinished() looks at only the last sample taken, which is often the worst, as your finger has just lifted off from the screen.

So instead of just looking at the last velocity, you keep track of a "smoothedVelocity" which averages your velocity samples together:

def touchDown():
smoothedVelocity = 0
lastTime = now
def touchMoved(from, to):
velocity = (to - from) / (now - lastTime)
smoothedVelocity = 0.25 * velocity + 0.75 * smoothedVelocity
lastTime = now
def touchFinished():
if smoothedVelocity.x > threshold:
performGesture()

With this change, your smoothedVelocity moves a bit toward the measured velocity with each sample, but won't jump directly there. This feels a lot more predictable. Stopping your finger momentarily as it lifts off the screen won't stop the gesture from being performed, for example.

The smoothedVelocity code implements a low-pass IIR filter (it filters out the high-frequency fluctuations while letting the lower-frequency motion pass through). You could also imagine just keeping the last 2 velocities and averaging them together at the end: that would be an FIR filter.
That's a rehash of a number of silly 'nothing to hide' pseudo arguments.

Phone books were not instantly searchable in bulk all across the globe. Who your employer is is not important, but in bulk to know who your employer employs and to be able to access that information in bulk and within a couple of milliseconds gives a lot of power to outsiders. I should know because I use that power regularly for my work, and trust me, lots of people we read up on would do better to keep a much lower profile online. It does not benefit their employers either.

Whether you attend religious services or not has been used to target (and kill) people in the past, and if you are willing to extrapolate a bit, was used for mass murder.

The age range of your children may not be so important, the fact that you have children may be, depending on your station in life.

The fact that you personally have not been inconvenienced by any of this - yet - is not a datapoint worth recording.
Chase beats Citybank - they ask for a case sensitive password but dont care about case sensitivity when entering your password.
Putting all this info together used to be much more labor intensive, basically infeasible to do at scale. The scale problem is solved, and now companies can mine that data for profit.

Maybe it's not that scary in a western society that's generally considered free, but imagine that power in a fascist state.
> If people ever start realising the true extent, expect a backlash, surely?

I'm not sure. We seem to be in a sharing culture where we want to broadcast on the internet where we are, who we're with, what we're eating, what we think about current events, etc.

And it seems to be a source of pride to publicly identify with political groups and social movements.

So, I feel like people freely share much of this info.
Times were different back then. And unlike other toolbars I distinctly remember Google's toolbar being actually useful and worth the space.
https://archive.fo/IsWTe
Yes it is. And I always mention it on this board and others whenever people start concluding that "people just don't care about privacy."

It's not that they don't care, they just don't understand the true implications of having someone like Google or Facebook have pixel tracking on all websites on the web tracking you, or them tracking wherever you go, and the thousand ways in which that data could be misused by them, their partners, or people stealing that data from those companies.

I've noticed from other older stories that even pro-surveillance politicians don't understand what they are pushing for, as some of them were later "shocked" to discover that those very powers could also be used to gather information on them. And then they started singing a different tune about the surveillance powers spy agencies should be given.
IMHO, the Card Brands are an Oligopoly Industry so they have pricing power and therefore raise prices because they can. Add on the fact they are public companies with their investors ( your list) hounding them for better returns leads to price increase abuses.
Ah, that makes sense, then. The last time I wrote anything in COBOL was in a class about 35 years ago. ;)
Sleep depravation releases a stress hormone that can also cause migraines. Check if they correlate to times she has missed on usual sleep and just taken a nap to restore it ( frequent culprit).
For the scalability side of graph, we've just started using Amazon Neptune RDF, and have been amazed that we can easily and very quickly run sparql queries on 2.6 billion triples on their smallest 2 core 15 gig machine. Incredible capacity.
>The "classic" ketogenic diet is a special high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that helps to control seizures in some people with epilepsy. Doctors usually recommend the ketogenic diet for children whose seizures have not responded to several different seizure medicines.

You're saying she already tried a ketogenic diet for a few months and it didn't help?
I’m not thrilled about the amount of information being hoovered up, but....the predictions being made with it aren’t terribly impressive.

Facebook should know a great deal about me, but the advertising categories it puts me in are either completely obvious (based on locations and group memberships that I’ve explicitly told it), or bonkers. It currently thinks I’m part of multiple wildly incompatible religions and political groups and am interested in a weird collection of abstract concepts (“decay”?)

Amazon thinks that my interests are dominated by textbooks and vacuum cleaners (if only!)

Twitter has correctly sussed out that someone who mostly follows scientists might be interested in science....or dogs.
You can enclose each word in quotes and that does seem to work still
I think you're referring to the US, but we've already banned most unpaid internships. They're only allowed in specific circumstances, including when they're mostly educational and do not displace any potential paid workers.

That said, it's definitely underenforced. Most unpaid internships probably don't follow the rules. When it is enforced, the penalty is typically no more than a slap on the wrist + back pay at minimum wage.
Asterick with quoted words works
> Whether you attend religious services or not has been used to target (and kill) people in the past, and if you are willing to extrapolate a bit, was used for mass murder.

Right, it was, long before the ability to aggregate this information en masse existed. The fundamental problem there is that there are people who want to kill other people because of their religion. Taking away information from them doesn't solve the problem, it just delays it a little. It's a form of security by obscurity.

If anything, they can still go and target the actual place of worship itself, which is not hidden. If all they care about is killing people of a certain religion, they don't need to know who they are particularly, just go to the place of worship for that religion.

The larger point here, is that if we can't trust the authority figures, the government, the corporations, etc. It doesn't matter how well we hide. The problem of a fascist government can't be solved by hiding. It has to be solved by enacting a government that's not fascist.

Edit: This is not a "nothing to hide" argument. The information listed is not the sort that is private information. Your address is not a special secret that only you can know. There are numerous legitimate reasons that the government or a corporation might need to know your address. The government needs to collect taxes and keep property records. Companies need to deliver products that you order. All of that is going to require sharing your address.
The design and building of a large dish antenna rotor
We are using AWS Neptune in building our marketing analytics product. What I have realized is that it has best of both worlds, the querying power of SQL databases and schemaless functionality like nosql databases.
> Hebborn would only sell his works to art dealers and historians who "just should have known better."

> If an expert couldn't tell the difference between an authentic and an imitation piece, in Hebborn's eyes it was their own fault.

It was more than pranking, it was selling forgeries.
Yeah, the fact that he mentions shooting 6 shots is pretty iffy on this historical account. There are stories of him knowing he was about to go out to a gunfight and preparing his guns and bullets, so maybe he loaded up six shots and was very careful while transporting his pistols

Here's a good video explaining why people would load post-Civil War single action revolvers with 5 shots instead of 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldHPNnsp-cs.
If Amazon made a stadium part of the deal, there would have been no problem.
Jokers please: first human Mars mission may need onboard comedians
Interesting, can you what are the benefits of using gpg-agent over ssh-agent for managing ssh keys?
it's still happening for me in case of https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Beatles&kgmid=/m/03j24kf, so it seems it may have not been fixed yet? https://imgur.com/a/8UypW5k
Show HN: API for medical guidelines
Sounds like a good Enterprise saas product idea
Facebook Login Phishing Campaign
U.S. investigators probing years of WikiLeaks activities
do you care to elaborate without expletives?
One person is enough. If one person inside Runet receives blocks from the wider internet (via satellite or other means), their client will automatically forward the blocks to all clients they are connected to, quickly spreading them accross Russia. And because Bitcoin follows the chain of blocks that took the most work to create, latency isn't an issue.

Mining (and making a profit while doing so) is more latency sensitive, but should be able to tollerate a satelite uplink. And again, one person having a satelite uplink is enough to give all Russian miners a chance.
Are casual inference and prediction that different?
You can get tested for micro allergies. Might find out you have a common trigger.
Layer in the fact that on Facebook--and other ad platforms--advertisers can import lists of people by name/contact info to target specifically using data from brokers, it gets creepier. I'm less bothered by a algorithm that tracks me and serves ads as long as I'm aggregated in the result tracking, but when they're tracking/analyzing me as a specific person is super creepy.

Edit: If you check out your Facebook > Ad Preferences you can see which companies have added you specifically to their ads by email/phone number. My list has a ton of car dealerships and real estate brokers.
Google is not 'evil' in this context, it's just that their vision is probably inconsistent with what real communities mean.

Why on earth anyone thinks a bunch of software engineers from the Valley (who can't even build a reasonable Social Networking UI) are going to 'rethink' communities is beyond me.

Have we seen any specifics as to what this actually means?

What is this money going to go towards, exactly?

I doubt Google will make a dime from this. If anything, the city could materially gain.

Second - AWS was not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes, the deal was not perfect but net great for NYC.
Do you have examples? I find magazine looking layouts to be beautiful.
OP here, happy to answer any questions. I'm sure there are some things I could have improved, but at a certain point it's better to push it out into the wild. All comments, suggestions, criticisms are welcome.
In this case I don't think so. A a European, I equally distrust American and Chinese communications equipment.

I don't trust my Huawei modem, but with IMSI catchers, the whole discussion is academic anyway.
Sure, but how was the intent to prank more nefarious than actually selling forgeries?
Presumably old encryption/sign constructs used by pgp/gpg coupled with issues with serialization/de-serialization of data/cipher text?
That went well for all the dutch jews in WW2 where the government also held detailed records about religious affiliation.. sometimes it is not about what is now, but what will or might be later.
That does not actually say that Twitter will delete your account in any specific timeframe. Given the mostly-public nature of Twitter, it's sort of a moot point, but still. Ambiguity should be held against the drafter, especially in privacy policies. On Twitter's deactivation page, it doesn't say they'll delete your data either.

"marked as deleted" is not the same as "deleted".
Econtalk podcast on the placebo effect
Yes, any network link to an outside pub would eventually sync that pub to the rest of the network. This makes Secure Scuttlebutt a [delay tolerant network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking).
Amazon May Get a Tax Break for the Poor with a Project in US’s Richest County
FWIW the latest versions of Unity are moving in the direction of exposing more of the render pipeline ... Whether you agree or not with doing it through C# is a different question but they are pretty invested in the language ... From my perspective, this approach is a decent compromise for someone that wants to build a render pipeline (basically define how objects are drawn to the screen) on top of an abstraction of the different graphics APIs for all the platforms they support while still maintaining all the other functionality provided by Unity for gameplay and tooling

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/01/31/srp-overview/
Question if google asks you explicitly if you are OK with using such info would that be OK with most people?
It's a large, heavy object being easily interfered with.

(The parent comment said "It weighs 50 tons and is 51 feet could anything really mess with that?" An EP-3 weighs 67.5 tons and is 105 feet long.)

The same applies to submarines and a net around the propeller.

(It's also a good example of the sort of diplomatic fuss that ensues after this sort of incident, too.)
Totally agree, the article is total FUD.

The Decentralized Web is a lot bigger than just the 2 projects they mention.

They don't discuss SSB, GUN, WebTorrent, Zeronet, etc., all legitimately popular systems running in production with tons of users.

In in our community we are already running local multi-cast discovery (working!) and have Bluetooth in the works. And we can do extended peer discovery through decentralized signaling relays (any/all peers contribute to this, WebRTC, browser, or other).

Even Internet Archive is using us ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) for their dweb mirror.

Additionally the system uses daisy-chain mesh net algorithms to proxy messages regardless of whether you are directly connected to peers or not.

Bring it, Russia.

I'm also starting to notice HN actively trying to kill off or censor any dweb discussion that doesn't involve one of Y Combinator's backed protocol.
This isnt a nothing to hide argument because there is fair trade of information, not compulsory extraction. Also the information is not publicly available

And the counter argument is an FUD theory that all information should be banned because it can potentially be misused
No way.

This is one of the largest piggy banks in the world of cash just sitting there.

If our councillors had any brains, they'd get Google to pay for nearly everything, make sure privacy is protected, and let G have their little $20B experiment with a few data points.

Councillors should be tapping that piggy bank like a broken ATM.
Memento Alta Vista
Often because of legislation such as new tax codes or new contracts
Now pretend all this is public and someone stalks you. Maybe it is your abusive ex that occasionally sends you creepy messages and harasses anyone you date.

It isn't like we have many protections in place to keep the bad folks from the good. And I'll add that phone books didn't have everyone in town - only the person who paid for the line. For many, you had to look up their family member's or roomate's name to get their phone number and address. Your name and picture might be, but most people's are not. You might not want folks in your conservative town to know which brand of religion you follow. You might not want those folks in that conservative town to know you go to a gay bar most Saturday nights either.
I think it's okay to want to do that. Yes, I don't want anybody spying on me, but as someone who's neither from the US nor China, I'd much rather choose to have the NSA/etc have access to my data than the Chinese.
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Freshness? I remember terrible spam and irrelevant results that plagued and killed it. Google was miles better on all aspects.
This is pretty illuminating and expletive-free: https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/
Starting Strong – 5 Ways to Establish Good Team Dynamics
Came here to say this. From my own experience + an Amazon Software engineer agreed.

You can do lots with data, but in the end, many times its uselessly applied.
They don't because it doesn't provide them any value in their day-to-day lives.
Look at my Python graph database 0.8.1 is the last release with the vanilla graphdb API, after that it only expose a triple store https://github.com/amirouche/hoply/tree/fa77d31757c835688098...
> Linux kernel

Wouldn't it actually be a good example of "whatever big companies see fit to subsidize in their open source programs"?
They are going to build services and infrastructure beyond just what a contractor would do.
Is there even much mining in Russia? My understanding is the overwhelming majority of bitcoin mining is in China.
Totally agree I wonder if they ever had a control group that they showed things in random just to measure how good their tech is.
No, elastic means an encounter where kinetic energy is conserved, rather than being converted to some other form of energy.

THe neutron/nucleus collisions in a moderator are largely elastic. The total kinetic energy of the neutron and the nucleus is conserved, although kinetic energy is transfered from the neutron to the nucleus.

An inelastic collision would involve (for example) nuclear excitation of the target nucleus, or ejection of particles from the target nucleus. The neutrons from fission are usually too low in energy for this to be very likely, though.
I doubt you’re getting property taxes. You want to do this pay for it.
I'm surprised Authy doesn't have a pam module: https://github.com/authy/authy-ssh/issues/53
Yes, you can add it to almost anything and the best part is; you don’t have to be online to generate and/or verify the code.
both the left and the right are in a bubble. Generally speaking assume that between your in-group there are as many bad people as in your out-group.

It is hard to make example that would not further polarize this thread, but I can promise you that the same intolerance and bubbles are present on both side of the political spectrum (for sure in the US, even if I live in Germany now I don't know much about this country...)
> You mean precious lives of Americans.

I really don't. Switch the nationalities and my answer is the same - self-defense when human lives are at risk is a lot more justifiable than self-defense of a robot. People are worth more than electronics.
I don't know if its true or not but heard that Costco with this new deal with Visa is only paying a flat 40bps in interchange cost. Now that's a deal!!
Oh shit it’s 2019 tho.
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Wow, the revision system is really interesting. Makes sense why you used it that way. Thanks for the link! Am excited to wait for the whitepaper.
Google's Own Lighthouse Score Is Pretty Low
If someone is stalking and harassing you, we need the police to arrest them. Hiding your location data from Google isn't going to help that. The problem there is that an individual is breaking the law. I doubt very much they are finding your location because it's stored in an advertising database somewhere.

If you can't openly practice your religion or sexuality in a town, that is a failing of the people of the town. Either stand up for yourself or move to a town with better people. Again, this is not a problem that can be solved by hiding, and living your life having to tiptoe around core parts of your identity so that idiots won't be rude? That is a miserable way to live.
> When individuals are paying for drugs, drug companies can only charge what individuals can afford.

Insurance companies are consumers’ only venue for price negotiation.

Sick people in urgent need of a drug will likely not shop around, they will pay the asking price, sign up for any financing plan offered if the sticker price seems too high, or just charge it to the credit card.
Precisely this. I'm an expat and have lived abroad for the last 10 years. Uber has made my life more simple and less stressful when traveling. No longer do I have to figure out how to book a cab at an airport after landing, or how much it really should cost me. I no longer have to hail a taxi on the street and be charged 5x what a normal fair would be because of the color of my skin or the accent in my speech.

Uber has revolutionized transport in all of the areas it has disrupted. Bad comes along with the good, but for consumers, the good outweighs the bad (at least for now while the prices are VC subsidized).
Yes, that was covered in a cousin thread, with a link to the Wikipedia page.
The legend in my family was never really that he was that wild -- he's my first cousin ~five times removed.

The story told over and over again when I was growing up was of his death, shot in the back playing poker with his back to a window. He normally refused to sit with his back exposed, and it was used to remind us to be careful and not let us be tempted into doing something rash. The effect? I was mildly uncomfortable sitting with my back to a window in a restaurant into my 20s, and would avoid it if convenient.

Though lots of people have "heard of him", no one I've ever met can be specific about what he did or who he was, other than part of the "old west". The lasting impression he's left on the modern world seems to be the dead man's hand -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_hand -- a term commonly associated with the hand he was (possibly apocryphally) holding at his death since the 1920s.
Yes, on Home you have to pick a (12 now? Used to be 16) hour window as not being your active time during which time the OS will just inform you it's rebooting for updates and you don't get a choice. Pro used to be the same, but it hasn't bothered me about in a while so it may have been removed
Canadian Sends Bitcoin (BTC) for the First Time via Radio Waves
I think it should be on a desktop class machine. I'm less concerned about absolute numbers and more with variance. Laptops generally cannot dissipate all the heat from full CPU usage for more than a minute or two. Benchmark runs, if they exercise the CPU hard for any length of time, get thermally limited and the results end up with substantially more variance.

Even things as simple as build times, I've seen vary by 20+%.
https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

Sociomantic, Symmetry and Weka.IO are large very heavy users. Symmetry has supported development with an "Autumn of Code". The backing is much more diverse and its been that way for a long time.

Disclaimer: I contract to Symmetry.
>I know people meme a lot about Go and "not having generics," but I really feel that a lot of the things left out of Go have benefitted it.

Yes, that's why we program in Brainf__k here: It only has the bare essentials and it's so easy to learn.