skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Do people honestly think this is disproportionate for investigating a home invasion?

The scale of the search[0] is grossly disproportionate, to be sure. The population of the city in question was 60,797+[1] almost ten years ago.

So, we have a wide-net around the house, a period of about six hours requested, and if that main road is a major artery for driving, then we can safely assume (if it's day-time time-frame) that at least a small-to-medium-size portion of the population would've been simply driving by.

Now, for the St. Paul Food Market, they wanted 33 hours' worth of data and that is off of two main drags (it looks like). Given Google's overestimation of its ability to place a device at a location (noted in the article) and the potential of the predominance of the population to have driven in that area (let's say business day versus weekend); then, yeah, that does seem grossly disproportionate for investigating a robbery of a home invasion, and/or markets; especially considering that the markets weren't hit multiple times over that time-frame - they just wanted to see patterns of travel for everyone in the area over that period of time.

>What would have been a better way to investigate this crime?

The original police-work methods they were using, which they admitted in their court-filings as having actually led to the suspects? The confidential informant being chief amond those, yeah?

Touting this method as being a more useful mechanism for investigation, when that was countermanded by the evidence of the events - as told in the article, is disingenuous - at best.

[0] - https://img.apmcdn.org/170e8a92a0f2ddb41b4a415707a8e4db547af...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Prairie,_Minnesota
Well, of course as the mainland develops Hongkong loses its relative weight. This was expected and unavoidable.
Let's not forget that Hongkong was boosted in the first place by people and companies fleeing the communists, but the historical hub was Shanghai.

This does not change anything to my previous comment, though.

> It's not like the UK...

I think the West must understand that colonial times are over. This is a Chinese internal issue.
Hardly punishing. We can no longer use the pool because we resigned gym membership. That's not exactly innovative. The same deal for paying members and non members would be a very unusual association.

It will be total shit because those who most vocally backed Brexit are amongst the first relocating themselves and their businesses. Like Britain's richest Jim Ratcliffe, Dyson etc.
Haha we have the same thing. Guy is so fit, has a great haircut, and an Apple Watch. He seems like the most content man in the world.

This is in Australia where tradespeople often do quite well so it's not uncommon.
I know Nim has some interesting working going on here, https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer

As well as that esolang that appeared a few months ago on the front page. https://github.com/mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language
If it is now, that has not always been the case. Also I invite you to build and link the runtime on a non-apple platform and compare that experience to building a working binary with the Swift Package Manager.
Every time I drag a book file (whatever a format, whatever a source) to Calibre it can only guess the title and the author from the file name (although ebook formats like fb2, epub and mobi usually have this data embedded inside them). It can't even extract the cover (something CoolReader on Android does easily). Then I have to copy-paste ISBN manually and click "download metadata". I have always suspected the feature is there (it seems unreasonable to be missing from such a tool) but doesn't work for some weird reason. I use Calibre 3.39.1 from AUR on Manjaro.
Isn't metalworking pretty lucrative? I think generally you can setup a shop and make a good living.
FYI, on my phone that link takes me to a generic Chrome page saying "You can add new features to Chrome by installing extensions. Visit the Chrome Web Store on your desktop computer...". It would be better to post the blog article (and maybe make a more obvious "get it here" button somewhere in the article for people skimming :))
I didn't really like the place. It places a _huge_ premium on design vs functionality in some sections. I mean, sure, it looks cool, but the cost is away from something this time instead of mutually existing.
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So reneging on an international treaty is OK now? Doesn't inspire confidence that a transition won't make a difference.

It will be a Chinese internal issue after the expiry of the agreed period in 2047.
Reliable low-latency audio is the reason why musicians buy Macs. Linux isn't an option, because the proprietary software we need generally isn't available for Linux. Windows is massively problematic because of the Deferred Procedure Call mechanism - badly written device drivers can steal priority from the audio device driver, causing dropouts and glitches in audio playback and recording. If you're going to use a Windows machine for pro audio use, you really need to buy from a specialist system integrator.

Pro audio users have been loyal Apple customers through thick and thin, but a lot of us have lost faith in Apple's ability or willingness to serve creative professionals. The poor price-to-performance ratio of the trash can Mac Pro was a major source of frustration, especially given the loss of functionality compared to the "cheese grater" Mac Pro; it's really not fit for purpose without spending an extra $1500 on a Sonnet xMac rack kit. The complete lack of hardware updates since 2013 added insult to injury, leading a lot of people to defect to Windows out of sheer desperation. This bug isn't just a nuisance, it strikes at the heart of why musicians continue to pay a serious premium for hardware that often isn't particularly well suited to their needs.

I think Apple are seriously underestimating the risk to their brand of losing creative professionals. The ubiquity of Macs in recording studios and edit suites and on DJ stages said something powerful about the kind of company Apple is and the kind of people who use Macs. It justified the status of Macs as the premium choice for serious creatives. It created an aspirational halo, even if you only really use your computer for web browsing, Google Docs and editing a few photos. Apple are haemorrhaging their most loyal and influential customers, because they don't seem to care about the Mac platform.

That doesn't really matter right now, because they're still selling huge volumes of iPhones at healthy margins, but it could come back to haunt them in a few short years. Chinese smartphone manufacturers are stealing Apple's lunch in emerging markets and making a serious dent in the west; iPhone revenues are declining and it's entirely plausible that the decline could mark the start of a long-term trend. Apple have in effect become a luxury brand that happens to make phones, which has created the existential threat of simply falling out of fashion.
It really feels like recently someone developed a new method to characterize the microbiome, and now people are correlating that meassure with everything like the probability that people eat green m&ms (no correlation) that they eat blue m&ms (no correlation) yellow m&ms (no correlation) have scitzophrenia (slight correlation!). And publish what ever hits a notisable p-value. But it all leaves me skeptical of everything to do with the microbiome.
I'm using Calibre 3.35 on Debian Testing and I have all authors, tags, categories, series, everything automatically imported to my library for many books from many sources. Maybe there's a library dependency missing somewhere? Any debug logs?

I'm not at my main workstation at home, so I cannot compare now, but it's a very strange situation.
I don't think "toxic team culture" is the only way code reviews get frustrating. Other issues include frustrating waiting for reviews to be completed or the flip-side of people being knocked out of flow to do a review because "reviews are top priority". Relatedly, arguments about what the appropriate size is for a reviewable change.

The one alternative that (some) code-review advocates seem willing to accept is XP-style full-time pair programming. But that leaves even less room for individuality and solo accomplishment.
For a reasonable vendor, a 3 year warranty is have a negligible cost. (~5-10% of the price of the system)
I am long overdue for an update and I never got around to making it mobile friendly.
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My girlfriend says it's boring but I'm a still a fan.
https://f5n.org - running since 2011, former websites (going back to 1998) haven't been updated since

Source: https://github.com/winks/f5n.org

Tool: hugo (an older version)

Custom theme: https://github.com/winks/hugo-f5norg
If you have any extra CDs around, those are entertaining (though I'd do it outside for the smoke).
What would you say is the problem with Reference Counting for back-end work?

Maybe it's because I come from a C/C++ background, but declaring a few weak references here and there never felt like much of a hindrance to me.
You may have just ruined all the fun for me.

I'm pronouncing it like "coque" from now on.
Ironically I run my own mail-server, and the majority of incoming spam I receive is routed through gmail.
>the central government hogs most of the power while

This is not true, as most of the day to day life of normal Indians is affected by their local municipal corporation, then district, state and finally Central.

The central government takes up far too much of the mind space of most educated Indians for some reasons, but the poor and middle class who depend far more on local connections consolidate actual power in the local MLA.

> The upper house in parliament
Is effectively a formality check for certain legislation. IF the same bill is sent back to the Upper house of the Centre they have to pass it.

> The courts are temperamental and inconsistent in interpreting the constitution.

This is only the supreme court, and that is their role - the larger malaise is the underfunding and unavailability of people to actually be good judges in the lower courts.

This is what is one of the corner stones of the problems the country faces: Actual timely justice.

This follows up with lack of independence and funding of police - however this will never become a core poll issue because the nation can constantly be distracted by a laundry list of issues which politicians can bring up.

IN general, people worry more about Center when they should be focusing on local elections.

The Government may pass strong Right to Information laws, but implementation is up to the States - and there you can see exactly the power States have.

The over focus on Central elections by citizenry gives state governments the ability to do what they please with impunity.
I actually really like Calibre's UI for nostalgic reasons. The oversized icons remind me a lot of WinZip 98, which was one of the few programs I remember back from when I was 5 years old.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918038

Jest is a Facebook project for testing React. They moved from Flow to Typescript.

https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/7554

Dont want this thread to go OT. But I do think Typescript will be an awesome counterpart to Swift-for-Tensorflow on the ML side.
I don't think comparing 100 line programs is a good benchmark for usability. Most software is much larger and the design choices you have to make for a programming language should favor programs with at least a few thousand lines of code.
In some cases, businesses know consumers are following some heuristic like this, and counter-strategize accordingly (or so I've heard). According to this 2013 blog post[0],

> Restaurants realize that many people won’t order
the least expensive wine (no one wants to look
like a cheapskate!) so they often go for the
second cheapest. That’s exactly why it’s often
the most marked-up bottle on the list.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20131210062034/http://www.urbans...
It's alluded to in the article that judges aren't aware of the size of the geofences they're asked to sign off on, yeah.
This stuff irritates me. Imagine if you read an article titled "why I listen to audio books". Nobody cares. Do whatever works for you.
it has to have good amount of potassium and sodium, if that's the case, it might work.
Funny thing is that even to this day, most AI companies employs algorithms no sophisticated than in this almost 20-year old article.
Funny I look at Linux on the desktop as less and less usable as things like systemd and KDE 4 and whatever version of Gnome that's equally broken.
OBOR may be an overextension, or it may not, it's definitely too early to say. It is definitely ambitious -- and a big risk. More broadly, China just opened its first overseas base (ever, but specifically in Djibouti [1]) so the phase of growth and expansion happening right now is about more than just OBOR. Don't write them off just yet.

What if Hong Kong doesn't want to set up a financing platform for OBOR? I don't understand. You don't think Beijing can find a bank like HSBC, Standard Chartered or Bank of China (Hong Kong) to originate/administer the loans? For now at least, HK remains a rule-of-law jurisdiction with all the freedoms you enjoy. They do walk a narrow path, and upsetting Beijing isn't top of their to-do list.

What do you mean "becoming a fascist capitalistic country"? Have you not been following along after the cultural revolution? :)

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/china-opens-overseas-...
That's the difference though. This isn't a warrant against a person. It's a warrant against "anyone who google recorded as being in an area"
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Oh my god finally! I can't believe this! I've been looking for an app like this forever! I was so surprised at how hard it is to find a decent ebook reader for Ubuntu.

All the desktop or chrome apps I've tried miss crucial obvious functionality, or are so ugly and painful to use they make me want to cry and throw things.

Thank you so much for making this project, it looks amazing, can't wait to try it out!

Edit:

I was unable to install it on ubuntu 18.04 because it requires libgranite5. To fix this I did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:philip.scott/spice-up-daily

sudo apt install libgranite5

Now it works.

Feedback:

This app doesn't allow me to scroll through pages? I can only switch between them with arrow keys? That's a huge bummer, pretty much a dealbreaker for me. Everything else looks great.

Oh, and looks like it completely breaks PDF formatting for me. I love that it adds a dark mode, but it makes them pretty much unreadable. Table of content's broken as well, chapter names replaced with Content #1, Content #2, etc. And some fonts are missing, hard to figure out which, but I can't read some text in the pdf because of this.

Please fix these things, I really wish to use this app!
Maybe the perfection enthusiast should fix the typo in the website blurb ;)
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https://xyrillian.de

My website has mostly two halfs: my podcasts and radio shows (German only), and my blog (English only). I'm starting a second podcast show next week where I visit hackerspaces across Germany, so if any German listeners are interested, keep an eye out for that.

Source code is at https://github.com/majewsky/xyrillian.de - Most parts are autogenerated (e.g. the build process pulls metadata from the podcast audio files to render into the page) using Go scripts and Makefiles.
Couple of years back, I finally decided to document my efforts. I have a thing for coming up with new ideas and troubleshooting, so I thought to myself maybe it's time to share them with others and give back something to the community. And I must say, even though it only hosts just couple of posts by now, starting my blog was probably one of the most satisfying things I'd ever done.

https://hamy.io
The libraries are native code in a similar sense to python being native code. The kernels are native and typically highly optimised but there is a possibility that better optimised kernels can be generated on the fly once the computational graph is known.
>It shouldn't send anything at all if Apple was privacy minded.

You can turn location services off at the device-level, which stops everything from collecting your location data.

You can disallow apps, individually, from having access to your location data, as well; but that requires granual settings that most people aren't aware of and/or can't be arsed to go check every time that they install an app.

If I recall, correctly, apps using the Facebook SDK will still retrieve and push the last known location (yay for pointers...) but that's a problem with the app (and Facebook) moreso than it is with Apple.

So, this was just a long-winded and pointless way to say, you can prevent the data from being sent but, agreed, Apple could do slightly better in this area; however, I think it's a trade-off betwixt absolutely strict-privacy (e.g.: explicit deny until approved) and usability for them.
Yeah, VR with either physical controls or virtual ones with force feedback (hands + arms) would work in a much smaller space / tighter budget. Technology isn't far enough yet though; it needs much higher resolution still, plus the force feedback is not there yet. I'm sure there's plenty of R&D projects in that area though, but, it's likely to remain bespoke / small volume / expensive.
> I have no trouble at all accepting this

That's not how science works. If something is proven and reproducible via the scientific method, it must work(used to make verifiable predictions) whether you accept it or not.

Let's never forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diederik_Stapel . His M.O. was to fabricate results that would be easy for his peers to accept.

And if we take into account all the dangerous pseudo-scientific hype around the gut(leaky gut, cleansings, etc) we should be twice as careful.
> types are propositions

ML and Coq types, yes. Java, C types? Not so much.
Its so realistic! This is taking me back.
Metadata. The same way you might group music files per artist or per album or per genre or in playlists but the filesystem only allows for 1 type of grouping without duplicating the files or some weird shortcut kind of thing. You can group per author or per genre of ebooks or whatever. Granted it's less useful compared to music but it does make sense and I prefer media to be displayed as a library myself.
A gut cleared of bacteria is not a healthy one. The microbes are necessary, and the genetic makeup and relative populations of microbes have some powerful consequences for a person's health. Fecal transplants are an effective treatment for a number of things.
my glorious corporate firewall doesn't allow any traffic other than on ports 80,443
I'm not surprised given Logic's legacy baggage from the days eMagic was an independent company. Everything was stored in an event list, which would try to fit many things into MIDI-like terminology. Not surprised if they tried to quantize parameters for software instruments the way they would for hardware instruments, and this has stayed the case almost two decades later.
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However it seems that people are slowly migrating Calibre to Python 3.

Also looks like any Python3 patch doesn't break the current Calibre build is welcome indeed.
When my grandfather died a few years back, I went to the funeral and one night sat at a table with all the men of my family as we went around lamenting about how we'll miss him and what he wanted out of life. I am the first in my family to go to college, went straight out of HS. Every other member of my family has been extremely blue collar. Miners and factory workers, for generations that's how it was. I wanted something different out of life, and they found happiness doing what they did. it was ultimately more of a means to an end for them. They wanted to provide for their family and the work let them do that.

When the conversation came to me, I didn't know what to say. Here were men who spent 14-16 hrs a day in some of the worst conditions, and that's when they weren't on strike-- there I was, the guy who gets to work from home and sits at a desk all day. Its hard to think of a place where you could feel more alone than at a table with family who share nothing in common with you but DNA.

I love what I do. Well what hasn't been whittled away in the name of efficiency or productivity, but I would consider giving it all up.
>Would people seriously prefer to run a commercial studio and Pro Tools on a windows machine?

Yes. A specialist system integrator can sell you a Windows machine with reliable low-latency audio performance and modern components. A lot of people can make do with a 2013 Mac Pro and don't want to deal with the inconvenience of switching; plenty of others have switched because they simply can't tolerate working on a machine with an Ivy Bridge processor and a maximum of 64GB of RAM.
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Encode it into a SAT instance and use a solver.
> but the Camera app on iOS is extremely responsive

Shutter response time on my Canon bodies is adjustable between slow and fast. Respectively 55 and 36 milliseconds.

I doubt any phone can even wake from sleep in that time.
Swift has operator precedence levels, and you are free to use them for your own operators: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/swift_standa...
> I hope the next computer revolution will untether computers from a sedentary work environment.

I'll leave Bret Victor's website [0] here for anyone interested in continuing this train of thought. Most of his work posted there revolves around this in some way, but just to link to a specific presentation here's Humane Representation of Thought [1].

Bret Victor changed what I think of computation technology's progress and what I expect of it. I'd go as far as to say that his presentations are eye openers.

[0] http://worrydream.com/
[1] https://vimeo.com/115154289
Send the gunboats loaded with opium, then.

The bad faith and thin-veiled racism is really shocking on every topic involving China.
absolutely. I think what's happening is the "let's see what sticks" approach. I'll throw every possible symptom and try to draw correlations in every possible way. We can always come up with a hypothesis later.

Which, while its an effective way to do science when we don't know what we don't know, has to be interpreted with lots of caveats & caution, and should only be considered to be the 1st step in a long, deliberate investigative process. And that doesn't seem to be the case, particularly in how pop-sci articles communicate the results.
Why are you spreading such nonsense?
Sorry for the late reply,

Honestly, we still need more testing.

However, our top 3 tend to usually be Luhn's Heuristic Method, Latent Sentiment Analysis, and TextRank.

On the other hand, we have yet to use a single summary produced solely using SumBasic... I'll need to read into that one more.
Unveiling Keystrokes: A Cache-Based Side-Channel Attack on Graphics Libraries [pdf]
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>> that better optimised kernels can be generated on the fly once the computational graph is known.

Which is already done by python libraries.
According to Zoz in his excellent DEFCON 22 talk "Don't Fuck It Up!"[1] on the difficulties of OPSEC, this type of correlation has been in use for years.

>[2] Matching entry / exit point – we know specifically they look for that, so don’t match the last use and first use of phones, overlap it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1q4Ir2J8P8

[2] http://privacy-pc.com/articles/dont-fuck-it-up-6-opsec-with-...
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