skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We never have enough outlets, and it is a good thing mandating enough of them in new constructions.

In fact, at least in France, where I live, it is a common annoyance in old houses: not enough outlet. Some people add them later on, and it is not always pretty... or safe. There is now rules mandating a minimum of outlets and light fixtures for new constructions, and it is a good thing.

Electric car or not, a high enough amperage outlet is good to have. And you have to think long term too. Electric cars are mostly luxury vehicles now, but things are evolving. And consider that the next owner may have an electric car if you ever want to sell your house.

Of course, you can install the outlet later, but generally, doing things later in a house is a huge pain in the ass. For example, you want to drill holes and make a mess before painting and furnishing.

These regulations actually make things cheaper, because you don't have to rebuild things later.
> The 16th amendment

Which was (to make the point I think you are making explicit) at least an actual amendment to the Constitution, the way changes like that are supposed to be done. One can argue about whether it was prudent policy, but at least it was using the mechanism for change that the Framers explicitly provided.
It's even more complicated in Philadelphia. Most of the old row houses do share a wall, which leads to a quirk if you buy and tear down one house in a row: you can't reattach to the existing wall.

Your new house just lost several inches of width, for having to build a new exterior wall, even if it buts up right against the existing wall. (Source: a realtor friend in Philadelphia)
If you desperately want to learn to code, how can you possibly be upset by having no work responsibilities? This is the opportunity of a lifetime to learn it. If not now, when?
Is there an end here? Just google "optical illusion photos" or something similar.
Removed because interpreted as nationalistic arguments. But really comment on poor media reporting.
This one is awesome too!

Thank you for sharing this!
Harbour Air’s all-electric seaplane makes its first flight
I think the scope of that fire is better attributed to: the police dropped a bomb from a police helicopter on the home where people were living, and it was a poor neighborhood that may not have had firewalls between dwellings. I've seen fires there where the shared walls are brick, and those firewalls do work.
Yeah cuz what we need is more cameras installed by the gov invading our privacy. You think they should implement facial recognition on them too? Don't leave values in your car easy as that ....
The standard split YouTube does with their creators is 55% to the creator and 45% to YouTube. I believe they would use the same split for YouTube membership revenue.
Measure the signal strength near each car. When the signal strength peeks, that's the car you want.
Can someone give context to this please? It leads to an image editor but no explanation of how a founder is coming back to rewrite flash.
Docs for building the tiles yourself are here [0,1]. It's worked really well for me so far. If you want a visual example of self hosted tiles, you can check out my (in progress) website [2]. The tiles are all hosted statically in S3 with cloudflare as a proxy, so it was pretty cheap.

[0]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/REA...
[1]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUI...
[2]: https://nst.guide
Triangulation is the wrong term for this, but the location of cars and devices is sparse enough that RSSI [1] should suffice.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_signal_strength_indic...
No. Courageous!
If the private key is inside of the note and stays the same when it changes hands, how do I know you did not make a copy of it when you created the note?
So you just repeated the same argument I replied to, without adding anything new. It absolutely does not follow to me that the people who could and would pay for an ad-free experience are the most valuable to advertisers. As I pointed out, I am one of those people, and I expect I am worth nearly nothing to advertisers. Sure, there's certainly a subset of the would/could crowd who click on ads like crazy and buy a bunch of crap, but is that in the majority? I wouldn't think so.

And besides, there's always a number that works out to a break-even point. Maybe it's above $25/yr, but suggesting it's as high as $1000/yr is absurd. Even if it's $100/yr, I'd still bite (not for FB, but for a site I'd actually get use out of to the degree that many people do with FB). Sure, that further reduces the pool of people who could/would pay, but it'd still be an available option for some people.
That's a lot of stuff in the security world. Hypotheticals get spun into "hackers are doing this now!" when in the real world that almost never happens. I have to talk my clients off of ledges constantly and build security solutions for threats that aren't in the least bit real because of some nonsense reported in CIO Magazine.
I dont think anyone without insider info can tell.

Platform risk is a serious problem to bet your startup on
This doesn't break the ad industry at all, it just obfuscates the process. Like, how do you narrow the list of 300 watchmakers down to 5? How does one watchmaker establish a reputation to allow him to be successful that doesn't lead to recreating the ad industry?

The only way to get rid of advertising is to just commoditize everything, which is what communism aims to do.
This looks like a nice dataset, but as someone who works in an adjacent field (ML on text) it doesn't seem as revolutionary as it is being presented as.

When a model is trained on ImageNet the training dataset is (usually) enlarged by doing artificial image augmentation. This does things like rotate, skew, crop and recolor the images so the model understands what the object can look like.

This dataset appears to find angles of objects that are difficult to reproduce using this process.

That is useful, but I can think of two ways to solve this pretty easily that would be achievable and would make a good project for a undergrad or Masters student.

1) Acquire 3D models of each of the object classes, render them at multiple angles in Unreal (or similar) and augment the ImageNet dataset with these images

2) Assuming you want to use the whole ObjectNet dataset as a test set, follow their dataset construction process using Mechanical Turk, and train on that data.

I bet either of these processes would take back 20-30% of the 45% performance drop very easily, and I bet the ones left would be the ones that humans have a lot of trouble identifying.
I just became familiar with the Alpine base images.

Curious to know what the benefit conferred by it being 'glibc-based' is exactly?
Ted Selker, who developed the Trackpoint at IBM Almaden Research Lab, always calls it the "Joy Button", but IBM just wouldn't go with that. But at least they made it red (thanks to industrial designer Richard Sapper)!

TrackPoint (2011) (microsoft.com) [Buxton Collection]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9437780

https://www.microsoft.com/buxtoncollection/detail.aspx?id=60

Some stuff I wrote about the Trackpoint and relative input devices in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340403

>Input devices should allow users to configure a velocity mapping curve (which could be negative to reverse the motion). X-Widows had a crude threshold-based mouse acceleration scheme, but it's better to have an arbitrary curve, like the TrackPoint uses, that can be optimized for the particular user, input device, screen size, and scrolling or pointing task at hand.

>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration

>One of the patented (but probably expired by now) aspects of the Trackpoint is that it has a very highly refined pressure=>cursor speed transfer function, that has a couple of plateaus in it that map a wide range of pressures to one slow or fast but constant speed. The slow speed notch is good for precise predictable fine positioning, and the fast speed notch is tuned to be just below eye tracking speed, so you don't lose sight of the cursor. But you can push even harder than the fast plateau to go above the eye tracking plateau and flick the cursor really fast if you want, or push even lighter than the slow plateau, for super fine positioning. (The TrackPoint sensor is outrageously more sensitive than it needs to be, so it can sense very soft touches, or even your breath blowing on it.)

Ted Selker demonstrated an early version of the "pointing stick" in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhnlaUxsL8

Ted always reminds me of another distinguished "Button Man": Mr. Lossoff from Nero Wolfe's "Mother Hunt". Those Button Men can be pretty intense!

https://youtu.be/UBOG5556_0g?t=12m5s
Decades ago, computer vision was primarily thought of as a kind of inverse graphics, the opposite of rendering: image goes in, 3D shapes with material properties and lighting properties go out. Of course 3D reconstruction is still a huge thing, but object recognition split off onto a different path with the realization that "superficial", 2D-based features (like SIFT and HOG) work very well for recognizing image content, when combined with powerful classifiers and regressors of the time (like the SVM). It was common for lecturers to say that "You may think we need complicated internal 3D representations of everything, but another approach seems more fruitful: ..." Nowadays there's a lot of buzz around merging the two branches back together to unify explicit 3D geometric reasoning and 3D modeling with deep learning.

I think humans use both strategies. Sometimes we really rely on superficial visual information, like yellow/black stripes -> time to get away! No need to first perfectly match the visual input to a mental tiger model rotated at the correct orientation. I think split-second recognition is usually like this. Or perhaps we use different strategies for different objects, I could imagine for example that facial recognition in the brain is more 2D-feature based pattern matching, rather than 3D reconstruction.
I thought the same until he came and did a comic show/talk about addiction (for a local charity). He is incredibly bright, very interesting to listen to, a great story teller, far from full of himself, and yeah.. he's a great comedian (him being typecast as a drunk/high idiot in mainstream movies didn't do him justice.. he's been sober 17 years)

show/talk about addiction (for a local charity).
A very cheap way to appear to be holding yourself accountable, that has been used since the dawn of civilization, is to offer a scapegoat as a sacrifice to the gods, then you can carry on as usual.

What incentive is there for this company to continue to behave, now that you have been pacified with this token gesture? Laws are stronger incentives because even though you still can't see what the company is doing, they are a real deterrent. Because the company knows that a disgruntled employee might one day blow the whistle if they carry on as before...
One of my first memories as a child in the early 80s was a conversation in the school playing ground about VHS players that could automatically skip adverts. We thought the idea was so awesome
> Highly recommend YC startup school.

+1. YC partners usually say that startupschool is pretty much what YC is but without the cohort dynamics, demo-days, and office hours. Plus, it's free. And to make the deal ridiculous, on top of the cloud credits ($10k on DO, $3k on GCP and AWS), they grant no-strings-attached $15k to startups they think are promising.
>> Whats the mcap of USD?

Start here https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=CURRSL,

and here

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2014/09/how-much-money-is-th...

The currency component of USD doubles every 10 years.
Japan is a fairly cash heavy developed nation. Likewise, the majority transactions under $25 in many countries are still conducted using cash. We don't necessarily expect people to revert to using cash; rather, Kong is a means of handling cryptocurrency that's vastly easier to understand as an introduction to cryptocurrency.

The usability problems are also a feature -- if Kong is burned, stolen or otherwise destroyed, the value is lost forever. Billions of people understand that's how cash functions and they take measures to secure it.
Building Your First Machine Learning Solution Is at Pluralsight
Having needed to build a 25GB container for production, I'm all for containers being as small as possible :) For the curious, we had a business case that required in cluster file storage with an AWS S3 compatible API which was better than the alternative options at the moment.

I learned a lot about how to keep the container image to "only" 25 GB. I had to download files into the container, start Minio (the object store) at build time, upload the files to Minio to generate some needed metadata, and then delete the downloaded copy of the file. All of this on a build server that had 80gb of storage. I tell myself I have embedded storage at scale :)
This seems to be more of an ego thing to me, personally I don't really identify with operating systems but do have a strong preference to supporting opensource vs proprietary software and hardware.

So I suppose that would make me a linux zealot to some degree, but not to the amount of some people that feel the need to point out they use linux as if that means they are somehow better than the common M$ or IOS user.

A similar attitude was also prevalent back in the 90s when artists and musicians all thought apple systems were much better for creative people and were willing to pay a premium for that hardware.
This isn't fun anymore (2017)
Intelligent Tracking Prevention and content blockers aren't the same thing though. I don't know if ITP runs for WKWebView but I really hope so.
> We don't have a generally recognized doctor-patient privilege in US federal law.

You are mistaken.

While currently under assault, Roe v. Wade is the paradigmatic case for the recognition of doctor-patient confidentiality (i.e. "privilege") by the Federal government.

> The fundamental right to privacy, guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution, protects against unwarranted invasions of privacy by federal or state entities, or arms thereof. As early as in Roe v. Wade, 410 U. S. 113 (1973), the U. S. Supreme Court acknowledged that the doctor-patient relationship is one which evokes constitutional rights of privacy. [0]

[0] https://healthcare.uslegal.com/doctor-patient-confidentialit...
Remvoing the Next Generation of Android Malware from Your Device
Very unethical, but pretty brilliant.
Funnily enough, I've had a ton of UI problems with Apple's new bug report tool (https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/). Depending on your screen resolution/window size, it can be impossible to submit a bug report using Firefox or the Android version of Chrome.
Absolutely. In fact make sure to mention which Guitar Oro formats as they've got so many and it's irritating to have to keep track of them all.
Yes. For taking money/profiting. They didn't do it just it by 'mistake', or by incompetence.

How do you think mafia operates in Italy? They infiltrate their solders in every part of the government (especially local government), or even private companies where they have interests.

If they can't, then they bribe them.
Just like cash.

So if you use a 500 Kong note to someone for a 10 Kong item, they will have to make 490 Kong in change. 4x 100 Kong notes, 1x 50 Kong note and 2x 20 Kong notes...etc.
What's your source for this claim?
They probably also payed for it I imagine. Something like this rarely comes for free.
> And then most of the benefits of that freedom were captured by employers through stagnating wages and landlords through skyrocketing rent and real estate prices.

Don't forget the gub'ment gets its cut too!
Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, but thank you for correcting me so I don't repeat it.

Yeah, absolutely, it wasn't called Startup News before for nothing. Was more tongue in cheek but hard to transmit that fully I guess.
This and don't overly tint your windows. My friends with tinted windows have suffered far more break ins in my experience. Even if there was nothing to steal it gave the impression of hiding something. Same thing goes for stickers that advertise products you've bought that might be in the car.
I have a couple open source repos for generating hillshade and contours (raster and vector, respectively) that I use with my self hosted tiles at nst.guide. The data sources I'm using are US only, though SRTM is a common choice for international Digital Elevation Models.

[0]: https://github.com/nst-guide/hillshade
[1]: https://github.com/nst-guide/contours
Makes sense - thanks!
OpenWorld Moves from SF to Las Vegas due to Expense, Street Conditions
When I worked in commercial real estate shortly before the 08 crash, a moderately large local insurance firm rented out an entire floor of a downtown office building as a PARC labs-like play. The employees seemed to spend most of their time shooting each other with nerf darts. Company was dragged down by the crisis a year later and they all had to get real jobs.
I am not sure this is true. Maybe 25% overlap. Going to college allowed one to build a network. This network is what provided most of the value over time.

When in the workforce one can pick up a skill/s, from a technical institutes or college extension programs. These programs focus directly on educating for an area focus with relevant industry experience and problem sets.
This is a bit more than the article alleges. Reading over the lawsuit, as a high ranking employee, he had access to employee records including salary, bonuses and RSUs, just the type of information he could use to leverage recruits at Apple to come work for him.

Also as a high ranking employee he had access to not only Apple's proprietary information about chips, he also knew about corporate strategy and future business plans. His business plans included designing chips that he knew Apple was planning to use in the future and could undercut the pricing of other competitors.
My very favorite part is "Conslusion: Humans suck at security and data protection. ... "
Fitting in additional breakers is not usually a problem and adding an expansion panel isn't either.

If the supply from the transformer isn't enough, then I don't see a regulation requiring a 220v in your garage affecting that. Whether it's new or an an upgrade later, you are going to have the same problem.
Originally VR was the whole idea, but for now I am focused on finishing up the Windows desktop alpha version and getting some kind of interest from other programmers or users. Going to do another release within a few weeks.
If I can see any evidence of maybe 1-5 people out of the billions on the planet playing around with it, that may be enough encouragement to get into the VR stuff. So far there is no certain evidence that anyone other than my brother launched the program.
Mostly compatibility. GNU's libc and Alpine's libc implementation should match the same ABI but might not be 100% the same
What certifications are good to have and worth my time perusing?
What certifications are good to have and worth my time perusing? I am looking to add such things to my resume to make it stand out. I am a software engineer with experience in C#. I am also interested in JavaScript Frameworks and SQL.

PluralSight has come recommendations, but I want to know what YOU think. I am not here to advertise for PluralSight and, besides, I do not agree with what they recommend since I have never heard of some of the technologies that they mention.

Here is my opinion. First and foremost I think should be JavaScript as far as important languages to master. What sort of certifications are there for demonstrating knowledge of JavaScript. My next post I am going to make is going to be asking what JavaScript books or instructional sources would you recommend.

For fun, I have had a look at what Plural Site and Udemy has to offer. I ran a search on Udemy for "Certification" There seems to be a lot of practice certicationi exams for "Scrun Master". I did not konw that was even a thing. Is it?

Speaking of Udemy: maybe I should just take a few corses there and put on my resume that I took the course. I wonder if Udemy offers some sort of verification that one takes a course.
Be careful, it's only the priming-related chapter (called 'The Associative Machine' in the book) that put "too much faith in underpowered studies". Not the entire book!

Take six months to slow-read it. The book is a synthesis of forty years of Kahneman's research and his collaboration with his late colleague, Tversky. A range of topics are covered; it still absolutely merits reading.
"Berlingske has learnt that Ambassador Feng Tie made it clear in two meetings on 11 November - first with the Faroese foreign minister, Jenis av Rana, and later the same day with the Faroese finance minister, Jørgen Niclasen, and the islands' lagmand, or prime minister, Bárður Nielsen – that if the Faroese telecoms operator Føroya Tele agreed to let Huawei build the 5G network, all doors would be open to a free trade agreement between China and the Faroese Islands.

He also stated that China would not enter into such a trade agreement if Huawei did not get the contract. According to Berlingske's information, the Chinese ambassador is said to have been »very forceful« in his statements to the Faroese top officials."

So is there currently a Free Trade Agreement between China and the Faroes?
I just finished Steve Brusatte's 'The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs' yesterday and found it to be very engaging. As well as detailing it's namesake, it also introduces many of the tools and methodologies that are used by paleontologists to come to the conclusions about dinosaurs that are in the book.

It also has a great "Notes on sources" chapter at the end of the book that breaks down the authour's sources for each chapter in the book.
It’s better if you’re not stuck next to them.

SROs are havens for drug addicts and prostitution, with a mix of indigent elderly. It’s incredible that they would be put forth as a cure for a social ill.

You know what would help these cost problems? Incentivize companies to place workers in Cincinnati or Harrisburg instead of only working in 5 cities.

IBM is the old days used to be able to rule the industry from places like Binghamton, NY and Minneapolis. The current scenario is ridiculous.
Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. We have building regulations because buildings before regulations were dangerous or unusable to such a degree that citizens banded together to outlaw such buildings in the future. Communities don't want homes built in their neighborhoods which lack plumbing or electricity.

Also, we don't build housing for the poor, we build housing for the wealthy and middle class, which later becomes available to the poor due to depreciation. I live in a city where literal mansions have been carved up into apartment buildings over the years and where poor people live in Italianate apartments with beautiful stonework.
How about more preventive measures rather than just reactionary ones? Maybe stronger security measures that make it much harder if not physically impossible for one person to do much damage in the first place?

As for prosecution (whether civil or criminal) - I don't know, if there's a law that can enforce it, should that not be on the table? And if there isn't, then perhaps there should be?
I keep reporting a scammy outdoor gear site, and it keeps appearing in my FB ads.

FB is a dumpster fire.
Atlassian requires it for Jira (& other bits of their crap) logins to work.
In this case accountability would have involved periodically reviewing and catching banned accounts that have been reviewed and making sure they had a valid reason to be revived.