skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure you could detect that with any old camera sensor, no pulse detection necessary.
> Yeah, sure entourage people to experiment, I agree. Make your own goo, and eat it yourself, fine. But encouraging people to participate in unregulated medical experiments is reckless and negligent.

I'm a harsh critic of soylent, but even I'd be fine with it if they said "try this at your own risk! here's the research we're using. Here's what our critics say."
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Criminal offence carrying prison sentence for many countries, probably including the US.

Who's going to risk it?

EDIT: Here's the global treaty in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention) which links to local laws.

EDIT: The famous example case is of DeCSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS). That's relevant because before DeCSS there wasn't anyway for people running Linux to watch legally bought DVDs.
Patently false. Microsoft are whitelisted according to Google.
and if there is a single flaw in HTML DRM, then the vendors will move away from it anyway because DRM is a constant arms race.

This is a terrible way to build standards
IT´s definitely very snake oilish - in fact - reading his blog posts - the snake oilish tone has been around for a while "I feel my scars disappearing". That said - I do think its an interesting experiment - and if it gets even a few people of the classic - pizza burgers tacos and beer diet that a lot of America and increasingly many parts of the world currently live on - I see no wrong in it. That was his original goal in the first place - to get him off a cheap unhealthy diet - to a cheap healthier diet. The fact that he´s now trying to market it as the ultimate solution is what´s wrong here.
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Wow, an Apple-related story in which the phrase "race to the bottom" can be used correctly, i.e. not to attack free market competition, but in it's original usage for corporate forum-shopping that plays off governments against each other to the detriment of citizens everywhere.
There's other things to look for. Are they driving on the left or right? Is the road dead straight (if so maybe Australia/USA?) Is the road line down the middle yellow (USA and I think SA) or white? etc.
Thanks, when you login you get a menu on left where you can filter your news by topics pretty much like on the new Facebook design.

That's a good point and we were actually thinking about doing that at the beginning, however it could also make Content Publishers very unhappy.
imagine if you had said emacs instead..
This, of course, is not as favorable for viral marketing.
In my original playthrough (before they added duel mode), I moved the StreetView car a little bit, but not much. I didn't realize you could zoom the guess map until someone told me.
I'm very curious about how it calculates the score, but I can't find an explaination. I know nearer is higher.
only - ben and jerrys say theyre selling ice cream and not a cure to everything.
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True. I was thinking of the submitter, though - it's not obvious to me that a court would consider a file uploaded to an anonymous file sharing site is part of the public domain (test: 'so generally accessible that it cannot be regarded as confidential') before it reached the front page of hn.
There is a lot of stroke inducing legacy PHP code out there in the wild. A lot of people have had a really bad experience working on projects that used PHP. The ease of entry allowed flocks of inexperienced software developers to grow PHP projects like mushrooms throughout the world.

I think it's largely bad rep due to the ease of misuse and dodgy frameworks.
Thank you, bjoerns! That is actually a good suggestion and modern screens are wide enough for that. I am afraid that Wordpress won't allow me to do that but will explore it.
98% of the work was done in 1995. All that's left is the other 98%.
It's cookie based. The system tries to put a cookie on your computer to stop you clearing your cookies at the end of the session. It's not meant to ask you to reauthenticate on every login, if you look at the help, it tells you that clearing the cookies is probably responsible.

More bother than its worth to me under those conditions, ought to be Ip based instead and kept server side.
30 year tech companies do exist though. Apple & Microsoft for example.
just off the top of my head - if the nutrient powders in there are contaminated (which isnt impossible - a lot of the things he has in there arent your typical over the counter Centrum - but rather rare metals / their compounds - manufactured in some factory somewhere)
"HTML should be about"; you mean "Internet should be about"; why to stop at DRM? lets create one for text so nobody can copy our news articles; lets create one for pictures so you can't download our precious photos; anyone supporting this is not seeing the gigantic wormhole it will create just for the sake of watching "Arrested Development" in your web browsing devices (BTW, even TV will be more open than Internet because AFAIK they can't restrict what you record from your TV)
Pretty good for a first try, 28172 points. Missed the last one by 600+ miles because I was put in the middle of Minnesota so I just ended up guessing it
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MjgxNzIsInZlc...
Off topic: I know that formula is made up but it made me think of something. How come nobody has fixed the log base 2 vs log base 10 problem of using log on the internet? Probably the CS article vs Math/Physics article is a good inclination but none the less it seems like a problem we should have solved by now.
Makes of cars/trucks are another thing - North America is pretty distinctive.
there arent many alternative to move out of the google's domain. But sooner or later we will all have too as google's privacy policy Sucks... (Source:http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/google-privacy-issues/)
I agree with Rand. It's the duty of the CEO and other executives at any company to maximize return on investment for their shareholders. If Apple executives were to voluntarily increase their tax payments - thereby decreasing profits - they would not be properly executing their office and duties. This is especially true when their competitors choose to maintain the legal advantage.

The entire hearing is a farce and should have been reversed: citizens of the US grilling legislators about why they implemented tax laws so poorly that exploitation of loopholes is common practice. I think many of us have suspicions as to why this is the case.
I personally don't find the promises hard to believe. Losing or maintaining weight is all about energy in/energy out. If you keep a consistent kcal intake controlling weight will be easy. For the cognitive effects it's easy to understand once you realise how taxing it is to digest food. Anyone who has been fasting or been on a lean diet knows that it makes you much more vibrant and sharp.
He even remembers the precise wording of that article that he supposedly read months ago

>PrivCo said forusquare will be out of business by year's end absent raising "massively dilutive" funding.

So he either remembered the precise wording, or he cares so much about defending them that he went out of his way to dig it up and re-read it.
You are right, we all do this. What is missing from this is feedback: how do I know if my design is good enough or what are its pros & cons? (Since often there is no absolute "good".) That is something I am trying to provide: showing two implementations of the same thing, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each in relation to general coding and design principles. Thus it helps to learn not only how to do a particular task and how somebody else has solved it but also to think critically about design and the ability to relate to design principles. At least that is what I hope :)
I don't know if you've looked at the list of stuff on the Pirate Bay recently, but if you have, you know that piracy is rampant and trivial -- and all the DRM in the world hasn't been able to change that.
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but still like every other Big Website they have privacy issues.!!

http://www.bestvpnservice.com/blog/google-internet-privacy-i...
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> I always ask myself, “If I were to double the price (from $0.99 to $1.99), would I lose more than half the sales?”

This isn't very useful on its own; The arithmetic was never the hard part. Predicting your success is.
You could use the proximity sensor when cheating on your partner to know when to hide your lover under the bed.
.. And containerization is unfortunately going the opposite way. Having a single huge morass of code (the Linux kernel) run multiple operating systems at the same time.
I understand not moving around the car and not Googling (and even not rotating though I consider it extreme) -- all that is part of the inherent challenge of finding out where you are from visual information.

But what's the point of not zooming in the guessing map (in the top right)? That's just the interface for giving the answer; and restricting zoom just makes it a pretty poor mouse accuracy game. If you know the exact position, you should be given the interface to mark it exactly.
"It’s a full scale redesign, too. And not just one of those redesigns where the icons get glossier and fonts, bolder."

I think it looks the same but with different colors. From that description I was expecting something completely different.
Seems like the "What operating system are you" quiz needs to be updated. Pretty cool news, congratulations to the team.

I have some spare machine and will give it a go (or try it in a VM first if that's an option).

If anyone feels like writing a technical book some OS design book with the Mach microkernel and GNU/Hurd in general would probably be interesting.
This isn't the view taken by the worlds agribusinesses - they want enhanced shareholder value, NOW, not in 30 years time, not in a century. It's utterly irrational, but the current global stratagem seems to be:

1) Ruin the planet
2) Profit
3) ???
If the rumors that the Xbox One won't power on without the Kinect attached are true, it'll be difficult to convince people to part with their used New Kinects for more interesting purposes.

I do look forward to seeing what can be done with the higher resolution, and especially, the higher field of view. My own application of the old Kinect, home automation, would benefit greatly from a wider FOV. Ditching the tilt motor was a good idea; I have to tell my customers to mount the Kinect without the tilt motor anyway due to stability issues.

I don't look forward to a day when everyone has Fahrenheit 451 full-wall screens (Illumiroom) combined with 1984-style monitoring capabilities (Kinect, PS Eye, smart TVs with built-in cameras). All the awesome things being done with modern technology and machine learning could be done on local CPUs without dialing home. I have to say I'm disappointed, although I'm not sure whether I'm more disappointed by technology companies for centralizing information gathering, or by the fact that my junior high librarian told me to read these books, making me aware of the dystopian possibilities.
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The "Minimalist" chrome extension helps with a lot of these (though not with the horrible new compose window)
Thanks for hard work!
And the fact that it's open source, so I...
However I think there are not necessary in it.
You should to redesign it more simplicity,because some functions make people more confuse
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IMO, there is some market for private self driving cars at almost any price, if it's usable and legal. The minimum volume at which they can be produced, legalized may be too high though for any kind of niche luxury market though.

The path to substantially replacing human driven cars though is (I think) some sort of driverless taxis. The price where driverless taxis take over is probably somewhere around where the cost per km of driverless is lower. That could be pretty high. Assuming other operational costs are similar to regular taxis $150k-$200k for a driverless vehicle that lasts 3-5 years sounds viable.

Driverless cars have been sitting around the edge of our consciousness as "experimental but interesting" for a long time. But, the economic changes they introduce are potentially enormous, wide. I think there's a good chance that privately owned cars become rare, for example. General purpose cars may go away. A golf cart is just fine for going 5-10 miles in urban traffic.

This space is big enough for Google/Ford/IBM sized giants to emerge in. Makers of the cars, makers of the driver, makers of the UI, operators of the taxi companies, who knows what else. Maybe makers of digital roadsigns. Maybe selecting destinations from a screen creates the kind of effect Adwords has had.
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HarfBuzz and ICU are very different things. HarfBuzz is a small library for text shaping (basically, putting font glyphs together to form words, which can be quite complex for some scripts). ICU on the other hand can do pretty much everything that's vaguely related to internationalization. It's quite possible that LO was only using it for text shaping of course.
I would be coding for fun :-) Working in languages and toolchains of my choice (Clojure, f.ex.), helping organizations worth helping (NGOs,...). But that would be only a part-time activity, I would use the other part for stuff I like & never have enough time for - yoga, teaching, ... .
A lot of website has that covered already with super secure JavaScript that prevents right-clicking and text selection.
I'm ashamed for having to google his name but for others like me here's a glimpse:

"Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941; found dead October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Yep, that's the point.

DRM won't stop piracy, but it will make things harder for legit users (my favourite is: DRM requires _whatever_ and Linux is not supported).
There was a Java Ring back in '98:

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/javaring-wearable-computer/

I would imagine much smarter (and nicer looking) devices must be available, or at least possible, these days.
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This is awesome! It would be great to be able to play this with your friends, with every player getting the same set of locations to guess.
It might help if you added the 2001 citation. Knowing the line was spoken by an actively hostile computer makes it even more relevant to the article.
There are two practical problems with microkernels:

(1) Hardware. Some driver locks up your PCI bus. Your whole system grinds to a halt, whether it's a microkernel or not. This could probably be solved by having hardware that doesn't suck, but unfortunately here in the real world we've settled on the cheapest option, PC hardware which does suck.

(2) Division of responsibilities. Some OS structures like the process table are inherently connected to multiple components (memory management, filesystem, etc). Doing process creation or fork in a microkernel results in a flurry of internal messages between the different parts which is hard to reason about and fragile. Minix especially suffered this problem.
also - I´m not sure about the US - but in many other parts of the world you can eat well for 65$ a week anyways (i mean real food - including maybe a meal or 2 out).
Harfbuzz [1] is for text shaping/layout, not unicode support.

1. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/
IMHO the problem is first of all aesthetically, digital rights minimization does not belong into an open standard.

And on the more technical side, the encrypted media extension working draft [1] says itself:

This specification does not define a content protection or Digital Rights Management system. Rather, it defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with such systems[...]

Translation, it is not content without flash, they are adding another API, to interact with a flash like plugin. So it archives precisely nothing compared to flash, except to grow the attack surface of the browser.
Your home insurance will cover damage caused by friends staying over. They won't cover damage caused by customers of your (undeclared) business.
The website doesn't work at the moment. It wasn't caught by Google's cache either. Any mirrors?
Well, in Norway nearly everybody uses "Scrum" but Scrum is not always Scrum. To make it rock, you need a certain mindset - in the team and the company - and culture. It is primarily about values and culture, not processes. Changing culture is hard. Maybe a different process might help with it (if it blends better with its current state) or may be not. The state os SW development in general makes me sad panda, especially after having read Poppendieck's Lean SW development: From Concept to Cash and then looking at real-world project all around.
I think you should probably read the links you post. They are close to claim exactly the contrary of what you say. As the Wikipedia article rightfully points, the difference is far less obvious than you make it seem.

The definition of an interpreter is generally broader than a main loop running instructions one at a time. For example, everyone seem to agree that Python is an interpreted language while python interpreter transforms the source code into an IR before passing that to its main loop. Truth is the line between what is a VM, an interpreter and a compiler is rather fuzzy.

The implementation of a process virtual machine clearly is an interpreter of a bitcode. Now, it's not entirely absurde to consider the couple JIT and VM taken together as an interpreter. Actually, this is clearly encompassed by the third point of the definition of an interpreter provided by Wikipedia : "explicitly execute stored precompiled code[1] made by a compiler which is part of the interpreter system".

To come back to the article discussion, I agree with the previous poster than the expression "source code VM" is kind of meaningless. Actually, the paragraph following is even plain wrong. The Dart VM executes bitcode not source file and Dart is JITed.

In the same way, I find it quite surprising that forty years after Hindley paper, people still confuse type annotated and statically typed but well, c'est la vie.
http://valleypatriot.com/methuen-police-arrest-high-school-s... says:

“We took this very seriously,” Chief Solomon said. “He posted a threat in the form of rap where he mentioned the White House, the Boston Marathon bombing, and said ‘everybody you will see what I am going to do, kill people.”

The word "kill" does not appear at all in this rebuttal. Is the rebuttal being selective in what to rebut, too? Are the police misquoting him? What did he really say? Why does this rebuttal not cover this?
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Fantastic project! My wife and I spent the day making rings for each other here:

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which is highly recommended, but sadly we didn't have the option to add an inductively powered LED lighting element to them :-)
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we shouldn't decide that DRM is evil because it isn't

This isn't exactly an argument.

DRM is software working against its own users. Why should we embrace it?

DRM is necessary to help prevent capsule mass piracy

It doesn't, and even if it did, that end doesn't justify the means.

if it lets me watch a film or tv show without flash or some other junk then I'm all for [it]

I'd rather those who support DRMed media to be inconvenienced; maybe they'll actually stop buying crap and funding the companies that try to push terrible legislation.

And if not, at least I don't get DRM in my software.
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> And for the entire fleet of autonomous cars, the system does not need to be safe. It just needs to be better than humans driving.

I really hope this is true. I really want self-driving cars everywhere, now. Road Traffic accidents kill very many people and this is an example of Google using money and smarts to do good.

But looking at the way people deal with risk makes me wary.

People drive cars all the time even though driving is a bit risky. People don't really understand how good or bad their own driving is. There's a bunch of cognitive biases and rationalisations.

I hope people who are experts in communications are ready to dispel the FUD backlash against self driving cars.
Apple took care of it for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocks_(C_language_extension)
Seriously this, solving the health care problem would free up so many people to start companies and innovate growth, it would be the biggest boom to our economy.
Well they did have Opera Beta with webkit as a separate app in the appstore for quite a while, that's a good solution for not-liking-thus-downgrading issue.

Also, on the Play Store publishing page, there are features for beta and alpha testing, not sure what they do, but I feel they are relevant as well.
> Any time data is sent to your site, check it for injection attacks or password guessing.

That's two classes of exploit out of a very, very long list. The set of things that could possibly be wrong with software that reads HTTP requests out of a tcp socket is legion.
We manage to do just fine right now with browsers simply opting out of supporting certain web standards.
I saw your article before it disappeared from the front page. Nice work.
Maybe that's where all the anti-war protesters went?
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By the time the regulatory hurdles are solved (5-10 years in my opinion) the expensive tech will be 300$.

With so entrenched industry and distrusting public it will be uphill battle.
Sorry, but the thing that reeks of entitlement is Google's abusive "we can pass you from interviewer to interviewer, making you do anything we want for days, and you'll take it because there are plenty more where you came from," hiring practices. If Google thinks they have the power to do what they want to a candidate, and the GP poster thinks he has the power to limit how much of his time he'll offer them, I don't see why he is the only one accused of reeking of entitlement.
I'd be really interested to hear some of the problems, and solutions to those problems, that computer vision has with self driving cars.

It'd also be interesting to hear about the difference between well funded laboratories (Google); Student labs; and commercial products.

It'd make an excellent post for HN if you ever have the time.
I doubt it, he has been dead for 70 years..
link to a 302 page document, cool.

This is why I can't call wikileaks journalism. They're important for journalism, but at least the NYT would point to the offending paragraph.
And one can simply view source to get around that...