skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Close. Yes, and spoof.

It is none of the app's business if the "camera" it sees is actually just an animated GIF (in essence).

It is none of the app's business if the "location" information it receives says, Mountain View, California. Wow! Look how many customers live in California. :-P

In short, the app should not even get the yes/no data from the user.
> What's a "normal app" anyway? Did you mean to say "apps I use on a daily basis"? Because of the 17 apps on my home screen, 6 do not have a functional requirement for internet connectivity. I bet for users in emerging markets this ratio might be even higher.

It sounds like you're agreeing with the GP that a normal app (11 of the 17 most used, for you) needs internet access?
Thank god for Prop 13?

Oh jeez. You mean the fact that businesses can sit on commercial properties for more than either of our life times and not pay much more in taxes?

Or the part where a family with a bunch of kids pays less in local property taxes, yet uses public resources more than a single individual who bought their house 5-10 years later?

The idea of Prop 13 has merit, but the disparity it has raised and the hole this state has been dug into, not so much.
As usual in HN, the meat is in the comments. Thanks for the pointers to tastytrade and dough. Great sites.
I have a delta 3d printer and I'm having a hard time imagining how this would work... Do you have an example?
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Here's the thing. Even if GNAA is trolling everyone, GamerGate is a terrible excuse for letting them continue a reign of terror.

Even if there were corruption in game journalism, video game journalism is so meaninglessly inconsequential that it wouldn't countenance the death threats, doxxing and harassment that is being done under it's aegis.

Do you know anybody who makes purchasing decisions based on how high a score a game reviewer gives it? Do you? It just seems unfathomable to me in a world where we have Steam, Twitch, Project Greenlight, Humble Bundle & indie games galore that video game journalism matters enough that it should be destroyed.

It just seems like Gamergate is bullshit from top to bottom, and it's completely mystifying to me why anyone who loves games should want to identify with it.
I think things get a little lost here when you start treating infix operators as special. When talking about creating uniform syntaxes, I think people don't look hard enough at the basic structure of SmallTalk, where operators work mostly like you'd expect, are infix, and are uniform with all other kinds of calls because the convention is always (subject verb object) instead of the lispy (verb object subject). You don't get operator precedence, but I've largely come around to the idea that maybe we should be questioning if it's something we actually need.

Of course that leaves you with the problem of when a verb lacks a subject.
That's wealth. 1% income is $388K. Average wage income of people at the 99th percentile is relevant here, also. To assume that 100% of this person's income is coming from wages is probably a wrong assumption, esp. in this market.
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"What happens when someone wants to schedule a meeting when my wife has dinner ready? I tell them to move it."

I'm curious if when you tell them to move it how you say that and if you give them a reason why?

In other words do you tell them "sorry I can't because that's when I eat dinner with the family" or "sorry I can't I have my kids soccer game" or just "that time doesn't work for me" etc?
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... but you can buy a new SIM to switch carriers if you need to:

> If your Apple SIM becomes dedicated to a specific network and you want to choose from other carrier programs, you can purchase a new Apple SIM from an Apple Retail store.

Better than having to buy a new iPad.
How many of the people who are bashing the paper in this discussion are machine learning experts? Especially the overfitting crowd - looks like emotional attachment to one's favorite topics is not really impacted by said person's overall education and expertise.
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> a fine of $3,500

Are you fucking kidding me? Sounds like it's worth the risk in case you don't get caught. Cost of doing business, baby!
An occulus is just a dual display device (ie 2 cameras video feeds need to be transmitted)

There is no "beam" or magic. Its 2 cameras, 2 video feeds. That's great and exciting if as general public, we have access to those video feeds.
This exists: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
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That possibly works.

But at the same time, I have a feeling that there would be frameworks popping up all over the place for recognizing spoofed settings. Yes, you'd end up with the same thing with an explicit "no" option, but the segment of users choosing "spoof" would presumably be smaller, and as such presumably the gain of an app adding functionality to detect spoofing would be smaller.

Although I personally think that the best option is, given that Android has the app store, have it part of the verification process that unrelated functionality of an app must work when functions are disabled.
Nope. Firefox hide away stuff in about:config for testing purposes generally and expose the setting in the user interface after its been tested enough.

Sounds logical enough to me.
This is also household income, not personal income. Last I checked, the 1% mark for a single guy was roughly $192K/year, and for a household it was about $388K. If his spouse makes an equal amount, he could very well be in the 1%.
Presumably to not include prisoners and such? Jasenovac had more than half a million and it would seem reasonable to separate that from voluntary meetings.
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Nothing clever about it.

I'm just following the Weight Watchers formula, which I've personally seen hundreds of people lose thousands of pounds using.

I've seen people completely shocked they're "allowed" to eat virtually unlimited quantities of salad and fruit while still losing enormous quantities of weight.

I honestly believe the vast majority of people who are struggling to lose weight really have no idea about the different between "quantity of food" and "amount of calories".
Making of is nice, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sRDHO1dCtc&src_vid=32vlOgN_...

Quote from member of the team:

"I'm very surprised you need something like this at all now. Mankind sends a probe into space to catch a comet and land on it, and we need great director, film and actors to convince people this is interesting".
Where in the country are you that you're realizing those kinds of profits?
Amazing how little this was publicized and promoted compared to Baumgartners jump. Undoubtedly because Redbull used FB's jump for marketing, but still a feet like this should have had more media exposure.

On a side note: If the marketing/publicity budget on this was so much lower, and the design was simpler, how much less do you think this cost compared to FB/Redbull Stratos?
I'm curious if anyone who has read (or is familiar with the data structures described in) Purely Functional Data Structures[0] can weigh in on how this persistent vector compares to say, the real time deque which is described to have worst case runtime of O(1) for cons/head/tail/snoc/last/init (along with plenty of other structures which have similar amortized time guarantees, etc.) Do these structures not have practical performance characteristics, or is there another reason a O(log) solution was chosen? Like the other poster mentioned here, its a bit upsetting having read something that rigorously analyzes worst time behavior to have an article hand wave away log32 as "effectively constant time". Especially because amortization is even trickier to consider with persistent data structures since you have to deal with the fact that you may have many operations taking place on your worst case node (several pushes on your edge case base vector, etc). Perhaps these tries actually account for that very elegantly, but I certainly don't know enough to intuit it from what I've seen here.

0. http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Oka...

Edit: PDF version: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf
I'll have to find it a bit later, but i remember reading when Duggan announced the auctions that a plan for remodeling/renovation/etc needs to be set within 6 months. The idea being that you can waive back taxes if you plan on actually doing something with the property other than letting it sit, however I can't remember if it only applied to planned occupancy or across the board...
What? This has nothing to do with Israel or Jews. It was a California company flying in Indians for cheap labor.
that's cool. i knew 'flock' didn't sound right...
> I'm not playing any game when I make an informed decision to vote for what I think is, well, less bad

Sure you are. You're playing the voting game. Your team tries to mass agreement for some candidates, the other team tries to mass agreement for other candidates. This agreement comes with the knowledge that you are handing your autonomy, and your right to complain, off to the winner of the game.

If you lose you have no right to complain. You knew the risks.

>Sure, direct individual action and activism is very helpful, but doesn't replace electing good representatives

Direct action is exactly a replacement for representative action. Action can only ever be one of those two things. Similarly, representation is a replacement for direct action -- if you delegate your power to someone else, you cannot exercise it.

>I think you need to view politics with a bit more nuance, because you're a big part of the problem

I think you need to stop confusing yourself with nuance and realize that you're the problem -- you're handing over your autonomy to these people that are using you to build careers on corruption and subjugation.

Stop confusing yourself with the trees and look at the forest.
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I've seen it in some Clojure books too. "effectively constant","practically O(1)" etc. The funny thing is that this kind of scamming is not necessary at all.
You are ignoring the concept of competition. Housing is not the most competitive market due to restrictions both natural (limited space) and artificial (zoning), but there is still competition.
I believe from reading the article that he planned this in secrecy and the lack of publicity is intentional.
In red is your model whereas in green is the real one, M being the number of parameters.

The technical term for the last one is "overfitting" if I remember correctly. But in the case you have an enormous amount of data, it is unlikely to happen.

It reminds me of this awesome course:
https://www.coursera.org/course/ml

edit: The parent's parent's parent mention overfit for the MIT work, I don't think it'd be the case if you have that amount of data in hands
It's almost as if we're optimized to live in a world where there's a non-zero amount of inbound trouble all the time.
I admit I thought maybe this was one of the numerous hoax news that's been plaguing Facebook lately.

But really? Wow. That definitely came out of left field considering how long Felix' jump was promoted until the jump day.
I've read a couple of articles in the past that linked Facebook and Google to CIA and that's a fair thought given the business that they're in. Of course the NSA and the CIA would like to have access to their data (and most probably they do in one way or another).

That said, doesn't take anything away from Facebook as a service. Facebook adds extreme value to your social life connects you with people that you don't see daily, lets you know about birthdays, events, comments and what not. It's excellent at what it does IMHO and if used properly is really what web-2.0 is all about. I can say that if Zuckerberg didn't invent Facebook in ~ 2004, it would have been invented by now, by someone else because that was what people needed badly to stay connected.

Facebook is just a tool. If you are in the intel business or you are a possible target (e.g. prominent figure of some sort) and fairly young to understand how the internet works, you use FB for PR and nothing else. Maybe not even that.

Every social network can be used for data mining from intelligence agencies. Do most people care? No. Why? Because they don't see any kind of real threat. It doesn't interfere with their lives. The HN crowd is composed mostly by hackers. It's natural for us to see where all this might go wrong, because that's what we do and it's natural for others not to care until the shit hits the fan.

I'm eagerly waiting for her Snowden related movie/documentary.
> They aren't breaking what works in the browser, but they are breaking lots of the toolchains developers already use.

How? I mean, if they deleted JS from Chrome in favor of Dart (but not AtScript, which is a JS superset) it might break toolchains that developers use, but making Dart (with dart2js) and AtScript available doesn't break anything.
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Wait, isn't that self-evident?
I can't find the reference right now, but that feature was present in beta versions of Android 4.3 (?) and removed because it broke certain existing apps.
log_32(2^48) is <= 10. Your computer cannot access anywhere close to 2^48 items.

I appreciate a little pedantry as much as the next guy, but if you can come up with an equally concise way of saying it than "effectively constant" then please do so.
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I found Jiro's son to be the more interesting character. The way he talks about being raised in the shadow of a master and choosing to follow in his father's footsteps is touching.
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Just a stupid stunt IMHO. I am sure they edited out any one who did not respond the way the pranksters wished them to.
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When does this distinction matter? At some point even updating an O(1) vector is going to actually depend on your pager, cache, swap, bignum libraries and other non-O(1) factors, but no one calls out C developers for "lying".
More importantly than the $1.21 is the fact that there's absolutely no reason for them not to continue doing it, and for other companies not to join in. If you don't get caught, you save $41K. If you do get caught, you pay $3.5K. You will rarely get caught.
What does it even mean to be on the inside? Nobody in my family had any experience with computers. My first programming book was a gift for me when I was ten that I asked for (it was a learn C++ in 24 hours book). You can imagine how that turned out with nobody there to help me. I didn't understand what variables were let alone how to add the compiler to the path on windows. The only help I had was that my dad bought me the book and I had a family computer in the living room.

Am I on the inside?
How about this; don't autofocus on search, but listen for key presses at document level, and if the first key is alpha-numeric, then autofocus on search (and prefill what was typed so far). Allows quick search and doesn't break up/down key navigation.
You mean like asbestos insulation and lead paint?
Wow, I had to do a double take when I saw the name. He is a well known SVP at Google, and at least when I was there he was in charge of the majority of engineering. Good for him.
You're assuming the exchanges don't take a cut...
'Beam' is a common synonym for 'transmit'.
Who are these people that exploit their workers in this way? What do they look like? Where is their shame?
> I think you are confusing your personal use case with everybody's use case.

But your "use case" isn't even really solved by permissions. It is solved by OS settings (e.g. turning off cellular data, using the data usage tracker/warning, etc).

> What's a "normal app" anyway? Did you mean to say "apps I use on a daily basis"?

No, I mean the majority of apps that exist already on the Play Store. Apps that require no data at all are the exception not the rule, apps that also don't use the accounts API, or store data to the SD card are exceedingly rare.

> I bet for users in emerging markets this ratio might be even higher.

Perhaps, but permissions don't solve this. If data isn't there then apps need to fall back to something else, that is up the developer to implement.

> For most people, spending money is something that actually matters. Again, just because you don't have metered data, doesn't mean everyone else is in the same situation.

Solved by the data usage tracker, not the internet permission.

> Google manages to sort millions of search results by relevancy, I'm sure they can do the same for app permissions.

They also manage to strip millions of search results of no relevance which is what they should do to permissions of no relevance.
I think anyone serious is using their free API.
Yeah, according to this it would seem like it

> Mr. Eustace said Google had been willing to help with the project but he declined company support, worried that his jump would become a marketing event.

Seems like he did it just because he wanted to do it... And that's awesome.
Does Google really only have 66% search market share?
at 57 years old - dang - what is my excuse...
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It was my intention, but I wasn't very successful. I even tried bulking pretty hard, but the gains were mostly in fat with very small gains in strength/muscle.
Cool post, thanks for sharing. I'm going to share this on reddit.
As a prepaid account I don't have access to the privacy settings. I spent an 1:15 on the phone with Verizon with no luck (no one had any idea what I was talking about). This has huge potential to be abused. It won't take long for companies to link your real name to web traffic and know exactly everything you look at on your phone. Wait until the cable/DSL companies realize the untapped revenue potential.
> "In the US there isn't a legal way to purchase counterfeit goods."

Sure, but the mechanism for combating counterfeiting is the government and law enforcement organizations, not unilateral action by the aggrieved party.

FTDI has no authority - moral or legal - to be bricking devices. This is vigilantism.
That seems perilously close to academic fraud, although there's also the possibility that an ignorant reporter mistook speculative commentary for specific intentions.
So the guy straps himself to balloon, rides straight up for 2 hours, 25 miles high.

So 12.5 mph, a little faster than the average bicycle pace. Straight up.

Works with other engineers in secret for 3 years to knock out a badass space survival suit.

And then, just for us kids, "cut himself loose from the balloon with the aid of a small explosive device . . ." and achieves 800mph+, setting off a "small sonic boom".

I !@%! love engineers.
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Called "App Ops" and here is an article about it (and its removal):
http://pocketnow.com/2013/12/17/app-ops
oh, I'm not arguing that it is zero-sum, just that whether it is or not has absolutely no relevance here.
I think we are mainly in agreement. This was a very informative project.

Now, in my case, I happen to have furthered my distrust of systemd in the process. But that is secondary to just having learned more about what exactly is involved by looking at this.
You can bundle LGPL libraries with proprietary applications quite easily; it just has to be possible for the user to replace it, which is rarely a problem because the usual situation is that your proprietary code sits "above" the LGPL library.

But reportedly Apple does not allow LGPL in its app store for some reason.
Unity has negotiated a license with Novell. Now they would have to do it again with Xamarin for the newer version of Mono. But we don't know if Unity was really nice to the Mono guys when Novell pushed out what would quickly become Xamarin.
As always, if it were only money things would be simpler. But if there is some beef things will drag.

Plus, Unity has forked Mono and they contribute to their own internal version. At the same time they are working hard on their own proprietary il2cpp (to export to C++).
The writing is clear: they will drag things as long as possible with using their old version of Mono until they are able to switch to il2cpp.

My personal opinion is that Xamarin guys are better at Mono and that UE4 coupled w. Mono/C# might put quite a bit of pressure on Unity.
That's more or less what I meant by "priority graph" in the article: priority is defined using a directed acyclic graph. In principle, yes, you could have a way to add new nodes in the graph; you don't really expect n to be large in this case.

Parsing wouldn't necessarily be very complicated. An operator precedence grammar[1] can be fully implemented in about 50 lines of code. If you run a simple sequential algorithm, completed expressions could be executed immediately and could modify the precedence matrix dynamically. You do lose, however, the option of parallel parsing.

There's an idea I am toying with, though, which is to split source files in "zones". A separator, say, "=====", would act as a hard delimiter for parts of the file. The first part could define the syntax of the second part, etc.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator-precedence_grammar
> "Mr. Eustace cut himself loose from the balloon with the aid of a small explosive device and plummeted toward the earth at a speeds that peaked at more than 800 miles per hour, setting off a small sonic boom heard by observers on the ground."

I was under the impression that the "faster than the speed of sound" thing was technically deceptive, since it used the speed of sound at sea-level but they were only doing that many miles up where the speed of sound was much higher. Terminal velocity should always be lower than the speed of sound, is my thinking here. If that is the case, then I wouldn't expect a sonic boom.

Is it actually the case that they have enough momentum to continue to fall that fast as they enter the denser atmosphere?
Different parts of it are in different shape. There's also the utter bankruptcy that means someone's gonna get squeezed really hard sometime soon.
Knox is a marketing initiative as much as a technical one.
The key assumption, I think, is here:

> Among the top 10,000 sites that show third-party capable advertising, we find that typically 15% of users visit the site at least 10 times per month. If one-fourth of such loyal users ultimately subscribe to the site, we estimate that a monthly fee of $2 would generate revenue comparable to that earned from third-party capable advertising, based on current ad rates.
I hope it comes to Netflix or has some other streaming option eventually. I really, really want to see it, but I'd rather not go to a theater.
$5. Not much but not insignificant. I'd rather AT&T just not lock it.

Edit: I thought I had read $5, but now I can't find that source, so who knows.
Mean is over $100k now: according to the 2012 American Community Survey estimate [1], mean household income in Redmond is $112k, and median is $96k. Redmond is an unusually wealthy suburb, though. The median household income for Seattle is $63k.

[1] There doesn't seem to be a way to link the table directly, but you can search at http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtm... and then click "Income" on the left.