skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feels a bit slow to be called "near perfect" but cool, I always love seeing Mario projects :D
I actually agree with you much to the chagrin of the majority of the board. Clicking a link and hitting a paywall is a bit of a nuisance, and if people are going to submit a link to this site or any other link aggregation site, they should make sure that "everyone" can read it.
You may be correct, but I wouldn't extrapolate from humans. We evolved to walk upright, so running on all fours is not something our structure will be good at.
This is a syntax extension, so it's consuming the tokens directly. It could in fact do that if it wanted to. But it appears that the grammar of the template engine treats bare identifiers as tag names, which is why it uses the nonterminal tokens $if, etc for keywords.
I'm 27 and I have two separate use cases:

1) With my girlfriend we just say hi and see a little bit of each other's daily work lives in each picture

2) With my buddies on inside, fleeting jokes that require the context of a picture and some art work
Care to show the huge attack surface in ChromeOS for example?
Google ATAP's Radar-Based Gesture Technology “Project Soli”
> Of course you can download it from Youtube using something like youtube-dl, but it's not as straightforward.

You can get the 1080p version with "youtube-dl --write-sub https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg". Yes, you want the subs for the funny music descriptions.
> 1. Get rid of the minimum wage. It makes as much sense as rent control... none.

This would only work if we got rid of welfare. Otherwise we are just going to create more government subsidized jobs.

> 4. Set the levels of 2 high enough that citizens can pay their own taxes (both halves of the pension tax) and buy their own benefits (disability, health, life, 401k 'matching', etc.).
...watch the number of entry-level jobs explode and the demand for robotic work tank (like McD's filling sodas with robotics).

I wouldn't call those entry level jobs. There is very little opportunity to grow beyond the entranceway. Why would we want to waste human minds on things robots can do. Robots are our friends. If we had enough in your #2 and taxes covered taking care of people's basic needs, selling of people's precious life wouldn't make the robotics takeover of the menial (and beyond) all that scary.
The next gen do.
1994, just the third year the Top500 list existed. http://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/ According to http://www.cnet.com/products/apple-iphone-6-plus/2/ the iPhone 6 gets 1.3 gigaflops.

Edit: Ah, I thought it looked low! That number is just for the iPhone CPU. I can't find an official number for the GPU but one Linpack run got 1,023 Gflops. That means it would rank in 2004.
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If they have material so when you swing your sword - you actually hit something. Or when you shoot your gun - it provides some kick and feedback as if you were firing a real weapon then I can see this working really, really well.

The audio cues are there - the visual cues are there. Add in some haptic feedback and maybe even smell (ie. make a room full of dead bodies and blood smell rancid) and you've hit every sense but taste. I can easily imagine it would cause a state of presence if done right.

Obviously their graphics will have to be "good enough" (although sadly it won't reach their CGI'd video editing level anytime soon :( )
I read it as the "Build an Auto-Pwner for the Government" contest.
> Nobody in the thread has yet called it what it is: retrowave.

My favourite retrowave right now, and it's so blindingly obviously retrowave you don't even need to know its a thing, is this piece:

Todd Terje - Delorean Dynamite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUOIvT9hzD8

It's a combined tribute to everything great about the 80s DJ scene (and Todd Terry), with a clearly tougue-in-check ironic reference to us here in the future looking back it.

I'm loving it.
"Giving someone work experience is progress for her."

Is it, though? If you spent 8 hours a day pouring soda in to cups would that be progress? We have this absurd fetishization of "work" as though any task performed in exchanged for money is inherently virtuous. Imagine a world where that person is given their wage, but a robot does the job for them. Is that world any worse off?
It's quite fair, year over year is a very normal and usual way of measuring growth. (it helps in that it gets rid of seasonal variations for one, but this is a very minor reason to use it.)
It could be very useful. People may be more willing to share opinions if they know it won't be kept on record forever.
"...But Cuba was never under an embargo because of Mandela and implying that is the purest propaganda..."

???

Are you serious ???

I can't really tell whether you meant that as sarcasm ??? or if you really believe that Mandela wasn't one of the many reasons Cuba is on the list ???

Firstly, we're discussing possible reasons that Cuba was on the terrorism list... not reasons that Cuba was under embargo. So I'm confused by your conflation of the two issues at the outset.

Secondly, I should clarify that I wasn't saying all of the reasons are legitimate, quite the contrary actually. But to imply that ETA, Mandela, etc are not the reasons Cuba was on that list is plainly incorrect.

Lastly, I apologize if your comment was meant as sarcasm. It's difficult to really tell whether people are serious or not on HN these days.
I don't see satire as necessarily being socially or politically driven. It can for example be directed at art itself (which it is here).
Steve Wozniak Explains the Biggest Difference Between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates
Great point !
Automation is coming. We can't stop it. Together with Globalization and various "free" trade agreements, the US worker is ..effed. We are going to have the well-paying STEM jobs, the lawyers, bankers, doctors, therapists, the super low wage unskilled laborers in a race to the bottom, trying to compete with machines, and a huge, empty nothing in the middle between those groups.

And that's going to happen sadly before we reach Star Trek utopia, and there will be large-scale civil unrest, even in the US, within the next 30 years, I'm betting on it.

And let's not even talk about impoverished countries with exploding populations that are already struggling to provide jobs - an endless cycle of regional warfare, an endless Arab Spring.
Apple vans gathering next-gen Maps data, Street View storefronts and 3D images
Even without the Patriot Act, the NSA will keep the data already collected
I was under the impression is was foreign demand for high yield real estate investment vehicles?

I don't know a lot about real estate though.
A fully private market isn't great either. There's a lot of value for the investment community in general to know what the daily value of a given stock is. If you try to get this transparency via off-market transactions, aren't you just recreating the public market?
Thanks for sharing. Must be tough. But Iam sure you'll move onto bigger and better things in the future.
Show HN: 6 Volt 5 Watt Solar Charge Controller for Solar Powered Projects
Humans typically avoid creating the choice between crowds to drive into (by following traffic laws, slowing down when there are obstructions in the street, etc.).

I haven't tried to figure out what the numbers are, but my gut expectation is that vehicles driving into crowds is so rare that there aren't really statistics about it.
And New York
Yes, just like this but with an array of quadcopters that auto-track a target.
Support for mutable/updateable torrents was proposed in BEP-0039 (http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html) and is the basis of how BitTorrent Sync functions.
Silk Road successors: Drug listings on illegal websites
Ask HN: Finding work to pad out my runway
I've got a job I absolutely love but of course, we're running low on funding. I'm not sure how long I can last before I need to move on. What can I do to pad out my runway so that I can stay with my current job as long as humanly possible?
We built this neat little app using our new Push notifications API. It allows you to set up price push notifications on any product sold online, regardless of retailer.
Check it out here: www.semantics3.com/products/push
Guess what movie he just did the soundtrack for!
link to github?
A really bold and fair move would be to pay them comparable to their developers and other staff. Of course not going to happen anytime soon.
The main reason to use "code-based" solid modeling systems is it allows the use of version-control systems. We don't have things so powerful with traditional CAD.
Do you want employment and consumer spending or do you want automation and progress?

They're mostly mutually exclusive, and we'll have to face up to that fact.
Ford Opens Portfolio Of Patented Technologies
I often read how household spending being down is bad, but why is that? Do we need so much stuff? If my wife and I have a one bedroom apartment, ride a bicycle and a scooter to get around, and generally lead a relatively simple life does that make the world a worse place? We do spend money, but it usually goes towards plane tickets to interesting places and going out for a pint or two - things we both enjoy.

I just don't see what's wrong with not buying more crap. Our parents have giant houses, multiple cars, hot tubs, and all sorts of stuff, and that's great for them, but it gets old hearing that our lifestyle is bad for America.
How I lost 3 jobs in 2 weeks
Smartphone and technology adoption is higher than it was in the 2000s. Most new social networks will be adopted faster than Facebook was in the early 2000s. I believe even Pinterest at a point was "growing faster than Facebook."
The links have the pay and average expenses in them. Average pay for a studio is $1200/month, way out of the range a facebook contractor could afford.
That's not Boston Dynamics' Cheetah. This is.[1] This new video is MIT's cheetah. It's good to see MIT doing serious legged locomotion work again. Things stalled out there after Raibert left and Gil Pratt took over. Looks like DARPA is funding MIT, now that Google bought Boston Dynamics and stopped taking DoD contracts.

Not sure why they chose a pronk gait, except that they're doing all straight line work. A gallop has more turn options, but roll control is easier for the pronk. Hopping over an obstacle has been done before, by some of the early MIT planar bipeds.[2]

It took about $125 million in DoD funding to get a usable Big Dog and Atlas. It's quite possible to do a lot more in legged robotics, but it is not yet cheap. It's still not clear if Google will achieve commercial legged robots, or decide to "put more wood behind fewer arrows" again and focus on their core business, advertising. The commercial payoff is a long way ahead.

Academic projects rarely have the funding and staff to get beyond the demo level. You need some big assets, like machine shops and skilled machinists. Note that they're borrowing MIT's gym. To get real work done, you need full time access to your own test area. It's hard to get that on a college campus. The typical academic robotics project is one professor and three grad students.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPanW0QWhA
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFXj81mvInc
Firebase (even without offline persistence) uses a simple last write wins strategy. This will work well with most apps. However, if this is not enough, our security rules allow you to have more complex strategies based on client time, for example. Even without offline it really depends on the kind of conflict resolution you want in your app. For complex apps that require merges we recommend to build something like operational transform on top of Firebase (As an example look at Firepad [1]).

[1] http://www.firepad.io/
A year or two ago I saw my little brother and sister on Snapchat (16 and 15 respectively). I didn't understand it at all. Soon enough I was on it and let me tell you, it is used far more than Instagram and if not more, the same as Whatsapp. It is because you can share real moment of your normal everyday life. They mentioned how on Instagram most of the pictures they see there are uploaded celebrities/funny accounts/etc. Normal people don't have amazing moments to share everyday. Plus, they would be embarrassed to share what they share on Snapchat in any other network (i.e. funny faces, what you cooked, the funny kid on the school bus, your boredom).

I believe they are in unchartered territory thus comparing it to anything else is just a shot in the dark. If you could wave a magic wand and ask for the best way to share moments of your life you would probably get a hologram of your friends to show them that instant of you life that you wanted to share. Snapchat gets closest to this. Moments come and go, not all moments should be forever saved, moments should be only for those you intend to share with, moments should be feel lively (video/images) not text, etc.

Also:
Discovery feature - I give Snapchat so much credit for this. They got the younger demographic watching 'TV' again. Snapchat accommodated the channel these kids are using (mobile) to connect with the big media outlets in a way that they actually consume content. That is, by short clips of < 5-10 minutes.
> It just seemed so obvious and relatively easy to implement

Most new things seem obvious and relatively easy to implement until you try to actually implement them.
Well, my argument is that most cannot save. Relevant amounts, anyway (a grand a year isn't going to really get you anywhere).

Your rebuttal was that the 5th decile earning twice as much surely can, because the 1st decile survive by spending less.

My argument is that the 5th decile are predominantly in higher cost of living areas and end up in roughly the same situation.

But let's just concede and say that they can. No doubt some can - there are people earning median UK wage in the north.

The bottom guys still can't save at all. Do they just not matter? Should 10/20/30/40% of the population be stuck renting for their entire lives? Is that reasonable?

I am not making the claim that a London worker earning double a Preston worker is a problem.

My claim is that people earning far more than that being able to build masses of capital whilst others cannot build capital at all is a problem.

It's not really about the numbers at all; it's more the idea that me "owning" 20 homes and forcing others to labour if they want to live in them is OK.

I dunno. I kind of don't have enough interest in continuing this, I gain nothing from convincing you. I know people who cannot save, many of them, they exist. They aren't intelligent enough to get out of that hole unless they won a lottery or similar. I don't need to convince you that they exist, because I can like, go and visit them. I want to fix that, you seemingly don't, best of luck.
Why is that fair? They don't have the same education (in general), they aren't doing the same job, they don't contribute the same value, etc etc etc.
Track their facebook cookies like the real players do.
Harvard study finds 1 in 4 Harvard grads had no intercourse
> adding a tiny fixed latency is independent of total system bandwidth

Incorrect on both counts.

A) it's not a tiny latency, not compared to the overall system latency in many cases. This is explained in the article. The speed of light isn't getting any faster, whereas communication rates continue to increase. Which means you have more data on the line at once, which brings me to:

B) most data flows are finite - any reliable communications (such as, for instance, anything over TCP, and a good chunk of things over UDP as well), take a certain number of round trips to come up to speed. Which brings me to:

As such, the overall bandwidth of a TCP (or ghetto TCP via any other means - pretty much any reliable protocol suffers from this) connection is held up more by a fixed delay the faster the link is.
I agree with other commenters that sometimes "bad tech" is the only tech remaining on the market, but I'd like to focus away from the invasive surveillance gizmos and point out that sometimes "bad tech" is just that - crappy equipment.

Smartphone market is flooded with bad tech. Yes, you can still buy decent ones - if you pay for the highest-end ones, but available devices have much less capability than they could theoretically have. For instance, were producers to drop sensor market segmentation tactics (you have a phone model A with sensors 1, 2, 5 and an alternative phone B with sensors 2, 4, 6) and equip at least the mid-and-high-end phones with all the sensors, we could treat smartphone as a sensoric platform and develop tools for bigger userbase.

But smartphones ain't that bad; the older technology, however, is. It's hard to buy decent, durable things nowadays - clothes, shoes, tools. Everything is pretty and colorful and has some cool new features, but nothing lasts more than a season of day-to-day use, even though things made decades ago can last a lifetime.

I used to think that maybe military has decent hardware, only to realize they're a money-making machine now, and vendors cheat on them even more.

So I guess the core observation is: as any market matures, it turns into a race to the bottom, and products quickly become as crap as possible but still good enough to make someone buy them.

Is there a solution? I don't know. Custom-made things is one option, but there's less and less businesses doing that for basic things, and I don't see how I could get a custom-made smartphone at a reasonable (< $10k) price.
This mentality has to go. "Because it works" is not a reason to punch your users in the dick. We all agree this is awful and hateful; we should stop doing it for that reason alone, regardless of its purported efficacy. "Because it works" yields the Duggars on TLC and other heinous abuses.
You are correct. I describe AutoCad LT as either "Fisher Price" AutoCAD, or AutoCAD without the useful stuff. Most people that use AutoCAD might as well be using Etch-A-Sketch...
decentralized web interface?
Isn it better to develop native, cross platform app for that?

We have both electron and NW.js now, that should be easy.
Thanks, happy you were not referring to our document! :-)

Sales (Incomes) are clearly equity, with Expenses being contra-equity. Not sure how anyone could come to any other conclusion, but I'll read the article and it'll probably become clear. :-)
I just ran across your thesis a couple days ago while searching on representations for CSG. While I did not read it in detail, the representation seemed strange to me. I couldn't see how it can represent things like perfectly round holes.

BTW I was ray tracing CSG objects for RT chess back in 2001. Here's a pic:http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f282.html
I implemented a primitive called quadratic lathe which took 3 points on a curve and revolved them around the vertical axis as an implicit surface intersected with a slab to limit the vertical span. Most of the chess pieces were created by sketching them on graph paper and putting the profile coordinates into code.

If you want to run it, beware of potential malware from sites that have it. Also, replace the SDL dll in there - somehow a bad version got in our original zip. I may not have source for the game any more, but the renderer has progressed a bit and now supports multithreading.
>> Is there any reason to think that people who were directly or indirectly involved in proposing this challenging are also interested in offensive applications, and chose not to talk about them?

Yes, the competition is run by DARPA.
That I would love. Not only did my colleagues generally have less pay, but less privilege and empowerment too. (They'd labor under an abusive-ass boss while I could determine how I best work.) Pretty rotten system we've got.
Nah, that's too blatant. Have your shirt recognise small movements of your upper and lower arms and shoulders. With practice you should be able to enter reasonable-bandwidth data similar to on a cell phone keyboard without anyone noticing (and without having to use your hands).

...we'll call it 'learning to wear'.
Nobody cares what they think, really. They get quoted because the media has to have something to write about.

I suspect property values would drop if they removed the exemption, which would make a whole lot of people very unhappy.
>The same could be said about the billions of dollars held close to the chest by the oligarchy.

What billions of dollars and what oligarchy?
It's valled double speak (see 1984)
Why aren't you using GitHub?
I would argue a publicly auditable software stack would be a strong alternative to the self audited stack. I run a completely open source OS and run all non open software on a machine I don't trust.

One word: Heartbleed.
I was just thinking about these annoying popups - funny I ran into this thread!

I manage a host file that redirects any site I run across that gives me a popup back to my home page. I refuse to visit these sites - even if the popup is a one-time-only thing (which it isn't for those of us who clear cookies)
One of the usual ways to financial independence is through working in this industry, don't you have a network?
Why You Should Immediately Uninstall Hola
Coding Bootcamp Needs Someone to Start It
Just thought this was kind of funny. Saw this new "Coding Bootcamp" in Boulder and their jobs section where they basically are recruiting someone to...well...start the coding bootcamp for them. See "Managing Director":
http://www.codecraftschool.com/jobs

I kind of thought this was the role of a founder? I am confused!
Updatability does not need to imply mutability. It could be possible to have a torrent with 50 files, and then the torrent is updated with a new file, and a client that has already downloaded the new torrent will only need to download one new file. And another client that still wants the old torrent would still get the same 50 files, but would be able to download from clients that have the new torrent. (Similarly, clients downloading the new torrent could download the first 50 files from clients seeding the old one.) That's updatability without mutability.
That's explicitly called out in the article:

> ...there’s already advanced security features on your phone, contained in the SIM card, which protects the things important to carriers. Vault is designed to be an equivalent, but designed to project a user’s important content.

SIM card is controlled by carrier, and protects carriers' cryptographic interests. The vault is independent of the Secure Element: it user-controlled, and protects user's cryptographic interests.
The Fictional Nuke Film That Won the Oscar for Best Documentary
We are starting to Open Source all the components little by little. You can find the libraries that have already been opened here: https://github.com/amigocloud

There is still a lot more to open up... it will happen within the next few months.
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Though the article mentions a low-pass strategy, it doesn't specify anything about needing a kick. There is a lot of frequency overlap between a kick and say toms, snares, so any percussive element should do.

And if you have no beat in that range, then you'd probably not use the low-pass strategy described there.

I would add that a song must have percussive elements in order to have a "beat" as described by the article. It can have a tempo without a beat (think organ music), but this is called beat detection, not tempo detection.