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How well are you able to handle live speaker diarization? I've been tinkering with building similar solutions, but unless you have previously labeled speakers things tend to go haywire once you have multiple speakers + crosstalk.

I ran this tool and found a trace that I was infected (malware detected in CrashReporter.plist). Any clue what I should be doing, if anything, to address this?

As an NYU Stern MBA, I can tell you that the Human Rights courses definitely have a weird vibe. It often felt like I was being talked out of business world...

This looks great! I use Evernote Web Clipper but spend a lot of time adding context/information/screenshots manually, this would save me a ton of time. I requested access to Rumin and will definitely try swapping this into my workflow.

I've had the same thought. When you vote the system can generate "duress" key for other candidates on the ballot. So you can technically "prove" you voted for anyone, so only you can verify which key is real.

You may think this is absurd, but it isn't a huge stretch from Amazon buying Twitch or Google buying YouTube. Oracle's management might be looking to buy a very potent "independent" anchor customer of Oracle Cloud.

"your characterization of Damore is low effort and more or less completely wrong".

Your characterization of Damore is equally low effort. The memo is not simply a "relatively straightfoward review of standard Biology and Psychology research". Even if I were to agree that those parts of it were non-controversial, those parts of it are not the point or intention of the memo.

You are completely ignoring the arguments Damore actually makes, that were built on faulty premises and selected studies that validate his worldview. Some of his statements might be non-controversial in isolation, but have been constructed to build a specific narrative about diversity and inclusion. You are also completely ignoring the context in which this memo was distributed, surfaced, and the channels through which it was ultimately publicized.

Damore clearly had an agenda and his own bias against what he perceived as PC-culture at Google. Trying to frame him as some neutral observer of the behavioral psychology of Googlers is ignorant, if not disingenuous.

Another way the movie Starship Troopers would predict the Iraq War.

Many WSBers have been investigated, myself included.

Vidi | Software Engineer | NYC | REMOTE | https://vidi.is/

Well capitalized seed-stage startup building a social streaming platform for virtual meetups (think Twitch combined with Discord/Zoom/Houseparty). Looking for front-end developers with experience building React and React Native apps, and back-end developers with experience working with HTML5 streaming video and WebRTC.

If interested, email me with your resume at mike@vidi.is

More likely someone created a trial account using that email address with a fake/stolen payment method.

I've worked on JCDecaux smart signage. The camera is used for analytics purposes using computer vision (people counting, attentiveness, demographic data, dwell times, etc.). Nothing is recorded. In some cases, processing even happens at the edge.

Correct - See "big bath" accounting.

Lots of factors contribute to our "obesogenic environment", and it isn't quite as simple as pinning it down on any particular food, habit or practice. I recently read this paper on the "ecology" of obesity and I thought it provided a fairly good assessment of this viewpoint:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2127317/pdf/928...

I feel like you understand my digital hoarding better than most. Would love to contribute in any way I can to this project (financial or my own sweat). Let me know if you are looking for help.

What about the right to appeal / speak to a human arbiter? If you get banned from a major service like Google or Facebook or Amazon it can have major ramifications on your life.

Zuckerberg has successfully shifted the discourse to a discussion about free speech, but I don't think that free speech is under attack here.

I don't care if Trump and pro-Trump supporters or organizations want to post lies on their own feed. But if Facebook is getting PAID for political ADVERTISING, that gives them a moral responsibility to regulate that content. If they want to abdicate that responsibility, then I think the government has an interest in preventing the corruption or the appearance of corruption in our elections, so reasonable restrictions/regulations on political advertising on social networks should be considered.

Echoing some of the other comments on this story, we've reached a point where the marginal return on value for upgrading your phone is very low at the moment. From a design perspective, the thin bezelless/buttonless slate makes it difficult to differentiate your product. The apps you use will be the same and will more or less run the same, since mobile applications are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU. Any improvements in camera quality are almost imperceptible. Same with screen/display quality. What is the incentive to upgrade?

It is possible that the "smartphone" form factor has become a commodity and the market is overly saturated with products. I think we won't see another consumer electronics explosion until other form factors start to become more ubiquitous (smartwatch, smart AR/VR HMDs, actually smart TVs, smart speakers, smart automobile infotainment, etc.). Specifically, I think smart HMDs are going to be the future once chipset and battery technology are advanced enough to make them sexy.

Where did you learn this? I'm not sure how that would work given the hydrant needs to connect to the fire pump/hose on the truck, which would be located on the street?

IIRC Amazon has a perks program for their high performing employees called Swag bucks which can be used to purchase prime and shop at Amazon :).

I think a lot of technologists and cryptocurrency advocates conflate a few different concepts - A "digital currency", a "decentralized ledger" (blockchain), and "trustless consensus". Technologies like Bitcoin combine all 3, but you don't necessarily need to combine them.

I see WalmartCoin and Libra as "digital corporate currencies" which will compete with digital FIAT currencies. This already exists to an extent, for example people spend and trade Amazon gift cards because they are fungible and redeemable anywhere. Or people buying Steam wallet funds with their USD. Or people buying pre-loaded Amex gift cards?

Can we just think about Libra et al. as alternatives to fiat currencies? Or as a "digital wallet" / "gift card" you can spend anywhere?

What is the difference between me having a Libra wallet with $100 that I can spend at participating merchants, vs. me having a $100 prepaid Amex giftcard that I can spend at participating merchants? The only real difference is now I can actually transfer "my" money to others.

I've been looking for a "FOSS" phone that is based purely on AOSP. I don't want a custom ROM, Play Store, cloud, or to have to create any accounts or sign into anything. I just want a simple Android phone with decent specs that I can install APKs on. Does this exist at all? Or do I have to buy/pay for a "full" Android phone and reflash it?

Would love an early access code :)

It's a cool concept. Still a bit buggy + slow, particularly when your list tree gets complex, but great stuff for a 2 week MVP.

To be more than a toy / become a daily driver, it would be nice if this worked with existing data sources (sync todo lists with Google, Outlook, etc.).

I agree. It's not like we have some sort of magic communication system that can be used to send and receive information. It would take multiple days for a raven to fly from the USA to Canada to France.

"Flying car" seems like a misnomer. It doesn't even drive on roads? Am I missing something or is this just an ultralight multirotor aircraft?

Maybe someone that works at Cellebrite might be willing to throw you a bone?

The Islamic conquest of Iran happened in the late 7th century. The aforementioned remains were probably from the 9th/10th century. However, in that time there were still many Zoroastrians, Jews and Christians in Iran. I agree that the existence of Persian remains does not necessitate that there were Muslim vikings.

I feel like it was a missed opportunity not making this a mixed reality headset. VR is great for completely immersive experiences but otherwise becomes a nuisance. Problems I've had with VR:

1) Audiovisual Isolation. With immersive VR you are unable to interact with the real world and often unable to see or here what is going on around you. It always feels creepy to me to put on my VIVE and not be aware that someone has walked into my room or has been knocking on my door.

2) Very poor multitasking. VR experiences demand uninterrupted focus. I'm often not 100% immersed in whatever I'm doing at any given time. I will share my focus with other activities and other external events. I don't like having my focus locked onto a single activity for long spans of time. If I'm gaming, I'll probably alt-tab once in a while to send a chat message. If I'm watching a movie, I'll likewise pause or shift my focus if something demands it. There are very limited blocks of time where I'm willing and able to give a VR experience uninterrupted focus.

3) Inability to physically interact with real world objects. If you don't need to do that, that's fine. But what if you want to take a sip of your drink? Eat a snack? Have a smoke? When you have 0 spatial awareness, that is very difficult to do. Even putting down your controllers and switching to a keyboard is hard to do when you cant see where it is. You could just remove the headset every time you want to do this, but that's very cumbersome. This headset doesn't even have a fliptop so that makes it even more cumbersome.

All in all I'm not sure how much utility fully immersive HMDs have outside of some unique interactive experiences that are short enough to mitigate some of the above problems. Remember that "dumb" HMD displays (like this: http://www.siliconmicrodisplay.com/uploads/9/0/4/6/9046759/_...) have been available since the 90s. They were also billed as the future of entertainment and TV/monitor killers, but adoption never picked up for the reasons above. People don't like giving up all their focus.

That's why mixed reality headsets are more promising to me. If you can insert virtual windows/objects into real world spaces, you can introduce immersion without necessarily sacrificing awareness. Let people jump in and out of virtual reality without having it be an all or nothing compromise.