skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/blog-news-from-sony/inside-4...

They won't tell you it's NNs but it is. Sony distributes a lot of movies, they use their database of movies to train the upscaling models (which is obviously NNs https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x ) and then put the chip in the TV.

It's something almost equivalent to storing Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in your TV in 4K, and then reproducing it when they match it with what's playing on TV.
In addition, I suggest "In the Kingdom of Ice" by Hampton Sides, about a US expedition to the Arctic in the late 1870s. Those guys had really, really bad luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Kingdom_of_Ice

I just finished and recommend Anthony Brandt's "The Man Who Ate His Boots" which is good summary of Northwest Passage expeditions up to Franklin and the subsequent searches for Franklin.
Oh, so you're new, and you worship authoritarian dictators.
My experience as an empolyee of a huge manufacturer of consumer electronics says the same.
If you worked for customer support then you know how much longer calls can take when people are looking for the service tag.

They were speaking for online support, where no support agent is available to guide the customer through finding the service tag.

I believe they had good intentions but it was very poorly executed.
I've worked for a lot of IT companies that hired people straight from outside of the EU. Even for junior roles. It's not that strict.
They are used a lot with Bitcoin, whatsapp uses them for pairing with the web interface, authenticator uses them to import keys.

I think they're great. They're very fault tolerant and can contain a ton of information. It's a great way to scan stuff from you computer (or anywhere else) and import it into your phone.
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Recognize anyone you know? http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians...
AMA with Kashflow Founder, Pride of Britain, Ex-Drug Trafficker – Duane Jackson
I also dislike unreliable image processing algorithms. Consistent minor artifacts are less distracting than occasional major artifacts. It's not only interpolation which has this problem, but also deinterlacing. Fancy motion-aware deinterlacers fail in the same situations interpolators fail. For this reason my favorite deinterlacing filter is the Weston 3 Field Deinterlacing Filter (w3fdif in ffmpeg). It doesn't try anything too clever so it never seriously fails.
Maybe as someone who represents 98.5% of the field, you should stop pretending to speak for the 1.5%. Have you ever thought that there may be selection bias in play regarding the "even females I know?" Notwithstanding that, what is your n that you're using to justify broad generalizations?

Also, bear in mind that you are implying women are "the weak". That's enough for me to discredit anything you have to say on the matter, especially considering your post is completely off topic and is witch-hunting.

If you're never subject to frequent microaggression (of which you've just made in your reply), it can be hard to understand how significant they really are.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the relationship of Java and JS in ScalaJS and Kotlin is about the same: If your Scala/Kotlin code depends on any Java classes, you won't be able to compile it to JS. You can only compile pure Scala/Kotlin code to JS (and that comes with a few caveats in both cases).

It's true that Kotlin's JS support is pretty raw today. There are virtually no docs for it for example. They do have a basic feature set working though. I think in a few months it should be in great shape.
These images are amazing.

If you are interested in the subject I highly recommand the documentary about the whole survival trip:

The Endurance (2000) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264578/
There has been two major attacks possibly related to Xinjiang lately. The 2014 Kunming attacks and the 2015 Bangkok bombings.

In Chinese perspective these are acts of international terrorism related to islamist jihad (ISIS, Al Queda etc.). And talk about Xinjiang seperation from China would be what we in the west call "hate speech" since it possibly would entail cleansing of Han-chinese from the region.

However this perspective is not shared by the west which is probably why the Chinese government cannot get the same services from Google and Facebook that countries like USA or France can when comes to censoring hate speech or get logs on suspected terrorist.

Hence they have to resort to more primitive ways.
As a non native speaker I struggled greatly until I learned that this is a thing in English language.
Automate This by Christopher Steiner. I'd also recommend Console Wars by Blake Harris.
Ugh, waking up at 6:30 AM. I've done it once, never again. I refuse to work for a company where I have to wake up at 6:30 AM to get to office.
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This guy has one of the most remarkable life stories.

Children's Homes to Accounting Software.
I'm guessing "not anymore".
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If you're shooting nothing but talking with static cameras then 24fps is adequate. There are some great films (eg. 12 Angry Men) that have no major frame rate problems. But this style is not a good demonstration of film, because it would work just as well as a stage play. I mentioned action genre because it's a better demonstration of the potential of film and it suffers tremendously because of the low frame rate.
I'm not sure what applications you're talking about when you say they get crushed by Nvidia.

AMD has faster integer operations so they're much better for hashing operations like bitcoin mining and password cracking.

Nvidia is better at floating point ops which are used in computational biology and neural nets. Also they use CUDA which is the only interface supported by many libs.

AMD has better open source drivers than Nvidia. By far. Their default open source drivers are actually usable on Ubuntu, while with Nvidia you have to install ridiculously unstable Nvidia proprietary drivers to just watch flash videos.

On Windows for games, AMD cards are competitive for almost every given price point. At the top, r9-390x beats GTX 980 by a little.
When you've got the NSA dragnetting the whole world, stupidity becomes equivalent with malice.
Another day, another story of an Asian nation that deeply feers the personal expression and curiosity of its citizens. Thailand, Singapore, China... how privileged so many of us are, taking for granted that we grew up in a culture where that particular level of explicit distrust does not exist.
Sorry for the tone of my replies, seivan, you're probably a perfectly nice person who I would get along with just great in real life. Dawkins creeping around picking on a 14 year old boy and unable to stop himself from saying the stupidest and meanest thing possible at every opportunity is really getting to me, especially because I once admired him. It feels ugly to watch him self-destruct.
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One of the criticisms of "top" is that it clears the screen and you cannot turn this off. "top -b" works fairly well for this.
Ha, yup. I think a good corollary is prefix vs. infix notation in programing languages. With prefix (or RPN) notation, it's impossible to be led down the garden path. The rules are simple and unambiguous.

For example, 4+5×3 is a garden path, where reading left-to-right you may think to yourself, "four plus five is nine, then nine times... wait, I have to backtrack and handle five times three first..."

Whereas + 4 × 5 3 can't be confused. (Or 4 5 3 × + in RPN)

I'm not a (good) speaker of any other language than English, but I can see how adjective/verb/noun ordering in different languages can prevent this problem.
There is nothing to love about DST. It just messes up sleep cycle and daily routine. When you will have small children you will understand.
Duane is holding an AMA with Business of Software today at 3PM GMT, 10AM EST here: https://plus.google.com/events/cp9b76enlqncprqaa6tdvvlbih4
Oh, my mistake. Even better!
Cynical view - can we expect the manufacturer of the $100,000 machine to be sponsoring (buying out) this research any time soon?
How and why our startup lets employees work on and legally own their own project
Shakespeare loves to do this: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer..."
Tallinn as well: http://soiduplaan.tallinn.ee/#tallinna-linn/map/en
I've used the RailsCasts theme[1] for ST2 for 3 years now. I've tried other ones but always went back. I even use it for non-Rails development. It's just got the right amount darkness and text color contrast which benefits readability.

[1] https://github.com/tdm00/sublime-theme-railscasts
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I fear I must be misunderstanding your points. Are you really stating that, in order to know what you can do with data, you need just need to inspect it at runtime? Or that types only protect you from typos?

Types allow the compiler to do a lot of validation before your code is even executed, removing whole classes of bugs before they even have a chance to manifest themselves. You thought that value was an int and divided it by two? It was a string. I'm glad I didn't have to wait until runtime to find out about it, or to write tests to make sure that every single code path to that division results in the value being, in fact, an int.

Types allow developers to trust whatever data they receive without feeling the need to protect against hostile, or less experienced, application programmers passing incorrect data. They allow you to know, with absolute certainty, that what you wrote can only be executed the way you meant it to be executed (whether that's correct or not is another question altogether). A function in a dynamic language is never complete, you never know what data, or shape of data, you will receive. Types buy you that certainty.

Code efficiency is not the point - developer efficiency is. When you can trust your data, you can focus on what your code needs to do - that's usually complicated enough without adding the complexity of not being able to trust a single value.

The main argument against static languages is that, in their struggle to be sound, they end up not being complete - and it's absolutely true: there are perfectly legal programs that you can't write with a static language, but that a dynamic one would run without batting an eyelash. Duck-typing comes to mind, I'm sure there are other examples.

Another argument is that type systems get in the way of what you want to do. There are a few cases where it's true - see the point just above. But in my entirely anecdotal experience, the vast majority of times someone complains the compiler won't let him do what he wants, it's because what he wants to do is not correct. The complaint is not that the compiler is too restrictive - it's that your bugs are shoved in your face much, much more frequently and quickly than they would if you had to wait for runtime. And that's a good thing.
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Except there aren't blocklists in the US...
I'm an ex-Dell Support site web developer. This used to work using Java/ActiveX if memory serves me right. Since browsers have started to downgrade the whole Java experience, it appears that Dell now want you to download an EXE which you then have to install.

I really don't understand why they would need to install a root cert to make requests from a client's machine when you already have installed an EXE on the client's machine (which can basically do anything it wants).

Can anyone think of any genuine reason why an installed executable would need a CA root cert?
> I wouldn't be surprised if this isn't being discussed in Western governments within the next 5 years unless trend changes drastically.

I would be. Despite the attacks on privacy, freedom of speech is still alive and well in the US. Actual censorship is incredibly unconstitutional and would create a gigantic shitstorm.
Programmers, accountants, owner, medieval and apprentices are all capitalized where I would leave them uncapitalized. It feels random to me. I put it down to a different writing style.
The biggest flaw with this visualization is that it doesn't allow you to expand DST to the entire year, or increase it to double/triple/quadruple DST. I assume that it would simply be too heartbreakingly beautiful to witness it, and it was withheld for our own good.
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I think the lesson is - if you're going to write a kernel, you also need to write your own compiler, and that leads you to writing your own language too.
I found the comments section following this article is especially funny. My favorite, the thread claiming that lead poisoning is the only statistic correlated with the violent crime rate... The authors proof- a single academic pre-print. I love the new internet science.
Esthonia open-sources its e-voting system on GitHub (2013)
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>Those light map images are based on the premise that 5pm is a reasonable time for sunset, which is something I disagree with.

When daylight savings rolls around each year, I always make the same comment: god it feels civilized to be going home when it's still light outside!
I'm wondering what the potential for savings is given that only 2.5% of the whole US energy consumption is lighting of commercial and residential buildings. Could anyone estimate the savings?
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"Work hard. Have fun. Make history" this was cringe worthy, like from Veridian Dynamics commercials (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHuVS5OAo6k&list=PLFA32C1347...) but irl not comedy show
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I don't think that's an example of a garden path sentence though. My initial parse is "whether or not suffering in the mind is nobler". "In the mind" is an adverbial phrase that modifies "to suffer". Am I missing anything?
Or that a hardware jumper needs to be set on the motherboard before any firmware updates can be done.
Which parts do you think are lies?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10482128
Hard not to be cynical really isn't it
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The name "garden path" reminds me that during my Turbo Pascal loving 80s I played with making “fog” from markov chains. The idea was to computer-generate reasonable-reading nonsense text and I'm sure you've all tried it as kids too! :)

Of course my naive approach suffered from lack of corpus; if it picked a rare word, it’d get railroaded into using the very limited set of words that follow that rare word and so on.

I remember running it - this was before the internet days, so I can’t imagine where I got the input text from - and getting back a page-full of gobbledygook. And there right in the middle, somehow drawing the eye like a magnet, was one of those railroaded sentences:

herbaceous

Well when your random roulette picks the word herbaceous, its likely only seen it once or so in its learning text, so there aren’t so many words it can pick next:

herbaceous border

So far so good. But where does this lead next?

herbaceous border disputes

Love it!
That's the first time I understood "fruit flies like a banana" as a pun -.-
To be fair, I'm not a native speaker.
other languages have them as well: https://www.quora.com/Are-garden-path-sentences-possible-in-... (though wikipedia claims[citation needed] it mostly affects analytic languages)
GWT doesn't do Scala. That puts it out of the equation as far as most Scala.js developers are concerned. Also, it's interoperability story is seriously lacking behind Scala.js.

TeaVM is a fun and impressive project. However, although they can compile Scala-emitted bytecode (since a few weeks ago [1]), that's not their main focus. They are unlikely to ever optimize Scala code as well as Scala.js, because Scala.js focuses on optimizing idiomatic Scala. They do have an undeniable advantage over Scala.js, though, which is that they can also compile Java libraries used by a Scala program.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scala-js/3jbX9ajIbHM/MbLWIqp...
>AMD has better open source drivers than Nvidia.

Yes, but Nvidia has working proprietary drivers that put anything AMD to shame on Linux. The difference is so big its outright ludicrous, and it gets worse the higher end the card. I have no idea where the "ridiculously unstable" comes from, must be Ubuntu bugs. Or were you talking about AMD's proprietary driver, fglrx? I agree that's garbage.

>At the top

The top is the GTX980 Ti, for which AMD has no answer. Also if you say "competitive at price point" this means totally disregarding power consumption, of course, where again AMD is so far behind its ludicrous.
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Watch what happens over the next few months to PushBullet - they've learnt the hard way that pricing is serious business. They had a base of users who were used to a free product, then they tried to bring in a $40/year plan with no middle ground.

https://blog.pushbullet.com/2015/11/17/introducing-pushbulle...

https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/3t5ogz/introduc...
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1. I am a programmer.

2. I was making a different point. Your example that references programming 101 is unrelated.

3. State and identity are distinct from one point of view (yours, here), but not all possible points of view. Perhaps because you are a programmer, you are having difficulty seeing alternative interpretations.

4. I acknowledged my understanding of your point of view in my EDIT at least a day before you posted. However, you seemed to have overlooked that even while meticulously quoting my other statements and re-making your point with added snarkiness and pseudo-programmer elitism.

I get it. We all need a win sometimes. So, let's just say you've won and call it a day.
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In IntelliJ 15 there's a new setting Settings > Appearance and Behavior > Appearance > Antialiasing > Editor. Set that to "Greyscale". Fixed all font issues on 2 different Linux boxes (Fedora 20 and Debian unstable). I use Consolas.
More than DST, what is enjoyable is not having the sun at the zenith at 12pm. In France, it reaches the zenith is at ~1pm without DST and ~2pm with DST. This makes for nice sunny evenings. I now live in Japan, where it's at the zenith at ~12pm all year long (no DST), and it's ridiculous. Where I am, the sun is up at 4:45am and down at 7pm in the summer. In the winter, the sun is up at 7am and down at 4:45pm.
Also haxe can compile in javascript and have a type System much similar to Scala. And also macros, conditional compilation and inline functions and constructors. And can compile also in java, c#, c++, lua, php, python, flash
"Is nobler" turns out to modify "in the mind."
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Could somebody fix the title, it's Estonia not Esthonia.
I think in real-world situations speakers would prefer "fruit flies like bananas", which may also be a garden path sentence, but its resolution seems much easier to me.

Do native speakers concur?

Is there any research whether speakers do prefer utterances like my example in practice due to this property?
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Both of them are legal, but

1) for HAM Radio you need to apply for a license, acquire a call sign, the process is not very painful, but takes some time. People in HAM circles are really very nice and quite friendly, btw.

2) SatCom and other one-way or two-way systems are under control by the "State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television", but they have no legislation, they need to ask local police nicely to intervene or to talk to you.

Using these techs as a harmless individual may be safe, but if things get worse, circumventing GFW could be criminalized.
Pilot's eye damaged by 'military' laser shone into cockpit at Heathrow
Exactly my thoughts. I've been working with native Android apps for 2 years now and I still miss the Web's awesome feedback cycle.
Except it's even worse, because in this particular case they're targeting an area full of ethnic minorities in a Han dominated china: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang

The strong coercing the weak.
Can anyone here make a rough estimate of how powerful a laser would be required to do that?
Or the identical cartoon police men and women!
AMD opensource drivers 3D performance is more than bad. Catalyst driver performance is acceptable for me but I can't use them. It shows artifacts in gnome-shell after some time, resume from RAM almost never works etc. It feels like 10 year old linux user experience.
Better than hit-her-too, I guess.
These bidding platforms typically don't provide you with JSON but with some headers or query parameters that are very quick to parse (especially for the native nginx code), so your Lua code can basically boil down to a few table lookups.
Using accuracy to measure PoS taggers makes results look good, but is ensnaring due to their huge bias: Tagging every word by the majority tag found during training and everything else as either NNP or NNPS (with suffix -s) means the statistical baseline is already well beyond 90% accuracy. However, my point was that from the results shown its not clear to me if the gains in attachment score you saw when using Gold Standard PoS tags would be lost in a "real-world" usage when you have to rely on the tagger's own PoS tags. In such a case, it could be that your embeddings contribute much less "new knowledge" than what you see in your results, using independent (Gold) PoS tags. This might be mitigated by using two independently trained and set up PoS taggers, however. But this finally gets us back to my initial concern: How much performance gain really is in there from all this added complexity and is that "worth the effort"?
I would love to see a garden path sentence at the beginning of this Wikipedia article.

The second sentence, in a paragraph of its own, would explain what just happened.

I doubt this would ever get past the serious folks at the 'pedia.

But if it did... That would be the difference between awesome and mundane.
I've written a tool to tell us exactly that, called nginspex...hoping to open source it shortly. We use generated configs with tens of thousands of lines, for me this was an exercise in learning what nginx is up to as well as being able to say how a request will be handled.

The tool interprets the nginx conf, rather than compiling any of it (as nginx does with the rewrite rules), makes it easy to log which lines are involved in the processing as it hits them.
Instant Run is different from Genymotion. With both, you should be able to get < 1s compile + deploy times if you're making a change supported by Instant Run. On my 3 years old Linux laptop and a Nexus 4, Instant Run compiles and deploys within 2 seconds :)
IIRC the correlation between lead exposure & violent crime rates 20 years later is fairly good: you can track it on a state by state level as each state banned lead additives in fuel at different times.

But proving any cause with a with a 20 year delay in its effect is going to be very difficult. At best it seems reasonable to believe that lead in fuel was a sizable chunk of the problem, but it’s certainly not proven beyond doubt.
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I think that's needlessly conspiratorial, the more likely (cynical) outcome is that the use case for scans dramatically rises now that they're so cheap, so the net payment to the supplier doesn't really change.
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network problem impact on vm , database , ad azure ,redis cache , bus , etc ...
‘This is the worst time for society to go on psychopathic autopilot’