skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, studios will use tools like Maya if they meet their needs, and if not they develop internal proprietary software that does exactly what they need. Often they use both in different parts of the pipeline. It is not obvious that there is a space for a third option there of collaborating to build a complete end to end 3d application that will inevitably require compromises.

Open source already happens with specific focused packages (OpenSubdiv, OpenVDB, PTEX etc) which can be very good at one thing. Developing a complete 3d application that meets everyone's needs is unlikely to be appealing given the diverse studio pipelines and requirements.
You are correct, however there may not be a non-establishment democratic or republican candidate on the ballot for American voters once the nominations have taken place.
> Car thieves have been using signal amplifiers

Very true. But I am using Bluetooth and it has much better security protocols than the plain simple radio-frequency signals for car remote controls. At the very least, the user needs to first pair the watch with the computer. Besides, all communication between the 2 is encrypted. And, to avoid Bluetooth spoofing, there is also an exchange of time-based encrypted tokens, all transparent for the user. There are a few more security details about it (e.g.: the authentication password is not stored in the watch, is AES-encrypted in the computer, etc). I intend to write a detailed risk-assessment about it later.

In truth, my intention is someday to make it FIDO-UAF [1] compatible, if I have get the money to do it.

It is very cool to understand what concerns people have about it. Thank you.

[1] https://fidoalliance.org/specifications/overview/
Short version: Because Rust's type system is a joy to use, and the reason I made Diesel was to try and push it forward in higher level contexts. I'm finding myself more productive in Rust than I am in any other language.

Long version: http://bikeshed.fm/49
It's not at the first sign of trouble, though. It's after ~15 email notifications over the course of over a month, and no contact back.
In my view the entire problem is that developers in general have been brainwashed into beliving that they are better off dealing with recruiters when in fact the best thing they could do for themselves would be to do their homework, that is, research companies that are hiring, figure out who to contact, and write a personalized introduction email.

If you do that then you have two things in your favor already..

1. you are cheaper to hire because there are no recruitment feeds associated with you.

2. you showed some initiative to zero them out, and you demonstrated that you have creative writing skills which are an important trait in software development
Netblock for trayme.com belongs to hostdime. They are a spam hosting company.
No, that's not even what the theory says. In theory, all you need is a single hidden layer, and all you need to do is keep increasing the number of hidden units until things work, because that can model any function (universal approximation theorem). What you said makes no sense theoretically (an infinite number of layers and convolutions makes no sense - I think you meant to use the word arbitrary). In the real world, we need to stack layers, for some reason that is only vaguely understood.

It goes without saying that the reason we have 50 (vs. deeper) layer nets and strides, among other things, is not solely to reduce computational cost.
I like how the logo uses a red gas can. Diesel fuel is actually goes in a yellow gas can.
This can be accomplished without procedural macros, too. ;)
Yes, and they do actively monitor usage patterns.
One of the more surprising things to me is how few people use password managers. I know some companies buy 1Password for all their employees and less than half of their employees use it.

I really don't understand why that is. I've always thought it was partly a pricing problem (which would be very bad for this $128 gadget), but when you're company is providing it to you for free, that can't be the reason you don't use it.
Rails 2 scopes are literally the case for composeability...
I kind of agree and disagree with that at the same time. Yes, doing approximations like that is perfectly fine when you are looking to solve a practical problem and can observe that the solutions you found actually works. When you need guarantees though, I would like a rigorous derivation. Taylor approximation is fine, you can derive error bounds from that, and so on. Obviously, this might get complicated, but what do we have computers for? They should help us with that.
Maybe it has a button on it?
Extracts are binary yes. If you're using a workbook without extracts embedded, you're working with an XML file. We do that most of the time. We only embed extracts when someone with a Tableau Reader license needs to use a dashboard. We normally keep those out of source control.
I've been meaning to write a blog post about this actually. Maybe I'll actually do it :)

I guess it depends what you're trying to do. What part(s) of what Tableau offers do you care most about? How big of an organization?

Chart.io is one product I evaluated that met our requirements. We cared most about collaborative querying and the ability to run templatized reports (including regenerating them via the API) so we ended up going with Mode Analytics
Why mobile apps are the biggest challenge to the web's freedom
Shockingly, most of the tech industry does not live in SF.
Workers that consume tasks and write state to a db system can easily have lots of work that rust's performance guarantees would help with.
AND the work can be more sporadic AND be migratory.
> The types should be able to ensure you don't have any errors even with so many "redundant" types

Correct. Sorry, I should have been clearer in my last comment. The reason you'd want a separate type for insert is because wrapping your id in an `Option` would be painful for anything except insert.

> but my first thought is of how much boiler plate will result.

Yeah, if you're coming from Active Record (which is the other project I maintain), we'll probably seem a little bit verbose. My goal here is to be 80% as nice to get started with, but nudge users towards significantly more maintainable code as their product grows.

> I would guess most record types will be very similar between create, update, and retrieve.

Early on, yes. 2 years in, not so much.

> Also, what about upsert?

This is something I'd like to add support for in the future. This comment made me realize I didn't have a tracking issue, so here it is: https://github.com/sgrif/diesel/issues/196
During the 2001-2002 bust, bay area rents fell 50% in marginal neighborhoods. In desirable neighborhoods, rents fell maybe 10%.
Prices to buy came down, but not nearly as much. In marginal areas 20%, in desirable neighborhoods, maybe 1%. Small houses and fixer-uppers in the 10/10/10 school districts (ie, Palo Alto) kept going up. One reason is that construction prices fell 30%, so there was allot of tears downs and renovation happening.
Most of my linkedIn activity is on incognito mode
Alpine is fine but it would be really nice to have smaller images from the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu ecosystems, if that's possible.
The parent poster was suggesting that compensation would drop, but not necessarily salary. In other words, the $200k engineer might be making $120k in salary and $80k in other forms of deferred pay. That $80k will be gone in this example, but the $120k will remain. People pay rent out of their actual cash income, not out of unvested stock options.
How does this compare to Elixir's Ecto?
> > money-launderers

> People who want to keep ANY of their income sources private. Also see: Anyone who uses cash.

That's not what money laundering is, I really wish people would stop perpetuating this misinformation. Money laundering is when somebody takes illegal income and "cleans" it by creating fake clients that pay a front business. You obviously have to pay taxes, etc but at the end of the day you have a completely clean cut of your illegal income.

Anonymous payment methods only solve one (very small part) of the money-laundring problem: getting the money to someone who will clean it. After that, you still need to create fake clients and do your tax returns (which require believable income figures). So you're still stuck with trying to convince the IRS (or tax office of your choice) that the money you gained was legitimate.
I have never worked at a company that was more than 150 people, let alone having enough people that they could lay off 925.
There are much simpler standard ways to talk to a database from Rust:

https://crates.io/crates/postgres/

https://crates.io/crates/mysql/

This is an experimental approach. It might or might not be useful, but you don't have to use it.
I think it's green, at least in the US. XD
>I don't really understand the point of this metric

I'm guessing it could be a test of whether the neural net could replace the existing algorithm and give similar results.
Remote Server Restart Lead to Denial of Server by Only One Request
In my limited experience using both Go and Rust for hobbyist web scraping, I haven't found either language to have a significant edge in development difficulty. Go's most salient edge over Rust would be in the more numerous and mature libraries.

So if Rust is not substantially easier or harder than Go, when Rust catches up to Go in the library ecosystem, I can see why people might want to use Rust. Also, it's nice to have better language support for functional strategies.
Compared to competitors, Lenovo batteries must be made of gold. I bought a third-party battery for ~$20. As I remember it, Lenovo wanted $75+ (their website indicates $180[1], but I'm not sure if this is the same model battery anymore.) The third-party here was Sony (or, so the battery claimed, at least, though having read enough articles like this I'm not entirely sure anymore). At any rate, the battery worked fine.

This, thankfully, was back in the day when the OEM crapware only loudly complained about me using a "non-genuine battery". Thankfully, the crapware runs only in Windows, and for the most part, I used Linux.

Haven't we seen enough hoverboards go up in flame to know even first-party stuff can sometimes be suspect? (and they're not the only example through the times of flaming batteries.)

[1]: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/43R2499/460/2D575BF...
Tableau Public isn't sufficient?
Quran quotes being grouped with archive.org might be explained by the Internet Archive frequently being used to host Islamist materials.
All my favorites are there:

"we tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=we+tried+nothing+&e=S08E08...

'see you suckers'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=suckers&e=S14E18&t=688354&...

'the buddy system... foolproof'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=buddy+system&e=S14E03&t=94....

'I'll never be the darling...'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=stoke+their+beards&e=S06E0...

'mountain of sugar'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=mountain+of+sugar&e=S06E02...

'childrens dance recital'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=parents+expect+a+children%....

'wookie'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=wooki&e=S06E02&t=1301984&m...
'idiots island'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=any+sign+of+inteligence&e=....

'George Harrison'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=george+har&e=S05E01&t=9790...

'Beer' https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=killing+you+with+beer&e=S0....

'alcohol'
https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=+the+cause+of&e=S08E18&t=1...
I agree with you, but I should point out that adding recursion is hardly "fine-tuning", it's changing the network into something entirely different.
I think that that threat is more dependent on how fast they can fill the apartments. If the apartment ends up on the market for 2 months... well 10% decrease is the better option isn't it?
How about when so-so dev makes 50% more than rock star dev! It's real.

Why? The underperformer w/high-salary was brought in by some idiot manager x years ago - that manager has since lost their job - but this ok performer still pretty good and still in their job.

Have had rock stars contact the company - willing to work for 50% under market and we'd be crazy not to put them on. Without even having an open position at the time.

It is ALL negotiation. Don't assume there is solid logic and "fair" salaries.
So then they have $3.5k left after rent each month, while living in the middle of one of the most popular cities in the country.

Meanwhile, the average American couple would have less than $3.5k before paying, regardless of what their rent is.
Blender is no more UI-awful and no more poorly documented than any other 3D modeling package. The problem is that the entire market of 3D modeling packages are either A) massive clusterfucks of kitchen-sink UI, or B) woefully inadequate in feature selection.

Learning Maya or 3D Studio Max is just as much of an undertaking as learning Blender. There is nothing about them that make them inherently easier. But they do cost a lot of money, whereas Blender is free (and Free). So why not just start with Blender? You (the proverbial you) are probably not going to get a job in the games or movie industry anyway.
I'm having Jose on The Bikeshed (bikeshed.fm) next month to compare notes!
I believe that you can safely pair with the watch and authenticate it reliably and an attacker can neither read nor modify what you send; this is largely a solved problem.

But I am concerned that you cannot measure proximity accurately because an attacker could just replay messages between the two devices and boost the signal without being able to decipher the contents, and none of your comments about crypto or time-based tokens convince me otherwise.
Advanced YouTube embedding
> At the moment, outside of wholly energy dependent countries (Middle East, Latin America, Nigeria, etc.), there does not appear to me a 2008-like financial system shutdown.

There's nothing stopping central banks from creating more liquidity through progressive rounds of QE, each of them buying in because they know their country will suffer in the short run if they do not follow suit. Of course this will lead to deflation and another recession in the long run with many losing faith in monetary policy/central banks altogether, but we're not quite there yet. We've still got another couple of years before we hit that phase.
FWIW making sure it's easy to add extensions like this is part of the core design of Diesel. For example, this adds full text search support (it's slightly out of date) https://github.com/sgrif/diesel_full_text_search/blob/master...

If you're interested in adding postgis support, ping me in our Gitter room. I'd be happy to help.
Well, you seem to be implying that he is being dishonest about his fear of being extradited. As if he is doing this so he doesn't have to answer to the charges in Sweden. Based on your statement, you clearly do believe that he isn't actually worried about ending up in US custody.
I don't interpret this shift as money being transferred anywhere, so much as a systematic de-leveraging of investments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleveraging
It wasn't super clear, anyway. Fixed in https://github.com/sgrif/diesel.rs-website/pull/5 :)
How Ljubljana Turned Itself into Europe's 'Green Capital'
One problem with these schema-less style databases is that you still actually have a schema. You just don't have a good reference for what it is anymore since it's trapped in your code, likely in multiple files.
Cash and dead drops provide both of those properties. There are many other ways to investigate crimes. Just because the internet is new doesn't mean that human rights don't apply for this new communication medium.
Surveilling and busting in-person deals with suitcases full of cash was the bread and butter of law enforcement for decades, so much so that it's a Hollywood trope.
I'll get hammered for this, but I just wonder if we will be talking about Google, and Facebook ten years from right now?

I know both have diversified, and Google has become best friends with the Obama administration.

I just wonder if they will be relevant? These tech companies main reason for living is advertising, and their algorithms.

I look back, and Apple had a physical product. Other than Apple, exactly what companies will be here in a decade?

Actually, I don't think I would buy another new Apple product for myself. I still buy them as presents. It's a nice gift. For myself, I will still buy used while their is a surplus of parts.

I went into my Corte Madera Apple Store on 2-1-16. There's no cash registers. A few printers are attached under the counters for receipts. It's ambience was that of a operating room. I walked out, with a $39.00 iPad mini case. I said to myself, "Is this my last visit?" The case was not the quality I expected from Apple either.

Please don't beat me up. I won't even be back. Just thinking out loud. My prediction of future events have a poor track record.
The Creeping Plague of Ghastly Facadism
great article. glad this was shared.
I don't understand why anyone would want to go to the trouble to do this. It feels like a huge step backwards.
Well, we do know why gradient descent works (for smooth data), at least for finding a local minimum, because finding the minimum is basically what it does by construction. Similarly, we certainly know how back-propagation works, because it's simple calculus, backwards application of the chain rule.

Perhaps what you're trying to say is we don't know why finding local minima of these problems is good at solving the problem?
Dridex malware exploit distributes antivirus installer–hack suspected
I have a question! I'm a student and have noticed 5 or so profiles that connect with 20+ of my classmates/friends with impressive but beleivable titles at well known companies (Human resources at IBM) [1] and generic job histories. The names only exist on linkedin. Its obvious they are either just scraping profiles or something more nefarious. What are you doing to stop the creation of these fake profiles? Why are my friends so dumb?

[1] Fake profile examples, with 20+ in common connections:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-bargo-04b09829
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-bertoli-48909829
That makes sense now. :)
Tell HN: iPhone Safari has slowed down each upgrade
My iPhone 5 safari used to easil handle 20 or more open tabs. After recent upgrades it's become so slow on some sites as to be virtually unusable, with only 2 or 3 tabs open. Chrome still fast.

The term "Planned obsolescence" comes to mind.

Time to ditch Safari.....
Yes, but a very limited one.

I'd love to see a solution with tradeoffs made the other way:

* syntax and semantics 99% like underlying SQL
* support for 99% of underlying DB functionality
* traditional areas where ORMs add value:
* deserialization into convenient data structures
* casting, quoting and escaping on the way in and out
* using stored association metadata for concise joins in the query
One of the producers and primary contributors to that documentary, Jennifer 8. Lee, presented a proposal at the most recent Unicode meeting to include dumpling, chopsticks, fortune cookie and chinese takeout menu into Unicode's emoji. Very well done. She did a TED talk in 08

https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_8_lee_looks_for_general_t...
Hi there, author here.

Cardboard's motion-to-photon latency is significantly worse than the GearVR. This Swift hack is worse than Cardboard. This is true for a number of both software and hardware reasons.

Of course, comparing Cardboard to the Vive and Rift is hardly to apples-to-apples.

Your concerns re: poisoning the well are valid. This seems to be a common divide among people working in VR: should we be making low quality (whatever that means) experiences? For example, VR devs often remark that 360 video content isn't "true VR." I don't know that I agree.

Purely as a matter of opinion, I don't see a reason not to experiment in VR, even if it's far from perfect. It's-not-VR complaints strike me a little bit like the "no true Scotsman" logical fallacy.

It's great that Oculus and Google have different approaches to the problem, and, as I'm sure you can guess, I don't believe there's a real risk of poisoning the well.

Then again, like Dennis Miller used to say: that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

(In which case we'll all have to wait another 15+ years for another turn on the carousel.) :)
Every single one of those bullet points is a primary design goal of Diesel (caveat: Our semantics generally map to PG, because they apply well to other backends and are the least nonsensical)
There are many macro risks that can be applied, and people here are right to highlight the bigger issues but LinkedIn's troubles are of their own making.

It's a poor business founded on poor assumptions

A strange game.. the only way to win is not to play...
Twitter to Introduce Algorithmic Timeline as Soon as Next Week
Due to boredom I did more research. Reverse image searched the profile pic, found it on a yelp profile writing fake 5 star reviews and one of those fake sites that 'let employers fight over you.'
I wouldn't say this particular article is a smoke and mirror puff piece to prop up the companies value. Now other ones you could argue that. 'The Grid' springs to mind. (https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-heard-about-the-Grid-AI-web...)
Are you referring to yourself as a company?
You'd think so, but people spend hours talking to chatbots. Well, good ones like this anyway. People like to talk about themselves, and the bot will ask questions to keep the conversation going. There's no social anxiety really because you know it's just a bot. And people love probing the limits of the bot or trying to get it to say silly things.

Of course I don't think the current generation of AI is anywhere good enough to be more than a novelty for a few minutes of fun. Maybe in the next few years. NLP is improving quite a bit every year, as are many other areas of AI. Google's chatbot trained just on movie scripts was pretty impressive. Though I don't think it would scale cheaply to millions of users. IBM's Watson has the same issue.

As for customer service bots, I'd love to see them become more general. Rather than just trained on one company's customer service data. Like a bot trained on all of stackoverflow that could specialize in discussions and questions about programming.

I made an irc bot that searched reddit for answers to questions. It worked really well, surprisingly. Especially on certain classes of questions that were likely to have been discussed on reddit before.
DJ KHALED POKEMON PARODY
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah the API Blueprint isn't responsive (yet).
This bit is great:

box = box.replace(/#/g, function() {
i++
if (str[i]) {
return str[i]
} else {
return "";
}
});

It would be cool if you could select which characters (or all characters except for space) will be replaced with the data URI.
The New Editors
> an attacker could just replay messages between the two devices and boost the signal without being able to decipher the contents

As a simplified version of a MITM attack? That is clever, I admit I didn't think of it.

However, even in case the attacker is able to do so, the watch would still inform the user when the PC is unlocked. And the user can manually force a lock, from the watch, overriding the proximity/signal strength. To intercept this the attacker would need to decipher the messages. That is for the Android Wear-Windows PC version, though. I admit the Mac version is not that sophisticated, yet.
It's not the clarity of the products, its the quality that needs work. There are still basic things that need work including broken UI and random bugs encountered everyday. I have a basic company/employee connection support issue outstanding for weeks now. Surely for a product that users actually pay for, the end result should be far better than this?