skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of my daily life. I produce media and work with the infrastructure to deliver it in a university setting. Frequently, things like this will happen: someone hands me a pile of video files recorded on a cell phone and wants me to make a "professional" looking video to go on some department website...with like...editing or something.

Or maybe someone wants to run an online conference that looks as nice as the media we record in our lecture halls but using their personal laptop that has no way of getting camera and mic feeds into it from the room.

Or someone asks why they can't just email that 500mb video file to all of the students because "what do you mean by hosting?"

Don't get me wrong...I'm not particularly bitter or one of "those guys" who scoffs at folks who don't just know this stuff. As this is a university setting, these people are often experts in their fields of study but I don't expect them to be experts in all. As long as they're receptive when I explain the details and requirements for attractive and coherent video with good lighting, good audio, and a way to distribute it, I don't mind explaining it.

Turns out that a lot of the time, people are surprised to learn that it's not as simple as tapping an app icon on their phone and that a good deal of planning and operation goes into even a short video production. It's not always something you can do well if you're focused on something like teaching a class. So therefore I have a job and while some faculty or student groups are disappointed that they can't just slap something together and have it look good, the ones that work with me on planning get something that looks quite nice and occasionally makes their phone-cam-toting colleagues a bit jealous.
I poorly worded the parent comment. I agree with everything you said. It's when you take "nobody should feel uncomfortable in their workplace" to the absolute extremes that things become difficult, which is what a discussion about "micro-aggressions" becomes. At what point does someone's uncomfortableness with something become invalid? It's obviously not limitless.
Denial is a hell of a drug.
> Would you rather be a bit cold or working like a dog for some US company where your healthcare could vanish overnight because your boss was in a bad mood?

Neither. That's why I moved from California to Australia five years ago. Don't regret it.
Most good Valley firms will defer fees for startups given a good referral. As for getting that referral, spend two years working in Silicon Valley and you won't have a problem.
where does AI go from here? Are there other high profile games to defeat, or has competition based AI run out of opponents?

Not sure about "high profile" but there are a lot of other abstract strategy games out there, which might be candidates:

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

But what a lot of people seem to be talking about is AI vs human in something like Starcraft. My personal hope is that researchers working on this kind of video game playing AI will use an Open Source game though, so it will be easier for others to follow along, participate, etc.

If you're Larry Page, what do you do with DeepMind now?

Good question, because it's hard to know exactly how well this generalizes to other domain(s). That would probably be one of the first questions I'd start looking into.
There's two different questions that policies should answer - what sort of stuff do we get out of it, and who gets that stuff. These are often referred to as allocative and distributive, though I'm remembering the precise technical wording from memory so I could be wrong on that.

That's the distinction that drove me to make the political versus economic benefits distinction. Rent control as a whole makes things worse - there's less housing, it's of worse quality, and it drives up the cost of market rate housing. On the whole, it's a bad allocation of resources: we'd much rather have cities with more housing that's of higher quality (because people are more than willing to pay for it). The problem is that this sort of policy creates winners and losers, and the losers are often the ones who get to set local policy.

There's two solutions - have a ban on rent control at a higher jurisdictional level (Washington State does this), or bribe current residents to lift rent control. The latter should make everyone better off - we pay for keeping the working class viable with the overall economic gains made by lifting rent controls.

Anyhow, my overall point is that we should hand out the who-benefits stuff without making society worse off as a whole, simply because the locals who happen to live in an area are able to hold overall policy hostage.
You can write crappy games in assembler if you like. There are plenty of horribly performing Unity games simply because it sets a lower bar for developers. Also, rather ironically, developers using the less expensive license are forced to show the Unity logo at launch which tends to associate Unity with low-budget games.

There are plenty of awesome games done in Unity which you probably didn't realize they were done with Unity.
Makes sense, I understand now, and that seems pretty reasonable. Thanks.
> exemptions for first party scripts only

uBlock Origin's advanced mode supports this:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium...
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Non-transitive dice:

A > B more than half the time.

B > C more than half the time.

C > A more than half the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice
Is JavaScript a Dysfunctional Programming Language?
Something my team started recently that we rather like is to put together a Kanban-style board (Trello would be perfect for this - we used Taiga as the tool had to be in-house) with cards like "How do I do build X?" and "How do I troubleshoot Y" that have links to our Wiki pages that cover the relevant topics.

New team members go through the board moving cards from "New" to "Done" as they research/answer the questions. In theory, once they're done, they should know all the major information needed to do their jobs. This is a win in both directions as it also forces us to write high-quality documentation. If the person gets stuck, they generally have a good idea who to bug (the most recent author of the page) for clarification.

For a first employee in that particular space, it would be a valuable exercise for them to start building that deck and the associated documentation. It might make the "time to first code contribution" take a little longer, but should pay dividends in reducing mistakes.
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It is nice to have some competition for electron et. al.
LOL. Thanks, you made me lol :-)
Does this work for QtQuick/QML or is it QWidgets only?
I find it surprising that I see so many negative votes in a thread of discussion that, considering the subject matter, is extremely civil and respectful.

I was actually concerned I would be down voted, I've got a few, no loss to me. But I'm amazed at some of the down votes I see deeper in the thread... :-/
> The hardware requirements were stunning (280 GPUs and 1920 CPUs for the largest variant)

Stunningly big, or stunningly small?

The CPUs would cost around $65/hour on Google Cloud. I can't immediately find pricing for GPUs on either Amazon or Google, but let's suppose it doubles that price.

It's pretty small potatoes.

Especially if you put it in the context of a project with ~15 researchers.
`git clone https://bitbucket.org/delan/matrix86.git`, then `make run`. The author has graciously checked in the compiled version at matrix86.img; if you want to recompile it, you'll need nasm installed.

If you don't have qemu installed locally (such that it complains about not being able to open a graphical window), you can run `qemu-system-i386 -curses matrix86.img` to make it run in your terminal. Press Esc 2 (Meta-2) and type "quit" when done.
No I am not comfortable with C++ code.
I was under the impression that JS along with QML was a viable option, guess I was mistaken.
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Agreed. I think this is easier to do in middle management but agree with your general fear!
So I take it you are some sort of pr flack who had nothing to do with sending the email? Why doesn't the person who sent this email come here and explain why they sent it?
I mean, short of using special hardware and raycasting methods, everything is going to be reduced to triangles of some form

The state of the art practice is to reduce everything to triangles. But in the 90's, voxels were more proposed as a more "pure" way of viewing complicated/spatial/geometric scientific datasets. If I recall correctly, there were specialized raycasting methods involved.
If your working with them shoulder to shoulder and your invaluable, it's hard not see it that way.
You mean like they shut down the Twitter share counter data right after Jack had a big conference once he came back as CEO promising better developer relations? So, I doubt they care about the state of developer relations, as a platform.
Can you point a place in the email that communicates what you just explained in your comment? I just reread it twice and I don't see that anywhere.

My interpretation of the email is essentially: we used to offer this for free, and we're now offering a commercial alternative. You have three options: use the paid option, use the free API that does not work for your use case, or shut down.

If I'm missing something obvious please let me know.
Another plus to this release is they have official VS2015 binaries that you can download, so I don't have to build from source anymore which will save a lot of time.
SystemVerilog supports structs and unions. Synthesizable constructs are up to the synthesis tool to infer, and they are very clear as to how they work.

Any HDL language will be confusing to someone who isn't used it because you are defining a set of parallel behaviours and responses to specific stimulus and not a set of instructions.

There can always be improvements but as of today Sys/Verilog is the most popular by far, followed by VHDL. Therefore the tool vendors support those languages which is what I was responding in the original post.
I think it the parent meant to reference Oscar in "the Office"
It's "interesting" how they didn't bother to compare PHP 7. PHP 7 is remarkably faster than 5.x.

The newest release they're comparing against is 5.4.0 which is from 2012! There were major speed increases in 5.5, and many MUCH bigger ones in 7.

These comparisons aren't remotely fair.
Did Slashdot make the list?
Chances are he didn't. Verified dumps are all over the internet.

However, a sufficiently motivated individual can create cartridge dumpers with hardware like Arduino and a broken Game Boy (to harvest the socket for convenience). The cartridges for most/all game systems are widely understood by this point thanks to the efforts of reverse engineers.

Of course there are also pre-built dumpers available through various sources. They are not unique to the present-day. Even when the SNES and Game Boy were still selling on shelves, there were devices created specifically for copying cartridges to alternative storage such as floppy disk or custom cartridges.
To be honest, I have never seen the word "mansplain" used except as an example of a word that somebody didn't like. :)
I am blocked on a (verizon) cellphone.
Being a founder (or co-founder or startup employee) means taking a decade out of your life for low pay and financial instability for the chance of having stake in a successful company. If you're not wealthy you're not in a position to be a founder in the first place.
It's not like he's seen a dramatic, or possibly even noticeable, degradation in the quality of his life. He just traded his life of anonymity for one of fame and constant media attention with some restrictions on where he can travel freely.

I'm sure if he'd turned the data over to a respected journalist, they'd could have managed the release of information just as well. Instead he's kept the data to himself and chooses what to release allowing him to frame the story.

Why should we trust him? I mean his biggest achievement is stealing from his employer.
R turned into a language which used older Lisp features. It no longer resembles Scheme, but both older and then newer Lisp systems. It even provides OOP derived from CLOS. It's really a vey strange language which provides/uses a lot of features, which can make it difficult to maintain (my guess having read about the language, but have not used it). For example a mix of lazy evaluation and fexprs can make understanding and predicting the behavior of code very difficult.
Just like the "simple tagcloud from instagram API, shouldn't take more than a couple of hours." I got given last month.

Two hours of messing about on Instagram trying to get an authentication token for their API I eventually figured it out, only to realize I was authenticated in some sand boxed mode, so only meta-data was being returned. I needed to have the acccount approved before I could use it properly.

That was a waste of two hours of my life.
It means Twitter as a platform company doesn't care about keeping successful applications on their platform. Words (Tweets?) are cheap, actions speak louder. In this case, it's a resounding and massive door closing on an application that Jack said he loves and probably thought is/was good use of the platform.
Loyalty is easily defined in the cap table.
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> The reason Nordics stick with the system is because they can see that they come out ahead—not just as a group, but as individuals.

Everyone cannot "come out ahead." Surely, there must be some people who are paying more into the system than they are getting out. The rest are voting away the dollars of the others. Moreover, economics is about "what is seen, and what is not seen." What might this money be doing otherwise? That can't be answered. But it stands to reason that the owners of the money would be attempting to put it to profitable use.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be interested... What if, instead of simply being locked, the phone was eaten by a pelican that flew out over the ocean and died. Gone. Should we dredge the ocean to find the phone? It's a duty to do so, right?

The FBI have tried, and failed. How much more should they dredge before we stop harping on about this one piece of potential evidence?

In this case they have the phone physically in hand so they feel blocked and powerless, but from a cost-benefit point of view it might as well be at the bottom of the ocean.

Doesn't their duty compel them to investigate the most-likely to payout leads, not play political games over high-profile issues?
The tooling is not perfect, that's absolutely true. I have to say though that any imperfections (which are going to get fixed anyway) are well worth it if you want a pure strongly typed language for the web. There's simply nothing better (except the full-blown Haskell-to-js compilers, like GHCJS and Haste of course).

I recommend you try again and file a bug or look for help in irc if something breaks again (although I've never seen pulp init throw an error).
I really dislike the community part of Imgur as well, mostly because the people seem weird and childish, but also because it fails to add any value.

Attempting to add context is a good idea, but Imgur fails at that. Images on Imgur isn't tagged or titled right, which makes search completely useless. If you see an image, and want to find it, even later that same day, you can pretty much forget about it. The community part of Imgur might even make the problem worse, because the users just stay within the confines of Imgur, meaning they don't feel the need for tagging, good titles and search.

Take this example: http://imgur.com/gallery/X4R7y the title is "useful for arguments", except it's just a bunch of jumbled gif, there are no useful tags, no discover-ability or search-ability.

The community part shows up, because regardless of the original intent, sites do need to make money. There are no real way for sites like Imgur to make money, other than attempting to sell ads. Having a community helps sell those ads.
If you aren't being paid, and they haven't offered you any kind of equity, you are being taken advantage of.
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The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle may be caused by Gas Explosion
> In the email, we encourage people who believe their app is within the bounds of acceptable use cases on Twitter to contact us directly, and provide a link to do so.

Really? Where in the email does it ask anything of that sort? The only "unfortunate" part that I see is that this person exposed the false rhetoric and lack of flexibility that Twitter has shown time and time again. Apologize and fix it, stop trying to whitewash this.
If a machine learning algorithm takes closed-world assumptions too far, it overfits the input data. We test whether it's working by testing it on data it hasn't seen.

You can't tell whether overfitting is happening by just looking at the input data. You'd at least need a holdout set for testing.
> I really dislike the community part of Imgur as well, mostly because the people seem weird and childish, but also because it fails to add any value.

Like /r9k/ it had a great three months, and then everyone found it.
This is only a typescript definition. It only shows you the types that were already there - even before typescript was introduced. And if the JS developer was not aware that these are the accepted types for the functions then he obviously wouldn't also be able to use or debug it in pure JS.
Am I missing something?

Not really. This follows the coloring book pretty well:

Step 1. Inflexable corporate rhetoric and/or positions expressed privately.

Step 2. Other party blogs about a scenario that puts egg on their face.

Step 3. "Nah man, we're flexable! Why didn't you just talk to us first?!"
This is an excellent multi-faceted view of getting fired.

>Don’t talk to HR.

This is so true in the firing case. But do remember, as a regular employee, HR can be extremely helpful. When I took a Leave of Absence for a health issue, HR was so incredibly helpful and empathetic to help me get back on my feet and return with a smooth transition on both ends.

On the other side, having mentored a lot of people at my previous job who were on PiPs/cusp of getting fired...they are definitely not your friend and their first order of business is to protect the company.

Get everything in writing, emails etc should be printed out.
Yeah, but did he write it with typescript?
> to live in what is essentially an upscale college dorm or a retirement home for the young.

I take offense at this sentence. The author is criticizing co-living arrangements as if they were only for the young and poor, or the elderly who can't take care of themselves.

I think human connection is the key to happiness, and I hate the idea that a responsible adult must live alone, or only with their SO and family. I think living in a community can make life so much better. Whether that's a dorm at college, a retirement home, a coliving space in an expensive city, or an eco-friendly housing project where families live together and share common areas. They're all great. Don't bring in this ridiculous stigma against a new idea, when people living in the suburbs don't even know their own neighbors.
Main question, "HOW DID YOU REACH THE LIMIT?". Sorry about that but I am curious to how you hit the 17gb limit? I still struggling to reach 50%.
Try to do a great kickstarter campaign. You will ideally be able to get capital and traction. You can, and this is a bit dubious, give up 3% to a pr firm and tgey will make sure your kickstarter campaign is a success. They write articles and try to get you publicity.

This could be what you want. But think deeply about it
AI by Russell and Norvig. Machine learning by Murphy, Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie et al. Just a few good ones out of many!
> But I think that a rich, robust ecosystem would flourish more around a platform that provided free API access to noncommercial projects.

This. Also, if API access costs Twitter a significant amount of money, they shouldn't be in the platform business and shut down their API entirely.
what kind of ridiculous ad-hominem to a random "founder" is this? Do you even know under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment was signed into law?
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our commitment to enabling developers to build on our platform

I think a lot of developers would question whether or not you guys even have such a commitment at all. Twitter does NOT have a good history in this regard. If anything, you guys need to bend over backwards, sideways, upside down, and any other way you can think of, to treat developers well and woo them. I mean, somebody needs to go full Ballmer and start screaming "Developers, developers, developers!!!". [1]

Seriously, you guys are so behind the curve in terms of developer perception that "good enough" isn't even close to good enough. You should probably be reaching out to developers, offering to fly them to Twitter HQ, and treating them to steak and lobster, etc. And that's just to get back in the good graces of the development community.

Developers do not compete with Twitter, developers make the Twitter ecosystem larger and stronger and better. Twitter needs to embrace that mindset and go all in on becoming a desirable platform to develop for.

As for myself, our app offers limited Twitter integration, but we're damn sure not going to spend a lot of time and energy on Twitter given the history and what-not.

My advice? Kill Gnip, make it trivially easy to access the firehose, commit to adhering to open standards[2][3][4][5] across the board, and put developers front and center. If you want to charge for firehose access, fine, but kill any notion of some complicated application / approval process. Make it as simple as using the API now plus checking a checkbox and plugging in a credit card number, whatever. It's 2016 for crying out loud, there's no reason I should need to fill out a form and have a sales representative call me for something like that.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

[2]: http://activitystrea.ms/

[3]: http://www.foaf-project.org/

[4]: https://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/papers/W3C_FOSN_Position_Pa...

[5]: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/
I'm not sure, but I would say QWidgets only, e.g. it's QDockWidget
You can't really make money without a community/context. What value is the non .jpg page if all it has is ads?

Though it's true, Imgur is worse off for it, the reason (I suspect) for "community" is to drive income.
So, Twitter is allowing their head of Developer Relations to communicate, in what appears to be an official response, under the name `CoolAssPuppy`? Really? That doesn't seem right.
> which provided no particular encouragement that there might be other terms available

That's not entirely correct. Under option 2 after mentioning it's commercial side, it says:

There are also other solutions that offer varying levels of access as well as historical search.

It's not prominent (likely because they only want it pursued in special cases), and it's easy to miss, but it is there.
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For some of us, the dorm life wasn't rainbows and sunshine. We were the ones who moved 'off-campus' as soon as possible. I'm sure there're better arrangements, but once burned twice careful.
At first I thought that this was a 1k SVG, being that it was a static image.

Turns out it's built in Javascript, and the developer has an even more impressive 1k implementation featuring a rotating 3d render of the rose: http://js1k.com/2012-love/demo/1100