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I strongly agree with the Inkscape/GIMP bullet point. In fact I'd say Inkscape/GIMP/Scribus/Blender and I'm probably missing some other tools. It's really a shame how focused design classes are on proprietary software. I've heard the sentence "don't use Blender, it will hurt your chances of employment" a lot and "clashed" with some of the professors here.

I think there needs to be a strong "not Adobe" toolkit and probably something similar for music and film (Blender is good for film actually). Those are creative and content oriented fields that often get overlooked by us programmers but there's so many young folks that need/want good and free tools to express their creativity.
[it doesn't help that digital drawing oards and the like often don't work with Linux so maybe some more hardware as well]

Similar to the TOR point you made, maybe it's not the projects that need the money (eventhough I'd say if in doubt give it to them). More tutorials that focus on the free tools would help a lot in that field. You can actually drive adoption by having better tutorials. If my first 10 hits when I search for "draw comic book character" all lead to Inkscape and not Illustrator tutorials that's a nice win.
I don't think there was any choice, the forefront of Web Development is on node.js/npm asset pipeline - if they chose any other solution they'd just be forever playing catchup.
Today I have submitted a proposal for "memorization", "memo", "memorize" keyword for a function that allows to run only once through out the lifecycle in Swift 3. Repeatedly execute the function will only return the same result without having to rerun the function everytime. As far as, I don't see my submission is being visible for discussion.

memo func hello(fname: String, lname: String) {
return fname.lname
}
May be the start of Uber's downfall :(
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Sincere question: Don't you feel the lack of static typing?
I got an entire website inside a <marquee> tag, chrome showed it moving across the screen. Didn't know such a thing was possible, i am impressed.

Also, looking at the actual page source, it makes no sense whatsoever, so this is probably saying more about the fault tolerance of modern rendering engines than about the NN used to generate these pages :)
I always wondered if two users upload the same catpicture and the only difference is metadata.. Does theire cloud hash that..merge that and create a ref to that file. So twice the pr disaster not only does there offer not scale.. The
same thing goes for there tech
The main thing to know about Swift performance is that it varies hugely depending on what you're trying to do. I think it will take some time for the implementation to mature to a point where it becomes less hit and miss performance-wise. Swift as a language has all it takes to create a consistently fast implementation.

The wildcard is probably the decision to go with reference counting over a tracing GC. We'll see how that works out. There are good arguments on either side.
Microsoft staff have recently did a preview ported at Codeplex https://swiftforwindows.codeplex.com

Disappointed, only for Windows 10.
My memory on this might be wrong, but I seem to remember that Native Americans had invented the wheel, but only used it on toys.

Edit. I am glad to know that my memory is not totally shot [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel
Yes, this is a very weird peculiarity if working in Germany, for German companies.

There's only one thing I might add. If you're working in tech and/or in smaller companies, there's a good chance nobody will ever ask for this, even less than for university degree papers, etc - but in many other fields or if you're planning to join a big corporation, I'd still suggest to get one when you leave.
Here's the Google perspective: https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/05/why-apache-be...
>"There should be some kind of agreement where hosts can not book a given slot if they deny a user in good standing that reservation."

Short of having someone "Verifying" the reason, this would have the unintended consequence of disallowing the host from using any reason, good or otherwise, to decline guests.
The paper is paywalled so I can only read the abstract, but I am super curious to learn how the researchers were able to confidently determine the male students' rationale. The researchers claim that stereotype threat caused the male students to perform worse on the reading test when the students were not told the test was a game. How did the researchers figure this out without even asking the students?

They are so certain of this conclusion that they put it in the title of the paper. It's amazing how much they could infer from test scores alone. I'm curious to read the paper to determine how they were able to rule out competitiveness, confidence, and every other explanation of the results.
i2's claims are astonishing. Can't help but think that, had the nationalty of the firms involved been the other way around, the Justice Dept would have prosecuted Palantir and Sankar (which would likely have finished them as a government contractor).

I wonder how much Palantir paid to settle the lawsuit.
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Ask HN: How do you find the optimal EC2/Azure instance type for your workload?
I'm looking into performance differences between cloud instances. Now there's the usual benchmarks and frameworks, some also specifically geared towards cloud e.g. PerfKit benchmarker [0].

I'm more interested in automating performance testing of my custom workload (say a web application deployed as a docker container). Are there any tools that you can just give your AWS/Azure credentials and it will deploy your container to various machine types, run some tests and collect the results? What are you using for finding the optimal machine type and vertical vs. horizontal scale for your applications?

[0]: http://googlecloudplatform.github.io/PerfKitBenchmarker/
> Trump’s America is already here. It’s not yet in power though. Personally, I will fight back.

grow up
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On-To-Mars, On-To-Mars!

Makes much more sense, should be good for years. You saw it here first. :D
That will rely on LLVM?
> Maciej built his entire brand based off of HN.

Not true. He had his blog readers before YC existed. Later he also participated here, got banned for (debatably) harsh words, was asked to return, and returned without much enthusiasm, AFAICT.

Some of his "brand" (now there's a telltale word, there), perhaps. Entirely, no.
A friend of mine will be starting an epidemiology grad program this fall. Do you have some good basic pointers on the use of GPUs in the field? Also .. what is your opinion of the field in general?
It seems unlikely that much of this is actually due to climate change, but rather due to the way forests are managed (although this may be different in Canada where the forest area to people ratio is much higher). I don't have a good link handy but much has been written on this topic. In short, in the US at least there has been an attempt to avoid all forest fires, which leads to fewer fires that are more severe when they do happen. I don't remember the details and can't find the article, but it was mentioned that one area of the forest near last year's Oregon fire was under different management techniques and fared relatively well.
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I am pointing out intellectual dishonesty. You cannot replace "God" with "Universe" for most religious texts and get a meaningful, or even more consistent, interpretation. The exercise cannot even be applied to most polytheistic religions - you conveniently stayed within the Abrahamic faiths. Nor can you reconcile omniscience with special relativity.

Certainly you can cherry-pick phrases, but it makes no more sense to substitute God with "Universe" than with "Merlin" or "my dog Spot." The result sounds ineffable, but it's as fundamentally sound as numerology.

If you read the Bible as a story of ancient culture, which I encourage you to do, then you malign the culture by misreading what they wrote. You instead end up reading reflections of your own thoughts of the world, so of course that interpretation is going to make more sense to you. And yes, self-delusion can be fun.

If you really want to understand what those early Jews were trying to pass on, learn more about the Mesopotamian mythologies, and archeology, and the political dynamics of around 600 BC.

BTW, I am not "offended." I am annoyed. Those are different emotions. I am also annoyed that you make false assertions about me, when my own HN history shows just how false that is. I would be intellectually dishonest should I believe it impossible or "abhorrent" to pass down a faith tradition over dozens of centuries. The 2,000+ year history of Christianity, the 2,500 year history of Buddhism (200 years with a written canon), the 2,600+ year history of Judaism, and the 3,000+ year old history of Hinduism - the Bible, Torah, Pāli Canon, and Upanishads, respectively - are all trivial counter-examples. On what basis did you conclude that I reject any of that history?
Medicare also has a payout problem so bad that doctors refuse to accept. Many providers have stop taking Medicare, I know my grandmother has all kinds of problems find places outside of the Hospital to take medicare

Price Controls have never worked in the history of man kind, we have a over all provider shortage now, if you remove the incentives and make being a Doctor a low paying job no one will spend the money to become a doctor. Price control always result in any less supply or lower quality or both...

That is what Medicare will get you, EXTREME wait times, it will take you weeks or months to be able to see a doctor, but hey it will be free, who cares if you die while on a wait list.....

You get what you pay for
While I was rooting for Maciej, I understood why Y Combinator didn't want to fund him, and I don't understand this decision at all. Maciej applied to YCF, not to just get the money, even if that's all he wanted. He should have either took the money and the mentorship, or nothing at all.
> I can't even imagine the leaps in skill I'd have to make before the difference between 50fps and 150fps had any impact on my performance

Keep in mind fps are normally given in averages. You can go up to a wall and have nothing on screen and get an insane FPS or you can back out and take in all of the area with max view distance and see a lower FPS. Add in players/objects/explosions etc and your FPS dips and dives.

Having an average of 50FPS means you likely ARE going to notice it at certain dips while at 150 average would be much less likely to get a perceivable fps dip
it means its another paper launch by nvidia
ServiceStack isn't closed source, framework, IDE integrations, client libraries all on GitHub.

https://github.com/ServiceStack

Licensing means there are dedicate developer resources working on regular improvements all the time. Disclaimer, I am one of those resources :).

Regarding 'secret sauce', it's not a secret at all, as others have said it has a big focus on simple message based approach. Recent SO question was asked sums it up.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36962263/can-i-use-servic...

Edit: grammar
I actually argue to replace all Social Safety Nets, all Universal Healthcare, every government program with UBI...

I do not believe the government should provide Food, Home, or Healthcare assistance to any. I do however believe every person should enjoy basic income level to buy those things for themselves

http://forum.somethingtoconsidermovement.com/t/geolibertaria...
and still not fully DX 12, oh nvidia
I was helping a friend put together a Titan X "rig" and we realized that case space, power supply and motherboard slots were some mundane but frustrating challenges. For someone building out a new rig for personal/hobbyist work in deep learning, any recommendations? Is the best setup to get two 1080s, 16-32 GB of RAM and a 6th generation i7?
Probably tumblr.
Couldn't this have built upon https://github.com/facebook/css-layout ?
Ask HN: Any free/open source simple employee time tracking software?
Hello,

I am looking for solution something like toggl.com which is either free or open source. Employee can sign in and add a note what they will work on.

And when they logout then also they can add a note. thats it.
I'm not convinced that freedom and security are quite as opposed as some claim; centralized control has repeatedly been shown to create its own security problems.

But supposing and to the extent that they are, I'll bite that bullet. If I have to trade away security for freedom, then I'm willing to do exactly that.
Signal has a nicer communication user interface for some communication compared to email + PGP but it has not really solved the verification problem that many secure communication methods have.

The grandparent is advising the writer to improve the verification aspects that PGP provides.

Have you tried re-establishing trust with a Signal user who wiped their device? It falls back to the same PGP problem of comparing a string of numbers over a different secure channel.

Moxie addresses some problems with the OpenPGP RFC and with the GnuPG implementation, but after re-reading that post I don't see how it relates to the verifiability issue the grandparent is bringing up.
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Yes. I'm very glad with the addition of 'let' to ES.
I read it all. Seems like schema is more-or-less getting taken care of.

But I don't get the big problem here. If someone _needs_ DataSet/Table, why don't they just pull in the reference source or Mono? That beats bringing that into the new Core API and avoids bloat. If it turns out it's too critical, put it in 1.1 or something.
The consequence is closer scrutiny next time, and less likelihood of "getting off" as easily next time.

Being allowed to go "oops, our bad" every time would have bad consequences, I agree. Being able to go "oops, our bad" every now and again because you usually do ok is another matter entirely.

One of the incentives to do good can very well be that it makes you more likely to get off easy when something occasionally goes wrong - it's good insurance.

It boils down to trust: You get off easy with a "oops, our bad" when people believe it is a genuine, occasional mistake, rather than a regular case of "shit, they caught us, better backpedal".
> And this is true for quite a long time. I think the last distro that did /usr merge is Debian and this is already 3 years ago. So I find surprising that people still thinks that this is a issue.

It hasn't happened on openSUSE yet:/
Parent just took a "conspiracy theory" thing that's popular around Waterfall and run off with it.
https://github.com/toggl/toggldesktop
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Even worse, he probably studied "free radicals"! (I suspect a typo in parent)
Does that count as vicarious Godwin? 'Collectivism is triumphing because of too much individualism' is not a strongly coherent argument. Also note that those of the intelligent alluded to here did in fact combine, with historically significant results.
> Calling Palantir a "sweatshop" when the starting salaries are six figures is ridiculous.

Why does the salary matter?

The labor in those firms are treated like fungible slaves, worked for illegal hours and disposed off uncerimoniously after a few years, to be replaced by fresh bodies.

"Sweatshop" is a mild term.
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I'd love to bring really important open source projects to baqqer and support them with monthly pledges. I'd like them to be transparent and open with their direction and progress, while simultaneously letting the community there help guide and support their efforts. Does anyone know any great open source projects that would be open to this?
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I am sure they do, I never argued that I like our Current mix of heavily government regulation, mandatory 3rd party billing, and a variety of other fucked up policies imposed by government.

It is likely that single paying would be provide lower cost then what we pay today, I think it is highly unlikely it would result in better care. For example in many places in the EU semiprivate rooms are only for those Rich people that pay for their care, the "free" sick people are put in "efficient" open-plan hospital ward with many more people

Also there would be a huge drop in medical research, in addition to government regulation driving up costs, the US Health System more or less carries the rest of the world for R&D, companies charge the US exorbitantly because in the rest of the world there are price controls, once they stop being able to exploit the US Health Consumer because we also have price controls they will simply stop or slow their R&D to safer avenues and take less risks..

There are also 1000's of other reason why a US Universal Healthcare system will be vastly different than any thing any other nation has tried.

One big one is our obesity problem, once we have Universal Healthcare, are you then going to support Universal Diets, and Universal/Mandatory Exercise??
I have always wondered what Hugh Everett would have done in physics if he was not so discouraged.
Regarding the paywall:

http://www.sciencedirect.com.sci-hub.cc/science/article/pii/...
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> 2. Increase the contrast of the text in the description - as a (slightly) older person reading large blocks of light grey text on a light grey background is hard going.

I'd love to see some decent research on this. I'd like to see what the eyesight is like for the average web designer, compared to the average eyesight for the general population.

Here were not talking about people who meet the level of "visual impairment" - they may wear glasses, but their nowhere near meeting requirements to be counted as disabled.

Yet very many websites make the mistake of having either light text on a bright background, or of having a bright white background and black text.

A vision-simulation mode plug in might be useful.
That is very likely, considering how different girls and boys are raised in regards to authority and competition.

On reddit’s /r/science several people with degrees in the relevant fields have also speculated that this might be the case.

From personal anecdote, I can confirm that guys usually care less about what an authority thinks, and more about how they are in relation to their peers, while girls consider competition less relevant.
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This is obviously pure politics on both sides of the issue since it is just a document and the whole thing is absurd.

In the era of the internet and "the cloud", the report is going to be available to everyone forever (if it was ever available in the first place).

However just like the lack of prosecution of bankers for the financial crisis, there is also no responsibility for torture on any level by this administration and likely the next.

Everyone from John Yoo to the people who actually did the hands-on are doing just fine and very well physically and financially.

And if Feinstein had not been pissed off by the CIA so much, she probably wouldn't even have a problem sweeping all this under-the-rug. She is quite the hawk and pretty much a Democrat in name only.
In Germany it is virtually impossible to become homeless, because of many, many welfare programs to keep you afloat (Guess also in most of Western Europe). Thing is, you still have homeless people here. Not just those that flock from other countries. But people you might recognize from elementary school.

A lot of welfare programs do a lot for the majority of people in need (mentally sane) but nothing for a small minority (mentally ill). Because going through all those hoops of regulation favors those with a stable mind and actually scares off those without it (the most needy). Remember the shame to make your neediness public, to strangers or your neighbors and family, the anxiety to be turned down by some bureaucrat, to feel powerless, hopeless and useless. And while having all these emotions, you're supposed to manage your appointments and paperwork for receiving help.

Being mentally stable enough to make and keep social connections surely helps in this scenario, as you could casually ask around what government programs to skim or how to fill out forms - without disclosing your uselessness. Again, schizophrenia isn't helping here.

In contrast, many in our "intelligentia" are doing rather well within the welfare system. They know which funds to access, have a network of other people doing the same, people that know what paragraphs to blast back at the unfriendly bureaucrat. People less educated, less socially connected, less mentally stable loose out in those situations.
I was just pondering about this too. I would love to get some inputs from HN.
Althought I think Tesla has some challenges ahead of them, it seems like they only interviewed a bunch of sceptics from Michigan for the article. Not a very balanced piece.
It's the best tutorial so far.
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Weird comment. Like a grandma driving a Ferrari with a broken gearbox: "I am perfectly fine driving at moderate speed, maybe I am not pushing the car hard enough. I am perfectly fine that the mechanic deactivated the malfunctioning higher gears".

You may not notice it nowadays because several games received patches and newer nVidia drivers limit the memory consumption to just below 3.5 GB. Otherwise you would experience a major slowdown. Also a major problem for CUDA.
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Hi, I am big fan of Pomodoro technique. But most of the famous pomodoro apps have common interface of a timer/clock. They capture the idea of “Pomodoro way” but still something is missing. So I decided to build my own version of it in my app Crimson Box [I posted about it some time back about it].
The core vision is : the aliens monsters are attacking our planet. These aliens are strong and have multiple lives. The only hope of us is a laser cannon, but the problem is we have to charge the cannon, before firing. The only way to charge the cannon is to work on a task for 25 mins. Each time the cannon fires the boss's health drops. If the boss is defeated within a set time, untold riches are dropped. And if the boss lands on the earth … [horror horror]
Here is what I created. www.crimsonbox.net or https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crimson-box/id1069271059
I'm a man and I really dislike competitive aspects of society. I mean if I'm playing a game and it's for fun, I'm okay with it, as long as everyone play to play, not play to win.

If I'm literally competing to earn a living, or if it ends up in praising winners and blaming losers, it won't be enjoyable, and I'd rather not play at all. Having humility also means that when you win, you also congratulate losers for playing.

I agree that we need to compete on some aspects, like technology, science, construction methods, and business in general. But competing between individuals brings out the worst in people. And that's where exclusion starts: if you keep slapping people's self esteem by telling them that life and society is a game of winners and losers, you'll end up with less and less people ready to take part in it.

Overall, I sense that men avoid competition much more than women do. Or maybe it's the political climate that does. I don't really know.
Is this not better suited to GCD operations? dispatch_once handles this exact use case.