skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tools to go between the two (from http://cubic-bezier.com/ to Flash's HTML5 export), but I don't think there's any general solution to go from a UI like that, to code. What if one of your points is a programmatic parameter that varies over time? What if you're changing ground level with every iteration? How does the bezier-based editing UI help with that?
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Moshe Safdie used “All the Lego in Montreal” to design his Habitat complex http://www.dezeen.com/2014/12/19/moshe-safdie-movie-intervie....
Shh.. Don't let them know I make the same tech salary in flyover country as in SF, but have good schools, and a 3600 ft^2 house for 1/5 the price.
Very interesting. This makes me wonder if a similar technique can be used for compression?
What is the difference between using a neural network to do this and using a filter that obtains the same or similar effect by distorting the frames of the input randomly?

I guess I feel like there's no practical result here. It's only interesting from an aesthetic point of view.

Am I being unfair?
Did I understand correctly that when I start a tweet with a username it will show up in the feeds of all my followers? That is pretty annoying, sometimes the conversation can be public but you don't want to bother anyone with it. Also, most people do not yet allow people who they don't follow to DM them.
Class action lawsuits can cost lots of money and are frequently financed by investors. In a sense they're not much different than Silicon Valley startups.

And in the US the media has much more latitude than in many other countries, so it's a much riskier bet for a financier.
I've been running a rather large website with MySQL for the past fifteen years. There was a period when I regretted that choice and used something else. Today I'm using MariaDB and the TokuDB storage engine, and I'm so thankful that I never migrated to Postgres.

Like many people I investigated the NoSQL movement for potential applicability, and almost swallowed the hype. As I investigated more, I realised:

1. There are some specific instances where a NoSQL engine makes good sense. They're a valid option and should be considered depending on the application. In my experience though, well formed RDBMS structures are the better option in the vast majority of applications.

2. Most of the hype and growth came from people who (a) were using the abomination known as ORMs which are the canonical example of a round peg in a square hole; and/or (b) didn't know how to build performant RDBMS schemas. For these people, the NoSQL engine was fast because it was the first engine they actually learned how to optimise correctly.
At what scale have you found Performance and Size Limitations an issue? I've seen people leave due to cost before (not that I thought they were always correct), but not for the other two you listed.
There are a lot of low-hanging fruit forensic techniques that would allow for recovery of data that was once on the device and you now think to be gone, like session tokens and cookies. One of the major reasons to use full-drive encryption is so that these forensic artifacts will be encrypted in addition to the files you still actually keep around. This is also why you should enable full-disk encryption at the very beginning, OR wait while the entire drive is rewritten when you enable it.
> I honestly believe this is the reason why React is currently winning the web tech wars.

On what are you basing that assertion? I'm primarily a back-end developer, so I'm not necessarily disputing it. However, every other recruiter who contacts me asks about Angular experience, whereas I have yet to encounter a single React job listing in the wild.

I do agree that React seems to get a bit more chatter and cheerleading on HN and Reddit recently... but I never know how much of that chatter is legit professional usage, versus what people are tinkering with in their personal side projects. If I took web forums at face value, I would be under the impression that Rust is taking over the enterprise right now.
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I don't think there's a side worth picking here. Gawker are turds, Thiel too.
Which is why the 40 hour work week and dog-eat-dog economy seem to really suit those representatives just fine. No one has time or energy to make full use of representative democracy, unfortunately, except for some of the well off with resources to spare.
I had the tearing issue with my original. I upgraded to a pebble steel rather than replace it (international shipping isn't worth it), and the quality has been second to none. A year and a half on, the leather band is slightly scuffed, but otherwise it feels and looks completely new. The vibrate motor is much quieter and smoother compared to the original one as well.
You really seem stuck on that one sentence from the article, but it doesn't say what you're trying to read into it. It does not say that standard of living has decreased. Heck, it doesn't even imply that. The only thing you can really get out of that text is that people's circumstances and priorities have changed. The change might be a decrease, but there's no need to read that into it.
It seems like that kind of transition could happen badly.

I've done pure math to the graduate level and I've a modest amount of programming. But even with both these backgrounds, I've bitten hard by efforts to do applied math. It seems that applied math is very the domain of people who both know algorithms and know how to "squint correctly" at a given problem and see whether X algorithm is appropriate. And that seems to be a very necessary skill. Where the validity of one approach stops and another begins is fairly opaque until one is an expert.

The thing is that neural network appear to be fairly similar. They're somewhat generic but tuning again requires high level expertise and tutelage.

The worst case scenario is that deep learning solves a broad but still limited class of problem, expanding somewhat the nebulous area cover by applied math. Then all the expertise and credibility goes there and gradually, the nebulous area covered by deep learning stops expanding and progress actually becomes harder since there's less real knowledge, just general intuition about a single, quite general approach.
I'm the decision maker for the company in question - Authentise. It was a combination of cost and the fact that we need to support an in-datacenter install option for our customers. RDS is really great if you need all of the failover and backup options it provides and you don't have the manpower to invest in it. That's how we got our services started. But, as our expertise and automation grew it ended up being a modest cost savings to handle our own backups and redundancies. Primarily, though, we just can't install RDS in someone else's datacenter on premises.
>I'd give up current times to go back to the 50s-70s where you could comfortably live on one income in the suburbs.

You can still do that if you're willing to make sacrifices. A colleague of mine gets by on one income - I don't know what he makes now, but he started at $35k about five years ago. And this is in the SF bay area.

When you do the math having both spouses working doesn't increase your standard of living very much because of taxes and child care.
Have you tried lowering the brightness? Modern monitors can be crazy bright, which is good for watching movies, but not for staring at them for 10 hours a day.
Just referring to the first section which was about AIDS, I'm curious about this statement:

"For much of the 80’s, AIDS was killing thousands of people every year, and the official government response seemed to be: Who cares? Let the fags die."

I was around during the 80s, too, and I remember a tremendous national effort to address the problem. From 1982 on, there were crash research projects all over the US and Europe to figure out what AIDS was, and find ways to treat it.

I also remember the ACT UP group and especially the reports of them invading medical conferences and screaming verbal abuse and threats at the researchers.

You could have written a similar kind of "What about us?" article in 1935, when fully 25% of Americans were out of work and no prospects. Or in 1905, when the Progressive movement arose in response to the grim abuse of factory workers (as per Sinclair's "The Jungle"). Or in 1890 when the robber barons were riding roughshod over small farmers and other businesses and American society was riven by vast injustice and income disparity. Or in 1875 when Blacks, freed from slavery, were disenfranchised, refused education, and put down violently all across the South. One could go on and on.

Things are not now, nor will they ever be, perfect. It's always possible to find fault with the system. It's important to keep trying to improve things.

Yet, I have to believe that the blogger who wrote this article has a roof over her head, not in danger of freezing to death for lack of utility payment, owns a computer, probably also a smartphone, probably also a car, and gets three square meals a day despite feeling underemployed or overlooked. In short, the poor and the victims of the vast economic changes that have convulsed our society are better off today than ever before.

At the same time, huge debts and vast regulatory structures have choked off the kind of small and medium businesses that at one time employed much of the middle class. We have a lot of work ahead of us to restructure our society and level the economic field once again. I think it's possible.

New disruptive industries will arise that will afford fresh opportunities for young people. 3-D printing might be bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., for example. The energy sector, currently in a bit of a slump, nonetheless has a bright future between fracking and solar/wind alternatives. The chemical industries are moving back to the U.S. thanks to rock bottom natural gas prices. There's a lot to be hopeful for, actually.

Just my 2c.
It's because it's a pretty situational thing to talk about. IMO, the most sensible reasons to move away from RDS would be customer requirements or you're not using AWS for anything else.

What traits are you comparing on? What kind of a thing are you building? What features (cost, performance, ease of use, time) are the most important to you?
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I hate when people use the specifics! For instance, I was saying that the police shouldn't be allowed to arrest people. In fact, the state has no right to jail anyone.

Then, somebody came along and said, "In this case, they proved that he had murdered that person. And the murderer confessed on camera, too! In that case the state should be allowed to jail them."

And I was like, "What are you doing there, using specifics? My point is that, in general, the state shouldn't be allowed to jail anyone! Especially in general cases of murder, which few of us are familiar with."
Maybe Yani himself can chime in when it's daytime in his time zone, but if memory serves correctly he did look at WAL-E. It had some nice features in its favor. I'm not sure why it didn't make it into the blog post.
Sounds exactly like that. Yet again Twitter goes: "you know all those things people keep asking for? let's do 4 different things and get rid of something with no workaround available".

This is so bad it's getting hilarious. I mean, either the leadership is completely unaware of issues people raise for years, or they are and intentionally neither comment on nor fix them. Either way - WTF? I honestly think they're just delusional about being too big to fail at this point. Another social network will make them the latest MySpace though, just a question of time.
Thanks for your opinion.
What's there to say? We "destroy jobs" in the same way that cars destroyed professional carriage drivers and automated looms hand-weavers. Phone systems no longer run on switchboards. Few of these are considered major losses for society.

I once worked on a product that did a guy's 40-hour-a-week job completely. He had spent every working hour compiling a series of reports by hand. Then he spent none, because we did it for him. He was our happiest customer.
Yes, we did move to a regular EC2 instance for our cloud service. Where we install databases on premises for our customers it can be bare iron, but it can also be a similar virtualized setup.
I would call it consumeriat. Our consumption drives supply and we need it to fund things like infrastructure and technology that help us consume things better, and in the process the general standard of humanity rises (as long as there are sufficient resources and the planet is not too disrupted by climate change).
30,000 iops is 1/2 of a crappy consumer grade SSD.
6TB is fairly low for projects that generate any sizable amount of data.
We don't run things in AWS unless it's strong client preference.
That doesn't answer his question though. Let's say they have 4 types of particles: CMYK. If the charges are as follows: C > M > Y > K, you will always have C arrive to the front first. How do you make only Y go the front to display pure yellow?
The innovative is that bitcoin is an autonomous computer network. It uses game theory and cryptography to ensure that no one entity can control and network and that the network always performs its operations independently and neutrally. This is an incredible innovation. Etherium is not this and just empty hype. There is a lot of misinformation out there. Bitcoin is not just a data structure.
to be honest I am awaiting the day I can just cover an entire wall in them so I can be outdoors all the time
Wyoming is one of the state's hit hardest by the unnecessariat phenomenon. Thats the tragedy.
For the sake of correctness, the first const should be 0 and the second should be `1 << (iota - 1)`.
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Peter Thiel is a delegate for Trump. I for one welcome our new asshole billionaire overlords. They've meritocratically proven that they're better than us and they deserve it.
On the Mathematical Foundations of Learning (2001) [pdf]
It can bring a cost savings, but the savings is very slight if you're comparing apples-to-apples. For example, if you're using RDS in a multi-AZ replication set up with periodic S3 backups you have to take into account running each of the replica instances and the S3 costs. What we found was that RDS was treated like a black box to our automation (which was a good thing for a long time) and so we were less attentive to being over-provisioned and actually testing failover situations than we should have been.
When people say the signal to noise ratio is bad, articles like this are in the "noise" side of the statement.
Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) Consortium
See also http://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2016/05/23/a-cache-...
Slashgear posted a video of the actual color e-ink panels in operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2V9iuTW3sA
If one side can afford a decent lawyer and the other can't, sure, the money probably makes a big difference. If one side can afford a great lawyer and the other can only afford a decent lawyer, maybe. If both sides can afford great lawyers... are there amazing lawyers who are that much better than great lawyers? It seems to me like, beyond a certain point, having deeper pockets wouldn't really make a difference, and the case would be determined on ... its merits, and the choice of judge, and the choice of jury, and possibly other considerations. Well, the point is, it wouldn't be the money.
Pebble engineer here. You can absolutely disable data upload and continue using pebble health. The support team will guide you though it. In the future, we hope to make the settings options to do so more explicit.
The only feature that currently requires analytics to work is voice transcription.
Media can also corrupt the courts. Have you seen "Making a Murderer?"
In Mexico it's more the case of not being able to afford living alone if you're not a college educated professional; also roommates are not a common thing in Mx as there is always a general lack of trust towards strangers
Responding to something without reading it is just stupid. There's no other way to describe such an action.
The idea that France is owed a piece of all media-spend directed towards french people is disgusting and legally unsupportable.

The only reason it's even a debatable issue is that they forced Google to redirect the .com domain to the .fr domain for IPs geo-located in France. No country can be trusted with this power because this is only where it starts.
Sigh.

There's relying on specifics, and there is abstracting ideas to such a broad point that the entire debate is meaningless. You and I both know there is a middle ground.

EDIT: eugh, forget it. I dislike how argumentative I end up being on HN. Such a waste of productive time. Overdue adding an entry to my hosts file...
> were using the abomination known as ORMs which are the canonical example of a round peg in a square hole

Indeed, the "Vietnam of computer science."

https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
Did you come across this?

A Canvas Made of Pixels (claybavor.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10900439
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Sadly, it won't matter. Here's another example of Disney neglecting successful markets they created. I just re-read this DuckTales 25th Anniversary Retrospective from a few years ago because Alan Young/Scrooge died the other day.

Excerpt:

But what media company has almost 4 times the market
capitalization of CBS and is among the largest media
conglomerates in the world? That would be Disney of course.
And what is Disney doing to celebrate the 25th Anniversary
of DuckTales, the most successful syndicated cartoon series
in history? Absolutely nothing.
I'm always quite amazed at Disney's inability to capitalize
on their own successful products.

http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/ducktales-25th-ann...
The idea that someone hand-input 331 bytes of code by this manual method reminds me of a quote by Joey Hess on https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/ouch__33__/ , regarding the development of an RSA implementation in Perl that two people got as a tattoo: "I remember sending that in, but until today I hadn't realised that my keystrokes had actually translated into needle sticks for two people, Youch!"

As the video mentions, the person who developed the 331-byte Flappy Bird implementation specifically optimized it for code size, to make it easier to enter by hand.
A Company Is Trying to Resurrect the Brain Dead, a Really Bad Idea – Big Think
I really wish they would start using it on ATMs. Outside in the sun is a pain. They light the things well at night so it shouldn't be a problem.
Risk free, assuming you're OK with having your currency locked up in the interim- I'm predicting an ether price spike before the DAO is able to split, allowing ether holders to capture gains unavailable to DAO holders.
As an advocate of free markets and private property, I don't have any issue with bias expressed by or within Facebook. That's their prerogative. However it's my prerogative, if I so choose, to publicize their bias and dissuade others from using their platform. Rather than appeal for state intervention in the matter, I sense that's what a great deal of others are attempting to do.
Magazines and newspapers.

Just in case it wasn't obvious why this will type of tech will be huge.

Also - IoT displays. Hell, in the long term, _all material that is graphically designed and may need to change. Advertising, signs, dashboards, frickin' everything.
Here's how it looks to me:

A very big bully (Thiel) beating up a medium sized bulley (Gawker).

I hate bullies.
In all of my past experience, terms like these in employment agreements are "take it or leave it" and not subject to negotiation. I once tried the "let's strike it out and see if they notice" thing, and the next day got a very clear and terse "Sign it unmodified or GTFO" from Legal. I've never heard of anyone successfully negotiating anything besides normal things like salary and vacation, but it may happen from time to time.
On an overclocked 2600k now, with the ageing Sandy Bridge, I'm in the market for a >4 core CPU myself.

It's a shame the AMD is nearly half a year away, I need the invoice dated June 30 at the latest for tax purposes. So if the AUD isn't too horrible I'll probably just get a 6850k, water-cooled and overclocked, with the Samsung 950 M2 drive and 32gb DDR4 ram with room for 64. For my work in Visual Studio/NCrunch/Resharper this will be a killer combo, especially for the I/O offered by 4 PCIE lanes to the SSD.

Can't wait to see Intel get some competition again though.
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Bernie Sanders seems to be quite popular as an openly socialist presidential candidate, so it cannot be said that it is practically taboo to discuss the supposed shortcomings of capitalism in the US.
Isn't I2P still "peer-to-peer" by default? That is, the fact your IP is connected to I2P is broadcast to everyone. That makes every disconnection an opportunity to trace you, directly and by elimination. It's especially bad with torrents, which are probably the most popular use of I2P.
on a side note, I never heard this voice over version before. I am only used to the Harrison Ford voice over. This one lets me understand why many didn't like the VO.

Now back to the article, can someone explain about how many passes before it gets to near film quality? Can it extrapolate missing frames eventually?
So the solution is that the US should abolish the minimum wage and make it possible to cheaply bribe your way out of following regulations, so that middle class people can afford servants again?
This film sounds like what would happen if you purchased the components of a blockbuster from Aliexpress and then had them pieced together by China's Tommy Wiseau.
OK on a different computer I'm seeing 768 ms for React and 398 ms for Vue. Maybe I got the tests backwards before. Or maybe there is that much variability. I'll have to check again.
I agree with your assessment. I'm running AMD right now and it may not be "as good" as Intel but it is not the bottleneck in my system. I can do everything that I want to do for an affordable price.
There are ten tech cities in Canada? I thought there were like ten cities in total. :)
OK a bit of topic, but just curious we are considering rolling Postgres hosted service that would support much large instances up 50TB
much higher IOPS 1,000,000+
lower latency (infiniband vs ethernet SAN)
pricing would be in line with AWS RDS +/-
optional ElasticSearch integration
optional change notification pub/sub
Would you guys be interested/think such service is a good idea? Would appreciate to learn what you guys think?
The amount of resources to process a whopping, what is it, 2 transactions a second? (And don't say "but lightning network!". Come back to me when something ACTUALLY happens.
Can someone clarify how this compares to LXD, released by Canonical in Ubuntu 16.04? A lot of the keywords and concepts seem similar.
>> `site_id` varchar(50) NOT NULL,

> Why varchar(50)? UUIDs are 16-bytes.

Why do you think it's a UUID?

> The best way to store them would be the binary bytes (which is how postgres stores them).

Is it actually better than a pair of BIGINTs?
I will. My system runs lots of closed source code already.
The security of the Tor network depends on diversity of relays and exit nodes. If the Tor project ran all nodes, then that is low sysadmin diversity (but high network and jurisdiction diversity) and thus lower security.
So since they have 8 pigments, it's 5 bits then.

8^5 = 32768

That explains the posterization.
don't forget upto 40% of her output goes to the government in taxes. so even the civil service / employees of the state (who don't care about left or right) prefer both working...