skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Peeking inside convnets
I think it's more because nowadays the higher "realism" makes asset and level creation much harder. I remember seeing a presentation about "The Order: 1886" where they described how they created the visuals for a simple fire hydrant. With amount of work that went into it you could have created a Doom level.
Time for some HN-worthy pedantry. I distinctly remember reading in DOS for Dummies that VGA stood for Video Graphics Array. Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system.
The problem is not the fanatical obsession with realistic graphics. It's the lack of fanatical obsession with unrealistic graphics or whatever else you care about. Everyone is free to do whatever you want nobody stopping anyone to do anything. Build your game and let gamers vote with their money.
What about a text, or an article? Books aren't the only source of running text.
Quake got crazy mods like Airquake, made initially by one guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X173LZkEgYc
I don't find the meta data arguments for preferring Signal convincing. All we have is the assurance to not store meta data, but this is not easily verifiable and may change any time unbeknownst to users. This is a bit better as we know that WhatsApp does store meta data. However in the era of NSL's and gag orders that doesn't mean much.

Having the implementation open source is a win, though.
I see where you are coming from. However, PayPal is involved in multiple lawsuits at the moment and previously so I would beg to differ that some of the things that they do are over the line: https://www.accountholdsettlement.com/ (one example).

Also, yes I was stupid to trust a place like Coinbase. There are plenty of other ways I could get Bitcoin (I do this now), however, I remain disappointed in the way that Coinbase has begun to evolve.
>for all languages with exceptions ( that's an exceptional event )

Unless, like me, you expect the unexpected.

// if we're still here, guess it worked!

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Recent discussion of the Antikythera: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11902342
I haven't yet. I'm a bit torn on whether or not to release it given the potential privacy implications. With more sites and a classification algorithm, one could say an email is a "Gender, Race, Age Range, Job Industry, Interests, etc."

What makes this tool work is most sites (as an UX feature) will tell you if an account/email already exists. Whether that be an API call or a notice saying "Your password is incorrect", you'll be able to get the data you need.
It was a learning experience for me to use Go to wrap each site check in its own goroutine to leverage concurrency. Quite nice.
Then you have not read Daniel Eran Dilger, compared to him, Gruber is an Apple hater
They don't really need anything. These are all wedge issues, not real issues they are interested in solving. As long as there is debate and people are unsatisfied, they will continue to get elected in order to fix the broken system.

Just looking at the recent past, the Democrats had both houses of Congress and the Presidency. They were fully capable of passing every single piece of legislation that they have historically wanted. However, all they passed were a couple of measures on which the electorate were hugely split. Then they chose to sit on the floor, because the Republicans didn't let them vote on a gun measure. The Republicans have also acted this way when in power.

These are politicians playing politics - 535 people who all believe they should be President. They are all willing to string the people along to further their political careers.
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Has to be wrong, no end user in France is on 100Gbs without ridiculously prohibitive costs
I run on Windows and don't have a problem with it, but I work exclusively in a git bash environment. What kind of problem do you have with it?
That was definitely a large part of it. Another part was the desire to maximize what you got out of a particular shot: if you have one bomb per missile, then you want each missile to pack maximum punch. Improving accuracy and the development of MIRVs both contributed to less powerful bombs becoming more desirable.

I'm not sure about precision conventional weapons making nuclear weapons obsolete. I can see it for some cases. Destroying a missile silo can probably be done with a large normal bomb delivered with sufficient accuracy. Destroying an airfield would require a lot of bombs, impractical if you're delivering them on ICBMs. And destroying a well built underground command post probably requires nukes.

Worse, sometimes cities really might be targeted deliberately, at least as a deterrent. A war limited to military targets might be seen as acceptable, while having cities destroyed could make it unacceptable, so there's incentive to threaten retaliation against cities in the event of an attack. No amount of precision lets conventional weapons substitute for nukes there. (Note that MIRV and better accuracy does still push for smaller weapons, as many smaller weapons detonated over an area is more efficient at destroying things than a single large weapon.)
Why not to clarify it in the article? That's the usual trick a lot of newspapers use to catch someone's attention. Really poor journalism.
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Good marketing, I presume.
Yes, put off until after the election, and then the nominee considered at that point. There are a few Republican Senators who have publicly gone on record as being receptive to that, but on the whole Republicans in the Senate have made it clear they do not intend to consider any SCOTUS nominee from Obama, period.

Also, this is a Senate that has very consistently blocked Obama's other judicial appointments. Biden didn't take part in that kind of shit back in the 80s and 90s, either.
Nothing prevents the system to add a stack trace on the Error branch of an Either. It's just that some evaluation strategies [lazy] that are usually associated with functionally programming [Haskell] provide unusual reduction traces. An eagerly evaluated expression would add the usual stack traces.
Qbix sounds interesting. (I've starred your github repo.)

Perhaps I'm missing something, but how could the Qbix platform help to re-decentralize the web (genuinely asking 'cause I'm curious, not trying to be smart-ass)? Is this a platform that could be used - for one example - to build other platforms such as Gnu Social, etc.?
This probably means they should adjust their browser and DNS timeouts to something like half the time to complete an orbit.
Emoji are widely used in text such as instant messages and forum posts.

They are mostly in Unicode for use in SMS, but there are plenty of use cases in other forms of text.
That was kinda what i was talking about.

Quake 1 had quake-c and a simple compiler (and later decompiler) and some third party freeware to make models and maps.

Come Quake 2 you needed visual-C++ and 3D studio to make mods.
Not really... If the federal government can take away the constitutional right for anyone to own a gun, they can and likely will take away every other constitutional right. Soon after an evisceration of the 2nd amendment, people will need to raise their hands, wait for approval, and only when approved step into free speech zones for saying what they believe. Then, if the speech is not in line with the consensus the person will have a lawsuit against them.

All of those things have been proposed this year or are already enacted.
Yes, sorry... You are absolutely right!

I've always mixed up "Array" and "Adapter" for VGA, as EGA stood for Enhanced Graphics Adapter, and CGA was Color Graphics Adapter.
Discussion of the map's discovery: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440402
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Books aren't the only form of running text. Emoji are quite common in some forms of textual communication.
Technically, glyphs are supposed to meet some standards, like being shown in use in running text, before they can be added to unicode. It's not supposed to be a repository of every picture anyone ever dreamed up.

The standards are not applied consistently. Even leaving emoji out of it, the chinese "character" 囍 never occurs in running text, but there it is in unicode.
We may think that we are enlightened beings but the fact is that pictures comprise a lot of how we communicate now and in the past. Are emojis that different from hieroglyphics?
Why? What could be more insulting to Hitler than associating his 'glorious master race' with a bunch of gamer neckbeards living in their moms' basements? One of the greatest abilities we have to take the power away from something is to redefine it.
Net Perceptions Transforms Amazon into a Personalized Shopping Experience(1997)
PayPal Restores Seafile's Account after File-Monitoring Row
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EMUI is terrible, if only they would make it easy to run stock Android.
> Can a submarine that is deep underwater launch torpedoes? I didn't think so.

The maximum depth for a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo is estimated at 800 meters.
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That still seems pretty expensive. In Romania you get the same service (1 Gbps with IPv4/6) for less than $12 (45 RON).
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Why would anyone - individual or corporation - pay more taxes than they are legally obligated to pay?

Don't get me wrong: I believe that corporations should be obligated to pay much more in taxes than most currently do, but I'm going to assume that you don't knowingly pay more in taxes than you owe. If I'm wrong about that, then I'm interested in hearing your reasoning as to why you feel like the government is entitled to money to which they have explicitly stated that you aren't required to pay if you meet certain conditions.
I dont see how this is related to AirBnB. They may are a good case to study this phenomen but in reality it is the society that creates this fears.

Ironically it isnt to far off ether. Where i live the majority of black youth have a bigger criminal history than their white peers. Sure this again fully depends on how the society treats them.
The ability to destroy outpaces the ability to create and preserve. Destruction is inevitable.

When the ability of the rogue group or individual can slaughter millions, pervasive monitoring may be the only path avoiding extinction, without giving up on technological advancement.

These are two hypotheses,despite my strong libertarian leanings, that I find difficult to reject.
Good point. Letters.. punctuation.. symbol .. the lines are blurry. If I may I'd say that & is a symbol that represent a grammar connective. Which is a generic abstraction and won't cause explosion like having symbols for every word out there.
DeeperDrake: LSTM trained on Drake that responds when you tweet to it
Which one is "me" though? Which ever side I in my current state end up being?
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Mass surveillance hasnot been effective yet.
The odds that a nuclear weapon was used in combat in Yemen and it didn't make the mainstream news are so remote as to be laughable. This video is likely just a large conventional explosive misinterpreted as nuclear by people who think that "mushroom cloud" must mean "nuclear."

Another sign that this is BS is the fact that "bunker buster" and "neutron bomb" make no sense together. A neutron bomb is designed to decrease the explosive force while increasing the amount of radiation produced, with the idea that tank crews are easier to kill through radiation (which tank hulls don't protect against very well) than through blast (which tank hulls are great at protecting against). But radiation is a bad weapon against underground targets, where each foot of soil acts as shielding to reduce the amount of radiation by a factor of something like three. To destroy bunkers, you want blast, not radiation.
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The "universal" in Unicode means that it aspires to include all symbols used in any form of text; not that it should only include symbols that are used in all forms of text.
What is so good about it? I haven't played it, but from what I've seen it looked like a fairly generic monster shooter, except without a cover system.
SJW outrage articles like these hopefully will die out as gawker-style journalism does. I don't see how this adds anything to any conversation other than the demographic that travels in the US is primarily white as the US itself is 77% white. I think there will always be perceived racism or other "isms." Playing up edge cases for ad imperssions seems questionable to me. There are 2 million listings on Airbnb, its clear edge cases will always be there.

Also, it would be trivial to use this brand of multiculturalism to justify open racism. Why should a Chinese person in Chinatown who doesn't speak English allow a white family to stay in their property? Or allowing a Russian to deny a Ukranian? Or allowing a black family who have been victimized by the police to allow a family containing police officers.

I imagine most SJW's would agree for "special exemptions" for these cases. The idea that no one should be turned down is asinine. These are people's homes and by the 4th Amendment the government can't shove people in them. Want to stay somewhere where they don't have these issues? Then call a hotel.
Go read http://unicode.org/standard/principles.html. The committee follows its principles intelligently.

In this case, the codepoints were added in part because the proposers could show many printed works (user manuals, I guess) that included sentences such as "to turn the foobar on, press the ■ button", which shows that the glyph between "the" and "button" is in some way like the surrounding glyphs. Chessmen were added for similar reasons, even though very few people actually read either user manuals or chess literature.
Except of course that it is being taught. What is your motivation for claiming otherwise?
This could be true. It might not be.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got though, is you simply need to 'do your best in the world you inhabit'. That doesn't even mean just on earth, but lower level like looking after your family, yourself, others around you and trying to be happy.
This stuff is mind-boggling and fascinating but I know which outlook will make me happier!
California's skyrocketing housing costs, taxes prompt exodus of residents
Yeah, the offshore drilling is done by Major corporations that probably have questionable ethics.

I don't have the numbers on hand, but I can tell you in the midwest there are a lot of small independent oil and gas firms. Most of the money is exchanged for the other small companies to handle things like, Oilfield Services, transport, testing, OSHA requirements, environmental assurance, abd site cleanup. Local economies are so strong actually that the big players have trouble breaking in because prices are so low and efficiently handled by the small companies competing with each other.
nice, TIL

http://www.unicodemap.org/range/48/Miscellaneous_Technical/
It does matter. When you're editing code in all kinds of terminals over 4 years the basics become ingrained. Really knowing how to quit at first and being able to get to the different modes makes a big difference. Also using it on your home computer helps. Once you get used to it other editors seem cumbersome.
I distinctly remember playing it with a buddy of mine in LAN in its first days. He had a 486DX4 at 100MHz, I think, and I a Pentium 75. He could play a lot of other games better, raw speed I guess, but he really struggled with Quake. It worked, but with a lot worse performance than on my Pentium.
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I loved the VESA modes, all kinds of odd things like 360 pixels wide, and a personal favorite - 512x384, which was as much as my P100 could push and still be playable
How did that end up working out? Really curious about that working model.
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Same, however I also taught a math course at a world renowned business program and the students (college freshmen) absolutely hated any stuff to do with compound interest. They were much happier with integrals.
You don't need to be part of a big company, but it certainly helps. Especially if you want to stop a pentathalon or rifle character.

(Top result: http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/rifle-emoji-dropped-unicode-...)
That's whats so special about it. It's fast paced, highly tuned, simple monster shooter that relies on speed and dodging.

There aren't that many games like that any more. They focus on other things.
Interestingly, Underwriters Laboratory is starting to get into this game:

http://www.ul.com/cybersecurity/

How good or useful this will be I don't know. But clearly they see this as an area where people will be looking for some expert help; not everyone has the skill of a Linux kernel hacker to check these things for themselves.
And that might make sense if the government reporting system worked. The Thomas Drake case shows that it doesn't. Thomas Drake and some other government whistleblowers agree that Snowden did the only thing he could.
Did you read through the article? It seems they're reporting on something airbnb users, the company, and academic researchers have recognized as a problem and what's being done about it, including a few startups.

Not to mention the whole socially pertinent(Trump???) legacy of entrenched discrimination in the U.S.
We are evaluating various possibilities, how to implement streaming queries in an efficient and scalable way. For instance, are restrictions to the general AQL necessary for such queries to be able to scale? Stay tuned.
Agreed.

But the multiplayer, on the other hand, is the polar opposite. It has a "more of the same" kind of feeling and is easily forgettable. It tries a few things, but not effectively enough.
So who do I distrust less, Google, who is shamelessly harvesting all kinds of data just because they can, or a company with history of malware/spyware allegations?
I would argue that the language will benefit from having more diverse feedback.
If the rumor was that Apple plans to remove the headphone jack in favor of Bluetooth, then I might buy this.

But that's not the rumor. Everybody is saying that Apple plans to remove the headphone jack and replace it with audio through the Lightning port. If the long-term goal is to make everything wireless, why would they do this?

Even with Bluetooth as the replacement, the advantages are pretty small. Again, both floppy disks and optical discs were starting to become severely limited when Apple replaced them, and the trend was clearly that they would become more so. A floppy drive today would be almost completely useless even if media were plentiful and every computer could be counted on to have one, because it can't store enough. Optical discs are better but still heading that way. The headphone jack is as useful as it ever was and will be just as useful in 20 years as it is today.
Can we keep these social justice warrior posts off hacker news?
But if the shape of embedded in the text, font choice becomes meaningless.

> undue effort on every computer maker, ect, to keep up.

The effort to update the font files every few years? Unless you insist on supporting a new Unicode version the second it comes out, I don't see the big effort here? Of course there is effort for font makers, but this is quite centralised.
Yes, AirBnB exists in a country with an entrenched legacy of discrimination. What they do about that on their platform is what matters here.
> For CJK characters, they unified all semantically similar han-characters, even when they have visual forms that are quite different between Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

This isn't true. 青 and 靑 are the same character written differently; they have their own codepoints. Ditto for a huge number of simplified Chinese characters; 语 is mainland Chinese and 語 is the same character in Japanese.
JSX is nothing more than a convenient layer of sugar over JS. It's fine to avoid it, but IMO it's not really a "dramatic step away from standards".
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Nim is great, and I use it (in production), but I know exactly why it isn't as popular: Nim is fucking huge.

Most programmers I know don't even know what a pragma is; Nim uses them extensively. Nim has types, objects, is low level, can be compiled to shared objects (something that didn't come out to Go until 1.5), macros, generics, templates, oh and it compiles to both C and JavaScript (and C++, and Objective C in case you need easy bindings for those), dynamic dispatch, mutually recursive types, pointers, named arguments, tricky hash tables, procedures that look like functions or methods (whichever suits you), and an irrelevant casing (spellLikeThis is the same is spell_like_this - case only matters for the first letter and underscores don't matter), and many more.

All of this on top of a hyper fast (~2x the speed of Go) compiled language.

Most other very complete languages are not compiled so you can kinda muck around in a repl and use introspection to figure out whats going on. Nim isn't like that. You need to think and figure things out when you're first learning it. Furthermore Nim isn't yet at 1.0 and lacks its killer library. Go and Rust are easier to get started with because they are simpler languages. They are easier to teach and easier to write documentation for.

Nim kinda reminds me of Ember or Rails or C++(see note): Huge, but worthwhile to learn because you'll never feel constrained by it. I highly doubt it will ever be as mainstream as Go though. I've generally found that most people are too lazy to learn harder languages / libraries.

Note: I do not like C++ for many reasons. The tooling is crufty, syntax is awful, impossible to reason about a codebase unless its picked a subset of C++; but the one thing I'll grant C++ is that you can always eventually get what you want done.
I bet that was a blast. Did you complete the race and what type of car were you running?
He's probably not brown enough for that. But the US does have a distressing tendency to kill people without any due process.

(I really didn't mean to accuse the Obama administration of racism, but seriously, what if he'd been an Arab and living in Yemen. Would the US really not have classified him as terrorist and killed him by drone?)
Don't confuse 'intelligence' and how you communicate. Math texts are "emoji" fest with crude grammar but they represent subtle abstractions.
I see, and I totally agree with that. I'm sure that "better audio quality" will be a selling point if they do this, and most people will believe it. It might even be true, to a small extent, although the connector is clearly not the limiting factor for Apple earbud quality.
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Airbnb cant fix society, but they can easily enforce non-discrimination on their hosts.
C++ exception can be "zero cost" in the non exceptional path (for example http://llvm.org/docs/ExceptionHandling.html#itanium-abi-zero...)
> Biden didn't take part in that kind of shit back in the 80s and 90s, either.

What? He very much did participate in not considering appointments to the federal bench. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_judicial_appoin...
They probably think that you are not going to download 1GB+ video on mobile. I don't know, you must ask them.

Anyway, there is no conspiracy to deny the WWDC videos to non-Safari users or to piss them off. It's just how the Apple is, they have protocol they were pushing for a long time (HLS), they are certainly not going to use competitor (MMS or DASH).

In Firefox on Android, check Request Desktop Site and you will get the download links. Or use Chrome for Android, it supports HLS streaming. Meanwhile, you can file bug to Firefox bugzilla and ask for HLS.

I don't think Swift would replace Java anytime soon either. From JVM languages Kotlin has better chances, from non-JVM languages probably Go. (Sorry Rust fans, a typical enterprise programmer is not going to learn how to appease the borrow checker).