skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the question I am asking is whether it is possible to always get heads, an infinite number of times

No. By my definition (lay, may be wrong), the probability is the ratio of heads to tails to which we converge at the limit (infinity). The only way for it to converge to 0 is if the probability of heads was 0 to begin with, which would contradict the initial assertion that it was a fair coin.

By the way, from your previous comment it seems to me that you're struggling with getting an intuitive grasp on arguments that rely on infinity. To most people (me included for sure) it's initially difficult to accept that infinity is qualitatively different than a finite amount. Our brain seems to superficially accept the concept, but really it keeps trying to reason about it as a really large (but still finite) quantity.

Are you familiar with the argument of whether 0.999... equals 1? (Spoiler: it does) Some people have a really hard time coming to terms with it, and the fundamental problem for many comes down to the same difficulty of reasoning about infinity. Also, it's a fun way to troll people :)
I think there are other, better ways to protect the nation than what the U.S. Customs is proposing here. This is getting kind of ridiculous.
right. i just got the impression it was particular popular among the leftist crowd, e.g., HCR is now giving away 'free' tickets [1], and i thought it maybe had something to do with Hamilton's political views.

[1] https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/74685929910477619...
Simple ways of reducing the cognitive load in code
I don't like the independent but it seems to disagree with you..

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-eu-refe...
Be interesting to see Facebook enforce (or modify to allow enforcement) their terms of service over this.

https://developers.facebook.com/policy/#thingstoknow

> 3.15 Don't use data obtained from Facebook to make decisions about eligibility, including whether to approve or reject an application or how much interest to charge on a loan.

(EDIT: I know this is the Platform Policy, and not the general TOS.)
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A language extension to make C++ programming much easier
I disagree. The real problem is that no one wants to pay for it. The tools are certainly there to capture knowledge, but everyone's trying to cut costs so much in a desire to optimize for the present.
There is already precedent for criminalizing dissent -- Turkey, for example, considers online criticism of Turkey as equivalent to damaging national security by spreading propaganda with the intent to provoke attacks towards the Turkish government.

It would be fair to assume the US would be open to such means to improve security.
How would one go about compressing the captured stream?

I read it can be containerized as an MKV, but then would you re-encode as H.264, or is there a better codec?

I assume there is a quality vs time to encode trade-off?

Also, would this be a component in a viable DIY HDMI matrix switch?

I see this 4 input / 8 output 4K HDMI matrix switch for only $169 on Amazon here: http://amzn.to/28Ykyor

So, cost-wise not viable, but I like the idea of having more programmatic control of the switch.
I lost it the first time I saw "jazz + jazz = jazz"
Stack overflow command line interface
How is this much different from erlang?
You can also use devices that are USB Video Class (UVC) compliant, thus which don't require any drivers.

libuvc can be used to capture from these devices:
https://github.com/ktossell/libuvc

You can get cheap off-brand UVC USB grabbers, or you can get higher quality gear, like the AJA U-TAP:

https://www.aja.com/en/products/u-tap

Admittedly though I haven't seen anything that comes close to £45 :-)
I'm not sure I'm on the bandwagon that believes that commingling JS, CSS and HTML into a single "component" is a great thing. I just don't understand...
Use any codec scheme you like. ffmpeg and mencode are the usual suspects, or Handbrake if you like GUIs to help you along.

Realtime encoding is within the reach of some schemes on some processors.
That means it is totally impossible to get H H H H... or H T T H T T... ad infinitum? I really have no well-founded opinion on that, it just seems very counterintuitive that the coin is not allowed to yield any such sequence, they same as good as any other sequence to me.
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Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984525
> What they can do is pass resolutions in Scottish law incompatible with Brexit that Westminster will have to repeal or get struck down in the courts.

Acts of Parliament cannot be struck down in the courts, in general. This is one of the cornerstones of Parliamentary Supremacy. I believe the only case where they can be is where they are found in contradiction to obligations of the EU treaties.
> But are you saying that "user" is a perspective that is justified simply by the fact that the used has an advantage from Facebook?

As for any other product or service.

> Why should he? And doesn't he? Did you not understand him that you think he should express himself clearer?

Stallman says:

We call them "useds" rather than "users" because Facebook is using them, not vice versa.

This is provably wrong: people use Facebook and get a marginal advantage out of it that is arguably on par with what Facebook gets from them.

By the way, I agree with much of Stallman's criticism of FB. I do have an account there but seldom, if ever, open it (I also use a tracker blocker to stop them from tracking my navigation). But apparently a lot of people likes it, and find it a valuable addition to their lives.
I just realized what stripe has done is now I always tell clients "payments are the least of your worries" thanks to stripe. Hard to understate that sea change.
No, all the UK actually
Because when The Law asks questions, it is rarely innocent.

> 'Sir, when was the last time you broke the law?'

> 'Can you describe in some detail where did you spend your last paycheck?'

> 'Sir, step away from the queue. I want to ask you about this picture you took where you happen to be in front of a bank'

> 'Sir, are you innocent?'

The list of things one has to agree to in order to live in peace is getting longer and longer.
This WWDC was the first time I saw or heard of him, then I went to look up more about what he did because he seemed such a genuinely nice, warm person.
The official policy on HN now is that reposts are permitted/tolerated, provided no recent previous submission got much attention/discussion. So now we have this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11981206 21 hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11979114 1 day ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964642 3 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953187 5 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11951476 5 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944858 6 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11938225 7 days ago

I'm all for making sure good quality items don't slip through the net, and there have been examples where an item has taken off and flown on the fourth or fifth submission, but I'm really not sure this is a Good Thing(tm).

Edit: more added with a better search.
Where would you start one then?
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Realtime encoding is within the reach of some schemes on some processors.

Can you elaborate on that?

What sort of setup (hw/sw) would one need to make this viable (realtime encoding from the stream)?
Atlanta maybe? the south east has a disproportionately low number of tech companies relative to number of people (whether that's equivalent to talent, who knows?)
for half a year

That's the key part. I don't know the exact legalese, but you probably still qualified as a Canadian resident.

Once you're no longer regarded as a Canadian resident, you no longer owe Revenue Canada anything. It's a clean break.

In the US, no matter how long you live outside the country, as a citizen you still need to file a return and pay taxes on foreign income.
Reloading nginx works for certs. The tradeoff to "a lot of files" is that it doesn't need to be installed and it doesn't mess with your webserver configuration, which, if you're deploying things properly, will just get overwritten next time by your provisioning software.
MEPs belong to EU political parties, and serve the interests of the EU, not the member nation electing them. And again, having people in France elect representatives to create laws in the UK is absurd.
Good for you. Can wikipedia tell you what other countries fair better?
Well there are the pro-immigrant story notes, the race bending casting and so on - those things all played to social justice / left groups & probably helped win people over in marketing the thing (having the interest of the PoTUS does tend to help your production get noticed for instance). But none of that would have mattered if it wasn’t any good.

It’s pointless to try and ram the founding fathers into any kind of modern left/right axis - 300 years ago is definitely another country & they did things differently there. Trust me, if you haven’t heard it, get a hold of the cast album and give it a listen. It’s worth your time.
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That's a direct clone of the Tandem demo of the mid 80's.
If Neoliberals were in power, useless schools and education tracks wouldn't be so massively overfunded both with tax dollars and tax-funded loans, and thus people would actually have to learn a trade, something useful and something someone on the market requires, rather than, idk, gender studies. The idea that the free market creates useless people is ludicrous - given that the government is gobbling up everything that even resembles education and bastardizes it.
The IDE would need to run it to understand the build definition, which then gets into halting-problem issues.
In a place in which you live right now?

I don't think there is universal answer. It depends a lot on your personal situation (connections/resources available/citizenship/lifestyle preferences).
The output image uses Rec. 709 R’G’B’ components, where the darkest value is 16 and the brightest is 235, which is why the colors look washed out. It would be fair to convert back to the original color space for the comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709
This sounds like a good reason to implement traceability of products — in addition to quality and hygiene control.
Chicago. Highest returns of any startup city.

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160609/BLOGS11/1606...
The places I am referring to are not actually using Angular 2. They are using Angular 1 but like "the sound" of Angular 2.

Where the sound is the promise of a better tomorrow without actually looking at alternatives.
>If you're not using an ORM, then you ultimately end up writing one. And doing a far worse job than the people who focus on that for a living.

I don't understand why people keep repeating this myth. I do not use an ORM. I did not write one, or anything resembling one. I have absolutely no problems with accessing my database from my applications.
Reactive web programming in Standard ML
And the resulting HTML output: http://www.smlserver.org/smltojs/test/rwp_ex1.html
The trouble with that "democratically expressed opinon" was that a) it was a 2% majority b) 36% of eligible voters voted for leaving, and c) some proportion of those may well have either not undertood what they were voting for, or were misled.

That, combined with the fact that things are currently going to hell in a hand basket (look at the FTSE250, comprised of business that make most their money within the UK, as opposed to the FTSE100 which doesn't), makes the out vote at best questonable right now.

Be that as it may, I voted remain, but only beause now was not a good time to leave and nobody seemed to have a plan for exit. But I have faith in Britain - what I hope will happen is that we will accept freedom of movement, and that we will bloody well deal with it properly this time by shutting up the racists and investing in intrastructure, health and housing such that the cause of all the mess that led up to all this doesn't happen again. Fuck austerity this time - spend like there's no tomorrow, because frankly there might not be a tommorrow otherwise. Whethe that actually happens in my lifetime, I doubt, but hey oh.
>When I get to the end of a mix (using Sony MDR7506's for example)

This. All that talk about "great detailed sound" that is "as close to the original as possible" of some $1000+ headphones and yet most music is done on something like $100 MDR-7506. Moreover, 7506s are very comfortable and sturdy, I can't comprehend why anyone in their mind would shell out hundreds or even thousands bucks for their "everyday" headphones (granted, noise-cancelling or sport-y ones are a bit different thing).
IE/Edge have at least one thing good about them : you can click on a little eye icon to the right of the obfuscated field to reveal the text in the field until you release the mouse button.
Were there no neurosurgeons before those gov't subsidies were in place?
Look at Gloucestershire.

Overall it's not particularly diverse. One of the larger towns (Cheltenham, pop about 110,000) is 96% White British in last census. Nearby Gloucester is much more diverse - one street has over 70 different languages spoken as a first language, and the school in the UK (but outside London) with most different languages spoken as a first language is in Gloucester.

So, while I believe the UK is diverse it's a bit more complicated than that.
> The point is the class made him care about typography and he pushed so Apple computers would have good-looking text.

> As opposed to Windows, which did not at the time.

And to a point, this is still true. It's surprisingly hard to get good text rendering in terminal emulators on Windows and Linux. I still have to settle for "good enough" rather than the "stellar" I can get on my OS X machine.
> And why would you be uncomfortable answering a question about whether your a terrorist or not?

Because it can be interpreted as accusing you of being a terrorist, which is very offensive.
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> it's the browsers (and their users) that should benefit from a default stylesheet that looks better than the current not-so-nice defaults.

I'm sure browser vendors agree, but it would break too many sites. It's the old backwards-compatibility game.
In my experience, minimalism and cohesion are also one of the best way to sell products.

Just show how it's done. Be simple and clear. Don't try to spin. Don't inflate the future or past.
I should mention that Spry uses all of () []{}. The () are reified as Paren as in Rebol which makes it useful in templating etc. {} are used to create Maps, like {x = 1} creates a Map with one kv pair.
Differential datalog
That's just the ToS for normal developers. US Govt can get a special developer policy.
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sympy has recently added some modules, see the quantum subfolder in particular

https://github.com/sympy/sympy/tree/master/sympy/physics
Finds? Christo is an internationally famous artist who's been working for decades and has done large-scale projects throughout the world, including in New York City, Berlin and Japan.

Or did you mean funds? According to the article, this project is completely self-funded through sales of his other work. Of course, I'm sure working out good deals with local workers and craftsmen is part of his acumen.
Could you link to examples of this? I am still looking for sane HDMI capture devices for the project that spawned this, I just could not find any decent proof that these drivers existed.
Not at all! It yields that sequence all the time, in small numbers. But, it is impossible to get only heads, if you could truly flip a coin infinitely many times, which of course you can't. The larger you make the sequence, the smaller you make the probability of all heads. In your example:

P(H,H,H,H) = 0.5 ^ 4 = 0.0625
P(H,H,H,H,H,H,H,H) = 0.5 ^ 8 = 0.00390625

As you can see it's getting pretty small already. However, the probably will never actually reach 0. It's the half step concept, if you keep halving the distance between yourself and an object, you will never actually reach it. But the distance between yourself and the object will approach 0 as the number of steps approaches infinity. 0.5 ^ infinity = 0

Note that P(H|H,H,H) = probability of heads, given 3 previous heads, is still just 0.5. Any independent coin flip is 0.5 chance of being heads. But, when you've done 0 coin flips, and you ask, what are the odds of all heads for the next, say, million flips, they are nearly 0.
Blackmagic's Linux drivers are gratis, but not libre. And of course they aren't
upstream. This means that they are only guaranteed to work if you use exactly
the same kernel that Blackmagic supports -- we've had all sorts of problems
with them: the cards lock up (requiring a reboot before they will work again);
the whole system locks up; the drivers were randomly overwriting other
processes' memory (!); etc.

However our reliability requirements may be different than yours & the OP's, as
we (at http://stb-tester.com ) use video capture for automated UI testing so we
need rock-solid reliability.

I concur with the other commenter that devices with an upstream driver --such
as the UVC driver-- are the way to go.
Wherever you live right now (unless the country you live in is completely hostile towards free market business).

Moving somewhere just to found a company is a waste of resources. You can always move later if another location is more appropriate for some reason.
Tesla and SolarCity? Yes, it makes sense. Or at least it will
I think a remote, distributed company is by far the best option. There are drawbacks, but the increased size of the labor pool, opportunity to hire talented folks with lower salary requirements, lower overhead costs, and (arguably) higher productivity/ work life balance just to name a few.
That sounds like the opposite problem from releasing open source code. I would imagine one of NASA's concerns is ensuring none of the code reveals classified information. Another risk (this one for anyone thinking about publishing their code) is that it turns out to infringe on some obscure patent - though I'm not sure if it would be easier or harder to get a settlement from NASA than a private business. (So yes, "Liability." is still a possible reason.)
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Let's not forget all the people that would love to be the person receiving said information. But again, not happening.
The UK will now become a tax haven for the rich
This device happily decodes HDCP. I figured the manufacturer does not care
That doesn't disagree with the GPs comment at all. Whether it's for budgetary reasons or technological ones, the effectiveness of knowledge capture is still a huge problem.
If you don’t tip your waiter, should you tip your app developer?
Would defeat the purpose, managing it yourself could cost substantially more in $ + time.
Sounds like you actually agree, and have identified an underlying problem.

The technical ability to capture knowledge, particularly for craft trades like glassblowing, has existed for as long as humans have been organized into societies - it's usually a question of dedicating resources to support it.

The apprenticeship model needs a renaissance.
Of course he does.
Eh? RTT between London and Sydney for example is around 300ms and testing that page, I see a 316ms RTT from Singapore (in London).

Theoretical minimum RTT's based on the speed of light for systems on the opposite side of the world is nice and all but doesn't take into account the realities of packet processing on the internet.
Thanks for the correcting me. I will update the repo description. The button in bottom right corner starts moving the clock hand and also pauses it. I will add a more clear gif.

Kindly star the repo if you like it, so that it reaches more people.
Working through this now.

Totally blown away by what can be achieved with WebGL...
You are right, the default gender is male. This maybe the main cause of the difference in gender distribution.
I also want to point out:

Lets start with nobody said they were offended, just pointed out the GP was using a racial stereotype. Calling a racial stereotype a racial stereotype when asked for clarification isn't the same as "I'm offended," that is jumping to unfounded conclusions.

Saying "Indian (dots)" doesn't make sense out of context unless you are American or very familiar with American stereotypes. You also need the "feathers" part to be able to compare the two to give it some context for those who are familiar with American stereotypes but haven't been asked "dots or feathers?" before. Saying it in an international form is confusing and unclear thus a bad use of language no matter if its offensive or not. Additionally using racially charged language unnecessarily detracts from the overall message the poster was trying to convey and their post is now hidden behind [flagged].

>Visit Dallas and see that dress cowboy boots go just fine with a suit.

I just went to a wedding a few weeks ago where the entire wedding party (including the bride) were formally dressed and wore cowboy boots and I don't even live in the south or a rural area!
I recently found out that Chicago doesn't offer any shop classes to most of its high school students anymore. I learned this from a former shop teacher who has been forced to switch into teaching computer courses like Microsoft Office. Students used to learn Office by doing, now they have to learn to live with not being able to do much of anything physical with their hands unless they go to vocational school when they're 18+.
Another annoying point: the documentation only lists the api methods you can call, but not the ones you cannot. I was a bit irritated to find out that the /_update method is not supported on AWS ESS
thanks.

I just added the shrinking effect to make it prettier. I will add a more clear gif.

If you like the work, kindly star the repo, so that it reaches more people.
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Many of the Leave campaigners do actually subscribe to these libertarian views, including the only UKIP MP.

But they clearly believed so strongly, that they didn't think it was wrong to stoke immigration fears to win, and then turn round and explain that actually, free market economics suggests that low wage immigration is actually a good thing. This is playing with fire, and may end tragically.
Intel GPUs + VAAPI (https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community/vaapi) can easily do H.264 encoding in real time.

P.S. See also https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/HWAccelIntro
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"anyone raises an objection to immigration, they are almost immediately silenced by calls of racism or xenophobia"

The probelm is that those who raise objections to immigration never seem to have anything constructive to say after that. So if you're not a racist or xenophbe, how about we have a discussion about allowing freedom of movement but actually SOLVING the problems that have been brought about by it?

The EU are going to demand freedom of movement if we are to stay in the EEA - so what's your answer?
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