skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link is a demonstration of Z-buffering. I don't know that I'd call that "the core algorithm of 3D", but it is pretty important for most real-time rendering.

The description doesn't give a lot of detail about the algorithm or its issues. The main problems to be aware of with Z-buffering are Z-fighting and the lack of support for transparency, neither of which are demonstrated. Here are a couple of links that go into a bit more detail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

https://www.sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/alpha_sorting.html
The problem is not that going to the gym is a waste of time, but what you did there and how you did it was.
A Chrome plugin to redirect any youtube URLs to this would be great :-)
> 3. Not. We've experimented with this internally but so far have not decided to release ephemeral aspect to public. Not enough demand. As someone else commented - you can delete content from your devices (syned across if you're logged in from more than one), but content will remain on other people's devices.

You may not see demand, but the userbase for an app like Wire or Signal is itself very small and with almost no demand (compared to just having a messaging app with emojis, GIFs and stickers, for which there is a huge demand - encrypted or not). :)

I use this feature in Telegram called secret chat with the self-destruct timer set to a specific duration to exchange sensitive information like banking information or other things that I don't want to remain for long.

(By trusting Telegram's encryption for secret chats) This makes it quite simple to exchange information which otherwise would involve asking people to delete specific messages or wondering if someone really deleted it or just forgot to do it because of laziness, forgetfulness or just being busy (not attributing malice to the other party here, since the information can be captured for posterity through many other means).

I hope you would consider this feature even if you see "not enough demand", because for those who need it, it's a real blessing to have it!
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And Peaky Blinders is just Brummy (birmigham) accent not full on yam yam - the Black country dialect

Its funny but Peaky Blinders accents make me feel at home - ok I do have connections to pre legalization bookies :-)
I wish someone would build an Android app for YouTube that doesn't absolutely suck like the official one.

Or, has someone already done this and I'm not aware?
Chucking my naming idea, call it rights.

Everybody wants rights and nobody sane is against having rights when rights means their right the free speech, their right to a fair trial etc.
Ask HN: What type of small hardware would YOU need?
I've been playing around with hardware as part of a ultrasound imaging side project ( https://hackaday.io/project/9281-murgen ) and I'm having fun with hardware.

I'll be having more time soon and will be happy to help on and/or hack hardware for side-projects. So, what is your hardware scratch/need you would like to scratch?
Its the BBC :-)
> I reckon this is because people speak language throughout their lives and therefore believe themselves to be experts, and by extension, any linguistic judgments they make (which almost always line up with some old fashioned racial/regional/class- or even gender-based bigotry) are facts.

It's common about everything people tend to do regularly. It's like many are missing the distinction between being good at doing something and being good at the meta-level, being good at reasoning about that something. One helps with the others, but they're distinct skills. Sure, most people are experts in communicating using a language, but they're no more experts of the language itself than a person digging ditches their whole life is automatically a shovel expert or a civil engineer.

(Similarly, the time when most programmers could be called "computer experts" are long gone.)
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Sounds, dare I say, like the very definition of this political correctness thing conservatives are always complaining about.
Came here just to say this. Pleasantly surprised to see front-end project without a package.json, a bundler, a UI library. Even the templating is inline!
They don't respect their customers, they're thinking only of the money that can be made by having hundreds of of millions of people on Windows 10.
This is not unprecedented with big companies. Remember when Google set to convert every YouTube user to G+?

My theory is there's some internal incentive system set up, and the users suffer the ugly consequence of it. Am sure some people bonuses over there depend on quarterly user conversion rates.
Btw, a shoutout to the awesome OmniPascal project, which allows you to write Delphi and FreePascal in the Visual Studio Code editor (when you are not building GUI apps, and and/or don't need a full blown visual IDE, or just for navigating around in legacy code bases): http://www.omnipascal.com

Unfortunately, code completion is so far only available on Windows [1], but will hopefully come in due time (you can vote for the issue in [1]).

[1] https://bitbucket.org/Wosi/omnipascalissues/issues/6/add-ric...
if we think of the Internet, we certainly want it to be controlled by parties living in the Western democracies

No, that is not enough. If it is to be controlled at all, I want it controlled by democratic bodies, not simply by parties that happen to reside in a democracy. Or would you be happy to let the Internet be controlled by Enron, Halliburton, the NRA or the RIAA?
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Can you give any evidence to support that statement?
It's long saddened me that you can't get Prairie Home Companion as a podcast: there's too many songs from too many authors so they don't even try to acquire the rights. Our copyright regime still needs to adapt to the modern world.
Meh...it seems disingenuous (or something) to strongly imply that the people who mistakenly think they need to balance their work and their life just aren't trying hard enough to enjoy their work.

Maybe the author is implicitly assuming that he's only addressing work/life balance among similarly well situated peers. Even then, it seems like most people can be employed in a way that fulfills them because they're fulfilled by being with friends and family. It's easy for someone fulfilled by creating valuable software to enjoy their work, but for someone who just wants to raise good kids to have to go deal with some idiot's calendar all day must be tough.

The author's title is literally "director of fun and product design." Also, his example of how one garbage man he talked to loved being a garbage man isn't much of a rebuttal because both of them get a lot of control over their workday, which is a strong predictor of satisfaction at work.

I dunno. Just seems like someone who got lucky blaming everyone else for not being as good a person as him.
There have been interesting experiments on corvids which show their ability to "put themselves into another being's shoes", e.g. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2346514/ (first hit on Google):

> Food-caching corvids hide food, but such caches are susceptible to pilfering by other individuals. Consequently, the birds use several counter strategies to protect their caches from theft, e.g. hiding most of them out of sight. When observed by potential pilferers at the time of caching, experienced jays that have been thieves themselves, take further protective action. Once the potential pilferers have left, they move caches those birds have seen, re-hiding them in new places. Naive birds that had no thieving experience do not do so. By focusing on the counter strategies of the cacher when previously observed by a potential pilferer, these results raise the intriguing possibility that re-caching is based on a form of mental attribution, namely the simulation of another bird's viewpoint. Furthermore, the jays also keep track of the observer which was watching when they cached and take protective action accordingly, thus suggesting that they may also be aware of others' knowledge states.

The key to infering that the birds were "simulating" others' decisions was that their behaviour changed depending on whether the cache was spotted by another individual or not (it also depended on the birds' past experience of pilfering; but that only shows that the tactic is learned rather than innate).

Perhaps something similar could be done for empathy; for example, give the animals a mechanism to free themselves, which requires knowledge to operate (e.g. operating levers in a sequence). Replicate this experiment in the new setting, to ensure the animals, when shown the correct sequence, will reliably free themselves and others.

Now, go a little further; show the correct sequence to animals in pairs, where sometimes both can see the correct sequence, and other times only one can see (e.g. one can't see past a partition). Now those animals which know the sequence also know whether their partner knows or not. Once they've freed themselves, will they go on to help free the other? If they free those which could not see the sequence, but do not free those which could see the sequence, that would be evidence in favour of empathy, i.e. they're able to "put themselves into the other animal's shoes" in terms of knowledge/information ("he doesn't know how to escape, I'll help") and emotionally ("he could escape if he wanted to, so he must not want to").

This may require controlled behaviour, to engineer a situation where both animals could escape but only one does. Maybe a dummy/puppet/etc. could be used.
That reorganization hasn't made it to all teams equally I'm quite sure.
That's exactly how I read it, myblake. I would hope that somebody on the House subcommittee said to the lobbyists something like "You, the lobbyist representing ITAPS, I see in my notes that ITAPS members include, among others, IBM, Deloitte, SAP, Xerox, and Microsoft. The 18F group has a staff of 185. If the companies you represent feel they can be out-performed by a staff of 185 then why have we been giving them billions of dollars all these years? Are they, in reality, completely incompetent?"

And regarding the conflict of interest issue, YC user zacharycohn, who says he works for 18F, wrote "As a government organization, not a private company, we can't respond to RFPs. No one is really sure where this claim that we help write and then respond to rfps comes from, but it's not true."

I don't see where the conflict of interest would come anyway even if 18F was bidding on contracts. If I ask a plumber for an estimate to fix my sink, and then decide to do the job myself, I don't see anything unethical there. The plumber might not like that I'm capable of doing the work myself, but there's nothing wrong with it. I could see a problem if the 18F staff stood to receive massive raises or bonuses if they decided to reject a vendor's bid and do the job themselves. But I don't think that's the way it works for government employees. At least not government employees at that level. The higher ups do make a good profit on campaign contributions or outright bribes. And that's why the software industry lobbyists will be listened to.
I'll add a counter point and say that I like the name. Politicians have a history of inverting meanings, e.g. Patriot Act, Affordable Health Care Act, etc. -- the public is almost conditioned to invert logic to understand things at this point. Personally, I find the terms above to be patronizing and even suspicious in the political context.

The mental operation of inverting the word felony is kind of interesting and thought provoking, IMO.
In defense of Davos, or at least its cosmopolitanism
Because it's clearly a copy of Youtube (with the name included in the domain name).
Just asking, though.
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I will be the contra-contrarian. I agree that the name makes the app sound illegal. At the same time notoriety could work as a marketing strategy for the app. The clickbait headlines could get the word out there that this app exists. The more people know about the more are likely to use it.
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$ npm install @feedbackr/JoinOurTeam
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-28-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "@feedbackr/JoinOurTeam"
npm ERR! node v5.12.0
npm ERR! npm v3.8.6
npm ERR! code E404

https://gist.github.com/feedbackr-io/2782bd6cb56a0d161e76609...

Who wants to help?

https://www.feedbackr.io/
Every law passed by Bulgarian parliament serves only one purpose - to put pressure on somebody, so people in the shadows can get a slice.

edit: A new government agency is tasked with enforcing the law

Ah, I see now.
You can demo the program, so for OCR if you want to run it against an image you can do that on the demo page.

Try this and see how well it fairs -

Program ID: 9t5A2G2a (General Optical Character Recognition)

Private Key: In your /account under "User Information"

Send Data:

{
"image_url": "https://askmacgyver.com/images/passport.jpg"
}

____________________________________________

This will run the OCR program against the image below -

The image you are testing: https://askmacgyver.com/images/passport.jpg

https://askmacgyver.com/demo
Last week when he said that most of them had never had proper jobs [0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/jun/28/nigel-...
If I was the outside rat, you damn well better believe the only reason I'm freeing the other rat from the idyllic environment is so I can get in there and enjoy some paradise for myself. :)
I think folks should chill on the name. It's just a word which makes it stand out as a product. Good job !!
Microsoft are determined to reduce fragmentation of the Windows install base and to get Windows 10 widely adopted, and will do whatever it takes to get there.

Their customers have few alternatives, and there's no future Windows versions, so Microsoft don't have to play fair.
You seem to simultaneously acknowledge that AAVE is a valid dialect, while also claiming that those who speak it "talk like hoodlums". You're a racist, and you're also wrong based on the available evidence from educators that have experimented with accepting AAVE in the classroom.
Very nice - hover states (or just cursor:pointer) on the search results would be a good addition
Guess what the prosecutor will say to the jury in every case involving a defendant who uses this?

"The accused was even using an app named Felony!"
Yes. You should have seen the main app interface for defining webhook endpoints.
What an odd comparison.
Not sure what specifically you're looking for in such an app but I'm using https://newpipe.schabi.org/.
Re-reading Kahneman's “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
We may soon have the technology to alter the DNA of embryos. I wonder if parent commenter would argue that blacks should choose to have white-colored children. The same argument works. It objectively gives them a better chance in life, and not doing it hurts their chances.

But is there anyone that isn't made extremely uncomfortable by that possibility? Yet the logic is exactly the same. How is changing your skin color to fit in, any different than changing your language?

I think there is a cruel logic to parent commenters point. He's absolutely correct, teaching the kids to "speak white" would probably make them better off. At least in terms of statistical outcomes. But the suggestion just seems so wrong and offensive. In the same way as telling them to just change their skin color and "stop being black", were possible to do so.
> multiculturalism

Typically, this means the various campaigns that push political correctness related to race and culture. While the intentions might be virtuous, what usually ends up happening is people on the right become skeptical about "newspeak" and people on the left accuse the right of being "racist" (a small minority actually are). The divide gets wider. I hope that you're not being deliberately obtuse to try to prove your point. Use your imagination and try to think if there's anything about the push for multiculturalism and how it's being done that could be problematic.

> unrestrained immigration

Germany has unrestrained immigration. They've taken in something like 600k Syrian refugees while Turkey has taken in over 2M. Here in the US we have an unprotected border that illegal immigrants cross in order to live and work here and the left is trying to push policies that would slowly give them amnesty. Your interpretation of "unrestrained immigration" seems to be deliberately avoiding the hot-button topics.

> Islam

I very much doubt that the GP is talking about "ending Islam", but it sure makes it easier to argue against their post to interpret it that way, doesn't it? If people on the left can't understand the desire to have a bit more skepticism about Islam in light of the recent raft of ISIS and ISIS inspired terrorist attacks then I'm not sure civil discussion about the issue can actually be had. It's unfortunate, because I definitely sympathize with the position that says we should be tolerant of other cultures. But if that tolerance comes at the expense of security and requires labeling conservatives "racist" for having skepticism all that's going to do is result in more populist candidates and a further swing against progressive ideals.
You get fit, you can sleep better, it calms you down, you have a good time there, you accomplish something.

Why is "going to the gym" not a hobby? There is plenty of different stuff you can do and focus on and switch to after something else becomes boring or to easy.

I wouldn't say that other activities provide more value for a balanced life, I would argue, that going to the gym makes it easier to have a balanced life (focus on food, sleep, persistence, getting relaxed, reduced stress levels etc.).
Whether they are a reinvention or not, can't I be ebullient about them? I love new technology for example, and I get pretty ebullient about whatever new things there are. It doesn't mean that I'm ignorant of the past that has led up to them and it certainly shouldn't effect my thoughts on them either.
My main machine is actually a x200s. It's a perfectly fine machine for my daily needs, free software development, browsing the web, etc. If it is a machine like that I'd suggest to keep using it and treating it just like any other machine. You could even get rid of the hardware backdoor (ME+AMT) by replacing the BIOS with libreboot and use it as a slightly more secure machine for crypto.

If it's considerably older than that it might still be sufficient for software development, so you could either sell it, or have a refurbisher sell it, or donate it to projects like a local CoderDojo group.
Ah yes... it's finally been long enough... in the old days we used to see the first attempts to make programs run at the same speed everywhere or at least on two different PCs.... and it was a huge pain... wasted extra cycles to figure out how fast things were moving....

And no consistent sw arch to run things at a steady rate. And even when they did run at mostly the same rate in most of the sections of the program heh, they usually did so by wasting cycles, so the prg ran no better on faster hw....

But that was a long time ago, before sw libraries were common! And when APIS were scarcely heard of, at least for home computers and also took too much overheard....

It was the best of times, the worst of times hahaha. No one could foresee the techniques and platforms we have now. :) ah the good old days...
Was about to write a similar response- I totally agree that the cuts have definitely had negative effects.
After listening to friends and family who work as teachers, magistrates and in the emergency services, I feel that public services are really stretched and that the cuts have hit all areas negatively...Maybe it is not so obvious to the average person, but I think if you talk to anybody working in the public sector they will echo these sentiments!
If you are fluent in R, why are you looping over a data frame?
In South Australia, NXT received 21% of the vote with a party tagline of "Sick of toxic politics? Give NXT a go!" The founder has had a fairly strong profile in SA politics for almost 20 years, but got virtually nothing in terms of interstate votes.
Similar experience as an ex Chef. 60+ hour weeks, 5 days a week spread over various split shifts (so rarely 2 whole days off, and half days never really feel like a break). Working for what comes out as less than minimum wage as salaried.

In part because of this, I find it really difficult to deal with people I work with complaining about pay/bonuses/hours etc, because imo what I do now is way easier and probably less empirically useful (although obviously more valuable - thanks capitalism).

There is a small part of me that misses the buzz of a busy service though.
> - Do you have programmer APIs other than JS?

He probably means SOAP, Corba, etc. not just REST/JSON.
I am skeptical about the roofs over people's head argument. This is being used by buyers to rationalize mind boggling home values in Toronto and Vancouver. If the jobs keep being crappy, young people will just move away to better economic environments. Canada is constantly losing a lot of its top talent to the US because of this.

I think the true cause of the unaffordable housing is the insanely low interest rates. The people at the helm are attempting growth at all costs.

Edit: it is really interesting to contrast Toronto with SF. Both are really nice places to live without cost of living concerns. Both have insane home prices. Rents are relatively cheap in Toronto because of basic demand and supply. SF has great paying jobs, Toronto does not. Will be interesting to see how things pan out over the next decade in both cities.
> (numbers for 2015 are double the number for 2015)

Argh, 2015 numbers are double 2010 numbers.
Some interviews of Michel Rocard are now available (in french) on various news sites.
One funny detail is that he ALWAYS mentions the fact that politics has become incredibly difficult to do properly because of the small time available in medias to explain things in depth to the people.
He usually points at the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death)
to explain why.
That is quite an unusual opinion for a politician.
(especially when you compare with media experts, such as Nicolas Sarkozy).
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To translate scientific literature is the easiest part of translation. In fact, a lot of papers don't even get translated because everyone can read them after learning 100-200 words from the respective language. I can tell you that most of my time goes by reading scientific papers in languages that are not my mother tongue.

The question discussed in this thread is _not_: Would it be beneficial to have all scientific papers in one language? It is: Would it be beneficial to have all literature, discussions, jokes, poems and songs in one language. A question, that Newton's work and the amount of NSF funded papers in 2015 has absolutely no relation to.
Is the web dying?

Only in red-eyed-hipstazz dreams.
Huh it's normal in the UK to be paid for being on call and than paid at a higher rates for any time at BT it was 4 hours minimum for any call 1.5 1.72 (after 8 pm) and double time and a day on Sunday.
It's really telling when 3 of the 4 proposed alternatives are built on chromium.