skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some of the sequences are similar. The particular wikipedia entry of Low-discrepancy sequence [0] mentions Poisson disc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence
And tail recursion is equivalent to a loop, but a form of loop which breaks Rule 2.
This [1] is from 2013, so I don't know how it holds up, but I found it in the criticism section of the Wikipedia article for webp [2].

edit: This [3] is a follow-up from 2014 to the article/study from 2014.

TL;DR: "We consider this study to be inconclusive when it comes to the question of whether WebP and/or JPEG XR outperform JPEG by any significant margin. We are not rejecting the possibility of including support for any format in this study on the basis of the study’s results. We will continue to evaluate the formats by other means and will take any feedback we receive from these results into account."

[1]https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Criticism

[3]https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/07/15/mozilla-advance...
While there's a lossless H.264, it doesn't fit the implied use-case proposed in the thread. Using lossless H.264 to recompress lossy MPEG-2 would be akin to using PNG to recompress a JPEG -- silly and wasteful.

Sure, it's an inexact analogy because PNG is not a block-based DCT coder, but all lossless H.264 does is set the quantizer as absurdly high as it needs to go to losslessly encode a particular frame. Staring from a compressed source, this is not a good recipe for achieving a space-saving result.
That's not a problem, that's risk. "Wild west" means high risk and high reward. Fortunes will be won and lost. That kind of thing. There's a reason traditional businesses haven't entered: the beta is way too high.

My lamentation here is that the author isn't discussing his transition in terms of an actual business case (e.g., opportunity and risk), instead relying on merely personal interest.
you should ask him why Blockstream charges for running Liquid, a federated sidechains hub. sidechains was supposed to be p2p based on an SPV Proof model, but alas.
I'm not sure it's fair to call it history -- it is because of history (what isn't?), but what is described is the way things are right now, eh?
> So you are implying I stole Windows?

Actually, when you claim that it is not a free upgrade because you need to have paid for a valid license for the software you claim to be using, you are implying that you stole Windows.

The other poster appeared to be presuming that that implication was unintentional and inaccurate, and that the upgrade was indeed free for you.
This is one of those topics where I've made a conscious decision to not check it out. I have no desire to find out how deep that rabbit-hole goes...
The higher order function example in ES6:

https://jsfiddle.net/jpsierens/obgh1uc7/2/
The 5 deadly sins in designing your Business Model Canvas
Moderators: Could we add "Enterprise" to the article title here on HN?

Subscription options on the Enterprise side are not new and not surprising in the least. Windows has essentially always been a subscription for Enterprises of certain sizes; this points to an expansion down to a next lower tier. Again, not surprising.

The clickbait would have you believe this may eventually in some presupposed future Microsoft may roll this out to consumers, but the article is supposition at best and misdirection at worst.

(Everything I've read, including the Windows 10 EULA, seems very apparent that Microsoft is "right sizing" the consumer Windows experience by making the de facto experience [You buy a license Windows for the lifetime of a computer with the purchase of that computer], because consumers didn't pay for upgrades, into the reality of the experience, aligning it with other operating systems, in that [You buy a license for the lifetime of a computer with the purchase of that computer and that includes updates for the lifetime of that computer].)
That was it! Thank you!
I really love the open world rpgs like far cry, fallout, witcher, and others. Metroid felt big as a kid, just not sure if it'd hold up today.
In decades past, it was predicted that people would work far less than 40 hours per week due to increases in productivity. Maybe that has happened, but we just pretend it hasn't: people now spend hours a day discussing beer with their coworkers in their open offices instead of working.
Is it just me or is this a press release?
Grouping weed in with meth and bath salts doesn't seem like the foundation for a rational argument.
Didn't realize marijuana was such a big factor on the darkweb. Think of the all the missed taxes!! :(
Using the Fuse Erlang Library to Implement the Circuit Breaker Pattern in Elixir
If results would validate methods the simplest solution to avoid any more human violence/deaths and misery would be to kill all humans.
If you're only counting death rates then yeah, the murder is better than the cirrhosis. But the actual experience of living in a society where anyone might be murdered in the street is significantly worse than the experience of living in a society where you can just not drink and not get cirrhosis.

Obviously alcoholics can't just "not drink", but prohibition was never going to be a pleasant experience for them.
Ask HN: Which startups will expand internationally in the next 1-2 years?
And of those, which regions do you think they will try to tackle first?
As someone in the same situation, thanks for the good wishes!

For biomed stuff, it's frustrating that the NIH seems like it could address this problem (they control a huge proportion of the available funding), but have no interest in actually doing so.

If I were king for a day, I'd seriously consider shrinking the training grant pool and redirecting that money to developing viable career paths for "staff scientists" or other experienced-but-non-PI employees.
I've been looking for something similar to this for my 12-year old son. Are there any other resources you guys can recommend to help teach coding? (that aren't Apple-product dependent?)
This is a great point. I also think that some people, especially in the media, feel more pinched than they did decades ago because we've systematically made housing dramatically more expensive through parochial zoning: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu... or http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/re....

Household consumption costs are dominated by housing, first of all, and transport, secondarily; in many coastal cities, strangling supply has led to higher prices that consume way more income, making people feel artificially poorer than they would in a freer market.
Ok, thanks... the comment you link was made after mine.
Lack of new talent is indeed the biggest problem they are facing, but they've acknowledged that they've gotta upgrade these old systems before it's too late - instead of hoping for new talent to show up. Nordea in question has bought a new system that they want to gradually migrate to, but all their mainframe programmers,
- including my mother - are all saying it's not going to work. The system is too large.
I'm just glad to a an "ML" article that's referring to MetaLanguage and not Machine Learning.
Was expecting a Question and A...
* glad to see an "ML" article ...
Like I said in the previous post, I use it (exclusively) for the scripts. Launch GIMP, run my script, exit. I haven't so much as opened a file in GIMP for years.
Even if oil contributed to the larger mass extinction, the dinosaurs were dead within hours, not days. The impact alone would have heated the entire atmosphere to about the temperature of an oven.
A "couple of minutes" for a confident, competent solderer, which excludes about 99% of the target market for this thing. (Here's how to do it, if anyone's curious: http://www.retronintendoreviews.com/nes-cartridge-battery-re...)

And while overall most NES games didn't use a battery, many of the most popular ones (many of the ones included in this thing, in fact) do need a working battery. Final Fantasy, both zeldas, startropics, tecmo bowl, crystallis, kirby's adventure...
How 3d printing can save lives
Snapshots of life:making the brain transparent
You are right, I apologize, I'll ask her about how her days looks like and her best/worst/strangest parts. I'll add that directly to the post and reply to you when it's done!

EDIT: I've added some Q&A at the bottom, will add more as more questions come in.
That is indeed what is difficult. Any time you move metro regions we'll need to negotiate about the compensation. And if you're moving from an expensive to an affordable region your compensation will be lower.
What comes first, the productivity gains or a raise? If there is never a raise, or wages essentially do not grow, why would productivity rise?

However, productivity has gone up and been helped by technology, wages have not followed.
Stating the obvious here - but more official launches to come, too.
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen someone analyse Coke to such a degree, and it's pretty fascinating. I've drunk probably gallons of the stuff in my life and I couldn't tell you what it tastes of other than Coke.
The petroleum industry goes through boom / bust cycles every few years. Make sure to graduate during a boom.
Yeah, sorry about that! I'll add some direct Q&A at the bottom of the post!
That's what happened to me too
I share similar sentiments. I do not share these articles with people I know (or family) for this reason. But, that doesn't stop them from encountering them on their own.
That goes against the product vision of Krita, though. Krita is a painting application, not a photo editor. The defining of the vision was a Eureka moment for the developers. http://blog.mmiworks.net/2010/03/working-on-vision-with.html
Ask HN: I've been a java dev for a couple of years, should I move langauge?
Like the title says, my first job out of college was/is a java development role. I do database level (stored procedures) and front-end stuff (html, css, js, etc) as well so I am technically full stack.

I have seen a few job openings that advertise transitioning into python or ruby without needing the experience. Is it worth time and effort to program in a different language for awhile?

What is best for a career path as a software engineer?
weakly typed != scripting.
The past few decades of globalization have resulted in the greatest destruction of poverty in history. For every person experiencing stagnation in the developed world, ten people in the developing world have experienced double digit growth. Poverty destruction has massive benefits, and not only for those in poverty. Even from a purely self-interested point of view, developing nations are already seeing exports to developing markets rise, and that will only continue.
New Tool Tackles Analytics of Your Competitor's Social Media
Where is the money going to come from? Undergraduate tuition has already reached ridiculous levels.
Feels more like, "We couldn't afford to build offices or didn't feel like spending money on that, so we'll give you a big cheap floor with lots of distractions, but hey creativity and all that."
I have noticed a strong trend away from doing actual work, towards cooperation and collaboration as a means of increasing the upside of the small amount of work that is actually done, to ensure it is worthwhile and relevant work being done. People in knowledge work create tremendous, near infinite at times, value - in a very small percentage of their work time. The majority of the work is meta-work that enables those tiny periods of massive contribution, and the balance is just hanging out.
previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12094764
Nowadays there's no clear difference between statistics and machine learning. But the latter gets you more grant money. :-/
Regarding "songs stored in it", I've also found that certain guitars, as well as certain amp / head / mic combos inspire certain styles. For instance, I was fiddling around a few months ago and somehow managed to replicate very closely the sound that Neil Young used for a lot of the Dead Man soundtrack (I was messing around with a Gibson LP Junior, Marshall JTM45 re-issue amp, Marshall MX112 cab, Rode NT3 off-axis mic). This inspired me to improvise for hours around the main theme from Dead Man.

Strangely, I then moved to my favorite acoustic (Maton 1973 CW80) and discovered that it loves being played in the same style! I'd never assumed that a piece that relies so heavily on dissonant electric reverb would translate so well to a clean acoustic sound. I now tend to improvise on my Maton in a completely different style as I've discovered that it has a whole new family of "songs stored in it"!

Regarding price/age to quality, one of my most played guitars is actually a cheap nylon Martinez (around $150) that I bought so I could take it camping etc. and not worry about it being broken or stolen. It's got a great sound, and is incredibly playable.
Among many reasons, open floor plans are cheap. Offices require drywall and doors and (re-)construction permits. Cubicle walls are surprisingly expensive for how cheap they look. If you are looking to cut every cost you possible can, open floor plans certainly cut costs.
Argh. That and good barbecue seem to just not exist here.
As Berkely Breathed had Milo Bloom say, "They all taste like malted battery acid"
It was needed for JIS compatibility, since they encode halfwidth and fullwidth versions of kana and English characters, because having different fonts for them was too expensive.

Also it's needed for this tweet.

https://twitter.com/pisscop/status/67709754859995136
With the extended warranty and other add-ons, my favorite come back is, "I like to think you're selling me a really reliable car. Now you have me worried. Should I be worried?"

I found that shut things down pretty quickly.
Except unlike an encrypted hash, a cardboard box does not offer much protection from ripping it open and seeing what's inside. ;)
Paper in a Top Medical Journal Has an Unexpected Author: Barack Obama
> Looking at pictures of previous generations you can't help but notice the upright postures and healthy bodies that are so often missing from today's populace.

I don't disagree, but they were often leaner from hard physical labor and fewer calories, and lived shorter lives. None of which means they were less happy, or that we are happier, but just that there are tradeoffs involved.
Cache coherency primer (2014)
I work in an open plan office and sometimes I find it annoying. If I come in early, I get about an hour's peace. When people start coming in I hear conversations about kids then sport.. then when people who sit closer to me come in, I obviously have a quick morning chat with them.

The whole thing can be very distracting.

On the plus side, it's never lonely even when I am not talking to anyone. It's easy to see if people are available. It's easier to go chat to people about work.
More accurate title: "Microsoft adding a monthly-charged tier to Windows enterprise licensing options."

Horse's mouth source: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/07/12/annou...
This is the cost of lifting more than a billion people out of abject poverty and is an exaggeration of the negative impact (for example, ignores transfer payments & quality of life improvements). It is part of what is overall a very good thing.
Interesting times we live in. A "free" chat app is going to be valued at >$1bn and they make money selling digital stickers and perks for their Tetris clone, while publishing companies can't stay afloat with ads. Maybe publishers should sell stickers.

Edit: 9 billion.
Same thing that stops a potential intruder from snipping the power cord on any other outdoor camera: nothing, if their arms are long enough or they brought a ladder (though there do exist sheathings that would give a knife or snips a good fight). A battery-powered cam is not an option for me.

But the Nest cam isn't an option, either. I've got one of their indoor cams which is enough to tell me not to buy another one. First, they'll want another $10/month to make the camera useful. Second, ooooh, they made it waterproof. That's the Nest innovation at work! Given how much they've done with the thing since they brought DropCam, I'm going to pass on what I've concluded is a dead-end product.

Alternatives? Meh, I don't have one. Though I did run over to Withings' site (I have one of their indoor cams I'm happy with) to see if they announced anything outdoorsy lately. They have not. If they ever do, I'll buy one.
I think the best answer is buried in the middle of this article: cars are the second largest purchase for most people.

The higher the price tag, the more you stand to gain by negotiating.
If it is not going to take a lot of time to code, I will build you an MVP (minimum viable product), gratis. Then, you can use it to test/validate your idea more effectively.

Let me know if interested - varma.richa@yahoo.com.
> Controlled defects
> ...
> hpv vaccine: from a parent's perspective, it can admit that their kid needs to be protected from something that the parent prohibits; it's an admission of weakness of their authority

Interesting example. Could vaccines themselves be considered an example of controlled defects?

edit: I also notice the "Streisand effect" is listed here. If memory serves, that is about an attempt to forbid the distribution of a photo of her luxurious beachfront home—which thus became a much bigger story. But at first I thought it was about her declining any kind of rhinoplasty to avoid tampering with her voice (edit which is hearsay). Certainly there are many "corrective" surgeries which only call much more attention than the original "defect."
Maybe Roger turned a blind eye on Jacob's behavior, maybe he didn't and tried to bring it up. Roger has many qualities, but handling a diva like Jacob and at the same time maintaining their long-term cooperation, is something that imho very few people can handle.

A clean sheet board I think is another good reason why Roger stepped down.

A few days before Jacob stepped down, Roger was so tired he could barely stand. With Shari Steele as the new director and a new board, it probably is a relieve for Roger and gives more room for a personal live after all these years of dedication to the TOR project.

I'm glad that Roger remains in his role as community manager and core committer. Looking forward to his State of the Onion at 33c3.
There really should be a new, better solution to captive portals.
Nightcode: Clojure IDE
My one wish in life is to experience 10 player Bomberman.
That's fair.

I've never felt like it's taken much discipline for me personally, and I've never carried a balance on any credit card. I try to live far under my means and mostly just spend money on food, coffee, travel, and a laptop. Most of the rest of my "things" are hand-me-downs.

One "hack" that works for me is reviewing each transaction and paying the card in full every week. If I see it especially high one week then I spend more conservatively the next. I don't do any explicit budgeting, but being conscious of the big picture helps me.
when it comes to deciding compensation levels, what metrics do you use? what companies in the area pay? real estate prices? a mix or something else?

there are places in the world where, say, the real estate is red-hot (obviously making higher salaries more desirable) but where local companies have not kept up with that (making cross-company surveys skew really low) so in that case what would you do?

Managing a distributed remote-friendly company definitely seems challenging, of course you're open source and have an awesome reputation, so salary is very likely not something prospective employees consider as much as they would otherwise when joining (which likely works in your favor in creating a very nice working environment full of engaged folks)
On Windows, a better application that sits between MS Paint and GIMP in terms of features, extensibility and power is the free Paint.NET. [1]

[1]: http://www.getpaint.net/
Niantic (Pokemon Go) appears to be hosting the entire world on one server
https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/

Software Engineer - Server Infrastructure

Create the server infrastructure to support our hosted AR/Geo platform underpinning projects such as Pokémon GO using Java and Google Cloud. You will work on real-time indexing, querying and aggregation problems at massive scales of hundreds of millions of events per day, all on a single, coherent world-wide instance shared by millions of users.

Required qualifications:

At least two years of relevant work experience required; in lieu of two years work experience, either a PhD or two relevant internships at large tech companies

Experience with real-time or asynchronous processing of large-scale datasets or on high QPS frontends

Experience with Google Cloud or AWS highly desired
Expensify's firing strategy
This guy loses his shit over Pokemon Go
I work full time on a pretty standard low traffic online store web app written entirely in Clojure.
I find it hard to believe that there's some sort of conspiracy to keep police, lawyers, and prisons funded via laws against selling drugs.

Have you considered that these laws are still in place simply because it's the status quo?

Politicians voting on laws and drafting new ones must ultimately answer to their constituents. While the vast majority of things fly under the radar, "pro-drug" support is enough of a charged issue that supporting drug legalization is guaranteed to be used against you the next time you're running for office.

Like it or not, logic be damned, drugs will continue to be illegal because the majority of Americans do not support drug legalization. The tides are starting to turn in some states on weed, but the average American outside of the most liberal states doesn't even support that. Good luck convincing them to legalize cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, or any "harder" drug.
I recommend this book about concurrency:
https://pragprog.com/book/pb7con/seven-concurrency-models-in...
I'm interested in a 'super lossy' (deep learning based?) compression. You should be able to compress movies down to a screenplay and a few stage directions.

A picture should of course be worth 1000 words.
I was using Chrome on an iPad mini 1, and it crashed after I zoomed.
Poly/ML?
"Instance" might refer to the game world, not the physical hardware it's running on.
Downvote me all you want, I did it for ten years and I know what I'm talking about. Take a couple illustrations in Photoshop and convert them from RGB to CMYK and look at what goes out of gamut and looks like shit. You can waste a ton of time going back and forth same-daying samples from the print shop, or you can use a tool that can do CMYK and can utilize the proper printer color profile and have a good idea of what you can do during the creation process.
Nope. The problem was that the pins weren't seated properly. The solution to that is to take the cartridge out and put it back it.

Guess what happens as a side effect of blowing in the cartridge?
Judge denies restraining order in Hyperloop One case
NSUnit looks to have an ObjC API?

https://developer.apple.com/reference/foundation/nsdimension...
A manifesto against parenting
Right. As logn as you døn't force-push, then you can rebase until the problems are all gone. Although, this 3-step solution works best with proper team communication and planning.
note: For Enterprise users.
They also have an Uber-like taxi service and others. I don't know how Line Taxi is doing, but in Korea, the equivalent KakaoTaxi is quickly becoming the default way to get a taxi.
Maybe you are not in the intended audience then
Bravo! I was going to build this soon for an upcoming project. I'll keep an eye on your repo!
I love short articles where I learn something new :) Thank you!
Welcome to the real world of being an employee. It's common in every field for new employees to be academically overqualified and think their bosses are incompetent and irrational. If you don't like it then try starting your own company. I'm not being flippant; that's a serious suggestion and would give you a more realistic perspective.