skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gotta wonder if many of these owners who jump ship with vendors money, are the ones who show up suddenly with funds to "save the day".
> it may require new physics

But that is exactly what falsification means. When you "require new physics" you have falsified the old physics.

> an effect of some as-yet-unknown cause

Sure, but that as-yet-unknown cause could be (say) a deity. Science does not rule out that possibility a priori.

BTW, here is an example of an unfalsifiable theory: God is real, but He will not reveal Himself to you unless you believe in Him. If He has not revealed Himself, then you just don't have enough faith.
Install the Bullet gem and see if your queries look sharp!
The comment I was replying to claimed that Google has "a de-facto monopoly on search".

That is the claim that my reply is challenging; whether or not Google has "a dominant position" is irrelevant to this subthread.
Yes. The big ones are noise, littering, damage to property/common areas, parking reduction, increased housing costs for residents, and decreased community benefits (ex. it's impossible to get to know your neighbors and help each other out if your neighbors are different every week).

Short term rentals are often (though obviously not always) filled by visitors who want to party and have fun in the city with little regard for neighbors and care for property, as opposed to residents who want to have a nice, comfortable place to live. This results in an overall decreased quality of life for your neighbors if you start randomly renting out to strangers.

See other responses in this thread for more more as well.
It's a side effect of changes in the marketplace and the world.

When big conglomerates ran big horizontal and vertical businesses, they did general R&D work that benefited their broader corporate mission. Bell Labs wasn't there because AT&T was some sort of benevolent charity.

Now companies are mostly brokers between outsourcers and have a narrow focus. We haven't "caught up" with the capability that we already have, so startups have replaced corporate R&D, mostly using off the shelf stuff to make minor incremental changes.
In the US anti-TNF biologics treatments can cost several thousand dollars per month. Even with patents expiring this year the industry isn't expecting dramatic price drops due to the different regulatory process for bio-similars versus a typical generic drug.

I'm sure there are many patients who would be happy for a more cost effective option.
End users having ultimate control over presentation of content is the price to pay for using the web. If a business does not like an end user having control, they can't expect to reject that aspect while still keeping its users. Instead, they can go create their own platform.

I can appreciate the idea that creating an economy makes for sustainability. But I just don't see the merit with regards to web ads. The most noble ad-driven business model is news media, which is already rife with paid placement (and other propaganda) despite the ads - the motivation to profit from both sides is too great. And the most prevalent ad-driven business model is to aggregate creations from users who are not paid. If we were talking about what's right, then such sites should not even exist - they should be users' individual federated websites or even a better non-centralized protocol. But amorally, those sites create needless centralization points in order to profit off being gatekeepers. So users should feel no compunction about also doing self-interested things, like running ad blockers and other privacy extensions.
Does Google have monopoly with online searches, though?
From the page: "A bondage suit, also commonly called a gimp suit"

Ah, I see.
The US will appeal the ruling?

Also, does Rule 41 changes from SCOTUS due Dec 1 basically make this ruling obsolete?

https://fcw.com/articles/2016/06/30/wyden-rule-41.aspx
>How did that code get in there in the first place? Does your or your friend's companies not do code reviews, particularly for new team members?

His company didn't do regular code reviews, no.

It's a game company. Game companies frequently don't follow the same set of best practices common in other industries. In part because typical game developers are a notch above app/web developers, though in part because it's just a lot more "wild west."
> You do not abstain to put on your seat-belt just because you thing you know how to drive, nor do you disable all safety feature of whatever equipment just because you kind of think, without even the beginning of a reasoning to backup that, that you are going to do things "faster".

Lots of people do.

Yes, they often turn out dead, or missing limbs. But it's a fact that they do, to the point that industries have to police and punish people that don't use safety gear.

Developers have a similar mindset, just way less dangerous.
Upvoted and donated. Some concepts that could really help my day-to-day way of thinking.
The Gruen Transfer – Getting your business noticed
I don't see any particular reason to tie research generally, and scientific research specifically, to institutions primarily organized around undergraduate education.
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(EDIT: removed wording that Lepton produces files that conform to the JPEG spec. It doesn't. It losslessly compresses into a custom format, that losslessly decompresses into a JPEG)

Lepton uses the arithmetic coder [1] from VP8. Using arithmetic coding instead of Huffman encoding to get better compression was always an option in JPEG, but it has been historically avoided due to patents [2].

Compared to VP8-Intra, the compression used in lossy WebP, JPEG is missing the prediction step, usually called 'filtering' [3], which is the single largest contributor of WebP's compression outperforming JPEG.

Reading through the Lepton blog post, it seems they're using a different method of prediction, based on observations about typical gradients and correlations between AC and DC coefficients. VP8 uses a more 'traditional' approach of predicting your neighboring pixels, which was borne out of run-length encoding, but also very applicable to video's moving macroblocks. A comparison would indeed be enlightening.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6386#section-7

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding#US_patents

[3] https://medium.com/@duhroach/how-webp-works-lossly-mode-33bd...
Petroleum engineering regularly makes the list of degrees with highest pay...
Please see Alcohol Prohibition in the United States (at least back then they amended the US Constitution to do it legally).
You raise a valid concern I don't have a good answer for you.

I've interviewed people with some pretty severe anxiety who have passed it and some who accepted offers. But that is not to say there wasn't someone weeded out that shouldn't have been.

Although for the people who failed the coding part of it I'd say they definitely behaved more overly confident than anxious.

Edit: with that said I have some experience successfully teaching programming to people with disabilities (in a university setting) which probably makes me a fair amount more qualified than many other higher managers. But again, there are no guarantees.
With all respect, I disagree. For me rebase has identical difficulty but more flexibility. You could call that "much more complex" and I can call it "just as easy but way more powerful" and we'd both be right, I suppose.

I use the rebase flow on my solo projects as well as advocate for it on large teams. Even (especially) when it's just me, having a tidy history saves me tons of time; especially when I'm prone to constant distraction by business-y things.

Edit: s/I/I'm/
Don't worry, I'm sure Trump has a solution in mind.
I hope that WhatsApp will resist adding all these stickers and games and find it's way to monetize (bring back paid subscription?).
It probably wouldn't hit the most important cases either, dedup is typically most powerful & valuable on large media files, software packages, disk ISO's, and the like which do not frequently have arbitrary text inserted at the start of the file!
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Pretty sure I still get aliasing artifacts on Safari (and Chrome). Firefox has smooth text but seems to have artifacts on the gradient:

https://jsfiddle.net/nqaoq52n/3/

If I run it through Chrome's Timeline inspector, the majority of the time in each animation frame is spent on the GPU (0.32 ms), while Paint only takes 0.01ms and Composite Layers is 0.03ms (there're also fairly lengthy 0.13ms Recalc Styles and 0.22 Update Layer Tree phases, where I suspect it's walking the whole JSFiddle DOM to find out nothing has changed).

If I run it through Firefox's profiler, there is a lengthy Paint (~8ms), followed by only Recalc Styles per animation frame (I'm guessing that it's doing everything on the GPU and the profiler doesn't show me that work), except when the element grows enough to force a scroll bar to appear, which trigger a re-layout.
Funnily enough, that has come up in the history of replicating the Stradivarius. One theory I remember was that there was a mold or fungus in the wood he used that trees don't have anymore.
I'd love to know the point of this article, but can't bear to wade through the waffle. Is this a print article reproduced online?
The difficulty of a new player entering the market has nothing to do with end-user switching costs.

There are also high barriers to entry if you want to start a cola company with worldwide distribution, but that doesn't mean Coke has a monopoly.
At least establishing car value has gotten a lot easier with the tools available today...

My gripe is more with the finance manager portion of the car buying experience. My wife and I bought a used car two weeks ago and while declining their "value add" options one by one the responses ranged from giving us the silent treatment(declined their extended warranty) for minutes at a time, incredulous stares(gap insurance), pleading(fabric protection), and verbatim saying "you are crazy for not wanting an alarm in your new car."

The last made me laugh because I knew there was an alarm... I just didn't want the $75 after-market module they installed on the lot that was marked up to $995.
It seems like this still conflates the quality of a person (objective) with the quality of one's music taste (subjective).

Your example of quality (moral and rational, I assume) people loving Stockhausen and you not loving it informing your self-assessment only works if music taste is an objective good, like preferring non-murder to murder. Even then, we would need to know that preferring Stockhausen or non-murder is an objective good, since presumably preferring it is among the quality-making properties of your quality friends.

So unless I can know which music is objectively good in a properly basic or evidential way, I'm stuck never knowing whether my music taste is good or bad. Or, as I think is the case, music taste is subjective.
Given there is no such thing as "poor taste"

You might be interested in the contrary view, expressed by Paul Graham in "Taste for Makers" [1]:

Saying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disputes. The trouble is, it's not true. You feel this when you start to design things.

Whatever job people do, they naturally want to do better. Football players like to win games. CEOs like to increase earnings. It's a matter of pride, and a real pleasure, to get better at your job. But if your job is to design things, and there is no such thing as beauty, then there is no way to get better at your job. If taste is just personal preference, then everyone's is already perfect: you like whatever you like, and that's it.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
My reading is no, since the Rule 41 changes still require the warrants to be issuable under US law, just removing the requirement that the actual data be held within the geographic jurisdiction of the particular court to be affected. As this ruling turned on the presumption against exterritorial application of US law and not on the geographic jurisdiction of the particular court issuing the warrant, it would be unaffected by the changes.
"Our research finds that carefully targeted policy measures to boost productivity, GDP growth, and employment can make a significant difference."

I don't buy. What their research found is that one country has fared better than the other 5. Everything else are assumptions of causality.
So... Cirrus is the Ruby on Rails of aircraft?

Quick edit: Most of the dollars I've ever made are thanks to Rails. But I know how a computer works.
Doesn't that leave a huge paper trail?
If you have oracle would you consider using Oracle rest data services? I've only used it a little bit but it seems to make everything very easy.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/rest-data-...
gimp can't even begin to compare with Photoshop on a filter level, especially in areas like burn/dodge. I don't know how it applies it but Photoshops application of filters is much more intelligent. Not to mention Gimp has an absolutely baffling ui philosophy (paste as layer/yellow square/brushes not painting) while Kritas seems sane at least, mimicing popular photoshop features and even improving it in some cases.

In an ideal world, gimp is retired and Krita becomes the Photoshop alternative and the community can focus on really getting behind Krita.
Coming from Scala I'd like to see successor ML become a reality. Whether it's 1ML, Ponyo, Ur (without the /Web), or another ML derivative that's not OCaml (petty, but the crufty syntax makes Scala seem elegant in this regard) isn't all that important.

As it stands every year Rossberg publishes a paper on latest 1ML enhancements; Harper does the same wrt to PLT, and by proxy SML. Meanwhile, nothing's really happening AFAICT in terms of the ML torch really being taken up and carried forward (beyond OCaml and Haskell).

Perhaps a charitable donation from an SV unicorn founder or two, corporate backing of some form, or academic backing similar to EPFL for Scala could really get the ball rolling.

Moving forward we've got OCaml and upcoming modular implicits; Haskell and the new module system, Backpack; and Scala's transition to Dotty -- basically a lot to look forward to, but would love to see SML in the mix, such a beautiful language...
The sellers drop the packages off in mailing boxes, ideally far from where they actually live. This would render your idea less worthwhile.

There have been arrest of sellers and buyers, primarily due to noobish mistakes. All told, the risk for the seller is much lower than dealing with a variety of forces in the street in their local jurisdiction.

Therefore your idea becomes a war of attrition for law enforcement. Where the yield is too low to justify the cost. This is why more effort goes into shutting down the marketplaces, but even this has become a war of attrition ever since the Silk Road 1.0 bust.

The federal government operating through just one agency got 80 million in bitcoin from that bust.

The next year, the FBI required cooperation with 16 agencies across Europe in a dragnet bust that only got 1.2 million in bitcoin, with most sites being back online in a week.

The trend continues, and every enforcement action simply prompts consumers, merchants, and site providers to implement UX and security practices that they already knew they should have been using (multisig addresses instead of human escrow, use of tails/whonix, not logging in as admin from a public library, etc)
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I had always heard that this was the case in philosophy, literature and so on.

Then, a few years ago, I heard it was the case in the sciences.

Now it is in the technical disciplines, and it is egregious. (4x oversupply). The magnitude and the discipline is the news here (at least for me).
> Now, as a new crop of graduate students receives Ph.D.s in science, researchers worry over the future of some of these dedicated people; they’re trained to be academics and are often led to believe that anything else is an admission of failure.

As someone finishing up grad school, this doesn't seem quite accurate. To me, it seems like a lot of the interesting research is being done in industry. I remember scrolling through jobs online toward the end of my undergraduate and seeing "PhD required" for all of the positions I was interested in. Most of my friends working on their PhD are aiming either for industry or a research scientist position at a government lab (like ORNL). So I'm not sure who exactly constitutes this group that believes "not professor" = failure.
The SIEUFERD Project: a general-purpose user interface for relational databases
While "cannot" might be a little strong, it can be true, depend on the field and company of course.

I used to work at a large company that in the past performed a large amount of fundamental research into physics, since it affected their products. I took a tour of the labs recently and they are a shadow of their former selves. It was depressing.

I think reduction in private sector STEM comes from several sources. One is the private sector not willing to take the risk of something not working, no long-term thinking, etc.

Another might be the relative difficulty in measuring the impact of your R&D department. In an era where every cost has to be justified and everything has to be measured by some metric, R&D begins to look like an expense rather than a profit generator, at least in the short-medium term.
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none of these Cloud IDEs support docker-based projects, at least for now. that's a bummer for me.

I spent a whole week trying Cloud9, Nitrous and Eclipse-che.

Pros: good for teaching, colaboration, toy projects.
Cons: still a few years behind any decent IDE.
But you can pretty easily revert a merge by providing the hash of the commit in master before the merge occurred. It can get tedious but it's better than risking multiple people rebasing the master branch. Another downside to doing rebase onto master is, if you don't squash, if you want to revert a rebase that's 50 commits in size, you have to go back to before the entire rebase and revert to there (or 100, 200+, that would be much more tedious and potentially error prone than reverting a merge). The only solution I can think of that doesn't have potential for rebase conflict is to make it one person's sole responsibility to rebase other branches onto master.
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Indeed. In one project where I converted jpegs to webp I saw around 70% savings at similar quality. This was on Android where it's fully supported. On the web pretty much only Chrome supports it, I'm not sure why Firefox, IE and Safari are hesitant.
Ohh cool! I knew the one with Bill Buckner already :)
When you are working at the coalface of research you are intimately aware of which concepts are relevant and which are not. That directly feeds into undergraduate teaching. You can't teach today what you taught 30 or 50 years ago, but at the worse undergrad-only colleges you can get away with it.
Anyone want to comment on why this is being downvoted?
If you are already eating junk, soda is not appreciated, it's consumed rapidly. All soda is going to be similar in that vain. The point of coke is that you can put a glass on ice, and drink it very slowly for the flavor. Drinking soda in any other capacity doesn't make much sense, and is poor decision healthwise.
In my experience, the programmers I've worked with that are also pilots have been just too meticulous for the work, there's too much attention to detail and focus that doesn't let them work on teams. And, sadly those traits are pretty bad to get stuff done.

Again, my experience. They had to let them go, although they are very bright and likely I'd hire a pilot again.
You could skip down to the paragraph beginning “Now, a paper just published in Scientific Reports…”

It’s only waffle if you know it already!
Anything web-related, whether you are an individual or a team. I use it solo but the real-time collaboration and builtin chat must be great for teams.
I was taught largely the same but 76 was "in a fix".
I'm running over several terabytes and on the 5k images I've done so far (3.6GB), the compression has been 0.78x, which is damn good for lossless compression!

EDIT: 17GB now (my server is kinda slow) and it's still holding at 0.78x.
"several thousand" is "list price" for single shots and no or fake health insurance.
In practice insurance companies negotiate the price down and average patient pays much less than that.
Major drug makers are ready to go the second the patents expire. Prices should drop dramatically for something like Humira (adalimumab) and biosimilars.
Read the last 4 of the 9 total paragraphs if you want a TL;DR.
Apple's Swift Playgrounds is a coding class disguised as a video game
Haha I put that one in there for a buddy of mine who's a big Sox fan :-)
This looks very useful for archiving, but as others have pointed out, less useful for web development. I did lots of research on image compression for a book recently and found quite a few helpful tools.

jpeg-archive [^1] is designed for long term storage and you can still serve the images over the web. imageflow [^2] has just been kickstarted and looks really promising for use with ASP.NET Core.

mozjpeg is also showing progress and if FLIF takes off then that will be great. Scalable images would be fantastic. No more resizing and all the security issues that brings [^3].

[^1]: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/jpeg-archive

[^2]: https://www.imageflow.io

[^3]: https://imagetragick.com
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From a public health perspective, Prohibition was a success. The main reason it failed as policy is chemistry. You can make ethanol from anything—even a cactus, as Mexico has taught us.
I don't watch TV (only Netflix) and wish there was an option for billboard ad blocking. It'd be an interesting art / social commentary project if e.g. Someone started draping black opaque plastic over billboards with drones and put the ABP logo on them. Feel free to steal this idea :)