skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The experience could actually be fantastic, and hugely social; imagine reading a review with screenshots from the game, and clicking on them allows you to start to playing in under a second from that exact moment, just like you can send a YouTube link mid video.

IIRC, Gaikai was aiming for that exact application (live game demos) before they got acquired by Sony.
Regarding gender imbalance, it's also true that the women on the Simpsons usually represent the voice of reason, leaving it to the men to bring the idiocy. Presumably giving women more air time on the show would require them to create dumber women characters.

So it's possible that the imbalance in "words spoken" can be partly laid down to a conscious decision that "it's just funnier that way."
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Have you ever tried Cloud Bread? While certainly not the same, it's a convenient replacement for bread if you want to make sandwiches or so.

For reference, a general recipe (without any sweetener, but use stevia or something if you want):

- 3 eggs
- 3 Tablespoons cream cheese
- ¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

Takes around 20 min to bake. Makes six slices. As you can tell, it's low carb.

But I get the social thing. I have been moderate carb (50-150g/day) and gluten free for around 7 years now. Things have certainly gotten easier with the social aspect, but so many things are breaded.
I had none of those required courses in high school aside from one PE course. In grades 7 and 8 we had combined shop and home economics courses (in each year) which I thought was a good idea since everybody learnt to cook, sew, and do some basic carpentry. I saw so many people who couldn't cook at university. That would have been different if people learnt to cook in school.

This was at the university level. The problem is that my engineering department has a hard time fitting in courses. If you need an additional CS course that's one course covering something else that doesn't get included. We already merged our separate probability and statistics courses into a single course to make room for more intro materials.

For accreditation, all of our courses are broken down into having some of: Math, Intro Science, Engineering Science, and Engineering Design (and possibly none of these). You need a set amount in each category to get accreditation. Other departments have the same requirements, but their programs are designed to meet it. My department lets the student decide most of their upper year courses from across the university. So, if you decide to take a bunch of CS courses, you'll miss out and need to make it up on other courses. By the end, you need more Engineering Science and Engineering Design which isn't hard to do if you have mostly engineering courses, but pure CS courses basically give you nothing on these.

Until you actually participate in these kinds of discussions you don't know how carefully the overall curriculum is planned. Students going through my program have had a number of excellent suggestions, but it's hard to make changes and still meet all the requirements.

My department used to have more courses per term. Originally, there was 7 a term (I think), then there were 6. They've since moved to 5. That means you get 40 courses instead of 48 or 56.
Lucid dreaming is fun. You can use apps like Android sleep coupled with Android wear and hue smart lighting to help learn how to do it. No drugs necessary.

It does take a bit of practice/getting used to. The apps monitor you heart rate and movement patterns to try and detect REM sleep and send a signal to you. At first these signals will wake you up but with practice you will recognize them in your dreams without waking up.
I have been thinking of Yishan-style CEOs with board of directors also tweeting a lot for a while now. It is time to move on.
That was my first thought when I read it. A better name would have been "Tron", "Patronus", or "Endor".

Calling it "Paranoids" or "Inquisition" is just giving it another reason for people to loathe it.
I'm also a big believer in the general effects that zeitgeist has on societal development (and think everyone should be: advertising, democracy and raising awareness of issues is all about manipulating it).

Recontextualizing 21st century issues is key to us actually solving them, but that means we do in fact need to do things which has emotional impact on large populations. The moon-landings captured the imagination of, conservatively, half the planet, if only briefly. Mars-landings are likely to be similar. And an ongoing Martian colonization would be another one.

A Martian colonization effort is kind of interesting in this regard: because once you send enough people (and ideally, bring enough of them back as well) then 6 degrees of separation starts to take hold if they're distributed within the population. Start building up the quorum of people who've been, have gone, are there now and suddenly that context is leaking back into your general population. People know people who know a returned Martian colonizer. Projects and processes are compared to "this works on Mars, it'll work here" in the same way that everyone on this site who doesn't work at Google probably has said something like "well Google do ...".
Another note, Marshall Plan funds were given in USD. So it was in the European nation's favor to have a strong dollar. Strong dollar == more resources == more (better) reconstruction
News like this has nothing to do with startups or the tech scene. Or am I missing something here?
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The Simpsons are just stupid.
http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com
> it also means that a government identity-card issuer would still be able to covertly reset one's number.

Sure, but that seems like a much greater crime than just impersonating somebody on a phone call, plus greater exposure and chances of getting caught.

> and I haven't logged into the portal in years.

My point is exactly that, in which situation would you need to urgently access your portal?
We actually tinkered a bunch with Metal, it will likely one day be the default, but we went with the broader support of OpenGL for now.
Search for "London yuan account" and you will find banks offering RMB accounts in the UK.
Both of those are comparative, relative measurements which I think was GP's point.

If I can lift 10 kg this week, and 20 kg next week, am I strong, or ("just") stronger than before?
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For what it is worth, his costs look outrageously low to me. We don't even know what we don't know on building manned interplanetary reusable spacecraft and making indefinite term extra-planetary habitats.

Musk's promises that they'll travel in comfort sounds too close to what the Jamestown colony residents were promised. Life on Mars is going to be a hardscrabble existence where you have to solve problems that you don't have on Earth. Probably a mostly subterranean existence.

Musk's video seemed to imply that people would terraform Mars, but we aren't even close to attempting that yet. We can't even keep the atmosphere of Earth in balance. Elon Musk's biggest problem may be that he was born 100 years too early.
Maybe you can try Bernard Stiegler. His english wikipedia page is a little poor in information, so I put a link about his last book (not yet translated).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Stiegler

http://www.samkinsley.com/2016/06/28/how-to-survive-disrupti...
and here is where i have a problem with "Open..."anything.

the belief that a non-profit model is the sole method for maintaining ideologically directed development is a fallacy. look to Mozilla, which at times has strayed far from the best interests of its users. look at the wounded soldier project. the belief that making a profit will cause for corruption of the ideological drive of an organization is a fallacy. look at SpaceX which has made more progress in a shorter period of time than just about anyone else to date.

the problem i have with the "please send us money" routine is that it ignores certain basic, fundamental economic and financial realities. if an organization is creating value, then they should be able to exchange value for value. if they are not creating value, then it should be considered R&D or a hobby, and should be funded as such. OpenStreetMap is creating value. there is no reason they shouldn't be able to utilize the freemium model. the freemium model could be coupled with a california style "benefit corporation". by acknowledging that we all must sing for our supper, we are forced to face the realities of the marketplace, of limited resources, of special needs, and so on. by continuing to deny this fact these organizations will constantly be either over or under funded compared to their needs. said more plainly, by staying totally blind to the economic realities of ones marketplace you're gonna make worse business decisions than if you put it all on the table. every time.

bottom line, there is no free lunch, and until the open-source community fully acknowledges and embraces this reality it will be at a disadvantage to other players. and, frankly, it will be lying to itself.

disclaimer: i'm a die-hard open-source software advocate. i just want to see it succeed.
From the readme:

> A not too crappy GPU. mpv is not intended to be used with bad GPUs. There are many caveats with drivers or system compositors causing tearing, stutter, etc. On Windows, you might want to make sure the graphics drivers are current, especially OpenGL. In some cases, ancient fallback video output methods can help (such as --vo=xv on Linux), but this use is not recommended or supported. (o)

Whereas VLC has a similar option but it's sort of an afterthought and you have to activate it, from the wiki:

> The VLC media player framework can use your graphic card (a.k.a. GPU) to accelerate decoding of video streams depending on the video codec, graphic card model and operating system.

(o)
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/README.md

(i) https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_GPU_Decoding/
There's no reason why you couldn't have a male and female character acting out some zany scheme together, with the voice of reason provided by another male or female character.

Picking genders to be "the good ones" or "the bad ones" is lazy writing, no matter which side it ends up flattering.
It's possible that when the Northern Line is extended to Battersea it will be split into two lines. That should significantly increase reliability.
How about taking a look at the voice talent to understand why the characters are largely male dominated? Dan Castellaneta, Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer account for the largest majority of characters on the show. They have incredible flexibility and range. Nancy Cartwright voices Bart (not accounted for in the male/female numbers) and several other male characters, and thus expands the male repertoire. Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Julie Kavner (Marge) have pretty distinct voices, and while incredibly talented, don't contribute many more characters to the show outside of "soundalikes" like Marge's sisters, etc.
Is Puerto Rico the Next Sustainable Ag Hot Spot?
Why is the plan to start off with so many fragile, resource-greedy people before the planet is improved? Wouldn't it be better to send a robot factory capable of building more robot factories using materials available on Mars and minimal operating oversight (possibly combined with some plants and bacteria)? People could possibly move there much later after we've mastered the really complicated mining, geoengineering and farming problems needed to sustain people there.
While it would be good fun going to Mars you wonder if we want to concrete over a fair portion, ship 1000s of people over and change the climate a opposed to preserving it as it is.
Well the US kills tens of civilians (like in the recent bombings of the "coalition") with drones or bombers - there's nothing in the headlines with such rhetoric, and it's all justified and civilized. When our "friends" the Saudis and the Qatari kill thousands in Yemen - it's fine. When Turkey violates a sovereign nation and performs a military operation in Syria - it's fine. When Kiev kills thousands of people in East Ukraine, when they shell orphanages, schools, malls, residential areas - it's all just and okay. This hypocrisy is sickening! Why would the Russia and pro-Russian rebels down an airplane that will do nothing but hurt their agenda?! And how can an airplane chose to fly above areas with an ongoing military conflict?!
So you have to store your data in their cloud? How secure is their cloud? I'm not sure that model works for some companies. Visual prototypes can be really sensitive data, and each new proprietary cloud inevitably has bugs and security holes that need to be discovered and patched.

If you could plug in something vetted and thoroughly pen-tested like Dropbox that might work better. But a brand new cloud is almost guaranteed to have security holes, and I wonder how laser focused a design tool company can be on staying ahead of threats.
> > That's the current mindset of the technological world,
> > estimating whether the cost of atoning for the problem
> > is lower than the cost of securing the systems.
>
> And for the record, this will always be the mindset of
> corporations whose only concern is the bottom line.
> Until we as a culture accept that the market does not
> solve all problems, we're not going to solve these
> kinds of problems.

My immediate reaction is "Of course". A return on investment or risk analysis should drive activities on both the corporate and the government level.

This is particularly true in the security space, because no system is 100% secure. And since resources aren't infinite, where do you stop? 90%? 99%? 99.9%? What if addressing that incremental 0.9% costs as much as the rest of the security apparatus combined? As much as the rest of the product combined? As much as your total revenue?

What's the other option? It can't be "not release anything", so a middle ground is found. We're arguing about shades of grey.

And sure, the government can help. Either by bearing some of the cost (e.g., investment, tax breaks, etc.) or increasing the impact of an incident (e.g., penalties, etc.).

But this isn't a big, bad, greedy corporate problem. This is a broader issue about how much risk we're willing or unwilling to absorb, and how efficiently we can address that risk.
It has better performance on my old laptop, especially when I hook it up to a 1080p screen. Seeking is more instant. It starts much quicker.

It's more minimal in the interface (basically full-screen with a bunch of kbd shortcuts) but has all the features I need (including playback speed), and even some that are not in VLC--for instance, VLC has a key to advance 1 frame ('e', IIRC) and mpv can step both ways (with ',' and '.').

A few downsides: it doesn't seem to have playlist functionality (not that VLC's playlist UI is that great, but it works). to load a subtitle file, you either need to specify it on the command line or it needs to match the filename exactly, in VLC you can just drag'n'drop any subtitle onto the player to load it or use an Open File dialog. mpv immediately exits when the video is finished playing which is actually nice sometimes, but also can be annoying if you wanted to rewind the last 10 seconds or something or if you seek forward too quickly (maybe mpv has a setting for this though).

On the whole, I use mpv for almost anything. Indeed in combination with youtube-dl, I've made an alias for `youtube-dl <URL> --exec "mpv --fs --fs-screen 1 {} &"`, which starts the player immediately after download, full-screen, on the second (big) monitor. I still use VLC whenever I want to watch multiple short videos in a playlist. And of course VLC on Android because it's really for both video as well as playing music--although I feel there should be a better musicplayer, one that allows me to browse my collection through the file system instead of tags (which VLC does) but has a real smooth UI to manage playlists (which has been clunky in most Android players I've tried).
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Although companies like Snowflake are bridging the gap between the two camps, with products that can natively ingest JSON and Avro, and makes it queryable via SQL allowing for joins etc.
I also lost a bunch of weight on keto after several failed attempts at simply cutting calories. 235 lbs to about 185 and it all happened pretty rapidly (about half a year) considering I barely exercised. Lots of salads, chicken breasts, eggs & bacon, lettuce wraps, and quest bars. Regular coffee though, never was a fan of throwing butter in there. I mean I did do light cardio on and off, but I think it was mostly the diet that did it for me. Tried to stay under 20 daily grams of carbs.
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BlackBerry had a fine product for a specific market segment until the press/media started comparing them to consumer devices.

What if they had focused on what they were good at?
There are two Yuans, an offshore and an onshore one. You can't get access to the main one and there are arbitrage opportunities between them, due to the nature of the 'home' one being untradeable or unable to achieve price discovery due to a 50k a year limit on volume.
> "As much as I'd love to see more handsets with physical keyboard, they never seem to sell well enough for manufacturers to invest in releasing more models."

Because like the Priv, they attach keyboards to massive screens. Those screens aren't necessary in a productivity phone. They make it unwieldy and ridiculous to use. The form factor of a Blackberry Classic is all you need, just integrate with Android.
I imagine part of it is the Streisand effect. So many news outlets gave attention to fringe groups that they became less fringe.

The other part is a side effect of elitism and marketing. "Natural", organic, hand processed goods command higher prices and margins than contemporary products, as such more individuals push "natural" living as a superior lifestyle. Ignoring science based medicine fits in nicely with this movement.

It's not a political thing at all, I'd say it's on both sides of the isle.
This is actually true for most comedy shows. Like you said, men do idiot stuff and women pull them back on track / are the voice of reason.

I believe this comes from two reasons:

- We are more inclined to believe men try and do dumb stuff. And we're more receptive, culturally, to men having "bad traits".

- TV's main demographic is women. Therefore, the "relatable character" ends up being a woman.

[EDIT] Why is the parent being downvoted? The imbalance may be bad, and the first step in fighting it is to understand why it happens.
I just tried the Halolens. My take
I'm at ignite and I just got a chance o try it out. My impression is that it's too heavy to be worn for any extended amount of time. The field of view was also too small to immerse me in the effect.

Obviously it's still a work in progress, but that just my take at this stage.
iOS dictation does indeed work without internet. (Siri does not, however.)
If you star the official fb php SDK for example, it's just to keep up with having to rewrite the fb part of your app every couple of months because you've composer updated the sdk (Best practice, lol).

It's unbelievable the number and pace of breaking changes.

As an advice, it's less work to disregard the sdk and implement using curl.

Very sloppy and unprofessional from a company that was born, grew and even made their own php.
Security engineers are seen as experts you consult about something you don't know. QA are not seen this way. Some QA engineers actually are experts that can give good advice on structuring an application in a more testable way, but that's not the norm.
But people don't just want a hot meal. They want Zuck to heat their meal for them AND they want Zuck to wear a blindfold.

So instead of heating your own food, or finding someone else to heat it - they demand politicians to intervene - to make sure Zuck - and all future food heaters - are properly blindfolded to respect your delicate sensibilities.

My fear is for the future of food heating technologies that don't involve Zuck. Hint: All the rest of them.
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Luckily the video processing libraries provided by Intel/NVIDIA/AMD are cross platform (Win32/Linux). So the arm specific video processing code for the RPI is a different can of worms, the rest of the client (window creation, polling for input, etc) should be able to support Linux and X11 generally.
I just had to convert my online bank account to their new (2nd in a year) system, which now requires five security questions. As a single man who doesn't have a "favorite" anything, this proved to be a challenge. All questions were either regarding spouses, favorite somethings, or questions about descendants which I have no clue about.

I ended up just picking random questions and setting them all to the same answer, which has nothing to do with any of the questions - something that I can't even misspell if I tried. This is going to be my new strategy moving forward.

And don't even get me started on their silly username and password "security" rules.
More information on what's going on:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-trade-idUSKCN0ZU...

http://thediplomat.com/2016/07/market-economy-status-for-chi...

The argument is essentially that China's economy doesn't function as a proper market economy. That too much of its economy is directly governed by State controlled or owned corporations. That prices in its economy don't function enough based on market influences. An example of this would be their vast dumping of steel and some other industrial products, while their government continues to directly subsidize the dramatic over-production despite large losses in the steel industry.
The benefits massively outweigh the risks for common childhood vaccines.

Yes, risks should be honestly assessed, both for individual vaccines and the whole schedule. Yes, there exist vaccines which have questionable benefit, and there exist vaccines with higher risks that only make sense in certain situations.

None of this detracts from the abject denial of reality that is embodied in someone who has decided not to vaccinate their kids at all...
> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Isaac Asimov, 1980.

http://aphelis.net/cult-ignorance-isaac-asimov-1980/
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There's a difference between "impossible to install" and "must restrain self from installing".

Not OP, but I'm guessing that's where they're coming from. I've had situations where "impossible" was significantly more productive for me than "difficult".
In one of my college marketing classes, I've heard something similar as the reasoning for commercials as well.
I have no idea. Why do you ask?