skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blender 2016 DemoReel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIiY6aGefvI

(Strictly speaking it's a Cycles showreel but presumably everything there will have been created in Blender as Cycles is Blender's rendering engine).
lol much controversy
Suggest you listen to this for the pronunciation: https://youtu.be/5Q4huiDcNSs?t=3m23s (it doesn't get more authoritative than that I suppose).
Nah, bigtable is row-store (too much overhead). They probably use a column-store. Do you have any link ?
To add to qb45's reply, that kind of a manipulation does not remain hidden. And when it inevitably comes out, the very people you've been trying to convince will be angered by your dishonesty ("I thought I was talking to a real person!"), and be even less willing to reconsider their position. No one likes being deceived.

So, by all means, consider breaking the rules. And then don't, please.
Surprised no one has pointed out Google's aproach to the problem: https://blog.google/topics/journalism-news/labeling-fact-che...

They leave the fact-check to the publisher and ask them to use http://pending.schema.org/ClaimReview schema to tag news as fact-checked.

Already in use by some publications. Announced almost a month before the election day (Oct 13).
I can see in the description that the photons are being bounced around, but it's consuming power, and no description I've read convinces me that the photons are genuinely completely contained. Again, all the descriptions are incomplete and ultimately unhelpful, but I was wondering if anyone had done the sums about energy consumption versus thrust obtained by emitting photons, even if said photons had first been bounced around in a complicated manner, and then escaped.

Are they sure it's not losing (or even loosing) photons?
Actually I think there's more nuance than simply whether or not to silence certain views.

The problem with the alt-right is that it is an idea. Ideas are very hard to kill by censorship and when you do let them "fester" they get more extreme and radical. This is in part how we arrived at the alt-right becoming what it is today.

We should want the alt-right out in public in spaces where there are checks and balances. There, it can be killed by moderation (in both senses of the word, organic and inorganic) and dilution.

If you push the alt-right to exclusively use their own walled gardens, to concentrate in their own unmoderated, subverted echo chambers, that's when you should be very terrified because that's when you birth actually scary groups.

There will always be unpopular opinions on some subject. No matter how much proof you have, there will be flat earthers and creationists. No matter how much you promote equality, there will be bigots. But there is also always a continuum on the spectrum of these affiliations - some people may be mildly xenophobic and have valid concerns on immigration or have ignorant/antiquated views on gender equality, for example.

When you take a hard-line stance on these opinions on the hope of promoting one ideal (no matter how noble) you always run the risk of also promoting the other through polarisation.
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Thanks for that suggestion. I am well aware of these options, and if I used Windows at home, I could utilize these. However, I only use Windows when I have to, which is at work. The environment in which I work, you can absolutely not install software like this, as you would be breaking security protocols (and the law).

So this explains the joy I feel over small improvements like those mentioned above.
btw, they still have urchin.js file on GA servers

https://google-analytics.com/urchin.js
we crawl the web and index emails, then link them to names / social profiles. Have gotten 3x more emails since we initially launched last year.
Agreed. RAII is something I miss deeply in many other languages.
How do you know which one leads to any good solution, let alone a simple solution?
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/seq2seq/...

If the European country she is from is within the EU, you can probably get parallel corpus from the EU parliamentary translations. I believe there are other EU research projects which release useful corpus.
I'm wondering what is the false positive rate of their face recognition system? What would a falsely identified person do now that they don't have tickets to show for?
This is different. In math, it doesn't matter which method you're using: all correct methods that yield an answer will yield the same answer. So, the best method is merely the easiest to apply, or the one that'll yield the answer fastest.

Bayesian methods are similar: given the entirety of the information you have at your disposal (prior + data), there is one and only one posterior probability distribution over all possible conclusions. No matter how you approach the problem, applying probability theory correctly will yield the same answer.

The only drawback is that doing it correctly is often computationally intractable. So we take shortcuts, such as Monte Carlo, hence approximating the correct method, possibly yielding different results depending on the exact nature of the approximation.

Frequentist methods however can yield different conclusions depending on who you approach the problem, before you even approximate anything. In part because it sometimes takes into account irrelevant information, such as the researcher's state of mind at the time of the experiment (did I stop at 100 trials because I just got statistical significance, or did I stop at 100 trials because that was decided in advance?).

To me, such insanity is hard to fathom. Are frequentist methods that stupid? The glimpse I have got so far indicate they might be.
I like 'post-truth' seems to imply a different past, one of truth and objectivity and noble deeds. I don't believe that actually ever existed or that things are better or worse now. You might say Watergate, I could reply Snowden.

I do believe we're making it easy for people to get only the 'news' they agree with, read only the op-ed that spells out their thoughts.

But it's just as easy to tap into voices of dissent, to find views that are radically foreign to one's own. Maybe even easier and less stressful than it was in other ages.

I think blaming the media or age for intellectual laziness and corporate/political disinformation is neither fair nor productive.
This will be met with clandestine opposition by management.

I have been observing them for years. The current school of thought is basically a rat race where the managers only manage their own self interest, and they do not stick around in any one position longer than two to four years (team leads tend to be an exception to this behavioral pattern). By the time the damage their decisions have caused takes effect, they are already either at a different position in the hierarchy, or if the strategy was particularly harmful to the company, they have jumped ship.
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Here's my understanding of what docker is. Deploying software consistently can be difficult. Your code always depend on some dynamically loaded libraries on the operating system. Even if you statically link your software, you still have dependency on the operating system that you developed against.

The classic way to mitigate this is to use virtual machines. But virtual machines are big, and bulky. Docker combines several tricks that are only available on Linux so that a single process thinks it's running on a virtual machine. Your binaries are shipped in a diff format against a particular OS version. If your binary depends on some third party packages, you can apt-get install them and ship these together with your binary image.

Another example of docker use case is in software development. Your OS might be running a version of python, while you are developing against a different version. Your current project may have dependencies on particular third party libraries. By installing all these into the docker image, it will be a lot easier for you if you need to come back to make some changes in the future.

Furthermore, docker being free, there are now a range of solutions that have popped up around managing the lifetime of docker containers for scaling etc. These then to be interesting to people who are running internet-scale software, but less so if you are writing some enterprise applications.
When student journos start banning newspapers we know we've hit peak censorship
I've had a lot more success programming in the morning before going into the office. There might not be as much potential time to work, but I've found myself making more progress getting 30 minutes done a day every day than the intermittent multi-hour blocks I'd program when I had enough energy/motivation after coming home from work.
Difficult to get actual title (which is 119 characters) into the 80 char limit.

Title is "When students at the country's top university for journalism start banning newspapers we know we've hit peak censorship".

The article is about why those students are wrong to ban these newspapers from their campus.
Sorry that is your reaction. Will email you to discuss.
He explained stuff plainly, using references (sci-fi, japanese manga and anime) that are popular among a fairy restricted set of people. It's not academic, and it's not all-inclusive.

Of course it will sound like a weird cult. I'm not sure why anybody would have any problem with that.
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Can you give any examples?
A manager's manager will never fully agree, especially if one is a good and valuable worker: by enabling one to progress in one's career, it opens up the possibility to lose that worker. How will the manager be able to get things done and report success to their boss, if all the good people are gone?

The entire system is ill, seriously ill. The entire hierarchichal model is failing, as is evident by the state of the world and the state in most large, publically traded corporations.
I can't read the text, but this is the only video I can find that might be deepmask / sharpmask in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOBND1_RNMg

If that is indeed a representation of the quality of results, it's clearly got a very long way to go before it's actually useful for rotoscoping. I suppose it could be useful for automating garbage mattes, but those are pretty easy to do anyway.
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There were a few videos on numberphile with him. Here is a playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWIL8XA1npoN...
(5 videos totalling about 40 minutes)
Another option is to choose the one that yields the (more) correct solution.
"and I only included subjects who appeared to be a white man"

Ah yes of course - racism can only be carried out by white men after all.

What a pile of rubbish. If you take offense at words, things are going to get progressively worse for you as more and more automated bots enter the scene.

The answer of course, is for people to stop taking offense.

Do these people get offended at spam emails suggesting they need viagra or a fuckbuddy? What's the point?
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You're assuming your manager is static and doesn't want to progress. Make your boss look good and you both might get ahead together.
True true. And there are many degrees of propaganda. But its not a free speech issue
You've accurately described the talking heads on the Sunday shows.
Do you think the "alt-right" is the only major problem? Try tweeting something against a Hillary or Obama policy during the election or challenge a 'liberal' person -- the responses can be no less harassing and vitriolic.

This idea that the 'right' is a problem is in itself part of the problem.

There is plenty of harassment from those that claim they are more tolerant than the rest of us.

I do agree with your echo chamber point though -- one needs only to spend a few minutes on Mother Jones's comment section to read all manner of hate against those who have different opinions from their own.

You are exactly correct -- the public sphere ought to welcome all viewpoints as sunlight is ultimately the best disinfectant.

One of the reasons Hillary lost the election is that her campaign seemed to be in a bubble -- holding valid concerns of many groups in contempt while surrounding itself with voices that spent more time self congratulating or feeling intellectually superior whilst many Americans (such as in the Rust Belt) found themselves marginalized. The Obama campaign by contrast actually reached out to the so-called deplorables.
I couldn't comment on that particular showreel, but it's clearly possible for Blender to use other rendering engines. For example, the linked Miyazaki tribute used Octane.
I'm not assuming anything, merely stating my observations (studying them is one of my hobbies).
Its a bit scary, but totally useful. I tested it with people I know, and looks like people who use different emails for fb/linkedin tend not to have as much info available. But the number of mobile phones you have on there is crazy.
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Thanks for submitting this, love to see feedback from the physicists who hang out around here!
A few years ago I read a really excellent piece by a CEO who talked about his approach with new employees was to have a conversation right at the beginning about how they were unlikely to work at the company until they retire and therefore the expectation was that the company would work to help them grow into their next career.

I've been completely unable to find this article subsequently. Can anyone point me at it?
Weren't the defendants in a position of greater leverage once he was elected president? From what I'd read, it would have been the first time a sitting president was forced to defend himself in a criminal trial. So if you've endured this legal battle for so long, why settle for a relatively small amount just when your leverage has started to climb?
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There were lots of comments in this thread a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965311
I don't want to oppose tragic nature of this. Yet, it's interesting that w.cd being pure piracy site is praised for content and community which kept it online and supported.

So you must understand now, why piracy is such an issue in small countries. There is no way to get so much stuff legally. And when piracy is the only option, it gets acquitted by most people.

When we are asked about piracy in our lives, this is the answer. We have no way to access so much of the content people in other countries take for granted.

It even goes much further than that. When you land in one of our airports, your iphone and android device goes blind and dumb. Many of services (uber, yelp, google play, amazon, maps) are not available here or are crippled beyond usability. But there is no solution to that :)

While we live in mostly free border-less world, we are still slaves of copyright laws and strategies of large companies.

Actually, there is discussion between EU legislators and librarians to cut copyright years for newspapers. It's a shame we cannot use internet to access anything written in our country's Soviet era newspapers because of this, though everything is already digitised, OCRed and available over web browser when you are on-site.
It is, and in fact the default rendering engine is still the "Blender internal" engine. But it's not common to use Cycles without Blender.
machine superintelligence is hyperintegration of the metasystem

(disclaimer: incomplete knowledge is risk)
Maybe this helps: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06201
I never really understood this distinction... why can't you similarly say that "you should be able to do whatever you want <with your ability to view the performance> as long as it is legally allowed"?
yeah it's hard to claim that it assesses "the truth". I am doing a research project in this exact field and we believe this to be a semi-hard AI problem with very little chance of being approximable.
It's very easy to judge, but when you're in the situation that you've lost your job of 20 years because the plant you work at is no longer competitive, your bank is about to foreclose on your house, and you have to pull your kids out of university because you can no longer pay the tuition. Then the promises of the Trump campaign (and Brexit) become very persuasive. The scary thing is if the politicians themselves actually believe in what they're saying.

But maybe they're right, the US has the benefit of being a huge country with most of the resources it needs to survive within its borders, perhaps you tear up trade agreements and start a policy of being more reclusive to protect your industries and employment.

I see one huge advantage that the US has in a global world though, and that is (at least for now) it is by far the dominant player in the web space. Countries like Russia and China have their own services that are playing catch up on their US counterparts, but they are still well behind for the most part. In any future imaginable the web, or a successor is going to continue to be the biggest part of our lives and therefore the worlds money will continue to flow into the US.

Despite what I just said, I too worry about the US. There seems to be a deep seated suspicion of anything socialist and most of the solutions to a massively automated society seem to be socialist ones (i.e. a universal basic income, or the government regulating businesses to provide for the common good).

You'd hope that if it came to that scenario the US would follow suit and provide for its citizens that cannot work. But there is precedent for the opposite, the world went through a similar scenario in the 30's with the great depression. Most countries in the OECD came out of that decade with comprehensive social welfare systems, the US did not.
That might be the first hardware crowdfunding I ever buy into. I've got a seething rage at just about every aspect of current phones and a huge nostalgia for Nokia's early smartphones.

Physical keyboard? Yay. Messages in natural language are one thing, ssh'ing into a machine or writing code is an entirely different topic.

Open systems thrive with exactly the kind of software I use almost exclusively. I can live without any mobile games - srsly, get a handheld or build one yourself[1] - and I don't use many other services I couldn't find alternatives for.
If I was to migrate from node.js I would do it to Elixir or Rust.
> "addictive/useless chitchat"

That's been part of our culture for a huge amount of time, widespread gossip and idle speculation didn't start in the era of modern technology.
Yes, in fact I have my own modem. When I bought this one, it seemed to be the only 4G modem with dual antennas, ethernet ports & wlan.
I like that he's wearing an ARML shirt in at least two of those videos.
Directly asking to non-reciprocally mine employees' childhoods for psychological data is a counterexample to said manager having the psychological makeup necessary for becoming a "servant leader" - in other words it's quite callous and has more than a whiff of sociopathy about it.
That is odd, powershell shells out to cmd.exe if you try to pipe binary or text data. It goes back to powershell only if you use powershell commands in the pipeline.

If you don't pass the flags zo handle it as binary in those cases stuff breaks.
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Adding nVidia and AMD GPUs would require us to have nonfree drivers or firmwares so that would be against our philosophy. Also adding proprietary stuff is against our goal of creating secure yet convenient OS (we try to free or create things that people need, not close them down even more).
Related website [1] to this paper.

Also, I would suggest looking into Tien-Tsin Wong's other works [2] as well. A lot of great ideas and papers there.

[1] https://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/ascii...
[2] https://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/publication-favorite....
It feels to me sometimes that the "new Miyazaki" is much like being the "new Dylan" used to be in the music industry.

Though we lost him too young, Kon Satoshi was able to reach the level of extraordinary several times. "Every Frame a Painting" covered his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz49vQwSoTE
Agree! It makes you wonder why they didnt try python 3.5 with async stuff, as most of their stack is based on python. Yes its not multi threaded but if the service was rewritten it might have actually performed better. Otoh: sometimes you need a good excuse to test some other technologies.
This was an experiment sending the same canned response from fake accounts to see if it changed behavior. Nobody is actually suggesting using bots to do this automatically.
> Actually, in the frequentist paradigm you could choose to run a sequential hypothesis test which will end when you've acquired sufficient data

And, as he said, you have to make adjustments to account for these interim analysis.
That's not the message of the article. The original application wasn't poorly written. In fact it was written by people who know Javascript and refactored multiple times. The new application is written by someone that picked up Go in a few weeks.

I don't see it as a criticism Node.js either, it's just that Node wasn't the right tool for the job, in this case. If you pick the correct tools and know the limitations of your tools, then it becomes less important how proficient you are with those tools (not irrelevant of cause).
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See last column in table at

http://emdrive.wiki/Experimental_Results

("Force/Power Multiple of Photon Rocket"). The measured thrust (when one is claimed) is much larger than what an ideal photon rocket would produce.
> racism can only be carried out by white men after all

...because he wanted to test the in-group out-group effect. Furthermore given the metric he was using...

Honestly, did you even read the article?
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To be completely fair, you can show me almost anything with Benny Hill music in the background and I will enjoy it ;)

Anybody knows if these 3 cameras on the right are the only ones used by the auto pilot?
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I was a Mathcamper this year. One of the most common things people said to me when I mentioned that I was a first-timer was that 2015 was the last year Conway attended, and how sad it was that I'd miss his lectures and general presence around camp. :(

There's this wonderful thing (invented by Conway) they do where, in a noisy crowded assembly, one person raises their hand and stops making any sound. Anyone who notices them raises their hand and stops talking. It works extremeley well (and really quickly!), and I suspect it was Conway's general frailty that led him to come up with this.