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> But all ten researchers, faced with the choice of what hypothesis to formulate and/or investigate, naturally chose high-impact hypotheses -- ones that, if confirmed, adjust past temperatures downward.

You have to show this, you can't just assume it. For example, sea surface temperature adjustments are the opposite; in your words, a low-impact hypothesis that is nevertheless formulated and confirmed.
http://variable-variability.blogspot.de/2015/02/homogenizati...
Really? The only (mainstream) articles I've seen have always put "riot" in quotes - as if we the media don't really think it's a riot, but the police say it is, and even implying that the police saying it is might be some kind of a problem. This about events where there is actual, documented (and even photographed) property being destroyed. (This was in Portland.)
Given Apple's history, you will likely have to buy a new one in about 5 years
Where's the arrogance? All I see is a honest, introspective look at the development process and stability of CockroachDB.

What statements are you referring to?
Fool me several times, shame on me.... ;) Really -- ever since the ATI acquisition I thought AMD could make it happen. And it's true that they have come a long way since then.

"New Linux Driver and Runtime Stack optimized for HPC & Ultra-scale class computing" sounds great, let's hope this time they can do it.
I didn't know what a "see saw" was, but it didn't stop google from guessing it right. http://imgur.com/a/LfYxs
30 years! How old is the climate and Earth again? How many volcanoes erupt daily, weekly, monthly... and how much do they contribute to "other factors?"

I worked at AFWA in 2004, in the Global Event office. I tracked Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Haboobs, and the like... The scientists there loved to have these conversations.
Incredible marketing move
Thank you for the link to comment, I had heard all the pieces individually but it was really something to see the timeline. Hope JA is alright.
So in other words, you really have no idea what you're doing do you?
Could you please recommend an Android library for displaying vector maps?
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They just published a paper on how they do recommendations (very small fast NNs): https://research.google.com/pubs/archive/45530.pdf
> ... it's crazy how hysterical and witch-hunty the left is right now.

Well, see, Trump was really horrible as a candidate. Really incredibly weak. And yet Hillary lost. That couldn't have been because Hillary was an even weaker candidate! It had to be because of a witch! If we can find that witch, we'll be fine in the next election!
I'm very curious about what you consider to be "the best scifi, the really good stuff". Could you name some examples?

Very few decent SF scripts go into production, even fewer with such amazing talent on board (Villeneuve, Johannsson, Adams) etc.

Arrival is not just one of the best SF films this year, it's one of the best films this year.

Villeneuve and Johannsson weren't handed Bladerunner 2 for no good reason :)
I'm curious to know what workloads you think Google is running on the same hardware that cloud customers are using.
Yeah, I understand that Americans are in love with the idea of killing thousands of people a year and there is very little chance of them being rational about it.

When people's lives are at stake, I'll settle for the correlation, which is a matter of fact: gun ownership went down, and gun deaths went down.

QUOTE 1

"Using differences across states, we test[ed] whether the reduction in firearms availability affected homicide and suicide rates. We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80%, with no significant effect on non-firearm death rates. The effect on firearm homicides is of similar magnitude but is less precise [somewhere between 35% and 50%]."
http://andrewleigh.org/pdf/GunBuyback_Panel.pdf

QUOTE 2

"Following enactment of gun law reforms in Australia in 1996, there were no mass firearm killings through May 2016. There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths between 1997 and 2013 compared with before 1997 but also a decline in total nonfirearm suicide and homicide deaths_ of a greater magnitude. Because of this, it is not possible to determine whether the change in firearm deaths can be attributed to the gun law reforms."
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/253036...
Is news965 a reputable news source? Not saying the story isn't credible, just that I've been seeing a LOT of new "news" domains these days.
Super neat, but all the download links on the site are dead (tag name missing 'v' in 'v1.2.0'). I was gonna' submit a PR, but it doesn't seem to be managed via a public repo.
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> How can a democracy function without an informed populace? If not the New York Times or some other existing "news" entity, what entity can possibly provide reliable information going forward?

The New York Times forfeited that position. If I wanted a Democratic Party propaganda rag, I could find one - I don't need the New York Times for that. If I wanted accurate information, I do need the New York Times, or someone like them - but they won't do it. They used to, but they won't any more.
The site linked is a blog/podcast pit on by senior cadets and officers at westpoint, which is just about as apolitical as government institutions come
Thanks :) That’s a good idea — each rule has real-number examples, but there’s nothing to solve. It would be fun to add test problems to use the rule on.
I made some videos using primitive + ffmpeg a few months ago, glad to see it's still being developed!

https://theblackbox.ca/blog/primitive-triangles/

Awesome, I see you've added new features too. There goes my evening. A suggestion for video, allow loading the shape data for the previous frame and use that as a starting point. Could bring you closer to real time processing :)
Except that doesn't eliminate the confounding factor, so while your statement is true the parents is also.
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It asked me to draw a tree. I drew a palm tree. It said "palm tree" on the bottom, but then said it failed.

I drew the palm tree because I've studied AI and that's a classic AI mistake.

If you go to Hawaii and ask students to draw a tree, almost all of them will draw a palm tree. Ask them to draw a bird and it looks like a parrot (instead of the robin you see typically in the "lower 48").

It's interesting that this seems to suffer from the same selection bias.
A) They have the capacity to deliver state-of-the-art technology and can easily dominate with a surge of money for mass-production of electronics. On a whim they could deliver unparalleled face recognition for instance: https://hackernoon.com/is-snap-inc-building-a-wearable-face-...

B) They're worth so much because on any given day, the app reaches 41 percent of all 18-to-34-year-olds in the United States. They have amazing potential as a platform for advertising, recruiting, sales, and so much more. They're probably not making money yet because they're not done honey-potting everybody like Facebook circa-2008.

You may be right about a bloated WhatsApp $19B price, because the Snapchat data is much more valuable and going for $4B.
ICQ was a legend! I can't believe nobody has mentioned OICQ yet. It was a Chinese clone made in 1999, and what later on was renamed to Tecent QQ.
Everyone has different boundaries. For me: phone calls are for friends and family and texts messages are public; when I hand people my business cards I tell them "SMS only". I also despise email, but really don't mind receiving tons of text messages every day. Since no one is the same, it just isn't fair to be as annoyed as you are, especially when it sounds like your problem is so completely trivially solved that you have no one to blame but yourself: turn off notifications for text messages from people who are not in your address book.

Ok, and now someone has downvoted me within seconds of me posting that paragraph; the "I hate people contacting me" crowd is so amazingly vicious :/. Let's look at this from another perspective: I work with a group called Student Activist Network. The entire point of this group is you give them your phone number and they text you when actions come up related to your interests. Much like how anti-email spam people never are willing to believe that some people sign up for mailing lists on purpose, I bet they are also going to refuse to believe that hundreds of activists and protesters specifically want this kind of functionality, and right now the distribution is done manually by people copy/pasting.
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As a person who's used XF for the last 2 years in my company, stay away from Xamarin.Forms. I can see some of the appeal for the regular Xamarin.iOS and .Droid but the performance of Xamarin.Forms on Android is absolutely horrible even after optimizing it to an insane amount. Think several seconds render times per page on a Nexus 5X (on a page that takes 200ms if written using Xamarin Android).

They've been denying it's a problem for over a year, and then acknowledged it a few months ago and did nothing about it.

The platform itself also harbors a lot of bizarre and difficult bugs that only cause a couple of crashes each under some very specific conditions that are nearly impossible repro consistently. But there are so many of them that on a given day, 5% of our apps will crash or freeze because of some Garbage Collector bug, a platform bug, or some platform race condition. Just check how many of the bugzilla bugs are still in the NEW state.
Actually, Firefox has it natively since 48. Just enter the title in the URL bar, and it'll suggest going to that tab.
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Oh hey, that's the exact laptop I drew.
I honestly don't remember the details – a customer service rep locked or deleted a repository because of a complaint about a word in it, which je completely misunderstood. Something like master/slave.

Someone else also proclaimed their support for affirmative-action hiring on twitter, in words that some of my white cis-male brothers felt were insulting. (they actually were, but until I've picked cotton for a decade or been shot by police I'm not going to consider myself victimized).

From there on, GH has been under strict observation. They're obviously on the progressive end of the spectrum so people are now finding new transgressions left and right. Community guidelines were the last. They're not different from Google or any number of SV companies, but the association seems to stick.
I can 100% attest that is is a false assumption. </regret>
Both of these traits are predictable from political leanings.
Amazons largest "batch" job is their holiday shopping season. They must purchase the horsepower to get them through that season, and then the rest of the year they can resell it. I believe this was the original motivation for AWS.
It's the intensity of the experience that will make VR the new hyper-addictive drug of choice for escaping reality in the near future.

I fully expect my children to be lamenting how their children won't want to come back to the physical (real) world - much like how we wanted our kids to get off the computer, and our parents didn't like us being on the telephone and watching TV.
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At least there's fanfiction. It might not be ever up to snuff as the original author's work, but some are quite entertaining, albeit in different ways.
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I wonder how much this has to do with vision correction. VR goggles, like TV screens, flatten everything into a single plane. If your eyes can focus on that plane they see everything. The real world is different. None of us have perfect vision at all distances simultaneously. We have to refocus when switching between near and far. The result is that nothing in the real world is every as 'in focus' as the VR world. So like wearing flippers while swimming, the real world is fuzzy and requires you to work harder than you did while wearing the device.

This is akin to why BBC documentaries always look better than the real thing. (I watched Planet Earth II last night). Those giant lenses in the fancy cameras can keep more objects in focus, allowing us to see both the parrot and the mountain background in ways we couldn't in the real world.
All kinds of CPU intensive work. Isn't that most work?
Thanks you so much for creating Miranda. Small, unintrusive, fast.
It's still just a press release and marketing page for a product that hasn't hit the shelves yet.

Personally, I'd wait for the tech specs page to go live before getting too upset about them not posting detailed tech specs.
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That minimum order is significantly higher than the price of the part from Germany... even with shipping. And with the gear, one spare isn't that useful... and the parts for the trike ( http://www.terratrike.com/tandem.php ) tend to be a bit specialized - I don't know anyone else who has one (mine is similar though has different parts and such because its a folding http://www.terratrike.com/traveler.php ). In the past, my father has gone to the machine shop where he used to work for custom parts - but the people who he had favors with to get some time for non-academic projects have nearly all retired.

Yes, it is certainly cheaper to have an industrial cutter if you know what you're making and making them in lots that cost a few hundred dollars. If you are after making a part rather than a half dozen... that minimum order and turn around time (do it on Saturday, have it on Sunday?) make it less interesting for some applications.
I guess Glenn must have stopped worrying about Obama's plans to spark a race war, overthrow the government and install a Communist Islamic Caliphate, then?
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That's the whole point of the original post: don't bother thinking about it, let the mta do that for you. The "@" is a courtesy to make sure people didn't mistakenly put their name in. Don't validate, just do a sanity check.
Why only mention pro-Trump fake news? I know plenty of people spreading fake Propaganda about Trump based on hearsay and false information.

...including links and comments on HN. Maybe HN needs to filter out the fake stuff too?
Qutebrowser is also worth checking out. I haven't really given it a full blown test drive yet, but it's certainly less bloated than Firefox and Chrome, and has Vim-like keybindings.
I have hundreds of tabs open, and use Tab Center, and I haven't experienced it being slow.

However, past a number of tabs (enough to fill the "tab bar" vertically), it doesn't show thumbnails, maybe that's the difference?
Having just recently listened to the Talk Python to Me (yesterday) and Import This (today) episodes with you, thank you so much for everything. Read the Docs is a truly amazing resource.
You can also run several profiles in parallel with the no-remote flag.
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>does nothing to prevent the promulgation of "bad" content (think clickbait)

agreed, that can be combated by training, teaching, education, etc. you cant make tools and not advertise them or convince people to use them. you either convince them or manipulate people into using them (through advertising or gamification)

youre right, chasing ads makes for bad content, but newspapers have always been content mills to support the hard hitting journalism. the alternative could be tax funded journalism (npr, pbs, bbc) or one of the many startups that try to track what you read and then pay out accordingly.
You'd be surprised then to learn that Line makes $270M/yr on stickers.

Think of these as fashion items. Trend-driven, fleeting, and a way for people to make statements about themselves. Many here might not have much interest in fashion, but there's no denying it is a massive industry.

As augmented reality becomes big and wearables become mainstream, filters like Snapchat offers will clearly grow in demand and value as virtual fashion goods. The interesting thing is the business model because right now advertisers foot the bill, not the consumer.
Sounds like gentrification has killed the old Bushwick, right?
I struggle to believe that this is a serious post, from someone who has seriously used VR. At the very least, I imagine their experience is very subjective.

I have the Oculus Rift, but have experienced nothing like what he's describing. Maybe its the lack of room scale, the lack of hand/arm interaction (Oculus Touch isn't out yet), or maybe I'm just playing different games?

Oculus never felt magical to me. In fact, if I'm being honest, it was kind of a let down. Yea it's cool, but the resolution is garbage (even in the production version I have). This article reads like someone who's never used VR, but worries about what it COULD do to you... if it really were great.
Don't tell me what my job is.
I will re-iterate the "Stay the hell away from Xam.Forms" as we've used it at work for almost 1.5 years.

I just convinced our management to move away from it when I migrated a page from Xamarin.Forms to regular Xamarin.Android. The page render time went from 2,000ms to 400ms.

A quick glance on the now-open source code of Xamarin Forms now shows you why the perf is so sluggish (the whole thing seems like it was hacked together by a college intern as a week-end project).

Xamarin seems to have a marketing team that is far ahead of their development team.
This looks really great. Can it be used in chrome on android?
A coauthor of the original proposal for AWS denies that:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
9300x2s, K80s and P100s.

From the post:

> Google Cloud will offer AMD FirePro S9300 x2 that supports powerful, GPU-based remote workstations. We'll also offer NVIDIA® Tesla® P100 and K80 GPUs for deep learning, AI and HPC applications that require powerful computation and analysis. GPUs are offered in passthrough mode to provide bare metal performance. Up to 8 GPU dies can be attached per VM instance including custom machine types.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and pitched in on this.
> the most effective weapon on the modern battlefield is food.

Experts do say that logistics is one of the most important factors in warfare. An army marches on its stomach, Napoleon reputedly said.

Imagine feeding 20,000 people on the march: That's 40-60,000 meals per day, who knows how much water, plus waste - all shipped through war zones. And that ignores other supplies: Fuel, bullets, parts, medicine, etc.
I saw it on PivNet today!
In some of the experiments they use t-SNE. To me t-SNE is sufficiently advanced to be indistinguishable from magic.
https://lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne/
"So...show me facts? Or some sort of reasoning?"

...

I've done nothing but that everywhere in this thread; and I'm the only one doing it, too. Maybe Wikipedia isn't serious enough for you; sorry that I didn't copy and paste the references at the bottom of the Wikipedia page as more 'authoritative'. But maybe Wikipedia is in on it, of course; it's well known to be a bastion of nut cases who are in bed with the Big Weapons lobby (/s, just to be sure). But feel free to point out any factual inaccuracies you find.

"We were talking about developed nations."

Sure, a criterion which you are reducing to 'GDP', because otherwise you can't end up with Western Europe only (OK, plus Australia). Which is a silly criterion, as evidenced by those economists and social scientists making different metrics, such as the human development index. And let that be exactly what I've referenced above! I seem to know much better than you what this term means, whereas you conveniently ignore half of what I'm writing.

"take it up with the UN or the CIA or whoever"

Many government organizations use 'developed nation' in a very specific, economic way; which essentially boils down to 'per capita income > some cutoff'. And as a metric for some economic behaviors or classification for regression analysis, this makes sense. But this is not the sort of 'developed' that matters in this discussion.

"If you think there's a racial component to "developed nations,""

OK, I've conceded before that that was a poor choice of words and I've replaced 'racist' with 'xenophobic'; it was not the objective to make this into a debate on how exactly to define racism in this context. That being said, I still don't see how you can explain your peculiar definition of 'developed' as anything else than 'racist'. I mean, having minimum sentences for crack (a 'black' drug) three times higher than those for cocaine (a 'white' drug) is racist; how is cherry picking a bunch of countries so that they're all conveniently predominantly white and then saying that all 'those others' are such a bunch of barbaric sub humans that they can't even be expected to not murder each other all day every day be construed as anything but 'racist'?

I know that you didn't use those words, and I don't even think you actually think that way (I mean, no sane person could think that way). That's why I said 'borderline' - because the underlying correlation there is clear, even if there any many ways to rationalize it away (because, surely, crack is more dangerous than powder cocaine, and redlining is not racist because hey our data shows that neighborhoods x, y and z have higher default rates - again, /s just to be sure).
Well yes, you'd base those weights on actual, human confirmed account bans.

Nothing about my post ever suggested the value was arbitrary. You've just assumed that.
People vote with their hearts not their heads. This has always been true.
Perhaps another option is to go back to the 1980's hdd designs where the arm moves straight down the radius of the platter. This design might permit multiple heads on the same arm.

At my first job, sysadmin and programming on a PDP-11/44, 1-2 fascinating Winchester drives were procured for it. They had clear plastic covers, and you could see everything, the disk, the actuator, which had two heads, and it was by and large square, I'm almost positive it was rotary, not solenoid based straight stroke like many '70-80s drives, CDC's famous line in particular.
> Download it, audit the code

Applies to your operating system as well, plus any firmware.
Thanks a lot for this writeup, I think I understand this topic a little bit better now. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this :)
I started using Mozilla Firefox 1.04 many years ago. Everytime a new update was released I was so excited to install it, as the browser became better and better with each update. I remember when Firefox 2.0 was released and I could not wait for it to be available in the Debian package repository, because it was such a big improvement.

Now I absolutely HATE when a update is released, because either functionality is removed, appearance is changed or even more bloat has been added.

Firefox itself has become the problem it tried to solve.
The poster is hoping to AstroTurf the discussion preemptively, it seems.