skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, this looks amazing.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does this mean:
"Speck renders atoms and bonds not with polygons, but with imposters. This means you can zoom in as close as you like and surfaces remain smooth, not faceted."

I've only ever heard of imposters as bitmaps or simpler models, replacing the original 3d models at a distance.
But I guess this is something entirely different... Could you point me in the right direction on this topic?
We use a similar scheme. The biggest driver for us is being able to move tenants around between databases to balance load as our tenants grow.
Prove it.

You label me "toxic" and dishonest, but you want me to just accept your assumptions? My "honest" dialogue is based on verifiable facts, not speculative slander.
Doomed Spacecraft Begins Final Dives Near Saturn’s Rings
I went remote.
this is one of the reasons we need to get this in the hands of some kind of ambassadors that can test for themselves and give us some validation. imho the video doesn't do it much justice.
I understand that, and I like this experiment because of that, but think about it from the other perspective. If you felt like your life was in danger, and the entire community was like "mmm, this conversation isn't intellectually stimulating enough for me, please don't bring it up here", what would you think? It's one thing to go to some narrowly defined conference and find that politics are avoided, but it's another to go to a sort of general hangout for like-minded people and find that they won't acknowledge people like you.

It's sort of like saying "oh, I don't see race". Well, everyone else does, and not acknowledging racism is just about as bad as actually being racist. Ignoring a problem doesn't make it go away.

And another analogy, telling people there are more appropriate places to discuss politics is sort of like people telling Black Lives Matter/Colin Kaepernick/etc. to please protest in a more appropriate manner. There's no point in "appropriate" protests and appropriate forums, they are ignored. You have to bring this stuff up in places where people want to ignore it, otherwise nothing will ever change.
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Rorschach tests seem to have coherent structure, despite being randomly generated blobs.
For French entrepreneurs reading this: make it extremely easy and painless to start/run/shutdown a company in France.

I dream of being able to start a company by completing a form and sending a copy of my French ID. And all the rest (accountants/HR/law) would be handled by online third party services smoothly. Same should go for banking services associated with the company.

I think France has great potential but it needs simplification of processes. I'm not expecting the government to do it, hence my desparate call to other French entrepreneurs.
Hence why I mentioned 'any of us'. I realise that a lot of family units have different dynamics, rules and outlook on life and each will do what suits them I guess, but I like to think, that for the time being at least, our family has an open and pretty good trust thing going on that means location awareness amongst ourselves is for the greater good.
It's a pretty good analogy for the United Kingdom, at least, with the recently passed Snoopers Charter which gives unlimited access to a large number of government agency to the browsing information for all citizens, with the exception of politicians.
Khronos Virtual Reality Standard Initiative
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However, in the future he may want to install/create mods for Minecraft, which would start him on the path for further skills.
Reproducible builds: a means to an end
Fair enough. Agree to disagree then.
This is a very poorly worded headline.

Also, the author of this article criticizes the original article for playing fast and loose with facts. But then takes an unsubstantiated claim from the CEO of the company in question as evidence that the Apple Watch is doing great. Maybe not the best source for such information. I've never heard a CEO say "Sales are not what we hoped" without raw data forcing that concession out of him/her.
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Depending on the product you're building, the Skype/Slack communication may not be enough. If, for example, you're a game designer, artist and an engineer who're iterating together on a gameplay mechanic, it's certainly not enough. And apart from the work-related communication, you guys would need to have much more friendly chats and lunches together just to build the team together.
Live coding in 1968
Why did you/would you uninstall ed or nano? It's not like they're taking up a lot of disk space. I mean, I don't ever use them either, but they're not getting in my way or anything.
Well, W7X isn't capable of producing power. Even if it can sustain fusion it's a research reactor, it doesn't have any generator infrastructure.
Related to Ubuntu's Unity (might apply to other environments):

I remember last time I switched from Windows (~3 years ago) it was once again harsh on my eyes. The way things (fonts?) are rendered is just different.

What made me survive the first days was switching the default font to Roboto Condensed (of Google fame) [1] with:

sudo apt-get install fonts-roboto unity-tweak-tool

I wouldn't want to trade it for any other OS currently. It just looks so good. But I guess it is more because I got used to it than anything else.

If you find what works for you (right hardware, right kernel), issues can be minimal. I definitely don't consider it to be buggy. Maybe the way sound output switching works is a bit awkward, but that's about it.

[1] http://pasteboard.co/6zgtPnMb7.png
TvOS: Sharing data between app and top shelf extension
Deepmind Lab
The event starts at 1pm Eastern.
The numbers I give are to be understood from employer pov, with the highest salary tiers and office space.

It is not what the dev receives(which would be 50-75k€).
+1 We are continuously rebalancing customers between database servers. An added benefit is that doing a pg_dump/pg_restore removes all accumulated database bloat which decreases size on disk and improves performance
Interactive representation might be a way to fix our broken election system
Dark Mail seems to be dead. Are there any efforts to make e-mail secure by default and e2e encrypted?.
Nifty! I'm on Access (a small regional ISP in SK), but traceroute indicates that the packets are disappearing at a Shaw router in Calgary. Looks like Access gets its connection from Bigpipe (Shaw's bulk offering).

Thanks for the archive link!
> no, we don't use Android, unlike pretty much everyone else.

Most companies making EPD products use the base OS provided by their SoC vendor. Based on your spec which says 1GHz ARM A9 , I'm guessing you're using the NXP (formerly Freescale, now Qualcomm) i.mx6 SoloLite since that's the only 1GHz ARM A9 with an EPDC controller on the market. Freescale gives you a Linux EPD and an Android EPD Linux BSP, both of which use the same epdc driver with pretty much the same latency which is definitely pretty high, much higher than 55ms for sure.

> EPD is designed by e ink based on our requirements, e. g. the size and high DPI

Are you claiming that E Ink manufactured a custom 10.3" panel just for you?
I think you're seeing the glass half empty.

Paris is not perfect but I don't see how this kind of initiative couldn't be a move in the right direction.

About the money part, Paris is far from being London or NYC, the gravity center isn't financial services, at least you don't feel it when living there.

There is great talent (engineer+design), I'd say the marketing overall is weak and too timid.
Is there any free-software voice recognition that one could use in case one doesn't trust the Amazon Echo not to send everything you say to the NSA?
just to clear up any possible confusion; don't expect text recognition.

it's probably the most requested feature, but it's a really, really hard problem.

but please send me a message at martin.sandsmark@remarkable.no if anyone have any tips about solutions to this (we're talking with a couple of vendors, but we might have missed some).
Uhg

"These estimated figures are based on the analyst’s own research, but I don’t think they include any definitive Apple Store retail or online sales data, nor do I think they include sales through those non-tech department stores in which Apple Watch is often sold. "

So the author "thinks"? How is this better than the source being criticized?
> Git is used to get the current commit hash.

that seems a bit of a problem for every product not using git (which is still a lot, and whoever said git was the final solution anyway?)
Group FaceTime for iMessage
> Further, any other high-tech food solution (electric boxes that grow lettuce under lights etc) is more energy-expensive. Can't bean letting Mother Nature do all the work, and just driving by later and picking up the food.

I like the simplicity of that description-- which might be true for grains, where huge tractors and combines can roll through the fields-- but glosses over all the work done on a farm for other products. It also ignores that there are significant risks to letting Mother Nature take her course where as indoor farming can control light cycle and intensity, watering and humidity, CO2 level, temperature, and (probably) greatly increase density while (maybe) minimizing pest control and herbicides.
I find very interesting the point about the split between what WoT was supposed to be, in theory, and what little it represents, in practice, in terms of practices about key verification.

It has been said many times that the lack of adoption of pgp in mail was due to the average user not being able to grasp the concepts behind the proper operation for key management, but the article points to common practices among "power users" that will drop the theoretical best practices and switch to fallback, unsecure modes, given the effort needed to properly verify a key binding. If the community that cares about encryption and privacy is not able to routinely verify keys, the whole system definitely has a weak link.

I wonder if pgp is fundamentally flawed, or we have a deep conceptual usability issue here.

And to me, assuming that the most usable thing we can use instead is something that relies on mobile phone identifiers, more often than not tied to a phisical world identity, is really something to worry about.
A good place to live, not much else.
The Dash.js MPEG-DASH reference player can handle EBU-TT-D subtitles.
String theory is more analogous to quantum field theory than it is to the standard model. The standard model is a model of quantum field theory. Likewise, a theory of everything could potentially be a model of string theory. Particular models of string theory are ruled out by the same experiments that rule out particular models of quantum field theory. The ultimate goal is to find a model of some theory that reduces to the standard model in the low energy limit and includes gravity.

Now, it's potentially the case that string theory makes predictions for a given model that can't be practically tested. That's definitely an issue. Another issue is that we haven't yet pared down the possibilities in string theory to a parameter space that can be reasonably searched experimentally.
OpenAI Takes Another Step Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
This is only because the electrical and mechanical engineering realms have been resistant to change. There are rapid prototyping techniques that can be used to improve the hardware side, and so much of the latest systems are built largely in software anyway. There are still hardware shops debating whether or not source control is a good idea, "we tried CVS once, it didn't work."

The quality of a system is a direct function of the speed of the testing cycle. To argue "slow, methodical, reasoning" is to argue against quality.
> Are people actually making money this way?

Maybe a couple but most are not. A lot of the quant programmy stuff online seems to be more resume fodder than anything else.

> and not losing any money ever?

That's asking too much. There's always risk outside of pure arbitrage.
Perhaps AI will also automate-away the C-level execs and choose the plan which best ensures its own prolonged survival and prosperity.

I can only imagine what sort of products this will create, perhaps ones which actively destroy those of competitors which they find on your network.
Agreed... looking at the graphs, the fit screams "non-exponential" to me.
Keep your team connected. Git notifications and Scrum summary pushed to Mattermost
A service that makes me make $2k/mo before pay
This may very well be the future text-book example of how to not handle life critical systems and software, unfortunately it may well take people being killed. At this point we have no idea how this software handles pedestrians, cyclists, and even motorcyclists. We have no idea how it handles unanticipated situations like black ice or even construction zones. It has not been tested or certified by anyone. Clearly anybody who thinks they can download this, compile it and run it in their car likes playing with fire.
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Useless use of cat though. You could achieve the same thing by:

% ed -s filename <<- EOF
ed commands...
EOF
What if you want to support a very large number of relatively small tenants - having a separate server for each one of those could well be overkill.
I have lucid dreams almost every night now. I'm talking about entire story arcs with plot twists.

Last nights had Donald Trump, my wife and Jennifer Love Hewitt. There were riots going on and people reading newspapers with moving video ink. There was an old book called "The Fall" that was filled with fascinating ink drawings of ritualistic acts (eg: a man sat cross legged on broken fragments of his own arms). Etc. That kind of stuff. Had a full story.

Noise on the line in Brain-space could still be the case, but if so we can learn something from that noise regarding the way brain structures work.

What I'm saying is if it is just noise, then the noise must be feeding into an entire projective area of creativity that amplifies that noise, not just locally but over time, and in ways that maintain consistency.

Really fascinates me
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13104277
Ed is the standard text editor.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
This brought back memories, but I haven't had to do any of those things for ten years or so now. I've been careful in my hardware purchases, yes, but I've been running mostly Fedora on a couple of ThinkPads and it almost always just keeps on working. Especially the last four or five years, which is about how long it's been since I last had to switch to Ubuntu because Fedora was too broken.

The latest shock was upgrading to Fedora 25 and finding out the Wayland session was running and I could barely tell the difference. All that extra time before making it the default was definitely worth it! Most impressive.

Sure, desktop Linux isn't for everyone and it's not for every workload (I'm a .NET developer, I more or less have to use Windows at work; and I do have a big Windows box at home for gaming) but it lets me do my web browsing and my artwork and my hobby development stuff in great comfort and mostly just stays out of my way.
That's kind of the problem with politics.
The way we live is very unnatural. That's why it is only logical that also our evolution is unnatural. Since we no longer have any natural enemies, we ourselves set up the rules, that decide over life and death. And these rules are wrong in many ways. You could write a whole book about it.

One chapter could be devoted to the resulting overpopulation that causes a variety of problems. Instead of letting politics, medicine and capitalism dictate our evolution, we should give nature more freedom. And if we further succeed in reducing the world population to 3 or 4 billions, a certain equilibrium could be reestablished in this world. I am ready to help.
> sometimes the PC doesn't shutdown because it has received a wake-on-lan packet.

you should be able to fix that through the bios
In the context of discussing whether or not there is a more non-programmer friendly programming language, the fact that there are dozens or hundreds of attempts at that specific problem, which have largely failed, is relevant. The programming world is not defined by the top 10ish commercial languages; they're merely "very important".

It is also not an unfriendly reading when my very first words (which I have not edited) acknowledge the alternative readings.
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Like any strategy it is not infallible. It is a tool to be used in the right situations. If you have a contrary view of volatility (how much a security will move in a given time, up or down) then this can be helpful. Remember this strategy can be reversed as well, so whether you believe it will not move much, or definitely move a lot, you can engineer it to work for you.

But if you EVER hear anyone say a financial strategy is no risk, they are incorrect at best, and actively lying at worst.
Holy cow. What does this headline mean? I didn't know there was a fake Apple Watch news industry! And why did people place so much trust in it before?

Oh. I see. The headline should be"Fake News: Apple Watch Sales Fell 71%."
HTML5 canvas can use hardware acceleration, of course. If the codec being used is suitable for HW acceleration (i.e. h/x624 yes, VP9 no - generally)
The Pi 2 should have enough power, the Pi 3 has more than enough.

What they don't have is good I/O. USB 2.0 only. And the 100mbps Ethernet is attached through it.
My daughter has iPhone 5S with Find my Friends activated. I find it rather buggy. It does not "stream" location so for example if she is on bus and I try to check she jumps off on the right stop it goes something like this: Now I can see she is 500M from her bus stop, Updating.... cannot locate.... updating... cannot locate... after few minutes... Doorbell rings, oh she is home now and app also show her location is home.
Not exactly pleasant experience as a parent.
Yeah, this is fake news about fake news. I would say that this is ironic, except that this is such par for the course, it's more pointless than anything.
I have been working in incubators for half of my professional life (in France) and I have never seen anything like Erlich's couch surfing sweatshop.
no way, in imessage?? is this an apple thing?
I'm not 100% clear what you mean by heuristic/ad-hoc. The first AI winter happened because researchers (e.g. Lenat) thought they could build true AI (consciousness) out of millions of rules.

If rules, guidelines, and heuristics can beat neural nets at driving (which they might, I agree with you on that) it won't start a new AI winter because it won't erase the other things that neural nets are good at (e.g. classification).
there is the lock-free circular buffer, where the buffer is linear and the indexes are atomic variables; now once the buffer is full, the indexes act like locks - the producer can't insert anything unless the consumer removes entries, now the 'locks' have the crucial role in maintaining the data structure.

what am i missing?
This doesn't seem to be a narrow rope at all. Code is speech, as determined by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Bernstein v. United States. The government cannot prevent you from publishing very detailed descriptions on how a regulated device would operate, which is all OpenAPS is.
I'm on the Asus RT-N56U with Padavan firmware. It's bliss. I'd recommend the entire RT-N*U line, as a friend picked another model up on my recommendation and is equally as impressed. A bit more on the expensive side, but worth it (especially for that juicy hardware NAT). Only tested in the home, I have no idea how they would fare in an office.
I admit I still catch myself accidentally hitting the browser's back button on a multi-page Ajax form without its own back button. Or having to fill out a form again because, instead of opening a modal or a new tab, the current page changes (e.g., TOS). I've come across countless UX developers who don't consider these subtle details.

And this is only a small part of nuances that a typical user faces. I don't care how beautiful or fancy your UX is. Familiarity is king in design, and if you stray too much away from the current experience, I won't hesitate to say that my toilet has better UX.
If you want to perform an in-place edit, and you want to do it in a portable manner (not using GNU sed -i), you'd have to use sed with at least one temporary file:

% sed -e 's/something/other/' somefile > /tmp/temp.$$ && mv /tmp/temp.$$ somefile

now, using ed (or AWK) and the heredoc with ed commands above, you can mmap(2) the entire file into memory, perform desired editting, and write it all out in one go. No more temporary files!
You can also use the -i flag of sed to edit a file in-place. It leaves a backup file with the original in case you messed up.
Then wouldn't anyone with access to capital become CEO of a one-man company? And who buys the product?
A few projects that I'm aware of (disclaimer: I'm involved with LEAP):

- https://pixelated-project.org/

- https://www.mailpile.is/

- https://modernpgp.org/memoryhole/

- https://inbome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- https://leap.se/

Edit: btw, if you're in Berlin from 14-18 Dec, drop by the AME2016 unconf+hackaton https://github.com/mailencrypt/ame2016
In the past two years, I've bought...

- TP-Link Archer C7. This supports our office of ~30 ppl and has been bullet-proof since day 1.

- TP-Link N600. Cheaper but still 5GHz. Also super stable, I use it as a wifi bridge daily.

- I just bought a Netgear R6300v2 which will go in my home. Have not used it much yet but for the price it's an ARM core with a lot of Flash & RAM so I'm excited.

Caveats: I don't know if in practical terms new-ish TP-Links (later than Q2 '16) are harder to flash due to them supposedly cracking down on third-party firmware. At the time they were super easy, I just downloaded the latest from ftp://ftp.dd-wrt.com/betas/ and followed standard instructions.

Caveat #2: For Broadcom/ARM builds you probably don't want to use builds from ftp.dd-wrt. Intead you want KONG's build, see: http://www.desipro.de/ddwrt-ren/K3-AC-Arm/Readme and search the forums for latest KONG builds.

Finally, reading Amazon reviews for any supported model helps as well, you'll find a few ppl who relate their experience putting ddwrt on it.

EDIT: if your budget is $100+ I've also read good things about the Netgear R6400 and ASUS AC66 and AC68 but don't have any direct experience there.
I didn't even have to install any blobs, 5GHz just worked. I think mine is a v2 as well.
>do companies in general want to allow home brew on game consoles

Nintendo generally seem to be very anti-homebrew/community lately, using the DMCA to shut down fan projects seems to be their way of destroying that reputation that they built over the 90s.
The usability is very annoying obviously
I would be interested to see how this relates to mental illnesses such as ADHD, schizophrnias catatonic states, and dissociative identity disorder. But maybe that will be another decade out.
Yes. The problem of SLAM from LIDAR, GPS / IMU data (which are cheap sensors), and pre-recorded maps was solved years ago.
That is exactly my goal. I'm trying to figure out how to make it more profitable so I can afford to focus on this software even more.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13105689
What OS you running on that?
I like how seamless it is in nature, no signup / 1 click
Yeap: https://jasperproject.github.io/