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No of course not, but that doesn't mean that the news should milk everything that goes bad, which creates a distorted perspective.
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No, even public vote-selling is a problem, because it muddles incentives. No one should have to vote against their best interests in the long term for short-term financial gain. This leads to exploitative behavior of vulnerable population groups.

If you can not possibly reveal your vote (like with the ballot box) you can not sell your vote.
What actually is new since the 90s, besides convnets?

Is ML becoming more prevalent because of theoretical breakthroughs, or is it because of hardware improvements, or perhaps because there is more training data available now?
It's a joke. Lighten up.
If climate change is not happening/harmful, resources spent on addressing it are wasted (to the extent they affect CC), and cannot be used to address other issues such as biodiversity, disease, and human suffering.
I'm hoping someone will make the AllJoyn protocol accessible for a weekend project. As it is right now I can't make heads or tails of what I need to onboard a simple LIFX bulb. It seems like I have to spin up a whole Java enterprise-ish project when all I want to do is send some packets to it's virtual access point with my wifi creds in them.

Do you know if there's any documentation on the low-level protocol that doesn't involve using the big SDK? I'd love to just write a python (or similar) script to do this grunt work.
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The colorful intermediate text passages have so bad kerning that they're nigh impossible to read.
Who is the "we" in all your comments?

When you see an apparent contradiction like this, why do you stop there? Do you really think climatologists haven't considered this? Here's one theory: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425716...

> As such, the behavior of Antarctic sea ice is not a paradox as some have suggested, but instead is consistent with the geophysical characteristics in the southern polar region that starkly contrast to those in the Arctic.

Of course we don't understand everything, we don't understand everything about any subject. When you see contradictory headlines, dig deeper. Don't stop and think "I knew it, these people don't know what they're doing".
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I tried Alfred when it came out. Then, it didn't support that object, verb grammar that Quicksilver did. Does it do that now?
> Crates.io uses https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust

Oh, wow, maintainer here. I had no idea. :-) Thanks for making my morning, and never hesitate to send PRs!
I find it interesting to read that "Foo is not a race." I thought it was pretty established that "race" is a dodgy thing, at best. Such that any collection of people that have been together for a long time would ultimately qualify.

Back to the readings for me, it seems.
Ask this on the #rust-webdev IRC channel, you'll get more help there.
I used to have that issue - but I block SearchUI / Cortana from making any TCP connections to the net with Windows Firewall.

The start menu is supper fast and search is actually usable for me now.
> That's pretty demeaning. Wartime photographers need quality as much as others.

I'm not sure why you find this to be demeaning. The cameras used by journalists (canon 1dx ii/nikon d5) have dramatically lower resolution than cameras used by, for example, landscape photographers. This is for a number of very good reasons, but one of these is because there's no demand for anything else. 20Mp is more than enough - indeed many don't even shoot at this, but opt for smaller images for faster processing and upload.

You don't need huge images for news (print or online) - in both cases the final image is small, and the DPI/resolution is low. The idea that huge image sizes somehow equate to image quality is much of the time a marketing idea - all you need is enough resolution for your output format. If that's a newspaper (online or offline), small JPEGs are fine. If your output format is a gallery image, or a building-sized advert, then yes, you want 50MP+ RAW images - but guess what? They aren't shooting for that.
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https://github.com/prettydiff/biddle Can parse markdown to formatted stdout (ANSI colors, wordwrap, and so forth) on the console in both posix and Windows.
Just to provide a counter point, in my experience, the biggest problem I face in winter weather is other drivers. I know when I hit a patch of black ice and have difficulty stopping that the oversized van behind me is going to have more difficulty stopping, and I have the instinct to quickly turn instead of waiting on the red light. I also know that cars have difficulty stopping on a steep hill and I may wait before going through an intersection. Both of these experiences have happened in the past year for me.

This may seem like a straw-man argument, I don't intend it to be. I think self-driving cars will be on the whole better drivers, but these are also situations that I see as being extremely difficult for a computer to identify to the level a human driver is capable of.
The default fonts, the menus, the menu icons, the font rendering, the inability to use many plugins....
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That seems pretty naïve to me.
Remember he is not (solely) acting as an individual but as the front man for interest groups (Army, Exxon etc, not dissimilar to the Cheney gang)
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"Java has surpassed Scala as the preeminent functional programming language"

Yeah, nope.
Hi HN, here is my first Python project ever (and post), nothing fancy nor well done, just a simple tweak for easy the life. I'd really appreciate ANY advice on how to do things better.
"But, the planet simply has periods of warmer temperatures and periods of cooler ones."

https://xkcd.com/1732/

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/010/193/5d6...
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Luckily the majority of all people live in urban environments and urbanization is expected to continue.
I just tried that, and it seems to be the same as `git diff master experiment`. We don't want to diff the two heads. The command in Mercurial is `hg diff -r 'ancestor(master, experiment)' -r experiment`. Comrade trolor seems to have found the correct git expression.
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Is it now? Because lack of regulation will not hurt adoption when youll get a completely retarded accident caused by lets say...half blind Tesla lane assist "autopilot" plowing into something at full speed because the obstructiom doesnt take full lane
It will take one fucking viral video of something like that
That's only because of Uber's interpretation. From the FT article:

> California law defines an autonomous vehicle as one that is able to drive “without the active physical control or monitoring by a human operator”.

> Anthony Levandowski, a former Google engineer who leads Uber’s driverless car efforts, said the fleet would be “self-driving” but not “autonomous”, making an unusual semantic distinction.

A pretty tenuous way of avoiding regulations if you ask me.
If that is true then they should probably have voted for the candidate that promised $30 billion in tax breaks and re-training to lure green energy jobs to their state.
> What do you base this on? Actually every source I looked up shows that QWERTY doesn't rate well even in this aspect alone.

It's based on a combination of late 1800s guess work and trial and error: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter
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This sounds intriguing. But today, the Echo pairs with the Alexa service, which requires the end-user to log in with an Amazon account. For a shared setting like this, how will that be handled?

Alexa's usual strategies don't apply: no personalized info, no integration with your Amazon ecosystem. I'm curious how their data ingestion and data analysis will be altered to accommodate this scenario, and prevent the guests' "personalized" data from being sticky between different guests.
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Given Microsoft's history, assuming poor support for non-Windows is the rule, not the exception. When there's cross platform feature parity for all their tools, then I'll reevaluate.
You could just have the camera rolling the last X minutes of footage like a dashcam, and auto upload it when the next user reports an issue.
> An aide, Charles Delavan, spotted the message sent to Podesta’s private account. It asked Podesta to change his password.

> Delavan realised the email was a phishing attack and forwarded it to a computer technician. However, he made a typo, writing: “This is a legitimate email.” He added: “John needs to change his password immediately.”

This would be comedy gold if it didn't end up with the clown on top
As an Italian whose wife is working in the public health care system my views might be a little biased.

Not that Italian system does not have its problems, but we have quite high life expectancy [1] and our system was ranked second in 2000 by the WHO [2] and apparently is still quite efficient [3].

And, by the way, it cures just anybody the same, from super rich people to illegal aliens.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization_rank...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/u-s-healt...
That's definitely some kind of local myth. Here in Uruguay (and South America in general), it's the opposite, programmers are viewed as math nerds. I believe the same happens in Europe (especially Eastern Europe), and Asia.

A lot of programmers here have to get an Engineering degree, which includes a LOT of math.

Same for CS degrees. Even Information Systems degrees (like the one I ended up getting) belong to the Engineering school and have quite a lot of math.
Yes, just the >80% of the population in urban centres (developed countries), >50% worldwide and increasing rapidly. Tiny market!
I love how amazingly this name ends in nerd. Ok, I'll show my way out...
Wow, if he's as good at darts as Michael Jordan is at machine learning, that's really saying something!
Hudson's Bay has literally no ice on it for a major portion of the year.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/27/polar-be...
I had the same outlook, however it is for a game I am currently in development.

And for those who are reading this, and are interested in game AI with interest in making true machine learning integrated into their characters, I gope this will help keep you inspired.

So, like you, I had grandeous ideas and vision about adaptive, machine learning approach to controlling my character in a platform-based fighting game. They would learn from previous mistakes and improve themselves, to create a truly interactive AI, one that can challenge the player beyond just memorizing his pre-programmed state machine patterns or giving him inhuman reaction times. Then I ran into the same issues, the game must run at 60 fps, and constant learning cannot be done, so i've implemented a basic AI, but i know every way it will act, nothing is amazing.

Until one day I went back and looked at my AI approach, I realize I could still use machine learning, but perhaps use a smaller neural network, and a different learning algorithm. So, after implementing a combination of reenforcement learning and evolutionary learning. I let them train for a day. Then something amazing happened, and it 's what i imagine a parent feels when their kids learns to do something: it saved itself. Initially, starting out the AI would just spam buttons and usually end up jumping off the platform and killing itself, or stray away from the edge and just not touching the control stick, but this time, he got knocked off and he saved himself.

It was an amazing feeling, I never taught it to do that, but I gave it the ability to learn to do that, and that was extremely liberating.

So i encourage people to not give up on the ML AI for videogames, I know deep mind recently teamed up with blizzard to make a StarCraft2 AI, and that looks awesome.
I'm answering the specific problem posed by the OP, given his other comments in this thread.

[EDIT] Resolved internal concerns about size calculations.
Page, Musk, et al are the figures at the front of massive economic/political organizations with inertia far beyond their individual moral compunctions. So while you might see superficial defections, the collaboration will continue unabated by the larger forces that drive them.
OK, it seems like they have committed to Xamarin Studio renamed now to 'Visual Studio for Mac'. Doesn't make sense to me with the parallel effort building the cross platform IDE 'Visual Studio Code'. Thanks for the correction.
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My camera has a RAM buffer that images are stored in before it's flushed to the flash card. That doesn't help with reviewing 2 hours of video footage, but it does let you review the photo you just took before it's wiped from RAM.
Just for comparison, in Mercurial you would do

hg log --template "{author}, {desc}\n" --rev "desc('fuck')"
Haha; this seems pretty dumb:

if __name__ == '__main__':
pass
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With hindsight this was a slightly stupid thought as you could just encrypt the file after writing it. Although that could mean it stayed unencrypted if somebody seized the camera while you were still recording.
The problem with this is, as a rider, I personally would not want to have to be constantly expecting a dirty car. If one out of every 3 cars has vomit or syringes in it or feces, I would personally stick with a service that has human drivers at the wheel.
I'm tempted to try and do some analysis of my usage, by running a keylogger and visualising by heat maps of the keys that I actually use.

Ie, log and then paste the contents into something like:
https://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/heatmap-keyboard/
Date of talk was 2013.

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The pledge in TFA says "We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable."

Does this not refer to illegal immigration?
> Put another way, the real question is not are we causing it but can we slow or stop it by making changes. And the answer to that is undeniably yes.

This.

Whether it's man made or natural, it's the main issue. The main issue is that global warming is obviously a negative issue. Can it be stopped? If so, what are the steps to stop it and how do we proceed. Why would we not try to stop something negative?
So basically we have no free will so why should we change things? what.

"if it's our species time to go"

but it's NOT. we can make a change. this is like seeing a bulldozer slowly approaching your house - and instead of picking up and moving, despite the difficult, resigning yourself to death. It's illogical, it makes no sense.
> No electronic scheme can do that: anything that runs in software means that the correctness of the system depends on the experts' word only.

No paper ballot in box scheme can do that: anything that is run by officials means that the correctness of the system depends on the officials' word only.
On the other hand a computer-controlled vehicle, possibly electric with 4-wheel drive, would have millisecond control over all those inputs (steering/brakes/acceleration)
Well... depending on who you source, the majority of people already live in urban environments. In the US, the most recent figure from the census is 62.7%, which is more narrowly defined at % of population living in cities[1]. If you count "urban areas" which includes towns and villages, it is north of 80% [2]

Worldwide, we are at ~54% living in cities. [3]

This trend seems to be continuing globally as well [4], so pretty soon people in non-urban environments may have no choice (assuming, as I do, that cars will get more expensive as they have more and better technology and are much more highly utilized due to sharing)

[1] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33.h...
[2] http://www.citylab.com/housing/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...
[3] http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-...
[4] https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/publications/files/wup2014-highl... (page 7, Figure 2)
Why build an open source voting system, why not go all the way and build an open source election system? That way no one can complain about voting or not voting. Assuming you could find a bunch of people eligible who are willing to do the work, building some kind of AI system would at least eliminate the hassle, though I imagine not the complaining.
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Neat. My stated goal is to have my current stock options be worth $20 million+ in the next three years. It's possible that both Bannon and I will be disappointed.
> > assured doom

> This part of your statement is actually a little bit of the problem here, too. Can you define more clearly what you mean by this?

That was my question. I appreciate your summary of the situation and I think your worst case assessment answers my question. Unfortunately, there's an incredibly huge gap between "loss of coastal regions" and "Earth becomes a second Venus". One situation sounds highly surmountable while the other sounds like the certain extinction of our species. When you use phrases like "assured doom", I tend to think of outcomes more like the latter and I find that type of rhetoric almost as unhelpful as denying the whole situation. It just doesn't help anyone.

I apologize for picking on you specifically, you're just the first one to express this kind of sentiment I came across.
relevant Tom Scott video on E-voting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
They said that about GWB too. No institutions got dismantled. Despite the rhetoric, there is broad, bi-paratisan support for our big institutions: http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/201....

87% of Americans think there is a "major role for government" in ensuring safe food and drugs. 75% of Americans think the same about protecting the environment. 70% think the same for education. 61% think that about healthcare. The FDA, EPA, Dept. of Ed., DHHS aren't going anywhere.

Americans don't dislike our institutions. They dislike the people running our institutions (74% think politicians put their own interests ahead of the country's).
China is not "more likely to do something". China is "doing something". China is the worlds biggest investor in Green Tech and has surpassed Europe and the US combined.

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/08/11/china-to-sp...

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/11/china-s...
Can you explain the hypocrisy?

Elon Musk has a couple of well defined, over-riding goals: to make humans a multi-planetary species and to see humanity move to sustainable power. To those ends he's fully committed. Making a lot of money is one necessary, interim step along the way. As is working with/coordinating with the US Government.
It really depends on the service (if it solves a real problem) and on the niche (if market is rich and people want to pay good money for your solution); as for other ways related: public media content is done and dusted and facilitator gigs are often not worth the hassle.
I think such acts of control are one of the things where computers are naturally better than humans. We have a lot of experience in automatically controlling dynamic systems. Winter conditions are more of a problem because they might interfere with the sensors (e.g. radars and snow don't play together very well).
"I am much more shocked about the negative sentiment here at HN about any post that could be seen as criticism on the global warming theory."

And by the looks of the responses your post received, your reaction is justified.

While its roots may be in science, the Climate Change movement has become a church unto itself. And one that does not treat potential Martin Luthers kindly.
The illusion of privacy. Barrier to entry for using Uber is not exactly high and when you're intoxicated you may forget or simply not care.
Could you provide a link to the comments? I'm currently discussing Signal with some friends and this would be helpful.
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I tried this editor out and the most maddening thing was figuring out how to reduce multiple cursors back down to one. I finally figured out - by accident - that pressing the space bar reduces your number of cursors down to one. The documentation needs to make this basic, necessary key-command a lot more obvious.
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> I've found the best way to get around this limit is to give the account information to my payroll department and then never access it.

Maybe I don't understand, but isn't the issue not your access to it, but others'? If you are forced to have a weak password protecting sensitive information, then it's an issue even if you never need to access that information yourself. (Or maybe you mean that you never even establish the account, and hence the weak password, in the first place?)
We've had worse, and we've seen worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_and_Sedition_Acts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act

A President Trump very well might be a step backwards, but I'm pretty confident that it will only be a temporary setback.
> No wrap-around either, for different reasons.

You'll have to explain that to me, since I can't assign `x = 2^32` without wraparound when x is an unsigned 32 bit integer.
I do understand why they are doing it. Yet I REALLY don't like the idea of an always on audio recording device in my hotel room, especially in Las Vegas lol!
The great thing about Quicksilver is the grammar - it's actually object, verb, indirect object. That lets you do things like <file>, <email to>, <person>.

Alfred didn't have that basic structure when I tried it. I'm sure it's quite powerful, probably more so than QS given the latter's long stagnation. But I never bothered to figure out how to use Alfred effectively because QS is so easy and works great. There were a couple of bugs that were annoying for a while, but they've been fixed.

Kakoune doesn't mention the "indirect object" part of the grammar, but apparently it'll prompt for more information when needed, so it's pretty close.
This is to imply that the resources spent on it have no effect other than to the extent that they affect climate change. which is WRONG.
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There's still a benefit to the average consumer -- if I lose my camera or SD card, I don't neccessarily want the finder to be able to retrieve all of the photos of my kids, or that "racy" photoshoot my wife and I did that one time in the bedroom...

While I do share many of the photos I take, I don't just dump the entire SD card to Facebook, I want to pick and choose which photos I share.
> You're right, it's much better, but the entropy of an English word is nowhere near log2(20K) (between 14 and 15 bits of entropy), especially in a grammatically correct sentence, because you're simply unlikely to select them truly randomly.

I've heard the average entropy of English is 3 bits/character, in which case 14-15 bits sounds about right for a word.