skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally disagree with the comment you're replying to, but totally agree with yours. The difference is that afaic attributing the election results to a matter of the opposition's attitude is a form of looking the other way.
2016 in virtual and augmented reality
Without a description of what this is, I don't know what it is I'm supposed to be seeing. It's links to random visualization on the web? Is it the empty site hosting the links? I'm sorry, but I don't get it.
I've worked on VS since VS 2003.

The first versions (200X) had some challenge at times. Starting from locating the installer for the right edition and the license. Then minimal setup to have a working environment was split in 5 different installer/projects to be executed in orders (one VS pack per language + the Windows SDK + the debugger kit + the ATL/MFC package + the driver kit [if you dev drivers] + the DirectX SDK [if you need it]). Then configure some PATH and libraries to link together all of that.

Last I checked, in 201X editions. A lot have been regrouped in a single setup. That's enough for most developments. And the optional packages have auto detection (and it ain't fucked it you run it twice).
The Sniff Test; Developing a Critical Nose for News
I thought Bitbucket Cards[1] was the middle product, heh.

[1] - http://www.bitbucketcards.com/
> I feel very strongly that SAT tutors and training systems completely undermine the value of the test.

And? Who cares what you think?

As a student, I care about one single thing: passing the SAT at a sufficient level that I can get to the next step in the admissions process.

Nothing else matters.
Irrelevant question but... Has nobody noticed this article is dated in the future?
I never had such kind of problems when using Debian, but if you need to target a specific distro, you can always add a VM or chroot / container to target it. There is no need to replace the desktop OS to do it. Linux is quite good for such kind of thing.
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Verizon raises upgrade fee to $30, sets 200GB limit on unlimited data plans
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Uptime complacency?
I have a fan-less BSD 10.2 Server running MySQL 5.6 I put in for a factory system and which has now been up for just over 300 days since it was built.

It is running along nicely and nobody is complaining but I am starting to get worried I should be doing some preventative maintenance other than the usual resource utilisation and backup checks or even just do a restart just for the hell of it! (Note I am not a *nix guy but the BSD/ZFS system came highly recommended and the build instructions seemed full proof but 300 days seems a lot for a windows guy)

I wont go into specifics but in general what are good things to look out for or check for me and other people in a situation such as this where you could get very complacent?
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I disagree strongly with this view that hard problems need to be "conceptually solved" in a vacuum first. That experimentation and resources don't matter.

Computing increases have enabled a ton more experimentation with AI. Experiments that would have taken years to do, can be done in hours now. Experimentation lets scientists develop intuition about their algorithms. And get a sense of what will and won't work. And have a better mental model of the problem.

Not to mention the benefit of having 10x or more funding and researchers working on it now that results have been shown.

It's a common myth that there has been little or no innovation in NNs and that it's just a matter of computing power. Taking the best algorithms of the 90s and running them on modern hardware would still give you poor results. For instance, most of the 90s research was on very shallow nets, they didn't know how to properly train deep ones.
Is there really anyone who things this is a good deal for us users?!
I have never heard of that reasoning. What's the advantage of dissolving in water? There are other advantages of cooking such as producing shelf stable foodstuffs and increasing the bioavailability of nutrients.
>and create color fringes which looks less realistic.

Interesting. I believe that lenses tend not to be corrected for chromatic aberration as much as they used to be because chromatic aberration is relatively easy to correct in post-processing. (Being lax about chromatic aberration can give lens designers more leeway to correct other more serious aberrations.)
Well, some don't. It doesn't imply a more informed electorate, tho.
Given that there were lots of companies that abandoned Window's phone, I'm not convinced it's related -- I suspect Waze would have abandoned it either way.
As a Lisp fan myself, I wish they would show an example of how WITH-GENES or MAP-GENES encouraged encapsulation vs. objects or passing closures.
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I will make no argument relative to your opinion, but I do want to point out that many on both sides of the issue hold to this very same opinion of the opposition.
Seems unfair. Hard to read the face of an AI to tell if it's bluffing or not.
Ironically, they could replace the graphene with steel and end up with steel being ten times stronger than steel.
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I don't know if the writer really understood what's going on there. Those models are just plastic. Understanding how to make strong shapes is useful for eventually building real structures with graphene in the future, but nothing about that research used graphene.

I think they're saying that if that plastic model was graphene then it would be 5% as dense and 10x as strong as steel...but no such thing was actually created. The title here is pretty click baity.
People used to make similar arguments about 35mm film. Now that that's firmly surpassed I guess 4x5 will do. 4x5 is only 16x the area of a 35mm sensor so it's not too far away, you will have to soon move on to 8x10 to make the same argument :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

Would 9/11 have been better? If you read the comment, I'm not saying, "jet fuel can't melt steel beams." I'm saying, "people who talk this way have the same tone as the people who say, 'jet fuel can't melt steel beams'." Hard for this to start a conversation about whether or not jet fuel can melt steel beams. (I believe it can actually soften them.)
Used to be you could take a roll of film to a kiosk at a grocery store, toss in a CF card, and you'd get scanned and processed digital negatives right to the card immediately. Of course, once film went away for the most part, so did those kiosks.
I'll bite the bullet and be that guy. What about dual monitor support? What about suspend/resume? Do WiFi and Bluetooth work without issues?
Oh sure, sorry for the late reply — been a busy few days.

I spent a large chunk of my life (both pre and post study) working in the live events world. Super fun, but not exactly what I'd call a sustainable lifestyle (financially and health wise). I'd also been coding from from a relatively young age. When I discovered I could combine the two, build things that lasted more than a couple of hours / for a single tour and not be killing myself in the process, I switched focus to the installed AV space. I managed to get lucky with a few positions where I was able to work with some great people who helped me continue learn and have fun.

As others have commented here, I find there's a huge mental overlap between most creative practices and building good software and product. Being able to burst through stages of intense idea creation then follow up and with the ruthless self and external critique required to discard 95% of what you thought were earth changing concepts is a painful, but extremely useful skill to acquire.
Dunno if it qualifies as cheap or as automated, but Indie Film Lab is awesome:

http://indiefilmlab.com

Mail them your film and they send you a link to d/l the scans, with option to return your negs
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Try the following in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:

blacklist i2c_hid

I found this fix by accident on a Dell laptop that came with Ubuntu preloaded.
I mean, it was probably the worst option on the list other than what the actual site in question does
Please don't post angry rants about divisive topics to HN. They lead to flamewars and make higher-quality discussion impossible. You've more or less ruined this thread by tossing a Molotov cocktail into it.

Instead of inflammatory generic comments, please post neutral specific ones. Good HN comments either engage the specifics of an article or go on an interesting—i.e. not pre-worn—tangent. Partisan battle is the opposite of what we want.
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Offtopic sidenote: I wish more open source projects had instructions as good as https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/debugging-on-win...
> You'll simply be pattern matching on an option type instead.

If you have multiple things that can fail in sequence, you can "lift" into option and then the result of your expression will either be a real result or a short-circuited error.

https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/...

Or just use exceptions. Either would be preferable to C-style error handling.
We wrote a package to go with our Airflow installation to borrow some of the data flow (as opposed to Airflow's exclusive task deps flow you mention) concepts we liked from Make/Drake/Luigi. You may be interested: github.com/industrydive/fileflow
Well articulated.

The entirety of my atheist morality is centered around the recognition that other humans are as acutely conscious as I am, and inflicting suffering on them (or allowing them to suffer through negligence or inaction) is cruel and distasteful. This is a fancy version of "treat others as you want to be treated", and is rooted in basic human empathy which stretches back millions of years - there is evidence of early hominids surviving years after grievous injuries because they were supported by other hominids.

That I feel this was selected for as an effective strategy to ensure survival rather than laid down by a god does not mean I reject the views or hold them weakly. I see no contradiction in stating that my feelings are a byproduct of biology while still having them.
> What specifically comes from Modula-3, though?

Off the top of my head, the equivalency of "foo.bar(baz)" and "bar(foo, baz)" was inspired by Modula-3's object model, though Nim extends it to everything and not just classes. Also, Wikipedia tells me the pointer system comes from Modula-3.

Nim's official FAQ also lists Modula-3 as the single biggest influence; I have a feeling that a lot of the Wirth-isms in Nim were borrowed from Modula-3 rather than from Pascal, even if they appeared in both languages.

> I didn't know that Python was influenced by Modula. Any examples? Keyword arguments is the only that comes up on Google.

Off the top of my head:

- The module system. The syntax of "import foo" and "from foo import bar" were borrowed from Modula-3 verbatim, and Guido got the idea to give Python a module system in the first place because Modula-3 convinced him modules were the future.

- The exception system. A lot of people don't notice the exception system because pretty much every language in the '90s also borrowed that from Modula-3 (the try-catch paradigm was invented by Modula-3), but Python hews even closer to the Modula-3 model by using the word "except" instead of "catch" and allowing for multiple except blocks attached to a single try block.

- The object system is a hybrid of Modula-3 and C++; the whole idea of passing "self" as the first parameter to a method instead of having an implicit "this" was a Modula-3 thing. The official Python documentation still references it: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html

Guido also talks about the Modula-3 influence in a few places:

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-was-python-cr...

http://www.artima.com/intv/pythonP.html
Would you like me to google it for you?

The idea that British pre WWII history is irrelevant betrays your ignorance. Considering that Britain is the most recent world power to collapse, there is much that can be learned from them.

Also consider that we are entering a time that is quite similar to the pre-WWII era. For example; the modern hate speech laws being used against nationalist are making the nationalist more popular not less. This is basically a repeat as to what happened when Weimar Republic (Germany) used similar hate speech laws to jail the Nazis.
"believe the press were on their side"

Well, the Sun seems to believe they were critical to the Brexit vote and they are the largest circulation newspaper in the UK:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1338543/our-paper-led-the-figh...
I don't think that computer has a wide-color display. The 2016 MBP should (at least, the one with the touchbar, not sure about the one without), and the retina iMac supports it as well.
I've been in a similar place but with Trello and Jira/Confluence switched.

Product owneres tried to force developers to use Trello, while we wanted to use Jira with greenhoper.

I really didn't understand what was so fun about Trello, I prefer Jira any time for product planning, Trello for me looks like another sticky notes app.
This is completely incorrect. I was at Apple working on iOS during this time period and helped implement and optimize many of those skeuomorphic UIs. Steve was a huge proponent of skeuomorphism.

One example is the iPad Contacts app. Originally it was a simple list of contacts like you'd find in Outlook. This was changed to the "little address book" UI that looked like a leather-bound address book much later in the process because the original UI wasn't "fun" enough.
Another example is slicehost:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2974-the-slicehost-story

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229402851/rackspace-clarifies-...

It always starts with good intentions and fine words about nothing changing and ends with an incredible journey.
US International keyboards have a AltGr key instead of right Alt and a € symbol on the 5 key. Afaik there are no other differences.
I just wanted to tell you that you hit the nail on the head for what I was conveying. I'm not an Atlassian employee, and I'm not out to evangelize Jira. I'm not happy with every decision they've made lately, and I have particular things I feel are mistakes where they delineate between core product/marketplace.

But when I look at the landscape of tools that I've used that compete with or compete with a part of Jira, I just prefer Jira over the rest of them by an not-unsubstantial margin.

That said, Trello was great for a small team bootstrapping a new product without a lot of external dependencies or parallel release cycles and I hope they let them run independently.
If you change your display profile like this you're going to have incorrect color rendering, so don't forget to change it back after you've had your fun looking at the (inaccurately-rendered) image.
I don't see any ads on this page, and it seems to be intended for nonprofit educational uses, that combined with the fact that a quick search doesn't reveal a traditional modern publication of the book, would create favorable conditions for arguing fair use applies in this case.
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> If at all possible you should use the least code possible to do a given job, and rely on the reuse of tools to serve various functions.

I agree, on both counts--and you should write the least code possible and reuse the most tools possible when you're building a web app, too! And when I am managing systems and infrastructure, I am reusing tools that are configured and operated through the expression of domain-specific code in Ruby. When I'm solving a problem, I'm writing code in Chef or in Cfer/CloudFormation (if I'm touching a machine by hand that's outside of my burn-it-down test environment, something's going really, really wrong). I'm consciously writing that code in such a way that I can put it into an automated test environment based on preconditions and postconditions that map to the business logic of the system to ensure correctness when that code is then changed. If I need to solve a related problem later, I'll generalize the code for least-effort reuse at that point.

This is literally software development, to me. That the output involves a configured system instead of a web app or whatever is orthogonal to being software development. It still feels like you are drawing a distinction without a difference.
I've tried a few alternatives and what i dread is lack of keyboard navigation in some. esp about a board.
It was a gradual transition, with MOS integrated circuits becoming more popular through the 1970s, especially for DRAM and microprocessors. But there were still bipolar RAMs and microprocessors in the mid 1970s.
> there are no dog farms

Definitely are Asia (Laos and Cambodia, I think)
> (The next point here is that the democratic peace theory didn't say anything about civil wars?)

The NATO-Yugoslavia war was not a civil war, even if it was motivated by one.
Be it for the general use cases or for the software team collaboration, time tracking and reporting features are always useful. As a user of both JIRA & Trello, I hope Trello soon gets all the time tracking and reporting love that JIRA team could add. Congrats and good luck!
Yes, wrong example. Anyway, science has shown us that human-dog coevolution does have a noticeable impact on the way we interact with dogs. Specifically, sustained eye contact between a human and a familiar dog raises oxytocin levels to increase in both. The same type of relationship has not been demonstrated with other domesticated animals, to my knowledge.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-gaze-from-...
What workflow or reporting would we need to add first to GitLab in your opinion?
Title is very click-bait. The MIT News article it links to is much more informative: http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-graphene-strongest-lightest-mat...
Not quite:

https://youtu.be/wFyY2mK8pxk (Octopus - Merriam-Webster Ask the Editor)
>I shoot film because it requires me to slow down and think about each shot; I can't fallback on "guess and check" for exposure or composition.

If this is a common sentiment then here's an idea for a product: a digital camera that donates $1 to the red cross for every picture you take, charged to your bank account. Not only would it restore this "restraint", it would help people in need while also removing the usage of chemicals that are bad for health and environment.
Ubuntu checking in - I too see a red square
It is a simple sticky notes app. But do you really need anything more than that?
Currently it is list of interesting links that I found (except 4 links). But for the future, I hope it will be community driven.
Me? I own paper copies of nearly every SF book and short story Asimov wrote, including this one. I'm not concerned for me.
I believe what Scott identifies as "unexpected and physical" is actually better understood as "sufficiently hyped". For media businesses like comics, games, etc., hype is a thing you can explicitly build into the design of the product, with elements that are audience-identifiable and build anticipation: will this protagonist-that-resembles-me survive? what is the secret to the mystery? which cutie will they get with at the end of the story? Will the strategy I'm going to try for beating this game's boss work?

With businesses that aren't squarely entertainment products, the same kind of hype is built with careful marketing and branding. Red Bull maintains its brand not by saying it's scientifically better than other energy drinks, but by showering the landscape in an impressive array of marketing stunts that are intrinsically hype-y(who wouldn't want to learn about Felix Baumgartner's space jump?).

Once you've built the hype, people cross a certain kind of "activation threshold" and start going out of their way to talk to you. They're fans. That's when you see "unexpected and physical".
Let me recommend Void Linux. Its init system is runit, which is djb daemontools based and super simple.

I switched a couple of months ago from Arch, and was surprised at how easy it was, and how completely useless (at least for my use case) all the systemd steaming mess had proved in retrospect to be.
Yeah - that was a bad way for me to phrase it.

What I meant was that I can imagine preparing and appearing on a TV program would be incredibly distracting (getting normal VC investment is bad enough).
> Would 9/11 have been better?

We've banned this account for trolling. If you want to convince us that you're not, you'll need to take a different approach.
Magic Leap is nowhere near general availability.
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I used to do a lot of dance performance photography, which is a real technical challenge - low light and fast motion. Being able to shoot 6400 ISO and still get a decent image was a lifesaver! But it was good to be able to auto-ISO to deal with varying light while keeping aperture and shutter consistent so I know what I'm getting.
If you think that we have all the conceptual understanding to assemble a general artificial intelligence then you should be able to give an outline of how it would work — beyond just lots of computing power and data, that doesn't differentiate the problem form the problem of object classification or natural language processing. Maybe what you mean to say is that once we have the computing power and data collection technology required, so that researches can experiment, the unsolved conceptual problems will become easy to solve. Do you have a basis for that assertion? Regardless, if that's what you meant then the fact remains that the conceptual problems are not all solved.

I won't say that it's inconceivable that a sufficiently large and powerful neural net, with a simple structure based on simple rules, given a very comprehensive set of training data, could acheive a level of general intelligence.

But we don't have evidence of intelligence arising that way in the past. What we have is the human brain, an incredibly complex structure resembling a neural net with simple rules for individual node (maybe?). It's the result of evolutionary processes, which means that we should expect it to have extremely hard-to-comprehend properties (example [0]). We've seen evolutionary processes produce intelligence, but not learning processes. Again, that's not to say that evolutionary processes are necessary, just that we can be sure that they can lead to intelligence, and that we can't be sure for other methods.

[0] https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
Honestly, who needs to reach out? Did the Republicans get in the nice situation they find themselves in now by reaching out? If the Democrats learn from the Republicans they should wait for the pendulum to swing and meanwhile be as loud, vehement, and derisive as they can. Lay the groundwork for people think voting against the Republicans is a matter of life and death. Shit, trump might do that himself. I just hope it's only perception.
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Yeah, I know all that.

But a dog's smile is so much more, posture, sounds, tail wagging..

A dog's smile makes me smile.

And for that matter, humans can bare their teeth as well..
Good idea on the XOR layout. I've redrawn it to be symmetric. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Political operative in leave side of recent U.K. EU referendum thinks victory was not assured, and that "EU costs £350 million a week, give to NHS instead" slogan was the deciding factor.
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College football has an income inequality problem