skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking at the animation referenced in the article of water flowing over a rocky terrain and couldn't help but notice almost life-like and pixel-perfect precision of collision detection between water particles and the rocky surface. Yet, in modern gaming, while it's improved a great deal, quite often you'll see surfaces "fusing" together before a collision is detected. I think there is a more technical term for this, but it's not coming to mind. Is this just a matter of usability vs performance?
Who would "get rid of them?" The DOJ/FBI seem useless, except for their right wingers, which helped Trump & the Russians rather than see the Left take power for another 8 years.
The House and Senate leadership seem frozen if not complicit.
The most likely way out of this is yet another coup but who's left? So many policemen and members of the military support Trump, it isn't clear they'd follow orders, or even could maintain order if Trump were removed.
And everyone knows the radical right wing has dumped some 300 million guns into the general population, and we know how a lot of them feel.
So it looks like we're screwed for a while, but at least historians will have a ball with this in a couple hundred years.
Thanks for the links! I'll have to try out some of these. The data is definitely the limiting factor at this point.
Most of the microcontrollers being used in new designs today are arm-cortex. Everybody who does microcontroller work except some pic weirdos is familiar with arm-cortex.
Ruby has since forever been described as a cross between Perl and Smalltalk (and some other languages), including by its creator (Matz).
Yes, but that's too subjective to measure. A better proxy may be housing cost relative to wages.
Site is using Helvetica Neue, weight 300, which should never be used for body text. I can only imagine how it looks on a non-retina display.
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For those of us who don't know:

CBT - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
GP - General practitioner (normal doctor?)
Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World
Reckonings; a Rent Affair (2000)
I recall something that supports this hypothesis.

there is good evidence that merely _reading_ the book "feeling good" by David burns (father of CBT) is as effective as medication.

this indicates the relationship matters, because we're talking about people who didn't _act_ on the book, but merely _read_ it.
That it might work for you, but for most people it doesn't.

Obviously what's "readable" is not constrained to what some people find readable, but to what most people do.
Your argument is that standardized tests are more biased than individual assessment? I find that hard to believe bordering on ridiculous. There's a great deal of evidence that standardized exams are less biased as there's a consistent standard of correct answer across the board.

With individual assessment there's far too much room for "I know what you meant" to sneak in. This has come up a lot with job interviews; if you want to interview impartialy, have a fixed bank of questions and grade answers to a rubric.
I believe it sounds like desperation because of the societal constructs that make it a stigma to use this drug. If one looks at it from a purely medical point of view, I don't see why this should be construed any different from any current treatment that exists out there.
As with most drugs - this would sound true - "The benefits of this treatment outweigh the potential side effects". For the woman's position, she has reached a point to see this truth clearly.
The cost should depend on the credit worthiness of your client and the term you want to extend.

To me it's the cost of being able to sleep at night while running a service business. Consumers have practically forced retailers to eat credit card fees despite being able to require cash from consumers at one time. If clients keep skipping out on paying vendors then factoring will be the norm. Clients who don't have good credit will have to pay up front for service.
tokio+mio is "async io + event loop". I think tokio-fiber tries to build coroutines on top of it.

This is (or, will be) the "officially endorsed" async model for the server side. All the libraries you'll be using *hyper, etc) are going to be integrated with it. It's not yet finished, but when it is it will be.

In the future if we get async/await that would be an even more ergonomic thing that can be used with futures (and hence, tokio), but most of the machinery is already planned for tokio itself.
Usually Europe in this context. Sometimes Asia.
I would imagine its a performance issue. For Moana they can render the water on a server farm with has much computing power as they need. Where a console or personal computer is quite limited in contrast.
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What would be the point of that?
> that will result in large swaths of Japan being uninhabitable for lifetimes.

Utter hogwash. This statement could not be more false.
In my experience (which is ample), consistency over the precise dosage != consistency over the effects. There's no doubt that consistency over dosage and precision is easier with isolated compounds.

However, if consistent effect is the goal, I want to suggest that oral administration is not ideal in the first place, and that oral administration of isolated chemicals even less so.

Achieving the latter is more accessible via slow, careful titration via vaporization or smoking of high-quality plant matter.

This is the case at least for me and people I know, including several patients with otherwise debilitating illnesses.

Additionally, I think that the ability to garden and grow medicines (not just cannabis, but plant medicines generally) is a great way for patients to gain some control (or at least the sense of control) over their illness. It also is often more economically viable as well.
Would love to hear your views on the page and what changes I should do to increase conversion.
Linux has about half of the market share of all OS X versions combined. Not too bad considering there's not exactly many systems that come with Linux preinstalled. Still minuscule compared to the Windows market share but I'd gladly announce that the year of the Linux desktop has finally arrived if it gets to OS X level...which isn't all that far to go.
>DuckDuckGo uses Perl a lot.

That's hardly the proof of Perl making a comeback. If it was Google or Facebook or some major company or unicorn that might had a leg, but DuckDuckGo?

And while "many other startups" might use it, many other startups also use all kinds of languages that won't go anywhere.
Well the year of the Linux desktop never came, it seems.
Personal rant:

Wow. No joke, this article is written by my 9th-grade geometry teacher. The same one that actively campaigned to remove me from of our school's gifted-and-talented mathematics track because I "asked too many questions" (despite being a consistent top performer in her class).

After high school I went on to earn a BS, MS, and PhD in mathematics and computer science (and successfully taught computer science to hundreds of students at a top-tier U.S. university) before moving on to an entrepreneurial career in the tech industry.

My experience is obviously personal and nothing but anecdotal, but I wouldn't trust this teacher to come to any conclusions about what does or doesn't work in computer science education without first attempting to control for her own lack of comprehension regarding the perceptions she has of her students (something she repeatedly relies on in this teacher research project).

Edit: to give credit where it is due, I did have two excellent and encouraging computer science teachers at that same high school.
This needed to be said. I think a lot of the problems founders try to solve begin as responsible research, and slowly morph into a means of procrastination. I have certainly done it. Fear of shipping manifesting in 'productive' ways.
It's interesting that even within the field of philosophy the term sophist/sophistry from the root sophia has come to denote deception and fallacy rather than knowledge or wisdom.

I would agree that philosophy has evolved somewhat (Nozick and Rawls), but for me it never really achieved the level of empirical usefulness (past perhaps rule utilitarianism), because it has never been clear enough how (or even when it was appropriate) to apply it. If there were such a thing as "Newtonian" philosophy that had useful testable equations, perhaps I would view it differently.

At least I have some idea when physics rules break down and when they are useful approximations. In my experience most philosophy is written as if it is completely true not a model of reality.
That's why i said "any machine setup". The Home version does not have the Group Policy Editor, because it is not intended for people who should be messing with such things. And for people who have the knowledge, or the drive to mess with such things, keys for both Home and Pro go for ~16€ on amazon.de

> has anyone checked to see if these same keys are changed by using lgpe?

It does not touch the Wow6432Node entry, but given that as far as i know that exists for compatibility for 32 bit programs, i'm not sure it is necessary. Or it might be mirrored in by some kind of maintenance process.
> A tool that could understand my intent and then propose structure or similar sentences and words

I'm working on this exact thing right now fwiw, in my app called Prompts. I imagine machine assisted apps are going to percolate up over the coming years, or months, in a way we haven't seen yet. It's pretty exciting, if we can get it right. Written language seems like a decent place to start.
Money? Time? Uploading hundreds of gigabytes of a dataset?
When math and TeX meet beauty
Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean
Labour calls for inquiry into Israeli diplomat's 'take down MPs' plot
'Kvothe went to the market'

Off-topic but I've been waiting for the third and final book in the trilogy for a long time ... I've come to the conclusion that Rothfuss can't find a way to tie all the plot threads together.

I'm also wondering if anyone else thinks Rothfuss looks like Longfellow in a lot of his publicity shots.
> giving a strong dose to someone who is 9 is a very bad idea that would probably be very unpleasant for the kid.

Absolutely - I hope my comment didn't read otherwise.

I'm just pointing out that the effects of a strong dose of heroin are nothing less than an urgent medical emergency and possibly a life-or-death situation.

The effects of a strong dose of cannabis are, as you say, likely to be quite unpleasant, but for other, less dramatic reasons.

Additionally, it is much, much easier to find a therapeutically effective dose of cannabis that is not unpleasant (or even otherwise noticeable) than with heroin or, for that matter, most other medical treatments. This is the killer feature of cannabis.
Yep, it definitely has room to improve. The work thus far has primarily been a proof-of-concept for the methodology used to generate training samples (i.e. starting with grammatically correct text and introducing errors). Next step is to try to include more high quality data, after which I may try out comment data from HN, etc. I think it would be interesting to see what the effect of somewhat noisier data like that would have on the model.
Blaming that on the US is absurd. The US does not control Latin America. If it did, the Socialist & Communist movements that have been persistent there for so many decades would have never existed to begin with.

The premise is thus: every nation in North and South America must perfectly legalize all illegal drugs across the board for use, production and distribution (any imperfect law structures could cause illegal behavior), else the nations that do not establish perfect systems are responsible for all ills related to said non-perfect legalization no matter where they occur in the hemisphere. That's what is being proposed in concept if you extrapolate it.

I support the complete legalization of all drugs. However, trying to pin all ills on the US, is nothing more than a political convenience. It occurs with practically every bad thing on the planet. The US does not control the world; take China as one example when it comes to drugs, or broader Asia (most of which frequently shares China's general sentiment on drugs) - the US didn't impose those policies on China. The US doesn't control Latin America any more than it controls China or Asia. The same mentality that has existed in the US regarding the war on drugs, is in fact very common throughout the rest of the planet, including in Latin America.
Here's the binary they are discussing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_9832227

Here's Tabby's star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIC_8462852

I'm not sure how to do the calculations on distance between the two, but I'd estimate this binary is well under 1,000 light years from Tabby's star given the constellation, RA, declination and distance are all close.

Edit: Added a zero as I'm not sure of the error margines on distance measurements.
Take the mutated animal photos with a huge gigantic grain of salt. The "citation needed" alarm rang out loud when I looked at those.
"Blackstone is owned wholly by Russian biollionaires". Source?

Actual source, though. The list of reputable news orgs is great, but I can find no sign that they ever printed this.

What I can find, is that Blackstone is publicly traded. 50.5% institutional, which for an American company with American owners is presumably not 100% Russian. And the rest? Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, and Janus are the largest holders. Not exactly "Russian billionaires".

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bx/institutional-holdings
I like Clojure. It's data-centricness is something that it shares with certain ways of programming in Common Lisp. In particular the use of lists in Common Lisp. For example, a list holding a schedule of appointments

;;; adapted from
;;; https://www.ida.liu.se/ext/caisor/archive/1978/001/caisor-1978-001.pdf
(((JAN 12 2014)
((9 15) (10 00) (SEE ANDERSON))
((10 45) (11 00) (SEE LUNDSTROM))
((13 15) (16 00) (ATTEND Y COMMITTEE MEETING)))
(((JAN 13 2014)
((9 30) (10 00) (ATTEND NEW PRODUCTS PRESENTATION)))

A lot of what Clojure brings is more efficient abstractions. For example Common Lisp has two key-value stores a-list and hash tables that Clojure collapses into one thing and then rolls together with hashes and sets as much as possible.
You're welcome. I got one question for you btw. I take it you work for-profit. How do you plan on making money with your product?
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I'd like to see thoughtful conservative commentary juxtaposed with progressive commentary. I don't really know of any site that does this.
Further to that point they can take as long as they like to render a single frame.
Thirded? I've ran several linux distros and this is the one I've settled on. It's clean and pretty, it just works, and it stays out of your way, like a good wife. :)
Don't thank him - his sources don't contain his claims, which are false.

Check out Blackstone's financials. They're public, and the claim that it's wholly owned by Russians is laughable - it's largely held by US investment firms.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/bx/institutional-holdings
I'm not saying that terrorism isn't bad. Obviously it would be upsetting, but to be clear: an order of magnitude more terrorism would be a 9/11-level attack every year. Even with that catastrophic level, NYC would still survive. I understand this is an emotional topic (especially living here) but it's impossible to pretend that terrorism is an "existential" threat.

Realistically, as cold as this sounds, a terrorist attack which managed to level downtown would not even pose an existential threat to the US.
In the context of Piston being pure rust matters a lot: rust as a really good multi-plateform support and it's way easier to cross-compile project that are full-rust than projects that are Rust with additional C libraries.

In the context of image-processing libraries, which are often used in a web-facing environment, being written in Rust with almost no unsafe code is also a major improvement in term of security.

> it's not a miracle drug.

I agree with you, but I don't think anybody pretends it either.

Rust is a massive improvement over the state of the art in system programming. It's not a panacea, and I'm not going to rewrite all my web or mobile code in Rust, but I'm still really happy Rust exists.

Projects like this one, or the recent announcement that librsvg is replacing C code with Rust one, give me hope that will see fewer and fewer memory-related security bugs in the future, and it's about time !
This reminds be of a hilarious problem I once had analyzing a poem in french lit class. Read this and tell me what you think (in english and french)?
http://fleursdumal.org/poem/120

I thought the entire poem was sexual -- singular tree being a euphamism for a phallus, and the waves of the sea reverberations of an orgasm. I was given an F and sent to the principal's office. It was then and there that I decided that math was more my thing.
Although the relief may be worth it, the drug is not without its potential side effects over long-term use:

On short term memory:
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article...

On dopamine levels:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg...

and the development of brains in adolescents:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00...

So the real question is whether it's worth the potential side effects? Perhaps in this case, since it seems the parents have researched their options and hopefully continue to research future options.

A cure should be counterbalanced with its negative side effects. That seems obvious to say, but often I hear the misguided statement or see the attitude that marijuana is not associated with any problems. Sure, it's not lethal and shouldn't be Schedule I, but it's not something that should be taken lightly as a long term treatment.
The movie is using a whole compute cluster to do a physics simulation when rendering the movie. Your computer has 1 CPU and 1 GPU.

Your computer is just very limited in how much attention to detail it can have, because it has wildly less processing power and has to get its job done in real time.

By contrast, Disney is using a server farm to spend 3 seconds analyzing the mechanics of a tuft of hair wiggling in the breeze for 1 second.
Agreed,using dd on media with flaws is not straight forward.

See http://www.noah.org/wiki/Dd_-_Destroyer_of_Disks
GCC code generation for C++ Weekly Ep 43 example
It's a big world out there, solar doesn't work everywhere or at all times anywhere. It's definitely a big piece of the future, but we're never going to go exclusively solar.
I've been physically addicted to alcohol and opiates, and also a long term daily marijuana user (currently over a year of sobriety from all drugs). THC has no physical withdrawal symptoms.
Guess who's got that massive amount of data nowadays ? Google, facebook and co. So good luck if you want to work on AI stuff...
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What are your top research sources for site defacement archives? Zone-H is a solid site (that was itself defaced) but for security professionals who use such sites for research, it's nice to have a wide and varied selection to fill in the gaps.
"Yes "D" is not for disk/drive/device/..."

But that's the very beauty of unix!

If you can find a way to use 'dd' for disk/drive/device you can use it in interesting new manners (pipelines, etc.) and have very good confidence that it won't break in weird ways. It will do the small, simple thing it is supposed to do even if you are abusing it horribly.

Like this, for instance:

pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
Also interesting if older is the The Battle of Chernobyl (2006) film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1832484/), on youtube here under a different title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS3WvKKSpKI .

Has interviews from the likes of Gorbachev saying even he didn't know what was going on at the time.
Dropping `in the fridge` works.

"Alex went to kitchen to store the milk"
corrects to
"Alex went to the kitchen to store the milk"
Not to speak for the original poster but as a dev I'd like to know what my addressable market is if I'm developing a desktop-focused app, and excluding biz machines and people who will never pay would help there
It's classified as schedule 1. A criteria of schedule 1 classification is "The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States"

So, at least the folks who wrote down those schedules disagree that Marijuana has legitimate uses.

Note that "accepted" here basically means whatever the person in power wants it to mean. There's absolutely no criteria that "accepted medical use" corresponds to doctors' opinions on the matter.
> There are sizable portions of the US and Europe that believe muslims are terrorist sympathizers who want to enact Sharia law.

Sure, and there are millions of people who believe all sorts of nutty things. Millions of people believe that stars predict the future or that aliens regularly abduct people. That doesn't mean we should legitimize these beliefs.
I don't understand this.

How is the DNA encoding the computation? I understand base complementing but how exactly does this result in an answer. If it were possible why didn't they do an experiment?
Ship alpha, beta versions. Even the general public knows what a beta version is and know that it's a work in progress. Then add a roadmap where users can see where it's going and look forward to it.
No, more like: Spend all defense budgets around the world on programs that reduce poverty, increase health and functioning governments.
Also worth mentioning is SlimerJS, which is not headless but allows you to do WebGL screenshots: http://slimerjs.org/
A physically-realizable system for solving problems that are NP in polynomial time, mass and energy would be very economically interesting, just as quantum computers are for Shor's algorithm and simulated annealing. (despite the fact that we can't yet perform Shor's algorithm at scale and at as far as I know some people still raise doubts about whether D-Wave's product truly outperforms computational simulated annealing or truly does anything "quantum")

It also gives us insights into one of the other interesting questions of our day: Is simulating a physical system of polynomial size in P, or not in P? If you find that polynomial-size physical systems can solve problems in NP but believe that P≠NP, then you would also believe simulation is not in P.
For most of the Multiple Guess standardized Testing the correct question/answer pair is found by correlating that question/answer with others where the high scoring test takers scored the same way... and differentiated from other low scoring test takers who get it wrong (some other answer). Testing houses have been using Big Data and correlation for many decades!

As a result, if you take the questions as part of a meta test, you can make some assumptions about answers that are "too easy" and instead choose one which is more correct (because high scorers tend to use it). That often means that correctly used, obscure but field relevant, vocabulary is actually the right (highest scoring) answer choice.
Anyone know what the process in TensorFlow is like for taking your trained network and bringing it into another application (or whether this is even possible)? Just wondering whether it's easy/difficult/(in)flexible or whatever.

Edit: to clarify: by 'another application' I mean something else you're making that it serves as an algorithm within (e.g. a handwriting recognizing Android app).
x86 Chromebooks use coreboot:
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-f...

It is possible to install your own version of Linux too!