skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, generic_user here makes here a typical mistake of thinking that performance is the topmost priority during development. Whereas the usual development pattern is "write first, optimize later".

Also, thank you for your support. We do appreciate it!
(Note: I made no claims, just jumped in to provide references about the state of affairs in some European countries)

The pages I gave are specific case studies of the law in Germany & France. You are right that there is not too much overarching EU level legislation about these things, it's generally in national legislation and up to each country.
Africa, India, Latin America Russia and many super cheap phones in Europe.
Jolted by deaths, Obama found his voice on race
What Planet Are They From?
>What's the status of hardware acceleration of next-generation video standards (h.265, VP9, something else)?

You're only likely to find proper hardware acceleration for the top codecs like h.264, not much else. There's going to be software acceleration for everything else. So from the MPEG[2] group, as you might expect, there's h.265. But then there's a whole new undertaking by the big guys like Netflix, Google, etc. which is called AOMedia[1]. Now they have this new codec called AV1[3] which is still in development. And it's open source and royalty free which is not usually what happens in the MPEG group because they charge royalties and have patents on the codecs/standards they have.

>what makes generic GPU hardware and software not sufficient for hardware acceleration of video decoding?

Now I'm not a video encoding/decoding expert, but just enough to be dangerous actually. What makes GPUs well suited is that they have many, many more cores so each core can handle a specific area of the video output that needs to be decoded.

It's called parallel programming. Whatever can efficiently be implemented on GPUs better than CPUs, people are doing it. This is recently being called GPGPU programming, where tasks that were thought were better done by CPU are being re-programmed for the GPU since the development and performance in GPUs have been going through the roof.

Now when it comes to the why, think of it this way. Your average complex computation is more like lifting a couple really heavy boulders. So you need a strong person to lift it. So that strong person is your CPU core, with complexity and high clock rate. But video encoding is not that complex at the pixel level. So it is more like picking lots (thousands) of tennis balls. GPUs are like having a bunch of kids (current gen GPUs have ~2000 cores even at the mid-range) who are no where as strong as the strong CPU guy, but you can guess who will get the task done faster.

[1]:http://aomedia.org/about-us/

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

[3]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1
> Chase down Elle Stone's posts on how fundamentally broken it is.

Oh, let's!

http://ninedegreesbelow.com/files/linear-is-the-new-black.ht...

"LNB and CCE both allow the user to easily produce radiometrically correct editing results. LNB provides fewer user choices for blend modes and for various operations, but the defaults for the operations and blend modes that I've looked at are logical and useable."

LNB is the linear-is-the-new-black branch of upstream GIMP. CCE is her patched version.
Reading a book on it can give you a better idea of which tasks might be faster done that way, so that when you run into one, you're better equipped to recognize it as such than you might otherwise be.
There is a natural monopoly. The biggest supplier will most likely have a taxi for you nearby, so will most likely have the shortest wait time. Then, they will have the highest utilisation, and therefore the lowest cost.

This is incidentally precisely why I think they should be regulated like utilities. You could have independent ride-offering firms providing cars (with or without drivers, and possibly at different service/comfort levels), and independent apps providing billing and possibly extra services, but they all have to go through one network regulated as a utility (so that you could e.g. hail a Lyft car through the Uber app).

I think that would avoid monopolies and give maximum benefit to riders and drivers.
Hitachi is also WD, as of 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGST
Is Uncle Bob wrong about TDD?
It could, but "just" switching shells is definitely an inconvenience to your users as well.
That is actually very correct.

I remember reading a book about the Shell and bash 15 years ago. It was the only book I read about the topic, but it helped me a great deal to develop an intuition about what it can do.

Didn't prevent me though from getting sometimes lost in crafting complex scripts, where manual work or a java-program would have been faster.
By pure chance I know one exception to this ad-tech/e-commerce bias in Berlin: I'm at a Berlin-based company[0] working on DL and deep RL for industrial applications (think robots, optimisation and control).

[0] micropsi-industries.com/join_us
Unless they are autistic and genuine without guile.
Scan source codes and build project without makefile
Yes, transportation is ultimately just a commodity. It baffles me that investors don't see this. Unless they are in it for a short ride of course.
Complete strawman argument.
CUDA supports VP9 decoding since Kepler iirc.
What I Do When I Feel Like Giving Up
Yeah, I have very poor experience with my tablet in gimp on Windows and found in the bug tracker that plans to address it are on hold until the gtk3 port as apparently gtk2/wacom/windows doesn't work too well.
When push comes to shove these things determine the allocation of resources in society. How many people does a company making spoons gets to hire or should we put more of them on webforum moderation ? Same for cars/glass/shoes/...

The idea is that letting algorithms decide will result in better/more productive allocation of resources, which will result in more and better everything.

Of course, is that reality ? I would point out, however, that stock markets resource allocations are far better than royalty/governments allocating resources.
Maybe the connection was that the platform was going to be the one that "took the genie out of the bottle"? Any other alternative is more tenuous, I think.
No. Intonation (not even pronunciation) is a bit different but perfectly understandable.
Ism not the original person, but I live in Santa Barbara (about 60 miles away). You can definitely hear the rumble, delayed by several minutes. The launches at the middle of the night are the best since it's so quiet.
Only they're sold out.
Humanity as a collective intelligence
I went to a circus here in Germany and it only featured domesticated animals such as camels, goats, donkeys, llamas and sheep. Wasn't too bad but I still felt sorry for them =\
Actually, I did, responding to the last line:

"That is the problem with Linux. Of course it's getting better and better but it's not where OSX or Windows is by any means."
not only that but it also interprets the errors and goes to the correct line

have a look at :cw[indow]
"fairly certain they don't beat them anymore."

That sounds an awful lot like an opinion stated as fact.
Montreal has more students/capita than anywhere in North America, due to a clustering of big Unis downtown.

So, in a way, it has a 'geography' advantage to such numbers :).

That said, I'm highly doubtful that they will be able to effectively leverage the knowledge.

Bombardier etc. are slow, monolithic entities, who will no doubt take AI up, but I wonder how effectively and profitably for local entities.

Air Canada is an airline operator - much like Verizon etc. - they 'operate' they don't 'innovate'.

On the startup side, Montreal is weak - no as bad as other places unknown for startups (say, Houston?), but it does not have the 'acquiring entities' to take up the funnel. Toronto has this disadvantage as well, but because it's bigger, English, and a little more well-known, I think it's less of a problem.

The language issue cannot be overlooked - a little less than 1/2 of Montreal is primarily English speaking, and though basically every Francophone speaks English, it does affect how networks are oriented. Francophone networks are weak. They are very local, and poor, and for a variety of reasons a little 'self oriented'. This is a Quebec thing, but also a French thing, and naturally a thing that happens when you're an enclave of people speaking something other than English in North America.

Finally - there is a lack of industrial spirit in Montreal. They are academically, socially and creatively inclined, but they don't want to build 'products and services' and aren't keen on making 'big bucks'.

The series of 'big business' magnates that came up in Quebec over the last 40 years have been mostly locally oriented: taking up TV/Media, Energy and retail banking sectors during the 'quiet revolution'. The big 'startup' here is a Circus!

In my very Francophone neighbourhood, 100% of the waiters and waitresses will tell you they are 'in school' or 'actors' or 'photographers' - yet many of them are late 20's early 30's - and it's not exactly hollywood around here. An acquaintance calls herself a 'playwright' and she's written 2 tiny productions for the local theatre with 2 actors each - no props or anything. She's late in her 'career' already. This attitude is due to a bunch of historical factors and it runs deep.

I'm not suggesting people can't build great companies here, and surely some will pop up - and there are some natural advantages such as lots of students and ridiculously low cost of living ... but I'm not sure if anything big will come of it.

To grow a startup you need all sorts of motivated people with special skills: recruiting, supply chain, sometimes niche stuff like ASICS etc. - I never, ever meet anyone here remotely in that vein.

It's a great city, but I'm not sure it will ever be the 'leader' in anything applied or industrious. I predict a few wins here and there.
> […] but my carrier in the US probably doesn't support such phones yet as far as I'm aware.

Is there something specific about US carriers that prevents a phone running Ubuntu Touch from working? My experience in Europe is that my Ubuntu Touch phone (Meizu Pro 5) just works, because it supports all the necessary bands and SIM-cards. I don't think my carrier really cares what phone I use.
I hope you aren't assuming animals are roaming streets of Africa. I live 60km away from Kruger National Park but have never seen an elephant strolling down a street. Majority of us also go to the zoo to see elephants, just like everyone else.
Also googling for asterisk chan_dongle takes to to a list of USB voice capable dongles as well.

Something I've been looking at doing for a while.
ESET Endpoint Security 5 Username and Password and Crack Free
High house prices are also driven by low interest rates and low property taxes.

The land value (as opposed to the value of the buildings on top) is being extracted by landowners rather than the community.

If instead it was taxed (by raising property taxes or LVT), this would have three follow on effects:

* Treating housing as a bar of gold would stop (buying it as a store of value and leaving it empty). This would free up a lot of space.

* The proceeds of the tax could be used to build more housing without slashing other parts of the budget.

* Rich home owners - those who need the money the least - would stop getting effective handouts from those who need the money the most (renters).
Books by Eric Hobsbawm and perhaps even Marx and related figures like Proudhon. They are from a European point of view, though.
I don't understand the aversion to rooting, other than the obvious security implications. Few consumers install Ubuntu (or another desktop distro) on their machine and don't allow themselves root access, so it's difficult to imagine having much freedoms on your phone without doing so either. Try a custom ROM (e.g. CyanogenMod or its apparent descendant LineageOS) which adds many more options to AOSP and doesn't force you to use Google Play Services. I'm running this currently with an open source Google Play alternative [1] and it works surprisingly well, with far better battery life and performance.

[1]: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki
does this mean that every compositor has to add gpu support on its own? a gpu that works in gnome would not neccesserily work in sway or orbment?
Many scripts are not written to be portable, bash or otherwise. The main reason those scripts rely on bashisms is that bash has long been the default shell in most distro.

IIRC debian provides a checkbashisms to know which scripts will pose problems when ran against /bin/sh
This should not be downvoted, he is essentially correct.

'AI' has always been around, but the 'big leap' we've seen recently is entirely due to researchers finally able to make Neural Nets actually work :).

'Deep Learning' really refers to a specific kind of Neural Network.

The first application was image recognition. It's also used a lot now in voice recognition - and they're trying to jam it into everything possible.

I think it's basically fair to say that at least in 2016 AI pretty much boils down to Deep Learning / Neural Nets to move something more classical along in terms of capability.

What 'AI' means changes over time, but I think it's safe to say the renewal and hype is based on the 'big eureka' in Neural Nets and their relevant applications.
Vimperator: a Vim-like Firefox
I mean, I inadvertently set my hair on fire at a party one time. (It was a good party.) Despite not having actually run around that way, I'd be ready to argue that it's not as specific or uncomfortable a metaphor as that of jumping on a grenade.
On both version 4.3.12 on Interix and version 5.2 on FreeBSD, "f" followed by a character works perfectly fine in "vi" mode and Control-X Control-F followed by a character, as per the zshzle manual, works perfectly fine in "emacs" mode. What were you doing wrong?
To sum it up:

An unripe fruit attracts no birds, they only come when it becomes sweet.
-Ghost In The Shell 2, Innocence
A 5 word diceware password has ~50 bits of security.

5 bits is a significant part of 50 bits. Alternatively, it matters whether an attack takes a month or 2.67 years.
My experience was 10 or 15 years before yours (I'm older), also as a little child. A lion put a paw in the bars and proceeded to spray a dozen people in the first rows.

So I didn't come back to "circus" until Cirque du Soleil came to Madrid. That's obviously another meaning of "circus".
I love `set -o vi`. It gives you vim motion in the terminal.
Why did you link to such a dodgy site..? Oh...!

(Fun idea. Like Russian roulette.)

http://definitely.verylegit.link/624hack.exe.rar
I don't think we have the barriers for Shenandoah yet. It would be easy enough to add them I believe. SVM is a new VM implemented in Java. It isn't made from the OpenJDK's native implementation in C++.
What If It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? (2002)
The title is quite clickbaity. Here are a couple of quotes from the article:

' “Banning is definitely a conversation that people are having, but only because we have to have the conversation,” the staffer said. “It would take something really deplorable for a ban, and I highly doubt even Trump is that stupid.” '

' Another former employee who is said to have been involved in discussions over Twitter’s abuse policies said there is zero chance the company would ban the next president of the United States. '
I wonder how much extra entropy you can add by introducing an extra language or two?

For instance, having a password like 'unterwasserboot-sparkle-mocidade-yogurt'.

It seems like multilingual folks would be at a distinct advantage here ... at least until you forget which of the words in your password was in which language, and you end up with 'submarine-faisca-jugend-yogurt' instead :)
The demo video: https://asciinema.org/a/79998
> What is wrong with the Pilot Wave Theory intepretation?

See

> https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-...

for a discussion where people of both sides answered. For an answer that is rather critical towards the Pilot Wave interpretation see

> https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-...

Another skepticall answer is

> https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-more-physicists-subscribe-to-...
>"I interpreted your comment about "self-aware point scoring" to mean that you shouldn't think of relationships as transactional, or be too concerned with whether your contributions to them are reciprocated."

If you want my honest, non-expert answer, making relationships transactional means making them closer to business arrangements. Maybe that's what some people are comfortable with, but I prefer when my personal relationships are a little more spontaneous and free. So, for me, relationships shouldn't be transactional.

How do you stop getting screwed over? I'd say it comes down to trust. Trust is something that builds up over time. The more you trust someone the more you can give without expecting something in return. Trust is based on support, but it's not something you have to actively track, it's something you feel (or don't feel). When trust starts to breaks down, that's the time to either work on it together or cut your losses.
That's kind of sad as we were just at the Miami show this Saturday. I've never been to a circus and this was the first time for our son and I. I didn't even realize the elephants weren't in the show. It just never occurred to me that they were a requirement.

The show was really good. The audience was full of kids. For a 11AM showing I was expecting a half filled arena but it was surprisingly full. Tickets were $18-$35 which for a live performance really is good value compared to a movie theater.

The theme for this show was space exploration so they had a lot more human daredevil stunts. The animal entertainment I do remember were the big cats, horses ridden by kazakhs, and domesticated animals doing parlor tricks (dogs, a big pig, and llamas). The ice skaters, motorcyclists, and flying acrobats had a bigger impact. Okay, the big cats too. They were really amazing.

Sad to see it go, it's my first time and now I see it will be the last time.
How to build a simple project quickly:

http://tboox.org/2016/07/16/how-to-build-a-simple-project/
A more efficient engine might be as good a metaphor as many others. Five percent, equivalent to about a quarter percent faster growth over 20 years isn't a bad starting point either, depending on just how constrained the simplified capital markets would be. The increased friction that would be created by simplifying financial instruments across the board would probably facilitate a lot of rent extraction for people working in finance, but only up to a point, since the less efficient allocation of resources would also eventually leave a smaller pot for them to extract their share.

Like an engine, generalizations about quantities of reagents and thermodynamics aren't going to be violated by the real world, yet the engineers designing engines will understand the dynamics of low level interactions that are unexpected by someone with only a top level view. That is, in general more funding and more instruments that fine tune allocations of resources and risk really do accelerate growth. And yet, the details within the financial industry that can pervert incentives or corrupt signals do undermine some of the gains in funding efficiencies that are to be had. Given a fixed amount of design work a simpler engine might be more reliable than a complex one, but it won't be as efficient as one with more features and sufficient engineering to make them reliable.
Some xmake projects: https://github.com/tboox/xmake/wiki/xmake-projects
My practical question here is if you live that way, how do you avoid getting screwed over by opportunists?

As someone who lives this way I find it pretty easy: you develop an instinct for people like that and don't deal with them.

If you make a mistake do deal with them and they screw you over... oh well. I don't worry about it, and it isn't something that has ever had a negative effect on my life.
But I can't actually buy an Ubuntu phone anymore. And I want to because I lost me aquaris E5. This is not a good situation even for the most committed and patient early adopters (like me).
The piece you didn't like about zsh is probably the usual: it comes with no preconception of how you want to use it , i.e. with no default settings.

It requires some work to build zsh settings to one's personal preferences but once done you are at home.
Alternatively you can use one of the many settings you can find around, it is faster and simpler but now you're living in someone else' home.
Just went through this research again for the first time in five or six years. One of the most frustrating things about US carriers is that they force manufacturers to limit their offerings in this market.

For example, dual SIM card phones are not offered on any phones built for the US market, since carriers make a lot of their money from financing new phones. There are also phones with three and four SIM cards made for other markets. Need two (or three or four) numbers? In the US, you have to buy two (or three or four) phones.

AT&T and T-Mobile use the GSM protocol on their networks, which is the protocol used in the rest of the world. The 2G bands use different frequencies in this hemisphere than the frequencies used in Europe and Asia. The 3G and 4G and LTE bands are different yet, but the basic protocol is the same, so if the radio works, the phone works.

Sprint and Verizon use a different protocol called CDMA which is incompatible with GSM. Phones designed for foreign markets do not work at all on their networks.

So to summarize, barriers built using different protocols and marketing limit the ability for US consumers to treat their handset for what it is (a commodity) and help lock them in to one of two carriers. This is why Apple and Samsung can get away with charging $600+ for devices that cost a very small fraction of that to manufacture using impoverished laborers.

I just bought a 2G Philips dual SIM phone made in China for the Russian market that will work on T-mobile's US 2G network. (It will not work on AT&T since they turned off their 2G network on January 1.) I plan to use two SIM cards for the two numbers I have, and to limit mobile data to a tablet for those times when I absolutely need it. Everything else (paying bills, looking for work, shopping, playing games, getting directions, etc.) will be done on a laptop or desktop.

I would welcome reform of the US cell market, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen. They simply have too much power, and most Americans are completely unaware that it could be any different or better.
Work somewhere that public output is part of how you're compensated and promoted. See: https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-d... "One important principle of Stack [Overflow] is that we do as much as we can publicly, and we try to leave public artifacts of all the work we do."
Now that is a contradiction: You say "exactly" to then claim the exact opposite?

How do they interact? I said - and still say - those are completely independent statements.

How does 1) have any influence on 2)? If that individuals work is or isn't influenced by bonuses the general statement 2) changes somehow? Magically? Or vide versa, the same. No connection. No matter what you think of 2), the personal statement 1) is right or wrong independent of 2).
You can't, they're a private company. Can't short Uber either.
Call me crazy but I would never marry a woman who prefers cats to dogs.
Alexa skills and intents
asdf [0] is a great alternative to nvm. The best part is that it supports multiple languages and it's fast. I use the plugins for elixir, erlang, nodejs, and ruby.

Many CLI tools are missing completions, but I think it's slowly getting better over time. The pros outweigh the cons for me.

[0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

[1] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman