skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty surprised when people think the US government is essentially omnipotent. Look how poorly they fared against a bunch of people living in dirt houses and caves with rusted Soviet rifles. It's easy to win when you can just steamroll a country, but it's far harder when you need to balance the need for support & legitimacy from the non-fighting majority.
The test case has been their business operations for the past 7 years (or long they have been in business). They require no certification, no medallion, nothing from the government to operate.
You mean this Feinstein ?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/dianne-feinste...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160408/08381934131/burr-...
Uh, submitters typically pay for all submissions, either in cash or in the requirement to sign over copyright to the journal.

Open Access is a trend to combatting the walled garden model of scientific publishing, and is perfectly legitimate.

Scammy journals are taking advantage of authors' needs to publish a lot of work in order to advance in their field. They are "open access" not because open access is a scam, but because the journal is a scam and it's hard to get people to pay for subscriptions to a scam journal.
Maybe, but the new MacBook Pro keyboard is so loud I have been banned from the bedroom with my laptop. (TouchBar is also terrible.) What a disaster.
You mean you don't like the unsupported Netflix and Hulu apps that have a half second lag between button pushes?
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Assuming you've accounted for these scenarios, yea, everything may be just fine.

I think the point is that there are millions of different things that can go wrong, and many have a 1 in 1000000 occurrence. Human intelligence is able to improvise, but what will cars do?
Apple doesn't compete on price so it's margins are huge, which seems to be their general schtick, fine, so they make a lot of money after they recoup their fixed costs.

You know who else made a killing on high margin products with no competition? IBM, selling mainframes.

IBM mainframes are still around, IBM still makes money on them, but no-one cares or wants to work on them.
Linked to screenshot instead of the page so as not to exacerbate their problems. Here is the page:

http://oscar.go.com/news/nominations/oscar-nominations-2017-...
> The project has much too much responsibility, handling parts of system that could easily be delegated to separate projects.

That makes on sense. Systemd provides some basic building blocks. Splitting systemd across multiple projects only provides drawbacks, no benefits.

systemd does NOT interfere with GNOME. It provides logind and some other bits which GNOME makes use of.

Talking about "ad personam" is a bit weird if there's so much misinformation.
Theaters are starting to get there. The laser projectors are just still way too expensive. I'm glad to see a lot of theaters finally upgrading their seats to be wider recliners. That's something I'll pay a premium for.
Can we get other methods for checkout.js? :)
TL;DR What Jeffrey Beall was doing could be described as one honest man trying to fight the predatory publishing mafia, by nothing else but exposing their misdeeds. Unfortunately, the mafia managed to silence him.

For those who do not know what predatory publishing is, it is basically the "business" similar to diploma mills: they issue crap credentials (by publishing "scientific articles") for a "modest" fee to people who need those credentials to be employed as "scientists", "researchers", and in many positions (including politics) that formally require those. It mostly happens in developing nations...
But if you follow the parent's argument, food prices are artificially low because they don't factor in fossil fuel limits/emissions as well as other effects of soil depletion.

One big problem in America that we haven't even begun to fully address is the Ogallala Aquifer's rapid depletion. Without it we will need truly massive infrastructure investments to maintain one of the world's biggest breadbaskets.

So maybe more farmers would be bad for the economy now, but eventually we are gonna have to pay the bill for all the quick and dirty growth we've built our society on, which means things could be much, much worse for our parents or grandchildren.
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It doesn't help to cross party lines if both are trying to seize the power.
I guess that's relative, depending on which photon is referenced. The corollary is that from the photon POV, not its speed changes, but spacetime is warped, so it sees time in its own frame of reference going faster and/or distances shorter than we.

You are both correct, but on different levels.
There is some pretty damn useful software written in haskell. For example, I started using Pandoc long before I knew it was written in Haskell, and for me, it still dwarfs the utility of any specific tool made in Rust. That said, Haskell had a lot longer to get there, so Rust is still moving a lot faster on that front.
I remember hugely enjoying a traditional film-based IMAX 3D, but there isn't such anymore close to me.

The quality of projections in all the theaters that I visited is year to year worse. Somehow they switch to constantly worse technologies for 3D? I suspect the older ones but only on a few places had higher FPS than these done now? Now is watching the movements annoying, I see the objects move like in the strobolight -- not smooth at all.
I'm writing a Wayland compositor in Common Lisp: https://github.com/malcolmstill/ulubis
They are absolutely self serving. There's many stories of the CIA (self funding) via drug trade. My thoughts are that they are only necessary in the sense that without them, other countries would take advantage of your lack of intelligence services.

They aren't good people, but there's "not good" people in every country.
> Cyclic data structures require an Arena or Rc<Refcell<>>.

Is there a way of creating a cyclic data structure that doesn't involve these types?

I ask because I used the latter recently, after struggling to create lifetimes that were acceptable to the compiler. I only found it when I searched for 'cyclic data structures rust' on Google.

It would have been much nicer if the compiler could have noticed that I was trying to create a cyclic data structure and then have informed me on the different ways of doing so. Perhaps a misunderstanding on my behalf, but the error messages that I previously received felt like they were sending me on a wild goose chase.

I still don't think writing Rust code is hard, but there are definitely improvements which could be made to the compiler error messages.
Spying predates the CIA by millennia.
I found the guy that hasn't tried VR yet!
I was aware of passive 3D being done with aftermarket filters (mostly as a joke, printed on laminate), but proper consumer 3D had to support the same formats that Active 3D did, which usually meant side-by-side and top-bottom
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I've been a PM for over 6 years now and made the transition from an IT Dev Manager. I basically made the case that I understood the product, its target customer, and the value for the company. If you can master that, you're set. Everyone has ideas for new features, but PM's balance the needs of the customer with cost to develop and value to the company. This requires that you understand the market, your competitors, and your customers. The PMs that thrive have mastered this, but more importantly, they've learned how to get the team to work together efficiently -- both the technical side as well as the management side (cutting through the political and management BS). If you are interested in becoming a product manager, know what skills you bring to the table. If you are a developer, you bring strong analytical and technical skills as well as an understanding of the technical effort required to bring a new feature to market. Probably the best skill you would need to demonstrate is judgment: which feature would bring the most value for the least cost. And then showing how would you prioritize the roadmap of features after that.
Ask HN: What questions to ask to determine the right 3D application framework?
A week from now I have a call with a structural engineering company that wants a 3D Application. The account manager has given me no information and seems OK with me going into the call blindly.

Having never designed a 3D application, what are some good questions to ask so that I can choose the right framework ? I currently work in .NET and C#, so Unity is a good choice for me. But I want to choose what is best for the customer not me personally. Given that this software is for structural engineers (e.g., it doesn't have to be pretty) and a user base of < 1000, Unity seems like overkill. Any thoughts ?
>and not making anything particularly easier to do

Have you used C++ in the real world ? Dealt with it's insane build systems, build times, obscure semantics, etc. ? Not to mention there's nothing close to a sane package manager.

There's plenty of value of just rehashing the lessons learned in last 20 years of language design to a systems language.
Can confirm, I am sitting here at work, doing nothing. probably wont start "work" for another hour or so.
These great things will still remain unfinished at 90% completion ;)

(Been there, done that. Feeling incredibly sad after reading this article).
Hopefully, this is just another step towards a better scientific publishing system. Beall's list had flaws, and people rightfully didn't trust a list made by a single guy without oversight, but it existed to fill an important need. We'll see what system replaces it.
Awesome cheers!
I happened to be working as a Projectionist around the time 3D and Digital Projection began to really take off, and yeah... pretty much this.

[EDIT] Damn those early digital projectors were cool, basically huge light-bulbs wired up to a Centos box with some weirdo DRM shit baked-in. We would receive movies on ordinary hard-drives and plug them in to a central server rack to be ingested and then distributed out to each of the projectors. Pretty often in those days it would simply take too long to ingest and transfer to a screen, so we'd have to cancel early showings of new movies.
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Something like that was my day dream when the original iPod came out. I even emailed sjobs suggesting it.
> From a usability standpoint it does not. The use case of systems programming usually involves many mutators on a single piece of, non-copiable, data. I can see why the person writing the Rust prover would say "yea this is the best" but I can't see why anyone else would because it's filter cuts out a large portion of completely valid code that is not incorrect but instead is "scary" or "spooky".

I find passing ownership around very usable, and can never understand how the bit-twiddling C folks ever get anything done. Maybe that's my mathematical background - I like my functions to be functions.

> I'm just someone on the internet here to complain. I can't do that because I'm not a smart math person who can prove how to get there or even generalize it to work with other programming related things.

The hard part is forming the model. Once you actually know how it's supposed to work, proving it is the easy part. But I mean, how would you even explain to another human that a given algorithm is safe, if not by arguments along the line of "look, this function owns this piece of data and this function owns this piece of data and they're called one after the other"?
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IIRC You can have them send you a harddrive with your data on it and you'll get the cost of the drive refunded if you send it back to them within 90 days or so.
Didn't Obama just sign an 11th hour executive order expanding the CIA's ability to access the NSA's data on the citizenry?

I'm right there with you on the 8 year cycle. I despised GWB, as many did, and voted for Obama with full support, only to watch as he continued the very erosion of civil liberties that I held against Bush. And yet, in the echo chamber of my social circle, the condemnations, the rants, the protests, had all gone silent. It seemed much the same too in the larger picture of the culture with the sources I looked to for information. Silence and rapture where previously there was outrage.
The vast majority of life-threatening conditions aren't required to be treated at any ER, and won't be, unless you can pay.
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The first Jurassic Park in special release IMAX 3D was pretty good as well. The larger screen helps a lot, as well as them not going crazy with the post 3D
I've used this essay as a justification to myself for why I got bad marks so many times.

Dropping this self-assessment was a big part of what "growing up" felt like to me.
You seem to be making an unjustified leap that an unlicensed work is ineligible for copyright protection.

If I create a derivative work, e.g., a Star Trek "fanfic", I may not have rights to publish that work commercially, because of the copyright of creator of the base work.

However, the original copyright holder cannot simply take my work and publish it, because I have rights in my own creation.

This leaves the derived work in an awkward position where it cannot be published commercially without consent of both parties, or until expiration of the copyright on the original work (if that ever happens again).
Do you have a link to this olive farm you speak of?
Like a facebook page or something?
agreed. the main thing i use pencil & paper for is sketching out designs for some physical stuff I make. I always start on paper, but if it's a design I'm actually going to use more than once, it gets drawn up on the computer.
Yes, I also would have rather he pushed back instead of literally signing an executive order this month allowing freer information sharing between agencies, some of which were granted all sorts of "emergency" powers in laws he renewed.

* commuted sentence - still in jail, was in jail this whole time, still no accountability that I see for things leaked by Manning and Snowden, and alarmingly high collateral damage rates in drone killings.

Yeah, yeah, so different from Bush. Definitely not another typical 8 year cycle. Everyone's acting like Trump suddenly has unlimited power to be a tyrant while Obama couldn't do things like this just because those mean old white men got in his way. He expanded executive power plenty and didn't use it to keep very many campaign promises.
On predatory open access journals and Beall's list: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

quote "There is another list—one that journals fear. It is curated by Jeffrey Beall, a library scientist at the University of Colorado, Denver. His list is a single page on the Internet that names and shames what he calls "predatory" publishers. The term is a catchall for what Beall views as unprofessional practices, from undisclosed charges and poorly defined editorial hierarchy to poor English—criteria that critics say stack the deck against non-U.S. publishers."
For us it was Avatar, but at least both of us couldn't stand it. I couldn't focus due to the 3D glasses not sitting at the right distance in front of my real glasses, and my bespectacled girlfriend got sick about 20 minutes in. We left, got our money back, and never bothered with 3D again.
It's less a system and more just a bunch of sources of truth:

1. Anything that's an event gets thrown in Fantastical (or your calendar app of choice.)

2. Anything that's a todo-item gets thrown in Todoist (or your todo-list app of choice). I like Todoist because it's lightweight but I can still categorize stuff based on loose priority.

3. Anything that's a random note also gets thrown where it belongs: if it's a note about a software project, I'll put it in a wiki/GitHub issue/etc for that project; if it's a note about a person I know, I'll throw it in Contacts, etc. etc. (If I'm too lazy to do this -- which is often -- I throw it in a "Notes" Todoist list which I periodically clean up.)

Then, at the start of each day I open my calendar, Todoist, and GitHub, pick up stuff, and write a todo list. Throughout the day, if more stuff comes up I'll write in on the todo list; at the end of the day, if there's still stuff left on the list I'll put it back wherever it belongs.

There's still a definite manual component here -- I'm pretty sure OmniFocus has support for a "today view" that handles all of that for me -- but the tactile nature of writing out specifically what I plan on doing helps me get ready for the day a little, and takes all of like thirty seconds.

(TBH, I think the core trick with all of these systems is being diligent and disciplined about not letting stuff stay in your head because humans [or at least me] are dumb and forget stuff. Once you commit to capturing data quickly and structuring it in some matter, the rest is an implementation detail.)
Just embrace it and try to hit the IoT home botnet high score.
I was so ignorant of the movie I didn't even know there were Nazis in it until reading this article. I've already thought of several major pieces of media that were probably influenced by it, just based on the article's description, not counting parodies and more direct references. I definitely ought to have watched it, and now I will.
The IRC log of the conversation between the iron guy and the chrome devs is pretty interesting.

> 10:26 < Iron> why must google be so evil :(

> 10:27 <+evmar> it's pretty rough here, what with the strangling kittens all day
OPEC cuts: between an immediate impact and the uncertainty of the future
IMO, Android has gotten better every year. I love material design.

As a developer (clear distinction from designer) my favorite thing about mobile development is the UI components. I can create something much more compelling with MD with much less effort.
I have watched a number of movies in 3D on our Philips TV and it's a very good experience, much better than in the movie theater. I tend to buy the 3D Bluray version of movies when available.

I also tried to take the 2D version of some movies originally made in 3D and use the TVs own 2D to 3D conversion feature. While it obviously causes some artifacts and sometimes adds depth where it doesn't make sense (mainly TV screens inside the movie) I found that it worked surprisingly well.

Primarily, though, my wife and I use the 3D for the two player fulllscreen feature when playing games in split screen (Mario Kart 8). This is actually really cool, since it allows both players to only see their own part of the screen and also see their part in fullscreen.
Same here.

I went to see Rogue One to the only IMAX cinema in my city. First time I went to an IMAX and I didn't like it at all. This surprised me because IMAX is supposed to be such a big deal, but the picture quality was awful: only the center of the screen was in focus, everything else was awfully blurry and dark. It really ruined the movie. Is this supposed to be a premium experience?

I can't wait for the 3D fad to die. It will probably outlast me, however.
Wouldn't they not get noticeably stupider, because the observer would be getting just as stupid?
Can an autonomous system judge the difference between a harmless piece of trash on the road and something spiky that's going to blow out a tire?
I dont. The question is why do you?
Go read up on the first-sale doctrine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

OK, done reading? That's why this is terrible. Our economy is partially built on the principle that once you buy something, it's yours to do with as you see fit. There are still limits, like you can't buy a book then distribute copies of it, but in general it's yours to modify, hack, fold, spindle, and mutilate.

In this context, Lexmark is trying to say "you gave us your cash, but we still own the thing". No, screw that. Toyota doesn't have a say in what I do with our minivan. I can swap its engine with one from a Ferrari if I want, paint it neon orange, and reupholster it with frog skin. It's mine. I don't have to get their permission to modify it in any way I want. (Laws still apply, of course, but that's outside of Toyota's control.) Well, same with Lexmark: they give up the right to tell me I can't refill a toner cartridge when I buy it from them. At that moment, the transaction is finished. They have money; I have full ownership of the unit.
> First, the expressiveness is all there. You just need to explicitly say you are responsible by using unsafe blocks. So risky pointer and allocation logic becomes the programmer's job, not the borrow checker.

No, unsafe would be overkill and if you needed unsafe, it would put Rust at a massive disadvantage vis-à-vis garbage-collected languages.

Simply put, Rust doesn't handle multiple ownership well. It results in syntactic bloat and/or runtime overhead. But multiple ownership occurs naturally in a number of real-world programs.

> Second, this article only considers the costs of a stricter borrow checker, not the benefits.

This is why I very specifically mentioned that it's a tradeoff.
What medical care is available to the general public in the USA but not available in Denmark? I'm curious.
Don't worry you're not being racist, humans of all ethnicities are made of the same proteins after all. And getting too cold will affect brain function too.
Yes, you can. It's called market segmentation.

You can't go after every single market at once with the same product. Building and selling for the high end to bring costs down and expanding the market is econ 101.

It's part of the reason the more-powerful-than-Apollo-computer I'm typing on was $1400.

Or to put it another way: "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."
I would like to see History taught in reverse as they never seemed to reach modern day history.

A course on technology and ethics would be an interesting course to add.
If containers are the new VMs, Hyper aims to be the new IaaS
On a systemd operating system there may or may not be a program called "init" and it may or may not be an alias for a systemd program. (One's operating system could be one of the ones that just invokes "/lib/systemd/systemd" directly without an "init" at all; or "init" could be Upstart or van Smoorenburg init or the nosh system manager; and of course just running unadorned "init" assumes that "/sbin" is on an unprivileged user's PATH.)

The best command to invoke here is either "systemctl" or "systemd".
on topic of efficiency, how efficient is it to have 20+ people all get up early, get dressed, and drive or commute on a train anywhere from 20m to 90m each way ? (time which of course is unremunerated).
For people who don't believe that spiders can be cute:

https://adlayasanimals.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/u2byv.jpg

Also, I got interested and tried to find some documentation on Portia Labiata after reading Watts' book, and there's very, very little, but what he says appears to be true. They do have telescopic eyes with vibrating retinas. They do spend ages painstakingly scanning a scene before moving. They are absurdly intelligent for insects. I don't know if Watts' suggestion that they timeshare pattern-matching areas of their brains is true, but it seems plausible.

Here's a good article: http://www.dichotomistic.com/mind_readings_spider%20minds.ht...
Why do the links on this page redirect through Facebook?
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That's an excellent resource but the poster you're replying to simply asked if he'd done a tcpdump, accusing them of spreading FUD isn't necessary.
The neurons in the eyes pre-process a huge amount of information converting data from about 126M rods and cones to 1M ganglion cells - a pretty amazing amount of data compression.

Ref: https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Thinking-Kaufmann-Interactive-...