skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure there is.

You call.

You show up everywhere they talk.

You run against them.
etc

The amount of apathy in america is impressive.

"Eh, it'll never work" seems to be the rallying cry of today's america.
He deserved it.
Cracking learning
More colourful cutie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/143940344@N06/31492457834/in/d...

And a nice fluffy white one with very stubby legs: http://www.jumpingspiders.co.za/images/main/187.jpg

Via https://www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/comments/5o7nmg/my_favori... and https://www.reddit.com/r/awwnverts/comments/5lar18/floof_spi...
That's why representative democracy is a broken and inefficient system that can be easily rigged (gerrymandering, poor turnout, bought politicians, media ignoring a candidate, media covering a candidate nonstop, broken promises, pulling a fast one etc.)

With today's advances in statistics and technology, people could be polled for their opinions on issues by hundreds of independent and transparent public polling companies. Just like jury duty but easier and on your phone. You can't buy all the people all the time. It's too expensive. But you can perpetuate the system that engulfs their representatives all of the time.

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=212
This is a misleading headline, it should say that budget cuts for science research has led to some scientists moving abroad for work.
That's a false dichotomy; you can recognize that you're privileged without simultaneously feeling bad about it.
> two completely different technologies

Which nonetheless have the common side effect of nausea in a non-negligible fraction of the population...

VR was workable 20 years ago; I was working on it at that time. Thing is, it only provides a tangible benefit for certain use cases, and most people don't derive enough value from those use cases to pay extra for it.

Argue all you wish, but both 3D and VR are now on their 3rd or 4th hype cycle, and the evidence from previous cycles is that people just don't value them enough to justify the cost.
Just out of curiousity, do you use something like this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox ? Any other recommendations on how to install and start working with Ubuntu VM?
When C++ and Java (the current industry standards) have adopted the last feature of Lisp then the world will realize that it actually wanted Lisp after all :-)
Nice for the reading list: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

Practical overviews of design decisions in familiar open source software. I wish there were books like that!
Sure. Please tiago.maluta@gmail.com / I'm also @maluta at Github.
Selling users' personal data for 50 cents a go
It's no more of a gimmick than "talkies", or color films. It's just newer in wide use, and so there are more people who are still more used to film without it.
hahaha wtf
Nooooo... somebody else made that initial statement. My initial statement was "Measuring it is easy. Defining it is what's hard."

Are you just arguing with me because you didn't realize I was somebody else?
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> Wargame out plausible solutions to it if one didn't have your team's context on your particular situation,

My least favorite interview ever, was essentially "Implement this generic problem that our team had to solve, but you don't have the context of our infrastructure, and I'll criticize you every time you deviate from the actual solution we came up with because your solution wouldn't work in our context". It really felt like a "read my mind" type of problem.

No further point. Just glad to see you point out the relatively obvious point that you need to evaluate a question for someone who doesn't have your current context.
The same is true of Phoenix. A lot of large employers like Intel and Wells Fargo and startups like Infusionsoft have campuses in what is typically considered a suburb, like Scottsdale or Chandler. I'd personally much rather live in a suburb then a "cool" city center. I've done both and I enjoy the peace, quiet and space more than being able to walk to buy groceries.
Releasing source for graphics drivers has zero to do with this DirectX Shader Compiler going open source. This compiler just compiles from HLSL to DXIL. During run-time, the application submits DXIL to the IHV driver for compilation into machine bytecode. And that compiler is still closed-source, at least for most GPU use cases.

I don't understand what you thought you'd accomplish with your comment. It's almost a willful attempt at not understanding what the project/event is about.
Honestly,I'd never heard of "Loyalty Day", and I've worked for companies that gave me "UN Day" and "NATO Day" off. That was McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, R.I.P.

From the wikipedia entry: "The holiday was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare. It was originally called "Americanization Day," and it was intended to replace the May 1 ("May Day") celebration of the International Workers' Day,..."

"Loyalty Day" is a lot like "Freedom Fries" - just another attempt to co-opt some word deemed good, instead of some word deemed bad at the moment. The US Feds are totally weird.
Honestly, we have to come to terms with what browsers are good for, and what they aren't good for.

For a lot of the situations that I see complaints about; I wonder if they really should have written traditional thick applications instead of a browser application.
By the by, why we can't switch to a tab from the task manager is a question for the ages.
I'm still in university and I can say firsthand that the most difficult thing about being incorrect in regard to a math problem isn't so much about the problem itself—you can always fix it—it's in the shame associated with your peers seeing you do it incorrectly. It's terrible when a student goes up to do a practice problem from a class exercise and the rest of the students make an audible noise if they're off by the end of it. I had a professor who refused to refer to anyone by their name when they worked out a problem on the board, only the pronoun "they", because he felt like it decoupled the personal feelings the volunteer and the class had of the student and the work itself. The point, he said, was analyzing the work and why it was wrong or right, but not the student.
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Right I understand the acronym going down to a word. Totally makes sense. But its still don't see it pluralized as Radars, its radar arrays or radar dishes, or something along those lines. At least from what I have seen.
How is that relevant to throttling?
Why is it that whenever somebody has a problem that less than 100% of people experience, the response is always "you must be doing it wrong" rather than "I must be lucky"?
I'm not sure on the Chrome implementation, but I think all of the visible tabs would be foreground, not background. So the issue would be refreshing when changing tabs. (And also communicating between visible tabs).
The legal process here also spreads wealth around, just in a more liquid form. Rather than owning 1/16 of some parcel of land completely enclosed by Zuckerberg's compound, the lesser fortunate will get cash instead.
A typical answer to any somewhat complicated question: it depends.

If you will find use cases for your newly obtained knowledge the you will be able to secure a job. It's all about practicality. You most likely will get hired to solve a specific problem and if you will be able to market yourself and showcase how your skills can boost revenues, you'll be okay.

That's where "domain-diverse" mindset is important.
I don't think Ph.D is required anywhere outside of R&D. Ph.D is certainly a plus, but not a requirement.
Eh, it's not Fields medal material, but we're getting to the point we should be glad people don't go and embrace Sharia law.

I didn't have a easy time (or a hard time; I had an okay, average time) with maths in high school and went for a degree in the humanities. Soon I was watching roommates study calculus, then studying calculus with them, and then applying for a new major. I went directly to the workforce after graduating, but always kept studying and now I'm doing my masters (which is kind of a-third-to-a-half of the way towards a PhD) in mathematics.

So, uh, I agree that the calculus is super important but yeah, people are turned off maths for many different reasons. Let be.
Their own Google Play would be impacted otherwise. Good to hear, since the only thing I use Chrome for is Google Play (and any other, one-off, old-fashioned sites which require Flash). Why in the world does Google still require Flash for... anything?
500 bushels/acre is probably not scalable. For corn, if you get 150 bushels/acre, you are doing well.

I think the grand champion of caloric yield per unit area is actually the sweet potato. But potato is second place, has more protein, and a better sale price. Also, sweet potato contains raffinose, meaning that it will give you gas.

Browse fao.org for a bit for more information on the nutritional yields of various crops. Though last time I checked, there was no comparison with perennial tree crops like oil palm, neem, and jackfruit.
Yeah, I had to create my account with my "real number", and because I don't give that one out, I have to initiate chats with everyone on Telegram.
It bears a whole lot of resemblance to LA, Phoenix, Denver, Tuscon, Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Atlanta, ...

I could keep going, but the point is NYC, SF, and Boston are the outliers in the US, not the other way around.
> I was a decent developer, but always found myself more interested in what we should be building opposed to how to build it.

This. But I want to do both and continue to improve the dev side of my game.
I feel like it is a classic political move to put a face to an issue like this.

California, seemed to do the same thing, by having patrons ask for water at restaurants. Obviously, the benefits of this weren't just that the directly saved water, but the indirectly saved water of making people think twice about water usage.

Regardless, I think most people like thinking in the concrete rather than the abstract, which makes it easy to shit on a specific person like Martin Shkreli, instead of the whole pharma industry.
Probably the same thinking that goes with storing everything on the desktop or having many windows open.

I'm more of a less is more guy, when it comes to windows/tabs.
If this is similar to Qarnot[1], the servers are also heaters in people home. I'm not sure how the Internet connection data transfers are handled by the ISP

[1] https://www.qarnot.com/qrad/
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How were you able to pay for your education, housing, utilities, food, health insurance, and other necessities when you quit your job to go to school? The way welfare works in most states is that you need to work a set amount of hours before getting any assistance.

There is very few "no-strings attached free government money" for people living below poverty.
Could be the sites themselves.
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And say what you will about him but the guy is an Excel pro. There is something somewhat mesmerizing about watching him do the math to value various companies.
Also, are you really saying this after literally someone nobody thought had any chance for years, beat out an entire field of well-established candidates and a large favorite to become president?
Gene-Modified Ants Shed Light on How Societies Are Organized
Lecture Notes on Randomized Linear Algebra (2013)
As i was saying above, the majority use-case of update sharing is sharing updates over a LAN to other computers in the same office.

Note that, even in that case, the connection to the outside world might still be metered/capped—but the connection to LAN peers obviously isn't. That means that "does this traffic cost anything" is an evaluation the OS would have to make per socket (or requested socket from a higher-level library, like Windows' BITS), rather than per interface.
Local security on Linux is completely forfeit. It's a single user OS. Anyone with access has root. There's just too much surface area between all the different subsystems and nobody's been paying much attention to local security for a very long time.

I've thought for a long time that containers and even virtualization are kind of a parody of this. They shouldn't be necessary. If the OS had good multi-tenancy, resource control, and local security you could have multiple tenants (even untrusted ones!) on the same "box" without requiring any of those layers of complexity.
In my opinion, "involved" parents means educated, empowered parents. We are in a sense the guardians of the school system, and when we vanish, the schools go downhill.

It's not just helping out in the classroom and joining committees. Educated parents know what good education looks like (or at least, we have an opinion in the matter). We know when to demand better. We know when we need to thwart a pedagogical fad. My hometown school eventually adopted algebra in 8th grade, and calculus in high school, because a few parents hounded the school board. Simply by being around, we see what's going on. To be fair, we also support school programs when they work. And we also know how to demand resources, for instance by supporting funding referenda at the local level.

The problem with schools in the US could be expressed by saying that somebody has to stand in as the guardian of the schools, but we don't know who or how.
But if they actually had the parcel they could negotiate with the billionaire himself which would lead to a better pay-off. Which would be the main problem that this system circumvents. The secondary problem is those pesky natives coming on your land. There is that Silicon Valley billionaire dealing with that in California if I remember, Kholsa, in his case it's so they can access the public beach.
Yeah, I basically do the same thing, but that hardly ever requires 10 tabs for me. When that happens, finding tabs becomes especially harder once their width starts to shrink.

As for read-later, I usually pull them into the bookmarks bar (top level, directly visible) to free up some space.
You're right, that's why we have elections every few years to make sure there's an opportunity to make them care about voters, if only for a bit.
Even on a desktop machine, you don't want tabs spinning in the background (using electricity) if you don't need the work being done. That's bad for your wallet and bad for the environment.
The description for that extension in the store explains it pretty well:

"""

Advantages over The Great Suspender:

- More memory savings

- Compatible with chrome tab syncing

- Super lightweight extension that uses no content scripts or persistent background scripts

Disadvantages over The Great Suspender:

- No visibility on which tabs have been suspended

- Unable to prevent a tab from reloading when it gains focus

"""
> "Taking a typical first-person game and VR-izing it is pretty easy"

This isn't true, though. Developers have found that existing genres are incredibly difficult to adapt into VR. First-person games have had the most trouble adapting to VR because moving the player without a corresponding real-world movement is disorienting.

The abstraction of moving with a controller actually made FPSes even possible - what we've found is that allowing free-look with a VR headset and movement with a joystick is basically impossible to implement well.

If you're looking to your left and push up on your joystick, should the player move in the direction you're looking? Or in the direction of your torso? Worse, having the player move through the world even though the player is physically still causes nausea and disorientation in even seasoned VR users.

First-person game devs have largely settled on teleportation as the replacement - you can't move the player around like you do in a normal game, you can only teleport them to fixed positions. This has solved the disorientation problem at the cost of immersion - most games don't have a convenient in-world explanation for why the player gets to teleport around - and also removes dimensions of gameplay (teleportation makes dodging enemy attacks stupidly easy, after all).

Some modders have shoved VR support into traditional FPSes, and for all of the above reasons these are unplayable. Some have altered their gameplay to support teleportation, and some have disallowed player movement at all (see: Superhot VR). In any case, adapting games to VR is really hard, and in many ways controllers/keyboard/mice were much easier.
Several of my friends are considering moving from SF and other popular places on the peninsula to Half Moon Bay (or somewhere like it). When rent for your 2 bedroom apartment goes over $3,000, you notice that you are basically paying the equivalent of the monthly mortgage payment on a $750,000 house. Then, you realize you may be having kids in a few years and will probably want a small yard and no shared walls. Of course, you then must start saving like mad so you can get the ~$100k needed for the down payment on your $800k fixer upper.
Finding the right tab is much harder if you got a whole bunch of them.

I always close them, most aren't needed for a long time.

But if I need stuff I closed I just hit 'reopen closed tab' a few times.
>They are absurdly intelligent for insects.

You know what I'm going to say don't you.
Misread the comment :)
Yes. The browser is slowly becoming it's own operating system. Like Oracle making a bare-metal version of their database, pretty soon, Google will just skip ChromeOS, bundle Chrome with a storage driver, input driver, and video and sound drivers, and be done with it.
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Sure, there are verticals that get extra value out of it. But flight sims (for example) are actually easier to "get right" with regards to subsonics, etc by constructing a box to put the person in, and immersing them directly.

Similarly, telemedicine was a thing 20 years ago and it does work in some cases, just like robotic surgery with the DaVinci system. But most people want to have a doctor diagnose them and then perform whatever procedures might be necessary, and especially the wealthy customers hospitals really want tend to prefer doing that with a human. So most of the value add comes from the surgeon rather than the surgery. (Even in oncology, bedside manner is worth a tremendous amount -- to the tune of 8-figure restricted endowments for colleagues of mine)

Speaking as someone who participated in said research, I've seen this cycle before. Maybe it will end differently. But I personally am skeptical. YMMV.
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I think it more-or-less (at least for me) comes down to...

Friend: "I can only make the movie after 8"

Me: "The 2D one is at 7:40, but there's a 3D showing at 8:10"

And thus, 8:10 it is. Then I have to stake the glasses off for 30 seconds every 5-10 minutes because the image makes me dizzy as all hell.
It's not correct, but it's a pretty common mistake to refer to bugs in general as "insects."
patio11's comment reads more like a method for evaluating answers. You present the candidate with a boiled down description of a real problem and then evaluate what they say against the rubric. All that to say you answer the questions by actually having expertise in the subject area of the question.
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Well, the total number of movie showings in an area are somewhat limited, and don't increase that fast. By splitting the types of experience shown between 2D and 3D, they are reducing the number of showing for people that prefer a certain type of experience compared to if they were all that experience. For people that prefer 2D, this is a reduction in the total showing they could expect, so a loss. Of course it's a gain for those that prefer 3D, and a huge one, since it was effectively nonexistent previously.

What we're really seeing is that people don't like to lose something they had previously, regardless of how small. People who prefer 2D really are having fewer showings available, but the trade-off is choice, and allowing other people to actually experience their preference, which is a good thing.
No, I'm not; but now that we're at it, let's put it this way:

Not all Brexiteers are racist.
The majority of racists voted Leave.
Beware all who are reading below this comment: it's aggressively misinformed. It starts with this comment, which is almost completely inaccurate. And then it continues from there. Wth HN...
> The tax of supporting multiple APIs is not always huge. I recall reading that Unreal's Vulkan support was done by 1 or 2 employees.

And because of that, we still don't see full Vulkan support there - it takes time to implement. See https://trello.com/b/gHooNW9I/ue4-roadmap (search for Vulkan).

If anything, it highlights the tax, not disproves its existence.
Honest question, has any of those online petitions yielded results ever?
Dad Uses Vive to Create VR Tour of Daughters Dollhouse
I believe this. However, my concern is that the number of people willing to make it through that learning curve is small and will limit the adoption of Rust.
I had been sort of hoping that 3D TV would not become the norm.

I saw Avatar in 3D and while the effects were fun to watch, I thought that the expressiveness of the depth-of-field shots was actually reduced.

In 2D cinema, the viewer's eyes adapt to the shot that the director intended, which often involves focusing on the foreground or the background... once in a while a shot puts both in focus, but it's rare.

The visual cue of depth of field is why cinematographers continue to use it even though it's been technically feasible for a long time to simply make all objects in the shot appear in focus.

In Avatar, the critters zoomed toward the audience and the effect was immersive, but I thought many of the close-in shots lacked the intimacy that good 2D shots can often attain.

3D vision is a perceptual use of depth of field to heighten the brain's ability to discern objects. There is similarly no reason why the human visual system couldn't have evolved to perceive objects in focus over a wider range of distances.

In fact, the human perception of a constant, detailed visual field is an illusion that the brain stitches together from the data collected by the narrow beam of detailed focus directly in front of our gaze.

So I think doing accurate 3D requires simulating the way in which the brain picks out objects at different depths, but this can't be done simply by offering one depth of field for all viewers, since our eyes can't bounce back and forth alternately focusing a near and far object and creating the increased acuity we get in normal vision.

3D film is unreal in that it requires us to suspend our normal method of discerning space, and watching it is something we must learn to do, just as we must learn to interpret 2D depth of field as both an attentional and spatial cue.
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The snap should most certainly install an icon, could you file a bug? Thanks! https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd
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Those do look neat. The white one looks like the old, wise men of spiders. Haha.
Well, it's quite similar to garbage collection, or disk defragmentation. It comes with some cost but improves performance, so it's all about finding the best trade-off.