skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, you're totally right.

A lot of it boils down to figuring out how to coalesce and pipeline your rendering (mostly a THREE.js problem) and submit it quickly and efficiently to the GPU (a webgl layer problem).

You'll have to trust me that there are people actively working on these things -- the people providing the VR platforms. But these are things that need work at web infrastructure layer, not something that will be solved by moving away from Javascript, which is not the bottleneck.

And there are actually already workarounds for most of these. We just need to massage the workarounds into default-on features in our browsers and frameworks.
My old commute was pretty much door-to-door on the bus, I had to walk one block to the stop and it dumped me right next to the office. Not a bad deal for under $2.

If I want to take a train downtown, I can take one of three bus lines to one of two different train lines, all without walking much more than a block. The buses have GPS on them so I don't even have to leave my house until the bus is nearly at the stop. There's also a bike path that gets me 90% of the way from my house to one of the stations. I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't want to pay 5-10x more for Uber to avoid 5 minutes of walking.
Maybe, yes, but "politics"/"government" in this aspect is already a recusrive phenomenon - people self-organize on national scale, city scale, block-of-flats scale, etc.

Still, I don't think we need to try and make another body that would tell people what to do. Instead, I'm thinking of helping people who want to help by telling them where that help would have biggest impact, and as a secondary effect, creating a high-level overview of the scope of important issues[0]. Less of a government, more of an information service, I guess.

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[0] - even just reading and responding in this thread, I learned about areas that I never realized impact ocean acidification.
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KDE always felt quite sloppy to me, too much going on, weird borders and decorations, screwy inconsistent padding etc.
Telling of what??

An intelligent brand manager has to weigh the positives and negatives of paid and earned media. In this case, in light of Saliterman's email, a brand manager would weigh the (seemingly high) possibility that the NRA would advertise alongside fearful messages from grieving families. Since Everytown knew that this was a possibility, the advertising alongside the editorial had the capacity to damage the brand and (perhaps more importantly) cost jobs.
It's a free and open source project and you're still complaining. And browsers and the web, JS and a lot of things changed between Angular 1 and Angular 2.

Yes, Google could have handled those projects better, they could have put up big warning signs that they are "deprecated".

I think it was a good move to recognize how unmaintainable things (can quickly and usually) become with angular1 (or with anything that is a mess of a hundred semi-external JS libraries), hence TypeScript.
I agree with rkaplan. I've been working with many different visual problems and that comment is pretty consistent with what I've seen.
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No sarcasm intended. The op chooses to use uber and profit from low cost fares. He pays little and uber is only able to pay out meagre to their drivers. Uber is not profitable, they cannot pay their drivers better without raising the fares. Isn't this a fact?

I didn't mean the op personally, but all who use such a service which imho exploit drivers. One chooses to use such a service and has to shoulder part of the responsability of the bad things that happen at uber atm.

The op would have the lyft alternative (which afaics) has (slightly) better conditions and/or use the bus (or the bike, maybe).
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That's a pretty neat fact, I didn't know the sun was measurably brightening over that timespan.

So the obvious solution is we just need to darken the sun a bit.
I think once the dust falls everyone will realize that GPL is fine. This github is lawyer speech for how they allow search results. TOS releases always are drama till people settle down and read what it actually says and its intent.
I would argue this is a major selling point of nintendo. I can't count the number of times i've seen people express disappointment that its so hard to have friends over and play a game these days.

modern consoles were designed seemingly to discourage single console multiplayer gaming; everything is being pushed to online. I think nintendo is smart by catering to the split screen gamers out there, since no one else seems to.
Thanks, this is a good point: we have no idea how accurate they wished to be.
The appeal is obvious though. These games are actually impossible to pirate.
How do you use database connection pools with lambda? I thought it wasn't possible.
Not exactly a comment on the article, rather my own findings on the same subject:

- There is research that shows that the most successful teams are those with the greatest intellectual diversity, assuming there is an unhindered exchange of information between team members. If team members feel inhibited from sharing ideas, or critiquing the ideas of others, diversity doesn't improve outcomes.

- There is also evidence that challenging problems in a field are more likely to be solved by people from outside the field. This seems to be driven by the fact that each field has particular problem solving techniques, and problems that are difficult to solve using a given set of techniques may yield more readily to techniques from other fields.
I like this quote ( and piece of advice ) :

I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, "Liquidize your assets, buy Powerball tickets, it works!" – Bo Burnham
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Because some of Clojure Core is written in Java or is there another reason that I'm missing?
Here is the related story, "This $200 AI Will End Tennis Club Screaming Matches"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-02/this-200-...
For bus fare, London is only $100/month. You can get around just fine by bus, although people tend to prefer the tube (which is typically $150-200/month).
I can't believe I'm the only person to ask "what bit depth?"

There is a pretty big assumption baked into the title.

Edit: hi, I see that I made a mistake, can someone correct my misunderstanding?
Dexie.js: A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB
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Please add Allegiance (open source space sim by Microsoft). Also Mechcommander 2.
Man I smelled that "horrendous complexity" odor on Angular a mile away. Made me glad I can do mostly backend work.
Becoming a shareholder in a startup
I am registering a US startup and I have a lawyer helping me.I am not from the US so I find it strange that I was not asked to give any ID for the registration or to become a shareholder. Is that normal?
3 types of engineer
I have worked with the HeLa cell line, but I never knew where it came from or what HeLa stood for.
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It hit 21,000 today and I don't see any direct results from this. Is it inflated?
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If you prefer xml over sbt syntax then you've a serious problem. You might be a mediocre coder kid.
A "better Java" means keeping the same concepts and paradigms as Java, but fixing some of the design issues. That's what Kotlin is.

Scala on the other hand is a completely different beast, but some people use is as "a better Java" because it doesn't force you into its paradigms. You can code in Scala without using case class, with var everywhere, etc.

It can be handy to fallback to "Java style" when you don't know how to do it in idiomatic Scala, but at the end of the day if you don't want to embrace the key paradigms of Scala it's better to use a different language.
Voice recognition is astoundingly fantastic even on poor hardware. If you want to see the state of the art try dictating a few lines here - https://speechnotes.co/ no registration required, no training required, use any microphone you want.

I was absolutely astounded when I found out the state of the art today. I was used to, "Computer, how do you wreck a nice beach" from a couple of decades ago.

Why can't a place like Stanford auto-caption things? Especially things like lectures which are super easy - a single speaker droning on in a silent room using high-quality speakers. without any editing the output should be absolutely useable.

The only time it really wouldn't work at all is in a very noisy environment where you can hardly understand it anyway.

I realize some of the captions might end up garbage, but I don't think enough would to make it into a complaint.
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Just because end users don't care about the language used to implement S3 doesn't mean the developers at Amazon don't care.
I've been to multilanguage conferences and every time someone throws a slide up with Scala code on it, I look around me and every damn developer has this sourpuss look on their face. (Almost like when anyone brings up Node in casual conversation, but I digress...)

Guys... if only experienced Scala people enjoy reading Scala code, then you kinda have an adoption problem
Docraptor is just the SaaS version of PrinceXML, the underlying software is the same. Much more affordable for small jobs though!
You missed Spaces (which was also recently discontinued).
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Then, at least don't vote for candidate who makes a campaign point out of mocking science and promoting quacks in key public positions. That's something that most people could do.
Yes, as a plugin, and on its way to make it to the trunk AFAIK. I've integrated it into deepdetect recently because even as a beta it works well and complements GPU based DNNs fairly naturally. Deep learning practitioners are already well equipped with GPUs so having XGBoost run on them as well is a good bonus!
It really baffles me that some formatting engines require that soft-hyphens be pre-inserted. For eBooks, particularly. Apparently Kindle supports hyphenation only if the book has explicit soft-hyphens. Google Books doesn't seem to support it at all. Meanwhile, FBReader does a perfect job of hyphenating arbitrary ePubs. TeX has done it right since what, 1983?

Yes, hyphenation is language-specific, but if your application is laying out blocks of text, a set of hyphenation tables is a basic part of language support.
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Did Facebook even stop to think and realize they are the reason those persons are depressed and wish to die?
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I feel any game is possible to pirate given enough resources. However, point taken, there's definitely a certain drop off point where the resources required to do it aren't very likely to be marshaled when it becomes sufficiently prohibitive.

It's preferable to a company trying to squeeze all the profits possible out of their games, but certainly not for preserving gaming history many years later when profits aren't much of a factor.
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It's impossible to argue preventing suicides is a bad thing. But it is inseparable from the fact facebook is now actively pursuing their ability to use the platform for social control.

I'm willing to grant them the benefit of the doubt that they just sort of bumbled into an interaction loop with downsides that might make facebook use a net-negative for the mental state of some users. They were trying to provide communication tools and it evolved into something that (at least correlates with) a decline in well being [0][1].

As more and more companies doing "social" cultivate userbases larger than they can moderate start feeling justified in shaping their users' behavior en mass, I worry that we're slowly stumbling towards human-scale skinner boxes that no-one fully understands or controls.

[0] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[1] jimmies' comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13772729 is a fairly typical example of someone figuring out facebook use is harming their psyche.
Full automation do.
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Super Supporter – New Live Football App
These phrases are pretty common on Indian roads, especially in mountainous regions. Kind of a BRO signature.
> erlang style messaging passing paradigms

Or you could, you know, go directly to the source while experiencing a pretty nice language on its own http://elixir-lang.org/
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Thinking of it, SOAP is the most Java-like thing taken to the extreme that I can think off.

Needlessly complex, dozens of imbricated layers that no one knows why they even exist, cult of "the library and server will do it for you, you don't need to know how that works", and when the library invariably fail on some obvious stuff you're left hanging with inscrutable XML files and no decent way to debug the exact layer that fails, with every thread mentioning that issue on the web being met by a variation of "you shouldn't be doing that" or "add this additionnal middleware layer to solve it"

All of that to send two ints and get one back.
Well, it's evolutionary pressure in action. Plankton will survive, and the ones who survive will have more food available

Algae will probably avail of the increased CO2 concentrations as well.
archive.is link for brits - http://archive.is/hfA17
> Java and a few other languages appeal to those who love making software...

Now, replace "software" with "bloated, dysfunctional garbage" and you're good to go. Java devs are pretty much terrible at making software and arguing about technology.
Would like to see three things coming out of this

1. R code implementation (could probably write this myself but would make things easier)

2. How to get feature importance? Otherwise difficult to implement in business context.

3. Better benchmarks
Come over to .NET and in particular F# - things are way nicer here :) FSX scripts are becoming a way of life for many.
Shipping it with the app, you lose the cluster wide cached objects. A SPOF is the resolver. It's google but it's a SPOF. Is the failover to s3 automatic ? Or do you make a code change ? What kind of latency does that add ?
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There are more buyers than sellers lately
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I'm surprised that you found it to be inconsistent. Care to give some examples?
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I am creating a cross platform desktop app using JavaFX. I am facing issues with playing videos using default javafx player.
Is there any library in Java that can take care of creating a video player to play videos with different codecs. Found some but they all are GPL licensed, which does not suit my case. I do not want to open my code for some reasons.
Yep. Before that we used to wrap things in table cells to simulate page-break-avoid. This mostly worked. "Orphan" control was impossible at the time. I think most of the browsers do an ok job. Price ml does it all. Including things like toc generation and forcing sections to start on the front of a piece of paper or have a gutter in the "inside" of the page.
Your link uses Google APIs, nothing local, so it would be weird if Youtube (which apparently isn't good enough) used a worse version of those. But who knows...
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i am looking forward to a stable and reliable .net for os x and linux. after that i really want to give f# a try.
I agree, it's not easy to justify.

"Would you like to breathe some unfiltered exhaust on the side of the road, completely unprotected from the heavy vehicles that pass by at high speeds? Bicycling! Health benefits!"

But seriously, if there is no infrastructure, its quite hard to sell something that depends on it.
You've got it completely backwards. The NRA is member-funded, and Everytown is funded by Michael Bloomberg.
weasyprint supports it
If this is what parent meant, than that's true - we do bicker too much about it in the industry (I'm guilty of it too). Discussions about tools are important, but ultimately what's important is what those tools are used to build.
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So... privatised public transportation?

Maybe that's what it'll take for the US to improve its public transportation. Having good ol' fashioned private enterprise instead of the government paying for it.
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If a bus went down every side street and picked up riders from their house it would take forever to get anywhere, cause bunching etc.. Most people would probably rather walk 5 minutes to a bus stop for a more reliable ride.
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I find it sad that what has been holding this back for years is "how will we download dictionaries":

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=605840

Especially considering LaTeX had this right for decades - and it is one of the major issues for good and pleasant readability... sigh.
Ciro, your work is amazing.
Your comment about pre-planned missions is incorrect. All missions have significant post-launch changes. For example, NASA is currently deciding what to do with Juno, and Voyager, etc, have all had changes to their trajectories.

The beauty of large-scale robotic exploration is that you can use all the analysts on earth to analyze the results. Compared to a single human.
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Alcohol is ridiculously expensive in Australia. We don't drink less of it.

If the cost of meat were a driving factor in reducing consumption, consider that it's maybe 4x less expensive (a guesstimate based on my own experience) to eat whole plant based proteins than meat.

It is inherently more efficient and sustainable to eat the plant proteins we grow than to feed them to animals. 1kg of meat also requires 100x the amount of water per kg of protein [1].

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/78/3/660S.full