skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia and many other countries already choose who they allow to get a work visa based on their "merit" http://www.workpermit.com/immigration/australia/australia-sk...

More points for some jobs, less points for others http://www.workpermit.com/immigration/australia/australian-s...

Note that if you want to immigrate anywhere in the world, you need be attractive enough to get married, or get accepted to a school, or buy an investor visa, otherwise get screwed is the global consensus.
If all major browsers support 100% of the spec and every implementation is bug to bug compatible with the others, yes, I would rather run ES6 directly in the browser. The problem is fragmentation and not supporting the whole spec -- some functions working in Firefox and Chrome and not implemented in IE/Edge or Safari.
An insert cannot be idempotent by the very definition of the operation.
I have a used GTX 645 for a similar purpose. £20 second-hand, pushes 4k@60Hz with extreme ease.

Of course, I also have a GTX 1060 and an RX 480 for... other purposes.
Harassment allegations at Jared and Kay are right in line with their commercials
I appreciate the advice.

What would be the AMD equivalent to say a GeForce GTX950? Because this is the NVIDIA model that seems more than enough for my needs.

Thanks.
Not quite the regular freelance marketplace – elite and top-notch only
Neverthink is a video app for when you really want to lean back
>When properly treated the mortality is 1/10

Still sounds, you know, very high.
Because applications have state. In fact, the vast majority of reads in any applications are stateful (the database backing your app is also state, you know; I'm not talking just about session state here).

By "pure" here I mean that we're talking about a pure function of its inputs.
A while ago people started referring to 'true' REST APIs as Hypermedia APIs so on-topic discussion could be googled again.

Accepting the redefinition of terms merely because they are popularly misunderstood is literally putting the inmates in charge of the asylum. wink
Off-topic: do you guys at matrix/riot have a bot that automatically creates a ticket when it finds keywords such as {IRC|messaging|chat} in any hn thread without any mention of {riot.im|matrix.org} URL being also in the comments?
Honest question.

Isn't there a publicly hosted database of hn comments so someone could make stats on this topic? I'm sure you are close to 100% match.
Indeed, I forgot some. Then again, last time I tried to use PATCH, I found that support for it in various places in the stack was patchy enough to make it a non-starter.
No, but I was learning on an 1985 Ford F150 with a 5-speed manual transmission. There were so few controls available that my lawn mower was more complex.

My 2010 F150 now has a baffling array of buttons and switches and extra levers hanging off the steering column. It's a crapshoot getting in a strange car and figuring out how the headlights and windshield wipers work in particular.
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> Using GET/POST/PUT/DELETE with a defined semantic, the confidence that GET is idempotent, and the proper use of HTTP status codes.

That's literally got nothing to do with REST though, that's straight out of RFC 7231 (sections 4 "request methods" and 6 "response status codes") and the IANA HTTP Method Registry.
This is a great point! Thank you.
I'm loving the 3000x2000 screen on my Surface Book. Wish there were desktop monitors at that kind of resolution.
The belief that self driving cars are inevitable in X short time frame is shortsighted (literally.) It is quite possible that fully self driving cars are incapable of safely navigating all the low speed edge cases, (human traffic directors telling you what to do when a light is out, construction, kids putting up fake signs that send you off a cliff.) for many years to come.
Things have changed a bit since the J++ days
Keen.io WebAutoCollector-JS collects and stores passwords in plain text
The JavaScript WebAutoCollector from keen.io collects and stores all submitted form data including passwords in plain text at the keen.io infrastructure.

People who are in possession of the read-key for your store have access to this data. Keen.io is informed and will fix this soon.

The sourcecode: https://d26b395fwzu5fz.cloudfront.net/keen-web-autocollector-1.0.7.js

---

From https://keen.io/docs/streams/web-auto-collection :

The Web Auto-Collector will automatically collect the following events with data rich properties like url, referrer, geo-location, and date-time from your website or web app.

-> Pageviews

-> Clicks (on anything, not just buttons and links)

-> Form Submissions, including the data that was submitted with the form

---

This is an excerpt from my data automatically stored for a form-submission-event at keen.io:

{ ...,
"form": {
"action": "http://ypsilon.dev:4000/en/sign_in",
"fields": {
"_utf8": "",
"_csrf_token": "Fy4PFA9XFDlybjUEIxBxAhUHdiMyAAAAOYIZc3Bi+9fade6saAYKWg==",
"user": {
"email": "foo@example.com",
"password": "i_am_plain_text"
}
},
"method": "post"
},
...
}
Are you interviewing successfully? I keep getting tripped up by concrete cognitive type in interviews.
Having a massive happy userbase that likes to pay you for rides places seems like a pretty good advantage, regardless of how the ride is executed.
This is prompting me to request access to the Google Drive file. Perhaps host it on something besides Google Drive/Docs?
The author seems supportive of the core principles behind REST but arguing against its specific implementation in HTTP.

I wrote a related article for Hacker Noon a few days ago which was trending on Reddit: https://hackernoon.com/rest-over-websockets-instead-of-http-...

It's interesting that an increasing number of developers are pushing the notion of using REST-like ideas over WebSockets instead of HTTP.
Do you drink much alcohol?
The classic design text 'The Design Of Everyday Things' praises the design of cars, and rightly so IMO. e.g. doorhandles are all intuitive and obvious how they are to be used, the knobs and controls are functional and well-shaped, etc.

Cars are getting worse as more things transition to touchscreens. As a driver, groping at a flat, featureless touchscreen to select something is far more difficult than trying to press a button.
This is a further step in the reduction of user control, the thing that I think made the web so successful in the first place. I suspect it will kill the web, but it will at least make it unacceptable for me. I would like to find and support the replacement as soon as possible.
A correction: UE is not open source. It's source is accessible, but does not qualify either as open source, or free software.
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Thanks Francois!
V8: A Tale of TurboFan
*Abbreviation (https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/980).
I think nc -l 80 should do it
Pushpin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005724
How did you deduce those figures? 50% of 100 is 50. 70% of 50 is 35.

Meaning:
1) 50 out of 100 people were infect,
2) 35 of which would die,
3) leaving 50 who didn't get infected,
4) leaving 15 who survived.
It wasn't a meaningful encounter.
You are right that UE/Unity/Lumberyard? is the way to go for 95% of users, but:

* UE may have it's source code publicly available, but it's definitely not free (as freedom to do anything with it)

* UE is very resource heavy

* You can not use it to create gambling or military stuff

* 2D possible, but not very nice

* Complicated code

None of the open source engines come very close to UE, but you pay the price for it. Even Unity (without any 3rd party plugins) is not close, but I argue Unity is still very useful.
I'm not so sure. If you're the sole developer, you can offer the binary on iOS and UWP with a standard license, while having the code on GitHub under e.g. BSD license with a note "Game contains code from GameCore licensed under the BSD license". Basically you license the source code under BSD to yourself and you create a derivative that includes all assets that you retain all rights to.
Sounds like your workload is CPU-bound if halving your GPU resources didn't make a noticeable difference.
Unreal Engine is open source but not free software. A perfect example why "open source" is a bad term.
Thanks, I did learn something today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_%28Roman_army%29

"A cohort (roughly 480 soldiers) selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten. Each group drew lots (sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing."

"The procedure was a pragmatic attempt to balance the need to punish serious offences with the realities of managing a large group of offenders."
So why do I have to call you to get pricing info for the lists you offer? Also, the pricing you do provide is unintuitive, like what does Up to "5,000: $180.00/M" mean? Why are you charging to digitally deliver the lists either by the way?

Edit: I do see value in quality, screened lists, but what I cited above is what has kept me from spending a few hundred on a trial run of a direct mail campaign.
Reading the conversation they had in the thread here it seemed 50/50 to me. Watching the video completely changed my mind so if you're ITT and making a judgement based on a transcript take a look at the video. The driver is pretty calm and then seems to touch a nerve with Kalanick who gets loud and rude. Also as they're talking over each the transcripts here aren't accurate. The driver is actually quoting figures, not just complaining without evidence.

I wish Lyft would expand out of the US. If they did, they'd have my business immediately. As for Uber, with everything over the last few weeks they've lost it.
I have a 3440x1440 at 95hz (my Acer Predator X34 didn't quite meet the 100hz claim..), and 2x 980s. One of the 980s isn't fast enough to drive it properly; two work fine, but I'm almost always having SLI issues it seems. Therefore the 1080TI will be a massive improvement to me, especially as I run 2x 1920x1200s around the 34" and would like to use frameless windows - which essentially reduces the 2x cards to 1x (SLI only works in fullscreen). For example Elite Dangerous will start to stutter when only using one of the cards.

I've crunched the numbers and the 1080TI will essentially offer the 980 SLI performance at its best - and that's before the extra RAM and Pascal features come into play - as well as the reduced heat levels etc.

So count me in, especially when Vega comes out and presses the prices further south. (Alas my monitor uses GSync, so that won't be an option for me.)

FWIW I'd like to mention that the 34" screen is completely brilliant for programming (Visual Studio), which is what I use the setup for most of the time.
OK, one question I have is how am I supposed to view this content on the various TVs throughout my house? Will this be a new Roku app? Will I just use the old Roku YouTube app? Will I have to stream it from my laptop/phone? I think the answer to this question will determine how much traction they get. My parents, my wife, nor any other non technical folks are going to stream anything from their phone. I can't see how this will win.
Yeah — 'mysql' wouldn't be installed either on FreeBSD if you just install php. So typically hosting providers install all the extensions.
Tab Tree: Maintained Tree Style Tabs Alternative
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
>> He was a little rude, callous, and aloof.

This is the big deal. It's solidifying the picture that's been built of him over the last few weeks.
If that were the standard, it would no longer matter which side the hose is on. I'm from the midwest: If you pull into a gas station, it is highly unlikely that the hose will stretch across the car.

I'd report on the hoses here in Norway, but honestly I haven't driven since I moved here a few years back.
Is there some sort of internal competition at Google where each team releases a chat service and they see what does best?
In my experience, what programmers don't see when they start on an engine but which they will harshly run into when they feel it is done is the asset pipeline.

When your game engine is done, how do you get assets into the game? How will your artists test out things, how will you get models you bought on the internet into your game?

For any game engine I'd check out I would first see how well it deals with game assets. It's more important than fancy rendering features or even clean API's and developer tools.
The driver noted the mile price change in the video (although he may have been off with the figure). People posting 'transcripts' here seem to have conveniently left that out.
Yeah, competition is nice. We can now choose to buy a 8 core Intel 6900K without a GPU, or buy a 8 core Ryzen R7 1700X together with a Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti for the same price.
It worked fine on 10meg/1meg ADSL2+. I think most people have access to that (at least in the UK, >95% of population).
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They could, and I often did ask questions like that, it's a good way to remove any bias.
What the big difference between the OpenGL and D3D renderer? Are they performing and look the same across Windows and Linux?
What about MacOS? I guess if it run on Linux I can fiddle with the source and make it run on it?

Look awesome! Always good to have diversity in 3D engine.
Each team hoping to further fragment massaging ecosystem... But why do I bother, I'm sure they'll discontinue it in a few months.
We will produce these benchmarks soon, but HHVM is pretty difficult to configure and we have not focused on optimizing our compiler much yet, so the performance is likely to change drastically over the coming months.
Hi,

That is some very nice and interesting work!
In fact, I have also worked on exactly the same thing, so I'm impressed by your accomplishments.

How much have you played around with different local condition features, i.e. the phoneme signal? Was it always with 256 Hz? Have you always used nearest-neighbor for upsampling to 16 kHz? Have you always used those 2 + (1 + 2 + 2) * (40 + 5) = 227 dimensions?
We tried just with 39 dimensional phonemes, which also worked but the quality was not so nice and it sounded very robotic, probably due to missing F0. We also only had 100 Hz, but we tried some variants to upscale it to 16 kHz, like linear interpolation or deconv or combinations of them.

In the local conditioning network, you used QRNNs. Did you also try simpler methods, like just pure convolution? (And then the upsampling like you did, by nearest neighbor.)

You are predicting phone duration + F0. Have you also tried an encoder-decoder approach instead, like in Char2Wav? I.e. instead of the duration prediction, you let the decoder unroll it. Then, also like Char2Wav, you can also combine that directly with your Grapheme-to-Phoneme model. Have you tried that?

Did you also try some global condition, like speaker identity?

We also tried all the sampling methods you are listing and observed the same behavior, i.e. only the direct sampling really works. I tried many more deterministic variants (like taking mean) but none of them worked. This is a bit strange. Also the quality can vary depending on the random seed.

Thanks,
Albert
This wasn't true for Ethereum, at least last year when I was mining it with (used) R9 280xs. Depends more on the cost of electricity in your country.

EDIT: also, AMD graphics cards had a significantly better ROI than Nvidia cards.
Given a sibling comment states that UR is open source (while not free software), could you explain your take on it? Just looking for clarification—not assuming you're mistaken.
Drain the swamp. Hire all Indian talent /s
Once I figured out that Uber loses money on each ride, I started taking it more. I don't really like this company, and I don't think their valuation is justified, but me being literally subsidised by SV venture capitalists feels good.
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Another related tool is mitmproxy https://mitmproxy.org/
Treat people like sovereign nations
With permafrost melting out bacteria and virii that has not been seen in the biosphere for 100k years + I wonder what new adventures on the plague front lies in wait for us.
Do what you love, what you are good at and what people are willing to pay for.
Hey, this looks really good. Thanks for the good work.

A question. Please don't get it wrong.

How you going to maintain that? Recently more than anything I'm more afraid of investing my time in some tool will go away in the near future. While UE and Unity 3D are not perfect, neither free (or even cheap). But those teams have all the money to support next releases, and I have some guarantee that they will exist next year.
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No mention of my now discredited theory:

Traditional luxury brands have the filler on the right because rich people use full-service gas stations, and traditional budget brands have it on the left because poor people use self-service gas stations.
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There's also OpenMW https://openmw.org/en/ which, of course, works best for creating Morrowind-like games :) But you can make completely new games with it.
Doesn't "death rate" refer to people who have a confirmed infection? Which of course is much lower number than the number of people born?
If I was in charge of communication at an enterprise I would stay the hell away from this. Google has probably abandoned this project already. I'm being semi serious - based on their history it might never get an update, or be dropped in a matter of months.

I'm not sure how Google expects anyone to invest in any of their minor platforms when they're so unfocussed and so notorious for abandoning and shutting down their services. Haven't they launched something like an average one new chat app every two months over the last six?

Enterprise apps are the very type that need long term confidence the most. Why are we to expect this would be any different to the multitudes of platforms they've abandoned and fragmented already?
This is very true. Two hardest things which I implemented in Lumix Engine are prefabs and asset import and I'm not still 100% with any of it. But I guess there is not an ideal solution.
Can't Google even converge on one message platform?
I build this as a side project. I enjoy doing research for certain topics, and usually end up drawing a graph that positions all concepts so I get a good understanding of a market.

I build a tool around that, which became State.of.dev.

Read more about its future plans:
https://medium.com/@yvoschaap/state-of-dev-c609cc12084b
https://opensource.org/osd
One, Two, Three, Get Global Virtual Phone Numbers Over API
Isn't there a publicly hosted database of hn comments

Yes. There's a few HN APIs/sources out there:

* https://hn.algolia.com/api

* https://github.com/HackerNews/API

* https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/hacker-news
A fun little site. But how is Sublime in "Release"?
Generally Direct3D is for Windows and OpenGL is for all other platforms. Sometimes the OpenGL renderer works on Windows as well for easier testing and development.
maybe not quite, but some interesting sites:

obsproject.com
tvheadend.org
linuxtv.org
Well, I meant just fixed base cost in milliseconds. In other words, how long it takes to just output something extremely simple, say, a flat shaded triangle without external libraries. Not to measure resource loading and other initialization.

Of course initialization and possible shader language, SPIR or whatever compilation will take time on top of that.

Many current WebGL apps require a lot of large data, textures, meshes and libraries. Obviously loading those will take time.
On Linux, your best bet is Intel which will drive that just fine[1] (for non-gaming use)

[1] https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/308602-onboard-gpu-enou... (note this is a HD4600. Newer Intel graphics is more powerful).
Kids who get driven everywhere don't know where they're going
That looks awesome. How well do Linux DE's run on Windows?
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Correct, open source has a strict definition in the tech community (and OSI), and UE does not meet it.
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We don't need twitter to be another facebook.
Completely disagree. A single 1080TI will finally be "good enough" for a lot of high resolution / high frequency use cases where you had to go SLI before.

I find it useful to multiply resolution with refresh rate to arrive at a number that indicates the number of pixels being pushed per second:

1920x1080 x60 = 124,416,000
2560x1440 x60 = 221,184,000
3440x1440 x60 = 297,216,000
3440x1440 x100 = 495,360,000
3840x2160 x60 = 497,664,000
2560x1440 x144 = 530,841,600
3840x2160 x144 = 1,194,393,600

So there you go - a maxed out 34" ultrawide has just about the same requirements as a 60hz 4k monitor. Yet a normal 27" 144hz will out-require both of them ... and they come in even faster variants yet!

Edit: And then you start seeing 144hz 4k screens; you will still find yourself wanting with a single 1080TI.
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Really?

Anders Hejlsberg is in charge of TypeScript and a apt compiler architect with a proven track record(turbo pascal, delphi, .net/C#).
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Also check out plugins for Angular, React, Meteor, Ember, jQuery, and NodeJS:
http://www.anychart.com/plugins/

And what else is new in the 7.13.0 release:
http://www.anychart.com/blog/2017/02/28/anychart-javascript-...
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I'm using https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx for low-level rendering abstraction. IIRC in the engine there is no difference between opengl and d3d other than a projection matrix. On the outside there can be a difference, e.g. if opengl does not support some operation d3d does (because of drivers). On my computer D3D a tiny bit faster than OGL on windows.

I've not tried Linux for a long time, so it's possible there are some issues. But it's definitely compilable and it used to run few months ago.

MacOS port should be easy, there once was a branch with a lot of stuff already ported, but it was done by other programmer and he did not finish it.
wondering why they have the edge nodes and not just a load balancer. looking at their responsibilities it looks like a lot of the overlap with the responsibilities of a load balancer.
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