skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's very important to avoid photos altogether when dealing with the question of realism. Our brains process videos differently than still-frames. It's why video compression is very different from image compression.

That's a moot point though, as we do want to make 3D realistic photos too, not just videos.
Damn! I was just imagining a scenario where the case took a turn for the worse and came after the very customers of the Azure Intellectual Property advantage :-)
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So basically house elfs?
Now if the word "sparingly" just rotated a little bit I think that note would have more impact. A touch of a shadow wouldn't hurt either. A nice scale-in intro effect would really tie this together and add weight to your message. Just my 2c.
Reminds me that there is a "shopping cart" software patent. Would this be invalidated by Alice?
Most 3D plots are terrible because there's an inherent loss of information when flattened onto a 2D screen or piece of paper. Not only that, but you can't read off absolute values from a 3D chart without every point being labelled. They're also great if you want to mislead (e.g. by rotating them).

Most pie charts are terrible as well, it's very hard to compare the sizes of slices. There's a good piece on pie charts at
http://www.businessinsider.com/pie-charts-are-the-worst-2013... with a quote from Edward Tufte: "Pie chart users deserve same suspicion+skepticism as those who mix up its/it's, there/their.To compare,use little table, sentence, not pies."

The combination, especially when used for a publication, is just a disaster.
In glacier national park they use excavators for the first passes.
Is it possible to run Windows 10 as guest in Bhyve? I was planning to build my workstation on Ubuntu as host OS. Running few VMs inside - two windows, two linux and managing my ZFS pool (host os directly)... but if FreeNAS can run Windows VMs, it would be ideal...
To gain experience on the platform for potential jobs. Honestly though I'm not sure. I guess I toyed with fedora and liked it well enough. I might move back and give trueOS a try.
Maybe it's just me, but why can't Matlab just use the Latex fonts in an EPS, and output that EPS as a single file? That sounds like a more robust and less convoluted solution.
Also sounds like a shitty pharmacist and pharmacy tech.
At my company we built accounting on top of Xero.com API. Even at our small scale we're already busting their capacity. Some reports can't even be generated anymore because we have too much transactions.

This post is a fascinating outlook of how things can be ran at big corp. I always wondered how big companies did accounting. This stuff can't be outsourced since it's so tightly coupled to your business logic.

Is there any tech conferences geared toward this stuff?

Any accounting saas that can scale indefinitely? As opposed to Xero?
Just finished reading the whole LOTR series to my daughter night after night. It is very long winded, yes. But she actually had little problem with it, and she actually preferred the portions that many consider long winded and tangential (Bombadil and Scouring of the Shire for example) But he was trying to do something with the English language that others haven't got, trying to bring back an Anglo-Saxon poetics to it. It is quite lovely when read aloud, tho the landscape descriptions... oh my long winded.

But yeah, the good vs evil stuff is pretty ham-fisted and always was. And there's some pretty racist stuff in there.
If we follow your system, I would rank The Witcher 3 as Tier 0. It's simply the best game I've ever played in my 37 years of existence bar none.

OOT, LttP, FF VII ar all decent games but not even close to "greatest games of all time". I'd classify them as Tier 3 at best.
Arq is great, but:
- no support for Backblaze B2 (cheapest cloud storage)
- Arq + Dropbox on mac = hell - dropbox triggers Arq's full rescan every few minutes, even though I'm not backing up Dropbox folder
Website randomly working for me, multiple agents failing to connect or partially connecting but then timing out.

Interesting that Dropbox help center [0] links to [1], which redirects to [2] and reports 'Private Status Page'. Did the status page ever work? Is it now hidden due to the outage? Is statuspage.io affected by the same problem?

[0] https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/30

[1] https://status.dropbox.com/

[2] https://dropboxpublic.statuspage.io/private-only?page=t34hty...
I don't think it's a good solution because it performs the operation manually instead of calling the built-in Math.hypot method. This is the point - "apply" is a widely used technique, at least it used to be on pre-ES6 times.
> The IRS is reasonably good at cracking down on the fraud you suggest.

The problem is it isn't fraud.

These are all real jobs: Cook, landscaper, courier, housekeeper, driver, repair tech, janitor, etc.

They aren't any less a "job" when you're doing them for your roommate, but they're also the list of things that are already on the chore wheel. Nobody bothers to tell the government about them right now or do the accounting in dollars because there is currently no financial advantage in that. If you change that all it does is cause the same amount of real work to have more deadweight paperwork around it.

> Existing welfare/disability fraud/etc does allow one to exploit the taxpayer as you suggest, but it requires active work to do so.

It requires the same amount of active work regardless of whether or not you're "exploiting the taxpayer". Creating a bunch of paperwork for everyone is not an advantage.

> That too is a disincentive, and to an extent a social stigma.

The thing with a social stigma is playing video games all day, which hasn't changed.

Eliminating the social stigma of low income people using government programs for low income people is an advantage. There are poor kids suffering in America because their parents are too proud to apply for programs they qualify for, or don't understand that they qualify for them.

What's the point in having assistance programs if the only people you expect to use them are the most unabashed moochers because you shame honest people into not applying even though they qualify?
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Gnuplot is designed to work with LaTeX. If you want a unified appearance, with textual elements on the graph typeset by TeX, then that workflow is built-in to gnuplot.

You can also use TikZ to call gnuplot from within the LaTeX document, or generate TikZ code from within gnuplot.

A very brief introduction:

https://lwn.net/Articles/628537/
And a new iPhone every year
Yes, otherwise I wouldn't come up with such numbers.
I maintain several such serializers with various feature sets.

Yes, only serialization would be slow.

Yes, going directly to objects would be faster also. YAML or native serializers do that.

But your estimation is flawed. Fastest are still special pre-compiled serializers, such as protobuf, or better variants thereof which can mmap directly native objects.

then binary serializers such as messagepack or the insecure bson because of compression.

then json because of simplicity and limited recursion.

then the dynamic monsters, which support references and objects.
I'm interested in hearing the intracacies!
I really appreciate the tone end editorial choice of these selections. Strikes me as having a mix of military, intelligence, startup and code bent to it -- maybe that's just my reading, but it suits me. And there's not just "1 page of links" there's a whole 20. I actually went looking for a subscribe button. But it's sort of ... better ... I guess from a product point of view that you don't have one...because, you know, when people feel that resistance in the course of achieving their goal, they want it more. I thought...I'm gonna come back and check this. Being an active participant...somehow makes a product I already want even more desirable...than just being a passive consumer.

And starting each one of with a great quote is a really interesting idea. It gets my mind thinking -- and then makes me more receptive or interested in the links.

Anyway, thanks for sharing! I look forward to it continuing.
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Darrell Huff, in his "How to Lie With Statistics" says 3-d charts should never be used, since you can easily lie with them (by rotating it, e.g,)
TIL that BetterTouchTool can be used to configure keyboard shortcuts.
Me too! I wince if I find a folder with names in the wrong format, or no album artist
does WebGL 2 have geometry shaders ?
That's a pretty poor approximation, and I think the result discounts the meaning of the original point.

The A380 is a lot more like 3 boxes (based on A380-800: http://www.airbus.com/fileadmin/media_gallery/files/tech_dat...):

1) A fueselage box with a cross section of 2067 ft^2

2) A wing box of ~1200 ft^2 (a very broad approximation because of engines, the actual wing box - the part of the plane where the wings meet the fueselage - and the curve of the wings),

3) A tail box with a cross section of 144 ft^2

So a total cross section of ~3411 ft^3 * 827 fps = ~3 million ft^3

Point being, the plane isn't moving 11 million cubic feet just to move forward, it pushes on a little more than a quarter of that directly. These wake effects happen because it's disrupting so much air outside of the zone it actually travels in, mostly below and behind it.
You are comparing a single failure-prone disk to something highly-available.
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The H-index I mentioned gets close to that. Yesterday we had about 100 users who each took over 100 game actions (for example, placing a chip is a game action). Beyond that there's a long tail of people with much fewer game actions.

I've found that the intrigue of figuring things out drives some of the engagement, though many of the items on the page have explanations when you click on them (including Nectar), and we have more info at growhive.io/blog.
> Also, why rush?

Information density.

You can have a game that takes a long time, but it would need a LOT of story in it's missions and sidequests to keep it interesting. If you stretch a 10 hour story over 80 hours of gameplay it gets boring real quick because the pacing of the story will simply be too slow.
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Cool, didn't know of that one.
If you only need basic filtering and brushing for interactivity there's a new library called crosstalk that can do that. Some htmlwidgets like Plotly also support some interactivity without the need for a server.

http://rstudio.github.io/crosstalk/

Edit: Note that you can knit rMarkdown to HTML as well, which is what enables most of this stuff.
Depends on the scraper. I buy data dumps when I can, if possible. Plus, it can actually be cheaper to enter into a business relationship with the target site than it is to play whack a mile with their anti scraping development efforts over time.
How does the engine know the direction the converge will take? I'm missing something here.. :?
Certainly. But the point is, if a scene is conjured up by artists, the material they work with -- the RGB textures they create, the specular maps, etc -- do not in any way match real life, or real objects. They make those textures with the goal of getting an engine to display results that look sufficiently good.

That means if you're interested in creating a truly realistic CG video, you have no hope of succeeding if you use an art pipeline. If it's true that a truly realistic CG video will only be created by data that matches real life, then artists must not be allowed to conjure up the data that you use. The data has to come from real-life sources.

There is a contradiction here, and I think it's worth accepting and embracing it. Once you accept that true realism isn't the goal, then you can focus on making CG look cool.
I'm just a lowly WordPress developer but I live in on the commandline ( iTerm and Emacs on osx ).

The dev lead at an agency I worked at used to tell me using such old tools was going to hold me back. I've found the opposite to be the case.

I'm by no means an expert but the even my basic skills allow me to do things that they couldn't with fewer key strokes.

They also didn't complain when I created some bash scripts to automate pushing development databases around.

Fun!!
Nope, and it doesn't have compute or tessellation shaders either. Web 3D has a way to go before it catches up with native APIs.
Well, the 'good' model is quite depressing in my opinion.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

In the end, the protagonist chooses to be just waisting lots of resources just doing something of no value when he could choose to join the people that make all the advances and, with this choice, generating the conditions for more people to not live caged.
I wonder if this was, in fact, an ad.

"By the way, it's Groundhog day today" or "By the way, [random interesting fact about the current date]" seems more like an inprovement.

I suspect that Google just somehow entangled 2017-03-18 with that movie release date, and people started to wonder if Gogole was somehow paid to do that.
Just out of curiosity I did a quick search and this should be a SOTA real time path tracing engine example. Not photo-realistic, but nice.

https://vimeo.com/124065358
To be honest, I don't think that NodeSchool intends to give a primer on how to build a production-ready balance manager. They want to teach the basics of JS, that's all.

I agree, though, that those learning services give the impression that it's just about learning how to code and maybe use some design patterns. You won't find a security/authentication course on FreeCodeCamp or one about codebase maintainability, which is a shame.
My son has done a few of these for me. :) Smaller sites, one time grabs. But yes, persisting AFTER a direct request that you stop is usually both uncool and legally risky.
I just love An-2 planes. They can take off and land almost everywhere, they're one of the slowest and lowest flying planes that I've ever seen (which I find cool), plus the propeller/engine has a special sound. There's a couple of them stationed just outside my parents' village in Eastern Europe, if you look on the GMaps link that thing close to them it's actually a sheepfold (https://www.google.ro/maps/@44.2288052,27.5250523,386m/data=...).
as a native of the area, i had to chuckle a bit when i read your comment!

just don't invade the hamptons by car. there's only one real road in, and it is only one lane each way. traffic routinely piles up on it ^.^

and unless you are invading on memorial day, july 4th, a saturday in july/august, or labor day, the richest of the rich probably will be in NYC instead!!
+1 for DatoCMS! For simple use cases it works great and combined with Netlify makes for a great way to deploy simple static sites. Although I must say I'm pretty excited about Netlify CMS :)
If it was not for "reinventing the wheel" we'd all be coding in cobol or Fortean against IBM supplied mainframes.

In other words - because they can and should (and can afford to and not be hooked up to some third party vendor milking them for the rest of their companies existence).
Procrastination is basically you being out of alignment with what you really want to be doing. On a larger scale that just that task that you are wanting to do at the moment.

I've found that when I align myself mentally, spiritually and physically with what I feel I truly should be doing, procrastination reduces dramatically.

That's a hard thing to do, though. Takes a lot of thinking and meditation. But it's achievable.
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I've played all of the mentioned games except modern Final Fantasy titles and I think it's a big disservice to the TW3 to say it's at best on par with those games.

The only way I could imagine saying that is if you focus only on the mechanics of the RPG game loop and ignore world design, dialog quality, voice acting, characters, breadth of content, quests, etc.
> multiple cursors: is nothing compared to the confirm flag in `:%s/foo/bar/gc`

Why is that? I'm a long term vim user, and I prefer multiple cursors to 's///gc' for many operations. Unfortunately the multiple-cursors implementation (via plugins) is not flawless, but it's quite handy for standard usage.
I have played them both several times, starting not long after they came out. NV is much more like 2 than 3 is like 1, fair enough - but I don't think it is unreasonable to characterize 1 as being much more linear than 2. "Remake" is probably overdoing it a bit, though; the similarities aren't quite that strong.
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And the fact that the 3rd dimension adds no information and instead adds perspective distortion.
Its a somewhat common joke in our office that if you ask 3 researchers "What is lift?" you'll get 5 answers (and probably a bit of an argument).

I think "It's complicated" and "Why do you need to know?" are often the only appropriate answers, as context is important. I've read some "aerodynamics for pilots" type books that from a research point of view I considered to be, to some degree, wrong. But ultimately they were _right_ in that they taught the pilot exactly what they needed to know.

In a way it reminds me of electricity. I know enough to design and make simple circuitry, but I know electrical engineers and physicists that could run rings around me at both the circuit design level and the "That's not how electricity works, you idiot!" level.
Selling accumulated, weaponized, patent and IP defense as a service reminds me of how protection rackets work.

Also, this sort of leverage isn't something a non established large business could provide, stiffling competition in the cloud space. If the other Google/AWS follow suit, the "cloud" and hence the future internet will not be a better place.

disclaimer:I work for a competitor but this is strictly my opinion on the matter, not that of my employer.
Do you have me on a watch list or something?

I knew about this story years ago. The guy had dental problems from being out in the woods for 20 years.

He routinely stole food and supplies from neighboring cabins. Hence, you think human nature would be to steal some mouthwash to lessen his pain.

Seriously dang, I'm going to stop commenting here if this keeps happening, and I'm sure nobody will miss me.

But understand that my fucking comments contain nuance and substance that you need to read the article AND background topic to understand.

You can't just take it at face value and then chime in like you have it all figured out, dude...
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Thank you!! We use ArangoDB, MySQL, Mongo, Redis, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3, we might be doing a blog post explaining our tech in the near future!.

By the way, we are having a discussion right now on Product Hunt, feel free to leave an upvote if you like horbito!
That is really cool, thanks for the link. I should apparently make fewer assumptions.

I'm not sure why I thought there was a rubber seal, I have vague memories of seeing an exploded view with one somewhere.
tldr; They built an event/messaging system. When an event occurs they broadcast that event with meta data. (EG. event: reservation_booked, meta {..}). Before they tightly coupled reporting sql inside the business logic.
I find strange that in a time where we can be aware of everything going on at the other side of the world, there is still a need for representative democracy.

The interested people could easily gain knowledge on complex issues and make a decision collectively.

Look at Wikipedia, it works very well and there is even no built-in mechanism to resolve conflicts!
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Yes, this is exactly that I took from it. It's a massive slap in the face. We aren't even going to bother with protocol, you a being a major bell-end.
Yeah right. Most developers wouldn't be able to even start writing a package manager, let alone maintain it for years as it becomes the most used one for a particular platform.
Less democracy, more freedom. Some people want to vote about things that don't concern them in any way, and the system allows them. The bad thing about democracy is that most people are not interested in politics, and so a small minority of people is able to force-feed them their opinion. Even if most people were interested in politics and voting, it still something the remaining 49.9~% of people didn't want (doesn't really matter if 40, 30 or 20 percent - still way too much).
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anyone know who/what is behind this site?
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No they are. You can create different commits replacing them though.
I'm not saying it's mandatory to like Firefly, but if you haven't kept interested past episode 2 then you've missed the good stuff.

I understand why you'd stop there, IMHO the first two or three (or even four) episodes aren't actually all that great. It's definitely worth persevering though, they get markedly better and Episode 6 is an absolute corker.
Kimono was good for this, but were acquired and shut down last year (IIRC). Not sure why their exit didn't lead to someone else moving into the space?
Cool! I figured you'd be using the draft-js-plugins project for the hover-formatting and drag-n-drop plugins, I don't see the plguin being used though. Have you checked that out (or am I just missing it)?

FYI, the edit tool dropdown gets clipped by the resume's borders, so you can't select some of the edit options when you try to edit text near the edge of a document.
They provide protection BECAUSE they have many patents and demonstrated the will and ability to use it. Just like a mobster offer protection because he has a team of armed men and demonstrated the will and ability to use it.
Automation will turn capitalism will turn into somewhat benevolent corporate city-states. Imagine a city run by a corporation which tries to automate, and optimize everything that is not its core business. To make the employees and their families happy, the corporation will provide the best care (child, health, environment) possible. In time this will turn some of these city-states into efficient, clean, healthy, happy places to live, but only relatively small groups of people will be able to enjoy it. Some of these city-states will be very dystopian and people living in there will be miserable. Technological and societal progress in these "utopian" cities will be much faster than in "dystopian" which will possibly lead to wars.

We will not solve automation driven unemployment by taxing robots, and UBI will generally not work on a country wide scale. Partial solution will be Corporate UBI, which basically will mean that if you work for Corp X, you and your family will have everything they desire provided for them. As for everyone else..

This is already happening on some smaller scale. All these corporate campuses are beginning of that. They will eventually grow to become self-sufficient cities.

Now the question is - when you and your family depend on one entity, i.e corporation that has hired you, are you not a slave to them?
The owners of the sites, not the internet, can provide permission. If it is a question of not wanting to do something illegal but paying for legal advice does not make economic sense, then that's a sign that the larger project may not make economic sense. If there is no legal advice up front and the project turns out to create legal liability and be uneconomic, there is a non-trivial chance that you may wind up paying for legal advice down the road for a project that does not cover the cost.

Good luck.
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How do you decide wether to delete a seemingly dead piece of old code?