skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a software in the 90s or early 2000s called "Sculptor 3D" that did precisely this.

You would print a sheet of paper that had location marks, then put in the center whatever object you wanted to model and take pictures of it from different angles.

Then you would manually select each marker (in order, so the program could determine where was this picture taken from) and finally you would outline the object you were interested in.

The program would then process everything and extract a 3D model out of the pictures including textures.

It was pretty amazing for the time, so I'm guessing nowadays this should be much more doable.

They even had a free version distributed in a 3D design magazine, unfortunately due to the very common name it's being very hard for me to find any references to it.
You mean MSSQL? Because Postgres has an excellent procedural language built-in, as well as support for lots of others....
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"My uncle once lied about that fish he says he caught. Clearly the man has no morals and should never be trusted."

Everything anyone says should be treated with a critical eye and a healthy dose of skepticism. Nobody who's ever achieved anything significant has done it without making mistakes.

The problem is when you throw up your hands and declare the New York Times to be on the same level as the National Enquirer.

Statistics are important here. A source that's reliable 99 times out of 100 is more trustworthy than one that's reliable 1 in 100 times.
These things are usually an ongoing race between the government and the people fighting censorship. The first move here was Turkey blocking Wikipedia, next is Wikipedia on IPFS, then maybe later Turkey blocks IPFS, then IPFS gets on tor, which I understand is already coming pretty soon, and so on.
> Once many of these channels are established you can start to establish a connection. For instance if I have 12 bitcoins in my own wallet I might keep ~1 BTC locked up to a connection to coinbase.

This is old news and all you are doing is giving up decentralization to coinbase. The alternative is opening a "lightning channel" to every store which in this case does not solve the slow transaction problem.
Sounds like you need to get a modular synthesizer :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Z0R9DS4u0

Or, as an intermediary step, like another commenter suggested, an OP1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umatbZ0n4mE

llllllll is a fantastic community of people building/playing with new & experimental musical instruments:

http://llllllll.co
I agree with every word of that latter. He deserved to be fired.

However, the idea that Trump fired the FBI director for causing Clinton to bleed is just a teensy bit hard to swallow.

And if they're going to fire him for going after Clinton, why wait until May? Why not January?
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Why are we discussing politics on HN ?
Actually, not a 10 year term but a term limit of 10 years and apparently even that was waved for Mueller. Big difference. However, I think McCabe will be the acting FBI Director for the remainder of Trump's term which hopefully will be short. I can't imagine a Trump nomination getting past the Senate but then Republicans.

EDIT: I was mistaken. It is a 10 year term. Mueller was given a separate 2 year term.

I'm no fan of Comey either. This all seems very strange and is likely reaching a crisis point.
I still use Evolution with its Exchange provider for work e-mail and Thunderbird for personal e-mail.

I like Thunderbird and have used it for well over a decade, and I really hope development continues on it. There aren't a lot of mature open source desktop e-mail clients out there these days and I hope Thunderbird stays maintained for a long time.
The entire existence of spooks is about deception. That's why they don't speak directly or truthfully.
That is certainly part of how I managed it. I could eat a much higher volume of food (mentally satisfying), while still being in a deficit. I knew after a long run I could gorge and still be in a deficit.
Yes, public transit needs more investment. Claiming that the 'future of cities' is reliant on that investment is a bit myopic. The future of cities depends more on sensible planning as to how limited real estate is developed (mixed use, density, etc). Sensible planning can make existing public transit more efficient. Of course, this is why NIMBYism is so destructive and ultimately costly on the wider community.
Imagine ten years from now you decide to run for some kind of important political office.

Imagine your opponent had access to every single search query, email and message you had ever sent.

Imagine they had access to all of the GPS data from your smartphone so that they could tell exactly where you went each day, how long you spent there and (importantly) which other people were nearby.

Correlate all that with all of the things you've ever bought because your credit card company sold that info years ago.

Add in all the data from your spouse, your children and your closes family and friends.

Now hand it to the people that are trying to smear your reputation in the worst possible way.

You can see how easy it would be to sway elections this way. Even if right now it wasn't something you cared much about - this data is collected forever and I doubt you know exactly how your life is likely to be ten, twenty, thirty or more years from now.
381 points, 171 comments, 1 hour ago; as of writing.

Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position? I assume/hope that there is some mechanism that stops new content from dominating other content too rapidly.
A lot of the nicer tablature is in a hybrid format that borrows symbols from standard notation, like attaching stems and flags and dots to notes as appropriate to make the rhythm explicit.
Even if your strategy is short-selling companies with exposure to Bitcoin assets before alerting the world, your profits are proportional to how big Bitcoin is.
In the first place, it should never have existed.

Now, it's just another reason to avoid x86 and migrate/embrace arm and risc-v.
Gmail's IMAP implementation is terribly buggy and broken. I got sick of every saved draft turning into part of an e-mail thread/conversation.

I switching to running my own e-mail server around 2013 and have had a much better experience using just Thunderbird and occasionally RoundCube.
I like what he's fighting for, but honestly, if he could step back and be a little more objective about these things it would help his cause.

Not everything is nefarious and evil. Sometimes a feature is introduced with the best intentions, but those intentions are misguided.

Corporations do want to ensure the laptops are booting a legit copy of Windows, that the image hasn't been corrupted, and they do want to be able to wipe and restore machines remotely. Maybe people don't want this, I don't, but corporations buy way more computers than people do, so Intel's compelled to produce these features.

They absolutely could have done a better job, they absolutely could have offered hardware without it, but to just blanket slam them in the harshest possible terms isn't productive.
This is a complete guess but I think by the nature of the man and his history of bankruptcy and lying, that making those documents public would start even more controversies, even if they would put the Russia ties to rest (if that were truly the case). I'm guessing that he has been advised by the people who know this to not disclose them at any cost.
I thought Clapper clarified today that he didn't mean there was no evidence, only that he was uninvolved and did not know of any evidence.

Lack of knowledge of evidence != no evidence.
Instead of relying on selected quotes from the Washington Examiner, you could read the (declassified version of) the report:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3254229/ICA-2017-...

From my quick skim, I would say that the report isn't about collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign but about how Russia's means and motives in interfering in the election.
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I had exactly the same thing happen, losing the core ideas by the time I wired up the synth I wanted. So I dropped the DAW entirely. Now I create most of my music using Loopy[0] to layer the parts that I sing (or occasionally play). It's been fantastic for my creativity.

I'm starting to hit its limits for my workflow though. One of the really nice things about how easy it's getting to write software these days is that I can now fire up, say, a Swift playground, and after getting the fiddly basics of "how to record and loop audio buffers" with AudioKit, there are very few limits on what kind of idiosyncratic workflow tool I can design for myself. The UI looks and acts how I want it to, and since over the years I've trained myself to act like a human synthesizer, I can[1] compose a whole song without even worrying about having an instrument nearby.

[0]Loopy - Multitrack audio looping with very simple and expressive control https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loopy/id300257824?mt=8

[1]The "can" is theoretical. This is my next big hobby project, and I'm still in the fiddly phase.
When I deleted my gmail accounts in 2013 (post Snowden leaks) they still didn't have partial word search. I had to connect to Gmail using Thunderbird and Google's terrible IMAP implementation just to search for parts of words .. in 2013 .. from the e-mail provider that's a search company. O_o
Nate Silver came closest to predicting a Trump win? That's laughable. The USC poll had Trump as winning, and I'd be surprised if there weren't more pollers who had an accurate reading (I only know of the few most popular ones).
I learned clojure to use it with Datomic, which built an audit trail of every operation on the database.

I really enjoyed using clojure, I felt it boosted productivity but it also came with a huge learning curve. However, overtime, I found that I could map my thoughts to clojure a lot more easier than with other languages like Javascript and Python.

However, I fear that the rarity of clojure developers also means paying a premium. ES6 also makes it hard to leave the Javascript ecosystem.

For financial startups with money, clojure and datomic will be the go to stack. Maybe I'll open source the luminus project I built for a small bank.
Frankly, I disagree. I think the conclusions are domain-specific.

In my field (machine learning/informatics in a medical context), it is very often the case that simple models are better as they generalize to the next set of patients better, even if a more complex model may fit the test dataset better. In some contexts, it requires a lot of hubris to think that your model is really describing reality and free from the intricacies of your particular dataset.

To generalize, complex models tend to overfit on the small datasets we typically have. One example of this is the difficulty in transferring transcriptomic models for risk prediction or other biological characteristics between clinical trials; a model with a LOOCV AUC of 0.9 can get used on a different clinical trial and perform quite poorly. Deep learning certainly has its place, but there is nothing inherently superior about a more complex model.
Wow...I was extremely surprised to see this as well.
They tried their damnedest to hid it in the product photos, but I'm surprised at how chunky this thing is. You could almost squeeze a ray tube in there!
That's what I do with all my BTC: MTGO cards, Steam games. My initial "investment" was ~$10 worth of Stellar when that was given away for free, and I currently have ~$30 spread between BTC and a couple alt-coins from that initial free $10. So it's all just play money to me.
There doesn't seem to be any Democrat involvement with this. Every recent development is to do with Trump-Russia investigation.

Seems unlikely that Democrats would have supported him much, but it sounds like they weren't asked to -- they were told at 5.30pm that he was fired, same as everyone else!
If you assume a villain/nefarious actor is in play, then people have been doing this with mobile phones/tablets/computers/smart TVs for a long time - why do we make such a big distinction between those devices and this one. They're the same thing.
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Just so readers are aware, the Washington Examiner is a conservative leaning org. The "no evidence" quote was pulled from this sentence: "There was no evidence of that included in our report."[1] There is a difference between "not aware of evidence" and "no evidence".

[1] https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/05/09/parroting-t...
> This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, integrity, leadership, and honesty from the administration.

That seems naive to me. This whole Russia smoke/fire thing is the left's version of the Benghazi scandal, IMO. Do you think Democrats are above a partisan stoking of fires to try to shut down their opponents, or is that just something Republicans do?
> Every single person reading this knows that ...

I am reading this and I disagree, therefore your statement is false. Gen. Flynn was fired - by Trump - for not disclosing his discussions with Russians. So it's not a total fabrication.
It's already been done at least once: https://www.cnet.com/news/uk-man-tries-to-retrieve-7-5-milli...
That would be my guess.

I run an email server with ten domains on it. Hotmail blocked me once, but I had no problem getting that lifted. No other issues for over five years now.

I have more of a problem with mail going the other way. I use a number of online spam traps to avoid spam, and my gf's Yahoo account often gets bounced by them.

Specific Yahoo servers regularly get flagged for spam, and if you're using a Yahoo account your mail will be filtered by many, many servers if it's sent from one of those IPs.
At this point he is so far past "the appearance of impropriety" that I doubt it can cause him any harm.
See also: Visual Structure from Motion, which I believe works off static light sources (same stuff you see in 123D Catch and similar software, this one is free though).

http://ccwu.me/vsfm/

For a less detailed/easier to use process, you can also try Regard3D:
http://www.regard3d.org/
Dems were calling for Comey to be fired when he commented on the Clinton investigation. If Trump truly was swayed by that, he would have fired Comey at the beginning of his term. The timing of the firing is incredibly fishy.
I don't get the problem with that either? Being an "artist", or "making apps" aren't hallowed titles. Are you treating it more like they're saying "You'll be a super successful musician" or "You'll be a multi-millionaire app maker"? Because I'm no seeing it like that.
Rand Paul is not what many would be referring to when they say right wing. Rand and Ron Paul are both libertarians that are pro-individual-liberty and clash with the rest of the GOP routinely. They are anomalies.
Yes - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.03499.pdf
I power my chromecast directly and it uses HDMI-CEC to automatically turn on the TV. It works pretty well.
>I think it's unrealistic to expect everyone to host their own email servers.

It's surprisingly more difficult than it used to be. Trying to get your server reputation just right so that gmail won't flag you as spam is much tougher than it was in the past, for example.

Speaking of spam - there is so much of it that something like gmail filters out.

I still send from gmail, although I use a personally-hosted (and aggressively firewalled/ monitored) box for receiving mail for things like password resets.
Trump has proven he doesn't give a damn about privacy, either.
> While I love reading Hacker News posts about the amazing infrastructure at successful companies, I worry that these discussions may encourage an over-emphasis on perfection and scale.

God yes! I read all these blog posts about people's amazing automated deployment systems that use 17 different technologies where they have F on top of E on top of D on top of C on top of B on top of A on top of Kubernetes on top of Docker on top of AWS, and it's like, A.) When did you actually do any, you know, "work" - the stuff that you can charge clients for and make money? And B.) What's going to happen when some company or someone releases a patch or security update for any of the 7829271 applications in the stack that breaks everything?

You know what we run? Linux. On AWS. Using chef - although every community cookbook I ever look at makes me less sure that that was the right call (most community cookbooks make me think suicide might be the right call).
I don't think you understand what it means
Nobody really knew why he did it... until he explained, in detail. Now we know.

He thought Hillary was going to win, and after the Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton, didn't want to seem like he favored Hillary to avoid backlash from the GOP and Trump's base. He needed to maintain his impartiality. And in that misjudgement, he did hand Trump the presidency.
I quit gmail due to the spying in 2013. Running my own e-mail server has been a bit troublesome. The big providers don't often like to accept e-mail from small personal servers, even if you have the correct SPF, reverse-dns, DKIM and DMARC records:

http://penguindreams.org/blog/how-google-and-microsoft-made-...

Then again, towards the end of my time with Gmail, I'd still have friends tell me mail sent from my gmail address ended up in spam. So maybe e-mail is just shit now.
It's steal, not stall - time "stolen" by the hypervisor, i.e. when you have runnable threads but the CPU is busy servicing other VMs. This can lead to stalling of your software, I guess, but it has nothing to do with instruction stalls.
Good on you. I've gone back and forth between having a smart device and not, and while I've been on the move for a while and thus benefitted from having one, will likely go back to pre-smartphone hardware once settled.

Other than net browsing (which I find woefully underpowered on mobile even today) and listening to music, I rarely if ever use this thing's auxillary functions. Most of the "defaults" are just clutter reminiscent of the pre-smartphone vendor days (complete with the "but look, you can make them less visible, just move them around!"). Can relate on the distraction bit as well, as that used to be a bigger problem for me.
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Postfix is not fun to set up and even less fun to debug if there are config issues.

But there are useful sample config files online, and once it's running it just works.
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> Naïve users can be surprised by query
cancellation messages.

Irrelevant

> Is this better or worse? Why? Uber doesn't
say

It's worse. Obviously. Now you have introduced a race condition that only appears at load. Don't do this.

Fail fast and fail often.

> Great for WordPress.

Mocking, within the presentation, is not compelling.

> The consistent comparison of logical vs
binary replication is maddening

There's no mention of community support around the logical replication. Statistically, nothing you look for will reference or confirm that the side feature added "years and years" ago, includes all the features from the binary form. Yes this is FUD-talk, but I'd be interested to know if Uber ran in to practical problems. When working with a complex software product, it's not uncommon for some less used product features to be broken, missing, or marked as "not going to fix" (e.g. Databricks, Silverlight) because they were less used and/or less important to the product aim.

This feels a lot like systemd debates (both in nomenclature and pragmatism).
Wonder why DIY houses aren't a thing anymore? Seems like a good idea.

I think self-assembling DIY house would be a huge game changer.
You're right. The Democrats have been much more aggressive at attacking our privacy over the past 10 years or so. But it isn't really a partisan issue (yet).
Yes you can. There's a dedicated button that puts it into "user" mode, at which point you can use it as a general midi input device. Every button and encoder is mapped, including aftertouch. You can program the LCD display and set the colors of the pads (via midi sysex messages).

I'm not sure how programmable the display is on the Push 2, as it's a different display tech. I imagine you send it snapshots of a framebuffer rendered on your computer.
Graham is a Senator from South Carolina, not North Carolina
I evolved this way, though I'm far from gifted. Starting out, anything I made was driven by whatever sounds I was noodling with. Now, I almost start on the piano, compose the outline, and then pick the sounds that I think fit it.

The first approach has a sense of creative wonder to it, where your being guided by an outsider. As much fun as that is, it is very limiting and I suspect most people abandon that approach as their skill improves.
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> but the last 6 months and this moment in particular is a level of shame, embarrassment, and disgust that I have never felt in my 45 years as an American citizen.

I personally felt more disgust when we bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital. But I guess Trump's kind of outlandish too.
It is not cheap enough, yet. Rationale: although it could be easy to account user processes, it would not be that easy for the OS kernel and kernel components (e.g. figure how to account cache pollution because of hardware IRQ dispatching and devices doing DMA...). So, except for, may be, micro-kernel OS's, and adding performance counters to every single device capable of bus-mastering, it is far from being a reality, in my opinion.
Or you could summarize it as: wealth and health are bidirectionally causal. In any given situation, one of them will be the limiting factor to increases in both.
The republicans have Gerrymandered themselves into every seat in almost every non-coastal state.

We're about to find out in the coming years how much republicans own this country.
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Liaison.com uses it for some microservices to store and analyze time-series JSON data, kinda similar to Datomic, for enterprise customers. I interviewed with Apple a few years ago (didn't get the job), they are using Clojure for internal services to support the iTunes infrastructure.
I was just about to write this exact comment. Thank you for doing this and saving me the effort! At the time of writing, this should have been #2 on HN.
>Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position?

It's mainstream politics.
Brushed aluminum would look nicer. Plastic black matte is bleh.