skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I understand your concern. If the software converts all your assets into a premultiplied form, the bleeding you applied won't hurt anything even if it doesn't help. Yes, it's extra work that shouldn't be necessary - but we often find ourselves living in an imperfect world.

I completely agree that premultiplied alpha should be used everywhere. I'd even go a step farther and say that you should use high bit depth linear values too, but that's a topic for another day.
There are multiple startups working on real estate appraisals

The thing with RE is that its as imperfect as you can imagine. Its possible that the listing price varies from the real sales prices because its a part of the marketing campaign, which that alone puts a lot of noise into the market. (for example, putting a 100k house at 80k can get people in a bidding war ultimately irrationally or emotionally paying above 100k. Alternatively, a higher listing price might make the seller more adept and following a realtor.)

> I guess the problem is, there's not any money in having an accurate prediction.

Market fit is definitely one of the hardest parts of the problem.

Some companies have decided to actually buy the houses and sell them themselves!

Disclaimer: I'm one of them.
>By low balling, they both gain more buyers and gain more sellers.

Just looked up my house, and got a chuckle out of my wife when I told her the zestimate for our house was 61% higher than the price we paid two years ago. Needless to say, we're in not in a "hot" real estate market (i.e. city population ~60,000). The other shady thing it that Zillow says the sold price for the house we sold back then is $20,000 higher than actual sale price. I wonder what percentage of people think Zillow is underestimating vs. overestimating home prices.
Well if you think about it, it makes sense. Something could be potentially improvised by a passenger. But to make a device, you would open yourself to detection via X-Rays. However, I think that the rest of the world should return the favor and ban all laptops from US incoming flights. Just as a quid pro quo.

Soon though hopefully solid state cells will come into play and this will no longer be a problem. China for instance has banned shipping all lithium ion batteries via China Post and searches actively for them... as it's a risk. You have to ship them specially declared which is pretty expensive.
One, of many reasons, is to be able to make informed voting decisions.
Maintenance costs might be lower for EVs, although as someone who gets his hands dirty on his ICE car I doubt it's going to be significant; most of the time I'm fixing stuff EVs also have (brakes, suspension, sensors, tires, paint damage, lights, wiper blades and fluid, trunk gas struts, indicator stalk, washing the car etc.). I'm also hearing from colleagues of decreased lifetime esp. on brakes of EVs since they get used too infrequently because of regenerative braking, so they get stuck due to rust.

But my point wasn't that but this: using your EV as a taxi will increase maintenance costs (and depreciation) vs. leaving it in the garage.
We're heavily using multiple databases on a single Postgres RDS. Yes, occasionally it's annoying not having a true superuser, but now they've improved it so you can still have 'fake superuser' reserved connections it's ok.
>... buy them, and then try to sell them at the model's price.

At the liquidity and costs of marketing and buying-selling a property, this strategy would require you to find really high margin houses and those are snatched , marketed and sold within a week.
Sticking with stuff that's in the standard, "constexpr" is, among other things, a more strongly-suggested "inline".

Also, inlining is likely if you compile with -02/-03 and declare the function with internal visibility (in an anonymous namespace or with "static", although the latter is deprecated in favor of the former in C++).
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If someone hasn't realized by now that saying something like that is unacceptable, I have to call into question their critical thinking skills.
This should be what governments should be doing, and promoting it publically.
Seems like Canadian and Mexican airports are about to get a lot busier!
That's not my argument at all, but whatever, look at yours. You initially mention MFC, a Windows only technology, and follow that up with a QT example. Well yes; QT is meant to be cross platform! The MFC example made no sense whatsoever.
> Oh sure, no doubt others are so wrong and the struggle is so real.

And sometimes you ARE objectively right. Truth DOES exist.

This false equivalence that social validation is equivalent to being correct is what got us to this point.

And that's the trick to finding your own biases. Which of your beliefs are based on "social validation" rather than any notion of evidence? Which of your beliefs requires you to dismiss actual facts to the contrary?
Agree and upvoted. That said, sweeping statements can be useful if they point to a trend. In mature markets, there does appear to be a segment that is turned off by FB and it's not clear if these are being replaced by newer users. If that pattern repeats in newer markets then as the user base ages it portends to trouble for FB.
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PNG uses compression to reduce the redundancy. The average number of bits per pixel is much less than 32. A=0 is a special case, and many PNG encoders will take advantage of that by setting RGB to some constant so it compresses better.
A 7% yield is an overly optimistic number.
Sorry, where'd you get a quote for, say, a "Spanish" tile roof that inexpensive? And yeah, he did say (in the launch video) that the electricity was a part of the computation.
you would be surprised how much the appetite for Security Theater and looking strong on security outweighs partisan politics.
This totally reminds me of https://www.xkcd.com/1831/
> One can become quite rich by spreading lies, actually.

Belief and spreading are two different things.
>I've been writing Photoshop Plugins in C for over 15 years (since the shareware days).

Wow, that's really cool, Kohan. Do you also sell products developed in Xojo, or do you only use it for internal projects of yours?
That's amazing. Just seriously amazing.
>Nowadays it seems like people try to accomplish this via Javascript running in the browser.

I filter out lots of cruft by doing the opposite - using NoScript to block extraneous junk.
Nope. I've never spend much time on reddit, and I'm certain I've never seen that page before. Perhaps I am thinking of comments other people made on HN in the past (who thought that the policy was as I described).
I imagine to an embedded developer, the web just looks like madness because there's no consistency. Parachute into a web app you've never seen before, one that might not have been developed well.

Your task is to make a button that's currently green and make it blue instead. What's the right file(s) to edit? How many layers of caching do you need to disable to see that your change actually worked? Do you need to restart anything after the change for it to be seen?

The current green color could be:

- in a css file, but one that has to go through SAAS/LESS first, or maybe not. Or maybe there's more than one entry, depending on @media screen resolution? Or maybe it's not a file at all...the css "file" is generated on the fly by some server-side framework.

- in an html file, but in <style> tags. Or maybe dynamically generated style tags via client side javascript. Or maybe server-side dynamically generated style tags? Or maybe not style tags at all? Perhaps a style attribute on the button.

- Or hey, that looks like a button, but it's not a button at all. It's an <a> tag with button styling. And it's green, but only because of a background image. Which is loaded how (static css? dynamic js style manipulation? inline <img> tag in the <a>? something else?)
> two-story

Not everyone has a two story house. My parents live in a single story 2k square foot home and tesla estimates the cost to be $69k. I live in a 2 story house with more groundfloor space than 2nd story, and it estimates the cost at $60k
> DHS spokesman Dave Lapan said Kelly "hasn't made a decision but we continue to evaluate the threat environment and have engaged in discussions with airline representatives and other stakeholders about the threat."

So, our homeland security department has acknowledged that there is a threat and will discuss it with the airlines. This has been transformed into "likely" by the writer, and the "some EU" countries part has been expanded to "Europe" in the headline. This is why I'm skeptical about so many things I read in the news.
Exactly. As I was reading the article I was thinking to myself 'this guy needs to learn about pre-multiplied alpha', and then he gets to the end and says, btw use pre-multiplied alpha to avoid this problem entirely.
Sounds like a detection technology problem. The article says it is very difficult to tell the difference between dense items on X-ray (i.e. battery v. plastic explosive). Anyone have suggestions for the TSA on better scanning technology?
That's just in India where Free Basics doesn't exist. Facebook Free Basics is absolutely live and in use in 62 other countries:

https://info.internet.org/en/story/where-weve-launched/
"Your Solar Roof can generate $123,900 of energy over 30 years."

Why doesn't the calculator tell me the estimated kWh production instead of a dollar figure that means nothing to me?
I'm thinking it's early adopters and new buildings. The Tesla roof on a newly built home may make more sense than a retrofit.
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In your calculation, $10/kWh is a bit high... the national average is $0.12/kWh
Nope, I know I'm not thinking of Reddit (as I said in reply to another comment, I've spent almost no time on Reddit, and would not have seen their guidelines at all).
What's your goal though? If it's just to save money then it makes more sense to drive a beater gasoline car.

If the goal is to help the environment, it's probably still better to buy a beater gas car and buy carbon credits with the difference. Also there are tons of other things you can do like downsizing, eating less meat, biking to work, etc.
Best part

"Tile warranty: Infinity, or the lifetime of your house, whichever comes first"
A 2000 sq ft tile roof would cost about $20k in a large city. The same roof with asphalt shingles would cost about $8000. The warranty difference from 10 to 30 years, the slope and shape of the roof, and local disposal and labor differences will all affect the price.
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Well that means that the FCC only has to read the one comment. This is a request for comments, not a vote or popularity contest. People abusing the comment process are really just wasting their time. The FCC comment system is not a way to do an end run around the normal political process. This is all a distraction from the actual politics here.
No, you did not "do it again". I almost never read anything on Reddit. So that was not the source of confusion.
Can you find it?
In Spanish it is also a synonym for retard
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So Trump basically just doesn't want anyone to come to the US?
Or 3: the administration had nothing to do with it, and it's an actual security measure based on actual terrorist threats.

Which might explain why Canada and the UK (you know, Five Eyes countries with whom the US shares intelligence) also did the same thing.

Seriously, Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting a bit nutty.

http://www.news1130.com/2017/03/20/ban-aimed-at-electronics-...
Did he get a warning for just throwing around the "racist" insult?
Yeah... no. I've had a laptop stolen out of checked-in luggage together with other valuables. Seems like the US really doesn't want to be visited by anybody anymore.
Luggage storage in modern jets is pressurized. No more pressure changes there than in the cabin. The pressure vessel is a tube, not a half-tube.
I'm working for a startup that is trying to solve that problem :D
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What part of the previous 16 years caused this to be a surprise to you?
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From the article:

[...] officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.

[...] Six U.S. and European officials said they expect the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to make an
announcement but declined to say when.

This makes pretty clear that the article isn't based on the single-sentence comment by the spokesman. This is why journalists think so many of their readers lack the skills to read the ingredient list for bottled water.
Tesla's entire offering is trickle-down environmentalism.
Nice tool for creating forms without coding
I can give a quote on the sort of roof materials this competes with.

I had to have the tile roof on my 1923 house replaced due to a massive hail storm (in roughly 2006). The house's footprint is about 1000 square feet, so not entirely sure of the actual roof area (probably about 1200 sq/ft), but the bill for removal of the old roof, some repairs to the sheathing, and replacement with new tiles was about $55,000 - materials (Ludowici tiles) and labor.

The solar roof quote for our roof from the Telsa website was about $48,000. So, in my case it would have been competitive.

My new tile roof has a 75 year warranty, btw.
If your city's electricity and gasoline supplies have stopped for any appreciable length of time,

I've been in exactly this situation after Hurricane Ike. I was driving a 1995 Mercedes E300 diesel on biodiesel. Since there was only 1 place to buy biodiesel, I had developed a habit of filling my tank, plus 2 5 gallon diesel fuel cans, so I had a stockpile.

you will have far more serious problems then 'I've only got 120 miles of gas in my tank.'

When the city is in a state like this, the filling stations are closed. Yes, it was very nice to know I had a "stockpile" of ~400 miles of driving range! Those "more serious problems" mean that those miles in your tank are extra valuable!
C# is in a similar position, classes aren't final by default but their methods are.
> Switching from gas to electricity for heating is a bad idea if there's still coal power stations in use

You misunderstand. Our solar installation will be expanded to cover the appliances. We'll be 100% off-grid.

> Going off grid means you need a lot more batteries

We only need 3 PowerWalls to cover all our needs (~1 for our needs now, 3 for when we have electric appliances and a car). That's not "a lot more".

> Sharing power is a much better idea than trying to store it in batteries, unless those batteries are in a car

Huh? Why would sharing power be a better idea? Solar panels generate the majority of their power in ~4 hour window. Energy storage is _mandatory_.
I wasn't suggesting it's failing. The point I was replying to was if Free Basics is a "win-win" and I'm saying there's at least one large democratic nation that thought otherwise.
Perhaps in the trade-off between good international relations and trade on one hand, and security on the other, Trump leans more toward security than prior administrations. Certainly the Trump administration has demonstrated that the value relations and trade much less than their predecessors.
Where I live (Northeast), pretty much the only time where an extended power outage is a serious problem is in the winter. And that's because of losing heat. A Powerwall-like "UPS" that could handle some critical systems (basically my furnace) automatically is interesting. But any solar panels are likely to be under snow and ice.

Pretty much the only thing that's really a problem for me in a power outage is losing heat because the furnace loses power and therefore potentially having pipes freeze.
Take a look at the law they're suing under, regarding licensing of real estate appraisers (http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=02250...).

It makes it illegal to "develop a real estate appraisal" without a license. An appraisal is defined as simply "an opinion of value". So if you are driving down the street and say to your spouse, "Look at that house, it's gotta be worth a million bucks," you just committed a misdemeanor.

This law as it's written has got to be unconstitutional.
You don't have any control over where your luggage gets placed in the hold. In the cabin, however, you can ensure a bomb explodes, say, on a window.
Ma Bell and her daughters have been getting the same sweet deal for over a century now. If that's "temporary", I don't want to see "permanent".

First/last mile (depends on one's perspective, you know) really is the only remaining support for the whole rotten edifice of USA telecom. Thus it's instructive that FCC fights at every turn to stymie white spaces, SDR, or any other 21C radio technology. When the consumer can choose from many ISPs, the first competition in a century will kill every existing firm.
In most places, for most types of appraisals, an appraiser is unlikely to do more than glance at the sink, and primarily to determine the finish /trim level of the house, not determine whether or not it is leaking. (of course, they may catch an obvious leak and document it, but they aren't going to look too hard.)
> all the checks and long security procedures

Could you provide more detail?
> I think that the rest of the world should return the favor and ban all laptops from US incoming flights.

I mean, that will basically be the case anyway. If I leave the US, I'm not taking a laptop since I can't bring it back.
But important variables are missing such as the views, invisible neighborhood borders, ugly house features, and many other subjective features.
We're talking about moving laptops from the passenger cabin to checked luggage, as a purported security measure.

Not sure why Canada and UK doing something similar would be make it any more likely to be a true terrorist threat, you point out already that it's Five Eyes so they're our friends.

Calling this "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is pretty damn nutty, besides being whiny.
Nice! This one https://frappe.github.io/gantt/ looks good but simple, and D3 is probably better for doing customizations.

Can you explain what you mean by D3 + canvas? A secondary view?
Except that's the public position, not the insider position - and I think as anyone who's ever been on the inside of a headline knows, the public position is "don't give away information until we announce".
the output of a program is generally not licensed the same as the program, unless by prior agreement. But of course, IANAL...
What will get you into trouble is insisting we don't know you at all. On the contrary, you've told us enough.
"server costs" (Google Cloud) is an affordable $450 million per year commitment.

They apparently have 2,360 employees doing who knows what (not growing the user base).

My favorite part:

"Spiegel laughed out loud when asked if he was worried about Facebook copying his features. “Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t mean they’re Google.""

We'll check back in a year to see if he feels the same way.
Gotcha. I'm not sure it's a win-win, but it feels crazy to say that giving 0 free sites is better than giving Facebook free. It's a level playing field, sure, but consumers are worse off than if they had free access to Facebook.

In my opinion, opportunity is better than equality.
https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6a0tqp/donald_trum...
>by the writer

In all fairness, more like by some editor. Writers often don't write the headlines (or they have them changed into something more attention grabbing even if less nuanced).
I feel compelled to mention Spacemacs in response to some of the comments here. In terms of configuration required for reasonable productivity, Spacemacs is macOS, and a plain Emacs install is Arch Linux.

Spacemacs gives you sensible configuration and packages out of the box, whereas the Emacs tutorials I'd begun to read kept repeating, "These are the functions you'll want to use, but only you can decide what to bind them to". That made me lose interest really quick--I'd prefer to have a 95% solution and then adjust it, not reinvent a sensible configuration from nothing. Spacemacs gives you exactly that. If what I'm describing was a barrier for you in adopting Emacs, I'd encourage you to check it out.
They haven't released enough info on it, what exactly are they open sourcing? The chip design?
There are valid reasons for that [0]. Would you accept slower compile times and more memory usage just so you could have a 64-bit version of visual studio that your project probably wouldn't even need?

0: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2009/06/10/visual-stu...
If you reinterpret Basic auth as "send a token that's not the user's password in the Authorization header", you're just doing OAuth 2 but writing "Basic" instead of "Bearer".
I find it very hard to use. Perhaps because I evolved with VIM.
Have you done the math? If net metering didn't exist, my back-of-the-envelope calculations say it would probably break even in California. With net metering, sure, it's pointless.
>We're talking about moving laptops from the passenger cabin to checked luggage, as a purported security measure.

Yes, just like moving liquids to your checked luggage was a security measure. Remember that one? Tried to take a bottle of water through security lately?

>Not sure why Canada and UK doing something similar would be make it any more likely to be a true terrorist threat

Because Canada and the UK aren't likely to be in on your "it must be a muslim ban" conspiracy theory?

>Calling this "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is pretty damn nutty, besides being whiny.

Take it up with Fareed. That you think it's "whiny" does not change the fact that large parts of the left seem to have lost the capacity to distinguish normal from abnormal behaviour on the part of the Trump administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberals-have-to-avo...
You could run a computer vision algorithm on the included photos to get a sense of the view. If a house has a good view they're going to include a picture of it.
I started programming professionaly in 2005 and I can assure you that back then, outside of the browsers, people really didn't know or understand response codes.

There's a load of early, popular, Stack Overflow questions that revolve around what status to return when, and how to actually return those codes in your language. For example, in ASP.Net/IIS it was actually quite hard to stop IIS 6 (?) from swallowing your 500 xml response and serving a custom html error page. If I remember correctly some browsers didn't support PUT properly either.

So while you are technically correct, the codes were in use, you are historically wrong, few people outside of a small community understood their use.

I remember this article from the first time around, when people were really getting into REST and there was a fierce debate about strict REST Vs RESTful. In reality RESTful has mainly won and this article was on the wrong side of history.
Then it likely varies from state to state - or county to county.

See http://www.investopedia.com/articles/tax/09/calculate-proper... for different methods used. As an example, some places merely look at the cost of replacing the house if destroyed.
Alvy Ray Smith may have the canonical paper on this, from 1995: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/4_comp.pdf
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I was forced to put my laptop in luggage. It was shattered to pieces on arrival.