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lovely article.

i don't agree with pip not being an app store. the best way to deploy something is to deploy onto the most convenient medium for your target audience. so if i need a cli tool or app that happens to have an API, pip or homebrew/chocolatey/yum/apt/etc are the best delivery mechanisms for it. however, i wouldn't tell our execs to pip install some app they need; i would self-contain everything, ship it with a pretty installer and host it on s3.

that being said, rpm's or deb's are a great way of packaging anything to *nix servers and have been for ages. yum and apt are pretty much guaranteed to be available and the rpm build file format is pretty powerful (albeit unfriendly to look at). we've deployed app artifacts via rpm with good success
What? What does you comment have to do with the topic?

It seems like you got offended by the title, which has nothing to do with what you wrote.

You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about being a failure at math ( or failing to get a PhD ).
Half the problem is discovery. There is no "Daydream VR enabled" filter in the Play Store. So instead I have to search for that.

Most times it brings up Daydream apps, but I lack a good way to find out about new ones, and other VR apps that do not support Daydream headset also show up.

On that note, I'd love any suggestions anyone has for finding out about new Daydream apps and games to try.
My roof is 1600 sq ft. It had a metal roof on it, which is considered more expensive than asphalt. It was 40 years old, which is the how long metal roofs are expected to last. I replaced it myself for around $2000. Most of the cost was $1600 for the metal roof. Then there was $400 in special nails and trim parts and sealer. It would have cost a little more if it wasn't metal before since I'd have to have added the spacers. Metal and asphalt replacement are sort of DIY possible, but asphalt is dirty heavy work. Metal is less dirty and dangerous, just remember to wear leather gloves. Also probably don't attempt if one's roof has more than a couple gables etc. It's better if you've done it before in any case. To have someone else replace the roof would have cost at least twice as much. Could be three times as much in some parts of the country.

If I were to have switched to slate or terra cotta or glass solar tiles I'd have to tear down the roof and rebuild it because normal houses in the US are not designed to hold that sort of weight, it requires a stronger roof structure, and sometimes stronger walls to hold the heavier roof. Possibly the rest of the structure would have to be reinforced as well. Doing this correctly requires a consultation with a licensed structural engineer. That sort of roof rebuild would cost from $20,000 - $50,000 depending on the scope needed according to the engineer, and that's before adding the roofing materials.
It seems it's still better to run mySQL on a VM if you're running multiple databases for smaller sites. But for single sites that need to scale, it's way better than ClearDB, which is hot garbage if you ask me.
We seem to care about relative outcomes vs peers more than absolute offset shifts for the larger group.
I'm not defending the quality of the calculations. Just pointing out that I don't think there was anything tone-deaf about doing them.
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Okay, time to start wearing ski masks and Santa Claus costumes in public at all times.
You're confusing RenTec with the Medallion fund, which it manages. RenTec manages other funds as well. Their AUM is the sum of the assets of the funds.
I've used self checkout about 10 times. The first time took forever because I didn't know they were weighing my goods. Maybe the 4th or 5th time was slow because I bought produce and it took a long time to find the goods. After that when I had produce I just waited in lines for a clerk and when I went to the self-checkout it was very quick (just because the no lines, not because I'm quick at checking out). If there's no line or a short line for a clerk I just wait in line.
Is it enough if we're ok, but we continue to cause a mass extinction event?
This is kind of obtuse.

If you want to regress forever you can quickly reach the bedrock question of, "Why do anything?" And if you want to drill hard enough, yes, there is no absolute answer to that. We get it.

But, back in reality, most of us have a general handle on outcomes that are good and bad for humans, and what people want day to day and for society. Safety is better than danger. Health is better than disease. Joy is better than pain. Choice is better than slavery. And so on.

If you want to have a hyper-abstract philosophical debate on bedrock values or is/ought, you should start a discussion that is targeting that question.
Does the pronunciation differ significantly from Hepburn Romanization? Honestly, I can't read his handwriting, so it's hard to tell.

I sympathise with his emotions: "What a beastly labour of hand & back bending, besides mental toil & anxiety"

I'm currently working on a machine translator for Chinese dialects, including traditional & simplified characters, pinyin, bopomofo, literal English translation using a dictionary, and parallel English text. I'm adding Taiwanese and Cantonese dialects now, with their own romanisations. I'll publish it here on Hacker News when my friend finally translates the documentation.

https://pingtype.github.io
The reason a high-priced car was the first offering is because that's the only way to bring the new technology to a reasonable price
why can't pundits stop saying "destroy jobs" and start saying "liberate humans"? why are supposedly intellectual people just unable to see the slavery and imagine utopia where every stupid job nobody wants to do anyway is automated? where people are not so much running in circles for gains of their capitalistic overlord? it's all just everyday shitchattheory and donttouchtheholygrailofjobs gospel. bores me.
Sure, I thought of zoom. My concern, having drawn and looked at some blueprints, was that a lot of zoom would have the person lose sight of the big picture and that there would be no substitute for a big screen with a lot of resolution.

Okay, if I'm wrong -- good for PlanGrid.

Amazing that they were profitable in the first year -- good for them. That was likely, I'd guess no doubt, tough to do.
A Kenyan slum lacked cash, so residents made their own (2013)
> The vast majority of the problems with self-checkout machines are caused by the item weight check.

I understand the purpose of the weight check; it's to make sure that an item is in the bagging area iff it has been scanned. I don't get why it needs to be run after each item and can't be run just once -- after all items have been scanned and the payment process begins.
Despicable. Any authors of this work should be publicly shamed and punished. And don't get me started on what should befall the owners of capital that drove this.
The best self-checkout system I've encountered are the ones they have at Sams Club (and presumably at similar warehouse clubs like Costco and BJs). There you swipe or insert your membership card. Once it has processed that, you can take the hand-held scanner and scan all the items in your cart (when putting things in the cart, I'll make sure the UPC codes are exposed).

Once you're done scanning, you place the scanner back into its holder, choose your payment option, and make your payment. The only other thing you need to do is have someone check your receipt before you exit the store.

It would be nice if those types of machines were in more stores as opposed to the ones that require you to take items out of the cart and either scan or weigh/enter code and then bag them.
I can blame inexperience for people not understanding the interface in the sentence is nothing to do with the interface keyword in their programming language.
In academia, only those who get tenured professorships are sitting pretty. And they get to sit pretty for decades. Everyone else has to hustle to get their crumbs. I know people who are teaching adjuncts and they get paid crumbs ( $2 or $3K PER SEMESTER ). This is at a highly competitive university where tuition + board is $80K. I could not believe it.
I believe REST as Fielding defined it has some great benefits. But I'm not a purist. And actually, neither is the person who wrote this post. Because no matter how much the disciples try to wriggle there way around it, using cookies for sessions is not allowed.

"We next add a constraint to the client-server interaction: communication must be stateless in nature, as in the client-stateless-server (CSS) style of Section 3.4.3 (Figure 5-3), such that each request from client to server must contain all of the information necessary to understand the request, and cannot take advantage of any stored context on the server.Session state is therefore kept entirely on the client." - from Fieldings dissertation.

To be fully compliant you have to do use something like HTTP Basic Auth, where you resend the username and password with each request.

I think you should use cookies to store a token that the server can then use to determine whether the "context" of the request is "logged in" or not. I do it. But it's technically a violation.
>Such models would have to take that into account

I believe the liquidity of the asset is inherently taken into account in the price at which the exchange is made.
Should I start buying 215 foot above sea level for future beachfront development?
What picture? http://i.imgur.com/srEiiD7.png
That's why as a responsible parent you should slip in a few harmless false truths into their diet to see if they can pick them out.

It's also educational to play games where two or three people tell a different version of the "truth" and you have to guess which one is actually right.

Schools are sadly suffering a deficit of critical thinking. The American ones in particular do not reward it at all, if anything it's punished. You must answer according to the textbook or you lose marks. Such is a test-driven education system.
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At my house, it would take more then 20 years to use up $53,500 worth of electricity assuming that the panels would be able to generate all the electricity that I need (and it probably would not be able to because my roof is not in the perfect angle). I probably will have to stick to a conventional roof.
appliances are still a big market for really large companies with money to spend.

it's kind of a dream for these kinds of clients; the only thing you're responsible for is "plugging" it in. the vendor owns everything else (and gives you access to very little of it!). this is also great for the vendor because they can sell what essentially amounts to a server that does all of the magic at a ridiculous markup without much regard to the quality of the software underneath (unfortunately)

i cracked open a vendor appliance a few years ago. it was very much like opening an abandoned closet that's been untouched for 50 years. not pretty.
I always give the post code of the shop, if I know it, or one nearby that I do know.
Uber engineers are looking to leave as a court case puts the self-driving future
Java SE 9 – JPMS automatic modules
If you're interested in data for your corpus, I recommend translated Manga, song lyrics, and the Bible.

See my other comment above about Pingtype - some friends have asked me to make one for Japanese-Chinese, or Japanese-English, so I'm making a note of possible data sources (Naruto, One Piece, One OK Rock, Ellegarden, Hillsong Global Project, 新改訳聖書). I've made a note of your dictionary project, so I can look into it in future!
It's a classic case of prisoners' dilemma. Taking your kid out of daycare isn't going to help the planet very much, but could hurt your kid a lot.
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Petition: Release the Ghost in the Shell OST by Clint Mansell and Lorne Balfe
During 2010-2012, I was part of a startup called Clownfish Media. We basically created something very similar to this and got scary accurate results then. Given how accessible computer vision has become, the image in the tweet comes at no surprise to me.

Best part - we got a first gen raspberry pi to crunch all the data locally at 2-5fps. Gender, age group (child, youth, teen, young adult, middle age, senior), and approximate ethnicity were all recorded and logged. Everyone had a unique profile and could track people between cameras and days (underlying facial features do not change).

Next time you look at digital signage, just be aware that it is probably looking back at you.
Not much substance to the article
Weekly Alcohol by Country Visualized
This^^

As long as you're solving their problem, the vast majority people don't care how you're doing it.
Were you aware that the vast majority of both the WMF board of directors and the WMF top management have close ties to Google? Or that a large chunk of those millions that the WMF has been spending went to creating a secret search engine? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedias-secret...

Please note that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C... is the origiginal essay, and the version in the Signpost has been modified at the request of the Signpost editors.
Unfortunately in C# you can only Mock Abstract/Virtual methods and Interfaces.

It's pretty annoying TBQH.
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What matters is it being a benefit on a personal level. There is a massive collective action problem. Even if I wanted to spend money on this, it wouldn't matter unless vast numbers of people also do it. There is no way that vast numbers of people are going to act against their self interest all at once.
>You can even try their live demo

I'd rather not give them my facial image so they can optimize for me.
you'll need twice as many immigration officers - travellers will get twice as many places to get hassled
We started this campaign a few weeks ago and have the support of multiple people involved with this movie including Lorne Balfe. We just crossed 1,500 signatures, thought I'd share it here for people who are into cyberpunk and electronic/ambient music.

The situation about why such a prominent album release got shelved at the last moment is a mystery that we haven't been able to crack. It apparently has something to do with Paramount. Hopefully as the campaign grows and catches wider attention, some journalists can ask around and look into it...
Sit down and dig this: in my country the State owns sunshine. Yep. They even made sure it was included in the last Constitution. So, if this tech ever becomes cheap enough for the masses, government will be ready to tax it.
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Quarterly reports (Form 10-Q) are mandated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_10-Q

Edit: This is only relevant to publicly traded companies.
Monuments of Eternity: The San Gabriels in the Cultural Imagination
I guess being transsexual is kind of a hack around this eh?
Or they're putting it in a tax-advantaged account.
Everytime I eat at Chipotle I smile at the sign on door that proclaims this property is protected by Envysion.
Researchers Have Found That Plants Know They Are Being Eaten
Leads the world in absolutely nothing... #1 manufacturer in the world.
The used-car market in the US shifts three times as many cars as the new-car market.
Reading confidential e-mails is unethical, full stop.

Unethical actions which uncover crime are still unethical.

That is why we have warrants, and wiretap laws and all that; how information is obtained matters.

"Any way to nail a criminal" is end-justifies-the-means questionable ethics.
I have not really used Rstudio, so I can't compare. I tried RStudio first, but then I was up and running with ESS effortlessly and have looked no further. Its the integration of Emacs with other development enviroments that keeps my life simple :-)
I didn't mention price. It could have been a high-priced, low performance, average-looking, electric, family sedan, and it would have been more effective at transporting people (more seats in a sedan) plus better for the environment. The point is that the appearance and performance sold for personal and emotional reasons.
Why would the seller go along with the idea that the buyers would negotiate amongst themselves to choose a price?
Just pointing out that attempting to solve the real problem should be tried first, before jumping to work-arounds.

If the software converts to pre-multiplied, then there'd be no halo problem and no bleeding necessary, right?

You're right that bleeding won't hurt assets if you're comping, but it will hurt assets if you're not converting to premult and then do texture filtering or mipmapping or blurring.

My concern is with using bleeding is the article's suggestion to use bleeding as a first resort, rather than a last resort (as an artist). It's a hack that totally works in a lot of cases, but it's still a hack. I've watched artists in film and games use random combinations of bleeding, (un)pre-multiply, gamma, and other stuff whenever something goes wrong with matting, and often it's not the right solution. A lot of people are scared of understanding premultiplied alpha - and the technical name isn't doing anyone any favors - and instead of figuring out the right solution they try every combination of hacks until it works. General misunderstanding and superstition about premultiplied alpha is the most common reason I've seen for people using un-premultiply nodes in production.
It's always tearoff. A lay over is saving 2k and shortening the life of brand new roof. Always a bad idea. Unless maybe selling the house soon to a naive buyer.
In even more context:

"The Trump administration is likely to expand a ban on laptops on commercial aircraft to include some European countries, but is reviewing how to ensure lithium batteries stored in luggage holds do not explode in midair, officials briefed on the matter said on Wednesday."

That means, literally, that officials said: "['We are' or 'The Trump administration is'] likely to expand a ban on laptops on commercial aircraft to include some European countries"

The uncertainty expressed by 'likely' is just that: uncertainty. It's not speculation by the journalist, who is actually just repeating what his sources told him.

To criticise such reporting means you will never hear about any policy until it becomes law. That would mean nobody would ever get a chance to weigh in until after the fact.

> There is nothing in those two excerpts to indicate that this isn't speculation by the writer.

What's even more important is what's outside those two paragraphs: namely the name "Reuters", and the authors' byline: "Mark Hosenball and David Shepardson". The are institutions/people, and to a certain extend the whole system is build on the idea of trust, in the same way that you trust the neighbour you've known for years to water your plants when you're away.
That is probably a little out there. Skype was heavily reverse engineered back in the day. It is possible folks missed it, but Skype got a lot of RE attention.

Plus, simpler reversing techniques like strace / Sysmon would have caught this sort of thing.
I see a lot of these personal level-vs-global level discussions here but ultimately not enough posts celebrating the fact that we're looking at both, here, and looking at a potentially much better future because of it.

Go, Tesla.
Fewer shingles => lower cost.
50 year asphalt roofs are all over.
The FTC tends to see consumers...people.
For a counterweight let me present this interview[0] with the CEO of "the largest privately held solar contracting company in America", near the end of which he says several disparaging things about Tesla's roof, including,

> When I saw the demo he did at Universal Studios... What I saw was a piece of glass that looked like it had a cell in it. The challenges he’s going to have is, how are you going to wire it? Every one of those shingles has to be wired.

> Roofs have valleys and they have hips and they have pipes. … How are you going to work around that? How are you going to cut that glass? Are you going to cut right through the cell?

The latter question is perhaps answered by the posted article, "Solar Roof uses two types of tiles—solar and non-solar." So Petersen's question is moot, the glass/solar tiles don't have to be cut to fit in a hip or around a flue, that will be done to the non-solar tiles that look the same.

The question of wiring is open: imagine the grid of wires that have to underly that roof, and getting them all put down without a break or a short, by big guys with nail guns (if you've ever watched roofers at work -- it isn't a precision operation).

Then Petersen goes on to say,

> So I would say for the record ... it’ll be cost-prohibitive. ... For $55,000 I can give you a brand-new roof that will last forever — 50 years — and I can give you all the solar you can handle. ... (Musk’s) product is going to be north of $100,000.

The graph in the posted article does not directly address total up-front installed cost, but rather tries to combine cost with some anticipated lifetime energy return -- a procedure with a LOT of variables and assumptions. I would like to see real numbers for a Tesla roof, $/sq.yd installed.

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/04/from-summer-job-to-sol...
Build a product not a feature.
I think pursuing 100% test coverage is not a fixed state, it is a must have process to learn how to write tests.

Think about one question first: why did the manager force develop to achieve 100% coverage?
There must have some benefits, or the manager might come from the competitor.
When standing at a higher position, think of time and organization factors, it might be a good choice.
If every engineer in the corporate has the deeply understanding of test coverage as the author, they really do not need to pursue 100% coverage.
But in reality, we can see many companies which do not pursue test coverage, their coverage tend to be 0. That's why we need force 100% test coverage in a short time. Engineers need time to form the habit of test their code, and then experience the pain of bad tests. Then they start to think what kind of tests are valuable.
Because a technology which competes with and reduces market clearing quantity of human labor does not, in a basically capitalist economy, liberate humans, except those already situated as capitalists, who are “liberated” from paying wages.

For those who don't have huge capital stocks and thus have little but wage labor to turn to earn a living, technology that competes with labor deepens their economic subjugation rather than effecting liberation.

Now, obviously, getting farther away from capitalism in the economic structure may change this, but that isn't an automatic consequence of the technology.
Partition tolerance?
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A recent 60 Minutes episode focused on employees in IT that were replaced H1-B Visa contractors. What the reporter failed to notice, or mention, is that every terminated employee was over 50 (my estimate based on appearance).