skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How so? Drawing a drop shadow is not free, but on a GPU it should be rather cheap. It's just a blur of an all-black version of the object; not only are blurs fully parallel, they're separable (into successive operations blurring along the X and Y axes), reducing the number of input pixels that have to be considered for each output pixel. For a shadow in particular you don't need a very high-quality blur, you can act on single-channel greyscale images (less bandwidth), and the usual depth testing should skip running the pixel shader on pixels covered by the shape itself. And of course GPUs are only getting faster, not slower.

But the wording of your post suggests your info comes from the source, so maybe I'm missing something.
... but they live on! Shameless plug for the Electric Sheep [1] (no affiliation except as a user) in [1]. Electric Sheep is truly a 21st century screen saver as new screens ('flames") are created algorithmicaly based on peoples' up/down vote.

I do remember learning Macintosh programming by writing an After Dark module to display randomly changing Truchet Tiles [2].

[1] https://electricsheep.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truchet_tiles
I work in the automotive sector. Not interested in human-robot collaboration at all, I was wondering whether this would be a suitable alternative to PLC control of spot welding and handling industrial robots. Even though the processing power of these things is likely to be better than that of a PLC, am I right in thinking that the overhead involved with running a proper (albeit fairly stripped down) OS would make it slower than a dedicated PLC? Obviously it has its place (and my curiosity is most definitely peaked) but controls hardware costs pale into insignificance compared to the capital costs of everything else in a car plant, so we'd need a pretty compelling case to switch.
WTF has Mozilla to do with any of this?
The problem is an AI that is good at Go is not at all transferable to any other game. However, a human prodigy can apply their genius to many domains.
Do you even understand how Aadhar works?

You made a claim.

Can you prove that using an Aadhar number one can get the religion of a person?
Agreed. Even if its owned by Google.
Quantas, the airline of Australia, outsources its IT operations to IBM. They did not choose the cheapest alternative, but a reliable one.

I believe IBM was responsible for the Australian census debacle in 2016. Hardly a ringing endorsement of their reliability, and not the only high-profile instance of them messing things up.

"No one ever got fired for choosing IBM" though.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html
How come you don't know that 99% adults have Aaadhaar in India at last count? Or if you knew still decided to raise this point.
That is interesting.
I see an advantage this adaption offers when trapped with only salty sea water.
Excessive salt intake may occur naturally when in the ocean for whatever reason.
When this reduces thirst and offers an (internal) alternative for water this may help you survive until you strand somewhere to find fresh water.
Not the worst trait evolution could select for.
I don't think the parent claimed that NoSQL existed at the time; just that Postgres was a NoSQL database as we understand the term today. Like describing a wandering swordsman in ancient China as a "knight-errant", even if knights themselves as legally-warranted weapon-carriers didn't yet exist.

Which is not to say that the poster wasn't wrong about their claim, but it's not invalid to make said claim in casual English in the particular way you're implying.

Though, also, in the more general case, "NoSQL" databases did certainly exist at the time Postgres was conceived (Postgres just wasn't one of them.) Navigational databases like IBM IMS were what we'd call "a NoSQL database" if they were conceived today.
The reason is simple: short term thinking driven by short term investors
What you say is correct, but I think your mental model isn't the mental model many people work with.

One possible way of thinking of things is "methods" and "function values", where you need to eta-expand something to go from "method" to "function value". This is something people get used to when working in Scala for a while.

Another way of thinking of things is "things you can call" and "things you cannot call". In this case, it does not make sense to care about "method" or "function value": if it's callable, it should remain callable in the same way as I pass it around, until I call it. If you come from a Python, or JS, or other background, this is the mental model you will have.

I personally think the second mental model makes much more sense, and the first is a weird artifact of programming in Scala that you don't see much elsewhere (though I admit C# has a similar dichotomy)

I don't find the "people may forget to leave off parentheses" a convincing argument. People may forget to call `.flatten` on nested lists too; doesn't mean we should go flatten everyone's lists for them automatically. Furthermore, if you as an individual wanted to flatten `() => T` into `T` automatically,
you can easily do that within your own project with an implicit conversion:

implicit def flatten[T](f: () => T): T = f()

The same way you could use an implicit to automatically `flatten` nested `List`s, or automatically call `.get` on `Option`s. Both of those are similar to automatically calling functions to avoid "confusion", and something I think most people in the community will agree would be a terrible thing to do
I don't think you actually need a conspiracy for this behaviour to hold true. As different as the parties are, there's huge amounts they both agree on. (It's positively ridiculous how much time is spent presenting everyone's minor differences in approach on Terrorism and Syria, for instance)

It's pretty ridiculous that America's idea of an anti-establishment candidate is pro-foreign intervention, pro-big business, anti-drugs and favours mass incarceration. I mean, seriously, how is this different from Bill Clinton's policies.

TL;DR; Whilst there are genuine and important differences between the two parties and specific candidates, American policy in general is pretty damn stable.
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It seems very hard to make money off of a language unless you can get support contracts from corporations. Which in the language rich world is very hard.
This is definately not rubbish.

I have been released twice from the Florida DOC, both times from a panhandle camp (Gulf C.I) that was approximately 9 hours from my home.

They definitely DO NOT give you the clothes "you were arrested in" as long ago those clothes were thrown away (at the "reception center" along with your cell phone, which was almost certainly stolen by the COs and/or convicts, and all other property you may have had)

My first time through, in 2004, my ex-wife actually sent me a beautiful set of clothes to be released in. They were of course "lost". She was so upset when she came to pick me up the assholes in release were actually threatening to lock her and/or me up because she was making such a stink about me having no clothes for release.

I ended up getting very ill fitting cheap-ass pants and a white t-shirt, and back then, a $100 dollar bill. That's it. Thankfully, I had her to pick me up and drive me home.

The second time through I wasn't so lucky. In 2014 I was given the same shit clothes, only $50 this time as they changed the release policy, and a bus ticket. That is it. No cell phone, no wallet...nothing.

It sounds like you are talking about jail, not prison.
Nationalism, not patriotism. The latter is fine, the former is a bloody cancer.
These are not google search numbers, but via a publicly exposed API with no protection.

Seeing as it is that you have no faith in anyone but the UIDAI, I fail to see any point in disclosing anything further. The offer still stands though.
But that has to be part of why we have a state. To make the most rational decision possible when individuals can only make emotional ones. It can't be the state's place to carry out people's personal vendettas no matter how justified they might seem. That's no way to run a civilization. If there's one good thing bureaucracy does it's ironing out some of the violent irrationalities and impulsivities inherent to human judgment.
>Not many these so called privacy and human rights activists stood up then.

The current PM Modi himself criticized it then : https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/453543852175925248?l...

Coincidence?
Birth certificates don't contain biometrics [edit: I guess some hospitals include a newborn's footprints] and may not contain address in some states; the address is also never updated (nor is the name in case of name changes). They also aren't issued by the national government and are kept in databases at the state level -- sometimes on paper.

I don't believe there are any national standards for what data a birth certificate must contain.
While I can't speak to the exact circumstances, IBM when it takes over operations often hires the IT staff of the firm it is taking over operations from and runs systems on multiple-year contracts.

At any rate, I believe few would contest that IBM in general is a more reliable vendor than Tata, other Indian suppliers or say, offices in Poland.

EDIT: Details on IBM and Australian census.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-25/turning-router-off-and...
It seems that companies would rather buy "insurance" rather than spend money on actual security. They have accepted that they will eventually be hacked or have a really expensive outage, so now they want a cushion of money to pay for any penalties and lawsuits.

I get the impression that for the most part, no one really believes in security, and doesn't understand that it's a process and not a product. They already tried throwing money at the problem by purchasing security products, which ultimately failed to deliver security. Now they're trying the opposite by cutting costs. Meanwhile there are very few consequences to losing control of people's data.
Sadly that doesn't work for any serious outage.

If it's only one airline down, you can get away by buying tickets on competitors.

If it's multiple airlines, or the upstream reservation system, or a local meteorological incident, or an airport wide issue, etc... there are no flying plane.
Is Java really stagnated? I was under impression Java 8/9/10 have stable schedules and are delivering some long sought features like lambda, value types and REPL. It is much better than when Sun had lost all money and future was bleak.
Where are you getting the 99% number? Any proof of that?
Writing takes a tremendous amount of time and effort to just gain basic competency, let alone master. You have to put in a lot of butt-in-seat time.

Though I've gotten paid to write for a technology website, I am not a strong writer. But, I currently spend about 10 hours a week writing for my blog and other mediums and am continuously trying to get better.

Assuming one is putting in the time and effort, the next thing that will most quickly speed improvement is having an editor or other competent reviewer provide critical feedback, including on grammar, structure, and style. Then, keep rewriting a piece until you are no longer unhappy with it.
>That you've got one of them now should be eye opening enough that this doesn't happen again for a fucking long time.

That's not what's likely to happen, though. Trump may be a garbage fire, but he still won, and the "politically competent" candidate still lost. Plenty of Americans still believe almost religiously in the concept of a "CEO in Chief," and they won't be giving that up any time soon, even if they disavow Trump as an exemplar.

Both parties are probably going to field primarily business-oriented candidates as long as it seems the electorate wants anti-establishment, anti-political leadership, at best they'll try to make sure the next one isn't as much of a buffoon.
I don't understand why you're so pissed off rather than arguing logically.

>Finally any Indian in USA simply has no right to criticize Aadhar since the US Visa process requires biometrics from all visitors.

This simply doesn't hold any logic. If Aadhar is so good, then it should be able to stand up to any argument based on its merits regardless of where it's coming from. Can you actually present any points against the points being made by Mozilla?

Are you ok with your intimate personal details being sold to private companies? Maybe your son or daughter have a sickness and now all the private companies can know about it. Maybe years from now the collected data will be used to make decisions about whether to admit them into a school or hire them as professionals.

Please think calmly and logically rather than being sensational, egotistical, and personal. Nobody is trying to hurt your "Indian Pride".
The answer is simple. Actually work on it. Not an easy answer, as this is surely incredibly difficult work.
It's standard practice for airlines to fly each others' crews around even during normal operations (often at no cost).

For example, the overbooking that led to the beating on the United flight was the result of an aircrew from another airline being booked on at the last second.

I would imagine that when the shit hits the fan like this, the other airlines are very sympathetic and will do whatever it takes to get BA personnel where they need to go. After all, next month it could be their own systems that are down.

(assuming it's not one of the shared services causing a global outage - not much you can do when everyone is down)
Disgusting comment.

Please make sure you know what you are talking.

Don't spread fake news like the Indian communists.

Edit:

If people want I compile produce point by point data to prove that Indian communists are masters at spreding fake news, for decades.

I will even quote a website which is mostly anti current government (it spreads fake news most of the times)

thewire.in/24713/aadhaar-identification-simplified-myths-busted/

....The UIDAI has emphasised several times that information related to religion or caste is neither collected nor stored in the Aadhaar database. Applicants and holders are encouraged to look at their Aadhaar to confirm this.....
Plotnine is a real grammar of graphics. Checkout http://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/about-plotnine.html for a little more information about the two projects.
Did you even read the article?

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This opinion piece by Mozilla Executive Chairwoman Mitchell Baker and Mozilla community member Ankit Gadgil
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> We all know we could reduce crime by putting cameras in people's homes. But we don't do that, because there are risks to those kinds of invasive measures.

Surprisingly, in India if people would be against such a measure then only because it would violate the modesty of women, and not because it invades the privacy.
IBM makes mistakes but IBM is massive. You expect some things to happen just by the sheer surface area they have.

I'd trust IBM over random outsourced coding houses when it comes to IT Security.
40 mavericks and heretics: ideas rejected, later proven correct
ggplot2 was inspired by:
https://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Graphics-Statistics-Computing...

and Hadley Wickham wrote about it in http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf.

I'm no expert, but I think that one of the main ideas is to separate the elements of making a plot from the way that the data is presented. For example, in ggplot2, you have the data that will go into the graph, the type of plot (or "geometry") that defines how the data are presented (scatterplot, bar plot, etc.), and then various "layers" that can be added that affect style.

In order to split a plot into subplots, you simply define how it is to be faceted (what column should be used to define groups). Grammar-of-graphics moves plotting away from the "turtle graphics" model and lets you specify what should be done. Then ggplot figures out how to do it, kind of like SQL vs. writing for loops to retrieve information.
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Definitely. But you tell this to some Linux nerds and they get worried that people will start using Linux for the "wrong" reasons or whatever.
This is the most significant fact:

> Over the course of a year, Google quietly turned its map inside-out – transforming it from a road map into a place map.

I've long been amazed how we somehow transitioned during the early 20th century from a mental model of roads and paths running through locations to places (house lots, etc) being the spaces between the roads. It's a natural thing to happen, but one of those invisible flips that happens on a timescale longer than a human lifetime.

But this anticipates the opposite: if you can stop worrying about how to get somewhere (because you don't have to drive or plan much -- self-driving or Lyft-style services can take care of the route planning) you can focus on the destination.

We see this phenomenon in subway maps which are famously schematic and not geographical.

(BTW the transformation is visible in literature, which is how I noticed it. The sense of geography in, say, Jane Austin is completely alien to today).
You are welcome. If you have else like this, I'm all ears. I'm aware of the common resources.
You can install your own Android base on the majority of Android phones? Including full support for Google Play Services? What about all of the chipsets that only come with binary blobs that the manufacturer has stopped supporting?

Are you really comparing the ease of clicking one button to upgrade Windows or iOS devices with using some semi supported "Android" OS that may or may not be supported for your phone?
He asked questions about implementation.
The track record of power-centralising anti-corruption projects is poor. This is because corruption is a sign of weak or ineffective institutions. Institutions which can't stop bribery probably can't prevent the next guy from e.g. zeroing out the bank accounts of vulnerable populations who voted against him or are to the detriment of a crony.
93% in 2015 according to UIDAI - http://www.firstpost.com/india/about-93-percent-of-adults-in...

99% in 2017 according to the the minister - http://www.thehindu.com/business/Aadhaar-covers-99-of-adults...

1.11+ B people

All this is easily googleable. I fail to understand why you and the OP wouldn't just check it before fear mongering.
Refer,

https://thewire.in/24713/aadhaar-identification-simplified-m...

The UIDAI has emphasised several times that information related to religion or caste is neither collected nor stored in the Aadhaar database. Applicants and holders are encouraged to look at their Aadhaar to confirm this
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If you can identify someone, it's easy to link it to data that identifies their religion.
In California we do have programs that are aimed at rehabilitation. One guy I know went to prison and worked in the kitchen.

Fire camps: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Conservation_Camps/ From what I hear they have some reasonably good results.

We also have prison therapists. There are other programs I know I'm forgetting. Overall building a rehabilitation system is hard. If I had to choose between the task of building that and the task of building genera; AI, I think building general AI might be easier.
Too many weird macros, too many non-english operators, too much weird bullshit with Ivy, that if you install scala from source sbt will fuck it up if you try and do coverage testing on different versions, build times are ridiculous (this has improved quite a bit since I first used sbt, but it's still embarrassingly slow compared to other build systems (FAKE comes to mind immediately, or rebar3 is real nice too, hell I still use rake for when I have an obnoxious code structure with ten million subdirs, and it's great if you use jruby)

What's good about it? What about sbt makes it better than any other build tool OTHER than the fact that it lets you use scala?

I don't mind that SBT uses a bunch of advanced concepts and type safety, that's fucking AWESOME, but it's so difficult to wrangle it to just build something correctly, it seems like there's such a huge time investment to learning it to a threshold where its features are useful enough to make that investment seem worth it.

Several years later, I still have not reached that point. It seemed like such a pain at first to learn other languages (Erlang syntax still confuses me sometimes) but then I started completing components in these languages and there were moments when I started working on prod builds, and using rake, FAKE, rebar3, etc, and it really put into perspective how much time I had been spending internally screaming at sbt to just DO IT already.

There will always be a special place in my heart for Scala as a language, and I think it's one of those languages we'll look back on in 3017 and think "Damn, we learned a lot then"

but I'm getting over it in my day-to-day work. I'm also being slowly enslaved by .NET corp overlords now, but I've been complaining about SBT for a LONG time before this, and a lot of other people have too, sometimes for the same reasons that I hate it, sometimes for their own special reasons.

It causes way too much friction for Lightbend to continue to look the other way. It's cool when you read the list of features, but write a complicated build and look me in the eyes and say you enjoyed it, you just can't.
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Go is a GC language. Only a strict subset would be amenable to running on a GPU.
Former (10 years or so) maintainer here, nice that someone is still using it.

Unfortunately, the lack of support for modern web APIs (starting from SSL) makes it a dead end for serious applications. But it is still useful to teach OOP in my opinion, the metaclass model strikes the right balance between simplicity and power; the only improvement to it might be traits, which in fact were first prototyped in Smalltalk.
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Network Morphism: category theory for NN reuse and modification
in Los Angeles county (and, I believe, LA City), clay pipe is still an approved material for sewer pipe laterals

http://dpw.lacounty.gov/general/faq/index.cfm?Action=getAnsw...

http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll/California/lamc/m....
The System That Wasn't There: Ayn Rand's Failed Philosophy (and Why It Matters)
Yes, it's a cyclic trend in IT:

Step 0. Well functioning and balanced company.
Step 1. Why these engineers are so expensive? We can hire 'ten for one' in 'country A'.
Step 2. Cut local IT budget twice, put goals to have *zero* local IT budget in 2 years. Outsource everything to 'country A'.
Step 3. People are fired, everything is outsourced, operational knowledge accumulated over the last few years is lost.
Step 4. Why everything is broken and we loosing millions? The service is of a quality like we live in 'country A'!
Step 5. We need to hire high quality local team that can take *ownership* over product. We are willing to pay a fortune.
Step 6. Well functioning and balanced company.

Not sure, if airplane maintenance is being treated the same way.
Homo sapiens the toolmaker. Once you make a tool, you inevitably end up adapting your "process" (and admittedly that term is tool-oriented in the extreme, especially to an epicureanist) to fit the tool.

Dmitry Orlov talks about the idea of a "technosphere" (analogous to the "biosphere"), that is made by us but also seems to have its own will, and "it tries" to remake us in its own image. Interesting reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Shrinking-Technosphere-Technologies-A...
There might be a better word than "crashing" when describing airline computer systems malfunctioning. Nevertheless, was happy to hear it wasn't a plane.