skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. It's a total bait-and-switch. People are not on Tinder to hear political propaganda and you're pushing it onto them surreptitiously.

This is like the online version of someone telling you you won a contest for a free night's stay in a nice hotel resort, but not disclosing until check in that you have to listen to a 4-hour timeshare presentation.

Actually, it's probably worse. In this case, often there isn't a real meet up possibility at all, as according to the article "the bot convinced Tinder that their profiles were in geographical locations where the vote was close," and often the "matches" were hundreds of miles away.

At least the timeshare salesperson does, in fact, give you the hotel resort stay for your trouble.
I see, still not 100% agreeing but I see. Simpler code ensures equality (no need for manpower to use it)
Self driving trucks on the highway are already legal in some states. EX: Arizona.

Yeah, city driving is hard. That might be a long ways away. But highway driving? Thats easy. You can even buy a highway driving, consumer self driving vehicle right NOW. Tesla sells them.
apache2 because of the patent protections.
When a large market order come in, if it looks like it will move the price by more than a certain percentage, warn the seller there isn't enough depth to support his order.

And circuit breakers.
Man, if it weren't for Mario 64 and what a game changer that game was, perhaps more people would remember Crash Bandicoot and that it was a pretty good game in its own right.
A couple performance optimizations I made that weren't covered in the article:

- When I profiled my initial implementation of the annealing, I found that it was spending a lot of time just rotating bounding boxes to test for intersection. So I precompute all possible rotations of the BVHs (24 rotations) and then only need to deal with translation when checking for intersection - way faster: https://github.com/fogleman/pack3d/blob/master/pack3d/bvh.go...

- Even more interesting, for the bin packing code, I used a recursive algorithm with memoization, like you do. But I realized an improvement can be made. Say you search for the optimal packing for a box sized 10x10x10 and the optimal packing comes back, say, 9x8x9. Now I do another query for a box sized, say, 9x9x9. I should just reuse the result for my 10x10x10 query because 9x9x9 falls between 9x8x9 and 10x10x10. Basically instead of requiring an exact match in the memoization, I want to query a range. I implemented this using a spatial hash and it made things WAY faster. https://github.com/fogleman/pack3d/blob/master/binpack/spati...
Tesla in Talks with Labels for Music-Streaming Service
At least one who self-identifies with a feminine name. Did you just assume her gender? Or perhaps you know that Kyle is female-identifying.
I think cost do matter. Look at Wassap. They had only one bare metal server in production until they got acquired. The "Cloud" is sometimes deconnected from the reality.
I do. I'm fortunate to have started a company that 1)helps solve a problem in my own life and 2) is able to help others. I invented Pavlok (http://pavlok.com) to help me quit wasting time online, and quickly found that electric shock had rapid and massive effects on helping people quit smoking, nail biting, eating unhealthy, suffering negative thoughts, and way more. It's been a long ride, but I'm incredibly grateful i have the opportunity to help others.

I hope you find the same
From the Wiki page:

> Very few of these checks were actually cashed, even the largest ones. More often they have been framed and kept as "bragging rights".[4][5]

Cashing a check only removes it from your possession if you hand it in to do so. Banks these days need only a physical scan of a check, e.g. via mobile phone deposit. Why not do both? There's nothing wrong with taking payment for your efforts.
Edna is his most famous character but I found Sir Les Patterson more entertaining and Sandy Stone much more interesting.

"Humphries in his Sandy Stone persona could "reduce an audience of young unbelieving cynics to tears with material that might have been written by James Joyce - delivered with wan, uncomprehending wonderment"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Stone_(character)
Dumb question because I have very little node experience - I've been doing a node course and it uses a lot of async stuff server side, eg for everything that hits the database (using promises). Why wouldn't you just do that for your async state when you render server side?
Show HN: Mymo - mobile video viewer
I can't reply to the above comment because it's dead (and no, I didn't flag it), but you can try parallel styling out by building Firefox Nightly with --enable-stylo and enabling the preference in about:config.
I was chatting about this with a friend recently. I spent most the last 15 years thinking it was real.
> don't go to the casino to win money

couldn't agree with this more - gambling is about the ride and the "free" drinks you get while you're playing - never bring more money than you can afford to lose.

Craps is all about the whole table having fun playing against the house, and it's great fun when everyone is "winning".

If you walk into a casino with the goal of winning money (without a team and an exploit of some sort that actually gives you an edge over the house), you're doing it wrong.

Even if you do have an exploit and a team, don't count on keeping your winnings (see Phil Ivey and his baccarat scheme).
I've used doco for documentation though as you say it is almost exclusively means documentary.
He's mostly speaking in terms of momentum. The Ruby talk was vastly overstated - mostly because it was too early to say that.

With Node the trend has been clear for a while and if current pace keeps up he'll be 100% correct. Even if it slows down it's looking like that would be the case in a couple of years at worst.

That's not a knock on Java either way (tho I'm no fan) it's a testament to Node's growth.
Glimpse is right. There is absolutely noting of substance in this very short article.
Legally speaking, you are likely correct. I'm saying that they should be.
As a former employee of PowerVR, work began around the start of 2011, and was done in (at least) 3 phases. They finished the 2nd phase around the start of 2014, but I'm not sure when the final phase was completed. Plans were definitely made during the golden-years.
There are always going to be violent nutjobs that want to prove something by taking out the leader.

Who are tired of being expected to keep their heads down while the violent nutjobs at the top commit global mayhem on a much, much broader scale than a few rioters could ever hope to accomplish, you mean?

No, I don't support violence, or cheer on those who do. I've also been observing the European-style "antifa" crowd and their tactics long enough to just how ironic that label can be.

But I would pretend for a nanosecond that when it comes to "nutjob violence", this is anything like a one-sided contest.
Swiping right on Tinder gets you contact with that person. Nothing more. No guarantee of content topic (or sex). You're swiping to talk to someone.
got me.

those plurality-of-worlds Lorites sure do get around.
I used to live in an apartment building and park next to one of the cable distribution boxes. One day, while was sitting in my car, I saw a Comcast technician walk up to the box, open it, clip one of the wires with wirecutters, close it up, and move on, all in less than a minute. I assume he was acting against a cable pirate, but it was so fast I have no idea if he actually got the right unit.
Next-sibling selectors (+) are not a hack. No reason to do this with an input, any element will do.
Delicious Taco = Taco on a Delicious visa?
This is clearly not a true story. I think someone should flag it or put a warning in the title.
Good point. And I suppose I didn't do a good job making my point clear.

It isn't a matter of which camera is better, but that the camera is a part of the creative process of filmmaking and is not strictly tied to the quality of deliverables. It is a brush with which an artist chooses to paint, for creative and practical reasons.

For a company like Netflix to control quality the goal must be to capture the creative intent with the highest fidelity[0]. Keeping in mind that the pixels serve the content, the content does not serve the pixels, and pixels are just one of very many things that serve the content. This can and should be done by specifying the quality of the result, the deliverables, not the tools used in the creation process.

[0] Fidelity as apposed to quality is an important distinction (that seems to be lost on Netflix). "Pi", "Saving Private Ryan", "No Country for Old Men", and "Deadpool" have different objective measurements of image quality, but they can all be presented to an audience at high fidelity.
> Generally, efficiencies accrue to consumers through lower prices

What good is that without a source of income from employment? Even UBI proposals are for far less than the current median income. At best the two will cancel each other out, though that is a pretty optimistic assumption since most of the motivation for automation is to reduce costs while maintaining prices and increasing profits.
This is somewhat like saying "Tesla and it's cousins are so much better than the VW Beetle"

like... ok, but that's being somewhat unfair to the latter and needlessly aggrandizing of the former. I'm a big Node fan but this kind of braggado is not productive.
If the hate were towards a person, I would completely agree with you. But OP is only hating JavaScript-the-tool, so I have no contempt towards his opinion.

In contrast, if OP were hating on JavaScript programmers, then your indignation would be completely justified. But he's not, and I admit to holding a similar position: I hate C++ and prefer to never lay eyes on it again, but I have nothing against C++ programmers :) The difference between C++ and JS is C++ is less forced upon someone's career as the only language to work with.
Could be that people were buying WoW gold with stolen cards and trying to "fence" it before the chargeback.
Smuggling is trivial currently, but not without risking incarceration or death. Once the contraband can be ferried by an autonomous vehicle without risk to the operator, the incentives will change dramatically.
Oded has argued previously[1] against awards in academia.

[1]: http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/on-awards.html
Came here to say the same thing. Appears to be a very short and insubstantial marketing piece.
Man people who would bail out of the entire project just because of one of the members' likes or dislikes on his bio snippet are petty, please don't optimize for those people...
Why? memory is cheap.
I haven't studied both the original link and your link in detail, but at a quick look: They are different things.

Metamaterials usually are periodic combinations that exhibit interesting properties. So-called "photonic bandgap materials" are an example. The paper you linked shows that strange things can happen to the group velocities in these types of materials.

The phys.org link (based on a Science paper [1]) is about a cavity utilizing non-reciprocal materials. Normally systems involving Maxwell's equations are reciprocal; you can switch the input and output and expect the same behavior. For a basic example, if you look through a tube and see me at the other end, then I will be able to see you as well.

In a non-reciprocal system, this property breaks down. Microwave circulators are a good example: A device with three ports A, B, and C can have

energy coming from A going to B,

energy coming from B going to C,

energy coming from C going to A.

This device is handy if you don't want reflected E&M power from your antenna coming back into your generating circuit. It was well known to guys working on radar, for example.

The real miracle in this paper is that no one put it together sooner: Non-reciprocal devices have been around forever, and resonators more so, but that the combination might be useful has not occurred to anyone? Quite amazing. They probably blew all kinds of time researching through old literature to make sure this hasn't already been mentioned by the radar guys in the 40s.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6344/1260
Perhaps there's a way to present yourself authentically while still holding the door open for the Javascripters?

Would "Loves dogs, hates Java Script, willing to meet you in the middle if you disagree on either" be accurate?
> With his academic expertise, what kind of industry jobs would fit his skill sets?

I would imagine his pick among the various industry research labs, if he wanted them.

> He wouldn't fit the typical tech security job.

Nor would he be a good fit as a line cook or as a surgeon...
This is what I was thinking. Any critique of this approach may want to keep in mind this isn't necessarily going to replace what software engineers are doing now, but rather expand what is done by others by lowering barriers.
And something please for programmers over the age of 12.
Not entirely true, below is the adjacent sibling example (+).

It's true you can't highlight an arbitrary element by hovering/focusing on another element.
> its so obvious that people are just looking for reasons to hate javascript

Why would anyone have the motivation to do that? Either it has given them reasons to dislike it, or it hasn't. Why do you think anyone is predisposed to looking for those reasons?
I'm in no way a researcher or even an enthusiast of machine learning, but I'm pretty sure that I came across a paper posted on HN a few days ago that did exactly what you and the parent poster are describing, figuring out what pixels contributed most to some machine learning algorithm. I'll try and see if I can find it.

Edit: yep, found it.

SmoothGrad: removing noise by adding noise, https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03825

Web page with explanations and examples

https://tensorflow.github.io/saliency/

I couldn't find the HN thread, but there was no discussion as far as I remember.
The problem with doing business in Argentina is you could have written the title "Argentina's government is wooing entrepreneurs with a new law... this week". Next week? Who knows.
And that's how / why the legal system is involved and it's cost them their job. Security isn't just preventing something from ever being possible.
Perl 6: Seqs, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
Is JS involved in it? Because if it does, it won't help at all :)
The overwhelmingly negative response from the primarily US-based HN audience to this, in stark contrast to the very positive responses from actual recipients of contact in this initiative (and the subsequent extremely positive and progressive election turnout statistics) are surely symptomatic of some significant fundamental differences in the perception of politics in both countries.

I appear to be literally the only person in this thread who thinks this is OK. As someone who's largely opposed to advertising full stop, in any form, this doesn't seem the same to me in any way. Nor can I see any reason to find it objectionable.

What exactly is it about this that makes people uncomfortable?
The bot convinced users that they were swiping on someone that was local, but that person was often hundreds of miles away. I don't know how you think this isn't spam. They may have solicited contact by swiping, however, they did so thinking that they could potentially meet the person, because they believe that person is local. The political propaganda they're getting back from a bot that is made to appear like a local potential romantic partner that they thought they swiped on, is unsolicited given the nature of the Tinder platform.
At the White House’s emerging tech event, drones are one of the day’s big topics
You may not have noticed it consciously, but I bet your subconscious noticed it. Once I started to notice motion blur in movies I can't stop noticing it. Often times its really hard to tell what is going in a scene with lots of motion. All objects become unrecognizable blurry smears across the screen. Of course it effects the way scenes are filmed - directors take it into account and film things differently than they otherwise might have at higher fps. Avoiding shots with too much movement or camera panning, that might have been very superior.

Conversely, high frame rate stuff "feels" so much more real. It's hard to explain, but if you look at side by side comparisons, the higher frame rate is definitely preferable. The guy who did the tech demo of full motion video on a 1981 PC had some interesting points about this. He did experiments to find the optimal trade off between frame rate and resolution. He found higher framerate with lower resolution was better than the reverse, and had some nice examples of it. PC gamers have known this forever and are obsessive about high frame rates.
There was a lot of collateral damage too, small firms hitchng their wagons to FW tubed out, or pre-93 developing alternatives to USB for the same ends (just bad timing). It was up-front expensive, and while technically superior to USB addressed primarily issues that were rooted in processor speeds of the time. If you could make the silicon. I have stories if interested.
Sniper shatters record, kills ISIS fighter from 2 miles away
I misread the topic as "Hamburg Grids" and was expecting some kind of theoretical system for making large protests more efficient or effective or something.

Which raises the question: what significant study has been done on the most efficient and effective ways to protest? We are looking for minimum input for maximal change with built in systems to prevent rioting and protect the members of the protest from brutality (e.g. Violent counter protests, letting, etc).
It's a great question. It seems like at least since 2005[1] the amount taxes owed after deductions have been >100% of profits, which might partly explain the prevalence of off-the-books earnings in the country. It seems to be the second highest tax rate of commercial profits in the world, at 106% for 2016[2].

From the breakdown of that rate[3] it seems the three highest contributors to that rate are

- Turnover tax by City of Buenos Aires of 3% (Total tax rate (% of profit) 53.21%)

- Employer paid - Social security contributions of 23% (Total tax rate (% of profit) 25.94%)

- Tax on financial (check) transactions of 0.6% (Total tax rate (% of profit) 17.25%)

Keep in mind that the last one affects every transaction, so you can _easily_ pay more tax than what you earn just by moving money back and forth.

[1]: https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/total-tax-rate-percen...

[2]: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.TAX.TOTL.CP.ZS?year_h...

[3]: http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/argentina...
Competitors? tisk tisk Comcast... you've been slacking.
Can you talk more about the lawless hunting club-ruled area? Or provide a name for more research - it's hard to tell exactly which feature is being pointed to on the map you linked.
Okay, and if you manage to show that it's feasible in practice, I am sure people would adopt such an approach.
Thanks a lot for the tweet! I'll give that lambda link a read, would definitely like to learn more. Thanks again :)
Actually Houdini's COPs are very capable, I use them all the time. Also you can define custom procedures/nodes using vex as text or as a separate node interface.
I'm not sure what the title has to do with the article at all. It's just pointing out a language gotcha/subtlety. The title might as well have been "Go is Not Javascript", "Go is not QBasic", etc.
Can you embed this in a game engine?
It should be in terms of what went wrong and needs to be fixed. You're right that they may have been blindsided to a large extent in this period of hyper-growth and wrongfully crossed certain lines numerous times. But the introspection and change usually does always come from a catastrophic event like Susan Fowler for example.

But an event(s) like these does not take away the need for a deep analysis. Travis not leaving but rather becoming more mature while at the same time keeping that same focus, intensity and dedication that got Uber where it is today is just as plausible -- and as is apparent -- the preferred approach for many Uber employees.
After reading their 'How It Works' page, it looks like they load the DOM into headless Chrome, let all the JavaScript events fire, wait for rendering to complete, and then serialize the DOM afterwards. Whereas with just rendering the React component you're getting the resulting HTML but you're not seeing the effect of actually executing any referenced JavaScript and the resulting DOM how a browser would see it.
Haha there it is. Who said whining on HN doesn't change the world.
Rough summary of German laws:

You have a right to defend yourself with the minimal force necessary to counter a threat to your safety. What a threat is and what "minimal force" is depends on the knowledge of a defendant: If you know martial arts or medicine you are held accountable for the results of your "self defense" according to much stricter standards than somebody who does not. Same for the evaluation of a threat: If you are trained in threat evaluation, you are expected to be much more level-headed in dangerous situations.
>No it's anyone who reads the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times or watches Bloomberg too. I'm pretty sure that includes much more than techies. Uber has been featured on the front page of both of those newspapers and not just recently.

Uber CEO being fired or Waymo law suit is a bigger story and a lot more people know about it. But i don't think people will stop using uber because of those two stories. Compare that to sexual harassment being rampant in Uber which could cause a lot more people to not use Uber out of ethics.

>That's purely anecdotal.

I didn't say otherwise.
JS Foundation Welcomes Sonar – a linting tool for the web
So... no ISO standard is really free or open, just drafts which may or may not be similar? That sounds kind of shitty.
> Doesn't the time-bandwidth reciprocity fall out of the same math as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

Only loosely. Bandwidth in a traditional cavity is related to the loss in the cavity. (Energy coming out of a laser cavity is loss from the standpoint of the cavity.)

There isn't a Lagrangian where bandwidth is the conjugate "momentum" to time. So not rigorously related to HUP, to my knowledge.

> Does this work have implications for HUP "workarounds"?

Doubtful. Non-reciprocal materials may seem like magic, but they are built out of things that still obey fundamental QM.

But who knows, the world is a strange place.
What does this add to the space over Basecamp? They also provide a pretty good message board-like system. Also with the benefit of many many many years of refinement, and similar values to the Twist folks.

https://basecamp.com/how-it-works
I like what you're thinking about, but there's srs issue with rental-only; take a look at how the gentrification process of artistic areas work, and who it leaves out: If I invest my time, life, and creativity into a place, I want to count on being able to enjoy the fruits of my labor, either directly (I get to stay / keep doing it) or indirectly (I benefit from raising the value of the neighborhood).

If I can only rent, then I can't do either; and to some extent, why would I bother? (Then again - many, many people do bother anyway!)
My god, usatoday.com is one of the worst websites I've ever been on. The autoplaying video ad going over the title photo was bad enough, but then it followed me down the screen.

Not only that, but the layout of the actual article/content made it feel like an advertisement, to the point I mistakenly clicked the X in the top right of the article and then.. got taken to the home page of the website. Ok, then.

Anyways, interesting article, even if a little scarce on details, I guess. I'm having a tough time separating my feelings on what I read from those on where I read it.
inspirations please ? brett victor ? dataflow / node based modeling ? others ?
Man Accused of Making Millions of Robocalls Faces Biggest-Ever FCC Fine