skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not inadequate, it just doesn't happen. I know people who were being deprived of food, beaten, subjected to chronic verbal abuse, kicked out of their house, from the age of 12-13 who had absolutely no recourse, no ability to make money, and no real way to do anything besides depend on the kindness of strangers -- who were told by the foster system that unless they felt like they were in imminent danger then they should stay far away. Do you really think that these kids are better off doing what they have to do (which many times is working under the table, or other illegal activity) to ensure their basic needs are met?
And the jobs there don't pay very well. The food is wonderful though, better than Seattle IMHO and it's a lovely city in general.
The world as you see it with VR180
Obviously, every single GPU company has a fuckton of patents. Not having them is a recipe for being sued by everyone else.
While in general you are right about the boring stuff (although some people find writing tools far from boring - e.g. me, i should actually write less tools if ever want to finish some of my own stuff:-P) the shiny visual bits aren't usually "just" imported. In the (commercial, not personal) engines i worked at, the artists used their 3D mesh editor of choice (max and maya) to make the meshes but only bothered with the basic texturing in that 3D mesh editor. The materials were created inside the engine's own editor since 3dsmax/maya's materials both do not make much sense to fully replicate and they lack functionality that the engine's own renderer (and material system) can provide.

In the last (commercial) engine i worked at, the pipeline was to export the mesh from the 3D mesh editor (3dsmax or maya) to a custom easy to parse format and then import it from the editor to a more compact faster and easier to work with format. Then the artists would create the materials and other resources that the engine needed to work with from inside the engine's own tools. The imported resource remembered the original file so that artists could simply export again and ask the editor to reimport stuff (at a later point we made the editor to automatically monitor the directories for changes - both Windows and Linux provide functionality for this - so the artists would simply export from their 3D mesh editor and the engine's editor would reimport the meshes automatically).

In the previous (commercial) engine i worked at, things were simpler in that we only supported 3ds max (although the 3dsmax SDK was far from simple, if it wasn't for SymbianOS it would be one of the worst SDKs i've worked with... but that is another story) and we exported animations and meshes directly to a custom format the engine expected. The exporter also had a "preview" feature to allow the artists preview the exported files in a standalone viewer that used the engine's renderer to make sure that things looked fine (in that case we actually did try to use 3ds max's materials, although in hindsight that was a mistake since even with the viewer the artists often assigned textures incorrectly - we should have relied only as little as necessary on 3ds max instead of making it the primary content editor).
> The only additional feedback VR controllers give you is in how much you're pressing a button/thumbstick/trackpad and maybe some vibrations. Knowing if you've squeezed a trigger enough to shoot a gun in a game is good, but you could also accomplish that while wearing some VR gloves by holding a toy gun in your hand, which then gives you the added feedback of the shape and weight of a gun. Before we have some sort of setup for providing actual feedback based on the virtual world you're interacting with, it seems like this kind of setup (smart gloves coupled with simple dumb-props) would be a more desirable user experience than controllers with some buttons & sticks.

I agree with this. In theory, with a smart enough glove you could use any tool in VR. I haven't seen any in practice that allows for such fidelity in object/finger detection (e.g. is your hand on the trigger, or squeezing it? Are you holding the object or did you drop it?). Also, it would mean that toy guns would need to be standardized (3d printing looks good in this area).

The current approach, combining SteamVR trackers (https://partner.steamgames.com/vrtracking/) with physical objects seem like the best bet for the foreseeable future.
I don't follow.

If I configure me.example.com to accept emails matching the pattern "me<anything>mail42@me.example.com", then I can generate as many on-the-fly unique emails as I want, without maintaining any lists, and without catch-all forwarding of random spam to my inbox.

If I use me+anything@me.example.com, I get the same exact feature, but the downside is "+anything" is recognized by some and either disallowed or used to generate more patterns.

If I use subdomains (like anything@me.example.com) I have the spam issue.

With a white pattern scheme, you can choose your own pattern (so sites can't really catch on), not have to maintain any lists, and avoid spray-and-pray spam.
GhostHook – Bypassing PatchGuard with Processor Trace Based Hooking
I was waiting for the first lisp-related comment. You win, lispm.

The new remaster is a completely new engine apparently, so it's gone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6imvro/a_remaster_wi...
I just spent a few minutes clicking around but had a bit of trouble.

EDIT: nevermind, most of this is due to the fact that you have to keep "repo" in the search box, which I found confusing.

I quickly found the repo I wanted, but discovered that C/C++ isn't supported, so Woboq is more useful to me at the moment.

I tried to build something like this once myself, and made the mistake of going "wide" rather than "deep". That is, trying to support all languages. I think it does make sense to try to get the absolute best experience for one language. But yeah for now since C/C++ aren't supported, it's not useful for me.

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I typed "cpython" in the search box on https://sourcegraph.com/ and got no results. (I also typed "python" and got no results, which seems pretty odd.)

I would have liked to browse this repo:

https://github.com/python/cpython

I guess you have to import repositories yourself? There seem to be sample repositories, but they are in Go, and I'm interested in C/C++ (the Python interpreter, not Python source code).

I'm looking for something that uses Clang as a back end for intelligent navigation of C/C++ projects.

Also, I would like to browse the bash source code, but as far as I know it isn't available on Github. Can SourceGraph import from an arbitrary git repo?

https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=bash

That said I'm glad somebody is working on this problem! I like your mission statement.
I believe they usually have a 90-day waiting period for withdrawals if you load via credit card (instead of Western Union or BTC), helping them ensure the user does not perform a chargeback.
This is literally only due to complexity of the tax code. I don't understand how we're not saying the same thing? The citizen is being a rational actor by not stepping on the line of the tax system, and so is the corporation playing the other role.
>Even ${hollywood-bigshot} = Bong Joon-Ho who made a movie for Netflix that premiered at Cannes film festival wasn't allowed shoot on film

That's just BS on Netflix's side though. They still feature all kind of non-Netflix movies that are shot on film.
I've literally never heard of anyone impressed with the quality standard on a single service Comcast provides soooo...gonna call bullshit on this, too.
crawfordcomeaux I'm really curious about your further thoughts. Could we chat more about it? Would you be so nice and drop me a line to wojciech @ luna-lang.org ?
Learning from Uber fiasco?
Would like to hear opinion from you guys about Uber Fiasco. Recent development in past few months led to exit of Travis. Many starts up copied uber market place model around the world. And investors poured money in most of them. What your observations are about such market place model and setting up culture in such start up when you have large workforce as a partner. In uber case these were drivers.
Comcast knows who is on its network based upon the MAC address of the modem that is registered with your account when you sign up. It's not that simple to steal cable nowadays.
Yeah, primarily, OpenBazaar did it a way, and the #ipfs team in freenode isn't sure if that's the best way.

It primarily has to do with Kadmelia and DHT. How does one consider an adapter or transit to IPFS as a "secure don't leak other addresses"? Does one run a secure IPFS for Tor and I2P? Should it be integrated with a flag on those interfaces?

The IPFS team wanted to get everything else settled, protocol-wise before going down the idea of secured, and hidden protocols, given IPFS's propensity of splattering all interfaces through it (even unroutable internal network addresses).
This looks really cool but I have a naive question...

I've heard desktop printers are prone to failure. Like the print becoming detached from the plate. Would this increase the units / material you lose if there is an error? Or do the errors happen early enough in the print you can catch them before much damage is done.
Some of these websites would collect the national ID cards of users and post them on a "wall of shame" if the user does a chargeback.
> It's like they've lost the will to live and this is their last hope at redemption that fades with every token they drop into the machines.

Consider the Rat Park experiment (http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/) — it seems "psychological addiction" in general is essentially a way of coping with a stressful environment.
I've used Cloudbet for sports bets, they have poker too, but never used it. (It's all bitcoin)
Open letter from someone who got wiped out on GDAX today
I'd suggest second most important piece of info is probably supported editors.
I'd imagine it's going to violently shit itself. Chromium has pretty good online code search btw.
I had the opposite takeaway. So many employees clamoring for leadership with such abysmal values is a sign the rot has spread. Not a pro-Uber PR piece.
Check out the Microsoft hololens:

Mixed reality in surgical environments
https://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053273
One thing that should scare anyone holding expensive assets (stocks, real estate) is that even though US interest rates have started to rise, the size of the federal reserve balance sheet hasn't even started to reduce [1]. Quantitative easing is still turned to 11. When the Fed starts pulling liquidity out of the markets (which they are discussing starting to do later this year), I suspect a lots of these asset classes are going to deflate, not just in Canada.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Not requiring sub-contractors go through the same "ludicrous quality standards" is a lazy, malicious act on the part of Comcast
> Evolution doesn't have a way to see into the future in that way.

Model A: Let's say there is an environmental change every 100 years, and if a population is not diverse enough, then it dies. After 1000 years, we would expect the only populations to be around would be those that are diverse.

Yes, it is true that if there there is a short-term advantage to nondiversity in a population, then it will evolve to be nondiverse, and it will die - in this sense you're right that evolution does not see into the future. However, given the existence of diverse populations assuming the Model A, we can conclude that these populations have found a local minimum of fitness in which diversity is advantageous. Further, there might be "genetic guards" to nondiversity, such that fixation of a gene promoting nondiversity is rare (because this would resilt in extinction!), either through social sexual selection or by such a mutation being a rare event.
France's housing bubble will also burst
The author, Barry Humphries, is a fascinating character of many careers also known as Dame Edna (now retired).
Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement.

Highly recommended for anyone interested in an "outside the box" perspective on mental health and society at large.
TSA launches an AI competition for airport security screening
It seems to me that the obvious answer here is to spread awareness of the fact that there is a difference between (1) being something and (2) doing something and (3) doing something that someone in the being something category would do.

(1) "You are a racist." vs (2) "You have done something that is racist." vs (3) "You have done the same thing that a racist would do."

Some percentage of the time, greater than 0.5 and less than 1, (2) equates to (3), since clearly doing a racist thing is the same as what a racist would do, but something that isn't racist might also be the thing that a racist would do.

Alice is not a racist AND has not done a racist thing BUT has done the same thing that a racist would do.

Dan might be a racist BUT has successfully avoided doing something racist.

Eric is not a racist BUT has done a racist thing.

And so on...

Different people consider different proportions of (1), (2), and (3) when deciding whether someone or something is good/bad within their personal value framework. I guess the essay is saying that it's a shame that often everything gets collapsed into (1), but that's not a special problem. Surely it's always harmful in some way to mis-categorize anything.
Average Commute Times (interactive map)
Woman besieged by taxi drivers at Chiang Mai on suspicion of being Uber driver
I don't know about the other languages, but at least with regards to ECMAScript the specification can be accessed freely at https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/index.html - though the License chapter says that "after approval all rights on the standard are reserved by Ecma International."
People can blame Uber from what they did, but they have made people life better.

This is happening in Thailand. People are fed up with consistently bad behavior of Taxi industry and vote with their wallet for Uber, but the taxi industry fights back by bullying people.

http://digitalshop.nationmultimedia.com/videoplay/8910
For traditional 2D screens, I tend to agree with you - that 4K is quite enough. But for Virtual Reality, these higher definitions are a must. 8K per eye will be much better than 4K per eye - at least that's the thought at the moment.
Yeah, I don't love the idea of trying to run accounting software in a browser; doesn't seem like it could possibly have the performance of a desktop app. Also, last I checked, QBD includes features I use that QBO doesn't. I can't recall what they were though, so that may no longer be the case.

So, does this mean QBD is basically the living dead, and inevitably I'll have to find an alternative? It looks like everyone's doing online these days.. :/

Edit: Yeah, looks like it doesn't have inventory tracking. Conflicting reports on multi-currency support too.

Looks like Xero might be a viable option though.
5 Things We Spotted in the Black Panther Trailer That Are Inspired by Afrika
I fell like there's a lot of potential with ultrasound haptics, once the transducers get small enough to mount on a glove.
Build a successful eCommerce business using chat
One click deployment example to AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions could be killer scenario!
I didn't declare anything... I have no opinion here, I was just explaining what the other guy was saying.
Of course those need to be taken into consideration but to be fair, aren't most of the conditions you listed dealt with by a human driver pulling over and waiting it out/calling for assistance? That's exactly what an autonomous system could do in those situations.

And if there _are_ dangerous conditions that a human driver could navigate but an autonomous one would give up on, is that so bad? The industry is making enough efficiency gains to offset that.
iMac Pro May Feature Intel's Server-Grade 'Purley' Processors, ARM Coprocessor
It's funny that here at Brazil, every time the government uses this policy we get 1.5-2 years of intense growth, and then a big recession.

The recession always lasts until ~1 year after the government start cutting social spending and stop the pro-growth policies. Then we get moderate growth again, as long as the non-pro-growth is maintained.

Besides, business don't tend to like most policies called "pro-business".

Still what I don't get is why they are selling 100 years bounds at all. The interest rate is quite understandable.
I am not a trucker but from what I understood from other truckers is that this can be seen as a benefit to them. There is a lot more effort as a trucker in managing the cargo than the driving. Lots of paperwork at pickup, drop off and in between checks. There is effort to ensure the security of the cargo. I think the expectation is that wages would stay the same and truckers stop driving and start managing. Keep in mind wages are already fairly low.
Does that still work on the day and age of encrypted cable boxes and modems that require 802.whatever certs?
Sure! Is webgl good enough for you? If so, I will prepare an example and include it in the official release. If you need more "standard" GPU power, then it will be possible, but a little bit hackish on the beginning (we don't have libraries for it yet and you will need to connect to other language to keep the performance. We will support language interoperability, but in the first reelease it will be hackish. Still if you'll need it, I'll show you how to do it) :)
It doesn't help that human drivers are fundamentally unsafe (even if you restrict the discussion to sober drivers). Making computers safer than human drivers (not perfect) is enough for me to restrict human drivers to private tracks. I am not the only person who has lost a loved friend because of a careless driver.
Shouldn't it be possible to backpropogate those categorical outputs all the way back to the inputs/features (NOT weights) after a forward pass, to localize the sensitivity of them with respect to the actual pixels for a prediction? I imagine that would have to give at least some insight.

Beyond that, the convolution/max pool repeated steps could be understood to be applying something akin to a multi-level wavelet decomposition, which is pretty well understood. It's how classical matched filtering, Haar cascading, and a wide variety of proceeding image classification methods operated at their first steps too.

CNNs/Deep learning really doesn't seem like a black box at all when examined in sequence. But to me at least, randomized ensemble methods (random forest, etc.) are actually a bit more mysterious to me in their performance out of the box, with little tuning.
If resolution was the only metric, that makes sense.

But reality is that we're seeing higher color depth ("HDR"), higher framerates, higher quality sound streams (e.g. Dolby Atmos and beyond), and even technologies we aren't envisioning today because the hardware isn't "there" yet.

If 8K is only a resolution bump, then boring, but it may be much more than that. 4K is.
Are they afraid that a new CEO will come in and actually demand the company start losing less money?
VR is klunky, about 20 years away from being a fun experience.
Yeah, there was a movie on YouTube of the same sort of harassment in Pattaya earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXxQu0XNZnk
High speed panning is terrible in general.

Making it look good is akin to polishing a turd.
I mean, I don't care if you keep it as Luna. Just saying you're gonna have problems if you keep that name
This is what we want to deliver a little bit later. So you could go to our website, click "start", make the graph and everything will be run and scaled automatically for you, delivering you the results. Are we talking about the same functionality? (I'm abstracting over particular hardware provider).
Just some minor critiques.

What is confusing to me is if the visualization actually running the code or is just static analysis of the code?

The reason I ask is if its running then what you have built is a language with an absolutely awesome visual REPL. If it is please say its a language with awesome visual REPL! A potential Excel for programmers killer. There are languages that tried to do this (Squeak, and Racket come to mind) but they were generally academic and more often for students/young adults (and not for businesses).

However you say whiteboard through out your marketing which makes me think brainstorming tools ala evernote, orgmode etc. I realize for VC they might prefer whiteboard.

Whiteboard to me is sharing and not really a tool. It means I have to register and create a profile when all I really want is a language with a powerful visual REPL. (again just my point of view on marketing).
Has the meteoric rise of passive investing generated the “greatest bubble ever”?
Dude, that was awesome. Thanks a lot!

I haven't had a book this good in some weeks. Cheers!
The US, Japan and the EU are all printing absurd amounts of money. That "stimulus" needs to go somewhere, and right now it's going to every single asset class.

The central banks wanted inflation, but they got some perverted form, where wages and prices remain stagnant, and only stocks/real estate/etc have had their prices increase.
You are referring to FDM printers. The OP is talking about SLS printers which don't have this issue.
Yes, it's farm land. But still, the closest "rural" areas beside Delta is about 1h travel from downtown.
I've been considering hanging out in the Southern Cone while doing business remotely in the US as my main source of income. Is Buenos Aires/Cordoba/Mar del Plata worth considering or should I be really looking more into Uruguay or Chile?
Yeah, the lack of high-capacity bridges across the rivers.

The house prices in that 30 minutes worth of land (I live in it) are also approaching $1 million. The only reason they don't go higher is because of commuting.

The newly elected provincial government has just announced they will suspend the construction of a new bridge; many condo and houses to the south were built with the assumption that the bridge will open and make the southern suburb much more attractive.

For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. I don't know if they are sincere in reducing traffic, but this has an knock-on effect of keeping the house prices in the core cities much higher than otherwise (eg. a rapid transit thru that 30 minutes worth of land.)
The DMV didn't cut my friend's brake cables when I went in to get my driver's license.
The Biggest Shift in Supercomputing Since GPU Acceleration
I would assume that the document is only in regards to productions that they have a hand in during production.
(Self produced)
I would have to say that hiring all those crappy contractors is malicious action on the part of Comcast.
> how many of them are going to have homes worth well more than their mortgage with rates so high they can't afford to make payments

Don't you mean the other way around? Homes worth less than the mortgage?
I thought it would pop over 10 years ago too, look how wrong I was.
Thanks, you are correct.
It's not really a fundamental law of physics though.. More like an engineering law