skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I hadn't heard of that:

>"For video sequences, a way of strengthening the miniature impression is to run the video at higher speed than it was recorded. This appears to reduce the inertia which would normally limit the motion of large objects."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking

So why are the film makers using multiple techniques that make this video look "fake"? I'd think they would want it to look real.
Doing voice processing is much much more computationally expensive than scanning text, and has a much higher error rate, so it would make little sense for Google to do that.

More likely explanations could be:

- Your topic is a common/popular one, so it's statistically likely that Youtube mentions it.

- Other people that (text-)search the same things as you tend to watch these videos (i.e. you have been put is some category or other).

- You did not search for it, but your phone correspondant did, and Youtube/Google tries the same suggestions on you because you're linked (see: there are other and less costly ways for Google to be creepy!).
>I no longer think about oil at all

Which is what they want, or rather they don't want you thinking about phoning round for the best price.
A lot of the material overlaps significantly with others I've read, so AFAICT "working through" the book, at least for me, amounts to a few hours reading some background definitions plus the last chapter. Maybe it does seem hard to get to that position, but really it's just building up skills incrementally. Google all the terms you don't understand, read the explanatory posts until you get to something you don't understand, and repeat recursively until it's clear or you get bored... so far depth-first seems to work better than breadth-first, there aren't that many foundational concepts.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+7/7/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
Why do you need to run without a phone? Phones aren't that heavy and devices can be significantly cheaper and smaller if they don't need a GPS chip and music storage (smaller battery).

I stopped using my Garmin watch since I have a fitbit charge and find that measurements via phone are surprisingly accurate. In cities, pure GPS watches often lose signal (buildings, tunnels), phones can track much more accurately there.
Colorls – A Ruby script that beautifies the terminal's ls command
Updating the robots can be done much faster than it takes for the weeds to mutate. And for mutations to happen, some proportion of the weed population must survive in the environment, as no weeds can not mutate. I doubt they have a chance, unless some species figure out how to live under the earth, in which case, we won't care as those would not be "weeds" any more.
Ah thanks for responding. The design choices there make sense for a government website where inclusivity is important.
That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I was worried that, without stard/end of string anchors, things could get quite hairy, but the biggest stretch of logic was just, "There are five spaces for me to fit a character, an optional characters and two two-character sequences. Therefore that optional character must not appear."
[Update - by all means reply and address these questions, but in the absence of that I'm going to interpret your silence as an admission that actually you're not as informed on the subject of discrimination as you initially argued. Which would kinda prove my point about overconfidence in your own opinion when you don't know very much. Wouldn't it.]
Is it so different if you fire the guns yoursef?

Is the experience more "authentic" if you are in the warzone?

Are we in a world where we need artisanal, hand-fought wars?

I know exactly what you mean though :( But the problem is war itself.

Humans are humans, but we need to resist war on every level we contribute to it, no matter how remote. This might mean not contributing to organisations we otherwise support.
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A seedling-removing bot (which is what this is) absolutely helps compared to chemical sprays or time-consuming faff.

Once a gardener decides to keep a plant, they're not weeds any more.
I agree. Universities give clear structure and a sense of accomplishment when completing something. The structure part is really essential.
Just put it on craigslist for free, someone will want it.
Why can't we just remove the gender field and give people a key/value metadata field for people to identify whatever the hell they want to, be it gay, straight, white, black, paedophile, bestiality enthusiast. I imagine the point of the gender column is to try and identify patterns which can be achieved with key/value. It should satisfy these people who feel the need to have to identify themselves in all ways possible.
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I'm not saying that SunOS was somehow slow to implement these things, but that the SunOS that ran on the aforementioned SS10 shell server. Which seems about right given the fact that first Solaris with userlevel LWPs was 5.2 (dec 93) and pthread-compatibility layer was introduced in 5.5 (nov 95). And it seems quite plausible that they ran SunOS 4.x and not Solaris.
For me the quality and consistency of the pairing has been the key advantage.
> Is it so different if you fire the guns yoursef?

Yes, it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Funnily enough I was just making a list of VR tools that allow user-generated content (excluding music). I got this far:

Sansar

Modbox

Anyland

Tvori

Diorama Worlds

StageX

Google Blocks

High Fidelity

Tilt Brush

Medium

Quill

Rodin

MakeVR

Metaverse Construction Kit

3DSunshine

Country of One

VR Home

MyDream

Shape Lab

- I'm working on a feature matrix but rest-assured several of those are mature, well-suppoted and by smaller developers.
Oh yes I do love Blues.

Joe Bonamassa's Nerdville is like I pictured heaven.
> 1. "Don't just Google it"

> [...] When it comes to learning to code, there’s no way to retain everything. [...]

> Lesson: Google everything.

Wrong takeaway. Take. Fsckin'. Notes. And read the fsckin' documentation.
Especially when you're learning.

> 2. Not showing my work

Wrong title. The paragraph doesn't talk about showing the end program to
somebody, it talks about actually writing the thing. Hardly any surprise that
you need to write program to have a working program.
It seems to me that sometimes the best way to resist is to fight. How would you deal with groups like IS without killing people?
Lots of technologies had very difficult and drawn-out gestations, where the promise was far greater than the reality. Cars were slower, more expensive and less reliable than horse-drawn carriages for several decades. Several huge advances were required to turn Karl Benz's rattling deathtrap into a practical means of transport. Marconi first made radio transmissions in 1895, but it took until 1920 for practical radio broadcasts to start. Radio was a niche technology for telegraph companies and a weird gimmick for hobbyists until the triode valve arrived.

VR is a much harder problem than the 80s pioneers expected. Previous display technologies "worked" for VR, but they gave you neckache and/or severe nausea after a few minutes. We needed a breakthrough in lightweight, high-resolution, low-persistence, low-cost displays. That breakthrough arrived when Samsung started putting OLED displays in the Galaxy series smartphones.

We finally have headsets that really work - headsets that provide immersive experiences, headsets that can be worn for more than a few minutes at a time. We've got GPUs that can push pixels fast enough to maintain a stable 90fps. We still have a huge way to go, but I think it's far too early to declare VR as vapourware or a technological dead-end. We're only just getting started.
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Well... no real alternative as many see it. How else can you get updates\aggregate articles from the blogs you want to follow?

>I thought that was a thing from the past

Just like I can't understand how Facebook or something similar can be such a problem for people. Always though that you just keep it to stay in touch (in other words have their contacts info) with some people you met over the time.
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Why would they do that in this case though?
How about I respond with:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lesser-known-trolley-pro...

The world is not utilitarianism.

[edit] on reflection you might have been agreeing with me but I still think the trolley problem answer is trite.
For groups like it, the only fix would be to not create it to begin with.

That is to say, it's the usual--improve the economy, secularize the world, prevent people from feeling desperate enough that forming such groups feels like a good idea. Some of it is about ideals, so spread Western ones; push the world closer to being a cultural monoculture.

It's worth doing, but in the meantime, you have to fight them when they pop up. There'll be lash-back to any attempt at doing this, too.
Las Vegas is a city, the only theory it has is urban planning.
Whereas Monte Carlo was a code name from the Manhattan Project.
By defending people. This doesn't mean murdering people remotely with robots. I get that's the most efficient way of doing it.

The US is looking at backlash and wondering why: it's because you lost the moral fscking high ground. That's always how the war was won and missiles from the sky dont achieve that mission.

Or by not giving a sh$t and just arming them which is the usual crappy way this game is played.
I'm not sure that Dresden is a great example - it was late in the war and strategically probably achieved very little.

The attach on Hamburg earlier in the war (July 1943) probably had more impact but even then the Allied air raids on Germany actually achieved disproportionally little given the huge resource allocated to them.
I wonder why you differentiate so much between the life of a civilian and a non-civilian. You imply that as soon as you decide to fight — be it righteous or not — you forfeit your life and it is okay to kill you. Isn't it equally bad if a civilian dies as to when someone who fights dies? The attitude behind these ideas stink of arrogant bigotry. It reeks of the shit you get from the abrahamistic relevation-based religions.
> I don't really know what it means to intervene in things

Most of the time where I thought maybe intervention was a decent idea, it wasn't. The way I think of it now is you can't throw sticks of dynamite in a flower bed and expect roses. All the things war is damages civil society.
RSS for blog.
Telegram thematic channels for everything else.
Do you see a reason that, as an author, you wouldn't want your article to be pirated as widely as possible? You get no actual benefit from IEEE making money off of your article, right?
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I went the ltd route, and believe it has given me more paperwork.

As developers we don't have all that many business expenses. Maybe you'll do better than me, but I don't think I made huge tax savings. As a director I have to do the personal tax paperwork on top of my company tax returns. There are more regulations, deadlines, and submissions for a company than an individual.

For my first year trading I signed up with an accountant (I was painfully aware that I didn't have time to learn the tax stuff and worried about making a mistake). If you have the time and inclination, and use a good accounting program, I'd recommend learning to do it yourself asap rather than hiring one.

If you go the sole trader route, I recommend opening a new current account and using it for all and only your business transactions, like it was a company credit card. That will make doing your expenses a lot easier.
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By looking at and understanding the people who are fighting and those supporting them, and working on the injustices or perceived injustices before they escalate.

I highly recommend Bitter Lake by Adam Curtis for more detail on the intricate web of events that led us here. I'm not saying that I support IS or even make light of IS/AQ/the Taliban etc. etc. but it is worth understanding what leads to these groups and why people support them
A step closer to this. http://i.imgur.com/f7hccDn.gif
A GitHub programmer turned down a severance check to express her experience
Try https://t.co/iootrDOtQp if paywall is an issue
Imagine coupling this with a structural code editor like Lamdu: https://github.com/lamdu/lamdu (but in 3D)

Then I would spend my days waving my arms around to make code instead of typing on the keyboard. It'd be great.
As mentioned in TFA, that was based on this source[1] which surveyed what "app developers" used. If you have alternative statistics, I'd be happy to see them, but GitLab did provide a source for their claim.

[1]: http://blog.bitrise.io/2017/01/27/state-of-app-development-i...
Sad, but so true.

Where are the awesome games and apps for hardware released last year, when devs had years and years to produce content for them? Not toys for few minutes / hours at max, but proper, immersive long games designed specifically for VR.

They are so far not here, and thus we, the majority wait. And let's be honest - having some fine action game in 4k on 65" TV ain't that bad experience either
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I have to ask: do people really believe that "2 billion users" claim?

I live in Europe, and yes the majority of people I know have an account, but nowhere near all of them, and they're often unfrequent users. But more importantly: with the places where FB is banned, all of the people too young to be on it, all the people too old to have an interest, and all of the people who have in general a limited/difficult Internet access and have more important things to do than get facehooked? Being told that 2 out of every 7 human being manually created their account and are 'active users' who log in at least once a week (or is it month?), somehow leaves me skeptical.
You could resubmit the transaction until you get an ack. You wouldn't submit twice since the hash of the state with the added item is very likely to differ.
Some people don't like being secularized and might start shooting if you try too hard.
Sounds like more of a complaint of informal instant messaging in general, rather than a problem specifically attributed to Slack.

Slack has it's problems, but it also has it's place.

For the Slack teams I'm a member of, we've got rules about using @channel and @here, and anybody that uses either is usually shamed to some extent if they do so.

For the complaint about the use of Electron (and all of that overhead), it's trivial for a Slack team to enable the IRC gateway (in /admin/settings#gateways) and connect through your preferred IRC client.
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I've done that one with a basic maths class using rice grains dropped on a circle drawn on graph paper and then in a spreadsheet with rand() function generating the coords. Seems to help understanding.

Someone here suggested extending to finding the volume of the Steinmetz solid which I must get round to.
I use my Garmin because I track heartrate when running and the Charge HR - whilst surprisingly accurate for step counting and distance and resting HR - is woeful when trying to track HR during exercise.

(Also for cycling with a variety of ANT+ sensors.)
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek is a systemd developer and clearly wants to put in this tiny fix:

* https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/6300
Never mind the religion.

This attitude--differentiating based on civilian-ness--is useful. Spreading it allows wars to do less damage, because if fewer civilians die then repairing the economy is easier afterwards. This leads to a host of good consequences, most importantly that it reduces the chance of renewed war later on.

Soldiers' lives aren't as important, in that sense. Sorry, but they're not. And soldiers are going to die no matter what; the cultural innovation here isn't treating soldiers' lives as worth little, it's treating civilians as highly valuable. Some of which has later spread to the soldiers as well...
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Well he works there so...
He works there...
Ok. Let's engage here.

Let us throw Daesh or whatever away and focus on a war against terror that is easier to measure. The taliban. Do you feel that the campaign to remove them from power was successful?

I'm relatively happy to rationalise killing lots of people, I just get uncomfortable around the idea of measuring success by "but it would be worse if we didn't, probably, after all - Nazis".
How was it going with the Go launch? I've been dealing with it on the b2b end and it has been pretty painful.
In winter when some rivers are freezing and in summer when some rivers are too hot to heat their water up even more.

Germany did not replace the nuclear power with coal. Just look at the graphic of the energy mix in Germany: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Energiemix_Deutschland.s...

The source to the claim is just about the change from february 2011 to february 2012. Energy use and production varies throughout months (cold vs. hot, windy or not, sunny or not) and years (cold year, hot year, etc.). This is a terrible analysis.
> Some of it is about ideals, so spread Western ones

I see what you mean, but careful with that :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

not to mention Iraq

When you start mixing "middle east" and interference of any kind in a sentence, no matter how benign, it's an extremely sensitive topic. The west has blood on its hands there. You could even argue that IS is a result of western influence in the middle east.

I know you said "ideals", which is technically different. But at this point, it warrants at least a footnote.
I've said all along that vr is closer to soundcards and 3D video cards than a new gaming platform. They're going to be toys for the rich and hobbyists until pcs just start being shipped with vr headsets out of the box.
OneDrive - or DropBox - is no backup solution and also doesn't relieve you from backups.
Custom cancer vaccines safely fight and kill tumors in early human trials
I use Wordpress + ACF Pro, without any extra ACF 3rd party plugins. I also write all the front-end stuff that interfaces with ACF.

With that in mind, what would be the biggest timesaver(s) of using Perch?
It's even worse with OneNote.
> The same issue appears already with JetBrains Rider (a C# IDE where the C# parser is implemented in a separate process)

The fact that Resharper (which powers the Rider language processing bits) blocks the VS UI should tell you that this problem lies elsewhere.
1992 is here again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjB4fCPpaM&t=6m38s
Show me some evidence to suggest that drone strikes are making things better in the Middle East. Literally anything.

ISIS didn't emerge ex nihilo. There's nothing in Aleppo's water supply that turns people into mindless killers. They formed as a direct consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the overthrow of the Syrian regime. If we've learned anything from our history of "intervention" in the middle east, it should be that it's incredibly easy to make matters worse through poorly-planned military intervention. The evidence of our failures in this respect is abundant, going back beyond the 1953 Iran coup to The Great Game and the first Anglo-Afghan war.

Drone strikes and bombing sorties might make you feel better, but there's no evidence whatsoever that they're actually improving the situation. It's equally likely that the bombing campaign in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere is just giving another generation a plausible reason to despise the western world.

>If ISIS were in your front yard raping your sister and your mother, setting your toddler brother on fire with gasoline while eating your pet dog for dinner -- would you attempt to negotiate?

I'd take up arms to defend myself, and pray that nobody drops a bomb on my house and calls my death "collateral damage".
"the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government"

I think EuroNCAP would object to that statement, given the list of their members:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/about-euro-ncap/members-and-test...

NCAP results for 2015 test of Tesla Model-S, 82% overall. Pedestrian safety let it down badly:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/tesla/model-s/7897

Compares interestingly to 2013 test of Maserati Ghibli, similar shape to Model S:

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/maserati/ghibli/8874
Now that I was finally able to load the site I must say I'd have liked to have had some basic tutorials to help me get started. It might haven't been in the scope of this site but surely it would have been nice. Also the recaptcha is just a kick in the balls when it starts asking to pick the right squares. I'd have been happy to sign in with G+ just to skip it.
I've read the article and I partly agree with the author: To get the best-possible IDE experience you will need more information than LSP provides.

However I disagree that LSP is completely unacceptable for IDEs. I work daily with VSCode and it's LSP based language support for Typescript, C# and others. The amount of IDE features that I get for Typescript is higher than what lots of real IDEs provide for their inbuilt languages. The quality of the LSP based addons seems mainly to depend on the implementation of the language servers and not on the protocol, e.g. the language server experience for TS is top-notch, the one for C# is OK-ish and the one for C++ is pretty weak.

I see no problem on integrating any-kind of auto-complete support through LSP: The IDE/Editor just sends the position inside a document which needs to be completed and the language server responds with all possible suggestions. There's absolutely no need to store an AST in the editor for that. The AST can stay in the language server for that. It's the same for references to types, refactoring commands, etc. Yes, if someone needs some non-standard "data stream analysis" the command and results for that might not yet be standardized in LSP - but they could be added if it's worth it for the users. And I guess one can also have non-standardized optional extension APIs between a language server and an editor. In the end it's the same: The editor asks the language server (which has full access to AST): Give me "a graph of where the variable comes from, and how it's transformed", and the language server responds in a well-defined way which the editor just needs to render.

And back to the article: The point of the article is not necessarily that a Rust Language Service plugin wouldn't be good enough for 90% of all users. From my point of view it's more that the author is excited about implementing language support themself in their preferred way and as perfect as possible. That's an absolutely reasonable thing. If one is interested in implementing type-interference for Rust or other complex languages themselves then I'm sure it's a great learning experience. However it will also be LOTS of work, which for a huge language as Rust might be outside of the scope which most mortal developers will be able to do in their private time. If the end result is a half-baked implementation for an IDE which is more buggy or has less features than a language-server based solution (which could be shared between multiple IDEs), then nothing has been won. The language server approach helps here in a way that instead of many 30% language implementations (or even abondoned ones) in singular IDEs work can be contracted on one LSP implementation, which might reach 70-80% feature set.