skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Google is really tor/proxy/anonymous user unfriendly. Requiring users to solve as many as four or five CAPTCHAs (seriously fuck you google).

They're like this for a reason. They didn't implement complex detection of proxies to annoy users. Just to keep everyone out who's not supposed to use their search.
> That's not dismissive -- no one has ever made any program that outputs a string of images indistinguishable from a real camcorder. It's just that hard.

> Note the important distinction: no one, anywhere, has ever created a real-time video simulation indistinguishable from the output of a real camcorder

You redefined what you're talking about: clarifying that it has to be real-time. What if someone generated 2 images within 1/24th of a second? Would that would count as a 33.367ms long video?

To learn more about how the eye interprets the structure of light, I recommend skimming Minnaert's Light and Color in the Outdoors (won't cover motion).
But Merkel does indeed change her mind all the time. Not even trying to be judgmental but her politics are really populist. She has not a clearly defined platform, just whatever is agreeable with the electorate.
Game developers don't write tests. They pick up habits along the way and keep them for a long time. The code might be crap, but they know their crap very well and can debug it. There is less need for tests because most code never rarely refactored or being touched at all. It's already in the familiar style, why change anything?
> And yet, no one has. :)

Plenty of people have. How would you spot it in a movie or music video?
There used to be a concept of google-fu, where writing search queries was a skill in itself. I got quite good at finding what's needed. Then, over time, search results became less and less useful. I noticed that search results seemed to be weighed more on my history than the query written. I'd get results with words synonymous to web page titles I'd recently visited, but otherwise no connection to my search. To get decent results now I have to use incognito or change the search settings to be "verbatim." I hoped things would get better, but years later things are the same.

DDG gives more predictable results. It reminds me of why I started using Google over other search engines decades ago.
Hell yeah duckduckgo owns
I agree. With great power comes great responsibility. Just because you can leave out all punctuation with CoffeeScript, it doesn't mean you should.
Yeah, sorry about that. It is not really you, it is that I have had this conversation over with more people before, and my tolerance have grown thin.

But other than the epithets, my point stands. Knowing what an eigenvalue is, or how to calculate it, is not the only type of intelligence there is around, and not necessarily the most important one. You can tell that is a fact and not an opinion by checking what percentage of the world leaders (both of government and of industry) are engineers or scientists. Furthermore, if you look at people like Angela Merkel, who is a trained scientist and a world leader, you will notice they did not reach that state in life by knowing lots of math and science, but by noticing conventional politicians have a different type of cunning, and by applying their very big brains to outsmart those politicians in their own game.

In other words, your complain about lack of scientific awareness in the article is a red herring. It may be accurate, but it is not useful because the political purpose of the article does not depend on that. You could tell it even is a feature because the intended audience of the piece also lack scientific awareness.

So, you can freely choose to feel loathing and to disregard the artice, or you can choose to acknowledge it as an attempt to shape public perception in a way that harms the interest of your industry/profession. If you put it in those terms, calling "fault, unfair!!!" in a game with no referee and no explicit rules is a strong indicator that you are loosing and cannot cope.
It's a slightly different kind of populism. Some called it 'Regierungspopulism'. She orientates her policy towards the public opinion of the majority of the people and aims to maintain her power. She looks very carefully what the public opinion is, when it changes and then works in that direction. Opponents claim she is a populist of the middle. She is not so much driven by a program or an ideology, but she does what is popular at any one moment. As I already mentioned this view of her was then questioned during the refugee crisis where she not did support the willing to help part of the population, but also defended this when there was a more critical opposition rising, including in her own party and the sister party.
The problem is that for spainyards Catalonia is just the old and rich colony. And they want to continue plunde it :(

If you look at a map you will understand the reason for why spain wants to hide and prevent a referendum.
Great insight, thanks for sharing!
You can mine in a pool that distributes the pool's winnings proportionally to hashpower to its members. You don't need to actually mine any blocks on your own.
> Closing all of the Nuclear power plants after Fukushima was a bit of a dumb reactionary move. It's shifted power generation from emission free Nuclear to dirty emission heavy coal

There was a plan in place since 2002 to shut down all nuclear plants by about 2020 (plus/minus some, since the criteria was amount of power emitted per plant).

That plan was cancelled in 2010 by Merkel, replaced by a more generous plan (deadline: 2022) a year later after Fukushima.
Yes, older cars are so much better in this way. These interfaces are garbage, the hardware is laggy and the whole thing is ugly and filled with latency, but it hardly matters because physical controls will always be better.
To clarify, I wasn't referring to animation. A camcorder is the only instrument that can produce a series of still frames that look identical to what a human observer saw in the same spot.

All simulated video falls short of that goal. But a camcorder can! That's why it seems like if we throw out our physics simulations and try to mimic a camcorder's output, we could do the same thing in software. Our renderer would look real by definition -- it'd be considered a bug for the renderer's output to deviate too far from whatever the camcorder would've recorded in the same orientation in real life.

I'm not saying it's a worthwhile goal, just that no one has achieved it yet. This seems like a possible strategy.

If anyone knows any prior research along these lines, I'd appreciate the references. It's pretty common to use a camcorder to tune an art pipeline, but the proposal here is to use the camcorder to force every single aspect of all rendering stages to produce a final output that looks identical to whatever the camcorder would capture in real life.

It's the total absence of artistic freedom: you wouldn't even be able to move the lights around in the simulation during the training stage, since the training corpus is a real-world scene with corresponding lights. But afterwards it (hopefully) would be able to extrapolate what other scenes should look like, just like an experienced painter can.
> How can I empirically determine if some object/animal/thing possesses consciousness?

You can't, that's just the issue and that's what gives rise to behaviorism, solipsism, etc. etc.

Sure, you could arbitrarily decided that some brain state Y recorded by instruments xzw in the field of neuroscience is a state of 'consciousness' but this is hardly a step up from heuristic methods we've used since the dawn of time, namely duck typing--if the thing looks like its conscious, and acts like its conscious, it is probably conscious.

Consciousness is one of those problems that becomes more problematic once you harp on it but only presents itself as a problem in practice in very rare cases.

Sure you could argue the issue will gain in relevancy as AI + machine learning becomes more sophisticated--but at this point there's still very much an uncanny valley that enables us to easily differentiate between biological and purely computational/mechanical systems.

When it comes to consciousness I think we do well to remember Wittgenstein's advice on doubting--that a doubt is really only worthwhile when it's useful in some fashion. To doubt just for the sake of it, or just because we can is usually not productive and leads us nowhere. Doubts are useful insofar as they are precise and rub up against propositions we hold true with some degree of firmness (actually to be able to doubt at all requires we hold some confident assertions, e.g. one of them in the case of studying consciousness: "no matter what the study says, I'm confident at the very least, that I am conscious").
I've been using it for ~ 4+ years and it's great most of the time. I sometimes jump to Google if I can't find what I'm looking for, but these excursions generally aren't very successful.
Maybe he didn't mean the metaphor was the problem, but the sentence following it (about making things look better for ddg)? Depending on interpretation, that could be undue discredit to ddg...

That would make this a bit of an ironic comment, no? :p
This discussion yesterday covered a lot of the tree style tab options:

"Show HN: Doogie – A Chromium-Based Browser with Tree-Style Pages " | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15277351

Does anyone have experience with the freemium Chrome extension Tabs Outliner mentioned there?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
Sounds like an interesting study, have the source?
That would mean blogs are either excluded or suddenly get thousands of bot visits per hour.
I think the main driver of the inflated base price is there is no cost transparency wethere you have insurance or not. Have you ever gone to a doctor and known the costs ahead of time or shopped around for the best price?
This emphasizes why companies need to post bonds in case of a breach. They shouldn't have to be sued after the fact. Security should be priced in up front so they have massive financial incentive from the get go to protect confidential government data.
Badly.
Minor details would make a huge difference. Why do you think we use motion capture of humans to animate 3D models?

Watch Cloverfield, there's a ton of CGI involved dumbed down to camcorder quality.
Hydrogen is a non-starter. Many leakage, cost of energy, risky transport issues to overcome.
The Spanish people voted yes to democracy, not to the constitution.

Please don't spread misinformation.

You're confusing the referendum for politic reform of 1976 with the constitution of 1978. BOTH were voted in national referendum by free, direct and secret vote.

If you were suggesting that people didn't vote freely because fear, you are wrong.

My generation did not vote for the constitution, and many of us dislike it.

That's OK. There are, in the constitution itself a sort of ways to ammend it. If you have enough votes, you can do mostly everything.
Games need more. The occluders from the paper completely absorb light. A more realistic occluder would also reflect light.
I fail to immediately see on what grounds would inspector "come out to check" your water heater. I imagine you don't give back anything to water grid or any other grid. Maybe it is a concern that incorrectly installed water heater might explode and damage other people's property? Is it a gas heater?

Otherwise, you are not 15 years old that need supervision, why would anybody come to take a peek in your life? Since when do you owe them anything?

What if tomorrow an inspector will come to check the state of your underwear? Where does it end?
> currently operating nuclear plants that have gone without incident

Gone without incident, or just gone without incident documentation?
There seems to be an awfully good success rate in finding unreported incidents when people start looking a bit more closely.
Yes, there are plans for others. Orbital is not tied to the lower level framebuffer driver, so it would be possible to write or port other GUI stacks.
Pay with cash, pump, then go inside to collect your change. That’s what I’d do. And if you prepay inside with your card, you still should be able to go inside for change.
Yes. My wife and I have three kids. We have at least four Chromebooks sitting around the house for anyone to pick up and use. We used to have a couple OS X machines, but other than occasional video editing that we now do in the Instagram app, they were never used for anything a Chromebook couldn't do. My kids' schools all use Chromebooks, too, so it's easy for them to resume work when they get home.

I am an engineering manager at Google. I carry around an Asus C302CA for meetings, and I'll occasionally use it to SSH into a corp machine. I do have a Linux workstation at work for coding.

I also use the nearest Chromebook to SSH into a personal VPS where I keep stuff I want online other than the usual cloud content. And I have a couple Raspberry Pis at home for misc hacking.

The main value of ChromeOS to me is that the machines never break, and other than making sure my family enables U2F on all their accounts, there aren't any best practices, fine-tuning, or maintenance for the fleet of machines that I maintain as a dad.

Favorite models including years past: Acer C720 (fast and cheap but screen wasn't great); Toshiba Chromebook 2 (IPS, full HD, love the keyboard); Google Pixel 2 (remains the perfect laptop of any kind, but it was hard to find in quantity); Asus C302CA (currently the best; great screen + touch, OK battery, hinged design is very nice for impromptu shared viewing sessions and presentations).
Not yet anyway, laws take time. I hope it doesn't become law (and I suspect it's too extreme for that, even for Russia.) But it gives you an idea of the way things are trending there.
NanoEvents – event emitter for JavaScript in just 130 bytes
Sometimes, it feels Google is increasingly useless at finding those niche websites because all the noise has time to do search engine """optimization""".

I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... but it should come with pre-compiled lists, like uBlock Origin.
>Chromebook Pixel units in that it folds into a tablet

Folds? That is far inferior that the iPad Pro and Surface (two most serious competitor, particularly Surface). Surface has the opportunity to dominate the market.

God, if this was detachable, I would ditch surface for this in heartbeat. Running linux command line app. Running Chrome apps natively. Running android apps (in foreseeable future). It is like dream, if it was detachable.
They just built this nice pedestrian bridge that goes along a 6 lane 45mph road by my place. It's got a nice trail on either side, that completely dead ends and you have to try to walk on a 30 degree incline of grass next to the road, or brave getting hit by cars doing 55mph on a road with no shoulder. There are two ways to get around this large bay and this is one of them. The other way is this bridge: http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles38924.jpg
Depends on what you're using it for. A common use-case is cottages that run off the grid, which are only used in the summer half of the year anyway.
For a straight-text book, actually, Markdown is excellent. You can include images, or for technical content, tables, easily.

Technical papers with formulae and complex references are slightly more detailed, but that ends up being gloss. Even LaTeX for a simple text is quite minimal (though you need the starting template).

Source: I've made something of a hobby of marking up source docs into HTML, LaTeX, and Markdown. Of the set, Markdown would be my first go-to, and I've used it for some book-length projects.

Example here:
https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/lhw2eq4qmnnwxijlcrfyba
Yes, as Daniel Dennett says, groping around trying to find the right questions is what philosophy is. The confusion can be upsetting for both philosophers and non-philosophers. Creating a space for questions and contradictory ideas is a must for any intellectual activity, however.

>18th-century scientists trying to make sense of heat

All that mucking about with the problems of phlogiston could have been a necessary step towards thermodynamics. Similarly, speculations about consciousness could turn out to be a necessary step towards AGI (or vice-versa).
Not sure what your lifestyle is like, but I think you would be surprised by how many people are willing to do weekend DIY projects on their homes, especially if they will save them money.
Not sure. We just got termios support, and pthreads is WIP, so many programs like emacs should be portable.
Which is not so easy to get from what I heard of.
It's highly partial, and it says nothing about the opposition not allowed to talk. It does say that there was a bitter debate, though, and that it was interrupted twice. It only quotes members from parties against the referendum.

And we have interruptions in every other session of both the Spanish and Catalan Parliaments, from all political spectrum. That's what makes Spanish politics so amusing.

I have to say though that it'll be hard to find a partial accounting of the story, given the state of Spanish media.
I was replying to the performance of the application.

Debugging: Fair enough. VSCode is starting to stray toward IDE, which the others described specifically exclude. They focus on the text editing and leave the debugging for other specialized programs. VSCode would make sense to be an IDE since it's coming from a Visual Studio lineage though.

Multiple Projects per Workspace: Sublime has this as a project can have any number of folders added to it. A sublime project is equivalent to a VSCode Workspace unless I'm missing a nuance somewhere. Vim and Emacs are less useful in this regard, though they have project management plugins. Most of the time, Vim and Emacs will just save off a workspace in what they call a "session". You can load the session and be exactly where you left off (down to the cursor position). These can also be configured to happen on startup/shutdown.
Can you take code written for the initial Mac OS X release, compile it and run it on the last version? You can do that for Windows.
The rapid pace of new GPU hardware releases is a deterrent to owning GPUs for sure. The K80s currently on AWS/GCP/Azure aren't the greatest, but they will all soon have Pascal P100s and may be even V100s in the near future. Not to mention TPUs, which will only be available on Google Cloud
> linking to encrypted.google.com not only is not necessary but it prevents local search results from being displayed. e.g. no google.ro search results, only google.com

I can only see this as a good thing. If I want local search results, I'll add local qualifiers like "USA", "Texas", "Houston"
Twitter strikes against terror, removes almost 1m terrorist-related accounts
> who changes their minds all the time

Like cancelling the 2002 nuclear shutdown deal in 2010 and then reenacting a new, poorly planned one in 2011 because a plant several thousand miles away ran into issues?
I can already do that on a 300 euro laptop, which was sold with Ubuntu installed on it.
My belief is that consciousness is the ability of an organism to model the world and predict the future. Any organism that doesn't just react is on the consciousness spectrum. When a creature is presented with two or more choices and has to decide which will have the best outcome, it is making a conscious choice.

The problem with starting at human consciousness is our consciousness is to advanced to easily grasp. We can not only internally model our real world very well and make predictions years in advance, we can make up completely coherent 'fake' worlds. The problem with animal consciousness is we have no means of a coherent model of what is occurring in their minds.
It would be nice to have a date on the announcement page. I can only assume it was published on/around September 17, 2017 by looking at the changelog.
I don't like Facebook or the decisions they've been making more a company, and I don't particularly like React
I personally will use Redox once it is self-hosting as a desktop. However, there is a long, long way to go - wireless, graphics, and audio drivers must be improved.
How is this different than Windriver Linux?
Yes, that's why I claim it's a local thing :)
Or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15293011 ?
How Much Does It Cost to Build a Chat App Like SnapChat?
Study: Small Drones Unlikely to Cause Head Injuries
>Both parties are roughly equally split between moderate and more extreme wings

This is simply untrue and false equivalence.
"Fortunately, drivers in this area seem to be fairly friendly to pedestrians, and will yield to people crossing the street."

That's part of the infrastructure too. Unfortunately it's a part that is easily lost. I went to university in a city that had that culture -- 25 years later that culture is gone as a resource boom pulled in a significant number of newcomers.
You beat me. I was coming with "and very small rocks."
Firefox 57/Nightly! Do it.
The obscure sites are what make the core of the internet, at least in my circles.

But having a way of making sure that a certain topic or genre of sites is well indexed locally would work. I.e. "my" top 100k. Oh, how awesome would that be.
Is Apple still detail-oriented?
China breakdown on exchanges has begun before the ICO rage. Top exchanges did hold crpyto withdrawals for all their users for a long period of time (several months).

I think it is a little bit of 1. China understanding the risks posed by bitcoin capital flight and 2. bitcoin turning from a small community to $100bn+ market thing.

Needless to say this is about all crypto and not just bitcoin.
And what, exactly, does a Chromebook offer?

Take this $1K device.

Hardware-wise, for that kind of price you can get a nice laptop. Heck, for $200 extra, you can even get a MacBook pro if you wanted.

Software wise, the value proposition looks even worse. Apple can justify that price tag because you are buying into the Mac ecosystem. Windows laptops can justify the price tag because, well, Windows is what people expect.

Chromebooks, however, have a "mobile-OS-pretending-to-be-a-desktop-OS" OS, irrevocably tied to the cloud and Google's services that runs "apps" and web applications disguised as desktop applications. Barf.

It's so bad that most people that cheer for these devices say "just put Linux on it".

Yeah, you know where else I can stuff Linux onto? Nearly every other Laptop in existence. Last 3 laptops in which I stuffed Linux Mint "just worked". WiFi, Bluetooth, suspend, everything. I'm either a fantastically lucky bastard, or maybe things aren't shit anymore (hint: I suck at poker).

Chromebooks made sense in their niche, as the next iteration of a netbook. One step above tablet (has a keyboard), but several steps (and dollars) below a full blown laptop. Once you cross that threshold, the value proposition looks like crap, because you can generally get a much better device.
> moral principles

Some Bavarian politicians may have other moral principles. But Merkel defended the German constitution which has no limit for asylum seekers and she also followed her christian upbringing.

THE whole CDU is clearly not right anymore, but take Erika Steinbach as an example of the (former) right wing. Or the critics from the CSU. There is also a large group of voters right from CDU/CSU - a voter domain which other politicians from CDU/CSU also claim(ed) for themselves. Politicians from the CDU moved to the AFD ... a prominent example is Alexander Gauland, who was 40 years member of the CDU.
Miss World 2000 has "Too many secrets"...

Love those references. If you have not seen it yet go watch Sneakers (1992). I am getting old - I remember when it was fresh :-)
Looking for Life on Mars? Start with Microbes in Antarctica