skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only slightly related: I was talking to a parent friend of mine a while back, and we both agreed (he owns a pair) that Snapchat Spectacles are an amazing accessory for parents.

Kids are easily distracted, so if you point a phone at them it'll completely throw them off whatever cute activity it was they were just doing - probably because they now want to play with your phone. No such problem with Spectacles - and not only that, it means you can keep two hands free (not a small issue when one arm might already have a child in it).

The problem is that Spectacles are so tied into Snapchat that it makes sharing the output very difficult. Grandma and Grandpa are not going to use Snapchat, and I'm not sure Snapchat wants them to. You can, eventually, import into Snapchat then export single videos back out again, but they lose the cool display method for circular videos and look awful. But I think they could shift a lot of these glasses with a little rebranding and a spin-off app just for importing videos into whatever destination you want. They'll never do that, though.
Only ROS 2 is implemented on top of DDS. Nobody uses it in practice, and the entire thing is super beta.

ROS 1 is a danger to public safety, and the very thought of it running things like self driving cars, robots that interact with humans, or exo-sceletons is making me sweat.

It is half assed, complex, and most importantly buggy.
To name one example, instead of relying on some general binary serialisation protocol that everybody uses, ROS implements a custom messsage serialisation format with a custom message schema language, that generates code which involves a lot of raw buffer to struct casting.
To verify compatibility between different talking ROS nodes they exchange a MD5 checksum of a normalized text version of the message schema both nodes have.
The issue is that during the normalisation step they accidentally "forget" the arity of variables (scalar, array including it's length, list).
This can cause two nodes to have slightly different message definitions, which ROS will happily cast into a C struct, just smashing whatever data is out of alignment into other fields that happen to be there.

They consider this a no-fix, since a change of the renormalisation step would mean that packages would have to be recompiled in order to be compatible. And they find that forcing their users to recompile their code is too much of a burden for them.

Also in practice TCP is used for everything, with no QoS whatsoever.

ROS 2 dependency on DDS is a whole other can of worms. While DDS seems to work somewhat well in practice, the fact that it's spec is a monstrous nightmare (hey at least they didn't use corba) and that vendors only show compatibility on a yearly "hey the demo kinda runs" event, doesn't make me conviced that this is not introducing more problems than it solves.
Also even if DDS is a fine system, why entrust the same people that wrote ROS 1 with finding sane defaults for it's QoS, and why choose their horrid message serialisation format, and awkward catkin tooling?
Just use DDS, the DDS message serialisation format, and whatever build system you feel like.

So heed my words, stay away from ROS don't touch it with a ten foot pole unless you absolutely have to.

Source: I wrote a clojure port of ROS that doesn't hook into their codegen chain and reimplements their entire system from the centralized master node to the code generation.
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Just like student loans created the monster of exponentially rising college tutiton, it seems reasonable to suspect housing subsidies as a big cause of unaffordable housing (in addition to perhaps zoning laws).
Well, no. ROS 2 does a few things that our stack already does. ROS is a wonderful platform for open source / academic development and building community. We have a fairly tight requirement when doing gov / nasa work that doesn't always work with that model.
Inside of gaming, AMD's open source AMDGPU driver+MESA outperforms similar priced Nvidia cards with their closed stack.

I find it odd that AMD can get the drivers right for gaming but that's about it.
> The good news is that all the capabilities of Firebug are now present in current Firefox Developer Tools.

> Firebug 3 ... was built as an extension to built-in Firefox devtools and eventually integrated directly into devtools.
Here is how it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/KqcRwXY.gif

i.e. "upload with phone, get the file on computer"
Check out Deconvolution[1])

The technique has been done before and the text string of the private key would probably be the easiest point of attack.

WHY BLURRING SENSITIVE INFORMATION IS A BAD IDEA[2]

RESTORATION OF DEFOCUSED AND BLURRED IMAGES[3]

Take away: black out any and all sensitive information. Blurring just marginally reduces the independence of the bits presented in blurred output. To have privacy, all dependence must be eliminated, e.g. black out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconvolution

[2] https://dheera.net/projects/blur

[3] http://yuzhikov.com/articles/BlurredImagesRestoration1.htm
Breeding is increasing the size of the grains.
The only site I know of for gamer matchmaking is NearbyGamers.com - my profile is http://nearbygamers.com/gamers/cugel if anyone is looking for a game between SF and San Mateo.
I'd like the add that I don't think they will fail because they can't make something as good or better then PUBG but rather just like startups there is a lot of luck and timing involved.
They did exist but really weren't used much.

AWS was the first place where a joe-developer could dial up a machine to use without a heavy sales process and involving purchasing, legal etc.

This all played out slowly though : at first AWS was only used for things like running tests, replacing developer desktop hosted VMWare. It took a few years to get to the point where it was used in the way we are familiar with today.

fwiw when AWS (EC2 really) started, Internet/Web services weren't even typically run on x86 hardware or Linux. Solaris, AIX, HPUX et al ruled.
A friend of mine used to look for Series B startups where multiple top tier VC firms had co-invested, and used that to filter down prospective leads. It led him to some very lucrative opportunities.
What: a 600 baud (configurable) pipe and terminal

Why: to experience what it's like to do computing under such constraints, and to learn more about Unix programming.

I find it interesting to see how programs like pagers, web browsers and such deal with screen updates. I'm aware of the role of curses in general terms but it's fascinating to see it in action. For example, running from a PuTTY session scrolling up in less(1) is very efficient as it reuses the scrollback buffer, but not on macOS' Terminal.app (as in the video).

Any remarks or questions re. the concept or implementation are welcome. C programming is a hobby and a lot of this lower level Unix stuff was new territory for me.

Source: https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle
BFR will have enough performance margin to RTL for missions with F9 sized payloads. But eventually customers will want heavier payloads, and that will mean no RTL.
For ex parent's observation is probably spot on if you're comparing MIT/CMU/Stanford/Berkeley to an arbitrarily chosen regional state campus.

I'll readily concur that students from top-tier schools are on average better than students from Podunk schools.

But (based on a wide sampling of data points) I don't see anything like a 1:100 ratio of "better", by any metric.
Is there support for Bhyve?
Local TV and radio stations no longer required to have local studios
My memory might be way off base here, but I'm fairly sure Chrome Dev Tools were in a reasonable state by 2012. Screenshots from the time certainly suggest so. My experience is much the opposite, in that it was around 2012 or so that I probably stopped installing Firefox on my dev machines altogether.

That said, recent features in Firefox (Containers especially) have me much more interested again.
New Yorkers can be charged for possessing folding knives that require force to open.

Don't they mean folding knives that don't require force to open? (Or, more properly, require two-hand operation, as opposed to a knife being openable by sheer "centrifugal force" applied by a flinging motion with the hand holding it)
It’s odd that there would be algorithms classes that don’t require some implementations.
I'm just saying that when the article says "MapReduce", it in no way limits their workload to Hadoop 1 or 0.20.x, as OP seem to have thought.
Unfortunately for everyone, Florida is a swing state. So no-one is going to let them fail any time soon.
Well...St Andrews really isn't Fife ;)
That’s one of my favorites too, although I remember it being one of the easier implementations from my college course. We just did it with fixed width fonts, of course, but the results were still so impressing.
Finding new semantics for constructing computational logic is certainly a good middle-of-the-road innovation.

The philisophical underpinnings of my own research and practice over the past decade are in constant existential friction with many of the most basic assumptions that underlie information theory. I've argued about it on here before. Since I'm terrified of general AI developing under the current power-dynamic, I haven't been too enthusiastic about contributing.

That said, a lot needs to be disbelieved-- we need an ideological grass fire on the great plans, of sorts-- before certain types of phenomenon can be reliably conjured through our electrical counting machines.

We've mistaken the representation with the thing itself, especially in the 'information sciences.' The idea of 'information' and 'data' as 'packets' presupposes the existence of a physical world composed of neatly delineated objects. While this has been and continues to be a convenient and even useful approximation of reality, it is still that-- a representation.

I've never seen this assumption questioned Im CS/IS forums. At this point, it's beyond dogma.

The unbelievable volume and density of the knowledge built in the information sciences, all of it sewn into these base assumptions of information theory, generate in the unwitting practitioner a belief considered as a hard-as-bedrock fact, always presumed but never questioned. It's confirmation bias propping up a simulacra of reality.

Like physics did last century, our latest IS works (like general AI) are hitting the hard limit on these assumptions.

What's next? Try deconstructing it yourself. That's part of the fun, and helpful in the creative process.

In the mean time It would be nice to see new ways of visualizing code and code execution, that's probably a good start.

Code in Motion – An Interstellar Inspired Visualization for the JVM - https://vimeo.com/96317948
Code Galaxies Visualization - http://anvaka.github.io/pm/
Binary data visualization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164166
The Mistake Smart People Make: Being in Motion vs. Taking Action
Precisely. And how could SV be blamed for treating it as such? "Diversity" is not even contextually correlated with class consciousness, and we are only confusing each other when we attempt using it this way.

If enough political pressure is placed on SV over class concerns like this, where would the measurement come from?
It took statistical evidence to get movement on the more biological concerns, but I'm not sure anecdote alone could have done that. Either way, the result will be little more than a website and some youtube videos.
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Perhaps they should contact the Zenit people.
Reminds me of a crackpot theory popular in Serbia where it is thought that the Serbs took control of "Tesla's secret weapon based on the formula v^3=0." The weapon is alleged to allow remote mind control [e.g. 1, in Serbian] and is probably inspired by the death rays/particle beam weapons Tesla wrote about. [2]

[1] http://www.intermagazin.rs/teslino-super-oruzje-izum-koji-ko...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce
Take it from the other direction. Assume a world with an integer "sqorkle", between the integers 3 and 4. It's >3, <4, and not equal to any other integer.

In our world that doesn't have sqorkle, what is 3 modulo sqorkle? Since is less than the modulus, it should just be 3, right? 4 modulo sqorkle: 1, I guess, being 1 above sqorkle? OK, so what about 4 mod 3? It's defined as 1 in our world, but in a world where 3+2=4, that can't still be true, right?

Mathematical constructs are based on patterns that we see in the world. Change the nature of the patterns, and you invalidate the mathematical constructs that we've built up. I'd think that since our constructs would be invalid in sqorkle-land, trying to apply them there will just end up with contradiction. Ditto, trying to apply our math to 6-less-land.
The fact that something not like what the Internet is "supposed to be" can be working is exactly why the Internet is powerful.
"protect" indeed. Sort of how the militarized police, NSA surveillance, no fly lists and etc are designed to "protect" the American people?

The Strategic Hamlet program built barbed wire fences and guild posts around existing or purpose-built villages, enforcing curfew, ID checks, etc supposedly by "villagers" but typically by the army. Collective punishment was administered to villages who "failed" to keep out either communists or "communists".

If you don't consider that imprisonment, what is it?

Basically they copied the British "Kampung Baru" (AKA "resettlement") program with even less success than the British. FWIW British ruthlessness in Malaya was more "effective" than the US in Viet Nam -- there were basically no people of Chinese origin left in northern Malaya. A classic "play one side off against another, using troops from yet another outside group" strategy that had been so effective for centuries.
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I live just a little south of you in Naples and I completely agree with you. These HOA nazi have nothing but time and money to harass the younger families. I don't live in a terrorist HOA community zone any longer because its a nightmare in SWFL.

However, when I visit friends in HOA community its usually the same feeling unless you are over 60. They will give you a citation or stick these very hard guerrilla stickers on your vehicle or property for the dumbest things.Such as not having your garbage can properly aligned , your garage door was open for to long, visitors stayed to long in the visitor parking,etc.

They are typically old, cranky , miserable , and rude.

Once you calm back down after the old geezers charge you like you just committed a felony for leaving your garage door open while you put the grocery away , it becomes hard to not feel bad for their horrible miserable existence.

Seriously review your bylaws and don't dismiss any of them no matter how stupid,outdated, or insignificant they sound in SWFL. They will not only harass you for the little things, they look forward to it in their boring life.

Any time they can bring out the tape measure to see if your garbage can is within the acceptable distance from the street they will.

I have lived in HOA communities in central Florida and it wasn't an issue. However, down here in geezer ville its their passion to harass you.
If video games weren't so utterly dominant as a medium I'd think that a 1983-esque crash was around the corner. I'm blown away by the bald-faced, not-even-trying-to-hide-it, grab-a-quick-buck shitware that's choking Steam these days. And the entire mobile gaming industry, having long since won the race to the bottom, appears to be a glut of thinly-veiled Skinner boxes banking on bored whales and financially-unsupervised children.

And the weird thing is that, otherwise, we're experiencing a golden era of video games. But organic discovery is harder than ever, on every platform.
Exactly. It's the same problem as communication of science to the general public: if you make it 100% accurate, most people either won't understand or won't care. After enough customer interviews you start to get a sense of what gets people nodding their heads, and that's what makes it into these articles. Assuming that statements like this reflect a company's complete understanding of the problem just isn't fair.
Davy Crockett wasn't "alone in the wilderness"; he ultimately led militia and,eventually, regulars. A better example would be Dick Proenneke.

Lots of Engineering leaders started from the garage level, e.g. Gates, Jobs (or Woz), Hewlett and Packard, etc.
A whole bunch of things! I won't bore you, but you can imagine the pain points a team must have solved to deploy it for real:

ROSCORE: a single point of failure. This immediately has a bunch of negative implications on prototyping small nodes and scaling to large systems.

No concept of vehicles, sensors, resources to interact with, and so on. You have to look up what topic to subscribe to, deal with their ad-hoc message types, etc just to connect to a process managing a part of a vehicle / robot.

No semi-persistent data storage is built in, meaning you need separate databases, intra-process shared memory, etc.

Zero multi-agent awareness. You'd have to solve a bunch of problems like adding / disconnecting robots from whomever is running roscore (we don't have one!).

Abysmal command and data routing, and no sub-structures that make it easy to verify commands, ensure the right nodes are in charge, display statuses, discover what nodes are running on a system and how to command them, and so on.

And convenience stuff, like ROS has no command editor for easily scripting a vehicle's actions, without need for programming (though you can program all you want).

And no legacy. We have access to some tried-and-true code-bases here to incorporate.
I think Nathan Grayson writing about his friends is pretty well established at this point: http://www.deepfreeze.it/journo.php?j=nathan_grayson

Although he now writes for Kotaku, not RPS.

techraptor.com and nichegamer.com are pretty good.
Not that there's truly unlimited wired Internet in the US, but as far as I'm aware, most wireless Internet plans are limited, and throttled, so, those are not the same service to compare anyway. More than 10 years ago, some mesh wireless providers were offering some competition, but I don't think they exist anymore, so, Cox' only competition is the ridiculous AT&T DSL service.
I´m very excited for upcoming AMD EPYC enabled dedicated servers and what it means for the market. The number of cores and memory channels is unmatchable by Intel
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You can see it both way.

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So it does make sense for companies to target these schools / universities, it's a matter of efficiency for their marketing efforts.

It doesn't make sense for companies to make it hard for non target schools as they are cutting themselves from lots of potentially excellent candidates (I suspect certain companies to automatically reject applications on their websites if the university isn't one of a list).
Nice and simple tool for 'draw an image, get url' is https://scri.ch
btw we didn't get an invitation btw , it just happened to last (summer) batch :) good luck all!!
I defer to your obvious familiarity with British TV.
You can get rid of THAC0 if you just use this simple rule: roll d20, add the opponent's armor class (plus your own to-hit bonus if any), and a result of 20 or better is a hit.
You're basically hiring for intelligence, but you're not allowed to ask about IQ, so you use bad proxies like the school someone attended.
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No one would complain about that, but few people are that fortunate. In my academic field, I know of some elderly scholars who managed to reach their 80s and 90s. Only two are still in a condition to do scholarship. The rest had, at best, to give it up because they could feel their minds deteriorating, or, at worst, they just completely vanished from the scene and it turned out they were suffering from dementia and their families had to take care of them.

I’d love to live to an advanced age if I could still do what I do now, but I agree with the OP that old age in a deteriorated state would suck.
There are definitely some people that care about short term gains, but there are plenty that are in it for the long term. Virtually everybody with a 401k or mutual fund is in it for long term gains, and I would imagine the amount of people in that basket far exceeds the number of day traders.
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i'll take video games, thanks.
I don't remember it quite like that in this specific case. Rather I heard that there was push back against implementing a completion port model from somewhere (Redhat legal??) fearing patent action by MS. IBM had a mutual license agreement with MS I believe, which explains why AIX has something similar. The patents in question may even be in the set litigated over in the wake of Cutler moving to MS from DEC (which MS paid $$$ for and hence might be inclined to defend aggressively).
IQ isn't an absolute score of intelligence, it's relative and assumes a normal distribution. Someone with a 200 IQ is not twice as intelligent as someone with a 100 IQ, they are ~7 standard deviations better on the score of a test designed to assess intelligence.

IQ is definitely not the end all-be-all of intelligence because you can train yourself to become better at taking IQ tests by taking IQ tests: that's what all those people with >180 IQ who are "the smartest people in the world" did. And of course intelligence is only part of the equation: people could be much smarter than Tesla but simply never become interested in electricity, and even very smart people can make mistakes and arrive at incorrect conclusions (perhaps due to ego as well - we are all human). There are also different forms of intelligence, as some people are much better than others at verbal/spatial/logical reasoning but perform averagely in other categories.

So in general I'd say IQ is not a good way to look at this. We should look more at the fact that mental illness can affect everyone, and if someone starts suddenly making provably false outlandish claims, that doesn't mean they weren't once a great scientist or very intelligent person.