skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a problem here. The various tests used to gain an insight into the age of the earth come back with wildly different answers. The various assumptions made as to the aging processes (radioactivity, mineral dispersal, etc) have been shown to be not according to the assumptions generally used. You need to read up on this research - it is fascinating.

From rocks that are expected to show a specific age of months for their formation and showing millions of years instead, to chemical processes that form crude oil in weeks.

Even the assumption that if the earth is only 10k years then the fossils would have to have been laid down at the start is only an assumption.

There are scientists who are highly trained who believe in a young earth, just as there are contemporaries of them who believe in an old earth.

There are no final arguments that will prove either way. Simply because all we can do is based our estimates on what we believe the evidence says, which in turn is based on the underlying assumptions we make about the evidence.

I have seen such conflicting evidence about how to determine the age of things long past and things today that it has become a subject where opinion is the guiding principle for most people because we just don't know how to properly interpret the evidence. One day we might and may then get a handle on how to age things properly.

As it stands, the entire subject is a storm in a teacup. We have much more important things to concern ourselves with than how old the earth is.
This isn't Golang specific; most statically typed languages are going to fall back on a similar pattern(TypeScript, C#, Javascript, etc). Take a look at AWS's API schemas and you will see. Personally, I loath API schemas designed with the assumption of a dynamically typed language.
Kaieteur Falls is worlds largest single drop waterfall by volume flowing over it
Introduction to Audio Compendium
Your argument was that Qt and Swing apps looking like shit 'could not be further than the truth'. Your counter-examples are a pair of apps that do next to nothing and a really bad app.
> Boumediene is predicated on the idea that the US has de facto sovereign jurisdiction over Guantanamo Bay Cuba.

Indeed.

> No, non-citizens in foreign soil do not have any constitutional rights, including habeas.

I think that depends on the context and the definition of constitutional rights. There's no direct habeas, but longer-term military detention theoretically is only available in an declared military conflict. Which in turn depends on things like the 2001/2002 AUMF, and whether ISIS is a successor of AQ etc.

IANAL and absolute armchair amateur non-US citizen interpretation.

> I'm an appellate lawyer.* In a past life, I was an engineer at a cognitive radio startup.

Pretty damn cool.
It's a trade off, my understanding is that Glowstone's trade off is providing customization through APIs and mechanisms that will last. E.g. simplicity and power at the cost of performance.

As an aside they make a claim that will be familiar to many lisp programmers. Their claim is by providing better power they will improve the average performance in the long run for their users (e.g. people who like lots of mods). Look at it this way, if you use horribly buggy edge cases to build flying machines that's going to take a ton of work for the server to simulate (minecraft flying machines often use tick perfect timings arrived at through - effectively - busy loops); if instead you used a mod that provided flying mechanics, and flying control blocks (e.g. that knew when to inject their logic) you would save a lot of performance. They may not be able to have the fastest server around, but given the things their users will use it for, theirs will probably be faster than those efficient servers in those cases.
Except that, again, you're making assumptions. You're assuming you know why they are trying to do what they're asking about, that they haven't rejected the 'more appropriate' solutions for reasons that are quite possibly outside their control. I have been in this situation a fair amount and it is like pulling teeth to get some people to answer a simple question.
This is "an" option for go, but I prefer a type or kind field. This plays better in other languages like C#, Java, TypeScript, and etc in my experience.
First of all, PIR systems currently do not scale well and secondly, the saying "anonymity loves company" definitely holds true even in your brittle single point of failure example design. Consider a PIR system which is only used by Alice and Bob; a network observer can see that the PIR system is only used by Alice and Bob. Although it's true that you do get all of the properties you mention, this isn't good enough.

PIR systems are interesting and I am looking forward to seeing them be practically deployed. This isn't a competition and instead of bashing something different we could be more welcoming of anonymity network diversity. Further, perhaps you didn't consider that mixnets can be used to construct PIR systems... and that we can also use PIR systems in our mix networks as well. Consider the Loopix design where users send messages to destination Providers which queue messages. The retrieval of these messages could be done using a PIR system.
I would much rather have a robot cook for me, even if I had to wash it’s dishes.
Yeah I did the same calculation. Apparently below $100/kWhr is the 'tipping' point so $75 ought to get things rocking.
The marketing feels so try-hard. Do you need to shit on Macbook because there's nothing to sell otherwise? So passive aggressive.
People who don't join a union still have to pay union fees?
I'm assuming you need to be late in your career in order to do something like this
That's more an abstraction than reality. Frequency hopping means N senders may overlap but the abstraction is independent the IP part of TCP/IP or UDP so the device knows things failed instead of waiting for a timeout on a dropped packet. Thus IP software never sees latency spikes just lowered bandwidth or dropped connections.
But doesnt this also hold true for 2d? Doesnt our brain already jump through hoops to realize that the little man on the tv isnt actually in the tv? None of media is natural. The human brain adapts.
Ah, awesome. Makes total sense now. Thanks!
It's ~ 1/3. Poverty is _defined_ as the bottom third of households. It's defined that way because the poverty researchers quite literally want to create a society in which everyone has the same income. I've worked with these researchers.

I'm not sure that the politicians and media who report on these things fully comprehend what these researchers are saying. In fact, from what I've seen most of the media and politicians in New Zealand lack basic maths skills.
I'm reminded of Clarke's first law: "When a distinguished but elderly [engineer] states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong."

I am sad to Ebert go, his reviews defined the industry, but towards the end of his career he became increasingly hostile toward anything that wasn't "classic" cinema as defined by films which he reviewed during the peak of his career.

By his definition, films were art. New narrative vehicles such as 3D, VR, and even video games were not films and therefor not art.

In this guest post by Walter Murch, he complains that 3D films force the brain to converge focus at objects at unnatural depth of fields - this inability to switch depth of field quickly prevents 3D films from working. It's an uncrossable technological chasm.

I would counter that this argument is flawed on two critical elements.

First, the first film to make use of shifting depth of field was famously Citizen Kane in 1941 - before this, the ability to rack focus just wasn't a thing. Yet films 'worked' before Citizen Kane. To posit that films need this ability to 'work' is to discredit the first 40 odd years of film.

The second is the argument rests on our inability to solve this technological problem - a dangerous and often repeated statement in the history of film. Just as other old men were critical of the viability of sound or color given the enormous challenges the first versions of these technologies had, Ebert/Murch here were critical of 3D at the time when companies like Magic Leap and Lytro were just showing the first signs of promise in crossing this chasm.

"3D doesn't work and never will" is an interesting predication along the lines of "locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches are palpably absurd".
IOTA doesn't have a blockchain, its a DAG.
Which means you're going to be in the slow lane for roughly more than a half of your market.
Despite the fact that I generally agree that 3D distracts more from a film experience than it contributes, I have to recommend that if you ever get the opportunity to see Werner Herzog's 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' in 3D that you do so.

The 3D video captures qualities of the cave paintings you'd never realize in 2D.

And virtually no person alive is going to get to see these paintings in person so it's the closest you'll ever get.
Exactly. I've been using a Thinkpad for my Arch build for years and it's stellar. Does IBM need to shit on Apple like that too? Or are these guys straight out of high school?
I don't think BitMessage scales well at all.
He's not saying anything didn't happen, just that our speculations about differing ideas about what happened should give more weight to the simpler explanations. He also seems to imply that simpler should be defined with some sort of complexity measure that borders on information content in the description. Yet no measure of complexity is given.
A great carpenter can hammer a nail with a screwdriver, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

When the tools help you, a good developer can focus on making better things rather than not making mistakes.
Nah, you're not.

Entitlement only leads to disapointment. It's bad all around, from my perspective.

You can't be entitled to something AND appreciate it at the same time. So, a lack of entitlement of being treated well leads to appreciating more when you are treated well.

If nothing else, its a fun sociology/psychology conversation.
instead of using textures and downsampling them, would a mathematical formula for the dither pattern applied in the shader work best?
Muh generix!
Are Minecraft servers with a massive number of players something common or really not something the average player cares to participate in?

I used to run my own Ultima Online server with an emulator called RunUO about 15 years ago. The same sort of fun I had running that server is what I see people enjoying in Minecraft today. Its really great to see. It was possible back then with a .Net windows server to support 1000+ concurrent clients with very little noticeable lag.

I'm currently working on my own game in Unreal Engine 4 but if I could clone myself I think I would set about creating a Minecraft client that could connect to a RunUO server so that you could achieve those kind of 'MMO' numbers. As well, you could leverage the RunUO codebase to add support for a lot of the Ultima Online functionality (home ownership, spell casting, deep crafting, etc, etc)

What is the best community to look into for supporting massive numbers of concurrent players in Minecraft?
I wish everyone would have tried 3D on a home TV, because in my experience it's far more immersive and special than in a cinema. It's really disappointing to me that 3D TVs aren't being made anymore.
Stellar (https://stellar.org) - is trying to solve real problems: low-cost cross-currency payments, micropayments, enabling mobile bank branches, mobile money and services for the underbanked. Their tooling for integration with FSPs is looking very good.
Canadians are the most indebted in the world, OECD says, warns on rising debt
Because being annoyed doesn't affect them, only you.

Choosing to experience negative emotion because someone does something is self-harm.

When you are entitled to something, you expect it, and you can't expect something and be truly appreciative of it at the same time. When you don't expect good though, the bad doesn't upset you, and the good, you actually genuinely appreciate.
Hard for people, but simple for a computer program to get a high-confidence guess as to which addresses are co-owned
Depending on the size of the original project, it could take months to rebuild the entire thing in Rust from Ruby.

By leveraging this you could quickly re-write some slow parts in Rust, gaining the benefits with only a few days work. It's certainly worth exploring.
Some variation of this is certainly what I would recommend. Elasticsearch API uses the GP's method, interestingly as it's a Java project?!, and is not that fun to work with in certain languages type systems :|
To save power the atomic resonator doesn't run all the time. The practical accuracy is apparently 1.5 seconds per thousand years. Still pretty good.
"lowest common denominator" is kind of a feature, when it comes to something used on a ton of different platforms. The rest can be built up out of those. I'm not saying that html et. al are amazing, just that I am doubtful something could be built that spans such a large vector space, so to speak, so expressively, without being subject to the same complaints.
The only surprising thing in this post is that he got a girlfriend
I know hes not making the claim, but the article itself is based around the hypothetical negative claim.
I went through a similar change. The more movie I saw recently the less I liked them, something was missing. Also I became more aware of movie making, and the fallacy and limits of technology.

I also became a lot more touched by 2D, either games, or painting. Something is impossible to reenact better through a more realistic tech.

Nowadays I also realize that movies are enhanced theatrics. It's very much about planting seeds in the audience, the mean is not the primary factor.
> *sender anonymity

Sender anonymity means that the server (or any recipient) cannot determine who sent a particular message. In your example, the centralized server absolutely knows which tweet-sized message was sent by each sender. So your proposal does not provide sender anonymity. Unless of course, the senders use an actual anonymity system to send their messages to the server...
The cure for this is to get a pentest. It forces you to care.
The difference is that in 2D your focus and vergence are to the same place. In 3D you change vergence as you look around the image but the focus remains nearly constant, which never happens in real life. You're doing a sort of Magic Eye visualization over and over again: you hunt for the right vergence while keeping focus fixed.
This is like saying the human visual cortex will never be stimulatable by exterior means. Oh wait, there are certain drugs that do this already (even though more or less uncontrollably... for now)... Never say never.
Wow you must be a bot, another user posted exactly the same thing!
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I help maintain an open-source project for AWS. The only thanks I need is that you come by the booth at re:Invent and give me a big hug. I'll be the one winking at everyone assuming they remember this comment from HN.
So it's exactly like vs code?
One counterexample to this argument are current VR headsets which work fine despite the vergence accommodation conflict. Sure there are a few people who claim that the mismatch causes them discomfort (though it's hard to separate that from other causes of sim sickness) but it's clearly better than no 3d.

Not that I'm a fan of 3D films anyway, but that's an artistic rather than technical preference.
You can get all of the Keen games for $1.24 right now on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/Commander_Keen/
Not all https://themerkle.com/can-neo-become-chinas-go-to-platform-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld
Let's see what you think when those jobs move outside the US.
My condolences. Its a very unfair match when only one side gets to make the rules.
Right but it's only the hot wallet that has any significant risk. The cold wallets aren't online at all, they're on hardware wallets in geographically distributed safe deposit boxes. Even if someone broke into one and managed to crack the hardware, that'd be just a small portion of their funds.
>>The Most Innovative Man in NASCAR History

Remembers me of the South Park episode about NASCAR...
I wouldn't call this a failure of capitalism necessarily, you could also blame it on a failure of social policies.
The first screen I see on the page has a challenge that at least 8% of males (me included) can't solve. Matching colors is difficult to make accessible so it's no surprise that the example is one I couldn't solve, being partially green blind.
Mr. Pai is probably the worst thing to happen to the free and open internet as we know it. How can we work to oust him? Is it even possible?
I've only ever seen a few 3D films - Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Gravity, Dial M for Murder - but I greatly appreciated the experience in all cases.
Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unresponsive Clostridium diff
> ... a full rollout of Microsoft Office 2016 ... one report suggesting the combined cost with the Windows migration could be higher than €100m.

Yikes!

Wasn't the the migration away from Windows something like €30m?
Getting my elected officials to do stuff I want is hard. I guess I'll go build an autonomous vehicle instead.

Millions of people who are registered to vote simply didn't turn out last November because they thought their vote wouldn't matter, that the candidates would be about the same, or...who knows what else. If just a few tens of thousands of them happened to have voted for Clinton last November, we wouldn't even be having this discussion right now.

And for the record, I think the President should be voted out for a couple dozen things, one of which is NN.
Whatever inconsistencies or anomalies there may be in carbon dating, archaeology, or what have you, none of them lend any credence to the premise that the earth is 10,000 years old, as that age is derived from a numerological interpretation of old testament scripture.
On the data structure: arguing for locked mutation is pretty an tricky because at low volumes it'll be faster and at higher traffic volumes it will be slower.

And since it's a library, who cares?

Golang isn't a language that's old enough to have accumulated a ton dissonance about the "right" way to do things. Golang encourages that kind of code and you see it all over GitHub. Too bad it's something of a trap.
I have a 3D TV and a handful of films that are both decent films and use 3D effectively. It's a good experience but I'm not sure I'd describe it as better than seeing it in Imax 3D. Most of the films that really nail 3D are "big screen" experiences like Avatar that, for me, tend to have more impact on the big screen.
> But if you want small donation money for a webpage, it is very easy. You register a small company for it (cost 20-30€, time 20 minutes at the finance agency. and you can use that company for many other similar things).

Which makes the tax declaration much more complicated. Additionally this can easily cause lots of trouble with the employment contract.
Is there some documentation on how to contribute?
I really wish there was a 3D release of "Captain Eo" - but sadly it seems to be locked in a vault somewhere.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I clicked on the link to her Twitter account, which so far has much higher quality stuff than this thread on HN.

Some fun links:

"Lightning makes new isotopes" http://www.nature.com/news/lightning-makes-new-isotopes-1.23...

"P-values--abused but not abandoned" (includes some nice background on p-values for those of us for whom the concept is a little fuzzy) http://sciencenordic.com/p-values-abused-not-abandoned

A cute video of Feynman answering the question of whether you're seeing an object, or only the light from an object, when looking at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aWBcPVPMo

A single-molecule magnet: https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119...

...and all that's just in the last 24 hours. She's got a fantastic Twitter feed for the science-interested.
I believe Sponge is built on Forge: https://www.spongepowered.org/
For someone curious about synthesis, but intimidated by modulars:

Is this the right place to start for a beginner? Or is modular more for advanced folks? How do you learn about the world of synthesis to start?
"module.doSomething()" is more explicit than "doSomething()"
The comment I was replying to was about deduplicating code that is "literally the same". In that case, you wouldn't make the code more or less buggy if you collapsed the multiple copies of the code down into one, and no deep structural changes would be involved in refactoring.

If there are actual changes involved in refactoring, I have no a priori expectation of whether that reduces or increases bug count, and I can see good arguments that it's likely to increase them, since you're making the code more complex in order to satisfy the demands of multiple consumers and therefore exposing each consumer's unique complexity to the other as bug surface. (Case in point: Heartbleed resulted entirely from a little-used extension to DTLS, a variant of TLS over UDP, which 99+% of OpenSSL users never cared about.)
The third counter is that I’ve seen a bunch of 3D movies and it works just fine.
Stwreoscopy is designed to work for a single viewer in a sweet spot. If that setup is correct, it works beautifully. VR headsets master that aspect perfectly. However, a cinema must accommodate many viewers and this means that most of them must content with a less than optimal setup. Actually, I find it a little bit curious that the human brain can cope with the resulting distorted perceived disparity as well as it does.

Someone would need to come up with a true light field display. This would make steroscopy work for the whole area in front of the display. Paul Debevecs team made a daring proposal a couple of years ago to build a light field display from an array of Pico projectors, each one acting as a single pixel of the display. The viewer would need to look directly into the projectors. It seems that this project never got off the ground, though.
As someone working for a huge multinational, the reason for this is that purchasing 'non-standard' software or services is an absolute nightmare. It can take months of back and forth, to and from, getting passed from pillar to post.. eventually you just give up!
I really think (and hope) that VR will be the medium for watching 3D movies. They don't solve the IPD issue, but when I have found 3d bluray movies that work for me without issue, the comfort level is great, the immersion is great. Once VR hmd's get really high resolution and start to look very sharp, it'll be a next level experience i think and everyone will want movies in 3D (hopefully)
Which features? Looks like (arithmetic, not bitwise) AND/OR/NOT are supported, I'm not an expert but it seems like this could be do-able. I'll have to think about this more maybe I'm missing something.
The error seems to be that `if let val = Some(1)` should be `if let Some(val) = Some(1)` (i.e. the pattern match should have extracted val, which is what the ? operator does as well).

I think it would have been much clearer to have 1 function which took a parameter of type Option<u8>, then did something with it after extracting with ?, then call it twice, once with Some(1), once with None. In addition I'd probably do something with val (e.g. add 1). And to prevent easy conversion to the if statement you could make the early return explicit by doing the extraction somewhere in a loop (so that you can't get at it with nested if statements).