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Nope it should be under your pinkie to get the span of your hand. Otherwise you're constantly crossing the fingers into an ok for which atrophies the muscles. You're wearing the joint and nerve of the thumb. "Cut" should be left hand pinky on Ctrl and left hand index finger on C. Similiar for paste. Most shortcuts cross the keyboard. Often left hand ctrl and right hand key in such a way as to extend both hands out.

As to brew there was some argument back when I first installed it that it should run as sudo. Then that was found to be terrible, but unless one really gets into brew and all that, figuring out how to undo the mess is neigh on impossible. So my answer was screw it. I do most of my server work in Linux VMs. Anything I need I'll just work in those too.

Then there's the terrible productivity from loosing shortcuts. You see, in the non-Apple world, the Alt key brings up the menu. Now if one pays attention, they can find that hitting Alt + Lettered Key can pick the menu that opens. Further, a bit more sleuthing shows that (while holding Alt, often) letters within the menu items get little bars under them. By pressing that letter while the menu opens, the software reacts as if the mouse manually scurried across the screen to the menu, then down to the sub item and then clicked it. The benefit is that more shortcuts opened up. IDE became even more powerful by allowing chording (like a piano). Unlike Emacs, the chords are often dual handed so the hands span more than contract. Interestingly, while the precise keyboard strokes are different, the general idea transfer across most windowed environments in Linux and Windows. Apple eschewed this for reason I don't know, and won't deign the idea they did it solely out of hubris back in the Lisa era.
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I wonder about those samples. The Chinese I would expect to be kind of garbage going off BLEUs from published papers, but the French and German should be great. Am I imagining it, or do they just not sound like RNN translations? The RNN translations in my experience tend to flow well and are comprehensible, albeit sometimes just wrong because they picked a wrong semantic interpretation. But these samples sound like the older phrase-based translations, where they immediately descend into word salad. As people noted at the time, the jump in quality for French/German was so large that people knew when the new translations went live without Google publishing anything... (I assume Hofstadter at least was careful enough to do his sampling after the new RNN translations were opened up.)

Google doesn't discuss how it rolls out the translation upgrades, exactly, and it's an uneven deployment. Can any Googlers comment on the possibility Hofstadter was using the old translations? Or can any NMT researchers compare and contrast his examples with current SOTA models?
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There is an option for a 'digital-only' subscription on the subscription page, although the price does not seem to change upon selection of this option.
> It may be plausible that X did Y because of Z but that is not really supported by any facts and could as well just be a correlation.

Any historical work at the abstract high level of societal forces and societal evolution has the same problems though. How on earth do you prove that X did Y because of Z with facts?

The fact that the format is less familiar seems to just be making it more apparent that history is interpreted.
A train is a bad airplane, got it.
Longtime Stripe user and did about a year long stint with Adyen. Stripe beats Adyen on ease of integration, ease of using the back office, chargebacks, etc hands down.

Adyen had a better story for omni-channel commerce with card present, but they made us integrate with COM. COM! Apparently they have card present readers coming out that allow you to send some JSON.

In the end after hundreds of hours invested in it, we ditched Adyen. We did have it running in production, BTW. Their pricing was not any cheaper than we got from stripe with interchange plus.
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I really hope you are joking.

That is the opposite of how things work.

Companies that won't post salaries are fucking always lower than they should be.
That is true, but I never understand why mix and match uppers and lowers? Why use a DPMS lower with a Sig upper? Makes no sense. Best I can figure is that in a war situation with a gun of questionable stability, swapping parts might give you an advantage in survivability.
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A very close friend of mine recently received a master's degree in Philosophy at Columbia. She definitely did not fit the mold of many students who were there, being a conservative and an active duty pilot in the military who was preparing to teach at an academy. She found many people and professors to be open minded and mostly fair. However she experienced a few professors of the type described here, where the authority of the professor was used in ad hominem attacks on disfavored groups. Voicing any dissent was greeted with scorn and disgust.

One of the interesting things, at least about the graduate program, is that you can take many credits as "R credits", meaning you don't get graded. You have to show up and submit research papers, but they don't get graded. The idea, I think, is to focus on the learning and not focus on getting an A. I think this can also give the students the ability to disagree with vindictive professors without getting their academic career derailed. I think this really works to provide more intellectual freedom to students at Columbia, and my friend had a good experience there.
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Ohh yes cinelerra too long time back, it is very nice. But as i said Blender i just the stuff for me. Shortcuts and everything.
This hasn’t been my experience, I’ve only spent the money for a leather case once (always used to go caseless) but I’ve had this case for more than a year and It’s held up beautifully.
I didn't expect to find a LoL post on ycombinator. I used to be a huge LoL and DoTA player as well, played moderately competitively, but I don't play those anymore since they suck too much time up.

A couple years back I went to The international Dota 2 in seattle for the first time with a buddy. Its a whole different dynamic actually playing DoTA / LoL vs watching professionals esports teams live with other attendees for 7 - 10 days in a row. The closest analogy to this is watching a football game on TV vs actually going to the stadium and seeing it live.

You get back into the spirit of competition there, since everyone else is, even if you haven't played in years.

Its only fun IMO if you don't go to an esports outing often though, otherwise it'd get dull after awhile.
This was addressed in an earlier reply

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286653
Really insightful. Kudos!
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It is not that way in oz, it was ruled illegal.
I've noticed the author's view is becoming more common, within the past year.

It's the inevitable reaction to extremism. I accept the existence of privilege but I believe that militancy about it is counterproductive.

Using the state of black people in America as an example, certainly they have higher poverty rates than whites because of slavery and continued discrimination, but there are problems within the black community that must be addressed by the community itself. Broken homes are a huge problem which perpetuate poverty but within the privilege centric framework it's racist to even mention this.

Of course slavery is ultimately to blame for all of this, but focusing on it will not undo it.
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> anytime you buy a cryptocurrency means someone else is trying to cash out.

The reason people sell stuff is usually to optimize their portfolio construction, not because they think the price is going to go down. Just because you think something is going to go up 10x in the next year doesn't mean it's a good idea to hold onto it.
I agree. The alternative to not having the notch is having a smaller screen AND still having the top status bar. So we've ended up with a good half-inch of extra main app space with the app.
Rev works really well but an actual human that transcribes what you say and it takes a day.
Yeah, but the thing is that you can't show that. There's no possible way you can show that. Because it isn't true. So whatever you are making up to show that is really just a big lie. And it feeds the anti-ad hatred that also doesn't exist here.
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I wouldn't get too carried away.

During the height of the Texas Hold 'Em boom a decade ago, "Poker" was one of the top-level nav items on ESPN's website ("WWE" is one today).

As another comment reply has already alluded to, chess was frequently labeled a sport during its heyday in the years between Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov.

What is a "sport"? Any form of competition that makes money from spectators, and from which writers can make money writing about. Period. It fluctuates over time, often quite rapidly.
Isn't it funny to think that by the end of this century. We may make actually progress toward solving the problem. Of what it feels like to be a bat?

What is it like to be a bat? By Thomas Nagel

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How on earth do you prove that X did Y because of Z with facts?

[Auto]biographies, letters, interviews of friends, family members and companion, diaries, records about the books they lent from the library, intelligence records ... we know quite a lot about the motivations of well-researched important personalities. It would of course still not be a proof of mathematical rigor but such sources would definitely lend a lot of credibility if they are itself reliable.
> Currently, the only officially supported Python version for Veros is Python 2.7 (64-bit), which should be the standard Python interpreter on most systems.

Couple questions:

- Who cares if it's the standard Python on most systems? You shouldn't be installing things in to the system Python anyway.

- Why start a project like this in Python 2? It's going to be EOL in a couple of years. New projects should absolutely be started in Python 3. I can't see a reason for starting anything new, intended for distribution, in Py2.
What are the best, less well-known blockchain white papers?
I know Ethereum and Bitcoin are the prime examples of the white papers for blockchain. What are less known high quality white papers that you have come across?

Asking because I often see mentions of blockchain / ICOs followed up by accusations of scam based on the quality of the white-paper, so really curious to see the ones that have better white papers. Thank you
To piggyback off what you said -- "best" is much harder to define in driving compared to chess and Go, because those games have a much more defined victory condition than does normal driving. How do you "win" at (non-competitive) driving? A driver with a 0% accident rate might not necessarily be better if they drove at a speed of 0.5 mph.
It’s the same story every time Apple releases a new product. People who overwhelmingly don’t buy Apple products in the first place lose their minds over some nit, while the overwhelming majority of their actual customers never seem to understand what the big deal is.

I’m not surprised at all: these people knee-jerk so hard and often, they probably can’t afford Apple products after the paying for orthopedic surgeons.

And the “ignorant Apple fanboy” narrative that seems to be the counterargument to this falls laughably short when you realize that the number of Apple’s customers has been increasing exponentially for the last fifteen years, all while they continue to enjoy the top spot in consumer satisfaction surveys across virtually their entire product line.
I don't follow the argument. Both are competing to be a development machine. I contend that Linux is superior when operating the memory subsystem, machine maintenance (like removing the drive or battery), and general ergonomic usability. OS X beats Linux on the laptop for battery power, keyboard layout (I know people don't like th chicklet keys, but every Linux laptop has an integrated number pad which cramps things to the left), and chassis. System76's plastic does feel cheap.

My personal choice is that the benefits of Linux outweigh the benefits of Apple. Apple is expensive by half (my laptop has a slightly slower CPU than my old Mac but 32 GB of RAM vs 16 and new SSD with a replaceable battery. The Mac would be $2600 vs the Linux $1500). For example, my wife's laptop is my old i7. Not the best i7 any more, but it still runs quick, has 16 GB of RAM, a new battery and a new SSD. To get that same capability, I would have had to pay $2400.
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I've dropped plenty of phones plenty of times and they've never broken.
Are there still people like you alive? Luckily the inability to procreate will solve this issue soon.
There is an about:config setting called spoofSource which does the same thing I think - see comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16286542
Ah sorry, was going to offer in person meeting if you were in the bay. I might have gone through similar phase myself - it is very blurry last couple years, but this year found something that keeps me running.
> Over time, your production staging and dev all become entirely heterogeneous.

I've found that this is simply the reality, excepting test-only environments. Developers need to be able to run the applications out of an IDE, compiled with special instrumentation, or whatever else they need to do. It's not possible to support every combination of what they need.

Also, there's some significant developer overhead sometimes. I had another team give me a set of VMs for their product, so I could test a new config. It was great in that it was just like production, but not so great in that it was just like production. How do I log into these VMs? How does authentication work? Where are things located on the VMs? How do I generate an updated VM? You end up having to train everyone in dev ops, because you've handed them a copy of production.
No LTS is fantastic -- as long as you don't expect me to put it in production. ;)

k8s is a tale of woeful, hilarious levels of platform immaturity jammed down the public's throat by the Google PR machine. I believe Kubernetes is a centerpiece in Google's cloud play against Amazon (I don't think it will be successful), and that this consideration drives a lot of the particular weirdness and distortion that exists around it.

It'd be a whole different ball game if they discouraged production use and told people "We can't even commit to keeping this up to date for one single year, whereas all other enterprise vendors offer 5 years or more, you'd be silly to think this was ready for prime time." But they don't, because then you don't have starry-eyed brogrammers saying "DUDE, we gotta get on k8s so we can be like my homies in Mountain View, aw man, it's so awesome! It says Google Cloud is the best way to get Kubernetes, call 'em up!"

I feel sorry for anyone who was naive enough to say "Well, if Google does it, so do I!" and jumped headfirst into this bear trap, making themselves collateral damage in a pissing contest between two megacorps.

Source: I work with people who decided to move our entire infrastructure to Kubernetes. We have now run virtually everything on k8s for over a year. I'd feel sorry for them, but they left the company some time later, so now I just feel sorry for me. :)
This is horrible and I believe the user should be informed.

Personal data in 3rd party referral is only one of the many side effects. If personal data is available in the URL as query string, chances (very high chances) are that the same data is perfectly visible in clear in the web server logs, and from there only God knows where it's spread, including all the 3rd party services used on the backend side.
Crypto coins are sooo 2017.
> subdivided triangles are smaller than a single pixel, you only need to run the pixel shader once, and you don't have to worry about perspective correct texturing.

>It would be near impossible to implement this at real time in hardware.

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I think a key issue with them is they've caused a harmful reduction of available affordable rented accommodation in many areas. All those "amazing properties with prime locations for reasonable price" are now no longer available to local residents to rent.

It's a thing that's happened around my rural'ish village. There used to be a reasonable supply of rented properties but many have turned into AirBNB lets where, for half the year, they're practically unoccupied, and even during the holiday season (northern hemisphere summer) they're never fully occupied.

I know this is just how market forces work, but in some localities AirBNB are a somewhat destructive force.
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The US did
I had considered jumping in if what appears to be support at $9K held. Looks like this cat, though, might not bounce but just drill its way into the earth's crust. Granted, I'm apply analysis that is questionable with stocks, and might be (probably is?) completely inappropriate for cryptocurrency.
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“Am I imagining it, or do they just not sound like RNN translations?”

You’re imagining it. Google translate is about as bad as he’s saying. The translations are usually servicable for short phrases, but quickly fall apart for anything with depth or nuance.

The Google paper was an interesing technical description, but pretty weak in terms of evaluation: it had a single experiment, based on simple, short phrases, evaluated in a subjective manner by “experts”. It shouldn’t be surprising at all to find out that the method was a bit overhyped.

It’s quite possible that Google did greatly improve their performance...it just wasn’t very good to begin with.
A lot of the groundwork's already been done from the OpenCV side.

OpenCV has a dnn[1] module that can import models from other frameworks like Caffe, TF and DarkNet (YOLO's native framework) into OpenCV's own DNN object model, and run inference on them. Both Yolo and R-CNN families have been implemented as examples[2].

What's missing is that OpenCV does not abstract all these behind a single object detection interface if that's what the LiveCV side expects. So such a plugin would have to define such an interface itself and provide an adapter per model.

[1]: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/modules/dnn/src

[2]: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/samples/dnn
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>I wish Apple would make a flat-backed phone again. When I set my phone on a flat surface, it shouldn't wobble.

Well, the main issue is the wobble, but a flatness isn't necessarily the only solution. I wonder if they could use a less-conventional design, perhaps a contoured back with a "fatter" top and bottom that would allow it to rest horizontally, while improving balance and hand-feel. That's a pretty serious camera in the phone, they're doing plenty with the space they're using, and I bet they could cram some more fun components with a fatter bottom.
It's sort of a weird position and a good example for illustrating the distinction between social and economic standing. Grad school often feels like an extended exercise in class-passing.
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Blender is an amazing piece of software, although I've only used it for the 3D modeling and animation features. The flexibility of the UI is something I wish more software would adopt.