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Bitcoin stories generally seem to disappear from the front page rather quickly.

If this weren't the case, HN may find itself completely buried by this topic, as well as the spammers that come with it.
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It’s funny the outsiders perspective of Finland. I can assure you there are plenty of problems here. The government being broke for one and making obscene cuts across the board.
>10 years away from getting approved for humans.

Isn't there a fast-track for experimental treatments for late stage cancer?
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I agree - from afar there seems to be a very unique culture of fear and urge to "protect" prevalent in the US.

I was reading a reddit discussion some time ago, where most commenters concluded that it's fine to shoot a burglar entering your house at night, which feels very alien to me. Sure, it's a frightening situation, but in my mind a burglary clearly doesn't justify the, potentially deadly, use of a gun. Those are not equal actions and measures.
Missing from your list is HitFilm Express. I really like it. I've learned it in a VFX course and is really excellent for video editing. It is really fun to make some VFX effects in your family videos. Unfortunately, it is Mac and Windows only.
> Humans aren't getting much smarter in general.

It's actually possible that we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect ; summary: "The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores measured in many parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day." (But both the reality and the interpretation of this are matters of some dispute.)

Moreover, without any computer assistance until very recently, our ability to do mathematics has advanced marvelously over the past few thousand years. We shouldn't underestimate the power of education, culture, better notation, and accumulated wisdom to advance human capacities even at purely intellectual endeavours such as math (or, for another example, chess).

Of course, none of this says that computers themselves can't help us program, which is your primary point. I just think you're being a little pessimistic about "merely human" ways of improving ourselves.
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So while I like and appreciate our public transport, it can be a huge timesink and when you don't want to pay the "time tax" of public transport, taxis fill the role.

Last time I was in London for work I naively hopped in a Taxi at Paddington Station because I was late for a meeting and the tube would take 30 minutes. The taxi took 35 minutes and cost an order of magnitude more.
This is very helpful. I'll look at the suggestions.

>> They are unstable because they require huge amount of resources ...

This actually is not enough of a reason in theory for the programs to crash. The programs should stop the processing when they run out of resources and allow a graceful exit.

The root cause for crashes then, I am guessing, must be lousy code. Either the entire video editing industry has gotten used to it, so that they are not demanding better solutions and thereby the product companies are not prioritizing fixing these crashes, OR, there are some common libraries that they all using which crash, and these product companies feel helpless. Hopefully someone knows the actual answer! :-)
Nope, they can use just steel cables. Plus it had already happened at the same garage less than an year before: http://www.statesman.com/news/local/car-dangling-from-parkin...

The city, which inspects buildings after construction is complete, has no record of having inspected those cables since the garage at Brazos and East Sixth streets was finished in 1981, city spokeswoman Sylvia Arzola said

Using multiple strings of high-tension, half-inch cables as a parking lot barrier in lieu of concrete walls is increasingly common, according to an Austin structural engineer, and is listed as an acceptable alternative in city and international building standards.

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/year-old-cables-played...
Ever tried blender? Yes, it has an (Standalone) video editor build in. https://www.blender.org/features/video-editing/
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That my thought, how the fuck did this even get past a preliminary test?
Does it not suffer from crashes problem? :-)
This is awesome! One suggestion I should make: I think it would be nice to have the abstract underneath the title of the paper so I can skim to see what the doc is about before opening it.

Also I was wondering how you went about grabbing contents from the Bioarxiv? Are you using their RSS feed? I built a web scraper myself which will grab the pdfs and relevant info from (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/recent) and store it on my computer (to run some ML algorithms) and it was kinda a pain to do..
Very well written and simpler explanation of eBPF. @brendangregg you should add a link to this from your Linux performance blog along with all the other great stuff.

I am still unclear about the copying maps to call Ruby class name function. Might have to give that a reread.
Or h.265 now...
I always had the impression that WxWidgets is obsolete and dying. Nice to see it still active.

Out of curiosity, any big or important software written in WxPython?
I wrote one. It's actually a script driven by a video player that prints timestamps on standard out for specific keystrokes, along with a bunch of key combos for jumping back and forth, frame by frame if required. Ffmpeg is invoked at the end to cut the bits out and string them together, using 'copy' codecs.

Works well for the mp4 streams from my helmet camera, reliable key frames etc. For video that's been more highly compressed you'll need to compromise on the cut points if you want to avoid reencoding. And the cuts are abrupt, no fades or transitions.
Consumers don't as a group "choose" anything independently in the sense that their biases and psychological faults and the structure of incentives in our society are all used to make consumers act against their own interests and the interests of the whole. When our "best and brightest" are only committed to profit, we cannibalize ourselves. It isn't progressive. There is no scenario where shitting on the masses to help yourself results in a win for humankind. Not at this stage in history.
> Hacker News is supposed to be about intellectually gratifying discussion

You're confusing "intellectually gratifying" with "apathy".
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Another paid Apple astroturfer.
They mostly wouldn't be identified as white in England either.
So that might work for some cities. In Chicago, where I live, the open space surrounding most train stations is literally just the sidewalk. A few train stations also serve as hubs for the buses, and those have enough space for that amount of bike storage, but they're a definite minority.
They start chasing the Quarterly Earnings Report. It takes a strong leader to not get caught up in the rat race to beat last quarter and actually invest in projects long term.
The funny thing is that we still don't know what human intelligence / IQ / g is. The closest guess we have so far is WM...which fails woefully when you think about it in computer terms, since there is so much RAM.
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Fascinating. As a one-time biology student and Darwin fan, I had no idea. Thanks for posting.
Among the numerous neat statements, his last one - "There is no more patient company than Amazon." - is my favorite here.
This series of blog posts is a very good in-depth explanation of how modern GPUs work:

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-...
Cancer is a horrible disease. And the current treatments are barbaric. As someone who just finished chemo a year ago, I can't wait for treatments like this to become effective and more mainstream. Best of luck to your wife, and tell her to stay strong!
CIPA was much weaker than the others on its face, and interpreted to be even weaker than it seemed on its face when it was found to be constitutional at all, it's not great, but it's a far cry from what the earlier attempts tried to do.
I'll take a stab at it.

I think they are saying...Intellectuals are going to change the way they guide their research or formulate their hypothesis based on the this work at MIT. This person believes that this project signifies a paradigm shift in the fundamental origins of thought, hereafter nothing will be the same.

I think this person is trying way to hard to sound smart or poetic.
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Raspberry Pi Compute Modules don't have ethernet built in - that would require quite a non-standard networking system, wouldn't it?
In the USA/UK where infrastructure is provided for bicycles it tends to be very narrow and overcrowded. Being fitter and faster allows a cyclist to somewhat escape the inconveniences of being crammed in with so many other people into a small space. E-bikes change all that. In addition it means that someone who may lack the power/stamina, and consequent experience and capability, built up over years of riding now has the power to get in your way/space.

I am in favor of e-bikes, but these are definitely issues.
Just one data point and my usage may not be "pro" the way broadcast or film would be (I've done mainly in-house educational videos for a couple of universities).

We went from Avid in the early/mid 2000's to Final Cut Pro on Mac Pros (in the cheese grater days) to Premiere Pro on Windows workstations which I still use today. First we switched away from FCP when Mac Pros languished and FCPX tossed out a lot of the features we needed. I understand that a lot of those were later replaced but at the time it was a dealbreaker.

With Premiere, we can edit on either MacOS or Windows workstations, performance is good on a properly equipped machine, and it integrates well with the other tools in the suite like Audition, After Effects, and their still-image stuff like Photoshop and Illustrator when needed.

It's not going to work for everyone and I'm still not a fan of the subscription model (much prefer the old way where I'd spend $600 or whatever every few years and be done with it). That said, it doesn't surprise me to see it getting professional use, just as it doesn't surprise me that other production houses find FCPX to be a better fit for their equipment and workflow.
So what? Whenever anyone dies someone has to deal with the body. Someone has to clean up the garbage we create every day, and they usually get paid for it.
I used (and liked) wx in the nineties - didn't know it was still around.

Qt is my goto GUI for Python these days, does anyone have experience with wx vs Qt for Python? The samples look like it's all dynamically generated (vs. something like QtDesigner) and that's how we used it way back when.
One of the big reasons why healthcare is more expensive in the US is Americans get a lot more of it, particularly out-patient care (~150% of OECD average).

And other single payer countries certainly don't offer limitless levels of care. The gov't determines what it will pay for and nothing else. For Americans with generous insurance coverage, the care is much more limitless when you look at things like experimental treatments and the latest drugs.
I'm a marketing sucker, I'll admit it, and this looks amazing, and it's free.
I think your faith in body cameras is completely misplaced. What we should do instead is hold police to the exact same standards for self defense as the rest of the general public. That is, no more "qualified immunity." Also, the police should have to abide by all the same gun laws--if the state they live in has stupid laws, then everyone should be subject to all those stupid laws! No more "laws for thee but not for me" business anymore. No more machine guns unless NFA registered, which means only pre-1986 firearms for them. No more short-barreled rifles or shotguns unless properly registered. No more getting away with murders that any regular citizen would be jammed up for.

Once the police start abiding by the laws, then I'll care what happens when they get themselves into a jam.
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> Atheism is a lack of belief, not a belief.

Even granting that, changing to atheism is a change of belief and thus comfortably fits within the definition of conversion.
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Black people don't wear a uniform giving them very specific authorities and privileges for very specific reasons, and if other uniformed cops don't come down on the abuse of that, the shoe fits. While you say it's nuts to go around with the shoes of "individual" cops to see if there's more Cinderellas, there's already plenty been found. But of course, if you even deny their responsibility, you also won't be see them shirking it.

> you basically arrive at the attitude of the corrupt cops themselves,

That's like saying kicking rapists in the dick causes rape, while doing nothing at all is somehow more helpful than that.
One drug is already FDA approved. They have a clinical trial for lymphoma. Stanford may patent many parts of it, the two drug combo.. depends on the novelty and the formulation, how it's delivered. It also depends on how obvious it is in the patent sense. You might find other researchers and companies who optimize the system as well (e.g. fine tune the checkpoint inhibitor). But these drugs are manufactured already. So it seems safe to say that the research will be done and if it works we will see clinical use.

Also by definition a patent is in the pubic domain (for knowledge) and the publication is of course a public disclosure.
Yes, and a sort of cramped feeling in my legs. Which is odd because I rock climb regularly and don't experience any problems while climbing.
I really love the service that Netlify provides! I started using them a couple of months ago and they make it super easy to link a github repo that will be deployed as a site. I definitely recommend it.
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Without a headphone jack, how do you use the built-in radio? All of my phones that had a working, built-in radio (NEC, Sony) used the headphone cable as the radio antenna. With a movement to get manufacturers/carriers to activate the built-in FM capabilities of the chips, what will they use as an antenna?
> Camtasia is much more than a screen recorder.

Sure, but fundamentally, Camtasia is a screen recorder. It's purpose is to make screencasts. If you were editing video filmed with a camera, you would find Kdenlive, Premiere etc. more useful than Camtasia.
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There's a lot of truth to that. Think of just how much paperwork healthcare, government, banking, etc. all generate.
I'm currently doing all my editing in iMovie and I'm not very happy with it since it has a few glitches I frequently run into.

Anybody got a link to a comparison between this and iMovie? "Shortcut" seems to be quite ungoogleable.
That is still, as you say, a hobby though. The future of hardware design is decreasing the difference between prototype and production. Similar to what containers have done for software.

3d printed parts and PCBs can be done in as little as 12 hours. You can then without any modification do small production runs anywhere from ten to a thousand pieces (which isn't unrealistic outside consumer hardware). You could even 3d print moulds and do injection moulding.

I think partly why people say that hardware isn't iterative enough is that they are doing it the wrong way. They spend too much time on prototyping, which means they then have to make everything perfect for a large production runs to average out the costs.
Probably he just hates bushes.
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35U? That’s a full rack. The cluster looks like a 8U server case.
There is no such thing as "not being covered because treatment is expensive"

There most certainly is. Look at what the UK's cancer fund is going through. It's not unusual for NICE to say "we're not paying for that". For people with generous insurance in the US it's much more typical for the insurance company to roll over and pay for the latest and greatest due to public pressure.
Yo eoinmrray here, co-founder of Kyso. we recently started at Techstars NYC - happy to answer any questions!
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Did you try Lightworks[0]? No affiliation with the company, i'm just curious how it compares with the others.

[0] https://www.lwks.com/
I would have never thought of that. Do you have any info on making a trading bot?
The name is 'shotcut' but I definitely read it as 'shortcut' the first time too
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I would prefer to see an experiment (even on non human mammals) rather than see a study that likely cannot disentangle correlation and causation.
> that authors are from Stanford University. Can someone from the US clarify if this will be in public domain/knowledge

This type of research tends to be publicly funded. However, that doesn't prevent it from being privately patented because of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh-Dole_Act
Thanks. I will try more mainstream places. I found that even in some brands I still have to use my China Construction Bank debit card. I never had a problem getting out cash with my Visa debit card from an ATM. I just couldn't use the debit card at a lot of stores.
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One of the comments mentions that it is a 6U server case. So presumably there are five of them, with 150 rPi3 units in each case.
I have seem good results in automatic cropping by just giving a higher value to areas of high entropy and to faces. I wonder how this compares.
I'm going to write a more extensive answer than I normally would, just because I love seeing a question like this on HN. It's nice to see someone thinking about something more interesting than ReactJS for ads.

Because you won't be using aerodynamics for lift, the issue is all about thrust. The thrust can be used directly for lift; contrary to aurizon's post, you don't need a 3500:1 thrust ratio - that's only if you are trying to get lift from the aerodynamics of the suit.

Thrust is about force. To get force in flight you need to react against a reaction mass. The more reaction mass used, the less energy needed. If you are able to react against the mass of the earth itself, you only need to spend energy to change your velocity or altitude. This is the same situation as being on the ground. You could achieve this if you could react directly with the ground instead of using air as an intermediate medium. An example of this would be a magnetic drive that used the earth's magnetic field. Trust me, that's not easy - the earth's B-field has almost no gradient on a human scale, and most magnetic machinery operates via gradients.

Using the atmosphere to react against, you get more thrust per unit power the more air flow you interact with. If you have a means of pulling in a lot of air to push against, like with a fanjet or helicopter blades, you can get decent efficiency. This is the strategy used by the Martin JetPack. The extra machinery gets away from the Iron Man suit idea, though - at a certain point you are a suit attached to a flying machine.

With enough power, you can get usable amounts of thrust from even small amounts of reaction mass. Rockets get great thrust, but only for short time periods. People have made rocket packs, and for short duration flight, we can build something. Note that Tony Stark's suit is powered by nuclear fusion (the arc reactor) which gives millions of times more energy per unit mass than chemical fuels.

You may be interested in www.gravity.co , I think they are using the "short duration" option I described above.
I'd love to hear a discussion of methods to solve the issues with our police and the despair of the inner city that were comprehensive. In the case of Baltimore, these are massive systemic problems that involve not just the police, but also the community as a whole and forces outside the community as well. How can you discuss the problems with police misconduct without talking about the drug war, inner city poverty, stat based policing and the poisonous incentives they create, the lack of stable homes, and so on and so on and so on.

Yes you might be able to solve police misconduct by forcing them to turn on each other and report and aggressively as possible. You probably will utterly destroy any semblance of morale and group cohesion and won't have a functioning police force at the end. Yes, we could ban guns from the population. Except that would not only require a constitutional amendment, but also solve the logistical issues of tracking down guns while simultaneously solving the problem of an armed criminal element who now has a helpless population in a massive country where response times can be 20 mins or longer. Body cams will help, but even if people trust police, how does that solve the problem where being a drug dealer is probably the best opportunity you have in the inner city? And it goes on and on.

It's a similar issue to homelessness. It's a multivariate problem that requires many different targeted approaches to deal with the entire thing. People unfortunately tend to focus on their pet issue of choice and ignore the others. Worse yet, political interests often will try to shut down each other from getting funding in order to push their own cause du jour.
Last night I was able to provide support to check multiple commits and specify a branch, just like git log would normally do. (https://github.com/aaossa/git-gud#usage). Thanks for the stars :)
Where is the line between the environment and the individual? Even if the Baltimore environment drove the police to criminal behavior, it is unacceptable to let them get away with it.

Obviously there is an issue with the environment but that doesn’t really affect the current situation: namely bad behavior in the police department.

Corrupt and criminal cops need to be prosecuted. The system needs to change going forward (equipment, policies, training, community outreach, etc).
The same discussion is going on with lots of sports from winguit flying to football.

I do wonder if pointing at some people's lack of preparedness or skill is misleading. These choices carry significant risk, regardless of skill. Very experienced mountaineers die every year. Skydivers and base jumpers with decades of experience have accidents. (I knew some, before I chose to stop skydiving.)

Suggesting that "experience" will make you safer leaves one with the obvious question of how to gain that experience. It also ignores the fact that more participation in any risky activity is more exposure; the longer you do it, the more likely you are to have an accident.
Being a hobby blender user i have used many Video editing softwares but i keep coming back to blender as my one stop shop for everything. Effects, Video Editing, Sound sync..
Other editors i use are KDenlive, Pitivi, Openshot and lesser known VLMC from the creators of VLC player.
No h264 / h265 import on Linux though, which is a shame as that's pretty much what all consumer cameras produce.
Yeah this really sucks and really messed up. This source is far more legit.