skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first learnt Blender about 12 years ago.

The interface improvements that have been made since then have been amazing for discoverability and they have kept (most of) the old keyboard shortcuts too. This is not a bad thing at all, but it does mean that there are tutorials which still make it seem like Blender requires just knowing and memorising loads of keyboard shortcuts.

When learning Blender, the space bar is definitely your friend these days.
It isn't illegal to be a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse your monopoly position. Which is what MS got in trouble for.

Big difference which people often forget.
I have an iPhone 6+ that's stuck in an infinite boot loop. Everyone thinks it's a BGA solder ball failure on the NAND flash part.

Can you be 100% sure it's not an APFS fuckup?
one huge prob w/ running it from the cloud is that you will always be picked off by the Virtus of the world with their own hardware, saddled up in the same rack as the OMS running the exchange.
The only piece of Apple software I can't live without is XCode, to make iOS builds of my Unity3D apps.
Idk, most of the people in my life could probably lose data on their phone and never realize it. Especially if we’re talking about people with lots of duplicates of the same selfie, for instance.
The end result: sequential testing terminated without accepting either hypothesis http://blog.dimview.org/math/2017/10/15/cat-chirality.html
Agree, I find Europe much freer. The US has some serious police state vibes. The amount of shit companies can impose on you is staggering in the US. Freedom pf speech and privacy basically has no protection inside a company in the US. The American freedom concept is quite bizzare. No matter of exploited or abused you are it doesn’t seem like an issue in the US as long as the government isn’t doing it. As of a citizen should care which entity abuses them.
Ah I see! Well, you'd have to take it up with them, but the BBC publishes all kinds of things.
Also (especially for laptops), the new option is more about different tradeoffs than better hardware. I use the headphone jack on my 6 plus daily, and don’t want to screw with dongles in my car, or replace my $100+ headphones with non-existent Bluetooth versions.

I can’t deal with the new laptop keyboards, so I’ll pay more than the purchase price of a new one for a repair of the old one.

(Though, in practice, I’ve found their repairs to generally be quite reasonably priced, and much more convenient/ reliable than any other manufacturer repair service I have dealt with)
Yep. Started teaching Unity to my kids. I have neither the imagination nor the patience and time I had when I was their ages and wanted to make video games. Figured it’d be a better use of time to give them the tools and time and opportunity to try their hand at it. They’ve made some cool small things in it so far.
I completely agree with you. I believe that Clinton was a horrible candidate and I don't think that half of the people who voted for Trump are "deplorables".

But wouldn't you agree it's still a bad thing that Russia is trying to influence our elections? Who knows how much worse it will be next time if we don't do something to stop them.
John D Cook's business is doing well, providing services on what is essentially data science, or most aptly put, "very applied mathematics"
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/services-2/

But he also has a reputation that has been built up over years through insightful blog posts. Many people in the applied math community know his writings, and there is a general recognition of his expertise.
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

Data science is too general and faddish (I say this as someone whose job title contains that phrase). The market is saturated with too many people who claim they do data science. If someone were to give me their business card and tell me they did general data science work, I probably wouldn't even give them a second look.

My suggestion is to establish yourself in a few problem domains (e.g. data science for agriculture, data science for transportation, etc.) and show tangible results. I think that would improve your marketability.

I grew up around consultants, and as with any kind of consulting business, the advice that was given to me was to work for at least 3 different established companies in your domain of interest for 3 years at a time before setting up an independent consulting shop. Without that, you won't have a sufficient street cred to sustain a stream of business to keep you afloat. (that said, this advice is 15 years old -- the part about 3 years + 3 companies might not be applicable anymore, but I believe the part about building a reputation continues to be true).
Can anyone recommend a project-based book for learning OpenGL? There have always seemed to be a lot more books in this style for DirectX, for some reason, but when it comes to OpenGL, the references are always the manuals, whether that be the red, orange, or blue books. I've used the Nehe tutorials in the past, but they are severely dated the last time I checked.
If it's the right thing, then should it be a law?
I just leave here:
http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-house-spiders-belong-ba...
My first reaction was that this was silly, but I tried my best to follow along and have some empathy for the lobster. They had me right until electrocution...
That's wonderful! I can only imagine the joy I would have had, if I'd had access to anything like Unity or Blender when I was about 12 or so.
> But they've always seemed kind of shady with the whole "$200, now $10.99 with 2 days left"

I read about this from frustrated training content developers all the time. The pricing in particular, esp. w.r.t. programming / technical content which takes a lot of effort to put together, only to find that udemy forces you to list it at 10, 20$ at 70, 80% 'discounts'.

Don't want to re-hash but here are a few links....

Less than 24 Hours on Udemy as an Instructor and I Am Close to Leaving: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/less-than-24-hours-on-udemy-a...

Why I stopped selling courses on udemy - The Udemy Pyramid Scheme: http://osherove.com/blog/2014/5/7/why-i-stopped-selling-cour...

My Revenue Increased 300% After Leaving Udemy: http://www.courseminded.com/why-i-left-udemy/

Why I Won’t Be Releasing More Courses On Udemy, And Neither Should You: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-wont-releasing-more-cou...
Octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures on earth. Eating or cutting them alive is nothing short of savage, and no better than serving live dog or chimpanzee.

I'm all for regulations that end unnecessary animal suffering, especially when the whole purpose of it is to do nothing more than add novelty to a meal. We evolved to eat meat. We didn't evolve to torture our meals.
The killing in this case is a foregone conclusion, so it's really a question of, What is worse: causing a lot of pain before killing, or causing a little pain before killing? A bit easier to answer.
> and IMO this is a gross way to abuse the protection given by the DMCA.

How so? This is how every platform that hosts content operates (except possibly Youtube, that filters preemptively using fingerprinting, although not required to by law).

How would you expect platforms to handle this? The EFF supports these provisions of the DMCA: https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca

"The DMCA “safe harbors” protect service providers from monetary liability based on the allegedly infringing activities of third parties. To receive these protections service providers must comply with the conditions set forth in Section 512, including “notice and takedown” procedures that give copyright holders a quick and easy way to disable access to allegedly infringing content. Section 512 also contains provisions allowing users to challenge improper takedowns. Without these protections, the risk of potential copyright liability would prevent many online intermediaries from providing services such as hosting and transmitting user-generated content. Thus the safe harbors, while imperfect, have been essential to the growth of the Internet as an engine for innovation and free expression."
Come on you guys, please don't sink into pointless tit for tats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Udemy has had this issue for years. Pluralsight & other authors complain on a regular basis. I personally refuse to use it.
Anecdote rebuttal to an anecdote: None of my personal friends have more than one account on facebook.

Facebook estimates than 10% of the accounts are duplicates [0], so that wouldn't match with most people (~50%?) having 2 to 4 accounts.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/11/02/facebook-ad...
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At least with the Lego minifig series, if you buy them in a store, you can feel the polybag to get some kind of an idea what might be contained.
There are interesting reasons why companies expend a lot of resources on free stuff for programmers. If it didn't have a beneficial effect, they wouldn't do it.
They’re not changing the menu, they’re just subtly highlighting things, offering discounts, etc. And yeah, he’s in the store already, but if they can sell him MORE on that visit, that’s good.

How much do you think McDonalds would pay for a magic camera + menu that boosted all their store revenue by 5% overnight?
URLs are not sent in plaintext under HTTPS. Only the hostname is, and only for SNI.
I worked for a small town newspaper in the early 90’s. We used Macs and a laser printer to print out the main articles in column format. We had a headline printer like the one they describe. We would then wax up the articles and headlines, and cut and paste them onto the layout board. The layout board was then photographed and turned into a 1:1 photo negative. We left room for photos, which were processed separately and taped into place on the negatives. The completed negatives were combined into two-page sheets and used to expose printing plates.

We would start the compositing process around 10AM on press days, and newspapers would be coming off the presses by around 2:00.
If you're interested in rendering, more in general, there's Principles of Digital Image Synthesis by Glassner. This is probably the only book(s) I can point out as a standing example out of all I've learned from during the studies in the field. Lots of nice material now out there, of course, but this one is at the core of everything. It wasn't maybe suitable for realtime rendering, but as tech advances - we're getting there. It's even available now online: http://www.realtimerendering.com/Principles_of_Digital_Image... (and damnit I paid a bit over $200 back in the day)
I'd also add that while Markdown and LaTeX can do some of the same things, they're designed toward very different tasks. I've used both numerous times in my career, and I can't remember a case where it's been ambiguous which tool was more appropriate for the task.

If it's going to be printed, you probably want LaTeX. If it's going to be rendered to a screen, you probably want Markdown. If it's going to be rendered to a screen and have math in it, you probably want Markdown with some LaTeX for the math. If it's going to be rendered to a screen and printed, better start looking for a job, because that project is going down in flames.
The trick is that there has never been any confirmed dangerous collision with a quadcopter, all the tests have shown them less dangerous than geese, and accidents in the wild have never impacted the air-worthiness of the aircraft.

We will probably end up with the 400 feet AGL banned for aviation, and 300 feet AGL limit for recreational flying, and 100 feet of buffer.

General aviation pilots violate regulations all the time without being disciplined, and kill people once in a while, and it's a bit hard to put all the burden on the recreational remote controlled aircraft pilots.

here is a guy with a cool head on the situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gOxuyr438
Please post it here if u find it. Thanks
Ancient cities tended to... drift. Modern Cairo, for example, started with Memphis, which was abandoned and replaced by a Roman city called (confusingly) Babylon, which continued but declined in importance in favor of the Fustat just north of it, etc.

I was just at a site in Israel which over two thousand years was first a Hellenistic city, then a Crusader castle, and then an Arab village; at each of these steps, there was a translation sideways by about 500 meters (making their footprints non-overlapping).
> Maybe that explains why Kickstarter and Steam saw a ton of retro 2D games in the past few years

I actually think (as someone with gamedev experience) that the explanation has to do with the difficulty of creating art assets for 3d games rather than complex math (as other users have pointed out, current widely used engines take care of mostly).

Indeed, even indie games that are made in 3d generally take a low poly style as they are easier to make (and obviously easier to achieve performant results).
The problem I have with pluralsight is the random courses you get with your visual studio subscription.
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Unfortunately, the most likely outcome is a society-damaging overreaction.

Angry people will still look for other like-minded people with whom they can share their grievances. The Internet makes it possible for larger groups to meet, talk, complain, and bond. When these folks get kicked off Facebook, substitute ecosystems will pop up on WhatsApp, some other social media app. Are "we" going to start restricting encryption next, just so "we" can keep the next unlikable candidate out of office? Not worth it IMHO.
I deleted my Facebook account two years ago (Valentine's day 2016). Before doing so I reached out to my close/medium ties and exchanged numbers, encouraging them to check out Signal as a way to contact me. Some of them demurred (nothing to hide) but pretty much everyone adopted Signal after the election, heh.

I don't have a huge amount of "friends" now, but I have a small group of people I text or call occasionally. I feel happier and more connected than I did using Facebook.
Engineer/Programmer. I had a bout of depression some time ago and had an amazing time watching my own thought processes and reading about psychology. I hope to write about my experience some day.
I'm thoroughly impressed by your geometric abilities! I didn't know that, and took me a while to check. Any hints on the puzzle, and as a sidequestion, what tools do you use to figure this kind of question? Just imagination, vector algebra, elementary trigonometry?
A tty was only a window into a larger computer that had memory, storage, etc.

This device was merely a transcription device from key presses to machine-readable code.

Anything more sophisticated and you're talking about a word processor.
Looping and recursion go together nicely don't they? ;-)
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Why don't girls wear pants to the prom?
How much value is there in reading without completing exercises? I find that, for myself, knowledge gained through hands-off reading is very shallow and difficult to apply. On the other hand knowledge I've applied hands on has been vastly valuable. One recent example that springs to mind is kmv data sketches. I understood their theory and the algorithm's details but the (simple) concept and it's cases of applicability did not really click for me until I wrote one for use in an application on someone else's recommendation. I spent the next week gushing about my revelation, to my colleagues' annoyance.
Samsung Galaxy S3 will run LineageOS 14.1 just fine. Gapps work well also.

It's even officially supported by the project.

It will also run faster than stock roms since there is no vendor bloat.
Yep. 850m is a crazy amount of money for product development. What do they want to do with all that money?
If I may suggest, please read 2008 Mumbai attack and see if there are really any parallels. There is a difference when someone from a foreign land acquire weapons outside and attacks you (unless I am missing the point you are trying to make).
Yeh, right... I am not day trading, so HFT are not my problem...
For those who are interested in 2D game development, the Phaser JavaScript framework just released version 3.0 which had the support of a Mozilla Grant.

https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser
I think you're completely missing my point. At scale, this is not a real solution.

Sure I can install it for my mom, but we're talking about billions of people here.

At the risk of sounding arrogant, I have to really urge you to think differently and stretch your imagination a bit more here. Systems thinking at scale makes this something more than simply a technology problem/discussion.

Have you ever heard of the saying "A tool that no one knows about isn't useful at all"?
I wonder about this because as a child I and my siblings were big into Pokémon cards. At the height of the hype my parents bought a 100 pack of booster packs and would periodically dangle them in front of us as rewards.

In the end we got a lot of new cards and my parents got a decent amount of chores done. I’m about to turn 28 and I’ve never had any sort of gambling problem (but I have had my own other non Pokémon related problems that were probably at least somewhat related to my parents)
I really wish I had bitten the bullet and learned LaTeX in college. At the time, trying to actually write a research paper start-to-finish in Word was too painful, too prone to crash and lose data, and badly incompatible with using version control (CVS and SVN, at the time), and so I settled on a process where I'd write the whole thing in plain-text, and insert my citations in inline parentheses, then when I was all done, have to go back and try to format the thing in Word with proper footnotes and formatting. More than a few times, it took nearly as long to get that post-processing right for printing than it did to actually write the paper.
Mine too.

Cheers guys.
+1 to this.

Weekly would be better
Was with you until your recommendation for Word for documentation. Something like a wiki or Sphinx would be much more appropriate than a flawed and proprietary one.
Do you think legal writing falls into this category?
What is a KMV data sketch, the more detail the better - sounds fascinating
Boeing’s biggest trade fight could spark a U.S. confrontation with Europe
Because it’s not an international sporting event on a sheet of frozen water?
This stick-on patch could keep tabs on stroke patients at home
I think it’s more of a selection bias. The people most likely to comment online are the disgruntled people. I.e. in order for someone to take the time to comment or contribute to an online discussion or forum that person needs to surpass a certain amount of “care”. That desire to comment or contribute is much greater in aggrieved people than happy people. It’s a fundamental characteristic of psyche.

So I think social media does two things. It gives people a very small barrier to post. But it also combines them with other, like minded people. Those like minded people then ruminate on their shared aggregations and wind up more outraged than they would have been without that rumination.
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Why not get companies like Amazon and Google involved? People are setting up microphones all around their houses and some even are adding cameras now. Hell even Amazon with their new stores could offer a lot in this field.

We can just have the algorithms work out who is breaking these kinds laws and then just add the fine to their amazon bill.

You can say people would be against this but im sure with enough conditioning and lobbying the populations will understand how this helps secure animal rights.
In the '90s I worked for a weekly paper with a similar process, layout in Quark, then final pasteup on boards. Before that, I worked for a magazine with a Compugraphic typesetter, but by then, it had a PC-based front end for the compositor. I got pretty good with an X-Acto knife. For the halftones, I would paste in the FPOs, and the printer would strip in the film as you describe.
I don't believe they had any real impact.

And, if we actually clean our politics up, that noise won't even rate.

Run Medicare For All, strong commits, nationwide, 80 percent support issue and watch non voters come right out of the woodwork to dominate.
Funny story, but you are right. I've never given a souvenir check. It's been a long time since I was a kid.
I realize I've laid out a slippery slope. That's why I was hesitant. The strongest case is for banning organized, large-scale animal cruelty done for depraved enjoyment. But I don't think we should prosecute people because we don't like, for example, that they use electric shock collars to keep their dogs from running off.

I'd summarize my position as: 1) animal interests for their own sake are not a legitimate end of government coercion, and 2) the moral character of the people is a legitimate end, but we should be very hesitant to use coercion for social engineering.
Wow, that's pretty awesome. Fingers crossed it will be good here too, although none of the nbn ISPs offer anything faster than "up to" 100/20.
> Who's to saw which is less wasteful.

Me, based on what I gain from each experience. Although of course in that case I'm only speaking on the wastefulness of what I do with my own time.
Somewhat related - there's a good documentary about the last edition of the New York Times published using the linotype process called "Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu" [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGjFKs9bnU
You're making an assumption that it is indeed the right thing to do.
The proper tool is whatever the IT department has installed on everyone's computer by default, and failing that, something simple and easily edited (like raw text or markdown).

I think the proper analogy is like editing documentation in PDF. Software that can edit PDFs is expensive and difficult to use, like LaTeX can be (difficult, not expensive, just in terms of time).
It seems so similar to blogging to me, I find it hard to see the difference, personally.
Huh? There's nothing to be impressed about. You can stick a tetrahedron inside a cube so it creates the same square shadows in all three directions: https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAUnH.gif

I know a lot of math, but for this puzzle, drawing stuff on paper is enough. Here's a hint: if you cut off one corner of the cube, all shadows are still square. How much can you cut? Can you cut some corners strategically to make at least one new square shadow while keeping all the old ones? How many square shadows can you get?
Hah! I worked for a small town newspaper in NH at the same time and we did the same exact thing. My college newspaper as well. The laser printers at the time just weren't good enough for photos (probably the scanners and storage as well), so those were processed by a different machine and stuck on at the last minute. These were the days of QuarkXPress and having souped up Mac LEs plugged into massive black and white monitors for layout. A single change in a classified ad could take a minute or two to repaginate.
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One of the ways we count distinct elements in an unknown amount of data--probabilistically! You may have heard of Bloom filters and the like, and this is a similar family of algorithms.

https://research.neustar.biz/2012/07/09/sketch-of-the-day-k-...
False dichotomy. People will survive just fine with a different crop than almonds.
Another mixture (that I admit I don't understand) is baking soda with hydrogen peroxide. It obliterated a close range direct hit skunk spray on my jeans and sneakers with a 20 minute soak.