skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It cannot be done as easily with interpreted languages (Python, PHP, Ruby, Node.js), though--and those are precisely the languages from which Go has been stealing users.
Fuck De Beers, their blood diamonds, and their useless engagement ring scam.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/ho...
Travis Kalanick is launching a venture fund
OpenGL ES 2.0 and higher cleans a lot of that up. Crufty old calls are removed. You simply include a header and link a library without the need for a complex loader (though there still are extensions).
> That is not a programmer error, this is a domain error mostly for math functions or string parsing.

....what in the world? no... for domain errors there's, erm, std::domain_error. C++ Reference/StackOverflow/MSDN/etc. already explain all these. But it seems I have to copy-paste them here?

"Domain and range errors are both used when dealing with mathematical functions." [1]

"std::logic_error reports errors that are a consequence of faulty logic within the program such as violating logical preconditions or class invariants and may be preventable." [2]

"std::domain_error may be used by the implementation to report domain errors, that is, situations where the inputs are outside of the domain on which an operation is defined." [3]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/641972

[2] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/logic_error

[3] http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/error/domain_error
Moving between technologies
If you have Javascript enabled, then there are several places that should work: the Sir Robin LifeWiki article

http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Sir_Robin

the original link (via the Show in Viewer option), or the Catagolue page

http://catagolue.appspot.com/object/xq6_yyocxukcy6gocs20h0a3...

(click on the knightship in the upper left -- the word "Launch" should appear when you hover over the image).

They all use the same LifeViewer to do the animation, though, so you're out of luck if Javascript isn't available.
I wish there was something like a kharma linkedin- every company who develops such technology, drags the kharma of all employes who spend time at the company during this project down- and it does not go up until a equal kharma positiv project is completed.

Darkdeving discouraged at self-interest rate.
I have a concern.

A few months ago, a widely publicized study[1] indicated that moderate-to-large amounts of exercise caused a buildup of plaque in the hearts of middle-aged white men. This correlation was not seen in any women, nor was it seen in black men.

Unfortunately, this study included no Indian nor Southeast Asian people. I've seen unrelated studies indicating similar health outcomes for white men and Indian men, so as an Indian man, should I be worried about this?

[1]: https://today.uic.edu/physically-active-white-men-at-high-ri...
On the other hand, we don’t need $50,000 robots to tell the difference between phones or cars.
RDF is the serialization format for triples. The triple store is the database that stores triples.
> A better position is to use QUIC. Not only is the payload encrypted, but the entire transport flow control is covered by the veil of encryption.

I'm not sure I understand his/her point. Maybe this is pointing to QUIC encrypting part of the handshake?
Look, a decent Yaesu costs 5x as much, and the Baofeng fully fulfills the role I recommended it for - which is to get a beginner started quickly. The entire point was that you don't need to take part in the pay to win game.

Noone said Baofengs are high-quality devices. But that's kind of the point, and it is easily good enough to get onto a local relay to get some easy satisfaction and practice the non-technical aspects (like: err, what did he say? and what am I supposed to say now?). Since it's only $35, I own one and have have used a couple of different models. I've done QSO's (connections) over repeaters around 25km away with these from rural but non-elevated positions without any problems. (Ok, I probably used an antenna that costs $10 extra.)

Besides, what's so interesting about 70cm/2m handhelds that makes getting an expensive one worth it anyway? Spending the money on a HF (around 3MHz-30MHz, often a bit more) transceiver seems like a much more interesting choice (long distance, antenna building, atmospheric conditions etc.).
(This does not mean there are no interesting things to do on 70cm/2m. But even with a Baofeng you can e.g. work a satellite with the right antenna.)

Yes, you're relying on the superior equipment and position on the other end, but so what, if it works? Noone tells the QRP (low power) crowd to get an amplifier either, and certainly noone complains about the very crude DIY designs most people build. It's ok.
It doesn’t break the feature, that’s how the feature is designed. They’re not for error handling. It’s only broken if you try to treat them as something other than what they’re designed for.
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Critical reviews of 'The Big Lebowski' 20 years later
You can, but they aren't as cheap as I had been hoping. If I recall correctly from when I searched a few years ago, they are about 30-50% the price of mined diamonds. Much cheaper overall, but not at commodity levels yet. I had been hoping that they would be cheap enough to buy a few hundred, then hand them out as party favors to weird people out. At some point, I hope they get there.

Rubies, on the other hand, are ridiculously cheap. If I feel like picking up another hobby, learning to cut gemstones from bulk corundum could be rather fun.
Can you expand on what you mean by "primitive obsession"?
They should do what they did with pearls: start referring to the lab-grown ones as "cultured diamonds."
Nothing has ever done me more good than this combination. My biggest success in work at my current company, a big API-first platform for insurance comparison was built from scratch in 2 weeks time, spent locked inside my apartment, coffee machine running 24/7, a 100mg cookie in the morning and a joint every 2 hours. No one knows.
Any opinion about anything whatsoever is bias. Their decision to write in English and not German is an anglophone bias. There are some biases that we accept as not especially problematic.

The idea that they can strip all bias from the news is absurd, though - if nothing else, they've clearly made editorial decisions about what to publish on at all.
>
Yep I am calling man-made gems “real” diamonds from now on.

I believe that De Beers has hired a group of highly qualified advertising specialists. So your "little first world anarchy" is really futile.
What's the alternative they should have been using?
How does what you say contradict the OP in any way, shape or form?

He says ask to meet people to understand how everything works. It's not about impressing them, even if it shows proper respect as a side effect (and showing respect by listening is quite the opposing of suggesting new things nilly willy).
For me, a "crypto zealot" is somebody who says we shouldn't use SMS based 2FA because it has some vulnerabilities: people who advocate using only the best crypto, or none at all.

This just sounds like building a universal layer of encryption around all communications. It's not zealotry but common sense.
Just like a drawing done by a random child is exactly the same as a drawing done by your own child?

Of course it isn't real if it's missing blood, a stupid cliche with a movie to boot, but I'll run with it.

Yes where it comes from matters. How it's made matters.

We are not children in philosophy 101. The history counts.
It's just a blank page... if that's joke then it's not very funny.
React - GraphQL (with Graphcool Prisma)
I get a blank screen. I assume you're just down, but I enjoy the kabbalistic implications.
May be you can have a look at Datao: http://datao.net.

PS: I am the maintainer, and we currently have some certificate issues. Drop me a mail to datao@datao.net if you want to be notified when the problem is solved.
If it causes problems... run and never look back.
If you want unbiased news the best thing you can do is get them directly from a news agency, like Reuters or AP.
Rustc uses LLVM as a backend, so we inherit a lot of the maturity of clang, at least with regards to codegen. Most C/C++ tooling Just Works with Rust, though at a slightly lower level of polish. gdb has basic support built in now. We’ve got someone working on this stuff full time.
How can you say it's not biased? It's clearly white-washing!
DARPA and friends should go long. But it would be nice if journalists didn’t act like problems were completely solved the first time they see a prototype. That kind of hype is how you get AI winter.
I sleep with a powered air filter running (HEPA and charcoal) every night and its a perfect noise (maybe not exactly white but minor variance) to sleep by. I should upload a recording and see if anything complains.
Like std::future right? You can use that one today.
Wistron, Taiwan hospital partner to test exoskeleton robots
You Can Have Emotions You Don't Feel
Without YouTube's system, you'd have automatic takedowns based on nothing but keywords in the title: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/11/warner-admits-it...

There's no cost when you have bots sending emails. You'd have to fix the law first.
Yes, it is.

One of the 'stories' here is a listicle of biased headlines. How is that unbiased or helpful in any way?
At the moment, I use N3.js for its N3.parse() function. It builds a graph of Javascript objects in memory from a RDF string, just like a JSON.parse() builds a tree of Javascript objects in memory from a JSON string.

Note: I have never understood the need for a DB on the client-side.
The coaching gap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

People early in their career thinking SQL is something UNIX greybeards did in ancient times, and which is not necessary anymore.
Having seen the state-of-the-art in action (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.00730) I find the results pretty disappointing. Is there anything I miss?
Mathematica 11.3 starts adding blockchain support
> if they look identical to the naked eye, how can jewelers and debeers justify buying the naturals? are you now buying the diamond for its "history" or "story"?

For some certificate of "naturalness" that comes with the diamond which the jeweler will be able hand out to his customers.
It's tough to make that argument.

Features are only a small part of how users consider change - and 'parity' definitely doesn't cut it.

Office is a good example ...

StarOffice originally and then RedHat, Suse, Mandriva (and the previous versions), Canonical and a host of other commercial Linux vendors I'm forgetting, plus Sun, IBM, Linux Foundation, etc have all put resources into competing.

OpenOffice is feature equal for most users - but, it didn't make much of a dent.

For me the Windows 10 situation is partially about competition, but it's mostly about protecting their core market. For the most part they make money from corporate users, not users buying 300 dollar laptops - those are just market capture for the serious money. Any time you hear a parent say "Jonnie is learning MS Office" (not word processing) that's a future corporate buyer.
Don't let TC39 use smoosh or smooshMap
Been smoking for a long time and a massive coffee drinker to the point work thinks something's wrong with me and Ive never felt the effects some of my googling describes regardless of my then Cannabis and Caffine intake.
so I can stop paying those home internet connection bills that keep stacking up every month?
The solution is to review claims and punish abusers on both sides of copyright. There is essentially no review process. All claims are automated, which is pretty bogus, and false claims are not punished.
>some vulnerabilities

lol. I guess that’s one way to put it.
> HTTP has a zero ongoing cost

Only if you value your (and your users/readers) privacy at $0
Behind the lens at SpaceX’s historic Falcon Heavy launch
Normally with his books I can self-restrain in the 'this is interesting, but I want to keep it going as long as possible' and put the book down for a bit. REAMDE was the first book of his where it was more along the lines of 'jesus christ I must know what happens next, I don't care what time it is' ... and got through the whole thing in a couple of days. Much agreement on the 'exhausting' sensation, but also in a good way.

REAMDE was also similarly received by my other half -- a case in point to my earlier observation about being unable to predict which NS book matches (my understanding of) someone's literary tastes.

Seveneves also backs up my low-quality self-assessment capabilities -- my other half loved that too, despite always pushing back on 'science fiction'. I read an astonishingly annoying spoiler in an HN comment soon after that book was released, and I've subsequently been very cautious talking about it. Suffice to say the ending of that book is frustrating primarily because it's still not clear if there may be a follow-up work.
Strafe-jumping physics explained
The word "stimulant" refers to this:

> The levels of G-6-PDH were increased in the brain tissues of all the treated animals (Fig. ​(Fig.5).5). Caffeine produced quite more significant effects relative to cannabis and the combination of both increased the level of G-6-PDH greatly.
Article is unahamedly biased and provably incorrect:

> De Beers fights fake

No. De Beers is fighting man made diamonds. They are no less real than mined diamonds.

> De Beers to invest tens of millions of dollars on methods to identify the man-made stones that look exactly like the real thing.

Man made diamonds are the real thing.
This is true of some languages with these constructs (C++, Scala, AFAIK) but not all (Rust, Haskell).

Given that this is a C++ thread, you’re right, but that’s an issue of the particular language, not the idea generally.
Universal Basic Income gains institutional support in California
Dropbox announces deeper integration with Salesforce ahead of IPO
"Taleb’s article implies that Better Angels consists of 700 pages of fancy statistical extrapolations which
lead to the conclusion that violent catastrophes have become impossible. He mistakenly refers to this as
“The Long Peace.” In fact “The Long Peace” (the term is John Gaddis’s) refers specifically to the welldocumented
post-1945 decline of wars among great powers and developed states. And the chapter with
that title is one of six that describe historical reductions in rates of violence. Another chapter discusses
the more tentative but still appreciable declines in civil war and terrorism since the end of the Cold War.
The remaining four pertain to other kinds of violence: tribal raiding and feuding, violent personal crime,
barbaric practices such as slavery and torture-executions, and violence on smaller scales such as
lynching, rape, spousal abuse, spanking, hate crimes, and cruelty to animals. The book makes it clear
that these developments obey very different statistical processes than those governing wars and
terrorist attacks; not even Taleb, presumably, would expect a sudden, massive, unpredictable jump in
human sacrifice, slave auctions, sodomy laws, or debtor’s prisons. So even if, as Taleb seems to believe,
the danger from major war has not declined, we would have plenty of other declines of violence to
explain. It’s an open question whether there are any common denominators behind these various
declines. Better Angels considers some possibilities, while making it clear that these declines do not
constitute a single phenomenon"
Why you don't have to raise funds
> Style tip: When talking about a particular person, don't refer to him or her as "they".

Can you explain why, please?
They are slightly better, but not a full solution.

For international news they follow the trends of the markets they serve, so you will find the same biases.
I would like to apologize for my previous post, I feel that it is unnecessarily long, and a bit inaccurate/exaggerated.

Let me be clear: I pretty much agree with everything you said. Only your original statement was what I felt a bit of a stretch:

> The "monitor you wear on your face" trope is simply inaccurate, and essentially a misunderstanding of the state of VR today

After reading a bit more into it, I feel that Oculus took the correct software approach to bring up its hardware on Windows. What happened appears to have been more of an oversight, one that most people probably could have felt for.

Custom (in-kernel) drivers are indeed probably a necessity to achieve the best possible experience, with the lowest attainable latency. However, they are not actually needed for basic support [1], which is where I think our misunderstanding comes form.

I realize that a tremendous amount of work has gone into making VR as realistic as it could get, and I am not trying to lessen it at all, which is what I think you wanted to point out with your original remark.

As much as I would like to have a go at implementing that kind of feature (and experiment with VR headsets in general), I don't really have the hardware nor the time to do so, unfortunately :)

--

[1] I don't know the latency involved with userspace-based USB libraries, but it seems to be low enough that Valve is using it to support the vive, at least on Linux (and for now).
That’s an interesting analogy, I’m not really sure how to answer that. I suppose I would respond by saying that water isn’t exactly analogous because it’s not a luxury good. A better example might be a “fake” Rolex or a “fake” Hermes handbag. Both such items can be convincingly faked (at least up to very close review, even if not by a qualified inspection team with knowledge of trade secrets). But people still prefer the “real” luxury items.

Preferring the “real” over the “fake” is only irrational insofar as preferring either is irrational. You either buy these items because you want the status signalling effect, or yoy buy them because you actually have an innate appreciation for them.
Expert community annotated scientific papers
Cannabis seems to bridge the gap between all major drug types with it simultaneously acting as a stimulate, depressant and psychedelic with the depressant being the most obvious to a user.
I feel like if we're going "good, fuck De Beers" but still going "finally I can buy a less expensive ring for my finance" we're still in a very narrow set of railroad tracks created by De Beers.
I have had a few conversations that seem similar to me. To refute global, long term stats, a specific, short term negative is brought up.

Pinker isn’t making the point that there is no injustice. Or that there is no violence. Just that there is less injustice and less violence. Significantly less than previously in history.

To answer your question, yes. Yes, the prisons of the US are included.

It seems odd to me to refute wide scale increasing demographic statistics with narrative examples.
there's a new one of those posted like every day - and every single one is "crazy fast" and "super scalable"
Make note of the telephone number and add it to the Project Mayhem page. This effort uses code sent from VOIP phones to flood these numbers: https://www.patreon.com/ProjectMayhem
Use turns into abuse when the person is aware of harmful effects but continues to use. Or when the person wishes to discontinue use but is unable to.

Some definitions include very high rates of use.
It will contain all content for pages that are live (in my case that's only 2 so far: http://bart.degoe.de/js/search/index.json), so your user will download all the content you want to have available for search on your site on page load, and then, depending on your index configuration, load more data in memory.

Lunr has an analysis pipeline that will generate a bunch of tokens for queries to match on, and you can do pretty much anything there.

It won't scale to thousands of pages, but I don't have thousands of them anyway :-)
How Can I Reach Chinese Influencers?
Interested in building an audience in China - does anyone know how to connect with Chinese influencers, or know anyone who has experience in this areas? The industry is gaming.
no, there isn't a person constantly driving on the other end of the connection
>For a site that claims to be unbiased, it sure does spend a lot of real estate saying that other places are more biased. Isn’t that a bias in and of itself?

First, no, if it's a fact, it's not a bias.

Second, they don't say they are unbiased in everything (e.g. in how good they thing they are etc). Just that they put out unbiased news.

Their's isn't some meta-discussion about bias in general.
Twitter banner covers half of page, making it unreadabl3 in landscape mode. Portriat seems fine.
I'm curious, what are some of the places we would start to see titanium if the prices dropped?
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Part One: Deep Dive into 2018 Trends in Life Sciences HPC
>How is that unbiased or helpful in any way?

Obviously pointing out bias is not a bias in itself.
If you personally don't want to have an internet connection then I'm afraid it's going to be hard for you to run a webserver for free. I think this would be unusual though.
"His many fans highlight the effect of Taleb's thinking as they speak like Renfield discussing Count Dracula:
”excellent; it's a must read ... I'll refrain from demonstrating my foolishness and ignorance by trying to interpret any of them in this forum.”

“Those who understand the book will refrain from summarizing its message.”

They sound like a cult of scared guru worshipers."

http://falkenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/nassim-taleb-imitat...

http://falkenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/review-of-talebs-bl...

http://falkenblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/taleb-mishandles-fr...
Ten years ago I actually tried to buy a synthetic diamond engagement ring. My wife is a geek, I thought she would think it was cool. The jewelry store was offended when I asked.
Clinton was vocally pro TPP and Trump's opposition to it is part of what socialized the Senate opposition in the first place. Under Obama or Clinton it would have passed for sure.
I am convinced that cannabis improves concentration and eliminates feelings of boredom. I always was average at best at football. I smoked cannabis before a match once. It was by far the best match I ever played and I scored thrice.

Of course, this is anecdotal evidence and could be a coincidence, but I am firmly convinced of the effect.
Transgender activists and the real war on women
> You’re taking away a lot of agency from people who prefer natural diamonds.

No, I'm not. I'm stating the fact that the language used by De Beers is manipulative. Whether or not people fall for that manipulation is a separate argument.

I did not bring consumers into the equation, you did. And speaking of manipulative language, I would appreciate it if you didn't try to spin it as if I'm the one talking down to them.
> But it turns out that we don't really care: we care that google.com is google.com, and that's it.

It's worse than that. 9/10 users I observe 'google'* google in order to run a google search. Every single time they go to a website that isn't saved as a bookmark, they search for it instead of typing an address into the address bar. I used to be surprised seeing people google 'gmail' and then click the top ad every morning... But I don't blame the users as much anymore. The companies that makes the browsers and web search know all this too and the UI has actually evolved to further muddy the difference between search and address.

(Increasingly they bing it due to MS defaults in Win 10.)

But your overall point is well taken and very true: having the sears.com domain name might not be as important as having the top google hit for 'sears'.
Bionic Nerf Artillery Replaces Prosthetic Hand
Measuring with an Optical Illusion: The Moiré Caliper
That's why the article says "Copyright Notices" and not DMCA takedown requests. Youtube has a not-legally-binding made-it-up-ourselves copyright notice system where you're allowed to file as many false claims as you want without breaking any laws. No need for an actual DMCA request.