skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PhaseOne's Capture One is gaining some traction against Lightroom in the photography market, especially since Adobe basically forced Lightroom users to a subscription-only model.
From the post it looks like getDerivedStateFromProps does not receive the old props as an argument. I can think of cases where that would be helpful, has this been considered?
We are working to compete with Adobe (well not them specifically), less trying to beat them on feature count (nobody would), more taking the things that Photoshop is overkill for and making it easier/repeatable.

Competitors always seem to focus on a 'canvas' paradigm rather than what people are actually trying to get done, such as cropping to the same dimensions for web over and over again, or in your case stitching videos (sorry we don't support video yet).

We are still pretty early stage but the feedback has been great.

https://beta.laazy.io
That manipulated video does more to make me distrust Uber than the crash itself. They're showing what their true colors are, same as always. I don't trust them to do self-driving cars safely.
Because you're demanding jail time, and the burden of proof goes the other way. I don't need to know whether the mistake was reasonable, you need to prove it wasn't if you want to argue someone should go to jail.
What’s so wrong with them monetizing you? You are getting some benefit. As long as said monetization is privacy-preserving IMHO it’s ok.

Spamming likes and what not to disrupt your profile might be great for your own privacy but isn’t stopping them from monetizing you at all.
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Do you have any tutorials, docs, code or anywhere you can send me for helpful tips on doing this with an IR remote/receiver? I want to automate a garage door and a gate because I accidentally leave them open all the time and they aren’t easy to see from the house so it would be nice to have a notification or state manager on my phone.
I don't mean general purpose hardware, I mean specifically neural hardware, whether that means GPUs (as we know them), GPUs with special hardware like the "tensor cores", TPUs, "neuromorphic chips" whatever that is, FPGAs becoming part of average computers, or something else.

There's no end in sight to the improvement of neural hardware, not like the wall x86 CPUs have hit anyway.
Two-year-olds are good at lying so it's probably OK.
Not really. My point was that there's a lot of space between MS Paint and Photoshop (iMovie and Premiere), etc, and there seem to be enough people, willing to pay half price for the half of features. I'm not saying I want it for free, all I'm saying is that $500/year (creative suite price) is way too much for occasional picture/video editing.
I'm going to say something that I suspect many will quietly agree with but may not be willing to say out loud.

I'm confident that self-driving cars will eventually be safer than human driven ones. I'm not confident that this can be realistically achieved without killing some unfortunate bystanders in the process of getting to that point. That doesn't mean we should accept these cars running amok killing people all over the place. It doesn't mean I think this specific case involving Uber is "reasonable" either. I just think, in a general sense, a realist has to be able to try to find some balance between short term lives lost and long term lives saved.
It seems to include SSL support as well https://jasdev.me/intercepting-ios-traffic
Bitmap graphics: Paint.NET . Yeah, Windows, but it works quite well. IIRC, I've read that, at least at one point, it ran under Wine. KDE's Krita just hit 4.0 . I haven't used it, but there are lots of nice comments about it floating around. In the Linux world, there's also Pinta that I've used a few times. On Ubuntu 16.04, out of the default repositories, it complains about this or that missing or not being signed/blessed/something -- or did, last I used it. But it works ok, at least for the quick and dirty tasks I had at hand at that time.

Vector graphics: Inkscape

Adobe support is, in my experience, truly horrible. I once spent a cumulative 7.5 hours on support calls before I finally got a front line call center employee to go back to their supervisor, after being given the wrong answer once, and prod them into paying attention and looking further and, lo and behold, generating the correct legacy license code I -- rather, the person I was helping -- was entitled to as an owner/licensee of the full-blown Creative Suite.

Basically, I knew more than the support supervisor about this problem. I just had to find someone in support with the interest and guts to push their supervisor to actually pay attention and execute the solution.

7.5 hours. For what should have been one 10 minute support call.

After that, I vowed that as for myself, at least, Adobe would never get another dime from me.
Typically the employee would be criminally negligent, and the employer would be civilly liable. Uber's $20B is a legal war chest, so this was fully anticipated.
I'm thinking about this simple trick to keep the safety driver focused: at random intervals, the software would provide a stimulus (such as a red LED light projected on windshield), and the person would need to react as quickly as possible by pushing a button. Thus the person would know she has to expect the need to react quickly, and the software can measure the level of attentiveness.
You'd be surprised to see that both "inverse graphics" and "analysis-by-synthesis" are mentioned in the paper
Don't they already offer that in some markets? or at least helicopter rides?
I have mixed feelings about this. My sons are both involved in technical careers. They both develop S/W for a living. They both were also involved in the arts, both musical and graphic. The younger one continued with music through college (UIUC marching band.) In fact, there were probably more STEM majors in the Marching Illini than music majors because marching doesn't really attract music majors.

Notwithstanding, there is a strong mathematical underpinning in busic and graphical arts and it seems not unreasonable to consider that effort in one area supports learning in the other. For this reason I believe that the arts are an important component in technical education and perhaps earn their place in STEAM.

OTOH art on it's own does not seem to stand shoulder to shoulder with the other disciplines in STEM.

(The younger one is recently involved in music performance in his spare time.)
Surely that's something I would do always. But imagine getting a non branded Chinese phone with decent specs and being able to put ROM of your choice! That would be fun!
I think the author is being clear enough: right now it's proprietary freeware, and the degree to which it'll be open source will be decided later.
Creating a new acronym does nothing to depricate the old one. It's just a new acronym for a different concept. We'll see if it's useful by whether or not it's used.
They are quite different.

This paper device use a chain of small drops that have different chemical composition that produce a small voltage. Using a chain of them they get a high voltage.

The insect zapper use only one or two batteries (that are chemical cells) to produce 1.5V or 3V and the use a complex electric circuit to produce the high voltage.

(There is some ladder of capacitor in the voltage multiplier that are slightly similar to the chemical cells in the paper device, but I think they have more differences than similarities.)
You'll probably be able to pick up a 2080 for a reasonable price when it comes out, which should be soon.
You can download from here: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases

Feel free to star too :D
That is exactly my point! There is no reasonable expectation for the future that would justify investing the current valuation.
You can download from here: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/releases
Feel free to star too :D
Neither FB nor Google "resell" your data. They use your data to put you into categories. Advertisers choose which categories to advertise to, and if your data puts you into one of those chosen categories then you're shown the ad.
I’m having a hard time imagining what this kind of damage would be like. What would happen for instance if it were fired at a person’s head?
The suspense demo is fantastic! But that won't be a part of 16.3 - maybe 16.4!

16.3 does have some goodies though- new context API, forwardRef, etc.
>I just don't understand the use case for the native app.

I can't use Charles to inspect traffic from my device at work because of network restrictions. Now I can.
Why would it need to be easy to demonstrate in a lab to be true?
Self driving trains have been in existence for decades. In NYC (which I don't think is heavily automated) they require the drivers to point when they pull in to a station to prove they're paying attention. Many freight trains have a throttle that is dialed in to place at a set speed. To ensure engineers are focused there's a dead man's switch that requires activation at set intervals.
Not really! The thing is from a broader perspective it seems the popular Chinese brands have relatively cheap smartphones but if you are from any of the South Asian countries, these phones are still pretty expensive for us. There are lots of small local companies that sell re-branded phones imported from China and those are even cheaper.
This is a misunderstanding of GNU Taler, unless you're using a completely new definition of the word "backdoor". Customer transactions are completely anonymous -- that's the anonymity guarantee provided by GNU Taler. Mints are auditable (the amount of coins they've given out and received, and that they haven't given money to people who didn't have the associated coins). And thus how much money a particular merchant has traded to the mint for real currency can be figured out. There is no reasonable analogy between this (which has a given set of privacy guarantees, but not others) and the clipper chip (which was an attempt to remove all privacy guarantees from all cryptography).

The only way you can consider this to be a backdoor is if you think that allowing a government to know how much money a business has made (something that you are legally required to declare for tax purposes) is a bad thing. This seems like an immature view to me -- taxes are very important for a country to continue functioning.
These kinds of things should be part of an automated test suite. Specifically, the kind of tests that were written years ago.

Honestly, Microsoft is really big into automated testing. I'm surprised this slipped through.
How does that jive with the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal? Facebook seems pretty clearly in the reseller category.
Apple makes it pretty clear that they don't use the data that hits a server to identify you:

> When we do send information to a server, we protect your privacy by using anonymized rotating identifiers so that searches and locations can’t be traced to you personally.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/
Arguably the other phrases overcommit though - Are they down? Are they up but giving bad data/intermittent? Are they up but there is a problem between the server and user? Are they up in some regions but down in others? are all covered by experiencing outages, but "are down"/"are not working" are more definitive, both in that the service is definitely not working and that the problem is definitely on Apple's end.

"Are down" can also suggest that the downtime was deliberate.
Well I can't actually find the license, if one even exists.

You link to your "Thoughts on Free and Open Source." from the github repo, which gives a reasonable explanation of what you are looking for in a license and why. It concludes

> So what I’m thinking based on my experience:

> MIT License + The following exceptions:

> [...]

But I can't find anything saying you've actually released the software under such a license instead of just thinking about it. Ideally the license would reside in a license file in the git repo like is fairly standard these days.
Literally the purpose of the Open Source Initiative is to provide definition to what open source is and is not, and to prevent openwashing by companies and individuals presenting their non-open software as open source.

I'm not going to argue with someone who thinks open source is a feeling subject to their own personal interpretations in lieu of license.
Right. And the sad part is that they can afford their support being this terrible - they simply don't care about a few hundred customers fleeing them. But on the user end - I and my wife were so frustrated by their support today so that you can see, I've even started this topic :D

P.S. the support question was not even about using their product but about buying
> OpenSource.org doesn't own the definition of "Open Source."

Don't they, though? "Open Source" is not even a natural turn of phrase like "Free Software" is. Open Source is a strange phrase made up to describe a specific thing, and that thing is not that the source is available to be viewed.

edit: Also, thinking that the GPL is the only enforceable software license is just strange.
> Wall Street's opinion on Facebook has not been altered by the data scandal. According to MarketWatch, 37 out 44 analysts rank the stock as a "buy"

American equity "analysts’ recommendations...provide no (or biased) information related to future stock performance (e.g., Jegadeesh, Kim, Krische, and Lee 2006; Drake, Rees, and Swanson 2009...Bradshaw 2009)" [1]. Some research even concludes "that stock recommendations in the U.S. are either insignificantly (Bradshaw 2004) or negatively (Barniv et al. 2009; Drake et al. 2009) related to future returns" (page 4).

Meanwhile, from the 16 March to 27 March (close to close), Facebook dropped 18% [2]. Over the same interval, the S&P 500 lost 5.1% [3]. (Facebook is in the S&P 500 [4]; the rest of the S&P 500 did better than -5.1%. I chose 16 March since that's the day before the Cambridge Analytica breach broke [5].)

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b4e8/ffa418d387fb57a7cabe89... page 2

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB/history?p=FB

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/history?p=%5EGSPC

[4] http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/11/investing/facebook-sp-500/in...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
To a human, you do. To a lawyer, you do not.

That aside, you seem to be conflating "free as in speech" (FOSS) with "free as in beer" (freeware, or how most people treat WinRAR) in some parts of that writeup. Ardour is the usual example of software that's the former without being the latter (you can download the source code for free if you have the know-how to compile it yourself, but a donation is required to download the pre-built direclty-installable binary).

It's also problematic for educational institutions even if they happen to be tolerant of a little bit of colorful language here and there. By charging $30 a seat for the "educational" version and wanting to forbid educational institutions from distributing the "free" version, you're punishing the Goonies-tolerant organizations for Goonies-intolerance. Not to mention the need to define what "educational institution" means.

Being concerned about preventing others from making money off this ("If we struggle to make it free, you can’t be paid") seems to also run counter to the stated reason for making it free in the first place ("We will make money from creating great stories, not selling overpriced niche software.").

There's also the problem of longevity. If Wonder Unit, Inc. goes belly-up, then its non-FOSS storyboard editor does, too. An actually-FOSS license means there's at least some chance of the broader FOSS community keeping it alive, if only so that they can say "well hang on, Linux has awesome creative/multimedia tools, too - and we don't even have to pretend GIMP is one of them anymore".

All that said, the MIT license is probably not the right fit for Storyboarder itself (but is certainly a good fit for the underlying libraries; same with the ISC license) based on your criteria. A strict copyleft license - like the GNU GPL - might actually be more up your alley, since it would force anyone hoping to make a buck off your hard work to release their source code and allow others (you included) to do the same and make a buck off their hard work. If they don't comply, sue 'em.

Of course, even that one educator's little stunt of cloning your repo and removing all references to Wonder Unit would run afoul of both the MIT and ISC licenses, so you'd still be covered if you took the legal approach to going medieval on his Goonies-intolerant ass.

All in all, it doesn't really matter to me (as a Linux-using end user) what license you opt to use for Storyboarder (I use plenty of non-free software day-to-day), as long as there actually is a license so that I know whether or not I'm legally allowed to even use the software (let alone redistribute it, modify it, package it up for a Linux distro's package manager/repositories, etc.).

Even with all that aside, though, Storyboarder looks like an amazing tool, and the fact that it works on something that's not running Windows or macOS is a pretty damn big deal. Kudos, and thanks for your hard work. Whatever the license ends up being, it'll be a valuable contribution in that particular niche of "storyboarders who want to use Linux".
Where is everyone going to live?
There's a lot to learn if you're starting with electronics and automation from scratch, but you can start with the Adafruit tutorial on IR:

https://learn.adafruit.com/using-an-infrared-library/hardwar...

I do something similar, I have an ESP8266 microcontroller hooked up to an IR sender/receiver that I can use to send and receive codes from Home Assistant to control some stuff. The module I use takes care of encoding and decoding the IR and simply dumps it to serial, which the micro reads and forwards to Home Assistant via MQTT (and vice versa). It's this one

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5V-IR-Infrared-Remote-Decode...

but it's not hard to do it with a bare IR emitter and receiver. Unfortunately I haven't had have much time lately to document many of my projects for other people, but you can learn a lot from Youtube and Google these days.
I'm one of those sad dorks who bought into CorelDraw back in the late 90s. Yes, their packaging was tacky; yes, they marketed themselves poorly; yes, a dozen cd-roms full of shitty clip art and knock-off fonts was a poor way to court designers. Behind all that was a massively superior (to Illustrator) vector art software, and a bitmap editor that was easily a peer to Photoshop. Watching "Creative Suite" (I mean Cloud) features to finally catch up to Corel 1998 in 2015 has been excruciating.

Look at how Illustrator even today doesn't use shift-clicks consistently with either Mac or Windows; it works like an app from thirty years ago, because it is a 30-year-old app.

Artists learn a tool, and are more interested in what they can do with that tool than how the tool works. Thus, they have a uniquely poor ability to adapt. You can see that with the transition of film photographers to digital. Also 3D guys: I have a neighbor who was an animator in the eighties, he did a bunch of those animated logos for NBC and HBO and MTV (with physically carved models and fancy camera tricks); he's trying like hell to adapt to software, but he seems to be about a decade late to wrap his head around it.
I'd be interested to know the percentage weighted by USD notional amount raised.
This runs on the device itself.
> Retort: That's where you're wrong! If we hooked up nine mothers to one single faetus, we could get the job done in 9 months.[0] The same way, if we hooked up our dev teams to a lead that could delegate the work properly, we could pump out a Meltdown patch in around a month and a half.

> http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/28/1205282109?sid=....

Except this whole train of thought falls apart once you consider the difficulty of "hooking up 9 mothers to a single fetus". In the same way you down play the difficulty of coordinating multiple teams for a solution around breaking research. Show me a working solution of the former and I'll accept the corollary.
I woke up at 2AM to my 3-year-old nephew asking for it to tell him bedtime stories. Though to be fair, I taught him how to invoke that skill from Alexa.
I went to see this exhibition today. I don't know that I would encourage friends of mine who aren't already interested in algorithmic and computer-assisted art to attend, but I got a lot out of it. As someone born after most of the pieces in this exhibition, it's interesting to see connections between these historical works and what artists and designers are doing today.

I also got a kick out of this seeing this refrigerator-sized CM-2 supercomputer (https://www.moma.org/collection/works/200389), not because it was so big but because the programs it ran were designed to make its array of LEDs blink. As described on Wikipedia:

> By default, when a processor is executing an instruction, its LED is on. In a SIMD program, the goal is to have as many processors as possible working the program at the same time – indicated by having all LEDs being steady on. Those unfamiliar with the use of the LEDs wanted to see the LEDs blink – or even spell out messages to visitors. The result is that finished programs often have superfluous operations to blink the LEDs.
Shut out at Peralta ballpark location, A’s interested in buying Coliseum site
The safety driver was texting. Virtually everyone knows if you're a driver you're not supposed to text and drive. Safety drivers are held to an even higher level of road safety knowledge, so they should understand that they're beta testing a literally lethal weapon, and take reasonable precautions, like staying focused on the road.
I think the problem is explained by this[1] post in the previous discussion.

Essentially, you have to wait some time [36 mos.] before you can contractually stream after initial theatrical showing, which of course, is contrary to Netflix's whole money making model.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16678392
well, to be clear, the dictionary says free means "without charge". You can use this software "without charge"
Uber is not going to give up just because they killed one “loser” (probably how they think of her, given that they let an unsafe product on the road to kill her). The thought of cutting all the “losers” on their payroll and replacing them with enslaved robots is too appealing to them.
Under what license may I utilize this piece of software?
While it is true that one can simulate painting by search (in some sense), the problem is that (naive) search doesn't always work (we have an example in the paper). Moreover, training an agent has a benefit of fast test-time inference (i.e., you give an image, and it paints it almost instantly). Of course, we haven't achieved the ultimate goal yet but it's a step in that direction.
You also only pit yourself against Big Oil instead of also against Big Auto and city planners.
3+ years ago, their Graph API provided much more information than it does today. App developers (CA, in this case) used that open API to get information about the app user's friends, and then stored that data on their own servers (which is and always was against Facebook's Terms of Service).
Relevance: the A's want the land at a fraction of its value (their offer, which would only cover existing debt, amounts to almost exactly $1 million per acre).