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> If you have sanitize the name field because then you're doing everything wrong.

If you don’t write software under the assumption that every other developer and all your users are at best wildly incompetent and at worst outright malicious then you’re doing everything wrong.
Well, I was thinking more of an organization using it across the board, preferably one that is prominent enough to result in other copycat users.

(To be clear, I really love the Julia language, and use it quite a bit in personal projects - I'm just hoping that it gets strong adoption, since adoption is what drives the development of miscellaneous libraries and packages).
Focus and self discipline, anyone can help me with this?
Realtime for anything that isn’t...
Wow, you’re saying you can game human relationships w a few excel macros but calling someone male/ female is dehumanizing.
I'm out of the loop, here. Is there any context beyond this tweet?
Absolutely! This is actually the original reason I began exploration into quasirandom numbers. I wanted to see if I could replace some of the stochastic process in current machine learning architectures with quasirandom processes.

In principle, the curse of dimensionality kicks in after a dozen or so dimensions, as convergence is O( log(N)^D / N). But in practice I have found that in a surprising number of applications and circumstances, quasirandom sequences can have offer a substantial improvement even when the number of dimensions are in the hundreds or even thousands. (Some authors have suggested this works because the solution space is of low dimensions but embedded in a much higher dimensional space...)

However, to get the full benefit I needed to find a low discrepancy quasirandom sequence that did not suffer the many of the parameter degeneracy problems that many of the conventional ones exhibit for very large D. For me, the new R-sequence nicely solves this parameter selection problem by not having any parameters to optimize!
Near $1B Bitcoins are currently on the move from a Silkroad related wallet
Is there anything at all like this open source?
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/07/28/administrative-purgat...
We Need to Resurrect Desktop Databases
Dopamine: A Tensorflow-Based Framework for Reproducible Reinforcement Learning
He’s one of the very few journalists I still read and trust. Everybody else (including all other journos from The Intercept) has gone off the deep end after the election.
I honestly don't think we are close enough to the tools. It is the culmination of what is currently handwavium: neural interfaces, carbon nanotechnology, who knows? As a VR user and enthusiast, FOV is a problem that lenses simply can't solve - which is an even harder problem for AR.

I'm not a big fan of Apple, but I can hand them the "polish card" (at least under Jobs). With our current level of technology, that level of polish is impossible.
Well one of the issues is that no one knows what the sea level rise will be in Miami in 100 years but we do know that the average rise won't necessarily be evenly distributed. Also that geology and geography are against the city in those respects (as they are against Venice, or New Orleans).

And the point of the article isn't strictly limited to global sea rise, but rather the multiple issues facing Miami's water supply due to its history of development, the fact that most of its freshwater comes from underground sources, and its geography. I didn't find the article to be either misleading or "fluff" though it isn't something that would be helpful to a geologist or someone who is already familiar with alot of this already.

Your point about the title is also misleading since, in nearly all news outfits, the editor picks the title not the author. To me, the main story the article is trying to tell isn't "the city is drowning", but rather that if you're considering investing in Muni-bonds for Miami (as a typical Bloomberg subscriber might), then you need to do more research compared to other cities as there are alot of issues under the surface. The same probably goes for real estate and other development (also typical subscribers to Bloomberg).
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What I could not undiscover about Unikernels
>I don't think the price itself is ridiculous. That would be the whole vacation budget for the year when I was growing up and surely is for many people even today. What is ridiculous to the point probably even sounding cliché is that inequality is out of control. The reason you can make a plane ticket in salary over a few days is because that is what it costs to sustain yourself in a major city if you don't own things like housing. And all the people who did own housing got rich so they can pay you. You are basically a migrant worker in your own country.

Inequality is another issue, but this "overtourism" is because of the massive growth in the global middle class. It used to be only a tiny fraction of Chinese citizens could afford to go overseas. Now hundreds of millions of them can. And Europeans are also able to get around very cheaply now within Europe.

People travel more. I think that's fine, sorry if you lived in a picturesque town, but I think it's fair to share it with the world if you live in a nice place.
It's amazing how in driving that selfish and dangerous behavior is the zeitgeist. I agree to disagree.

If you may, try my style for no more than a week. See what it does for your mood. Be friendly on the road, stick to the law - if going slightly over is your line stick to that line. Just try to be safe and nice.
The salary of a skilled German software engineer in this field is about 1/4th of the US counterpart. So I wish the German government luck in their endeavor, because they’re gonna need it.
Thanks for the kind words! Will definitely consider.
The examples in this thread don't seem very convincing for me, is that because I know that it's an AI?

Not judging his work here, but it sounds like an unstable VoIP call.
Forgive me for being obtuse, but I can't see how the result would be any less complex or easier to understand than one application with reasonably modular design. You're just moving debugging into the interaction of services instead of the interaction of application components.
You're not alone in this thought. We developers are dopamine junkies chasing complexity to get our fix.
Compute contour lines for any 2D data in Go
Thanks! I really enjoyed making it. HN has been such a huge part of my life over that last ~10 years that it's truly the least I could do.
Same reason that LyX exists: LaTeX has a very steep learning curve, and is more intrusive than these alternatives.
About pharmaceuticals, the article implies the only problem is people flushing mass amounts of unused pills.

Biology / medical experts feel free to correct me, but I always thought that many drugs are mainly removed from the body by being filtered into the urine by the kidneys (instead of chemically broken down in the liver or elsewhere). So wouldn't that mean a big part of the "pharmaceuticals in our sewers" problem comes from people taking pills, having the drug pass through their system and coming out when they use the toilet for its intended purpose?
You can scrape google.com with a lot of awkward ban evading.

The fact that it works for non existing search results shows that it's ML
Since DC got rid of the whole system, you don’t know if they could have achieved a better result with an incremental move.
My sense is he's a curmudgeon who wants to carp about anything modern. In that sense, of course, the Ken Burns/Wynton Marsalis narrative is perfect.
> FILE PHOTO: A German flag is seen on the laptop screen in front of a computer screen on which cyber code is displayed, in this illustration picture taken March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

Cyber code. Reuters. Cyber code.
If you are trying to learn about a subject, then I fully recommend you disregard current popular subject matter experts and focus on learning the basics as that is where you will learn the most especially considering the subject matter experts probably won't make sense if you do not understand the basics.

How each person learns is subjective but I find textbooks are by far the best learning materials so if you are like me, then I would recommend you buy some introductory economic textbooks and read them. I know a lot about economics because I read a few intro economics textbooks and I kept reading new textbooks based on what interested me from previous ones and now I have read over 20.
I am not sure is recommendable integrate this design in a ASIC because is not so stable yet, but the synthesis tool pointed 133MHz in a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA, running at 1 clock/instruction. A more pipelined and stable RISC-V design, such as the VexRisc, can easily reach 346MHz in the same FPGA and uses less logic, but with only 0.5 instructions per clock. A performance optimized VexRisc runs at 183MHz in the same FPGA with impressive 1.44 instructions per clock, but uses more logic. There are lots of RISC-V implementations, each one with different features.
Hangouts is a specific tool requiring accounts with a specific corporation. My employers do not use Google to back their services, so it's a non-starter.

Phone calls, on the other hand, can work from just about anywhere using any service provider. Makes it much more useful than Hangouts.
We’ll never get there if we don’t start sometime... even if the development process might take a decade or two.

No one is better prepared to judge whether the tools are ready than people who are being paid to try and make it work.
AR superhuman ability: displaying object trajectory
I'm not saying that it's not worth it - just that we have a lot more to do than a single acquisition.
Need a confidence boost before a bit pitch? Try this advice from Michael Jordan
> We also wouldn't expect any genre to stay in stasis forever. Fracturing isn't even a bad thing.

This is a good point. Country music is the most popular radio format in the country. Yet Carrie Underwood doesn't sound much like Loretta Lynn and one could easily like one but not the other. Yet the "real country is dead" narrative gets little airing compared to the way the analogous complaint about jazz does.

If this author wants to say "free jazz is not to my taste" or even "free jazz is too dissonant," you know, he's well within his rights to say so. But "John Coltrane singlehandedly killed jazz with A Love Supreme" seems like a thesis impossible to justify.
What you mean is setInterval and does work well for synchronous execution. His approach is correct and would even work if the animate function is asynchronous as the next tick gets scheduled at the end of animate function execution.
...They say in high pitched voice.
Batmud. Started years before armageddon. Might bigger. Michael better. Still going strong.
"The firm has a portfolio of more than 200 patents related to holographic systems and materials."
So glad to hear, Liam! Was a pleasure to put it together.

Good luck, and feel free to reach out if you get stuck on anything.
Which claim exactly are you taking issue with? If you're going to be pedantic, you need to also be specific, otherwise you're basically asking for some kind of blanket trigger warning about climate change.

The article itself did not focus on making predictions on global warming. The title, while a bit sensationalised, is not wholly inaccurate and was probably picked by the editor not the writer. The other two claims that I could find were about the potential damage of a six-foot sea level rise, which was probably accurate even if it didn't list out the likelihood of such a rise, and the article by the Union of Concerned Scientists which made a claim about the likelihood of increased flooding that seemed reasonable to me.
Fair. I read hastily and was a little too snarky at first and have slightly edited my comment.

I’m just excited. Goddamn do I want me a solid full-FOV AR devkit to play with.
Batmud. Batmud.org.za All the rest pale by comparison.
I've been working on and off on a native macOS slack client. It's showing some promise in terms of speed, RAM usage, it looks prettier because it can use system blurs etc. But yeah i also worry about their lawyers. So i probably won't finish it. Pity.
No, it’s the opposite actually. Cheaper, less reliable, especially the black cabs.
Aspose Launches New .NET Library for Working with XPS Documents
Nifty indeed -- that may very well invalidate some old knowledge I have about manually representing trees in relational DBs, supported by recursive CTEs...
Thanks, I'm already pursuing my masters in OMSCS. This is my second year.
>Could Germany, as a purportedly sovereign state, decide . . . their interests were better served by making a pact with Russia and asking the US to leave?

The US certainly imposes its will on the rest of the world in many ways, but you're overestimating its power and its interest in imposing its will on Western Europe.

Like many countries, Germany played both sides during the Cold War: https://www.britannica.com/event/Ostpolitik

My humble opinion is that Germany could have evicted the US military from their territory in the 60s, 70s or 80s at the cost of inviting the Soviets in, but judged (correctly, IMO) that the Soviets would treat them worse than the Americans had and would. After all, the Soviets treated their own citizens very badly. The tariffs that Trump imposed on German exports would've never happened during the Cold War. The US security establishment knew (correctly, IMO) that Germany's allying with the Soviets would've been a disaster for US interests because of the possibility of the alliance eventually reaching economic and military parity with the US. (The security establishment would've mobilized influential Senators and Congresspersons to pressure the President to remove the tariffs, and in the unlikely event that that didn't work, they would've taken their case to the American press and the American public.) Consequently, they treated Germany better than the Germans could reasonably expect the Soviets to treat them.

I believe Germany could evict the US military from their territory today, particularly since now that the Soviet Union has disintegrated, the US security establishment doesn't really want to maintain that military presence. They probably think they're maintaining it mainly as a favor to the Europeans and wish the Europeans would bear more of the cost of their own defense. The Europeans, on the other hand, probably reason (correctly, IMO) that having the protection of Western Europe come mostly from the US has the happy effect of reducing the probability of an arms race and consequent war between two European powers. In other words, my belief is that the US doesn't really want to bear the cost of their military presence in Europe, but has (at least before Trump's presidency) grudgingly done so because that is the most effective means of keeping down the probability of another European war.

(I'm not saying that the Europeans are more warlike than the US is -- they are not -- just that the situations of the European governments are much more precarious than the situation of the US government. The US government does not have to consider attacking another country to prevent that country from attacking it first.)
If you moved the entire population of the Earth to the United States and spread it out evenly, there would only be about 2000 people/square mile (7% as dense as New York City).

So not overpopulation as much as everyone wanting to live in/go to the same handful of places. And now they are all mostly making choices based on the same sets of data (Yelp reviews, AirBnb etc etc).
Why would you see something like that? Not only not true, but in defense of mass murder? I can’t even fathom the agenda - defense of Russia’s reputation?
Oh don't worry, you'll get a drive and drivers, these things are build for it and as long as not all vendors for the standard are bankcrupt, you'll get something to read the drive.

You can still obtain LTO-1 compatible drives nearly 2 decades after the standard was released.
> Consumers wouldn't be spending if they didn't have extra cash in their pocket, and they expect the economy to stagnate/decline

Cash... or credit. Americans currently hold around $3.6 trillion in credit cards and auto/student loans - those types of credit can hinder long-term growth.

And the CCI is not a predictive metric. Consumers don't consider the economy in their purchasing decisions unless the media has given them reason to be concerned... if they're even paying attention to news at all.

I'm also curious how CCI is influenced by lowering expectations - if populations have been struggling to find jobs for the past 4 years, how do people answer?
In fact this "you should never code FizzBuzz yourself, just use util.FizzBuzz(n) to print the first n iterations" mentality probably contributes to the surprising number of software developers who can't code.
Ah yes, you are right. Got those mixed up.
MIT researchers 3-D print colloidal crystals
Very cool. I always enjoy George's posts on sci.electronics.design, and now I'm going to have to spend some time I don't actually have at the workbench, trying that.
During rush hour, it is very inefficient for a one-tonne hulk of metal to take one person 10 blocks…We’re able to shape behaviour in a way that’s a win for the user. It’s a win for the city. Short-term financially, maybe it’s not a win for us, but strategically long term we think that is exactly where we want to head…

We are willing to trade off short-term per-unit economics for long-term higher engagement…I’ve found in my career that engagement over the long term wins wars and sometimes it’s worth it to lose battles in order to win wars.
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If he's not authorized to register on the site then the ToS can't apply to him, can they? At which point he can register, but then...
> Because the issue is that Didi does not give a shit about passenger safety.

Didi intentionally setup the system this way to promote its rideshare as a hook up service for its drivers. When describing the service, its top management made it clear that such a service in which drivers and passengers are locked up in a moving car provides a "sexy scenario" and thus Didi must take the opportunity and try its best to promote such hook up experience.

It is not like Didi doesn't care much about passenger safety, Didi actively puts passenger into danger for its own financial gains and knowingly denied police intervention when its passenger was in danger.
I think most of the people making this criticism are misunderstanding both the intended audience for the article and the point the writer was trying to make. The article was focused on problems Miami will likely be facing in the next 40 years due to rising sea levels and their pattern of development over the past 50 years.

It is not trying to make the case for/against global warming to a non-scientific audience. It is trying to make the case against bullish development in S. Florida to investors who subscribe to Bloomberg. The point is basically, "Even if these guys don't end up under the ocean in 50 years, they're still going to have to pay more in taxes and water rates just to keep the city afloat"
Sorry, I actually was describing an alternative universe.

>If there's any way.

Hard work by very talented engineers.
If this threat is legally valid, doesn't that mean all adblockers/tracker blockers could be made illegal?
No amount will ever be enough if we all try to cram into the most fancy spot.

Americans don't have many kids now. There are lots of empty towns all across the country. We thus have plenty of housing. We could stop building today and be fine for decades.
No I meant the cross [x] thing on the right side. Above the large (inner) box. Like a button between a textbox and a text area.
Sorry, I was being satirical. However it is not too late for Google to do things right.
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The only area that I am aware of that has that problem is the bay area. Yeah, you guys are fucked but every other city that I am aware of is aggressively building to supply demand for housing.
Sorry, was being satirical.
Really? 1/2 a mile is not much - you'd need wires every 3 blocks or so.

How do you plan to install those wires without leaving your house?
No problem! I'm a VR user because I want to keep up, I want to experience the bleeding edge - I want to experience it as it happens. I'm enthusiastic but realistic - science will solve this though, not Apple.
Just remember: If you're taking flak, it's because you're over the target.
Work.

I'm 30. I've never held down a full-time job. I've been in 4 software companies over the years and I've only lasted a few months at each one. I've also tried contact programming so I have a similar string of failures.

I've been to doctors, career advisors and so on but I don't really have any answers.
I'll be honest, I don't have a huge amount of experience using it, never to a company slack sort of thing and there may be some company policy about this sort of thing (security and all that) so I'd encourage checking there but I hope it works out!
DragonSwords, the mud to play twenty years ago from hyperterminal at a public library.
I guess the person you're replying to's point was to take it to the next step. Let them initiate legal proceedings (and pay lawyers) to do something.

Maybe it's foolish, maybe it's not, but this email cost Slack the salary of the person for the time it took him/her to write it. At least make them also pay for an hour or two of legal fees to have this taken down.
Blur. I played from 97-04. I never played Bluemage or ExtremeMUD. The only other muds I played were a bunch of Star Wars permadeath muds and a few wheel of time ones.
But surely there must be some point where it’s okay to build a software application that expects some sort of personal identification, right? At some point surely it’s okay to cover some vast majority of people’s names and allow the rest of people to type in whatever they want? I don’t really see a problem unless you require a name to conform to some specific format while also having a policy against users using “fake” names.
Ask HN: What IRC networks and channels do you frequent?
Just wondering what communities are still out there and worth checking out.

I haven't used IRC in a few years, but I remember having met some amazing people and enjoying great conversations.
This situation all but confirms that Slack has well and truly become a investor-first, user-second company. Which is a shame because I only just finished listening to an episode of "How I Built This" where they interview Stuart Butterfield who founded Slack out of his failed gaming company and it was a great story.

When you have Fortune 500 companies using you, you know you're not a startup or company for the common folk anymore. As for hostility towards developers, we only have to look at how well that worked out for Twitter when they turned up hositility to 11 towards their developers. Different situation, but same premise of cutting off developers making your product better.

As for Slack, I loved it in the early days. But now, I find is distracting. The numerous bots you can enable on it (most of which are counterproductive) are annoying or distracting (like the Gif bot). I dread opening up Slack because it's not a nicely designed product and it is starting to become dated.

We've been using Microsoft Teams where I work and I must say that it is amazing. You get so much out-of-the-box with it without needing to add in bots and it's more customisable.
If I make a browser extension that grabs your auth token and all of your messages and sends it to my server. How is slack meant to fix that?
Mostly that Mozilla was selling out users to Cloudflare and they would enable the Cloudflare DNS per default for all users on release.