skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ray traced games might still have over-darkening though, at least initially.

Couldn't we get around that similar to how we used to get around draw-distance back in the day with fake "fog" by assuming distant rays are more scattered, and hence can be modeled by less rays somehow?
Yes these are dry... I took them as part of a CERT org a few years ago and retook for EMS operations chapter in a class right now.
You forgot: there's a hard ceiling to how high they can raise prices, because they have to compete with trucks. Together, that all implies that if they want higher earnings, cost cutting is the only way.
> + minimal styling

I suspect that may be the primary reason, not JS. When you start juggling details that impact a cell, that in turn impacts all the rest of the table, so you can add up with an additive impact based on the number of cells. <divs> still have that, but actually fall under the well-optimized engine for rendering, well, divs (and other straightforward elements that only impact other elements via positioning, not by things like colspan and rowspan)

But this is speculation on my part. I can say that while I appreciate the semantic definition of table and use the tag appropriately in my own work, I never look forward to it because it's always more work than doing so with divs. There is a reason everyone was happy to leave table-based layout behind and it wasn't (just) a desire for semantic purity.
What Are the Advantages of Stress Testing vs. Traditional Risk Measures
Imagine what a mess the assassination insurance industry would be given how much of a mess that the health insurance industry is.
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Alibaba Open-Sources Its X-Deep Learning Framework
Appears to be just

l = readline()
print l
while True:
n = readline()
if editdistance(n, l) > 30%:
print n
l = n

The simple tool doesn't appear to handle interleaving? Normally uniq handles that by sorting first, but this would need an edit distance aware sort first. I suppose that wouldn't be that hard to build either.

Perhaps it could be just handled with a short window in the tool.
Calm down, you could get the constructive points of your message across in a nicer way.
I really like Wikiwand and the Chrome extension that automatically redirects you to it. The layout can be a little wide for some but on a big 4k screen it's perfect.

http://www.wikiwand.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikiwand-wikipedia...
The developer edition allows you to use unsigned addons, that has security updates.

You can't live in the modern world and expect all choices to be handed down without consequences and tradeoffs.
CRISPR-baby scientist fails to satisfy critic
Exactly. This may or may not be NSFW depending where you are...better safe than sorry though!
Facebook gone Rogue
Only if you ranked the price by buying shares. But even if that’s as the case the. The threshold is 10% not 5%. Point still stands.
> He was never charged with that

It was explicitly a sentencing factor; the way federal criminal sentencing guidelines work, the charge sets the outer bound of punishment and influences the sentencing calculation, but other sentencing factors play a significant, often overwhelming, role in determining the actual sentence, so it's not at all inaccurate to say that a person is serving time for all of the things weighed in sentencing.
I find it interesting because it's a more universal problem that predates software. Each civilization had its own way of doing things and had to occasionally accommodate people who didn't follow its customs, and they had to use many of these very same workarounds.

"You don't use our script? Okay, you'll have to come up with a version of your name that we can write in our script."

"You don't have a [second] family name? We'll have to come up with a convention for deriving one when we log you."

"Your name has sounds we can't pronounce? We'll treat you as having a version of your name that we can pronounce."

"You don't have a signature version of your name? Uh, write X or something."
SOP: Downplay.
Pet peeve of mine... 'wiki' does not exclusively mean Wikipedia. Wiki is the name for all of the early directly editable content based websites.

All in all though, this is nice to look at, but doesn't really add anything over and above the mobile version. Maybe you should add theme options for people who really don't like the standard Wikipedia colour scheme (or for colourblind people / low-vision users) that would add a unique service that Wikipedia doesn't offer.
For one thing, it offers all the sections not collapsing every time you load the fucking page...
How can you forget the slice of cake that the merovingian reprogrammed?
Because documentation is boring.
The need to maintain Taj is not new, in fact just a couple of decades after its construction in 17th century, the dome leaked and it had to be repaired. As Mughal reign fell into decline, the plunder began and the British were not left behind. The precious stones were removed from inlays, furniture was plundered and even plans were made to dismantle and auction the marble.

One must evaluate the decline of Taj in this broader context. It is currently maintained by ASI and they have replaced many precious stones abd repaired the Taj as much as they can. Unfortunately they do not always follow the same medival construction methods and do not have adequate funds, so repairs do fail.

Polloution is terrible in Delhi- Agra corridor but one must balance the needs of the poor to earn a living vs. the needs of the tourists to see the Taj in pristine condition. For this reason a blanket ban will not work in practice.

I think the BBC article is one sided, and the complexity of the situation needs to be taken into account before painting a pessimistic picture.

Aga Khan trust has done excellent work in Humayun's tomb and I think it is a better model for moving forward.

https://youtu.be/eCLEFJU1p5A
China Forces Tesla and Other EV Makers to Turn Over Driver Data
I just want to expand on the "unambiguous promise of a cure". It is a huge problem especially for incurable diseases.

I have a relative that was diagnosed with EDS, it is a very serious disease with no cure. This relative has spent $20k+ on prolotherapy. There is 0 scientific evidence that prolo works, and 0 evidence that it works on this specific disease. Those doctors just make up claims and for sources link to their site. But what they sell is hope, which is really saddening considering that person will be unable to afford housing/food soon. Just thinking about it makes me angry that people like that exist.

People simply have a hard time accepting their fate. REAL doctor will tell you what you don't want to hear, a doctor that sells snake oil will promise BENEFICIAL treatments based on bs.
Because the cost of "verifying identity" is a feature! The easier it is, the more frivolous uses of it there will be - imagine basic forum websites deciding the easiest way to cut spam is to demand real world IDs. Google's new practice of requiring of a phone number to make an account would look tame in comparison.

This very case is already an example of overreach. The only reason a hotel needs someone's identity is in case they trash the room and skip out. There is absolutely no reason that it should have been kept after checkout, except that we've been groomed to expect this surveillance based on payment cards being similarly broken.

I can see the possibility for reasonable progress in the EU, where a government ID could carry rules that it couldn't be involuntarily used for business purposes (and assuming that would actually last). But in the US, the government will mandate some base system and then let companies abuse it ad infinitum - even social security numbers are already way too much.
It's used in a negative way all the time because the people using it are usually on the losing end of the deal.
Right, we can't. Unless we're promising to give users control over their machines and there are trivial ways to accommodate this means of giving them control.
I don't because I also mention the developer edition and nightly, which allows unsigned addons and has regular updates.

I'm not dismissing people who aren't as capable as me either, I've mentioned alternative approaches and I'm getting tired of having to repeat "there is the dev and nightly edition" to the same 5 people over and over again.

Mozilla is making tradeoffs in protecting the average user and giving the power users a little bit less freedom unless they use an edition of firefox intended for power users and developers. Simple as that.
Maybe, but the question is why you would do a less accurate approximation when you can easily do a better one?

For example, before true HDR lighting in games was a reality, Half Life 2 faked iris adaptation by placing a brightly colored quad at the end of an exit from a dark tunnel into an outdoor space, and fading it out as you walk toward it, as if the player's vision is adapting to the brightness.

Now the same effect is achieved by rendering to a floating point buffer which has much more dynamic range that can be displayed, and compressing that range in post-processing with parameters based on the light levels of the area the camera was focused on in the previous frames. It's much more faithful to real life, and it's less work than the faked solution from Half Life 2.

You might be right that AO adds value beyond enhanced "realism", but it could also easily add to a long list of graphics techniques which look jarringly bad when compared to the more refined technique which replaces them.
> As far as I know, Junior and Senior are masculine.

Falsehoods programmers (including me up until about 30 seconds ago) believe about Junior: it's masculine only.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/112531/what-do-y...

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Sackville_Stoner_Jr.
My response to that: https://www.scott-a-s.com/cs-is-not-math/
The spec says:

> For signed integers, the operations +, -, , /, and << may legally overflow and the resulting value exists and is deterministically defined by …*

It does not go on to define the overflow values; that gets to be implementation defined.

This is in contrast to unsigned integers, which the spec does precisely define overflow for.
> I can make a truck bomb from commercial fertilizers

.. which is why in many countries they're either a semi-controlled substance, or deliberately adulterated with substances to fizzle the explosion.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6548961.stm
Not all CPU operations are created equal
> I have no idea what ¬ is called

That's the logical not symbol, companion to ∧ (and) and ∨ (or).

It's in ISO-8859-1 (and presumably the British keyboard layout) while the others aren't, since they can be made with /\ and \/.
They could add a way to add signing keys to the stables. This gives you security updates and user freedom without significant downsides because the user would still be in charge of signing.
Eat fewer and burn more calories. It's a simple recipe that is supported by the bulk of scientific research.

Educating people, modifying their behavior, and increasing their willpower and persistence is what's difficult - that's a sociological problem and I agree, a hard one. The actual physical mechanism is simple.
It's always great to see new people work on their own programming languages, but I have to ask: why a tree-walking interpreter? This is probably the least optimal way to implement a language, whether you are a beginner or not. While interpreters are often believed to be the right way for beginners to implement languages, compilers are actually much easier to write, much easier to maintain, and yield much better performance than interpreters if you are doing anything more than a throwaway exercise, and judging by this Github page your ambitions are larger than that. If you don't know where to start with compilers, I recommend reading Abdulaziz Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" paper [0], and then moving on to Andrew Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" book.

[0] http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
Do you have physician's assistants (PA) in Germany? Sort of between a nurse and an MD. I've found for general care, they strike a reasonable balance. And it really doesn't take an MD to tell me I have a sinus infection and hand me a pack of anti-biotics (or anything similar).
Users will abuse the ability to control their own machines. Given full administrative privilege on their machine, it takes, by my experience, about a month until the machine either has various pieces of malware installed or their malware has malware installed.

The average user cannot be trusted with full control of their machine and it's fairly reasonable to say that power users need to take the extra steps to, for example, install a power user edition of firefox.
See https://gist.github.com/AlexisDucastel/1b287428db8d40f528f1b...
But Samsung isn't an SV company, so it's to be expected.
Do they check if you're actually from Alberta?
What postmodernists are you referring to? I thought that as well, but after reading some actual postmodernists like Richard Rorty and Foucault I find it hard to support that idea any more. Most postmodern thinkers are left of center, sure, but I think that reflects a bias in academia more than a secret agenda.
Cambridge Analytica knew how you would vote if you wore Wrangler jeans
I think our narrative surrounding survivability optimizes for some types of things (things that have coherent identity over time). eg. "a snapshot of a tree in time" lives less long than "a tree" (many snapshots-in-time together) And I think certain problem descriptions and solitions are better fitted to such survivability descriptions. But I'm not sure if there is an independent thing than the observer-language complex optimizing for anything.

Like I feel like there is an inherent observer bias in the way survival is being defined, it feels more like "observable." Like in the local time of a tree snapshot (from its perspective), time may feel different than from ours observing it.
I believe that he was sentenced for money-laundering, hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. You do yourself no service to memoize this as "running a free market."
A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect
That would allow any third party software running on your computer to add malicious plugins to the browser (which has happened in the past and is in part why it requires Moz' signature now).

Most users, ie, the average user plus a significant amount, don't really care that they can't install random addons from outside the addon store.
I think you were unfortunately downvoted. I think you're mostly accurate, but I think all sciences at the undergrad level don't teach how to do science. They teach about science. Yes, I know that there are labs, but that's rarely the emphasis. A physics and chemistry student is mostly learning things that other people have discovered and figured out. It's not until the graduate level that someone actually starts doing science as opposed to learning about science. And a lot of that is necessary: in order to be a productive scientist in any discipline, there is a lot of background material you need to understand first. The bar of entry to adding to our scientific knowledge is very high.

But, I think it would be good to include more philosophy of science - what does it mean to do science - at the undergrad level.
Exactly this. Your name is not your own--your name is a contract between you and the culture / civilization you're dealing with.
And that's not true? When you have to worry about maintaining a job you 100% have to watch what you say. We even have a saying which encapsulates this phenomenon - "FU money".
Review the UX of this website
I need feedback on the given website for an academic project.

http://www.cinnamonhotels.com/en/cinnamongrandcolombo/

Kindly take a moment to list down what you like and dislike about the website.

- What drives you to take some sort of an action
- What changes you'd like to see
This looks great! However I had to click on "Docs" to actually find out what it is. If you're going to be linking to the homepage perhaps including the information from the "About" section there would help your cause. Just a friendly suggestion. Keep up the good work! :)
... If your primary data store should be Elasticsearch. Nice write up of everything, though, for sure.
This was the old model and it put a lot of pressure on the volunteer add-on reviewers and their were times where the delays stretched out to several months.
Same world in most of the non-coastal parts of the West? Probably. Same world in a lot of low-lying or heat-sensitive third world countries? Probably not.

It has been argued that Yemen is the first resource exhaustion war - the country has extremely limited water supplies.

The West is going to have to look at the possibility of a lot of refugees in the future, with the option of taking them in or watching them die.
Exactly I don't need to transfer a ton of data in my rest calls, I need them to not have latency.
> Free Software is software that through the license enforces a philosophy.

This is incorrect, licenses like MIT or BSD are also free software license because they afford the 4 freedoms to the user (even though they don't enforce them on derivative works).

Licenses like the Redis one are open-source but not free software because they place limitations on the user (can't sell hosted service, IIRC)
When using Tor Browser I often get (Google) Captchas on all sorts of websites, before I'm even allowed to load the page. (I think it's integrated into CloudFlare's DDoS protection?)

These are typically pretty straightforward (although tedious) but on some Tor circuits it just never lets me through: the endless "Please try again".

That is to say, if Google's Catcha bot does not like you[r IP], many other parts of the internet stop working, too.
Smartsheet had 74,116 customers in its IPO filing. Asana recently announced that it had hit 50,000 paying customers, and revenue growth had reached 90% year over year.

The maturity difference isn't as large as you'd imagine.
I wish there was a similar comparison of proxies.
"Leaking your code to mozilla"? What do you think they are going to do with it?
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The byline is at the end of the article and is indeed Jie Qi
I was born in Poland. Yes the system sucks but US is on another level.

Imagine visiting a hospital for an emergency, and receiving 10 bills from different doctors totaling to few thousand dollars then fighting with insurance to pay for it.

Universal healthcare brings OVERALL cost down. It makes private treatment cheaper. A crown and root canal costs about $2k in the US. Plus, it is nearly impossible to find cost of a procedure prior to it. It is fking weird.
Certain actors have been getting away with murder for over a decade now. We have a few lucky first movers that have become alpha predators and are now stifling innovation. I can't really see any rational argument for this type of behavior benefiting our society or market at all - beyond religious adherence to the free market or if Google is working exclusively with your political party (wink wink). Hopefully regulators wake up in the near future - societies that don't protect entrepreneurs won't have any.
Functional Programming Principles in Scala https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1 on Coursera. It's taught by Martin Odersky, one of the language's creators. Very well organized, highly automated assignment testing (you submit via CLI). I went in wanting to learn Scala, but what I learned about FP has stayed with me for years. Even though I've moved on from Scala I'm a much better programmer for having taken that course.
That's a highly reductionist view of Dworkin's point. The sexual revolution was not merely about reducing the stigma on women for having sex outside of marriage. As Dworkin explains in Right Wing Women (p. 89):

> The pop idea was that fucking was good, so good that the more there was of it, the better. The pop idea was that people should fuck whom they wanted: translated for the girls, this meant that girls should want to be fucked—as close to all the time as was humanly possible.

She continues (at p. 91):

> Empirically speaking, sexual liberation
was practiced by women on a wide scale in the sixties and it did not work: that is, it did not free women. Its purpose—it turned out—was to free men to use women without bourgeois constraints, and in that it was successful.

Hence Iliza Shlesinger's point:

> > You’ve also been holding in… your intentions. We have this really nasty habit in our society of labeling women very cruel and unfair things when they express their desire for very normal things. Monogamy, exclusivity, a relationship, a family, babies. Right? We like to call them desperate, sad, psychos, baby crazy. “We’ve been married for six years. She already wants a kid! I’m a fuck man! They can’t get me.” It’s very normal to want these things.

Calling women "baby crazy" for wanting kids is the product of a male-centric sexual revolution that prioritizes what men want out of sexual relationships and criticizes women for wanting perfectly normal things out of those same relationships. I haven't read the "Selfish Gene," but I strongly suspect it doesn't "debunk" the idea that it's normal for women to want kids and that our popular culture shouldn't stigmatize that desire.
The idea is to protect users, not hurt them in any way. Anyone can sign and run their own add-ons, or offer those add-ons for others to use. The only thing being restricted now is who can distribute their addons via addons.mozilla.org, which seems more than fair.
I don't disagree, except to say that "don't break anyone's code" is a bit better than "break in a way that the compiler catches and helps you fix", which is a GREAT deal better than "silently break code".

Paranoia about breaking code makes sense in languages that have few mechanisms for aiding in refactoring. It makes less sense when the language is acting as your teammate.
You're definitely right that, we haven't been able to. It seems we have guesses based on assumptions based on peripheral observations. Like I said, I would love to find out that there is, but I haven't seen anything that has convinced me that it's only a matter of time until we do.
They follow ISS or similar.
Related to this, supervoting shares are popular with tech startups that are going public, but the street generally frowns upon these structures from a corporate governance perspective.

Founders pitch supervoting control as a way to make sure the company can realize its long term potential by protecting themselves from activist investors with a short term view.

So far, ownership of new IPOs hasn't been affected much due to their small market caps and subsequent miniscule weighting in indices. It will be interesting to see if increasing concentrated ownership by index funds may eventually play a factor and perhaps increase acceptance of supervoting.
That's hardly even a speeding ticket for Uber. As long as the fines are this low companies of sufficient size simply treat this as a cost of doing business.
Maybe I missed it but why would anyone use this over KiCad?
I have a really crappy computer ATM, and I was wondering if something like this existed.

Even with a fast connection though, uploading the source files would take forever.