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Ask HN: An online directory of “real” projects grouped by language/framework?
When I'm looking into a new language or framework, I'm always interested to see good (I appreciate there's no objective 'good', but at least, well maintained, well structured, clean, scalable, etc.) examples of projects that are used by real people.

Does anyone know if such a directory exists?
Fluorescent tubes flicker at 100/120 Hz, but the flicker is less pronounced because the phosphor keeps giving off light for some time after the electrical current stops flowing.

White tubes are made of a mixture of phosphors, and each of them has a different time constant, meaning the flickering is noticeable as repeated changing of colors. Take a photograph (with a rolling shutter phone for example) of a fast moving object under fluorescent light and you'll see blue and yellow shadows from the changing light[1].

[1]: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/60701/why-do-i-get...
What's Nikki Haley's influence on the world?
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I occasionally run across bicyclists now with modern LED lights that are more blinding than automobile headlights.
Because there is real money at stake? Athletes in other sports compete under their real identity (and presumably have to prove it at some point in their career) after all.
Modern real-time aviation map of Finland
Carl Sagan imagined something like this in "Cosmos" - we'd be launching dodecagonal starships about now.
Windows 1.x-3.x didn't really have a command line, the window you use to run command.com was for DOS programs only. Windows programs didn't have a text mode to utilize it.

Windows NT's console window was properly accessible to Windows programs, as well as DOS compatibility. Windows 95/98/Me inherited limited forms of text-mode compatibility from NT.
The map updates automatically every 5 minutes showing in real-time all permanent and temporary danger-, restricted- and prohibited areas, military reservations, restricted areas for aerial photography, obstacles, airfields, aerodromes, VFR waypoints, drone rules, heliports, ...

I'm happy to answer any questions about the map!
YouTube music quality is shit. You're watching a compressed video with music in it.
that just remind me of the movie Seven, maybe the guy was right(?)
Some cameras have slow-mo modes which try to remove lighting flicker by having a special high sample rate light sensor whose purpose is picking up the flicker and then using software to compensate the rest of the image data for the flicker pattern, using as input the time the shutter opened and closed for each row of pixels of a video frame, and integrating the light sensor value over this time.
I still use Picasa, because it is so fast and easy to just copy an SD card somewhere to my hard drive and have it show up at the top of Picasa seconds later.

Then I browse the pictures, star the ones I like and process them.

An no other software I have tried so far comes close in terms of speed and UI efficiency.

So I would also love to try PhotoStructure and have signed up via your landing page.
The op was referring to perceived status for example I used to work at a former "proper" civil service telecoms company in the UK.

Because of the inherited status of M&P grades most of us where quite happy to take our toil - though this depended on your family's status as well.
So, wait, this conclusion was reached because of a single pre-recorded demo call, compared I guess, to Google I/O's prerecorded demo calls?

If it's servicing millions of live requests and is in production, why couldn't they review the live system?

The story's title kind of seems clickbaity because of this IMHO.
Twitch have their own custom IRC servers and not part of IRC.com/London trust media. They have been watching out on the IRCv3 group to ensure they implement IRC correctly though in the past.
I'm just amazed somebody can come to this conclusion.

20 years ago you had to go to the shop, buy ONE film for $15 from a limited shelve, bring it back home, put it in a device you bought specifically for that film format and that does only that, navigate through a dubious UI, be forced to watch ads, then eventually get to the film. If you didn't like it... too bad.

Now for the same price, you have access to thousand of movies __and__ TV shows. No ads. Instant watching. Most of them were release on TV or on theater so basically same quality than other channels.

And people complain ?

I mean I do think the general level of quality of movies and TV shows is going down, but it has nothing to do with netflix. The good/sucks ratio is plummeting much the same on every medium (and I think it's because of us voting for crap with our money, like for most things in our society).

Well, I guess it's beautiful some people arrived at such a level of comfort in their life that they consider that amazing commercial offer to be not up to their standard.

> PC propaganda

While their original content do try to target specific niches including PC and SJW trends (it makes sense IMO), there are plenty of excellent content on netflix that don't follow this trend. Just opening my front page: Ajin, Rick and Morty, black mirror, battle royal, altered carbon, lastman, dirk gently, breaking bad, american beauty, pulp fiction, drive, trainspotting, house of cards, david chapelle, mad max furry road...

Yes, things like Sabrina, disenchantmenent, etc are pandering to a certain crowd. So what ? You can just click on something else. There is a lot of something else.
Yeah, but what I was trying to say is that even before you couldn't get every song or album on CD, some were distributed only on tape, some only on vinyl, if you could even get a CD player or buy a CD (not too long ago USSR existed). I'm not saying your situation is ideal, but I am not saying it's a regress that some audiophiles can't get lossless but more people can consume audio (so easily).
> Both seem to be more dedicated to push PC propaganda than matching what viewers want.

I agree 100% with the rest of your comment but I genuinely don't understand this claim?
I don't use any myself, but if my friends ask me I recommend them Kaspersky. Seems to be working very well for them.
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Sorry, no citation, but I remember reading of a study years ago that basically determined that no matter how much income a person has, they feel that they need about 10% more to be truly happy. This was consistent across a wide range of income. Honestly, I think it is simply normal human psychology to keep us striving. Complacency is not an evolutionary stable thing to do.
Do the content creators get paid in this case? I'm all for blocking ads when it's some giant corporation that gives me no other choice but when I'm watching someone's videos they made in their basement and put a huge amount of work into I'd rather they were paid for the effort.

That's why I have YouTube Premium - best of both worlds.
Funny just had the same discussion on here a week ago, but there are many workarounds, my choice being downloading the Firefox app and installing an AdBlocker. Also lets you continue playing with the screen off.
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'Trying to do the right thing' is a quirky human heuristic that works well in the small but scales terribly. It is evidenced in things like the legal system where 'intent to commit a crime' is often a consideration in the sentencing in addition to the actual outcomes of a criminal act.

With that in mind, it makes a lot of sense why money (and the economy generally) rubs people the wrong way. We have here a powerful system in which if you act rationally, selfishly and with intent to maximise your personal outcomes (but within the law), others will benefit. Intent is explicitly not part of the equation of who gets to be wealthy. But the whole thing hangs together because of the intuitive fact that a clever person acting with selfish intent can usually do more good than a clever selfless person acting with noble intent.

There is an irony that working to maximise your income looks, in real terms, a lot like dedicating your life to the betterment of others with personal perks. The people who get rich under capitalism do not spend their time sitting in idleness.
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That does nothing for IP based geo location though. Every rest request to modern cloud services gets geotagged and those tags can be surprisingly accurate in populated areas for people that use wifi.
I too agree on the above issues especially their feed is very poor.
When asked what country boarders France only Switzerland is marked as correct, picking Spain is marked as incorrect.
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That's a matter of opinion, surely, and Vice are entitled to theirs.

For me, his membership of UKIP certainly qualifies him to be well over to that side of the political spectrum.

Other people agree that he's "far-right", e.g. "Ukip gains 500 new members since allowing prominent far-right activists to join party" says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-alt-righ...
...or by owning the means that other people use to provide value.
They're saying identity is important because only relating to an identity creates a community. But that's wrong of course, as many anonymous communities prove. I don't recognize 99% of the posters here either; it is indeed the content that makes the community.

I believe the real explanation of why identity is important to them is a bit of social psychology. The theory is that identifying with people makes them less mean to each other. So they probably want consistent identities so people will be more civil, which is one of their stated goals.
That's what the "Subscriptions" tab is for.
Do you have a semi-automatic or a clutch? What kind of engine? Pics :) ?
I’ve always been a fan of deliberate asceticism and the mantra “let me suffer or let me die”
Exactly. The button is right there on the homepage.
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Because every question is some variation of "What should I do to become rich or financially independent before 30?". The whole site stresses me out, and is probably counter productive if that's the goal I even wanted to achieve.
>(Check for fingerprints and other sloppy cleaning on the wrappers of those "brand new laptops", folks ...

Or you know, they just use gloves because they work for a signals intelligence agency installing implants for a living.
Well personally use both a lot. Like a real lot. Think both can exist together.

But do tend to watch more YT then Netflix. If count YT TV in there then a lot more.

Highly recommend YT TV.
I wish there was something similar on Android. I used to keep my Location services off but needed to switch it on for Google Maps and HERE maps so I got lazy and leave it always on.

Its shameful that Android 2.3 let you have more control of your phone than Android 8.1.
We have IPA though, accents can be defined as certain phonetic replacements. It's not that simple, but it isn't impossible either.
It also depends on the culture and country. I am in a country where there is no social security, and therefore I have to support both my parents, my spouse and my kids with my income. The society expects me to pay for my kids tuition fees, their future marriage expenses, my family medical expenses, other loans I have taken etc.

Also part of the 100k goes towards a retirement fund (investments in bank savings, real estates etc) and saving for any unforeseen circumstances. I can't imagine living in united states with less than 100k per year and paying for tuition fees for your kids, house loan/rent and have a decent savings. If the medical is free, and i have an option for retirement and not that much strings attached, 50k would suffice..
capitalism turns this motivation to accumulate more than others (greed) into a drive to produce goods and services. This has good and bad qualities, and focusing on one or the other doesn't paint a complete picture of its effects. This mechanism also breaks down in some ways when you can generate money without providing anything, which is becoming more prevalent nowadays.
iOS now forcing "While Using" option on all apps is the greatest thing ever. Before this, some apps where forcing the "Always" option on users. Uber and Waze come to mind.

iOS also gives you a warning from time to time about apps using your location in the background. I think iOS right now has the best location management.

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People are surprised when seeing the Activity section in Google's account details, then freak out about Google tracking their location. At the very least Google is being transparent about it and gives you the option to turn that shit off.

Also I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Google Maps now remembers searches you've made without location history or app activity tracking being active. This wasn't the case about a year ago, when I last tried it, a dark pattern of sorts. They probably changed the behavior being forced by the GDPR or something similar.

So if you haven't done so, turn off "Location History" in your Google account: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols (I turn everything off and I don't see a difference in usability)

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On the article, I love the maps and the animations. Visualization is the best way to make people understand the threat.

On GDPR, I've seen people complaining about the high cost for implementing it, however for privacy it is a godsend.
In the right conditions, very high flicker frequencies can detected by humans. It doesn't require any special abilities, just the right conditions.

Consider a flickering streetlamp outside your house. Now imagine you have two sets of net curtains covering your window, 10cm apart. The net is very fine - say a 0.1mm mesh.

If you sit next to the window working, and move your head back and forth, you will see a moire effect. If you sit 10cm from the curtains and move your head at 1 m/s, the 'flashing' you see is 50 Khz. If the light source behind the curtains is flickering at 49,995 Hz, you will see the resulting 5Hz flicker when the flicker from the moire effect and the streetlamp get multiplied.

As a regular human, you have now made a 50kHz flicker detectable with no special equipment.
I clicked on one category, didn't like the question and couldn't go back. :(
It's not as simple as that though. What if I train an AI to output a book given its title. With a sufficiently expressive and overfit network it could actually memorise the training data exactly.

That means my network now includes an exact copy of those books (encoded in a weird way but that is irrelevant). Should I be able to distribute my weights and ignore the copyright on the original books? Of course not!

In this case it is very unlikely that the network weights store much data from each individual github project, but it's definitely a sliding scale.
No matter how much money I acquire, it will not help me to understand a mathematical theorem or become a master craftsman. Real wealth is what's inside you.
Just sign up for the Verizon plan from the cellular data menu on the device. No talking to anyone, no visiting Verizon store, no negotiating. Supports tethering. 2GB/2months, way more than enough for messaging and web browsing. Probably not enough for streaming video (I don’t do this, you can pay more for more data if you want). As the sibling comment mentioned other carriers have similar or better deals for tablets.

The “catch” is that there are no voice minutes and you have to carry a tablet instead of a phone. This is apparently enough of a burden that people don’t take them up on it. If you can live with those constraints (it is definitely doable) then it is a fantastic price.
Last year, I was contemplating bootstrapping a startup that sold full-spectrum LEDs with a controllable blue element for home and office use. Think Flux but for real lights.

I got so far as inspecting factories in Shenzhen, finding a partner supplier, and building some prototypes with my existing manufacturing contacts.

Ultimately, I ran out of time (launched another product instead) - but it always bugged me that I wasn't able to bring this product to market.

If anyone would be interested in picking up where I left off - I'd be interested in partnering.

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Perhaps to combat drug resistance to human-facing bacteria, we should be promoting resistance in bacteria that infect fungi. Eventually, nature may lead us to the next step in the arms race.
Not really that's about the level where you don't have to think to much at say the £1,000,000 - yes I would not really have to work - but buying a house would easily take 50% - 70% of that.

And I could spend 10% of the 1 million on just maxing out my unused pension allowance for the last three years, and probably I should do the same for my sisters.
what is up with all of these flutter articles on medium recently proclaiming that flutter is the second coming of app dev tools or something... almost like it was some kind of social media strategy...

personally i find flutter interesting, but i don’t like that, hot reloading is for ui only, and the “pyramid of doom” style inline coding isn’t my cup of tea...
Did you try to use Netflix outside of U.S.? It's pathetic.
> Yeah I don’t think the modern minute-by-minute generation

Odd then that the movies aimed at this generation are some of the longest in history. Something about your comment doesn't add up.
If you try to compile hello-world in C, you would need a gigantic libc.so, with a lot of stuff you do not need.

These 166 packages you need to compile Rocket, not your hello-world. Rocket itself is much more complex then your hello-world, like libc.so is much more complex than hello-world coded in C, I see nothing wrong with it. Rocket and libc.so were created for solving a wide class of problems and hello-world is just one problem from that class.
All tech is inherently hackable, that´s just how tech works, it´s built and can always be retrofitted. Which is why the state of affairs will just continue to get worse each year while internet security is still discussed as a technological problem and not an ethical problem. Solution will never be found with tech since the solution would therefore also be hackable.
I am not sure how did you read my statement. I find absurd the idea of thinking myself better for knowing about the existence of Elena Ferrante.

"Most famous" is a vague statement for sure, but I believe that considering someone famous is quantifiable somehow, so not much a matter of opinion.

What gives so much subjectivity to this statement is the interpretation of "most", I think. I interpreted "most" as among the top, let's say, 100 writers. If you interpret "most famous" as the top 5, than she is probably not there in most of the world.

I think you judged me too harsh for my statement.
Yep, and assuming we can sweep our eyes 150 degrees in 300 ms, we get a maximum angular speed. That means that the light source flickers on and off once in (150/0.3)/10000 = 0.05 degrees. The human eye can resolve at best 0.02 degrees. This confirms the proper order of magnitude.

Edit: if you turn your head at the same time, my numbers above are too conservative.
This is common in many functional languages, and even in the shell. Think of pipes such as input | sed ... | grep ..., or in F#, xs |> List.map (fun x -> x.Value). Basically, each input goes into the function and is piped through to get to the output.
Depends a classic 911 is arguably a good investment.
Agree, that's some lovely parallax that normally stutters for me on other sites / implementations.
All AI is more or less sophisticated pattern matching though. Why complain about this one?
>Kids today have moved onto other games like Roblox

I find it funny people think Roblox is a new thing when I played it a few years prior to Minecraft coming out.
He's right about LeCun. Yann really does not like Deep Learning being criticized.

Please someone who knows much more than me about deep learning tell me how a deep learning ai can explain how it came to an answer.

It can't. By definition.

You can say that it's a equation with a lot of terms, but that isn't really showing your working out.

You need a symbolic system to show that working out.

This isn't to say that deep learning is worthless, just not worth the amount of column inches it's getting at the moment.
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You're able to worry about those things when you don't have to worry about money anymore. Some people are not in that position.
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>I don't necessarily agree with this. If I want to watch well produced online content, I do not think Youtube.com (...) Youtube is great for short videos, interviews and niche interest. IF I want to watch scripted drama like NARCOS, I can't find anything close to that on Youtube.

That's orthogonal though, since people don't split equally their viewing habits based on content types.

So if, e.g. younger generations, watch less "scripted drama like NARCOS" and more "short videos, interviews and niche interest stuff", then Netflix has a YouTube problem, regardless if they have all the "well produced online content".
How would one actually go about purchasing one of these 'free' houses? It doesn't seem to be a very foreigner friendly website.
Of course, and that's why a lot of billionaires are obsessed with flaunting their wealth and earning even more.
> If I want to watch well produced online content,

That's probably the main question - in how far people actually care about quality / production quality. YouTube's unique angle is originality and cartering towards highly personalized interest topics.
Are you referring to the replacement of the hyphen with a comma?
I'm french, we have one of the weakest offer in the netflix world. It's still way, way more content I could (sanely) consume in my entire life.

I think the problem comes from something else.

Regularly I watch movies with friends: they can't appreciate many good movies anymore. They need fast attention catching stuff. Otherwise they get bored, they loose focus (even watch their phone), and it snowballs since they miss pieces of the movie used to construct it that eventually gives it life.

I see plenty of netflix watchers that do it on the side, while browsing the web, in the background of a social activity, or even watching another movie (!).

You cannot taste "Scott Pilgrim", "The Shawshank redemption", "12 monkeys", "Forest Gump", "Pain and Gain" and "Life is beautiful" if you watch them the way you gulp "Rogue 1", get drunk on "Avengers" or skim "Transformers". Just like you don't eat a burger and osters the same way if you want to enjoy both of them.

In fact, you can't appreciate anything special that way. The problem here is not netflix. It's that the way many people consume things now will always leave them unsatisfied.

Also, there is a quantity effect. You can now watch more than you should, and many do. But it will make you numb.

And to finish on a more positive note, the fact we have watched so many things now also educated us more to what's quality and what is not. It's fair we have now higher expectations.
I use my package managers from within Eclipse and Visual Studio.

The builtin IDE REPLs are pretty good and more powerful than plain old style UNIX CLI.

Usually I use the cli when I have to, not by choice.
It’s going to take serious amounts of data leaking before something is done to combat this.
That's where the confusion kicks in.

I'm sure in good faith you believe Elena Ferrante is a woman, but we don't even know if the books have been written by a single person or if each book has a single author...

It's an interesting marketing phenomenon nonetheless, but we are not looking, IMHO, at someone writing under a pseudonym for personal reasons.

We are looking at the absence as a marketing tool, that amplifies the curiosity around the product.

It would be like talking about Hawthorne Abendsen as a real author.