skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are working hard on making our Hyperlapse algorithm available as a Windows app.
Stay tuned!
All the techniques in this article could have been discussed just as effectively without introducing an ambiguous and frankly suspicious term such as "mindfulness". Being open and honest about conflicts, facing uncomfortable facts, and allowing people to have a say in things could all be described simply as "good business" or "common sense". Relying on a buzzword such as "mindfulness" betrays a religious agenda.
I believe there is a version of IDA which runs on Linux as well as MacOS
Another nice thing about Australia - some areas have "Dual Flush" toilets - that allow you to use a different flush for solid waste - 6 liters/flush and 4 liters/flush.

I'm interested in what you pay for water -
The ceiling price on water "creation" (not including distribution) for countries near oceans with access to cheap energy (And Australia, for better or worse, has access to a LOT of cheap coal energy) - should be around $0.50/cubic meter according to this DBO (Design-Build-Operate) project in Singapore that Hyflux's SingSpring plant is going to deliver.

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/2013/09/singapore-s-secon...

A Cubic Meter = 1000 liters, so that should be 50 cents / 1000 or 0.05 cents/liter.

That would suggest that either Desalination has jumped ahead of what other sources in Australia cost, and Australia just needs to get desalination plants online, or, more likely, the bulk of the cost of water (in your case, 70-90%), comes from things like distribution, and not water generation.
But its already evolved from "These Things Will Amaze You" to "I Saw This And I Couldn't Believe What I Saw" (headlines shifted to first person) and will continue to evolve.

As long as buzzfeed have the data they can stay ahead of the curve.
Keep in mind these doctors were surrounded by hundreds of cases and potential cases, in field hospitals without even running water. It's quite understandable that they would be at risk even while taking what precautions they could.
The team is making space science and technologies accessible and understandable to a wider technical public audience than any previous project. That's the key point that the article tries unsuccessfully to relay. The team calls this "citizen [space] science" in their Education and Public Outreach post. http://spacecollege.org/isee3/education-and-public-outreach-... "Imagine what feats of exploration might be possible if an empowered and engaged citizenry realized that exploring space is really something anyone can do."
The First Sunday Doomsday Algorithm is the easiest to learn and also fastest, in my opinion. http://firstsundaydoomsday.blogspot.com/
We are working hard on making our Hyperlapse algorithm available as a Windows app.
Stay tuned!

Also, so what? Just make it Open Source.
Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/about-maccas/maccas-story

If you do ever end up down here, it may also be helpful to know that Burger King is known as Hungry Jack's.
it would just be an illusion? no, not necessarily. consider that the deterministic particles in the universe could be receptors and the actual thing that has free will exists outside the universe and sends signals to those receptors in some way. this is where the concept of souls would come in, and that would make determinism and free will compatible.
Except that those power plants power the entire city, not just Times Square, so counting all their employees as part of Times Square's contribution to the economy isn't accurate. A single 50-story office building probably draws more power than all the LEDs in Times Square - for lighting, cooling, ventilation, elevators, computer and electronic equipment, etc.
Contagious Disease Surveillance
The book, Driving Honda, is a great read. If being a successful start-up means making the best use of the resources around you, and being acutely aware of the status quo, yet willing to challenge it through real engineering, then Shoichiro Honda exemplified that way of being. And as a foil to the destruction of a company's culture, there was none better than Takeo Fujisawa (read the book to know why).
Thanks. Can't see any issues our side and getting plenty of successful registrations. Which browser please?
Nobody tells restaurants to only serve water on request - as you pointed out, the amount of water that a human can drink is insignificant compared to other water use; a 7 gallon/26 liter toilet flush could keep you alive for two weeks. Restaurants hate serving water, as it reduces the amount of (paid for) food/beverages that you will order.

The drought is a great excuse for them to find way to make more money. It's pretty clever, actually.
How is "mindfulness" a religious term? When you're "mindful" of something, you're conscious or aware of it. It's in the dictionary. Seems like the perfect word for describing a process of greater awareness...and if that word also happens to be used in Buddhism and Yoga to mean the same thing, well, that's hardly a coincidence, is it?

It's not as if they're talking about practicing Ganesh worship.
Sadly, probably quite true. It's truly unfortunate - it really doesn't help Canada hold on to tech talent.
Obama is not the political climate.
> For some reason, I'm getting downvotes even though my enthusiasm was genuine

I didn't downvote you, but your initial post set off my snark-o-meter.
Summary from “Native code performance on modern CPUs”. Great talk
Without a very thick, tall, barb-wire-topped wall between editorial and sales, BuzzFeed will never be a respectable source for journalism.

So longer as they are running ads as content, no amount of long-form writing and New Yorker-esque vocabulary will move them from the "clickbait" side to the "journalism" side.
If FIN were false it would be possible to transmit information backwards in time by transmitting it faster than light between a transmitter and receiver moving relative to one another.
It's not a native OpenGL support, it's a translation layer (so more overhead naturally).
check http://php.net and http://www.phpclasses.org/
I've found it odd that for so long there hasn't been many Vancouver branch offices of Silicon Valley tech companies as it seems like a perfect fit. Vancouver offers cheaper employees, the same time zone as Silicon Valley, and an attractive, livable city* perfect for luring talent.

It's good to see that things are finally changing, even if for some companies it seems they're setting up purely for immigration purposes. Hopefully even if these US immigration issues pass, these companies will realize the advantages Vancouver offers and continue to stick around.

* Highest rated North American city and 15th overall according to Monocle Magazine's 2014 Quality of Life city rankings.
The difference is that this requires you to record at full speed. With your timelapse you're probably taking a photo every 1 to 5 seconds or so. This system requires you to take 24fps video as your input.
I suppose you could call it an illusion, but I don't think that needs to be considered a bad thing. By the same token, your senses are an illusion. That doesn't mean it's unreasonable to say that we do have senses, and it doesn't mean our senses aren't often extremely useful.
Good point. I hadn't thought of that, but it is completely plausible.
That's your argument? I happen to be a man as well, and a HN participant.

Men believe all sorts of things. There are religious fanatics believing the most crazy stuff. That there are some men on HN believing x only shows that some men on HN believe x.

It's really funny how you all rush to vote me down only because I mentioned that some aspect of the conference is off putting to me. How is that different from women complaining that a picture of men playing kicker is off putting to them?

Don't worry, I have no interest to go to your conference of ignorant people. You can continue.
Immigration is very important for all countries, but assimilation takes time. (If you believe in the country enough to want to immigrate there, then the existing culture must have some value.)

Ask Syria, Iraq or South Sudan, how they are enjoying their open borders. Meanwhile, Iceland, Japan and other countries are doing fine. Arguably, they could be richer if they allowed in more immigrants, but I'll take the rule of law over the chaos of uncontrolled borders.
It's only a matter of time before browser-based "killfile" extensions treat linkbait & native ads in the manner that banner ads have been treated. It may be temporarily profitable to prey on temporary trust, but the curve evolves on all sides of the market.

If algorithms are used to write human-hostile headlines, algorithms will be used to filter human-improving content. Ask Demand Media how their Google traffic is doing post Panda algorithm updates.
This. For comparison, when I had to renew my H1B for another 3 years, I had to leave the country and fly to Berlin for my "visa interview". But first I had to send them my passport, which of course I needed to get into Germany first. So after a lot of expense, several days of wasted time, and anxiety if the courier would deliver my passport on time, the "interview" took all of one minute (handing me my passport back with the Visa stamp). Well, two hours, actually, with going through security and waiting in line. Kafka comes to mind.
That's been done too! (different lab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJxJRAxdFU
Apple’s Yosemite – The First all-in-one productive photographic tool
I am a Random Dude, and my first assumption is that bringing a highly-skilled, highly-paid person into this country would result in more taxes being paid and more goods and services being purchased.
If the rock told me that it intuitively perceives itself as being free to weight more than a marshmallow (and I didn't otherwise have reason to believe I was hallucinating), then I would have little trouble conceding that the rock is free to weigh more than a marshmallow.
I will be sure to do so. In the meantime, I have learned a few things when writing this post:

* 'personally' takes one 'n', 2 'l'

* 'deactivate' instead of 'desactivate'

* use blockquotes in markdown

I guess that's a good start!
People who murder people exist, too, so why is there no "don't murder people" policy?
If you watch the technical video, they say that they couldn't use the scene reconstruction for the climbing video as there were too many artefacts. This is why the rendering isn't as good as the others.
why paper is 35MB?
Is there any reason for these companies not allowing work from home if they don't have office in respective countries or in the respective country offices? The B1 USA for meetings and discussion is easy to get it as long as you have necessary letters and proof.
Pretty cool that they've included the raw video. Everyone can use that to compare their alternative method to the microsoft researchers' results.
How do you promote a new idea?
I'm new to HN. Any advice would help. Thanks.
What do you mean, "end-to-end encryption"? How should contacts/events be transferred encrypted from/to a CalDAV/CardDAV server? Those servers expected icals and vcfs, not encrypted data.
Hi spindritf -- I work for YouTube and have been looking into some mixed content issues with embeds. Mind if I email you and ask for some details about this scenario?
Were you a trainer at Apple University? Because that program doesn't look like the regular otj training
Ah cool. Over the years Microsoft Research has also released demos of other cool stuff, like recreating a 3d view using multiple photos from different angles. How about those projects?
I think it betrays your absence of knowledge about the word more than anything else, frankly.
The IFF also does some wonderful workshops on "modular origami," which is building shapes out of, typically, cubes made of business cards.

The basic directions are pretty simple (http://theiff.org/images/menger/sponge%20cube%20instructions...), and you can make the "level 1" Menger cube shown there in a couple of hours. It's a fun diversion in restaurants to make a cube or two from postcards or business cards that they might have laying around.

The IFF sponsored a very large Menger sponge (http://theiff.org/oexhibits/menger02.html), which was shown around various places in LA, including a library at USC.

Finally, they have branched out in other ways, using iterated construction rules to make crocheted surfaces that expand everywhere ("hyperbolic geometry") to mimic coral or other natural shapes (http://theiff.org/exhibits/iff-e5.html). There is one of these at the Museum of Math in NYC (http://momath.org), and they have shown them internationally (http://crochetcoralreef.org/preorder-crochet-coral-reef-book...).
You misunderstood: the policy is not an attack on men because it prevents them from harassing people. It's an attack on men because it's sole function is to cement prejudice against men. It's signalling "men are disproportionally likely to harass other people" (in your own words). That is in fact it's only function and the reason feminists want push it on conferences (it also signals "women are weak and need protection" a ka "women are victims"). It's function is to transport the feminist narrative.

As I wrote in my edit: why don't you have a "no murder" policy, and how would having one make you feel?
It totally read like typical HN 'didn't read the article' downvote snark, especially since it seemed to be comparing it against a javascript MVC framework. I apologize for downvoting it. :-(
Since the code will never finish executing, it isn't correct to say that free will has been proven to be an illusion. Even if it could, the most that can be proved to be true is that a certain aspect of the universe is fully determined.

It does not follow that simply because certain aspects of the universe are determined (such as a computer program) that human action is wholly determined. That would be like saying that because certain aspects of the universe are conscious and self-aware, the entire universe is conscious and self-aware.
Still used in Unity for property drawers:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/editor-PropertyDrawers.html

Not sure how much they use it elsewhere, though. It's possible they phased out the other uses.
Because a computer program is only deterministic if you look at it in a snapshot view, a human within the context of a "snapshot" could also be deterministic I suppose.

Or the other way to look at it, A computer program changes over it's lifespan and when you look at it from that perspective it is not deterministic.
This article made me think about Travis Goodspeed and his "southern appalachian space agency". If you are interested in real DIY-space stuff, you should check it out.
So I went to buzzfeed.com and was expecting misleading headlines. Instead I was met with "23 Adorable Quokkas That Will Instantly Make Your Day Better", clicked the link and saw 23 pictures of Quokkas.

Most of the stuff on the site seems to be these kind of lists, which I honestly have nothing against. They are linkbaits, sure, but not misleading and I'm seldom disappointed after clicking one. I don't see BuzzFeed claiming to be The Economist or about high quality journalism at all. They seem to focus on serving articles that are easy to digest and sometimes that's exactly what I want.
Frequently I was out of cells to place and waiting for a sufficient number to do something interesting is boringly slow. I found myself wasting 1-2 cells on mostly ineffective gambits because I was too impatient to wait for 3+...
Or I could switch away, and at some point come back later with 12 cells - but that could be half a hour later.

1. show number of cells-to-place in tab title / favicon. Helps with switching away but coming back when I have something to do.

2. consider having several "rooms" so an active player can always have something to do without entirely switching away.
Or instead of independent rooms have a larger map with distant areas of it having independent supply of cells.

Wilder idea: the game runs so slow to let you carefully place many cells, and give _some_ hope of reacting events in real time, right?
What if it run faster but you could enter "bullet time" when you're placing cells? Moreover, what if you could unwind time back a few steps?! The latter sounds especially cool, because it gives limited foresight (and ability to experiment) within the same interface.
This can be allowed without inconsistency due to speed-of-light delay, under baddox's idea where each player can only place cells in a separate area.
Maybe even possible in some adaptive way with unrestricted gameplay, but much harder.
Not job related, but family related: if you're married, here in Italy, you can stay, end of story. Effective immediately.

In the US, the process is something like 6 months, although apparently there was/is a backlog, and they were taking something like a year to process applications for spouses.

It gives you an idea of how screwed up the system is.
Repowering California for all purposes with wind, water, and sunlight [pdf]
With an auction system like that, basically every small business will be out of the picture then.
did you try the authors brand new app? it's called CAdroid and imports self signed certs to android

see: cadroid.bitfire.at (it's free)
So, uhm, where is the beam?
It would probably be best for everyone if you understood the term before forming harsh opinions and complaining about it.
A conception of 'free will' that is considered to be impossible if the universe is deterministic has a difficult question to answer: how does non-determinism enable it?

Suppose I'm making up my mind whether to buy some item. There is some last-nanosecond non-deterministic quantum event that causes a neuron to fire, that wouldn't otherwise have fired, and I buy the item. What was 'free' about my decision if that quantum event was not caused or influenced by 'me'?

Non-determinism informally says that some things in the universe may be unpredictable. If my decisions depend on unpredictable events in the universe, how are they 'free'? It sounds like 'at the mercy of random events in the universe'.

So it's not that the world can be deterministic and you can still have 'free will', it's rather that if the world was non-deterministic, you still couldn't have that sort of 'free will'.
The paper says it took 23,700 minutes to do just the frame selection for the 13 minute bike input video. That's over two weeks.
Your comment is the essence of the HN hivemind so not sure what you're talking about. Try posting a positive comment about BuzzFeed and you will get downvoted to oblivion.
True on the package management point - I can see the advantage there. Still, I stand by my point that if you're going to buy a Mac, it makes the most sense to use it as a Mac. As great as the form factor is, it alone doesn't justify the price point for me.
What's it good for?
I guess it sounds so simple that it sounds like snark. I should have been more detailed, but I decided to throw my two cents in a bit early.
Sorry if I missed it - I couldn't see on your site which brokers you intend to connect with for live trading. Thanks
Postcards from Rosetta
The organizers went to the radical feminists for advice on how to attract women(Geek Feminism Wiki). Of course it has everything to do with radfem.

There happen to be people who disagree with radfem, so they will be demotivated from attending.

Of course this might be their intention - perhaps they want a feminist conference. Their call.
Then where is the pressure to get opengl on the consoles? In theory right now you could write some engine that used openglES 3 and ran on Android, iOS, OSX, Windows, and Linux. Your only missing parts are the three consoles, none of which show any interest in supporting write once run everywhere.

I mean, I know why - it is because the entire console model is license deals, app store cuts, and exclusives. If you could write your games and seamlessly run them everywhere, console manufacturers lose their primary pitch to consumers. Especially since this console generation isn't amazing value hardware wise, you can build a computer as powerful as either for the same price as either.

And peripherals are an awful argument, because they are all wifi / bluetooth / usb based, nothing stops these companies from selling their accessories like the Move, Kinect, Wiimote, etc as pc peripherals with open APIs besides their complacency.
Can We Trust the Libraries We Use?
Quick heads-up: you have an extra dot at the end of that URL that breaks the link. Also took upwards of 5 seconds to load for me. Looks cool though.
Chrome 36. Refresh solved the problem (seems the buttons silently fail if there are network issues). Now having trouble connecting to the broker servers. Network on my end is now fine, though.

I was waiting to see the thing in action before commenting, but here goes anyway. What are your latencies like (market data and orders)? Do your algo's have to depend entirely on current indicators/market data, or is there a way to use historical data? I'm a former HFT/algorithmic trading systems dev myself and the performance requirements in that particular domain was pretty high. At one point, even C++ and close-packed binary data transfer wasn't enough. I was wondering how you're managing with Javascript?
And it's not as if this story needs that kind of embellishment anyway. It's seriously cool without the stupid linkbaity title and the false criticism of NASA.
In Switzerland I see them relatively often. Their current overall market share here is 2.4%. For comparison, Ford has 5.4%, Toyota 4.7%. Maybe the variety here is a bit unique, even the largest brand Volkswagen only has 11.5%.

Having tried many different brands thanks to carsharing (also very popular here), I have to say that one thing is a bit strange in Hondas - the controls, as in switches, are a bit different from what most Europeans are used to. At least for me it took the longest to get used to it compared to many other brands. It seems they are less adapted from the Japanese base models, which would speak against the article - maybe Honda did a better job in other markets than EU.
In your model, the "deterministic" particles do not actually behave in a deterministic way, unless the thing sending them signals sends those signals in a fully deterministic way. But in that case, there's no reason to bother including it in the model.
I suppose the first step would be to discuss the idea. What do you have in mind? Who do you want to target?
Matz – The Future of Ruby
The authors are at Siggraph in Vancouver this week, just saw them today. Likely they are too busy to read this thread today or tomorrow.
Yes, I am here :-)

This would be possible. Although it would require providing some UI so the user could specify which parts should be sped up.

I've seen the Pjong Yang video, it is beautiful work. It requires very careful planning and shooting, and a lot of manual work to create such nice results. We're trying to make this easier for CASUAL, but it's still FAR away from the quality of professional hyperlapse.
The essence of HN hivemind is to worship the "free market" and that capitalism is the end all be all, IMO (that's my experience from having lurked here for several years).

Criticizing one of the biggest VCs for HN startups received multiple downvotes and yet no one explained their reasoning for the downvotes, where I was factually incorrect in what I said, etc.

My comment wrt the downvotes is that HN users loves to claim that they're not at all like Reddit, yet having lurked there for 5+ years (with multiple accounts for the same time), Reddit is at least more honest with the whole, "I don't agree with your opinion, have a downvote" whereas HN is a more silent downvote. I don't care that I'm downvoted, that's fine by me (muh fake internet pointz!), but to see how often HN users try to feel smug and superior over other communities while doing the same thing is frankly hilarious and sad.