skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone how to manually create a Pano (panorama) image? Auto Awesome does this for most of the photos I make but it failed to do so it for a few. Is there a way to select the photos that should be pano and have "the machine" have another scan over them to see if it can stitch them together?
This is actually what we do in radiotherapy nowadays, it's even called "inverse treatment planning". Basically a radio-oncologist or a dosimetrist contours (manually, with a pen) organs on every slice of a CT scan and then we just say "We want this much radiation in the tumour, and less than Y units in surrounding healthy tissues".

Treatment planning software then simulates dose distributions from a bunch of possible radiation beam collimations and adjusts the amount of radiation coming out of each radiation "field" to minimize a cost function penalizing overdosing healthy tissue and underdosing the tumour(s).
That's default-public, not public-only.

> I made a fake G+ with no data and as private as possible, and it has been accessed about 700 times a year. That's not "privacy" to me.

You didn't say what information was revealed on the profile. If it was completely blank, then how is that a privacy issue?
In "Schedule" look at Filters on the right.
Yes, this is the Right Thing. But don't forget the question I was responding to:

> Why would you want constant time access to code points?

The answer is: because you might want to compute an offset into a string in one place in your code, and then pass that offset to another place in your code which then accesses the string at that offset in constant time.

My point is that to make this work you must have string offset be an abstract class, not an integer.
If you want Ruby-like syntax with static typing and almost no type annotation then Crystal is good for you. Sadly no windows binary available
I'm looking forward to trying out Cardboard on iOS. Anyone have a recommendation for a good viewer manufacturer? (I'm a bit surprised at how much some of the kits are, given they're made of, er, cardboard).
* Read Jeff Hawkins (On intelligence)

* Have GEB (Covered enough of it)

My point was to bring out the implicit belief that there is :

> Some critical mass or qualitative attribute of brains that puts us "over the threshold"

> If consciousness is indeed a variable quantity, then every single able bodied adult human has more "units" of consciousness than, say, a dog.

> The variation within a species is also probably pretty small compared to the gap between species.

None of which are proven in any scientific way yet many believe it to be the truth. We haven't even resolved what consciousness let alone its range of existence.

> Just like intelligence, the amount of consciousness that a person has is not a measure of their value.

And yet, one draws lines to distinguish human intelligence/consciousness from that say of a dog.
Unscientific ideas can inspire useful and possibly prescient thoughts. To me that was the real subtext of this article.

The people you're quoting clearly read at least part of the article (they quoted or paraphrased it). I think it's fair to assume they thought anyone reading their comments would read them in the context of the article. The article itself is very critical of Jaynes' ideas and almost all the quoted professionals say "yes that's very interesting, but he has no proof and most of it is flat out wrong."

Anyway that's my long way of saying most articles aren't worth reading but this one is.
Exactly. This style just screams Windows 8 MS Surface design, and it's popping up all over. I think designers are having trouble blending "touchable" with "informative". The emphasis seems to be on touchable from the ground up now.
No suprise here ---
1) Google won the first case with Alsup. This demonstrates that some lower courts can have a better understanding of the law and are willing to spend time applying logic to these things.
2) Oracle won in a higher court. At this point, we see a trend that the higher you go, the more political and less competent the courts get. The DOJ's actions reinforce this trend too. So, even if it goes to the Supreme Court, we're pretty much guaranteed Oracle will win that too.

See, the whole problem of this case rests in that you have to "spend time" and "apply logic" to agree with Google's position. Which, pretty much throws out any hope of getting a "higher court" (or higher-anybody) to adopt Google's stance on the issue.

Actually the poster "tajen" pretty much hit the nail on the head for this issue -- essentially, adopting Google's stance unfortunately requires a degree of competence and logical commitment beyond the comprehension of most higher officials. So, even if this goes to the Supreme Court Oracle has this case pretty much won...
I think we're in violent agreement here. Keep in mind that the question I was responding to was:

> Why would you want constant time access to code points?

And the answer is: because you might want to compute an offset into a string in one place in your code, and then use that offset to access the string at that offset somewhere else in your code in constant time.
While you're right about balance being fundamental, debit representing what you have -vs- credit representing what you owe is critical in understanding viewpoint, designing the balance sheet, and communicating with accounting professionals.
Indeed. I have frequently segfaulted python by using certain modules (not even particularly obscure or low-quality ones either).
There Can Be Only One Primary Constructor
The target audience is TV and print media. Watch, this will be on local Bay Area stations within 72 hours to fill 2.5 minutes of the evening broadcast. Most news is targeted at people with a 6th grade understanding of the world.
Does this mean that App Engine will never see it raised above 1?
I'm not wearing any clothes and I just realized it
Somebody should downvote this guy!
My experience: the platform is amazing, but too addictive and the format does not permit in-depth discussion. Most of the good content on the web still resides on old forums.

Less and less people can write with the energy of Erik Naggum. Its not rewarded. Searching that great article from 6 months ago is a PITA. Almost no one reads longform articles anymore. Thanks Obama.
Do you have a link to that guideline? I know there are a bunch about allowing users to override whatever the webdesigner specifies, and about having sensible contrast.
That is what wealth is... better schools, better food, better holidays...

No, that's consumption. Wealth is ownership of stocks, bonds, REITs, and other investment vehicles. It provides no value whatsoever to the holder until it is consumed.

If consumption is what you are worried about, you should focus on consumption inequality, which is vastly lower than either wealth or income inequality and has not risen anywhere nearly as sharply.

http://www.voxeu.org/article/economic-inequality-during-rece...
That would be very interesting. I would expect the higher income side to remain practically unchanged while the lower income side would move up to 50% or so, but still be far below the higher income side.
Apple acquired German augmented reality company Metaio
It would be naïve for anyone to think that recreating Silicon Valley exactly would be a French goal. Trying to achieve similar success in a more centralised, government-driven way sounds much more plausible.

Such an approach has been unsuccessful when tried elsewhere (at least by the number of places declared to be the new Silicon Valley and never heard from again), but the French do seem oddly better at achieving success in a statist fashion than many other places are.
Protect Your Privacy on Android
Post Snowden this percentage has decreased.
Why do you only have 15GB? I just looked and I have 100GB.
(ck from vitesse data) We haven't exploited this technique mentioned by Peter. We will when 9.5 comes out, and we are looking at it to see if we can put it into our 9.4 extension so people can benefit from it before 9.5. The technique is sound, which should make it go even faster as plans generated by Postgres seem to be partial towards sorts.

As for the trust element, yeah, we know it would take time to earn that in the market place.
There's a ton of really interesting stuff on his old Valve blog:

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/
Its probably in the same group because A) they want people to invite others and keeping it there helps people remember they can and B) its pretty much the same class of action as sending an email.

here's a gif of me mousing over the FAB in my inbox: http://imgur.com/LuEZ57c

the yellow button at the very bottom is invite. Its hardly obnoxious, I can just continue to click and I don't have to think about it at all most of the time. (the top three are my three most frequent contacts)
I guess the question becomes, is the work important enough to switch? If it isn't then maybe the money is good enough, but that's a bit of a different standard. If the work isn't important and the pay isn't good enough, then there's no reason to take the job.
Oh don't worry, I'm sure Apple and Google will help create open standards for executing bulk data transfers between cloud storage providers.

Wipes tears from eyes
> Can Google not poach one or two of Apple's negotiators to go to the right meetings at Motorola, Verizon, etc to talk about updates?

I don't understand why things like these are necessary in the USA. Why should network operator have control to which version you're running? Most other places you can just get new firmware directly from manufacturer.
Those programs were already broken – the developer just didn't know about it.
I think I can shed a little light on that distinction -- here's how I understand it. No serious formal study here, but a few classes and a lot of reading of Hindu texts under my belt:

The human "Self" -- capital S -- generally refers to Atman. Atman is a "shard" of Brahman. So Self does denote Brahman, but with the tacit understanding that Atman is itself composed of Brahman, like a small patch of a flowing stream. It's not its own separate entity, but rather a piece of the whole that is also representative of the whole (look up "Tat Tvam Asi" for more on this concept).

The self -- lowercase s -- is generally used to refer to the dual self that humans have: Atman and Jiva. The Atman is the Self as we discussed before (but the Self is also the divine, as Krishna claims throughout the Gita). The Jiva, however, is the discrete part of the self -- the ego, all wants/desires, attachments to sense-objects and the physical world. When in casual conversation we discuss ourselves, a Hindu would likely claim that we are in fact discussing the Jiva.
It's crazy to prefer free technical books just because they're free.

Yes, time is the biggest cost of any book. But there are some massively helpful [0], current [1] and legendary [2] books on this list.

[0] Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw

[1] Street-Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan

[2] Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
Totally disagree.

A few months ago I was walking around the Unreal 4 Paris Apartment demo [0] with a Occulus DK2. The resolution isn't quite there, but it definitely felt real. I think that VR can definitely provoke feelings of reality, at least if the people working on it keep going forward in resolution like they have been.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Y6PQ19BEE24
(1) A family of four means four people

(2) $40k/year is enough money to support four people (or even six), if you've already paid taxes and rent. That's more than $500-800 per month for food/clothes/transportation/entertainment, etc.

(3) Middle-income parents spend about $7,000 a year per child (or $600/mo), not counting housing. [http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/...]

Of course, many people would like families to get more than $150,000 of income, but I hope we all agree that it's common to get by on less than $150,000 of family income, as most families do.
Huh? This is a screenshot of my google drive: http://imgur.com/oGjzhTJ

as you can see, "new" is in the same place its always been. No FAB.

EDIT: in retrospect, you might be talking about the docs site. (docs.google.com rather then drive.google.com) I spose the only thing I have to say about that is that no design guidelines are a magic bullet, and that I have no idea why they even have that separate docs site.
This is not an app, it's a web site. There's no reason for it to not work in web browsers - even obscure browsers like lynx.

And this website reliably crashes Google's own Chrome[1] on iOS on an iPhone 4s. It's fucking stupid that we've gone so far backwards with web design.
(ck from vitesse data) we will support many of those types eventually, and on demand. It will take time.
Can you elaborate why do you not "trust" Google?

You don't trust them to keep the Photos service operational in the future? But if the worst comes to the worst, in this theoretical scenario, at least they would surely provide you a way to transfer your files first. So why does it bother you so much?

Or you don't trust them to keep Photos independent of Google+? Surely they would never say "from now on you can't access your photos unless you sign up for Google+". Photos are very personal and important to people. This would cause an unprecedented outrage.
So interesting to find similarities with non-Silicon Valley founders worldwide.
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Wow, what a negative person.
> 2) Oracle won in a higher court. At this point, we see a trend that the higher you go, the more political and less competent the courts get.

I don't know that that's the case; even if we assume that the CAFC is wrong from the perspective of application of the law (rather than merely correctly applying the law to reach an outcome that we don't like), certainly, lots of observers think that the CAFC is an especially problematic court among Courts of Appeal, and even on the issues that it specializes in (which copyright is not one of; Oracle v. Google got there instead of the 9th Circuit because of patent issues in the case, even though the thing we're all focused on is a copyright issue.)

So, I don't think that "the CAFC messed this up", even if taken as gospel, necessarily demonstrates a relation between "level" of court and competence.

> The DOJ's actions reinforce this trend too.

Since the DoJ isn't a higher court than the CAFC, I don't see how you can reasonably say that.
Jeffrey is here to challenge Apple Pay
Physics: Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese
Journal :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0958694615000631

Full text : https://mega.co.nz/#!qkcXib6D!odUX8FGVnAghMc40ZxTFRtoh2jjDdEccWZ56T-TOVBM
Russia’s Stanislav Petrov saved world from nuclear war
I believe this is a good analysis if you see the DB administrator in the role of scheme and report design, interpreting reports, and using those reports to plan for the future, and the DB user as inserting new rows (never updating!) and doing simple queries on the data.
I saw this plane flying while I was visiting York today, it's still a remarkable sight.
As do I, but I don't appreciate that I can't select any of the text on that page.
If you're worried that you can't see me work, or that I take a friday afternoon. I won't work for you. As a professional, I expect you to trust me to do what I was hired to do. Also, scheduling meetings on a friday afternoon is a dick move.
I see the desktop uploader at https://photos.google.com/apps
The latest update 5.02 has been bricking Nexus Tablets, out of warranty.

I stopped upgrading because of this.

Security and OS updates should be separate
As young students, we are taught that these functions are ratios of sides on right angles. It is fairly intuitive for them that provided they can draw a right triangle, they just need to measure the sides. And it is easy to accept that someone computed sines and cosines for a lot of angles and put it in a table.
My point being, that we didn't need (in the past) calculus to compute trigonometric functions, and I don't see how it is a burden for students to be introduced to those functions without the Calculus definition.

And the reality is, that the definition of sine as a ratio of the catheti and hypotenuse is a rigorous definition of the function. Strictly, this sine is different from the sine of calculus. The first, the sine from Euclidean geometry, assigns a real to pair of rays, while the calculus sine, is function from the real numbers to the reals. And it does take some work to link them formally.
In this case, probably survivorship bias.
Ask HN: What are some small business IT security options?
We're trying to find an intrusion detection and vulnerability scanning service that isn't enterprise priced for our small business. Something that runs in the background and jumps all over us if there's an issue. Any suggestions ?
5-7 years

18 months is a joke
Thanks for the positive feedback.

We worked very hard to explain it in a way developers would appreciate.
> Android Design Support Library - Making Material design apps gets even easier with the new Android Design support library. We have packaged a set a key design components (e.g floating action button, snackbar, navigation view, motion enabled Toolbars) [...]

Finally! I had to start developing for Android not too long ago, and I couldn't stand seeing "mandatory" material components for certain usages that weren't supported in the official SDK.
Nice analogy, love it!
Few in media have no idea what to do with an actual liberal. It's easy to see that he knows his history, and interpret that observation as a negative.

I completely agree with his social democratic views. This is easily accused as being "socialist" and somehow un-American. But the only reason this is the case is because of decades of anti-liberal propaganda. The easiest way to see that is to look in history and see when the top marginal tax rate was 90%. Which is what Sanders does.

This is even more effective when conservatives - who definitely draw from a similar age group if Fox's demographics are any indication - harken back to the 1950s as some sort of golden era.

If instead you want to turn his positive into a negative, you take out the reason why he uses that strategy and just focus on the old part of the message.

His message resonates with me. I am not in his age group. You'll note too that the article didn't say if the message also resonates with Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Millennials, or any other age group. (He was born in 1941, so he's not a Baby Boomer.)

But by only focusing on the people his age or older, it come across as not resonating with a younger age group. (In first order predicate logic, this would be an obviously false inference. But I suspect most people will use an argument from silence, despite the difficulties of that argument.)
Yes, the technology page calls out that on average it is 3.7X faster with just LLVM and algorithmic improvements. We are trying to push more value into Vitesse X by adding vector processing, and maybe include some of our threading work in the next version.
Your post was word for word identical to posts made 2 years about KitKat when it was released. Only instead being compared against Gingerbread. And several years before THAT when Gingerbread was released people were saying it about Donut & Eclair.

So yes you'll have to wait ~2 years for the majority to be on M or higher. Oh well. Does that suck? Yeah. Is it a major, show stopping, "omg google why haven't you devoted 100% resources to fixing this?" issue? No, that's absurd.

And why do you think Apple has negotiators for this? Apple doesn't license iOS to anyone. They've never attempted to solve this problem. Ever. For anything.
I quote:

> In particular with lazy-loading.

Lazy loading != assigned in the constructor
Financial awarenesses sometimes hits you like a freight train!
I think it's worth correcting your use of "Uncanny valley". My understanding (see links below) is that "Uncanny Valley" refers to virtual beings trying to trick you into thinking they're real but coming off as creepy instead -- e.g. the Tom Hanks voiced train conductor in "The Polar Express". Creepy. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley and the new yorker article here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/28/pixel-perfect-2

It does not refer, as you suggest, to the general case of VR not seeming real. There is a special thing that happens when we see fake beings trying to pawn themselves off as real. It think it's worth preserving the distinction.
part of the crushing burden of poverty is that it prevents you from making good investments

Exactly.

A car might be a better use of your time than three buses. Too bad. You can only afford the buses.

Some strong work boots would be a better investment than these cheap knock-offs. Too bad. I only have enough money for the knock-offs.

Paying my parking tickets would be a lot smarter than ending up in court. Too. Bad. I don't have $30 to pay them.

An underestimated aspect of this is the fuck it factor. So maybe I get the $30 to pay the tickets? So what? It's just going to be something else tomorrow. So, fuck it; I'm having a beer.
Seem like a mix of things.

Yep, the app is rebranded.

But they are also now partnering with banks etc rather than sitting as some generic middle man. Basically they seem to have copied Apple in this regard, and bent to the demands of the banks.
Could be interesting to hear the reverse influence as well, to which extend these founders do affect SV.
I saw one fly at an airshow near Houston, maybe 30 years ago. Completely cool, and more than a little spooky.
Can't agree more. It always bothers me all apps can access my external storage by default.

But I have to use Android, because it's the most open established mobile ecosystem. Only system that supports the mobile web browser I find tolerable to use for instance (hint - it's not the default browser or Chrome). Only system that allows developers to map executable pages. Only system that allows me to customize user experience as I see fit, and not offer one size fits all. And so on.
I have an older version of FF and I only got to see a (britghish) blue screen, with nothing on it. I guess that's what they call minimal design nowadays.
This only works if the developer uses app indexing where Google can search through the content and make it searchable to end users and other endpoints. It doesn't come for free so Google has no access to things like your bank app's screen.
alberich, these kids debating politics today don't like to take leverage of internet to understand what really happened in their country. And then they come here to HN to say bad things about Brazil looking for "liberals" support. Silly boys.
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URV was a nice hack, but people overestimate these economists brilliance. Here are the dates when the latin america hyperinflation ended in each country:

Mar. 1990 Brazil
Aug. 1990 Peru
Mar. 1991 Nicaragua
Mar. 1990 Argentina

You can see a compiled hyperinflation rates in a table in this paper: http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working...
Good job we don't speak French then.
The article itself criticizes Jaynes' use of The Iliad as an example; he handwaved these criticisms away by saying that "consciousness" was added at a later date. The article is candidly critical of Jaynes and so are all the quoted scientists.

A lot of people here seem to think this article is promoting Jaynes' arguments or hypothesis but it's not. I'm not surprised though, most hacker news posts on controversial topics are usually advocating for or against an idea; the faster you can write off the argument as bunk the more time you save for other worthy content.

This article is a discussion of speculative science, not an argument. How does it contribute and how does it fail? What does it mean that we choose to speculate or apply the scientific method? It gives perspective on how we research questions now and the role of religions and myths in the past.