skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really neat! It does seem like it is much more prone to error than QR codes, though. Would a meshtag that is rotated 120 degrees represent the same one or a different one?
I used Google+ so that you wouldn't need to create a user id / password. Each tag that you create is "owned" by you, and you probably wouldn't want other people to edit it (though there is an option to "unlock" a tag so that they can). It doesn't user your Google+ info, it's just for verification
Because people eat the whole bag the vast majority of the time, so the people who need to do math are now the minority.
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I just tried to leave a comment on that blog post to commend them for finally listening to their users. I was prompted to "Upgrade to Google+" to leave a comment. >_<
It adds one huge problem -- there is no central authority I need to rely on for QR codes. My QR codes can't get sold out from under me to someone with more money, as these can.
> Tear Gas:

Your linked article specifically stated tear gas was still legal for police use under the CWC. An expert rightly points out that this is illogical (and I agree), but it is not a failure.

Also, I should point out that the mace and pepper spray canisters that many people around the world carry for personal protection are also illegal chemical weapons under the CWC if used in combat.

There is a whole lot more illogic and inconsistency to be found between what is legal in something arbitrarily defined as "war" and otherwise, if one delves deep enough into the various treaties and conventions.
To play devil's advocate: A sufficiently advanced autonomous weapon would lead to precise strikes, and fewer civilian casualties. We have image recognition research that is surpassing human accuracy rates. Machines follow orders, and detect and eliminate targets precisely without fear or hesitation.

The only thing I'm not comfortable about is giving this much power to the human generals in the military. I say we get rid of guns and armies altogether, and stop fighting wars.
Thank you.

A million trillion times this. If people developing software, hardware and support systems for use in war - stand up and leave your job including by telling everyone who listens why you did. Telling you have a morale is never wrong. And it greatly empowers others to follow.

I used to work for a supplier to an aerospace/defense company and did it.

It makes you sleep better at night, I promise.
Actually there so much more you can emulate:

https://github.com/jsmess/jsmess

https://github.com/dreamlayers/em-dosbox

https://bitbucket.org/tsone/em-fceux

and others

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Porting-Examples-...
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>As it is, I don't think a random E.R. doctor should make that determination based on a note found in my wallet.

I don't think live harvesting is common (or allowed) in the US.
I don't know that there is a way to reliably measure some of the positive benefits of avoiding artificial sweeteners. I briefly tried switching to diet drinks before giving up semi regular soda drinking. Even after I got used to the taste, I seemed to get headaches and/or a general feeling of malaise or bad feeling. I don't know if it is your body thinking it ate something sweet and sending out too much insulin or what. It could totally be a psychosomatic response, but I just feel better when I stick to water, black coffee, or drinks with real sugar(on the occasion I have something like that) I cant really see that being easily quantified though.
and yet blueberries have 10g of sugar per 100g.. the same as apples and pears.
What could have been done besides throwing more money at it?

How did Microsoft get the original xbox into a state of relevance?
It doesn't seem to recognize uBlock on safari.
It's where the AG is going back to after he is out of office. They work for a lot of big firms in the finance industry.
> round-trip latency for halfway accross the world cannot be physically less than ~200ms

Yes, but people have been playing online games for a while now and latency was always there. I don't see why it would sudunly become a problem.

They'll just choose the closest server (i.e. the one that is not accros the globe) as they always did.

Whether the service is "rendering", "web" or anything else doesn't make a difference wrt. latency.
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No, you don't have to say that in C++ and there isn't any way to, in fact.

// Well, you do say it ... with type!
int (*ptr)(int, int) = add;

This will take the address of add(int, int) and not some other add like add(double, double). There is no explicit way to refer to one or the other.

You're right in that we can't point to the collection of add functions as such. There is no generic function add of which the overloads are its implementations, such that we can have a pointer to this generic add aggregate and have ptr(a, b) be subject to overload resolution.

I think that if you want to be able to construct an object ptr out of a set of plain functions, such that ptr(a, b) chooses among those functions based on arguments, that may be doable. Just not with a plain function pointer.
It's worth noting here that even Hitler and Stalin opted against deploying chemical weapons. Well, at least on the battlefield.

Of course both of them had direct experience of being a victim to those weapons. The same cannot be said for nuclear weapons I'm afraid. People forget how bad things can be given enough time.
I don't see any mention of Stagefright in the article.
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That makes more sense. Remember that it's an embedded board company (mainly), so they don't iterate as much on SOC's. The last processor, the quad-core VX11/H, was in 2012 and one of a few on 40nm. Does a lot of stuff for a x86 SOC in 5.8W (max). Their last board design was 2014. So, they're still chugging along. Most likely two things: slowly moving their I.P. to costly 40nm and developing new ones; moving slower in general because of terrible, financial situation IIRC. In long run, they'll probably die because they tried to compete in x86 and even mighty AMD with their volume & engineers haven't pulled that off.

Far as low power, not everybody is focusing on x86-compatible, low-power chips these days. I only know three vendors: Intel, AMD, and VIA. So, it's that stuff that's relevant to a VIA comparison if we're talking x86 and legacy software/OS needing it. Students in labs throw together low-power, ARM/MIPS clones as a side effect of their simplicity and process node. x86 is so complicated that it took smart, HW engineers to do that with only a few companies trying and most gone. It's again why I'm anti-x86: entirely too complicated compared to multi-core RISC with hard-wired accelerators. See Cavium's Octeon III for an awesome example of that.

http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-III_CN7XXX.html
MSVC for a long time had very little C support compared to C++. I am not sure what the present situation is.
Why bother with a botnet when you already have access to their gmail account. Search for bank emails in their inbox, script a password reset on the account, drain account.
> Probably thousands ...

Try 15K euros!
> On the other hand, do soldiers really want to defend themselves against flying, high-speed IEDs with target-recognition software? I mean, I've seen malfunctioning drones move so fast that I lose sight of them. Does anybody really want to see one of these things come over a compound wall carrying a payload of high explosives, and software for identifying groups of human targets and dodging defensive fire?

You basically just described a fire-and-forget missile, which is a technology that has been on the battlefield for over three decades.
We all pretty much agree here that autonomous cars are safer and make better decisions than human-driven ones. Why wouldn't the same hold true of weapons?

There seems to be a philosophical distaste to letting machines decide whether or not to kill humans, but if the upshot is that fewer innocents and more legitimate targets are killed for less money, then I'm not sure what the problem is.

Humans are bad decision-makers at the best of times. Add in the stresses of combat and we're downright lousy. Why shouldn't we offload that decision-making to machines that can do it better than us?
>One of the biggest early obsticles in RC flying is training your brain to know which way to push the stick when your plane is in various positions relative to you

I took at test to be a Navy Pilot a long time ago that had what they called spatial aperception which tested exactly that. It had the picture of a cockpit, then four different pictures of planes in various orientations and you had to choose the correct orientation based on the cockipit. I'm 100% sure I did well on that part because of playing flight and FPS as a younger man.
Yep, even on my gigabit internet and sitting smack dab in the middle of the USA (well, pretty far South, but centered) latency is still my achilles heel.
I learned this from my doctor (who is a diabetic specialist), some years ago we were talking about how to form good habits for kids and my wife and I were avoiding caffeine beverages for the kids, but letting them have apple juice etc. His opinion based on the evidence is that he would much rather have our kids drink caffeine every day but stay away from the sugar. His specific point was that people on the internet point to unknown risks with aspartame or caffeine, but ignore the mountain of known risks associated with sugar.

It was an eye opening discussion to say the least.
I'm not defending agile, but what is described in the abstract cannot fit with what I am familiar with as "agile" - an almost defining quality of an agile process (as I was introduced to it) is that at any given moment, the status of the project is transparent and well known by all stakeholders. Thus, if you discover all of a sudden that the project is late and over budget, you have been sleeping at the wheel.

(Note: This is not a "no true scottsman" argument. And I honestly think agile is only a good match for some projects, and not e.g. infrastructure. Nevertheless, this does not sound like the "agile" I know).
What's tinfoil hat about that? That's basically the history of colonialism. India was ruled by the British East India company for a century.
Sorry to say, it's nothing React-specific. I understand that there is a React Developer Tools addon for Chrome that might be of interest [0].

As for me, I just turned on Javascript CPU profiling in Firefox Developer Tools, scrolled a bit, and checked what JS calls were causing the slowdown. Because the unminified source for the website is available on Github, you can quickly find and examine the functions' code directly [1].

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/react-developer-to...

[1]: https://github.com/casesandberg/react-context/blob/gh-pages/...
So what happens when somebody just defaces one and draws a couple of extra lines?
I would think the phenomenon is basically equivalent to confirmation bias. A hypothesis is formed immediately upon seeing the question. Then, only further information which confirms their hypothesis is tested.

Testing the negative is something that should be fairly routine in a scientific-testing mindset. For instance, medical experiments testing both placebos (negative) and medicine (positive) and looking for differences.
Pedal to the metal: which accelerators are most successful?
Looking into it now carlob, thanks for the heads up!
From what are you protecting your drawings/recreation?
This is an opinion that I see a lot and it's very overstated IMO. If you write good C code, I'm perfectly happy to see it in C++.

In fact, you could almost say it's a relief, largely because it tends to be impossible to write any overly-clever template-inspired madness that will be hard to understand and drag down compile times for a small benefit.

Additionally, when it comes time to optimize code (assuming this block is worth optimizing, and already is using the optimal algorithm), the C code tends to be closer to what you want to optimize than the C++ code. With the C++ code, you typically have to spend more time removing abstractions before you can start actually tuning it.

That said, while bad code in either is bad (obviously), someone could probably make the argument that bad C++ code is easier to fix than bad C code. I might be able to be convinced of this.
Wow, it was so long ago, I don't remember the exact data structures, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a skiplist.

If you've already asked, one cool part of that technology is that the order of received packets is not important to assemble the stream. Basically every 1 second of video is reassembled without importance to the order of packets received. You need N packets to assemble a "data frame", IIRC pending incomplete data frames were stored in a simple hash table, but honestly it was so long ago I don't remember.
We know about the vulnerability, not the payload delivered through it. There could be thousands of them with wildly varying characteristics. There could be none.

Some of them could be rootkits, and have patched filesystem and process explorers to hide themselves. Some could be called virus.exe.

But no, you will never know that you haven't been compromised. In the coming weeks, we may learn about some of the specific malware that spreads this way, and you may be able to test your phone for it, but finding nothing does not mean you haven't been owned by something more exotic.
Soda consumption has been going down every year, why CC and others are diversifying.
I'd guess either approach will become stuck in local minima. Ideally, you'd want to check all permutations systematically. Of course, there is probably no polynomial-time algorithm to find the optimal, but adding some basic depth bounds should give a practical implementation that can explore at least some of the space, instead of relying on gut instinct about which approach may or may not be better.
https://github.com/casesandberg/react-context/issues/3
This article and the "What your work truck says about you" article linked from it both miss an important point: taxes. Granted the author uses the example of Toronto, where I understand there isn't a mortgage interest tax deduction. In the United States though, that is the largest tax deduction available to John/Jane Doe and a significant incentive to buy a house in some tax brackets. With regard to the truck part - I guarantee more than one accountant has recommended their client buy a big truck as a tax offset.

I appreciate the frugal advice offered in these posts, but they feel incomplete without the inclusion of tax implications into the discussion.

(Disclaimer: I am not an accountant, seek professional advice.)
Not only an insane idea to start with, the blog linked doesn't appear to have been updated since August 2014 - and the link goes straight to the blog's index which means it will change when new posts are added.
950M phones at risk for 'Stagefright' text exploit
> A Sierra Nevada Bigfoot has 30.3 [2].

That number is the total carbs, not sugar specifically. Most beers have relatively low sugar content; your link actually claims 0g of sugar for the Sierra Nevada Bigfoot. Calories in beer come partly from alcohol and partly from complex carbs (hence "liquid bread"). That doesn't make them healthy, but 30g of complex carbs is a lot less bad for you than 30g of simple sugars.
You can even use the error tolerance to embed an image http://research.swtch.com/qr/draw
> By the way, if you believe that money going into the hands of the wealthy is the best way to cause inflation, it therefore follows that the best economic stimulus is tax cuts for the wealthy. Do you favor such cuts during times of recession?

In a recession, you want to stoke demand. Inflation isn't a worry, deflation is. You therefore give tax cuts to the people who are going to spend (ie not the wealthy).

"Overall, tax cuts for the bottom 90% tend to result in more output, employment, consumption, and investment growth than equivalently sized tax cuts for the top 10% over a business cycle frequency."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2015/04/24/tax-cuts-...
really fine work.
just installed it and viewing some of my code (scala in emacs w/ a light theme) i swapped source code pro for this font
dmr explaining what's going on:

http://yarchive.net/comp/longjmp.html
There's a crazy ass 'port' of Duke Nukem 3d for the Sega Genesis developed by TecToy. Every other vertical pixel column was rendered for perf reasons. Remarkable, really.
Also, this was released in 1998, three years after the 16 bit era was winding down in the US.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9doqwl-U7jU
Ouch! Thanks. I wonder if anyone ever paid list price for these? AIUI many were given away for educational use and the like.
You are right. However, I think most scanners only scan dark QR codes on light backgrounds, which is not the case with Meshtag. You can draw on chalkboards, pavement, etc.
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That's very generous of you. You can continue to believe that, or see that Google+ is a reaction to:

- Facebook surpasses Google for proportion of users’ time, http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/facebook-surpasses-google-f...

- Facebook surpasses Google as most visited site in US, http://www.livemint.com/Industry/ct3JSccQisManKjJ6qt43N/Face...

- Prediction: Facebook Will Surpass Google In Advertising Revenues, http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/05/facebook-will-surpass-googl...

- Facebook Readies 'People Targeting' To Take On Google In Advertising, http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-readies-people-targeting-tak...

Has Google's search improved since the launch of Facebook? Not many people think so. Search results are loaded with spam, click-bait, content farm crap, and ever more Google's own stuff. Shouldn't a better search that found high quality results be where Google put its efforts, if it really cared about its users?
> This is confusing to me. What IS a "Google Account"? Is it my gmail? That makes no sense to me, it's an email service. A "Google Account" sounds like I work at Google. If you were to tell me I had a "Google Account", I would assume it's Google+.

It is a gmail account. Every time you are prompted to enter your google account, what do you enter? Yup, it was that simple.
With most manufacturers you do good to get updates after 6 months. I'd like to see a class action on it but have no idea of its feasibility.
I don't think Win10 is that bad. In fact I think they fixed the MS account OOBE that was bad in Win8.1, making the option to use a local account much more clear.
> Then finally there're all of those G+ reshares

Facebook has the same problem. Any reasonably popular feed, such as I f'ing love science has completely worthless comments, because 99% are them just people tagging their friends.
It's hard to test a page that uses a font you don't have access to and you can't virtualize OS X on other OSes. Web pages shouldn't be pixel perfect (there is PDF for that) still sometimes you have to fit text into fixed width areas and you want to see what happens.
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I'm not sure. Admitted, I'm not a fan of Google and maybe a bit grumpy, but I read this blog entry as "Now everyone will need a G+ account, but it won't have a public profile".

That said, the distinction between

Google account

G+ Account

Google Profile

is lost on me, I'm genuinely confused about the past and present state of these things. It feels like "G+ Accounts" are supposed to be the new "Google Accounts"? Like you could've had a Google Account without a Google Page or Google Profile or whatever that was called?

I .. don't see what's changing. No reason to grab the pitchfork, but no reason for cheers or kudos either.
Pretty much everything the military uses has a measure of EMP shielding. We've know about it's effects for over 50 years now.

Signal jamming is an obvious weak point - one that disappears as autonomy is increased. Distributed control would reduce this issue, (as in, have a single soldier/operator manage 10-15 units). Eventually, you remove human control entirely, and along with it, this issue.
For a failed game console, 3 years seems to be about average. It's about how long sega had the dreamcast out, about how long Tiger's Game.com is, etc. At some point, companies have to cut their losses.
Better engineering. One of the big issues is TERRIBLE (like.... >1/10th of a second) lag with the wireless controller.
This kind of technology is amazingly promising for being able to play games anywhere on any hardware.

However, the thing that worries me the most is not latency or graphical fidelity, but the way this will affect the actual design of AAA games. If I as a developer/studio know that my AAA title is going to be remotely controlled, possibly accessible only via subscription, and the end user's progression monitorable at any point, the opportunities for monitization skyrocket. You think DLC now is bad? Try playing Skyrim and being able to buy in-game gold at any point via browser pop-up. Just died in Dark Souls? Respawn with no lost souls and kill all enemies in the vicinity for only $1!

I'm not saying that all games will end up being this way, but a certain amount of AAA titles may end up going with more mobile-oriented pricing models if this sort of remote gameplay becomes mainstream.
If the herd is sure enough to wager their own money on their opinion, why do you think they wouldn't downvote alternative ideas as well?
No. It's not google's fault people are bigots.
Cargo culting at its finest. Google is really smart about a lot of different things, but they know fuck-all about social. They were just going through the motions.
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Right. And this will bake your brain... Your "old YouTube" account is probably already a "Google Account".

A "Google Account" is the same as your gmail account, which is likely the same as your Youtube account. This was true before Google+ came along.
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It's the tone and response that annoyed me. Not that the SaaS didn't have said feature.
hmm... maybe a fully functional autonomous weapons police force?
Nor should they. Is someone paying Valve for a particular SLA? I'd guess not.

I was talking about stolen items and VAC and so on. As if this was a physical robbery where priceless stuff could be lost.
>Why do people think that it's OK to allow kids to drink soda?

Because it is "okay". Why do people think it's okay to tell others what is okay?

>It seems to me that so many people have this idea that sugary drinks

What idea is that? Some people just like the taste of Mountain Dew. You, or your choice of coffee and beer, isn't superior.
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I'm aware of this (I'm working on a genome sequencing project to cure my wife's endometriosis).
There have been relatively successful bans on chemical and biological weapons, why do you suspect we can't successfully ban the proliferation of autonomous weapons? These things don't appear out of thin air, they still have to be manufactured, sold and stored. If you can find them you can remove them, and deal with those who created them.
Yes they are. Just because you're not familiar with them doesn't mean they're not units of measure.
It just requires opening the video. The average user will probably open a video from an unknown sender without thinking twice because why would a video message hack their phone. I would imagine given that it controls phones it would also be possible to make a worm from this that resends the video to everyone in the contact list.
Yeah I know, was just saying there was a viable platform for back-end C# development.

I hope both teams do not duplicate work and are happy to share design and code changes. C#/.NET is nic, I think it still has potential to compete for Linux server back-end services with Go and Java.
How do you determine semantically equivalent code fragments? Is it a dynamic solution or a static solution?