skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. If you are doing heavy blurring, it's a good idea to scale down before applying gaussian blur anyway for a performance boost, as the blur processing time grows with blur radius.

Ie. downsample 4x-8x, blur at smaller px radius and resize back to orig size - much faster than blurring at original resolution, and looks almost identical.
Then it really does not matter.

If everything we do is predetermined from the instant of our conception — actually much further back than that since all events leading up to one's conception were also predetermined — then we are all going to still do what we do, which includes judging others by their actions. If some choose not to apply guilt or blame to others, well, then that was also in the cards.

If there is some variable or factor outside our measurable environment that provides for truly free will, then it does make sense for people to be judged based on their actions and for guilt and blame to be applied in appropriate cases.

Applied more generally, if there is no free will then whether an individual believes there is free will does not matter; the deterministic environment decides that matter. If there is free will, then there is a distinct advantage to understanding and believing that fact. So, assuming there is free will has a neutral and upside state, while buying into determinism has a neutral and downside state. Isn't the rational and safe position to just assume there is free will?
Tried to teach myself to touch type. I can kind of do it, but its just so slow compared to my normal typing.
I wrote a program that allows you to display shadertoy shaders (and other html5 canvas things) on your corsair K70 rgb keyboard.

The github project has instructions, but I've made some additional notes, these can be found on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/3g4bs6...
No Americans are forcing you to use our services. If you have a problem then don't use them it's that simple. You're able to boycott anything on the Internet.

I'm tired of Anti-American sentiment when your governments are in bed with ours. American companies weren't the only ones sharing data. German and Belgium telecoms were in bed with spy agencies and not just with the Five Eyes. In public Merkle was outraged but her spy agency was just as much to blame.

This is a global problem not just a U.S. and EU one.
Yup. Three major lines (BMT Nassau, IND Sixth Ave, IND Eighth Ave) converge in Jamaica, where it's only a few minutes' walk to transfer to the AirTrain to JFK. I've never had a problem getting to/from JFK via train, but LGA is a little tougher (though the increased 125th St. bus service has helped a lot).
I am confused: If BC is not subject to ownership claims, how can anyone be harmed by the bankruptcy, etc? No one has "lost" anything through mismanagement, blah blah.
Thank you for your hard work on Firefox, Chris. Mozilla has made many good decisions with it, keeping it clearly superior to Chrome/IE in my view.

That said, I find it difficult to agree with the decision to remove features like this. So what if it can break websites? Isn't that what the "This might void your warranty!" warning is for? It seems far better to give users the option of viewing the web the way they want to view it, rather than protecting them from some broken websites at the expense of their privacy.
The kext at https://github.com/sektioneins/SUIDGuard does something like that. For privileged processes, it neuters DYLD_* variables completely.
Probably because being able to have your monopoly ended by government for no other reason than you're dominant goes against the concept of a free market. The fear I think is such a move would disincentize people from building companies.
International Knowledge Measurement (IKM) ASP.NET 4 Questions
I recently applied for a job that required me to take an online test from the IKM. During the test I took some screenshots. Each question had from one to three correct answers. I'm putting these here to help others study for this test because I couldn't find anything for it online. Here they are:

http://imgur.com/a/tiia0
I disagree with at least one of your premises. In a deterministic universe, one could (assuming perfect knowledge) predict this exact comment you would make now, thousands of years before you were even born. How is that free will?

I disagree that there can be free will when all your actions can be known to an omniscient party beforehand. Where's the freedom in that?
It's absurd to see the level of advance in technology we can use and work with and the level of advance of our houses and transportation systems.
Entrepreneurs would say that speed is the signal of mature markets: more and more effort for less and less return. Mobile games were very profitable in 2009-10 (low effort, high return), balanced in 2012 (speed was important at that stage), unbeatable and unbearable as a business in 2015 (however fast you are, you're just playing a lottery).
My cat just forks the project because I reject the bird animation PRs... you know what they say, cats don't have owners, they have upstream.
You actually counted, I'm impressed!
DTAG benefits from inertia, being the offspring of the public post/telecom monopoly they started with a 100% customer base.

As for the issue at hand (YT being slow), like a sibling post states, that's because they refuse to peer at DECIX where everybody else is. They even tried to frame the NSA scandals as "IT companies, be responsible, keep user data in German networks and peer with us directly (on our terms, which will be expensive for you - they 'forgot' to mention that in the press releases)".

The best way to make DTAG more customer friendly (both upstream and downstream) is to move somewhere else.

Luckily in cities you have 5+ ISPs to choose from (some of them DTAG resellers, but still an improvement), and even on the country side it's typically at least 3.
Sometimes you want cheap plastic crap your local dollar store doesn't have and you don't want to find a Chinese willing to poison himself to make you 1000 pieces.
No, I'm agreeing with you. I want to transition to 3.4 completely (mypy looks amazing), but there are some small Django libraries (third-party libs) that aren't yet compatible :(
Given the subsets it is easy to verify the subsets come from the set and their sum is the same. Finding them is hard.
Google's Deep Dream in PyCharm
Did you check the root directory for a file named "this_system_is_vulnerable"? I just tested this on a mid-2015 MBP running 10.10.4 and found that file in the root directory. :(
And even latest here http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/stable-ch... - 5 of them has pdfium
Which are the most popular tools for mobile testing automation?
I found your response to the guy a bit hostile, he's still using a hypothetical analogy too.
That's a simplistic dichotomy.

What exactly is the middle ground between randomness and determinism?

Pre-determined, on the other hand, it's not incompatible with free will (precisely because free-will doesn't mean "randomness" -- it just means it's not imposed upon you by an external agent.

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That is, you are your history (and JUST that), and the only decision your self could make is a decision based on its precise history, which is exactly what it makes every time.

To me this seems to just push the problem a bit around. How does your self evolve over time? How does it make decisions? Is it deterministic or random? Or again what could a middle ground be?
Totally agree. And although there is indeed an anti-american mindset, American politicians speak pretty often about the loss of 'american' jobs too... It's just the common economic illiteracy. Trade protections don't benefit any party involved, they don't make economic sense and they never did.
Here's 3D systems on Good Morning America in 1989: http://youtu.be/NpRDuJ5YgoQ
The radius of the circle the author used, 500m, is a bit under twice the length of a Manhattan block.

I can guarantee you that your typical regular transit user is capable of walking a couple blocks without having to stop for a Gatorade.
Walking sucks in the winter. It's never ridiculously cold (certainly not midwest or Canada cold), but windchill is frequent and kinda nasty if you have literally any skin exposed.

Especially in the outer boroughs (not so much in Manhattan), snow doesn't get cleaned up very quickly either. Walking can definitely be a bit of an obstacle course - ice, snow banks blocking the sidewalk, etc.

Anyway blah blah blah first world problems, just my perspective on it.
> I’ve noticed that if I respond to people’s emails quickly, they send me more emails.

An alternative explanation would be that if you don't take your time to understand people's mail and just rush to answer them as quickly as possible, things that would take two mails to communicate now end up being a thread of ten mails, two phone calls and an in-person meeting.

Nothing is more infuriating than a person that replies 30 seconds later with a message that suggests they didn't read past the first sentence.

I don't know the author or his ways of responding to emails, but in my experience the above often applies to people that value speed above all else.
>I think that only works if you have limited business //

If you mean VATMOSS then you don't have to be running a Limited Company - individual sellers as of January 2015 have to now account for the tax due in the country of the buyer. This apparently applies to sellers from outside the EU too, if you're selling certain classes of goods (non-personalised intangibles) over the internet to the EU then you're supposed to retain [3 pieces of!] evidence of the locality of the purchaser and deal with that country's tax office to pay the required tax.

The "MOSS" [Mini One-Stop Shop] bit is a system that individual countries in the EU use to send the payments to the countries where the tax is due.

The method you mention works for tangibles or personalised goods. With VATMOSS there is no exemption for SMEs or low-revenue situations or anything.
> Firefox is the new IE6.

That really is nonsense. Firefox is standards-compliant; it's multi-platform; and it works.

I have major issues with its direction (the gelding of its sync service was particularly galling), but it's still the best browser out there.
Yes, they are driving people there by putting a 'funded by kickstarter!' logo on the page, non-clickable of course.

Even the top-right link to Kickstarter just takes you to KS updates, rather than to the project details...

Seriously, how many people do they expect to visit this site, and from the meagre content on it, decide to pre-order?
Do you have a source for this assertion?
Kamcord is looking for iOS engineers who want to democratize mobile gaming
> Maybe the bad guys are really bad, but sometimes I hope that they get off just to make the point that the cops are suppose to do the "right thing", otherwise the cops really are the bad guys

The US way is to exclude evidence and protect the cops--the idea being that cops have no motive to cross lines if they can't use the evidence. More and more I'm leaning towards what I understand is the European way: let the evidence stand, but hold the cops accountable for their actions through parallel civil and criminal proceedings. The feedback for "cop behavior" is direct vs indirect.
Can i Submit a story about myself?
It might be a dumb question to ask. Anyways i am new to this community.

Can i submit a story about myself?
Making 1 of 1 kind of items.
How to Become a Morning Person
As always, if anyone has any questions, we're here.
For windows there is a Sandboxie.
http://www.sandboxie.com/

Sandboxie has gotten very good over the years. You can sandbox programs that even run with admin privileges.

edit: Don't think sandboxie can load drivers.
the parser is 20 lines. then there's a function named print, then there's a for loop that extracts the fields. the last two lines of the readme are the example you're looking for:

$ ./j 'obj->"foo"' 'arr->1' 'obj->"baz"' <<< '{"foo":["bar",{"baz":"bat"}]}'

"bat"
Hostile to the idea, not the person. With some reason - there are a lot of pernicious myths that survive purely on the false mimesis you can generate by using made-up numbers. See: Politics.
See the Google’s Deep Dream in PyCharm Blog Post
By that logic it's more like an argument for disabling JS entirely - there is nothing about this that's specific to ads, and the reporter has speculated that it was placed by an attacker and only disguised as an ad.
Everyone is punished for Windows' Adobe Reader. I never got it either. PDF is not a web format. I would not want to read doc files in my browser either. Evince(-light) starts up in milliseconds.
Yes it was so it would have prevented the exploit from loading.
The charade is up: 3D printers are not the design panacea they were claimed to be.
20% corporate tax rate. What's the problem?
But it doesn't work with Russian or Ukrainian that well. A few reasons:

1. Slavic languages have heavy inflection. If Google doesn't understand all the possible forms of a word, it will give you poor results until you search again by changing your query slightly.
2. Google doesn't understand common synonyms, so it doesn't give results that contain synonyms.
3. Russian websites may not care about google rank as much as Yandex, so they might not even be indexed.

I don't know how, but there are thousands of websites I can find by searching Yandex for a certain thing that will not be on Google. It may be those three things combined, or other factors I didn't think of.
Why Limit Web Development to JavaScript?
So are the taxes also worse if you increase the exercise window? Is it more tax efficient to issue 100 year stock options vs RSU?
Periodic Table of Devops Tools
The Firefox nightlies can run in Wayland without any form of X11 server present.
Remember, risk of death still sits at 100%.
The testament of a furniture dealer (Ingvar Kamprad)
Agreed.

I also don't respect people that always respond to email immediately because it makes me think they don't have anything important enough to work on that requires unbroken concentration.
Name changes due to ISIS
Announcement itself is fine. The way you contrast "open" with "proprietary" is a bit jarring. It should be free versus proprietary, but if you find that undesirable, then just go with open/closed.

EDIT: Quite predictably, I got downvoted for asking people to use proper terminology and for promoting free software.
It's also really deceiving to put that Gameboy-like button slab and LCD on the web page when what you are really getting is the tiny CPU board at the bottom.
If I'm understanding correctly, the court found that he couldn't claim ownership of a particular, tangible set of bitcoins out of Mt Gox's holdings, but he's still a creditor of Mt Gox because they did owe him a specific number bitcoins.
Does anyone know of anything like Little Snitch or ZoneAlarm for Linux? I miss the program-level firewall capabilities of these programs when I'm on Linux.
>But you cannot control the behavior of random people on the internet without seriously impinging upon the general freedom of people everywhere.

This isn't true at all. Shaming people for unethical or unprofessional actions which they make publicly is quite effective in altering behavior and doesn't require a police state.
spare part material cost: $5

spare part cost on the market: $50
Of course, the US and Five Eyes are doing the same thing; they're just better at it. It's mind boggling how our media is consistently forgetting to notice that Crimea has been trying to get itself annexed by Russia since Ukraine and Russia become countries.
> If some choose not to apply guilt or blame to others, well, then that was also in the cards.

Correct. Like this discussion and everything logically was also "in the cards". So, yes, in a sense "it does not matter", while it still does.

> If there is free will, then there is a distinct advantage to understanding and believing that fact.

The issue is that you see an "advantage" in free will. I suppose you mean that free will would make you more powerful because you would not believe that you "can't change things", etc. This belief however is false. It's not logical. Even if we understand that there is no free will, we are still going to make "our own decisions" based on all the variables in our lives. The vastness of the variables in our networks is such that it can never be measured and modeled entirely. It is simply too complex for us to understand, which means that it will never feel like a network of causes and effects. So our choices will always feel like our own, and that is good enough for us, it seems. For example, I'm still going to try to create useful products and believe I can become successful, because that's what motivates me, that's part of my "variables".
As a user I have to say it doesn't matter me if your app looks native or follows HIG. That's just a convention used to make apps behave predictably and smoothly. If you can accomplish that with your own sensibilities that works too.
Boosting Brown Fat Through Diet [video]
Well done guys. I've been thinking about completely open models for a while now; we have a similar model at work (on FOSS as well).

I'm a hardcore Github fan but I'm really impressed with what you've all been doing. The more I see your work, the more I want to switch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaZTSDfT1o4 Light or rooms?
Ignoring the bus lines is pretty wacky. I grew up in Queens, and rode the bus all of the time. My dad took the bus to the express train to manhattan for several years.

The bus isn't sexy, but it works and is often less unpleasant than the subway.

Also, you need to remember how places like Queens developed. It was mostly little downs until about 100 years ago. The house I grew up in was part of a 120 acre farm as late as 1897! It developed into a sort of inner suburb... And as density increased, the cost of acquiring land and building infrastructure hockey-sticked upward.
Can you summarize what you found convincing about his presentation?

The narrative of the presentation is him focusing on a case where they don't work and tries to claim they never work. His pretty brash conclusions do not follow from his "demonstration"
Great list! I would add the Clouds Documentary: http://cloudsdocumentary.com
From all I have heard, docker is not even secure enough to let user A do things in dockerthingyA and user B in dockerthingyB. From what I was told, user A could easily break out into dockerthingyB and maybe even the host. Are you sure it really is not possible short of exploiting the kernel (or docker I guess)?
If you had taken a moment to actually scan those search results, you would have realized that "Chrome is the new IE" is typically a reference to its ubiquity.

Safari and Firefox is typically called the new IE because they are lagging behind the times.

Which is why I said "IE6" in my original comment. The later versions of IE were very decent. They certainly didn't seem like the frozen accident of history - an issue Firefox continues to grapple with.
Fubiz Logo Animations
How would you handle uploads or downloads then?
Marathon and docker
> Google is merely behaving negligently

For one example, Google started showing results linked to G+ while not showing superior results from Twitter. That looked like an open-and-shut case of Google using its search monopoly to promote one of its own properties to the disadvantage of a rival. I really don't think it counts as negligence...

> IE was initially a good product but then fell behind the competition. Pushing it on consumers not only hurt consumer choice, but (over time) locked users into a poor experience.

I'm not sure there is a useful analogy with the Google case.

However, IE6 was initially a good product and fell behind out of neglect. That was partly because Microsoft didn't do a new browser until it did a new OS, and the new OS -- Vista -- was (a) delayed and then (b) unsuccessful. Mistakes were made, as they say.

The point is that Microsoft wasn't "pushing [IE6] on consumers". Microsoft was desperate to get consumers off IE6 and XP, but consumers (and businesses) didn't want to move.

Either way, Microsoft's mistakes left the door open for Firefox and, later, Chrome. The anti-trust action didn't solve the problem -- and it didn't help Netscape, which started it. The market solved the problem by creating better browsers.
What about security issues?

Those will be in public too? Or you should contact by email when you have a security issue.
Mypy is indeed amazing, I can't get enough of it. Throw in asyncio and pathlib and you get the reason why I could never go back.

You might look into trying to port the django libs by yourself if you have the skill to do so. 2to3 often gets you really far. If you don't, I'd definitely recommend opening a ticket on the project page. I've done that with a few libs I use, and for a couple of them the maintainers just totally forgot about them and got around to doing the conversion just because I asked.
It's hard to compete against GitHub. I hope they will get some traction so we have an alternative to GitHub once it gets bought by MS (and becomes the next SourceForge).
"Sensitive issues, such as security issues with GitLab, will still be handled internally. We’ll create tracking issues for these on the public issue trackers that don’t contain exploitable information."
That's what you get for making the web browser a platform to run applications.
The Future of JSON APIs
> If A harms B, then your argument is that B has no right to retaliate it

Yes and no. Yes, because no judgment allowed means no punishment allowed. But: the correct answer to A's action would be a sanction against A, in the sense that it would prevent A from harming again in the future. The wrong answers are: judgment, retaliation, punishment, revenge.

> In other words, the world should just go on as it is

It will. And it's also exactly what's happening here.

> What is important, I think, like many other things, is the 'appearance' of having free will. Because without that, all life looses it's meaning.

Not to worry, we'll always have this appearance, because causes and effects work on every macro and micro level. No system of sensors will ever be able to measure all variable, no model will ever be able to include all variables and no computer will ever be powerful enough to model everything. So, the magic remains.
The real money in electronics is in accessories. People will pay $25 for a Raspberry Pi and fret each additional dollar, then turn around and pay $20 for a injection molded case for it.

If their strategy is to sell accessories then they $9 could be subsidized in that way.

If you're like me, the $9 gets you in the door, then you load up your cart with everything you want and start thinking about the total price at around $100.

Under $100 I think the typical "has a day job at a startup" technologist is not going to think twice.

They just need to have enough compelling components to get the total order amounts up there.
Thanks for using a right-handed coordinate system.
New Yorkers walk more than any other city I've lived in. In fact, about a year after I moved out of NYC to Saigon I gained quite a few extra pounds because I wasn't walking nearly the same amount. Which used to be about 5-6 miles a day in NYC on an average day.
That's the first time I've ever seen the Netherlands described as "higher ground"!
...or so many of them that we turn that chunk of earth into a radioactive mess. XD
I have mupdf in firefox (iceweasel) using mozplugger. I could always set it up to not display pdfs, only downlad them, use mupdf through mozplugger or use the builtin pdf.js viewer. Having said that I'm not sure that mupdf is safer than pdf.js, but it's much faster.
How did you detected it ?