skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* no compression aiming for efficiency can be

If you have that much need for a speedup, you probably have multiple video streams going (like you're Youtube or a livestream broadcaster). In that case, it's better to do one video per CPU, and now you really are parallel.

Also, you can get up to 4x parallel through slice-threads safely on one video, or 16x through x264's frame-threads if you don't care about your target bitrate. I wouldn't consider that embarrassingly parallel until it's up to 1024x or so, but maybe you do.
I've been noticing a lot of spikes across assets lately. Always timed a minute or two before the official release print. That used to constitute a somewhat unusual occurrence. One expects relative calm before the storm. Now it seems to happen with every bit of data. It could be chalked up to algos pre-positioning in anticipation. But many times if you are tracking fellow traders on your twitter feed as well as the price action, you'll notice a cry of "Leaked!" coupled with the price swings. I always assumed something far more nefarious and insidery was taking place. Powerful forces manipulating markets for various geo-political ends and so forth. So am somewhat relieved to see ordinary everyday greed to be the culprit. Am waiting for a Nanex style expose on this phenomenon.
I would consider selling my side project/business - http://flextory.com . It's a web based data management system with a focus on features for handling inventory. I went pretty far with it and have some active customers to this day. It's just no longer what I soak time into. I've considered turning it into an open source project, but just haven't gotten around to it.

Running Flextory has been an amazing experience for me though. It's kind of my baby. It would be hard to part with, but I'd consider it.
> make his offenses look quaint.

How do we know his offenses if the information is still mostly classified? Perhaps they do not make others seem quaint in comparison.
Not remove. Add.

Think positive. With counselors, and puppies, and trigger warnings and all that silliness, college can be more demanding than it used to be without making people spend what should be their prime years in a state of chronic stress.

Consider what college students of previous generations did to unwind. Was that really better?
I think you meant htmlFor, no? But I completely agree with the sentiment that it is nice to stay as close to plain HTML and JS as possible.
> You assume a lot! I posted this just because I want attention?

I point to a similarly old promotional technique to the one you pretend is your invention that Google must have stolen.

I didn't say you were using that promotional technique, though it wouldn't be an unreasonable inference from the completely unwarranted and unsupported claim of copying.

> So, tell me how many software companies have used this analogy?

Who cares? You and Google have both used variations on a practice which is much older than either of you, a well-known reference in American (and possibly other) culture, and a common practice in business promotion across multiple industries. Even if you are the only other software company [0] to have done it before, what difference does that make -- the fact that it is so culturally pervasive means that you need a lot more than "they did it after we did, and are very loosely in a similar industry" to make the claim "they copied from us" even remotely justified.

[0] leaving aside the perennial argument that Google isn't in the software industry, they're in the advertising industry -- based on which we should really be asking which other advertising company has done this before if we were focusing on the somewhat ludicrous same-industry comparison that you have, without justification, asserted is mandatory.
It should be used instead of Flux.

The one caveat is that Relay's store is a representation of the data you've defined in GraphQL. So you can't use it to store data that shouldn't exist on the server. That's something we'd like to fix soon.
Heartbleed appears to have kicked off the "good marketing" of vulnerabilities that others alluded to. :-)
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When I was angry with my client I always wrote a letter detailing all the things that I find at fault. It was usually pretty long letter filled with various mean things, some of them gratuitous.

But when I finished the letter and all that was left to do was send, I didn't.

Instead after letting it all out off my chest and considering why exactly I hate what he does (so I can clearly write about it) I was tired of hating and clearly saw what what effect my email could have (never improvement)... only then I was able to write the second email with some constructive and to the point answers, suggestions and questions that could help continue the relationship in bearable manner.

I know there's been research that venting physically actually doesn't help, only prolongs anger and promotes violent behavior and thoughts in the future.

But writing about your ails in the form of a letter, so you really have to think it through helps you go straight to acceptance and sort of exhausts your emotion. At least for me.
You're missing the point.

The biggest issue with all this fundraising isn't that it's just taking away from time to legislate. The biggest issue that amount of time fundraising can makes it difficult for an honest politician (spare me the jokes) to not be influenced by the people he's asking for money.

As a legislator, you only have enough time and attention to research and care about a handful of issues. The remainder of those issues, you have to trust the expertise of fellow legislators and lobbyists. Lobbyists are experts in their fields and apart from being able to write checks, they know how to explain policy to a legislator so the legislator believes they're doing the right thing.

I realize asking people to have pity on congressmen is a tall order, but don't delude yourself into believing they have free-will that translates into power or influence without sucking on the fundraising teet.
It's much easier to understand Kalman filtering in one dimension: http://credentiality2.blogspot.com/2010/08/simple-kalman-fil...
At least two of them hit the front page, one of them staying there for quite some time:

http://hnrankings.info/10043718,10043326,10043030,10041960,1...
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That clause was added after a devout Catholic who contributes to Opal expressed his thoughts on transgender people while talking about a piece of legislation in his country, Italy on his Twitter account. The person who wrote the Contributor Covenant went on to GitHub and demanded he be removed by the project. After much discussion, Opal's founder said they would adopt a code of conduct, specifically the Contributor Covenant. Once people in favor of the Contributor Covenant realized it would do nothing to prevent what they perceived as harassment, they added that clause. They tried to issue a PR to update Opal's Contributor Covenant version. Said founder seemed hesitant of the revised COC, but looks like he added the change but only with it explicitly saying where the code of conduct does and does not apply. See below.

Some links:
https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941
https://twitter.com/elia/status/611319469982527488
https://github.com/opal/opal/pull/961

Opal's code of conduct says:

"This code of conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces where an individual explicitly associates their presence with the project; non-project related material on accounts explicitly marked as personal should not be considered to be so associated."
* Modulo simplifying assumptions.

Also, most people have things they do not need. For example, one doesn't need a tablet, whiskey, or windows in their dwelling.
Indeed. First thing that blew my mind is that it checks to see if its files are owned by the uid of the php process. Why? Why can't we just +w on uploads, themes, plugins etc using group permissions?
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This is the clearest description I've ever seen of a Kalman filter.
> REST was born out of rejection for XML-RPC (and SOAP, which was its logical evolution once The Enterprise got involved).

Not quite. REST was born out of rejection for SOAP, not XML-RPC. It addressed
following issues (after Paul Prescod's article,
http://www.prescod.net/rest/rest_vs_soap_overview/):

* SOAP didn't address objects with URIs, so you couldn't integrate your
services with RDF and semantic web; RDF and SemWeb didn't boot very well, so
I wouldn't call it much of a problem today.

* SOAP development was driven by software vendors instead of academics.
This point presumably implies that SOAP and WSDL were a bloated piles of crap
(which SOAP and WSDL are indeed).

* Prescod stated that "mechanism, not policy" results in a more flexible
design, which is funny, because REST is more a policy (architectural style),
with SOAP being now a well-defined, if complex, mechanism.

And now tell me, which of these people are taking into consideration when they
build their REST APIs? I would say none. Most often they simply cram several
operations on several resources, serializing data to JSON and calling it
a day.
In my own observation, based on mostly the lower end Samsung SSDs (840/840 evo) in desktops and laptops at home and work, the SSDs I've been using (one even failed) appear to have problems reading back 'very stale' (year or two old) data.

I've recently been backing them up, using the 'ATA security erase' (I'm doubtful this is really a security erase instead of 'factory re-trim' erase) command, and then restoring the backup. This appears to improve read performance, and I hope it also allows the drive to continue operating for it's intended lifetime.

I hypothesized this might help after observing that magnetic hard disks also exhibited a recovery of read performance after a 'non-destructive write test' using the badblocks program.
> So even if people do not insanely accumulate wealth it does leave their pockets faster essentially causing a decrease in total savings.

That argument doesn't sound right to me. From an a priori standpoint (and I am happy to accept a posteriori arguments, i.e. studies), people will on average invest a fixed percentage of their income into long-term savings (i.e. pension) and the rest on various goods. I read your "people do not accumulate wealth" as a general agreement to that premise. But if that's the case, then there really is nothing bad going on here. Your total spending power is independent of whether you buy one large good A, or instead a series of smaller goods B that sum to A.

The latter is, what I interpret as your "increase in velocity of spending". But that has no negative impact on you as a customer, whereas it is good for the economy, no? Because money that is churned in the economic cycle produces wealth, whereas money standing still doesn't.

And that's what I mean by my alternatives: Either my premise is true, in which case your total spending power won't really change and advertising only redistributes this spending power amongst several competing companies. Or my premise is false, in which case advertising would cause us to sacrifice long-term savings in pensions for short term satisfaction for buying goods (which might be bad).

But I see no reason, a priori, why that premise should be false. It actually sounds pretty ridiculous to me, tbh.

Overall, my (very limited) understanding of economics for this problem is based on two rough fundamental principles: a) The amount of value (≈ money after accounting for inflation) in the economy is more or less constant (i.e. people have more or less "money you need to afford food and shelter"xC, where C is a constant). And b) Money produces wealth, when it is spent (i.e. is exchanged for goods).
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> Mayo told three different co-workers that he wanted to kill the supervisor.

Yea, I don't know how one would structure a legal principle so as to prohibit firing someone under those conditions but still allow organization a way of removing threatening members.
> At the risk of engaging in activity that Neal Stephenson would consider "undignified", I'm going to criticize this analogy, and offer a different one.

I dont understand the reference. Can you elaborate?
We only submitted the configuration that passed all scenarios, but tested some of the others internally. You generally don't get guaranteed linearizability of operations under network partitions in any of the faster configurations.
Relay and GraphQL are backend agnostic which means you can write a GraphQL server in any language and then use it in connection with Relay and ReactJS. Even a Ruby implementation is already there: https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby
Got me! Re-read as "many".
w3schools might have gotten a bit better lately, but please use MDN as a reference:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...

They offer so much more context.
I've been considering building a similar side-project for a while. Well done :)
Thanks for your answer. I have a lot more to ask, but I did
not find any email on your profile when I clicked on your name. This site has not PM system, my mistake.
$330 just for the geiger counter[1]

1: http://www.aw-el.com/price.htm
#fail - the example doesn't work in my Chrome browser!
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> People treat the mentally disabled with such contempt, disrespect, cruelty, and even hatred.

Really? I cannot imagine why anyone would feel hatred towards a mentally disabled person, and while some people might be cruel, they're probably cruel towards anybody who's weaker than them. So I don't really agree with your categorization.

However, I admit that a lot of people use the terms "retarded", "stupid", "idiot", etc. in a mean, hateful, cruel way, but these terms as insults are usually directed towards people who are not mentally disabled, exactly because they are not! (When you call a retard a "retard", that's not an insult, it's the truth. It's an insult only if you call a non-retarded person a "retard"!)
And, as someone else has said, still they come:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10044665
Completely agree. Compare to BitTorrent Sync, which is proprietary but works perfectly out of the box. [1]

[1] Okay, this is true for BitTorrent Sync versions < 1.4 -- more recent versions have been less reliable, particularly with regards to cross-platform syncing.
I am wondering if this centralized infrastructure for financial news is actually a good idea. This could always happen again and again. All the employees in these news companies could get a mass of insider information which they could sell.

Isn't maybe an alternative decentralized news publishing service a better idea? Couldn't the CEO of a company publish their financial news only on their own website at the given publication date? Why is it necessary for these news to be stored in some central news database days before their publishing date?
And I mean these as honest questions because I have really no idea what the advantage would be?

And another related question: wouldn't it make sense with today's Internet infrastructure to reduce the interval between earnings reports. Maybe it could even be something like a continous automatic publishing of these company finances. Always when some financials change it could directly be published. That way all investors would at all times have the same information as the insiders, so everyone would be on the same level. Of course some extraordinary news like mergers or acquisitions might still give some people insider information who prepare the deal, but at least the quarterly earnings could not be insider information.
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I think WordPress is great on DigitalOcean. With EasyEngine you can be up and running - cached - and seconds with a handful of CLI commands. I've had great luck with running WP on DO.
> As far as taping conversations go, Nixon did nothing new. It's known that he simply carried on the tradition that LBJ, JFK, and Eisenhower before him did. Whatever happened to all of those tapes?

http://millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings/johnson

http://millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings/kennedy

http://millercenter.org/presidentialrecordings/eisenhower
I think it's great. Check out EasyEngine by the rtCamp guys.
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The idea of Relay is cool. And GraphQL is indeed a nice thing for mobile engineers and product developers. I think its a novel way to query data.

Note: i'm mainly covering GraphQL

What i'm missing is implementations. For graphql you want a Java/python implementaion ready that can be hooked into your storage engine.

For iOS / Android you need some code generation tools that can generate your clientside business objects from the graphql schemas.

When i think about it, GraphQL combines the best of the SOAP/XML era (schemas, type safetype, client generation) with the new REST/JSON world (low footprint, simple structures).

However, it is still very difficult to adopt it.
And most of the times, in a startup environment, you are faster implementing a rest api. And building your app on top of that. A schema (something like swagger, jsonschema) might help with client side code generation.
Thank you, djoldman. This video is incredible. I'm now watching all of Gelbart's YouTube videos on my phone. The depth of expertise shared in every one of them is unequaled. I hope he gets a better camera setup soon.
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Here's one that offers fewer graph papers, but allows for customizable grid size: http://gridzzly.com
I saw lots of journalists in favor of the war in Iraq. Were there many journalists in favor of war in Vietnam too?

Of course. And just like the Iraq war, the government used control of information (like trying to suppress publication of the Pentagon Papers) to attempt to maintain support among both journalists and the public.

Fortunately, with a strong journalistic community, combined with the constitution and the supreme court, the government lost. But it took time and significant resources.

Could something similar have happened to real journalism too?

Eh, journalism has always had to fight against the corrupting forces of propagandists. That's nothing new.

The difference is, a large news organization has the time and resources to fight that corruption, while a small time blogger does not.

Of course, where bloggers win is in the sheer distributed nature of their operation. That is, it's a very different thing to muzzle/corrupt a million bloggers versus a dozen newspapers.

So there are pros and cons to both models. But I think there are things traditional news sources can do that bloggers/etc simply can't. And the converse is also obviously true.
Further evidence against the disinformation that the government can't keep secrets or any horrible stuff happening right now would be leaked. I've written counter-points to that in the past. I referenced MKULTRA's, others the stay-behind armies (eg Gladio), and most recently programs with at least a few hundred people where only around four (esp Snowden) talked. Others have the information get out through third parties (esp reporters) while getting no coverage in or smeared by media. Recently, we've seen that whistleblowing on executive is itself treated like a crime.

So, it's clear that the more dangerous and professional of the military/intelligence/LEO community can effectively keep secrets or do damage control. They have plenty successes for every screwup. Dare I say that all the people with clearances vs number of damaging leaks show their method works well enough if only because of good people participating.

So, transparency, whistleblower protection, and strong accountability (esp w/ GAO) are absolutely essential. Further, anyone hiding information in one of these investigations should be, if this is proven, hit with life in a harsh prison immediately. Further, a plan of action to split the media from CIA, etc influence needs to be formed and implemented. It will take such a strong combo to discourage the corruption we've seen for decades.

But first Americans have to give a shit enough to act. I've seen very little of that. The 2008 situation was a good example where Americans pay the crooks off w/ immunity and Icelanders took back their system with prison time on top. I'd like my country to act like a real democracy, too, which confronted with provable abuses we've seen over past 14 years. :)
Via http://us-city.census.okfn.org/faq/

[Q] "Is the data available for free?"

[A] "If you have to pay for it – it is not free."
Like Airbnb, but for algorithms?
It's been my experience that anytime you work for a company larger than about 50 people, it starts devolving into the sort of situation the OP describes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle. The best you can hope to do in this situation is to put on the big boy/girl pants and be a champion for change.
I like this idea. You could present it as $5 of free recipes. It's like a try before you buy, or how casinos send people $100 free gambling credits. Yeah, some people will abuse it, but it's worth a try.
Seriously? Now even words can be vicious? Almost as stupid as calling them "micro-aggressions" when nobody is hurt.
Yeah, I mean that's what I was saying I thought the definition was in my original comment. But taken the way the OP apparently meant it, it does mean something similar to "praise highly" or "very excited about." The meaning's evolved.
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Not much. These are actually the Web API attribute names you should use when accessing these attributes from a non-HTML language (e.g. JavaScript).

The React folks didn't make them up.
I enjoyed the tone and the piece. His assessments of brute-forcing and SQL injections were quite accurate.
Intentional Software is still in stealth mode (1995-)
The way I see it, the primary thing to solve for any recommendation engine is to optimize for serendipity. I.e. allowing you to get information you didn't know you wanted.

This means basically also finding ex. articles that are not written by NYT.

Newspapers problem is that their primarily omnibus approach to whats relevant isn't really doing the waste amount of insightful information available that exist out there.

So the whole issue IMO with all newspapers/media these days. They are building silos where none should really exist and this is one of the primary the reason why people don't consider it valuable anymore.
> In this case claiming that the ability to 'handle' stress is a core part of the required employment competency, seems to beg the question: why is that not something worthy of support and accommodation?

Accommodation how? As the court pointed out, there was no reason to think assignment to a different supervisor would address the problem. The court's reasoning here seems very sound: there is no accommodation that the employer could make that would both be reasonable (e.g., isolating him in a separate facility with no other workers to avoid putting anyone else at risk is not reasonable) and sufficient to enable him to do his job. Therefore, he is not a qualified person under the law, and is not entitled to relief.

Don't make this harder than it is. If you can't show up and do your job without harming others or making credible threats to do so, you're not qualified. There is no reasonable way to accommodate that conduct.
I honestly don't understand why any of this is necessary.

Without the doc, if I hurl nasty insults and personal attacks, the community will tell me to fuck off and not accept my work. Won't they?
Sorry, can't help but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word#Forms
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