skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason, these stories always leave out that UFC 1 was organized by a Gracie with pretty much the goal of showcasing Gracie JJ. UFC 2 (I think? or was it 1 already?) even had a half-time 'ceremony' where Rickson gave Helio a 'lifetime award' of some sort - while booed by the audience; and rightfully - that was clear self-promotion and put a shadow over the objectiveness of the whole event. In that light, the line-up for the first couple of UFC's is rather suspect. Kevin Rosier? Who came back from retirement especially for it? All of them except Ken Shamrock being strikers? Objectively speaking, inviting some Pancrase people (again, besides Ken Shamrock) would have made more sense. Of course it was framed as 'style vs style', but still...

Of course Gracie JJ is very effective, but the truth is that early-days UFC was a marketing scheme for the Gracies to export their JJ. It took very little time for what was promoted as 'the perfected style, honed over 60 years' to become just one aspect of a well-rounded fighter's skills. Look at the training DVD's Carlos and Rickson made in the mid-1990's - they were laughable just 5 years later.

Not sure I'm working towards one overarching point here; maybe it's that the Gracie's real legacy is just as much in marketing as it is fighting.
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Now it got back to normal. Working fine!
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In my circle of friends at least, PhDs working on various technologies had their names on patents. When big companies bought these patents, they actually received good money. Not retirement money of course, but a few good tens of thousands.
>CT itself, is that the standard texts don't seem to really have many results.

Oh man. If you like math, CT gives nice mathematical definitions for stuff. I would love to use my algebra skills to do general programming like I can use my linear algebra knowledge in numerical programming.

I'm making bold claim that I hope someone can debunk with awesome counterexamples:

"CT HAS ZERO APPLICABILITY IN PROGRAMMING"

Using CT to Linear algebra analogy: CT in programming is like learning definitions of vector spaces, subspaces, span, and basis and stopping there. No CT equivalent for solving linear systems, linear transformations, least-squares or eigenvalues. Just because you have rooted programming in cool algebraic notation does not mean anything in itself.
why I use Windows 10 on my desktop for daily work:

- best hardware support, no driver problems for example with my graphics card or thinkpad dock

- updates etc. just work without any configurations or reading manuals

- Visual Studio is yet only available to Windows, whereas it evolves to the most compelling cross platform
development tool (xamarin, universal apps, android and ios support)

- productive cortana search

- fast, even on old hardware

- the desktop is much more faster and fluent than e.g. gnome

- I don't care sending over metrics to Microsoft, this is needed to make software better

- I can see edge evolve

I use linux vms on some severs where I need to scale things. But it has only one reason: fast deployment times because of smaller os images.
It's not that that's not a real cost. Is that you don't include intangible things such as time and emotions when determining if something is free, by any expected usage of the word.
> shut down mobile internet and all mobile facilities on 14th and 15th August

That is not correct, I stay in Jammu & Kashmir and have been able to use mobile services on 14th and 15th without any issues. It might be true from some region (not that i know off) but it is certainly not true for the entire state.
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If I remember correctly, you can probably add the founders of SAS and South West to Richard Branson's side of the list as well
Activation itself is a one-time thing. What you're probably thinking of is Windows Genuine Advantage, later renamed Windows Activation Technologies[1]. This is far more insidious. To wit:

WGA consists of two components:

an installable component called WGA Notifications
that hooks into Winlogon and validates the
Windows license upon each logon and an ActiveX
control that checks the validity of the Windows
license when downloading certain updates

I've mentioned this on HN on a number of occasions, and the community here seems totally nonplussed about it. People just don't seem to care that this software "validates" each time you log in.

However, I think this ongoing check only started with Windows XP SP3. I have a Windows XP SP2 installation in a VM. I don't allow Internet access at all for it, I copy anything I need to a shared directory. It has stayed activated for quite some time without complaining and without needing the Internet for anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage
As your username suggests, you're from Jammu. I think it's a completely different story there. Although I agree, I didn't make that clear in my original comment.
The Jupyter web page is a fine example of reverse information distribution. I went from" I think I know what this is" to "I have no idea what this is" within seconds of the page loading.
This makes me a little sad to learn that's the method involved.

All the timelapse video now proves is that the drone was in the proper position to flash its light.

Out of position (as measured by the precise laser rangefinder)?

Then don't flash the light yet, drift/adjust, check again, repeat until correct - then flash.

It's not precision as much as it's "eventual precision".
Fake. First - not confirmed, Second - it is not a gold train.
I'd really like to know exactly which careers were supposed to be dying in this report.
Some concrete examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9036331

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8646242

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973567
Like almost all policy & law there are trade-offs. Good governance is about enacting policy which attempts to benefit as many people as possible on average (but there will always be losers).

People need to understand that issues are NOT black and white, and that "the thin end of the wedge" often needs to be broached in order to benefit wider society.
Market rate means something to employers - it's the rate they need to pay you more than, if they don't want you to have lots of better options for where to work. If you don't have lots of better options for where to work, you're more likely to stick around, and less distracted while you're doing so.
For all the shit Hackers gets as a movie, I feel it does capture the zeitgeist of the hacker culture of the time better than just about any other movie out there.
If you're willing to switch from c# to something else: python or Java, although for desktop apps it may not be as good (I used to work on PyQt apps and did not found it lacking though.)

As for the IDE Intellij IDEA rocks and has a community edition.
What is security like on Amazon's appstore? It has all-encompassing permissions.

always online? Must the apps be used online, for monitoring usage and downloading ads - or can they be run offline, with the Amazon appstore app uploading stats/downloading ads when connected? (I ask this because I run games in "airport mode" and "stop" them afterwards, as a security measure, having been burned).
Possible issues:

- Joker plasters flatscreen of sufficient size on the back of his truck and displays 'empty road' when in fact there is oncoming traffic.

- System malfunctions and shows old image rather than present image.

I'd never ever want to rely on what a medium under someone else's control displays when I want to overtake a vehicle. That's a lot of lives at stake and if you need this display to decide if you should overtake or not you probably simply shouldn't.
"and obtain the necessary permits and approvals"

What sort of permit could you possibly need to put a couple monitors on a truck?? "video truck permit"?
Yes, I found the name Obi for a world phone an odd pick. OBI is a strong brand in Germany and has also presence other European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc.).
That truck will be emitting white light at the back in some situations which is not permitted by law in many places.
I do like the innovation in this area. I had the idea of having green and red slats on the back of a truck. If you are at a distance you see the green, but when you get too close, it goes red. Basically telling you you're too close. My less popular idea would be the wet paint brush sticking out the back of your car to stop cars tailgating, ha!

Some of these issues can be solved by not being right up behind a truck when attempting to overtake. Not easy when there is a trail of cars behind though.

I do wonder where the liability of accidents now lie. For example, imagine there was a technical fault that caused a 3 second lag on the video. Would the truck or Samsung be at fault if it contributed to an accident?
Not really. I'm not sure if you consider taxes: 60k euro gross is 34k euro net (2.8k euro/month).
http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm

Also to pay 60k euro it will cost 21% more. So the fully loaded cost: 72.6k euro.

http://www.uhy.com/employers-now-pay-average-employment-cost...

The actual figure may vary, but as a rule of thumb $60k / year is 53k euro / year for fully loaded, 43.8k euro gross, 23k euro take home / year. Doesn't seems anywhere close to Berlin senior engineer salary :-).
Since no one else has mentioned this yet, this must have been a reference to this famous hack on an Iranian nuclear facility: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178781/Iran-nuclear...
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The discussion linked here, may also be interesting for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9752948
>This is a dangerous line of thinking. If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things.

Does anyone truly believe that this is not the case? People are different, sets of people differ along various, sometimes similar parameters.

>This could impede our quest to bring about gender equality.

It really shouldn't though. Differing from one subset of people should not impact your rights as a human being. 'Gender equality' doesn't mean that everyone should be 'the same' but rather that everyone should have equal rights.

Am I not getting this?
Because you think that every person overtaking is an asshole? That's very....close minded? Especially since in some places you have a 60mph limit on single-lane roads,but trucks are limited to 40mph on the same roads, causing a huge queue behind them. And it's not like the screens are replacing your judgement - they merely help. Would you argue that rearview mirrors help assholes because you have to make less effort to look behind you and therefore will be likely more careless when reversing than someone who doesn't have them?
"This is a dangerous line of thinking. If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things. This could impede our quest to bring about gender equality."

Good job comrade, drawing attention to someone (perhaps an innocent mistake - but we can't let these pass either) about to embark on danger-noticing and danger-think.

Hopefully you will stay vigilant and the offender will not relapse.
No need to be sexist and single out one gender.
-18 C night and day is not that cold. It does not stop any daily activities - like kids playing outside. Going near -30 C and below - with regular "urban" winter clothing - that starts to modify ones routines. Don't look at the statistics, observe the real effects.
I'm surprised they weren't explicit in their commission - "We'd like a picture of a boot, stamping down on a human face, forever, please."

Rivera's future died in the second world war.
Did anyone look at the list of permissions? Amazon isn't paying developers for interstital ads ... it's paying them to have an excuse to track everything on your phone:

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Amazon-Underground/dp/B004G...
I've never really thought about it this way (bad code quality as the product of bad team dynamics), but it makes perfect sense to me. I guess the way forward is to improve interpersonal relations.
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There is no question in my mind but that Don Herbert propelled me into engineering. My fascination with the show started in 1951 when I was 7 and came to an end with my entrance into E.E. at the University of Illinois in 1962 strictly because there was no way my fraternity brothers in the TV room would stand for it.

I loved my career and have Don to thank for it. I'll bet there are a whole lot of us who owe our careers to his wonderful influence.
What graphics card are you using, and what distro? To state the obvious, if you're using Nvidia then you'll want to install the proprietary driver, whereas with AMD you'll want to keep the open-source driver as default, because Catalyst isn't that stable.
This is about 20% less than the rule of thumb number for the power needed to keep a modern mid size car moving at about 100km per hour. I forget where I read it.

So yes pretty good.

And this is the principal reason why internal combustion engines are so inefficient in practice, they are used at a tiny fraction of their rated output for most of their working lives.

Of course the comparison is not quite as favourable as it at first appears because we should really measure the input power not at the output of the battery but at the input of the battery charger (equivalent to measuring the fuel pumped into a petrol engine's tank). Still impressive even if the conversion efficiency of the charger and battery combined is only 50%.
Yes, Firefox loads tmz.com just fine. In a Debian VM, through a nested chain of three VPN services. But then, that's with Noscript and Adblock Plus.

Also, Privacy Badger reports 47 trackers on raymond.cc but just 20 on tmz.com ;)
I will be the sole responder who agrees with you that promotions like the UFC cross the line in terms of acceptable injury to fighters.

Most professional MMA fighters with a few years in have severe debilitating injuries. I am not talking about a bad knee of slipped disc, I am talking about severe chronic pain and brain damage, something that is the inevitable result of the kind of punishment they deal with. Just look at someone like George Saint-Pierre who suddenly forgets what he has been doing for the last six hours.

It doesn't matter if fighters participate of their own free will, I could probably go into the slums right now and get two people to fight to the death over a $50 bill. There's a reason we have laws to prevent exploitation and don't just leave it to people's "free will".

I very much like MMA as a sport, but I wish there was a way to protect the fighters better. Headgear? Who can honestly say that they enjoy a fight where the fighters are bathed in each other's blood, not to mention the health implications (even the ref wears gloves).
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"'Gender equality' doesn't mean that everyone should be 'the same' but rather that everyone should have equal rights.
Am I not getting this?"

You're so 10 years behind the ball. Equality now means equality of results.

Since everybody [important] knows that women have the same skills & work the same jobs & the same hours as men, their being paid less is only result of misogyny & sexism on part of their employers.
This guy is awesome. We should have more that kind of funds. 0.75% yearly expense ratio:
http://www.etf.com/HACK

The whole finance could be disrupted if funds will charge less and less for commission. I believe anything over 1%/year is ridiculous high. Fundamentally there is little reason why we couldn't have active funds for the price of ETFs.

Self index ETF seems to me like low cost active funds with open-source public investment thesis.
I think exceptions are very bad idea. Not nearly as bad as implicit nullability but comparable. Hacky emulations of exceptions... Well I don't want to be near such code.

But that was interesting read non the less, thanks OP.
These exist in Haskell as "Pattern Synonyms". Here's a partial translation of some of the F# examples on MSDN to Haskell;

{-# LANGUAGE PatternSynonyms, ViewPatterns #-}

pattern Even <- ((`mod` 2) -> 0)
pattern Odd <- ((`mod` 2) -> 1)

testNumber x = show x ++
case x of
Even -> " is even"
Odd -> " is odd"

data Color = Color { r :: Int, g :: Int, b :: Int }

pattern RGB r g b = Color r g b
-- NB: this is bidirectional automatically

printRGB :: Color -> IO ()
printRGB (RGB r g b) = print $ "Red: " ++ show r ++ " Green: " ++ show g ++ " Blue: " ++ show b

-- pretend we have functions to and from RGB and HSV representation

toHSV :: Color -> (Int, Int, Int)
toHSV = undefined -- implement this yourself!

fromHSV :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Color
fromHSV = undefined

pattern HSV h' s' v' <- (toHSV -> (h', s', v'))
-- here we explicitly provide an inversion
where HSV = fromHSV

printHSV :: Color -> IO ()
printHSV (HSV h s v) = print $ "Hue: " ++ show h ++ " Saturation: " ++ show s ++ " Value: " ++ show v

-- demonstrating being able to use pattern
-- to construct a value
addHue :: Int -> Color -> Color
addHue n (HSV h s v) = HSV (h + n) s v
What would the pro's average speed be over the total distance? And what would an ordinary human being manage?
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Well, Mercedes and BMW cars can be bought with "nightvision" cameras where the car shows you a view from its IR camera on the dashboard, so in theory you could spot animals or people much easier while driving on unlit country roads. Someone could ask the same question - what if there is a 3 second lag on the video, or if the camera malfunctions and doesn't show you a person when in fact there is a person there?

Well, the answer is the same as with everything else in cars - don't treat any of those systems as absolutes. Just because new cars have automatic breaking doesn't mean I can just approach parked cars at full speed hoping that my car will break for me. It's meant to help, not replace human judgement.
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Sandstorm provides an API to the app through which it can update the URL in the address bar -- adding an arbitrary path after the grainId, which will then be passed back to the app if the URL is re-opened. Lychee and MediaWiki use this, for example. It sounds like Gitlab should too -- that would be a good bug to file.
Clojure Koans, is similar to 4clojure, and also worth a look> http://clojurekoans.com/

Bookwise, I thought the following were pretty good:
'Clojure in Action' by Amit Rathore and 'Clojure Programming' by Chas Emerick are both solid intro Clojure books. 'Web Development with Clojure' by Dmitri Sotnikov is also a great book, which obviously comes with more of a web-slant.

And I'd give a second thumbs up for 'Clojure for the Brave and True'.
The cultural bandwidth is there to have small pieces about the story, and nothing else. This is how Buzzfeed and others are allowed to survive; they're just proxies, nothing more, nothing less.
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To be fair, for every Jobs & Bezos you need a thousand middle managers who execute their strategy (and deal with asshole CEO antics).
There's orders of magnitude more consumer-facing jobs than there are managers, who, basically by definition, are always in smaller numbers.

Analysis of statement "quintessential job that requires good interpersonal skills is management" will give me food for thought today, thanks. Not sure what I think about that. Some could argue that it's even anti-social role in a way.
How can one write a story about Gracie jiu-jitsu without mentioning Kazushi Sakuraba?
> PS: Perhaps grsecurity may want to instead consider a sensible noncommercial license similar to somewhere between AGPL and something like what good ol' evil Oracle would license their DBMS, i.e., companies over X employees or Y revenue need a license; hobbyists, academics and individual developers exempted. Drama resolved.

Being a set of Linux patches, it would be hard for them not to make their code available under GPLv2.

They can do the Red Hat thing of making code available only to paying customers, and terminating their customers' accounts if they redistribute things publicly. They mention that in the post.
Well, it's not called "stable".
The first issue is kind of unrealistic. It's the kind of issue you can always raise when something changes on the road. From the very start you could've said, "oh cars can be a unsafe because a joker could crash into the side of your car and push you out". Generally people don't do that kind of stuff, especially when the safety of their own vehicle and person is at stake. On the road, you are already putting a lot of trust in your fellow man.

The second issue is real, but I can tell you from experience that it's the kind of things engineers working on automobile parts obsess about. And there are strict standards for these kinds of things. Besides, if you see a frozen image, you know something is wrong. And getting old video is impossible.
you work in Sweden ?
The FAQ does mention the anonymity part

> Lantern is not an anonymity tool. Lantern was built for fast and open Internet access. If you feel you need to be anonymous online (if you are posting something you think could bring legal action against you, for example) we recommend using Tor. Otherwise, Lantern will give you faster access to blocked sites.
Yeah, that footnote could have been more helpful!

I've replied to a comment on the post with my thoughts on books. Hope that helps.
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Most radio stations that aren't publicly funded are complete trash and I would not miss them in the slightest. My tax dollars already fund the CBC's excellent news and classical music service and that's all I need from radio. If I want to listen to pop I'll download some.

Most of what's on TV is complete shit, and I'm happy to pay for netflix. The only thing I miss are hockey games, but I can always go to one live, or go to a bar.
This seems like a good case for keeping your team size small. Those sort of numbers split two ways instead of six would turn this into a huge win. Hopefully they'll keep ramping upwards and find ways to avoid adding any more headcount to dip into the pie.

This also seems like a great market to have jumped on, and I'm kicking myself for not having done so. Blogger used to offer essentially this same product: Easy editing tools with FTP export so you could host raw HTML cheaply instead of having to deal with keeping a LAMP box alive to run Wordpress. But they killed it off and left a huge hole in the market that sat vacant for years before these guys stepped in to fill it.

Nice work.
What about the risk to users who provide access to other users?

Edit: In Give Access mode, what other users get access? Is that limited to those specified via Google Talk?
This can often apply to Linux, too. So every major desktop OS requires replacing stuff here and there. Not sure what conclusions we can draw from that, though.
This is incorrect: Deploying the RAF to control a situation is not the same as declaring Martial Law.

That would require declaring an Emergency AFAIK.
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Are you referring to live tiles? I think they can be disabled.
Customer support will be happy to refund your purchase, but there's nothing they can do about a fundamentally bad product
The Windows Store version does, IIRC.
Try OmniOS for a great Solarish server OS.