skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existence of laws that are not usually enforced is the basis for arbitrary enforcement if and when there is a 'need' to persecute somebody. Facile attitudes towards evidence are further enablers. The Rule Of Law is as much about parsimony of laws as it is of uniform enforcement.
Ambiguous wording in some places; crazy electoral college method for elections that ensures a two-party system; and the fact that there have been over 20 things called amendments... all suggest that there are things wrong with the American constitution. Does it mean it was a bad thing overall? No. But to say that there's nothing wrong with it is to say that nothing in it is stale - and regardless of your political leanings, I think everyone can agree that the Third Amendment has been pretty stale for quite some time, for example.
So you don't think it's possible that authority figures can initiate acts based on statistics? On research, on scientific data? Or must their motivations always be grounded in bias, unfair discrimination, misguided old-fashioned racial profiling?

The point I was making about young Muslims - I wish it weren't true. But it is true.

Arresting 14yo kids isn't a solution, but neither is patronizingly inviting him and his suitcase clock to the white house.

I'd love watch the video of him checking into whitehouse security with his suitcase clock...

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/10BF6/production/...
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I don't like to sound glib, but...

> In fact, there is no randomness and non-predictability in quantum mechanics.

Depends on the interpretation.

> wave function collapse in a quantum system is the consequence of coupling the system to a larger, external one that becomes entangled with the "small" quantum system

Depends on the interpretation.

> we ourselves are described by a quantum wave function

Depends on the interpretation.

> Different interpretations of quantum mechanics like the "Many Worlds" or the "Copenhague" varieties are basically just arguing about what happens with a wave function after it "collapses".

You only really need to worry about "what happens with a wave function" if you have a decidedly psi-ontic view of it. Otherwise, collapse is not itself a physical process.

> To my knowledge there is no way to discriminate between different alternatives here

The same author recently uploaded a paper which argues that there is a way to discriminate between interpretations based on physical principles. See http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03641v1.pdf .
How about you consider the possibility that there are zero ads relevant to me. For as long as I can remember the only times I have clicked on an ad (on mobile) have been mistakes.

If ads make money based on click-throughs and purchases, then my blocking them has zero change in revenue generated. If they are simply displaying for brand awareness (less common on the web) then sure I'm having a minor impact but given that ads often ruin content enough to close the window (recent example being a floating banner covering half my screen and thus making article unreadable) I doubt there is positive brand impact anyway.
It does everything in the browser without uploading to a server.
Firefox on Android works great with uBlock Origin.
Support open source!

I noticed a great difference on my 2011 Google Nexus 3 between adblock and uBlock Origin, in terms of memory usage.
...and yet, might we not also consider that oral traditions could serve to persist knowledge too important to be committed to perishable archives. Even now in the West.
The fallacy here is that deadlocks are a bad thing, usually they are not. You don't want a slim majority being able to drive the government at a breakneck pace. When society is deadlocked, government should be too. You want action only when there is fairly broad agreement.
Up to a point yes, but the politicization of the judiciary through elected judicial posts and other elected official posts such as election organisation and drawing of electoral boundaries introduce serious weaknesses into the system.
Case in point, regarding /good/ advertising: Project Wonderful. I'm happy to whitelist their ads, as I've discovered quite a number of good webcomics through them.

Yet, such genuine targeting (not blindly matching keywords) seems to've attracted little attention from the ad industry - instead, all we get is more AdWords (unintrusive, just fairly useless, and occasionally amusingly inappropriate) and the likes of Outbrain (responsible for the "From Around the Web" ads).
> Within Android, moving from one manufacturer to another is already difficult enough.

How so?
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> You can't adblock the Google.

Why not? I generally don't use Google services (certainly not their search), and (currently) Ghostery extension for Safari. I don't remember the last time I saw an ad, from any network, but certainly not Google.

Your earlier comment "you can't block .google.com" also doesn't really mean much, because ads on third-party sites are served from adclick.net and google-syndication.com - not from google.com.

Even if they changed that practice, and started using google.com to serve their ads - I'd happily block it. I don't want them to track me anonymously so why would I give them my information willingly by using their services?
What terrifies people about terrorism is that it could affect anyone at any time, and there's no semblance of control over that.

You can reduce your odds of gang violence by not being affiliated with gangs or living in/near a ghetto. You can reduce your odds of a knife attack by not walking alone when it's dark. You can reduce accidental drowning by learning how to swim. There's not much you can do about terrorism other than not go in public or live in a remote area.
I get what you're saying and don't disagree.

I tried to provide a balance point to this discussion, mainly due to the fact that packing the clock into the suitcase wasn't smart (even for a 14yo).

Google 'suitcase bomb' and you'll get endless results. Google 'Arduino enclosure bomb" and you won't get much.

I'm not convinced the kid didn't know it was looking like something from a movie, and I think he was aiming for that look, but he won't admit it. Why do I think this? Because I was 14 once too, and studied electronics just like him. Something that looked like a Suitcase bomb is something I'd want to show my friends.

His clock was mains powered too. Awful design even for a 14yo.
If you've got Many Worlds at the back of your mind there, rest assured (!) that the lead author considers it to be a Type-I interpretation See http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.04711v1.pdf
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Did you see this?

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/

It has quite a lot of info.

Edit: you must view that page with JS enabled, otherwise no prices are shown. Perhaps that was your problem?
Fake Users
This is a major problem that we are trying to solve with our app, Ad Control. Unfortunately the app is still waiting for review but it should be in the App Store soon.

Here is our Open letter regarding this concern, and our solution: http://blog.adcontrolapp.com/post/128643445264/open-letter
"... underlines AMS-IX’s leading position within the global Internet Exchange Point market."

Yeah, i.e. DE-CIX is constantly hitting the 4 Tbps barrier for quite some time now and is trending towards 5 Tbps.

https://www.de-cix.net/about/statistics/
That specific line makes it sound like Franklin thought despotism would be a result of the Constitution. But the full quote makes it obvious that he thought very highly of the Constitution:

...this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution.... It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does... Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.[0]

He means that the Constitution will continue until no other form of government but despotism is possible, not that it leads to despotism.

Also note that despotism and tyranny are not exactly the same form of government (the main relevant difference is that despotism can be benevolent), and that the distinction would have been more significant in Franklin's time.[1] I think that a more modern phrasing would be something like:

...the Constitution will be administered well for a while, and will last until the country becomes so corrupt that only a despot could maintain order.

[0] http://www.usconstitution.net/franklin.html

[1] http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/politics/what...

edit: formatting
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https://pagefair.com/press_release/pagefair-2015-report/ literally first link on google

also, browser share: http://gs.statcounter.com/#all-browser-ww-monthly-201408-201...
How many levels does this game have I assume Unlimited?
I understand that "effective" has also this meaning. But, as I pointed out, is ambiguous, with the "default" meaning being very different (not just subtly) from the intended one.

Especially as, in evolutionary biology, and game theory, there is a big topic of investigating how egoistic behaviour may give raise to an altruistic effect.

(And of course, the main thing is that adjectives created from nouns are very ambiguous, i.e. effective can mean both "altruism that gives effect" or "altruism that is an effect".)
I agree. The independent judiciary, in my opinion, is what has been largely responsible for the effectiveness of the U.S Government since it's inception. This concept of a body that can rule on the constitutionality of laws and acts was a revolutionary concept.

I want to take pains to emphasis that this is relative. Contemporary issues and criticisms aside (not to mention those raised in the article), it's a system that has served remarkably well, especially compared to its peers.
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Yay. More peering at Internet Exchanges makes internet faster and cheaper. Europe has the lowest effective cost of bandwidth:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...
Magazines and bus stop ads have worked for decades without knowing more about me than that I read a particular magazine for example. Small time outlets didn't advertise in magazines and bus stops in the past, so it's quite likely that small blogs and similar outlets with less than (say) a few hundred thousand unique visitors per day will no longer be able to support themselves via advertising, even to just cover hosting. The solution will be to aggregate into larger networks (medium etc) or rely on donations/subscriptions/affiliate links etc.

I don't want "targeted" "relevant" ads related to what I wrote on Facebook yesterday or what I googled last Tuesday. Ever. I'll just have to live with whatever content people can afford to show me without such ads. I really don't feel sorry for any ad network or any site that used them.
This doesn't seem very effective at what it's trying to do. Once you create the page, what then?

It should be a service that mails all other contributors in the commit log something like this: "Mr. <insert name> introduced a CATASTROPHIC security bug right here! Look at that! <insert code> <insert insults> Are all his contributions hidden landmines that might jeopardize the project at any time? Clearly they need to be checked! <insert list of all his other commits>"

Maybe "git shame" would be more appropriate too.

And yeah, you should probably not do that if it's a company project or a noncritical open source project.
By way of historical comparison, consider that in 1992, the ULCC's transatlantic "fat pipe" was a 1.5Mbps circuit:

http://jam.ja.net/marketing/janet30years/images/gallery/grap...

Or that the total traffic served by the University of Bath's website across all of 1997 was 63MB:

https://wiki.bath.ac.uk/display/bucsha/Computing+Service+His...
A language isn't obliged to serve all realities equally. Quite the opposite: a language, a framework, a system -- a product -- should carve out a set of contexts that it's explicitly targeting, and fiercely guard those boundaries.

Otherwise, you get terrible products that are nothing more than the lesser sum of their features, like JIRA, or Scala.
If anyone is interested in a beginner introduction to what wavelets are generally, and how they are used - I did a blog post a while back using numpy: http://kastnerkyle.github.io/posts/wavelets/
This seems useless to me because of the well-known tendency for people to use the same username and password on multiple systems. A hacker need simply try a series of known username and password combinations until they have generated enough successes to crack the system.
Exactly. While I'm sure they didn't mean "deadlock", delay was precisely what the framers had in mind. The emphasis on super-majorities and agreement between multiple bodies was designed to keep mob mentality from fundamentally changing the people's rights in the heat of the moment.

I'd argue this has eroded in recent decades due to lack of transparency, which has greatly hindered the third branch, the Judiciary, from being able to act as effectively as it might have otherwise.
No, it means that "compiler" now refers to both JIT and AOT compilers, so you technically need to disambiguate, even though AOT is enough in the majority that you can leave it to be assumed in practice.
It's not a suitcase. It's a small pencil case. A bit biggerthan an Altoids tin. The photo is misleading. There's a battery connector that gives some scale.
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You might have come across them before, but the Feynman Lectures are a wonderful tour of undergrad-level physics, which combines the math with intuitive narratives. And it's now online: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
The impact is the same as when mail started to block spam. There will be a initial decrease and complain, followed by change to more professional behavior in the industry.

For example, mail news letter used to be sent out in mass to any email that the company has harvested. That tactic is now illegal, so they only send out to customers who has subscribed to it and the letter must have instructions on how to unsubscripted.

However, your friend do not actually support people if they don't also click on the ads and buy the products. Money don't get magically created, and people need to buy products before any content creator can get get compensated for supplying advertisement.
For some reason AppStore has surprisingly low amount of free software. It's either free with ads, free with in-app purchases or paid. Or free software missing marketing and it's hard to find it in AppStore or popular ratings.

Is there some compilation of free software links?
I would assume that you'd simply do (increasing) timed lockout periods by user/ip combination.

At some point you have to accept that administrators will need to do some work, and if 200 IPs are trying to log into the same account 5 times every 15 minutes you should probably email the user and lock the account.
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> Even if we discount the failures of other presidential democracies, though, we should not dismiss the fact that the U.S. Constitution was modeled on a system that collapsed into civil war, and that it is inherently fragile.

Not to mention the US descending into civil war itself (due to irresolvable conflicts over pro- and anti-slavery voting blocks in the federal government).

I think people often forget that the US Constitution explicitly contains mechanisms for its amendment and even wholesale replacement (by constitutional convention), precisely because it was acknowledged that it had to be open to revision as required. The fact that in the modern era constitutional amendments are near impossible and therefore have to be worked around[0], and the unlikeliness of a constitutional convention being called any time soon, is a sign of the dysfunction of the system.

I'd also argue that constitutional originalism is a very new concept, and treating an eighteenth century legal document like a sacred text seems ... rather odd.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
It's a very good game, fun, easy and addictive. Keep working on it as a side project and this might turn into something really great. A really nice showcase for your agency!

Although i will echo what other people said, once you go mouse look you never go back.
Congrats! You've done a very good job, the game is really visually appealing.

I've noticed a slight delay between inputs and execution (<300ms). It might be the animations length, or just the fact that I've racked up the key repeat frequency of my keyboard, or simply that I usually play faster paced games :)
This is symptomatic of something that has been bothering me lately. Programmers seem to be in some sort of twisted abusive relationship with their tools. Tools that other fellow programmers have written.

Why do programmers hate other programmers so much? Why do they have so little empathy and care?

Too much staying in one own's head?
Lack of exposure to diverse opinions and emotions?
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Really, even yoga?
Is your device rooted? If so, install AdAway (from the fdroid repo) or a similar host-based blocker. This takes care of a large part of the ad-related misery. I do run Firefox (well, Fennec, really, minus the obnoxious bits which Mozilla has been slipping in recently) on a 4 year old Motorola Defy. The battery lasts for about 5 days so I don't think that bit about FF 'drink[ing] battery' is correct, at least not in my case. I do not have uBlock (or any other blocker) installed as the hosts-based solution is sufficient for now.
The social contract is primarily between an individual and society at a local level.

What makes the social contract local? Why not say the social contract is primarily between and individual and his race, his class, his clan or his religion?

At one time it was considered a violation of the "social contract" for a white man to hire cheaper negro workers (language chosen to evoke that era). Many folks still consider it a violation of the "social contract" to hire someone who isn't Marathi. Why do you choose geographic locality rather than race?

Outsourcing to cheaper markets reduces poverty and inequality. As a person who doesn't consider Debbie more valuable than Deepika (both are real people that I know personally), I consider helping Deepkia (born into dire poverty and with little chance to escape) far more ethical than helping Debbie.

Stats: http://www.maxroser.com/economic-world-history-in-one-chart/ http://ourworldindata.org/data/growth-and-distribution-of-pr...
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That's the politest fuck you I've seen today.
I was a student of Manovich at UCSD with high hopes for both his book, The Language of New Media, and the course I was taking, but I was incredibly disappointed in both.

TLONM became an sort of "instant classic" in digital media circles mostly because there was very little written on the subject and because TLONM came out of MIT press. Just last week, I saw TLONM referenced in a Swedish article written for digital archivists.

Unfortunately, people in digital media circles don't usually have a background in computer technology or in any kind of formalized theory/philosophy, so they're easily hoodwinked by misstatements about the nature of computers, databases, file formats, etc. Manovich uses misstatements of this kind to make his "theory of new media" sound plausible, while ignoring critical issues with the examples on which he bases his reasoning.

I don't buy in to the (usually) right-wing claim that academics are trying to trick people with overly complicated language; different disciplines require their own terminology and the ability to take knowledge of the terminology for granted when writing. But Manovich is the rare case where a writer does actually use language as a way of obfuscating their own faults. TLONM is a slog; it's dull, the language is needlessly obtuse, and many of the facts are wrong. I say this as a person with degrees in both computer science and art.

I read his book over 10 years ago and I'm still annoyed every time someone references TLONM because it means they have been misinformed by Manovich and unfortunately don't have the background/tools to understand why.
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"We must consolidate into single school of thought"?

Scientific method, much. This is the thinking that lead to pilot wave qm being disregarded for a few generations.

If anything, pilot wave gives the easiest explanation of locality - there is none, and it's a deterministic universe.
There is more to code quality than coverage
Here’s a better link for that one: http://geometry.mrao.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Im...
Glacier isn't even using hard drives, so their per TB costs should be way lower (raw storage and infrastructure).
No it's not rooted and I can't deploy our device policy on rooted devices (this is a company phone; a moto g 3rd gen).

I had terrible battery problems on a moto g2 about a year ago which is what I'm basing my opinion on so that may be invalid now.
> That tactic is now illegal, so they only send out to customers who has subscribed to it and the letter must have instructions on how to unsubscripted.

Reputable people may do that but my mail server is still getting 1000s of spams a day.
Complementary?
How come we're still using bits-per-second and not bytes-per-second? Any reason other than being historical at this point?
Is... is that figure correct!? Conservatively, taking the number of requests at the start of the year, we get 6 million req/year.

6310241024 == 66060288 bytes. 66060288/6000000 == ~110bytes/request. That seems too small. The overhead of the HTTP request alone (without content) would be greater than that!
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