skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It establishes him as a reliable source for verification of civilian casualties, even relied on and confirmed by the U.N.

From the director of strategic communications, UNAMA: "Verification of civilian casualties is a painstaking, long and often extremely difficult and sensitive process, involving multiple sources and sometimes conflicting data and reports."

What he said is an understatement. The 2011 casualty numbers for aerial strikes in Afghanistan started at 305 at end of 2011, rose to 353 by end of 2012 and then rose to 415 by end of 2014. It took four years to get to that "415" number and this highlights that it can take years to get accurate counts. This year's UNAMA report, due soon, is bound to raise this number.
Lots of people thought they knew everything when they were 20 years old.
Full text of the paper (early):

http://www.jbc.org/content/early/2015/07/27/jbc.M115.675108....
Take a look at Bootstrap Alpha 4:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/v4-dev/scss

I don't know if reading the source code is enough, but if you try incorporating it in projects, it's easier to see how well SCSS works in practice. I really enjoy how Bootstrap sets up conventions for typography and other variables:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/scss/_variable...

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/v4-dev/scss/_type.scs...

There's global variables for serif, sans-serif, and mono...When prototyping a site, I sometimes change my mind over whether or not to use serif or sans-serif...with SCSS, it's a matter of just switching $font-family-base to either $font-family-serif or $font-family-sans-serif:

$font-family-sans-serif: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, font-family-sans-serifs-serif !default;
$font-family-serif: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif !default;
$font-family-monospace: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace !default;
$font-family-base: $font-family-sans-serif !default;

I usually set a $font-family-headings variable if I decide to use a third font for headings. All font-family names are set in this file and I never have to refer to them explicitly in any of my other CSS.

The elegance of setting a base font size and then having h1-h6 be multiples of that number is also a delightful convenience. And this is just the bare minimum of ways that SCSS can aid in composability...though to be honest...besides variables and the ability to nest definitions within each other...I don't habitually use all of the other really nice features, yet.
Sketch for Developers
A big part of the whole point of ECC is that it resists index calculus.

Also, remember: this isn't a fatal flaw in all of Diffie Hellman. It's a variant of a well-known attack that makes it economical to attack 1024 bit DH, not merely plausible. So far as anyone knows, it does nothing to help attack 2048 bit DH.
Summary: OpenFace uses fundamentally different techniques (a deep neural network) for face recognition that OpenBR currently doesn't provide.

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As our initial ROC curve on LFW's similarity benchmark in https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openface/blob/master/images/n... shows, this approach results in slightly improved performance. The best point is an FPR of 0.0 and TPR of 1.0 (top left). You can see today's state-of-the-art private systems in the top left, followed by open source systems, then by historical techniques OpenCV provides like Eigenfaces. The dashed line in the middle shows what randomly guessing would provide.

OpenBR is going in a great direction for reproducible and open face recognition. They provide a pipeline for preprocessing and representing faces, as well as doing similarity and classification tasks on the representations.
The techniques from OpenFace could be integrated into OpenBR's pipeline.
That may be reasonable -- though the amount of physical activity in construction jobs also seems to vary a lot; many operators of heavy equipment such as bulldozers or cranes are actually fairly obese. Not to mention the culture of smoking (at least where I live; the difference to general population is noticeable).

I do office work but commute by bike; I'm also not enthusiastic about jogging on top of that.
This kind of TV is the 'default' here in the UK (Freeview) - we get about 50-60 digital channels and 10 HD channels.

I suspect cable TV is actually on the rise here, but can't find stats to back that up.
Doing the same technology for political ideas would be an interesting experiment of new form of people driven democracy.

Lets see hackers invent decentralized currency,
hackers invent decentralized government democracy 2.0,
people encrypt all their data and decentralize communications.

reboot
> There are many nation-states with 1 or N state-recognized religions, as you point out

No, I'm taking about state religions, not merely state-recognized religions. These are different. There's only one established religion in the UK, the Church of England, but it is absolutely possible to have your marriage officiated by a non-Anglican or even non-Christian minister. It would be completely wrong to claim that the Roman Catholic Church has been an established church in the UK ever since the Marriage Act 1836 allowed its priests to officiate marriages, or that the CoE is now disestablished because the CoE doesn't permit gay marriage but gay couples can get legally married in other churches. Finland is another example; there are exactly two state churches but dozens of "registered" churches where one may marry.

There is, of course, an extension to be read into that part of the Constitution about not favoring a church in governance; it's sort of the same way the Constitution has an unwritten right to privacy. But you can only read it in so far. It is not a constitutional prohibition on the recognition of churches, just on the establishment of churches. That word had a very specific meaning separate from "recognition" in 1789; it is a testament to the success of that amendment that we in the US have forgotten what it means.

It is worth noting that while everyone who wrote that amendment was still around and deeply involved, Congress wrote this resolution (http://memory.loc.gov/ll/llac/001/0000/00160025.gif):

"Resolved, that after the oath shall have been administered to the President, he, attended by the Vice President, and members of the Senate, and House of Representatives, proceed to St. Paul's Chapel, to hear divine service, to be performed by the Chaplain of Congress already appointed."

And nobody thought that respected an establishment of religion.

(This is not to say, btw, that I personally agree with all of our current policies. I'd very much like to see us further disentangle legal marriage from religious marriage. I just don't think we have anything close to a Constitutional obligation to do so, and we should do so because we the people want to. Being fortunate enough not to have an established church, we also have no Constitutional obligation to stick with the present system, either.)
Are there any reputable sources or archives for this claim?
MIPS in space: Inside NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto
OTA TV is $250 per year in the UK, before equipment.

If you get satellite / cable you still have to pay.

If you watch live on computer, pay up.
Thanks for that, this comment is worrisome from the article

"While Square will be a much smaller business from a revenue standpoint after the Starbucks deal lapses, it will be a faster-growing one with a much better shot at profitability."

So what is their target valuation when they go public? If they were going for $1 - $2B valuation? I think the world might buy that, but since their last round was at $6B, their investors would probably be pushing for $10B (because if you recall the Box IPO you remember that none of the late stage investors want to take a down round into the public markets) and that is like "Square 10 years from now" valuations.

So lets watch this one closely and see if they can get commitments for all their shares on the road show. And if not, we'll probably see a giant recapitalization or maybe a firesale to PayPal or something.
Handheld DNA reader revolutionary and democratising, say scientists
After reading the article I think what the author meant is: How to get even more confused with the insane plethora of Front End stuff out there and give up life.

But I can't blame him. I've also tried to create lists, to reason it all. Several times, and to no avail. One thing he got right, an image at the very beginning with the word chaos in the middle.

Good luck!
I cut the cord 6 years ago, and just found out last month that this was an option. TWC literally has an option to add network channels to an internet only package for $10/mo. I wonder how many people they're ripping off with that.
What about RuniteJS? Or maybe AdamantJS?

I still use Browserify for almost everything.
I would expect they are hiring one contractor made of two people, this way it is easier to deal with tax and insurance etc.
I am always stunned of how USA are both forerunners of new technologies, and very backward as well... for credit cards with chip, digital television, gsm diffusion, etc etc... Also, in most of United States you can not get an european level ADSL.
Any tax benefit from putting money into a foundation is limited to the money put into the foundation. So if you put $1 into a non profit, the government forgoes collecting the tax on just that dollar.

The way this can be used to protect money from taxes is to establish a foundation that then employs you and your descendants. The money paid out is taxed, but the principle can sit there untouched.
At Online Lender Upstart, Academic Achievement Helps Millennials Land Loans
Thanks! Going to read that article now
If I understand it correctly, adblock blocks any file named "advertisement.js" where it set foo='bar', thus is foo!='bar' it must have been blocked, the rest is glorified alert function.
Nah. They'll just change the law to exempt themselves.

Due to the nature of the blanket surveillance GCHQ is indulging in (tempora etc), this is impossible to do with any certainty - everything is swept up and stored. So they could pass a law, but it would be meaningless.

Positive change comes in small steps, and starts with awareness, don't be so cynical.
I liked this strategy and approach for Lambda, will test it out. I commented on JAWS documentation, I also think it's too hard to do something so simple. I prefer Gulp with Lambda till now, will have to test this one.
Not if your dark data is "I forgot to autoclave an instrument and contaminated my samples." In that case without an unexpected positive result it's just error and not worth reporting.
Poor on average take worse care of their health and fitness

I think it can be primarily attributed to the low income jobs being more physically and
emotionally draining which result in them being sapped by the time they reach home.

This can also be witnessed in the amount of nurture they can provide to their offspring. An
interesting argument in one of the Quora thread about being rich was that financial freedom
let's them have the flexibility to spend more time with their kids.
Actually, while it may be a "spying oriented Court", there should have absolutely no surprise here.

(EDIT: To be clear: I find this spying disgusting, but that does not change the fact that there was no good legal basis for assuming MPs were somehow protected)

The idea that MPs were above being spied on had no basis in law whatsoever. The only reason some people believed this was that Wilson said so, and nobody challenged the fact that no law was passed to actually prevent the security services from carrying out such spying. But the public statements of the prime minister has no legal standing whatsoever to set policy for government departments.

That MPs for decades have believed that the word of a politician not packed up by actual laws, or even actual government policies passed on to the security services, would in any way protect them is what is bizarre here.

On the upside, someone finally challenged it in court, rather than just blindly accept the "of course the Wilson doctrine still stands" nonsense.
> Does anyone even write code anymore, or has web programming simply become a systems integration problem?

Now we program in frameworks, not languages. The language just happens to be the framework's chosen expression.
Fantasy Sports Said to Attract F.B.I. Scrutiny
Mapping Out Product Requirements to Solve Your Company's Problems
Yeah but they have utterly alienated their core readership. You can make a profit during a fire sale, but not every year.
OTA uses the 8VSB modulation standard, which provides about 19 mbit/sec of payload.

If your station is not broadcasting any subchannels it's a VERY nice signal. (It's still compressed with MPEG-2, the raw bitrate of a 1080p video is over 1Gbit/sec)

Unfortunately most channels in my market are sending 3-4 subchannels which knocks down the quality of the primary. AFAIK only Fox broadcasts a single stream (and football looks pretty freaking great there).

Yes, the cable and dish operators recompress the MPEG-2 stream into whatever they are broadcasting and they do it at a lower quality to cram more channels into their pipe.
You do not need a blockchain to do this. If you can represent something using an append only data structure, a DHT is enough.
Yup. "Safety in numbers" is definitely an important factor.

In the end, it's far more important (in terms of safety, as well as for other social goals that cycling promotes) to get people on bikes than it is to micromanage the way they do it.

It's worth nothing that helmet usage is extremely low in pretty much all the great cycling nations (Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, etc), all of which have cycling mode-share orders of magnitude greater than any place in the U.S.

[In Japan it is becoming increasingly common to see very young kids wearing bicycle helmets, especially when they're seated on their parent's bike, but they seem to stop wearing them sometime in their grade-school years.]
No. It's Clojurescript and Om you should be using.
The FBI files on D. B. Cooper
And cancelled the AVS https://www.google.com/search?q=nintendo+avs project because of that too. So stylish but so not the Nintendo history got to remember.
Here [0] is an analysis from America.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/OGDWGbN.png
What about "Default no progress forever."? Let's suppose someone is building a new airplane and has a hundred subscribers paying $10 per year for their newsletter. Nobody is funding this person, and the business is alive forever. Default alive or default dead?

It's alive until the founder realizes he will never raise a round capable of building an airplane, and pivots and does something cheap and easy online instead.
The Deception Behind an Illegal Bet
Mastering the Transition from Creative to Manager
Cringing was my main reaction too, but it was more about the use of the "all the things" meme and the "kitchen sink" advice.

Clearly the author is a very smart guy, but he seems to be in early-career discovery mode. What I want my early-career developers to learn is to be great at one or two core things, not to throw a dozen hot new tools at every problem.
Very interesting work. Would love to see something like this for the jvm.
Yahoo Mail drops passwords, lets you access multiple third party mailboxes
The Porn Business Isn't Anything Like You Think It Is
It's also pretty clear without context that those two sentences only make any sense if "she" is not Ms. King.
It's good for the profession and practitioners over the long run as it raises the barrier to entry for the field rendering it more difficult for non-skilled persons to fake proficiency and thus casting a shadow over others who strive for excellence and quality in their work.

It's in our best answer for front-end web development to be viewed as a field that attracts highly-skilled professionals and not a past-time for hacks or amateurs.
Demis Hassabis -“General Learning Algorithms” Talk at the Royal Society
The top 50% specifically would not be the median at all.

The net median wealth per adult is higher in America than in Sweden however. That number was roughly equal as of 2013, since then US real estate and equities have gone up significantly. US median wealth tends to be heavily influenced particularly by real estate (with US real estate values nearly back to the all-time highs).

I'm suggesting the top 50% in America are better of than the top 50% in Sweden. Not that the median is better in America.

In nearly every respect. Access to culture. Economic opportunities. University opportunities. The types of businesses you can build. The variety of industries and jobs you have access to. The sheer scale of things you can work on or have access to economically or otherwise. The research and innovation, the scale of the scientific output you can be part of. The cultural output you can tap into or contribute to that will be consumed in pretty much every corner of the globe. And on it goes.

Sweden does amazingly well for 7 or 8 million people. America does amazingly well for ~160 million people. Sweden isn't going to scale - their population has increased by 2 million in 55 years or so (they can't scale much for obvious reasons). I consider America's accomplishment, that it has benefited so many more people to such a high degree, to be drastically more impressive. In the US, the top 50% are better off than Europe's top 50%, and the bottom 50% in the US are also better off than Europe's bottom 50% (see: Eastern Europe).
Understanding the 3 Main Types of Encryption
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points
In 2012 there was an FCC vote to allow cable operators to encrypt the local channels as well. Your clear QAM signals are pretty much gone now, especially after the analog channels were allowed to go dark.
Right. 2048-bit RSA/DH is fine, but EdDSA/ECDH is looking more attractive every day (so long as Bernstein or Langley provided the implementation).
I almost think the author's intent was to show all the different things he knows about.

There isn't too much difference in the tools in this list than what you use everyday. The problem is they aren't bundled together and the flexibility adds to confusion.

Package management, compilers, linkers, nothing new.
FBI != NSA
Why an Email Marketing Consultant Is the Secret Ingredient for Business Success
Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
It's astonishing to find Olivetti's products in the 60s. They had the aesthetic appeal Apple put into their lines decades later, and seemed like good engineering underneath the style too.

Also, they advertised the same value, making the work easier, leaner, but with fancy desks geometry, cute drawers and typewriters.

Progress never change.

ps: I read in a book that Olivetti's effort to get into the digital computers market died because of a bad bet from their latest owner (De Benedetti failed attempt at taking over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_G%C3%A9n%C3%... in 1980).
Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
This is broken.

Going to http://mariusbalaj.com/dev/Adi.js/ in Win 10 / Firefox 43 (dev ed / aurora) + uBlock Origin 1.2.1 + all 3rd party filters clicked other than multipurpose & easylist w/o element hiding rules = You cool, G.
Came here to say this.

Frameworks are great, but you have to spend a lot of time wading through the documentation and architecture. Why this is different than that framework and why this does something different than that framework, and why this framework solves something this other framework fucks up.

For a time I just started putting together my own stuff and then realized it was so custom, it was totally useless outside of a particular project. I've come around a little bit, but its frustrating when the whole industry jumps on a bandwagon, promotes the shit out of it and then some time later, they're onto something else and the cycle repeats itself.

The best example for this is Backbone.

It was one of the first JS frameworks I started fooling around with, along with Node and Express. Everybody thought this was the greatest thing ever. Now, less than a year or so after I first started dabbling with it, you can't find anybody still talking about it (even though its still a rock solid framework). Everything is now Angular, React and various other shiny toys. I would say the same thing about Knockout. People thought this was the next big thing, and now I can't find anybody promoting it anymore.
The way I chose in the past. Use a jobsite (in my case www.cwjobs.co.uk). Type in framework. Count number of jobs. If one is significantly bigger in the job market, this gives me more flexibility and job security going forward.

This has resulted in me going with AngularJS as there are 7-10 times the number of jobs advertised vs other frameworks.

My current role also uses typescript and was using it before the Ang 2 announcement. I do watch where the various technologies are going within the whole stack.

I also find articles like this interesting as they show movements in the technology stack that I should be aware of http://angularjs.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/angular-2-survey-res...

I am currently using grunt, but feel I need to get into gulp.
I just recently installed an antenna in our attic after we
cancelled our cable TV, and I've been very pleased with the
results. Here in the Atlanta area, we're getting almost 60
TV channels, plus about 10 audio-only simulcase of several
local radio stations. There's even a channel that displays
a program guide, like the ones you find on the cable or
satellite services.

People's lack of awareness of over-the-air television has
been surprising to me. We had houseguests last week, a
retired couple in their 60's. This is in the age range that
I would expect to be familiar with broadcast TV, having
grown up with it as the predominant, "default" option. And
yet, I was still asked, "so you don't get CNN?"

[Edit: text formatting]
For the servers outside, the case that happened in Greece after the Olympic games as an example of something much, much bigger but conceptually still more an immense "wrench" than a "cryptanalytic" approach:

https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/death-athens-rogue-nsa-o...
Cordcutter here as well. My experience with HD antennae hasn't been great, although it seems to be more due to my basement location than anything else. I still get enough channels to keep it, but they periodically cut in and out, which is a bit annoying.

I've spent a good bit of time experimenting with Kodi add-ons and Chromecast-compatible apps. Those have worked pretty well for supplementing my substantial amount of local media.
Fullstack Academy launching female tailored programming bootcamp in NYC
I pay LESS than $10 for all the basic cable channels on Fios (I HATE Verizon and DON'T recommend them due to dishonesty in every area I ever had to deal with them (Hidden also means dishonest, but I delt with absolute lies)) same thing with my other carrier. For $4 more I even get ESPN.
Walmarts can be 3-10x the size of Whole Foods - that's not quite fair...
This analysis would be perceived by hyper-sensitive Liberals as racist, even if it had validity to its claim.

And in the next breath they would lament the lack of "real conversations" we're having in the country.
Show HN: CropperJS – JavaScript image cropper
Green Energy is nominated for Award
Seems odd to include Meteor, which is pretty controversial and might never take off, but not Angular, which has much, much higher usage than both of those two combined.
I should have probably said "equally good".
>decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus

These aren't problems, they're potential solutions to problems. Bitcoin and Blockchains are solutions to specific problems in currency and trust.
How to Identify Your Startup's Ideal Customer
Musical Genres Classified Using the Entropy of MIDI Files