skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It seems a pertinent time to have the debate on what should be done in response,

Some would say that it is especially poor practice to take drastic legislative action when emotions are high as they tend to be in the wake of a terrible event such as the one that took place in Paris Friday.

>even if you are vehemently against certain preventative measures.

Since not everyone agrees, some might say it's a good time to re-assess our positions on counter-terrorism. I haven't changed my mind on Orwellian surveillance. A single terror attack isn't likely to change my mind. I still feel okay calling Brennan's action shameless opportunism because this is a position that Brennan has held for a long time. Brennan is not adding anything new to the discussion, he's simply repeating old worn out rhetoric in hopes that people will accept it while they're in an agitated state. It remains unproven in my eyes that more surveillance means fewer terror attacks. It is also dubious to assume that more surveillance, even if it did imply fewer terror attacks, would be a preferable condition.
As they are taking photos of the same people so that there is not question as to their identity in the future. What makes DNA different than the photo?
I proposed doing it differently by investing billions in I.P. development for standardized interfaces and constructions at every half of the process node. As in, most of the work is already done with process shrinks easy too. On top of that, platform ASIC's or S-ASIC's with mapping to FPGA's. Anyone that used the fabs would get the I.P. free or dirt cheap with that used to make more. All the stuff that isn't a competitive advantage is gratis.

The other one that would kick ass is heavy investment into EDA tooling. China itself may or may not need it with the rampant piracy. However, driving the prices of EDA synthesis, verification, etc tools down to four to five digits might make the market really interesting. Especially with lots of reference I.P. and flows. That plus inexpensive, maskless prototyping like eASIC does.

Someone might steal my idea with me posting it all over the place but I don't have the capital to pull it off. So, steal away and get me EDA that's as cheap as Windows. :)
On the other hand, you're now safe from users who don't understand how `git push -f` works.
Hmmm.... So, their article:

http://www.wpexplorer.com/best-builder-wordpress/

Written by Tom Ewer, he writes for us too. In fact, Tom originally started working for us a number of years back, there is bound to be some cross over ;)

He's a great guy, met up with him in real life a couple of times. If you enjoyed his article, check out his latest one with us here:

http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/buddypress-interactive-plugi...

And our article which you compared with:

https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/10-drag-and-drop-page-build...

Content is unique, as are the images. Three links appear to go through WPExplorer which would imply to me that they were a source whilst researching our article. Really sorry to WPExplorer for sending traffic through their link, we've corrected that for them.

It's natural that content will overlap, especially for popular themes and plugins or where companies share authors writing for both sites. Companies will also naturally use each other as inspiration, especially in a close community.

Not sure that really warranted all the commotion, you really could have just emailed them and CC'd us so that we could correct this matter. No need to make us chase, worrying that one of our staff had simply scraped content, which, of course, would not be cool. Your original tweet"@WPExplorer I’m pretty sure WPMUdev stole a part of an article from you. DM me I’ll send you a link." implied we'd scraped a chunk of their article and stole their work, that was a bit harsh really.

Oh well, thanks for letting us know in the end. Next time feel free to just reach out, we're all human and we can all work together.

Have a fantastic day. :)
Thank you! It's pretty lightweight.
I would not say "hostility", but ... yes, (prior to your edit) I assumed you were actually defending the company.

But after your edit - I no longer think that. I just wonder where you got this idea about unbiased or factual journalism. I've never seen it happen, and even if they tried (which they don't), there's always a bias. Personally, I try to read the facts and do my own research on anything I find interesting. Sturgeon's law applies to journalism as well: 90% of everything is crud.
Maybe relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203144
With the amount of fanfare surrounding those attacks that were foiled where the government all but helped push the trigger you can bet that if there were more we'd hear about them, they are desperate for justifications for their activities and nothing would help them more than foiling a major plot like the one that just killed a large number of people.

See for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsuccessful_terrorist...

It does not look as if the Snowden revelations have made America any less safe.
I don't know the name for this, but it sounds like something I sometimes encounter during a good float session in a sensory deprivation tank.
I used this for a course project 5 years ago back in college. Had a fun run with it. Glad to see it's still under development and got a new homepage.
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I don't worry so much about encryption, since I am really not into keeping secrets, but I agree about the client-side part.

...and now a brief word from our corporate sponsors...

Haha, not really :) I'm just trying to get the thing that I've been working on "out there". It's an operating system that runs in a web browser. How's that for client-side awesomeness? The current project I'm hawking is called "The Native Client Proving Ground", in order to get people to see the inherent awesomeness of running arbitrary computational logic on the client. So yeah, encryption is definitely do-able, though not extremely interesting IMO.

I posted this here a couple days ago, and actually got it onto the front page for a brief minute. So fire up your Chrome browsers and check out the infinite potential that exists on the client-side: https://nacl-pg.appspot.com/desk?intro=the-shaker

If you didn't know, Native Client (NaCl) is the plugin architecture for Chrome so you can run arbitrary C/C++ code inside of a sandboxed runtime.

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Hey, Detaro.

Thanks for commenting, that pretty much seems to sum up what happened here. A lots of fuss about nothing, really.

Have a great day! :)
If you take the cynical position that politicians permit events like this to happen, by ignoring warnings or even collaborating with FBI informants, in order to then affect the changes they desire, then it is clearly terrorism.

However, even if you take an optimistic view that in these events: that every actor is doing his honest due-diligence to prevent attacks... it is still terrorism if you are knowingly using the fear created by these events to affect your change.

A good read on this idea:

http://www.sok.bz/web/media/video/ZizekTragedie.pdf
Spotify also has a native(-ish) OSX client (can you use Google Music outside the browser?) and excellent playlist drag/drop and sharing support. Plus, I love their iOS user interface. No other service has come close in either area.

I just wish they had better local file support.
On the other hand games on PC have a much longer tail with much less effort and can often bring in money decades after release (see GOG). There's also a difference in store design that makes it really easy to find things on steam you didn't know before and are relevant to you, even if they're really old; while the stores on consoles are utterly useless if you are not buying the newest games or know which game you're looking for.

As for the freemium comment, you didn't understand him correctly. There's different ways to do freemium. One way is to sell cheats, and design the game so it becomes progressively more unfun to play without cheats. (mobile games) The other is to make the game free to play and offer either cosmetics (tf2) or pieces of the gameplay (warthunder) for cash. The latter is really nice, and seems to happen exclusively on PC.
Does your FTP server provide regulatory compliance?
Spotify has a web player as well
From being in the same position I've switched to soundcloud and mixcloud. They're not a true substitute in that they don't generally have the complete discography of artists as GS did, but they do have a decent chunk of it in mixes promos. On the other hand, both are better with respect to discovery, and mixcloud has something similar to user stations in that mixes are curated and tracklists are available (albeit in a silly manner[1]). Both are HTML5.

[1]: http://support.mixcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/1564645...
Haha no one realizes that conformity is valued. It's as if they never heard of "No Child Left Behind". Apparently, if you spend most of your days in a school building, you're as able to notice the norms of education as a fish is able to notice water.
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Unlike GM, Ford, Chrysler, the current big semiconductor producers, Intel, Samsung, and TSMC are already excessively cost sensitive. There isn't a lot of extra overhead to suck out.

China can subsidize things at a loss (look at the solar cell manufacturers) until the volumes get big, but they can't maintain that too long once things take off.
Google Music has definitely used fingerprinting for some time - I think from its inception. I haven't used Spotify for a long time, so I'm not sure how it works.
For me it's neither. It's about not flying in excruciating pain due to the seat back angle. I need a few extra degrees of recline or my lower back is in absolute agony even after a short 1 hour flight. I flew Jet Blue (no recline) once and it was the most painful flight of my life. Never again. If they'd recline the seats by several degrees, all of the seats, then I'd personally have no problem with them removing the adjustable recline. Until that day, I will recline my seat.
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> if you enjoy music that features live instruments I just
> don't see how it could be free. There's too many people
> involved who need to eat.

One model people talk about is where recorded music is free, this boosts popularity, you fund the recordings through more people coming to your live shows. If you do 40 live shows a year, and giving away your music brings in 30 more people at each show paying $20 each, that's $24k: enough for a new album each year.
Static checking of a variable, value of which is determined in runtime? How can you do that?
It's quite a coincidence that you posted this while I was writing up my own post evangelizing the virtues of NaCl :)
I have both problems, actually, long legs so the knees take it, and then the back. So I sympathize. But I won't call the person in front "rude" and the person behind "right". And I certainly wouldn't presume to judge whether the person in front "doesn't deserve" the space based on, say, them being 5'. You could just as easily call the person in back rude for having the temerity to have long knees poking into the seat back.
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A cliche is more than a maxim with which one disagrees.

Franklin also said in Poor Richard's Almanack, "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poor_Richard%27s_Almanack) This was 17 years before the line in his "Reply to the Governor".
I'll second devindotcom's sentiment. This seems like a "frog no legs can't hear" [0] / "inconceivable" [1] explanation. I'm a Sagittarius/November baby and I entered Kindergarten in September at 4.5 years after 18 months or 2 years of pre-school. I remember my mother had to fight with the school (where she was a teacher's aide) to get them to take me "early". I had almost no behavioral issues all through school, was a career 3.75 GPA student, graduated 5th in my high school class (3.91 GPA) at a large East Los Angeles Public High School after taking a total of 4 AP classes while playing baseball for 3 years (lettering for 2) all the while volunteering as a youth sports coach in baseball, basketball, and flag football. I attended CSULA to study Computer Science (though I was accepted to my first school, FSU and my second school, UC Irvine) and I've since gone on to work for NASA/JPL and the Air Force. My brother, who is a Pisces/March baby entered school at 5.5 years, but was similarly accomplished (3.97 GPA in high school, Lettered 4 years in Baseball and 3 years in Football, attended UCLA). My parents always struggled a little bit financially, with my father seeing his last notable raise in the 90s while I was still in high school.

To put it another way, "I do not think you measured what you think you measured."

[0] http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-664362.htm...

[1] http://cdn2.business2community.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...
OK, I see: the original example involved dealing with lots of small chains. I failed to catch that, as that's not how larger chains like Best Buy and Wal-Mart work (you tend to just deal with them directly, and they can demand that by being large), and for my kind of business they are whom I care about ;P.

FWIW, I thereby will argue that Facebook is acting more like a "retailer" than either a landlord or a distributor ;P. You are trying to get space on their shelves so people "browsing" see the things you are selling. You technically can create your own store somewhere, but people don't randomly browse there.

One of my favorite stories of the relationship between a retailer and a supplier is that of Wal-Mart dealing with record labels in the mid-2000s. Wal-Mart, Target, and Best Buy represented over half of all music sales, but from the perspective of those stores music was, at best, a loss-leader for stereo systems.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/wal-mart-wants-10-cds...

> "This wasn't framed as a gentle negotiation," says one label rep. "It's a line in the sand -- you don't do this, then the threat is this." (Wal-Mart denies these claims.) ... "We're in such a competitive world, and you can't reach consumers if you're not in Wal-Mart," admits another label executive.

> While Wal-Mart represents nearly twenty percent of major-label music sales, music represents only about two percent of Wal-Mart's total sales. "If they got out of selling music, it would mean nothing to them," says another label executive. "This keeps me awake at night."

> For the music industry, having such a dominant retailer is like being stuck in a bad marriage. Whereas traditional music retailers took advertising money from the labels to push new releases in Sunday newspaper circulars, Wal-Mart barely advertises locally. It relies on national campaigns, where it promotes its own low-price policy. "Wal-Mart has no long-term care for an individual artist or marketing plan, unlike the specialty stores, which were a real business partner," says one former distribution executive. "At Wal-Mart, we're a commodity and have to fight for shelf space like Colgate fights for shelf space."
And keyboard shortcut is `s` then `backspace` to do a global search.
I feel I should point out that the "Games" section of Kickstarter also includes board games, which takes a big chunk of cash.
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In my area, tons of preschools are attached physically to, but unaffiliated with, churches. Seems many churches built in the 20th century were built with classrooms and playgrounds that they now rent out.
Call me crazy, but I keep wondering about the subversion risk of stuff like this. Widespread deployment due to cost, what's needed for espionage included, and always from a country involved in it. Been concerned about the possibility since a HW expert told me most of world's smartphones come from about five or six companies. Talk about concentration of power and opportunity.

I encourage people to spend a bit more on various vendors and encourage what little diversity we can. Not sure what to do otherwise aside from not carrying a mobile.
We have not had this form of privacy for a long time, and I doubt we will regain it unless we would like to do away with DNA evidence altogether.

If anything we should be pushing for more precision in the use of DNA samples as evidence. The standards required for identification are incredibly low and result in large numbers of false positives. These poor standards cause harm. The correct use of DNA evidence can clarify crimescene events and has had the power to exonerate many falsely-accused people.
I think it's the size of the ES query object as well as complexity... even the ES documentation provides SQL examples to explain the ES query object...

Here's a good example:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/...

SQL:

SELECT document FROM products WHERE productID = "KDKE-B-9947-#kL5" OR (productID = "JODL-X-1937-#pV7" AND price=30)

ES Query:

{
"query" : {
"filtered" : {
"filter" : {
"bool" : {
"should" : [
{ "term" : {"productID" : "KDKE-B-9947-#kL5"}},
{ "bool" : {
"must" : [
{ "term" : {"productID" : "JODL-X-1937-#pV7"}},
{ "term" : {"price" : 30}}
]
}}
]
}
}
}
}
}
uploading a photo takes a mere 10 seconds, but we thought it would be a good way to cut down on spam.
I've used Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, Xbox Music (Now Groove Music), and I find Google Music's recommendation engine by far the best. They even have a "I'm feeling lucky" feature that plays a set of curated music to your interest randomly.
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No, its a big frick up that makes me hate the NCAA when they expressly go against the people's vote of a local tribe and now we will have a name made fun of for generations.

UND is know for its pilot program and have now moved full scale into drones which helps with keeping the local air force base. Ah, the games we play.
I love these kinds of stories. They're like the programmer's version of a detective story, with the twist that you always somehow learn some weird obscure fact about people or the Internet:

- A web browser plug-in loads Google's homepage in the background.

- There's a weird standard to writing Polish characters with diacritics.

- Some Windows systems carry around this decades-old bitmapped font.

I think it's similar to why I love those lists titled "X myths that programmers believe about Y". It's insane how varied the world is and how that comes out when we deal with as many domains as we do when programming.
For those that don't understand the reference:

> On 19 August 2009, why's accounts on Twitter and GitHub and his personally maintained websites went offline. Shortly before he disappeared, why the lucky stiff tweeted, "programming is rather thankless. u see your works become replaced by superior ones in a year. unable to run at all in a few more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
That makes sense. I like the idea also of using it as a quick refresher to remind everyone/yourself what you were doing X days ago esp. during review time. Thanks!
I don't know what Lightroom uses to store metadata, but it stores data in files, which is what I'm most interested in.

I have no particular opinion on Lightroom metadata, but I sure would hate if simply assigning ratings to songs would alter the file. I sure hope metadata like that is stored outside the file.
Sounds like both of you are describing 'genuine pain' so who's the winner in this case exactly?

If the seats recline, then the person in the seat should be able to recline without judgement. If you have a problem with a reclining seat in from of you, choose an airline without reclining seats or upgrade to a seat with more leg room.
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He disagrees with me, but also, he's not actually saying anything new.

That's my problem with what he's saying it is just 'more of the same' rather than a new course in reaction to what happened because there appears to be a bug in his system after some reflection.

His response is not one that has anything to do with what happened in Paris and why, this was his position last week and it is still his position this week, hence my use of the word 'cynical'. He's even trying to blame Snowden for the Paris attacks.

More of the same will definitely not get us out of this mess, it will likely only make it worse. Let's see him argue for more up close and personal contact with would-be terrorists, infiltration, covert operations and so on. But more dragnet surveillance seems to be a broken strategy, given the evidence available.
> Naturally regulated markets

There is no such thing. "Free markets" presume both particular context (which is not present in any real state, though it can sometimes be approximated) and particular artificial regulation (particular, particular constructions of property rights.)

The idea that "naturally regulated markets" is a meaningful concept (much less a meaningful concept with some correspondence with "free markets") is absurd on its face.
Are you sure those AAA games released early because of the Early Access trend? Keep in mind they did not release as Early Access, but as full release.

A much more fitting theory is simply that such AAA games are absolute monsters in terms of cash expenditure and as all software developments are, very hard to estimate in advance; so they probably ran into cash flow trouble and managers decided to just release it and fix everything else after release, which has a VERY long tradition.
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Someone else just pointed out Google Play Music as well. Apparently it works in the Browser without Flash?
But as Numba has shown, it's achievable to write a CPython-to-LLVM-IR compiler for subsets of the language, then add NumPy-awareness, and add multiple targets like GPUs, and achieve better-than-PyPy speed ups jitting pure Python (CPython) code.

I think it's an interesting question as to whether PyPy "is the future" or rather something more like Numba, or even a whole ecosystem of specialized variants of Numba that may be tweaked or tuned to take advantage of different hardware optimizations, work better for different domain problems (e.g. image processing vs. network programming).

In a lot of cases where PyPy improves over some standard CPython code, it's exactly the sort of code you really wouldn't care about optimizing in the context of a larger application. In any sort of scientific application, the pure CPython parts of it are usually small and insignificant compared to what's written in NumPy/SciPy/pandas and science libraries written on top of those, and Numba can be seen as the first "specializing compiler" for this sort of application -- with a lot of room for people to write other kinds of specializing compilers that compile different genres of Python code for domain-specific purposes, the way that Numba compiles generally scientific Python for numerical computing purposes.
Does anyone know a good way of exporting my rdio "history" data? I have years of data in there.
Pandora: Rags to riches poster child of SV:

CEO cant make payroll; begs employees to stay and they do....

Pays $75,000,000 for assets of a competitor a few years later.
I'm two lines down.

> section 6(e) of GPLv3 is designed to give distributors—people who initially seed torrents—a clear and straightforward way to provide the source, _by telling recipients where it is available on a public network server._ This ensures that everyone who wants to get the source can do so, and it's almost no hassle for the distributor.
I'm not at all familiar with Fortran. I was under impression that its old language living in legacy. I believe there are other good alternatives, why still use Fortran for new code?
Swift. The language is just much more pleasant to play with.
Google's UI is, as always, horrendous. Big fan of Spotify as well.