skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the article completely ignores worlds largest democracy, India, sitting right next to Myanmar. Suu Kyi and her party had Indian support (as did the Junta) and India-Myanmar relations are strong. India is also developing Sittwe port for Myanmar and it'll be interesting to see what role she'll play in Myanmar's future.
No. Just enjoy the ride.
https://energieduthorium.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/la-voit... - check from slide 23 on.

He compares pretty much the same car, from the same (French) maker, but with one version of the car running on Diesel, and one electric. You can see already that in half of EU countries, including Germany, running a gas car is better than an electric one.

Not sure how that does work out in the US, but given that 2/3 of electricity mix in the US are from fossil fuels (from which about 40% coal), you should be closer to Poland. So essentialy, depending on the state where you drive your Tesla, you could be better off with gas powered car (in terms of CO2 emissions).
> One less dependency is always a good thing

I think the parent's point is that to use template strings today one would have to use Babel, which already supports JSX. Thus the number of dependencies is the same in all scenarios: Babel + virtual-dom, or Babel + T7.
Did he even try to contact Udemy support and get a response? It would seem like the thing to do before writing a hit piece. I interviewed at Udemy, but ended up taking a position somewhere else, yet they struck me as good people trying to make a good product. I don't like piracy and the author has been wronged, but this blog post is unfair.
Are you claiming that 5 drops of blood cannot be obtained via finger prick?
Selectorate theory (as described by Bruce Buena de Mesquita) is one of the most powerful tools for analysing the spectrum of democracy, and it even encompasses so-called dictatorships.[1] It describes the impact of the number of people who make up the body which selects the country's government, which is a spectrum (as you correctly pointed out).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory
This happens fairly frequently to Jeffrey Way of Laracasts and there's a lot of money involved in stealing his material:

Hey @udemy - For the third time this year, my content
is being stolen and sold on your site. Don't use Udemy,
folks.

[1] So @udemy, 373 users signed up for that
stolen series at $19 - or a total of $7,087.

...

Update on the Udemy selling my stolen content
issue: they finally responded, and will not
reimburse me, unless there is a court ruling.

Udemy do not care.

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/649933605305774081

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/649936961105432576

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/649937073407979520

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/651215238470090754

https://twitter.com/jeffrey_way/status/651215565713870849
The username part of an email address can actually be case sensitive, and this has been known to cause problems with some systems (e.g. https://airmail.tenderapp.com/help/discussions/287/113-case-...).
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CoronaSDK starter and libraries to help building your Game
What is your Facebook ads optimisation workflow?
Savage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage:_The_Battle_for_Newerth

One player per team can be the commander and gets a top-down RTS interface. The others have a first-person view and shoot or strike depending on faction.
Perhaps some people can't take a joke. FWIW, I upvoted you.
There is an identifiable mainstream left and we know exactly what they think about behavioural genetics research? Or at least we know enough to claim it is demonstrably false?

So who is being overbroad here?
Valve has multiple products, and each project has a team, and each team has a leader. Individual teams have structure and autonomy. The success of their projects is measurable and attributable to the team and its leadership. The startups that try to be flat and fail usually have one product with lots of projects and no real leadership. Everyone and no one is responsible for everything and nothing.
I second this and would add that it is a reminder of just how deeply ignorant the white man remains. Maybe someday we will realize the wisdom of those who were here before us.
And this is all because ownership beyond "I made it I own it" is hidden in contracts which arent required to be public. People who expect third parties to have knowledge of private contracts are making unreasonable claims.
Internal Reprogrammability (2013)
Bit late but Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" is worth a listen:

https://boingboing.net/2008/01/13/podcast-of-bruce-ste.html
As a Tunisian citizen I must ask, is democracy always a positive thing? Even if the majority of the people doesn't know what's best for them?
Similarly, Fanta started out in Nazi Germany:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta
I'm sure this will go as well as shutting down the bulk email surveillance program did.
Yeah, I was a fan when I'd first read the employee handbook, but then I thought about it and of course, it would just look like high school again. The cool kids set the course and nothing else is taken seriously.
I'm confused. Why not just send a DMCA notice to their upstream provider?
I couldnt tell from the tweets but did Udemy keep the money or did they refund the users once the content was taken down? If refunds are issued to users, it seems unreasonable for the author to claim that Udemy should be paying them 100% of any money transacted. Is Rob and Jeffrey suggesting that Udemy should pay $2 for every $1 involved in fraud?

EDIT: People are making a lot of claims that Udemy are profiting from this but no one has linked to anything to indicate that when content is removed if the people who paid for it who can no longer access the content are issued refunds or not.

Does anyone have any information to suggest that Udemy isnt refunding users?
Bill Gates will invest as much as $2B in new clean energy partnership
There will probably be some 'off the shelf' software out there that fits your requirements & budget.

Some quick ideas: http://www.navitaire.com, http://www.airkiosk.com/, https://tflite.com/

Another approach that might turn up some useful leads: try googling for flight & fleet management software that integrates with Avinode. You could also try looking through the past exhibitors at EBACE (some of which I'm sure will offer booking/scheduling software for small airlines).

Good luck!
> IBM Linux on Z Open Source Ecosystem Center of Competency

Man, what a name for a group!
Yeah, and are they starting a new program on Saturday?
This is an absolutely awesome open source game. I keep a list of awesome open source games and its one of only two super high quality ones I've been able to find. It also has an embedded SpiderMonkey engine for scripting which was really useful when I was trying to figure out how to get an embedded scripting engine setup a while ago.

Heres the link to its source for those interested: https://github.com/0ad/0ad

The other game Hedgewars has a great haskell server, you can read a summary here with lnk to source: https://github.com/jwaterfaucett/awesome-foss-apps#hedgewars.

Anyway tip of the hat to O A.D devs they are doing a great job!
Fingerpricks provide capillary blood mixed with tissue fluid.

A venupuncture provides venous blood.

The normal ranges and the error bars are different for finger prick blood.Virtually data and research on the normal ranges and ranges in various diseases has been done on venous blood.

The thousands of journal articles that come out each week are done using results of venous blood.For instance, see this article from this week's NEJM http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1504720?query=fea... The glycated Hb readings referred to in this article are automatically taken to be on venous blood samples, as are the fasting glucose levels.

Your physician relies on readings from venous blood.
His training in medical school was on normal and pathological ranges in venous blood samples.

Physicians are thrown a bit when given pathology readings from other countries ( mmol versus the old fashioned American mgs/litre are confusing. if the pathology printout is in German or Arabic, it adds even to the fun ). It breaks the flow of rapid data analysis while the physician breaks out bc https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/ or some other calculator to convert units.

Add in the confusion and inaccuracy of fingerprick samples, and the potential for even more error, increases a bit.
Not surprising to anyone who follows greenwald. Read his book With Liberty And Justice For _Some_
Screenshot of one of the projects in Adobe Premiere/video editor used?
Ketrew: Keep Track of Experimental Workflows
Depends on what you mean by easy. There is also the CAN bus.
You can go after Udemy. They're not just a hosting service. They claim ownership of the content. "Each of our 35,000+ courses is taught by an expert instructor". Many courses are paid. If Udemy charges for access to the course, they lose the DMCA safe harbor. Then they're liable for full copyright damages.

This may even be criminal copyright infringment under 18 U.S. Code § 2319 (Criminal infringement of a copyright) if the total retail value exceeds $2500.

Get a lawyer. This looks winnable.
Except that A by definition has a mandate of non-coexistence.
Where was it found the NSA violated the 4th amendment?
NASA Actually Recorded Sound in Space, and It’s Absolutely Chilling
It's unreasonable? How? This isn't YouTube, they're selling video courses. As a customer, you would damn better expect that they have curated the content on their site.
An open source, collaborative Startup practices checklist
I have been working on an open source checklist for startup practices. It's in the same spirit as the Joel Test, only a bigger list and not only specifically for programming.

The [Startup Test](https://github.com/Malharhak/Startup-Test) is a list of varied questions any startup can answer by yes/no, related to project management, communication and programming. These questions are each linked to a little paragraph with more details on the how/why/what/when, with link to related resources/tools.

It is far from finished but I think this first version can already have some uses, and I would like to see if:

* People are interested
* This approach of writing it makes sense
* Some people would be willing to contribute ideas, explanations, resources, tools... Any help
* What I'm saying is not stupid
> It is probably more useful for blackmail than in prevention - this is a good point. But it is far from obvious that it is ineffective in the letter case. If you believe that it is obvious - then please explain.

Have you watched the news these last few days? Known extremists managed to get AK-47s and explosives in the middle of Paris, at the highest alert level of a military-on-the-streets Vigipirate program, while the borders were closed and the city's security was further elevated for an upcoming international meeting about climate.

They were known to law enforcement, they communicated over cleartext intercepted channels, they lost themselves in the noise of tens of millions of people joyfully filling some Stasi's storage units with their private conversations.

And all this less than a year since a similar event lead to the incompetents asking for even more data that they can stash for after the fact investigations. So there's a valid use: finding out, in retrospect, exactly how they failed to do their jobs. And maybe ask for even more funding, even more privacy invasions, even more power.
I was looking for clarity in a transparent process so that others could benefit. I'll just assume there are rules not meant for public consumption and shutup.
It turns out that KB2952664 is pretty hard to uninstall. I tried several times to uninstall it from the control panel on Windows 7, and each time it was still present afterwards. It turns out this update has many versions, each of which need to be uninstalled separately:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/unable...

My machine had 27 different packages/versions for this update!
When github used to host "pages" under github.com I remember registering "blog.github.com" (and reporting obviously). If you take the social-engineering into account the list should be made long: login, support, status, help, ...

Just to say, the list could be made much longer (eg: login)
"... and from Monday, the official language of the USA will be Swedish. In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old..."

(adapted from Woody Allen's Bananas)
See also https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
Being friendly to the colonists and attempting to trade was a fatal mistake. For quite some time, the native Americans had a military advantage over the colonists. Even at the time of the Revolutionary War, the nascent US had to treaty with the Delaware Indians for safe passage through their lands. Had the native Americans acted decisively when they had the opportunity, they might have saved their civilizations.
As someone who has studied statistics in college, there is little original or novel about these finding. Any distribution can be reversed-engineered to find its characteristic function.
Cool. There was a noticeable delay on FF from page load, to when the images resized.
We can then extend the logic to ridiculous cases where the law is clearly "wrong".

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/thanks-to-the-mus...
> Ways to name variables so they look like keywords? I don't need your help with that.

Oh good. My comment was in response to someone who doubt keywords would ever make good variable names (e.g. class).

> you can always use a grammar that distinguishes between keyword rules and variable rules, and you'll never have any unambiguity.

Yes, that is nice. And that's what W does. As an ancestor comment said, kudos for a "clean syntax"!

(NOTE: there are alternatives, e.g. Scala's backticks. But W's choice is a good one.)
Many thanks for that link: it's a great story.
Flat structure is possible, Valve Software has 0 managers: http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
Not at all. They're paid more because the only companies that hire them are good ones, who pay well, and who understand women are just as good as men. In order to have equality the bad companies need to start being equal too. That doesn't make men victims. Men have many more opportunities than women, but mainly at the bottom where companies pay badly.
How sweet, wonderful propaganda, mean while other innocents at Guantanamo experience the joys of anal rehydration and the Kafka esque life of indefinite imprisonment without trial.

But yeah, I'm glad the NY times can share such heart warming news.
Optimizing the 5 negotiation strategies for better agreement
Not native speaker, so apologies for the bad english.

Just wanted to to add to untitled's comment: electron-on-proton collisions are still being done at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, VA. It just doesn't get as much press as CERN with its impressive PR machine (which I have nothing against). The motivation is the same as at HERA: understand the structure of protons, with the added possibility of polarizing the electron beam or the proton target, which allows to access components of the nucleon structure that are otherwise not accessible. As a bonus, they also have photon beams that collide with proton target exciting different interaction channels.

To come back to gp's question, one can in principle collide anything with anything, but the ideal tool really depends on what one wants to study. Attaining ever higher energy is not necessarily the ultimate goal. Even though it is useful to explore new boundaries, there are also a lot of unanswered questions that can be addressed with much lower energy collisions. For example the Jefferson Lab beam maxes out at 12 GeV, orders of magnitude lower than that available at the LHC, but it's still an extremely useful machine.

Also the comment quoted by gp from the article is wrong. Even though only the protons respond to the electromagnetic fields of the accelerator, the whole nucleus is accelerated. Therefore if the pairs of protons attain a center-of-mass energy of 13TeV, the same holds true for the neutrons, because (1) neutrons have very similar mass as protons (2) neutrons are dragged along for the ride, as they are bound to the protons by a force that is much much stronger than that of the electromagnetic forces involved in acceleration. (It is not true that only protons are accelerated). So the available energy per pair of colliding nucleon (whether it is proton or neutron) is still 13TeV, and the total energy potentially available in the center-of-mass system is 13 TeV * 208 = 2.704 PeV. However, not all of it necessarily released, since the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions that can take place is dependent on the area overlap between the two.
2x time overhead vs. 10% cost overhead?
Udemy has over 30,000 courses, how many videos and other course assets does that represent?

What method are you suggesting they deploy to validate the person selling the course owns all the copyrights they need to sell it?
> "Having lots of cheap Atari, Amiga and other micros running SVR4 would have helped it dominate the industry."

For those that are interested, SVR4 was released for the Amiga. It's a shame Commodore's management blocked it from reaching its full potential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_3000UX
In the short term, perhaps not. In the long term probably yes.
yeah should be buy, I was half asleep when I posted
> can't recall if it is on or off by default, though. I have it on on Firefox on Android.

It's Firefox. It's your privacy. It's off until explicitly enabled.
I like to abuse plurals to say this:

The little bug is one ant. The colony is not "some ants" or "a bunch of ants"; it is an ants.

Similarly, you have one bee, and then you have a bees. (Though there are also species of solitary bees that don't form hives, so if you have a bunch of them in the same area then you do indeed have some bees there rather than a bees.)
Any examples of a cheap Intel motherboard that supports ECC?
LOL. My observation as well. Truly a name that IBM would invent.
I suspect Mass. actually gets a comparatively solid education because at least its "state history" goes back to the colonists. As a west coaster I remember the flow of N.A. history basically being Columbus->pilgrims->revolution with absolutely no effort spent to stress that 300 years passed between Columbus and the declaration of independence.
>and Udemy not only let them do this, they’re encouraging others to do the same.

Is there proof of this? Author went from providing examples and evidence, to pure speculation. Kind of lost me there.
> Of course most power users and companies turn them off

Great way to make sure that your views and usage patterns don't contribute to the development of the software.....
I hate these discussions. Most people are more productive by just using the tool that fits their needs.

Also some people could better work in a functional world and some can't.
Hard to imagine they would be able to do anything but delay the inevitable. The colonists had massive technological and organizational advantages. Sooner or later a proper army would come.
Do you often evade points by falsely accusing others of downplaying the persecution of minorities, or was this time an exception?
Thanks, this was very informative.

I wonder how the pull requests for the public suffix domains are being checked. Can somebody use it as an attack surface by adding the victim's domain in that list and effectively blocking their website from setting cookies?
It's a shame IE doesn't support http://caniuse.com/#feat=object-fit
_Not_ consuming "social" quantities of vodka at work would be far more questionable in the old time USSR.
I wonder if parents can build a strong enough lobby to require (de facto or de jure) some sort of certification to apply to web applications for children?
Sisyphus Kinetic Lego Sculpture
I feel like the OP highlights a problem common to the new breed of "marketplace" platforms like Uber, Airbnb, and Udemy. All of these substitute open, public, regulated markets (taxis, hotels, universities) with closed, private, unregulated markets. Once a near-monopoly is reached, the rules of the marketplace can be changed to benefit the marketplace owner (instead of the service provider).
I haven't created the loop, I'm just gesticulating towards it. The loop exists, I don't know exactly what form it takes, and I don't know what to do about it.

Focusing on the consequences seems like one way out, but... I feel like both sides will always tell me that if I just focus on the consequences, it will seem obvious that they're right and their opponents are wrong. And when I ask both sides "okay, what are the consequences?", they're going to argue about what the consequences are, and the argument is going to look like all the other arguments.
Make sure you file copyright for each video before making it available on your own website. Having a copyright in place before any theft allows you to go after (by threat or course) statutory damages for each theft of your work. I learned this a few years ago from our own IP lawyer when someone was reusing some of our material. We now file the $35(or whatever it is) fee before posting the material online.
The changelist make it sound rather underwhelming, but this release contains almost three years of work on a new pathfinder.
My theory is that a strong economy must come before a robust democracy can take root. People have to want to have a political voice before they'll do things like form political parties, raise awareness of issues, contribute meaningfully to institutions. If most citizens are still worried about where their next meal is coming from, it's going to put a serious damper on their political will.

I don't really know how to turn a country's economy around, but the failure of the Arab Spring indicates to me that the solution may have to come from without rather than within. Strong, sustained foreign investment to build civic infrastructure may well be the only solution.

Alternatively, infrastructure can be as simple as cell towers. Perhaps in the next hundred years, we'll figure out how to build infrastructure that isn't so expensive. Cheap water purification, low-impact agriculture, these things can create business opportunities for the poor that can raise their quality of life. Then they'll eventually start wanting democracy.
> It always leaves a bad taste in my mouth when politicians use an event (bad or otherwise) to prop up controversial legislation

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel
IBM is really trying to make the mainframe "cool"
On that note is anyone here old enough to remember how people drank Coke circa '40-50? Did people at the time tend to nurse their cokes or just chug that shit?
That's what you'd do if Udemy had no registered DMCA agent. Basically, if you wish to issue a DMCA takedown notice you need to follow the DMCA process.
With selective use of stimulant usage among students and SV techies as well. I believe we are seeing a new era of drug utilization as opposed to abuse.
Well, to me, "the US government is keeping innocents in Guantanamo that could be fighting the Taliban and ISIS" doesn't sound like pro-government propaganda.
> your visit doesn't leave a trace on the server. No one's watching — not your neighbor, not the NSA, and not us.

Promises. There's no way to provide a truly anonymous service through HTTP(S). At least there's a Tor service; maybe it should be the preferred method of accessing the service ?