skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luke 16:22 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake

Peter 4:14 - If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

Matthew 10:22 - and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Not all the exact same thing but the concept is fairly common in Christian scripture and teaching. Basically people will denounce you, hate you, oppose you, and ostracize you for your beliefs, but if you stick to it, you're blessed or favored by God.

Like anything regarding scripture and religion you can interpret this in plenty of ways. Maybe they don't specify what aspects of the faith you must always hold in spite of all else, but the way it's often taught (and as it was presented to me growing up in a Christian community), you must hold to your beliefs in the existence of a God, whose son was Christ, who rose from the dead, and all of the related supernatural implications laid out in the core beliefs of Christianity. People will argue against your beliefs and even persecute you for holding them, but if you want to really prove the strength of your faith and your worthiness as a Christian, you need to stick to your guns.

Either way, it's a matter of debate whether this is a core tenet or not so I'll agree with you there. Still, it's definitely a strong "principle" of many Christian teachings for as far back as the religion has resembled its modern form.
It practice ships disappear into optical obscurity before you can see that only the top half is visible. And even that could just be a big wave, right?
Iran by itself hasn't attacked another another country for more 2 centuries (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/01/20121248513...). Meanwhile, not only all our countries did it in the very last decade, but we surrounded Iran with military bases.

So we are not doing it because Iran is a threat. Occidental countries are technically more threatening (http://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-count...), we just don't see it because we don't threaten each other. We are doing it for other reasons.

They got oil and a strategic position in the middlewest, There is probably a lot more to know to understand the motivation to make it the number one enemy.

Bottom line, we are not good doers, and attacking NK doesn't bring anything to our table, so we won't do it.
Some notes:

* The Guardian has a very similar feature, "The Counted":

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0...

The Guardian's feature is better in some ways; for instance, it attempts to account for all police engagement fatalities, not just shootings. Some of the worst police abuses in the US haven't involved guns, and if you read the data carefully you learn some surprising things, like how dangerous tasers are.

The Guardian also gives the state breakdowns weighted by their population, making it easier to spot problem states. But WaPo makes it much easier to see which states have more shootings of unarmed people.

* 79% of the people killed in this database were reported to have "deadly weapons" (not including cars).

* 64% of the people killed in this database were shot and killed while attacking someone with a deadly weapon.

You'd really like to have a more detailed breakdown on "deadly weapon"; specifically, you want to know which of the people shot had firearms, versus knives.

Nobody was fatally shot by a police officer in Rhode Island? That's surprising.
You're right! It does say "including..." which may mean that they're coming but they don't think they're as worth advertising as the ones listed (although I would disagree). And it does seem they're being purposefully ambiguous about whether the entire original content catalog is going global.
Actually because of the way your brain and body are linked: a 3D "walking around" simulator, (while sitting stationary) is currently the worst possible VR experience.

The best, is piloting a machine - car, plane, etc. You're in a seat, like your real body is.

You're waiting for the: experiencing a X-Wing in motion while in a dog fight destroying TIE fighters over Jakku, R2-D2 beeping in your ears demo.

If you get the chance try Eve Valkyrie on a DK2. It is one of the closest, currently existing, demos to the one I described above.
Well, they've certainly pivoted their focus from movies to TV shows. But most of their "good" movies were part of the Starz license, and that expired years ago now.
Uh, what? Why would you address this almost a decade after launching? Why would you call out people who post images to get around the limitation? Seems like grasping for straws to me...
This comes up every year and has been false every year so far.
Yeah the way they worded it was awkward but equally awkward would be "and the area of Ukraine known as Crimea"
Worth reading through these. A lot of people with mental illness shot just for holding guns or knives or "driving toward police."

Recently, an au pair we know (from Germany), had a gun pulled on her because she reached into her purse to get her ID when she was pulled over. The fact that Maryland's finest are totally mental and she could get killed for doing that never occurred to her.
I have a theory that climate change denial is an example of a cargo cult, not thought much about the motivations behind your other examples.

I suspect that the followers of a cargo cult don't spontaneously all decide to believe whatever it is at the same time, someone will lead it and the rest will join in afterwards. I'm also guessing that the leader will be someone who has been a leader in the past and that the nature of the misunderstanding that is at the heart of the cult will reflect how that leader came to prominence previously.

I started wondering about this as I was trying to work out why the main group of climate change denyers in the UK had rented office space in the same street [1] as the Royal Society and other scientific bodies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_House_Terrace
If you're going to complain about tone; don't be a rude son of a bitch in the first place.

That said, no point in arguing further with a liar and/or troll. You're not getting 10x discounts on your AWS bill. You're not fooling me or anybody else.
In my experience, Netflix is horrid outside the US - a much more limited catalogue and a lot of mismatched foreign language content.

I live in Jamaica and had subscribed to the version that was legitimately available to us w/o using a VPN or proxy or similar service.

The result was twofold:

- less content than on the US version (but the same price)

- a whole lot of content available in overdubbed Spanish only or with baked-on subtitles.

Guess they don't realize that south of the border there are countries that speak English (as well as French, Dutch and Portuguese).

Our cable companies have the same problem trying to legitimately license content from US broadcast and cable networks - they want to dump the "Latin American" feed on us...
FTA:

> [The theory is that] "GPS devices are rigged to make airplane pilots think they are flying in straight lines around a sphere when they are actually flying in circles above a disc."
If you choose to employ this strategy, be sure to use a type of debt that can be discharged through bankruptsy.
The source is amazing for anyone wanting to learn how to write decent MVC framework. Though I got some reservation about letting users write regex for routes and middleware execution being so far late in the chain (at render).
There are people that help, and those that don't, and I've got Chaum in the latter category. He has consistently tried to patent the crap out of anything he does and demand extortionate rates to license those patents. As a result nothing he does has any impact for 20 years except to show people what will eventually be possible.

If he had been Satoshi Nakamoto BitCoin would be another 10 years away from being available.
You'll be happy with your life choice when you're able to get to know your kids as adults and they (hopefully) grow up enough to realize that they don't know everything.
It's kind of ironic Jack Dorsey used an image of text (containing several paragraphs) to explain why the 140 character limit is a "good" thing for Twitter.
Non-volatile Storage: CPUs no longer more performant than I/O devices
I have always wondered why couldn't YouTube dominate over Netflix's territory? Mostly what NFLX has is content which makes the barrier to entry not that hard but YouTube has more publishers/creators and with a wider reach it can easily reign over this market but quite surprisingly it doesn't.
Chipmakers Could Start Building Optoelectronic Chips
>is it useful to learn/use Scrum first?

'Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.'
I disagree on this. Casual poker players will just play his hand as he's not that experienced with reading people.

While you are right that there is no DFS analogy to 'playing the player,' advanced DFS players build complex models, hedge their bets, and write (or hire people to write) scripts that update their bets as their beliefs about that day's games changes. Different kinds of skills than poker, but not less skill.
Knowing Apple, there will be an adapter. FWIW, while I complain a lot about requiring adapters to do almost anything, my headphone is the one place where I really wouldn't mind just having to have a 1" flexible adapter that I would likely effectively treat as a semi-permanent extension cable on my headphones.
And additional data going back to 2013:

http://killedbypolice.net/
Most Americans have a cable+cell phone bill that is probably close to $500. If you cut down on some of these expenses (which is what I did when I didn't have any money), you can afford a surprise $500 bill.

I know many people that spend that much on weed/cigarettes/alcohol in a month.
Blackjack you will lose the longer you play. It's math. A top DFS player can consistently play profitably.
-1 for steering this towards a religious debate.

I'm not religious and don't believe in a god, but who's to say there isn't a god? We still don't have an explanation for how we're here. Until then, I'd say it's as fair a theory as any. Folks who believe in a god simply have a reason to believe, and that works for them.
Could the microwave source be put in orbit? This might make it easier to track the rocket as their relative speeds would become closer and closer as the rocket reaches orbit. One could imagine standard jet propulsion for the first stage, before the microwave rocket kicks in.
I think you're onto something. Most people I know who want to appear smart find it necessary to be contrarian. Most of what they say is can be rephrased as "ordinary people just believe everything they're taught, but I've learned how to think so (9/11, illuminati, global warming, anti-vaccine, and so on but only one madness)".
There's actually a low-tech solution to this problem as well, it's called a broom.
There are quite a few Tesla owners who don't own houses, actually. It's definitely more convenient to have charging in your garage / your apartment's garage. So it's a big consideration, but not an absolute rule.
Nice observation - it certainly seems like there is some correlation between the two "events"
Well, the association on the article was founded at the XIX century.

I don't think it's our modern hyper-connected world.
> end user trusts the transaction is legit

Maybe that's the hard part these companies solve for. When a deal turns sour you have someone to shout at. With a blockchain, you have no one. In effect, the companies you mentioned are the facilitators of trustful transactions.
>What makes you think the otherwise very intelligent people are wrong?

Mostly history. Specifically the history of such predictions made by smart people of their own time that never came to pass.

I assure you, this has all been predicted before. AI taking over the earth is always a decade away.

There are people who wear tin-foil hats and there are those that sell tin-foil hats.

The former think they're saving the world, while the latter are just making money off of the former. It's the same business model as religion and global warming.
I keep seeing this in a lot of places, but Oracle are still releasing JDK6 and JDK7 updates every quarter. AFAIK TLSv1.2 is not supported on 6.

Edit: ah, but only to customers paying for support.
"Sick from Doom"?? I don't remember anybody getting sick from Wolfenstein or Doom. Controversy around (for the time) violent graphic realism? Sure. Seasickness? No.
Fantasy is legal in the U.S. because lobbyists convinced lawmakers to carve out an exemption when they dropped the ax on online poker.
That motion rig looks great. Where can I get one? Or how much did it cost to build?

I was backer 513 for the oculus kickstarter and am beyond pumped for my free cv1.
Thank you for the reply!

Interesting about parallel misses handling, thanks!

One worry is that this tends to compound other effects -- say, non-prefetch-friendly access combined with TLB misses resulting in increasingly expensive slowdowns (as in the continuous-vs.-random array access example in the paper).
If this will be open source or similar, what prevents people from making a fork that is (PrivaTegrity - council backdoor).

9 council members with a backdoor is too juicy of a target for large intelligence agencies to be actually effective I feel.
I wonder what the user experience will be since a good experience relies on content loading quickly through CDNs. Netflix mainly uses AWS, Akamai, Limelight and Level 3 along with its own CDN to deliver content. The majority of the new countries do not have local CDN edge nodes.
(This is super frustrating when developing for African and some Asian countries)

It seems Netflix has an uphill battle ahead with regards to content licensing and content delivery.
The point is: are you really interested in what those people are working on? If you are, then you should communicate with them much more often than once every 24 hours, or have decent conversations with them. A few seconds aren't enough anyway. If you're not, then scrum is a frustrating waste of time.

Also, if the company has more than a few devs, scrum meetings are usually limited to your team. And you should already know what your team members are working on - if you don't, then your team has serious communication issues, scrum or not scrum.
What makes you think the Chinese aren't equally irrational?
Wow. You have almost convinced me that it is actually correct for all of the ports on my computer to require a first-party adapter (as I have also dealt with too many low-quality USB, VGA, etc. plugs)... you have drastically increased the probability of my buying a MacBook.
I find this discrepancy very interesting, only ~4% of the people shot and killed by police were female. Police departments are male dominate and maybe this factors into the difference[0]

Male - 952

Female - 41

Why such a discrepancy? I don't think males are 23x more dangerous than females.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_law_enforcement
How much is the TV license in the UK? If it's reasonable I'd be tempted to pay it for iPlayer access. Honestly, I'd rather just torrent everything, but I do pay for Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and often cable access that I don't use (guilt is a powerful driver).
True, but from what I remember from my history lessons, NSDAP was actually doing good on those promises. Which is something that rarely happens in politics.
To me, the better idea would be to place mirrors in orbit that focus solar radiation on the rocket. A sort of ground-based-microwave/space-based-solar hybrid rocket.
Religion itself does a lot of hand waving, and people tend to talk about the "existential threat" of AI with a lot of hand waving. Its an easy comparison to make. Also, a claim, by itself, can't be a religion. It would need people to attach to it with a certain fervor.

>it doesn't distinguish between what AI can do right now, and what the theoretical limit of AI is, in 50 or 100 or 500 years.

AI, by itself, cannot interact with the physical world, past bit-flipping registers on a cpu (a negligible action). For AI to be a threat, in my opinion, it would need to be coupled with some form of physical manifestation that could, in some fashion, not be under the control of a human. Until that happens, we can just unplug the machine. And we are already seeing the intense difficulty of robotics, making good robots, and interfacing with the real world. Historically, everything with AI is much, much harder than originally thought.
Essentially NetFlix is paying their producer partners for worldwide rights, while conventional US networks only pay for US rights, and the producers sell the other country rights separately.

But I'm not sure any of the partners in the conventional setup have a reason to change. US networks don't care about worldwide rights. Producers don't care who is paying them for the rights. Other country networks like having content to license.
> What's remarkable to me is how content both those with and those without children seem to be with their respective choices.

I don't find this surprising at all. Generally speaking, people make these choices because they know in their heart that it is what they want for themselves.
I used to use a MacBook Pro from 2011 with the DK1, and it worked just fine.
It is not a complete platform though; you still need a 1000+$ PC to connect it to.

Furthermore, the PS3 was a known quantity because of its predecessors. You could reasonably assume that you could get hundreds of hours of entertainment for that initial purchase. VR is unproven and the asking price is just too steep for such a gamble (for me anyway).
I've tried to explain this same point to people but haven't been able to articulate it well. I think you just hit the nail on the head with your explanation.
>It's psychological and goes much deeper than beliefs.

Oh yes! And you can get into trouble trying to engage with logic, because that is not the name of the game.

>I've been perversely interested in this

Me too, and with other crankery. I recommend the book Mathematical Cranks for similar entertainment.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Mathematical_Cranks.htm...

Maybe I am interested in it because you begin to see small reflections of similar behavior everywhere once you start looking for it.

It seems rare at first, but now I think similar thinking is to be found everywhere, on lots of topics. It is really mostly a strident, emotional attachment to a point of view that is not founded on a desire to find the truth.

It is founded on a deep personal association. To deny your personal "truth" would be like tearing down your view of yourself. So instead it must be defended at all costs, which is fine because you already are certain it is "true".
Seems like he was trying to convey a message -- being a bit meta about the problem with the character limitation perhaps?
Can someone confirm whether signing up to e.g. Netflix in UK and using VPN with USA ip will give US selection of the movies? I signed up in USA and regularly switching to UK netflix for some EU tv-series which are not available in USA. If that works, it would make the subscription quite interesting even for the new countries which just got released.
Hmmm ... I know many people who are old enough that it's too late to change and who regret or at least doubt not having kids, and none who regret having them. Does anyone ever say, 'my life would have been so much better if I didn't have Billy/Marie'?
But on the other hand, gambling can bring serious social ills. Gambling isn't banned in most places because we don't want you to risk $5 to win $10, it's banned because of addiction, associations with crime, heavier impact on the poor, etc.

I don't have a stance on the issue per se, but I do think there are strong arguments against unrestricted gambling. Unlike the drug war, at least, the people in hot water are the people making money, not their customers.
Around $18 per month, at current exchange rates.
https://www.google.com/search?q=doomsickness&oq=doomsickness...
I think the only thing that could really torpedo the VR industry is if the Oculus experience isn't pleasant for the early adopters. If their system requirements are accurate, and they have built a decent piece of hardware, then I don't think initial pricing is a problem for the entire VR industry.

That being said, there are currently not a lot of options between their recommended specs (gtx 970) and the current "top of the line" gfx cards (gtx 980 Ti) If their recommended specs are inadequate to get a good experience, people simply won't have many upgrade options until the next gen GFX cards start coming out (Q2 2016 at the earliest.)
This should have been a blog post.
Facebook to charge $599 for Oculus Rift
So many people talking about how its 'too expensive'. Obviously expense is subjective, but if you ask me, purchasing THE premium product of THE emerging market, means you can expect a high price.

Oculus is the Apple of VR.
I read somewhere that it was being considered for deprecation in the TLS 1.3 spec.
Yeah, considering switching to Netflix US + VPN. Only decent content here (Ireland) is the Netflix Originals stuff.
>I personally do not care about privacy. I see no reason why I should.

Maybe that's what you think. Let's see if you're willing to post the names, phone numbers, SSN or other ID numbers if you have them, and addresses of all your friends and loved ones. Got some weasel words about how that's not "personally"? Ok, start with your own info. Not going to do it? Didn't think so.

If you think you don't care about privacy, you probably haven't thought things through as others have.
If it's not a snark question, and you are truly interested in the dangers intelligent people see in AI, then I recommend the book "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" from Nick Bostrom. I had the same question you had here, and that book shown me well reasoned arguments from the AI worry camp.
It's not ironic, it's his point. The same people complaining about having more characters have been using images of text to get around the 140 character limit. Their complaining doesn't make sense.
I can confirm it from a different perspective. I'm in Canada, and use VPN's to get Netflix shows from the US/UK depending on what I want to watch, and where it's located.
Poker is a better analogy then. You don't play against the house's money there, just the other fella's. DFS, from the article, is best played profitably by whales if there is bumhunting of the newbies. Not only, but the best way to generate cash and minimize the time to do so is to play newbies. DFS is not strictly predatory, but if you are not playing as a predator in the big sites, you are going to loose all your money.

This is gambling. Not strictly defined as such, but if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, guess what?
>And it's very likely to kill us all.

This is absolutely absurd. Could you elaborate on that instead of just pointing to a book?
It's almost always the case of using linear interpolation(which is what every UX-naive developer reaches for) instead of proper ease-in + ease-out which more appropriately models physical movement.

Even very subtle changes in the tangents of the curves can have drastic effects and it's frustrating to see some platforms limit them to a few preset curves.
The reason to mention image posting is specifically to say that they want the UX to be like a text attachment rather than just a wall of text on someone's feed. Which is a much smaller disruption to existing experience.

On that note, the fact that images are being used to show text content on Twitter right now is laughingly unfair to folks who use a screen reader, given how much we value HTML for its presentation flexibility.
It does. I have a US account and can VPN into any country to get their catalogue.