skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just look at all the migrants from North Africa flooding Europe right this moment.

It's not far fetched to think that during this generation or in the next one that will cause a massive implosion of society in Europe which would of course have vast influence around the globe.

Just think what would happen if France's military and nuclear arsenal would fall into islamic extremist hands.
I will be sending this to everyone I've had to help "remove viruses" from their computer in the last two years. This tool is a godsend.
I think for me a better analogy might be everyone else is on Win10, while I'm here running Plan9 or something.

I really don't see my condition as a disability, but I'm also not at the severe end of the spectrum. I do perfectly fine with activities I find stimulating, particularly when I get to work with my hands or it requires a lot of physical coordination. I can focus amazingly well on anything if it becomes crunch time and I absolutely need to. I forget to pay bills, schedule appointments, can't maintain a todo list, etc. These are all modern constructs though

There's also been research in the past few years showing individuals with ADHD are more likely to have received some sort of creative award (science fair, musical accomplishment) and can generate more ideas than typical individuals (divergent thinking).

Maybe it's just a difference in thinking that requires a different sort of structure, and only manifests as a disability as were not well suited for the modern ways of living that have arose.
I've solved ~300 puzzles (out of 600) but am able to trigger the ending, so I am finished but not 100% completed yet.

I haven't found ANY puzzles where I feel like you're guessing at the solution. Every puzzle I've solved has had well defined rules. I don't want to give too much away, but broadly speaking there are two types of puzzles: Those that rely on the symbols, where whats on the screen in front of you is all thats required and those that...don't.

The first category, you slowly build up your understanding of the various rules as you progress, and they all play by the same rules. The second category though, the real puzzle is to figure out what you're missing, generally by observation.

But once you learn the difference between the puzzles that you can take a face value, and the puzzles where you should look around, it feels much more fair.

The only time I felt truly frustrated was the few puzzles that introduce audio as a mechanic. I think deaf players will be unable to 100% this game because of a handful of puzzles, and theres no indication that the piece of the puzzle you're missing is sound.
Tough shit. They either abused their power or stood by while their colleagues abused their powers.
I'm writing some tools to capture video streams, doing demuxing/muxing, decoding, etc. All of the libraries that do these things are written in C.

Using another language, aside from c++, would involve using some kind of ffi mapping, made by me or someone else. So now I not only have to understand the semantics of c and the libraries I'm using I have to understand the semantics of the ffi mapping.

Using the ffmpeg libraries I've had to dig into the source to figure out what it's doing[0]. If I'm using python(or whatever) now I have to do that and figure out what the mapping is doing. And I'm still not safe from segfaults and memory leaks, they're just harder to find and understand.

Soft realtime is trivial in C. If I'm capturing a video stream at 10fps I have about 100ms to do everything to handle a frame. This is very easy to do in c. If I'm using a garbage collected language I have 100ms-X, where X is the longest garbage collection pause.

I tried doing a similar project in java and found it very difficult. Using any library, for example to output a jpeg, created tons of garbage, resulting in long gc pauses. I tried a bunch of different -XXasdf options that helped but to really solving the problem would involve reimplementing a bunch of stuff to reuse buffers and avoid garbage. I freely admit this may be because of my ignorance of how to do it correctly but again it's trivial to avoid these pauses in c.

So I ask sincerely what should I do? I'll gladly throw out the years of painfully acquired c knowledge if you have a better solution for me today.

[0] I wonder why avformat_find_stream_info is detecting the from framerate? Good luck :)
http://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/trunk/libavformat_2utils_8c_source...
All formal systems, including DACs and networks are inherently Axiomatic
There are many folks who would love to become commercial pilots.
>Have you honestly been told that if you were really hard right now, you'll be able to retire soon?

I _have_ been told this, multiple times at startups, from people who probably sincerely believed it.

Luckily, I never agreed to a pay cut in favour of options.
I admittedly do not know much about post-baccalaureate academia. If a non-accredited school in fact does offer a PhD simply for taking classes, can you call yourself doctor? What about a non-accredited school that still requires a dissertation but 99% of those submitted are approved? I am assuming that an accredited school handing out PhDs like this would lose their accreditation but maybe that's not the case.

I'm just not sure under what circumstances it's a legitimate decision to say "You may have a PhD but you're not really a doctor."
The symptoms you're describing can all be part of viral processes. Antibiotics will do nothing for these conditions.
Whatever happened to NHL player tracking technology?
They'd make the script a proprietary secret
What's the bar for 'at all'? People seem to speak (at least relatively) favorably of the new policing situation in Camden, the old department was disbanded:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Police_Department_%28Ne...

That's a large municipality discarding their entire police organization and creating a new one.
It would be difficult (maybe impossible?) to do given the US's Federal system of dividing powers between State governments and the National government. The Federal Department of Justice investigates, but the only power they have is to sue local police departments in court and make them agree to stop their unlawful behaviour.
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Because without a trust anchor (a certificate), encryption is pretty much worthless against MitM attacks.

You need a way to verify that the site you're connecting to really is who it claims to be before you can trust even an encrypted connection to that site. Otherwise you don't know whether you just established an encrypted connection to the website, or an encrypted connection to a malicious attacker.
I have this tendency to just code up small solutions to my needs myself. Looking at my expenses - there isn’t anything at the moment that I pay for monthly, thus it’s hard to draw from my own experience.
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> "blue wall of silence" would become a very vocal supporter of police reform to identify and get rid of bad apples that threaten everybody's pension

This sounds like collective punishment - don't know about America, but over here, it would be not possible due to human rights treaties and legislation. The trade union or police would challenge this in a court and government would back down from such threats immediately.

(Hey, even cops are human. Especially they are human. So even they have human rights.)
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It's interesting to appreciate that the Chinese had their ethical views completely different than the Abrahamic religions at least as early as 2500 years ago (all quotes from Wikipedia):

"Some of the basic Confucian ethical concepts and practices include rén, yì, and lǐ, and zhì. Ren ("humaneness") is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion, it is the virtue-form of Heaven.[15] Yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good. Li is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act in everyday life according to the law of Heaven. Zhi is the ability to see what is right and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of ren and yi."

Also, even competing ideologies weren't as primitive:

"Taoism tends to emphasize various themes (...) such as naturalness, spontaneity, simplicity, detachment from desires, and most important of all, wu wei (inaction)"

Also, the obligation of the rulers:

"If the emperor did not behave according to proper ritual, ethics, and morals, he could disrupt the fine balance of these cosmological cycles and cause calamities such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, epidemics, and swarms of locusts"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984807
Yes. It can.

It can even may be used to study non-disorders ,i.e. how to help regular humans have more happiness , resilience, etc.
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Which no-medication methods do you use ?
I am. How does it work? I assume someone with cash who really wants groceries buys stamps at a discounted rate so they end up having more grocery buying power?
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Can someone explain why "100% online" is used as a clear negative factor? What makes physical proximity to a whiteboard a better indicator of academic achievement?

The ability and willingness to have a family, a full-time job, and earn an advanced degree should not be a negative signal.
Being a police officer isn't exactly like other jobs. You are granted powers (killing, detainment, seizure, trespass) which are forbidden to any other citizen. You want to be special, you can deal with a nannycam.
From your profile, it looks like you're German, not American. Germans have always had a tepid relationship with Facebook and it's definitely not a core or strategic market for them.

(If I'm wrong, I apologize for assuming.)
Except if I'm "holding" an index I'm not really holding anything. An index is made up of lots of trades over time.

I'm dubious about every part of your argument, but even if I weren't it still doesn't hold that long term index "investors" aren't impacted by this.
> the cops in question didn't sign up to work in an environment like that at all.

But you're wrong -- cops have always had to face public scrutiny of their actions. The words they speak and the asses they beat have always been capable of being used as evidence in court.
+1 for Meetings!

Also:

Conference calls

Being treated like garbage (by incompetent people)

700 line loops

dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView
followed by
dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView_1 (referencing dbo.v_TheFirstTimeIMadeThisView)
99% of the kinds of malware that would cause these issues won't target Mac/Linux
It can be done. The DOJ does this on a case-by-case basis. And FBI has jurisdiction to investigate some of these things. Bernie Sanders has suggested requiring all police killings to be investigated.

Most Constitutional rights extend to people against the states. So if your civil rights (due process, etc) have been violated, it's against federal law.
Not to discount your experiences, but that's not at all how I've felt as a sufferer of ADHD (nor my parents or my son). I would describe the feeling of ADHD not as lack of motivation but severe, almost physical, discomfort at attempts to concentrate. If you've ever suffered from nerve pain, you may know what I'm talking about. It's not quite analogous, since the ADHD discomfort is more of a strong, distracting 'itch', but it's similar in its phantom nature.

If one lives with that feeling since birth, it is really hard to understand that others just don't feel that way. We may try to push ourselves forward, through constant force of will, or because others tell us to 'tough-it-out', but it's exhausting. Whereas we see others reading a book a week or month even, we struggle to even read a paragraph - constantly starting over, re-reading, so distracted that we can barely even take in the information.

It's not until we gets treatment that we suddenly and clearly feel the difference, and then we understand the suffering that we've been going through all that time. Feeling 'normal' is amazing! It's like being able to read several pages at a time or sit through an entire lecture without feeling like you're constantly wiping away some sticky, opaque film between you and the information.
Just because its Microsoft it doesnt mean they cant have bugs... how many times did your App if you ever made one have bugs in production and gave your customer a F u?
Powerful new viruses will continue to birth as the Earth warms. A zombie apocalypse might occur regardless of human intervention at this stage.
You got lucky. Go the ER next time.
Because barriers to trade have worked so great in the past...

Without commenting on this particular barrier to trade, it's certainly the case that in the past, some nations have put up barriers to trade that have worked out very well for them.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984288
This is what some of us feared with the push for police bodycams, that they will eventually use the evidence only when it suits the police, but not anyone else, which could generally be even worse than not having the video at all. The footage should be required to be uploaded to a federal agency's cloud every 24h.

And now some states are even giving the police permission to do that:

http://www.wthr.com/story/31063724/bill-allowing-police-to-w...

This is why Larry Lessig has been so right about the need to fix democracy first. As long as that isn't fixed first, the corrupt systems will always infect even the best ideas and policies that manage to pass at the federal or state level. You need proper democracy so people can easily throw out leaders who side with those with power and protect them.
Pretty much everything from Microsoft at the moment feels like a huge construction site. Skype is becoming worse with every update. Windows 10 is better on Desktop than 8 (which is not saying much), but pretty much unusable in Tablet mode now (especially in conjunction with the onscreen keyboard). System settings are all over the place. HiDPI hasn't been solved even remotely, especially in comparison to OSX. I can't get Outlook setup with Gmail correctly, which in turn was only necessary because the built-in Contacts doesn't talk correctly to Gmail either, without a useful error message. I really have to question anything and anyone in conjunction with MS software right now...
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Sorry for the late reply, but that is incredible! The simulation overall sounds incredible and I sign up. Thanks for creating something so cool!
There are a lot of ways degrees can be bogus. With online education seemingly at the nexus of technology, timing, investor interest & consumer demand we're hearing a lot about it lately. Most astute commentators spend some time on the question of credentialing.

It's one of these weird issues where the new thing needs a good solution, but when you look at the old thing you see that it has a pretty terrible solution and that the problem might not be solvable.

I went to a well respected school. A pass in an arts degree "Arts Degree" (meaning humanities, mostly) at that school was basically available to anyone willing to show up, turn in 20k-30k words per semester (regardless of quality) and attend 3-4 tutorial per week without preparation. They just don't normally fail someone who completes the requirements, with a very liberal definition of that concept. It's not like math where you can either solve the problem in the exam or you can't. They accepted that subjectivity and left a large loophole wide open.

At the same time, very few students actually took advantage of that, with prior intent. Most of the learning opportunity was ungraded. There was 4-500 weekly pages of required reading on Kant, North African Medieval History, the history of ideas in cognitive psychology or high classical interpretations of the allegory of the cave. If you showed up at lectures, tutorials and discussions ready to discuss these materials every day you would probably experience learning that is unlikely to occur outside a university.

The mechanism for making sure you actually learn is always some degree of lax. That's within a University that has no interest, need or intent to exchange pieces of paper for money. Throw in globalization, an infinite number of institutions , the monetary incentives faced by bottom tier schools, etc and you have a big chunk of bogus degrees.

So… We can open the door and turn the lights on a lot of rooms with a lot of sordid activity. We'll get to see a lot of things we'd rather not see with knickers indignantly bunched up around ankles. I seriously doubt the "Intelligence Community" is unique in any way.

It's tricky shedding light on problems we don't know how to solve.
Which is extensively discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984288
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984288
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> Akka's addition to the actor model - location transparency - takes the actor model a little further and coupled with Scala makes a really nice language and concurrency pairing.

In terms of location transparency, what are we referring to here? Because talking to a process in Erlang is location independent. It can be running on another node if you'd like and you don't need to care. I take "location transparency" to mean exactly this.
There is pretty solid evidence that ADHD is grounded in differences in structure and wiring of the brain - its more of a hardware problem than software.

I'm not sure ADHD would have a better time for lifestyles. People with ADHD would always be a minority, and probably perceived as odd by others. Organisation and focus have always been useful traits - but also creativity and adventurousness have led to rewards as well (but also risk).

A better analogy I've heard is ADHD is like a Ferrari engine in a golf cart. There's loads of power and energy, but the steering and brakes struggle to keep up.
Always worth checking archive.is:

https://archive.is/838Vx
We trust cops to protect the weak, to wield and use firearms, and to enforce our laws. This puts them in a tremendous position to abuse their power.

The recording devices were installed precisely because abuses of power and criminal activity were already a big problem. The thugs destroyed the recording devices because they want to continue abusing their power, period.

For an honest cop, the recordings offer proof of proper conduct. In the setting of lethal force, the truth is very important. If I follow protocol and shoot someone, I hope there is a video showing that I followed the playbook perfectly.

I've been bullied by cops a few times. Their job is tough, but it strikes me as odd that they bully someone like me, an obviously harmless, non-criminal.
This looks like a great resource - thanks for putting it up. Is it possible to contribute to it?
You could write a small program that, everytime some calculation is done with money, cuts of the remaining fractions of cents and puts them into your bank account. Over time it will be a lot of money and no one will notice ;)
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Looks cool but there are so many of these. Do any of them make money?
How has your career played out? Do you work for a company or for yourself?
God this is beautiful. The only thing I like more than the font is the website itself. Bravo Red Hat, bravo!
You don't need to use or master every tool in the shed. The hard part about C++ is to choose the right tools and to avoid the bad parts.

Things like memory management and concurrency are actually getting better.

- Put a smart pointer on the stack to handle your allocations. Share it and it persists. Forget about it and it deallocates your memory. No need to use raw pointers directly.

- Use things like futures to manage your concurrency. No need to know the finer semantics of mutexes just to pass around a few values.

- Templates enable a lot of cool stuff but you don't have to understand much about them to actually use them in a library.

That being said, if C solves your problems well, use it. There is nothing wrong with that. If you only need some parts of C++, use them where it actually makes sense.
...on the other hand, the cockpit voice recorders a) only record a loop of a few hours, so after an intercontinental flight they will have overwritten everything on the first half of the flight and b) there's a button to erase them.

https://www.google.de/search?q=a320+cockpit+voice+recorder+p...
I think you may be making the mistake of viewing these puzzles as purely mathematical instead of also psychological. Mathematically its true, of course, that any number can come next in an arbitrary sequence. But its not true that each of the possible interrelations between those numbers is equally likely to be selected by human puzzle designer (*especially a good puzzle designer who is attempting to make the puzzle fun, challenging, but not impossible). Of course, that doesn't mean there is no such thing as a bad puzzle...
"Ceci n'est pas une citation"

- René Magritte

("this is not a quote")
I think the default sorting for Steam reviews is by how helpful a review was.

Looking through some of the positive and negative reviews, it seems like the positive reviews are fairly short and don't say much about the game, while the negative reviews are longer and the reviewers do mention what they thought did and didn't work about the game, so the longer reviews that have a negative opinion end up being the most helpful. Just telling someone you liked something isn't going to cut it for everyone.

I can only guess that everyone who wanted to write a more in-depth positive review was just so keen to get back to playing the game that they cut their review short ;)
And why exactly is this on Hacker News?
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If you don't want additional scrutiny, are you going to sign a contract with a supplier of recording equipment that can't be turned off?
It's a word document exported as pdf:

$ pdfinfo n1961.pdf
Author: Michael Wong
Creator: Acrobat PDFMaker 9.0 for Word
Producer: Adobe PDF Library 9.0
CreationDate: Mon Sep 28 05:04:06 2015
ModDate: Mon Sep 28 05:04:23 2015
Tagged: yes
UserProperties: no
Suspects: no
Form: none
JavaScript: no
Pages: 9
Encrypted: no
Page size: 612 x 816.96 pts
Page rot: 0
File size: 198701 bytes
Optimized: yes
PDF version: 1.5
I also don't work at a job where I am legally empowered by the state to kill people. Extraordinary power requires extraordinary checks and balances. Our country has erred in giving these people extraordinary power with virtually zero checks and balances, and the result has been a steady stream of murders committed by these state agents against marginalized populations. These monitoring devices, and laws that should be implemented making it criminal to damage or disable them, are a tiny, tiny move in the right direction of limiting the insane excesses of police power.

Also, I don't really give a shit what the murderers in the CPD and their blue wall of silence accomplices want or signed up for at this point.