skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But I do know that the Internet / media structure today is not a sufficient explanation. Why? Because a) all the candidates exist in the same tech/media environment, and b) the tech/media environment in 2016 is not substantially different from 2012, when the GOP went establishment yet again.

The social media landscape is significantly different than in 2012.

http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-gets-older-demographic-repor...

From Jan 2011 to Jan 2014, Facebook saw big increases in users aged 25-55 and massive increases in users aged 55+.

- Who votes the most?

- Where have they increasingly been turning as their primary consumption point for media?

Thompson's idea is that aggregator services have replaced distributor services as the channel for media to get to consumers, and that these aggregator services present new consumer-targeting opportunities for media, and new media-consuming opportunities for consumers.

When consumers define part of their consumption channel by the consumption preferences of other consumers, we start to see constructive interference in the "neutral" flow of media to any one individual consumer. It's that "echo chamber" effect folks like talking about.

Thompson says in the article, "[it's not] that Donald Trump or anyone else is an aggregator." Rather, the nature of the aggregator as a much more malleable media delivery system presents a new effect in that political landscape: any particular piece of media might end up in one of these broad-reaching, customized consumption webs and produce a large effect on those consumers.

Before, the distribution services were shaped by a relative handful of editors. Today, the aggregator services are shaped by the entire population.

The parties can't influence the entire population in the way they could a handful of editorial boards, and so these aggregators are a greater facilitating influence on the opinions of voters than the parties are.

Trump's messaging has been well-targeted at viewpoints that people will talk about. And it's been delivered in a way that people will resonate with. So:

- His message has surfaced much more frequently, and more broadly, across these consumer-shaped aggregator networks.

- It's surfacing with a huge portion of the folks most likely to vote.

Pair that with the effects of group psychology and you get an idea of how folks who liked him for being ridiculous last summer now ideologically support him today.
I think it would be more accurate if they wrote "acquired by Google" instead of just "by Google". Also, why is this not under the Alphabet umbrella given that this product has nothing to do with search?
The model CodeMirror edits is flat text. It can apply styles (including variable fonts) that are a pure function of the text, and there are APIs to imperatively apply extra styling and even insert "widgets" (arbitrary DOM elements) and hooks to react to events. This lets you (ab)use CodeMirror for semi-WYSIWYG editing reasonably easily, but it works best when you strive to keep the rendering a function of the underlying text. E.g. Firepad abuses CodeMirror for WYSIWYG, which generally functions well, but after a couple years they're still debugging some problems with copy-paste. And I think they only pulled it off by maintaining a well-defined WYSIWYG data model underneath CodeMirror (they needed it for syncing).

ProseMirror's model is structured. It's a nesting of elements strictly conforming to a configurable schema (by default close in spirit to Markdown - paragraphs/lists, emphasis, links, etc). Note that it's not "flat WYSIWYG" where each character/line has a style; a sub-list is actually inside the parent list, not just a bullet which happens to have higher indentation.
Correct title is "Fitts's law" as it is named after Paul Fitts.
Am I mishearing, or did Comey whisper "god damn it" after the oath @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GgnbN9oNw&t=51m0s ?
How exactly that works is beyond my knowledge, can anyone here confirm it's as easy as he says?
I expect that the argument they're terrorists could be made if that's what the authorities required.
I think you simply hit someone from [oversea] sales / customer relations who has no idea about licenses or probably software at all and thinks he does the right thing. I'm pretty sure there is someone at BMW who knows about it (the industry is aware of licensing issues in general) and that there should also be a process installed through which they can fulfill the license requirements. Usually this involves that the actual device manufacturer / software supplier is tasked with providing all the necessary information.

Getting the correct contact in large corporations is usually a nightmare - especially for individuals. Some companies in the industry have information about licenses or about ways to retrieve the necessary information on their websites, but I don't know about BMW.

Of course that shouldn't be an excuse and they clearly acted wrong on your request.

If you are more interested on the technical side and less on the legal side of the request then I think you won't miss much anyway. All of the GPLed software components will be used as much unmodified as possible (will probably be the Kernel, glibc and some open source daemons). And the actual car related parts will not be linked to them and stay closed source.
The user interface on that LePai amp appears to be rather lacking though - it's apparently limited to a numeric LED display and an IR remote that lets you skip through one song at a time. Probably not much fun with a large collection.
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Iraq was altogether a different country when it was built, but infrastructure that can fail killing 1M people unless maintained 24/7 by a 300 person crew sounds like it has way too many failure scenario for comfort.

AFAIK you can abandon the Hoover dam and it will still be there in 500 years. It looks like the Mosul dam engineers couldn't achieve remotely the same result given the soil it's built on, but there must have been overwhelming reasons to build it despite the risks...
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The meaty part:

> I have confirmed with our technical department who advised that to access
the software download site the BMW Customer must provide the 7 digit VIN and
accept the usage rights agreement. Part of the usage rights agreement states
that the software is protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner.
So in this case it is not subject to the requirements of a "Public" licence.

Which means that a user must prove they really are a user by inputting the digit code before getting to the code. Which is in line with the GPL.

There is a 2nd, more real problem though: "the software is protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner". This is wrong, this is where BMW makes fraudulent claims. From the license text:

> You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice [and disclaimer of warranty]
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> Drain it. Seriously.

Easy to say when the sluice gates are stuck and the dam represents more than 10% of the country's already way under demand electricity production.
One thing worth noting is that if he is right, and Facebook (and lesser extent Google and Twitter) represent the new gatekeeper / aggregator for political news, then there is a crying need for their algorithms to be public, and there is a whole industry of political SEO
pacman -S mingw-w64-{x86_64,i686}-cmake

There's you out of the box. You might have tried pacman -S cmake which will have gotten you the msys/cmake package which is used for building the packages in the msys repo (i.e. those linked to msys-2.0.dll). Having to add the mingw-w64-.. prefix is kind of strange, but you get used to it.
I don't think I've ever seen mobile/crawler cranes here in Paris. All of them seem to be tower cranes and the structures seem quite stable (I couldn't find death by crane stats with a quick google). These tower cranes I see everywhere are on fixed construction sites... I suppose the use of mobile cranes is more for renovations -- and yes they seem very dangerous in comparison to a fixed-base crane. But still, when one is going to the effort of building/renovating something of such magnitude, why can't a fixed-base crane be used ? If done right it shouldn't be too hard to mount and dismount a modular tower crane -- maybe there's a market for this sort of thing...
Perhaps you meant to say "couldn't achieve..."?
Long before the 60s, actually.

Social media isn't required for revolution, obviously, but it feeds antiestablishment movements more effectively than underground printing presses and independent radio did.

At least for the moment. Perhaps a new establishment will arise that's learned to control the Internet as well as previous establishments controlled other media.
Useful to know: If you use the Chrome dev tools, in the network tab, you can right click on a request and "Copy as cURL".
"This doesn't really need to be an "emacs vs. vim" or "tabs vs. spaces"-type dichotomy."

Agreed, and even "emacs vs. vim" or "tabs vs. spaces" do not really need to be "emacs vs. vim" or "tabs vs. spaces"-type dichotomies.
There's a paper by some professors at Mosul Univ discussing the dam. Apparently it's built on gypsum and has been patched by continuous filling with cement; the current problems stem from incorrect construction in the 80s.

The professors game out 5 catastrophic failures. They range from a wall of water 25m high that would eventually cover over 50% of Mosul city (high) to a mere 34% of the city (best case.) Maximal water levels would be reached within 6 hours. Reading between the lines, I get the sense there is no serious and/or realistic evacuation plan. Not to mention I think Mosul is ruled by ISIS, so coordination with the Iraqi government and/or external dam repair personnel is presumably limited.

edit: with much of Baghdad itself under 4m water within 3 days after collapse. Which probably allows time for evacuation at least, though that's small comfort.

http://www.iwtc.info/2009_pdf/4-1.pdf
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2425610491 text and action plan on the Soyuz capsule
I work on MSYS2, not Git-4-Windows. We come with Pacman included.
The x87 FPU "stack" is not truly a stack though: it's rather a ring buffer of 8 registers.

And you can model it pretty well even without a "head pointer", just with moves between all registers, e.g. push(x) is ST(7) = ST(6), ST(6) = ST(5), ..., ST(1) = ST(0), ST(0) = x.

I've implemented it as such in a lifter from x86 machine code and all the redundant moves just disappear, if the uses of the pseudo-stack are balanced, and you're left with traditional registers.
Not if you have > 1 busy thread.
I'm not sure it would be quite so simple. The article mentions the reason that they can't just open one gate is because the asymmetric draining would be harmful to the dam. It's possible that any sort of adhoc draining would adversely affect the dam. Not to mention quickly building a secure tunnel to handle the water pressure at that depth sounds like no mean feat.
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I have literally no idea why you would even consider combining MSYS2 with TDM-x64 and Fedora precompiled.

Just use MSYS2. It is all that you need. Can you explain why you would do this?
Money is not the reason why great tech products were built
http://undo-software.com/undodb/ is a rival which i have marketed at me on linkedin frequently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World-systems_theory is one subdiscipline studied by a group of (mostly Marxist) historians/political theorists, which might be relevant to your interest here.
They're working on it. The company behind C.H.I.P seems to be paying someone to develop drivers for it and get them into upstream Linux, including non-accelerated video drivers. A lot of the hardware on this era of Allwinner SoC actually already has support thanks to community efforts, too.
As in the previous thread I made http://www.watermark-image.com that makes 3000+ each month.

I am using the money to build http://timeblock.com that currently makes around $350 a month.
I can confirm. They have a very smug and elitist attitude. They also engage in some pretty shady business practices (just google them).
Slush Smackdown is also a fun way for children (not maybe for the youngest children) to learn to code. It is not in Python though. Basically you code your wrestling moves in Javascript and begin fighting against other people's code http://slushsmackdown.com/
The reason those details are so rarely done right is that the UI frameworks are designed for 2D and serial navigation is an afterthought.

If you build conversation into the core of your UI framework in an intrinsic way, it means everything written in that framework will be done right. Every 2D interaction has a first class conversational analog because conversation is the base interaction primitive and all of the 2D interactions exist within that space.
Anyone interested in Fitts's law should also know about Accot-Zhai steering law. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Accot-Zhai_steeri...
Its not free, but there is http://undo-software.com/undodb/
Because I needed libvirt.

I have msys2/mingw64 but for my Golang cgo I have an alternative install

tdm-x86_64 + fedora mingw64 x86_64 packages

I used msys2 to hand compile pkg-config with these packages.

In this respect I have libvirt available to my golang.
It'd be Fitts' Law then, wouldn't it?
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Git-4-Windows is a great project, just with a different focus. They contribute a lot to our packages (and Cygwin) too since git (and the shell) drags in quite a lot of stuff.
> this upsurge of "trolling" in recent years.

Why would you say there has been an upsurge in trolling recently?

I'm not disagreeing per se, but the amount (and type) of trolling you see on your daily web browse is one of those things that heavily depends on the particular filter bubble you live in.

If you were to ask me, personally I observe way less trolling than back in the day, but I wouldn't call that a general trend cause I know it's just the part of the web I see.

There's one thing maybe (but again it might just be a function of the things I like to look at), is that a whole bunch of different trolling techniques that would have been considered "creative" or "highly original", most of them related to culture-jamming/subversion (in a very broad sense), memetics, or absurdism/surrealism, are not quite as "special" any more and routinely employed by (young) people for fun on media like Tumblr, etc.
Nope, cmake that was working OOB was installed separately, from https://cmake.org/download

I'll try your suggestion and report back.
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Interesting. There are tons of image watermarkers, how do you differentiate in terms of marketing/promotion (and maybe pricing)?
> Even a highly sophisticated, incremental, distributed collector must go through all the objects.

It doesn't if GC is run thread-wise, threads communicate copying messages
around, and these threads are very short-lived.
Great response, I totally agree with you.
My understanding: Russian engineers warned Saddam it could not be built there, but he ordered it done anyway to partially cut off Kurdish rebel movement by creating a lake. See eg

https://web.archive.org/web/20140219214451/http://www.shafaa...

The whole thing is an utter clusterfuck. An American civil engineering prof is saying the sole possible solution is a cutoff wall that, by the way, has to not only be 800 ft below the embankment but is significantly deeper than any other such cutoff wall ever built. And it must be constructed in the middle of Iraq under a dam in serious danger of collapsing.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/02/03/will-italy-be-able-to-fi...

And finally another interesting article; the alternative to a cutoff wall is building a second $2B dam downstream. There's a good graphic half way down the article of the problems with the Mosul dam. Of course, that's not just $2B but at minimum several years away...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/02/mosul-dam-engin...
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It didn't work in Firefox on Windows 10 either.
You just made me imagine how it would be to play a Sim City type of game in VR. I could create a city and then walk in it or drive through it or fly over it. So many different possibilities. I can't wait.
Netscape's dreams are finally becoming reality
That's clearly when it all started to go wrong.
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Rent and transport are very expensive in London.
A well-known example to Mason's of this is the Rough and Smooth Ashlar:

"Speculative Masons use the ashlar in two forms: one rough, just as it came from the quarry, representing Man in his ignorant, uncultivated state; and the other, finely finished and ready for its place in the building, represents Man, educated and refined."
Great! Let us know how it goes with your colleagues :)

That's strange, the button should actually work. This is probably related to a bug in Safari. Would be great if you could try it in Chrome, as it is the only browser we currently test in.

Sure, we'll write you an email!
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Something tells me they want to use the risk of a failing dam as a weapon to pursue Mosul population to rise against ISIS. Or that they just don't care if 1M+ died in an ISIS stronghold.
Oh my, again the folks who think that a better hash function saves you from DDOS attacks on collision resolution with linked lists. This is pure nonsense! Get over it please. Hashes for hash tables need to be small and fast, that's all.

First, from any hash only a few bits are use for a hash table lookup, typically between 5-8. It depends on the size of the table.
You can make your hash function long and strong, but only the last few bits count, and this does not help you at all against DDOS.

Second, against DDOS only uhash, or using no linked lists or arrays with O(n/2) lookup costs help. A random seed is good, but can be detected.
E.g. a timeout as used by djb in his nameserver does help better than a stronger hash function. Or using a hash table as in glibc, gcc or the linux kernel. siphash or HighwayHash does not help at all. python and perl both fell into this trap.

But I appreciate the effort to create a fast metro like hash function, without resorting to the internal crc32 builtin. Will be included in smhasher soon.

Summary: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher#summary
>yes they seem very dangerous in comparison to a fixed-base crane.

I think this is a rather baseless assumption. Properly engineered and planned lifting from a mobile crawler crane should be inherently no riskier than that from a fixed crane. Lifts from both fixed-base and crawler cranes are subject to operator error and maintenance-related risks.

My experience is limited to very big cranes on ships (both fixed and crawler) where everything is engineered and planned to (speculating here) a much higher degree. Maybe it's not comparable to the typical (smaller) construction cranes you see in cities.
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>Interim Superintendent David Eubanks held Arthur responsible because her phone was unlocked. Eubanks told WSPA that the teacher may have contributed to the delinquency of a minor.

By that "rationale," supermarkets contribute to shoplifting.
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In Germany, as currently planned, the last nuclear reactor will be shutdown around 2020, but coal and gas power plants will continue to run.

100% renewable is the eventual goal, but the short-term goal is merely to get rid of nuclear.
And why not a simple "end" instead of "flex-end"... less to type and in context of "display: flex" obvious.

We will never know, but millions of developers must type it for years.
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The fix seems easy - do cut the ribbon in such cases.
I really like Douglas McIlroy concept of negative code.

Also, the varnish source is really nice! Pen kode ;)

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/103807/what-i...
I see this sentiment a lot, but I've yet to see anything more. Could you elaborate on how you find the vive is better than the dk2?
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> That advertising was false, and Tor project developers have specifically said that it's not intended to defend against global adversaries like the NSA.

That line of reasoning would mean there is no "reasonable expectation of privacy" ever, against global adversaries like the NSA.

They even advertise it themselves "Total Information Awareness", "Nothing is beyond our reach", etc.

And this is why codified law is nice.
I would really love to do this with a bunch of friends in the same virtual room, physically present or not. Just painting together, walking through or around each other's creations and working together. I really hope they add a multiplayer aspect to this someday!
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Yeah it was really startling to watch it unfold. It's difficult for me to follow since little technical info has been released in English. What I can gather is that they failed to account for the changing stability of the barge, and coupled with a crane that wasn't designed to slew while tilted shit hit the fan.
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It's online since 2010 but deserves some attention
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> being able to walk around them and see them from different perspectives

Reminds me of something I believe I saw in an art documentary. It was said that sculptures, like Michelangelo's David, were meant to be seen at night by candlelight. Being able to do so allows for a change of perspective while walking around it, in addition to the flickering of the flame making it 'come alive'.
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