skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major online privacy bill easily clears first vote in Congress
Well, before Overcast appeared I used to just manually process audiobook files with ffmpeg. The command line was:

`ffmpeg -threads 16 -i "$infile" -vn -filter:a "atempo=2.0" -c:a pcm_s16le "$outfile"`;

this produced a .wav file, which is what I fed into Audiobook Builder to produce an .m4b audiobook.

Overcast does a significantly better job, though, and without any extra hassle on my part.
A war between Israel and the Arab nations is unavoidable without the US mediating through 3rd parties (like SA). This would be an extremely large and bloody war by itself, but it will inevitably lead to hotspots in other parts of the world, like China claiming Taiwan, settling disputes India. India would want to settle disputes with Pakistan. Russia would want to claim back some part of Eastern Europe. Turkey would want something else entirely. Obviously other counties have interests too. Vietnam? The Koreas? Thailand? Indonesia? All of them have something to prove.

And only god knows what would happen in Africa.
Obama in 2008 said that gay marriage should be a states' rights issue, and that he personally believed marriage is between one man and one woman. The fact that he and his administration later supported gay marriage just shows that they're canny politicians.
Hitler uses Docker [YouTube]
> Its worse in Europe

I'm pretty sure that's not true. I've read many times that the U.S. is at or near the top (i.e., the worst) in inequality, and that economic mobility also is higher in Euripe. A quick search found the following:

* See the map at the top which shows current inequality (it would take too long to read through the table and figure out historical change):

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

* "Income inequality is high in the US, but the support of social welfare programmes is low. In Europe, income inequality is low and the welfare states are generous."

http://voxeu.org/article/perceptions-inequality-europe-and-u...

* "Towards the end of the 2000s the income distribution in Europe was more unequal than in the average OECD country, albeit notably less so than in the United States"

http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/income-inequality-in-...
No, I disagree. I think it makes sense to use different terms for normal, reasonable, moral behavior (draft, drunken sex), and for objectionable, inexcusable behavior (apartheid, rape).
Immediately discovered at least a half dozen 'casts I was unaware of and will now listen to. Thank you!

Weirdly fascinating to see BBC Radio 4's long running agricultural soap 'The Archers' on the list.
I looked it up, it's this talk, which indeed is the first one about Clojure, and it's philosophical foundations:

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi... (slides)

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... (recording)

The opening lines are:

> So I’m going to talk about time today. In particular, how we treat time in object-oriented languages generally and maybe how we fail to. So I’m trying to provoke you today to just reconsider some fundamental things that I just think we get so entrenched with what we do every day, we fail to step back and look at what exactly are we doing.

Whoever downvoted my previous comment does not know their Clojure, that's for sure.
I would disagree that Avatar was particularly good. It did lots of annoying things that work for movies, but don't work for 3D (i.e. depth of field, fast-moving action). It also didn't seem to understand it's own medium at points - if you put a stand in for a polaroid photo in a 3D movie, it looks really tacky if the polaroid also has a perfect 3D effect to it.
Nope, wrong direction; the defendant has to be a non-US sovereign, and the conduct has to cause loss of life or property to a US resident or on US soil. On the other hand, it may open the door for suits against Israel by US-resident Palestinians.
There is the International Court of Justice, but US has never recognized its jurisdiction.
The Red Pill is notoriously sexist. I'd recommend /r/okcupid's guides, which apply to any gender or sexual orientation:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/wiki/dosanddontsprofile

- https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/wiki/dosanddontsmessaging
Had the same idea couple of times, whet I needed to distribute tasks between couple of servers. Now I can imagine it, as some sort of TCP service (like EMAIL) powered by DNS records and TCP server/client. Maybe SMTP can be also used. This desires and requires more time and energy, maybe a team of people, maybe open standard and SW implementation of TCP services. This could be used, not only for humas, but also for automation.
Managed Code in Games
Which is why you should measure success based on what you put in rather than what you get out.
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Do not move a finger but keep on uploading. Works from other tracker, FTP, IRRSI, RSS etc etc. Full description, screenshots whatever... You can't live without it once you start popping! Go to http://tup4u.com to get yours..
Wow that seems like information that someone might occasionally want to keep private.
Other than being more streamlined and offering offline access to codes, is there any additional benefit in terms of security for updating from the two-step method to two-factor?

I much prefer having the recovery key that is provided with two-step; I don't see that the two-factor method offers a recovery key.

Having any security feature associated with either my landline or mobile phone makes me feel uncomfortable for multiple reasons, some that have already been articulated by others here plus some more I can't really put my finger on, except to say that both landline and mobile phones seem inherently untrustworthy to me.

Am I just being paranoid?
It can be pretty cheap to hire a developer in London too, since the expectations for wages here are still a lot lower than in the Bay area, even though the houses prices are astronomical. There seems to still be an expectation that programming/development is a simple, somewhat near entry level job with entry level wages here.
It's a separation of powers idea, even in countries that don't have a formal separation of powers like in the U.S. In nearly every country, the President (or Prime Minister or King) is invested with foreign policy powers, so that the country can speak with one voice in international affairs. That power is undermined by domestic courts passing judgment on the actions of foreign sovereigns.

Nations don't have to respect each other's court judgments. On the other hand, domestic courts can decide the disposition of assets within their jurisdiction. For a country like Saudi Arabia, that has a ton of U.S. assets, a U.S. court judgment can be a big risk even if it has no intention of recognizing the validity of that judgment.
The US can get an alley in the middle east which respect freedom of religion, freedom of minorities, allows women to serve in its military, is pro-us and has oil any time it wants. All it has to do is recognize Kurdistan.

Yes it would piss of the Turkish dictator, but so what?
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How do you explain all the single people who've been on many dates and are still single? There's a lot of them who'd rather not be. They evidently don't have this skill that you claim to.
Hi, thanks for the ideas.
I just added a toggle visibility button (flips between "*" and the real text) for the AWS credentials. Also added the prefilling of the S3 filename with the basename of the uploaded file.
The idea is that if citizens could sue foreign countries, then those countries' assets in US jurisdiction could be seized.

In the case of SA, there are the treasury bonds that they are talking about selling. Considering the all-encompasing dollar-based banking system, the US in particular would be very skilled at getting foreign nation assets in rulings.

I think the reasoning behind it historically is about maintaining proper diplomatic relations. The executive is in charge of foreign relations, not the judicial system. There's probably some arguments about standing too, and jurisdiction. But I think it's mainly the diplomatic angle.
Good question! Calder v Bull held that the ex post facto prohibition does not apply in the civil context, so this can apply retroactively. But you can see why in some legal philosophy quarters Calder is controversial.
You might be right about a small subset of people, but most developers using languages like ruby, python, basic, pascal, etc. would prove this wrong.

Also most of F# are fairly well experienced C# programmer, and I think they do find the language compelling.
The "Referer" header can also leak URLs.
Hi, thanks for the idea... I can't seem to figure out how to set the host using boto3. I'm still digging through their documentation though. If you know or have an example please post a link or send a pull request if you get it to work.
My perspective, as someone who came relatively later to programming as a career, is that the skill of "thinking like a programmer" isn't too hard to acquire once you've taken a few college CS classes and started to simply program a lot.

Rather, what I'm constantly amazed at (and maybe its because I'm working in stereotypical enterprisey environments?) is how complex, convoluted, long and hard to follow a lot of code is. So much code goes into what to a non programmer or novice would seem like a fairly simple task. And so much code is really horribly written and designed and implemented. Its very much true what your professors say about how you'll spend more time reading code than writing it. Anyways, I'm sure my perspective as both a junior dev and a late career switcher is somewhat biased, but there you have it.
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth funds hold many billions (I would guess hundreds of billions) dollars worth of US assets that US courts could seize for damage compensations.
I wonder if this can work for task distribution.
Certainly the idea of using these bytes of information to automate few things, of course yes!
youtube-dl does have a "generic" extractor, but it also has specific support for a lot of sites, including GDCVault:

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext...
This is great. I wonder how it affects read/write speeds.
Readers also might be interested in:

* CPU DB

http://cpudb.stanford.edu/

* CPUList at PDAdb (all/most mobile processors)

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=cpu
This isn't true, just fyi. Lucene actually relies on the OS' filesystem cache heavily. A Lucene index (e.g. an Elasticsearch shard) is composed of many small "segments". Each segment is an immutable file, which allows the OS to aggressively cache them.

But if your index is larger than available memory (very common), the OS will naturally start paging the segments on/off disk as required.

That's the root of the "give no more than 50% of your memory to ES" advice, since the other 50% is needed by the OS FS cache for Lucene segments

Source: I'm an Elasticsearch dev :)
Why couldn't a better C have generics?
Avi has an earlier post [0] where he shows that (recent) XFS is the only filesystem that actually executes io_submit asynchronously.

http://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/
Projection?
An immediate corollary: only pursue VC funding if you are either: a) rich, and you don't care about money, but you do care about making a dent in the world; or b) young, and you don't care (yet) about money, but you want a very slight chance of going into the big leagues. Being both rich and young also helps a lot.
The inverse holds that the density is sometimes not high enough. I had trouble following videos on the mill cpu at normal speed, but at 1.25/1.5 my mind was forced to pay more attention
Oh, ok. We'll go ahead and save ourselves enough cash to cover the GDP of your country, then, and ramp down our military in your neck of the woods.

You don't mind defending your own democracy from the likes of Vladamir Putin et. al. right?

You missed a few countries on your list a bit closer to home.
Telegraph stories affected by EU 'right to be forgotten'
I'm surprised that no one responded to this dubious claim with a link to e.g. goatse...
I've seen that before but I couldn't get the hot reload to work for the react components. You also need to `module.hot.accept` every file one by one I think?
Here is a list of supported websites. https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html
Who doesn't? We all share this tiny oasis of life.
Why not a JIT'er?
Startup targets 'management by spreadsheet' with new app
If Obama's so dead-set against this bill, why doesn't he simply say he'll veto it if Congress passes it?
Who Wants School?
Show HN: Run Table Tennis Singles Leagues – Modern and Better Way
And, again, as the article points out the A-10 fleet has literally just been rewinged, extending their expected lifespan to ~2040
Israel is probably fine negotiating with the Arab states on it's own.
It has a peace treaty with Jordan and Egypt, and various levels of official and unofficial relations with the Gulf states.
Iran is an issue, so is the Hezbollah controlled parts of Lebanon and Syria if Assad falls is also up for grabs but with all 3 the US can't mediate anyhow.

And piggy backing on this there is very little prospect for actual war between Israel and the Arab states, neither Jordan nor Egypt would go to war, there is no scenario in which Israel will some how will find it self in war with either Saudi Arabia nor the other gulf states that for the most part do not have much military presence and even less force projection.

So the only thing which is left is a proxy war between Israel and Iran, which isn't exactly something you can call bloody, excluding the "war of independence" Israel longest and bloodiest war was the 'Yom Kippur' war which lasted for 19 days.

If Syria falls to ISIS and or Hezbollah decides to stir things up again you might see a limited engagement in the north of Israel, which might lead to the re-establishment of a security buffer like the one during Israel's invasion into Lebanon (albeit most likely without the (South)Lebanese Army being allied with Israel this time), but there is simply no scenario in which this can escalate into anything than a meaningless regional conflict that would barely impact the daily life in Israel not to mention the world.

The middle east is a powder cake indeed but Israel has little to do with it, an all out war is considerably more likely to happen between SA and Iran than even between Iran and Israel not to mention between the "Arab States" and Israel.
The Arab states simply has no reason, will or ability to start a war with Israel, and Israel is not going to start a war on it's own.
I had a very brief internship in college with a second tier VC that was affiliated with a well known sand hill firm. I was only there for a few months so I saw only a tiny peek at the industry, but it was enough to see through all the bullshit.

With the exception of a handful of partners at a handful of firms (nothing but respect for a16z here), they are all complete dunces, and they don't have the slightest clue what they are doing. This article is right that they are going for the biggest possible outcomes, but it misses out on the largest and most exploitable quirk of the VC industry: that they're all chickenshit. They wont invest unless someone else does, thereby validating their decision to invest.

The most effective cold pitch I've ever seen at our fund involved what was to me a completely obvious lie about outside interest. I met the guy after I left and he basically confirmed that he pulled the same stunt at all three of the firms that invested. He worked them in rotation, building actual interest off of what was initially fake interest. And it worked like a charm.
Isn't their currency linked to the US dollar? That would make it a suicide attack. No one is that..Oh wait..
"Cores may stay idle for seconds while ready threads are waiting in runqueues."

I do not believe it, sorry. Troll paper.

Check out the massive indentation change in this patch which obscures the changes being made:

https://github.com/jplozi/wastedcores/blob/master/patches/sc...

Good grief.
Depends on what you mean by "an average guy." Women's taste in men varies a lot so chances are there will be a nontrivial number attracted to each non-homely man.

Also, women are probably more selective than men in that they have a lower (swipe-right/total swipes)% but that doesn't necessarily mean their average swipe has a higher physical attractiveness among all women.
> If Obama's so dead-set against this bill, why doesn't he simply say he'll veto it if Congress passes it?

Saudi Arabia might not appreciate it if Congress passes the bill, even if Obama vetoes it. So trying to convince congress not to pass it in the first place might be a foreign relations move. Also, Obama might be worried they could override his veto (though I don't know how widely supported this bill is in Congress).
While Vince is a much more common name, the man in question is named Vinton (commonly shortened to Vint).
You mean he was honest before he was ever elected president and needed votes, and now that he can no longer be elected and in this sense has nothing to lose, came the dishonesty? Is it not imaginable that, being a canny politician, he was dishonest then and is more honest now?
Not sure why smaller districts prevent gerrymandering. Small districts can be more easily targeted to homogenous communities - you could create a few almost 100% democrat districts in the center of a city, then surround that with 60% republican 40% democrat mixes of city suburb and exurb to turn a popular democrat majority into an entrenched republican majority (inverse gerrymanders are of course also possible). And you could do that without having to create long thin districts that wrap round cities if the districts were smaller making it harder to object to the gerrymander on the grounds that a district is not compact.

In fact any proposal which claims that making districts more homogenous in their voting behavior - "80% of people in this town vote republican so why don't we just make a district that reflects that commonality," for example - is effectively gerrymandering and disenfranchisement harming both sides. 20% of the population of that town will always be ignored. 30% of that town are casting republican votes that don't matter at a larger level, and which don't contribute to countering a democrat vote.

Seems to me smaller districts would be more likely to exhibit those alignments and disenfranchise more people?
Then what on earth is the intent?
I had little dating experience from high school and college. So when I was in my mid-20s and had a lot of free time, I spent almost a year meeting women on OKCupid.

Note that I said, "meeting." I didn't consider initial meetings "dates" which took lots of pressure off. I thought of OKCupid as a way to meet women who seemed interesting and who I might end up being interested in dating.

I was able to meet 1-2 women a week, usually for coffee, tea, or a walk in the park. Most of the time it was just a nice conversation and we went our separate ways. A few I became friends with, a few I dated, and in the end I met my partner of going on 5 years now.

Here are my tips:
1) Put minimal energy into each message. Say hi, acknowledge you read their profile, and ask a question.
2) Set up a real life meeting quickly. If I got a response, my second message would ask if they wanted to get together for coffee/whatever.
3) Include as little information as possible in your profile. Dont try to be funny or over share. It just a gives people a reason to reject you.
What I find surprising is lack of awareness among people regarding SA. Stopping SA is a very effective strategy to mitigate terrorism. The politicians and media are brought by SA money. But why people in the West are not doing anything about this, they are not getting money from SA.

EDIT: Why the downvote?
"Men have to get drafted!!!" is one of those tells that indicate that a person using it does not have any actual good arguments.
> That's as ridiculous as when some people equate rape with drunk sex or sexual harassment with catcalling. It really reduces the the victims of actual crimes (rape, harassment, and apartheid).

I don't think you have any clue how bad women have it in Saudi Arabia, or you wouldn't be denigrating them as "not actual victims".

Here's a hint: There are no prohibitions against statutory rape or marital rape. In other rape situations, the woman is more likely to face punishment for speaking about it than her rapist is. Women also cannot drive, vote, or travel freely in public alone, and must always be wearing clothing that covers them from head to toe lest they be harassed by religious police and scores of men.

If your argument is that we shouldn't be calling the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia "gender apartheid" because it isn't really all that bad, then you're just flat out wrong.
>That's not pranking someone.

How so?

If the people on doling out the calls are laughing at other people's expense, then it certainly is a prank. It's just a tasteless and dangerous one.
It's halfway there for me - or at least, half of my expectations of what it would be. I was hoping it would be more along the lines of (or additionally) an HN for new podcasts. Over time, the front page will soon be a rotating list of the same selection of programmes, won't it?
Seconded!
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Wouldn't this just be more annoying than useful? I mean, finding random people on GitHub is maybe 0.5% of the times I use the new tab button. Why have that happen all the time? Just to show it's possible?

It's a novel idea, just have no idea why anyone would make or install an add on based on it.
From my experience of speed reading classic novels, I actually go faster and with higher comprehension when I slow down and stop trying to comprehend.

I don't read words allowed or to myself in my head. I look at them and move forward. After a few years of doing this, I've been able to go through novels at surprising speeds. It's like I can parse an entire page and visualize everything without trying.

Also, using my finger to guide me only slows me down.
Cool, I immediately registered and posted a link (The Ray Wenderlich podcast). Two suggestions though, iTunes, Google, etc. already have decently robust search around podcasts, do you have any plans to reach out to various dev communities (reddit, iOS, Rails, whatever) and getting them to come to you? And then I think the tag system is crucial, for instance tags can't be given a space and custom tags are much less likely to get lots of content then presets.

Awesome project!
Yepp. It works while offline. And it issues the same code on all devices for 30s. I would say it's using TOTP internally
They sell it in the US dollars because everyone else sells everything in US dollars: yes, even Iran, Russia and North Korea. It's not a gesture of charity or good will on Saudi behalf.
The inventions mentioned by perlgeek and karmacondon don't change things much: transistor (Bardeen 39, Brattain 47); laser: (Townes 43, Shawlow 37); IC (Kilby 34); microscope (unknown). Telescope (Lippershey 38). Phonograph (Edison 30); light bulb (Swan 32). The mean is 37.5.

I thought I'd also see how my own, admittedly very minor, inventions (http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/Patents.html) fit into the pattern. Patents were filed when I was 32, 36, 36, 39, 44, and 55. So, 40.3, and that can only change upwards.
The story of Joseph Nacchio was also mentioned in a blog post by Bruce Schneier from 2013 [1]. He cites several sources including BusinessInsider [2] and the earlier USA TODAY article from 2006 [3].

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/more_on_the_n...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...

[3] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns...