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Personally I really hate Youtubes "annotations", which made me think about when a feature is a good one. My rule of sorts is: If this was disabled by default, would you turn it on?

A surprisingly number of times the answer is "No, I would not only not turn it on, I would also not miss it".
You contradict yourself. You've just responded to the meaning of his post after stating its lack thereof. Please be more precise in your insults, and perhaps be less dismissive overall.

Worse than the lack of civility in your response is that you've attracted people to vote for it. Thus your comment is appearing before more useful ones below, which actually show why parent's objections are counterproductive, or at best, concerns for a later time (since he wants to load too many unknowns into a single study.)
Perhaps the one who should be surprised ....

... is /you/!
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First - assume the URLs use something like base64 encoding. That means 11 chars are 2^66, not 2^56 URLs.

In turn, that means the entire space is ~10^20 URLs.(smidgen less, 710^19)

Let's assume 1B users, with 1K URLs belonging to them on average. That's 10^12 URLs. Which means, on average, you query 10^8 URLs until you hit the first one.

Let's further assume you could actually query 10^5 URLs/s. That means a single* URL requires query rates for 20 minutes.

Sure, theoretically that's doable. Except you'd cause query rate and error rate to spike, and the setup to do so would be quite expensive.

So, in the best case, after those 20 minutes, you have a random picture of a dog, or a map.

Having a network capable of running 10K qps and risking detection to find, maybe, one picture every 20 minutes? There's just not the incentive to do that. There are many more interesting avenues for this.

And since it's bandwidth-bound, not CPU bound, that speed is not going to rapidly accelerate.
First - assume the URLs use something like base64 encoding. That means 11 chars are 2^66, not 2^56 URLs. In turn, that means the entire space is ~10^20 URLs.(smidgen less, 7x10^19)

Let's assume 1B users, with 1K URLs belonging to them on average. That's 10^12 URLs. Which means, on average, you query 10^8 URLs until you hit the first one. Let's further assume you could actually query 10^5 URLs/s. That means a single URL requires query rates for 20 minutes. Sure, theoretically that's doable. Except you'd cause query rate and error rate to spike, and the setup to do so would be quite expensive.

So, in the best case, after those 20 minutes, you have a random picture of a dog, or a map. Having a network capable of running 10K qps and risking detection to find, maybe, one picture every 20 minutes? There's just not the incentive to do that. There are many more interesting avenues for this.

And since it's bandwidth-bound, not CPU bound, that speed is not going to rapidly accelerate.
Nah, they knew that those signals were local in origin and the Wow signal wasn't because the perytons showed up no matter which direction they looked in whilst the Wow signal was only received on one of the two antenna at the site.
As much as possible, this.

If you, singular, are building Siri v2, you need to do as little as possible yourself. Find an OSS library / tool that does the thing you want, use Caffe/Theano/etc. instead of rolling your own code, use a commercial package if you absolutely have to. Concentrate on the "hard" parts, understanding and translating language to action. Build that part, and glue on all the other stuff. After you get a working thing you can peel off the layers and replace them with something of your own, maybe, or more likely something better will come out by that time and you can plug it in with minimal effort.
If the alternative was every kid got money just based on the parents saying they wouldn't pay, it would take me less than one clock cycle to conclude I wouldn't pay for my kids either...
That often means that at least one side greatly underestimated the real value of the deal.
Depends on whether you pay for it mostly from increased taxes or cuts to benefits. It's certainly possible to design a UBI programme where comfortably middle class families are the chief beneficiaries and existing state handout recipients, (i.e. "poor folks") the chief losers. And it's certainly true that many of UBI's most prominent proponents on the right are also amongst the most prominent opponents of any attempt to raise taxes on the rich...
Count me in. This will be a long struggle, one which starts with understanding the difficult territory.

One recent and significant gain in the fight is the notion that the city must measure the economic impact of underbuilding:

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/14/11424532/mark-farrel-housing
Re. "quality of life problems", how about not being able to afford to live in SF? Does that qualify? If you don't like density or problems that arise due to density, don't live in dense places. There are plenty of less dense places.

Here's a radical idea: build tall buildings. Tokyo sits on a fault. They manage to build tall buildings.
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Another consideration is to go virtual. I setup a virtual machine for my Linux development and run it in fullscreen. I don't have to worry about driver support and it is portable so I can clone/migrate it to another machine. Snapshots of the VM come in handy, too; for example, taking a snapshot before upgrading from Fedora 22 to Fedora 23 in case something breaks. I also backup snapshots to cloud storage providers so I can recover from a total disaster. I don't notice much of a performance hit, but I think it does drain the battery faster, which is certainly a drawback.
Not calling this dishonest, because it's a fine way to give a guarantee to people who'd don't think much about performance. However, it's one of those claims that I suspect sounds more impressive than it is, depending on how you read it. Unless your system is stupidly simple or has had significant attention paid to performance, there's a good chance your worst page is spending most of its time in some awful O(n^2) algorithm, and will be an easy fix.
I dunno man, the amount of people who say "FTP server" with a straight face, not realizing that credentials are transmitted in plaintext, is alarming.
It's not FUD if it's true.
I am on the phone so I haven't tested these.

http://www.net-peeker.com

https://www.netlimiter.com

http://freenet.mcnabhosting.com/python/pyshaper/

Like others have pointed out if this is just a symptom of another problem you'll only be teaching him how to be more patient and thus result in more wasted hours.
You can tell what's probably NOT 'farm to table' by the pricing of dishes. Many restaurants would not be in business selling food at the prices they do if were actually farm to table direct from local farmers who uses the growing/raising practices the restaurants claim. If you buy meat or veggies of this quality, you already know - it costs a LOT.
It's the LambdaMOO.
I guess the fundamental difference driving my thinking is I believe it's futile to hand out prison sentences for crimes such as these. I'm dubious that it acts as any real deterrent to "hacking", and it waste tax-payer money.

It's also becoming clear that the plaintiffs in these cases are completely washing their hands of their own responsibility for the crime. I understand that this is common in case law such as this, but if we want to actually secure this country against real cyber criminals then we need companies to step up and take responsibility for what's happening within their networks.
Guys i wanna add something here that i think we should all understand...perspective wise...1 - Encryption should NOT be an open sourced task -- NEVER, --and before the flame wall of comments comes down on me, ask your self and honest answer why would YOU trust your data security to anything someone else could easily ( and already ) knows how to break --ssl, or any other algo--- that has open sourced code! ( i know the idea of open sourced encryption is great i even use it for some tasks, but relying on it for everything is LITERALLY telling the burgler out side your house where spare set of keys are to get in while your away!!! .... and 2 -- if correctly implemented in the first place data security should never be trusted to a STATIC library of tools, just like learning (martial arts) you learn this skill to be useful should you be attacked to defend your self, why would you rely on one punch in ANY scenario where you have to dynamicaly defend yourself,,, the one strategy would never work and more over you will be laying on the ground bleeding and your wallet gone....EVERY time. SSL is great only if it is regularly changed every 24 hours, some thing can do that....i have personally seem people retain the certs for over several years,,,not to mention the other static library of encryption alternatives that are basically trying to bail water out of a sinking boat with a bucket with a whole in it... there are better alternatives and one that are unbreakable. i know i invented one - roblooman2010@gmail.com
Forgive the naive question, but why is space so empty.

I mean I understand infinite but I'm just really interested in why the universe is the way that it is.

What is the best theory for this? Has anyone proposed a why?
woa very thorough answer. I wonder what's the reward in dialog pomdp, where does it come from?
It's even worse than that. If your house has appreciated more than $250k (or $500k if you're married) then you have to pay capital gains tax on the rest. And this is a fixed amount regardless of how long you've owned your home, so the longer you stay, and the more your house appreciates, the greater the penalty when you ultimately sell.
I really don't see any other use. The page doesn't even mention an intended use; most of the comments make good points but I'm not sure if they are exactly germane or not. What was the author really trying to accomplish?
I found the multiplayer of the new DOOM to be full of strange design decisions.

It clearly wants to be an arena shooter, but it couldn't let go of loadouts from Call of Duty, nor the "modern" Halo roots the team had previously worked on. (see: Call of Duty)

The result is an amalgamation of everything wrong with modern multiplayer shooters, distilled through a DOOM filter and collected in a toilet. It wants rocket launchers, but it kills in two shots instead of one because you can just spawn with one.

It's a damn shame. Instead, I decided to go play the Unreal Tournament alpha.
It's scary to think that in 20-30 years nearly the entire available housing stock will not be covered by rent control. My landlord wanted to raise my rent 40% in one year here in Oakland until I pointed out the laws. Eventually the entire middle class will just be landless peasants again, allowed to live wherever the rich say that they can.
Welcome to the club. It's funny how people who would not be alive today if not for the Green Revolution protest against GMO crops...
The possibility to use it to attack clearnet systems is actually what sets apart Tor from Freenet. That’s why any secret service needs Tor to work, but Freenet is mostly uninteresting to them. You can only communicate with it.

The broken window theory was shown to be a fallacy, by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broken_windows_th...
Yes - tall buildings are why Tokyo is so affordable.

/s
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>If you don't like density or problems that arise due to density, don't live in dense places.

corollary of your position - don't approve density increase where you live if you don't like density :)
At FotoForensics (before I blocked TOR uploads): TOR was about 3% of traffic, but accounted for >50% of porn uploads and about 80% of child porn uploads.

Today, TOR is about 1% of overall traffic to the site. (I block uploads, but TOR users can still access and view the site.) However, it accounts for about 20% of network attacks.
"Taxes" from the rich? No, where did you get that idea. They are "donations" from the rich. Most of us who are reading HN are probably rich, and can (and should) easily donate at the GiveDirectly web site.
Is there a Report Spam button anywhere?
The interventions in Haiti post-earthquake are an embarrassment and a tragedy. The massive outpouring of money was largely sucked up by the salaries and comforts of the administration of parasitic NGOs, governments' main provision was armed troops, and imported food aid decimated local agriculture.

Here are years of too much detail:

http://cepr.net/blogs/haiti-relief-and-reconstruction-watch/

edit:

The group’s failures went beyond just infrastructure.

When a cholera epidemic raged through Haiti nine months after the quake, the biggest part of the Red Cross’ response — a plan to distribute soap and oral rehydration salts — was crippled by "internal issues that go unaddressed," wrote the director of the Haiti program in her May 2011 memo.

Throughout that year, cholera was a steady killer. By September 2011, when the death toll had surpassed 6,000, the project was still listed as “very behind schedule” according to another internal document.

The Red Cross said in a statement that its cholera response, including a vaccination campaign, has continued for years and helped millions of Haitians.

But while other groups also struggled early responding to cholera, some performed well.

“None of these people had to die. That’s what upsets me," said Paul Christian Namphy, a Haitian water and sanitation official who helped lead the effort to fight cholera. He says early failures by the Red Cross and other NGOs had a devastating impact. “These numbers should have been zero."

How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti ­and Built Six Homes

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-...
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"A small apartment in good repair in a not-terrible part of Tel Aviv can easily cost ~6000 ils per month, before utilities."

We probably have different definitions of "not terrible part of tel aviv".
1BRs (What israeli's call 2 rooms) go for 4000 shekels in Florentine. Walking distance from the startup scene of Rothschild, and 20 minutes by bus to the google and checkpoint area.
Yes. This.

Years ago a "textfile group" I was involved with decided to release a 3 1/2" floppy diskette w/ our files at a hacker con. I thought it would be cool to put a custom bootsector on the disk-- something that displayed an easter egg rather than the boring traditional "Non-System disk or disk error" the bootloader on MS-DOS-formatted disks displayed.

I ended up making a simple static mode 0x13 display w/ a gradient background and a text message. When I tested it I discovered my message was being displayed backwards and in the wrong positions. I'd set the direction flag earlier in the code and neglected to clear it. I was preparing to add the one-byte "CLD" instruction when it hit me that I could just leave the code as-is and reverse the data. I saved a byte and the code did exactly what I wanted. I was quite happy.

You can't experience that kind of joy in a high level language.
We almost that exact discussion at work yesterday. The question from one of my colleagues in customer service was: How is the customer suppose to know if the product is in stock, when they're on the checkout page?

Apparently our UI design decided to indicate that with red and green dots on the order line. If he had though about color blind users, normal users wouldn't have issues either.
This is awesome, are there any list about other similar experiments?
No one follows you around to ensure you follow them.

Rest assured most people dont follow the laws they do know 100% of the time and better yet... No one knows 100% of the laws they are required to follow.
Working in a startup circa 2008, we had a trial-run hire who apparently had some old experience and was trying to get back into things... He was confused why he couldn't telnet anywhere, and I had to explain what SSH was and why nobody used telnet anymore.
At the risk of sounding obvious, social media "matters" too, or at least billions of people think so.
Which video interview is that quote from?
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When I was working on Xbox One, I got all the checkin mails. Whenever I had time, I'd look for Dave's changes and see what he did. Nearly all of them were over my head because they were so deep in the OS. The ones I understood were usually fixing other people's bugs or build breaks like he mentions in the video. It was definitely a highlight to see the actual work of someone so disciplined and dedicated to their craft.
it's super subjective until the government defines it and regulates it (read penalize mis-labeling).
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Yeah, once the government gets involved, it'll still be all lies, but it'll be legal because somebody paid off the right regulator, or because the regulator owns shares in the restaurant, etc. And then this kind of thing will be used as a weapon to inhibit the entry of new competitors into the market, to the benefit of the entrenched players.
Not being able to afford to live in SF is a problem for people who aren't already comfortably settled there.

Under the current political system, it takes just a handful of the "comfortably settled" to lever potential quality of life problems and create a giant obstruction to pro-growth policies.

This is how it goes in other parts of California too.
The price estimation is not their primary purpose (unlike Zillow, who use their "Zestimate" as a main selling point).
Are you seriously suggesting that the other option is to send them to prison without a trial?

The judiciary's role is to follow the rules as written, this is balanced by those who write the laws on one end, and those who can issue pardons when things go off the rails. Independent Judiciary means their outcomes are not changed behind the scenes, a public pardon has nothing to do with this.
I suspect the problem has been that the AF doesn't want to give up the ground supt role (or maybe just the budget associated with it), but they do want to give up the plane.
Well, using Rust without the standard library is a big use-case: stuff like device drivers, OSes, embedded, things like that. So to some users, it matters. But there's little use overly qualifying what you're talking about when you're just talking, so someone might say "Rust" to mean "Rust + std + crates.io crates" or "Just the language, no standard library", based on context. But once you get into the details, it's important to get at exactly what you mean.
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If you think cross platform development is bad now, go back to the late 90s or early 2000s... this brought back some painful memories. Look at the old Mozilla C++ guidelines for more cringe-worthy stuff.
Part 2 of the article suggests that buying at the farmers' market is no guarantee: http://www.tampabay.com/projects/2016/food/farm-to-fable/far...
it's amazing how dead on-the-nail the southpark team do serious, humour ridden topical commentary on serious social and political issues.

I think they'll go down as two of the greatest commentators of our generation.
Since JavaScript and the browser is the only thing that matters nowadays:

transient-universe can run Browser nodes compiled from haskell to Javascript. they can display DOM widgets and are integrated with server nodes, using websockets communications. Just compile the program with the Haskelll to JS compiler and point the browser to http://server:port. The server nodes have a HTTP server that will send the compiled program to the browser.
If you click on "5 minutes ago" there is a flag link/button.

That comment isn't really worth flagging though, it's already been downvoted a couple of times which will sort it to the bottom of the page, and it isn't egregious, just odd. If it was part of a pattern, then it would be worth flagging.

It takes 500 karma to be able to downvote comments.
The law itself is the main penal code of Germany and it is of course changed quite often. That specific provision has been unchanged since at least 1953 (though there has been a second subsection added). The original version from 1871 already contained it but worded differently.
To be fair, less flexible than Half-Life still leaves a lot of a room for something to be flexible. What you're saying about AAA games in general though, is a good point. The days of being able to unpack Quake are over, and some of these games are pretty hard even for their creators to manage from update to update.
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"it will function in all Russia, including Crimea,"

Sorry Dmitry, Crimea is not Russia, no matter what this crazy president of ours thinks of it.
Never was a fan of the OSX release names during the post Steve Jobs era at Apple. MacOS x.x like iOS is fine to me.
Simple solutions are never simple in real life.

SF has a complicated review process that basically lets neighbors hold up permit approval indefinitely with appeals. Whether good or bad, it's there. Shadow laws are also in place and would need to be changed.

Changing a low to mid density neighborhood into a high density 12 story building neighborhood means a lot more than just removing height limits. Sufficient parks and retail/commercial space need to exist to ensure good quality of life, no one wants to live in a neighborhood full of condos & apartments and little else.

Likewise, there needs to be sufficient transit, SF Muni is already bursting at the seams, add a high density neighborhood without adding transit, and no one will be able to get out of the neighborhood.

Building high density housing is important but it's a lot harder than just removing a height limit.
Don't forget toxic youtube comments.
This is incredibly sad, libGDX + RoboVM was the most painless way I ever found of making a cross-platform game. Throw in some Kotlin for cleaner code and you had the most serious code-only contender for making absolutely cross-platform games on a single codebase that's ever been... and even quite a lot of simple business apps too. And to think most of the tools were Open Source for a brief moment. If people can rally somehow and bring back bugVM to the state RoboVM was before its death (a long and harsh 7 months of work lost), we could get back to that point and even further. Or MS could just open source RoboVM back, is that even possible?
Actually, no, it's not. In fact, the Redux FAQ flat-out says "It's up to you to decide what state goes where": http://redux.js.org/docs/FAQ.html#organizing-state-only-redu....

There's certainly some good reasons to put as much of your UI/app state into Redux as possible, but there's also entirely valid reasons why you might not want to put some state in there.
This is amazing. I can see it being useful, but I think it would be easier to do and more useful for the moment with typed languages, where you could type the argument types to the function and the return types, and the code search would be made based on this, and the name of the function also, maybe.
I like the expectation Minecraft sets up in players, that the world is going to respond to them in some kind of meaningful way. I hope that expectation drives broader development over time.