skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> CDN should support that in their infrastructure (including codecs and etc.)

This makes sense if the CDN is transcoding the video for you but if you do that yourself I don't think a special CDN is necessary.

From Mozilla [0]:

> DASH works via HTTP, so as long as your HTTP server supports byte range requests, and it's set up to serve .mpd files with mimetype="application/dash+xml", then you're all set.

And from encoding.com [1]:

> To play the content, the DASH client first obtains the MPD. The MPD can be delivered using HTTP [...]

> Using this information, the DASH client selects the appropriate encoded alternative and starts streaming the content by fetching the segments using HTTP GET requests.

This definitely sounds like it doesn't need any special support from the server. As long as it can serve files over HTTP, the only special thing is the transcoding and setting up the manifest, which doesn't need to be done by the CDN.

I have a feeling CDNs advertise support for HLS and Adobe's streaming because they require additional support.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/DASH_Adapt...

[1]: https://www.encoding.com/mpeg-dash/
Insider trading is good for the market but most people don't understand that.
In general it is a misconception that real data always follows a normal distribution. It is true that if you sum many /independent/ random quantities, then the result is approximately normal (e.g., the central limit theorem and generalizations). But real data tends not to be independent. Many real world quantities follow extremely skewed distributions. E.g, Zipf's law, Korcak's law, Pareto's laws.

For a concrete example, if you look at the distribution of the number of friends users have on social networks, you might expect that 95% of people have the mean number of friends +/- a few standard deviations (since this would be the case for a normal distribution). It would be virtually impossible for someone with a number of friends that is say thousands of standard deviations away to exist, yet there will be many such users in social networks (celebrities, bot networks, etc). In reality, the empirical distribution in this case follows an extremely skewed distribution.
This story is about full-disk encryption going bad, but it could just as easily be the hard drive dying, or another software bug that corrupts the disk.

If you have a Mac, get an AirPort Time Capsule. This gives you automatic, hourly backups. The importance of automatic cannot be overstated. If you have multiple Macs, they can all backup the same Time Capsule.

You can save a little money using an external hard drive, but how often are you (or your family members) going to remember to plug it in and run Time Machine? Once a week?
The cliffs sound small enough and difficult enough to scale that you wouldn't have "tons" of tourists, and it's possible that those areas are already protected.
The money arguably ends up in the hands of the sellers. The buyer maybe gets a little more buying power (but the people they are competing with are getting that too).
but you can usually hear their screeching at night.
The mystery of the blend (2009)
well popularly (non-scientifically) relativity is thought to mean that a measurement is relative, and that's generally an older concept than Einstein, even though classical mechanics have a more limited scope of quantities that are measured relatively (position, velocity). There are still things in einstein's theory of relativity that aren't relative, even which would have been relative in the classical system (the speed of light). And the initial math outlays (lorentz transformations) are exactly as I described them, shutting down the possibility that the speed of light is relative, creating an "absolute" measurement.
That was a good podcast. It mentioned how when legislators took on payday lenders, the lenders just went out of business. There just isn't a reasonable way to provide low cost loans that have a high default rate. It's like trying to outlaw gravity to prevent plane crashes. You are free to open a low cost lending operation in a rough neighborhood, but you will go out of business in a matter of weeks.
New Service Uses Artificial Intelligence to Keep Your Kids Safe Online
It would seem to me that the act of choosing isn't but deciding which alternative is preferred. And so impossible to separate completely from prior conditions or influences. So the question would then become what does "determined" mean in your definition?
I agree but only if all front-end aspects your application is 100% built in-house. Otherwise, you have framework styles, 3rd party plugin/library styles, etc. Sometimes you have to lean on !important and it's OK - not something to bug yourself out over.
Can you elaborate on how you perceive the difference between the two examples here? Being financially foolish and negligent seem both to apply to your experience.

"Was I being outright financially foolish ordering $100 bottles of Chardonnay at the club? Not at all. Was I being financially negligent ordering whatever small thing came my way that I wanted?"
>Tokyo. That's a far bigger city in a country with a failing economy, but is clean, pleasant, and orderly in every direction.

The country may have a failing economy but it's also a vastly different culture to a degree that makes it hard to compare. London is probably the fairer comparison.

I'm not really going to defend Manhattan though. I lived there one summer--albeit in the 80s as a student when there was a lot worse things about it than today. But, much as I do like visiting from time to time, I'd never want to live there.
djb (D. J. Bernstein) is another great programmer who is known for producing virtually bug free code:

http://cr.yp.to/djb.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb
Certainly! I'm not arguing for any supernatural quality of consciousness. Instead I'm suggesting that free will may be defined as our (apparent) ability to influence the cycle of stimulus-response. We are (or at least I am) conscious, which seems best explained as a product of this cycle occurring. Consciousness may have a top-down influence that can affect the deterministic chain of events. I suppose the answer lies in whether or not we are responsible (even in part) for physical changes in the brain. Which seems hard to prove...

Edit: impossible to prove if we consider this a self-referential first order logical system
One thing I never understood is, were there other trees around that one? Are they also as old?
If you don't mind me asking, what are your biggest complaints with Circle or Travis?

My work might be looking for a CI provider and those 2 are the first ones that come to mind.
I wonder how did javafx script work. I mean, I could see it working for a very simple application with a few widgets, but a full-blown application? I mean, you'd have to write the entire application in pseudo-javascript, and most calls would be to Java standard library which would look ugly (just as Nashorn JavaFX code does)...
So what happens when you take away all business related credit card debt? Specifically anyone with a small business or related activity?
The same kind of thing happened to NASA back in 2012 with some news group. Both little and big names can screw people over with this.
I think it would be pretty cool if you used it whenever someone visited your site. For example, if I came to your homepage and then you showed me the other versions that _I could have seen_ and explained why you showed me this one that might prove that using your product works.
That is overly charitable. Google does not vet Content ID claims to be sure that the claimer is actually the copyright owner. Lots of smaller content producers get takedown notices when a bigger player steals content, reuploads it, and then issues Content ID takedown notices to the original creator.
Hubble just captured one of the coolest photos of Mars ever taken
If I understand this guy right, he's basically saying that the uncertainty principle is just a statement about our ability to measure things, rather than a statement about the actual reality about what variables (hidden or not) are stored by each particle.

I used to think the same, and intuitively this still seems right to me, but apparently there's been a bunch of experiments based on the Bell Inequality that prove that we're wrong.
I guess all those Chick fil A ads worked
It is legal to photograph a military base (or any other government property, for that matter) in the US, provided that you do it from the public right-of-way (or any other place you would otherwise have a right to be). Unfortunately, MPs, sheriff's deputies, and municipal police officers (if applicable) are very likely to hassle you about it anyway, and possibly also detain you on any convenient pretext, should you attempt it.

This had bred a variety of protester that will stand on the public sidewalk, photographing things, until a cop shows up. The police encounter is recorded in its entirety. Depending on what the cop does, the protester may then sue for rights violations, and typically receives a settlement offer after the judge sees the video, which then gets posted to the Internet to fan your outrage.
Yes, I agree with what you said. Thank you for putting it so concisely: the proprietor's intent does matter in how I view a company.

Good intent does not necessarily mean beneficence, but it should be noted when the owner's have good versus bad intent.
Are you laughing because privacy and other digital rights aren't currently protected as rigorously as they should be?
I haven't mailed a rent check in quite some time, my old property management company used paylease to accept online rent payments ($2 fee to pay with ACH, but at least I didn't have to mail a check). My current rental I just pay the property owner directly through Wells Fargo SurePay to her Chase account, works great and no fees for either of us (which makes for a happy me not having to mail a check, and a happy property owner who doesn't have to lose a cent of her rent just to accept payment).

I do not miss mailing checks in, and I do not wish to ever do it again.
I think she's trying to imply that we should not jump into coding without putting in some thought on all possible scenarios. Obviously there is no way that anyone can tabulate all possible scenarios, but the time spent on dwelling on possibilities helps to avoid initial flurry of bugs after a feature is deployed.
Doesn't matter.

When given the choice between

"I believe that God doesn't exist"

and

"I don't believe that God exists"

>99% of atheists would choose the latter as better representing their personal stance on the matter. Further, almost all would additionally agree that if there were evidence for God's existence, they would believe.

The concept of "faith" is not one that resonates with atheists. Christians however, love to pretend that disbelieving requires just as much magical thinking as believing, and this is a classic example.
And why are your hands full? Because you didn't take time to think.
Oh, I got it. It's the difference between "I am uncertain" and "It is uncertain". That makes sense.

First discussion that happens in an undergrad quantum mechanics class.

Teacher: "It is uncertain"
Student: "Can't we measure it better?"
Teacher: "No, it is unknowable, no matter what"
Student: "Wtf?"
In a country with a GDP per capita (not per adult, to be clear - this includes non-adults) of around $50k, why would you feel that's terrifying?
Imagine an infinite line and a spinner[1] a short distance away from it. Spin the spinner, wait for it to stop, and then mark the point on the line that the spinner is point directly at (or away from). Repeat lots of times. The resulting points have a Cauchy distribution. If you tried to figure out where the spinner was along the line by taking the arithmetic mean of the points, you would fail miserably. Taking the median is much more likely to give you a good answer.

That was still a somewhat contrived example to demonstrate the point, but if you replace the spinner's pointing with photons, you realize that a Cauchy distribution describes the intensity of light shining on a flat surface from a point light source[2].

[1] That is, one of these things: http://www.ontrack-media.net/math8/m8m5l1image13.jpg

[2] http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/36037/5736
I work with a lot of people who have desktops. I have two. I haven't seen anyone use a traditional desktop with touch. No one. Not once. My girlfriend is a 2d artist and she uses a wacom tablet for digital painting in photoshop. That's it.

I always disliked the huge buttons that come by default with some desktop environments, and I'm amazed the argument is "people use touch". As far as I and everyone around me is concerned, no they don't.

If it's an accessibility issue, it should be an optional solution for those who need it, not the default.
As external observers, I think we could equate free will with nondeterminism or randomness. If a system can choose arbitrarily between more than one state with absolutely no outside influence, then by all appearances it has free will regarding that choice.

It's more difficult if we have to consider the internal, subjective state of the system. A radioactive particle probably doesn't experience anything we could identify with when it "chooses" to decay. And the experience we imagine to be free will could in fact be entirely deterministic, even if other aspects of the universe are nondeterministic. But if we can rule out any kind of nondeterminism in the universe, then we can rule out free will.
Project Ara Lives: Google’s Modular Phone Is Ready for You Now
Which is my point, the DMCA really has nothing to do with this, its all YouTube's TOS/EULA.
Yeah, but it's easier to think tweet-sized thoughts.
... and of course you are not using a cellphone... otherwise most of your other efforts would be pointless...
Of course there are debit cards, there are just really good reasons to stick with credit cards.
Unwinnable battle, that one.
> Chance events play a much larger role in life than many people once imagined.

Wrong wrong wrong. If your parents are wealthy you're successful because of them. If you're white you're successful because of your race. If you're male, tall... Don't forget if you're good looking and outgoing! /s

At some point we'll exhaust all excuses for success in life other than grit, dedication, and plain old hard work. Chance is just another one down the line.
> Freddie and Fannie were/are the epitome of privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

The article says precisely the opposite:

> But now, with the unsealing of documents this week that were produced as part of a lawsuit filed against the government, new evidence is coming to light on how intimately the White House was involved in the Treasury’s decision in August 2012 to keep all the companies’ profits for the government. That move effectively maintained Fannie’s and Freddie’s status as wards of the state.
> Music could and should be locally stored.

With Spotify and YouTube, I access dozens of new songs every day, songs I have never heard before. Would I have to purchase each of these songs, download them, and put them on the device in advance?
Unified API for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Box.com (Free Android Library)
I would argue that you cannot make a cloud-powered device idiot-proof. Inevitably the network will hiccup and you will have to be tech-savvy to fix it.

I predict a consumer backlash against smart devices once people realize just how dumb they become without the cloud.
Why science needs to break the spell of reductive materialism
There are HDDs and SSDs that do the encryption themself, rather than just being a dumb storage medium. You need to unlock it with the password or key when using it, and the disk will transparently encrypt and decrypt the contents on reads/writes.

One problem is that you have to trust the disk (manufacturer/firmware) to do this right. This is not so easy to verify yourself, and not all drives claiming FDE are equally secure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-based_full_disk_encry...

https://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hard...
> Well, paying $240 for a $200 loan over twelve months as opposed to $230 for a $200 loan over three weeks certainly lowers the APR, but it also makes the loan more expensive. I don't think people really care about APR for its own sake.

Pay $40 in interest every 52 weeks, annual cost: $40

Pay $30 in interest every 3 weeks, annual cost: $520

> As an empirical matter, a lot of the people who do badly by using payday loans will not behave in the way you're suggesting -- they will spend the money they have, and are likely to need another loan next month anyway (although getting it will be harder since they now have an outstanding loan).

That problem is not caused by lenders.
Initially I thought the verbosity mattered but there was gains to be made restructuring my CSS too and it forced me to fill in some knowledge gaps so overall it was a big gain with a very small gain in bytes.

I reached BEM via AirBNB's CSS style guide - to me the real value in these style guides is I don't have to care about formatting CSS, JS etc anymore.

http://github.com/airbnb/css
What Living Abroad Taught Me About Software Development
I can't find the author's GitHub. Someone?
Slaves could walk away by 'purchasing' themselves. Or by escaping and not getting caught. Or by being freed by masters/authorities for various reasons.

> "And don't bother to make the argument they can't walk away for economical reasons. It's still a whole different thing."

This is the key thing. Slaves in the past couldn't walk away for economic reasons as well (i.e. many of them couldn't purchase themselves and become free). Also, today, if you're a US citizen, in order to renounce citizenship, you need to have another citizenship, which usually takes many years to get. So, it's very difficult to escape US Taxman, which takes half of your income (i.e you work half of the time for the Taxman).

Slaves today are little bit more free than those in the past. But, not by much.
Again, you're nitpicking with the term 'slave'. It's like saying 'cats don't walk', because they don't walk as humans. You don't have to walk as a human to be labeled as 'walking'. Likewise, you don't have to be literally in chains to be labeled a 'slave'. But, people who benefit from slave labor, like the author of the post, don't want the term 'slave' be used, because it would expose him a scumbag.
DIY Dev Kit Lets You Start Building 'Daydream' Android VR Apps Today
This article seems to completely confuse free will with determinism. You can be non-deterministic without having free will, it doesn't matter whether it's equations of motion or truly random chance that pushes you in a particular direction, there's still no room for 'choice' in your resulting motion.
It wasn't news to any public investors that Fannie/Freddie is a quasi-governmental organization. Investors angered that they can't reap the rewards without paying for past/present/future risk and bad debt are also asking for more than they deserve. They were betting that they could spin off the government's stake after the government did their dirty work for them. The stock price should have been their signal that the government was wiping out that hope.
I'm missing something, can you help me understand?

Wouldn't ethernet cables have the same issues? Does the increased power flowing through power lines somehow amplify the signal? Is that pretty much the definition of what a power amplifier in a radio does, add juice to a signal on an antenna so it gets broadcast further?
How do you pay rent with credit?
I don't know how general this is, but I'd say it's common for banks to cover also fraud costs for the customers in Europe. Be it fraudulent debit card payments or Internet banking transactions, I've seen news of banks covering the customer's ass on both.

Not sure how often they can reclaim the money, and how often they just take the loss for better publicity.
Even writing a stand alone module, you can get some weirdness... A module I recently wrote is injected into an element at the end of the body with a specific MyModuleName as the id attribute... all of my rules were nested #MyModuleName .foo, unfortunately, even with a reset for MyModuleName div... there were some things I didn't catch, only because something else in the project it was being embedded in had defined .foo, and properties I didn't think to reset.

If you're writing a module, best to prefix each class with some abbreviation. `#MyModuleName .mmn-foo` ... much less likely to clash, still need the `#MyModuleName div` reset, but it's better than dealing with weird integration issues.
The history of the United States is littered with equal tragedies. Less censorship, yes, but plenty of abuse and corruption. Try talking to members of the Black Lives Matter movement and get their take about freedom and justice in America.

We need to be careful about the stones we throw.
Konami in this case owns copyright to the game, and ironically the original YouTube poster might have a (weak) case against the original aired Family Guy episode and Fox.
Docker Birthday App infra: building for resiliency and workload flexibility
It's a self-driving car. There is no driver.

You are indeed conscious, and do indeed have thoughts. What the article discusses is that the overwhelming evidence seems to show your thoughts are generated by deterministic/proabilistic physical processes, and that in fact your conscious thoughts occur after your decisions are already made and often serve only as post-hoc justifications of what you already did.

Consciousness is just another component in the car. It doesn't determine or influence where the car is going. Perhaps the most valuable part of consciousness is it provides an effective way to use reflection which can communicate data about the internal state of the car to the other cars. (Often this data is objectively inaccurate, but still serves the interest of the car or the fleet.)
If a person's choice is mostly determined by the state of their brain at the moment of choosing, would that count as a "prior condition"?

It would mean the choice is mostly determined by their "self", but the definition you give isn't clear about whether that would count as free will or not.
"Could care less" is widely understood to mean exactly what we all know it means.
I don't understand what you mean by "it's all the same government." If you were being oppressed and murdered and starved in 1940, it wasn't the Communist government, it was probably the Japanese Empire. In 1900 it was the old imperial government. In between you probably had the chance to be oppressed and murdered and starved by the Republic of China, who are now the government of Taiwan.

I'm not defending the Chinese government nor am I denying the role that propaganda plays in shaping public opinion there (as it does everywhere). But it is not only propaganda which does this. Life in China is much better compared to how it was in 1949, and part of the public's view of the government is due to that.
Your parents and your genetics are the randomest outcome of all; you don't get or pick where you're born, or to whom.
Misleading title, should be "When You Forget to Take Backups". FDE only (slightly) raises the stakes of not having backups by making a system (a little bit) more fragile.
You are correct. I removed the "are".
Wow, I never considered the combination of a large broadcasting company that produces original content using sampled material from the internet and then automatically sending ContentID takedowns for said sampled content. It's like a takedown feedback loop.
Except Python2 is the POSIX standard on how to handle this and I prefer retro OSs without a bytes/string distinction.

Python3 is the Windows way of handling strings so the change was pure churn. Both are valid, but Linux is "pretty popular" right? So why break everyone's code just to churn the pot.

If it was good for Kernigan and Richie, good for Joe Ossanna, good for Robert Pike well it's good enough for me.