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No, sorry, I wasn't talking about you, if I came off like that, I worded things badly. I'm still processing what I've been through and rants on HN are the result.

I mistakingly assumed everyone has heard of the maxim attributed to Churchill. It's a bit flippant, but there is some truth to it if you look past the surface meaning. The world is fundamentally run by money and power, two things 'conservatives' are stereotypically obsessed with. When you see that 'liberals' can be driven by those two things as well, then how society really operates becomes a lot clearer.

As for my post, I was trying to say the legal system is inadequate for some things. In a small community, there are social mechanisms by which the group can deal with problematic people, if the group steps up to the task. Western society today is not a "small community" but perhaps the rise of social networking etc allows for this. The problem then becomes acting with integrity, and trying to deal with the issue evenhandedly - I am of course assuming the Tor Board did its best here. It's unfortunate those that things needed to get to the point where there was enough of a public outcry to finally address the issue - as I understand it, people have been complaining about Appelbaum for years (same as for Jian Ghomeshi in Canada). But that is how it usually works - people "knew" about Bill Cosby and Jimmy Saville for years but the issue never got addressed.

How can communities police themselves without having to rely on an external authority or hierarchy? Always relying on the legal system as the external authority is impracticable.
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It's an entire genre from the early 2000s called "synthwave" (or "retrowave"). The band that did the intro is called S U R V I V E, some other noteworthy bands are GUNSHIP and Kavinsky. They're heavily inspired by 80s movies, particularly John Carpenter's.
> roughly, those requiring an agent to rapidly gain an understanding of existing unstandardized systems

So, basically, machine learning.

Look, the tech is not there yet for an automated plumber, which is why it does not exist yet. 20 years ago we did not have the tech for automated driving but it finally got there.

I see machine learning improve every year, These last few years have seen a huge rise of popularity of deep learning approaches. And since the DeepDream gizmo, we hear less people talking about how creativity can't be automated.

Yes, in 20 years the tech will be here for a piece of software to figure out where the pipes must be in a house, make plans to test different hypothesis, plan a procedure of intervention, wiggle tubes together to make them fit without any other human instructions than "this tap does not work, go fix it". I have some supicions on what the correct way to go is, and am fairly confident that some other ways exist and that we will find one that will work.

I can't comment on AGI from this point. It really depends on your definitions. Some make AGI an unachievable goal. Under common and reasonnable definitions, yes, we will be close by then but we already are not very far.

And in my earlier comments I talk about 95% of unemployement just to cut some of the philosophical debate, but naturally I expect that we will reach 100% pretty quickly.
I agree that this sucks, but not doing it that way is dangerous for the company because developers might not care enough about license compliance when they include some stuff into their project.
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Apple will honor the autoplay attribute on the html5 video element starting with iOS 10.

In their example they state that this will allow animated gifs that got converted into a video to autoplay.

But this is also interesting for developers like me that use a video as background on their landing page, because previously the video would not autoplay until the user clicks somewhere, now with sound turned off the video will autoplay, at least on iOS > 9.

I also guess this is good news for Facebook that has more and more videos in a users timeline which can't autplay on iOS. Now they will autoplay in iOS > 9, as Facebook turns the sound off by default anyway.
Isn't clicking "like" a form of empathy?
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Is this true or rumor ?!
This is all optional. You can just ... not add the one line to the cargo.toml and manually specify your favorite http library. Folks using many of these libraries or people new to the language can just specify rust-platform deps. This has the added benefit of bringing in versions that are known to work well together -- because of semver this isn't usually a problem, but people aren't perfect so sometimes things break. An added guarantee against that is nice to have.
169 United Kingdom is another.
> H.264 is worse, but at least it's available with pretty straightforward license terms (just pay).

That's pretty much discriminating against a wide range of software - namely Free and Open Source. VP9 on the other hand, is compatible with a such development model.
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Some of that sounds like he's having a bit of fun, not sure if I'm mistaken though
There's nothing wrong on making money even in this space: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...
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Of particular note: the core team takes action against bad behavour. I wish others would.

I'm not talking about Linus. Linus swears, I think that's almost OK. No, I'm talking about the people who go out of their way to be unpleasant. Some of them swear too, but saying fuck isn't the heart of what makes them bad. And I wish Linus wouldn't swear — he attracts too much criticism and shields people who could use a little headwind.

I'm going to donate to freebsd just for that.
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Antibiotic use in humans has rarely been a problem, it's the way that "restricted" antibiotics are used on lifestock freely and in large quantities that keeps screwing us over.
That's brexit right there.
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Meh, that's peanuts. You could take 5 months of holidays each year as a contractor and still earn more at the end of the year. Especially in places like London (UK) or Sydney (Australia). Senior software dev contractors in London can easily earn USD $800 per day.

Also, when working full time, if you take a sick day, your boss might look down on you and ask probing questions like "Are you feeling better?" to try to check that you were really sick (and to discourage you from taking more sick leave in the future).

If you're a contractor and you take a day off (for whatever reason), nobody will say anything - It's your business - You didn't get paid.

It feels a lot more natural and it eases a lot of tensions in the workplace.
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I still internally laugh at men who use umbrellas.
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Below are the minimum system requirements for the Vive:

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better

CPU: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better

RAM: 4 GB or more

Video Output: HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 or newer

USB Port: 1x USB 2.0 or better port

Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10

_____

And the Oculus:

Video Card NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater

CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater

Memory 8GB+ RAM

Video Output Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output

USB Ports 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port

OS Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer

_____

The occy needs 2x the RAM and 4x the USB ports.
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Are you allowed to complain about food poisoning on Yelp?

My town, which coincidentally happens to be Oxford like in the article, has its own local site "Daily info" which includes user-submitted restaurant reviews, and the review form asks you not to make allegations of food poisoning (presumably for legal reasons) and to submit possible food poisoning reports to the local authorities for investigation instead.

I note the Chinese takeaway I got food from last week shows up on this map as a bright red blob...
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>At the end of the boom is a hand which grabs and arranges the bricks, securing them with construction glue instead of cement.
Related to this are emails between Clinton campaign advisor Philippe Reines and Marc Ambinder, a politics editor at The Atlantic. The emails showed a quid pro quo in which Ambinder used certain words and descriptions as requested in exchange for an advance copy of an HRC speech.

http://gawker.com/this-is-how-hillary-clinton-gets-the-cover...
I think everyone had high hopes for Kinect. When it launched, it was the fastest selling consumer device of all time, and it looked for a while like it would help open the XBox platform up to a new audience of casual gamers who weren't into epic-sized shooting games.

What did for Kinect wasn't really anything Microsoft did so much as the market deciding that they wanted the smartphone to be the centre of their universe for gaming with the TV a peripheral. That that would turn out to be the case wasn't at all obvious in 2010.
For contrast, with .NET Core, Microsoft decided to cut up .NET's quite extensive stdlib (BCL + FCL) into packages. On paper, it looks pretty good, but it remains to see how well the versioning will work in the long run.
I like FreeBSD but after getting used to systemd I can't go back to systems without useful init systems anymore.

Maybe at some point one of the BSDs will implement a new, cleaner init system.
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France seems to be centered on Siberia or something.

You can see Polynesia at bottom right, Southern and Antarctic Lands at bottom left, mainland at center left, and the territories in the Americas at the top.
There are a whole set of naval names for places, like Leghorn. They are falling into disuse now though.
If any freebsd people read this, could you please have a quick look at ff-wbe1.nyi.freebsd.org, which is thanking me for my generous donation once per minute?
> Individuals tended to experience their work as meaningful when it mattered to others more than just to themselves.

Can this be applied to art as well? Isn't the meaning of a work of art the greatest to the artists themselves?
Well there is the Dunedin Study [0], which is similar to what you're talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunedin_Multidisciplinary_Heal...
Mandelbrot on the "fractal dimension" of coastlines:

http://users.math.yale.edu/~bbm3/web_pdfs/howLongIsTheCoastO...

The figure under "The Richardson Effect" on this page has some examples of how measured length of coastlines scales with the the scale of measurement:

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/worksh...
The software running HN is written in the Arc language [1], whose interpreter is written in Racket.

[1]: http://arclanguage.org/
Bank of America made $168M last quarter, more or less (2014)
Maybe the media professionals at the NYT know that they're overdoing it, massively, and doing it anyway because they want Trump to win the presidency but also want plausible deniability?

Or maybe that's just what they want me to think and what they really...

Maybe it's all about Iocane Powder.
or, the change in acidity from acid on the outside to alkaline on the inside provides a niche for these bacteria
>No more productivity drop when github is down

It could have been the motto of RhodeCode (https://rhodecode.com). Self-hosted repository management not only has a benefit of having one's uptime under control, but also is much more secure.
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It's hard to disentangle things, as publicly-sector-developed drugs also rely on privately-funded research.

For a simple example, an academic or non-profit group might get reduced cost access to research materials and software.

Also, publicly-funded research may have a mix of funding sources, including private philanthropy and for-profit companies.
vive is blowing them out of the water currently with VR though, and Palmer is not improving the situation at all with his antics.
It is a blanket "Never be sued over any patents" statement.

That makes it quite problematic, because if you, as a company, want to implement WebRTC compatible with Chrome, Google can now use all your patents for free, and you can't do anything about it.

It heavily surpresses innovation in the sector - existing big players can easily make a patent deal, but a new startup?
Carpenter Brut will blow your socks off - seriously good stuff:

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At the bottom might be more defined by geography than anything else. For example, Norway.
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Yes, but imagine you're a startup which has developed a bunch of awesome new algorithms, and patented them.

And now you want to use them in combination with VP.9.

As soon as you do, Google can use your algorithms and patents without ever paying you, and you can't sue them for it, or your product can't use VP.9 anymore.

How fucked up is that? That's a huge cost there for startups that's always treated as "free" while in reality it can be selling out your entire product for a video codec.
Check that you're not making a donation per minute too :)
Simply can't stand Stern after all the weird lying and posturing shit he did regarding Anthony Cumia and Gregg Hughes.

I also have a strong distaste for Jewish and American aesthetics.
>>The TSA was created for legit safety/security purposes.

No

>> The answer is not regressing to poorly trained and poorly organized DIY security operations.

The answer lies in not giving up essential liberty for promises of safety

The goal of Terrorism is to scare people so badly they give up their own way of life "voluntarily" because they are scared, in that the terrorist have won
> What about the next question – how did the models do? Amazingly well. [...] This means that since 1992, the models have been within 3% of the measurements.
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Sure, yet VP9 is discriminating against about every startup with innovative patented algorithms that also wants to support VP.9

At the example of Pied Piper from SiliconValley: If they used VP.9 for video encoding before compressing and sending it, Google/hooli would now have the right to use their (potentially) patented algorithm for whatever they want, without ever getting sued.

Now that's great, eh?
> while VS is still proprietary, VSCode is open source

And the two are completely different products
This is "power corrupts" at play.

People in power almost always try to increase their level of control, essentially centralizing the power structure of the entity. At some point of time the entity is completely inefficient and collapses under its own weight (rules, bureaucracy).

You can see this everywhere where power can be centralized: companies, organizations, nation states.

Ironically, successful leaders these days often do the opposite of leading, they decentralize, making the company much more efficient (assuming there are still sub-entities that can/want to be efficient).
If a person told you about the IDs and you then used this resulting info, is it insider trading?

I wonder how many degrees away from the base info you have to be for it to be an issue
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Czarist Russia wasn't totalitarian in that it didn't try to become paternalistic Alpha and Omega for its citizens. It was a typical XIX century monarchial state.

On related note, Soviet Communists on a good day murdered more civilians than Czarist Russia did in a decade.
I'm not sure MySpace ever really knew what it wanted to achieve, other than providing a lot of inventory for ads.

Very little effort went into ever evolving the user experience beyond a v1, the backend underpinning it all was legendarily bad, and there was no concept of ad personalization whatsoever.

MySpace kind of stumbled across Music as a product direction, and developed something that was a bit like an ahead of its time version of Soundcloud, but discovery was still horrible and by then people were migrating to Facebook anyway.
I've done so in various other replies.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12175582
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Why do you need to ask everyone about everything everyday? That's called micromanaging. Their non-compliance is a message.

Try trusting them instead.

Signed,
Micromanagee
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Funny cuz in Tokyo everyone uses an umbrella, the reasoning I heard from a co-worker being if everyone else rain jackets the trains would be a mucky mess
option 1) S was created at AT&T, the home of UNIX and C. Imagine if statistical functionality had been made a standard part of C rather than developing a new language. While C is maybe not that popular anymore, current languages like Java and C# inherit from it, and we would have a world in which statistical functions were taken as given as part of the default libraries of any language.

option 2) Use another standard language like LISP. This actually was done in the excellent LISP-STAT system. Unfortunately it came out at kind of the wrong time for LISP. These days LISP is kind of undergoing a renaissance with Clojure, Racket, LFE, etc., but in the 1990s it was more associated with the failed AI efforts of the symbolic school and LISP was just seen as this weird thing with lots of parentheses by many people.

The thing is I use R every day. But like everybody else, I bury it under lots of add ons like Hadley's and others to make it palatable by hiding as much of the absurd R syntax as possible. That's like dumping ketchup on foul tasting food. Is this really what we want to do?
Thanks, will have that in mind, as its' not up to me to allocate funds for consulting, etc.

Any idea how much can such a service cost, assuming web application with a very common stack (such as Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL)? Is it something like $5k, $10k, or $20k+? Or it really depends? Sorry if it's a very amateur question, I have no experience in dealing with such companies so have no clue how much can it cost.
I hate AMP so much. It hijacks the scrolling mechanism and makes it impossible to share the link.
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If you use same password to login to multiple servers and if one server is compromised via SHA collision (which the author assumes to be much faster than password brute force), then basically all the servers are compromised (since they have same hash).

The author proposes to have different hashes in each different servers but user only have to know one password. This is achieved by this shadowd.

So, if one server is compromised, the others are still safe.

(Consider this as a beginning to understand the rest of the README)
http://endlessparentheses.com/new-in-emacs-25-1-archive-prio... is what I'm most looking forward to – being able to prefer stable versions, but install unstable if there is no stable release =D
The estimate of the distance from the equator to the North Pole was off by about 20%, though.
I also agree, as I have been through what happens when developers do exactly that and then it gets discovered the worse way.
If you are worried about telemetry, like some people are, the only version that allows completely disabling it is Windows 10 Enterprise.

Having said that, the main reason for at least initiating the update is to mark your existing key as "Windows 10 eligible". After the upgrade is complete, you can easily roll back to the previous OS version (from within Windows, trivial and no side effects) and you can continue working on Windows 8.1 while now having a valid Windows 10 key for the future.

You can also perform the above procedure using a VM snapshot, upgrading, and then simply using your snapshot instead.

If you are a developer using Windows as your main OS, a very strong reason to upgrade and not roll back is the upcoming Anniversary Update. This will bring the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" which means you can natively run the entire Ubuntu userspace, like bash, tmux etc. That is pretty exiting!

IMO if you rarely use the VM in question, your top priority should be future-proofing your Windows 8 key.
But isn't requests built off of urllib?

The thing I like about python is it gives tools for library writers to build things without going too low level.

Application writers will always write with better libs, but don't have to worry about third party lib compatiblity on platforms because of the stdlib serving as a virtual machine (most of the time)
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> certainly did not erase pre-existing Russian national pride

It did. Crushing pre-existing Russian national pride was central to Soviet dogma, they called it "великодержавный шовинизм".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korenizatsiya#Against_Great-Ru...
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I wonder if they will get the same result if they plot the countries as shapes in a physics engine and roll them down the hill.
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There was a short story, which appeared in one of the HP calculator-centric publications of the 70's or 80's, I think written by a certain George R.R. Martin or Gordon Dickson, which attempted to extrapolate the HP 41CX into a portable voice activated assistant that could schedule appointments for you. I remember thinking that was pretty far fetched for a calculator. I don't think it would have made much more sense if the author had referred to the device as a "phone"...
And meanwhile the US Department of Defense, as of 2009, had 27,000 employees working in public relations / propaganda and contracts out the development of astroturfing software. Government-paid shills are not unique to Russia, and this article does nothing to prove that Russia was involved with the DNC emails.

Beyond that, it doesn't matter who leaked / hacked the emails. If Putin was behind it, then he did a great service to open democracy in the US.
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The strongest contender (which also happens to be cross-platform), from what I can tell, is nosh (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493926).
I'm curious, what is it you find messy about FreeBSD's init system? Personally I prefer it to systemd.

(I know these topics can get quite heated, but I'm genuinely not looking to start a flame war).
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10065243
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The VPx cross-license does not work that way.

You are granted patents to use VPx (you can not use these patents outside VPx scope) and you are granting patents necessary to use VPx[1]. If you have some other patents that are not necessary for the VPx, they are not subject of the cross-license.

[1] - "that must necessarily be infringed by the act of Exploiting Licensed Products in the Licensed Field of Use"
Discussion on original blog post was yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166585
Who would design a feeder that only worked if the server was online? Wow.
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