skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. Typically you won't see radio/streaming services messing around with reverb, but certainly different stereo systems have their own EQ (changes phase, amplitude) and often times the format/bitrate (again: phase, amplitude) or loudness (amplitude) will be different.

Most people don't realize this, but usually artists/labels will have a different mastered version of a song on each platform. Spotify, for instance, has it's own normalization algorithm that it puts tracks through to even out the listening experience in terms of loudness (RMS). Of course artists and their mastering engineers want to have some control over how that sounds, so they will change it.
It's not like cop cars are suddenly aggressive. The current challengers, Tauruses, and Explorers are at least no more aggressive than the previous Crown Vics.
IIRC there was also an optional pay-once lifetime subscription available.
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lol, if only it was that simple. Both ends of the spectrum are easy to achieve. Putting body in catabolic state (reduce calories, increase activity, go Keto etc.) will get rid of fat and it will also reduce the "bulkiness" of the muscles (water, glycogen etc.). Put body in anabolic state (strength training, more calories/macros) and it will grow (and subsequently more fat, glycogen and water). Of course, your body and genetics will try to fight hard to maintain equilibrium. But with enough persistence, it can be broken through (up to an extent). Lyle McDonald has some good writings on this.

There are some middle ways, that people have come up with. But
all these require extreme dedication, planning and sacrifices.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ketogains
https://www.reddit.com/r/leangains
Not really a straw man, this is quite relevant in the context of companies like Apple which act on both sides of the patent dispute field. Apple did try to enforce patents which should not have been granted in the first place because the claims were either not new (slide to unlock is a good example) or overly broad (the mentioned design patent on 'rounded corners', read the actual patent application to see why it is called such). On the other hand Apple does get sued by companies holding equally nonsensical patents.

This is really a case of 'live by the sword, die by the sword', although the actual sum - even though every cent paid out to a patent troll is one too many - will not hurt Apple very much.
Ok, Looking around now the fees are higher for stock than i remembered.. so excluding IB yeah the cheapest I know of is optionshouse/tradeking at $5 for stocks.
JW, where are you located?
> For example, set up an EFF like non-profit whose mission is to invalidate bad patents

Microsoft (yes, even the polished up, lipstick on a pig, "new Microsoft") benefits from "bad patents" waaay more than it loses to a few random patent trolls. It actually lobbied to stop the elimination of "business method" patents, which are just lawyer-written garbage.

http://bgr.com/2013/05/01/microsofts-android-licensing-agree...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/20...

Fortunately, business method patents are on their last legs thanks to Supreme Court's "Alice" ruling, but they can still cause damage (or profits, depending from which perspective you're look at it):

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/08/04/are-business-method-pat...
I agreed, people laughed at him when he went to Russia to spend his paypal money to buy rockets. Everyone counted him out and he almost did lose everything in 2008. They were really lean, and down to their last buck til the last minute NASA deal was landed, and the rest is history as they say. He's a genius and has a sense of perseverance that we haven't seen since the Wright Brothers -- two other people who were laughed at and ridiculed. I could imagine the author of this blog post writing the same thing about their stupid flying contraption.
Mars is like Antarctica or Sahara, but much worse, why would people want to live their lives there? I can understand scientists or perhaps adventurers living there for a 2 year shift. But why would anyone want to spend time there if it's a worse place to live than Earth in almost every regard?

By the way, I'm a big SpaceX fan and I hope there will be an outpost on Mars, but a self-sustaining city is just unrealistic, sadly.
Current complaints are about the language not being free enough.

And kind of boring looking.
> I recently gave up playing golf when I finally realized I had spent 20 years practicing being angry.

You should read The Inner Game of Tennis. Actually I think there's a version about golf as well. That book has been a life changer for many people and it is exactly about what it seems you have been experiencing.
Re marking up the spread:

That is against the law and not really possible the way the market works (market forces push down spreads bc there is value to liq providers to capture order flow. Brokers have to display best quote). You are guaranteed a crack at the best bid/offer. See: reg NMS
I live in the US and I wasn't able to sign up... Good luck.
It's a very odd one. It'd leave Microsoft and possibly Yahoo the only companies willing and able to pay phone companies to install their search, and Microsoft's historically been a lot more obnoxious about it, paying them to prevent users from switching to alternative search engines.
Give them a moment, would you? We all want justice, but going against two megacorporations at the same time would be sheer folly.
Completely agree. My volume is high but I do upper body x 2 per week and lower x 1. And that works just fine. I run 40 miles a week though as well.
Why do I have to be pro- or anti- anything? I'm ambivalent about homosexuals. And that's on days when I even think about homosexuals.

Why can't I observe that it's convenient for a propaganda machine to highlight an enemy's mistreatment of a marginalized class?

Your comment typifies the mental short-circuiting that identity politics encourages. I suggest you not take everything so personally, and stop defaulting to the supposition that anything you don't agree with must be bigoted.
I was impressed with the price given the specs and the design. I'm not aware of anything equivalent that's much cheaper than this.
My read on the announcement is that they won't be taking action against the StartCom CA & intermediates at this time.

The WoSign existing-certs exemption probably involves a whitelist they're shipping along with the OS. A lot of the feasibility discussions on this approach have centered on the size of the required whitelist [1]. Taking the same approach with StartCom may not be possible due to the scale. Also, StartCom certificates don't have the same coverage in the Certificate Transparency logs - so the certificate dating is problematic.

Hmmm, thinking about this now, if I were Wosign, I would be having a fire sale on StartCom. Selling the brand immediately (maybe to an existing competent CA) and asking the trust store operators for understanding (probably conditioned on full CT reporting) might be a way to recoup some losses out of all this mess.

Representatives of Qihoo 360, StartCom, and Mozilla are meeting in London next week. I'm very curious what they will be discussing. [2]

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/...
$201k base with 15% bonus target. In management. Bay Area.
The actual orders are handled by Apex Clearing. Apex sells this client flow to a mix of Citadel, KCG, and a few others [0].

[0] - https://d2ue93q3u507c2.cloudfront.net/assets/robinhood/legal...
>Also, wearing black uniforms is ridiculous.

why? if they are oppressors, they may as well look the part.
Agreed - core strength is critical especially for exercises like deadlifts & squats. A strong core will help with stabilization when lifting heavier weights and will reduce your odds of injury.
Sounds pike localized outage. Works for me from cental europe.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but with all the autoplay video, javascript and such I'd think a facebook machine probably requires more memory and CPU power than a development machine.
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Really not sure why you'd think this is "doubling down"?

We've already gone through the StartCom verification process, but had only generated a few specific cert's for subdomains.

However, we're right now in the process of launching a new online project. No idea what subdomains will be needed in very near future.

It costs us no extra to generate wildcard ones, which obviously is the right move to do as they'll be valid while StartCom's new ones are no longer trusted (when Mozilla stops accepting new certs).

There's literally no way we could afford to pay for new certs from an alternative registrar instead.
I think this is really important. Nothing can destroy the excitement of starting a new life regime than feeling broken and sore after your first day.
The bullet may have caused a failure that lead to an explosion a few seconds later.
If the EU get their way, you may not be able to change it anymore. Microsoft quite liked to pay companies to set Bing as the only search option and disable the setting to change it.
He's a pretty impressive enterpreneur, but haven't seen any evidence for the genius claim. Von Neumann, Gauss or Einstein were geniuses.
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/why-do-patent-trolls-g...

> Last year, there were just over 6,000 patent suits filed in federal courts around the country. One in four of those cases (24.54% to be exact) were filed in the Eastern District of Texas. But why do patent plaintiffs, especially trolls, see it as such a favorable forum? Partly, the district's relatively rapid litigation timetable can put pressure on defendants to settle. But other local practices in the Eastern District also favor patentees. And, in our view, they do so in a way that is inconsistent with the governing Federal Rules, and work to mask the consistent refusal by the courts in the Eastern District to end meritless cases before trial.

It has a reputation for being so favorable to software patents that it's worth setting up an office in the district just so you can have that judge decide your cases.
People can be selfish, delusional, and cruel. If you take the Western ideals of individualism, a person would be lucky not to have to deal with people like the easters. Matter of fact is, everyone will have to at one point in their life or another.
And yet, roughly 40,000 people make the trip to Everest Base Camp each year -- another desolate and inhospitable place with no tangible economy. An economist might say this is done for 'tourism', but I prefer Mallory's famous insight that people go 'because it's there'.

Ever since we came down from the trees, humans have been setting out on reckless and suicidal journeys for which there is no hope of return. Humanity spread over nearly the entire planet and found its way to countless isolated pacific islands before recorded history even began.

When the price and the science finally line up, there will be no shortage of wealthy old kooks happy to pony up the funds, accept the risk, and set off for the solar system's most exotic retirement.
I've watched Buffy, Angel, and Firefly several times all the way through (Firefly the most often, by far). Certainly, some of the magic of Buffy is gone when watching it as a middle aged man (I was an adult when watching it the first time, but just barely), but it's still enjoyable.

It was definitely a show that got better in the later seasons, but it was always funny and fun pop horror/fantasy, and the cast was excellent (except Michelle Trachtenberg's Dawn, who was just annoying). I think maybe Whedon's greatest talent back then was picking a good cast with great chemistry, which may be why Dollhouse failed so miserably, for me. So much of that cast was just wooden and utterly forgettable (I almost said "unlikable", but I can't remember anyone from the show other than Amy Acker and Eliza Dushku, so I can't even say I disliked the cast). Now that he's working with huge names, and the cast is already mostly set in stone, I'm not inclined to go see his films. I watched the first Avengers and remember it being funny, but not really anything else about it. The second was a snore.

Anyway, Angel was maybe more adult-friendly; at least it was intended to be, since no one could pretend David Boreanaz was young enough to be messing around with high school girls anymore. Though Buffy was always funnier.

But, Firefly is the best of them all. Surprisingly so, since all other Whedon shows are widely regarded as being best after they've had a season or so to find their rhythm. It seems reasonable to assume Firefly would have actually gotten better; the film hints at that potential. Though Serenity was rushed, it was still excellent, and would have made a top-notch series of episodes for the show if it'd been presented in that form.
Can I also ask how much tax people are paying?
I strongly recommend Al Ries and Jack Trout's classic product marketing books Marketing Warfare and Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind.
Because Apple, MS, and Cisco can afford to litigate cases and pay the occasional settlement, and smaller companies that might threaten Apple, MS, and Cisco's market dominance cannot. Therefore, it is at least somewhat in their interest for patent trolls to stick around, as a way of maintaining the status quo.
Some US soldiers, airmen, marines, and sailors in Iraq/Afghanistan are 18. It took about 6 months from entering BCT to being with the unit I deployed with. You can attend BCT and AIT or OSUT at 17. And you can deploy when you're 18.
And I'd buy this over a NUC... wait, why would I ever buy this over a NUC?
Crunched: has the games industry really stopped exploiting its workforce?
> If you are a strong-armed NFL quarterback who reads defenses like genre fiction, a movie star whose name alone can open a film in China, or a stock picker who beats Buffet every time, congratulations: you are almost as valuable as a data scientist or machine learning engineer with a PhD from Stanford, MIT, or Carnegie Mellon.

who reads this garbage?
Crawlpy: python crawler with login (handles CSRF), cust depth lvl and save to disk
Soon to be the second most expensive city.
Well, the actual design patent (670286) was really only about a device with rounded rectangles (if you look at the solid lines in their drawing as declared by them). And it was one of the points in their litigation. People remember history incidences with one lines that made them famous, but that doesn't make the fact incorrect. Also, the other points were almost equally ludicrous. There is no sweeping generalization here.
All of those however top out at 5V 2.5A.

With this new power spec, that is actually independent of the C plug spec, but unveiled at the same time, can go anywhere from 5V to 20V depending on negotiations between devices.

On top of that the C plug and the data speeds are also interchangeable. So you can get a C plug and 2 speed, or you can get an A plug and 3.1 speed.
With StartCom, once you've gone through the personal verification procedure you don't need to pay more money for new certs, nor wildcard ones.

So, no "doubling down" involved. Just a desire to have actually working certs before Mozilla's "to be announced" cut off date happens.

And then Apple comes along and (unless I'm misunderstanding) all of our certs will be useless. :(
Actually you are saying different things. Even thought the original code will still be forever available under MIT, you can, for example, sell it under a proprietary license (without changing a line of code) to whoever is willing to pay for that.
I use yandex because they offer free custom domain email hosting.
http://downdetector.com/status/netflix
I wonder how much Firefly has benefited from being cancelled so early. I imagine if Heroes got cancelled after about 10-13 episodes, it'd be very well perceived right now. The subsequent writers' strike mess and not being able to handle an evolving story messed that show up quite a bit. So many shows, even really well done ones, taper off at a point due to various production issues (Babylon 5 comes to mind).
Same here, would definitely recommend it. It's interesting to see this video - especially how Yandex Mail comes together.
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Oh god, it's happening to machine learning too. The call for "rockstars" and "ninjas". Web development was already eaten by this garbage, can we just not this time?
Indeed. Rather than have the power spec etc demand a C plug, you can mix the power spec with old A and B plugs. You can even end up with C plugs that only deliver USB2 speeds.

Never mind that C devices actually have to negotiate what side is up, rather than sort it out mechanically.
Thanks for the correction. The practice definitely sounds shady enough to be outlawed, but the finance industry has countless similarly shady practices that are constantly being abused because they lie in legal gray areas. Glad to know this is not one of them.
What I hate Apple
Seriously. WTF?! How can we even talk about AI when the iPhone doesn't even,
1) recognize phone numbers in a web page properly, like when you are on a Swedish web page and the number is 08-12 45 67, how come the "AI" in the iPhone can't figure out it would be a good idea to add +46 to the phone number?
b) understand a SMS conversation with someone whom I've exclusively talked English with should present me with the English keyboard instead of the default Swedish keyboard.
c) I'm sure you can come up with more examples.

This miserable company are to preoccupied with releasing non-relevant "features" instead of focusing on the only true single important thing in the universe: To make things that already work to work even better.

So, please, Apple, shape up, or, I'm, out.
Parent commenter edited out most of the post after I made my comment.
The rest of the team and I are hard at work on the next release, which applies a lot of the lessons we've learned from the beta so far (esp. adding support for loops, control flow convergence, and hotkeys.) We're hoping to get that out the door shortly after we launch Sails v1.0 later this year.
That's a fair complaint I guess. It seems to narrow things down a bit but maybe not enough.
So it's going to end up just like with MS. Now when you start your new phone, you have to select what search engine to use, even though everyone will select Google anyway. The only victory here is the EU getting a big wad of cash...
In current Windows 10 Bing is the only provider for Cortana, which is enabled by default, both for the conversational interface as well as all shell search features.
Luck is another HBO show that started to show great promise but was cancelled due to the death of some horses, at least according to the show's producers. [1]

How to make it in America too was bright but was cancelled due to more conventional reasons. [2]

[1]
HBO Luck

http://www.hbo.com/luck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck_(TV_series)

[2]
HBO How to Make It in America

http://www.hbo.com/how-to-make-it-in-america

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Make_It_in_America
Maybe. But those non-combatants were rarely killed by US troops in direct combat. More commonly, they were killed by 1) insurgent fighters 2) IEDs 3) US air strikes or other indirect fires.
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Watch some police documentaries from the UK - I'd recommend the BBC's "Traffic Cops" or Channel 4's "24 Hours in Police Custody".

Even accounting for the presence of cameras, what's really striking is the politeness of British officers. The whole character of an interaction changes when it starts with a cheery "alright mate, do you know why I've pulled you over?" rather than "license and registration, keep your hands where I can see them".

A confrontation starts long before a punch is thrown or a weapon is drawn. In the UK, there's a doctrine of verbal de-escalation and an acceptance of risk that just isn't there in the US. If you treat everyone you encounter as a deadly threat and escalate your response accordingly, it quickly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That is arguable, at best.
An interesting issue as it turns out.

The reason this was happening was not because of SQLite, but due to how the FireDAC driver handles the locking.

That driver had a setting "BusyTimeout" which supposedly takes care of a lock waiting time.

According to the documentation it has a default timeout setting of 10 seconds. That clearly did not work, I even had set it manually, still to no effect.

The other day I figured to try and set this via an SQLite pragma setting... (busy_timeout)

I've not seen a "database is locked" issue since then and I've completely removed my manual locking layer, so "case solved" and it certainly wasn't SQLite to blame.
Sydney 120k converting aud to usd and including superannuation.

14 years exp.
I think this is the latter, but would be great if someone could shed some light. I saw a surge of companies not necessarily known for having interest in Blockchain hiring people having related knowledge.
I hope someone creates React/Redux with Ada and posts it under the same title.
> There's literally no way we could afford to pay for new certs from an alternative registrar instead.

If ~$100 is that much for you (as a company of some sort) why don't you use Letsencrypt?
It's not a simple problem, true. But I stand by my belief that riots are simply going to provoke a more powerful backlash in opposition to the rioters.
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That's not completely true.
I thought Firefly was incredibly average. If I were to list the best SciFi shows of all time I don't think it would even occur to me to put it on the list. I honestly can't even think of the plots of any of the episodes. There was one with a guy in a spacesuit, I think it was red? and there was one with cattle or sheep?

I don't have anything against it. I just don't really find it remarkable at all.

Fans of Firefly, on the other hand, are the absolute worst. I used to have a game and see how many days I could go without reading someone online randomly bringing up how terrible it was that Firefly was cancelled. I rarely made it past Tuesdays.
The point I'm trying to make is that our society runs on a myriad of apps and databases, yet the operating environment in which these apps run is maintained by a bunch of people in suits, using a set of laws written in human language, elected by the majority vote, prone to corruption, emotions, insanity, etc...

We will need an operating environment which can distribute the limited resources available on the planet in a sustainable way if we are to survive as a species.

People can and want to govern themselves - most of our needs are local and can be solved locally without having to rely on a centralised entity to distribute money and decisions for us.

We can replace politicians with discussion forums and instant votes, instant decisions.

I see the role of 'government' as an institution which creates and runs campaigns for various 'global' societal issues, not as an institution which 'thinks' for everyone else.

Anyway, I know this is extreme idealism and I'm probably wrong in many ways, but as I said, eventually this system will be developed, it would help if we start thinking about it, because we're kind of running out of time ...

Thanks for the conversation.