skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suppose an American contracting for the Angolan government shoots a Canadian in Angola. Would the latter have civil or criminal claims on the former in a Western court? How do mercenaries manage this legal risk?
Good news! A moderator edited the title to drop the "Kerbal Space Program:"

Now it's _just_ "There's no easy way to say this"

Request granted, eh?
It's very elegant. The type system and multiple dispatch are a little bit tricky to wrap your head around if you're coming from an OO language - and especially if you're coming from a duck-typed, monkey patching, OO language. But once you get it, it's actually simpler, and makes way more sense, and there are real performance advantages.
It's an excellent development environment for everyone but iOS and macOS developers. It's got a great set of digital illustration tools with a lot more time put into development than the newer iOS equivalents. It's is a full windows box, which gives it impressive range. It has better linux binary support than MacOSX (unfair, that has none).

There are a lot of windows apps that are designed and work really well on the tablet. It's not like Apple holds a monopoly here.
Vector representation of symbols, concepts, terms, image chunks, thoughts or words along with the unique ways to construct the feature attributes for these vectors and calculations for similarity between them. Essentially, new ways of mimicking human cognition without built-in rules. See also Computational Theory of the Mind (CTM) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind
Accepted answer.

http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/30952

> Why do programmers looking for easy cash from VCs they can blindside with a storm of buzzwords migrate to San Francisco? Its one of the absolute worse places to run a company, but its one of the best for starting a company simply because the community is there.

Makes sense. I always considered myself a tech mercenary.
As president Hoover may have not been the most successful (largely the right person, but at the wrong time) president - but as a man over his 50 years in public life, he was arguably one of the most successful figures of his era - Even some of the New Deal policy was rooted in proposals Hoover made in 1931-32.

He:

Was a gifted and successful mining engineer (Worked overseas in Australia and China, and later for himself.

Fed Europe during and after WWI (preventing a Famine in Russia - and elsewhere).

Created the foundations for the modern system of Broadcasting Regulation.

Created the foundation of common regulation of Motor Vehicles and Traffic Laws.

Successfully ran a relief effort for the 1927 Mississippi Flood.

Delivered the "Death Knell" to the Morgenthau Plan and arguably laid the foundations for the Marshall Plan.

Led the effort to modernize and reorganize the federal government post WWII.

Wrote over 40 books, on such varied topics as mining, game preservation, fishing, foreign policy and a well renown book on Woodrow Wilson.
Looks like Google Fi needs to be brought and activated in USA, but looks very good. Have you tried it around Europe?
T-Mobile does not allow roaming tethering.
Android has already won. It is the hardware that has not managed to challenge hardware. But then Android's key selling point has always been about "choice". Blackberry like Android phones ? check. Android phones that feel like Windows UI ? Check, $30 phones? check, phones that look more like gaming devices ? check.
You loose half the resolution since each eye needs to be looking at the same thing. Second since you're looking at it in stereo you need to have the desktop a decent enough distance away from you to be able to focus on it or you'd go cross eyed.

I think this is what causes the effective resolution to drop to that much lower level.
DOJ drops charges against provider of Libyan weapons
> I'm not saying they made the right decision.

You're also not saying they made the wrong decision.

> I'm saying that people treating this as if it were an easy place to be are likely over simplifying the situation.

Nobody is treating it as if it were an easy place to be because nobody gives a shit. It's irrelevant to whether what they did was right or wrong.
If by non-technical you mean non-IT, then... the majority of jobs? :-)

Plumber, electrician, mechanic, more or less specialized repairman, construction, plant operator, retail. Many of these can pay well as long as you gain experience and are willing to put in the hours. On the less "sweaty" side, many marketing and creative jobs (photography, videomaking, design, etc).

Since you'll have to spend a lifetime at it, what is it that you actually enjoy doing?
Security updates, I assume, since the last major official OS version was 5.1.

Hm, does it even still get updates? The last official image posted by Google is from end of 2015.
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#occam
This is the second or third time in about a month that a site posted to HN has been blocked by my ad blocker.

According to Wikipedia, segment.com's sole purpose is to aggregate data for marketing and advertising. Not a company I want to give page views to.
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No 2 and No 8 on this cover Yahoo directly:

http://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/

That's them searching for what they want plus seeing everything without notification. There was also a $250,000 a day fine for non-compliance with court orders. That adds up. I can't find the link but they made it grow exponentially over time in another report.
I meant their methods of analysis for that specific report, not gathering their base dataset.

I did, however, already download their dataset to look through it later, when I have more time.
You know we have room in the United States, right? The average density is like 90 per square mile or less. We're rich, too. So we can have 800 square foot (which is small) apartments. 600 square feet is borderline sardine can.
Ditto, the Echo is worth it alone for this. "Echo, what time is it" "Echo, set an alarm for [+8 hours]". And when I'm about to sleep and I realize I've forgotten the alarm, I don't have to turn on a glaring blue screen.
I think it mainly boils down to "don't get caught".
Looks very nice. Would it also work on GWS?
Was it famous before the author removed it?
> I always encourage those in the future resisting police states to make sure whatever they do is beyond doubt A Good Thing

But A Good Thing would easily be destroyed by simply fabricating a case against the enemy, wouldn't it? Like rape, child porn, the usual.
It's definitely not a bad lens, but I did find it really soft. I replaced it with the EF 24-70mm f/4L which is leagues sharper.
*supposively
I live in Mexico, I've never seen anyone in Mexico make minimum wage, ever. And I do know people from all walks of life.

As to what they earn, again, I live in Mexico, I am employed by a Mexican company, and work for Mexican clients. I make their yearly salary in 15 days or so. It really is disgusting that they would treat employees this way, specially when they were such a big success.
> Monetary policy is a tool attempting to hit a moving target

By sweeping the ice in front of the economy-puck with a toothbrush.

There is an effect, just a lot of other stuff has a big effect too...
True, the government can compel me to turn over all my data, but if I'm managing it myself, I'll know this has happened[0].

Additionally, if I'm managing the data myself, they'll only get access because they thought I was a worthwhile target. If I'm using Yahoo!, I get caught in a dragnet. In general, the larger the service, the better a position they are to fight these orders, but also the more likely the government is to bother dragneting it.

I'm not worth my own NSL, but this one's a freebie: the marginal effort the government has to put into spying on my Yahoo! account is zero, because they've already got access.

[0] Well, I might know. They can also do it surreptitiously unless I'm very competent and very diligent, but if I receive an NSL, I'll know.
What do you expect; it's "Material"? Souls are immaterial.
> By who? I mean, I guess there are probably people in the US government who think it is a great idea - but there were people who thought it was a great idea to invade Iran.

You are on the nose: joint chiefs of staff, heads of state and stategists.

Here is a recent piece from the Washington Post "Obama administration considering strikes on Assad, again"

Emphasis on "again".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2016/10/04...

The Obama Administration has made it very clear that there is "no military solution". But that's been an ambition more than it has been a doctrine. The Administration absolutely may change its mind for strategic reasons. And will an election coming up any divergence could happen. The Clinton Campaign's platform on Syria is invasion (Kaine and Clinton have both long advocated for this).

I agree that Kerry is telling the opposition that US invasion is not likely to happen, because of the legal obstacles and because the legislative branch and public opinion inside the United States are against it.

But I've witnessed US propaganda flip the minds of citizens and their legislature many times. It's not impossible in Syria. Just less likely.

More likely is we'll try simultaneously to create no fly zones, we'll send larger amounts of money, weapons and training, and we'll turn on the spigot of non-traditional warfare (lawfare, economic warfare, information warfare, etc).

All in all what it means is that Syria'r proxy war is still a frozen conflict and there's bound to be years left of strife and suffering for the Syrian people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

Check the metadata portion. One thing to note, this isn't surprising at all. All of the centralized IM servers can do this and, usually more. The alternatives that try to minimize or obfuscate metadata are far from market-ready.
Well, you know, it would be insane for any company to admit something like this.
Like the ones where most people end up not actually handling errors where they matter.
Your second link reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLv_INgaLq8 (which definitely builds on some of Matt's work).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkNBP00wJE - C++17 for the Commodore 64.

Probable language warnings for my other suggestions:

* Rescuing Prince of Persia from the Sands of Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEWBtCnFs8 (was this talk ever given elsewhere?)

* And You Shall Know Me By My Trail of Documentation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEgHdHdUDaA

* The History and Evolution of Computer Viruses - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2g9lgYrYJM
Bug report: if I open this in a background tab the map is zoomed in very close at a weird spot near the middle and it's confusing what is being demonstrated.
> You could say it's "selfish" to live one life where there could be ten, but how can one be selfish with respect to non-existing persons?

It's more selfishly using the resources younger people can use. If you're eighty, I'd rather feed the eight year old. Until we move beyond resource constraints (lol) this is going to be a major effect of the rich being able to afford long lives AND food and the poor affording neither.
> The argument about culdesacs is that they don't allow traffic to flow.

That's not an "argument" -- that's simply a fact that is what proponents praise them for (keeping neigborhoods quite and safe by keeping out through traffic by providing no access to anywhere traffic would want to go) and what critics criticize them for (preventing efficient transit or foot traffic by lengthening routes to any road that provides access to any place you'd like to go.)
Wait, so when rents go up in a neighborhood as the desirability increases, driving out the current residents, that's horrible gentrification. But if someone wants to continue to park in front of their house as they've done for years, maybe decades, well, tough shit?
I'd guess everything that can conceivably be reported.
I think he's suggesting that you could; he's certainly "telling [you] to". You're allowed not to buy it!
[See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/essays-and-articles.html#noip concerning "IP", and https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html (by a lawyer) concerning copyright assignment. Note the obligations on the FSF in the assignment contract.]

Organizations that design(ed) CPUs with copyright papers on file with the FSF for GCC include AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, MIPS, and Sun; others include Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung.

The licence involved is orthogonal to copyright assignment.
It seems very telling to me that the Standard Windows Desktop is generally considered a wasteland of discarded program and file icons, basically where you throw your digital trash...yet iOS decided that this was the design they wanted for the main start page of their OS.

No wonder there is such a divide among users. I don't think age has anything to do with it though.
Significantly more; OWS in this blog post are claiming to keep the very bare minimum.

Whatsapp and Facebook, meanwhile, are sharing data to improve ads - surely they share much more than that with LE.
http://www.open-mesh.com/ ???
Especially given that Musk is a fan of the game.
Aye, copy pasting a comment I posted below:

I live in Mexico, I've never seen anyone in Mexico make minimum wage, ever. And I do know people from all walks of life.

As to what they earn, again, I live in Mexico, I am employed by a Mexican company, and work for Mexican clients. I make their yearly salary in 15 days or so. It really is disgusting that they would treat employees this way, specially when they were such a big success.
Dude you are way off base. Try a Nexus 5x. Usability is at least competitive with MS and Apple (better IMO).
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Exactly...

It actually starts saying it is unable to connect to my speakers and microphone...
I guess for you it's way more sexy to call me a racist against white people.
Do you really think that last year's Nexus 6P was designed by Huawei?
As somebody who bought and used the iPhone, 3g, 4, and 6 plus. And having owned a nexus 4, 5, 5x, and 6. (not including tablets on both sides)

I don't have any hard figures but my recollection suggests Google supports their phones longer than Apple typically does the iPhones. Plus you have the option of open source images like cyanogen when google finally gives up on it. I'm not sure about the nexus 5 now that they just released android 7, but the nexus 4 is the only one that isn't on android 6 at the moment. They are currently in the processes of releasing the android 7 images to these devices.

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Moreover, they know they were directly working on a game that made at least (1.5M * 39.99) ~60 million USD. I admire dedication to one's work and love of the game and all, but that's just not rational.
Ct scans aren't really used to look for brain tumors. We use mri for that mostly. Ct is used for screening of stroke, trauma and other things. Source: radiologist / me.

I work on radiology image segmentation also. And I agree it is solvable with machine learning. But even if software could do a job of a radiologist, it wouldn't replace one any more than your ekg reading program replaced cardiologists.
Kind of pigeon holed yourself, dont you think? Maybe add a tariff to purchases w/ other currencies or the like, but outright only accept bitcoin? That is badass tho.
Will there ever be a VR option for those of us who still wear glasses?
Panics are supposed to be launched on an "end all work on this; code path is FUBAR". On a web server that usually means dropping the connection, logging everything and firing an automated e-mail to the dev team to notify there's a bug in the code that needs to be fixed.

All other error conditions are expected and handled. That's what Go's error handling philosophy is all about.
On that note you may also like Techmoan - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN2yCnHTG_6qxmv_pdBxW..., The 8 Bit Guy - https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22 and Gaming Historian - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg
Starting with a 2560x1440 mobile device, you'd need to get a very different head mount -- with a larger distance from the eyes to the screen for the same device -- to make that a useful 2560x1440 screen for coding or other non-stereo "flat" work vs. a pair of 1280x1440 screens for stereo 3D work. The latter is what you get from a phone-in-a-box VR displays with a 2560x1440 phone display.

Now, there might be a use for stereo 3D displays in programming, but I don't think anyone's developed and proven the tools that demonstrate this use.
Redacted case notes from a Freeneter acting as an expert witness on a case: https://asksteved.com/freenet-case/case-redacted.pdf
This reminds me of what happened to my grandfather in the early 30's. He was employed by a small glassworks in PA, a factory town that owned his home, the town store, post office everything. They opened his mail and fired him for trying to start a union. Three kids under five and a wife thrown out on the street. Seems like the Oligarchs are still reading the spues mail all of these years later.
The best demo/test I've come across for this is Minecraft in VR for the Occulus Rift. It has a "theater"-mode, in which you can play Minecraft on a "big screen" in a room in VR. This mode works great for running around and doing things. And it has a first-person mode, which works great -- for standing still and looking around. But I'm pretty sure the only people that can play and walk/run around in first-person mode, are the 0.5% of US fighter pilots that don't get motion sickness at all.

I think it's a great way to demo the limits that motion sickness places on experiences for the vast majority of people. It's more than just being in control, and there are other effects at work, just like hand-held video footage without image stabilization is painful to look at. But my pet theory is that the big one is working with your body - if your body sits in a chair, your avatar should too (ie: drive a car, fly a spaceship is ok, walking around an art gallery at a leisure pace, not so much).
What makes you skeptical about dissemination of your product in particular?
No. That viewpoint is utterly toxic to anyone who wants to work as a game dev. The Peace Corps is not making a ton of money off your back.
It's not a binary choice of dense-area-of-Manhattan and Smallville. Historically, for better or worse, a lot of people have decided/voted that they want an urban environment that's dense but not "too" dense. You may disagree--especially if you feel you have to live in the area of question--but it's really not irrational from the perspective of current residents.
Can anyone explain the advantage of a specification like this over something like UML?
Hm, odd. I'm watching Netflix right now on a oldish HP monitor at 1920x1080, connected via VGA.

So it only cares about protections if it's going through HDMI? Seems useless, I could just run the VGA into any capture device and rip the whole thing.
I don't know the backstory. Where were these guys based out of? How could Mexican wages be 10x higher than theirs?
> Frankly, [high end gaming] seems to be the main use case.

That's the case now, that and porn will be the early adopter uses.

But I'm pretty sure the Killer App is going to be feeling like you are in the same space as someone you're not actually in the same space with. Which doesn't require much technologically.

You could probably get social presence with a pair of microlasers pointed at pair of lenses, plus spatial audio.
In practice the evaluation process is a complete joke.

https://dredf.org/public-policy/assisted-suicide/some-oregon...
So if that's a bad thing, then why are the self-same urbanists proposing that it's a good thing?
The minimum wage in Mexico is only used as a unit to pay fines, no one earns that, you simply can't live with that kind of money. Even $200 per month is low for a engineer. A Junior Engineer's salary is around $500-$1k per month.
The real reason is that they don't get to play one founder against the other.

Now you know.
Like many thinkers, Rand's critiques are usually pretty insightful, but have very large blind spots.

Also like many thinkers, her solutions are often worse than the disease.
It's not the first time I read about Barcelona but it is more than just street layout that makes a city tick.
It's the people, culture, history, weather, waste and delivery trucks.
So you can't just do the exact same thing to other cities and hope that it works.
> there's not much else out there like it

Orbiter [0] is commonly mentioned. You trade a bit of the "fun" angle of KSP for more realism. The physics model is more advanced too: I believe halo/lissajous orbits are possible, it has lagrange points & more.

> with a world that has a ton of depth to explore

Very deep: on Duna's surface (KSP's Mars equivalent), there is a rock emitting an SSTV signal...

[0] http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/
Warzone2100 would be a proper example of an commercial game having a open source afterlife (including being ported to linux/mac and continued development to this very day).
Space for housing is a problem for only a few cities in the US - mostly New York, Washington, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, and Boston. The rest of the country has lots of space. Most of the Midwest, from west of Philadelphia to Kansas, is available. Those parts of the country are emptying out.

The real problem is over-urbanization. People are moving to a few cities and draining out the rest of the country. The US population isn't increasing by much. The current rate of increase is 0.72%, and most of that is illegal immigration.

The Internet was supposed to make it less important where you lived. What went wrong?
That's not a good thing, but that's actually quite common in the games industry. It's bad, and the industry is apparently trying to kill it, but for now comes part and parcel with the job, in most places.
You don't have to be a lit crit to come to a solid conclusion that Rand should not be followed as a life plan. I feel the same way about "The Prince" and "The Art of War," both of which I haven't read because I don't want them poisoning my brain.
Click bate - remove the "Peter Theil" from the heading as that is intentionally confusing.
>if you're trying to imagine that you're running or biking through an area

I mean videos in the general sense. I watch 2d videos (while using fitness equipment) on a VR headset and find it enjoyable. The best part is blocking out all of the visual distraction from my environment. I look forward to getting a higher resolution headset.
Being a key part of the development of one of the biggest commercial success stores in indie gaming ever should be good for more than an entry on your CV though.
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They didn't give it up, there are still developers on it.
http://www.develop-online.net/news/squad-devs-blast-kerbal-s...
Considering the way they claim to minimize the metadata stored, I wouldn't expect them to store encrypted message content after it is delivered to the client.

It'd be difficult to delete metadata about a message, but still keep the content. And they are claiming to not retain message metadata.