skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention that it was always a myth. The reality was always some form of danger, pollution (horses are messy!), wasted energy and treasure.
At this point I suspect ceramics is the new liquid metal or sapphire.

Apple could certainly prove me wrong, but I have to see it to believe it.
Frequently open offices have offices with doors for general use, or conference rooms; if there are hours those spaces are not in use, those are probably hours you could use them.

Stepping out into the front hallway (but still within range of the wifi) and sitting crosslegged on the floor outside can sometimes work.

There's also underneath your workspace, George Costanza-style. Be sure your coworkers are aware in advance, why, and ok with it, as some might get the wrong idea of why you're down there.
The purpose of copyright law is only to "promote the arts and sciences". Note that it doesn't say anything about the individual creator.

There are two factors determining how much value a society can derive from the body of art created within: the amount and the distribution. (ignoring "quality" because it's unaffected by the following).

The quantity created and the distribution it gets are somewhat conflicting goals: If you maximize for distribution (all works are public domain), the amount that is created may be low because artists aren't rewarded financially / can't concentrate fully on their art etc.

Currently, the compromise is to protect a work of art for 70 years after the creator's death, assuming there are very few people who'd say "oh, I'd love to write the great american novel, but I fear my great-grandchildren won't be able to collect royalties on it, so I'll go be an investment banker instead".

Arguably, 70 years is too long to be optimal. Personally I'd say something from 10 to 20 years is probably enough, or maybe different terms for different categories like newspapers being protected for a week and movies for 30 years.
Scalaz, Scalaz-Stream and http4s constantly. Doobie, Spray, Shapeless, Monocle, and others less often but still definitely more than rarely.
The cultures I identify with are American and Iranian. But what does it have to do with culture?

> the threat posed by Hillary.

The Americans who are clued into the geopolitical equation recognize that either America accepts getting demoted from world hegemon to ex-Anglo-Empire Deux, or, the "world" will need to duke it out "one last time" ... again.

I have a feeling The Donald will not react pleasantly when Putin and company (not who you think, imo) tell him "You're fired!"
Race? Really?
I don't think it's very hard to switch to stock vim, when the keybindings remain the same. Most of the customisations commonly used are either cosmetic (syntax highlighting, brace matching, search-as-you-type, etc) or don't require much adjustment (delete through all text, etc).
For those who are more curious, I found that "The English and their History" talks in depth about the post-Conquest society and emergence of the written English language, and some of the more distinctive English (and later Anglo-American) institutions: https://www.amazon.com/English-Their-History-Robert-Tombs-eb...
> (i.e. buildings where the rooms have purpose and their interconnections make sense).

This is a big deal. E.g. Minecraft have underground mine complexes that can be a lot of fun to explore, but they don't make any structural sense. The thing is it'd be quite easy to design them in a way that makes much more sense:

Record how human players dig tunnels, which generally tends to involve either starting with a cave system, and then divert in where there is ore, or starting to dig at a downwards angle until you're at a depth where ores are likely, and then start branching it out in search, and then expanding. Add some collapse shafts etc.. Creating rules from that should not be too hard.

I think you could improve a lot of these algorithms by modelling them based on how a human would plan or pick placement instead of relying so much on pure chance.

E.g. if generating a village, don't randomly dump buildings. Consider that you want a water source, and various purposes (mining, farming, trading) that has would depend on the surroundings, and that roads must connect locations, and that certain types of buildings will be in certain locations in relation to each other. I think a lot could be done by creating rules that aim to simulate what would make a village grow, and iterate it.

E.g. place a few simulated NPCs and "fast forward" through exploring the surroundings. Have one try farming. Have one try mining. The miner hits a cave with lots of ore? Have it lead to trade, and generate a mining complex, and place a blacksmith. The farmer find large fertile areas? Have the farms expand, and population boom. And so on. Run a simplified model through a suitable number of iterations to place various features, and you'll get villages that make a lot more sense than when Minecraft e.g. place a village in the middle of a desert with no apparent purpose (to get villages in the desert that makes sense: make the generator place a few trees around lakes, have it place soil under the trees; have it place villages around those; lead roads to these oases; place houses near the water and road)
The Revisionist History podcast has two great episodes on the subject.

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/05-food-fight

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-...
>If WikiLeaks was releasing dirt on both candidates I would feel much differently.

Ever wondered if there is no dirt, there is nothing to release? Unlike the mainstream media which takes command from the Clintons, Wikileaks doesn't fabricate their releases... so it is not possible to release dirt on Trump.
I think we mostly agree. The difference is I believe what makes people comfortable at a technology conference isnt superficial hangups about race and gender, it's the ability to talk shop about that technology and have meaningful discussions surrounding that topic.

The jist of my opinion is this: The subject technology should always be the highest priority at a technology conference.
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Like Europe's VAT? Hardly a wild, crazy idea.
Lots of policies are easier to make when you have cash. The flip side of being forced to spend down the endowment is an increasing focus on the short term. For an institution that's supposed to have some insulation from whichever way the wind is blowing today, that's not such a good thing.
You might enjoy this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUBE4YlTXvE
With company process this reasoning does not work. Emotions are a human concept, but companies are entirely about money. When you need to extract the security deposit out of your apartment complex that quite perceptibly has a policy of cheating the tenants out of as much as they can there is precisely no difference at all between "I'll send you the demand letter now" and "I'll send you the demand letter YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!1!". The only thing that counts is that they receive one at a serviceable address. At least that has been the experience.

A case can be made that the poor sods working for the cheating company are in fact enabling it, consequently their lives should be made hard for colluding.
I avoided vim for years after being introduced to vi at university, not realising vim could be customised to be much more comfortable and modern feeling.
Companies often reward angry behavior by responding to the angry ones. It can actually be helpful on a help-line to pretend you are angry, which is a net negative for society.
Complete tangent: what's up with the word spacing in the submission title here? It's abnormally thin.
Project: Originating and maintaining organization

USD: Pixar

OpenSubdiv: Pixar

jss-api-gem: Pixar

Munki: WDAS

Reposado: WDAS

SeExpr: WDAS

Ptex: WDAS

Partio: WDAS

Dynamica: WDAS

BRDF Explorer: WDAS

OpenEXR: ILM

Alembic: ILM and Sony Imageworks

So which one of these is not a Disney project, considering they all originated from and are maintained by Disney engineers?
Having multiple children sure is expensive.
This reminds me of the self awareness tools codified by the Arbinger Institute in their book, Leadership and Self Deception, where they describe how to "get out of the box." I also highly recommend The Anatomy of Peace by them.
I actually like that feature. I try to stay out of insert mode as much as possible. This feature lets me mash C-w or even C-u without worrying about changing text outside the original scope of my edit. I use the c command to change text inside of an html tag (for example) and I like that this protects me from damaging the tag itself.
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Of course there are problems in the process, but they pale in comparison to the fact that there are vast and fundamental differences in people's quality metrics, and even in what they mean by words like "freedom" and "equality" (e.g. is allowing gay marriage "equal rights" or is it "special treatment"?) So the whole premise of electing reasonable people to run the government is doomed from the start because Americans don't agree on what "reasonable" means. No amount of tinkering with the process is going to fix that.
The country is really bifurcating. It's a very dangerous bifurcation, because it is not a regional difference; it is essentially an urban/rural difference. Most dangerously, there is the situation where the urban cohort represents power and money, while the rural cohort overwhelmingly supplies their sons and daughters to populate the armed services that protect the money.

As a thought experiment, I've thought what a modern-day civil war would look like. Assuming it wasn't crushed instantly by the military, I think it would look like the vast areas of fly-over-country besieging the urban areas, with huge chunks of the current command structure and rank and file joining the rebels.
This reads like an excerpt of some alternate universe version of Thing Explainer, from a world in which "up goer five" (which may well still have been its name) was a little different in limitation.
There is no such thing as a wrong opinion. Its an opinion.

Advice is different. Facts are different. Some opinions are worth listening to. That to me is the trickiest part
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12704150
It's the elephant in the room, textbook revolving door regulatory capture.
I haven't read the article (can't get past the paywall), but based solely on the headline, if we do have to tax exempt somebody, I would rather it be the Ivy League colleges, than the university attached to the Alabama football team, or the UNC effort to exploit a loophole to get unpaid labor for its football operations.

(I want to reiterate I am only commenting on the headline, since this is a pet peeve of mine, and the article may completely refute or be unrelated to my comment).
> Oh, I found that one...

You said:

> If this "1998 interview" exists, Google appears to have no knowledge of it.

You then dismiss it as a "hit piece", apparently out of nowhere - the author (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bass) appears reputable and I can't find anything Googling that indicates it was controversial in any way.

> Which also says: "U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., no longer supports racial segregation."

It has been pointed out to you elsewhere that the "state's rights" pivot is something of a dog whistle - moving away from explicit support for racial segregation was a political necessity (see also: the famous Atwater quote in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy).

The significant difference between Thurmond and Byrd is, IMO, the level of contrition. "No longer supports" isn't the same thing as "happy to apologize and keep apologizing", especially when the latter comes with demonstrable action to right the injustices.
Or maybe all this is leading to Apple learning how to transition to transparent aluminium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
Seeing that Ashton Kutcher is a co-founder brought to mind his feud with the Village Voice a few years ago over the VV's escort ads, which Kutcher alleged were facilitating child prostitution and sex slavery. The VV then published a long investigative piece arguing that Kutcher's statistical claims -- e.g. that 100,000 to 300,000 U.S. children are sold into sex slavery each year -- was off by several orders of magnitude: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/real-men-get-their-facts-st...

And of course it should be said, VV, which was and is undergoing huge financial stress, has every incentive to believe its hands are clean, as it was desperate for the revenue from escort ads.

Hard to tell if Kutcher has revised his numbers. The Thorn site is vague about its numbers. It talks about hundreds of thousands of kids at risk, and on the about page, fuzzes the claim with "100,000 escort ad posted in the United States every day, and within these, there are ads that represent children."...the unsaid implication being that the number of escort ads per day may not have any real bearing on the actual number of children at risk.

It might seem pedantic to care about stats when children are at risk, but the purported goal of this Thorn initiative is to "use tech to fight child sexual exploitation", and its pages make as much mention about data science as the average tech startup press release. But worthwhile data science requires good data, not platitudes. It's not as if the fight against child abuse is as simple as throwing tech and computational resources at it, nor is that even necessarily the most efficient way to fight the problem.
I don't think anger has a language. There is a difference between anger, calm, and commanding.

If, while I notice across the room, my two year old is about to shove a waffle into a VCR or similar port of entry for food into electronics, I will give a sharp word to "STOP!" This gets his attention, possibly makes him upset, and usually prevents the situation from escalating. This is a clear example of commanding. It can be done with a soft or a hard approach, but the results are generally the same. It's a warning -- that the activity or event is going to lead to real consequences if the behavior continues.
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>Are you implying that the DNC intentionally leaked the emails to wikileaks and are colluding with the FBI to blame Russia?

Nope. He's just implying that FBI and DNC are working together.

What is more likely though is: DNC was hacked, Wikileaks is doing what it has done for 10 years i.e. releasing information so that it makes maximum impact and Clintons are trying to damage-control by implying that Russia is involved... all while telling their Russian friends to pretend as if they support Trump (who has never worked with anything Russian ever... unlike the Clintons).
I don't think this is the case; Milagro (I think) serves as a way to authenticate IoT devices cryptographically without relying on closed-source solutions and third parties like CAs.
So basically, you want the challenge of dealing with highly nonlinear, even chaotic, emergent effects. I'm all about such emergent effects. Hell, my project is called "Emergence Vector." The specific point is to see how many emergence fostering features you can workably combine into one massively multiplayer online game. The point being: that I find most MMOs insulting to my intelligence. Their power seems to come more from variable schedule of reward than from any genuinely intellectually interesting complexity. I really want to change that.
What else? Why would a rationally stated opinion get so many down votes?
Hopefully you are aware of this project to generate random numbers: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

If you follow some links you will get to Aware Electronics, where you will find some stuff priced in the $200 range. It really depends on what part of the world you're from as to whether or not that is "affordable".
Alembic was originally Sony's thing, which ILM started using in their early Katana days because their own file format wasn't good enough for use with Katana (random access and lazy loading).

Sony gave it to ILM to start using, and then open-sourced it.

I'd quibble that while ILM and Pixar employees are technically now Disney employees, it's not as if they work for Walt Disney Animation Studios directly, so it's not as clear cut as you make out.
I think the folks here prefer discussion of the articles rather than the headlines, but I'll hold off on downvoting your comment.

I don't even know what the pet peeve is that you mention: it's unclear from how you structured that bit of your writing.
> I don't think people are confusing those things at all. The comment you're replying to is quite literally saying that using $_POST['somevar'] is too easy.

Are you guys, then, saying that $_POST['id'], by itself, is less secure than a getPostVar('id') would be, by itself?
I've always wondered why they don't use this to price discriminate even more. They always say the "actual value" of the education is way more than $55k per year or whatever, because the endowment contributes significantly to the operating budget as well.

So why not make the list price $100k? If your example is correct, this would only affect those who make between $250k and $500k (where 20% of their income is between $50k and $100k).
> The 94 schools with endowments over a billion dollars averaged 7.2% growth from 2005-15

I'm not sure what point the authors are trying to make here. The S&P 500 (with reinvested dividends) returned ~7.4% annually over the same period [0].

> That works out to roughly $2 million per student.

Clearly this is a deceptive comparison. The institutions do not have $2mm to spend on each student every year. The endowment is intended to provide for each student the institution educates in perpetuity. Spending unsustainably destroys endowments, and subsequently their beneficiaries [1].

> Yet between 2010 and 2014, according to the same study, these schools received some $30 billion of taxpayer contracts, grants, direct payments, student assistance and tax exemption. In other words, federal cash and subsidies over that time averaged nearly $102,000 per student each year.

Excluding the student assistance funding, the other aid provided to the schools is not necessarily relevant in a discussion about 'skyrocketing tuition'. The universities mentioned fulfill other essential roles, such as basic research, which immensely benefit society. The money allocated to these schools through the mechanisms mentioned, like grants, directly fund this work. Pretending it is being spent on undergraduate tuition is dishonest.

[0] https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/business/ransacking-the-en...
Still seems very shady. His defence, as portrayed in the article, seems to be that they 1) did not offer him a cooperating witness agreement which he would seem to have deserved and 2) was being asked to break serious laws in the country of residence.

Conversely, the DoJ's defence, against as portrayed in the article, seems oddly nebulous, and in light of the later IRS decision, probably flat out wrong.

Most odd.
This is hardly a mystery: Because language is powerful and the vast majority of people are too stupid and lazy to do anything but absorb the positive/negative valence of the term being used. The redefinition and stretching of terms is hardly a new thing. Just because Stalin was famous for Orwellian use of language doesn't mean that it doesn't happen at pretty much every level of politics even in relatively well functioning political systems.
I received most of my financial aid for my Ivy League education from federal grants (my family made < $60k). I wouldn't have had the opportunity to attend an Ivy League college without federal aid.
Typically in a need-blind financial aid model, the family's expected contribution is all-in. Your kid's twin sibling would hence be 'free'. At least in theory.
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I think the argument is that they are much less accessible to students with less privileged backgrounds.

If one views the subsidy associated with the non-profit status as a form of education spending, it's fair to ask whether that is the best use of that money.
It should be exponentially more expensive per child. Not specifically in relation to college, but in relation to taxation in general.

We want to encourage the population to grow in sustainable ways, not only in some families that make having lots of kids a priority.
I don't really view balance in single player games any differently than I do a multiplayer game

This is a great approach to take. When you let the computer "cheat" it tends to result in less intellectually satisfying enemies. The computer should pretty much be playing by the same rules as the player.
I'm not. As near as I can tell from objective sources, Birkenfeld:

1) Deserved the money

2) Did not deserve prison.

You can't equate those.
I used McAfee's suite once because I had to (corporate environment). It popped up all the time wanting this or that. It relied on ActiveX for a lot of what it did. Updates to it failed if your system default browser was set to something other than Internet Explorer.

I'm guessing it's moved on since then, but it lost my trust. I've had to use Norton's suite before too and it had similar reliability issues.

Since using Security Essentials / Defender on Win7 and later it just works and never needs any hand-holding.
Pay attention to your mental balance people. On average it's never a problem, but when stuck, anxiety can have significant somatic impact, raised secretions of acid in your stomach, trouble eating (stuck oesophagus valve), lack of bowel movements, or worse like artery constriction, thus potential increase in blood clot, which doesn't need more explanations.
"though I would consider the requirements for writing really secure software quite high, so I do not think most open source projects could meet such standards. "

Data from prior work indicates it ranges considerably from significantly harder to extremely hard. The LOCK system with an Orange Book A1 development process was highly secure and gave cost breakdown. A1 assurance acyivities added around 37% or so on top of regular, labor cost. Altran/Praxis's Correct-by-Construction that does highly-assured systems with mix of Z specs, Ada, SPARK, reviews, and testing costs 50% premium on top of normal development. Just using SPARK automatically knocks out whole classes of bugs. Galois did and open-sourced CRYPTOL so people can specify algorithms in easy DSL then generate C from it. Also parser and protocol generators.

So, prior evidence shows it takes specialized skill and domain knowledge... at least two extra people unless one has both... but otherwise costs 30-50% more time. Like Cleanroom methodology, it partly achieved this by saving you time debugging and refactoring due to reduced bugs in general plus doing fixes earlier in lifecycle.

Most OSS projects dont do this stuff just because they dont know it's necessary, don't care, or don't have staff for both demanded features and assurance activities. Interestingly, there's more high-assurance products in proprietary than FOSS software despite the huge labor advantage FOSS has. That there's little of even medium-assurance work in majority of both says even worse things about IT's priorities or apathy given medium assurance cost little to nothing. Microsoft is the one exception of big, software houses via SDL and MS Research's work. For FOSS, DJB, OpenBSD, and SQLite come to mind.
Be honest. Who the fuck knew the name Billy Bush before this "scandal"?
Out of curiosity, I decided to translate this Frisian (the closest continental language to English):

http://bit.ly/2enwGyT

It's interesting to contrast this with a side-by-side translation of "normal" English with Frisian, where the similarity is much lower.