skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me its other way around: I know that I am a very sloppy person and can handle a lot of inconveniences, so I don't bother with fine details. If I write for other people, I assume that they are much neater and pickier, so I spend a lot of time polishing those corner cases.
Also I should add I will probably push out some more "stable" ready to run builds soon. Not all snapshots are stable or even necessarily boot up.
Well, a technology expert is - in aggregate - more trustworthy than a politician because their incentives align with yours.

This is ... myopic. Do you think ransomeware is written by politicians?

All malicious software is written by technology experts.

Is not that I trust politicians, far from it: we know they're all lying crooked thieves.

But you think "technology experts are more trustworthy."
Our city gets reliable statistics via utility data. I believe this is common.
> The windows binary of QtAV is btw 35MB (i assume compressed)

Perhaps you're looking at player+SDK. The player alone[0] is 21MB

> ffmpeg is actually bundled twice in LosslessCut. once in Electron(Chromium) and once as a CLI

If you use a custom build of Electron, you can at least cut down ffmpeg to just one version. Like the way my distro does it with Chromium and ffmpeg.

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0: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/qtav-video-player/9n...
Perhaps use smartctl to run a long test on the drive you're hibernating to.
Indeed. Really interesting stuff, the intersection of security, privacy, democracy, technology, social systems.

This slide deck from Ron Rivest gives a good overview of the landscape:

Ronald L. Rivest MIT

Auditability and Verifiability of Elections

ACM-IEEE talk March 16, 2016

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv16x.pdf
I live in Berlin lately and I get the impression that the carriages are a mix of old and new. The newer ones have monitors to tell you about the next stops.

Many are made by Bombardier. Bombardier Transportation Global Headquarters is actually in Berlin; see http://www.bombardier.com/en/worldwide-presence/country.germ...
I remember a podcast discussing the topic, even speculating at the different parties. I also remember the Acquired podcast discussing the acquisition. They even have a link to a (different) document at SEC's website. My mind must have pieced it all together. Apologies, I listen to a lot of podcasts.

Let's see if I can actually find the podcast I am thinking about...
That minor advantage is outweighed by the disadvantage of not knowing if any of the votes were counted correctly.
There are plenty of testing, deployment and analysis tools for PHP apps.
Effects of slavery as a way of organizing the economy? Everybody knows slavery is bad, end of story, which tends to cut short any analysis of its effect on internal efficiency, productivity, etc.
To me, all three look bad.

Eclipse - no colors for different things, hard to find what I'm looking for (if I compare to the Emacs example, if I was looking at this code trying to figure out what members this class has I'd be looking for brown and finding it much more quickly)

Emacs - terrible color scheme, both the brown and the green are too bright, not enough contrast to read.

Proposed - all the bold text hurts my eyes and distracts me from everything else.

In my crazy theme almost every "thing" has its own color, and it is very easy to find what I want by looking for the right "thing" or combination of things.
As an example for where highlighting keywords would help (which is what you mentioned in your post), if I'm looking for "that for loop that does the main logic" I'd look for the place with the small blue blob on the left and a long bright blob to the right (if it was an "if" likely both blobs would be smaller ;)).
China. Which, if it were to happen, as a US citizens I'd move there in a heartbeat.
In my experience, a lot of the "advice" is really a form of bragging.
I don't know if I am more creative when helping my co-workers with their problems, but strangely I do feel more motivated to find a solution when it is for someone else's work. Weird.
This is nice. I always wondered why something like this isn't available. I built a nested tab-bar menu system for an e-commerce app recently which can be generated from a json file.
Sure, if you don't count seizures as "actively harmful" [1]

[1] http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...
Not everything needs a JSON API so any client can talk to it. You're also underestimating setting up client side rendering as my experience tells me otherwise.

Most of the time a django/rails rendered backend is desirable and easier to maintain over the long run.
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> that you refused to be triggered

Was it a refusal to be triggered, or a decision to steel yourself for possibly being triggered and commitment summoning the wherewithal to handle that gracefully?
> The people who write ransomware are technology experts.

protip: the white hat and black hat programmers are the same people.
The links to Don Hodges site are great if you want the explicit low-level details. For instance, he has a patch to fix the kill screen:

http://donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm

I made a much less serious patch -- a backwards-facing Pac-Man that places dots instead of eating them:

http://members.shaw.ca/gp2000/bacman.html
How would you tell between a home that is legitimately occupied and an abandoned property that has been taken over by squatters?
Or that an unhappy childhood leading to later addiction might seem unremarkable and go unmentioned? (In general, not necessarily this documentary.)
3D modeling and animation
I'm curious to see what happens when 'the rich' take their toys and go elsewhere.
I realized my mistake after I posted, but my point still remains. Richmond isn't even close to the top.
Profit includes employee cost though. It seems those should be excluded.
The primary system is a bit broken. It's a marketing dog-and-pony show that lets the major parties tune their messaging to maximize their voter base. The major party platform is fluid and is no longer based on any principles other than telling people what they want to hear, or playing against our fears.

I'd like to see all primaries held on the same day.

9% of voters selected Clinton or Trump in the primaries. That's all it took.
And I'm supposed to believe Iceland, Seychelles, Bermuda, and Nevis aren't crawling with secret agents, double-agents, tripple-agents, octuple-agents, moles, and honeypot operators.

Come now, I've watched my fair share of Hollywood spy movies.
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I assume you're referencing Grady Towers' essays about high IQ people feeling like 'Outsiders'. His argument, I think, was that high IQ does not inherently doom people to be outsiders/fail to get appropriate education/be unhappy and mal-adjusted/etc., but that high IQ is a potentially alienating trait and that it is the alienation - in those cases where the high IQ person doesn't have enough peers, support, and meaningful challenge - that does the damage.

What do you think of that argument, and do you know of any relevant research on that aspect of the question? It anecdotally resonates with my experience, and seems to be a prominent subsection of the responses in most threads of this type, but I would like to know what formal attempts have been made to measure it, if any exist.

Also, again IIRC, I thought Towers reassessed one of Terman's longitudinal studies and found that there was a correlation between the highest IQ individuals and social/emotional mal-adaption. Do you disagree with Towers' assessment?
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Ads are responsible for about 20-30% of the malware distribution.

How does my argument not hold? 20-30% is huge!
The short answer is: because the web architecture was and is fundamentally different than the 80's style client/server model you are advocating, and it has specific advantages that are being lost in the transition back to that model (security, scaleability, simplicity, etc).

The longer answer can be found in these posts:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.ht...

Of course, you will need to go into all of this with an open mind, or you will not find any of it convincing.
Bandwidth and storage space are cheap; hassle is expensive.

I can't tell you the number of times I've ended up cursing the IT gods while sorting out some hellish dependency / shared-libary-versioning fiasco (and apps that use ffmpeg and other media libraries are especially prone to this), and wished I could have just gotten a statically-compiled binary off of the developer's CI server instead.

Most of the arguments for shared libraries seem like a misplaced optimization on modern systems (e.g. saves disk space, saves distribution bandwidth), or don't really shake out in reality (e.g. "only have one copy of a crypto library so it's easy to update!") and just lead to a proliferation of library versions on the same system.
The bounce contained the activation link and code that is used to actually confirm the mail redirection...
The more important part is that HTML is for human interaction. So PUT or DELETE make no sense because the server should process user input under any circumstances and not take it as is.
You can get efficiencies of above 80%. In larger installations 90% or more.

You can also, if you have an application for physical energy, roughly double the output.

Could you explain the apparent contradiction? How are you calculating a 90% efficiency such that it's possible to get another 90% of "physical" energy?
> like Conquest’s later political position, is a long way from Conquest the Oxford undergraduate of the late 1930s, a Communist Party member

Eh. Can't be accused of being prematurely conservative.

(The communist church has always particularly abhorred apostates, too. Must have raised an unholy stink about his books. No Nobel prize, bad writer, three whacks with a rolled-up newspaper ;-)
Peppa pig!
I thought broscience was supposed to stay in the gyms.
I met expats, immigrants, students from all over the world in Europe, but I didn't ever met one from Japan. Anecdotal, I know, but maybe Japan is so special that emigrating from there feels like leaving Earth.
Off-Topic: While looking through your script I noticed the `jq' dependency. I went to install it and in the docs it mentioned this thing called chocolatey [0], which is like homebrew for windows, and seems pretty amazing :)

Thank you for sharing your work with us!

[0] https://chocolatey.org/
How would that even work? They wouldn't be able even to start opening ballots until after election day.

In California, you definitely can't do that. Ballots are separated from the envelopes, for anonymity, before counting. The different counties even have web pages where you can check that your ballot was received and counted. (Mine was received 10/31, opened on 11/1, and counted on 11/2.)
Hmmm. Let's try again.

GP wrote:

"...the only fraud happening in our elections are a) gerrymandering and b) racist voter suppression laws..."

You wrote:

"That's an extremely strong claim to back up with no evidence."

I asked:

"What measure of proof do you require?"

Honestly, I expected something related to proving gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, or something.
"Do you know one state in USA is as big as Switzerland." That's the kind of an answer a big part of population tend to give when you point other countries as examples.
And my theory is affirmed by the fact that the book referenced in the second paragraph is an Amazon Affiliate link.

The article is a "conservative biased media" piece rebutting the "liberal biased media", while actually acting like a "corporate biased media" outlet.
It did formerly via Carrier IQ, which was widely reported in the press. So that's not unprecedented.
"Hopefully people are intelligent enough to know not to take any advice, no matter if it comes from a book or a person, too literally."

Ironically, Buffett is quoted in the article as saying, "We don't read other people's opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think."
Irrelevant. There's no link between population decline and startup culture. There are still millions of young people growing up over there. There are multiple reasons not to go to the US, with language and atrocious visas at the top of the list.
I can sort of see how one can rationally object to electronic voting machines, but not to pencil-marked ballots. But it's a bit of a stretch.
> only adds ... cost.

Note: while I think this is probably true for electric vehicles that don't offer this option, this is inaccurate for gas vehicles. Manual transmission cars are still cheaper currently and are sold by major manufacturers. Major manufacturers will typically pass on additional cost to the consumer.
Assume I have access to a largish sailing vessel and can clear customs in Columbia near Riohacha. What are the most essential needs in Venezuela at the moment, and what would be the most efficient way to connect with those in need? Can Venezuelans in need of medical supplies cross into Columbia?
So work is heavily bought into the idea of rendering the client-side content in front end services (what you call the backend). It lets devs change user-facing behaviour without invalidating cached minified assets (which saves money at scale). Plus, we can test client side behaviour in just a few browsers, and be reasonably confident that everything else will roughly be the same.

It works for us because the site is extremely static…
Google Self-Driving Car Project Monthly Report October 2016 [pdf]
Beta drivers can also be downloaded from the geforce.com website.
On the road with the 13-inch MacBook Pro
I found [this thread](http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/2306799) and it seems to describe basically what I am running in to. Unfortunately it drops off and I haven't found if it picks up again in a different thread.

Both laptops are only using the onboard Intel card.
The DPDK and all the kernel bypass in networking is another example.
Probably in select countries but not in all regions. It is still growing fast and we might hit 9 billion in a couple of decades.

Then, life expectancy and live births are growing, meaning people stay here longer.
OK, and none of that is significantly complicated to discover, nor is the vulnerability particularly severe. I don't see any reason for why he should receive compensation for this, especially considering bug bounties are already at the company's discretion.
Oh, someone, please stop this crazy ride I wanna get off Election 2016 recap
Intel can certainly deliver chips to Apple to make better MacPros. I've got a hackintosh that I built last year which will easily outdo an Apple MacPro. Apple could decide to not be clever and just ship a pretty standard looking desktop computer with the latest chipsets and CPUs, spacious memory expansion and a couple expansion slots for GPUs and crank out a new rev every year and it would keep the people buying the MacPros happy and Apple wouldn't have to invest a ton of money overdesigning the thing -- and Intel would certainly be able to keep up with the demand easily.

The territory that they'd concede though is that expandability and people buying CPUs, RAM, drives and GPUs from non-Apple vendors. But that would buy them continuing to tie professionals down to macOS and then selling them laptops and building hype. Instead I think they're going to ditch macOS and switch to iOS on desktops and laptops and you'll see their laptop and desktop sales shrink and they'll be become entirely an iphone/ipad company. I don't think this has anything to do with supply chain and this is entirely self-inflicted damage because they're prioritizing their walled garden strategy above all else.
Note: this page has been there for years. Here is the non-print version dated 2009:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3938/the_pacman_dossie...

Oddly this same link to the print version was posted 5 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12849017

And several other times:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=the%20pac-man%20dossier&sort=b...

It looks like it was moved to Gamasutra at some point or perhaps was posted to both Gamasutra and the personal blog.

It's cool, for sure, and should be posted over and over, but I find it a little suspect to link to the print version; that sort of thing could be abused, because people could continue to post variations on the same link every day on HN. That could be bad, imo.
Without an incentive to "mine" blocks (cryptographically solve).. Anyone can write blocks to the network. How would the network ensure a trusted actor is writing blocks?
The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin
I was in therapy years ago.

I told by the Therapist, "I didn't have a bad childhood."

I was basically tired of talking, and just wanted a drug to calm my brain down.

She told me patients whom had bad childhoods, actually had bad/subpar childhoods, in many cases."

That's about all I got out of the sessions. She just got her MFCC, and was very honest, and seemed to care. She was pregnant, and in some sessions we would be both crying together. She was actually the only Therapist I liked. I think because she was young, and took her job seriously.

I look back, and I don't think I had a bad childhood. I had typical Irish American/Mexican parents. I was the oldest, and was expected to do things differently, but my chilhood wasn't terrible.

Anyhow, I did look it up, and supposedly children from tough backrounds tend to think they had great childhoods, with all the usual exceptions that accompany Psychology.

I will honestly never know in my case. I refused to blame my parents. My father was a piece of work though.

When I got older, I basically didn't want to turn into him, and I haven't yet.
I thought that loophole was closed? Doesn't a change in controlling interest cause the revaluation?
Isn't the easy option to allow customers to participate in the program? Their software is already so buggy and bloated that a simple checkbox that ANONYMOUSLY sends telemetry would be trivial to implement.
I agree. There are instances where I think returning HTML instead of JSON works (think of Rails Actioncable or Phoenix Channels), but I have a hard time conceptually understanding what problem is solved by this library.

Thinking of almost all of the full stack, I feel like you could have more flexibility with something like Rails with Angular on the front-end. You can set up a Rails controller to return JSON or HTML depending on the request type.

Throw in UI Router and have your Angular routes match your Rails routes... You can have your pages rendered server and client side and still have the flexibility to render JSON.

It would be sick if there was a stack where you can take make your routes more functional and have the routing work clientside and serverside. I know Turbolinks is supposed to solve this problem, but it sort of messes up how events are fired.

Also, Angular templates cannot be modified on the front end... but these intercooler attributes can.

I will admit, the author is probably solving a problem that I haven't encountered or even fully understand. If people are digging it, more power to him.
Yes, I could call ffmpeg from native code. But it's a bit more of a hassle to do from javascript than to just start the ffmpeg exe. And if the included ffmpeg lib was to crash, I can imagine that the whole application would crash too. But I'm open to suggestions.
Programming as analogy, Part II
A lot of rice production involves standing water (and the burning of rice straw between seasons), and so rice farming is a major contributor to GHG emissions:

http://www.southasia.ox.ac.uk/sites/sias/files/documents/GHG...

It also happens to be a staple for over 60% of the world's population. And unlike transportation and energy, obvious substitutes are much harder to identify.

The more I read about novel sources of GHG the more intractable this problem appears absent geoengineering.
I'm not sure what you mean why this. I'm just a dumb metal-fabricator and machine operator, so you'll have to excuse me if I don't understand the nuances of programming lingo.
Yes, I am wrong here. The professor of marketing has been mentioned in the text as a collaborator in some "study".

Is that "Ayurvedic Health Coach" stuff qualifies as the substitute for majoring from MIT or Yale in Psychology or Biology?
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Depends if you're calculating gross or net.
That's a scenario for branch-then-cherrypick :)

Branch, write test to expose bug, add debug aids, fix bug, switch branch, cherry pick the test & fix, delete debug branch.
Please remove https://github.com/akexorcist/Android-BluetoothSPPLibrary from your list.
Its unmaintained and has tons of bugs.
So how are they going to fix it? Will changes to the loading sequence be enough? Otherwise, December seems a bit soon for a return to flight.
A very interesting explanation, thank you!

Could you elaborate on how this results in Microsoft having control over the post-merger LinkedIn?
True, sometimes I realize I need to do something half-way when doing something else, then I do a "WIP commit", do another thing and commit that thing (sometimes in a separate branch forked off master), then perhaps reorder commits if needed, and go back to continue working on the previous thing (and amend the "WIP commit" once done)

The tricky thing is that when doing several things without committing, sometimes you can end up in a state of the repo where you can't split the work done into nice commits anymore (because you might have modified same part of code multiple times).
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No criminality in Clinton emails – FBI
Sure.

With a hydroelectric turbine you can produce electrical power (by black magic as far as I'm concerned) or mechanical power.

There is a terrific documentary called Ben's Mill on such a mechanical application here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KJbRHO76s

That will explain visually how mechanical power can be coached into performing useful work. It's also worth watching just to see the cows reaction to their new water vessel at the end, they are like animals out of Disneyland.

Mechanical power when converted to electrical power undergoes a drop in performance (similar to other power conversions, something is lost).

There is a fascinating article here on the subject, I quote:

"The hydro power installations in use today are actually less efficient than those of earlier centuries"

"Direct hydropower is at least twice as economically viable as a hydroelectric operation with the same rate of energy production."

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/08/direct-hydropower.htm...

Also take a look at this:

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/09/power-from-the-tap-wa...

That is hacking if I ever saw it! I intend to construct a micro hydroelectric plant myself, so ask away if you've any questions. I love the idea of marrying up old school technology with modern technology. I also have a terrific idea for lighting using heliostats, which combines tech literally thousands of years old with the latest in machine learning.