skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't prevent you from using them. You simply get a sql statement with appropriate place holders. You can pass that sql statement to your database library and it will do the right thing - including binding the parameters and creating prepared statements as necessary.
Wait what? D.C. Is incredibly expensive and also hasn't some of the worst traffic in the country.

I love D.C. But not sure I'm following your reasoning here....
Especially if you want to integrate it with another project so you'll only be soldering on the connections you are using anyway.
Resource prices will also drop in response to a larger supply. That's what I was taught once upon a time. Now of course you have the likes of Goldman Sachs manipulating prices by stockpiling resources to lower supply.
Can this be used in things like Minecraft?
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smokers get cancer, tobacco contains carcinogens, however, studies rarely take enough account of the wide range of conditions that contribute to health, stress, nutrition, socio-environmental conditions, mental health, exercise, meditation and mindfulness, these are often left out, clearly they have an effect, it's not an easy task, I'm not an advocate of ingesting harmful substances, I am an advocate of interdisciplinary research that helps us understand the why and how humans are susceptible to what seems like 'wrong choices', or are they, see 'The Paris Problem', problem eh... don't forget the man in the dark street searching for his lost keys only under the light from a streetlamp..
Windows 7 and 8.1 Are Gaining More New Users Than Windows 10
This was a good and interesting read. Is h.264 an open standard ?
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I've always been curious about whether this was to inspire a positive feeling, or if there was some other reason.
It does support 3.x, there are test cases for it as well. I'll fix the readme, thanks for pointing that out!
Dell just teased its own Surface Studio PC
Thanks for the explanation. Personally I'm not looking for villains, I always think it's at least in part more systemic. They stick to what works, and tight integration of their services can be done in a purely positive intention that makes everything work better together.

However they have the resources and reach to build "their ecosystem" and strengthening it will have the side effect of relieving pressure to do anything open. At most we get some legacy products like itunes on windows or a hidden ical export. Just compare it to a new player like slack with a minimal ecosystem, they build or make possible all the apis for all the services they don't offer.

Furthermore apple will use proper apis for all their services, nicely documented, but just not open to the public. (I don't know apple too much, might be wrong here)

Oh and by the way: psycho tricks that add no true benefit to the product, but make you stick are very common and widely accepted, but I sill dislike them (though maybe you have to play this game to stay in the game at all)
Few things off the top of my heads

- horrible at negotiating and playing it safe

- biggest mistake was probably being afraid to read source code of third party libraries when the docs led me to a dead end. Always read the source

- stop trying to make everything DRY, duplication is better than obfuscation
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Just as a question, what makes long walks in the woods or long runs not "actual meditation"? I guess my question can also be phrased as, what do you think meditation is?

I'd argue that meditation is more about approach and frame of mind than activity -- and there certainly are moving forms of meditation. There's also just a lot of kinds of meditation, from a lot of widely different traditions, so you're not going to find unified literature. (There's also a few major world religions that feature meditation as a component, so you'll find a lot of the literature tied up with that worldview, as well.)

That's what prompts my question above: if you don't have some goal or idea in mind, it's sort of hard to direct you to particular resources.

The place I suggest starting for everyone is find somewhere in your life that you're meditating without knowing it, and try to do that somewhere else. Sports, crafts, etc. Can you intentionally make an activity feel like a long walk in the woods or a good run? like losing yourself in being focused on a hobby?

...can you feel that when just sitting there?

At some level, that's all meditation really is.
This way you don't need to decide whether to upvote your own post, because you already did by default.
I wonder if across a lot of videos, the frequency domain representations look similar and if instead of masking in a circle we could mask with other (pre-determined) shapes to keep more information (this would require decoders to know them, of course).
Or maybe this article is too high-level and it's not possible to "shape" the frequencies.
It is not so much "common" as it is "law". The law mandates a certain amount of holidays in addition to national holidays.

Its 23 or something along those lines of mandated "days off".
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You can use Chrome profiles to create private "sandbox" for certain extensions. Put for example webdev related to extensions in separate profile, which you don't use for daily surfing.
I just stick with EFF Privacy Badger.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
That's more of a guide for converting to Buddhism... in a word, proselytizing.
You still bought an iphone 7 though. Vote with your wallet!
Can't remember when, but here's an article on it:

http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...

Edit: "As part of this reform process, China will be transitioned in 2016 into a category for more developed nations, who generally pay higher terminal dues."
Okay, you are advocating for hardcore feminism that would change the society perceptions and make it feasible to alter behaviours.

It will take time to happen but it is worth fighting for it now.
That's basically what Sanders did with Clinton. He supports her in exchange for her embracing many of his issues.
You're anecdote is my point exactly?!

If your current employer would list the $10,000 per seat price (or even a range -- $8,000 - %12,000 per seat depending on reasons) then someone was willing to consider an order of magnitude less could immediately skip your employer's product. Instead, it's their desire to have potential customers open a dialog so you can explaining value proposition and get them more invested. We can get to know each other as people and touch bases again next year ...

That crap is exactly the problem, not the solution. I don't want to take the time to be polite if I know your price is an order of magnitude out.
Manual conversion to a loop also destroys the same information, so it’s a wash either way on that front.
They're also on YouTube under the OCW channel.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61hsJNdULdu...
More like Russia over Hungary over Czech and Romania. Russians have their safe heaven in Russia because there's no foreign competition, and the mafia-like connections do help. Hungary's golden age is over.
It's certainly possible to use any arbitrary shape. The way it really works is that there is a quantization matrix - which essentially is a configurable mask for your frequency domain signal.

Yes, I've dumbed it down in the article to a simple circle to illustrate the point.
Doesn't look like it; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC

> H.264 is protected by patents owned by various parties. A license covering most (but not all) patents essential to H.264 is administered by patent pool MPEG LA.[2] Commercial use of patented H.264 technologies requires the payment of royalties to MPEG LA and other patent owners. MPEG LA has allowed the free use of H.264 technologies for streaming internet video that is free to end users, and Cisco Systems pays royalties to MPEG LA on behalf of the users of binaries for its open source H.264 encoder.
However, most audio output (at least back in the nineties and naughties) is not capable or creating sounds reliably above 16khz. They almost always have a low pass filter on which cuts it out. Apparently most dell laptop speakers cant even manage above 10khz

"You can't hear" doesn't have to be high frequencies though.

It can be more subtle like phase shifts and other "in audible range" fingerprinting.

While I've not used it for getting on 20 years now, I did do a lot of software audio engineering back in the day, everything from RF to DSP.
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It's really amazing we haven't blown ourselves up by now:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_acc...

The Tybee bomb is infamous on the East Coast:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_co...

Then there's this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash

And I just read this for the first time: As Kulka reached around the bomb to pull himself up, he mistakenly grabbed the emergency release pin. The Mark 6 nuclear bomb dropped to the floor of the B-47 and the weight forced the bomb bay doors open, sending the bomb 15,000 ft (4,600 m) down to the ground below.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Mars_Bluff_B-47_nuclear...
You made me remember Hi5! It was Facebook before Facebook in my country.

I also recognize a number of these projects, a lot of which are now basically on "auto-run" (not dead, but no new feature since a while)
Yes--it's legal.

Every construction worker, government worker, anyone who set foot on Pac Bell Ball Park in San Francisco during construction was drug tested.

(It became lax after the first few months. I was worried because I'm on clonezepam. Been on it forever. I think they were more concerned with illegial drugs? I was send home my first day because I wore tennis shoes. I hated that job. My initials are on the top side of all the cherry wood player's lockers. One the top of the wood--only when they it down will they see my initials.)
Thank you, excellent explanation. And i don't think i even mind the system. :)
Also the fleeting mention of b-frames, which mpeg-1 doesn't have. And I believe mpeg-1 doesn't use 16×16 macroblocks.

Still, it's a good overview of generic video compression.
I've watched the lecture series before, it focuses a decent amount on cache oblivious data structures and doing realllllllly cool integer tricks to get things fitting into compact bit maps.
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The Republican party isn't an ideological center, it is a coalition (same with the Democratic party).

For example, Republicans in congress strongly supported the 1965 Voting Rights act, 111-20 in the house and 30-1 in the Senate (Democrats 217-54, 49-17).

I think this is an important point because there is a good chance that the existing Republican coalition will break down in the next 4 or 8 years.
Thank you for posting this! I love the perspective that your comment brings to course material being available online. It really helps to understand the power of educational material being abundantly available!
Take a look at dafny [1] and F* [2]. Both are open-source and it appears that both of them are able to prove code to be correct with considerably less proof code than traditional interactive theorem provers (such as Coq or Isabelle), mostly thanks to the use of an SMT solver (Z3, in both cases) to aid in proving.

Both languages are being used in Project Everest [3], which is building a formally verified HTTPS stack, including a formally verified TLS implementation [4].

Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of documentation / beginner guides about these languages out there, but with the little there is, I was still able to start proving non-trivial (but still relatively easy-to-prove) code with them, even though I have no formal verification background whatsoever.

Just as a tip, I found the Dafny tutorial to be a lot easier to follow than F-Star's, but from what I could gather, F* appears to be slightly more general/sophisticated in what it can prove.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/dafny
[2] https://www.fstar-lang.org
[3] https://project-everest.github.io
[4] https://mitls.org
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It's a myth that the quality is better. Experience with H-1B holders shows they produce worse quality.
You can create multiple profiles in firefox with various level of security settings. Use noscript for unknown websites in anonymous ff profile.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

I read ghacks blog frequently to keep myself up to date with new features being added in Firefox. Follow this blog and read their previous articles to learn how to stay safe in online world.

http://www.ghacks.net/

this link is also helpful to stay safe

https://www.privacytools.io/
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That sounds like something that you might be able to get your congressperson interested in changing, if you pitched it the right way.
Couldn't this already be done with Wifi and/or GPS?

Also, doesn't the electronics in the phone already filter out everything outside the audible part of the spectrum, just because it is more efficient to do so (lower sampling rate = better performance / lower power consumption)?
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Anyone who likes this would probably also enjoy the Daala technology demos at https://xiph.org/daala/ for a little taste of some newer, and more experimental, techniques in video compression.
Both of these things depend on what country you live in. The US, EU etc are not the world.

The biological consequences, on the other hand, are certain and universal.
The quality of tobacco does not matter. Homegrown can be even more harmful.

The main reason tobacco is so dangerous is because you are inhaling smoke and carcinogens that are created in the burning. Burning organic or non-organic makes no difference. You are like firefighter in a burning house without a mask when you inhale.

http://www.livescience.com/7914-warning-homegrown-tobacco-de...
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Accompanying book + site

https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Cryptography-Textbook-S...

http://www.crypto-textbook.com/
Isn't is mostly a bandwidth issue right now? I mean, physics prevent us from currently improving the latency, but we could improve bandwidth for sure. Right now it's fairly low due to distances and power for transmissions.

Reading the NASA site just now the MRO transmits from 400Kbps-5Mbps with a max window of about 16 hours a day. The rover has about 8 minutes per sol to transmit data to the MRO at a rate of about 128Kbps-256Kbps. If the rover goes direct to earth then it drops to 300bps-32Kbps.

I seems like at the very least we could improve by increasing the number of satellites to build out full planet coverage and also keep a transmission point in view of earth at all times. Yes, not cheap, I know.
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The main selling point of Linux is portability and by that code reuse across a wide array of use cases.

Sure you could build a hardware abstraction layer for different processors and implement drivers on top of that, but you won't get the same traction/networking effect of Linux anytime soon.

Same goes for software stacks (TCP/IP, USB, WiFi, file systems, etc) which have been running on billions of devices before if you use linux.

The overhead of using Linux is in the range of 1-2MiB [1] so once your application requires external Ram because it doesn't fit the on-chip SRAM, you might as well use Linux.

[1] http://www.emcraft.com/stm32f429discovery/what-is-minimal-fo...
I don't think I've ever consciously visited their site, so no idea how well ghacks ranks as a source...

The story was curiously absent from HN and any other site I frequent, so I checked Google and as of yesterday it only found ghacks outside the German bubble.
I wasn't a pro about it, but I set up and ran our XMPP at a previous company. What I saw as a real problem was a split between clients, servers, modules over the protocol, so it definitely wasn't painless in what functionality worked between one server, modules, a client and inevitably someone choosing a different client. You might do it better than me and it ends up working great for you, or it's gotten better in the last few years since I tried it, but if my experiences are any indication I wouldn't recommend that route. YMMV.

But if you don't like Slack, I'm guessing Mattermost is out of the question as well. I'm still using IRC in a lot of places which "just works", but obviously that is missing a lot of features and fluff of newer technologies, even if some can be retrofitted in.

Please et me know what you decide and your success since it's still relevant for me in a couple of places.
I had to unblock third-party scripts to get anything other than an animated pixel-art gif of an American flag.
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The fast exponentiation algorithm actually generalizes:

http://kukuruku.co/hub/algorithms/automatic-algorithms-optim...
And PCIe 1.1 is going to bottleneck the SSD.
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No, they don't. The Linux kernel is not a RTOS. Most JPL projects use VxWorks.
A couple low ones surprised me. How did Aaron Levine wind up with so little of Box? Many cofounders to share with? Large server costs requiring VC? Down round?
Last I checked, permanent infertility and a (successful) suicide rate of 1 in 200 are not side effects of female hormonal birth control.
I just want to remind the people that the original business model of Udacity (and Coursera) was something different:

Udacity/Coursera wanted to offer the courses for free. It is a fact that employers are searching for employees who are smart, self-determined and love to learn new, complicated things on their own. So they wanted to make money from making their database of learners with their list of completed courses etc. available to employers/recruiters etc. for pay.

If it had worked out, I must say that it would in my opinion not have been a bad idea.

P.S.: Different topic, related business model: I am still waiting for a postmortem on Stockfighter: https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/771533037666390017
I recently discovered Second Toughest via a colleague and it has become one of my favourite programming music album too. And yes, I have also listened to NIN/Ministry to focus in the past. Not so much any more though.
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And during the maintenance phase someone modifies the code and what was pure tail recursion becomes something else and literally blows up the rocket.

The whole point of these rules is defensive programming. Programming not what is correct but what is robust i.e. if anything breaks it still produces possibly suboptimal but not catastrophic results.
C/C++ is still the tool of choice when you need to eke out max performance from the available hardware. That could be because the hardware is weak (maybe an embedded system) or because you need real time performance (game engines come to mind) or because you need to perform very large calculations (e.g. train neural networks, simulate fluid dynamics).

When the going gets tough, the tough reach for their C/C++ compilers. :)
What are directions for the future? Could neural networks become practically useful for video compression? [1]

[1] http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects...
Can anyone recommend a device whihc has Wifi and supports MONITOR mode?

I can't find any information on this device, but essentially I'm looking for something which:

- Supports WIFI to connect the device to a network

- Supports WIFI promiscuous mode _ALSO_ so that I can listen to PROBE requests from devices in the area

- Linux..

Seems like a really hard search?
I recommend these two books for getting started. You should be able to order from your library, obtain used on amazon or maybe even find pdf files online.

Head First HTML and CSS

Work along with the tutorials as you're going through the book.

Head First PHP & MySQL

Same thing here work along with the examples.

After you have those completed or along the way pick a php app that you would use, maybe a to do list, organize/track something you collect and try to build it from scratch.

Google and StackOverflow will be your friends here.

After you complete that one a good next step is Laracasts.com.
There are free videos to get you started in PHP and Laravel(Framework).

Maybe rebuild your personal app you created using the Laravel Framework.

Next I'd recommend The Head First Javascript and jQuery books are good for getting your feet wet too while you're working through laracasts free content.

There is lots to learn but this will give you a good foundation to get started and continue learning.

Have Fun.
This is interesting.

With the permissions system in Marshmallow, you can selectively disable microphone access, which is good. Those of us stuck on Lollipop will just have to be careful what apps we install.
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I've heard this argument before. The claim that "clean" tobacco smoke is not carcinogenic and only the additives are to blame. Well, hate to burst your bubble, but when you burn tobacco--additives or not--you are creating hydrocarbons like benzene, bezopyrene, and butane. All of which are carcinogenic and will cause mutation in human cells upon contact.

You cannot remove these hydrocarbons from tobacco as they are only present during pyrolysis.

Further reading:
https://www.amazon.com/Chemical-Components-Tobacco-Smoke-Sec...

That book is authored by Alan Rodgman (bio below).

After joining R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s research department in 1954, Rodgman initiated the company’s research on cigarette smoke composition. He personally conducted and actively directed environmental tobacco smoke research until 1987.

Rodgman became director of research in 1976. During his career, he served on the editorial board of Tobacco Science, the Council for Tobacco Research, the Coresta Scientific Commission and several U.S. government tobacco-related committees.

He was a member of the Chemical Institute of Canada and the American Chemical Society for 60 years and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences for 40 years.

Rodgman published numerous scientific papers on tobacco smoke composition and served as a reviewer for tobacco-related manuscripts. In 2003 he was awarded the inaugural Tobacco Science Research Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his tobacco-related research and activities. In late 2008 Rodgman co-authored The chemical components of tobacco and tobacco smoke, for which the authors jointly received the 2010 Coresta Award.
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Years ago I migrated from OS X to Kubuntu. Back then KDE was far and away the easiest to reconfigure to Mac's keyboard shortcuts.

KDE apps used to be integrated well too which felt a lot like Mac. Some also lacked polish, but they made up for it in customization and theming options which put OSX to shame.
Can you interpolate table and column names?
Those usually aren't amenable to change in prepared statements