skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd actually be really interested in knowing what percentage of people read opposing rhetoric.

I easily spend far more time listening to and reading right-leaning rhetoric, despite being left leaning. I already know "my side". Why would I want to live in an echo chamber?
I suspect the high bandwidth price is a targeting tool and is primarily for repelling those wanting to host seed boxes, porn sites and the like. You can probably get a much better deal if you're paying > 10k$/mo.

Even then, cloud bandwidth is insanely expensive. For example, Hetzner offers 1.3$/TB (if you happen to exceed their generous 30 TB quota). In comparison, Amazon is 70x more expensive at 90$/TB.
> I don't think you quite understand this conversation.

Looking at the conversation as an outsider, it seems to me you are the one who have things backwards.
I think that even upper middle class in US now have hard times pulling out 5K in cash in case of emergency. So it is not surprising that a Stanford professor is homeless, but that so few are.
Hmmm if we had the power to bring water to the Sahara Desert and make it bloom would we not do it for aesthetic reasons? The Sahara has been bountiful in the past. There are plenty of other bodies in the solar system to leave in their "natural state" whereas Mars' current condition is more a matter of coincidental timing than of it's being a timeless Platonic object.
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Is there a place you can live that doesn't need plumbers or electricians?
I'd never thought of legal briefings as good educational material, but I think you are right that doing so would help a person understand how to even approach an issue. Maybe even following up with the court's decision and (in the case of SCOTUS) dissents. On a philosophical level, Leonard Peikoff talks about this issue in his essay "The American School: Why Johnny Can't Think" [1]:

"An education that trains a child’s mind would be one that teaches him to make connections, to generalize, to understand the wider issues and principles involved in any topic. It would achieve this feat by presenting the material to him in a calculated, conceptually proper order, with the necessary context, and with the proof that validates each stage. This would be an education that teaches a child to think."

That kind of process is exactly what good court opinion looks like.

[1] https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1984/01/01/the-american-sch...
> I'd be curious if the two "representations" are losslessly convertible, for example.

They are: you could just extract the HEVC NAL units, and re-write them into a MP4 or QuickTime container, making sure to properly place the codec configuration box, etc.

HEIF also goes beyond a sequence of frames, in that it can describe alpha planes, depth maps, tiling, etc. In that case there might not be an analog with a standard video. If you really wanted to decompose a HEIF container, you might choose to extract the raw media into elementary streams (for HEVC or AVC; or if you're using the JPEG codec, just plain JPEG files) adjacent to any metadata like Exif, etc. This is essentially what Nokia's conformance files are [1].

[1] https://github.com/nokiatech/heif_conformance/tree/master/bi...
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Higher ed needs competition.

In the interest of human progress, justice, and fairness, top-tier education needs to become open-access and in the form of competitive study.

Instead of the greatest academic achievement having anything to do with money, connections or committees, make degrees open access: anyone can study for them and test for them.

If any person, no matter how disadvantaged, or from what community they come from, wants to study pre-med, then they should be able to self study and test for a bio, chem or other pre-med degree.

There's no technological or economic reason this can't happen.
Well, it's a much more interesting idea than a usual hype article with yet another application of the statistical inference.
Her background, according to the Guardian, is former Air Force and being fluent in Middle Eastern languages. None of that indicates that she would be especially knowledgeable of how access logs are implemented. I mean, she should have gave the NSA the benefit of the doubt given the massive clusterfuck caused by Snowden 3+ years ago. But even today, we see reports of massive data incompetence by Booz Hamilton (Snowden's employer) top secret contractors: http://gizmodo.com/top-defense-contractor-left-sensitive-pen...
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> Although we teach people to write, we tend to focus on mechanics rather than on writing clearly and in a way that emphasizes our meaning.

That's not really true; the five-paragraph essay form and it's fractal expansions that dominate grade-school writing is all about clarity and focus on meaning.

It's a horrible as a model for anything other than persuasive writing for a number of other reasons, and given the way the target output influences process, it's an impediment to critical thinking compared to alternatives like thesis/antithesis/synthesis (or IRAC, which while pretty much taught exclusively in the context of legal writing is a very good model for general-purpose analytical writing.)
Google doesn't seem to understand airport security in my case. I typically get a "leave now to arrive on time" notification while sitting at the gate.
I went to HK in the middle of hottest times (Aug 1st) last year and it was absolutely brutal. But then again, the entire city really grew out of nowhere during the past century, so it kind of grew in tandem with air conditioning.

HK is one of those places that's absolutely amazing as a city, and has some of the worst weather on earth (crazy humidity all the time, insane heat in summer, crazy rains and typhoons all the time… and a cloud of pollution emanating down from Shenzhen).
In my area (Sydney) people have been getting together with their neighbours and then going to a developer and offering to sell all their houses together. Instead of getting 1.5-2 mil they are getting around 5 mil. The developers are very keen for it too - so I guess its still possible to pay very large amounts in this way and still the developers still make money.
I wonder why we don't see this in the corporate world more? When we need a change of pace we have to quit one company and start at another one, you'd think it would be in the companies best interest to have people go elsewhere to get their fix and then come back with their old knowledge plus any relevant new knowledge.
Much depends on what you choose to study in college. One can easily get an advanced degree without picking up critical-thinking skills.

Whether critical-thinking skills are actually valuable for making money or personal happiness are something perhaps left to philosophy or theology departments.
> by the time I habe the remotes configured correctly they are back to playing with their legos

That seems like a pretty good outcome!
I cringed at that too.
Third possibility: that she suspected she'd be caught regardless, and decided that releasing this specific information publicly was more important than her personal freedom.

Fourth possibility: that the NSA did use the forensic marks in question to identify her, and fabricated a parallel construction in order to avoid acknowledging the existence of said marks.

(But still, most likely this is Hanlon's Razor. What's there to be suspicious about?)
danso that was detailed and very thorough, thank you. I wonder what your opinion is about the earlier leaks of Russian communications: would this have exposed methods to the Russian officials who thought they had secure channels?
Um, wrong. Mauryan Empire was bigger than present-day India.
Even Mughal Empire under Akbar was bigger. So, no. Also, the forms of control of British were different than those of previous empires.
Well that would be a bit more than a taste wouldn't it? And it's Mr. Christ to you!
Not the biggest fan of higher ed, but why put this on the colleges? Why not the high schools? Eighteen was practically middle-aged in the 19th century. We just keep dropping that bar and infantilizing people so much that WSJ will be writing this about PhD programs in a few more years.
well... Chrome updates all the time (version 50 now, can you believe it?)

I haven't used Win 10, but even Win 8 was pretty good for me (crashed less than Sierra + the new MBP).
> Apple is the one that developed OpenCL. Apple submitted OpenCL to Khronos. So if Apple isn't to blame then who is?

The Khronos group that wanted OpenCL to look something else than what Apple cared about.

When one is in minority, better leave.

> Which since it's win10 only there's no real chance of that happening anytime soon.

I remember hearing the same about DX 10/Vista, DX 11/Windows 7 and how GNU/Linux would save the world of gaming with SteamOS and here we are.

> Neither does DX12.

I guess you don't follow XBox SDK news, UWP is irrelevant in XBox context.
Once autonomous trucking becomes ubiquitous, how often will these vehicles get hacked to just deliver their shipments to the criminal's warehouse directly? "Disrupting" organized crime by cutting out the middleman!
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That doesn't work.
"cold" is quite broad though. That would cover refrigeration/ freezing which would be a much bigger impact than air con.
Is it possible to flag comments? Yours provides absolutely nothing of value to the conversation.
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Good stuff. Never used Vue and I didn't know Udacity had a course on it. I'll have to look into that. Was going to try Node.Js as well.
Look, nobody is arguing that Harvard is doing something that is literally illegal.

But that is their only defense.

What we are arguing is that the Harvard administration is full of terrible people who can go F themselves. Because they do not care about students and they do not care about freedom of thought.

Maybe they are just going to start expelling people because they publicly disagreed with them about tuition hikes or something else that is arbitrary. Who knows!

That wouldn't be illegal either. Would you defend them for that?
it's fractal expansions

Maybe their not as horrible as your saying! :)
I can't bypass the paywall with Google. Any help?
Why Startups Should Choose Swift for iOS App Development?
My times on x86-64 Linux are similar to yours, but on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (which emulates the Linux kernel) it's a different story:

$ time python2 -c exit
real 0m0.111s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.078s

$ time python3 -c exit
real 0m0.063s
user 0m0.016s
sys 0m0.047s

Python 3 is consistently ~twice as fast. Both seem slower, but this is on a small laptop so the absolute measurements may not be comparable. This is on Creators Update.
It is yet another hack web developers come up with, as workaround for offline apps.
If you think that bias is a bad idea than Googles current approach seems okay. They don't bias against WSJ, but they don't bias for WSJ either - The Google bot has less material to work with, so their is less content compared to other sources, so it has a worse ranking. No bias.
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Never had a problem; provable skills nearly always trump a degree in tech. What you mean is good luck getting a job with no experience without a degree.
Five: someone wanted her out and framed her.

Six: she was a weak security link and someone used her access details without permission.
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> This format doesn't really blaze new ground (EDIT: it does in the sense that it defines a container format to express image-y constructs like still images and sequences of images in an ISO media container, but see my other comment that asks how this is similar but different to video [3]), but if this repackaging and the resulting code donation and political clout helps it gain traction, we still would gain a lot.

You need to think about HEIF as the container and disconnected from the codec used to compress the media content. In that sense, HEIF is a massive trailblazer. It gives us an ISO standard to describe image and mixed media consistent with existing methods (i.e. MP4) while allowing for new constructs (i.e. useful features of the future in addition to tiling, depth map, stereo, etc.) and new codecs as they are developed and adopted. HEIF is a universal forward-looking format.

Until now, almost all of the major imaging formats were tied to the codec and not terribly extensible to new use cases. While BPG is a great format in the short term (it gave us HEVC coded images around 2.5 years ago), it isn't an ideal choice for the long term when viewed as above.
The strawman fallacy is when you misattribute a position to someone.

"Strawman" not a catchall for "I don't see all the steps in your argument for how my position X implied Y." I'd be glad to spell those out more explicitly.

>...It is fact that you can get most of what WSJ writes somewhere else for free.

It is a fact because people copy it. Therefore, you're saying it's not valuable because people can get it elsewhere because it was copied. So, the copy-ability made it valueless, exactly as I inferred from your argument (rather than misattributing it).

(late edit: Also, the fact that you insist on "atom-based" and "bit-based" being incomparable doesn't help your case that you're not rejecting IP: "Comparing the economics of a pure bit-based product (media) with a pure atom-based product (camera)".)

Okay, perhaps that is not what you meant and therefore it was a strawman -- but that's the only self-consistent, plausible reading I saw.

The only other meaning is that,

"You can get all the interesting facts contained in this story from different sources, without just copy-pasting."

Is that what you meant? If so, it's implausible on its face: why are people trying to circumvent the paywall if they didn't want the WSJ's article specifically? Why can't they just go somewhere else? Why do they load HN discussion with complaints about a paywall rather than "here's the free, independent version that's just as good"?

>And I said the "value" is very subjective. and it's not "valuable enough" for most people. Yet you go on and say I said "it's not valuable". Then somehow go from that to accusing me of rejecting the concept of IP. I don't even know where to start.

I said that because you dismissed the value on the grounds of it being "subjective", which was close enough in this context to saying "oh, I can't quite put a hard value on it, so I don't have to care about this journalism going away". As above, why don't people just find another non-copied source? Because they non-subjectively do want to look at this specific source.

With that said, I do agree that it may not be obvious how your position is tantamount to rejecting IP. But I was deriving that as an implication, not misattributing anything to you. Whether or not you recognize this position as implicitly rejecting of all IP, there is certainly a clear logical chain for how it has such an implication.

Edit: I know we're not supposed to talk about downvotes, could they at least wait the 60 seconds necessary to read this?
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As a user, if I search for something, I want to get the information I was searching for, not an offer to buy that information. A link to a page where I can buy your product is not a search result; it's an ad. And it's totally fair (and possible) for WSJ to be required to pay for their ads on Googles result page, just like everybody else is doing.

(Disclaimer: Working for Google)
Aaaaand that's when socialized health-care, good public shcools and good public transportation saves the day. Come to France!
What course are you following on Udemy about Vue.js?
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It would be fair if WSJ would be asking for that. I agree, that if I already pay for a subscription, the results should be ranked accordingly for me. There is probably a simple, technical way to implement that.

But AIUI this is not what WSJ is requesting here. They want free ads for their product ranked high in the search results.
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Or they could just demote them, since inaccessible by any of those means less likely to be useful to a searcher.
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The fact that someone prefers to cheap out and read the copy-pasted version doesn't mean they don't appreciate the paywalled version; it just means they want it for free. For all we know, it was high-quality journalism.

See also the sibling reply.
Not that that makes it any less concerning that The Intercept forgot to scrub the dots, unless the email in question contained instructions along the lines of "lol dont worry bout opsec i dont care if i get caught kthx <3 <3".
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Marvellous, they've reinvented Function Block Diagram programming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_block_diagram
> Also, if you are hiring her for game design, then off hours, she can't design games, because that is directly competitive.

Isn't that basically the same as saying that all games she design belongs to the company?
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> In California, millions of dollars' worth of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are disappearing.

That's a lot of nuts!
Once indoors temperature hits 26, I can't get any work done. I know I have short temperature comfort range, but 30 indoors is crazy for me.
> Good luck finding a job without a college degree.

I've a couple of them, but my degrees won't come to my rescue when I'm about to get fired for my poor performance :)
Well then maybe Harvard should lose its billions of dollars in government funding.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences.

And the consequence for not supporting freedom of thought should be that the government takes away its billions of dollars from you.
I'd seen Star Wars by the time I was 5. I'd played various NES games, at least including Duck Hunt. My wife grew up around 3 brothers who included her in various things that would've made my parents blush.

You don't sound old-fashioned, so I won't call you that. I was thinking more like "alarmist". I think it's possible to harm a child through exposure to violent content, but I don't think it's as easy as you seem to. In particular, I'd consider cartoonish violence essentially harmless. My son won't be around FPSes for a number of years, but NES-style games? Can't be worse than 80s Saturday morning cartoons.
This whole story is nuts
Every time a college sucks article gets published I think the same things:

Look at the college enrollment rates since the 1960's.
Look at the tuition rates since the 1960's
Look at the distribution of majors since the 1960's

Then precede to look at the labor market. It all becomes very clear. There's millions of great young people roaming the halls of colleges who are not engaged in higher learning. Great young people who would develop critical thinking skills from work, family and good on the job training.

Many of these young people are told from an early age that college is a must in order to get anywhere. Whether that's true, I can't answer with confidence. I waited to go to college. After high school I decided to work, pay bills and taxes. In my late 20's I went back for a CS degree and am productive and happy now. Had I gone right out of high school I would have wasted a lot of time and money.

Is there even a solution to this issue outside of the family? Is the focus and quality of k-12 in the wrong place? Is it a mixture? Who knows?
I think it's unfortunate that people wont argue their point with you and are only downvoting.

I think a lot more of the SAT is about gaming their system these days. You could argue that making an "educated guess" by eliminating clearly wrong answers is useful maybe...but i dont think it really stacks up to what their hoping for. I dont think eliminating obvious bad choices is critical thinking, or if it is then it's a very low level of it.
Apple used to have sabbaticals until 1997 or so (6 paid weeks off every 5 years). Anecdotally, I heard that many employees used the leisure time to look for new jobs, but that may have been due to the turmoils Apple was undergoing in the 1990s.
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It seems reasonable for people speaking on behalf of a project to identify themselves as speaking on its behalf. The question has turned up three different people not divulging that information so far, so I think it's done the job.
I'm in Sweden and here you can pay $63/month to get a flatrate for calling/smm/mms/surfing + 100GB in EU/ESS, Malaysia and Thailand, and you can get a extra SIM card if you need one for another device.

But for me my company pays that anyway so I can get a new phone every year with basically free surfing in the whole EU, which is really nice.
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Yes, b/w converting is not sufficient. Once printed, the yellow dots are hard to remove.

http://imgur.com/a/kLovh

And even when you mask them out so that they are no longer visible in the "all white" (paper) background, e.g. by messing with the white/black point of the image there's still the possibility that they could be recovered with correlation methods in grey areas where they aren't visible to the naked eye or just by increasing the contrast.
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This question makes me run away.
"The government comes out whole"

1. I'm getting so tired of sticking up for prop 13.

2. Politicians took such advantage of that ever increasing piggy bank. So many narcisstic uses of that money. I saw it as a kid, and I knew something was very off. The adults were beyond pissed.

3. If this prop 13 blame projection takes hold; this generation will understand why my father, and Howard Jarvis were Mad as Hell.

4. Repelling prop 13 will not magically built new housing units. There will be a spike, and then flatten out. Then politicians will do what they do best; have money for their pet projects.

I honestly wonder if people need to live through a terrible situation in order to feel the effects? And looking for an easy prop to repeal to correct a complex situation is not the right path, but I feel some of you will never get it until you experience it first hand?