skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democrats spent a lot more money on these races and were still not able to win. This is clearly a problem for them. The swing in margins can be explained by the fact that the President's party mostly always loses some points
A little good faith, will you?

The idea was that capitalism gives you a choice between proprietary, shitty, or non-existent software. Not much of a choice. Photoshop is often showed as an example where free alternatives aren't up to snuff (I personally don't have an opinion on this one).

Hence the short "requires".
Courts in Germany do not generally agree that you can record somebody and use that that recording in court, because of "Recht am eigenen Bild".

Even if a burglar enters your house, you may photograph him, but you cannot use that photo in court. You need to have a sign at the entry telling that you are doing video recordings on your property. Source: police information event.

Still, if you question authority, you need to be prepared. In this case I would recommend immediate upload of the material, so taking or damaging the phone wouldn't help them.
The memo also put forth a position that women were, on average, biologically inferior to men at engineering roles.
Absolutely. Look at marijuana. Most people I meet that oppose legalization also oppose the government defining their moral values. It's backwards.
I find the ones that don't accept symbols to be more common than the ones that require one, which is why I don't include symbols by default.
It's the people that demand the gun rights against the government whose state officials vote themselves "protection" from being filmed in public.
The equivalent of your example in tech industry leads to number of men in software growing - which is precisely what diversity policies try to counter.
I attributed it to Googlers that had accounts here, and were running a flag-campaign to keep these articles off of HN.

perhaps some of the mods could chime in as to whom was doing the bulk of the flags.

Reasoning: its a political hot-potato, with their DoL lawsuit accused of paying women substantially less for the same job. Last thing they needed was more 300+ HN posts every day for a week. Rage-media has mostly moved on to N Korea, or whatever other special cringe-worthy topic.
Maybe the amount of geniuses grew proportionately, maybe there are more geniuses per billion capita today.

My guess is that there are vastly more geniuses today but that they are spread out more geographically and to many more types of art.

Today, maybe Beethoven would be making techno in Rotterdam. Goethe might be making movies in Hollywood or computer games in Copenhagen. Who knows.
> That's a gross oversimplification of the issue.

It is the way most people think. The only way of thinking available for them. So this conclusions is exactly what they draw from the story.

> the lesson you choose to take from it is "don't express your opinion in public"? That's what really explains Trump.

I'm not sure that Const-me took _this_ lesson, but the point is: the most people took this lesson. The reality works this way. Therefore this lesson is the true one, it is like self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough people belive in it, than it is true.
Given what the World after will look like it might be better to die quickly though
> In a free speech ruling that contradicts six other federal circuit courts, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court ruling that says Americans do not have a first amendment right to videotape the police, or any public official, in public.

Worth noting that this circuit is the outlier, if the assertion is indeed accurate.

But where is the "district court ruling that says Americans do not have a first amendment right to videotape the police, or any public official, in public"?

I scanned over the 8th Circuit's opinion, which mostly talks about why the recusal denial was okay in their opinion:

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/07/163555P.pdf

As well as dockets relevant to the case:

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/missouri/mowdce/2:2015cv04...

But I haven't seen anything relevant to the claim in the lede.

EDIT:

Looks like this has some of the language mentioned, starting on page 32. In particular, the last paragraph of page 34:

https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/missou...

> Further, he has no constitutional right to videotape any public proceedings he wishes to. See Rice v. Kempker...

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-8th-circuit/1380406.html

That's Rice v. Kempker. Part that the Akins ruling quotes:

> Because we hold that neither the public nor the media has a First Amendment right to videotape, photograph, or make audio recordings of government proceedings that are by law open to the public...

So, I'm not a lawyer or a judge, but it seems like the specific claim that the lede latched onto is much more narrow in scope. If a proceeding is public, it doesn't guarantee that anyone is allowed to come in and videotape it. I can't go to the Supreme Court and argue that I have a First Amendment right to take video in there.

Am I missing something? If I'm interpreting this correctly, this news article is outrageously inaccurate.

Here's another take on the story: much more nuanced and in line with what I've been reading in the dockets.

http://www.abc17news.com/news/top-stories/attorney-asks-fede...
> You spoke up?

There's more than one way to "speak up", so there's isn't just two options. In any case, who's opinion are you talking about? A specific subset of HN that sticks in your mind?

> pretty basic corporate policy

by basic, do you mean "vague and unevenly applied"?

> is taken without a critical eye

It isn't, but the conversation was cut short, suggesting that the opposite happened; it was assumed to be false/incorrect.
No, next question.
57 is Firefox Nightly. They’ve done a lot of performance work in between 54 and 57.
You realize his paper was posted to a list at google called "pc-considered-harmful"?
nothing about the ruling says that. the ruling itself just says they affirm a lower court ruling being appealed so it is not clear exactly what they are ruling on.

the key thing here is that this was a lawsuit by some guy against the police alleging damages from deprivation of rights (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983)

that is a very different situation from the police charging him with a crime for making recordings.

basically just more stupid ill-informed sensationalist journalism.
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Hilary Clinton lost to a pussy graber you don't have to be a Google employee with PhD to see the world for what it is.
My personal approach is to create a unit to contain the classes for the "thing" i am working with (e.g. for a 3D world editor, i create a unit that was a TWorld inside, perhaps with TEntity and other classes). Then create another unit for the global stuff (lately i've taken a liking to use a TDataModule which can be edited visually even though it is a non-visual thing - it allows me to place non-visual components in an IDE surface which helps assign event handlers and properties from the editor without writing code for that). Then from the GUI side i just make calls to the global unit/datamodule and/or to methods in the classes i work with.

Of course it all depends on what i'm making, for simple stuff i just throw everything in the form code directly. For more complex stuff i use the method above.

Here is an image showing an example of the approach:

http://i.imgur.com/cm4VTHn.png

The "GlobalState" window is an IDE window that represents a TDataModule (the name sucks and probably is for Delphi compatibility, it doesn't have anything to do with "Data" and because of that i ignored it for years) that contains the "SimpleViewportRenderer1" and "ViewportManager1" non-visual components - instances of the TSimpleViewportRenderer and TViewportManager component classes. This is in its own unit and can be accessed by other units, essentially providing global state (note that a data module is really a class - much like forms - but you can have a global variable with a single instance of it - again like forms). The neat thing with this approach is that it can also be seen by the IDE: the Viewport1, Viewport2, Viewport3 and Viewport4 components in the Form1 form have a property that accepts an optional TViewportRenderer component. This is presented as a combobox in the Object Inspector window and when you pull it down, one of the options is "GlobalState.SimpleViewportRenderer1" - so you can wire together components 100% visually.
So you just list it because it was on another list, without gathering any proof yourself? What a great list you maintain.

Also slightly disappointing you take PayPal donations, if any party is nasty in the ad industry... it is them.
SRV lookup for localhost names should yield a (probably identical) localhost name that (by the rest of this draft) necessarily then resolves to a loopback address.

For ports we have the list of well-known services maintained by IANA, for which an extract appears on many systems in /etc/services. Local configuration can adjust as necessary.
> You can get someone to write the necessary code for "if funded send to x, else return funds" on any freelance site for a four-digit amount

Can you do so in a way that I as a funder don't need to trust you the intermediary?
Troubling ruling but very unlikely this survives further appeals.
Did you read the judgement?

http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/17/07/163555P.pdf
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It's an interesting result, but is it accurate to call this "blinding"?

I feel like hiding demographics and actively deceiving people about demographics are different processes and should have different names?
Those things already happen in the US too. This ruling would just seem to justify their actions.
This is the judgement in question. It has no bearing on free speech and should not be presented as doing so by anyone.

If you can find a different case involving Akins on July 25th you are welcome to link to it instead. http://media.ca8.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/opnByMM.pl?theMM=07&th...
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I believe that is his point. It does no common good, but on a pure "individual rights" basis you could argue it infringes on the rights of the officers.

At the same time, though, I believe that any adjudication based on individual rights would need to consider the totality. E.g. police officers from the outset are given substantial rights that infringe on our personal liberty ostensibly out of the belief that doing so will protect us against grater infringements of our personal liberty.

Being allowed to film them, then, while it may on a low level infringe on an officers individual rights, can also be seen as protecting the individual rights of others by providing oversight on the special rights police has been granted.

The officers have an easy out: They can surrender their special rights to infringe on others liberty, and we'll surrender any special rights to infringe on theirs.

For my part I think that whether you look at this from a common good or individual rights perspective, as long as you look at the totality, you can arrive at pretty much the same outcome.

Where you get a different outcome is in how you weight different rights up against each other, and how you determine the totality of infringement caused by different actions.

E.g. you could (and to be clear, I strongly disagree with what I'm about to describe) argue that the officers have a right to privacy or to avoid harassment or similar that outweigh the public concern over monitoring their use of their expanded powers if you see their potential to infringe on others rights as leading to less infringements on liberty than the infringements of officers rights by allowing them to be filmed.
That DMCA request can't be valid.
This appears to be the underlying decision on the motion to dismiss / summary judgement that was upheld by the 8th Circuit:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=169732989067196...

Again, I don't see any discussion about right-to-record. It's mostly a long list of why you can't sue prosecutors.
Do you need electricity? How much?

Do you need food? How much? If you get thinner your TDEE lowers, so you "need" less.

Do you need running water to your house? Hoe much? Our hygiene has in part made us live longer, but maybe we just "need" a few pints a day to drink?

Do you need a refrigerator?

Stop muddying the waters. Internet access is increasingly relevant, and before we had it (as with electricity and running water) we didn't know so. It's not a problem to give people much better, faster and uncapped access, it's only not in the monetary interests of incumbent ISPs and their puppet Ajit.
> Error 404

> Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.
Its a minority in the tech workplace.
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This is a thought provoking response, but I think she's wrong to say the firing was not justified. Simple fact is that if you whip up a shitstorm of this caliber, you will not be long for your role.

But more importantly, if you're going to walk the path of claiming that some of your coworkers are biologically unsuited for their roles, you'd best be sure your research and reasoning are ironclad. There's no "just starting a discussion" on such a topic.
Yesterday this news was on HN homepage.
I just wanted to submit this clarification.

It seems like a weird decision by the courts to block websites randomly to prevent piracy of some movies.
Yes, we want to know what observations we can "hang our hats on", so that we can come up with actual theories (not vague crap like "this drug makes that disease happen less"). The more replications published the better until it is being done in undergrad/high school classrooms.

You can't rely on anything in the current half-assed, no replication environment. In many areas it is literally not worth coming up with an mathematical model to explain the data because it is all so questionable.
There's a big difference that depends whether you look at the "work with people or machines" split from a skill perspective or the time spent perspective.

From the skill perspective, sure, you need all this interaction (and the skills for it) to succeed. However, if you look at the time spent, some roles and career paths will spend 80% of their time working with machines, and some will spend like 80% of their time with people - and this expectation on how they'll spend most of their working day will make some of these paths (un)attractive to some of the people, in proportions that are highly correlated with gender.
Tough to know exactly what you mean, but there are some UI frameworks running in WebAssembly here: http://floooh.github.io/oryol-samples/index.html
Made me think of http://n-gate.com/software/2017/07/12/0/
It's probably in a Facebook iframe, which is a different story.
maybe that's a more recent photo from a Citroen museum...?
Who is one of the 4 people from Quillette article (Dr Soh) which still leaves us with 4!
Talking assumes reasoning. Or, when you are in a power grab, reasoning is the last thing you want to do.

The left does want the power not the talking.
I don't understand what studies you are referring to. Each additional paper should be improving whatever parameter estimates are being made, it makes no sense to only look at one result and ignore all the others.
Has James O’Keefe Accidentally Stung Himself Again?
The existing legislative context, e.g: Equal Employment Opportunity, is incompatible with some of the things in this memo, particularly, stating that females do not perform well at certain roles and should not be preferred. That would not be compliant with the EEO law.
Other countries have much less parking, yet they somehow manage to have a middle class.

Have you considered that one of reasons for the high condo prices may be that there's too few of them, in part because land that could be used to build a bunch more is taken up by parking lots?

Especially if we're talking about flat parking (not silos), a single spot is taking the place of multiple condos. So you can imagine how much each actually costs, even if you're not the one paying the price.
As I said, it's non-deterministic, so I'm not surprised if you're seeing something different.

I have made it a habit to try resource hungry pages in all my browsers. The variance is huge but the pattern is pretty clear when it comes to CPU usage, especially between Safari and everyone else (excluding Edge and IE as I don't use Windows).
you mean one step closer to realize you are living in a police state...
I did something like this once for a paper in school to show the changing definition of morality. It really is interesting to follow how minds change over time-- especially if language plays a part in how we see the world.
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Hey you got downvoted, but as someone with 15 years experience, I am definitely worse at whiteboard stuff than when i was straight out of Uni. I do write far better software these days though and can usually design things in a way that avoid the need for too much "clever" code.
I think you're probably right. The headlamp shape leads me to believe that the blue car is a Citroen Xanae prototype (http://www.citroenet.org.uk/prototypes/xanae/xanae.html), an MPV prototype/predecessor for the Picasso.
How to make sure a software team is worth your trust?
basically, above a certain price point cars are designed for stupid wankers
These states have always actively tried to impede the advancement of American society so it doesn't surprise me to see them taking such a backwards stance
If you have reliable measurements then that falls under my number 1. There is no need for any vague theorizing, but go ahead and include it in the speculation sections (Intro/Discussion) if you like.

Edit:

If all that gets published is a correlation coefficient and not the distribution, scatterplots, etc. Then no, that paper is worthless.
That is the most 1st world problem I have heard in ages. Thanks for the laugh. I know it may not always be funny to you, but step back and consider 'having to hear too many ferraris' in the grand scheme of QOL. Buck up man.
This is the district court ruling:

http://courtweb.pamd.uscourts.gov/courtwebsearch/mowd/BNJpmR...
Hey Tom,

Great work there!

One question - Why are we transforming the triangles to equilateral triangles?

Just throwing out a few ideas and wanted to discuss what potential flaws could they have.

1. For keypoint detection, what if you use ASIFT (Affine SIFT) which is Affine transformation friendly. In that case, you'd probably save time doing the rotations. Given the huge number of proposals we get, we might still need to filter out some keypoint proposals from this may be using a metric like if too many keypoints are within some 2D window, then choose the one which is farthest from all edges of the 2D window (very rough, don't know if there are other ways)

2. With the final set of keypoints, I propose that let us do Delaunay Triangulation in the hope of getting a collection of triangles which cover the complete surface area of the image making it a spatially equidistant breakdown of the image pixels.

3. Hash those triangles (maybe? how?)

4. Now given a query image, perform steps 1-3, and find the triangles which match the triangles from a database image. If the fraction of matches are above a given threshold, then this is a potential candidate for the search result.
shared by many contemporary cars and apparently not a big problem
Suppression of free speech is the most dangerous - Eventually people reach a breaking point and then they snap all at once. I think that is a cause of extremely violent events like WW2 and most revolutions. Oppressed people start quietly labelling who their enemies are (often without proper justification) and wait for consensus to build.

After this, although I disagree with the engineer, I don't think that Google is the kind of company I would want to work for.

This event is eerily reminiscent of a comment I made on HN 2 months ago about big corporations and suppression of free speech (see last line): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14527934

I think that if these companies get too big and keep suppressing free speech, eventually they will get mutinied from the inside.
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Implementing a Bot for Slack in Rust, Rocket and Anterofit – Part 2
Anyone can send you a scary letter claiming anything at any time. Your choices are always A. Ignore it B. Delete your comment or C. Pay a lawyer $500/hour for advice.

People have trouble conceptualizing small probabilities, so that minimum threshold of choosing A and being wrong times "all the money in the world"[1] might be > $500, so it's always rational[2] to delete your comment if you don't want to schedule time with a lawyer.

[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/223431/riaa_thinks_limewire_o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging
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Someone already added a pull request to add it back.

https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/500
A pussy grabber won over Hilary Clinton. You don't have to be a Google employee with PhD to see how bad of a candidate she was.

You see... two people can play that game. If anything, a pro-trump person could have used that same sentence of yours to demonstrate the opposite sentiment. Don't attribute biases to situations that are nothing other than complete and utter incompetence.
Given "men typically giving themselves credit for work done in teams while women typically talk about the teams they were part of", then if you see a female CV it's more likely to be understated than if you see a male one. Which predicts two things:

* People aware of this will prefer otherwise identical CVs with female names (expectation is the underlying candidate is stronger, just more modest)

* Blind hiring will get you more men (because hiring managers can't correct for the male/female difference in self promotion anymore)
He was alt-right to begin with.
The planar surfaces of the f117a were strictly for radar reflectivity, and material restrictions inherent to the technology of the day. Not due to 80s style vector rendoring.
There is the freedom to negotiate, and the freedom to leave. Comparing it to Stalinism is silly, and surely disrespects the millions of people who genuinely suffered and died under Stalin.
"Worse, one of the biggest obstacles that minorities face is a chicken-and-egg problem that time alone doesn’t cure. People avoid professions in which there are few people like them. This is a hurdle which affirmative action can remove, fast and efficiently."

I think this assumption is made by most people but unfortunately simply filling slots based on socially constructed identity labels does not seem to be effective in addressing underlying inequalities.

For instance, we have had "race" based affirmative action policies for universities for decades but very limited effect in having those policies translate into balancing income and wealth gaps between socially constructed race groups. In fact those gaps have widened considerably over the past couple decades.

I think that people still fail to understand the extent of sub-conscious prejudice and fail to understand that the programs they are putting in place to try to solve inequalities between socially constructed identity groups are actually reinforcing the underlying causes of those inequalities instead of eliminating them.