skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Party A, "This Rembrandt is the best he ever painted.", Party B, "No it's not, this Rembrandt is the best he ever painted."

In these sorts of actions you aren't trying to prove a negative both parties are proving a positive, which is to say both parties are working to create a consensus understanding of the interpretation of the law. In one view what these folks do is legal, in one view it is not.

What generally happens though, and looking at the history of the same sex marriage effort is really a great analog here, is that one view or another comes up short in terms of written law, new law is written with what the consensus is thinking should be rather than perhaps what is.

Using same sex marriage as an analog, we started from "Homosexual activity is illegal" to a place where the consensus view was that you couldn't really legislate something which was innate, to "but marrying is illegal" to "well we recognize that your partnership is in many ways like a marriage" to what I expect tomorrow will be "You know, the state doesn't have any business defining the sex of the two people in a marriage." [1]

In each stage of this "conversation" (and I realize that term is not perfect but I don't have a better term for millions of people going through a process to reach consensus) we explored particular aspects of the problem. Was it the 'sex' that was wrong? Was it the 'people' who were homosexuals that was wrong? Is the definition of 'family' inextricably tied to offspring of mated individuals? Or is is broader than that? Are citizens harmed by this? Helped? How about their children? Other children? People around them? In every case one party says "It's wrong because 'reason'." and the the other party debates that reason or comes up with a different line of reasoning why its right. Jurists listen, they consider what has come before and will come after, and rule. Then we as a people consider whether or not that consensus was what we intended or want and then we create new law and the process continues.

It's slow, its ponderous, but it does converge and it allows things to move with the consensus as the consensus moves. FWIW this is the single most powerful 'feature' of our form of Government.

[1] I'll know tomorrow if I'm wrong I suspect but reading about the coverage at the Supreme Court I'm betting its going to come down on the side of same sex marriages.
He's chosen Ecuador because they've already granted asylum to Assange.
Medicine That Monitors You
What Is The Bootstrapper's Dilemma?
If we're concerned our brain muscles won't be flexed enough because an app does the lifting for us (a valid concern, let me emphasize) perhaps this could be integrated into the app itself.

Instead of a message saying "if you want to reach your flight, you have to leave in the next hour" you get a message that prompts you to think: "are you sure you have enough time?"

It could even be taken to the extreme of prompting you to do more mental churning than if you didn't have the app.
This is an older article from 2010. The author later created the git extension named git-flow based on this model - https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
> There used to be a saying "show me a man, and I will find a > paragraph for him"

If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.
-Cardinal Richelieu
The coins of a specific user have been sized, why this sensationalistic title?
I'm not sure that high res displays would have much to do with it. Webfonts might though.
This is really neat. I really appreciated the point that he made about "empowering people to take control of their financial futures".
Why stop with the person we expect to be? Who's to say we're the people we think we are today? Or the person we think we were in the past? If self-perception is biased, it has to be across the spectrum.
The Wau Holland Stiftung in Germany still accepts donations in Bitcoin and using a bank transfer for Wikileaks: http://wauland.de/de/spenden.html#04

If you use a credit card, a small percentage (processing fee) goes to the corporations that decided to sabotage the Wikileaks efforts, so perhaps you shouldn't do that ...
No knock to any contributors on here, but I'm not seeing why RQ is better. Documentation looks incomplete, seems to depend on Redis, the boilerplate doesn't appear to be any less complicated. Is there something I'm missing that this does much better?
Hmm, I've heard of the RES but didn't know about the specifics. When I say one or two disagreements, I really mean 1-2, and small ones at that, all things considered. I just mentioned it cause it's the only thing I could think of that might explain the systematic downvoting. As far as the subreddit, I subscribe(d) to several quite different ones so that wouldn't explain why my comments in all of those would be downvoted.

Also, thought it'd be good to add, when I mentioned before that I was upvoted frequently, it took about a year to get to 1,000 points, so it's not like I was a power-user.
Haha, still working on the millions part. We're launching an insurance company, buyback, and redistribution in the next 6 months so we're really excited about that.

Thanks for the comments, good and bad :)
It's pretty easy to do. My sister just gave me her old cracked iPhone 4 because she thought it was worthless. It still worked fine, but I fixed the screen for about $30 and a few hours of sweaty-palm dis/assembly. Works perfectly now.
I'd say it's more than fine. I just spent three weeks in Europe and I was underwhelmed by the beer everywhere except Munich, Berlin, and Copenhagen (Mikeller was great). Foreigners seem to think of American beer as PBR, Bud Light, Miller, etc... and they have a good reason to--it's what most Americans drink.

But the strong microbrew renaissance going on right now is producing some of my favorite beers. Beers with the same depth and complexity as the finest of wines--he said, opinionatedly.

Now, I've learned that this experimental attitude towards beer is highly American. I don't think I've seen anywhere else in the world, except maybe Belgium, that is quite as crazy and experimental with what they put in their beers. After all, who in their right minds would like sour beers?

If you think the beer situation in the US is poor try out some Russian River, Boulevard, or Elysian brews and come back to me.
Never said that. The main point of the thread is if there is a simple way to reduce terrorism or not.

Remember that Salman Rushdie didn't invade any country.
The workers have to poll Postgres repeatedly at intervals, whereas a worker using a message broker (like RabbitMQ) connects and just waits for something to get tossed its way. Having your task broker separate from your database can save a lot of DB IO if you've got a larger number of workers or a busy task queue. RabbitMQ (and the other more full-featured message brokers) can also do a lot of really slick things with routing, prioritization, and all sorts of other goodies.

Of course, this doesn't matter if you're running a small site with low traffic. I wouldn't get too caught up in worrying about broker selection unless you're cranking out a lot of jobs, or have special needs.
I speak mostly from an ARMv7 perspective (so pipelines, caches, prefetchers, etc are par for the course).

Your literal pool has a high degree of spacial locality WRT the instruction that references it. You can take measures to optimize this (see the ltorg directive) making I$ hits very likely.

In the end, the assembler is free to pick and choose which method is best for the target CPU and input code.
> You are not breaking laws, nor breaking the spirit of the law

I wasn't suggesting that either. Sidestepping is avoidance not evasion.

> The laws have not been updated in light of these new privacy implications. ... the deliberately slow wheels of government to turn?

So change the law. And speed up your justice system. Don't elect individuals who slow down progress deliberately.

> you can both circumvent unjust laws and work to take those laws off the books.

And fight the laws and its usage, which is what Google does. It was also the entity that disclosed the original order in this particular case, so that the person in question can also take some action if possible. It also publishes transparency reports and it was the first one to do that, which gives you an idea about how frequent usage of the unjust laws are so that you, as a community, has more information about what your government is doing. If I am not wrong, there have been 2 elections since the FISA was passed and the voting population of US was aware of the broad surveillance since the first election (Obama based some of his campaign on it). If he hadn't acted on it, then it should have become a point of debate in the reelection. But it was celebrated on Hacker News as much as anywhere else, without a single mention of his inability of reducing the scope of such laws. So guess what? Overboard surveillance didn't seem to be a priority for most of the people here and Google has been more transparent and more vigilant about it since longer than the PRISM episode. The gist is that it is easy to transfer blame in this case, but the root cause it solely the astoundingly broad laws and the undoubted trust that voters put in the current government that used them instead of removing them as it had promised.
I'm afraid your understanding of justice and my own differ greatly. It's probably an insurmountable impasse. To me, exposing a massive surveillance apparatus is a laudable act of heroism, and he doesn't deserve this kind of condemnation.
What if, just maybe, the laws you defend so adamantly are unjust? What about the consequences for all of us that live under them? Why not defend those that tell us the truth?
I loved his smile when asked why he is building the company...it made it seem like he wanted to say "Because I can make a lot of money with it", but luckily he chose the right answer of framing who his service is helping. Really great execution there!
The same thing in git:

git fetch <remote> && git reset --hard <remote/branch|tag|hash>
But anyone can mine, so it would be difficult for miners to say, form a cartel and jack up transaction fees.
I'm totally willing to pay for a great professional development tool. However, I think it's way too risky to use a closed source niche product in this day and age. I would have preferred something like the Ravenbrook licensing model: a viral open source license that would necessitate a commercial license to create derivative products or develop commercial applications.
Deloitte's Take on Network Security
Unless 'other options' encompasses some yet undiscovered diplomacy tack it would escalate back to the status quo pretty damn quick.
You can only mine (for a significant share) with very significant investments, and transaction fees competely go to miners, so it's in their interest to raise them (albeit slowly, to not curb the adoption of bitcoin too much.)
Google adds ‘carousel’ of search results for nearby restaurants
The biggest thing I've been surprised at post-30 is how much I have in common with my past selves. Not that there's no differences I could point to, and not that some of them wouldn't be surprising to past-me, but by and large, I'm more the same than I thought I'd be.

I think I thought I'd be more like the middle-aged adults I had seen growing up. They certainly didn't look like me, and seemed preoccupied with concerns that were foreign to me.

Looking back, though, many of those in my age cohort also didn't look exactly like me and seemed to have foreign concerns. :)
The quote in the linked article from the bit about Google glass was a bit short, so I transcribed it, corrections are welcome (it starts at 11:07).

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Meanwhile, in the course of this "Terrorist Generation" campaign, for Obama to claim, "you know, I'm really worried about terrorists, so I have to to read -- well, they claim they don't read it -- I have to get information about your email, where you are, who you're talking to, what you have on Facebook; I've gotta put that on my big database"... actually, we're moving into a world which was described, pretty accurately I think, by one of the founders of Google... I don't know if you followed the stories about Google Glass?

Well, Google has some new, ridiculous thing, they're marketing glasses which have a small computer on them. So you can be on the internet 24 hours a day, just what you want. It's a way of destroying people, but quite apart from that, this little device has a camera, and presumably, if it doesn't already it will soon have a recorder, which means that everything that's going on around you, goes up on the internet.

Some reporter asked Erich Schmidt, didn't he think this was an invasion of privacy, and his answer was exactly right, comes right out of the Obama administration, he said: "If you're doing anything that you don't want to be on the internet, you shouldn't be doing it." This is a dream that Orwell couldn't have concocted.

We're moving into it, and it's not the only case. If you read the technical journals, there's more stuff coming along. So, for example, right now there are corporations that are concerned about using computers with components made in China, because it's technically possible to build into the hardware devices which will record what the computer is doing and send it to those bad guys. well, the articles don't point out that if the Chinese can do it, we can do it better, and probably are, so it may end up in Obama's database the next time you hit the computer.

--

I guess you can scoff about the notion that computer would (need to) have a "recorder", or point out that Glass doesn't record without the user's say so, but still.. considering his age and that it's not his field, that guy is paying more attention to things than many of those geeking out about them. And that Schmidt quote is a smug, idiotic statement; a threat, or should I say, a dare. If he wanted to make a difference and be remembered well, other choices would have been more appropriate for him. Oh well.
It is not contrarian, I was replying to two separate points. The first was the claim that I was saying that Google should have set up its system to circumvent the law; the is not what I was saying. The second was the claim that we must either circumvent laws or change them; my point was that the choice is not exclusive.

As for the point of the laws being faulty, what I was saying was that the laws were designed with a particular communications model in mind. Google's system is designed very differently from that model, but despite Google's popularity and despite other services adopting a model similar to Google's the law has not changed. Just saying that the law is at fault is too simplistic; the laws may have good reasons behind them and may have made sense at the time they were passed (and had technology not changed, the laws might still make sense now).
His security blog at Facebook: "Facebook Security: Fighting the Good Fight" https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=25844207130

edit: here's the obligatory "but this is blogspam" note...Kelly's employment with the NSA was first reported by the the Times here a few days ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-...)...but yeah, here's a classic case of newspaperism vs. sexy-SEO-headlines...I didn't read "Web's Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders" because it sounded no different than other recent stories...but a Facebook exec going to work for N.S.A. is definitely a headline-worthy fact.

However, Kelly isn't the stereotypical young Bay Area millionaire ex-Facebooker...he previously worked as an FBI analyst before joining Facebook (https://twitter.com/wrox/status/1699420309)...So going from FBI to Facebook to NSA isn't as strange as, well, going from college to Facebook to NSA, unless the catered lunch at NSA is classified and delicious. Not knowing why he left Facebook...but after doing so, it's not out of left field to go back into federal security, especially if he had a NDA with Facebook not to go to other competing services, such as Google.
For learning the best principles about actually driving (aka coding) in C++, what are the best resources these days? I learned from Stroustrup, Accelerated C++, and on the job programming. However, every company seems to have an idea of what "good C++" looks like and they all disable/enable a varying subset of C++ features to support their individual standards.

What's the closest guide out there that's representative of "ideal" C++ code and style?
I expected to see more about Twine.[1] It's really simple, but it lets you build a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story easily. People who haven't programmed before have picked it up and done interesting things with it. I like the HyperCard analogy.[2]

[1] http://gimcrackd.com/etc/src/

[2] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/twine-and-the-art-of-person...
I'm suprised. I thought it was a joke:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5148895
Big fan of Frotz on iOS. I've played a few z-machine games over the last couple of years.

Funny thing is, my primary "in bed" reading device is also my iphone -- light, good screen, and easy to shut down when I am done.
I did but grumpy cat was marketed to make money virtually at its inception. I remember them selling merchandise at NYCC last year, that's two weeks after they posted it on reddit.

The commercialism and exploitation of this cat shortly after it's birth has really rubbed me the wrong way.
Or have library dependencies that aren't all dumped into some vendor directory, but actually need a system-wide upgrade.
If you're using Python and/or Django already and don't need to mix with other languages, Celery is pretty easy to work with, has excellent documentation, and is well-maintained. With that said, while there is no boundary to playing nice with other languages, it seems like only recently have people started to get serious about trying to do so with Celery (and sharing/supporting their work publicly).

I haven't used Gearman personally, but if I had a polyglot project, I'd give it a serious look.
Perhaps. The chances of being used as a pawn seem much higher in Russia.
Heh. Reminds me of the days when I used to run a Z-code interpreter on my Palm V.
This is a great hack, very clever. You mention on the GitHub page that you use a comparator to convert the signal for the ATMega168. I know that the ATmega328 has an embedded comparator so I'm wondering how easy you think it would be to create a library for Arduino projects?

I currently have a few projects which are bound to servers so I can control them with web apps and this seems like a great way to liberate them from the network. Low-level analog signal processing is about where my knowledge comes to a screeching halt (hence using Arduinos in the first place) but I'd love to play around with any AVR code to try and implement this for high-level language hardware people.
People are lazy, as you must know, and if WikiLeaks wants to maximize their donations the link above is more straightforward than through a German bank or BitCoins, which takes some learning and setup for those who don't have it (yet) like me.

Further, I sympathize with your idealism, but you should then refrain from using your credit card at all, should you not? In all the other cases, you are not only giving money to the corporations, but also most definitely not giving money to a non-profit! Also don't ever buy anything from big corporations again (I actually wish I could afford to do that.)

Otherwise, surely the processing fee going to the "enemy" (to quote the US of A) is a small price to pay when the chief of it is going to an organization that has the balls to stand up for our rights, as to make your request ludicrous.

Having said that, I upvoted you, thanks for outlining alternatives, which will be especially helpful after the posted donation channel is closed by Visa.
Lots of discussion of that in these current HN items, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5927726 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926967
On the contrary, SRS is one of the most innovative uses of a subreddit since Reddit's inception. Think back to the days of forums, LiveJournals, mailing lists, IRC, etc. Whenever an issue of discrimination arose, it was always derailed one way or another. Between vocal opponents, concern trolls, and "explain to me how this offends you"-types, it was impossible for someone who experienced discrimination to find a safe space to legitimize their experience.

With SRS, instead of allowing any kind of discourse related to the validity of a claim, every participating member is required to just accept the claim as valid. There is no driving force to change Reddit, and there is no activism involved. It's simply a safe space for people who are offended to express themselves in an environment that won't be questioned, especially when Reddit is known for having a hive mentality.
Pick a fatal design flaw in popular product, such as fragile display in iPhone. Build up a repair service around that flaw.

If I invented a similar get-rich-quick-scheme I might also grin like a trollface and that guy in the video.
Maybe I'm mistaken. It's been a while since I've worked with xaml. We built the first hardware accelerated xaml renderer that was fast apart from the triangulation but I wan't working for MS. MS at that point had two xaml implementations WPF & Silverlight: I thought one of them was hardware accelerated eventually (one of them certainly gained hardware shaders).
That's so true. Overtime, however, the community should grow. In the meantime, we have AI's to play against :)
Lekh has better shape recognition and shape customizibility.

- you can resize vertically and horizontally independently which grafio can not

- you can move vertices of any polygon.

- You can draw bezier curve and modify it to any shape by changing the control points.

-Lekh recognizes different kinds of connections from your drawing.
Yeah, what if indeed? Germany attacked Poland allegedly in self-defense, with exactly those arguments, can't wait for the mushroom cloud blah blah blah.

So are we talking about there actually being the need for self-defense, or about self-defense as pretext for self-destruction of the many for the gains of the few? The few existential threats the US faces seem mostly to be inside of it.
They have it right, LDR acts differently if it's a register argument or register plus offset vs a immediate.

The immediate pseudo-instruction:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....

The regular form:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....
Then there should be no problem with the Swedish government offering a guarantee against extradition.
And in practice this majority is held by a dozen or so mining pools. This is the usual schizophreny in US politics making yet another appearance: because people do not trust public oversight in the elected government they hand over the oversight to unelected private entities. No central bank, it's mining pools instead.

One would think that the leading figures of these pools know each other. One would think it's outside the realm of conspiracy to think that the designers of Bitcoin expected the mining pools to emerge once difficulty had grown sufficiently large.