skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
APScheduler is a nice in-process alternative that doesn't require running another process or using a db for persistence. Quick to start using and no external dependencies. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/APScheduler/
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Are you at all worried about a revolving door between the defense/security bureaucracy and industry, the way someone like Eisenhower was? Or is that a non-issue?

That's the kind of discussion I'd rather have anyway. I don't have any particular reason to believe any specific person is compromised or dishonest. But I am skeptical of the stability and reliability of an employment structure that has regular back-and-forth personnel moves between the private sector and the state-security sector.

If I had to pick specific places to start, I'll admit, ex-Facebook staff would be much lower on my list than a whole host of private-sector (tempted to say "nominally private-sector") defense contractors.
If I released a compilation of games with an unauthorised copy of a Naughty Dog title, how much "grace" do you suppose they'd extend? Do you think they'd "try to contact me and work something out"?

You can't have it both ways - if copyright protects Naughty Dog and their work, how can it possibly not also protect the OP's maps?
I just use pirate bay, mainly for the comments.
In this particular case, I don't think he would be "selling himself short". We are talking about a global, best selling, extremely popular, and well-received game. If his work was used in something demeaning like "Leisure Suit Larry", than he should probably be more pissed.

But, like I said, "if I was the author." I am not the author, and I am only stating my opinion on how I would feel.
It is remarkable how someone can be so obviously brilliant and yet at the same time so (metaphorically) tone-deaf.
This is not the official MBTA map, this is an unsanctioned redesign he made of it to demonstrate his idea for how to improve the official map. It is his property alone.
> (Remember, ^D is Control+D, or whatever your shell's EOT character is.)

Use a heredoc http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/here-docs.html
I wonder what Peter King had to say when Dick Cheney's office leaked the name of a CIA agent
I've became aware of it about 15 years ago, so it would probably have already killed me if it was anything like that.
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Do you think Naughty Dog would contact you, and ask that you take down your work or pay damages? Or would make an angry blog post stating how furious they are and that they demand compensation, making it public for the whole world to see?

I am thinking they would contact you first.
Yeah and that's completely negligent if you are an artist working on the game. This is like intellectual property 101, and people in the game design field, especially at that level, should know better. Absolutely inexcusable and obviously illegal as well.
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No, no, no. Don't be ridiculous. The level of grace exhibited is, I think, quite within acceptable bounds. Naughty Dog are professionals, and I think they can be reasonably expected to pay attention to copyright, or face some flak.
Some lexing languages (e.g. Alex[1]) use regexp for matching tokens.

[1] http://www.haskell.org/alex/doc/html/regexps.html
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http://vimeo.com/22053820

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To the untrained eye, this probably looks indistinguishable from the actual map.

I lived in Boston for many years, took the T on a regular basis, had that map committed to memory at one point, and I still didn't realize until I looked a second time that it wasn't the official map.

They should certainly have double-checked this before copying it, but I can see why the confusion would arise.
Doesn't everyone start with that assumption though?
Yes, I would. Seems it would be particularly useful for content marketers. I'd also like to know how you plan to do this with an API.
I don't understand the commenters saying that it's cool that a large company flush with cash shouldn't be expected to pay for copyrighted works it uses to make a profit.

I'm a biologist, not a lawyer, but it seems like our system is setup pretty well to protect the rights in this case. He should have consulted with a copyright attorney and started with a bill and cease and desist for $10,000 or whatever makes him happy. If they don't pay he can file a lawsuit. At this point someone would look at what the cost of the legal battle would be, and the cost of having to pull all of the existing copies of the game and re-issue it if they lose and offer to cut him a check.
Well, he seems to not have done any actual exercises. So now that they are actually releasing exercises (have been for some time now), he took a second look and realised he doesn't want to do it.. because the environment does not have library support for regexes?

It's such a bizarre reason, because a mini-version of regex in the form of automata is the basis of any compiler. It's about the first exercise in the course, and very simple and fun training for any programmer, really.
Acceptable standards of behaviour are very different for corporate entities. I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels they could demand a corporate entity to behave with a certain amount of class when looking out for what its owners see as its interests. By contrast, I think it actually perfectly acceptable for an individual to call out a corporation's poor behaviour, without warning, in a public post, with profanity.
I like Frotz as well - play it on my Windows Phone 8 (Nokia Lumia 928)
>Who voted for Edward Snowden?

Fair. But who voted for anyone running the NSA? When did we decide that the national security programs of the United States should operate without the consent of the governed?
predominately via templates. pass in data via json. hopefully it can be made really simple for the coders to use.
At what rate is "safely" if people will do meetups?
When I first heard about it, I thought the same, but there's a number of people who are taking it seriously now - the course has structured assignments with deadlines and a user forum ... check it out: http://www.cppgm.org/index.html
Actually, torrents themselves are totally legal. For example I can make a torrent of a photo I took or something which I own the copyright to. I can even then upload my legit torrent to The Pirate Bay or other torrent websites.

This is why bit torrent clients like Vuze are totally legal and also why Google wouldn't prevent torrents themselves to be searched for.
What is a "content marketer"? How would such a person make use of infographics?
it would start with templates, then a web service that takes json as the data to populate the templates. and outputting a pdf ( or maybe other output types as well ).
Here's something similar doing FSK with Javascript and HTML5 audio:

https://github.com/NeoCat/FSK-Serial-Generator-in-JavaScript...
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How? I don't see the power button option on the site.

[EDIT] Seems martin_ meant you can buy a new button/sensor and a repair kit, and then follow instructions similar to these: http://www.imore.com/how-diy-repair-stuck-or-broken-iphone-4...
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That's funny. I'm "disappointed" with America, and I think my reasons are better.
For full sensory deprivation this becomes especially trippy when you can only hear the white noise of rushing water and you're numb from cold.
It wasn't taken seriously because it seemed like a joke, due to the sheer size of the problem, at the time :)

Now that they are actually releasing exercices, I think they are on a very good path to realizing their goal.
Regardless of one's perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the fact remains that providing extensive military support to a nation that is a symbol of oppression in the region greatly increases the risk of terrorist attacks against the US. Save for a tiny elite, there is no corresponding benefit for the American people that justifies this risk, while the costs are many.
Github found git-flow wasn't suitable given that they do CI and developed their own method of using git, Github Flow:
http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html

A different article on a CI-based approach, with comparison to git-flow:
http://nxvl.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-continous-delivery-git-br...
OK, I can understand Chomsky's argument that drone strikes should be classed as a terrorist operations. But the 'biggest in history'? What about the fire-bombing of Tokyo, the rape of Nankin or the genocide of Cambodia?
How can they collect private data on you personally if you don't use their product?
Do you think Naughty Dog would be any more "in the right" if they'd used a "city made map" without authorisation?

(And cynical follow-up question: Do you suspect as I do that the reason they _didn't_ use the official Boston map is because they knew damn well that the Boston Metro people have lawyers on retainer, where some random designer on the internet selling his own personally created version of the Bostem T Map - which are arguably better then the official versions - has probably no on-hand legal representation, and can probably do no more that whine on his blog when we "steal" from him?)
I hope not, it seems incredibly naive.
It is fair to assume that every transactions are logged (specially that one), but I get from 1% to 3% off all my purchases with visa, so I keep using it for now...
Is this like some sort of PRISM joke app?
I stopped reading here: Involve engineering management early and often, so everyone has a chance to contribute to the product vision and buy into where the product is headed.

This is tailored to people in inefficient VC-istan companies where engineers don't get to speak for themselves, hence "involve engineering management". Ok, we're done here.

I agree that there are a lot of terrible, arrogant PM's out there. PM is the ultimate MacLeod Clueless job in many organizations (with engineers closer to the MacLeod Loser tier) because it involves a lot of context-switching and annoying work, but is ultimately just as subordinate as anything else, since the job still involves serving executives.
heh, the irony.
The Thunderbolt bus is faster than 4 out of the 7 PCIe ports on the HP. You're trying hard not to get it.
I don't think it's ridiculous to show "a little more grace."

Naughty Dog made a mistake. I'm sure they can understand that without all the anger and sounding like they purposely plotted your demise.

We might think of Naughty Dog as a 200+ person company, but it was probably one person in charge of textures who found the picture and didn't realize he couldn't use it. Probably an intern, too.
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I have built a SAAS product and I am looking to market it. I was thinking of creating a video which demonstrated all its features. If there are any marketing services that would be useful, I would appreciate it.
If you want disciplined self-awareness, you are not going to get it by reading articles that grab your attention with drama and self-doubt: Hypocrites! The takeaway is always that the author is the smartest guy ever and you need to push harder to keep up.

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Eh—hoarding credit is sort of the M.O. of a really great product manager.

A PM has to compete with all the other PMs to get her features implemented. And if the PM's feature gets implemented first, this PM looks super productive.

I think if you're an product manager looking to be the best product manager, taking credit is imperative. Because at the end of the day, your feature is just paper until it is implemented.

Not being hated, well, that's another matter... I sympathize with the enormous friction between folks who assign work and folks who finish it.
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I've got a new software product to demo, i'm trying to work out the best way to do a '2 minute intro video' showing what it is.

I'm thinking that this will be on the front page of the website, so prospective customers get a quick look.

I've tried doing it in Prezi (too slow) and Camtasia (looks kind of budget) but i'm not happy with either.

Anyone got any suggestions or links to good demos ... (ideally low budget!!)

Thanks :)
I'm not sure "honest mistake" is really acceptable. This is a multi-million-dollar Triple A game. I think it's reasonable to expect their legal team should have double- and triple-check the rights to all arts assets. Ye, there are a lot of assets used in a game of TLoU's magnitude, but the subway map is so prominent I can't understand how it would have been skipped over. If they had time to include the asset, they should have had time to secure rights.

The screencap used to demonstrate the theft constitutes fair use, by the way. Cameron's using it to make a point to support his argument, which is totally legal.
The issue selection is definitely limited. An "other" category would be a good idea!
My only quibble, and I think it's a big one, is that they did before hand prove they knew what they were doing with the plutonium implosion Trinity test. When that much more complicated Gadget worked, it gave everyone a lot of well deserved confidence in the whole effort.
Whenever I read a discussion about "the revolving door problem" I never see any serious discussion of an alternative. Would you prefer an enormous monoculture inside of the government because they cannot hire people from the private sector? Any system that enforced a waiting period between government IT job to private sector IT job would essentially end someone's career.
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Actually, it's not hypocritical at all - which is the problem in a nutshell. We've gotten so used arbitrary enforcement of our own laws (e.g. Clapper) that we're shocked when others take the rule of law seriously. Or at least, more seriously than we do.
They might seem like a large company, but there was probably one person, probably an intern, who had to find some textures for that part of the game. That person made a mistake.

Obviously there should be checks/balances in place to make sure unauthorized imagery isn't used. But people make mistakes. The author is basically directly attacking some poor bastard who works at Naughty Dog.

I am sure Naughty Dog will fix the situation, and I'm sure they could have done it without being publicly flamed.
That's not correct — he can't claim statutory damages (those prescribed by written law) but copyright infringement is a tort that will bring damages through civil action even without registration.
Just curious. Did the author get the proper permissions to use the MBTA logo in his map? It would be ironic if the map itself violated MBTA IP.
>Vietnam taught U.S. strategists that wars of attrition simply don't work. You'll never kill all of the enemy because every attack creates more enemies than it destroys.

There is an absolutely amazing Rumsfield moment where he acknowledges this, but draws the conclusion that the solution is to kill them more quickly!
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Actually, the specifications are quite clear. The subject matter is just difficult to implement correctly. I encourage you to try it. It's a lot of fun.
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When I read these statements (this one, the NSA press statement earlier, etc.), I honestly wonder if anyone on the side of government actually does get the irony.
Side note. It is actually kind of lame when people post their own blog posts to HN, so I never assume the person posting the link is the person who wrote the article. In that regard the personal pronoun is not ambiguous.

That said, I totally understand the desire by people writing blog posts wanting to get HN's take on it. But that is a different problem.
> Verifying against the hash allows apple to add another
> device to the backend but does not unlock the keys to
> the message history

Isn't this what I've been claiming? If Apple can provision additional endpoints, they can provision a virtual endpoint which receives messages and forwards them to third parties.
Oh well, screw those poor people. They don't deserve proper education anyway. Who do they think they are?
I've never had a migraine in my life, but have constant visual snow since I was a child (as I can remember having conversations with adults and being surprised they didn't see the same way I did).
I sympathize with the enormous friction between folks who assign work and folks who finish it.

I don't. If you create this separation between the two categories, you'll have a terrible organization and when it caves in on itself, I will cheer that process on.

That's why open allocation is morally superior (in addition to working better). People "assign" work to themselves (without noise) and then do it. None of this parasitic high-horse management bullshit.

You know how much better the world would be if "work" was a culture of doing things rather than delegating and taking credit? It'd be a different world. People might actually, like, work when they go "to work".
Bush did ,that's the point.
I'm sure many people have done this - the most prudent thing would be to change the sensitive settings? That would solve your history problem as well.
Did you use any mind-altering substances(excluding alcohol/tabacco)? I guess the answer is no, because you probably would mention it in your original post. But some of them may produce such effects -- that's why I am asking
I guess I just have no idea where your viewpoint is coming from.

I can almost see being flattered if someone just took, say, a painting you painted, submitted it to a prestigious painting competition under their name, and won. I'd be extremely angry and would do everything in my power to assume credit (and any potential prize), but I would perhaps feel good about my work being recognized.

But the videogame is hardly being praised for the inclusion of this map alone! It's such a tiny piece of of the game; many players would probably not even notice it. This does not in any way diminish its quality -- it's just not the focus of the game experience.

Basically they just ripped him off in the name of "filling in the edges" of their art design. Which is totally unacceptable, especially for a respected development studio.
No, not necessarily. I've met someone who had a benign brain tumor -- it caused them to have mood swings, but was not in any danger of spreading.

In their case the doctors didn't remove it because the operation would have been more dangerous than the tumor itself, and the symptoms were not too severe. But it's obviously better to be aware of such things.
Flowcharts are stupid. Simple systems can be internalized (kept in your mind, perfectly), and complex systems are too complex to graph to any human scale size or useful purpose. These two categories do not overlap. They apply recursively all the way down. Waste of time, no value.
If you want some more irony: Keith Alexander, chief of NSA, was at the last Defcon [1] giving talks wearing jeans and..

yes, a t-shirt with EFF slogan: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/346011010819305472

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-fi...
> For me there is no evenly colored surface anymore because a very faint swarm of colors washes over them.

Take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoptic_phenomenon

If you are having progressive vision problems that worsen your quality of life, consider being persistent in voicing your concerns and perhaps visit an ophthalmologist.
This one is great:

http://www.dollarshaveclub.com/

Lots are here, but high budget:
http://www.quora.com/Demo-Videos/What-are-some-good-examples...
In what world do PMs actually think the supposed thoughts in this article? Yes, it's important to document well, focus on why not how, and be a shit umbrella not funnel -- though these have been PM 101 everywhere I've worked.

But when PMs infringe on these issues (and yes, all PMs do) I find it's rarely a conscious decision as much an impulsive/instinctive thing from being torn in 100 directions at once.
Weirdly, Mathematica integrated support for high-performance numerical linear algebra libraries from Intel and others a couple years before MATLAB did.

So your point about symbolic versus numeric flavor might have been correct prior to version 6, but it is no longer true (Mathematica 10 will be released later this year). In fact, they now use many of the same libraries for pure numeric work.

Numeric (as well as hybrid numeric+symbolic) computation is possible in Mathematica. In MATLAB, symbolic math requires a clunky add-on that is far from competitive with what Mathematica can do.

I work at Wolfram.
Why is that? I never posted my own writing to HN, but I actually thought a lot of people share their work on HN, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
> just as the light switches to green effectively giving you a 30km/h headstart or more

Please be careful with this. If you immediately occupy an intersection after a light turns green there's a chance you'll get blindsided when another car decides to run a red.
OK, but isn't it a fact that the Bitcoin Foundation's membership is made up of MTB/MSB firms?

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/members
Not to mention that he probably could have used POSIX regex support from glibc:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Regular-Ex...
It is consistent though.... Since we are now sure that non Americans are worth less than Americans to the US government, then it does actually make sense that Hong Kong law could be regarded as secondary and that the demands of US law reigns supreme.

Sadly, I suppose that would be a demonstration of the "arrogance" the US is so often accused of.

Dunno why they dont just leave the bloke to it. Just issue a standard warrant and he's basically never allowed back in the US unless he is prepared to face the charges. Olde days, "exile" was a decent punishment for some one in this position. Why not now? Surely never being allowed home for the rest of his life, to a country so great as the USA must be a terrible punishment for an American, no? What's wrong with a bit of olde skool exile?
Brisbane had a few bad years of building insane combined on/off ramps that tend to block frequently as everyone needs to be in that lane but with three or four lanes of traffic. Hale Street as you pass Suncorp Stadium is a particularly bad one.
Just for a tone comparison, here is Cleve Moler on Matlab's 25th anniversary:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/329191/a-z_programmi...

It's very emblematic of the differences between the two systems. Wolfram talks about how he got it all right, and that there is no limit to Mathematica. Moler talks about his delight in seeing Matlab results in the real world, and the decisions he got wrong.

Can you ever imagine Wolfram saying (as Moler does) his target is upping the game of Excel users? I'm laughing just thinking about it.
I love Beaty's stuff. I've tracked his amasci.com for a couple years now- although his updates are few and far between, they are often gems. He's a damn good modern day mad scientist.
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