skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right. We should all just sit down, shut the fark up and let the government do whatever it wants.

We should not raise a peep against the NSA, afterall, as you state - its lunacy to think we are not better off now than we were in the past. Further, who should complain about a government agency given supposed "legal" freedom to do absolutely anything it wants with any and all human communications across the globe!

All this in a time where the reach of the US military is literally global and can kill any stated enemy combatant at the push of a button. If you're innocent little snowflake is killed in that attack, gee, sorry about that, we must have had bad intel!

So, in the end, while your comment that things were also bad "back in the day" -- this in absolutely no way should preclude anyone from complaining about the excessive, tyrannical over-reach of the NSA and the USG. So to that end, I say fuck your argument, completely because its a cop-out to the fact that the world, and the NSA in particular, have gone to far.

I want my privacy, my freedom and my safety (even from the arm of the USG) and all at the same damn time!
This claim is pretty confusing. Is it saying on 1/5 of US cable subscribers watch ESPN or that at a $30/mo price point only 20 million people would subscribe? If it is the latter is basically answers nothing; would 40 million people subscribe at a $15/mo price point or 80 million at a $7.50/mo price point?
Ouch - lots of folks (uni graduates a plenty) taking jobs well below their "qualification" level. So - please do not be dismissive of people's skill levels.
Instead of downloading media to your iPhone you can use Tonido iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tonido-file-access-music-vid...) app to play/stream pretty much all the video formats directly from your PC, Mac or Linux (or) you can use the app to download the media and play with VLC.
Are you a customer company?
I will never watch a Coca Cola commerical with polar bears the same way ever again.
This is because VLC 2.1.0 is now only in Beta :)
Yes, absolutely. Thanks for clarifying.

Sometimes if they're asking you specific definitions of things, it might be all you can say. "What is polymorphism?" If you don't know... you have to just say so. But if they ask something less cut and dry, then definitely follow the advice above.
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In simpler English: TV just got more expensive with just two a la carte channels.

That's assuming buying those two is a given. The article notes, without further notice, that the "hardcore" audience for those is relatively small - meaning that given the chance to unbundle, and to have some reason to not have those (saving money), chances are the majority of viewers will lose interest and find other desirable & affordable content.

Sure there's a lot of desirable stuff not on Netflix ... but my time is limited, and my queue is large, so I can satiate my viewing desires for $9/mo.
Curious, lol and wtf "features" of Objective C - with Kiwi BDD specs.
Individual freedom might be a difficult thing to measure quantitatively (aside from incarceration rates, which have been getting significantly worse), but Daniel Ellsberg recently argued that the Nixon era was far less threatening for whistleblowers: "Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-ellsberg-nsa-l...
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This guy actually does that for a living. He is currently testing a new product called Helpouts that allows you to charge for support using Hangouts in G+. Looks mildly interesting and more useful then Glass.
I am consistently disappointed that these sort of articles do not even mention what can be done to develop spatial reasoning but focus on testing alone. The challenge is to create a curriculum that systematically develops this mental faculty. That would require a lot of creativity ;-).
Tableau takes its data-analysis software to the cloud
Call me old fashioned... but what's wrong with grep? If you need more features like searchable metadata, the other logging solutions are already pretty full-featured.

I know this goes back to the old holy war of modular versus... not modular(?), but personally I prefer the modular approach.
If ever you needed a reason to seriously evaluate what types of businesses to support, this is it. The race to the bottom is fully supported by the average person's spending habits.
That wasn't the number they were referring to when they said it would cost $30 a month. They are saying that CURRENTLY every subscriber pays $6 a month, but since only 20 million of the current 100 million people paying for ESPN would pay for it a la carte, those 20 million would have to pay $30 a month to generate the same revenue.
My local college credit union has an optional "Overdraft Protection Loan" service. You apply for an $X loan in the usual way (so bad credit, etc. can still hurt you here), but if/when you get it, they don't give you $X cash. Instead, they attach it to your checking account. If you go over, the bank automatically moves money from the loan to your checking account in $100 increments to cover the overdraft. There's no per-use fees, and as long as you pay it back within a month, there's no interest charged. (Or very little, I'm not clear--sometimes there's an extra 40 cents or so on there.)

It's really, really handy and they don't advertise it at all. I found out about it when I accidentally ran up a dozen overdraft fees and talked to an account manager about how to keep it from happening again. I'd recommend that everyone see if their bank offers something similar.
The only "nerd circle" I know that is fixated on MPC are otakus, for no meaningful reasons except to make themselves feel superior. (Especially subbing groups)

I use FooBar2K for audio and VLC for video.
Mostly because they would have to provide their own Mono runtime as there's too many variations in the vast number of Linux Distros out there. That combined with demand is much lower than that of Windows and OSX for Mono.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15900963/is-it-possible-t...
Because that's exactly the point I'm making? That we should be OK with anything the US does up to coups and HUAC?
Looks neat, but some of these animations run pretty slow on my i7 running Chromium on Linux. I've got an Radeon 5870 with proprietary drivers, and I understand that Chromium's acceleration situation is weird, but I guess I was discouraged to see it struggle.
I'm a big fan of going back and re-asking the question, this is because things change and sometimes stuff that was impossible before isn't now.

As an example, one of the things that 'killed' Java[1] in '94 was that the team had built this very easy to use 'cartoon' type UI for video on demand applications. The problem? Our "set top" box was a SparcStation 10 with two CPUs and 64MB of memory and a cg6 frame buffer. That configuration cost $15,000 (roughly) and we talked to cable type folks who were providing the set top boxes (OpenTV) and plant operators (Palo Alto Cable Co-op) and they agreed they were going to use more expensive set top boxes, they would spend perhaps $100 on one.

Running a complex, animated, graphical UI died that day.

But if you came to me today and said "We're going to have this really cool animation with a guy who runs around and makes suggestions and interacts with this world." I'd be totally cool with it because you can get enough CPU and graphics horsepower to do that for a retail price of $100 now.

So re-examining old problems again with new information is a worthwhile thing to do. And that is what older engineers need to be prepared to do (and if done well they can quickly zero in on the chances since they already know what went wrong the first time). And sometimes the problems with the first version still exist in this new shiny version, and in those situations, when you're not in a position to say "Please don't do this, it won't work." It is very hard to stay focussed on getting through enough of the steps so that everyone else understands as well.

[1] - One of the pitches the Oak (nee Java) team made to management about why the group should continue, was that it could help in Sun's battle with SGI and their efforts to dominate the interactive video market. But given the set top box requirement it was considered impractical. The server stuff lived on in "Sun Interactive" but the set top business was another dead end.
It would be impossible to know if it has ever been utilized in practice.
How do birds navigate?
Yes the machine producing insulin pumps would be in a state of continuous integration/deployment. Then one day at 3am a developer on a binge of Monster Energy and pizza would push an unchecked bug to git and have it deployed.
ESPN is in an enviable position with a product that is hard to pirate.
Argumentative generally means arguing without and real reason to do so. Obviously, yes, you should stand behind your position, preferably with facts to back you up. But that doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to start an argument, or be rude while doing so.

There's a big difference between a disagreement and an argument.
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I guess I meant I was hoping the salary reduction part was at the low end.
Kinetic energy = 1/2 m * v^2. Hyperloop trains wouldn't have "much" less energy, because the scaling factor on velocity is so high that your savings on train weight don't mean much.

You are right that it would take less power.
Imagine that you buy an Xbox or Playstation DevKit, they cost 10x as much as an actual console that is shipped. There is precious little software except samples and demos, and you are expected to be a tester of buggy and incomplete stuff as well as potentially develop.

And then you go and complain about how you shelled out thousands and there was nothing to do, and other devices will cost a fraction in the future.

Do people not understand that Glass is primarily intended for developers and dogfooders?

I think the #ifihadglass program was a mistake. They should have kept it limited to people attending Google I/O or other bonafide developers. I understand they wanted to have it tested by a diverse group of people in the real world and not just developers, but the wide ranging audience they were seeking also happens to be the people who don't seem to understand what devkits are.
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The figure the author cites (most people pay around $40/month for cable) seems inaccurate for this purpose. I know I paid more than $40 a month to get ESPN and AMC. Are the numbers including all cable subscribers (including those with the most basic package), or just those whose package includes ESPN and AMC?
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This is how the bundled model works -- you pay a % of your bill for ESPN, I pay a % of my bill for AMC, and we get both.

...and I have no interest in either, use Netflix & iTunes, watch exactly what I want, pay no more or less, and don't end up with the short side of your "bundled" stick.
I completely agree. I've seen several public instances like this one over the past year here where Rob and the Twilio team have done what appears to be the Right Thing (from a customer service perspective). It's inspiring to see them do this, and to see that it is indeed possible to execute very well with a focus on customer happiness and "making things right".
How does an engineer/coder address skill gaps(before and during an interview)? e.g.- C programmer but very little C++ experience
Yeah, we just annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Then don't forget the Mexican-American war, which started with our annexation of Texas and ended with our "purchase" of 1.2 million square miles of territory at firesale prices from a conquered opponent.
You mean Planck, not Maxwell, right?
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I much prefer OPlayer. Great features, plays nearly any file I throw at it, and supports WiFi transfers.
I believe you miss the point, which is summed up with this quote from the article "the invasion of human rights and American privacy has gone too far."

Bad things have happened in the past but we shouldn't discredit what is happening now.

Just like the past, Americans as citizens of the world need to take action against the wrongs that are being done.
Now I want to go and find one of these drag events, so I can experience it. Further curious I was searching and found this chart...not sure of the accuracy.
http://www.makeitlouder.com/Decibel%20Level%20Chart.txt
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There's no analogy. You asked "Does anything justify killing a 16-year-old non-american citizen without due process?" I'm giving a case of when yes, something would justify that.

The point here is that there are cases when bad people have intent to do harm and need to be stopped in ways faster than a court of law can individually approve. Whether this is one of those cases is the real question.
...which can't be aimed at anything but the train station...
That is not what omnivore means. We do not need vegetables or meat, we are simply able to derive sustenance from both.
There are some MPlayer-powered releases for OS X too, e.g. http://mplayerx.org

There are others too, though I'm not sure what the differences are.
> I am getting my info from here and it is at odds with what you are saying. What are the federal appeals courts rulings on it?

United States v. Clay, 430 F.2nd 165 (5th Cir., 1970), this was reversed on other grounds, but is important because the relevant part of the holding was the basis for the holding regarding foreign intelligence surveillance in the following case, referring to warrantless wiretaps authorized by the Attorney-General on behalf of the President: "No one would seriously doubt in this time of serious international insecurity and peril that there is an imperative necessity for obtaining foreign intelligence information, and we do not believe such gathering is forbidden by the Constitution or by statutory provision"

United States v. Brown, 484 F.2d. 418 (5th Cir., 1973).

United States v. Butenko, 494 F.2d 593 (3rd Cir., 1974) explicitly found that the Fourth Amendment did apply, but warrants were not required for reasonableness of foreign intelligence surveillance, as: "Certainly occasions arise when officers, acting under the President's authority, are seeking foreign intelligence information, where exigent circumstances would excuse a warrant. To demand that such officers be so sensitive to the nuances of complex situations that they must interrupt their activites and rush to the nearest available magistrate to seek a warrant would seriously fetter the Executive in the performance of his foreign affairs duties."
"the same net number of particles has to pass through each point"

Agreed: the corollary to the "the sparse particles just in front of the dense ones" is the "sparse ones just behind the next wave of dense ones", which are, in fact, decelerating, or moving backward even closer to the speed of sound than the dense ones relative to the reference frame. So individual particles oscillate back and forth, but net effect is no movement (to the reference frame of the average speed of the particles, which is a third reference frame :-) )
That's kind of like saying "I can adjust the volume knob and the panning knob independently. The combinations are limitless!"

Even including the "secret menu" (extra sauce? no bun? extra patty?), the options are resetrictive. You're not going to end up with chicken nuggets or a salad or beef wellington.

And that's okay. They have a restrictive menu, and they're very good at what they choose to focus on. I'd wager that no other popular restaurant chain is more like Apple in that regard.
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Of course lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies matter. They are pretty much the only corrective feedback protecting people against negligence and/or abuse.
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Democracy has been trammeled before. This does not excuse it being trammeled again.

The scandals you list at the end of your comment had, largely if not entirely, investigations and consequences. The NSA scandals largely have not. (The chief counsel to the Director of National Intelligence got laughs when he testified that his office had tried and obviously failed to hide mass collection of phone records. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/nsa-admits-i... )

I would say Jimmy Carter has admirably high standards for our country, except that's not it. The rest of us, generally speaking, simply have very low ones.
Class warfare is a fantastic plot device. As is the "evil corporation". Regardless of politics, these devices don't preclude films being damn good.
Sounds uncomfortable.
And here's an understandable presentation treating the economics a little more formally:

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/05/bun...
Thanks, your comment helped me answer the question, "what does public mean?" I don't see that answered anywhere on the site. I found myself wondering, "Does that mean we can't choose who we collaborate with, chatroulette-style? Or are the sessions recorded for viewing somehow? (That would be cool!) Or is just the fact of the session published somewhere? (Insufficient differentiator to get people to pay.)"

(Also, a copy-writing suggestion: on https://floobits.com/plans, the words 'free plan' link to the signup page. I clicked on the link looking for a blurb about the free plan. Y'all should add such a blurb. Or link to the signup page from the words 'sign up' instead.)
If unbundling happens, it will be very, very hard. For reasons explained by the noted economist Andrew Odlyzko many years ago in http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/price.war.pdf.

Here is the short explanation. Suppose that we have two competitors, with non-negligible fixed costs but very low marginal costs, selling the same content. One is selling on a bundled model, the other a la carte.

The result is that, as long as both remain in the market, a price war will inevitably ensue. The lowness of the prices is constrained by distribution costs. Therefore it will continue until one leaves the market.

For historical reasons, bundled models are common. There is no easy way from that to a la carte.
For American readers, British "pants" means underwear. For British readers, American "pants" means trousers.

I was once mocked mercilessly by a Brit when I told him I had forgotten my pants. I, of course, had meant my blue jeans . . . I was wearing shorts.
It was an shining example of American military interventionism, though.
Doesn't that permanently damage the hearing?
They attribute it to that page exactly right at the top of the section.
I was trying to install VLC on my android nexus 4 the other day and apparently it's not in the Play store? I ended up installing "Joe VLC" instead. I wonder if there will be an official android release?
I had this idea a while ago, Notch was having one of his programming live streams. I thought, man what if instead of us just watching this guy write code we could all be working on it at the same time.

I don't know how well it would work, but it would be cool to use a platform like this to try it. Maybe some open source app. It would be like an Amish barn raisin'
Heard about this the Pitch Drop Experiment on Radiolab couple weeks ago. Very interesting episode: http://www.radiolab.org/2013/feb/05/never-quite-now/

"...the Pitch Drop Experiment is so slow, you can watch it for hours (check out the live cam) and not detect the slightest movement. But that doesn't mean nothing's happening. Professor John Mainstone tells us about his desperate attempts to catch the flashes of action hiding inside this decades-long experiment."
Component A) Role: init the system

Component B) Role: log dispatching/receiving/sending/filtering

And now what?

A component which partially does in a non _standard_ way, incompatible with all third party tools (in the sense the tools needs to be modified or adapted).

What is next, systemd will replace cron too, in powerpoint format?

Reading the whole thread, I have a new concept in my mind... "UEFI cookies", didn't know about them.
I like it. Thank you. Would be nice if it'd show an orange up arrow after I upvote something though.
Interesting; I wouldn't have guessed it made that huge a difference. I spent a good portion of my childhood in Greece without A/C, and now that it has A/C it's a pretty incremental quality-of-life change, not some huge revelation (at least outside Athens, maybe it's worse there). Some people use it (rarely more than a few hours a day), others prefer open windows, and generally livable either way. Mainly due to the humidity difference, perhaps?
Unbundling is a stop-gap solution. The problem isn't actually as distilled as people not wanting certain channels. At this point, the problem is that people actively want only certain programs. This is where services like Amazon's can shine. I don't want AMC, I want breaking bad, mad men, or walking dead. Some hardcore sports fans probably want ESPN; but my guess is that more fans want all of ESPN's coverage of a particular league(s).

Unbundling needs to be the first step towards per program subscriptions. Would I agree to pay $10/mn for AMC? Absolutely not, they air a bunch of crap programs that I would never watch. Would I pay $25 each for seasons of the shows I actualy want to watch, you bet.
We are not happy yet on the quality of VLC for Android, so it is not out of beta.

However, you can try yourself here:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/armv7-android/VLC-debug-...
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John, thanks a lot for responding - really appreciate it. All good thoughts.
That's the way ASP.NET works when using WebForms. If you notice, the entire page is always a Form.
The FDA. Many drugs (especially low volume ones) cannot get approved for human use in the United States due to cost.
ScreenHero is limiting in a few ways.

1. Both users are confined to looking at the same thing.
2. Only one user can input at a time.
3. One person may be stuck in an unfamiliar IDE.
4. Only 2? people can work on a thing.

We started to build Floobits after pair programming for 8 months or so because nothing else worked. Floobits also has a web based editor and basic support for terminal sharing. We also get to do really neat things because our protocol understands changes in source code; for instance, Floobits is self hosting and streams our changes to staging in hard real time. You can imagine other integration around source control, continuous deployment/integration too.

I think ScreenHero has its uses, but pair programming isn't its strongest.
Wow, so now sons are guilty for the crimes of their fathers in America? Doesn't that sound just the least bit insane to you?
What if it's quantum-dripping and only dripped because of the camera :P
+1 on doing everything yourself the first time for self-teaching. But I'm sure people are on the far end of both sides -- do it all yourself, or use libraries for everything.
You're romanticizing. It's easy to talk about how public information solved these crises in hindsight, but in reality the US government did a far better job of concealing things from the public during the 20th century than it does now. As a concrete example: the entire Vietnam War was predicated on a lie that was only fully uncovered in 2005.