skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

SECTION 1. All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable
rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring,
possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety,
happiness, and *privacy.*

I've often wondered if the right to privacy in California's constitution actually means anything. I guess it doesn't.
I've put some thought towards kiloseconds before deciding on myriaseconds. I find that the main advantage to myrias (as I call them) is that you can break your day up into them very easily. Currently, I believe that most people break their days up by hours (e.g., wake up at 8, work 9 to 5, dinner at 7).

I tried to make the same exact concept apply to myrias. I wake up at 3 (~9am). Work from 3 to 7 (9 to 4). Read and relax around 8 (~10pm).
Apple and the Innovator’s Dilemma
I'm grappling with this myself. It appears the answer is to always be doing new things.

"novel experiences seem to slow time perception down. Repetition of events seems to make them go faster."
from "Why Time Flies As You Age" - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cutting-edge-leadership/...
Yeah, seems like it's more likely to be referring to the US Dept of Transportation Performance and Registration Information Systems Management "PRISM" program.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/prism/prism.aspx
It most likely the content providers sending Netflix these alterned movies is as it is way too much work for Netflix to do this cropping themselves. I think it is customary for every film to have a "pan and scan" version created by the studios/content providers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-and-scan

Now, Netflix may be at fault for purposely not requesting letterboxed formats, and opting for the cropped 16:9 versions.
2013 Bitcoin Mid-Year Review and Outlook
One more for the list is Startups For The Rest Of Us - highly recommended.
A coupla years ago I told 'em they could use one candle if they striped it blue, red, black, gold. They didn't get it.
Advertising of the offerings will be opened up to all, but there will still be restrictions on allowing only accredited investors to participate.

The broader crowdfunding portion of the JOBS Act will hopefully be put in place towards the end of this year/first part of next (if the stars align...). There will still be some restrictions on income/amounts you can invest, but that will truly open up opportunities like we've never seen.
Is fine in landscape on iPhone 5.
Interestingly, the "Maximum income" (USD/year) is 2,200,000,000 (2.2 billion). Specifying a yearly income of 2B/year, however, puts you at #1 according to this. Why 2.2B? Seems rather arbitrary.
honestly, nope. I never had reception issues at a friend's place, but for coffee shops and hotels, even if reception is bad, i rather use 2G than go login in random networks.

i'm already exposed to the phone operator issues, don't want to have to worry about coffee shops and hotels.

...as using those networks is the very reason passwords in plain text is an issue! you guys are just making your situation 10x worse with this convenience.
Interestingly, this post had 8 upvotes, now it's only 6 - I thought posts could not be downvoted?
Sheldon Brown's site is amazing but I'm afraid it's going to get increasingly stale now that he's passed on.

I've thought it'd be neat to turn the site into a wiki that can be maintained by bicycle enthusiasts.
Actually most ARM processors do have a hardware RNG, just that few companies write a driver for them
Use electricity instead: http://makezine.com/2008/12/19/how-to-make-cheap-wine-taste-...
To nitpick, Netflix wouldn't want to request letterboxed formats. They should want the native format, because I'm confident that every video player they support will do the letterboxing for them.
Likely a 32bit int rounding issue? 2147483648
Netflix almost certainly just licenses the pan-and-scan versions of movies for maximum compatibility.

I really don't know why this is blowing up all of a sudden. We've had pan and scan versions of films on TV and streaming for decades.

The only really troubling thing is that there's no "The film you're about to see may have bee modified from the original version" warning at the beginning of some, and it should definitely be clear that is the case.
At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles
Look at the Man on the Moon crop. It's clearly not just cropping off the sides. It's anchored to the right. I also doubt Netflix either has a smart algorithm that can figure out the focus of the scene, or hires a bunch of people to choose the right focal point for every movie. They probably ask for movies from their providers in 16:9 format and they show whatever they get. They could ask for both formats and give users the choice, but I'm guessing there might be extra licensing costs to get both, and the majority of their users aren't cinephiles, and they just want their movies to fill the screen.
They opted for maximum compatibility. Start licensing one for every screen AR and the fees start piling up.
You can downvote once you've reached a certain karma level.
At the point when they started asking about stuff you didn't know about I would have invoked my right to a lawyer.
The Leisure of the Theoried Class
3 hops is a lot of data. For example I have about 100 friends on Facebook. One of my friends I know has around 500 friends on Facebook and if they're friends have a lot of friends that is a ridiculous and unnecessary amount of data being harvested about people I have never met, have nothing to do with and will never meet.

How can Obama keep on allowing this to happen? This is just getting ridiculous now and if it weren't for Snowden leaking the information, we wouldn't even know it was happening...
Yes, in pan and scan when there's a wide shot with two characters, it is generally preferred to show one person in full at a time and cut between them if you can.

Directors generally don't film with this in mind, so it can be rough on certain styles and completely ruins some shots. Has for decades, nothing you can really do if people won't watch letterboxed.
Do you know which karma level?
Wouldn't be the first time. I complained to Netflix about censoring tv shows, and they said the content providers did it, and they had no control. I canceled my service.
Unfortunately the majority of their users probably don't want the letterbox format because they don't understand what the black bars are for. If they requested both formats to give users the choice it would probably cost them more in licensing.
I suppose it's a tax management tool for the Gates, besides being an excellent charity. I don't mean to take away at all from the good they do, but why else wouldn't they accept donations except to not muddy the tax waters?
“Imagine, if you will, someone who read only Reader’s
Digest between 1950 and 1970, and someone in the same
period who read only The Nation or The New Statesman.
Which reader would have been better informed about the
realities of Communism? The answer, I think, should give
us pause. Can it be that our enemies were right?”

Susan Sontag, 1982.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag-commun...
The French actually beat Swatch by a a couple centuries - during the French Revolution they spent about twenty years fooling around with metric/decimal time. Ten hours a day, 100 minutes an hour, and 100 seconds per minute (each second ended up about 14% shorter than a "normal" second).
They real fun is in the calendar, with 12 months of 30 days each, and rules like "every tenth day is named after a mineral."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Deci...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar#Ten_...
My guess is that this cropping is being done by video editing service companies at the request of the studios.

Netflix and a studio come to a distribution agreement. Netflix tells the studio the technical requirements for the digital files to send over. The studio realizes they don't have exactly the right format on hand, so they contract out to some firm to encode their content. The studio may not realize that there is an aspect difference, and the service company might automatically adjust the cropping to make it fill the screen to fulfill their contract and meet the technical specifications.
Using a 3G connection, perhaps? In any case such a problem doesn't excuse Google from storing plaintext rather than encrypted passwords on the server.
I can't help but wonder if the decoupling is a result of the money printing that Greenspan started around that same time (2000-2001ish) and that Bernanke has continued.

You're looking at replacing a $50k/year worker with a system that costs $1mm in NRE and negligible ongoing cost. If interest rates are at 8% you're a fool. With interest rates at 3% you're a genius.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/FEDFUNDS
The goal of HN is post quality.

One potential explanation is that false positives (banning a good user) don't bring down overall post quality, false negatives (not banning a bad user) do.
I just noticed this a couple weeks ago with "Serenity" - I mostly watch TV on Netflix, rather than movies - but they absolutely should be giving us the whole picture. TV's have anti-letterboxing modes, and the people who don't know any better than "the picture isn't taking up my whole TV" should use them. And of course there's no reason whatsoever for them to provide anything but the original version on the website.
With high density displays these days, 1080p on a 13" laptop or other smaller laptops is possible
Have to admit, I was more amused by the fake cinder-block wallpaper!
yes, pan and scan is generally pretty destructive, which is why directors are all so happy everyone is getting at least 16:9 TVs in their homes. Imagine how it was cutting down Lawrence of Arabia to 4x3.
thanks to those "red light" cameras...
You're missing the forest for the trees. It's an awareness tool, not an economic analysis.
Thanks for your interest. Of course we're happy to accept small contributions from companies. I just sent you an email with details. for anyone else who's interested in contributing on behalf of an organization, please email: contact@flynn.io and we'll set you up at whatever amount you feel comfortable with.

We'll start accepting personal contributions next week as well.
Obviously technology creates more jobs than it destroys over time, because the nations who have developed the most technologies tend to have the lowest unemployment rates.
Definitely one of Cagney's best films.
I like what these guys are doing a lot more: http://reconinstruments.com/

It looks to be Android-based as well. The Snow version is even more impressive as it clips into a number of goggles, as opposed to require you purchase the googles from them. It looks like goggle manufactures have to explicitly support this add-on, but it's a great way to engage a user-base without having to compete with the established players.
There are more users.
Stop, Go
Beat was an amazing concept. I still have this watch and love it. That's a pity it didn't get popular, but I partially blame the design of the watches.
maybe instead of just a loud sound, they should put a loud voice telling them the situation and what to do ... I guess some alarms do that
Sorry, I just found the above from a quick google search for "FIPS 140-2 rng" which I noticed referenced in the rngtester output in the article.
Metric time is fun, but why not take it a step further and abandon the metric system, which places too much emphasis on base 10? We used the (21 cm) hydrogen line in the Pioneer plaque; if we don't use metric with our potential cosmic neighbors, isn't that a sign we should reconsider its usage?
This is well known. People tend to freeze when confronted with a novel situation. That is why there are fire drills, and why soldiers are drilled until obeying orders is reflexive.

When people freeze like this, they are not just idly goofing about, but are in a state of high tension and indecision, looking to see what everybody else is doing, or for someone who appears to know what must be done to take the initiative.
Doesn't help that many of those lower level jobs are being automated away in no small part thanks to altruistic legislation demanding they be paid more than their work is worth, raising the cost of labor to the point that the cost of automation is cheaper and more compatible with the value of the work. Pressures to innovate prompt innovation - go figure.

There's plenty I'd like to hire people to do, but can't afford to dole out "minimum wage" (much less a "living wage") and prolific benefits for - not because I'm cheap, but because I've only got limited funds to spend. Result is the unemployed have fewer options, and the self-altruistic compel others to support them.
Nerdfighters are awesome, thanks for being a part! I actually built that auto-deposit feature during a 3 day all-nighter a while back, I couldn't believe we hadn't built it yet so I did it during one of our innovation iterations :)
I love it, what an effective message.

I think there is a bug in the form validation, if I put commas in my net worth, it gives me a completely different value than if I don't. Probably should intelligently strip out non numerals, or even reject non-numeral entries, since people of different nationalities use periods and commas differently.

Also, reading the methodology, very interesting, but I am intuiting it isn't so accurate. My net worth is higher vs average for U.S., and my income is lower vs average for U.S. but the site ranks me in the opposite direction when I change my entry values.
Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loginalready

I reported it to info@yc, two days ago, but I didn't get any answer.
One of the scariest bits is that most of the operators of these cameras pool information. The result is an ad-hoc nationwide surveillance system operated by a private party.

If you operate certain brands of cameras, you get access to the database: http://nvls-lpr.com/nvls/
What was being censored? I haven't noticed too much but it's probably because many of my first and only viewings are now on Netflix.
Because now there is no technical reason to not have it as an option instead of forced upon us.
Banning good users does potentially bring down post quality, but other users would remain unaware of that without showdead on.
It doesn't work :)
http://play.golang.org/p/PVS5sarmHb
Hahaha, brilliant advice; faced with a crazy person/dog? Act even crazier.
Despite being in public -- and on public streets -- I think anytime the government is tracking where I go, it should require probable cause and a judge's signature. I believe ALPR circumvents the judicial system.

I use my cellphone in public, but it's obvious that the government shouldn't be able to automatically log when and where I placed a call. I use my credit card in public, but the government shouldn't be able to automatically log every penny going into or out of my bank account. I use my car in public too, and I don't think the government should track everywhere I drive.

I don't think there's an acceptable amount of harassment that's tolerable. If the technology enables it to happen, it's worth challenging.

There are three issues for me with ALPR: (1) limiting the scope of persons who have access to the data, (2) ensuring that law enforcement agencies have strong (ab)use and access policies with checks and balances, and (3) ensuring that logs of where innocent individuals drive is never stored.

I think it's easier to progressively win a fight rather than going guns-blazing to a large issue that people don't understand. By first building the notion that 'yeah, this technology is actually somewhat scary' it's much easier to win a fight arguing that the police shouldn't be storing and accessing the data either.

In my situation in Minnesota, the public finding out about the police releasing 2.1 million license plate tracking points to the public was enough pressure to get the state to make the data non-public and to have police departments voluntarily create more restrictive policies. It was also enough to get a fabulous bill passed through the state House that prohibited police from storing any data on non-hit (non-wanted) vehicles. Unfortunately, it didn't get to the Senate floor in time before the session ended, but I was shocked at the number of legislators who spoke out against ALPR data storage. They weren't necessarily anti-ALPR (and honestly I'm not vehemently anti-ALPR either), but the prospect of storage is wildly unpopular among non-police communities.

There's another issue all together, which is privately owned and operated ALPR systems -- typically used by vehicle repossessors but it was also uncovered this week that a defense contractor had also been on the receiving end of Minneapolis Police ALPR data, which is somewhat unnerving.
Why have tabs when there's already priority inbox, labels, and filters?

It seems like the new feature is essentially just a way to do automatic (learned?) labeling -- yet it won't let you build your own tabs using already-defined custom labels. :-/
I'm doing an IAmA about this story:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1iiyxu/i_cofounded_app...
When I look for the majority of the movies in the article and linked site, they come up as unavailable (US netflix). Kind of makes it all moot.
My bet is that the studios don't license in scope format either because they are afraid of "stealing" or to retain an edge over streaming.
Thanks for the examples of record types in OCaml.

> but as far as I know, such proposals haven't been met with much enthusiasm.

Well, if the proposed use cases are similar to this http Go library, then i think i can see why that's the case. As just adding a close: () method to a type could mean that code that uses that type now behaves differently.
But interface satisfaction is by signature, not name, and that is what is being discussed, not method dispatch.
Supporting typecasting is hardly earth-shattering. Pretty much every statically typed programming language in actual use supports typecasts. That includes Scala, Java, C++, C, C#, Pascal, Algol, and even Ada.

This title should be "stunned by shitty poorly documented library function" not "stunned by Go."

There are a few languages out there that don't support typecasting. I think SML was one, for example. But they made a lot of other design choices to be able to support that choice, and so far that set of choices has not gained popularity. At minimum, you would need a fairly complex type system with generics to be able to completely forbid typecasting. You also run into problems where stable APIs completely block progress in a particular area.
Yeah, and maybe I want to say something along the lines of "your valuation should be more closely tied to your actual ability to make money."
I will ponder it more, thanks for your comment.
There are a lot of spammers either automatically submitting links or manually continuing to do so long after being identified and they're not always obvious. The other week I found a network of ~20 accounts that had each been submitting one generic tech link a day for up to 1.5 years, if you browse when that network does their daily submissions you'll see almost a full page of dead links that look legitimate.

The ability to upvote dead comments out of oblivion would be useful for commenters.

Edit: as luck would have it that group is submitting a batch right now - http://i.imgur.com/MVvfoaC.png - all those dead accounts (+ aynlaplant, flag to help kill it) are spam though they don't look like it at first glance.
Syncdocs and Boxcryptor are quite similar. What I like about Syncdocs is it enables EncFS for the folders selected to be encrypted, too.
Yes... as I said, I know much better now.

Of course, invoking my right to a lawyer may have prolonged my experience. Whether the increased risk of being in trouble by talking was greater than the increased time to resolve the incident if I requested a lawyer would have been a tough call to make.
There doesn't seem to be any viable competitors for the combination of GMail + Google Drive. The Drive Apps infrastructure and integration into one account is above and beyond the competition.
The end user gets to decide when they upgrade the toolchain so it wouldn't be "no warning" if they wrote about the change in the release notes. I'd much rather they break code relying on undocumented weird behavior, than document the weird behavior and keep it alive indefinitely.
Is there an explain-like-I'm-5 explanation of what this is and why it is useful? Because I've only a very vague idea of what it's about.
That's incorrect. Companies must follow laws of each country. Chinese companies can't follow orders from Chinese courts if they break US laws when they operate in US.

Besides, Google has local company in each country that runs business there.
You can also use IMAP clients. For example I never use the gmail web interface and use Thunderbird instead. I have personal email accounts plus 3 different gmail work accounts so this works far better.
Speaking hell banned users. Here's a comment from one of them right here! Sometimes they scare me a little. This is an example of it doing its job. Sadly we do have false-positives sometimes too.

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TempleOS 27 minutes ago

God is perfectly just. Niggers deserve hell. Hell is the absence of God.
God says... by_the_way no_more_tears middle_class thats_just_wrong little_buddy test_pilot not_in_my_wildest_dreams this_might_end_badly catastrophe husband good talk_to_my_lawyer ohh_thank_you thats_right au_revoir so_let_it_be_done off_the_record like_like experts ridiculous
lobster (at) makesnosen.se , thank you kindly
I should hope so. Jobs aren't a goal. Jobs blow.
I'd say that's more of a theory than an explanation. The whole is more than the sum of its parts, and when people like I get hellbanned or whateverbanned for long periods of time, it hurts the sense of community and erodes confidence in the management of it.
60 is highly composite (divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6). 12 is a highly composite (divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6). This is a nice property for a numbers used for unit quantities because a common operation on unit quantities is division by small numbers.

So it's actually kind of unfortunate that we don't all have 6-fingered hands.
When was the last time you tried to split a check evenly between three friends? Because it can feel like it takes a third of an hour to figure it out.

:-)
The technical reason is that Netflix is "cutting corners" for cash. I'm sure someone in the media licensing industry can elaborate on the true price of what you crave.
I had the same thought, and started trying to do it, but I ran into too many edge cases trying to automate the importing...
I'm curious about the differences of your custom Python build.
I love his page on wheel/tire sizes, http://sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html
I also have showdead on, and sometimes I consider turning it off, as some people really do warrant it. It is indeed sad to see some other people railing against the wind though.
I thought it was bizarre to even have a page called "Gypsy Crime," but then I checked and discovered that this page exists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_crime

It's a redirect showing the article "Race and crime in the United States," but "Black_crime" is sitting right there in the address bar.
Well, that specific example isn't true: http://sheldonbrown.com/headsets.html
Ah, I wasn't aware it was different for submissions. My bad.
TempleOS isn't a standard by which the utility of hellbans should be judged. He's pretty much the definition of edge case.

Most hellbans are probably spam, followed by people unaware of what random and arbitrary rule they broke at some point in the past, followed by trolls.
Is there an advantage to this over sslscan (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslscan/)?
If they were aware of they ban, they'd just create a new account and circumvent it.
Instead of having text that disappears while I'm in the middle of reading it, I suggest you just display all your points statically.