skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do make a good point, but at the same time I was easily able to understand his original bug report. I agree that both sides should be making a little more effort, and engaging in a bit less drama.
You also typically need someone watching over the footage, making sure everything is transcoded correctly (especially in the early days as the software would crap out halfway through). Most producers were under the mistaken impression, at least early on, that shooting on the RED would save a day of film transfer. It didn't, it just switched that day over to the edit house, preferably to a dedicated machine with an assistant. It still took a day or two to get footage ready for the editor.

Also, early on, the camera dept. didn't want anything to do with onset media management and transcoding (the job of the newly created DIT), but over time, camera realized their mistake (in losing that control and revenue) and now DITs are typically part of the camera dept and most transcoding is done on set. Now post will get a drive of the raw footage and the transcodes.
michaelochurch do agree, but emphasizes that they need to be done correctly.
Thing still open?
You can get full blown VS with a Bizspark subscription (its free for startups)
The "400+" employee lay-off that the author referenced was this one: http://timesfreepress.com/news/2013/aug/16/layoffs-hit-chatt...

There was a lot more to the lay-off than the company losing their primary income model

This happened in my hometown (Chattanooga, Tennessee).
"With that in mind, I continue to be puzzled by the amount of press that this story seems to receive."

Let's make the supposition that a science idea has to meet some standard of plausibility in order to be publishable. The standard being applied to this is that it hasn't (yet) been categorically denied by any incontrovertible law of nature. Not much fails this test. If you postulate access to a source of negative energy or to the inside of a black hole, nothing is technically impossible.
>they've just upheld a policy which says that they won't pay anyone who doesn't play by the rules. Quite fair, in my opinion.

My first thought is to say to facebook "Oh, I thought you were interested in fixing bugs. I'll know better what to do next time." Are you forgetting that the purpose of the bounty program is to protect facebook users by discovering and fixing bugs before spammers get the chance to use them? And that spammers pay real money for bugs like this one?

It's an awfully high standard to hold people to, considering the fb ToS is not translated to the guy's native language.
I figured the whole "be loyal to yourself" stuff almost in my first job when I was not allowed to rise up the ladder too quick as "more senior people" need to be promoted first. That day I decided my job will always be my plan B. I am happy to report now I run my own , very profitable business and have achieved financial freedom from JOBS and BOSSES
Likewise. A paragraph break would have made it a little more clear.
I imagine this could this be used to kill a running instance of node.js in production?
True though it does return an invalid method.
Depends upon how squishy the roof/substrate is. The acceleration-to-height or compressive stress-to-height conversion is not well-defined in general.

If you're optimizing for dropping a car on its roof from a specified height, it's probably better to drop the car on its roof.
No submenus is kind of a bummer for applications. Sometimes I work on traditional stuff with an audience that expects this kind of navigation.

I still really appreciate it, though. If it turns out I really need them, I'd rather start with Bootstrap than have to start from scratch.
I know what you and Elon mean here with the word "prioritized," but it's impressive just how many things on the Model S were a priority. Safety, performance, style, technology, experience, efficiency, etc. Where it seems most manufacturers set a few priorities and then fail to deliver on some of those, it seems the Model S had several and met them all. Of course, I end up sounding like an evangelist saying that.
You bring up an interesting idea. What if taxes were completely voluntary... would anyone pay them? Would anyone elect to pay sales tax if it were not required? I feel like the world might resemble Mad Max if this were the case.
Damn, busted. Elixir was the first thing that popped into my head on seeing this title. It looks almost like a Ruby port to the Erlang VM.

That said, good writeup, even for a non-Rubyist, enjoyed seeing the process.

One thing that stuck out is how control flow via if/then/else is faster than via case (for more than 2 options) in Ruby. I always assumed the opposite, for any language.
That may be so, but sometimes, once your design has settled, you'll have hotspots you want to speed up.

Of course I hope nobody starts jumping through all kinds of hoops before they know that it matters...
At least they're looking at fixing it.
Like most things Indian, all villages in India are not same. Depending upon location and consequently prevalent culture, in some places women call the shots and rampant abuse of women is pretty much not tolerated (typically those in north-eastern states). There are also those where women are treated as cattle, to be used and abused and have no rights whatsoever (example states being Haryana/some parts of UP/Bihar) - families do not lose face in these places if men behave inappropriately towards women, they lose face if the man doesn't beat up the woman "to put her in her rightful place".

So all villagers in the city do not act like boors, like most things people do, it depends on their upbringing and the culture of place/family they hail from.

Weak state is not a unique problem. Some south-east asian countries have far weaker/ineffective state, but this blatant objectification and abuse of women is not rampant there. Unfortunately, culture doesn't change overnight and lack of quality education contributes to lack of introspection/critical thinking.
When I moved to Palo Alto there was a free one sitting in the hallway of the apartment building!
DARPA Researching "Cortical Processor" based on Hierarchical Temporal Memory
You probably don't have as far to go as you think - the standard library is largely written in straightforward Python. The limiting factor is more finding a bug that no-one else is already fixing.
I like his, "don't let school interfere with your education"

However, to go with a line about having a "PhD in Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit" just sounds like something straight out of a Python sketch.

Besides, PhD's are not generally given out for "Having Designed and Built Lots of Shit", but more for having completed and documented an original body of research, to the standard required for submission to academic peer review.

You don't need to have a PhD to have done that, or to even be seeking a PhD when you do that. In that sense it is possible to even pick up PhD's almost by accident, if you are uncommonly curious and dedicated.

I have designed and built and fiddled with all sorts of complicated crap. I have not done a PhD however. A PhD is a different discipline. Someone who has genuinely put the work into a PhD doesn't just know a lot about the subject of their PhD, they are the authority.
In Australia I've seen two common patterns:

1. Reducing hours by X% instead of sacking X% of employees.

2. Offering voluntary redundancy packages.

Option 1 tends to lead to some people quitting anyhow.

Option 2 has the problem that it can dramaticaly exacerbate the Dead Sea problem. Anyone with any pep grabs the package and looks for a job elsewhere.
Same here. And most important to me, it implements the Google Reader API, so my filtering scripts continue to work.
Ok, here's the issue with this article:

"party-run publications and Web sites have vehemently denounced constitutionalism and civil society"

Seriously? I rather doubt a one-party system is going to openly denounce civil society. The human desire for civility is the only thing that keeps despots from being murdered in the street.

This is also a problem with HN's voting system. The headline of this is totally missing the point. On HN, the headline should read

> NYT puppet of NSA? "party publications ... vehemently denounced ... civil society
Jama Software Raises $13 Million To Bring Its SaaS-Based Product
The crash test results, including the videos, are available here: http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Shoppers/5-Star+Safety+Ratin...

And even more crash test data and videos:
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/aspx/vehdb/testtablede...
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/aspx/vehdb/testtablede...
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/database/aspx/vehdb/testtablede...
6. Write with your shoulder. Trying to draw whiteboard-sized letters with your fingers produces sloppy handwriting. Keep your hand and wrist stable, and move your shoulder. This applies to normal handwriting as well, but the improvement isn't as immediately obvious: http://www.paperpenalia.com/handwriting.html
i'm guessing that in accidents, cars very rarely drop on their tops - they either roll and come to rest upside-down, or get hit when they're already turned over/sideways.
None of those things matter at all. The second title is objectively more descriptive and that's what titles should be.
Machine learning algorithms are very commonly used for purposes mentioned in the article. But, one needs to understand that some widely used classifiers are based on probabilities of occurrence of all the features. I don't think such algorithms can ever completely replace human decision making especially for the purposes such as recruitment or university admissions, and it should not in my opinion. But, there are various other uses where there is quite a definitive code for decision making, machine learning algorithms can be used, in such situations it is more a problem of maximizing accuracy by different models of feature selection instead.
The author also mentions a few glitches in the system, I'd say as there are more glitches, then we can use these glitches for training our models and so predicting such glitches can also be possible.
No, it won't kill the process; it will simply terminate the connection. It looks like, from the C code, that it was intended to throw a 405 but somewhere in the process it screws up and terminates early.
Not so much. It's more analogous to surfing on a wave.

Any object with mass warps spacetime towards itself. This doesn't cause an infinite buildup of 'spacetime' on the object's surface.

There are concerns with built up energy in front of the spaceship but not being sent back to your origin.
Research Reveals How Kids Learn From 'Sex-Saturated' Online Culture
This is simply unkind to the competition (and to the poles alike): "Tesla achieved this outcome by nesting multiple deep aluminum extrusions in the side rail of the car that absorb the impact energy (a similar approach was used by the Apollo Lunar Lander) and transfer load to the rest of the vehicle. This causes the pole to be either sheared off or to stop the car before the pole hits an occupant."

There's winning and there's crushing the opponents. One shouldn't gloat in the latter case, but this case deserves an exception.

Congratulations Elon and the team on tremendously nice engineering!
Arguably, a lot of them came through improvements that did nothing to harm simplicity.

Removing the unnecessary callback, for example.

And ".times" is certainly more idiomatic than ".zip" for his case. It's a toss up between .each_with_index and .times, but really both will be readable enough. And from experience, you'll find Ruby devs that are unfamiliar with "zip", but not with "each_with_index" or "times".

"alias_method" is also far more idiomatic than grabbing a reference to the method - I don't think I've ever actually seem method() used in production code (not that I've explicitly looked)
Paper backups for digital data
Wow, great answers! I'll check these out, thanks.
UK Govt. Destroyed Journalists’ Hard Drives In Failed Attempt To Stop NSA Story
I suppose the bitcoin ethos of a decentralized network - with no single vulnerable point of attack - breaks down once you consider that until you can buy groceries, pay rent, and just generally use the currency everywhere, there's always the last point of vulnerability: wherever you convert it to "actual" money.

But maybe that's an unfair assessment.
Ah thanks for clearing that up.
good to see the project :)
The advantage of shooting on film with a lower budget is that it forces the director and dp to plan everything out as much as possible. There isn't room in the budget for very many takes and none for reshoots. You can't just shoot until it's right, you better rehearse and have your shit together or your burn through film like crazy.

And I personally don't think the magic of film will ever be matched. The magic is in the organic process. But I do believe cameras will reach look that isn't video or film, but something all together different.

The Hobbit was a step in that direction, but imho, not the right project for that ultra sharp look (and they need to relearn how to light so it doesn't feel like a BBC soap opera from 1996). I want to see a sci-fi movie shot at 6K and 60fps, use the tech to compliment the story. Star Trek or Star Wars maybe, but even better if it's not something that is already in our collective consciousness, something completely new.
Web Site Down? How Dare You
That's a good solution, until you need to do a major upgrade, or when you need to hire additional capacity for a temporary spike (say a campaign). It's only a solution if you are OK with occasional downtime - because you'll need to stop everything to apply service packs.

With something like EC2, you just spin up a similar box with newer patches applied, redeploy your application, load-balance between your versions and just delete the old one when you are happy.

I cannot imagine going back to colo. Or even physical boxes. If I were forced to have a physical box, the first thing I'd do would be to deploy everything on virtual machines or containers inside it.
With movies it's a little different. If I write a fictional story featuring the 'imagination scouts' I'm not really infringing on their mark because I'm mentioning a fictional organization with a similar name - I can't mention BSA because that might imply endorsement or participation by them, but it's OK to mention an organization of similar type.

But if I'm running Hacker Scouts, now I'm actually competing with BSA for members to some degree, so if there's any danger of consumers being confused by the similarity of the marks then the obligation is on me to change it.

Courts treat this 'consumer confusion' as key. As a third example, if I came up with a brand called 'Night Scouts,' but the brand was attached to a line of night-vision goggles rather than a membership organization, a court would (I hope) find a low probability of confusion between the two as long as the packaging for my product didn't use any graphics, slogans, iconography etc. that suggested a connection with BSA. BSA might claim that they had total ownership of anything involving the word 'scout' whatsoever, but a court would usually find that claim overbroad.

However, that doesn't mean BSA would be wrong to make the claim. One peculiar things about trademarks (and quite different from copyright) is that courts take a 'defend it or lose it' view - so if there's a possibility of infringement, then the trademark owner basically has to make a fuss about it. If they don't, then later they may have trouble with halting a genuine case of infringement. So when you hear stories of trademark holders suing over very faint similarities, it's not that they really really want to shut everyone else down, but that they're going on the legal record as aggressively defending their mark against any possible infringer. If they failed to do so, someone else might point to their non-action as evidence that they had voluntarily abandoned the mark. Sort of perverse, but there you go.
Litecoin is one I've heard a lot about, and Namecoin is supposed to be a sort of Bitcoin-based DNS, taking the advantages to a different arena.

According to Wikipedia [1] all of the big cryptocurrencies are inspired by / based on Bitcoin.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
> Why did you need to install VS on the build servers? ... It is not needed to build web apps

VS and build servers is generally considered to be a licensing issue. But if you don't have a web app, well, you still need to build it.

We have a C++ application that uses MFC. VS is required, but not anything more than VS Express (the free edition).

"But VS Express doesn't have MFC!"

Behold: License Extensions for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 SDK [1]!

> If you have a validly licensed copy of such software, you may copy and distribute the unmodified object code form of the files listed below, subject to the software's License Terms and to the additional terms or conditions (if any) that are indicated. ...

> BuildServer Files for Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, Premium and Professional editions: ...

> All files from the following folders (and all files and folders contained within these folders, recursively) ...

> Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\

The atlmfc folder is contained within VC. So you can install VS Express on your build server and build virtually anything with it, just copy the appropriate files.

> I know that it's needed to build some things, like unit tests that use MSTest

I am fairly sure you can do all things MSTest once you've installed the client test bits [2].

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/hh857605.aspx

[2] http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=3818...
Good vs. Gold: What the iPhone 5S Rumors Say About Apple's Future
Well in that case the term "genius" is inadequate.
This was my thought as well. This is one of the main fallacies of code optimization; unless these functions are called a LOT, you very well might be optimizing something that is not your bottleneck. You can see the author is missing this point because he talks about going from "20 seconds to 1.5 seconds." He is using those numbers as if they are real use case times, when in fact they are generated from an arbitrary amount of calls to a function.

So many times I will see people make code optimizations of this type to shave fractions of a millisecond from a function call at the cost of complexity, memory usage, etc. Meanwhile, most of the time their program is actually waiting on IO or something of the like.

Blind optimization is counter productive.
Only truth. Only fact. No art. No feeling. Sad world.
I believe it refers to fatalities as this almost exact quote has been said by Elon before in a recent Q&A session.
I'd go for:

Avoid creating objects that aren't needed, and avoid method calls.

For the most part that's what his changes boils down to. In other words: Reduce complexity. It's very easy to cause Ruby code to blow up performance wise because you don't realize how many extra objects you create (arrays and hashes + lots of chaining or functional inspired method that returns copies instead of mutates == boom) or how many extra method calls you trigger behind the scenes.
It also depends on what possible legal action those parties might have taken against them for not complying with a disclosure request on those funds.
It's the general public's opinion about "hacker", not just the media's. Connotations change. Everyone here knows "hacker" to mean "someone who finds a simple solution to a complex problem" but everyone elsewhere uses "hacker" to mean "someone who breaks into another person's computer system." It's not even the wrong usage; it's just a usage you don't personally like.

That's not touching on the rest of your posts. They've all been hyperbolic bullshit, and I hate seeing it bleed over from the political discussions.
Voting will gain you nothing in the US, even if you manage to unseat an incumbent. The big companies running the country via lobbyists will just turn their huge pocketbooks towards the new guy, and the status quo will continue.

Congressmen generally aren't even afraid of losing their jobs anymore. They'll just stick around in Washington and become conference speakers or lobbyists. There's a rule saying you can't lobby for two years after you lose your seat, but that doesn't stop them.

To understand how politics works at the national level in this country, This Town is required reading.

http://www.amazon.com/This-Town-Parties-Funeral-Plus-America...
Yeah, I remember beign told at the end of the 90's that if you'd bought 100 shares (~$2000) of Microsoft stock at IPO and sold in '99, you'd have cashed in well over a million dollars.

Tesla gives me that kind of feeling at the moment.

It probably won't be to the same extent as Tesla's market cap is already quite high. So I can't see them splitting quite as much as MS. But on the other hand, I think they're definitely a stock to hold on to for quite a while and see what happens.
I've read this comment like 8 times now and I'm really starting to believe it's some sort of psychedelic fascist performance act. That rating people by letters bit was gold!
Isn't this old news? (http://www.treehugger.com/cars/tesla-model-s-gets-5-star-saf... was posted two weeks ago: http://www.treehugger.com/cars/tesla-model-s-gets-5-star-saf...)
Saw this on Youtube last week. It's good, I guess, in that it's easy to understand straight away. At the same time, I find it kind of useless eye candy, and I can't interact with it. Usually when I experience a slow load I find a ridiculously high number next the Ghostery icon.
The level of bikeshedded micro-optimization going on in that file is hilarious. The whole thing could be swapped out with a Ragel parser and nobody would notice a thing
BSA: Cease

HS: No.

Seriously - fark off BSA. You do not own the word "scouts".

And frankly, if ANY court said they "legally" did - I would never accept such a statement. I'd offer BSA exclusivity over the word "Asshole" instead.
For most of 2004, nginx didn't handle POST, either:

http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/http/ngx_http_...
>That work is immensely complicated by the certainty that it would be highly unadvisable for Greenwald (or any other journalist) to regard any electronic means of communication as safe.

Can anyone comment on how accurate that statement is? I would imagine that two people (Greenwald and Poitras) who frequently meet face-to-face could set up a secure way of transferring data.
So run SQL Server in a VM. Or MySQL. Or PostreSQL. Or whatever.
I'm not sure how I can clarify in another way, sorry.

Cheers.
+1 for Azure or AWS
Fraxinus crowdsources scientific research on Facebook
As far as I know, in the US, there is no legal mandate to pay severance. However, getting their employees to resign probably saved them a lot of money on their unemployment insurance by making the employees ineligible for unemployment benefits (that's why I try to get my employees to resign) and/or they may have gotten their employees to sign release forms for liability from wrongful termination or discrimination or those kinds of liabilities.
That definitely sounds like a culture that values the people involved in the company's past, present, and future. But, most positions I have had were with companies where the people who left were effectively dead. No one spoke their name at work. No one mentioned their previous efforts or ideas. The company photo was updated. The only thing that sometimes persisted was their name on the source code commits. Employees with a decade of service just vanished.
He already made it clear that the data is replicated broadly, and so it is absurd, because physically destroying laptops only increases the desire to increase the integrity of the data. Increasing integrity against this sort of attack naturally compromises security, which means "passing Chinese agents" are more likely to have access to the data now.