skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but only for codecs supported by Chrome (basically mp4 and the occasional avi). Anything that needs transcoding (or any file with high bitrate/multichan audio) will cause extreme stuttering unless you have a machine with a fairly beefy processor and GPU.

Casting a tab is like using logmein to watch a movie on another computer. Casting either the RAW or the local file directly is like playing something off a NAS
Not sure how you went from "an update that broke undocumented functionality" to "evil".
Crime victim surveys corroborate those figures.
That's because anyone who brings it up is labelled un-American, and part of the "blame America" crowd. cf Ron Paul
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Do you think the intent of the post is to complain about SDK compatibility ? :)
Neighborhoods doesn't tell the whole story in New York because we have a subway. We are integrated at the breating space level on a daily basis.
Hey buddy, I opt out too all the time. It once did not work out for me also. Don't worry about be a hypocrite or being an absolutist. You are still sending a message and slowing the stupid operation down by opting out 99% of the time. Chin up! Live to opt out next time.

BTW I quite enjoy the passive aggressive questions. If they ask if I know the machine is safe I always agree with them that the machine is safe. They find that amusing in SFO and annoying in BOS. I don't fly through LAX so they might be more annoying there.

I find that most of the time the TSA people, if you treat them with a bit of a sense of humor, are usually pretty nice about the whole opt out thing (though they do do the passive agressive stuff). However I'm white middle aged guy with a wedding ring. So perhaps I get, by far, the easiest side of TSA 'attitude'.
Really? As a Canadian who crosses that border fairly regularly, the iris & fingerprint records are only for the "Enhanced Drivers License" as far as I knew, I've crossed the border dozens of times with just my passport
What risks are you trying to protect against?
Agreed, I opt-out every time I can. This gives me a chance to talk to the TSA agent. This puts human faces on the, typically, blurry screen of human mass.

When they ask why I opt-out, I explain about the numerous times I have filled out the comment cards mentioning the real danger of cataracts because you don't tell people to close their eyes. Explain that my engineering background fully understands both the x-ray and mm-wave technology. I explain that even the weak, yet not disclosed, powers of mm-wave back scatter can, over time, cause damage to your eyes.

This gives them something to think about, that isn't the typical "freedom" complaint they hear. I hope, one day, to overhear a TSA agent tell people to close their eyes.

First, the threat to your eyes is real. But, my underline reason is by making people close their eyes it will give a sense of vulnerability that the current systems don't have. I am hoping, one day, that this is the tipping point needed for more people to opt-out.

An engineer can dream.
That seems like a pretty great idea. I especially like the "tests" they give at the end. Asking those questions would give a decent feel for if you would actually want to work with that person.

This kind of interview seems like it will do a better job of hiring great engineers, rather than just hiring the "smartest" person. I think a problem that lots of major tech companies have today is that they've only hired people who are "book" smart vs "street" smart. (If that makes any sense to you in the realm of programming).
I am stealing your approach.

One thing I will say though is there are huge differences in border culture. JFK is uniformly unpleasant to enter/ Houston is pretty bad too. I have rarely had unpleasantness in Seatac.
Me too - for the lazy:

http://i.imgur.com/dBIBuCD.jpg

The Rock Creek Park divide is just as noticeable on the map as it is driving around the area. On a larger scale, the SE/NW divide is exactly what you'd expect. Keep in mind that the city itself is (or at least was, before gentrification) predominately black, and the SE areas are the poorest.
No, but Newspeak is the official new language at Google.
"The best insight here is that self-worth and fear of shaming are the main motivators for not agreeing."

This is often true, but it is not always true. One person forms opinions on topic X based on reason and evidence, another based on ideology. It is only the latter who feels threatened by new facts or arguments, precisely because his rational foundation is shaky.

Thus there seems to be a fallacy - I'm not clear whether it is from the linked writer or the researchers he refers to - of assuming in the first place that the opinions being talked about are necessarily based on emotion more than on reason and facts.

Put another way, it's rather presumptuous to say, in essence, this new argument of mine is so strong that if others reject it, it must be due to their irrational ideology rather than the merits.

Edit: I don't mean to disparage the idea of making one's statements more diplomatically rather than contentiously - that is certainly a good thing, but that is a separate issue from presuming the reasons for people's views prior to finding out the actual reasons.
Snowden stayed at Russian consulate in Hong Kong?
I think he was more worried about being vented on. It's hard to do much to a returning US citizen, so the guy in front would eventually be waved through (possibly without the friendly "welcome home" that they're supposed to say). Next guy in line, from anywhere else at all, would get the wrath of justice unleashed on him.

Sorry, dude. My bad.
The developer of AllCast, Koushik Dutta, gave his side in this reddit comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1l2hez/google_block...
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For those unlucky souls who have yet to encounter the ingenious humor of Mitch Hedberg: this is a reference to the Mitch Hedberg quote that goes like this:

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too."

Other notables (pulled from his Wikipedia entry):

"I bought a $7 pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring."

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."

"I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."
"Picking a different airline" isn't really a solution. The screening happens regardless of which airline you are on.

I think it should be a solution -- given both 1) cockpit doors are now secured, and 2) passengers won't let hijackers take over a flight, the risk of any in-flight incidents is borne by the passengers, and if an airline wants to compete on less invasive scanning, they should be able to do that.
Anything working yet ?

SSE4.2 is not mandatory. Rejit works without it as well (SSE support detected dynamically), it just gives excellent performance with a relatively simple implementation. Support for earlier versions of SSE can easily be added.

I'll try to add libpcre to the benchmarks when I get some time.
Did you know Twitter shadows every click you make?
> As a Canadian

I wasn't a Canadian. Merely a Dutch guy living in Canada.
How many keystrokes do you have left?
A. Why does Matt Damon think we care what he thinks?

OR

B. Why do we care what Matt Damon thinks?
Actually I kind of agree with you. I noted it mostly because it occurred to me that this was odd, and that's an indication that there is something that can be talked about, questioned, and discussed there.

Any organic view of the world will have areas of self-contradiction and these are healthy because they represent points from which change can come. A perfectly consistent view of the world would be a very dismal thing, stagnant and detached from the complexities of life.
I noticed on my last trip that the TSA, at all airports involved, were more pushy this time about herding me through the machines, using similar words. I guess there was a new policy memo sent out.
When I finally get a handle on my credit score, they have to come in and make my facebook profile another factor.... Next it will be my sleeping patterns, because some article somewhere said that sleeping patterns determine your likeliness of paying your bills on time.
To be honest, this isn't so hard to do. I went to Kazakhstan to visit a college friend once and got placed on the watch list for the two years after that. Apparently visiting a country with stan in the name, regardless of purpose, is cause for suspicion.

I'm a little surprised they bothered to copy the hard drives. Usually they just do a full search down and then they want you to be gone as soon as possible.

It makes me sad, but I'm unsure as to what to do about it. I'd generally suggest removing the hard drive from the computer, but that's becoming more difficult to do. You can use full drive encryption, but then if they want they might just confiscate the whole computer. Beyond that, at this point that unless your paranoid your communications can be monitored with ease.
I agree, this seems very practical and applicable. Sounds a lot less stand-offish, too. Don't have some guy pulling out obscure brain teasers to assert nerd dominance.
Yes. You can have commenting threads based on the page. The value on the href attribute takes a form

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You'll get the [forumname] from the setup (https://moot.it/setup) and you need to pick an unique path for each of the commenting area. The paths can be designed to fit your site's structure. For example

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The "/i/" part means SEO indexed content. Our servers automatically generate a search engine optimized version of all the comments that are structured according to the path structure. Here is the SEO content for our forums for example

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IC on the record
Sure hope you don't play the Burnout series...
Not the author but:

- Repeated images probably come from quoted tweets (when you quote a tweet and reply by adding something). If you pull a twitter API feed, you'll get many of these.

- Not sure, but it's possible that ever-changing images cause lots of reflow. What happens between the moment you set the src attribute and the moment the image loads ? I'd have to test, but I think a reflow of everything is worse than painting to canvas.

- Looking through dev tools, images are hotlinked.
Your source code (or a running image of your program, that has the extra salt in memory) is rarely harder to get access to than your password database. Remember, all of your developers have access to it, and likely have it unencrypted on their machines, which may not be terribly secure. It would be a small enough extra value, and a large enough extra hassle (making it difficult to re-use the same encrypted password in other code, for instance use the same encrypted password for basic auth over HTTPS as you use for your webapp in a different area) that I don't think it's worth it.

I also worry that promoting this practice would make some developers think that they didn't need a random, per-password salt as well. It's hard enough to convince developers about the value of using strong key derivation functions and a per-password salt, and if you added a global salt I'd worry that some would think that the per-password salt is not necessary. Then once the fixed salt were compromised, brute forcing individual passwords would become trivial.

Also remember, the attacker could easily create an account with a known password, and they can get the normal salt from the password database. Now they just need to brute force the single "fixed salt", and you're back to where you started.

No, it's much better to encourage people to just use strong password hash functions, like bcrypt or scrypt, with good, random, per password salts, than to try to apply a little security through obscurity by adding yet another salt that is likely easy to find.
1984 meets bladerunner (minus the clones).

I think it's Gilliam's best film by far. Enjoy!
I think because the majority of the world's population (> 60%) is in Asia.
Well, I don't agree with what Google is doing assuming it's intentional.

But,

1)It's $35. I spend more than that on a week's worth of lunch.

2)I bet cyanogenmod will make an appearance. I'm just buying Chromecast for the hardware.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on a lot of things, like how much false positives cost you.
> possibly without the friendly "welcome home" that they're supposed to say

That'd be about as about as not getting art in the foam of my latte! I'd write a letter!
It's hyperbole, a pretty common tool when expressing yourself.

It's not a long way from Google's motto "Don't be evil" to "Be evil" and it doesn't take that much imagination to figure out what he meant.

On the other hand, acting obtuse is rarely funny.
Galera is magic, I'll agree, but there are just too many shortcomings for me to recommend it for most people.

Heartbeat is very problematic, I agree, but it's hardly the only solution out there (and far from the best solution). That said, I have learned that it's remarkably configurable, so many of the problems you encountered could probably be addressed, if you're willing to learn about Pacemaker and really dig into its configuration.
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I must admit: I had to Google "Lawrence Page". Didn't strike me that Larry is the diminutive for Lawrence :-)

edit: proof that he was successful, indeed, is that "to google" is a verb that comes more naturally to me when speaking English than common name diminutives.
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it's a shame that you draw a comparison between liberty and magic.
i think you're missing the point. the benefit to 'security' as a result of the NSA surveillance is without evidence. as a result, comparisons of an imaginary 'trade off' between security and privacy are premature. we don't know the benefit to security, so how can we possibly make an informed decision about trading some of our privacy away for it?

also, even your hypothetical example falls pretty flat on its face. your world of everyone in a cell might actually have more theft, rape, crime etc. who is guarding the cells? who is doing the feeding? would they exchange favours for additional food?

the point is that a 'trade-off' is superfluous until you have evidence that it's even beneficial.
Yep, that's what the link in my original post was hoping to demonstrate. I find rolling up a few lets one after the other more natural in some other situations.
They are likely referring to the electronic article surveillance systems that many shops in the US use. They detect tags that are embedded in packaging, and now even inside products by the manufacturer. The only non-governmental metal detectors I've ever had to walk through are at major tourist spots and theme parks.
I never worked on games and don't want to, but this question bugs me: what would it take to convince someone to invest in a gamedev effort? It just sounds like a very poor investment. If Alice and Bob are both willing to invest in their own pet projects, but not willing to invest in each other's, doesn't that mean one of them is provably irrational?
I write software for a living, and I found this comment to be dead on:
Trying not to be harsh, but this guy is obviously clueless - built his own game engine - maybe he should've started by wiring together his own circuit boards and then building an OS.

He wrote his own game engine because he had always wanted to is the obvious reason. He's a deluded fool for thinking he could do so in a couple months. It should have been a side project while still gainfully employed somewhere. Hard to do with two kids at home.

Which is why I can't fathom how a dude with a loving wife and two young kids quits his job and gambles their savings away. I've seen it happen before, but it was 'honest' gambling at a casino and it ended in divorce and general unhappiness. Maybe it's a form of mid-life crisis?

EDIT: fixed format and grammar.
>What mechanism does this racial separation take?

It's not racial separation. It's all attraction in general. Like attracts like. Hackers tend to like other hackers.

Race is simply one factor that affects us. Being aware of this can help you avoid racism. If you don't recognize that your brain tends to prefer people who are similar to you, you're more likely to accidentally discriminate others.

>What sort of evidence shows that skin color or other ethnic identifiers in genetics are the thing that causes tribal separation vs them just serving as a simple proxy to more complicated factors?

The real extent of its significance is impossible to say, but based on these maps, it's obvious that such separation happens. The lack of any legislation in the US that requires people of certain race to segregate means that it has to be caused by other factors.

>What explanations of exigent factors are there... for example why are there black and hispanic republicans, or white members of traditionally "black gangs". How do these less common (but not rare) group membership issues override the claimed genetic selection?

The fact that there are black republicans is only evidence that race does not limit people into any certain categories.

>What genetic factors explain the fracturing of groups within groups of seemingly genetically similar (at least on a racial/ethinc level) people?

Why do brothers and sisters fight? Even if you're from the same family, you're not immune to conflict. Inarguably, family members are on average closer to each other than non-family members. I really doubt race is such a significant factor that it would make us immune to conflict. If you really get down to it, we're all basically identical and we still fight all the time. That's the real stupidity.

If you want to learn more, you can start with evolutionary psychology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

We really don't know understand ourselves that well yet, but it's obvious that we discriminate each other. It's important to understand why, so we can become better.
Just off the top of my head, countries that are both freer and less insane: Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, Singapore, Estonia, Latvia, Switzerland.

Freer in terms of personal freedom, civil rights, economic freedom.

In the US you have:

1. Forced to sign up for the draft.

2. Your "Army Reserves" and "National Guard" DEPLOYED to fun places like Afghanistan on a rotating schedule. No they did not agree to it, reserves are meant to defend a country when it is attacked, not to be pulled into a regional conflicts. Canada for example, has reserves, but they arn't in Afghanistan unless they volunteer to.

3. Every call and email monitored.

4. A militarized police state.

5. Massive hidden intelligence budgets.

6. Drug sales by intelligence forces.

7. 5% of GDP just on the military, let alone "intelligence" and "security" (NSA / CIA / TSA / etc).

8. Private prisons with bribed judges.

9. 1% of men in jail, CURRENTLY (with more on parole).

10. 0.5% of women in jail.

11. Domestic drones.

12. Laws against using cryptography without registering it with the NSA.

13. The most aggressive fingerprint collection system out of any country in the world.

14. Unbearable licensing for alcohol, firearms, businesses, hair dressers (state dependent).

15. Project mockingbird (seriously wtf is the point of a "free press" if your own CIA has infiltrated it).

16. A do not fly list that has millions of people on it none of which can contest the reasons why. This is made worse since it was held up by the courts (under the guise that they can always take a train). In Canada we have less than a thousand people and there is a mechanism for challenging it.

America only feels free while you are there and under the radar.
I do not object to anonymity for TCP clients in general. I've setup squid on AWS proxies when I've wanted anonymity, like in open wifi areas. People can set up VPNs or sign up to those services if they want to protect their network activity, which should all be sufficient for most use cases, including avoiding ISP monitoring your activity. Tor on the other hand is used to avoid law enforcement and government surveillance. I'm not a journalist, I'm not politically active, and I'm not engaged in criminal activity, and I'm not going to support something that can aid people avoid justice for their misdeeds. I think journalists should come up with their own solution that can't be taken advantage of by bad people who do bad things.
The way to beat rudeness is not to be rude back.

I've had these same people greet me with a big smile, ask me how well I'll do in a race (they had already met many people doing the same race) and wish me good luck.

Airports are stressful places and traveling in general can also be stressful. My opinion?

Being rude is not your privilege. It won't fix a broken system. It just makes you personally feel better, at the expense of another. We're all much better than that - or so I should hope.
You're 100% correct about the incredible amount of bureaucracy for getting residency in Uruguay. After almost a year of waiting, and being told it would probably be at least another six months to a year to have my residency completed, I gave up and moved to Paraguay.

Getting permanent residency in Paraguay was fairly simple. I completed it in about seven months (partially because I needed to wait for my FBI background check). Other people I know had theirs completed in four to six months.

I also find Paraguay to have less government intrusion than Uruguay. Not that Uruguay felt oppressive, but the Uruguayan government is certainly involved in more aspects of business, welfare, regulations, etc., than the Paraguayan government.

Most Paraguayans only speak Spanish, or Guarani (the native language). However, if you're working in the tech sector, it isn't unusual to find people who speak a decent amount of English.
Pretty useful, but didn't work on Firefox 23.0.1 here (just blank pdf).

On Chrome seems fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot

http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/5560480146/in/set-721...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_riot_of_1968

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Hold down <option> (or <cntrl> on win/linux) while doing it.
I first thought why this is important. Then the first name Lawrence made sense to me.
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I don't think that camera has enough resolution for an Iris scan, it's merely a photo

Unless it's something new
Here's an implementation of Schelling's model:

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/Segregation
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Nice one. I type insanely fast (makes grown secretaries cry) so the outcome didn't worry me too much but it definitely gives you pause. For added effect, make a browser plug-in or an app that reminds you. Next level: a count-down timer that adjusts based on detecting the keystrokes you type in audio picked up through a mic.

Would be nice as a wrist watch too. Tempus fugit.
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What do you do if your ISP says 'shut it down'?
What wrath? The whole line is US citizens, and it's hard to do much to a returning US citizen.