skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did try in HEVC! It was scrapped because it decreased the encoder performance and its benefits didn't show up in their primary test metric (PSNR).
There's value in learning from how others have screwed up the world. Learn what sins not to repeat. Sometimes you can only see the brokenness from inside the system.

Some people are geniuses and can run billion dollar companies when they are 16. Other people can benefit from learning by doing for a few years. Everybody is different.
Why? What is the use case?
Zoho logins are extremely flaky at times.
very cool idea and also some of set of sites can be similar as pipe commands for shell
I don't think it's really worth going back to school. I dropped out to join the military. (Later left that too) 10 years later, every time I think about going back I think, "why?". I've already got a job, and I make decent money. I'd learn much more, faster, by taking on more responsibilities here than I would in some sandbox environment. Unless I went to, like, Harvard or something.
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Fair point. Not saying it's a huge difference, just that it's a difference.
Ted Chiang's short story collection, "Stories of your life and others", contains some of the best writing I've read in my life.
I'm the OP of the mailing list post, and have maintained Capistrano for the last 5 years. I'm passionate about providing great open source tools, my business and reputation are built on Capistrano and I don't want to give it up, but it's destroying me.
If a company let's children be managers without any prior experience or training, the company should force all their child prodigies to at a minimum read http://www.amazon.com/Great-Danes-Barrons-Dog-Bibles/dp/0764...
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A good decision - get out while things are still positive. Not enough people are brave enough to step down at the right time (or even when it's obvious it's already the wrong time).
There are too many parameters if you use Pizza. A better alternative is to use the Big Mac Index. It's published by the Economist for the same purpose.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
It's no more costly than a guaranteed basic income, is it?

If you reduce national service age and compulsory education age to 16, then national service would take place between ages 16 and 20. Beginning university at 20 after four years of life experience would probably be more beneficial than detrimental, and you've subsidized the training of lots of skilled workers in the process.
Warning: His mention of the "freedup" program piqued my interest, so I went to have a look at it. Overall, the description makes it sound like a solid tool, and the documentation seems relatively complete.

However, when I built it, I noticed that the Makefile attempts to write new lines into /etc/services, and yes, the program does contains socket/server code - which is apparently triggered by undocumented options.

Personally, I'm a bit leery of file-system level tools that contain undocumented server code, so I'll not be using it. (Although I might try to audit it, or maybe just try one of the other similar tools listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedup )
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US bombed al-Jazeera in Baghdad

http://rense.com/general36/camm.htm

US bombed al-Jazeera in Kabul

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/nov/17/warinafghanista...
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So somehow Russian government is unworthy of presumption of innocence? Or it is guilty as long as dominant discourse asserts it is? Once again, Russian government is not responsible for murdering journalists, there is no firm evidence it is. Certainly not for most of people on that list on the wiki.
Russian lawmakers have been clear that despite the sugarcoating, the Russian laws will apply to anyone, even the olympics athletes.
Some questions that come to mind:

- Why is this a manual process? Aren't there jigs or tools that can automate out the grinding and get a more precise result?

- Why does the mirror have to be made out of glass? Lens I can understand, but a mirror just needs to be sturdy enough and chemically compatible with the metal layer. Could a 3d printer produce a precise enough substrate?
Link to the complete 22-minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moGtQFvsVU
Woz was/is extremely technical. Steve also knew how to build computers although not great at it.
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Idiotic comment. You only get fined if you are watching BBC produced TV without a license. You have the choice not to.
If it's tied to some "anonymous identifier" in the browser it's also possible to follow you in incognito mode.
It's technically possible to "unlock" a CDMA phone, but in the USA, CDMA carriers refuse to unlock a phone on their network. And even if you did get an unlocked CDMA phone, the providers will refuse to activate any phones that were not originally activated on their network.
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As I have used Capistrano on many projects, I want to thank you for your hard work and assure you that it has been much appreciated.
Source code + data is available here:

https://github.com/3SillyHats/LoveHotel
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Politkovskaya case is attributed to her activity in Chechnya, which falls under 'provincial oligarchs' rubric I mentioned upthread. That's pretty bad, but that's not the government still.
"The US is obligated, by treaty and policy, to provide mutual defense to most of the world."

The parties at the other end of those mutual obligations manage to do so at way lower (in absolute, but also in relative terms) budgets. The obligation is not "the USA will save you", but "we will help each other", and that, somehow, has become "the USA will produce an extraordinary amount of weaponry and keep an enormous military force; in exchange, we keep pretending that the US dollar is a sound investment".

Also, nitpicking: I don't think it is most of the world, as it excludes, at the least, almost the entire former USSR, China, and Pakistan.
They know it happens, they refuse to change their actions. As far as I'm concerned, that is the moral equivalent of murdering children. In fact, the government itself might very well apply my logic if, say, a toy company realized there was a huge amount of lead in its baby pacifiers and didn't say anything. Certainly they didn't set out to kill babies, but their deliberate, knowing actions created the same outcome, so there is no real moral difference.
Not very well...

Considering Jesse Owens threw SERIOUS doubt on the Nazi precept of racial superiority.

Certain American athletes also chased Hitler from the Stadium once the Track and Field events started, and Hitler was informed by the IOC that he must receive ALL winners... or none.

Hitler chose to receive none.

After the first day... seeing how things were going... he no longer attended the stadium.
Karachi - Pakistan. ~PKR. 850 ~ USD 8.50.(Pizza Hut)
> What About AdBlock? Why Not Go After Them?

Because it's too popular and too many of their users have it.

> I asked about both of these cases, as examples, and I was told by the person at Facebook that she was not aware of these apps or Pages, but would check into them.

Yeah, right. I'm sure they've got top men working on it right now. Top men.
I'll reply here since it's also Norway.

Oslo, Norway.
(horrible) Local pizza around 100 NOK / 16.87 USD.
Chain (Peppes Pizza) 170 NOK / 28.5 USD, 40 cm pizza

Delivery not included.
Having been a tech support agent for a number of windows releases I can assure you that is definitely not the case.
I'm not sure it makes much sense to compare a country that has engaged in zero wars of aggression in the last 25 years with one that has invaded or bombed Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Serbia, Sudan and Bosnia. The death toll for the Iraq war alone may well have been over a million. Add another 300,000 - 500,000 child deaths from the Iraq sanctions in the 90s.

It's possible that the North Korean government has killed more North Koreans over that time period; I see estimates for the 1948-1987 period of 700,000 - 3,500,000 deaths. However even assuming that rate remained the same subsequently it is at most within the same order of magnitude as US caused deaths. I don't really see a great difference morally.

It's a strange argument to make anyway. We don't need to compare the US government to poorly understood North Korean atrocities to measure the awfulness of the atrocities it commits which are numerous and heinous.
by being profit driven, drug development is automatically covering the diseases which have the highest number of patients and highest economic impact.

Your faith in Mammon, the god of money, is touching, but unwarranted. There is malaria and schistosomiasis, these two are holding back development of the African continent; there is also the emerging threat of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, yet there is preciously little research done into these because there is little money to me made. At least for Malaria we have the Gates Foundation.

Meanwhile, the second most-sold medication in the US is a stomach acid blocker. If you don't think something is wrong there, I think something is wrong with you.
Agreed. It's at the least worth a try and if you fail not only can you go back to school but the fact that Peter Thiel, Co-Founder of Paypal believed in you will at least do you some good, reputation wise.
Where i can find the TOS?
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Not to mention he himself took the job out of desperation. He admits he couldn't make a better life choice for himself but acts like he's superior to the people conducting business with him.

He also suggests they were spending $60/day on weed.. wouldn't that be at least $1200/month? He had few enough clients that he never saw the same first name twice, so his clients were probably earning more than he did.

As easy as it is for him to judge the pill clients, he could have made an effort to think of reasons why his wealthy clients were hooked. People get addicted to opiates all the time, and its not always drug dealer delivery guys who introduce them to narcotics.. sometimes its a doctor.
If you can't learn how to manage a dog, what hope do you have in managing multiple divergent human personalities?
For real long time Capistrano v2 has been exclusively going forward with Pull requests and next to no new development while Lee worked on v3 on separate branch, which looks like a rewrite.

As a result various releases of v2 were buggy. Capistrano is a hard to test application agreed but its test coverage is plainly woeful.

About 6 months back when 2.4.12 release was broken (https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/issues/434) I suggested to remove asset pre-compilation stuff from Capistrano. Capistrano is a general purpose tool, company where I work we use it for deploying java, php, ruby and all sort of stuff. I don't understand why it should have poorly tested asset pre-compilation things built in.

I don't know what made Lee work on a rewrite. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for him to work on something so big singlehandedly while running a company.

His last point is very valid about using RVM, rbenv etc in production. I don't know why people do that. Does that make it easier? Aren't people aware of something like - https://launchpad.net/~brightbox/+archive/ruby-ng ?
That's a good point. Did the Nazis threaten to imprison openly Jewish or black athletes? As I recall, Hitler had to do some PR spinning because a black athlete won one of the track and field events over the 'pure' Germans. Did any athletes risk jail time over this?

The fact that Russia wants to imprison the athletes for being open about what they are is an affront to the games themselves. Hitler didn't even imprison Olympic athletes that didn't match with his views.
if you can't find a successor - just keep in mind that people don't tend to step up unless there is a vacuum. if you were to step down, someone would step up, especially in a community as large as the one you're in.

if it's destroying you, leave. go on a long vacation. it's not worth it. there's no shame or guilt in taking a break or passing on your work.
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In Jesse's autobiography he said that Hitler didn't snub him, but that Roosevelt did. We worth googling.
There's different kinds of 'drug dealers'. I've known many 'part-timers' who would buy in bulk and just sell to their friends to make extra cash. Then there's the cops that give drugs away at almost-nothing prices to their friends after they've confiscated them from the dealer who pissed off the club owners he was working with and gave him up. No two dealers are the same...
Does anyone know what's wrong with the Rails asset pipeline that is mentioned in the post as one of the issues?
School district is important. How about if I increase my commute time? Would you say San Ramon or Pleasanton are bad options?
I am allergic to dogs so never learned how to take care of one. I seem able to manage others effectively and of course always more to learn. Honestly, a pretty odd choice for a book. If you really believe that book is a prerequisite, wouldn't it be better for that person to just get a dog?
That's what they say, but it's strange disappearance directly around the time of Google+ says otherwise.
You'd be better off but not the better man. The better man endures the pain of doing the right thing.
What employer is going to Google image search an applicant's name?
I think technical founders would gladly do all customer development by email (if it worked). The problem is, often your customers aren't "tech people".
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There are plenty of school options that involve much lower debt than that. You don't need to go to a school that costs $50k a year, there are plenty of alternatives.
Hey Lee,

I am yet to look into v3 stuff closely, but if you think it is better why not make maintstream? Is the main reason just community backlash?
Both Politkovskaya and Litvenenko (of "death by polonium poisoning administered in London" fame) are most notorious for promoting the theory that the Russian FSB in general and Putin particularly were responsible for a series of apartment bombings in Russia that killed hundreds of people and formed the casus belli for the Chechen War.

So, attributing their death to "Chechnya" is a little like attributing a hypothetical murder of Sy Hersh to the Iraqis.

Shorter: no, I think you're wrong about this.
The motivation behind the rewrite was in order to bring the project to a state where people who weren't intimately familiar with the internals would be able to contribute.

The rewrite is a ground-up re-think, but it's leaning on the best of what the open source community has come up with in the last 5 years, and leaning heavily on all the best practices we've learned as a community.

The rewrite was also a way for me to say "this isn't a rails tool anymore" (of course, those of us who knew Capistrano well could always cut out the core railsisms and use it for deploying pretty much anything). And a way to say "look, this tool isn't magic, it's an orchestration tool that glues together some other libraries".

Part of the rewrite was to split things into components, so that when people have a version that works for them, bug fixing changes to rvm or rbenv, or other extensions don't have to risk breaking the core functionality. Stability through modularity.

A way for me to pay my envisaged debt to society for the good things that being the custodian of such a widely used project has brought me.

Many of the v2 releases were broken as I tried to let two people help me with maintainer ship, and both of them went a little nuts accepting pull requests, and a lot of things got merged that probably weren't quite upto scratch, or caused subtle problems, which is a huge problem of Capistrano.

I'm grateful to both of them for their bravery, and willingness to try and help, but maintaining it has been such a hard task. A balance between maintaining compatibility, and not breaking people's production environments, and pushing the tool forwards, and improving it.
Please don't do this.
While CTRL+Enter is a great feature - if advertised! - doing that for your average form is bad.

You simply lose the additional step of manually clicking (or tabbing to + pressing enter/space on) the submit button which is not so mistake-prone as allowing CTRL+Enter would be.

Just think of all those facebook messages you sent off accidentally when you wanted to add a newline to your message...
I thought it was a list of people requesting a PHP 1.6 binary to test for their outdated servers. Like, very cheap webhosts or something.
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Most companies fail without hiring a single non-founder! How can management be a factor in these failures?

I would suspect that poor management is a contributor to high-profile failures. But only a minor factor for startups in general. Not making something people want, and giving up too early, are far more critical problems for early-stage companies than mismanagement, and there are a lot more early-stage companies than later stage ones.
Not really; it's a totally different medium. But there's no doubt it will have SOME effect, and - since the context we're talking about is a comment on a website - you surely have no problem with abbreviations, emoticons, etc.
I just made a todo for myself: "investigate possible moral equivalence between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler". You'll understand if it takes me awhile to get to that one.
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I'll trade a US Citizenship for my Swedish.
I seriously question the authenticity of this piece, especially the last bit about the pill clients being the more "wealthy ones". Either that or this guy worked the most atypical drug dealing job I've heard of.

In a more common situation, clients that are of a more permanant wealth would demand higher quality pot, hashish and perhaps opium. "New Money" may dabble in cocaine but if they're not uber rich or don't keep it in check that money won't last long.
Hi Lee -

Our company also uses Cap extensively and we really appreciate all your hard working building and maintaining it. I totally feel your pain reading responses about bugs, test coverage, etc. I urge you to consider whether you can get a couple of trusted allies or colleagues involved in putting Cap 3 out. I think it could be a huge boon to those of us who like the idea of modularized code and perhaps you can find a buffer or person who is willing to field some or all of the influx of bug reports (directly ask the community if so!)
How is that an answer? In the end you're still going to be counting out 2736 stones either way. In the shaman's algorithm, you'll end up doing so twice and some change, in a much more complicated and easily screwed up algorithm.
As I wrote in the mailing list post, it'll be made mainstream this week, as I think it's a general improvement in all areas, at least it's faster, easier to debug, looks and works better, and has better out of the box compatibility with Rails (3 and 4).
Wrong.

Olympic Athletes have diplomatic immunity.

The only REAL concern athletes have... is from the IOC.

But yeah... that's a pretty big concern... because the IOC is worse than the Russian Government.
North Korea punishes people for their ideas (do anything that the Glorious Leader doesn't like, and your entire family for a couple of generations will live in a prison camp). That is rather insidious, and these people can have 'natural' deaths in captivity.

North Korea also threatens to attack civilian populations indiscriminately (e.g. Seoul, Japan, etc) if they don't get their way. They even threaten nuclear war on an semi-annual basis.

On the other hand, the US strikes may kill civilians due to poor intelligence gathering or 'acceptable levels of collateral,' but they have not indiscriminately bombed (or even threatened to bomb) civilian populations. There is at least an attempt made to limit the amount of death dealt, even if it's not always successful. I'm not admitting that this is good, or that (e.g.) the US should have been in Iraq in the first place, but claiming that the US is on the level of North Korea is laughable.
Oh, that's easy: I was there. I was in meetings about strategy now and then.
I certainly don't claim to know everything (I worked outside android team but helped it. I received the same awards/etc the team got), but I know enough.

Now, you can certainly choose not to believe me. But I can state for sure the main intent of the people building and running android was to build a great mobile experience for users. When I say "nobody was thinking about ads". I don't mean "nobody considered the possibilities". I mean: Nobody saw it as a goal. It was not driving the decision making process. In fact, some people saw it as an anti-goal.
In my experience, weed smokers are the least likely to be always wanting to quit. I've known plenty of people who wanted to give up cigarettes, or drugs like coke, but I can't think of a single person who was wanting to give up weed and not managing.
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Even if I believed that judgements on nations must use the same jurisprudential mechanisms as criminal trials of individuals, and even if I overlooked the fact that the Russian criminal justice system doesn't fundamentally respect presumption of innocence (no surprise, given the legacy of the Soviet system), I am not an agent of a court and am in absolutely no way bound to presume anything about anybody.
There's an interesting response to this, in which the author argues that "for the sake of the planet, please fly!":

http://qz.com/131024/its-ok-to-have-a-big-carbon-footprint-a...
Not really. Both 1 and 2 are reactions to government over reach.
C++ has features like operator overloading that make faking lambdas via Boost feasible. And even Java has anonymous inner classes that allow a rather ugly local transformation somewhat akin to closures. But if you removed that feature, then you'd need a non-local transformation to fake them.
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The reason I use RVM in production is that it makes it trivially easy to:

1) Use multiple parallel Ruby versions for transitions and rollbacks - for example, when we upgraded from Ruby 1.9 to 2.0, we installed 2.0 via RVM, ran our staging environment on 2.0 while production ran on 1.9. The instant-rollback safety net is great, because if we run into some obscure bug on one VM, we just change our RVM environment config var and deploy and we're back to known-good in seconds with no downtime.

2) Run applications that require different Ruby version levels. For example, Puppet 2.7 wasn't compatible with Ruby 1.9+, but our app was running on 1.9. With a single system install, we'd not be able to run both.

The point about stepping out-of-bounds in regards to LTS distros is extremely valid, but at least in our case, it's not about "just effin' compile already!", but rather about flexibility and resilience - by using RVM, we absorb the burden for making sure things work rather than delegating it to our distro, but it's worth it for the things we pick up.
This hasn't worked for me. My linkedin and Facebook accounts showed up above the mugshot but everything else was below it. My fairly active github profile, personal site, and twitter profile for example were all lower ranked than the mugshot site.
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Except that it won't search for things that look roughly like an URL or a hostname.