skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is always strange coming from Estonia with strong crypto based certificate based digital signatures hearing services like Echosign or Hellosign called digital signing, when often people there use writing their name in an input field and the software turning it into a Comic Sans like script being called a digital signature.
Between 1977 and 2013, solar went from $76/watt to $0.75/watt
So why should we use your app instead of RetroArch? :)
That's great for BTC China, but this new found revenue stream may be short-lived unless the owner (Bobby Lee) can find other ways allow for RMB deposits to go through as they were effectively shut off almost a week ago according to guidance from the Chinese central bank (aka. PBOC)[1].

[1] http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-falls-btc-china-exchan...
We should get rid of money laundering laws and go back to busting people for things like drug trafficking. I don't like laws that criminalize behavior based purely on intent - wire you cousin $9000 on two separate days and the government may decide you've committed a crime punishable by five years in jail. Based on what it thinks you were thinking.
Another interesting disruptor in the education space is: http://digedu.co
This information is provided to plant some reasonable doubt to anthropomorphic gw and to suggest there's larger forces at play here than greenhouse gasses.

It is relevant but it is not "proof" of anything on it's own, aside from the Earth's climate can shift substantially within short periods without any human contributions.
I have always wanted an interface like this on Linux. You damn fancy Mac hipsters and your single attractive UI library and your "just works", get offa my lawn! waves ancient GTK+ shotgun
That's assuming the government is "smart" and nothing they've done recently would actually indicate they are smart.
> it's more like a progressive process of disneyfication of the internet

That Disney hides any reference to notion of gay and lesbian lifestyles kind of bugs me.
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I think the answer to this is "it depends".

When interviewing engineers at my last gig, we tried to find people who will "get things done", which in turn depends a lot on your specific job role. For a good majority of the software dev positions we had, getting things done didn't require in-depth knowledge of arcane data structures or algorithms. We just needed the candidates to be smart, and ideally have some experience in what they were being hired for.

So for say an iOS dev position, we would pick the candidate who had released two apps on his own but maybe didn't know much about say red-black trees, vs. the candidate who knew all his CS theory but hadn't yet written a single line of iOS code. We also valued good communication skills, and what Linus refers to as "good taste".

However, we did have a few roles (machine vision, big data, etc) where algorithmic knowledge was essential to getting things done. And for these roles, we always favored candidates who had excellent math & algorithmic chops.

So it depends. I think the problem really is that most interviewers run all candidates through an identical "favorite list of questions", regardless of what the role is. This is quite unfortunate.
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Hey, I have that exact same case for our server. It's a couple years old, with a Sandy Bridge cpu, but it's worked perfectly, is pretty quiet, and doesn't use a lot of power. I only used onboard SATA though.
Yes! http://toadking.com/retroarch/index.html

Snes one runs fairly well.
I guess this person never heard of socialist and anarchist organizational structures... What is old is new again. Except what is new is that many of these places are wrapped around with a capitalist bow where workers really don't share profits...
I think you're mistaken: https://twitter.com/HNTweets/status/415172472275623936
I can't remember many gun control problems in USSR.
Maybe I'm ignorant or something.

Post-soviet russia? Loads and loads of bandits with automatic weapons and whole ethnicities have a habit of firing AK-47 in the blue sky at weddings.
Feinstein beyond reproach. She's probably too old to run again and she just won her election. She's a lame duck with a ton of power. She can take the flak I think with no repercussions.

I also don't think she's lied. She's been open about her position. I don't agree with it, but I don't think she's ever misrepresented herself.
There's the oddest bit of cognitive dissonance whenever I see people upset by food purity guidelines.

"I don't want chemicals or GMOs keeping insects off my food"

"I don't want insects in my food"

You can't have it both ways. Anyone who wants their food sterile and devoid of contaminants must then accept that it is covered in, or made entirely of chemicals. You just don't get it both ways.
I liked Collapse, but I really liked "The Collapse of Complex Societies." Written by an archaeologist, addresses many other scholars' theories of collapse, and provides an excellent economics / complexity argument.

http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Complex-Societies-Studies-Arc...

(not an affiliate link)

Also, the idea of "diminishing marginal returns on added complexity" suggests a lot about why maintenance, extension, and management of software systems becomes harder over time.
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The AK still is an assault rifle and will be used in such way. You seem to referring to heavy machine guns like German MG 1 or 2 which have far bigger magazines.

Also suppressive fire is not only an defensive strategy. It binds enemy troops and gives your troops the freedom to prepare an assault.
The difference is the stakes to the employee. As a private-sector employee, unless you're committing fraud, you maximum consequence is termination.

The government is different. Violating procurement rules is often a criminal act. So the civil servants build walls of process to protect themselves.
From Nintendo's website:

> it is illegal to download and play a Nintendo ROM from the Internet.

Source: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#download_rom
As I said on here recently before, Chamberlain had no choice. Britain was not ready to fight (see Dunkirk). He was playing for time.
we know the climate goes through cycles, so either it was going to get warmer or colder. In this instance, they guessed right. However, their models don't seem to include the 'pause' seen in global warming over the past (what, 19 years?). Seeing that we had just finished a period of relative cooling (Maunder Minimum), I find little in their prediction that encourages me to believe their hypothesis.

And it is just a hypothesis.
If only HN had a comment streaming API!

PG, time to add some more features to hacker news
In javascript, the number type is just number. To truly bit shift with this method, you'd need to convert the bitwise representation into a number, perform the given operation, handle the corner case of odd numbers when dividing, and the convert it back into some representation of bits.

Trying to judge people with questions like this seems like a misguided endeavor. Yes, it's probably valuable to know that bitshifting is roughly equivalent to *2 and /2. But that's more like trivia - the chances you'll actually use that in real life is really low. I've had to work with people that think bitshifting is an appropriate optimization for division/multiplication by even numbers. I then have to explain overflows, underflows, and the fact that the compiler will compile it to shifts if appropriate anyway, so don't sacrifice readability in the name of micro-optimization.
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Did anyone read the first article? This is the third
Hello fellow NIer! Bout ye.

Bizarrely, only some UK ISPs are legally required to implement those torrent and 'piracy' blocks: BT Retail, Virgin Media, TalkTalk and O2.

Even BT's subsidiary PlusNet wasn't subject to the order, nor was O2's sibling BE. So I don't really know why the judge bothered.
That's really personal preference isn't it?

One has a polished cocoa UI, the other is a cross-platform app. There's no animosity between the two projects here in case anyone is curious.
Or just learn what 'this' means because, seriously, you're a programmer and it's not that hard to figure out.
"terrorists, drug dealers, pedophiles, and organized crime."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyps...
In the US, something like this is already a crime under Sarbanes-Oxley.
There's no need to construct the graph. The dictionary already is a graph.
Fans of The Avengers fans are probably the ones most likely to pirate the movie after a minute's worth of inconvenience.

Meanwhile, Disney can take away a purchased movie from Amazon because the parents probably (a) already have the Disney channel, and (b) are willing to pay for it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6911944
Can't stand Disney tbh. Also, sanitisation is always accompanied by a drop in quality.
I am rather flabbergasted by the suggestion of an LGBT filter, but then again, the whole of the available categories is a religious fundamentalist's wet dream, and not a representation of the mainstream. I wonder why this clumsy heavy-handedness...
If you want to stream a new movie, you have to pay for it.

How exactly do I do that?
Interesting. Is this using Haar feature recognition as provided by OpenCV?

We built object classifiers using this system for a school project and it was anything but trivial. Would be awesome to have this made easier.
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From the article, it seems that the major benefit of the change would be the freedom to use PostgreSQL on Heroku.
There was nothing wrong with that chart in the first place. What a pointless optimization.
>I don't care where the money comes from.

This is what the study is about. A decent conversation is hoped for around that alone, not opinions on the climate change debate.
I remember making tons of board games when I was a kid. What happens when you want to play an evolved character? How does that work?
Feinstein's lies to the public come in the form of her "reform" bill which purports to prohibit mass surveillance but actually codifies it into law.

https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?a...

She has also adopted the NSA's deceptive language that collection is not surveillance when she says the NSA is not spying on Americans.
In Rwanda they had AKs but the instrument of the massacres there was the humble machete.
yeah, as the grandparent post said, they still have their heads up their %%%

lets see: pirate sites = i can watch the movie anywhere. cost some time.

netflix, amazon, hulu = i can watch on windows, android, ios, wii, xbox, several set top boxes such as roku, smart tvs. cost 10 to 200 per month.

that aberration you linked = i only get a single image telling me to download the ios app. im not even sure how much it costs or what they have available.
And signed and ratified by all those poor helpless victim countries.
I'll be sticking to the original emulators used for now. So far I've had several crashes, many games aren't detected, and control configuration has layout errors/doesn't work (keyboard controls don't respond in game). Furthermore many features in the original emulators are not present - rewind and fast forward, quick save/quick load keyboard bindings.

I really appreciate the effort but for now the drawbacks far outweigh the advantages (mainly a nice library interface). I've checked in on OpenEmu over the years and hope to use it in the future.
I like your statement. Especially "Because they help you know what to google for." That's been my thought pattern in general.
Recalling her is the only option if she doesn't resign from the position of Chief of Senate Intelligence. She's way too dangerous in that position to be left there. No real reform of the NSA will happen with her there. I still remember how disgusted I was with her when she kept asking everyone to just end it with the debate already and just extend FISA Amendments Act until 2017, last year.
Additionally: how does one "keep score" in this game? Do you gain points for each enemy monster you kill (in which case, it might make sense to have a "trophy pile")? Do you gain points for whichever cards you have remaining when other players are eliminated? What do the levels mean on the monster cards?

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Great job, Troy! I teach math to kids about your age, and I think this could be a slightly sneaky way to get my students to practice some of their basic skills like subtraction and multiplying by 2.
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I think I just threw up a bit in my mouth but this is totally true.
I think we should be looking for technological solutions. I want tor VPN etc. To be widespread. We can't count on politics
It's possible for just about any scientific field to get stuck in an error cascade and take a while to climb out of it. Medicine has pretty much the same problem as climate - lots of scientists are doing good work but some are finding bogus results and we have very poor mechanisms for making sure the good work is what bubbles to the top. Even if many of the individual studies are fine, politically organized summaries of those study results are problematic - they can rather trivially be manipulated to show any result desired by controlling the timing of the inputs.

Good discussion of "error cascades" here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1642

This research study finds that most research findings are false: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
That's 1.0 technology for you. When will the fanboys admit that current BitCoin is absolutely flawed for mainstream adoption? Please down vote me.
Ah, a very diplomatic answer. I'm just teasing you with the cliche "why are you better?" pitch test.

OSS with polished UI's are rare and desperately needed. Nice work.
> It was a disaster. We may as well not have asked the question at all. Nobody seemed to even be aware of anything about it.

You have it backwards. It would have been a disaster if you didn't ask the question and hired someone who doesn't know basic JS fundamentals.
Can a duel really be considered murder, though? At least, assuming the case where both participants voluntarily agree to participate, it seems an open question to me.
Can someone make recommendations for me? Here's what I already know and what I've built with it:

- Java. My first real programming language, learned in college, used for a year and a half in enterprise work and Android, got pretty good at it, but I learned

- Objective-C for making iOS apps and I never want to write in Java again. I'm also learning C just to understand Objective-C more but I have no plans building anything with C.

Basically, my current interests/goals for learning a new language are:

- Develop a new way of thinking.

- Learn some great engineering practices.

- Build products (software) that solve real-world problems. I'm not likely to learn a new language if I can't build anything useful with it, that can potentially sell and make it as a consumer startup.

- Become full-stack. I can already easily build an iOS app (I have no interest in building responsive websites) but I find myself still having to rely on something like Parse. Which isn't so bad though because it saves me so much time.

I guess that narrows my choices down to: Ruby, Python, Go, or something else, but I'm not in a position to identify which poison is best-suited to me. I just want one that I can be really good at and meet most if not all of my goals. Any thoughts?
"The different vendors pay Clever, and Clever offers the service to schools for free."

This is the sole reason this will never work. I've been in education and developing education software for well over a decade now, and no one I know (vendors) want a single provider monopolizing the game in this way. In the UK at least, we (vendors) are struggling to remove the strangle hold of the monopolizing few; namely Capita and Serco.

But all that said, I do wish you the best and hope you find some solution that works. Interoperability of school data/systems is a giant PITA, which I've spent way to much of my life on.
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Your son is very talented! The illustrations, writing and game mechanics are fun and engaging.

I hope he learns how to write code (if he doesn't already) because it would be great to see this type of thing implemented as a web-based game.
I wonder why Mother Jones went to so much trouble to not mention his name.
It may get more love at http://boardgamegeek.com. Lots of people there distribute games to assemble and play, and are always looking for kid-friendly stuff.
Feinstein consistently opposes the interests of her own Tech industry. She's gotta go.
OpenEmu is meant to remove a lot of the complexity out of emulation. Some more advanced features we'll expose in the future. I'd be interested in knowing which games aren't being 'detected' and your input issues might be specific to a controller you're using.

> rewind and fast forward, quick save/quick load keyboard bindings.

You need to explore the app a little more. In controller prefs, under "Special Keys" at the bottom we have binds for quick save/load and fast forward.

As for "drawbacks" and any other issues you're having, please submit a detailed report: https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues

HN threads aren't good for bug reports. Luckily this is open source and we can patch and fix things :)

Edit: By the way, having Google Chrome open with their gamepad API enabled is known to break input for some reason. If one has that open, please close and try input in OpenEmu again.
Instead of abandoning money laundering laws, why not double down on and focus our surveillance-state telescopes at the Cayman Islands? or any other store of money on foreign islands?

Monitor financial transactions and use their data-mining systems to associate accounts to people in tax-paying countries hiding assets! Sounds good to me. Then the FBI can spend less time foiling terrorism plots manufactured by the FBI [1], that are force-fed to incompetent poor people. Instead, catching serious criminals who are directly exploiting our financial system.

[1] http://blog.independent.org/2013/12/14/fbi-successfully-foil...
Get a hundred people in there to each memorize a page :)
Aha - the "special keys" dropdown menu broke the layout and exposed no new options, or overlapped them for me.
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The fact that there's an "Is this safe" link next to the button for signing the petition is itself a telling indicator of the chilling effects of this sort of surveillance.

A couple of years ago people wouldn't even have imagined the possibility that there'd be consequences from this sort of very low-level, very legitimate, democratic participation.
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Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it
You would be surprised. There's a lot of politicians and regular people campaigning about "gun violence" and making guns, or even specific types of guns - not people using them - the centerpiece of their position. It seems to me, they think those guns posses some quality that make them - and not persons using them - evil.
Federal agencies are limited by the scope of their mission. The scope of the NSA's mission is defense, not criminal investigation and prosecution.

And even if the NSA did collect the info, it's not clear that they could do so in a way that would allow it to be admissible in a federal court--making it effectively useless.
> Actually, in my opinion, education has lost focus on the bigger picture of education and may have never really had it.

This. Solutions like these are good in that they'll help schools get the space they need to be able to consider good reform, but said reform isn't a conversation that Americans seem capable of having.
if i can watch action movies on a 20 feet screen with a $100k audio system for $8 to $12 at my local theater, why would i want to watch it on choppy netflix on my cheap tv a lame stereo?

people who download that don't care much about the movie. they would be watching commercials on cable tv and be likely entertained. there is no sale lost to the studios there.

the lost sales are people looking for classics or hard to find titles. and those are hard to find in pirate sites, and nowhere to be found on netflix, amazon.

edit: the comment from ChuckMcM bellow describe why that happens.
> When someone complains about men online, you are not seriously impacted due to your gender.

That statement contradict itself. People commonly complain (like the above comments) when men complain about feminism. If its been a woman complain about feminism, it would be acceptable.

In this specific context (a person complain about feminism), men are seriously negative impacted due to their gender.
Can't replicate that here, anyway, bug reports please: https://github.com/OpenEmu/OpenEmu/issues :)
In RoI, the only torrent site that was blocked by all ISPs was The Pirate Bay. Eircom rolled over for the media industry, but the other ISPs fought and lost a court case over TPB.

There may be another case about KAT soon from what I've heard. Eircom has presumably blocked more sites.

AFAIK, NI has a few more sites blocked.
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Well done Troy!

Artwork looks really nice how was that done?
I suspect the intrigue and conspiracy is the dark money at work.

Water vapor traps heat very well. CO2 does too. If enough CO2 gets into the atmosphere to heat Earth enough that more water vapor collects in the atmosphere, there's a feedback effect which will cook the planet a bit.

Try proving that, though. Unlike ozone depletion, which can be shown in a laboratory, only one Earth exists, and it is rather complex. The basic mechanism is well understood but the non-linear feedback mechanisms of the world are not.
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It depends. E.g. IIRC in Poland there is a limit after which _software_ (not music etc.) becomes public domain.
Anyone have a link to information contained in the manual?
Since when did HN become Imgur?
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Loved the comments:

"This is the sort of narrow view that rightly gives economics bad name."

"Is this a trivial price theory quiz or an interesting behavioral question.? To test price theory, try a cash gift next Valentine's day."
Clever expanded through Florida pretty rapidly as I was working with them earlier this year. I already wrote about my great experience with them at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6856714, but again I wish them the best of luck because I've seen their potential to get in a position as a platform to really do some revolutionary stuff to improve the way we educate our children.
the big issue is green house gases. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_house_gases

Cook, J.; Nuccitelli, D.; Green, S. A.; Richardson, M.; Winkler, B. R.; Painting, R.; Way, R.; Jacobs, P.; Skuce, A. (2013). "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature". Environmental Research Letters 8 (2): 024024. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024024
Why is this link being pushed down Hacker News front page if you compare it to this link Perl6: Unary Sort. Both posted 9 hours ago. One with 486 points, the other 55 points? Because the former did not receive many points in say last hour?
Before this comment gets sniped a third time, I'll note that suppressive fire can just as well cover a unit disengaging from action as it can a unit preparing to move into closer contact.