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I used this framework back on version 0.95 for a school project. We started late (of course) and got stuck on an API call that we could not figure out. Emailed a dev at like 10 or 11pm and got a response. Act of heroism...
Ask HN: Large volume of stock profile photos?
I'm looking for a cheap volume of stock profile pictures of people. These photos shouldn't be "professional"; I just want typical snapshot-style profile photos, as you might see on Facebook or a dating website.

Does anyone know where I can find this? Thank you!
Inline ASM is implementation dependent in C++ too, isn't it?
There were and are lots of reasons for not wanting freeways in ones neighborhoods, the exhaust is only one of them.
Compound interest alone will propel the rich further and further ahead.

But being rich also gets you access to shortcuts, investment opportunities and advisors no one else can call on. They insulate you from risk and target tax loopholes to help.

When that fails you have access to political insight and levers.
Equality of opportunity was lost once pure ideas become patentable, and competition became a race for the largest pool of obscured threats backed by government force.
I have not read Piketty's book. But can someone tell me how he showed that his discovered pattern of r>g is applicable to capitalist driven economies only and not ANY general economy?

The possibility of faster rate of return on investments (whatever resource you are investing) is supposed to exist in any gamed system. In an overall system where the available resources max at X, any individual's objective is too attain the largest portion of X as possible.

Whether that be through promoting capitalist ideologies, bureaucratic ideologies, or imperialistic ideologies, etc.

Generally speaking the ideologies you try to impress on others is spoken of in terms of being best for the 'g' value (overall economic growth), but we all know each person will just play the game of whatever system they are in to attain their own personal 'r' value.

Basically, what I am saying is: there have been very poor and very rich people in every single economic system throughout the span of human history. And ,at least some prevalent power distribution dynamics (game theory) can most likely be used to explain them all.

Th funny part is that r>g was the whole purpose of capitalism. If that were not true then you would not have the huge incentive for individuals hoping to build economic empires (or generally grow their fortunes decently).

r>g seems to be the promise that royalty/aristocrats must receive before making a political decision. Or the 'promise' Columbus looked forward too before he would 'discover' a new world for Spain. Or the promise any individual player must believe in if they are going to do something significant beyond themselves.

r>g was the even the general promise given to people during communist revolutions. Take money from the rich and give it to us, the poor.

There has to be incentive for individual players for them to want to pursue an ideology.

So, I am always surprised when people take ideologies so seriously, because in the end it's only a bit of game dynamics.

If someone wants government to put more focus on redistribution like Picketty, then so be it. All that means is that the place to have power will be via a position in government. I guess the people pushing for this enjoy the latest productivity of Congress. ;)

I, for one, do not care. Everyone will simply (as people have always done) 'play the game'. And then some time down the line the "winners" of whatever the game is will be yelled at and something will commence a 'restart'.

Welcome to humanity.
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The threat is of wealth becoming political power and the government becoming an oligarchy... which has happened in the US, as shown by the recent study Northwestern and Princeton. When the few have the majority of the influence, that is no longer democracy, and there is no reason to believe that the control exerted by the wealthiest players is made for the benefit of those at the bottom. This a flaw of government more than of capitalism itself, but it's a flaw nonetheless, seeing as the two — capitalism and government — are intertwined.
I agree, and it would appear given he "pulled out a five-inch metal spike and hit one of them" I'd say the circumstances leading up to the attack were murky, not the response by the sheriff as a result of being attacked.
Mass Effect as well

http://amhnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Mass-Effect...

I'm sure there are others
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The military-industrial-complex aesthetic doesn't really fit either of those two movies, but I agree there is a hacker's charm going on there.
"fuck" is an edgy word.
It's also conflating "irrational" with "unreasonable".

We actually have a quite decent understanding of that irrational behaviour too - prospect theory is hardly a new or controversial theory.
Counterpoint: I've run Ubuntu 11.04, 12.04, and now 13.04 as my everyday OS very well and very consistently on two consecutive Dell laptops (the older XPS 13 and a Vostro v131) and both have worked incredibly well.
I believe Apple's AirPort and Time Capsule products run NetBSD, although it's a little difficult to find a source for that.
Very interesting idea. I think where this breaks down is the fact that you can learn a lot from reading/studying outside of work. A person who spends all their spare time studying and doing side projects shouldn't be held to the same restrictions as someone who just learns at work.
There's plenty of more strongly correlated suggestions for the drop in crime than TEL: legalized abortion, drug trends, law enforcement, on and on. Common sense would put TEL at hypothesized causation reason # 10 or so.
Thanks for downvoting me every step of the way, or whoever that was.

If the costs are going down, it probably also means the panels are getting more efficient. Probably don't need to plaster Wales with solar panels. But in England it seems you wouldn't predominantly use primarily solar anyways, unless it got really good, so your example is kind of irrelevant. Wind and water-based renewable would work better.
I think issues like the heartbleed bug demonstrate that open source is not necessarily a credible defense against either incompetence or malice.
When I started programming, the computer didn't have a GUI, so I'm fairly comfortable with Terminal.

I also hear, year after year, how Linux is going to finally reach out of nerddom, and it always fails to do that, and it always will if the community keeps this mindset "you don't need to be scared of a little terminal, you will LEARN more about your computer".

Well, only us geeks want to learn more about our computers, others just want to do stuff, and they are right, that's why iPads are everywhere.

The old saying is still going strong:
"Linux is only free is your time is worth nothing"
What are the good newsletters covering Technology to subscribe to?
Hi, it seems like everyone is coming up with a newsletter nowadays. There are ones from individuals as well as the ones from companies.

I am particular interested in the ones coming from individuals. For example: Benedict Evans newsletter is very much insightful. So I thought the best place to ask is here in hacker news.

What are the good newsletters covering Technology to subscribe to particularly those coming from individuals.

Thank you.
I think he's more worried about inherited wealth. Gates to his credit is giving the bulk of his to charity.
Here are a few possible additions to the list:

- Robert Graham http://whitetailsoftware.com/
- Ruben Gamez http://blog.bidsketch.com/
- Brecht Palombo http://brechtpalombo.com/
Ahhhhh now I want to go back and read Rendezvous with Rama. But I'm scared to reread it, I don't want to tarnish my memory of it.
Awesome site, and want to support any way we can. Great context around content sources both free and paid are really promising.

Let me know if we can be at all of help: darrell [at] thinkful.com
Briefly - as I'm formulating an in depth reply - let's not trot out the "corrupt implementation" defense. Similar and equally invalid defenses have been made of communism over the years. Eventually one has to accept that the supposedly corrupt implementations of a philosophy are representative.

If the majority of Islamic countries interpret Islamic law a particular way, it's probably safe to criticize Islam on the basis of that interpretation, especially in the context of evaluating immigration from those countries.
Bjarne Stroustrup has a new book that came out with the C++11 standard called 'A Tour of C++'. For someone who is just starting I think its a great starting point as it is literally a tour of C++11 (less than 200 pages). It basically gives a very high level overview of everything C++ has to offer as well as some best practices for 'Modern C++'.

While it will take a lot more that just this book to get anywhere I think its a good starting point for anyone with experience with other programming languages who want to see what C++ has to offer.
My experience has been that organizations that want you to work there make it apparent. Otherwise I would think that staying somewhere that makes a last ditch effort is not a good idea, unless it's some massive company that has this wicked small department that is doing cool stuff and they move you there. Otherwise, organizations who don't want you just don't want you, even if they think they do.
> It drives us nuts in the Plan9 community that Bash history and readline is seen as some sort of productivity tool.

I don't understand what this means, can you explain?

I personally have a .bash_profile (more generally, a collection of dot files) in a git repo that I share between machines. I also find myself using Meta-. and CTRL-R quite frequently.
This is awesome. I can see this, if it gets larger, being a ton of help throughout college.
That might all be true. However, the question is not discussed in a vacuum. It is discussed in the context of policy, seemingly often used as a core premise.

Thus the question remains: What kind of policy one exactly wants to base on 'human's irrationality'. And whether it is good to base policy on irrational behavior.

It is also important to consider that there will always be people who are more rational in their profit/money/power-maximizing than others.

A policy based upon irrational behavior might create an inefficiency that will be exploited by those with more rational behavior.

That's why I am wary about lines of reasoning along 'people are just irrational'.

I believe it creates system(s) of thought where somehow, we account for people's irrationality and thus make it more just/less cyclic/less prone to capital accumulation.

Yet, those who simply, coolly maximize their own gains, those who sort ideas like 'complex, advanced policy informed by the irrational behavior of humans' into the religion bin etc. will still come out ahead.

In other words: We generate complex systems of thoughts, especially in fields like economic policy. Rational actors will play with those systems, circumvent them, be creative, etc.

To turn the argument around: Given that human's rational behavior is limited, is it a good idea to create complex policy that makes it even less likely for humans to understand it and act rational?
I've worked in this industry for a consulting shop in the US. There's a world of difference between diffused emissions that never reach significant levels and concentrations of radioactive material that have to potential to cause grave regional problems (Fukushima).
So I think it's probably worth pointing out that, depending on how you count, these numbers don't really work, and that's hurting your argument. There was about 700 years of the Roman monarchy (thru 509BCE) and Republic (thru +/- 44BCE), then another 500 or so of the Western Roman Empire (thru 476CE) and a thousand or so more years after that of the Eastern Roman Empire (thru 1453CE)

It's totally disingenuous to make claims as if there was some kind of "true" and eternal Rome.
Is it a good idea to assume non-rationality in policy, though?

As I also wrote in my other post, I think one can easily argue that 'more informed policy' that 'accounts for human's partial rationality' actually creates complexity which makes it even harder for humans to act rational.

*edit: grammar
It's nice, but there are a lot of fonts used at the same time so I'm not sure I like it...

Isn't there a design rule-of-thumb not to use too many fonts?
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Heartbleed was discovered and fixed.
"No running water nor blocks of ice, but maybe crunching rocks yields something useful"

Space Fracking?
Then you simply don't understand what the CRLset revocation system is, or why it works the way it does.
I genuinely love HN for bits like this...both with an amusing quip, and then someone who can explain that technically, the amusing quip is inaccurate. It nicely stimulates both left and right side of my brain.
It's abusing the English language with misleading hysteria of how "more radioactive" term is defined.

On net volume of radioactive material released on a yearly basis: coal wins, by far. But it's diffused over a much larger area, and not as large of an immediate threat.

On potential for concentrated localized release: nuclear wins.
Piketty's claim is that, in a capitalist system, wealth disparity increases over time (measured in currency).

I don't think he presented enough evidence to make that statement without a lot of qualifiers, but for now, let's just assume that it's correct.

What Piketty absolutely failed to account for is that capitalism's greatest strength (and even Marx thought this) is that it causes the marginal utility of currency to decrease over time.

That means that even if the dollar gap between rich and poor is bigger today than it was 200 years ago, the actual quality of life gap is just getting smaller and smaller.

A billionaire can afford caviar and ten lamborghinis.

A thousand-aire can afford hamburgers and a used civic.

The billionaire is not a million times better off, and every year, as brutal market forces push the development of better and cheaper technology in every field, the difference between the rich man and the poor man, measured in the quality of food, goods, and services they have access to, gets smaller and smaller. For the most part, billionaires can only buy more of the same thing that almost everyone has access to. The rich guy can buy a harvard education, and the poor guy can buy a cheap but effective online education. The rich guy can buy a gold-plated iPhone, and the poor guy can buy a cheap Android. It's all the same stuff, just with different levels of class.

Compare that to not so long ago when only the rich had cars, refrigeration, electricity, etc.
Nice way to organize major sources for learning Machine learning topics.
I've heard many complaints about Scala being too much of a "kitchen sink" language; too many paradigms and too many features from each paradigm. It still seems like the best language that uses the JVM, though.
Google Glass app that streams subtitles from Netflix, Hulu, or even cable TV. I rely heavily on subtitles to watch TV (I'm very hard-of-hearing), but I've found that my [hearing] friends don't like subtitles very much. It would make my life 10 million times easier if I could watch TV with subtitles or closed captioning without having to subject my friends to that as well.

I don't know jack shit about Google Glass, but this is so high on my list of wants that I'd drop $1500 for a Google Glass just for this app, assuming it worked well and as advertised.

Someone make this happen.
Yes. BWRs and PWRs waste is one the most significant issues where MSRs have an advantage.

I really hope MSRs and more wind farm deployments are used more as stepping-stones to realizing fusion.
The control is Australia, which got rid of it about a decade later than the US.
IP over DNS, TCP over DNS, IP over ICMP... surely somebody is running a service with all of these for maximum captive portal avoidance?
Actually, the trend appears to be that it was dropping since the late seventies, but had a small upswing in the early nineties before dropping substantially more.
Secure storage of BIGNUMs in OpenSSL
The biggest downside with DNS tunneling is the high latency and low bandwidth - many "responsive" web apps feel like molasses, even long static pages take a surprisingly long time to download, and streaming video/audio becomes almost impossible. Of course it's better than no connectivity as a last-resort; SSH sessions are still quite usable and you can do basic things like email and forums.
Of course they'll settle. They have the money and hate for more embarrassing and illegal stuff to come out in public.

But now the DOJ will undoubtedly charge and jail the characters that broke the law? Planing or doing something illegal over email or IM for example is wire fraud. Imagine the rest. Blind justice and all.

...waiting.
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Google, with its plentiful expertise and cash, counts as its two fiercest competitors two of the three organizations that would need to agree with any new solution to revocation.

Meanwhile, you've offered a "sketch of a solution" that involves CAs (a) cooperating with Google and (b) employing computer science in the pursuit of writing actual code. Why not talk to Comodo and see how likely that is to happen?

You know who thinks CRLsets suck? Adam Langley. Certificate revocation is broken. They did what they could. Google didn't design SSL revocation.

All Google has done is orchestrate the adoption of TLS forward secrecy, fixed security vulnerabilities (for many years running) in OpenSSL (along with virtually every other component to modern web browsers, along with ffmpeg and the open source video stack), invented and deployed browser certificate pinning, spearheaded the deployment of Certificate Transparency, oh, and found/fixed Heartbleed.

But, I'm sure your comments are great. Why not take them to the IETF TLS WG? I'm sure you'll find an eager audience. I am not kidding.
Google Style Guides for Angular.js, Lisp, etc
A photo app designed specifically for concerts - The main feature is that the display goes dark while filming/snapping shots. As someone who goes to a lot of shows, I hate the myriad of tiny squares I see between myself and the stage and I've noticed a fairly small percentage of folks actually check focus/etc., they just stick their phones in the air and shoot away.

Bonus points for good social media integration - Read my location/4sq to know what show I'm at - Easy posting to 4sq/FB/Twitter/Compuserve.
I don't understand how this is about systems programming. Would someone care to clarify?
Canonical Trying To Lure XP Users With Ubuntu 14.04 LTS For Desktop
That sounds amazing to me too. What you described is really the only way that making lists of "core values" could possibly achieve something useful. I just never thought it could happen. Usually people just remember the core values as a list of things that sound good, and they're too abstract to offer any real guidance for a concrete situation.
I bought a Dell e7240 couple of weeks ago and put Linux Mint 16 on it (since Mint is based on Ubuntu, I wouldn't expect the experience to be vastly different for straight-up Ubuntu). Everything except the hardware Wifi on/off switch works out of the box (the Wifi can be comfortably turned on/off via the Cinnamon network applet). Considering that this is new hardware (Haswell i7, 8GB DDR3 RAM and dual 256 GB SSD), I absolutely wouldn't have any issues recommending Dell for Linux to anyone.

Finally, the above system can also be ordered with 12.04 LTS which means Dell is officially supporting Linux. I don't think it can get much better than that.
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Eventually, it was disclosed publicly and fixed, yes. But the standard set of arguments for open source and 'all bugs being shallow' would have expected it to be caught and fixed almost immediately.

I'm not arguing that open source isn't a better system, just that it's not a guarantee of safety when compared to closed source in this regard - both systems have to have competent people actually caring enough to pore over the code and provide fixes. Consumers cannot be expected to manually review and audit every line of code in their networked devices, nor (apparently) can they reliably depend on someone else to do it for them.
Quite. Just acknowledging you beat me to the punch ;-)
I am super noisy on Twitter. I've never recommended that anyone follow me. :)
Corn biofuels worse than gasoline on global warming in short term
Rome's empire was based on their devotion to imperialism and not anything else. So having sustainability was militaristic more so than anything else.

The Roman Empire spent a heck of a lot of money and effort on their people though. Don't forget that in those times you could give a f*ck less about being royalty. If you were in the protected zones of the Romans you were already winning.

To Romans living inside the protected lands, the 'outside world' looked cold, harsh, and barbaric. So, you could put up with inequality as long as those aristocrats were making sure that there were roads, aquifers, and soldiers! :P

Also, slaves could eventually attain freedom and citizenship. So, while it was not a good life it still had potential to become a decent one.

Now, there were uprisings against the Romans by people who benefited from years of Roman protection and decided later on 'to plot their own course'. But that story is old/new. Happened to the Brits, Persians, Mongolians, etc.
I'd say "'pedantic' is my middle name" but for the fact that it isn't.
Some of what you've written makes sense, but you can't appeal to their $10b valuation for why they should support what you're doing more explicitly. They have a certain approach they're doing, and this only supports you implicitly. You can't take it but complain they're not doing something different, just like Google Search users can't complain about a lack of phone support. (And Google is a $363B company.)

I actually didn't mean "self-entitled" in a general way (like, about your personality), or anything - rather just entitlement about something in this particular relationship. For example, the same level of entitlement that you show might be absolutely fine when you deal with Starbucks, for example. (If I read correctly that you're a starbucks franchise owner). It's just that you're showing this particular entitlement about airbnb, and there is nothing to justify it, as they don't operate the same way or make the same sort of promises about their relationship with you.

Anyway it wouldn't hurt to ask nicely, saying, pretty-please, wouldn't you consider doing something different/ more explicit, better business support than what you're doing now, for this and this reason. They might not want to do that - then don't use their business. I wouldn't operate an eBay store for example, because of the terrible things some eBay store operators say about eBay and their policies. I just wouldn't use it as a business front.

I think if you don't want airbnb to just ignore you, you should consider playing at their level, with constructive feedback about what to do and how to do it, and if they don't want to do that - then to make a hard decision about whether you want to do business on their terms, or make a living somewhere else.

You can't get them to change their behavior by starting to behave as though they already promised to do that or set the relationship up like that. They aren't DoubleTree opening a franchise program. It's just a different sort of organization.
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Oh, I doubt they ever intended to relaunch this one. At that point you have to pretty much rebuild everything, so you may as well just trash it and build a brand new one.

But they would sure like to know that it behaved properly after they lost contact, and they'd like to know if anything was damaged before it hit the water.