skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you please explain why this is the greatest? Or how it compares to the other youtube downloaders?

Does it allow selection of resolution ? Does it allow downloading only audio ?

Thanks.
Can you elaborate on why you cannot build a currency based on reward?
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"And most cooking is reheating frozen food, not farm-to-table fine cuisine, so should a culinary student study McDonald’s?"

Awesome
I am french and lived in Quebec for a few years. Be aware that the french spoken in Québec is somewhat different in every way (vocabulary, expressions and pronunciation) than the one spoken in France. For instance, up in the thread frandroid wrote "Je vais aller au dépanneur" and translated it to "I will go to the convenience store". For a French the translation would be "I am going to the auto repair shop" ;-)
As a French I have hard time understanding french Québec people even after a few years spent there, mostly due to pronunciation (now I know the most common expressions and vocabulary).
I agree with you in principle (I'm not an American), but I think the practicality is a little hard to enforce.

If, for example, the US discover China violating the privacy of US citizens - are they going to start dropping bombs? Attempting to place trade restrictions? You kind of need everyone to agree to the same laws, and particular ways to address failure to adhere to those laws. Not an easy problem, but one I hope can be solved.
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You might want to replace "quite literally" with something like "technically." I have paid for lots of digital goods, and have quite literally played all the games, used all the apps, read all the books, and listened to all the music that I have bought.
GitHub is the Apple of the open-source world. They provide a simplified and approachable product that opens up the world of open source a lot of people. If you stick with their intended usage it can make your life very easy, and a lot of people love GitHub for this reason. On the same token, you have this contingent of people who either GitHub just doesn't serve their needs (like Linus) or who, for whatever reason, bristle at the restrictions imposed and the general love of GitHub, and much like DOS users in the 80s, feel a rageful upwelling in their souls to insult GitHub and everything it stands for.

Personally I am well versed in git and I don't need GitHub's hand-holding, so I do bristle a bit at things like the GitHub client dumbing everything down. But on the other hand, GitHub is an incredibly powerful and utilitarian web interface to git. Sure git format-patch and am provide more workflow flexibility than PRs, but there is huge added value of having a nice in-line discussion for code review with cross-referencing and all the rest. Dealing with branches and remotes is really not nearly as onerous as the author makes out because git makes it very easy to deal with these things quickly, and you can make it even quicker with a little bit more porcelain like hub (https://hub.github.com).
Reminds me of [Star Maker](http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stapledon/olaf/star/contents...).
You're right about the intellectually lazy argument, but the rest of that comment made what I think is a substantial and valid argument.
Is there no queue for the arbiter?
That "extension" is itself the waste being discussed. Some places require more digits than others.
Common mode of infection I have seen with Wordpress is through site owners downloading premium themes that have been uploaded into file sharing sites by malware authors.

The site owners can't, in most cases, poke around to see what is in the code. And the code often contains hooks that inject various things into the installation.

The other route in is through scripts like TimThumb, which is included in a lot of themes. TT has had some serious security holes in it, the last one being fairly recent that allows for remote file execution. At that point, at least the account hosting the file is a goner.
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The CN Tower is at M5V2T6 - 6 chars

This is unique within Canada and the physical area is small enough to be sufficiently useful for navigation. Add country code and it gets you to 9 or 10 chars.

UK has similarly useful alphanumeric postcodes and specifying them for satnav is the norm.
It is the same for French (from France). As soon as they spot your french (from France) accent, and it just starts by saying "Bonjour" , they become less friendly. Exaggerating a little bit French are seen as pedantic, think he knows better than everyone else, and not trustworthy (but it is not exclusive to Québec ;-))
"more role-play focused" is an odd way to describe it. 4e had well-designed, precise, and rich tactical combat rules. It was also as role-playing friendly as any previous edition of D&D (which unfortunately isn't saying much). I had much better role-playing experiences with 4e than I ever did with 3.5 or earlier.
After using a dozen date picker components in past 10 years, this one is great. Could be great if you could show how to use it without npm. For example, in my WordPress site I'd like to use it within my landing page form.
This is a real test which is in favour that programming is not math like biology isn't physics. You don't build programs with one character variables.
Though I don't think you can get FPS for an app with just systrace can you?
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Dammit: http://xkcd.com/435/

You are basically claiming that everything is math, which is true, but useless. Programming is more like chemistry or biology in the purity access...not "like them" but at a similar level.

Writing parsers, which I do a lot, requires very little parsing theory...ya, they make for good academic papers, but nothing beats good ole simple recursive descent in flexibility for error handling. And for register allocation, you might use - gasp - an algorithm, but that doesn't dominate your work - writing a compiler involves some math (among other tasks), but is not mathematical activity.

Mathematicians can be bad or good at programming, just like musicians can be...there is no strong correlation to their aptitude based on their previous training.

> The root misunderstanding might be that most people wouldn't know math if it hit them in the head, but changing my definition of math to fit their misconceptions is certainly not going to fix the problem.

Math can be defined so broadly as to basically be a useless word. Is sociology math? Is chemistry math? Is physics math? Is engineering math? Is implementing an algorithm math? Meh, if so, then whatever, we haven't made any progress.
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The rocket equation. Your missile would have to be able to slow down when it arrived, which means carrying a lot of fuel. That makes it very heavy, which means you need more fuel for the launch, and you end up with a monster rocket that's far more expensive than an ICBM.
D&D 4e was suffocated inside the company by a cultural backlash against the Open Game License. Certain factions within Hasbro were apparently convinced that third parties like Paizo were raking in the fat buxx from supplementary D&D content that they rightfully deserved.

So 4e was released initially without any third-party licensing at all; when it eventually came about, it was unacceptably restrictive. By that point most of Hasbro's third parties had done what they were asked and gotten the fuck out of the business of D&D licensed content anyway.

Hasbro ended up doing a pretty shitty job providing content for 4e in the long term. They released two semi-compatible reboots of the system within a couple of years, neither of which actually fixed any meaningful issues (they tried to make character creation simpler, while 4e's biggest issue was the lack of rules for quickly resolving minor combats). Very little supplemental content was released in 4e's lifetime, including for most of the first-party settings (Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Greyhawk, Spelljammer, etc.) that D&D fans were looking forward to.

...

They even managed to fuck up Forgotten Realms!

(signed, a genuine and disappointed fan of 4th edition)
> Without any legal barriers to such collection, U.S. persons must increasingly rely on the affected companies to implement security measures to keep their communications private.

I kind of despair when I read such statements. How is a company like Google supposed to protect against an attacker that has legal access to parts of their network, actively researches zero day exploits, bribes or subpoenas employees to work with them and bugs their hardware when it is sent via mail.

The only thing we could do on the technological side would be to re-decentralize our communications with added end-to-end encryption. While I'm a huge fan of that, I don't see it happening anytime soon given the ever increasing cloud computing hype. The usability of some services would also certainly take a hit. And even then our metadata will remain public.

What is really necessary is a huge cultural shift in the executive branches of our governments. Not just some small reform but a powerful independent investigation board to uncover what the agencies are allowed to do, believe to be allowed to do and actually do.
That is hard to assess. Apparently, AI requires more insights than hard work. Hard work is predictable, and gives us things like Moore's law. Insight on the other hand, can emerge at any time.

When we solve those insights, we will be more able to accurately estimate when AI is due. It may be no time at all however, if hardware proves to be capable enough already.
At least here in Germany we had affordable phone flatrates over ISDN way before Skype.
Outlook 97-2003 has it as an option, 2007+ don't. And BTW the Outlook 97-2003 and 2007+ implementations of this feature are different too (MS split most of Word into wwlib.dll in Word 2007).
Huh, where's Afghanistan? Or do they kind of not matter any more in this scheme of things?
Atheists often bring up religion as a source of conflict, and there is some truth to this. But it isn't the whole picture. Religion is often just another expression of cultural differences, which along with conflicts for resources is the biggest driver for conflict. Religion is just part of the package. A non-religious example which often shows up among atheists is feminism, which is really just an expression for different value systems and opinions about what constitutes a better world. Similar conflicts of morality and interest show up between people of differing religion as well, and don't necessarily have anything to do with beliefs in different gods.

Remember, religion is deeply intertwined with culture and not a separate entity. In pre-scientific times, religion has also had an important role in bringing vital knowledge to the next generation (e.g. don't eat pork in hot climates; don't eat animals that have been dead for a long time).

We wouldn't have world peace if everyone just became atheists tomorrow. There are too many interactions between religion and culture in general. If two cultures are compatible, it's often because they interact a lot. If cultures interact a lot, they often end up with the same religion anyway. Etc. Remember, cultural boundaries are not static. Blaming religion above everything else betrays a limited understanding of the problem. It is really about communication, values and culture.
They did occur, but yes, at a very low rate. The rate will increase once the people with guns realize the benefit of such attacks. This is not the case now, but it will be the case if the price continues to rise.

Imagine that 2 court orders (one to GHash, one to the next largest pool) are enough to reverse a transaction, or to "freeze funds" by not allowing TXs from a certain key.

If the incentive system encouraged independent mining, this would not be possible.
I still have a MacUser t-shirt that was given out to subscriber (my father used to subscribe). Judging from the appearance of the mouse, it should be from the pre-ADB mouse days so about the same age as this.
> if you hang about awhile they practically throw citizenship at you

New Zealand's one of the very few countries in the world where non-citizens vote. After 1 year of permanent residency, residents can register to vote, whereas only after 5 years of residency can they become citizens. A stark contrast with nearby Australia where only citizens are allowed to vote, but it's also one of only a few countries where they must vote.
According to Wikipedia, Afghanistan is not a part of the Middle East
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Afganistan is not in the middle east. That's a whole another cluster..ck.
Iraq: The most friendly country in the middle east.
Frankly it's not really accurate. And with most things in the Middle East, you could make this chart a ton easier by just labeling every relationship as Yellow/It's complicated
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Please. The people who played D&D at my high school were really tortured outcasts, and I don't think they had a good time. I doubt D&D was that great for anyone.
Actually, in Haskell, you can write some python code to "program to think" first, and then when you know EXACTLY what you are going to do, you can write elegant Haskell code with its "think to program" requirement.

Software engineering is a title no more concrete than software developer. In either case, it's useless to talk in platitudes.
According to Wikipedia, the United States is not a part of the Middle East either. Odd...
What's the rationale of the FCC to disallow this? Purely economic reasons?
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The $ vars lead me to either Shell, Perl or PHP.

$_ is a special var in Bash and Perl.

The '.' char is for string concat in Perl and PHP

So, I think this is perl.

The first statement evaluates to: "echo Brian Rogers >&2"
The second statement `$_` runs that command.

The end result is that this line of code prints:

Brian Rogers
Too bad this was missed by the HN crowd. IMO, a nicer monad implementation than fn.py.
Props to them, though, for adding comments to each cell.
I don't quite understand the use-case, because merging seems problematic if purely programmatic... A merge that seems clean might violate some invariants of the object. And if irmin detects that it can't automatically merge, how is the merge done programmatically?

Perhaps the idea is more like a database, and some administration is manual. So, merges are like mini-migrations. Or, merges could be thrown back to a human user of the app to combine them (perhaps with some domain specific interface) - again, manual.
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> I have yet to be without signal in all my travels. You would need to go really remote to find a place without signal.

In contrast, I can travel ~20 minutes outside a major metropolitian area in the US (Seattle) and be without cell service.

Heck I often am without cell service when I'm hiking. Then again I'm using a provider (T-Mobile) which is known to only work in metro areas!
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Obviously the more friendly countries in the Middle East aren't mentioned here: Oman, UAE, Qatar, because they aren't involved in any conflicts or political standoffs.
What's even worse is that we are not only talking about the privacy laws targeted at corporations - who alone have proven to be difficult, see the discussions between the EU and the US - but about privacy laws targeted against intelligence services. And governments are especially stubborn that those should remain secret and unrestricted...
> Because any such statements aren't falsifiable (see Karl Popper).

We're going to have a thread about LessWrong and people bring up Karl "hypothetico-conjectural I DON'T REALLY BELIEVE THERE'S A SCIENTIFIC METHOD YOU MAKE THINGS UP WITH YOUR MAGICAL HUMAN MINDS" Popper?

For God's sake, it's not as is unfalsifiability doesn't have a meaning in Bayesian philosophy of science as well.
So, no love for ISIS in the Middle East?
Interesting. What's the name of this chain?
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I'm not arsed to explain to you half of what is wrong with that comment, wtf I know you can use the ORM outside of Django but why the f*ck would you.

You're just arguing like a 10 year old fan boy now. Django is great for sites I love it. I also use other tools when I need different things. As for reinventing the wheel it's a very simple code snippet taken from a reliable source then changed to fit needs. So go home sleep learn new things... Don't attempt to build the next OS in Django.
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Great (and true) points. I like to think of the process as one might think of exercising a part of the body, in that one shouldn't let the muscles get used to just one method. When people ask me what's the best method to learning a foreign language, I say 'do them all'. I also advocate for the 'translate word by word' technique and to realize what you can do alone (reading, writing, listening) should be better than what you can do with someone else present (speaking). In other words, work on what you can, when you can. Small steps, consistency and not giving up are also key factors.
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> The movie industry is among the world’s most important businesses. The Motion Picture Association of America says that films produced in the United States alone pulled in US $34.7 billion in worldwide box-office revenues in 2012.

I'm sorry, but revenue does not equal importance.
Agreed! While I find these advancements in technology intriguing, I use to love going to the cinema but the thought of going to the cinema these days when it is such a disappointing experience these days.

Two biggest points which put me off:
1) People on mobile phones, texting/facebooking etc is bad enough but when did it become acceptable to answer the phone mid film?!
2) Anti piracy adverts, I have just paid £9 or something ridiculous to watch a film! I do not want to see a 1 minute about how I wouldn't steal a handbag!

When I think about the amount of money I have spent on my home cinema I do cry a little inside, but as a huge movie fan I'd much rather wait for it to be released and buy the blu-ray (for the same price as going to the cinema by the time you have factored a £4 drink into it, parking etc), rip to hard disk and strip the adverts off it and have the ability to pause it :)
Since when did Iran and Turkey become enemies?
The LessWrongosphere is more cultish and wacky the further out from the center you go, while being more and more like CS/math academia the further in you go. It doesn't help that they got their start on Overcoming Bias, which already attempts to write off everything in human life that doesn't optimize for economic productivity as "irrational", and then added the participants of the HPMoR fandom who understand just enough to stand in awe of EY but not enough to participate usefully in real discussions about math, logic, and statistics.
There were gaps closer to home - the non-ISIS Syrian opposition (on the ground, not the overseas committee), the Kurds.
If you still write parsers as recursive descent parser by hand, then this is because NOT ENOUGH MATH IS APPLIED IN PRACTICE (by programmers who think they don't need it).
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...or keep your cloud data outside the USA entirely.

Jottacloud is a Dropbox clone based in Norway and subject to their much tighter data privacy laws. Their datacentres are also powered by green hydro-electricity (if that floats your hippy boat).

I've been using Jottacloud since Dropbox really flicked everyone the Vs by appointing Condoleeeeezzzzaaaa to the board. At first it was a bit flakey and didn't always sync changes instantly, but it's definitely got a lot better over the last couple of months and seems pretty much on a par with Dropbox now. Biggest drawback for me is no Linux client yet, but this is supposedly in the pipeline.

http://www.jottacloud.com/signup?referer=2166DD2B220919EFE10...

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I suspect there could be some more insightful ordering of the entities to make the situation slightly less clusterfuck-like.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/PgXt8Md.png is bit better, there arises two kinda clear clusters of friends.
Relevant (and funny): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vZLWbqpDyQ&feature=youtu.be...
Different religions. Turkey is "sunni"/secular. Iran is Shi'a/secular. (but the other way round, Turkey's population is "moderately" sunni muslim, the state is aggresively secular. Iran, the population, I think is fair to say, is secular, the state is aggresively Shi'a muslim). The sunnis are the ones that are organising things like ISIS, and the religious cleansings ISIS is doing.

Problem is that one of the values of islam is to militarily dominate, so aside from Lebanon (and formerly Iraq), there is no example of a state with powre sharing. Even in Lebanon there is only power sharing between Christians and muslims, not between different sects of muslims. (the difference being that Christians don't see the need to exterminate muslims (just convert them, eventually), nor do muslims want to exterminate Christians, just dominate them (talking about the values of the religions here). Sunni's do want to exterminate Shi'as and vice-versa. To put it bluntly: sharia is pretty clear on the need to kill any muslim who is not the same sect as you are. But Christians/Jews can get the choice dhimma or death. So Lebanon will not blow up as easily as Iraq will)
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Sublime Text equivalent:

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Turkey is a NATO member. Additionally, Iran supports Assad in Syria while Turkey generally supports (some of) the rebels.

Turkey is generally seen as the leader of the secular Islamic world, while Iran is seen as the leader Shia Islam.

While they aren't shooting enemies they aren't exactly allies either.

More interestingly, the chart shows Turkey and Iraq as enemies, while in fact Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan have recently become quite close allies (!!) based on a oil and trade[1][2].

[1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/conflict-shows-new-closer-tur...

[2] http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/turk...
You might consider it a ... Danger Zone?

In fairness, I wasn't aware what the real ISIS was myself until a couple of weeks ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_L...
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There are also smart contracts & distributed oracles (orisi.org)
It's Perl. The last `$_`; evals what's in $_, so change it to just print the variable:

$_='^#(/||/@!@[{@:^[-['^";@@@\\>])@.".
"{)/];)^{";$,+=(++$,);$_.=">&$,";
print "$_";

The output is:

echo Brian Rogers >&2
This is exactly what I did when we started our current project at work, on which we use Git.
I also made aliases gl, gr, gb. gc means 'git commit -m' for me, and I have gco for 'git checkout', gcb for 'git checkout -b', gpod for 'git push origin develop' and gpud for 'git push upstream develop'. Made my life so much easier. :)
Honestly, I prefer it to "WARNING: Your password must be 6-8 characters and contain no numbers or symbols"
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Turkey is probably about as strong an opponent of ISIS as there is in the middle east.

Edit: the parent comment was edited while I was writing that. There is a lot I disagree with now, bit the biggest factual problem is the idea that Lebanon "won't blow up like Iraq" seems to ignore 2 decades of civil war in Lebanon.
Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are only friendly because they have done religious cleansing 30-50 years ago (all three used to have significant Shi'a populations, Saudi Arabia still has some), and back then nobody was watching. So not that much is really known about those events. Currently, yes, they are mostly peaceful.

Bahrain and UAE are peaceful, but certainly have political standoffs that could explode.