skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, they had some left-wing traits. And they had some right wing traits too: The belief that Germany is a special country is pretty similar to today's conservatives belief that the US is exceptional and blessed by God.

My point was that by figuring out whether the Nazis were left or right wing nothing is learned. There are left wing and right wing democracies and there are left and right wing dictatorships. Left wing governments have killed a lot of people and so have right wing governments.
According to the text

a glTF asset is represented by:
* JSON file (.json) containing the node hierarchy, materials, and cameras
* Binary files (.bin) containing geometry and animations
* Image files (.jpg, .png, etc.) for textures
* GLSL text files (.glsl) for GLSL source code for individual stages

See also https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/tree/master/model/duck for an example.
> This comment is really just nit-picking over terminology.

I agree that terminology in this area is very, very messed up. That's largely because the terminology has been used as a tool to gain and hold power, rather than as a tool of clear communication--Stalin being an obvious example.
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Awesome write up! I love the defcon badge challenges
Thanks for mentioning us! I'm one of the lead devs for MediaCrush. I think what sets it apart from the traditional list of promising but eventually failed image hosts is two things:

- It's open source, so you can fork it if we screw up

- We are not a business and do not have a bottom line

I've recognized this pattern as well, and we hope to end it.
Let's dig a bit deeper and ask why is imgur doing these things? The fact is image uploading is one of the most commoditized services you can offer. Long term, the most you could possibly get out of that is razor-thin margins, assuming Google, Amazon, or Microsoft doesn't just walk in one day and crush your entire business with one fell swoop. Clearly, imgur is trying to build some competitive advantages around their business - namely network effect by creating a community on top of their content destination. They're comparing the Facebook to Dropbox and asking which business model looks better. I'm sure they realize this makes straight image uploading slightly more of a hassle, but from their perspective the business benefits of community far outweigh the loss efficiency-oriented uploaders. They know it's annoying and they don't care.
Eyeo 2014
To say the least, the problems with the FDA are pretty well documented: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11750#toc
Steve Blank on BBC Radio Podcast
>the mysterious absence of Down's Syndrome children in many places these days.

could you please expand ?
> Flash being enabled even very shortly drains the batteries of a lot of mobile and laptop devices.

Flash enables multiple uploads on legacy browsers. Just enabling Flash for something simple like an uploader should not drain batteries.

Back in 2010, when Steve Jobs wrote a letter demonizing Flash, he had some points. Many complex banner ads were being made in Flash, and disabling the plugin led to static image ads being shown. Static images are much easier to display than streaming videos. What's worthwhile to note is that as HTML5 banners progress, with animations and video, we'll be faced with the same problem.

Regardless, Jobs' letter had a noticeable and lasting effect on many worldviews.
Imgur used to have a great community. Even though it was a large community it was still good fun.

Now? Not so much.

I'm not sure how the community collapsed so fast or if it can be rescued.
I applaud their effort and hope they can gain some real traction. Having written one of the proprietary content pipelines they speak of, I couldn't help but feel that I was reinventing the wheel in a lot of places.

I really wish that Rad Game Tools binary data format could be the basis of this spec's binary format. Their's is an extensible object tree that could be loaded directly into memory via a mmap, leading to blazing fast load times for any content that we used it with.
The main thing ABP does for me is to filter out things that match the "signature" of an ad (image tags with size matching standard ad-sales sizes) even when they're hosted on the same domain as the origin.
And I think those things will cause Mediacrush to overtake Imgur in the next few years; if not, something similar to Mediacrush will. Thanks for helping to create it.

My only one complaint is that Imgur has a catchier and shorter domain name, as well as shorter paths, which makes links quite a bit more condensed.

Compare:

i.imgur.com/7uCWdjw.jpg

cdn.mediacru.sh/DsmNnPHvLaLv.jpe
Except that's not lossless like I qualified.
You just need to have a much wider pool than just one school. If the state has 100 high schools then you helping out at your local school has a net positive effect.

Possible downside is losing schools will have an even harder time competing. As a counter for that you might want some sort of built in correction factor based on the schools population.
This is pure crazy talk -- I love it. Just enough coherence to follow the progression, but chaotic enough to give the feeling you experience when chasing difficult problems through the rabbit hole. Truly a brain dump, as close as one can perform. I bet it felt incredible not just to solve the challenge, but then to try to extract the event from an exhausted mind and write it all down. A tad bit envious if I don't mind saying so.
Or Phonegap Build ? Or Cocoon JS ?
Looking at job ads I would guess that PHP is the most popular / common language for writing web pages theses days.
You can calculate position so it doesn't cover the text.
Resampling Unbalanced Datasets
Most first-world countries have a form of socialized healthcare. Before any new drug is admitted to market in that kind of system you need to have proof that it offers an improvement to what is already available - you can't ask the taxpayer to pay premium prices for something that offers no improvement over what's already available.
Am I alone in thinking that if Japan as a society really wants people to start having more kids, it would start encouraging a normal 40-50 hour work week?
How can the iOs version weight only 4,7mb , i dont get it .
We plan on eventually making a URL shortener of some kind, but I like the elegance of the current URLs. They're hashes of the files you upload, which makes a lot of sense. And you can get shorter URLs and support us with eyeballs on ads if you don't use a direct link ;)
http://share.gifyoutube.com/pP1.gif
Iraq War 2014 : Kurdish Forces Use Tank Attack Isis | RAW VIDEO
Unless health turns out to be like education and clean water - potentially better served by an other than completely private market, whether for reasons of inelasticity of demand, public utility of 99.9% literacy, etc.

In that case there could be payment for organs, but for everyone else's too.

Also in this case, besides communal funding, compulsory "donation" might also work. (Or compulsory "donation" but with compensation from communal funding, and a private market might conceivably ride on top of that.)

edited to remove mention of "right" as it is not necessary for the analogy
What struck me was Blank saying various US govt departments get subsidies (that by implication flow to SV) of 150Billion - which made me think, what is Sillicon valleys net profit? Is it as great as we think?
How Much Time Does it Cost?
Also check Python2web website for Videos.

Got an excellent collection. Highly Recommended for Pythonists and Django Developers.

http://python2web.com
> Those months are going to be bad, but the guy will return to his normal life pretty soon.

I don't know what life is like in other countries, but in the US the branding of having been to prison makes a normal life difficult. My brother made a bad mistake of striking a federal employee about ten years ago and he still can't get work doing more than clearing dishes because of it. He's brilliant, btw, but he'll probably never have an office job or similar ever again.
Isn't this a bit obvious? Getting both complete freedom is at odds with certainty. There's an inherent tradeoff in the two commodities.
One of my colleagues at Montage Studio was involved in developing the glTF spec. We built a set of open source components that make it easy to load a glTF scene and manipulate the contents with data bindings and CSS transforms: http://montagestudio.com/blog/2014/01/22/build-3d-applicatio...

Those who are interested might also want to check out this recent paper by Brian Coughlin that compares glTF and Declarative 3D: http://mason.gmu.edu/~bcoughl2/cs752/
Nothing out of the ordinary. The load time is atrocious and it's due to how Google+ was re-engineered to be a frontend to the Google ecosystem (if you will). Pretty window behaviors were favored over quick load times and ease of use. GChat was shoehorned in because of course no one has any other means to communicate over XMPP (sarcasm).

These annoyances and more are the reason why G+ has become so (increasingly) derided by the internet. I dislike what it has become but I still use it frequently. I hope Google will make it a lot less bloated someday
If the fact to be proved is an equation, then this could be conceivably a reasonable approach - assuming it is correctly written. Our class was a math class, so we weren't just giving them equations that hold for natural numbers (which usually have a more illuminating non-inductive proof anyways).

I can't now remember the specifics of a particular paper because I have seen so many, but the main thing is they believed that if they arrive at some fact that happens to be true then their original hypothesis must be true. It is a classic affirming the consequent fallacy, just shrouded in lots of sophisticated symbol manipulations.
The Swedish Pirate Party stopped hosting The Pirate Bay in early 2013: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130226/09515722117/swedi...
I'm constantly doing one of the following:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+someth...

https://www.google.com/?q=site:news.ycombinator.com+somethin...

[Aside: I really like the DDG mission, but am finding myself more frequently (and unfortunately) returning to Google for technical searches, and switched back to it as my default. I'm finding more relevant results at the top of Google's SERPs. Both DDG and Google diminished IMO when they tried to become "smarter."]
VCs suck (but there's a way you could prove me wrong)
If that was true, why do major pharmaceutical companies spend way more money on advertising than on R&D?

(Trivially searchable, for example here: http://adage.com/article/special-report-pg-at-175/procter-ga...)
> lutusp has entrenched bizarre opinions about psychiatry which make for tedious discussion.

So ignore me -- read the authorities in the field instead:

http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/05/nimh-wont-follow-psychiat...

So NIMH director Insel's views, identical to mine, are "bizarre"?
Treatments that are safe but not effective can be dangerous as well, if they replace or prevent access to other more effective treatments. There is a pretty vast information imbalance between doctors and patients, and patients may not always have the time or knowledge to investigate the effectiveness of a treatment. The FDA does this research for the patients, and approves what claims can be made by doctors about a given treatment's effectiveness.
>The laws of physics also apply, but we don't know all of them.

Classic.
Making it up as you go along.....
There are some attempts to combine them, which is gradually becoming one of the preferred EU strategies (though countries vary widely in their opinions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity

The basic idea is that it should be easy to hire/fire people ("flexible labor market", vs. the traditional less-flexible European model), but social policy should smooth out some of the economic uncertainty that produces.
Its usually given as an answer to "where did the universe come from".
Most of the app bundle on iOS are various assets (.pngs, videos, sounds, etc). This looks like it's drawing everything in code, so the app bundle is really small.

Marco's new app, Overcast also has UI drawn almost entirely with code (all icons are generated with PaintCode [1]), and his app [2] is 4.5mb.

[1]: http://www.paintcodeapp.com
[2]: https://itunes.apple.com/pl/app/overcast-podcast-player/id88...
"don't sue me if this encryption turns out to be easily crackable and you used this for something worth suing about"
Why not? If the robot can make a robot why should people not be able to afford the robots?
Why don't just submit these to http://pyvideo.org/ ?
Trying to make some kind of comparison between Mein Kampf and the Quran (and by extension, the Torah and the Bible since they contain much the same content) is beyond idiotic. Have you really read either of the Quran and/or Mein Kampf?

The definition of a pamphlet is an unbound booklet, which is how the Manifesto was originally printed. It's length was 23 pages.
Doesn't it? It doesn't seem to contradict anything I've read. "The worst thing is the boredom" he says. They even let him buy vegan food. Then there are some restrictions on the mail he receives. I guess one of the "socialist utopia prison" articles had something about a guy with a Playstation and a TV, but that's probably something you earn after years of good behavior, and Sunde is only in for months.

Nothing like the stories I hear from the US which are all about concrete walls and toilets with no seat, unsanitary conditions, drug smuggling, violence, etc.
If I could have done this when I was a teacher, I would probably still be one.
Simple and nice OnePage eshop template
Who is lost?
Yes, and that's why one can wonder why they once again chose JSON for part of this new "web standard". Text based data formats should die.
Real life Tony Starks: Making of Iron Man Costume
I know a little bit about this project so I can do my best to answer. I think they prefer the Coupe style aesthetically but there's also more room to stash batteries.

It is actually a chassis custom built to their specs by Superformance.

The car is a real product but it's also platform for technology development, I think you'll be hearing a lot more from these guys in the future.

Well, they're showing the car in Pebble Beach today :) But if you drop me an email (in profile) I can get you in touch with their marketing guy. Now that they're out of stealth mode they will be doing more events.
Like I said above, induction can be used to prove facts which are not equations. In fact most equations are best proved without induction, at least in my opinion. I was getting this argument even when the fact to be proved was not an equation, it is an affirming the consequent fallacy.
1o57 designs the DEFCON badges every year.
Machine Learning and Stress Prediction
Rural Northern Greece is awesome, the people are awesome, but I haven't seen it there. Where were you, more specifically?
How about refusing to create spying devices of any kind on ethical grounds?
Its web scale.
I'd consider that number a vague handwavy number because they haven't had time to do thorough high speed performance testing yet. I know those guys, and they are very thorough and professional...
The audience for this sort of content is probably more familiar with issues and pull requests than the wiki equivalent.

Plus it's easily discoverable, forkable etc..
YouTube must be disrupted
I can see how some towns have problems and how there are ridiculous testing requirements.

But I also don't see "let's have kids learn to hunt, grow garlic and carve long bows" as a viable alternative.
I'd guess if anything it's worse in the EU since you don't even need to actually go to prison to have a bad permanent record, sometimes a fine for something as trivial as a regulatory violation will have the same effect. Heck, I think in most cases it's enough to have a bad credit status in order to be disqualified from finding work.

On the other hand, I don't think a regular office job is what Mr Sunde needs or wants. It's clear that he'll do bigger and more public things with his life.
Really the subject of the article was the article itself.
You'll note, however, that many of those platform points were polar opposites to policies enacted in practice once the Nazis came to power.

War profits continued (indeed, Nazis who tried to actually push for getting rid of the profit motive were quickly removed from their posts and marginalized).

"Unearned" income continued. The Nazis even maintained the gold standard for international trade long after the other major economies had devalued their own currency, and much of the mobilization of their wartime economy came via inventive capitalist measures from the Reichsbank, Reich Economic Ministry, military-economic departments of the Oberkommandowehrmacht, and more.

Likewise the trusts were not only not nationalized (at least, at any great scale), but businesses and industry were forced to join specified cartels based on their market sector. It was through these cartels that the Reich enforced economic policy.

Most of the "left wing" economic policies that were enacted were emulated using good old standard "right wing" methods. Markets remained; instead of centrally planning economic output directly, the Reich simply regulated the market such as to achieve mostly the desired effect. Instead of banning refrigerators outright, the Reich simply failed to import enough iron ore to make civilian goods once the priority list for Wehrmacht and export needs had been filled.

Chemical plants that were absolutely essential for the Reich's strategic needs were contracted to companies like IG Farben with profit guarantees and profit sharing agreements, methods that would be perfectly accept to almost any right-wing economist.

There were state industries too (Junkers, a strategic industry expansion program, a steel/coal production cartel, etc.) so it's not as if Nazi Germany didn't have traditionally left-wing attributes to it. But nor was it lacking in traditionally right-wing attributes or methods.

All of these methods were means to an end, as opposed to being taken from either a left-wing or right-wing palette of options because they were left- or right-wing.
Then switch. Stop whining about it. If this is as big of a problem as the OP purports, and if people start leaving in droves, then imgur will die. This is the risk that they are taking, and they know this and so do you and the OP. So just switch. Stop whining about it.
Good point on the arithmetic. Ok let' teach them about patterns and shapes. Let's have them play games. Let's have school field trips to museums, the woods or farms. Let's teach kids about playing together, about negotiating and all those things.

There is a big gap between "well arithmetic doesn't work before 6th grade" and "let have them live in the woods and carve long bows".
I agree, truly some of the thrill was conveyed through this post.

The organizers of the challenge seem delightfully evil and I imagine it is a blast to organize.

The Google Translate deciphering from latin was probably the most amusing part to me and no longer seems to work?
https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20...
> It is considered novel having both stimulant and anti-anxiety properties.

That would be handy. I did take an American anti-anxiety drug for a short while during a painful divorce, but I went from someone who gets hours of work done on the bus to work every day to someone who just stares out the window. Sure, I was happy and not worried and not desperate, but I wasn't getting half the amount of work done either.
Jeff Bezos accepts the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
And? It's his site and he can do what he wants with it. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Seriously.
From TFA:

> There are industry-standard interchange formats, namely COLLADA, that allow sharing assets between modeling tools and within the content pipeline in general. However, these formats are not optimized for size or runtime use and neither are modeling-tool-specific formats. At runtime, an application wishing to render an asset needs to do a significant amount of processing to transform the asset's content into data appropriate for the GL APIs.
Cowboy [1] uses a router, I don't think its a rails-ism.

Not to be That Guy, but why don't Elixir-ists just use Cowboy?

[1] https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy
I can't believe the linked article never says, "Eventually we'll know what these conditions are in a biological sense, after which this debate about drugs will go away, replaced by actual science, in which a drug either does or does not address an established, known cause."

So long as we administer drugs based only on their effect on symptoms but without understanding root causes, there will be all kinds of abuse and fads.
It's defcon, I think they could've pulled in a favor from google.
Nero... Perfect for a brief moment... Then WtF waaa is al this stuff and why does it all work poorly?
I wouldn't argue that home schooled children can't lead successful productive lives. It would be nice to see a study of which children are happier though. Those in school socializing all day; or those at home socializing for an hour or two in the evening. You get to interact with a wide variety of people at school from many different backgrounds. You can learn a lot from that and it can help you in many ways when you enter the real world. Homeschooling you're with your parents or a tutor all day and your social circle would likely be limited to those who live in your street. At this stage I think it's impossible to say which scenario is better, there needs to be a lot more research done. Personally though I am very happy I was not homeschooled. I would have been educated well - maybe even better - but I think I would have missed out on a lot of important experiences.

More anecdotal evidence:

When I was 0-8 years old we lived in neighborhoods full of kids. Then we moved to a place with none. I was much happier in the first place because of the socialisation. It didn't matter that the new places we lived were nicer or more convenient for certain things. I think this also hurt my social skills. I was pretty sociable at a younger age but compared with my peers my social skills have lacked since then. This can impact on interview performance, networking, etc.
Do they have a public compose endpoint? I'd love to add an option for them.
Post your first try score! (and don't waste more time playing, if you can)

Mine: 3387
Interesting idea.

One quick criticism:

I played a couple times and maxed out around 700pts. Then played a game where I didn't touch a single key -- no rotation whatsoever -- and managed to score 3292pts.

I'm not sure what this indicates, but it feels off.
Great to see more and more libraries making use of Scala.JS.

Autowire seems like a first step towards a framework like Google Web Toolkit, where client and server code can be written in the same language. The questions is then, what can we learn from GWT and what can be done better?

Maybe Java was the reason why GWT never became widespread (being less flexible than Javascript with closures and stuff), but this should have changed with Java 8?
Ah shoot, good catch. That page shouldn't be accessible over HTTP. Will push a fix to force a redirect to HTTPS.
Solar energy innovation and Silicon Valley
Walking man in CSS
"There are industry-standard interchange formats, namely COLLADA"

Haha. Most game devs I know wouldn't touch collada with a 10 foot pole. FBX on the other hand has established itself as an acceptable interchange format.
You need more teachers. I think you should only have 10 or 12 kids per teacher max.
If health is a human right, how is prohibiting someone from paying to be healthier productive? Note that prohibition even includes purchase of organs from the estates of dead donors.

If you want funds to come from a communal pot to reduce the problem of rich people getting more health than others that's one thing, but prohibiting the practice unless you have that sort of thing is kind of weird.