skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that you should structure your arguments to suit someone else's point of view, but rather that you should structure your argument such that it is clear what you are disagreeing with. Particularly if you are going to be as hostile as you were in your opening comment.

You accused him of "ignoring the results of this new study", acting "disingenuous at best", when what he said was well in line with both the new study and the old article. That is what I was objecting to. If both the new study and the old article and his thinking share an error - which possibility is suggested by your latest point - then raising that is interesting and useful. But it is not indicative of his being disingenuous or "ignoring data [he doesn't] like". (Arguably his latest comment is doing a little bit of that last, though being sure you catch everything gets harder when one feels unjustly attacked).
This worked really well for me after a few seconds of stuttering at the start. Looking at the network requests, it's streaming from an MP4 file on the server which I guess is being fed by the torrent. But doesn't it effectively mean that this site is hosting the MP4 of potentially illegal content - even if just a few seconds of it? Or even as just a container for it?
Tried an mkv from NYAA: no go, format not supported (loads to 100% but then gives the error)

Different mkv from Kickass: format not supported (without loading, apparently, though I wonder if it's cached given that it was Guardians of the Galaxy)

TV episode of Gotham: same as for previous

Something is happening because it says e.g. 'Gotham' in the top and retrieves a nice faded background of the cast but I keep getting 'format not supported'

EDIT: seems to be my browser or connection; trying a different machine on a different IP and it works very nicely and quickly indeed.
"Why Your Dog Thinks You're a Large, Friendly Dog."
Worked beautifully for me, including loading at different points. Very nice.
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One reason to still use an Arduino is realtime. The arduino's minimalist OS is realtime by default, but the BBB runs non-realtime Debian. They might need RT timings for the printer interface? You can add realtime linux extensions to BBB, but it's not a beginner task -- basically rolling your own Linux installation and writing your app as a kernel module. You can also use the PRU on the BBB to get insane RT performance, but you'll have to code it in assembly. I love the BBB, but Arduino is still an easier package for simple realtime.
I love graphs!

For those who found this interesting or inspiring check out "Graph Theory" by W. T. Tutte -- it's an exceptional book for those scarred by mathematics in elementary or secondary school and want a refresher to show them how cool it is.
As soon as firefox gets per process tabs in stable I'll switch back

As strange as it sounds, this is a reason why I don't use chrome as my "default" browser. I seem to find the web sites that leak resources and leave them open in tabs (one of my projects at work is a big culprit too). With firefox a runaway tab or two simply results in a single CPU pegged at 100% and max about 2GB of ram consumption. With chrome it will peg out a couple CPU's and eat RAM until my machine goes into swap. Usually this happens while I'm gone so simply unlocking the screen is a painful process as everything gets swapped in.

In other words I prefer having to kill firefox on a regular basis because its run out of RAM, than to have to reset my machine because its taking 10 minutes to unlock the screen.
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The worst part is that it starts the service and connects to China without your consent or making you aware of it. At least I can turn off Google sync without any issues.
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It is correct on first order that Bitcoins is isolated from bugs in sidechains. However, a good case can be made that sidechains could lead to more mining centralization, which is always the elephant in the room with Bitcoin.
This is really cool! I quite like the js port https://github.com/btmills/geopattern which you can drop into a website very easily.
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I agree with all of your points.

But one of the big advantages is the one click sign up, no need to add profile picture etc.

Plus email sign up takes too much time and filling information that people might not like to fill.

Overall I agree. But what alternative do we have?
If they send data from my phone (potentially private information) to a foreign country without telling me, then I think its reasonable to boycott them. If I knew that my local grocery store sent my private information to china I would boycott them too. But I'm fairly convinced that they don't do that.
Ok, this is interesting. From the article:

"For individuals, the trick is to be your own devil's advocate: to think through how your favored conclusions might be misguided; to ask yourself how you might be wrong, or how things might turn out differently from what you expect. It helps to try practicing what the psychologist Charles Lord calls 'considering the opposite.' To do this, I often imagine myself in a future in which I have turned out to be wrong in a decision, and then consider what the likeliest path was that led to my failure. And lastly: Seek advice. Other people may have their own misbeliefs, but a discussion can often be sufficient to rid a serious person of his or her most egregious misconceptions."

So, can you do it? Can you think through what could be wrong with your own argument? And what possible lapses or biases could had led you to such (putatively) unwarranted certainty?
TeamPostgreSQL is a web based Postgres interface with many of the features you mentioned. http://www.teampostgresql.com
Worked fantastic. Awesome.
>but, really, isn't life a little more interesting when things don't always go according to script, e.g. not every post on HN is another "Powder and Diaper Your Baby with Rust"-esque post?

If I wanted to read about random factoids, I'd go to /r/TIL. I come here for Rust. I flagged the OP FWIW because it's not related to hacking and it's not even news.
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That's a good idea. I can have my friends conduct mock interviews.
Are you looking for any additional advisors?
Stronger proof? One of the banks turned in the others in exchange for immunity. You don't think there was any documentation? Perhaps email or witnesses? Your points about burden of proof may be valid, but your case for a lack of evidence is itself lacking evidence.
You freeze your 2000 Sidecoins. That is then converted into some number of Bitcoins, the conversion of which is entirely dependent on how the Sidecoins work. (Likely the ratio of the number of Bitcoins dedicated to the sidechain to the number of existant Sidecoins.) A transaction is then submitted to the main chain, submitting the required proofs that you have frozen / destroyed the appropriate amount of Sidecoins to unfreeze a number of Bitcoins.

If the number of Bitcoins trying to be created exceeds the number committed to the sidechain, the transaction will fail. Otherwise, it will succeed.
Note that in modern x86 processors the overhead of unaligned accesses is nearly 0 - caching has more significant effect, so it's more important to make sure frequently accessed data can fit within a cache line even if it means some of it won't be aligned. Crossing cache-line boundaries is when things slow down.

http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for...

Edit: here's an algorithm that exploits this "nearly free" unaligned access for fast substring search: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/250566/Fastest-strstr-li...
Oh I wouldn't :)
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All absolutely great quotes -- and I *still couldn't stop thinking about how much this ying/yang reminds me of the hilarious quotes from "The Sphinx" in the movie, "Mystery Men" (1999, IMDB here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132347/quotes)

For example,
"He who questions training... only trains himself at asking questions."
It always could be worse; I didn't say I was significantly worried, I just think it's something to keep an eye on. Incentives are often surprising. I certainly agree that there are already some pretty screwy ones.
Back when I was a Cub Scout, I learned assembly language on my 6809-based TRS-80 Color Computer. A few years later at my first professional job we ran 300+ users on a single 68030 based minicomputers from Alpha Micro. I ended up learning 68000 assembly there, and later, C.

And while that may sound old school, it's not. When I was coming up, every time we talked old school someone would bring up paper tape and punched cards which totally predate me. I wonder where those people are now!
It's merely supposed to be 'of interest' to hackers. Clearly it was, for some at least. Should we flag articles about space telescopes, or medical devices? Just because they're not strictly about computers?
Please excuse the somewhat off topic and possibly ignorant comment but is importing classes from a URL a feature unique to the Go language?
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His solution to the EOF problem is ... disturbingly satisfying.

In the worst case imaginable (it's almost unimaginable) the transfer would just appear to be hanging right at the end and the user should try again.
Memory. The x86 line has anisotropic instruction encoding; more frequently-used instructions are shorter. Memory was very expensive. It took 1.5X - 2X the memory to write a program in 68K asm.
Note there is a newer version of the draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-21
The link points to version 20 (August 2014) of the draft, a more current version 21 (October 2014) is available at [1], linked in the article.

Chrome has been doing public key pinning out of the box for about three years now, though the feature has only been active for some Google properties and a couple of hand-picked high-profile sites [2]. Firefox has recently added support for static pins, plans to support the HTTP extensions exist [3].

Alternative or complementary proposals include DANE/TLSA [4] (DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities; stores certificate infos for any protocols in a new DNS record; requires DNSSEC) and TACK [5] (Trust Assertions for Certificate Keys; a similar mechanism to the one proposed in this draft but implemented as a TLS extension; possibly discontinued).

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-21

[2] https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html

[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Public_Key_Pinn...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...

[5] http://tack.io
I use it a lot, it's great for schema & queries but I don't really like it for data manipulation & export though, a bit cumbersome for my taste.
IT saves the torrents in host.i checked an video.the site maybe will be suspended because is hosted ilegaly contents

http://v4.joker.org/v/d027a2418e34d040f015a75376d627c0a022e2...
this is really great, worked better than i anticipated. maybe a xbmc addon in the future!
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Wouldn't it be the exact same centralization situation if the sidechains in question instead were developed as altcoins? The altcoins/sidecoins that use merge-mining may lead to centralization while the ones that do seperate mining probably won't?

Or is there any difference?
We have come full circle. Tables to CSS grid based frameworks back to Tables?

Tables are generally for structured content. They work and are perfect - Excel for example. Hundreds of cells on a page? Rendering / performance would be a nightmare.

CSS grids for layout - perfect and may cause some pain. Once you get it right the performance is there.

With css/tags there can be abuse and we must think of how we plan to present our content to the user who ultimately judges our work.

They do not care about the how it was implemented, they just want it now and that it works consistently.

We need to ensure we keep our sanity the balance is in between the two.

On another note, the use of colgroups should be mentioned with the above. It does help with rendering performance.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/single-page.html#the-colgroup-ele...

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Assemble a team or otherwise generate enough interest in making Permafrost[1] a reality, and you could have this. I'd love to work on this with somebody...

1. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Permafrost
I concur. But not just for entropy, for all movements. Time is a human construction to order sequences of events.

All our "time" measures are based on cyclics movements.

Make yourself a question, if ALL movement stop (include atoms), will time pass? will the arrow of time advance?
You worked on the ST firmware! That's so cool!
Didn't have time to look through the DOM. Is this a javascript torrent client? I think there was one out there in the wild before, but I'm not sure how good it was. I always thought if there was a simple JS torrent library out there, Bit torrent could make a comeback.
Wow, I didn't have any idea that that existed. That doesn't look discoverable at all and the Chome UI provides feedback that Firefox doesn't - but the ergonomics are just as good and that's enough for me to switch my home computers back to defaulting to Firefox.
Has your diet shifted?

I drink a lot of coffee and when I donated blood last, the person testing my iron levels remarked that it was a good thing I was giving blood, as the level was nice and high (they weren't remarking on my health, just on the high iron level). I don't take any supplements or eat a ridiculous amount of red meats and such, but I have a diet that includes some amount of meat, vegetables that are good sources of iron and breakfast cereal that is fortified with iron.
Is it worth it to buy supercomputers these days or just rent cloud time? I guess it you need it all the time, this may be the way to go, but couldn't you get a bulk rate from Heitzner or OVH?
Sure. In a cold vacuum with no atoms at all, those conditions are satisfied (no movement of any kind). But the vacuum continues to generate particle pairs and annihilate them; EM radiation continues to propagate. All on a strict clock.
I don't think any feminists support prostitution as a form of empowerment. So it scores pretty low.
That's not how I expected it to be designed. I assumed that you would only be asking for the pieces to fill a moving buffer starting from the beginning of the file (like a sort of client 'superseeding.')

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-seeding

super-leeching?
Sure. Is that widely supported?
Time, like space, is a relational concept -- e.g. the motion of an entity relative to the motion of another, and the position of an entity relative to that of another. Observe that we measure time in terms of the repetitive motion of chosen entities.
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There are actually several XBMC addons that do this sort of Torrent file streaming. Here's one: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200957
Yeah, that bit of the article was not very good.

Several paragraphs to say "Your cat can't figure out negative reinforcement - their brains just can't handle it! Change the environment instead."

Then right next to that, it's all "You should give your cat positive reinforcement, that totally works!"

Not that it's bad advice to have positive reinforcement come from you and negative reinforcement come from the environment, but the explanation is poor.
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If it all runs in the browser then its no different than running a libtorrent application locally or such locally
You don't think they're a front company for the NSA?

What possible motivation does anyone have for doing evil?
Damn, it's awesome that bandwidth has become this cheap.

This isn't a torrent client in your browser, the server actually does the torrenting for you and then streams the file to you as it's downloading on the server.
Didn't know about Diaspora or the suicide. Sorry to hear that it happened :(
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The article makes a few generalizations about evolution that don't really hold up. The idea that evolution does not have agency needs to be re-examined in the light of the fact that animals themselves have far more agency than we realized.

To use the author's example, cheetahs may well have all decided as a group to run faster, in the sort of 'social learning' way that we're just now starting to really get a grip on. I mean, adaptations don't just happen, beings have to use their abilities, and then the cells will respond by getting thicker, stronger, more responsive. Think about lifting weights. If agency isn't responsible for evolutionary advantages, then what is? Random differences? Really?

Evolution is way more complex than we realize. Every year, we come across crazy things that happen in our own bodies that just totally blow our minds. Right now I think our broader understanding of how evolution works is hampered by the fact that we just don't know yet how genomes hold on to experiences and then pass them along to our offspring. So we assume that every life form is a blank slate, limited to just the same genetic code all their fellow life forms share.

But just because we share the same template in one, specific way doesn't mean there can't be a ton of ways that fertilized zygotes can be different from each other too. And that those differences could result from the things our parents did in their lives.
I highly recommend this BBC documentary Illusion of Time non youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjGWLJNPcA
Or just recognition for a job well done, for recovering the work.
The Apollo project looks awesome, but the site is very shallow and doesn't provide much detail about the actual delivarables of the project, or its licensing.

It sounds as if maybe aims to be commercial, which sounds ... I don't know, like a hard sell these days.

It would be so awesome to pair it with some graphics processor in a suitable FPGA and ... uh ... write demos, I guess. :)
I agree with you and I understand that a recruiter works for the companies and not for me. Regarding "Engineers were super excited about this. Until I mentioned that part where they'd have to pay me, that is", what specific services were you thinking of providing and what rates would make it work?
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I believe your first link is still version 20. Here is version 21: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-21 .

Also, your second link point to a 404.

There is a 'g' missing in the link to Mozilla Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/SecurityEngineering/Public_Key_Pinn... .

And https://tack.io doesn't respond for me whereas http://tack.io does.
This is awesome, thanks for the link.
if radiation propagate, there are movement.
Imagine if even particle generation and radiation propagation stops.
Measure? No. But I never insisted we did stuff my way, only suggested it, and we often went with it.
> US Treasuries go south, the bubble bursts. The next day Chinese announce they start selling their Treasuries on the open market.

Selling treasuries seems to be more for sovereigns that are looking to raise money rather than park it.

Buyers of US treasuries appear to be in the "park" camp.
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But very cold entities - almost not moving. The latest 'atomic' clock uses "spin-polarized, ultracold atomic ytterbium". Its not the particle motion per se that's being measured; its fields around the particle, right? Not at all relative motion.
It's not like Google's just gifting them the money...
What if the data isn't a video.Does every format have a header which provides that it's actually a video?I assume it works through a stream feeding it with data at a time and then decoding it?
Typically the space telescopes and medical devices articles are related to startups. Those are okay. Startups and tech, that's the bread and butter of hacker news. Anything else is just weird and I don't see why anyone would post about it or read it. What does it matter what some british kids did in the 1850s or whenever? It doesn't help anyone become a better entrepreneur or hacker.
How do you think domestic cats came into existence? Prosocial behavior and tolerance of humans are traits that are equal parts nature and nurture in cats. Obviously current housecats are descended from those wild cats that were more accepting of human presence and had traits that made them accepted by humans as well. Still, individual cats must learn to interact with humans, and if they aren't habituated to human presence during the first couple of months of their lifes, they end up very different psychologically compared to if they are.
According to this (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4776112/is-it-possible-to...), it's not possible to build a bittorrent client in javascript.
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> It's part of the social contract that we have with the government.

Not everyone agrees with your interpretation of social contract theory. I, for one, do not agree willingly to any contract with any government, but that doesn't change their belief that they have a right to their authority over me.
What are the legal ramifications of streaming pirated content? Could you cache popular content to preserve downstream traffic? Or is that the loophole? This plus content aggregation/browsing.. hmm..
Seeking seems super fast, I'm impressed!
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This is a good point, but T-Mobile's not exactly in a monopolistic position.

Honestly, their music thing doesn't bother me too much. They included nearly every major service. It doesn't seem like they're playing favorites.
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I'm looking for an internship for the next summer. I know how to use Google (or DDG in my case) but I thought asking here wouldn't hurt since I'm sure lots of HN users have experience with past internships in London. Any info at all is highly appreciated!

I was hoping Mozilla had an open place in Europe (ideally London) but it doesn't seem to be the case.

So, where should I apply?

Thanks in advance.
i was hoping that it was a javascript torrent client, not a server based media player that happened to use a torrent to obtain that media (then immediately serving that media). It's a cool tech, but it's a tech that can be targeted by "authorities", and so sooner rather than later, will get taken down due to copyright claims.
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