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I'm really impressed with how powerful HTML has become with respect to video content. Of particular note is the Flow Player [0], which I love to see websites use, primarily because it works without JS enabled! In addition, it is fast and runs smoothly.

I'm simultaneously really (un)impressed how often websites over-engineer their video content. Of particular interest is Youtube, which is neigh-unusable over a slow connection because the player refuses to buffer ahead and constantly tries to be smarter than it is by switching video quality :(

[0] https://flowplayer.org/player/
The Navy has planes.
My intent was not to marginalize anyone .... Read my comment minus the joke.

If that's true, how about you simply make your comment minus the joke?

Also worth noting that those scams mostly come from the United States now, not Nigeria.

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/U-S-Internet-fraud-at-al...
Burt Rutan designed a more modern plane, but was turned down because it was too cheap. ARES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG9LlHcX8lg
What I find interesting is the mainstream denial or outright rejection of the concept that the West is engaged in psyops online, on sites and services we ourselves actively use.

If you go on Reddit, for example, you'll find plenty of highly upvoted articles discussing Chinese or Russian "propaganda", and an outright rejection of any suggestion that the US or its allies engage in the same behaviours themselves, despite there being overwhelming evidence supporting it.

It must be nice to be so efficient at propaganda that the very people you're targeting with it digest it so well that they'll promote the same agenda without second thought wherever they possibly can.
"I don't understand why this is an opinion piece."

"you'll find many people who disagree"

It almost is an opinion piece because you will find many people who disagree. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/opinion...:

"Opinion piece: An article in which the writer expresses their personal opinion, typically one which is controversial or provocative, about a particular issue or item of news"
Well, for that particular repository the README still encourages pull requests, so while that's still there I'd probably expect you to maintain the project. If you turned issues off and put in the README that you had stopped maintaining the project I'd think that would be enough.

Really, I think once you open source something you should be prepared to maintain it for perhaps somewhere between 3-6 months at a minimum. If it's popular, I'd expect you to maintain it while it's still relatively popular and people are regularly sending pull requests and reporting issues.

If the repo is still popular, I'd think that you'd probably have to hand it over to someone else if you're not going to look after it. If it's less popular, a simple note in the README should be fine.
I wonder if the suburbs will see a resurgence when it becomes a haven for those who need a bit more area for agriculture, or more solar to sell or work in micro-manufacturing. Also self-driving cars for travel and package delivery could find a healthy niche.
I think your entire argument breaks down because the Uber/Lyft experience is clearly substantially better than the offering you would apparently prefer (the current taxi scheme?).
Nigerian scammers don't have much to do with Nigerians themselves, so the joke isn't making fun of Nigerians, but rather the perception of Nigerian entrepreneurship until now.
I'm a fan of the techniques as described in : http://smile.amazon.com/Expert-Business-Objects-Books-Profes...

Basically, it uses the underlying runtime to serialize the entire object to the other machine. The theory being, if object oriented programming ties data to functions, why not ship both over the wire?

It works really well with the micro-services paradigm.

Not exactly a 100% solution, but it does solve the issues at least among the languages the runtime supports.
> That's a classic problem (exploration vs exploitation, aka coverage vs convergence) in optimisation problems.

The nicest approach to exploration/exploitation I've seen for simulated annealing is to run two searches side-by-side. Their relative "temperatures" (ie. probability of accepting a worse solution) depends on their relative fitness: if both are the same fitness, both have the same temperature; if one has higher fitness than the other, its temperature lowers (so it can "focus" on that high-fitness region) whilst the other's temperature raises (so it can "spread out" to find higher-fitness regions).

Also, regarding the No Free Lunch Theorems, I don't give them much thought since they don't take the computational complexity of the problem into account. They say that every search algorithm, when averaged over all problems, achieves total performance that's the same as random search. The real world doesn't contain all problems; in particular, we care more about (computationally) simple problems than unrealisitically-complex ones. Worrying about NFL for search is like worrying about adversaries with infinite computing power in crypto; yes your algorithm will be weak against such an attacker, but it's unrealistic to care about.
And again, the alternative is? Not to provide CAS at all? Precision munitions from 30,000 feet?

As others have already stated, that's pretty much the job of any CAS; go get your butt shot off while trying to destroy the other guy first.

Just because MANPADS are becoming more dangerous and more ubiquitous doesn't mean that the job of CAS no longer exists, it simply means that the ongoing battle of offense versus defense continues. You adapt, you move on.

If the Air Force wants to create a new, better, A-10 (as the A-10 was a new remake of the A-1), and then retire the A-10, I don't think many people would be complaining. But the fact is, the Air Force keeps coming up with rather asinine, nonsensical, and downright lies about why they should get rid of the A-10, but yet they have nothing to replace it with.

The whole argument of "But it's a dangerous environment, it might not survive" doesn't quite fly when you're talking about fighting wars. That's what wars are, dangerous environments in which people might not survive. It doesn't mean that you still don't fight them (ignoring the fact that yes, we've certainly have made poor choices in which wars to start/fight in lately).
I don't know. I did not want to insult anyone, so I avoided the general term "feminist", because not all of them want to enforce every aspect of gender-neutral language, which can be quite annoying in a language like German, where everything has a gender. Of course this case (listing women next to wine and singing) is quite extreme.
Dividends are taxed at the marginal rate? US corporate "Qualified Dividends" are taxed at the same rate as Capital Gains.
Yep, free starbucks
http://freestarbucks.co

I actually built a community supported Starbucks card into my app for my 26,000 active users to enjoy and I've loaded a bit of funds on there so far I think they are hooked!
That's not what people do in natural language processing. Don't appropriate the terminology of other fields for your own purposes and claim you're doing that field.
Taking away the A10 to feed the JSF program is like deleting txt files to get hard disk space back.

>In other words, the USAF is arguing against maintaining a weapon system that doesn't deter conflict against states one iota,

None of that other garbage deterred any conflict.

>doesn't deter conflict against extremists (who are not deterrable by the same military calculus in any event),

Right, so, why mention it?

> and whose most prominent capability isn't that much of a leap ahead of other platforms the USAF (and US Army) already have to maintain and field anyways.

[x] Can draw enemy fire while wingman locates attackers.

Not a capability of any other aircraft in the stable. Thanks to another poster (tim333) we have yet another recent example of an A10 actually doing a job like that, which no other group would do. http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/4667...

I don't know where the AC130 were but the helicopters didn't want any part of it. The A10 pilots were all like "I'll go draw some fire while you look for 'em." You can't do that in a helicopter.
"This should go a long way as Africa is not limited by many of the strict regulations or entrenched cooperate interests that can limit trying new things. Mobile payments taking off there long before here in the US being a good example of this in action."
For sure, but there are a lot of other people on this earth who's interest it is to get those bucks ;].
The Return of Africa’s Strongmen
I work at Stripe (we handle credit card payments for Instacart). Have you checked the cashback situation recently? AFAIK, IC charges have been coming through as groceries for at least a few months now. Happy to dig further if you'd like to email me at anurag@stripe.com.
With regards to your first link, I think the EFF has a losing argument with their recent addition to the Jewel v. NSA case. Their argument, by analogy:
$ seq 1 3 | grep -v 1 | grep 2 > collected.txt
The government argues that only "2" is collected, and furthermore there's an extra step to ensure that "1" is never collected. Even though they are never seen by a human/entered into a database/saved to disk/transmitted elsewhere, the EFF argues that 1 and 3 are also collected because they exist in memory for a millisecond before grep discards them. Without coming out and saying it explicitly, they're essentially arguing that it's illegal for the NSA to collect targeted information from any network connection unless they can show that the connection is only used by the target. I don't think the court will ultimately agree with them. If you're interested, you can read the EFF's argument[1] and the corresponding opposition argument[2].

With regards to the independence of the President's Review Group and the PCLOB: all of the members of the PCLOB are confirmed by Congress, so the President can't just staff them with people favorable to his policies; and if you read the PRG report you'll see that it called for quite a few things that directly contradicted the President's statements beforehand (e.g.: moving the phone records to a 3rd party, splitting up NSA and US Cyber Command, limiting NSLs, etc.)

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1346...

[2] https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1346...
I'm confused... What subsidy do you speak of exactly? Please, guide me through your reasoning here. You say suburbians are demanding some sort of subsidy? Lowering your quality of life? How?

My word, really, you'll definitely have to come up with some backing behind your comments, please. Because blaming people with such direct and specific words such as "demanding/getting subsidy", and "lowering quality of life" simply by virtue of them not choosing to live the way you deem the most "efficient" is quite arrogant.

>"I may object to a car-centric lifestyle based on my aesthetics but that's not enough to make me actually do something. OTOH, demanding a subsidy and lowering my quality of life so you can enjoy your lifestyle, that's something which will make me vote/support a politician etc."

Way to turn around the blame here. You've taken a purely simple, innocent action such as "choosing to live in a quiet, less-populated area, away from traffic", into some hostile, directed act. You then claim that them doing so is justification for you to actually vote against them or their way of life. I don't see you mentioning what that voting or politician will do to fix this supposed problem, but I can bet you that whatever it is, it's more hostile, directed, and purposeful than what you claim these people did to make you vote that way in the first place.
EvoLisa was a great post. I spent a few nights trying to reproduce it and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I eventually got to the point where I was using SSE instructions (I think it was PSADBW) to speed up the fitness function. It was loads of fun. OpenGL is probably the solution to really upping the generation frequency, but I stopped messing with it before I got there.
NASA presents unexpectedly successful Cannae drive tests
Sorry I skipped over that critical modifier. I agree with the GP then.
The YotaPhone 2 has two faces, zero gimmicks
That's a fair point. I think it can be done more cooperatively, though, without the animosity.

Still, there are definitely parts of California that are the best place to grow certain things, and there's also something to be said for locally grown produce in terms of carbon footprint and national food security.
I've been actively staying away from CORBA myself.

Back in college, we tried our hand at using Ice http://www.zeroc.com/iceVsCorba.html and it seemed to do the trick.

Still, it does assume that both parties have access to the template generated by ice - thus going back to the issues surrounding needing a sort of schema.

That being said, there does seem to be options for interacting using json: http://ice2rest.make-it-app.com/ and as of 3.3.1 it apparently supports Google's Protocol Buffers for flexibility.
It's loaded weight is around 1/10 that of the A-10, they aren't at all comparable aircraft. The derided elsewhere in this discussion Scorpion sounds like it's maybe 5 times the plane the ARES is, and these things don't scale linearly in terms of effectiveness.
That's not what is done in NLP because that cannot be done by NLP... for the reasons that Derrida pointed out decades ago.
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But it is their willing choice to live that way. And they pay taxes, just like the rest of society. Remember, we're all equal under the law, so they say.

Next thing you'll be telling people "No, you can't have only one person per apartment/room, you have to share with at least 3 people in bunkbeds. One person per home/room is 'too great a tax on society's resourced to maintain'.".

Yes, that's a slippery slope. But one that points out the futility of arguments such as yours. Namely, that you've drawn an arbitrary line where you find convenient. And along with it, you've conveniently neglected to acknowledge that other people would have drawn that line further, or closer.
SWM – xcode-less Swift module management and build
Yeah. In the 1 day timeframe between temp and permanent fix you could not upload resume, which is a breaking change for end users.

But, I think it was pushed because it was Sunday and Careers team was not on site to properly/permanently fix the bug.
How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process
Ask HN: As a freelancer what do you use for project management?
Most project management apps/tools assumes you work with a team which is not the case for some people. So as a freelancer/solo developer what do you use to manage your projects?
Maybe I am misunderstanding this, but are they proposing that people include the full license text with every JavaScript script?
Hey, that's really helpful. Thank you for the well thought out answer.
I tend to have similar problems, compounded with the fact that I have been working on remote for the most part of the past five years or so. Here are, in no particular order, some of the things that have helped me.

Computer and desk are for work; leisure time should happen somewhere else, using something else. The more time you spend goofing off while in the exact same place where you work, the more likely you are to do it during work hours.

Staring for long hours at a screen can seriously mess up your sleep. If you want to read at night, do it on physical books, an e-book or a reading app with good night-mode (I like Instapaper as well).

When I need to focus and think about a problem, I like to leave the computer aside for a while, take pen and paper, and sketch possible solutions. Depending on your job, it could work for you as well.

Get out of the house. This depends on the person, but I have never really been able to focus when working at home: I always end up going to a cafe or library, as having other people around (even if they are strangers) helps me focus.

When I need to write a long letter or blog post, I often use my iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard. I lay back on a chair/couch, keyboard on my lap and iPad on a table in front of me, out of easy reach. The idea is to get in a comfortable position where the only thing I can do is type.

Finally, one has to accept the fact that it is simply not possible to keep up with the flow of new stuff. We need to prioritise, least we start forgetting the really important things because our minds are too full with cruft, too used to skimming through things without time for reflecting on them.
I also used simulated annealing for this problem. But I only added one triangle at a time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848108/reproducing-image...

I'll see if I can dig up the code.

It's a fun problem. I still think about it a lot.
Great advice thanks.
There is one good point made, though: if you don't plan on maintaining a project, you might as well disable issues and pull requests on Github. Leaving them on gives the (false) impression that you'll respond to them.
That is a big source. :)
Thanks; as you can probably guess, I'd just Google Translated; but good to learn some new vocab; think I'll join @sillysaurus3 in his new hobby.
There was a recent discussion about Hy from another post. You may be interested in reading the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8696975 (309 points, 3 days ago, 77 comments)
>> If you want to make this work in Chrome as well, there are projects such as RecordRTC and MediaStreamRecorder.
Coincidentally, I'm reading Roy McWeeny's Classic book Symmetry: An Introduction to Group Theory and Its Applications [0] right now. It's a "leisurely but reasonably thorough" (as its author describes it) look at finite groups with an eye towards scientific applications, a good practical introduction for readers with a decent math background.

Hermann Weyl's book Symmetry [1] is a more truly leisurely introduction, much more a discussion of the ideas than a math book.

0. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486421821/

1. http://www.amazon.com/Symmetry-Hermann-Weyl/dp/0691023743
> It may seem convoluted, but since you are able to choose your order and issue you would like to discuss, the amazon representative calling you doesn't have to go through all the verification nonsense and looking up orders and such silly steps.

You are right that these are advantages, and I'm OK with it; but notice that you have to be logged in (or enter your password) to see these options. It seems to me that requiring you to be logged in to find the phone number is still at least a bit ridiculous.
You have no responsibility. If people want bugs fixed, they can fork it and do it themselves...
Simon Quinlank would approve.
Woman raped by an Uber driver in Delhi
Sure, no real-time algorithm can match what can be done by hand on a single image, but for video editing and real-time rendering, perfect manual tonemapping is expensive or impossible. You go with a flawed tonemapping algorithm, or you don't have any tonemapping at all.
Github/Gitlab issues - even with non-programming team members, like customers and designers.
Thanks for sharing. Allow me to provide another possible aid for those who would not be well-served by the kind of isolation and regimented schedule one would encounter on a Mormon mission (e.g. those with delayed sleep phase). I also went on such a mission for two years, and my mind could never adapt to the 14-hour 6-day workweeks.

The only solution that worked for me, which I figured out years later, was controlled caffeine intake with just the right calorie balance plus an interesting career that isn't affected by delayed sleep phase. With those two things, my motivation increases, scatterbrainedness decreases, and I can get significant things done.
I'm in the program now (demo day next week!). The goal of the program from StartupChile's perspective is to make Chile the technology hub for Latin America, which it seems to be succeeding in. The goal is not specifically to produce great startups (although it has been a good feeder for other accelerators, and a few have raised some VC).

The entrepreneurs that travel to Chile get equity free funding and have to help build the ecosystem (either through teaching, sharing their network, running events, etc). There are 3 classes of startups a year, 100 startups in each batch, so the network of smart people grows and more of that knowledge is shared with local Chilean entrepreneurs (and entrepreneurs from other parts of Latin America who will likely stay because of the economy/opportunities here).

If anyone has questions about the program, happy to talk more about it. I have had a great experience.
Thanks a lot this was great advice.
Why are you shocked? Investing in a software stack for a website is non-trivial. If it's working for them then it's throwing money away to change it right now.
Great thanks so much
It bothers me a lot that most if not all of today's cryptography is completely reliant on P not equal NP (which we still don't know but always assume) and that designing new algorithms is still based on design patterns and good practice, rather than rigorous proofs in complexity. Of course I'm aware that we just have no other choice for the time being, that is, until there are significant advances in complexity theory.
The article reports, "Mr Angel also finds that almost every city is becoming less dense. In 1920 Chicago squeezed 59 people into each hectare of land; now, by his reckoning, it manages just 16. The urbanised area of Mexico City is about half as densely populated as it was in 1940. Beijing’s population density has collapsed from 425 people per hectare in 1970 to just 65 people per hectare, or about the same as Chicago at its most crowded." That's certainly true where I live. The city that defines my metropolitan area had its peak population during my lifetime the year I was born, and has been losing population each year since until quite recently. Now the city is regaining a bit of population, and some of the inner-ring suburbs where I grew up (but not all of them) have embraced "new urbanism" and are as densely populated as they have ever been, but even many of the inner-ring suburbs are losing population, while the metropolitan area continues to grow as the children who grew up in the inner ring now bring up their children in bigger houses on bigger lots even farther away from the city. This is generally happening everywhere as countries reach a certain level of economic development. The story of Taiwan, the other country where I have lived long-term, was leaving the countryside for cities during my childhood, but there too (in a national context of birthrates below replacement, and thus an eventually declining population) the core cities are beginning to empty out as the surrounding suburban cities grow, and housing development is spreading up hillsides and into other areas where there is more space for yards and larger houses for ever-smaller households.
> it defines functions or methods and either loads an external script (from html) or is loaded as one,

Under this particular term, I can't think of a single web site that I have written which would be considered to be "trivial".

That said, I appreciate the underlying concern - that without significant changes to the browser, you have little to no fine-grained control over what is run by that browser. While there are add-ons which block scripts from running entirely, there are no add-ons that I know of [0] which would allow you to run a user-provided alternative to a script specified by the web page.

[0] I can, actually, think of way to potentially work around this with a combination of greasemonkey and NoScript - block certain scripts and provide your own functions which mirror those provided by the blocked scripts. Would make for an interesting project.