skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do journalists already have a copy of everything he took? If not that could be a powerful negotiating tool.
Lag, NSA, Games. Enough said?
Yes it works in a UILabel on the app. The quick solution would be to change the name of the company but unfortunately we can't do that unless we legally change the name of the organization as well (I think).

Thanks for showing me that app. We are using literally the same character in our name, I will try to get in touch with them.
> > situation in Russia has deteriorated

> That's rather extreme, and I'm not aware of the slightest shred of evidence for it.

It's winter. Even diehard Russians who will gladly give their life for Mother Russia want to leave.

On a more serious note, I don't believe there is a place on earth he could expect to get treated fairly.
I "get" how he could end up in a military tribunal because "laws be-damned" but not sure what sort of tortuous logic they could use to justify that. He was a civilian when he committed his acts so I believe he would legally be facing a civilian court system.

I agree "national security" would be invoked to hush it all up but it would certainly add to the body of evidence that the people in charge got to go.
Ah, LM vs NT hash.
Ya, totally sure! Stuff like Profiler, Occlusion Culling, Render-to-Texture, and Post-Processing Special Effects are all now included. You can see it all this page, where they list all the "Engine Features" which are now the same for both versions. I think Unity should have listed some of this on their main chart, but perhaps they are trying to emphasize the value of Pro, because they don't want to lose pre-orders.

http://unity3d.com/unity/engine-features
It could just be a case of the Russian government realizing he's never going to give them what they want, so they decided to stop helping him out in the hopes that a lengthy prison sentence might encourage him.

What I did get out of Citizenfour is that Snowden understands international politics, and that he would know his existence in Russia will last only as long as Putin needs him for. But given the increasing distrust in Russia towards all things American right now, it can't be a particularly welcoming environment for someone who considers himself a crusader of truth and freedom.
Maybe he could get the same deal as Petraeus?
Is it wrong to ask someone that makes an assertion to provide a source or evidence? I don't think I asked in an offensive way.
Should probably check the query syntax and capabilities before making a judgement?
Right, but why do fear mongers take it for granted that the subset k is likely to be “exterminate, exterminate”? Look, every AGI researcher I have ever read was well aware of this, and it's their primary concern. It's the central question really. Not so much what n and k to set, but how to get such an entity to do anything at all. Why do biological entities do anything? They have motives. Why do they have motives? Because they have biological constraints, and a hardwired self preservation drive. How to get that in a machine made by us rather than a billion years of natural process, that's the hard question. How to make a machine with the equivalent of motives and emotions. Both sides of the problem are well recognized.

In an ideal world I would prefer this research (AGI, and there is a quantum leap to be made between self driving cars and AGI) to stay strictly under the auspices of “pure science”, i.e. academia. No government, no private interests. But that's not going to happen. The next best thing, I think, would be to not let those in power monopolize the research.
>> As for a presidential pardon, I don't think that can happen without a conviction. Can you get a preemptive pardon?

Worked for Ford and Nixon: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Proclamation_4311
> It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that this programme changed my life. It opened my eyes to what eventually became my career. It exposed me to other high-schoolers like me. It made me friends I still have today. It still stands as one of my most formative experiences.

The difference being that even if you had missed out on this one, you would have most likely had quite a few more as a white guy.

> Now, each spot once of those poor students occupied was a spot which could have been occupied by an excellent student.

Excellent student? Someone could be an excellent student that's never done simple addition before and look horrible in an algebra class because of that fundamental education not being there.

> The poor students weren't poor students because they were female, or because they were non-white, but because they were unintelligent and/or uneducated.

I find it interesting that you put unintelligent before uneducated, you might want to self-examine and see if you hold some prejudices. I've found that it's almost always lack of education and/or lack of opportunity creating the environment you've described.

> Each of those spots represented a young life which wasn't changed like mine was. Which of those students, unaccepted because of their gender or colour, dropped out of high school, never applied to college, committed suicide or majored in some non-technical field? How dare anyone think that's right?

You're right. See the thing is, for every white male/female that this happened to it happens disproportionately more to women, people of color , and women of color increasingly in that order.
Obama is no saint, but I suspect he's better than the alternatives.
Obama is surprisingly distrubing in some regards.
We'd ask it to produce a simplified version.
Clicking through the links and a little bit of searching, this seems to be closer to the original source:

http://tech.163.com/15/0304/02/AJR1IG2P000915BE.html

There are no claims of boosting battery life by 50%.
I could be missing something but I think this problem (sharing) fundamentally either requires some sort of non-standard software installed or some centralized solution that can utilize standard software (for example, a web-based solution). But then it's no longer decentralized.
Take into account that at least some his image was the result of a carefully planned PR. This is a known marketing tool for companies who sell luxury products.
It's slow. Real slow. The original demo really stressed Ember's pathological cases, so it was a great thing to keep in mind as we developed Glimmer.
Just add 'prima facie' to your predication and you've covered your ass.

I predict Bitcoin to $10k sometime in the next 5 years. Prima facie of course!
The article you linked with ends with

"only way to build computers that can interpret scenes like we do is to allow them to get exposed to all the years of (structured, temporally coherent) experience we have"

This may appear daunting until you realize robots can share memories. Five robots running around for a year is equivalent to one robot running around for five years. Does not Google have 25 cars driving around experiencing the world right now?

I also see skeptics running to computer vision as an example of how far we are from human level AI. Is that just the hardest problem to solve? Is it the most useful problem to solve?
Able to submit questions in Chrome but not in Firefox.
TLDR; Large binary assets are handled poorly by Git/Mercurial.

I too have been bitten hard by this. Being a mercurial user, I tried large-file-extensions but on a team this leads to file corruption/non-synchronization too often to be practical.

The most practical "solution" I've found is to actually ignore the issue. When your repository gets too bloated, start a new one.
Those foods are hyper-appetizing but they're not what most people call delicious.
https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/copyright
Beautiful Erotica website with awesome typogrpahy
Well, you do that anyway when you allow people to check out a local copy of the code. Just as in most VCSes, you can set up a git server to only allow checkout of specific branches.
I can understand how one would interpret it that way - implying that milk, butter and bread are not staples in Indian food - but I don't think that's the case. The wording is confusing, but I think we get the most consistent meaning interpreted my way.

Whether or not that interpretation actually represents reality, however, is a different matter.
What an incredibly clueless post. I thought we’d left that level of misunderstanding behind us a few years ago.

There is no such thing as a RESTful URL. Characters in URLs don’t matter.

GET and POST have different semantics. Ignoring the benefits of caching is just dumb.

The semantics of status codes and verbs are defined pretty clearly. You might have to read an actual spec.

A paragraph starting with “A core difference between REST and RESTful …” physically hurts.

I can’t believe I just wasted time actually commenting on this.
Chrome Drops Support for Android ICS
Thanks downvoters! One of the sources listed above is the first link Google showed. It really does work.
See this blog post by the author showing his earlier work in visualizing binary files: http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html
Just to provide a counterpoint, I had a master sergeant who would flip the fuck out if he saw obvious problems. The idea was that if he could find obvious problems, then his juniors don't give a fuck at all, and there are going to be a lot more not-so-obvious problems. This was a cue for him to go on a rampage through the section and cause pain and hardship for everyone.
Demo of embers original performance with dbmon along with angular and react https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5e7kWSHWTg
VikingCoder,

Have you actually used Magic? I'm a reporter for a new startup Tech.pro and am writing a story about Magic. Looking for users. Please let me know! Thanks!
I find another aspect of this announcement VERY interesting: the SPIR-V immediate language.

I haven't finished reading the PDF [0] yet, but it looks like LLVM, but for hardware.

[0]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/spir-v/specs/1.0/SPIRV.pdf
> Speaking as a so-called privileged person myself,

Wait didn't you say you were a black woman? Why do you call yourself a "so-called privileged person"?
> Why does it matter what you do with the corpse?

If you have to kill something, or destroy something, at least have a good reason for doing so.

Cutting down a whole forest for no reason is not a good way to behave.
They showed that side by side. Imagine the page reloading every 2 seconds instead of at the rate it is now. The improvement is incredible to see.
But that is the point... you don't have to store it in an underlying browser db. It runs as an in-memory store if you don't use an underlying engine. The persistence module is an optional extra and doesn't even need to be included in the library.
For people doubting if this will work, check out OnLive[1], you can try game demo's for free, the experience was very good for me

[1]https://games.onlive.com/
Hi there, I'm Lauren from BitTorrent. Hope this explanation helps!

When you upgrade to 2.0, all 1.4 folders will still exist. You can continue to sync your 1.4 folder with both 1.4 and 2.0 builds of Sync. The only difference is that your 1.4 folders will not gain any of the new 2.0 functionality like permissions changes and syncing on-demand.
IMO, bigger risk is the climate change momentum put into motion from extraction of fossil fuels at economically feasible levels. Economic pressure was adding to motivation to address global climate change - but the collapse of oil prices eases that, leaving scientific forecasts alone...
Six Mo. After Acquisition, Caviar Has Tripled Order Volume and Doubled Headcount
I honestly can't comment on the specifications, but seeing how you're familiar with them, can you elaborate? What makes them ludicrous? How would you structure the specifications to be more reasonable? How would you layout the incentive structure to ensure the contractor delivers a safe, secure and reliable system?
I don't want to go all Clinton here, but, please, lets first define "prediction". Here are some predictions that have general consensus-

1. You will die someday ( so will I )

2. The Bay Area will experience an earthquake in next decade

3. A few islands will go under due to sea level rise.

I wouldn't like to call the above predictions - they are too sun-will-rise-in-the-east obvious. Its like looking at the dumbarton bridge & predicting - someday that bridge will fall. That's a biblical prediction - all standing things must fall, bridge is a standing thing, ergo, given enough wear and tear, it too will crumble and fall.The oldest standing bridge in the world is like 2800 years old & is in a much more geologically stable place than the Bay area, so what chance does dumbarton have ?

Now here are what I call predictions -

1. qqq $200 by 2018

2. esn replaces fizzbuzz in 2019 :)

3. cnn,rnn,esn become middle school curriculum in 2020

I mean, here you have a reasonable level of confusion. Yet, if you plot the probability over time for each of those predictions, the slope is definitely positive. qqq has doubled in the past 3 years, give it another 3 years & it'll probably double again. Given this pervasive SMI fetish, it's only logical that startups replace their fizzbuzz with "in the next 20 minutes, code up an echo state network in haskell". And if sama's actually right, cnns & rnns are going to get so commonplace society is going to want middle schoolers to ace their exams with questions on "ten key differences between the recurrent neural net & the convolution neural net" instead of the pedestrian garbage we teach them now - "on a z3, if 1+2=3 and 1+1=2, how much is 3+3 ?" So the poor kids instead of sweating bullets & laboring through convoluted reasoning like "since 1 + 2 is 3, so 2 +1 is 3 per abelian, and 1 + 1 is 2, that means 3 + 1 per cayley unique column entries must be 1, which implies 3 is the identity, so 3 + 3 must be 3 as well. Ergo 3+3=3. Voila!" can actually make useful technological predictions about which esn based startup will cross a trillion dollar market cap by the time the kid hits puberty.
The people that I know that work(ed) at Netflix say they should bring it back in house. My understanding was that Reed+team got snookered by IBM and said 'never again.' To wit, look at their CDN initiative, that's not outsourced to AWS.

Agreed that case-by-case makes sense, but we're pattern matchers, and we should group those cases into situational models.
The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today that it expects will be able to walk, talk, see, write, reproduce itself and be conscious of its existence. [...] Later Perceptrons will be able to recognize people and call out their names and instantly translate speech in one language to speech and writing in another language.

- The New York Times in 1958 after a press conference with Rosenblatt. ("New Navy Device Learns By Doing; Psychologist Shows Embryo of Computer Designed to Read and Grow Wiser")

We now have walking, talking, object recognizing, writing, self-replicating, face-detecting, text-to-speech converting, and translating computers. All at a scale and accuracy surpassing us mere mortals. We do not know enough about "being conscious of our existence" to measure this in other animals and digital life forms. Perhaps "humans predicting future predictive capability of machines" is fundamentally flawed. Perhaps the above article drew an unnecessary amount of ire and criticism. Probably a fuzzy combination of the two.
I don't have a favorite. Different modes of knowing have their own limitations; it behooves us to be aware of them and look from other angles at a question, not shoehorn everything into one way of understanding. Empiricism is in vogue; everyone loves data because it is "objective" - within its bounds. That doesn't mean it gives us better insights all the time. Indian food being a great example.
DEA Says That Legalizing Pot Will Create Stoner Rabbits
> just like manning got along with his years of solitary

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I dont know if this is exactly the same app, but it looks like it: http://youtu.be/z5e7kWSHWTg?t=5m07s (ember is on the left, then angular, then react)
That's not really fakery, though. It's giving the dog a 100% valid marker to use. The dog doesn't care if it can supply water.
An open letter to Eric Schmidt: Why we fear Google (2014)
I saw the original at a Meetup a while back and it was crash-the-browser slow. This is far improved.
Indeed. I work on hg a lot (and custom git servers some), and I'd be quick to tell you that Subversion is a lot better in the common case than either git or hg on large binary files.
I found this summary when it came up in a recent previous discussion:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_hash

vs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_LAN_Manager#NTLMv1

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NT_LAN_Manager#NTLMv2
Even if he goes to jail for 10 years and then gets out, then what? He would still face the big risk of "mob justice," since a significant portion of the population thinks he's a traitor.
How to build your customer profile
Thanks for stopping by to answer questions. My question is about privacy...

Since you must sign-in to use Paperspace (and everything you do is saved or performed online), do you track user activity in any way? For example, apps used, tasks performed, sites visited.

If you do track, what kind of data do you collect? Is the tracking data tied to individual accounts? Or disassociated from them? How long do you keep this data? Is it anonymised?
This post feels childish and passive aggressive. Just make your argument, if you have one.
so, what were you selling?
Making an example of him for other prospective whistleblowers.
Safari and Android browsers are vulnerable.

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/03/attack-of-we...
"Fugitive ex-U.S. spy Snowden in talks on returning home: lawyer"

What a horrible, slanted, and incredibly unfactual title for this article.

Of course he's negotiating. Why not?
For now it's closed source, but I'm considering making it open. :) For now, I don't want to, because I'm entering competitions in this field.

Thank you for your kind words.
>It could just be a case of the Russian government realizing he's never going to give them what they want, so they decided to stop helping him out in the hopes that a lengthy prison sentence might encourage him.

"what they want"? he entered the country without any of the documents if those are what you're referring to. his safe life in russia acts as a snub to washington at a time when US/russian relations are at a historic low, which is presumably the entire reason they gave him a visa and refuse to extradite him to begin with. it's no great expenditure on the part of the russian state to host him, he's just a guy living with his girlfriend
Reused Abstraction Principle
My first reaction was, "Gee, what could possibly go wrong?". Eep. But apparently there is some good science behind this?
> It could just be a case of the Russian government realizing he's never going to give them what they want, so they decided to stop helping him out in the hopes that a lengthy prison sentence might encourage him.

But they did get what they want. They got a great idea of NSA/US SIGINT operations and a smear against the US government.

What else do you think Russia wants?
Show HN: Between – Screens. A code / design micro-podcast
> Technically, no. But how many projects out there would accept an email patch?

Mercurial works with email patches. Not only would they accept it, that's the only way to contribute, sending emails to mercurial-devel.

> They'd probably reject it and tell you to issue a Pull Request instead.

Obviously you're supposed to use the project's workflow, but the point is nothing prevents you from setting up a patch model with a DVCS. Quite the opposite in fact, both Git and Mercurial have facilities for automatically formatting and sending patchsets, and for applying trucktons of patches.

Ref: git am, git format-patch, hg export, hg import and hg email
That's odd, I don't happen to have Firefox with me, do you know what in the source code could cause that?
Wait, was this a serious post or some sort of The Onion-like satire?
Has anyone here used Magic? I am a reporter for a new startup Tech.pro and am writing a story about Magic. I'm looking to interview users about their experience for the piece. Please let me know. You can email me at laf319@gmail.com, or reply to the post. Thanks!
> I moved all of my repos from GitHub to Gitorious in order to get away from proprietary software

> I guess I will just self-host my own GitLab CE instance now.

I moved from Google Code to a forked version of indefero[1]. I would be happy to post the link but I don't want to be a shameless post. Indefero itself actually has some problems that I fixed (such as a scale problem), but otherwise it's pretty stable. I have over 100 projects in my instance and it's working really well.

I used Rhodecode for awhile before they sold out - and while it was nice looking - it seemed like every new version introduced a new bug or issue. It was also a pain upgrading.

A lot of people dislike google code because it doesn't have the "social" aspects of pull requests - but the pull requests I've offered have not been pulled or the author of the project wanted to keep requesting modifications that it just wasn't worth my time. The later was actually an important fix because his project was just completely broken...

I like google code because it's just simple no frills. Uploads/wikis/source all right there.

[1] - http://projects.ceondo.com/p/indefero/
Detour is hiring engineers and marketing/BD
I think they could make some tortured legal case that because he was working as a security contractor with a certain clearance and had access to XX information and signed XXX legal release forms, he could be tried as a member of the military.

Or heck, name him an "enemy combatant" and just detain him indefinitely in some Polish blacksite. People will forget his name in time.
I've been in some pretty bad ones (USG software dev) - I agree that sometimes you might need an emergency duck, but that's when you need to start looking somewhere else. If they're crazy or dysfunctional enough for more than an occasional ED, odds are that they'll break you or fire you eventually.
You're putting words in my mouth that I did never say. I'm not blaming git for anything nor do I consider git a bad tool. I'm using git for practically all my versioned data. I just don't consider it the tool that needs to solve all cases where I - legitimately or not - want to version data. A good craftsman should have more tools at his disposal than just a blunt hammer.

So you can doubt my use case but I consider it severely impolite to pretend that you know better. Actually you're quite nicely illustrating one of the points in the article.
1/ Adrian C. rocks. I had his sun performance book back in the 90s and think it and he is great.

2/ the "should being it back in house" is to save money. They love the abstraction and the in-house methodology and tools; but recognize that they're paying more to AWS than it would cost them to do it.
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Every cuisine has people that don't like it, but some are more popular than others.
Fake Alibaba orders are hurting Yahoo
Not to diminish the argument, but other than diskspace, I really don't understand the downsides described here. I'm wondering, given the author was an early adopter of Git, this is purely hipster syndrome. Everybody is using it, so it's not cool any more.
Self-replicating?

> A self-replicating machine is a construct that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature.