skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Disclosure of even minor details” could harm law enforcement, he said, by letting “adversaries” put together the pieces of the technology like assembling a “jigsaw puzzle.”

Then I think this is tied into a much bigger and well-organized system of surveillance. Everyone already pretty much gets they bug cell phones; what's left to piece together? Parallel reconstruction seems crucial enough to our government it's probably semi-automated and I'd wager StingRays are a core component of that.
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As I understand it, that would still block this "large-palette GIF" trick, because those would also consist entirely of frames with no delay.
They don't need to.

They'd rather increase the top line (revenue) by growing the market. That means keeping it as cheap as possible for advertisers to use, while still covering their costs.

The idea is to get media buyers used to a given rate per video view, then use increases in YouTube usage to increase the total amount of money they bring in (revenue), and use economies of scale and technology change to drive costs down.

The long game for them is to build the perfect video advertising platform on YouTube, and then allow other video platforms to use it (in the same way a huge number of websites use AdSense/DoubleClick).

There's a lot of money in TV advertising. Google wants that money, and they can afford to wait another 10 years for the market to develop enough for it to happen.
I have always found something really off putting about mixing html with programming languages. Whether it be HAML or Rails or really anything. I like the separation of concern, and modularity of building an application that has files and folders for each feature or usecase. HTML is simple markup to semantically explain pieces of the web page. Dynamic features should be applied from their own folders and files and not mixed into some massive frankenstein file. It is messy, not semantic, difficult to debug and creates problems for other aspects of your application (DOM targeting, Styling etc.)
Or how much technology changes our lifetimes during our lifetime.
Wow, interesting:

"Whether or not the function being called was declared in a file that uses strict or weak type checking is irrelevant. The type checking mode depends on the file where the function is called."

That means that my function can have a parameter defined as an int in its strict file, but if it's called from outside of it, anything can still be passed to that parameter, right?

I'm not sure how I like that. What if you're passing input from class A into class BStrict then using BStrict to call a function in CStrict? BStrict and CStrict are defined as strict, where A is not. Would BStrict then be the one throwing the error because the "caller" is the issue?

From the description it seems that the parameters are effectively ignored in BStrict when A calls it.

Am I missing something or does this sound iffy?

Edit: Link for quote - https://wiki.php.net/rfc/scalar_type_hints_v5#parameter_type...
I saw this type of statement a lot by Facebook doubters (it could never make money, it would never have real sales, it had no business model, etc).

Let me check Facebook's last fiscal year.

$12.4 billion sales; $2.9 billion profit

Could Pinterest reach $5 billion in sales and $1 billion in net income based on what they're capable of in the next five or six years when it comes to traffic and the obvious monetization? Yes, and it would make the present valuation dirt cheap.

Twitter just turned on their revenue machine two years ago, and they're already at $500m a quarter. They too supposedly had questionable business potential.
Yea Its a cool exercise into what can be done. But ultimately not a road that I personally would like to travel..
>> It also reduces tenant mobility

> rent control basically traps people in a single apartment for the rest of their lives.

so does buying a house. still, some people tend to appreciate it regardless of how bad the added lack of mobility is for them.
I see there are already some contrarian-because-I-feel-like it replies, but this is a really succinct way to put it. Of course there are exceptions and edge cases, but EC2 is all about elasticity. If that doesn't appeal to you, don't touch EC2. If you aren't using the "E" in EC2, there are far cheaper, more performant alternatives.

On a side note, I feel like EC2 is simultaneously the best and worst service on AWS.
AeroMobil Says It Will Put Its Flying Car on the Maket in 2017
As a response, marriage rates over time:

https://www.google.com/search?q=marriage+rates+over+time&sou...
Religion is borne out of not knowing what on Earth is the right thing to do, and hence having to adopt a certain approach instead of being convinced by the merits of one over the others: it's policymaking in the absence of facts. Do something for long enough and it becomes a part of who you are (your so-called "worldview"), at which point an attack on the thing is actually an attack on the ego, and we'll naturally and automatically defend it with the same dirty emotional bullshit trickery we use to gloss over all our insecurities.

The toxicity of this is not limited to front-end development, of course -- this is, in fact, the very framework we base modern democracy on. It's just lots of completely unqualified people (myself included) making a great deal of noise based on shitty information, then - once it inevitably goes tits up - we get together and point the finger at some scapegoat to absolve ourselves of liability.

We like to think that as a society we've developed from the primitive peoples of yore, but really all that's happened is that communication tech and industrialism has allowed us to mass produce and saturate our world with the achievements of a very, very select few and thereby create the illusion of universal progress. This entirely baseless pretence is giving unjust confidence to the (figuratively) blind, who are now leading us into a society of completely misguided moral absolutes: one in which local government officials will parent your kids for you with legislation, physicists will be lynchmobbed for the wrong choice of shirt, and Github will outlaw the use of the word 'meritocracy' for fear of intimidating the weak.

So yes, these issues are very important, but HTML and CSS hate games are the least of our worries.
I was really confused about the point you were making until I realized you didn't mean user engagement.....
1) We handle this offline with the customer. The prototype 3D/2D editors we're developing right now should make it a lot easier in the future.

2) ai, eps, svg, png, jpg, pdf... anything really. But preferably vector graphics (will give best print resolution)
Yes, but the cost is tremendous. First there is the bandwidth. Next it's the hardware: Virtually all mobile Systems-of-a-chip have hardware support for JPEG, PNG, H264, etc decoding. Power-wise animated GIFs are terrible.
I think any serious proposal to get rid of rent control would necessarily be tied to getting rid of prop 13.
Among the poor, there are compensating factors against the rich man's "I can get away with it", such as perhaps:

- "I have nothing to lose"

- "I'm too stupid/drunk/irresponsible to consider the consequences".
You attended the weddings as a guest? Brides and grooms and wedding planners and venues make extensive use of Pinterest. Pinterest is brilliant for that kind of thing. You probably don't see that as a guest.
I have to second what amagumori wrote.

Not all code has to be a platform. It's entirely acceptable to write code that "just works" and does not pretend to be 'future proof' or any nonsense like that.

In YC they tell you the same thing: just write the hell out of it and get it done. You will rewrite everything later anyway when you know more about the business and the customers. Games work a bit different, but the lesson applies.

Yes good engineering is important, and Google is a great example. Do you think the code Larry and Sergey wrote early on was anything close to shippable code at Google today? I guarantee you it was a mess of python scripts and c libraries.

YAGNI. Make your product the edifice, not your code.
It's funny, because "brainstorming" means different things to different people/companies in different contexts. For us, it's sitting with a coffee and talking about a problem and possible solutions randomly. It's not even a formal process. This kind of thing just naturally happens when you are on-site.

This guy is just looking to be contrarian to be contrarian. I'm not sure you're going to want to take his reply as potentially useful.
Hmm, where do more emergency calls related to domestic violence originate? Rich neighborhoods or poor ones?

(This is not rhetorical: does someone have the facts? It's easy to have an obvious stereotype about this.)
Congratulations, you've reinvented PHP, kind of.
Be careful what you wish for... I know several PM types that can match you insane hour per insane hour - some had skin in the game (part ownership), others were just overzealous and I know at least one burned out.
allow_mult has been enabled by default since at least 2.0 - http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/using/conflict-resolut...
This isn't really true as far as I am aware. If you are getting this from the Robber's Cave Experiment(HPMOR), it was misrepresented there. They were only hostile after it was induced and they went back to being nice in the last stage too.
I think a good way to build this into SM is to run an existing document thorough latex and looking at the aux file. This approach would be faster and almost certainly more robust, similar to how most latex build scripts look at the fls recorder file for the list of external includes.

The only only thing you can't get will be the user-defined macros (and of course bib entries that doesn't already exist), but there is already a consistent mechanism to define your own macros in SM via the "math_def" block. They "do the right thing" in the sense that if you render to latex snippets then it wouldn't redundantly include these macros in the output.
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome?
2 questions: How does this compare to existing eCommerce back-ends like SnipCart, Ecwid, Foxycart?

And: I presume your service requires javascript to function (as all of the similar services do)... any chance of providing a non-javascript fallback such as a generic-looking checkout page hosted on your own servers (like when you use a paypal button to send users to their site to complete the final step of the transaction)? Please don't tell me that "everyone uses javascript yay" or that I shouldn't be concerned -- I know who my clients and their users are and I know what their accessibility requirements are :) (I always have to say this when I ask eCommerce services this question because usually they dismiss it out of hand and it's very frustrating when you have requirements that sites work even without javascript).

Thanks, and best of luck!
There's still a pervasive fear of being the one who let the terrorists win. It's utterly absurd, but when the DHS and FBI are saber rattling and procurement departments have the backing of all the three-letter agencies, town and city officials often show deference. People have been trained to respect authority - not entirely unjustly - but don't realize that we put them in office to be the check we can't be as average citizens.

When people say "nothing will ever be the same" this is what they're talking about.

Edit: we should respect authority, but we shouldn't bow down to it unjustly or allow it to run amok based on FUD.
because there's a high cost to moving - you lose the connections and communities that you've built up over time. the basis of these laws is that frank having more money than joe should not give him the leverage to force joe to pay that cost.
Sounds right to me. If you're using untyped code, you shouldn't care what you're calling into. strict mode should only apply when both parties agree to it, otherwise strict mode would be the default and you'd have to explicitly mark code as unstrict.
Vi vs emacs isn't really comparable. Emacs is a lisp VM with a built in full scale editor. I'm not saying emacs is wrong, but they are just completely different ways of building editors.
The second line in my comment says... "My immediate reaction here"

Not every comment on HN needs to be an in depth analysis, especially when my comment is, exactly as I said, a gut reaction to a piece of news. Are the points I made anecdotal? Absolutely, but that doesn't make the meta-commentary any less valid.
If the intent of Prop 13 is to keep Grandma in her home then let's ammend it only to apply to Grandmas primary residence.

Prop 13 as it stands is simply a way to allow commercial landlords to avoid paying property tax at market rates.
Agree. I've found the Django templating language to hit the sweet spot for me - it gives me all the power that I need without allowing unnecessary code in the templates. As a result, my templates are usually rather clean and the HTML structure is easy to follow. In fact, I like the Django templating language so much that I use it even when I'm not using Django... or Python... e.g., I use it straight from Erlang with the lovely `erlydtl` package[1].

[1] https://github.com/erlydtl/erlydtl
Hey - this is great. It must mean that the insurance Hertz is selling now gets much cheaper ... No?
I cannot fathom how this is a trap. If the resident can afford to move elsewhere, then it's certainly not a trap. And if they can't afford to move, then removing rent control doesn't "free" them. They're just fucked.

I know many people who have moved out of rent-controlled apartments for one reason or another. I've done it myself. I don't know a single one who says, "Whew! Thank goodness I escaped that terrible trap of being able to afford living in a place I liked!"
don't get them started :)
> That means that my function can have a parameter defined as an int in its strict file, but if it's called from outside of it, anything can still be passed to that parameter, right?

Not at all. It's "weak" typing, not no typing.

A small set of convertible values can be passed and will be converted to the type you asked for, while other values error as usual.

See the rest of the RFC.
Hmm, while I understand this (I've even written about it before!) I wonder about this specific example. Maybe another example would be better (for instance: people who hate on PHP).

I've seen plenty of people present things as literally the worst, but they're doing so in a very tongue in cheek way.

For instance: javascript is totally stupid and does totally stupid things stupidly (unlike go, which is awesome, and doesn't do stupid things) - The Presentation (given by a huge javascript fan who literally writes javascript all day every single day).
> The younger the crowd, the stronger the "new, assert technology X" superiority vibe is.

This could also be due to simple inexperience. The first time you come across something that seems amazing, it's easy to make the leap from "amazing" to "perfect" and become a zealot about it.

Then you live with the amazing thing for a while and discover that it actually has flaws that weren't obvious at first glance. Then you go through this cycle a few times and realize that everything has flaws, and that the art is learning how to identify the things whose flaws impact what you want to do the least, rather than being able to find the One Perfect Thing that solves every problem cleanly. And you come to value the tools that tell you their flaws and limitations up front over those that try to hide them behind blustery assertions of perfection.

But by the time you realize all that stuff, you're not young anymore :-D
> but non-hands free use is illegal in most states.

Actually looks like only 15 out of 50 prohibit it.
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One immediately apparent difference: duktape has a more liberal and commercial friendly license (MIT), while MuJS has a much more restrictive license (AGPL).
Thanks for the heads-up. I'm going to bug our admin again to upgrade.
>Oh, so it's not because "there already is a nice implementation in EE." Ok

That they said "there already is a nice implementation in EE" doesn't automatically mean they also intended it to remain EE-specific forever.

It could be also be read as "we won't merge this in the free edition, as we already have a nice implementation in EE we might merge later".
The solution to torturing people is total surveillance. It's scary that there are people that think like this.
Not at all, the parent and the article claim it was a unique item, it isn't.

There was a predominance of silver Islamic dirham over any other currency including local varieties, this is strong evidence of direct trade with Islamic countries (as cited in another of my comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9214849 )
not trying to "troll", my question was genuine, though i admit i could have phrased it more narrowly.

personally i prefer not having to learn new keyboard shortcuts to style a todo list for example as that first video discusses. i just write it out, use an asterisk or some easy system to show points, outline levels or whatever. if it's important to get done that day i note that in plain text. this is faster and easier to remember than learning a whole system for todo lists and marking up the different items importance, etc.

i want my email client to be focused on email, and a scheduling or calendar program to be focused just on that. for me bbedit is a swiss army knife of text editors in that it does lots of things to text - grep, search over huge numbers of directories, whatever. but i don't want one environment for things beyond that. for me those do many things badly, instead of one thing well.
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I'm referring to brides using Pinterest as a planning tool (before the wedding).

I can't believe you just asked me for a study based on that comment (where "every" is clearly hyperbole). Let me Google it for you (EVERYone uses Google).

Look at that ... 70% of women use it for wedding planning BEFORE EVEN GETTING ENGAGED

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/wedding-survey_n_56...
> How on Earth are our elected officials agreeing to such insane requirements?

Unfortunately, this is what happens when Good People don't get involved in politics. We let the lowest common denominator rule; and they are easily bamboozled by the terror bogeyman.

Word to fellow techies: there are more ways to help your fellow human beings than just doing a "hack for good". Get involved in politics; run for your local office.
> There's nothing wrong with saying "I chose technology X over technology Y because they are basically the same, they each have small advantages in certain areas but nothing that will materially impact our success, and making any decision is better than making no decision."

Well, except that saying that X and Y are effectively the same is not a great method of getting booked to speak at conferences about X and write articles for sites dedicated to Y. It's the truth, of course, but if your main goals are self-promotion and/or demonstrating how smart you are, it's not going to help you much.
You're right, I see that now. That's why they went into describing type conversions too. Thanks for the insight!
You're close but miss the mark. The solution is simply to change the existing _minimum_ parking requirements to a _maximum_ and then simply let market forces take care of it.
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law?
Snapchat as a definition of life
This is powerful. It streamlines everything for efficiency. It might not be the best solution at this moment in time but the idea of programming with HTML has value. Especially as web apps get bigger and more powerful.
Dropping a column in SQLite is a blood bath
The article itself gives plenty of reason to doubt that "rich people act meaner." Attempts to replicate these studies resulted in opposite conclusions or no conclusion at all.
I'm not sure you understand what "uses Pinterest" means.

Brides typically use it to decide what they should wear, what their wedding party should wear, and what decor should be used at their reception etc. See for example [1],[2]. Note that [2] has 4 million followers, for that board alone.

If it's studies you want, then something like [3] shows just how much traffic Pinterest drives: much, much more than Twitter, and second only to Facebook in terms of social sources.

It's not typically used as an organization tool in itself.

[1] https://www.pinterest.com/categories/weddings/

[2] https://www.pinterest.com/explore/wedding-ideas/

[3] http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/7356-social-media-marketing...
Moments like this I wish people still used XSLT...
There's no particular reason to think rent control is causing a shortage in SF. New construction is not under rent control, so it does not harm incentives to create new housing. And given the prices even rent-controlled buildings are selling for, it's clear that people are lining up to be landlords in SF.
Neal Stephenson writes about this in one of his books -- not sure which. A character wonders why "Brit" or "Ausie" are acceptable, while "Jap" or "Paki" are not.

He doesn't mention the use of the word Paki by neo-nazi far-right racists.

Edit: in the UK it's almost always a slur. I can see how in other places it's just an abbreviation.
I expect that they would be paying each of their 500 employees less than $150,000 yearly salary so had inflated that price to include the other expenses involved in hiring someone. Perhaps it is a little on the low side but if you also factor in that Pinterest wouldn't have been employing 500 people since 2009 I'd hazard a guess $450m is on the high side, not the low, of their actual employee expenses.
Wide usage of DNSSEC is needed to trust DNS records. DNSSEC would also fully allow PGP keys to be stored in DNS...

See STEED...

http://g10code.com/docs/steed-usable-e2ee.pdf

But, yes! DNS is the correct and appropriate location for items like the OP posted... built-in widely used distributed 'trust'.
Why should Frank have primacy over Joe? Joe was there first. Should it simply be because Frank has more money? That's a pretty terrible way to decide these things. I mean, at what point do we say that Frank deserves Joe's other things simply because he has more money?

Basically, you're just making a "Might makes right" argument, but substituting wealth for physical might.
Awesome service and dead simple to use. I got 10 boxes made in no time at all. :-)
I'm not sure why this is so difficult. AI simply going to be a highly context sensitive answering machine which will rely and pick its answers from a massive knowledge graph(which it can grow as it spends more time interacting with assisted learning). If there is no context, it will just pickup the most commonly expected answer based on weights and priorities. This is exactly what human mind does as well.

Everything else is parsing the sensor inputs in a language that makes sense to the AI answering machine.

So its knowledge category and context. Form a big enough and comprehensive graph of interconnected elements, and traversing that graph is what AI will do eventually. Apart from growing the graph and using the knowledge within the graph to improve itself.
Here is a map of greater Seattle with crime statistics overlaid:
http://web6.seattle.gov/mnm/statistics.aspx?tabId=3

Here is one of the only income maps I could find:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/files/2013/12/politics...

It looks like the yellow areas correspond to higher rates of assault, but things aren't so clear cut as you move away from the relatively densely populated Seattle area.
A workaround for the workaround: for a high-color gif, add a blank "animation" frame at the end that has a delay, after all the no-delay buildup elements.

However, that's unlikely to be necessary because if you are just doing a high-color image with no animation, you may as well use JPEG or PNG.