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Is checking your battery status before you start doing something, a usual occurrence in your usage? It isn't for me, and I'm sure it's something I would adapt to do, but in the mean time, it's an inconvenience.

For instance, I often work outside and keep my charger at my desk inside. Sometimes I'll start something, check in on it in 10-15 minutes, see its going to take a while to complete, then go plug the machine in, inside, if it's going to take a while.

Sure, it's not something that can't be overcome (I'm not suggesting it is), but the need to check my battery (and to remember to check my battery) before doing something is an unnecessary inconvenience.

It's almost like I'm saying how wonderful the magsafe connector is for when I trip over the cable, and your response is "well, you don't need that—just don't trip over the cable". Sure, I don't need it, but it's just better with it.
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My original plan was to use results from this to pick colours for my other project (a graphing program). But I really just ended up with a toy that I found fun to play with. I probably could get a 3D version for HCL, that will be another weekend project.
The bad news is that what the author's seeing is only the tip of the Hating Game iceberg. Over here on the back end there has always been a lot of bonding through hate, and it reached toxic levels long ago. I've been on projects that were the target of unjustified hate from people who had never even installed or run it, or had any idea how it worked or was different from any alternative, just because that was The Meme. I've probably slung my share of snark myself. Mention Lustre to a Ceph fan, MongoDB to a Riak fan, Solaris to a Linux fan (or vice versa), and watch the sewer floodgates open. It's long since time we developers in all specialties tried to turn the corner on this issue.
Hi there, co-founder here. A few of them do have an API offering, but there's a few issues with them -

Firstly they’re bolted on the side, and aren’t usually functional enough to actually power a full store - generally they’re designed for add-ons.

Secondly you’re locked into their whole platform just to get access to the API even if you’re not looking to build a website, or use all of their services.

We’re making a product that gives you the ability to pick and choose exactly which parts of e-commerce you need, in a way that doesn’t lock you into the product.
I can make a similar argumentum ad absurdum, but on the other side. I don't like chocolate ice cream. I never eat it anyway, so I have absolutely no problem with it being banned.
Absolutely, Manhattan simply couldn't function if most people owned cars and tried to drive. But no visitor to Manhattan is going to even remotely think "Oh, this is such a wonderful place for pedestrians" :-) Of course, Manhattan is very densely populated but auto/truck traffic is pretty horrible for large parts of the day in many areas.

Manhattan taxis are readily hail-able on the street. And they're supplemented by both Uber/Lyft and private car services. So, as a city, it's probably the definition of well-served by third-party cars and it's very much a part of the city's fabric. Just good luck getting either a cab or Uber (at a reasonable rate) if it's pouring rain.

Maybe $10 should be $15 but who knows about vehicle costs in some hypothetical future or what human support would be needed. My basic point was that, to a first approximation, we already have what amount to self-driving cars within larger and denser cities.
Why? Why is the market considered the be-all, end-all of desirable outcomes?

Quite frankly, I consider "the market" forcing people out of areas they've lived in for most of their lives to be a far worse outcome.
Sorry about that, I'll take a look at the issue now.
Bitbucket provides those. I use it professionally because I like all my stuff in one place and that's where I keep my free private repos.
"if instead of being handled by the government, he had found an actual small arms dealer and weaseled some guy into giving him $300."

I believe that this quote from the article:

> Osmakac was, in the FBI’s own words, “a retarded fool” who didn’t have any capacity to plan and execute an attack on his own. That was a challenge for the FBI.

is supposed to mean that he wouldn't be able to go through the planning of doing as you suggest. If he has poor ability to plan, then your point #1 could be interpreted as another example. He wasn't able to go through the planning to get the holy water, or work around the visa issues, or manage the funding. Or figure out how to get to Afg

Point #2 is protected free speech.

As for point #3, another interpretation is that he's willing to fall into things in front of his face, so long as they don't require non-trivial planning. I know people who talk big, but can't actually pull anything off, so I wouldn't discount that possibility.

Even if he 'weaseled some guy into giving him $300', it doesn't seem that he would find a small arms dealer willing to sell him "six grenades, a fully automatic AK-47 with magazines, a handgun and an explosive belt". Checking various auction sites, the minimum price for an AK-47 is $400, and those are semi-automatic, not an illegal fully automatic. Assuming $100 for the handgun, $10/grenade and I have no idea how much for he explosive belt, the real cost is likely over $1,000. (That's a wild-ass guess; but it's certainly over $500 in hardware, plus extra to cover risk on the dealer's side.)

I don't think it's easy to find a dealer for this sort of equipment. I wouldn't know where to start and have 'no concept of what weapons cost on the black market.' I suspect that if I start asking around, someone is likely to call the cops on me.

Also, why did you mention the Patriot Act? It's only mentioned once in the article, concerning someone else. I don't see mention that Patriot Act powers were used or potentially misused.
Does 'public right-of-way' include green parks? Spaces such as sculpture park, volunteer park, botanical garden, discovery park, and many more?
Yes with devices implementing fully Camera2, the rule is that you can stream full resolution sensor data to buffers that you can capture and save either for processing (like HDR & superresolution) or video recording :)

At that time, was the viewfinder preview built on full sensor readout or line-skipped/binned sensor readout?
BTW, the page doesn't render properly in my browser (current FF).
It is a subtly different - and more persuasive - thing to say "Here are 10 books I liked, and here's why" than it is to say "Here's 10 books you should read." Imperative statements tend to evoke more visceral reactions than indicative ones.
I would think that the best solution is both parents work 20-25 hours per week. Less money spent on child care, more time spent with children, spreads the burden of both work and raising children across both parents, and quite frankly would make life more interesting. I'd definitely prefer working less and spending more time with my kids if I had them.
Yo I actually know the dude from school...feel like I owe him a bit of a defense after his minute of twitter infamy :) I'd understand the anger if this were, like, a Goldman Sachs-calibre company practicing age-based discrimination, but in this case there's no they, there's literally just a guy plus some coder friends of his, getting a bit excited about startup plans.

The dude's 23 (plus or minus) himself, and decidedly not versed in HR laws - I could imagine the words "discrimination" (...or "political correctness"...or maybe "self-awareness") didn't even enter his mind while he typed away at his dream candidate wish list. Sure it's hilarious, but maybe cut him some slack re: sinister intentions. I don't think it's too pleasant waking up and getting a hundred angry retweets for something like this.
I'm fairly sure that the reason for this universal behaviour is that there are plenty of broken, looping gifs out there with inter-frame delays of 0. I used a version of Konqueror which would spin at 100% of a core when it encountered one of these.

A better hack (but it's still a hack) might be to wait one frame (or longer) before returning to the beginning of a looping gif. Given that this would be significantly harder than the current approach (which is apparently either delay = max(delay, 16ms) or if(delay < 16) delay = 100) and the only reason for it would be to support this pretty-niche multi-palette composited-frame thing, it seems like it would be hard to argue for.
How do you propose addressing the problem of the high market rents in SF, then?
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Android's Intents system already does this without any DNS fiddling, but half the apps that need it most apparently ignore it.
I'll add a #3: little risk of personal or professional failure.
Did you make a new account just for this comment?

That's not against the rules per se, but there have been lots of sock puppets used on global warming topics.
Two things:

1. Torture isn't a gray area. It's unethical and unreliable. Consistently. It turns out, people will tell you whatever they think will make you stop hurting them, if you hurt them badly enough.

I know, right?!

2. Many of those "plots" are so laughably unrelated to actual acts of terror it's a wonder that USGov hasn't edited the Wiki page to remove them. (The NYPD seems to be fond of that approach...)
live screenshot demos?
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It's hard to find places in the Bay Area that have good access to public transportation and are actually as cheap as rent-controlled apartments in San Francisco. Just being "way cheaper" than SF may not be enough if it still doubles your rent -- anywhere on the Peninsula down into Silicon Valley merely drops you from "most expensive in the country" to "in the top ten most expensive in the country," and even most of the supposedly "cheap" East Bay will run you far more than most other metro areas across the US. Apartments around Palo Alto, Cupertino and Mountain View, where there has never been any rent control, are not nearly as far behind SF's market rate as I think people sometimes imagine.

I'm not making an argument for rent control, per se -- it's hard to dispute that it's a distorting influence on the market in San Francisco itself -- but it's hard to appreciate just how banana crazypants the housing market across this whole region is right now.
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I was assuming a typo, but good point about the pun.
>"There are only 500 U.S. citizens on the no fly list, it doesn't appear like it is being used a weapon of coercion on a wide scale."

Well, we can only speculate as to the extent that this list is being used to "intimidate" individuals. Just because there are only 500 on the list, does not mean it hasn't be threatened upon countless other individuals.

It doesn't even have to be directed at you for you to be scared of it. Heck, I'm even scared that some day some random asshole with the same name as me will do something stupid and get himself on that damn list; and I haven't even done anything wrong. I think you'll find a few news articles online about people being harassed because their name hits against the list.

I guess that brings me to the third point. There are 500 unique names on that list, as I'm under the impression that all that list has is name+surname. Unless they include other details, odds are there are many more than 500 individuals that those names match against.
Have you considered that it's simply a case where an unprivileged group is unhappy with being denied access to a good or service available to a privileged group?

I don't know anyone who wants to push out "lower class" people. I do know lots of people who want to live in a San Francisco where everyone can afford rent. Everyone includes programmers, teachers, social workers, and dishwashers.
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Depends on how devoutly religious he is... I could see any number people of catholic, jewish, etc. faith enduring torture vs spying on their own church.
> invented

I think 4chan introduced silent, looping, control-less webms for the same purpose (gif replacements) before imgur.
Linden Labs, the company that built Second Life, used to have a "Love machine", used to "give" love points to other co-workers (as a result of a good interaction or contribution).

I found that concept extremely fascinating.
Hi, could you elaborate on how you prevent lock-in?
We are interested in moving away from TicTail for our own shop, but do not want to reinvent the wheel so we can focus on developing a few custom features.
> ice levels were at all time record highs

That's what I though as well, but after I went investigating, I found out that actually, Antarctic sea ice levels were at record highs, which basically means that glaciers were melting more than usual (and shedding huge pieces of ice into the sea) - apparently because of winds bringing more hot air from northern (hotter) regions.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I go into more detail on the "info" page. Wasn't sure if I should include the entire description on the home page or not.

I'd love all the feedback I can get. That's exactly why I wanted to post it to HN today. I'll follow you on Twitter and DM you my email.
Because gifs already work that way on phones, and that's how users want it.
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valuations are based not just on current cashflows, but future expected cashflows. That's why leverage is so crucial - it allows us to borrow against future cashflows so as to finance projects today. One way to think about, on this forum, we can agree that at some point in the future, we will have self driving cars, automated medicine, low cost energy etc. So, what we can do is borrow against that future to build stuff today
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that's a great point, however the fact that those haven't been solved yet suggests that the problem is actually very difficult. These type of problems I would shy away from because the results wouldn't be consistent.

For example, catching a fraudster based on their actions for your website is easy because you can create models with scope limited to your own website with few constraints vs. catching any fraud on any website because they all have different processes, scopes and constraints wildly fluctuate.
I just took a shot at solving this puzzle for the /usr/share/dict wordlist (70k words when filtered to strictly alpha), using Python.

Assuming the "first build a graph" approach is the most efficient one, it's definitely taking me longer than 15 minutes to get a reasonably efficient solution. Just for the graph-building part. I'm taking a two-step approach, first connect the matching words that differ in length by one, so filtering for (a == b[1:] or a == b[:-1]), assuming a is always the shorter word of the pair. Checking all words of length N vs length N+1 that way took a few minutes on my (not very powerful) netbook. Not entirely happy with it, but no way I could optimize that further in 15 minutes anyway (if there is an even better algorithm), and that part of the calculation is done.

edit: just thought of a better way

aa = sorted([words of length N])
bb = [words of length N+1]

# now make a sorted list of the longer words, truncated on either side,
# (paired with the original for retrieval later)
bb1 = sorted([(w[1:], w) for w in bb]
+ [(w[:-1], w) for w in bb])

# now we can do a merge operation on aa and bb1, and find
# the matches in O(len(aa)+len(bb1)) instead of O(len(aa)*len(bb))
#
# a merge operation that I can't be arsed to write out here, but I
# promise it'll involve some super clever usage of the itertools module
#

Now for step 2, words of equal length...
And in those states where the animosity is that strong, hopefully democracy will prevail and the state will reflect the will of the voters, either by resisting an exchange because the people don't want it, or by voters altering the makeup of their state government so that an exchange will be established.

Obamacare doesn't fundamentally implode if a large number of red states opt out. But you gotta wonder what will happen if suddenly large numbers of folks in those states lose their coverage.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
Unfortunately a VERY large chunk of the web still can't see webm.
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Why limit it to terrorist attacks? Let's say someone was just planning a regular murder. Is torture justified? How about child rape? Adult rape? Armed robbery? Tax fraud?
Perhaps linters, auto-formatters, auto-complete, etc. I could understand that it could look like "self-correcting code" to a non-programmer.
Can anyone comment on the T&C on ownership of repo content on these Git hosts? I could not locate specific mention of that on Gitlab.
Wow, those numbers are way larger than 500. Kind of makes my points above (your post's sibling) quite a fair bit more scary.
Tenderlove, the super nice guy who submitted that PR is on Rails core. Too bad to hear he's part of the evil visible minority that you just made up in your head.
I know the startup bias here on HN, but the story reads the same way at a fortune 50 sized employer with dozens of worldwide offices when some jerk three states over "just can't be bothered" to conference our team in, or "we couldn't get a hold of you guys before we made the decision" or "its just so complicated to plug a web cam in so our office doesn't use them" or "lync creates so much disruption"

Especially at companies that start getting cross functional and next thing you know your boss for the year lives two timezones away, or your main partner in crime contractor lives one time zone the other direction.

There is an area of local minima where everyone works in the same floor or same building where the appeal of remote work is at a business minimum, but the larger the company is, the more likely the person you're working with is in another country or state, to the point that it doesn't matter if I'm calling him from "work" or "home".
You can't have skyrocketing rental prices. That's economically impossible.

If you do have skyrocketing rental prices, you should buy yourself an Econ 101 textbook and educate yourself about why this is impossible.

Then the problem will go away.

>both San Francisco and Boston have very strong NIMBY groups in the various neighborhoods.

Well, yes. In the real world - the one that doesn't consider 'just so' stories an explanation of anything - it's well known that rents depend on a mix of factors, not least of which is strong government support for affordable social housing.

Germany has a very strong rental culture, and excellent availability. Rentals remain reasonable, because there's a critical political mass of renters who would cause problems for politicians if they stopped being reasonable.

London, meanwhile, has limited housing stock and no rent control. The result is that rents are increasingly insane, landlords are increasingly disinterested in spending money on repairs (...so much for that argument) and most ordinary people are either sharing in overcrowded conditions, living in spare rooms, or moving elsewhere.

As a test case, this is hardly a resounding success for the no-control lobby.

London used to have a solid reservoir of social housing, but that was deliberately eliminated in the 80s. The result has been a steady cycle of manic-depressive boom/bust explosions.

Currently property prices are being driven up by foreign speculators. Wherever there's boom, capital flocks to it - until prices crash again, and then the greater fools are left behind, trying to capitalise on decrepit slum properties.

Rent control on its own isn't a solution to this. But an integrated and thoughtful housing policy certainly can be.
The no fly list is also checked at other border crossings (ships, trains, border crossings) as well.
My old company moved, after I left, from a dedicated system I built that provided less than 1s response times to a cloud system that averaged 8s response times, because the company focus changed from maximizing performance to maximizing sizzle buzzwords.

I'm glad I left.
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Here's how the system handles ticking time bomb scenarios:

Let's say you think your neighbor has a bomb that's going to kill everyone and you break into his house and shoot him dead.

If it turns out there is a ticking time bomb you either don't get prosecuted, aren't found guilty, or get pardoned.

That doesn't mean it should be legal to break into your neighbor's house and shoot them generally -- if there's no bomb you are looking at a long sentence or execution for murder.
This is a general problem in modern communication, thanks in large part to the accelerating factor of the internet. It's evolved to the point that making observations about the weaknesses of an overly adversarial/confrontational position is dismissed as a 'tone argument,' along with negative insinuations about the proponent's motives. It seems as if many people prefer to be in a social echo chamber and express violent rejection of anything that is considered foreign to that environment. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some obvious model for this in the world of cell biology.
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Doesn't IE use directshow filters for playback? As long as anything like ffdshow or lavfilters is installed it could just use those.

Afaik firefox uses system-provided h.264 decoders to support that since they don't want to ship one with firefox.
For the application shortcuts, is there an advantage over activating spotlight (cmd + space) and typing the first few letters of the application name?

I've been thinking about making screenflow workflows to open up a set of files, which could be quite powerful.
But that doesn't have a camera which could be used to spy on you and gauge your facial reaction and vocal sentiment to algorithmically price your insurance / rental risk based on your frustration / road-rage score.

But they can't do that yet due to bandwidth constraints, so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about
Generally, yes. Sometimes the goal is to stop the new construction to preserve the character of the neighborhood. Sometimes it's to preserve "historic" (read: old and I like it) buildings. Sometimes it's to demand that the new complex be entirely below-market-rate housing.

Opposition is pretty much guaranteed, though.
Yes, the new API makes much more sense. I'm just surprised and a bit disappointed it took so long to come about :(. I was always disappointed by the capabilities of production phones compared to what we could do in dev, but of course, in dev we didn't have all the constraints of running alongside the rest of the OS and only using the vendor's APIs!

As for your question, I'm rusty on the details. I definitely remember binning was used for some use-cases. For viewfinder, our hardware pipeline would generate a lower-resolution stream from the full-resolution stream used for encoding.