skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and the semi-randomized SSID have been bugging me all day while I wrote that wiki entry. I simply can't see the logic in or reasoning behind those decisions.
> The country had a public debating

Much of what he released was unknown to the public. I think that his stated purpose was to enable and spur public debate on those previously unknown practices.
I don't know specifically about the Bay Area, but everywhere else in the world having a bunch of short stints on your CV would be a bad thing. It also doesn't take many 5 - 15% pay bumps before you have maxed out what anyone is willing to pay you given your bleak CV.
> Government employees and administration are overhead.

The only way you get close to the claimed 66% number is if you are including all spending, including overhead, of the programs identified.
I would second this interpretation.

When I lived in Germany I wanted to do some volunteer work and read up on the possibilities. A local explained to me, "Offering to volunteer at the library or a school sounds as strange to a German as someone in the US offering to volunteer with street sweeping, or with the IRS. That's the job of the government. That's what taxes are for."
Great work, just a warning: your http://crudlet.herokuapp.com/#/live-todos example gets stuck in an infinite loop of inserting whatever todo item. Do you have any other demo examples?

I work on data synchronization problems as well (I'm the guy who built http://gunDB.io) I'd love to talk. I assume you are using OT? OT requires a "master" server, right - or do you handle decentralized conflicts in other ways?

I'm glad you already have a query doc working, I'm still adding such a feature. Let's chat, send me an email: mark@gunDB.io . Good work!
Congrats to the team! Interesting to see a big focus on Kubernetes going forward--doesn't CoreOS kind of compete with Kubernetes? (even though Kubernetes builds on CoreOS tools like etcd)
I agree that unfounded accusations are unhealthy for discussion, but the nature of the issue at hand involving a state-level power with nigh unlimited resources and the few citizens within the state body attempting to bring attention to this issue would suggest that suspicions of this sort aren't unfounded and aren't necessarily damaging to the discussion itself. Censoring discussion of this kind is probably the most hurtful of all and no comment pointing out the possibility of the level of control at hand should be removed on that account.
Yeah, this tends to happen a lot on modern microcontrollers with lots of complicated peripherals from what I've seen, especially in pre-production steppings of the chip
Not only git. There is a nice quote from Fred Brooks Jr. (I think), that if you show me your flow charts and algorithms, I remain as clueless as before, but show me your data structures, and everything else will follow. (I am paraphrasing this from memory, Brooks put it more eloquently.)
Once you get out here, network. You'll be able to find any number of startup lawyers at any number of meetups that happen almost any night of the week.

But, an introduction has a cost (which most people don't seem to understand). Why should I use my social capital on you? What are you doing or what have you done? Why should I care?

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but referring a dud to a personal / professional connection reflects negatively on the referrer. So, make sure there's something in it for the referrer.

I'm not trying to be a jerk. But, requests for referrals happen all the time and I don't think most folks consider the actual cost of a referral.
Most consumer sources are also-limited to 8-bit precision. 10-bit encodes from these are made using a fancy temporal debanding filter, which only works in certain cases.

Keep in mind that there is a range expansion when converting to monitor sRGB. Also several video players now support dithering. So the debanding effect can often be quite visible.

Also, x264 benefits from less noise in its references, which means 10-bit gets a small compression performance bump.
Or maybe they would've removed it, and until they did left it uncovered. Neither of us know what they would've done.

Not sure what China or France doing things has to do with how we do things in the US.
Or when she orders the death penalty for anyone who prints it! /s
IMO posting paywalled sites to a news aggregator detracts from the experience of using the aggregator for anyone who doesn't subscribe to that paywalled site.

Its established that a low percentage of people are convinced into signing up by a paywall. There for, posting paywalled articles to a news aggregator detracts from the experience of everyone who chooses not to subscribe to that particular site because it robs us of front page real estate that could be held by other non paywalled but interesting stories.

Consider a news aggregator where every link went to a paywalled site, so many disparate sites that you couldn't afford to subscribe to all of them. Would you find the aggregator more or less valuable than one that had freely available information.
Or how about an illegal bust of George Washington.
I can see it serving to purposes. 1. It lets 3rd parties know you are suspicious. 2. You may get a revealing denial/non-denial.

That said though I really dislike the atmosphere created by frequent shill accusations. It seems to rapidly create an echo chamber, where minority opinions are dismissed.
The End of Asymmetric Information
> The right participate in one's governance is now "the right to participate in government that you can participate in, because without that right the government would be meddling in your stuff".

No, its not. Its the right to be free of any imposition of government other than that which you are allowed to participate in.

Its not a contortion. Its exactly the whole thing that we get the idea of the right to participate from.

Yes, its possible to have different views of what the right to participate should mean, but they are newer and novel interpretations. That doesn't make them wrong, but they aren't the original understanding, and that original understanding isn't a "contortion".
This is a really good point. I totally missed it when reading the article. Maybe TAILS should do something like this automatically.
Finding a minimum polygon of a set of points
What is an integrated timecard?
Similarly: "I've never seen a plausible argument supporting what Snowden did that boiled down to more than [my morality is more important than your laws]. At most, you get a side order of [George Orwell] mumble mumble [he wouldn't have been able to accomplish anything if he tried to do it differently] mumble mumble [The government was so evil towards him that he fled to RUSSIA!]". These aren't arguments that people actually make. If they ARE making either claim, you're choosing some poor conversational partners.
We have a number of great 3rd party time tracking software tools thats integrate well with ZenPayroll via our api. For example ,TSheets, WageBase, Nimble Schedule.

https://zenpayroll.com/integrations
I wrote a direct threaded interpreter where the code block for each opcode included fetch, increment, jump at the end. One possible problem is that execution never passes through a central point any more, which is of course why it's so fast. Then a friend pointed out the fastest way to read opcode, get branch target, and jump is to replace all the opcodes (create a second table) with the addresses of their implementations. This obviously saves an extra lookup, but the real eyeopener was that you can do PC++, fetch, jump all with one instruction. Use the host stack pointer as the PC in the interpreter and this become ret - return grabs an address, increments the pointer, and branches all in one. Of course you get program corruption on interrupts then. Needs to be either a system you have complete control over, or one with a second stack pointer.
How Criminals Built Capitalism
> With that said, I have to ask why these groups are interested in 10-bit when I'm essentially certain they cannot view in 10-bit.

The H.264 prediction loop includes some inherent rounding biases and noise injection. Using 10-bit instead of 8-bit reduces the injected noise by 12 dB, which makes a noticeable difference in quality-per-(encoded)-bit, even when the source and display are both 8-bit. I spent some time talking with Google engineers early on in the VP9 design process, and they commented that they had done some experiments, but did not see similar gains by using higher bit depths with VP9. I don't know if that's still true with the final VP9 design, though.
Mitt Romney Nailed His NCAA Bracket, Remains in the Top 1 Percent
Jesus, so Torvalds built the MVP for git in 1 day and pretty much scaled it up for kernel usage in 10 days. Now, as a humble average developer, how do I achieve Torvaldian levels of productivity?
Physical Web now available
Extracting contextual information from video assets
There are more direct and efficient ways of addressing inequality than genetically changing people to be equal?
Ok, it was open sourced: https://github.com/olivierlacan/can-they-see-my-dick
If you need request delays, executing JS on the page, pagination or deep object schemas, you may also consider x-ray: https://github.com/lapwinglabs/x-ray
It's a direct threaded intrepreter. That code is just looking up the label pointer and stuffing it in the instruction's struct ahead of time.
No, Auto-GCAS could not have prevented the Germanwings crash
from a design and look feel - this is a decent looking landing page. The other links are broken by the way.

In your intor you mention Tixocloud - what/who is that?

I am also not seeing anything about "How it works". I don't see anything to compel me to try your product.
Got it. It seems that it would be more intuitive if the thumbs up just added that track to your requests. The encore button should definitely not look like an upvote button. I'll look into making it harder to skip tracks. Thanks!
And thanks to dash, even when you seek back to the beginning, it won’t reload it properly. So either the video just breaks, or the first 10 seconds are forced in 360p. Or, sometimes, it just breaks, but clicking ten times on the 0-mark somehow lets it play again.

DASH is annoying as hell.
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Quote:

"The A-GCAS as it is now, must be activated by the pilot: once activated it can’t be overridden (the computer will recover the plane taking over command of the plane), but a pilot who wants to commit suicide has the option to disarm it."
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The idea of rehabilitation, as I understand it anyway, is that anyone who commits crimes is "broken", "ill", or "maladjusted" in some way that may or may not be reversible (something is wrong with them, and we may be able to rehabilitate them).

If we actually designed a system with that assumption, then all criminals would be treated as England treats "insane" prisoners. They may not all to to a hospital specifically, but they would all go to some sort of treatment program that was designed to rehabilitate them. They would be released when rehabilitated, no sooner and no later.

This is pretty much my point in a nutshell: "One reason they gave was that in prison they had a sentence to serve, whereas in hospital it was treatment." What we do to people in prisons isn't a treatment (and I assert, never has been). If we actually designed our justice systems to first and foremost rehabilitate, all convicts would be on treatment plans.

Personally I think that we should get away from punishment entirely, and move to incapacitation complimented with rehabilitation.
> The average Goldman Sachs employee earns around $500,000 per year. If someone joined Goldman

They probably wouldn't be making the average salary of a Goldman Sachs employee, which is probably the arithmetic mean of salary of all current employees, and not the median or mode of new hires.
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Basically... Know your shit.
The Google University Effect
Except that it's not funny there either.
The author mentions that Rust's "Box type is an owning type" and compares Box to C++'s std::unique_ptr. Worth noting: Rust's most basic variable syntax provides unique_ptr-like behavior, so you usually don't need the Box type for this behavior. For example:

https://gist.github.com/jarrett/fe3f24c301a586efd7c1
Well,

That makes immutability a nice technique if you happen to be dealing with a situation of synchronous access and otherwise an unneeded approach.

The topic was haskell as first-language. Despite the hype, most people aren't going to be writing fully synchronous applications most of the time and thus immutability all the time seems mostly like unneeded bondage and discipline programming.
I don't think it's scary or represents the US changing in someway, but this vine is a great summary of the entire Snowden affair after he released the leaks.
Well I can tell you 15 years ago Giuliani would have been up there with a sledgehammer himself taking it down, holding a press conference, and vowing the harshest consequences possible once the perpetrators were tracked down. By that scale can we say that the state of democracy in the US is actually greatly advanced?
I'm not entirely sure it's merely a matter of getting people to take notice. After all, if you take notice, then the agency itself will take notice of that and that is liable to make you a target for information gathering purposes. Your best defense out of fear is to proclaim anyone fighting such a power is deserving of that power's treatment as it deems fit. In a way, I guess you could say it's a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

On the other hand, when you have state powers like China to contend with (who have a greater degree of explicit control over their citizens), it wouldn't be surprising to see state-level competitors wanting to keep a leg up on their competition by employing similar tactics. Unfortunately, the dragnet in place is unconstitutional for the NSA, which is why it is a part of the Five Eyes to work around that issue - by relying on collaboration with other institutions to provide the data that is ultimately being collected.
The metadata wasn't disclosed, but the NSA was doing warrant-less wiretapping during the Bush administration without even any oversite from FISA courts.

The only real surprise to me was the metadata they were using.

But even then we knew about §215 of the patriot act.
Not sure if you are masochist or a genius.

But I think you are a GENIUS and have a good product.

Please do a IndieGOGO campaign.
The ZeroMQ guide on burnout
They did a great write-up on ACH actually: http://engineering.zenpayroll.com/how-ach-works-a-developer-...
I run a small (20-30 people) dev meetup that is fairly technically focused. While we don't have beer, we do have free pizza. I managed to leverage a bunch of my local contacts to negotiate corporate sponsorships. I let them get their name out there and announce job openings. In trade, they pay for pizza, pop, and desserts. It works great for everyone.
I don't think a sarcasm tag applies here; I wouldn't hold such a thing above the likes of her.
I still don't see the point. If there's a vulnerability that can be used to leak your LAN address, you want the leaked address to be as generic as possible. Something like "192.168.0.2" is perfect; a crazy 126.16.2.x address is unusual and could be used to fingerprint Anonabox users.
> CC?=gcc

This is only relevant if you want portability to other versions of Make. I simply don't care about anybody who's not using GNU Make these days. Try it yourself: command line options override variables in makefiles unless "override" is specified for that assignment.
This brings back patti smith's comment about New York to me, about finding a new city. I feel it applies every bit as much to San Francisco.

The Godmother of Punk recalled coming to New York in 1967 when she was broke and the city was "'down and out,' and you could get a cheap apartment and 'build a whole community of transvestites or artists or writers.'" But today, she says, "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city."

http://gothamist.com/2010/05/03/patti_smith_suggests_finding...
>>"They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary War soldiers."

I'm not sure that the Prison Ship Martyrs would have minded. And I disagree that hosting a "demonstration / gathering would have been more impactful as well as being respectful". It certainly wouldn't have been more impactful, as I am fairly confident that I wouldn't have even heard of it had that occurred. As for disrespecting the monument, I can imagine war heroes preferring temporary or even permanent defacement of their memorial as preferable to the memorial remaining in tact while freedom is destroyed instead.
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So it would be shameful of me to cover up your political speech when it's inflicted upon my property without my permission?

Look, I emphatically believe in what Snowden did (though I may have some quibbles with his methods, his reasons were exemplary). I don't think that justifies what amounts to glorified — if tastefully done, and in keeping with the aesthetics of the monument — vandalism.

This is a war memorial. How might it feel to those who have lost loved ones in one of this country's innumerable wars, to have the monument to their loss, their sacrifice, appropriated for someone else's speech?
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I'm wondering how these improvements compare to the ones H265 made. It almost cuts the file size in half at the same quality.
I agree with this. I'm still trying to make Space Invaders and basic shooters work in C++, and the end result is going to be terrible but I will at least hopefully know the basics well enough to make a game worth playing.
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We changed the title to a sentence from the article that better expresses its point.
That's exactly what I don't like about it.
"Oklahoma is a seismically active region that has always had a lot of earthquakes in the magnitude 5 range."

I don't think the historical record supports this assertion, for any reasonable interpretation of "a lot". I found this table:

http://paleoseismicity.org/m5-6-earthquake-in-oklahoma/

showing only one earthquake of >= M5 in Oklahoma in the last 70 years (an M5.5 in 1952). That is, excluding the ramp-up since 2008 and in particular the Prague, OK M5.6 (2011).

This sparse historical record of M5 earthquakes is also supported by the linked graph from USGS (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/) that shows about 20 events/year of M3 or larger in the entire central-eastern US (pre-2009 -- the rate increases after 2005-2009).

The simple version of the Gutenberg-Richter relation predicts 10x fewer earthquakes for each unit jump in M. So, very roughly, that would imply 0.2 earthquakes per year of M5 or above across the central-eastern US, a region much larger than Oklahoma. The actual rate observed in the 20th century appears significantly lower than this.
Pretty much. My father's take on that is "You are never too rich to clean your own ass".

I've stopped working with people like that after the second time I had to tell one of them (banker guy) that I'm an engineer, not a butler or a babysitter.
So you'd say with a straight face that if everyone in the world suddenly became white, straight and good-looking, that this would be so unbearable to you that you would kill yourself?

If you're not literally saying that, then what is the value of your hyperbole? Your post reads like pure fear-mongering to me.
Work smarter, not harder. The reason he was able to get git up and running so fast is because it is fundamentally a very simple system. If you check out the first commit of git in its own git repo, you can see just how simple it is yourself. In that first commit it is barely anything, yet it was sufficient to write a commit for itself.
Yes! I love that quote - so true. Linus has the same opinion:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." [1]

I actually refered to this when discussing switching from Java to Python. One of the biggest problems for me was not easily being able to see the types of the arguments to a function in Python. [2]

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/163185/torval...

[2] http://henrikwarne.com/2014/06/22/switching-from-java-to-pyt...
No mention of energy density (charge per weight or per volumn) - did I miss it? Without that, this is a pointless article.
Just an update actual number is 83% not 95%.
I don't think so. If it is something unauthorized they probably would have removed it in due time. I.e., they would have taken a couple of days to hire professionals to do it. Now they immediately cover it up so that no-one can see it while they arrange for its removal. Why? Obviously they do not want anyone to look at it before it is removed. But why not? It is certainly not offensive in any way. It may prove to be a minor attraction and it will get Brooklyn in the national news.

It really does remind one of soviet style suppression.
Maybe we could just start spraypainting Snowden's face in and around potholes? If it worked, the general public would know Snowden only as the pothole-fixing guy. No jury would ever convict! b^)
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Do you have examples of precedent where this occurred in the U.S.? If not, you're simply speculating based on your own opinion/mood/blood sugar level.

Graffiti is rarely covered up so quickly unless it is found to be particularly offensive. My personal belief is that this statue was deemed to be politically offensive and inciting as well as likely to draw media exposure and so was quickly removed from view even though this is not a required step in the process of restoring the monument to its former state.
Ignoring the republic/democratic state distinction, the US's democratic status has always been weak due to FPTP (ditto with the UK). It is essentially a system designed to keep the majority from even running and to keep the minority opinion silent.

If the US (or UK) cared at all about democracy like they always claim they'd move to something better (e.g. Open list, party list, full on proportional representation, or a number of other alternatives). Heck even run off voting (i.e. multiple votes) in FPTP is superior like the Alternative Vote.

But instead we have FPTP, and why? So we have this revolving door of "sameness" and monied politicians. Essentially bribery and corruption exist in the West, they're just completely legal and out in the open.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_voting_systems_by_cou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party-list_proportional_repres...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
Also interested how the Rocket/Docker debate will fit in with this?
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Indie developers have a hard time, I think, competing with the level of "bling" big companies can afford, but at the same time they have the freedom to try out things large companies would not touch with a ten-mile pole, which is promising. Minecraft blew my mind, even though I stopped playing it much after I got scared of how addictive it is (on the other hand, "it is pretty addictive" is probably the highest praise one can give a game).