skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will get even better when Diane Feinstein orders us to take the model off the Internet.
I'm not sure how YouTube estimates the proper video quality for your internet connection, but they're definitely doing it wrong. I have a 150 Mbps connection and I can watch Full HD videos without buffering. This was already the case on my old 16k connection but in both cases YouTube defaults to 480p. This is really annoying and I always end up setting it to the highest quality.

Another problem seems to be YouTube's player that just sometimes stops to play although the video is completely loaded, or you try to skip or go back a few seconds and it just stucks completely.

Luckily I found this Firefox extension that just uses the native player and allows me to use high quality by default:

https://github.com/lejenome/html5-video-everywhere
This is a false equivalence. Even assuming Goldman Sachs causes ongoing significant financial damage (something I'm not convinced of), you can't compare that directly to saving lives with an equivalent amount of money. Apples and oranges.
Say that a CIA field agent or team is found doing illegal and unethical things (it's happened before many times,) would it be "too far" to release the entire list of CIA field agents and their covers around the world to two journalists at a foreign newspaper because of that one group of agents? It absolutely would be and would potentially put shitloads of lives at risk. Snowden basically did the same thing with the NSA information.

Most of us think he was in the right to expose PRISM and some other programs, but he basically gave Greenwald & Co. unfettered access to a huge swath of the NSA's internal operations. That's too far for me. It's an issue of scope.
Yeah, the ideology you've bought into is objective morality, and anything else is just questionable political opinions—gotcha. Good thing you found Leonard Peikoff; now you know the firm and irrefutable truths pertaining to the human condition and society.

Reading your profile, it's clear that you claim to be able to correctly derive your stance against human rights from nothing but "sense perception of reality" combined with Objectivist logic. That being the case, you obviously aren't just trying to add some diversity to the conversation—you know you possess the final truth.
I downvoted it because of the tone: "disgusting", "you have to be naive", "unquestionably legitimate", etc. The post's grandchild, by the same user, is fine (though not very useful, rehashing old arguments).
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I've never seen a plausible argument what Snowden did that went "too far" that boiled down to more than "he did anything at all". At most, you get a side order of "mumble mumble national security mumble mumble he should have done it 'differently' mumble mumble he went to RUSSIA for sanctuary! mumble mumble
Static analysis can be much more difficult, and there's a whole different toolbox for defeating static analysis. Often disassemblers can be attacked directly.
> Nick Tomaino, who dropped out of Yale to join Coinbase, was awesome enough to set aside an entire day to answer our questions.

So drop out of Yale to do business development at Coinbase? Miss the chance to forge strong personal relationships which could last for decades? Relinquish the opportunity to learn and research for 3-4 years and instead "hustle" with the risk of being pink-slipped every Monday morning? Perhaps the right decision for Nick but I would personally have stayed at Yale.
Seeing them cover this thing up is a hideous moment in our history: https://vine.co/v/eBBvedaHtBz.

Shameful that something so harmless is immediately covered up (quite literally) because it challenges the state.

The U.S. is getting scarier by the day, folks.
for (pr = pn, ip = i;; ip++) {
op = &optable[ip->op];

...

That looks like a switch-loop interpreter, which is considerably slower than a direct threaded interpreter.

GCC supports goto * * which is a special mechanism that allows for going even faster for the inner loop.

You can see a very similar comparison, comparing the Mono JIT vs an interpreter from the early 2000s here - http://rhysweatherley.sys-con.com/node/38831
It looks like they put it up around 6am and it was covered over around noon.

I hope, for the sake of the work that went into the piece, that it isn't destroyed.
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The comment was about adding an extra bit for color in the pointer itself—not in the object.

It's not a question about type safety, Java simply has no mechanism to make this possible (a decision which was influenced by type safety concerns).
This paper summarizes a variety of promising research instead of specific diets. The first two sentences of the conclusion summarize it fairly well:

Recent and accumulating work in unicellular and invertebrate
model organisms, rodents, monkeys, and humans indicates
that diet has a much more pervasive and prominent role than
previously thought in modulating mechanisms of aging and its
associated diseases. More work is needed to understand the interactions
among calorie intake, meal frequency and timing, single-nutrient
modifications, the microbiome, and nutritional history
in modulating the key mechanisms that maintain cellular,
tissue, and organ function during aging

The reddit TLDR is "More research is needed".
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Let's not forget the other contender for replacing Bitkeeper, Mercurial:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.2/0670.html

We will also be celebrating Mercurial's 10th anniversary next week during the 3.4 Pycon sprint:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/3.4sprint
Sounds like you might want http://pouchdb.com/ which has offline support including conflict management.
I think that the "thumbs up" vote should be separate from the possible "encore/repeat" vote.

People probably vote thumbs up just to counteract other's thumbs down (inevitable once there are enough participants), then, if a track makes it through the battle without being skipped, an awkward situation is created when it starts looping but nobody wanted it to loop.

As for the skipping situation, maybe if tracks started off with a default of one "thumbs up", then you would need at least two people to skip a track. Just one possible solution.
There's an account setting to turn off high-quality video. Check to make sure you have it set to "off"

https://www.youtube.com/account_playback
That's part of it, but not the whole picture. For example, we mostly bypass the ES query engine and go directly to Lucene. Queries are not simply translated to ES query syntax. Also, we've done a lot more work than simply pasting an SQL layer over the top. We've built streaming BLOB support, a distributed SQL layer with real-time MapReduce, and a distributed aggregation engine that gives accurate results for aggregations rather than HLL estimates.

If you'd like we're happy to answer any questions in IRC or our Google Group:
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Right click on video --> stats for nerds --> MimeType will show codecs as vp9.

offtopic: I could see download rate at 9363 Kbps (or nearly 1.2 MBPS) for a 1080p video, which looks like pretty good compression to me.
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus use H.265 for FaceTime: https://www.apple.com/iphone-6/specs/ ("FaceTime over cellular uses H.264/H.265")
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Paulg's recent tweet sums up the response to this [1]:

> If you're expanding too fast, don't count on your board to warn you. As VCs, kill-or-cure strategies serve their interests.

VCs like high burn rate companies, because they are beholden to VCs. So in the case that it does work out, the VCs will own a large percentage of the company.

If you are founding a company and hope for the company to be successful and generate some wealth for yourself, high burn isn't necessarily the right strategy.

1: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/584468037559918593
This paper basically suggests that any extraterrestrials are likely to be much larger than us, at around 300 kg, which is kind of scary...
You and your family live in the rest of the world. It's not just altruistic, it's also rational for your own self interests. It's not mutually exclusive: That's a false dichotomy.

If you can't care about your community enough to donate something, then I think your values may need reexamining. Even if that something is donation of old clothes and used items instead of throwing everything away.

And finally, it's not about how many people donate and how many don't. It's the right thing to do, and asking if you're "the norm" is just looking for a justification. Do the right thing. Don't just be narrowly selfish.
Isn't using youtube-dl against youtube's TOS? What can be done legally?
It starts at 480p but quickly ramps up. Netflix works the same way. Start quickly and ramp up quality until the connection can't support any higher.

Try letting it play for a bit and you'll notice everything get sharper. Especially in full screen.
There are still a lot of RHEL/CentOS 5 users out there, which run python 2.4. While py3 is moving forward, the number of users stuck on 2.4 is still considerably larger, and we will continue to support that until such a time as it's no longer the case. In the meantime, we are exploring options so that we can help those on newer distributions work by default in the same way.
It is unlikely that a noncompete would matter much in a situation like this.
"the entire list of CIA field agents and their covers around the world"

Not released. Not even plausibly given to "Greenwald & Co."

It's telling that you jump to a ridiculous supposed analogy of endangered CIA field agents when we're talking "operations" safely carried out in secure server farms, cubicles, and offices.
As near as I can tell, this was not sponsored content/native advertising from HBO. Which is a shame, because I don't think sponsored content would get a hostile rap if it was this well produced/interesting.
They definitely solve similar problems. Bigger difference is that crudlet acts more like a utility belt library for interacting with service adapters that
support the same operations. You can really do just about anything you want. For example, here's crudlet used as an event bus system:

https://gist.github.com/crcn/cfe215ab3b604fb0b441

Crudlet also uses node streams instead of promises.
To track down dependencies, "strace" is your friend. And no, that's not an ideal solution, but it works reasonably well. Couple that with "ldd" on the interpreter.

For Ruby, additionally "bundle install --standalone --path [..]" gets your far.
>The U.S. is getting scarier by the day, folks.

It really is. The facade of democracy is very quickly being peeled back to reveal something utterly terrifying. The response from the people has been the most disappointing and depressing thing though. The random sampling in NYC, of all places in the US, by Oliver's show was a brutal reminder of the mindset of the average person there.
Nice. My project already have btree, but it is complex concurrent version. I am thinking to add something simpler and reuse some code.
I love how none of the comments at the bottom of the post realize that it's satire, and that Linus was never actually interviewed for it.
Is saving two lives in eight years worth more than saving one life today?
Again, I have only used Java a little bit, but I don't see how a language that allows you do pointer arithmetic (flipping one of the bits in the pointer), and then de-reference the modified pointer, could be type safe. I understood that Java was pretty much type safe, so I assumed it doesn't allow this in general.
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See also http://iphome.hhi.de/marpe/download/Performance_HEVC_VP9_X26...

Both of those are much older encoders, of course (nearly 2 years old in the case of the PCS paper), and some of the settings they used were questionable, e.g., what HEVC calls "constant QP" actually varies the quantizer based on the frame type, while VP9 really uses the same quantizer, which can make a big difference on metrics. Talking to the authors at PCS, they re-ran results later with more relaxed QP settings, and VP9 got somewhat better, but still didn't catch up with HEVC (on metrics).

Keep in mind all of these results are from people who have spent significant time working in MPEG/ITU/JVT/JCTVC, and may have some inherent biases. Google's own results looked much better: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6729645/6737661/06737765.pdf... (sorry for the paywall, I'm not aware of a free version available online, tl/dr: 30.38% better rate than H.264, 2.49% worse than HEVC), but obviously come with their own set of biases.

I don't know how to explain the discrepancies in the two sets of results, but they at least demonstrate the magnitude of the differences you can obtain by varying how you do the testing.
From a peak at LinkedIn it looks like he dropped out of Yale business school not Yale undergrad, so he's not giving up "3-4 years of learning and research" but more like just the second year out of a two year MBA program for a good business opportunity. I wouldn't judge this choice particularly negatively.
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> if your hedge fund makes money by betting against the 3rd World

What makes you think that's how they make their money?
Coopting memorials this way bothers me, especially in the case where the person being idealized would have been against it. I do appreciate the relevancy of the memorial being used. Using the location and its history as a running point for a demonstration / gathering would have been more impactful as well as being respectful to the purpose of the memorial.
Here's the main one: http://www.meetup.com/Effective-Altruism-NYC/

The organizer Chris Jenkins is a great guy, you should definitely feel free to sign up and ask him any questions!
You might want to add some more meta tags for images, twitter cards, etc. For those who are sharing this across social media. For instance, when I shared to FB it didn't pick up any of the metadata to show a snippet.
And why do you think he did that?
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Look around at various Docker images, and you find plenty of Dockerfiles that includes things like "wget [some random url containing a tar archive with prebuilt binaries]". Getting people used to a proper workflow for this might very well improve the situation.
I particularly liked the part where they had to use a 32-bit NOP because doing NOP on 16-bit data at that spot would've triggered the errata.
BTW, I read that you were involved in testing early 80386 chips. I have an email sent to you asking for more information on 80386 steppings.
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YouTube is only going to offer UHD over VP9, meaning that 4K smart TVs and set-top-boxes will have to support VP9. Google can also use their leverage over Android to influence mobile device makers. At $0.40 a pop, it makes sense for most SoCs to support it.

Netflix has said they are going to use H.265, but they could adopt the same strategy as Google. They could even force their desktop customers to install the VP9 codec, just as they did for Silverlight.

The primary problem is Apple, they simply won't support it. Thankfully, AppleTV hasn't caught fire, relegating their control of the market to the iPhone.

Daala will be more amenable to acceleration via generic GPUs. It probably won't match dedicated hardware but if a mobile device can decode it and the bandwidth savings are significant, the lack of licensing fees will make it a very attractive option.

Hopefully Daala will be significantly better than H.265 and win over Apple and others based on the merit of their codec alone.
Yeah, I agree with you. 10 years does not seem long enough!
> Shameful that something so harmless is immediately covered up (quite literally) because it challenges the state.

Playing devil's advocate here, but would have they done differently with an other bust? maybe it's just forbidden to put a statue in a park without authorization.
I remember a time when the flash player loaded the entire video to a temp file and you could just go through /proc/$firefox-pid/fds, find it and dump the video that way.
There is really interesting yet somehow disturbing trend that a lot of these foreign scams use a westerner to provide a feel of honesty and legitimacy.

I read a story before that during the massacre of Rwanda the dominant faction hired a Belgian and made him the biggest radio star in Rwanda. His job was to tell Rwandan Hutus that it was ok to murder Tutsis. Somehow the Hutus felt better if these instructions came from a European.
Sounds awesome! I really liked Meteor, but its view part was weird. Meteor+React sound like a natural dream team.
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The Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 in the Nexus 6 fully supports VP9 hardware acceleration. Though I'm not sure about the benefits of 4K video on a 6 inch screen.
Yes, and he admitted as much in a recent interview. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/edward-snowden-fa...
Good, and hopefully Daala will be even better.
to be honest, i don't feel vp9 vs h264 is a fair comparison. However, it's good that someone is leading the way towards next generation.
Came here to say "A little company called netflix uses it" but you beat me to it, good sir
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The author in the original piece starts off pointing out the new era of age discrimination, then starts to add 'women' through her statement and at no point states the issue is age discrimination only for women in a specific industry.

The original piece also has broad statements such as, "Every woman".

It is nearly impossible to write a response post with a perfect comparison when someone structures their post without a clear message.
That's really interesting. So I guess, if we try and transplant this over to Snapchat, one failure scenario would be something like: Snapchat gets acquired for an outrageous sum before user engagement plateaus, Spiegel and team ride happily off in to the sunset and the acquirer then tries to monetise the userbase with adds and other junk, triggering the start of an exodus. All we need to identify is a nascent startup to play facebook's facilitating role in the drama and the circle is complete :)
Not all NSA operations occur within server farms, cubicles, and offices. They have agents, they have listening posts, they have people with assets in dangerous countries. I have no idea if that information was in Snowden's massive data dump, but that's the point; no one does. He dumped a shitload of data and it's doubtful if even he knows everything that's in there.
This paper seems to be a hodgepodge of anything that might have potential to extend life, but mostly calorie restriction. My take is that I'd rather not eat only 1,000 calories a day for the hope of living 2-5 years longer. Its just not worth it to me, especially when you understand the typical quality of life during those last couple years.

Interesting how there's so little discussion nowadays about dying with dignity, but tons of spilled ink about living longer. Quality of life is often dismissed totally or just seen is irrelevant to the research.

I find the teen and twenty-something crowd being big on this, but the 40 and over crowd being pretty lukewarm toward life extension. I imagine the latter crowd have seen their own parents and other close relatives reach end of life and pass away, and want nothing to do with extending those last few years.
Or we could just stop prosecuting so many people. The US has far more people incarcerated than any other country. Clearly we could function perfectly well without having so many trials that we need to have plea bargaining.
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Thank you for reporting this. Did it give you a playlist at all, and was there any chat history on the right side of the page?

Even though HTML5 audio support is pretty good, we're running into problems with Google's location-based restrictions and audio formats.
I think it's pretty clear the OP is being downvoted for resorting to character assassination (accusing Snowden of selling/giving intelligence secrets to Russia) without any proof of his claims.
Say it ain't so! Sigh... Well, not a lot of green in the VP9 column here: http://kodi.wiki/view/Android_hardware#Compatible_chipsets
> What Oliver does is entertainment, nothing more. It doesn't change anything, not in the long run.

No, what Oliver does is propaganda, and propaganda often changes things in lasting ways. I understand and (to some extent) share your philosophical aversion to it, but ignoring its utility is wrong-headed, whether you agree or disagree with its message.

I think what you're talking about with the education system might also be propaganda, just not of the media variety. It's worth noting that historically successful propagandists used (and use) both varieties heavily.

Edit: Soften language a bit.
Good question. Actually, I'd love to see what happens if someone takes the same exact concept but instead of Snowden or a political figure, they take the bust of Mickey Mouse.

Bonus points for a Vine of them covering it up while kids cry in the background.
What's the point of watching 4K video on a 6" screen?
I agree with the "None", but for a slightly different reason. When someone follows a person it is intended to be because the ideas that that person presents are worth knowing about. But, even the best do not produce an unbroken stream of perfect articles and ideas; so I don't follow anyone, instead I keep some websites in mind as resources to consult.

In the long run it is the content that matters, not the content creator.

If I did follow anyone it would be a set of obscure computer scientists like Tony Hoare (mostly retired), Christopher Strachey (deceased), Leslie Lamport (still working for Microsoft), Joe Armstrong (very much still working on Erlang); but even so it is the content of the papers they write and the code that they have given us that matters.
If anything, the rise of Bitcoin thus far has certainly been interesting! As for Coinbase, their heft and resources will certainly help mainstream this new decentralized money system.
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The world got to us, though. You start to notice that
the coworkers that dress nicer and go to happy hour get
promotions. One guy married a social worker and had four
kids. One guy got tired of living in a studio apartment
in New Jersey.

But in our industry, with salaries how they are at the moment, you don't have to forego nice clothes and happy hour to donate 20% of your income to charity. I mean, the guy with 4 kids is spending way more than 20% of his salary on them, right? As long as you don't have 4 kids, you just need to keep your discretionary spending under control and demonstrate a reasonable amount of ambition in the workplace.

Now granted, your colleagues might have more expensive houses and nicer cars, but even giving 20% of my income to charity I have a much higher standard of living than my friends who studied less remunerative subjects.
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I like the analysis but the headline is wrong, it isn't that burn rate doesn't matter, it does, it is that it doesn't tell you anything about the underlying company. So as an evaluation metric it is less useful.

That said, VC money is very expensive money, so getting the most out of it is essential. Being afraid to use it is self defeating, and taking it for granted is risky. But pretty much everyone knows that :-)
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