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Well, we're all getting older, sure, but movies really have gotten less coherent in their action scenes. As a test of your "I'm getting old" hypothesis I once stepped through a confusing fight scene in a modern movie at 25% speed through mplayer, and I still could not work out what was happening coherently. Backgrounds are blurs, cuts are these little tiny slices, it's all sound and fury signifying little.

Compare with, say, Terminator 2. I can't quite derive the exact layout of the factory in the final act, but generally speaking I know who's who, where they are, how close they are to each other, etc., all the basics I really ought to know if I'm to be shown tension instead of cinematically simply told there is tension.

Though the Marvel movies have generally been sensible, if fast-paced, in my opinion, so who knows.
Many Lumia phones have Qi built in. This started happening over two years ago. I personally would never buy a phone without built-in wireless charging today.
Ask HN: What's your favorite 'loading' image?
I just came across the "Haters Gonna Hate" loading indicator at the site below, which gave me a laugh:

http://status.numenta.org/issues

What are some other funny or novel loading images you've come across?
> We can all soon look forward to the day where we no longer have to play Unicode whack-a-mole

I don't expect Unicode trouble to disappear with Python3, quite the opposite, it's trivially to insert ticking Unicode time bombs into Python3 code, especially in things surrounding shell scripting. Something as trivial as this:

print(os.listdir())

Will explode when it runs into filenames that aren't encodable by Unicode (i.e. perfectly legal filenames in Linux). Linux allows raw binary in a lot of places (filenames, arguments, environment variables) where Python expects Unicode.
Still pretty nice when you mount it for GPS as there are a couple solutions that do just that.
Two examples.
http://www.theairdock.com/
http://www.tylt.com/vu-car/
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One mistake here is that moving Bitcoin is not essentially free. It is also getting more expensive. The essentially free part is moving value within a private network, but that could be done with any currency.
You have to consider children who do not have access to the internet or who are limited to only dial up access. And saying 'the library' when it is 15 miles away doesn't help. That said, a laptop with Linux and some offline programs still seems the best choice.
Pedantry aside, I'd like to suggest that common sense and should always trump grammatical "rules". If we might assume the layperson's definition, "one of a kind" (ie, one instance in a set), and acknowledge that one such kind may represent a radically larger set than another, how might we use English to describe the difference?

The letter "R" is unique in the English alphabet.
The particular grain of sand in the palm of my hand is unique to the world's beaches.

Are "R" and this grain of sand equally unique? Might there be a way to compare them?

I don't want to debate the point, rather to pose the question and see what any responses might illuminate.

Have a nice day. :)
Our brains don't "explode" at movie cuts because there's years of evolution about the techniques that makes a cut appear fluid, essentially keeping a continuity of the movement and position of the main subject of the action.

The photographer and the editor take particular pains to ensure that.
E.g. if you "cross the line" between two actors, you'll see a "jump" because the actors will swap positions.
If you cut in a movement, the next shot will have to show something continuing the movement, or the cut is done when the object stops or is hidden behind something.

That makes the cuts a fluid motion even if the whole scene changes. If you break the rules, even if the scene is the same, you'll feel a "jump" between the shots and it will feel unnatural

( For the interested, here is a very detailed description of the common "idioms":
http://www.amazon.com/Grammar-Film-Language-Daniel-Arijon/dp... )
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Interesting, that must be a mirror. The original censored repo was here:

https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equalit...

All its forks seem to have been censored too, e.g.

https://github.com/AndreaDworkin/C-plus-Equality
https://cryptbin.com/ renders markdown.
Are you fucking kidding me, I'm now a Nazi German because I don't believe the US government forced GitHub to secretly edit one of their repos?

This place, good fucking grief.
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https://cryptbin.com/ does markdown, but not WYSIWYG.
What modern phone doesn't have wireless charging built-in?
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This problem's already solved. Qi is the standard.

Duracell Powermat is effectively just Qi with proprietary advertisement and tracking codes (light DRM) added on to it. As far as I can tell, it only exists because Duracell keeps throwing money at it.

This isn't a Blu-Ray/HD-DVD problem. It's more like a CD vs MiniDisc fight. Or a USB vs Lightning fight.
Since they're launching that one out of Vandenberg, maybe the Air Force is more accommodating to crazy schemes like this than NASA is, or maybe the facilities are just ready for it there first.
> Is this normal? should I reach out to the hiring manager?

Yes, sadly HR departments earn their reputation for bureaucratic sloth and myopia.

Reach out to the Hiring Manager. Play it cool, like Fonzi. Suggest saying something like-- Looking forward to getting started, I wanted compare notes with you on next steps. BTW, I haven't received the formal paperwork, would you know of its status? The inquiry should be enough to get things rolling.

Incidentally, recommend reading George Bradt on starting your new role> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108444.The_New_Leader_s_1...
Not only that, but in order to make intelligent inferences from multiple points of observation (a memory of an aggressive animal and the aftermath, combined with a present visualization of a different but similar aggressive animal, and knowledge of one's offspring nearby).. All of these things can be visualized in the mind as a sequence of environmental, first person perspective imagery, with emotional associations and connected knowledge, that comes in the form of feelings, and constructed symbolic representations of reality.

We put things together almost instantaneously without even understanding how we fill in the gaps. The same mechanism occurs when one jumps to conclusions, or understands how one line of a mathematical proof implies that the next line can now be read. It's all absurd and has the potential to be brain exploding when you really sit and try to think about what makes you think that gap is totally filled, but it's also not, because memories and feelings like 'obvious', and also because it's a big part of science to question those gaps.

Brains are weird though, even with all the explanation and science and repetition and predictability in scientific knowledge, it is still 'awe' invoking.
I had the exact opposite experience (about 10 years ago, didn't try any audio since on linux): even after all possible RT patches and whatnot we were happy if we would get skip-free roundtrip latencies of 50mSec on Debian with pretty much top of the line pro soundcards. Might have been bad drivers, or maybe we were just screwing up, but on Windows (with ASIO)/OsX we would just install driver, open control panel, turn down buffer size to minimum and sampling rate to maximum and be looking at about 2mSec of latency with a simple loop I->O test app (IIRC but I'm pretty sure it was 64 samples @ 96kHz)
latest model nexus 7 definitely does.
And we have evidence of those things.

This is something else. Basic rationality demands that we not treat something as truth until we have evidence of it.

The existence of bad actors does not mean an abandonment of critical thinking! Critical thinking in this case tells us that compromising a git repo is a horrible idea, mostly because even if you broke SHA and even if you managed to slip the code in undetected, the jig is up the moment somebody makes a conflicting change in that file, wonders what's going on, and then discovers that the server copy does not jibe with the local copy.
The graph demonstrating the different levels in education was interesting. At first I thought there most be some mistake, because one field was high school education or less and the other was college education or more, but the two lines didn't add up to 100%. I realized that the cause for this is people who started college but did not graduate. Because the bachelors degree or greater line stayed the same this must mean that less people have started college. I'm not entirely convinced that this is the case.
I do not like this article at all. I rebutted it extensively at https://lobste.rs/s/ipml3l/less_is_more_language_features/co....
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I was thinking specifically about Samsung and iPhones.
Another from the same channel, not related to cuts though https://vimeo.com/118078262
"End-To-End is a Chrome extension..."

Your argument is invalid.
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Indeed. There are disadvantages. I guess what you're saying is that my Surface would charge more slowly on a pad than it will with its wire?

So be it.

I still want the convenience of wireless charging for my tablet/laptop. Here's the thing: my devices that charge wirelessly are in practice more often charged than those that require a wire. The speed of charging with a wire is immaterial if by requiring a wire, you have reduced the frequency of charging.

And if it's about efficiency (cost) of charging, then fine, let me know it will use a bit more electricity. I'm still going to do it. I've got way bigger fish to fry there.
You should get in touch with CloudAcademy.com as well. If you'd like, let me know (easy to find my email by googling my name).
I expect Starbucks will switch to whatever Apple picks. Along with everybody else.
https://cryptdown.eu/view/23mz2dmpdq5co - password: lolz

and this is why we don't like crypto in the browser...
The real killer feature for writers (especially novelists) would be an OS that booted into Emacs and didn't offer any distractions whatsoever. The ironically named selfcontrolapp.com is probably the biggest tech thing to affect the literary scene in a long time...but as a developer I know how to disable the iptables rules in the Linux version. And I have no actual self-control.
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I don't understand enough about the details of how Bitcoin works to evaluate how apt that is of an analogy it is here. I've heard some very positive as well as a large enough number of surprisingly negative experiences with it making it hard for me to evaluate and thus hard to trust.

I'm having a hard time following your argument about the sharing economy showing us that distributed trust systems work more efficiently. Many of the major players in the sharing economy I've seen (Uber [0], AirBnB[1]) have all moved from open-ended, less regulated distributed trust systems to tightening and more strongly imposing rules as a centralized authority to rebuild damage to their trust due to bad actors.

To avoid thoughts that I'm cherry-picking companies with controversies, my broader point is that the sharing economy isn't really built differently than Amazon or any other marketplace model. Central authorities (TaskRabbit, Exec, AirBnB, Homejoy, etc) inject trust into p2p marketplaces because without their centralized authority, p2p marketplaces wind up like Craigslist or, even worse, Silk Road.

[0] http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/18/technology/uber-background-c...
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Airbnb-hosts-must-app...

edit: minor wording correction
LG phones.
This is actually how PulseAudio attempts to work. It doesn't always work out (skype's startup sound being infamously jittery), but the thought is there.
What you're doing is refusing to let go of something that a) went completely off-topic and b) was entirely incorrect.

You'd be wrong to say it's "fair game" to ramble about the other CIA conspiracies.

What the fuck is happening to this site today? Because I don't think the US government forced GitHub to secretly edit the contents of a repo, I'm the one with the problem?
Isn't it a little different in his case. After all, he is the founder.

I don't begrudge founders/owners of companies their riches. It's obscene when a CEO who is a non owner, and hence an employee of the company, makes multiple orders or magnitude more money than the other employees.
>But then you tried to categorize executive compensation as investing in the business.

No, what happened was 2 separate conversations took place because one topic morphed into another.

My original reply to pjc50 was over the formal accounting label of profits-vs-expense. His scenario of paying out the Net Income while still retaining profits is mathematically impossible -- unless you do Enron type of accounting. (pjc50 later clarified he didn't mean all of the $14B would be paid to employees.)

On the other hand, I interpreted pjc50 and your usage of "building the business" as a different topic that transcends accounting labels to talk about what's good/bad/effective/moral/whatever for the business regardless of what bucket it's in. In other words, I took a charitable reading and basically agreed that expenses for employees can also "build the business" -- I simply put it in a larger framework of business "priorities" because they have finite resources.
There was an An-2 giving air tours at the Luftfahrtmuseum Finowfurt, where the last two Chaos Communication Camps were held. (Unfortunately the Camp will have to move to another location this year.)

I took one of those tours in 2007 and it was a pretty different experience from other planes in terms of the extreme maneuverability. What I most remember is that the pilot didn't really bother to approach the runway. Instead, he just flew toward the airport. When we got to the airport, he just sort of hung a quick left onto the runway and landed. It felt almost like taking a turn in a car!

As the An-2's stall speed is considerably slower than freeway traffic, we might actually have been going at about the speed of a car at that point.
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The first stage accounts for about 75% of the total cost of the Falcon 9, so best case would be a 75% cost reduction. Any refurbishment needed before flying again would reduce that, as well as whatever fixed costs there are for a launch, like fuel, salaries for on-site workers, consumable launch pad equipment, or whatever. Refurbishment is the big wild card. If the rocket is ready to go again with no work then it could come close to that 75% reduction. If it requires extensive work before it can fly again then it could be a lot smaller.
Maybe. I've got an Atlys board (but I'm not sure I'm ready to brick it yet).

Currently I'm more interested in trying to use it with the existing open source place&route tools ( https://code.google.com/p/vtr-verilog-to-routing/ ).
Then why were the forks also disabled? Terminating an account, fine, and perfectly legitimate if they were actually doing that, but also flattening everyone else's copy? That's a bit heavy handed for a parody, don't you think?
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This is a very quick survey on "cloud storage usage". Based on your answers, it only takes 3-10 minutes.

http://goo.gl/forms/EcGubEf7x3 (on Google Forms)

I really appreciate you take the time to fill it out, and pass it on to others.

Please feel free to share the link on social networks or post it anywhere you think is appropriate.
What is face book's exposure to antitrust legislation?
If anyone is interested in the funding history/investor returns in Etsy, we made a cool infographic about it: https://equityzen.com/blog/etsy-path-to-ipo/
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I got mail from Experian containing an access code to activate "my" account. Apparently, this guy failed the standard credit report info test so they sent postal mail to the address on file to ensure he was legit. He wasn't of course, so I got the postal mail.
>There much worse fates than having a truly excellent slice of your work define you when you're 70.

But these reporters aren't asking him about his work. They're asking his for gossipy statements about his tensions and fallout with Waters. They give no shits about the music, they just want to get an old man angry.
I know a handful of Lumia phones that come built in with it. I have been using one for about 2+ years and must say its extremely convenient. No more fiddling plugging in or tugging on cables. When you are not holding your phone you put it down somewhere, and if that somewhere has a charging plate you never have to worry about low battery. Have bought multiple of these wireless chargers and also had one modified for the car's cup holder where I tend to place my phone while driving.
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FPGAs can respond to signals in nanoseconds, talk to directly different peripherals (integrated circuits, SPI, DDR3, SATA, HDMI - whatever). State machines can "branch" on every clock cycle.

GPUs... usually respond in milliseconds. Usually can't talk with anywhere except host across PCIe bus. State machines and branches... uh, yeah, don't do those on a GPU!

Maybe tile CPUs will give FPGAs a fight in the future in some market segments. Easy (well, easier than FPGA) programmability and potentially good I/O. Transputer was so amazing back in the day. 30 years ago. Maybe Tilera and such will eventually succeed?

Anyways, FPGAs and GPUs are very different beasts.
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Now that, is cool.
Ha! I know that iPhones don't come with wireless charging, and I assume you do too. But I too was tempted to reply sarcastically with precisely the sentence you wrote here (especially when GP seems to be feigning ignorance of the many phones that do come with built-in wireless charging, so why not mirror that feigned ignorance). Because it's surprising that the iPhone would still require fussing with wires. It's further ironic when it's made by Apple, the company that changes connectors every 2 years. You'd think the idea of doing away with connectors entirely would be appealing to them.

And to repeat the tired meme, once Apple releases an iPhone that does have wireless charging, it will be heralded as the dawn of wireless charging.
That's what `git rebase --interactive` does (which has been described as being “a bit like git commit --amend hopped up on acid and holding a chainsaw–completely insane and quite dangerous but capable of exposing entirely new states of mind”[0])

The scenario described happens frequently when people `git push -f` a rebased tree, and it certainly does not go unnoticed by other developers on the project — more “havoc” than “subtle”.

[0]: http://2ndscale.com/rtomayko/2008/the-thing-about-git
I didn't spend the time searching google to provide citations, but it is feasible to generate fuel autonomously on the Martian surface and store it for future use.

Can we launch a vehicle that will de-orbit, safely land, and then begin processing fuel using nuclear (edit: I removed solar here; solar would not provide enough power for such a facility) for power and the Martian atmosphere and soil as feedstock? Not quite yet, but we're getting there.
Here's how I previously explained it: "HN has a strong bias toward allowing people to allocate their time based on their preferences. The tl;dr convention is tremendously useful because it allows people to make an informed decision as to whether or not to read the article, based on a summary which is (typically) more accurate than the headline."

It's clear HN appreciates this sort of thing -- the last time I had a comment as heavily upvoted, it was another summary. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724105
The missing context isn't race - the context needed was already there, being in the inner city and exposed to gangs. Simply put, the whole United States isn't like this because there aren't more black people across the entire country, but because the entire country isn't made up of inner city areas with high gang activity.
Easy to say, but you try having someone file tax returns on your behalf, order debit cards in your name, etc, and then not feel like he's deserving of a little "street justice".
I do pursue programming, and contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDuckGo.

I also have a job as part of a web development and design team called http://www.whiskeyandwhiskey.com/.

I have quite a few opportunities for hands-on experience.

Mine is AI in the sense that it uses machine learning algorithms and corroborates it in a way that mimics human behavior. Maybe I put too much effort to the interface, but the interface took me a while.

Furthermore, my project does not end at the chatterbot element of it: it also collects useful psychometric data using text classification algorithms.

http://acuman.us/readmore.php
Yep, the forward airspeed needed to generate lift is relative to the aircraft, not to the ground.
You can actually layer pulseaudio on top of jack and have per-application volume controls, plus letting some applications output to your usb headset and whatnot; and also allowing pro-grade applications use jack directly, not bothering with any of the pulse nonsense at all.
You're better off livestreaming to the cloud, good services include YouTube (recently), ACLU has an app, there's also things like QIK.

Can't delete a video they can't reach.
Whether you want to call it mental illness or insanity (I am neither a doctor nor a lawyer, do I don't have any preference for either term..), I cannot fathom how the second possibility that you list does not qualify. People who are experiencing auditory hallucinations while fully awake and rested should seek professional help.

The first possibility would not be so worrying if people were not attributing their own introspective thoughts to a flawless perfect benevolent supernatural being. Nobody should ever be that confident of their own ideas.

I think the attribution of the introspective thought to a supernatural being (not the introspective thought itself) can reasonably be thought of as "crazy". I'm not saying it is in DSM, that there is some sort of recognized illness that it can be attributed to, but it certainly isn't rational thinking.
Hi, I wasn't able to reproduce that glitch.
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”While an officer surely cannot issue a ‘move on’ order to a person because he is recording, the police may order bystanders to disperse for reasons related to public safety and order and other legitimate law enforcement needs.”

Hmm. That looks like a loophole the size of "stop resisting" or "I feared for my life."

I'd be willing to bet that the future holds a notable number of court cases which will turn on the question of whether an officer was justified in requesting dispersement for "public safety reasons"... maybe even as standard operating procedure.

Still, this is an improvement.
'educated guessing' is exactly what I go to the doctor for.
Anyone I work with that can't use IRC I wouldn't want in our chat. I'd prefer they use email or do face to face meetings simply because of the sheer volume of information I'd need to convey to communicate effectively.
I've almost done this in a Taylorcraft. It is fun as long as you can get back to your airport. It also probably wansn't the safest/smartest time to go for a joyride, but the wind was right down the runway.
That's just what they want you to think!