skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I was aware of their tours of duty, but I thought that was not a carrot for outsiders to come in, but rather a way to circumvent the traditional hiring process. Probably doesn't hurt that the commitment is temporary.

From what I understood, rather than go through the job listing process with position writeups, giving veteran and disability preferences, dealing with HR on the certification process, getting various new office reorganizations approved by congress (they literally have to approve each individual office creation) and so on, they simply got an approval for 200-300 "innovation specialists" (that's what everyone's job title is there) and then they can informally cherry-pick whoever they actually want without going through the red tape. The mechanism is like having a standing approval for hiring 20 French speaking translators at all times, since that's a specialized standing volume-based need.

Anyhow, guess my question was more about the author's motivation for not choosing to extend the tour. It wasn't really spelled out in the post.
> "100% confidential"

They are also "100% secure". Nobody has ever claimed that and been wrong before! /sarcasm.
A huge part of the problem is not investment or technology, but the legislative structure which still favors fossil fuels. The lobbying interests and influence are immense. Once this starts to change there will be a rapid shift towards clean energy.
> Curious how we never seem to see Russia as the focus of Wikileaks releases. They must just be really respectful of the civil liberties of citizens of the world.

I agree. I've also actually found Russian statesmen and politics to be incredibly transparent. Far beyond anything the US has. So it's totally logical that Wikileaks doesn't focus on them.
Hey - sorry we have not addressed your feedback, its crap and we should be doing better :/ All I can say is we are a small team doing the best we can, and we have had some growing pains. However, that is really no excuse so I am sorry about that.

Yes we do have a relatively small userbase relative to Twitch, but I guess the reason you would want to come to our site is that our community is focussed on coding, not just entertainment.

Edit: you should be able to watch streams without logging in now.
Finally, can't wait for new MVC as well and of course C#6
I've installed Vassal and tried it but I haven't actually played multiplayer with it.

My main point of confusion is--- it's really odd that it doesn't have rules enforcement. I know that it makes it infinitely more complex to code a module, but for some games (like A Distant Plain and Twilight Imperium) rules enforcement would be fantastic.
I tend to pack that way myself, but I also pack far less than I used to, especially for international trips. So I bring a rolling bag and a laptop bag, but the rolling bag is well within the carry-on size, and the laptop bag is only just big enough for my laptop, power supply, and a handful of essentials.
Distributed generation is where we should invest. Energy independence for the individual.

Individual solar panels and batteries, personal windmills, personal reactors, etc.

Imagine all the savings in infrastructure for energy transportation and reinvestment in other sectors. Imagine all the possibilities if people could switch their energy generation model as simple as buying a new product and installing it at home.

Individual energy independence, even if it will never be possible, that's where our dreams should be.

Then water, then food. That's disruption at seismic level. Post-scarcity world.
Letting people have a 30-60 second delay in the stream might help a lot in being able to go and remove it before damage has been done. aside from that I don't have any ideas myself
If anyone reading this is looking for a more permanent job working for the government, check out https://18f.gsa.gov/ which is trying to build up a modern software group which provides services for the rest of the government. Ben Balter, Github's Government evangelist, summarized the difference between the two here:

http://ben.balter.com/2015/04/22/the-difference-between-18f-...

(Disclaimer: I don't work there but know a number of people who do and, as a taxpayer, am cheering them on)
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Does it cover the sectarian, nativist element to the temperance movement?
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I always wondered why more energy wasn't generated from nuclear. On paper it seems like a great energy source.

Kudos to Sam for putting not just his money, but his time where his mouth is. If only the rest of the internet could do the same!
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Good point - I think we just wanted a balance between having an empty profile and having too many requirements, but perhaps we leaned too far in the required fields direction!
I suspect solar (including wind/biomass) + batteries is going to trounce fission reactors in the not terribly long term. If you think of finance in terms of latency/bandwidth (a model I use for lots of things), reactors are high latency - they're expensive and take a long time to set up.

Meanwhile, solar/wind is heading toward dirt cheap and trivial to set up. Environmental impact is minimal, too. It doesn't require giant corporations, government sponsorship, complex regulations, or exotic engineering skills to implement. With those incredible advantages, it doesn't need to be cheaper than nuclear - it just needs to be adequately cheap.
"You can’t read Goffman’s study or mine and not conclude that we sympathized and empathized with our subjects. I came away from my years with uniformed police officers deeply respecting their very difficult job and the many sacrifices they make to serve and protect us. I witnessed no police brutality but observed much aggression and vulgarity against and provocations of the police. I also appreciated how much they cared about many of the people they were arresting. I think not a few officers, if they read her book and met Goffman, might say to her something like, "You got it partly right. But there’s another side to the story.""

I can't help but wonder if knowing that they were being watched didn't affect their behavior.

For example, I'm a pretty competent programmer. I don't usually do very well on a whiteboard or someone else's computer during an interview. But day-to-day I turn out plenty of code.

To presume that observation has no effect on the outcome seems a little naive to me. Stranger still that an academic seemingly doesn't realize that.
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Just because you have a moral problem with the customer doesn't mean they are a malicious user. Even if a user's actions are outright illegal, illegal is neither sufficient nor necessary for saying something is wrong in the moral views of anyone who uses a moral system divorced from the legal system. In short, deeply held moral views can differ so greatly that a common language to describe the situation can be impossible unless one sticks purely to the facts which include accepting the legal system does exist and make judgment calls but putting no authority in those calls.
What is your proof against France industrial espionage ?
The US cable about Berry Smutny ? His company was way less technologically advanced than the 2 majors French companies running for the Galileo bid, Astrium from the giant EADS and Thalès. His company was selected thanks to the masochism of the Europeans commission for competition against big companies and we can see where the Galileo project is with that choice.
Saying that France is the bigger state sponsor of industrial espionage is utterly ridiculous with countries such as China, Russia and the USA and is enormous budget for the NSA, as we can see with those cables. France is rarely involved in such cases. Europeans are too naive about economic espionage.

http://lexpansion.lexpress.fr/entreprises/la-france-est-elle...
Sure it can, although most don't want to go to the lengths necessary to make it so.
Modern spam filtering is not purely based on white/black-lists. Statistical analysis of the content is performed.

You don't need to auto-spam-box sources that are sending low volume emails to the same set of addresses, especially when the messages don't get categorized as spam by the content analysis.

You don't need the kind of global coordination you are talking about. Further, whitelists don't solve the problem. Under your scenarios, you can just as easily receive low volume spam from millions of fake accounts at the big providers. You're just relying on the provider to solve your spam problem.
That's the theory behind it. The reality can be quite the opposite.

In my experience, tech workers in the US generally have fewer job stability problems and have a much easier time finding decent work in the first place.
"You don't have adobe flash"
" please download it"

Yeah sorry no, it's why I don't use twitch and it's why I won't use livecoding.tv
Yeah that's definitely the case. This test was for string interning though, so I assume the prefix checking wasn't really necessary so the trie doesn't gain any advantage from having that capability (though I admit I wasn't familiar with the concept of string interning before reading this post so I could be missing something).
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In a lot of ways the cruftiness of vassal is a filter function- if you're not willing to put in the effort to learn vassal, you're not likely to have the motivation to play the kind of complicated games for the amount of time it takes to reach completion that vassal was made for. An upsurge in popularity caused by something like a Steam sale would probably kill the community, or at least change it beyond recognition.
Looking at the issues you identified that reduced the advantage:
- full planes (lack of supply)
- parking/shuttles (airports are not efficient for the larger number of people traveling, and the very slow park-to-gate time that now exists, compared to the past)
- security (this alone can add an hour and I doubt it ever adds less than 10 minutes)
- "all the BS" - I'm reading this as lack of runway capacity, and generally mismanaged airports.

All of those things are the result of government control over the airline industry. Security only serves the purpose of keeping people docile to the government (nothing like being porno scanned or molested to let you know whose really in charge!) and the government control allows for limitations on the number of gates, limitation on routes, etc keeping the planes full and capacity down (not enough gates, airports are not kept up to date like thy would if run by an organization that needed to keep its customers happy, etc.)
In iOS9 there is a new Safari web view which is much more like mobile Safari than the old web view.
> When France does it, it's bad. When the USA does it it is bad too.

I think that this is a legitimate moral position to take, but I think you will find that it is less widely held than other legitimate moral positions you might take (for instance spy agencies spying on their own citizens is more broadly recognized as bad).

Further, it seems to be a moral position that doesn't have much basis in practice. Industrial activities are fundamentally linked with traditional espionage targets such as diplomacy, military technology and military operations. To deny an intelligence agency access to those things seems no different than to deny them the ability to operate at all. Which is another legitimate moral stand to take, but one that has even less broad acceptance.
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>>That's an amusing requirement. Do they really want vast amounts of browser-side crap? From the list of Javascript client-side libraries in Wikipedia, almost all of them are more than 5 years old.[1] JQuery is over 10 now.

I don't understand your criticism. At all. It comes across as intentionally obtuse.

Yes, JQuery is over 10 years old. But there have been many releases since then. Going by its release history [1], using version 1.5+ as of this writing would fulfill the requirement you quoted. Any earlier version would not qualify as "modern" (which is a definition I agree with considering how quickly this particular landscape moves).

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery#Release_history
The hard data has been around for years, and is fairly easy to find. Not every blog post needs to have an accompanying statistical analysis.
Yes, GIMP's UI is pretty awkward. No disagreement here.

Still, for a lot of people, GIMP is a very valuable open source alternative to Photoshop; not as full-featured, of course, but then again, nothing is. There are lots of tutorials for achieving interesting effects using GIMP. I've never heard it described as something people learn to pad their resumes.

Krita is pretty cool, too. If I'm not mistaken, it's not a full-featured Photoshop replacement either.
A common use case (and I'd imagine most common use case) is someone building an app from scratch. Usually this takes more than one video. The videos on the user page, and on the main video viewing page do not have a date.

So now it's almost impossible to watch old videos in order. I saw some interesting series I wanted to check out, but clicked around trying to find the beginning and could not find out which one it was and then gave up.
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If the entire point is to watch someone code something from scratch, why is there no dates on the videos? How can you follow a series from beginning to end if you have to randomly guess which order a series is in?
> In fact, it leads to deeper debt and needing bigger houses to contain all this meaningless stuff.

> It also becomes a cause of unnecessary stress, as it will take your precious money, time, emotion, attention, and effort to take care all of this stuff.

> The recent massive flooding here in Olongapo City is a testament to that. Visiting houses of families ravaged by the flood, I was reminded by how too much stuff is not a luxury – it’s actually a burden, a liability.

I am not rich. I am poor. The few possessions I have, that you might think are cluttering my rented apartment, I hold to them because I can't afford to replace them. Too many chairs in my living room, too many different knives in the kitchen drawer. I don't have a TV though. But I won't ditch my mp3 collection burned on CDs because I can't afford to listen to it on Deezer. I wish I could go on holidays with only my iPhone and my sennheiser headphone and just buy what I need on the spot. I'll drop some karma points to say this: "Fuck you".
Obviously. I meant in addition China also plays by these rules.
Again, if this was an investment - where payoff is proportional to risk then this would be a different matter. But we are talking about more than that, as legally binding obligations and contingency plans where established long before any money traded hands. So what, everything leading up to that point should be ignored? There is a reason why bankruptcy is viewed as the option of last resort, it is because the consequences to the bankrupt party are long lasting - nobody trusts them anymore. What do you think would happen if you defaulted on a loan from your bank? Collateral would be collected, wages would be garnished, you wouldn't be able to secure credit, etc. Why is this any different?

Consent of the governed is relevant because you were waving about the suffering of the Greeks, who according to the popular political idea, are actually responsible for their own suffering. Also, if you think the EU isn't suffering over this - I'd like to direct your attention to the EUR/USD exchange rate.
We have been hearing this trope for years and Europe is more dependent upon the US than ever.
You're quite right. Tilengine is designed to emulate the inner working of 2D VDPs, so it has all their features. I preffer to say "features" than limitations because it's a very different way of rendering graphics compared to modern GPUs. But obviously this kind of graphics are technically more limited, of course.

It's not a full game engine, only a graphics engine: it doesn't offer sound or any other feature that would be outside of a graphics chip.

It's not an emulator of a particular hardware either: it's based on their working principles but it's a fresh implementation from the ground up.
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Yeah I would need to check with my cofounder why we had to use flash there - but I agree it would be better if we could get rid of it!
I've recently been listening to This Developer's Life; also the Blender Guru podcast (about the 3D free-software program a Blender).
Decentralization solves a lot of other problems as well - it's less vulnerable to accidental or intentional failure, it requires much less skill and expense to implement and operate, etc.

Solar has the advantage that it cannot be weaponized even in nonsense theory, greatly relaxing export regulation. This makes it a viable solution for developing countries and remote areas, not just the handful of nations with the wealth and sophistication to manage a reactor.
The independent stdlib is interesting, and I haven’t seen Elixir advocates mention it much before. I’ll have to look into that.
I'm sure there's a bunch of reasons they went with tours of duty. I do also know that a manageable hiring process was really important to them.
I've been reading about Elixir here-and-there for a while and decided to jump into it last week. I really like it. I'm a big fan of FP and, having increasingly found myself falling out with Python, can definitely see this becoming my dynamically typed language of choice.
I think assange admitted as much along the lines they have a target for the largest agent of badness, as they saw it. So, given they interpret the US to be the greater agent of spying/espionage and implied they'd like to level the playing field, it's little surprise we don't see much in regards to Russia and China, along with Iran or Sudan.

Personally I don't agree with their tack, but that is what I gather is their tack from their, assange's, statements.
They rolled out the patch over two weeks time. The first fixes were after 12 hours, and could have likely waited at least 1 business day to give me proper notice.
> USB

Absolutely useless
I'm reflexively sympathetic to the small, scrappy startup. But...

...man this is not a sympathetic story. You're running a gambling site (morally shady and an obvious magnet for abuse), using bitcoins (another huge abuse magnet), you had very supicious gambling patterns (a massive red flag that no real casino would accept), and you just let the guy keep playing? That's not how you're supposed to do that.

And as for the whole "we had a timing bug in our code, and we couldn't find it even with hard proof that it existed, and then we finally thought we'd fixed it, and then we asked the guy for the million dollars back (??!?), and then it turned out we hadn't fixed it at all, and he hit us up for another few thousand"? Like, that just sounds screaming amateurish.

If you can't be trusted to write secure code, or at least fix the bugs you find in it, maybe online bitcoin casinos aren't for you? And if you think asking people nicely to give you your money back works in casinos, maybe you don't understand the industry?

Edit: I'm not trying to be a dick, but I feel like the proper blogpost to write would be a grovelling "hey guys, I know it's super obvious, but if you're doing an online gambling website, monitor your transactions for specific patterns. Know what a real punter looks like, and aggressively throttle anyone who doesn't behave like one. Otherwise you'll be stupid idiots who lose a million dollars over a stupid bug, and then have to write a magnanimous letter congratulating the guy who exploited you for winning so much money (man that was painful to write)." You made some huge mistakes, and it doesn't sound like you really learned from them, or even identified them. Hint: Your core mistake was not a timing bug that emerged when your system was under heavy load.
> A big part of it is about sanitation--since pure water wasn't so safe to drink, people drank far more tea (boiling kills bacteria) and beer/wine (fermentation has a similar effect).

This is a massive myth.[1] It has historically been very rare to not have access to clean water. Beer and alcohol are nutritionally more dense than water, and for much of western europe's history they were watered down to the point of not working to sterilize. It was simply more of part of the meal than alcohol is today and may have tasted better.

In addition, alcohol is easier to preserve during the winter, especially when most of your heat is for keeping people alive. Cider was probably the staple drink for much of rural new england during early colonization, and could have ranged anywhere from highly sugary (like modern unpasteurized cider), highly alcoholic (like an ale or, as applejack, as a liqeur; George Washington was a fan), to something more fiber-oriented (not all apples would have been very sugary, and you end up with something like a sour beer that had lots of flavor but was not super alcoholic).

Finally, let's not forget that people love to drink. It's addictive, at least to some subset of people and situations. People have always drank alcohol because it's been easy to prepare (literally just leave sugar and water out in the air) and easy to drink. This doesn't mean they were drunk all the time (there are a ridiculous number of laws about being drunk in public), but it was through and through a part of the lifestyle in a way that it is difficult for modern, post-christianization western europe to grasp. It was only when real alternatives to alcohol in terms of nutrition and cost were cheap enough people could get away with moralizing about it when it became separated into a "drug".

Sauces:

[1] http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-great-medieval-wate...
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So easy to find that it can't even be linked to on the web by two people that claim it exists?
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There are other technologies. Nuclear isomers for example have a lot of potential, but the fossil fuel hegemony really keeps alternatives from flourishing. We can be very thankful that photovoltaics was invented pre-WII, otherwise I doubt we'd be seeing it today either.
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Marcel Duchamps made pieces of "art" that were "found objects", that is, he just found something and labeled it art. One of these pieces was a toilet bowl. Duchamps was outraged that critics labeled it "pretty", because he was trying to make a philosophical point. He did not believe that art was possible, and he was labeling non-art as "art" to try to demonstrate that point.

I think that at least part of the mess of modern art comes from the artists' philosophies. If you don't think real art is possible, you don't try to achieve it. If you think that all of human life and existence is ugly, you produce art that is ugly. If you think that humans are just deterministic machines made out of atoms, you produce art that a machine could produce. If you think that there is no meaning possible in life, you produce art that has no meaning.
> If only the rest of the internet could do the same!

Sam is in a fairly unique position to be able to do that...
When morals and gains are aligned being moral is easy.