skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was untrue. It was a fork and they acted like ffmpeg was no longer being developed. To me this was a horrible way to fork something.
No need for bytecode when a stacktrace will do :-)

public static void main(String... args) {
Runnable r = () -> {
((Object)null).toString(); // kaboom
};
r.run();
}
Are you somehow not in control of how x is being changed? You seem to have said that literally any statefulness is "exhausting".
The thing is that on one hand it increased the risk of bad consequences to them, but on the other hand it indirectly reduced the risk of bad consequences happening to others.

Increasing the net effect on consequences is what matters.
Why is it acceptable to do this on plants but not on animals?
I'm gonna take this argument in a slightly different direction. While I agree with you that the way this experiment was conducted was needlessly unsafe and irresponsible, I don't believe these researchers deserve jail time given that only positive outcomes resulted from this event. Pragmatically, society has nothing to gain from punishing these individuals and in the best case scenario doing so costs us money and pointlessly devestates likely several lives. For that matter, I am also against sending people to jail even when their actions have negative effects if it is not clear that isolating them from the public will reduce future harm.
>How hard would that have been?

Probably pretty rough on the ego.
I'm old enough to remember the days (daze?) of punched cards, when I was in high school and working at the Naval Electronic Labs on Point Loma (San Diego).

My worst experience was writing a whole compiler in IBM 360 assembler macros, and submitting it to the punch card department (probably a couple thousand cards), only to be chagrined when they wanted to know who was going to pay for this rather large job after the fact. (They kindly ate it.)

I have no idea how I got a systems programming job there for the summer, but somehow I finagled it. We were using a highly advanced new subsystem which had just appeared, TSO (time sharing option) for OS/360.

Good times. ;-)
It is quite ironic that the article completely fails at risk analysis even from a perspective where an abundant amount of data is available. After some brief googling through top causes of accidents [1] most attributed deaths to speeding, drunk driving, or distracted driving.

It would be a fair attribution to say that the behavior of the vehicle as viewed from another drivers perspective was none of these situations as the driver was to at least some extent still in control of the car. While I do not know the exact model of the Jeep I'm assuming that there is a mechanical emergency brake still present.

Stopping in the middle of traffic is probably very low on the metric of causes of accidents or death. Although I did not accumulate enough data to give a metric on how much risk the researchers incurred through this experiment it may be beneficial for the author to at least do some due diligence in acquiring data before labeling an industry (one the author is well known in for that matter) as having an inability to quantify risk and then immediately fail to quantify risk.

[1] Pretty ironic that the author fails in his own analysis while talking about 'proper "risk analysis"'.
>Yes, but in such cases you can also just borrow the entire book, photocopy it, and keep the copy.

Yeah, but this way you get the electronic version that you want + the key (from some other user). In the end it comes to those distributing they keys, and it's not different from site offering trial-versions and others giving out serials and cracks.

>The point is to make it so that the distributors can reasonably argue they are not actually distributing copyrighted material

Just because it's encrypted it doesn't mean it's not copyrighted material. If I encrypt "Star Wars" and give it for download (letting others give the key), they'll still be all over my ass.
As you can see many of the other major contributors to ffmpeg are also contributors to libav.
This is explained that ffmpeg merges back a lot of libav but not so much in the other direction.
In other words, if this is true and all major contributors except for Michael are in fact libav developers then ffmpeg might have a hard time when Michael leaves.

But since Michael alone seems to "outdevelop" all others, ffmpeg comes ahead in terms of features and supported codecs, so people prefer ffmpeg. Since i don't know the ffmpeg APIs or the code quality, i don't know if it is true that ffmpeg has the worse design and development process. If it is true and Michael leaves it sounds like a lot work to take over. On the other hand... i understand that libav was already a fork of ffmpeg.. So some people did take over the code in the past.

Just restating what the article says.
It is as Orwellian as it sounds, but the population will probably turn to underground "banks", I-owe-yous and what-not. And barter too.
No but I won't lie -- my mind went there too and I chuckled to myself. Glad to see I'm in good company.
For what it's worth, I feel the same way as you do about the US, and I'm a US citizen. I've told friends that I may return to the US "when the US becomes a democracy again."

Unchecked police brutality is just one of a complex of problems I see in the news: The private for-profit prison industry that lobbies for more and longer incarcerations, the bail-and-debt system, civil forfeitures, plea bargaining, the unabashed wiretapping and widespread weakening of 4th Amendment rights... if you describe the US system of "justice" to a neutral party, he will guess you're talking about Russia or maybe North Korea.

To answer your question, whether that state reaches Europe depends on whether the US' war of the rich on the poor spreads to Europe. The statesmen of the US are cheaply purchased pawns of various rich industries, and law & order are replaced by high-tech feudalism. If Europe finds itself ruled by corrupt evil clowns like the US is, then we'll see similar conditions here.

That said, I have no idea how it will go. I have no knack at all for predicting politics. I'm betting on kicking the bucket before shit hits the fan.
I disagree. There are plenty of coaches that get programming wrong in any sport. If they do programming themselves without any knowledge on the topic, ofcourse it's going to be problematic. And that happens in WL and other strength sports just as much.

That said, many newbies will make _a lot_ of gains when they start out doing crossfit or any form of barbell training.
Woothemes?

GoMockingbird?

There could be hundreds, because what you may not see as a 'hub', is actually a hub that acts as a gateway to other countries in the region.
Prefix – C# style language that compiles to JavaScript
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/search/index?pr=idea&search=ce...

Everyone and their cousin can create a language, but without tooling then one is back to authoring in "dumb" editors and I will never ever tolerate that on a team again.
"because there is virtually no quantifications of risks in anything I've read on the results of security research"

Nearly all results of security research are given at least some metric for risk quantification. https://cve.mitre.org is a single example of an attempt to quantify risk. I'm assuming at least at some point you have run across these numbers so the statement is patently false or a complete exaggeration.
When I was growing up in LA in the 80s, several family friends were cops in rougher areas like Hawaiian Gardens, etc. I recall hearing multiple times that engaging with violent force was discouraged because they never knew what kind hellfire was going to erupt. They proceeded with extreme caution and did not act like warrior cops. If there was any doubt, they backed way up.

Now, I'm well aware of the sins of LAPD in that era, but with regard to use of violent force and this damned finger-on-the-trigger mentality, I really feel like this has been a post-2003 evolution in tactics. It wasn't always like this. I don't remember being nervous about getting shot during a traffic stop. Hell, I can even recall two distinct occasions where SWAT was deployed to my house because I had hit the emergency button on my phone (rediculous, I know). In those cases, guns were drawn, but they weren't aimed and extreme caution was taken.
Using that definition, libmill is definitely coroutine-based. It does the scheduling itself.
Original URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3l4U_17bI
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How do you imagine doing the analogous thing with animals? Implant the reproductive system of a chicken into a pig? I see no sensible way to do it.
This isn't a strict definition, but I just think of it as turning the usual model inside out. You always have a state that you're modifying, if you're doing functional or imperative programming (or a mix). Usually you're "inside" the state, changing it via pokes and prods from within. (Think global/shared state typical of C/C++ programs) In FP you pass around a big ball of state and no modification happens outside of it (there is no global or shared state, or at least access to it is tightly controlled if it's not a pure language). The functions live 'outside' the state, so to speak. Programming this way was, to me, one of the major revelations of learning the functional style.
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Just my opinion. Soon or later we will have to return all the currencies to the gold standard. The current in debt monetary system is unsustainable.
Enough that whenever it happens, there are plenty of people keen to manufacture justifications for it being the dead person's fault. If hundreds of Americans were being shot every year by terrorists, there would be an outcry and a demand to invade somewhere. If hundreds of Americans were being killed every year by a faulty product or staff negligence, there would be legal outcry and improved procedures and quality control.

Reducing deaths caused by police requires recognising that every death caused by a police gun - which includes those of violent people with criminal records - as a failure of process.
This article doesn't add up. Even highly-paid local government servants (i.e. the police in this case) aren't usually this stupid.

What it's claiming is: if someone calls up the police to report that a squatter is occupying a neighboring apartment, there's a SWAT raid on that apartment?

Nope. This was either in a very high-security zone, or there was some other extenuating circumstance.

Here's my guess at why they didn't bother with asking the security guard or management, and just went with the word from a neighbor. The neighbor is a high-ranking member of the local SWAT organization.
A quick visual overview of how complex a codebase is
Making the fact that they did it with only 340 bullets all the more impressive!
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It's not a problem for you, but it's a problem generally. That's why so many people are working to solve it.
I'm not sure why calling something "luck" is weak-minded but having "a guessing game" is fine.
Andreas Stefik gave a talk titled The Programming Wars[1] at my school -- I thought it was a fascinating overview and the video is available at the link. If you already are pretty familiar with the history of programming languages (I'm not), it might be less interesting for you.

[1]: http://www.cs.washington.edu/events/colloquia/search/details...
Hard to get anything without a "server not responding" error or a seemingly-perpetually spinning wheel...

If the whole conversion process is being done in real time, I understand. But then you ought to advise your users that, because of this (BETA-stage etc...) they allow your website a good 5 or 10 minutes to do what it needs to do. Otherwise the wait is too long and good-bye...
h2o is cool too, I contributed to that project early this year for their OpenSSL/DHE parameter settings.

Re: How much time, hard to say from my perspective since a fair amount of rwasa's functionality resides in the library itself. Start to finish for all of the showcase pieces and the library (from 0 lines of code to release) took 13 months of my life :-)
Tim O'Reilly has written on this a few times, describing how and why ORA chose to pursue HTML/HTTP rather than other proprietary options. Open Sources contains one instance IIRC.
The story opens with retelling the reasons the medallion system was created... it's probably not a good idea to completely ignore the historical events:

"There were too many drivers going after too few passengers — fares were slashed, tensions between fleets escalated, violence erupted"
Wouldn't a temporary "iptables -j REJECT" had been easier?

Or even maybe "iptables -m condition --condition <> -j REJECT", which would mean you could control the reject by "echo 1 > file". Then a basic suid program (or sudo rule) that writes zero or one to the file, and you can control everything without a root. Like from the upgrade scripts.
Mathematical descriptions of large-scale static properties like equilibria are patently not the same as, say, dynamic discrete-time simulations with evolving state.

I don't think we have anything satisfyingly like the latter for economics, but to claim that there is no fundamental difference is just inaccurate.
No direct comparison, but, police officers killed in germany:

http://www.corsipo.de/ (probably incomplete, but <5 per year)

In the usa:

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/US-Law-Enfo...

Extrapolating that into numbers:

DEU: <0.6 police officers killed per 10 mio citizens :::: USA: ~4.6 police officers killed per 10 mio citizens

Meanwhile the number of police kills are roughly:

DEU: ~1 person killed by police per 10 mio citizens :::: USA: ~12.5 persons killed by police per 10 mio citizens

The ratios are not all that far apart:

DEU: ~1.7 persons killed per police officer death :::: USA: ~2.7 persons killed per police officer death
In Norway police only fired two shots in 2014. In Finland, 6 shots in 2013.

http://www.thelocal.no/20150706/norway-police-shot-guns-twic...

http://yle.fi/uutiset/finnish_police_fired_guns_only_six_tim...
Well it can rip DVDs but ffmpeg doesn't display anything, the closest to playing anything ffmpeg can do is stream the media to something else that can then show it on screen. So, to answer the question you asked more directly: No, you can't point ffmpeg at anything and have it play video, because that's not what it does. Things that do that might use ffmpeg underneath depending on exactly what's being done.
The "mathematician" who call Taleb mathiness has made a critical mistake.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/624767423049269249
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While this may have an influence, it's important to remember that police officers are also trained to be wary of knives

Are you seriously comparing a knife with a firearm ?
I've just switched to another service for the conversion, it might go faster. On the front page there is a small FAQ that explains why there are so many errors. This is hosted on a $5 VPS, so it's not particularly fast.

Edit: I optimized the code, it should be working better now.
Are you sure you aren't just discarding everything he says because he has different politics?
Taleb response is not rude unlike Merberg
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/624767423049269249
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I don't think the amount of bullets used by the police in different places can be meaningfully compared without knowing the number of bullets fired at the police.

Edit: a sister comment cites numbers according to which almost 8 times as many police officers are killed in the US than in Germany per capita. Of course the real question is how many are attacked; if the police is better at gunfights than the criminals it is not a cause for alarm, rather the opposite.
I'm not familiar with the associated ancient Greek word for middleman (-poly and -psony come from ancient Greek), but in modern Greek "μεσαζοντας" (pronounced meh-sa-zon-das) is "middleman". So that would suggest something like "monomesazontia".

There is also "μεσίτης" (meh-see-tees) which means broker / facilitator. That would suggest "monomesitia".

But if you're willing to mix Greek prefixes with English/Germanic roots for "dealer", then I like the sound of "monomongery" :)
The paper is academic. It is not debunked.
"five-volume survey of the geological history of America"

(I don't have a point, I just like the phrase.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8082035
It's a great article, and was posted in June:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9699893
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How can you determine how much your stock will get diluted when joining startup?
Hi, I have received an offer from a startup, let's say the startup has 50M shares outstanding and is valued at 300 million. If I get offered 20K in stock options over 4 years, and they are at series c funding, any figures on how much I can assume my stock will get diluted by the time they go public? how can I tell if i'm getting a good deal?
You need to be a bit more careful with sweeping generalizations like "no one." Here are two cases just off the top of my head that almost perfectly contradict what you wrote.

http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/

http://www.zdnet.com/article/think-before-you-tweet-why-two-...
Thanks for pointing out that page. I'd not found much but then I was searching for 'user interface testing' &c.

"The goal of the KDE VDG is to create a central point for all visual design work – a one-stop for all KDE's visual design needs, if its logo's, icons, visuals, illustrations, launch pages, plasma themes or presentation and promo-material."

Above from the 'what' page on that site. Might be just my expectations but I read that Web site as being about branding and visual design rather than UI and workflows.

The 'who' page mini-bios do not appear to have anyone from a UI / workflow background - or is it that am I just out of date with the job titles that cover those skills these days?

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability

There appears to be a kde-usability group, but their mailing list archive is not public, you have to subscribe.

PS: Fedora 22 KDE spin does look really nice in my opinion.
Out of curiousity, are there legal ramifications to the "asshole" scenario? What recourse would the person being fired have?
The world in transition
I did this, on a smaller scale. The house I live in was built on an old orchard and we were graced with one of the very few remaining apple trees in the garden. It produces relatively sour apples useful for cider and cooking etc. We think they are Bramleys but not 100% sure. I grafted a few branches off a Blenheim Orange stock a friend had that had fruited for a couple of years first. 2 didn't work but 4 did and we have two varieties now on one tree. They're in the same pollination group as well and we planted meadow flower mix around it to attract the pollinators so you actually end up with more apples on both parts of the tree. Last year one of the branches snapped off entirely because there were so many apples on it.

Edit: photo from a couple of years back after we nearly emptied it on a cider run :) - http://i.imgur.com/aYacpT4.jpg

It's quite easy, perfectly routine and has been done for a very long time indeed. Hundreds of years if not more.

You can take this to extremes if you really want (sorry for the Daily Mail link): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437247/250-varietie...
Don't know. This is really just thinking out loud.
While not a history book, per se, "Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages" [1] is a pretty great read. You can get a ton of historical context from reading what the language designers were thinking when they created their languages.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-...
It's so much harder to do on animals. We can't just cut a limb, stick it on to another animal, and wrap tape around it.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
I see articles here every other week talking about the end of cash and I don't know where they're coming from. This article finally takes a more realistic approach.

The other articles don't match the reality of where I live (Switzerland). I don't think they match the reality of Germany and Austria either, and much of Europe.

People here still pay for their cars in cash. I'm going to my bank on Monday to take out chf 7k to pay for my wife and mine yearly train passes.

Is this just a u.s. And UK phenomena?
I agree with most of that.

> I would argue that I have a duty of care to those children and their parents that is AT LEAST equal to my duty of care towards my own children.

Well, first this would only plausibly apply to dangers that have to do with you taking responsibility for the children. Is there is some exogenous risk that has nothing to do with where the children happen to be at a given time (a condition that is not analogous to the middle east) then you probably don't have duty to them above and beyond the normal case.

Second, and more importantly, if a choice really must be made then parents are empirically always going to choose their own children, and this is perhaps something you need to weigh when you let your children leave. Even in the extreme case where I am a parent directly responsible for putting my own and other's children at risk (e.g., I take them on a dangerous hike), I'm going to save my child before others. Note sure if that's moral, but that's the way it is.

> would it be ok for the teachers to carry tasers to protect themselves in case a child attempts to assault them?

Here I think there's a risk of conflating the outside-group/inside-group distinction we've been discussing with the adult/children distinction. I agree that teachers need to err on the side of putting themselves at risk rather than children, but this comes more from the fact that we all have greater duties to all children (regardless of relation) than we do to adults, because children are both more vulnerable and more innocent (in the sense of being less responsible for their predicament).
When I did my compulsory military duty in Germany I ended up being military police. We had a lot of interactions with American MPs due to the US military being stationed there.

We always joked about how they behaved like movie action heroes, always ready to use force. We were trained to avoid confrontation at almost any price. When in doubt, retreat.

I guess it's a different view on law "enforcement".
I think it's mainly a fiber library, actually. The TCP and channel functions yield and resume automatically based on when the underlying operation blocks.

They have yield(), but I don't see the opposite, the ability to explicitly resume a stopped context.

Edit: for a "pure" coroutine library, I'd recommend libco from BSNES. It only has 4 functions: active, create, switch and delete. I wrote a fiber library using libco plus libuv, which was fairly easy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140209005854/http://byuu.org/p... (unfortunately he still hasn't rebuilt his site)
> Inflation and interest rates will remain low in in spite of stimulus and QE (many times).

You're actually aware of a non-Keynesian who predicted this?

> Semi-prediction of a housing bubble (August 2002)

> The economic slowdown could last 5-10 years and cost trillions of dollars (June 2009)

And your claim is that these were easy predictions that everyone got right? I can accept that they were easy predictions...
Or, you know, when the thieves leave clear traces, but there's nothing you can do about it because the powers that be are profiting from the loot.

"We'll just take the money in your account, because [insert any political excuse, bonus if it contains the word crisis]."
Thanks for sharing! Is there a repository I can subscribe to somewhere? I'd like to watch this project's development.

I also want to add I love the documentation.
What is the difference with v7 ?

https://github.com/cesanta/v7
Yep, this must be where I read it originally :)