skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had never heard of any of this mess until today, don't particularly care about either project, but this comes across as extremely biased, even from the most basic aspect of tone.

>former FFmpeg leader Michael Niedermayer.

Former? Well, he resigned today, but this blog seems quite old.

>Since FFmpeg was a project famous for horrid code quality and sketchy and irregular API

Was it? Is it? All I know is a bunch of stuff uses it. Where is that fame?

>“The people behind Libav stole the FFmpeg infrastructure”, some of the admins even got questioned in their workplace if they really stole something. Pity that most of the people related in keeping the infrastructure functional were doing so on their own hardware and co-location, but obviously checking facts is hard, better go help shoveling manure on people.

Server infrastructure is one thing. You mention yourself that you guys didn't have the trademark, yet you took the domain name too? I dunno about the laws in all of the locations where this played out, but in the US at least, that'd be theft.

>started to merge daily everything Libav does more or less since the beginning, making FFmpeg effectively a strict derivative of Libav.

Again, tone, wording, etc. This statement does not stand on its own: If I have a 50 million line project that had a small subsection forked, and every day the fork's changes were merged, that does not make my project a strict derivative. I'm not saying libav is a small subsection, or making any sort of claim about the ratio of ffmpeg original work vs. libav merges, but you have provided zero information or evidence to support the claim one way or the other either.

>Now things are a little more fair and at least FFmpeg more or less states that is a derivative of Libav with additional features in their download page.

Ah, here you go. Kinda. But again, tone. And not much evidence. The ffmpeg download page seems to be open about including code from libav, but uh, additional features could be major. What's the difference in features? What is the actual volume of work in comparison?

>On the other hand I’m not cool at all in having an unfair competition, with a side piggy-backing on the other like it is happening: everything in Libav is merged inf FFmpeg, enjoying the fact the code is polished and cleaned before.

This is a feature, not a bug. Unfair competition? Piggy backing? You are developing an open source project. Do you only want things to be open if the people using it are people you like?

>sometimes the amount of nonsense thrown at you by those rabid fans not knowing anything is appalling.

You write this, and immediately follow with:

>Hopefully writing more about it might help defusing this situation.

Blog posts like this are very inflammatory. You hurl insults, make a lot of claims without providing evidence that backs them, and generally come across as someone who has a lot of personal bias on the matter.

That isn't to say that you're wrong: I have no idea who is right or wrong on this. I don't particularly care. But your blog post is about as biased as it gets. And to note, biased doesn't necessarily mean wrong - you can be biased and still be right.
In this case this wasn't true, since the vaccine was done and sold before the outbreak.
Let's try not to judge people based on their hair cut.
It could and they almost certainly do. Probably a combo of projects and profit. We have no way to test that, though, for this program. I'll note that black projects already have a way to get tons of money without much accountability: SAP's, USAP's, and waived USAP's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_access_program

I know in the 90's that Aviation Week reported that they spend around $100 million a day on these with a House committee admitted they review only 5-10% of them. So, plenty of money slushing around to who knows what. Every now and then we get details such as NSA's exploit development and subversion program costing around $212 million a year.
I've personally never found IRC useful for learning. People seem generally uninterested in helping with problems.
All the captive carbon will go straight into the atmosphere and stay there? No nonlinear effects are possible that would make that happen differently?
American healthcare is indescribably inflated. There must be very powerful anti-market forces at work.
Yahoo is making me sad, they just can't seem to make progress.
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They remove it from their search engine - not the web altogether.

I believe there are entire websites that list suspected removed "right to be forgotten" links. Streisand effect really bites these people in the ass when they ask for something to be removed.
Well the devs has brought that on themselves by naming the init binary and the overall project the same, and then dumping more and more into a singular code repository.
More than that, they are 1cm^3 for the base unit and the orange rods are 10 cm's long. The precision is pretty good on the ones I had growing up. 10 of the long rods fit a meter measuring stick to within the precision of the markings on the ruler.

If you wanted to use them to teach continuous variables, it would be easy to do so by analogy using the volume of the numbers.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/16/microsoft-surface-behind-...

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3511002/microsoft-surface...
Xz, gzip, lz4, bzip2 cost/benefit log/log graph
No need to speculate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

U.S. strategy and gear were totally defeated by an asymmetric response. Seems our tricks only win against 3rd world countries we hit. Add any brains, like we saw in Vietnam insurgency, to get a different scenario. That they then rigged it to make our failed strategy look good says even worse about our military leadership and outlook if we go against strong opposition in the future.
IUD prevent fertilization, they may also prevent implantation but this is only likely to happen if it has been inserted after sex.
I'm assuming this is the same video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuAfbt8-7VE
Going Deeper into Neural Networks
Climbing a tree is more fun (for some people) :-)
it's not about the scientist overestimating the value of their inventions, when you pour in years and millions of dollars on research like this you just don't give it away for pretty much nothing. 200K _might_ be considerable amount in personal finance, but when you enter the world of governments and research it's basically a rounding error. 200K? you might've as well given it away for free. When a bureaucrat sells something like this for so cheap all it tells me is they just wanted to pad a cell in one of their spreadsheet quarter of a percent with no regards on the investment and effort that was put into the project.
That's a great idea! We will look into that!
Well, at those prices, what's keeping you from flying to another country, getting stuff done there and going back again?
Amazon offers FBA, which allows you to store your inventory in their warehouses, and ship products to customers via an api. How sets you apart from this? I'm guessing simpler user interface (Amazon's leaves a lot to be desired)?
From what I've seen, people with a pro-choice viewpoint generally acknowledge that life biologically begins at conception.

The split in viewpoints, as I understand it, is that early life isn't significant enough to protect at that stage of development.
Thanks! I am redesigning this page and hopefully I will be able to relaunch in a few hours.
Might be true. There's little to draw on for either side of the argument. Original article I cited was the basis for my claim where it showed they had eliminated weaknesses in F-35 in their clone. That's already better for short-range. Whether it's better for long-range will depend on their detection and missile tech. Or how much of ours they stole and improved on.
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I remember commenting several months ago that the only time you ever hear about Yahoo is when they buy someone out.

Nice to see nothing has changed.
lz4 is ridiculous, and xz -0 is in a world of it's own. Different corpora will behave differently of course, but the overall shape will likely remain similar.
Week in Review 31 July 2015 – MailShark
Relevant comic from The Oatmeal: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/bees_vs_hornets
Once in a blue moon == 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz
We're running 1 HAProxy per application instance. The HAProxy built in health checking mechanism is designed when it front-ends > 1 app instances (i.e., it serves as a central proxy).

Watson checks the health of your local application, and propagates it to the (global) service discovery framework, so when other microservices want to connect to the service that Watson is monitoring, they know whether or not that service is available.
All sorts of things! A bowl of ramen, an entry into a raffle, a pair of fake teeth. One feature we plan on building shortly is the ability to add an inventory or make the keyword expire after a set date. Really anything that can be sold online or over the phone we can sell.
LGBT youth are twice as likely as hetero students to attempt suicide. http://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth.htm

Members of the LGBT community are about 150% as likely as heteros to smoke. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/groups/lgbt.html

Without access to marriage and the rights it brings, children of same-sex couples had to go through legal ordeals, facing orphanage, if their biological parent dies despite another (now single) parent being available.

Other marriage benefits, especially hospital visitation and rights after a partner's death, weren't conferred to partners as they weren't legally recognized.

Civil unions were obviously at best a stepping stone. "Separate but equal" does not have a good history in this country.

You've heard these arguments before,

> Fat lot of good that did me.

so tell us. How have you been harmed by gay marriage's legalization?

In what way does your objection to your employees' having rights not disqualify you from the CEO position?
I have never seen this before. Pretty awesome!
Please refrain from using epithets to caricature opposing views. This includes calling another group 'anti-choice', 'anti-life', 'pro-coercion', or 'pro-death'.

>"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation. Avoid gratuitous negativity.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't think that is the main divide. The divide would be life at contraception vs. life at some point in time during the pregnancy/fetus development. Where that line is seems to differ from country to country.
It's a fair point, so we'll clarify this (and we're working on the replication bit too). Thanks!
I think that this is overall a good paper, but I have one major issue with it. They quote from a presentation given by Richard George from the NSA twice in this paper. I had seen that presentation before, and in it he speaks to why the algorithm was put in the NIST standard[1] and directly answers a question regarding how the P and Q in the standard were generated[2].

His claim was that the NSA had issues in the past getting encryption devices certified for use in unclassified environments because NSA controlled the certification process for classified encryption algorithms (which were themselves generally classified), but NIST controlled the certification for government use in unclassified settings (and these algorithms could not be classified). The NSA wanted to be able to use an existing algorithm in an unclassified setting. As the article does point out, Mr. George stated that the algorithm was intended primarily for their own internal use and user should be able to use any P and Q, though they needed their own P and Q certified for their own use.

Later on in the presentation he states that the P and Q were both non-deterministically generated random numbers. He states that the NSA has office devoted specifically to producing random numbers for their own use, and they just got the P and Q from there.

Whether or not you believe this claim is an entirely different and reasonable question (there's no real way to verify it), but why bother quoting him if you're going to selectively quote like this? If the P and Q are in fact purely random as Mr. George claims, Dual_EC goes from being a grand conspiracy to just a slow, crappy PRNG. I think selectively quoting to make this guy sound more sinister makes it look like the author wants it to be a grand conspiracy and just undermines the argument.

Btw., the entire presentation is worth watching if you have time - he goes into the history of DES, espionage between the US and Soviets, getting cryptographic equipment working in tanks, etc...

[1] http://vimeo.com/97891042 (jump to 57:53)

[2] Same video, jump to 30:14
And while it doesn't doesn't come about because badgers are all jerks, we also need to remember that personally exonerating all the badgers is not really the point

You may have "exonerate" backwards in your head?

absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing
Sounds like good ideas. No 3 in particular might save Marine's lives if they get rid of the Osprey. There's a new counterargument: stop killing your own people and get them to the battlefield instead.
If

>If noone has time ill fix the memleak and commit and let the libav
cleanup monkeys clean the rest up for me.

Is the kind of inflammatory comment you are so up in arms over, I think you must have lived a very sheltered life. Especially considering this comment looks to have come shortly after the hostile split.
Since a lot of this adventure-gaming-retro-examination comes on the heels of the King's Quest revival...I think it's worth noting that the original KQ suffers from quite a few of these "sins"...and yet, from my hazy memory, it was one of the most open-ended adventure games, back then and even today.

There are at least a couple of key puzzles that can be solved in several ways...and in different order. The one that comes to mind is the dragon in the cave. Yes, it's also very easy to be completely and irrevocably stuck...but other than Maniac Mansion, it's hard to think of another adventure game that gave you so much freedom to solve puzzles with different combinations of items and in a non-linear order. I don't recall there being multiple ways to solve puzzles in the Police Quests, or the LucasArts Indiana Jones in Atlantis game, or more modern games such as Grim Fandango. For a game of KQ's era to have that kind of coherent branching is pretty impressive.
The Amoeba Distributed Operating System – A Status Report (1991) [pdf]
Amazon also has a very arcane fee structure. Our fees are guaranteed to be the final price you see on the page. We've developed our pricing model so we have confidence we can manage your account without any issues.

Additionally, you have more control of the process with us than Amazon.
Giving it away for nothing would be fine -- put it in the public domain for anyone to use how they can. But selling a monopoly right for $200K? That's stealing from the taxpayers -- and Merck.
Lmao. Offense in depth leveraging Marine marksmanship.
Apart from the fact that there was no texting in the 90s, I'd agree. More like a 2009's idea if you ask me. But we like to think it's a bit smoother of a process than visiting ecommerce. Plus it's easy for existing business to push customers into a text channel than it is to set up their own ecommerce site.
SQL Server Policy Based Management and Distributed Replay
FYI: FFTS [1] in many (most?) cases outperforms FFTW, without runtime calibration. It gets there by using a smarter algorithm algorithm. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of more complete libraries—e.g., restricted to power-of-two transforms for now—but hopefully this will change.

[1] http://anthonix.com/ffts/
Internet Arcade: arcade video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s
Complaining about the front page of Reddit is like complaining about how newsstands are just filled with gossip magazines.

Of course the majority will be for the common denominator. But luckily there are some great subreddits, just like there's many great niche magazines.

Check out reddit.com/r/truereddit to begin with. It's probably closest to what reddit was back in the days.
Those egg and sperm cells are quite alive before they meet.
> Please refrain from using epithets to caricature opposing views. This includes calling another group 'anti-choice', 'anti-life', 'pro-coercion', or 'pro-death'.

I don't really like the term 'anti-choice', but 'pro-life' is also an epithet that many pro-choice people dislike (because it implies that pro-choice people somehow oppose life). 'pro/anti-abortion' are problematic for similar reasons.

So while I'd like to use an uncontended term, I really don't know of one.
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The problem arises, as explained to me by a woman when I made the same point, is woman could be coerced to get an implant in order to get cash for her partner or parents etc.
Is anyone else concerned about all these startups catering to other startups? When the VC bubble bursts, the majority of them are going to go up in smoke.
I think you will find that the brightness stuff is aimed at Wayland, not X11. The latter is something that many wants to see depreciated ASAP.
You don’t have to make it so complicated!

: user@debian:~; python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import numpy as np
>>> (10**(1+np.arange(24)/24.0)).reshape((2,3,4)).round()
array([[[ 10., 11., 12., 13.],
[ 15., 16., 18., 20.],
[ 22., 24., 26., 29.]],

[[ 32., 35., 38., 42.],
[ 46., 51., 56., 62.],
[ 68., 75., 83., 91.]]])
>>> (10**(2+np.arange(48)/48.0)).reshape((2,3,8)).round()
array([[[ 100., 105., 110., 115., 121., 127., 133., 140.],
[ 147., 154., 162., 169., 178., 187., 196., 205.],
[ 215., 226., 237., 249., 261., 274., 287., 301.]],

[[ 316., 332., 348., 365., 383., 402., 422., 442.],
[ 464., 487., 511., 536., 562., 590., 619., 649.],
[ 681., 715., 750., 787., 825., 866., 909., 953.]]])
>>>

Hmm, Ruby has a numpy-like thing too, no? NArray, it’s called? There
are a few minor differences, but you can do the same thing:

: user@debian:~; irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'narray'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> (10*10**(NArray.float(24).indgen!/24)).round.reshape(4,3,2)
=> NArray(ref).int(4,3,2):
[ [ [ 10, 11, 12, 13 ],
[ 15, 16, 18, 20 ],
[ 22, 24, 26, 29 ] ],
[ [ 32, 35, 38, 42 ],
[ 46, 51, 56, 62 ],
[ 68, 75, 83, 91 ] ] ]
irb(main):003:0> (100*10**(NArray.float(48).indgen!/48)).round.reshape(8,3,2)
=> NArray(ref).int(8,3,2):
[ [ [ 100, 105, 110, 115, 121, 127, 133, 140 ],
[ 147, 154, 162, 169, 178, 187, 196, 205 ],
[ 215, 226, 237, 249, 261, 274, 287, 301 ] ],
[ [ 316, 332, 348, 365, 383, 402, 422, 442 ],
[ 464, 487, 511, 536, 562, 590, 619, 649 ],
[ 681, 715, 750, 787, 825, 866, 909, 953 ] ] ]
irb(main):004:0>

Presumably 12, 24, and 48 were chosen because they are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_numbers, and 96 and 192
for compatibility with 48 (since the HCNs in that neighborhood — 60,
120, and 180 — aren’t divisible by 48.)

(Related joke: How do we know the Babylonians were idiots? Because
the day doesn’t have 83160 seconds.)
Love the ShotPut crew. Some of the hardest working founders I've met.

Admittedly we were damn pretty terrible on the shipping and fulfillment side of our business early on and they've been a huge help getting everything figured out for us.

You definitely want to work with these guys.
Add a subtly-flawed, long-range, detection system and yours is the best use for it I've seen. Reminds me of the Dijkstra quote on System/360 design issues:

"I characterized the Russian decision to build a bit-compatible copy of the IBM 360 as the greatest American victory in the Cold War."
FBA is literally 2-3x industry standard pricing and is used almost entirely in order to increase the value proposition to buyers from/in the Amazon markerplaces exclusively. Pretty much no one sells through other channels and ships from FBA. Many sellers maintain a non-amazon warehouse.

Having said that, I am guessing this startup is not attempting to compete on pricing.
Your opponents are of a similar mind. Consider what happens when I switch the 'life' and 'choice' in your comment.

>I don't really like the term 'anti-life', but 'pro-choice' is also an epithet that many pro-life people dislike (because it implies that pro-life people somehow oppose choice).

Your reasoning is just as strong when used against you, as when you employ it.
Sandbox games like Beseige also would be fun in this type of world.
Invoice them and then take them to small claims court if they don't pay.
> Our plan is to update the license to the Apache License version 2.0 (APLv2.0)).

So no more OpenSSL for GPLv2 projects?
... which kind of highlights how gender divides, once established, reinforce themselves. This group of women chose cupcakes and yoga; in the past (mostly) male teams I have been on chose laser tag and go karts.

Do I like cupcakes? Sure. Do women enjoy laser tag? They kick my butt plenty often. But it makes the workplace less accessible to people who don't like cupcakes or laser tag.

Really I wonder if we're just seeing that a workplace naturally has a culture, not everyone always fits in, and because in this case the divide roughly aligns with a protected class we are caught off-guard and concerned.

(Getting rid of culture in workplaces doesn't seem like a solution)
But thanks for the opportunity to correct the misinformation you were spreading. Now please stop repeating things you now know are not true.

I doubt Brendan intended for you to stop using Mozilla Firefox to avenge his resignation, which he did voluntarily against the wishes of the board.

In fact, I suspect Brendan voluntarily resigned in order to LIMIT the damage he was causing to Mozilla's reputation and user base, which he cares about.

So I'd guess he's probably not happy about social injustice warriors boycotting Mozilla on his behalf.

Again, I encourage you to seek clarity instead of spreading misinformation: Why don't you ask him?
Working with Pakible is phenomenal we've recommended all our customers who want custom boxes to use their service! And we already handle their fulfillment.
python pandas in an ipython notebook?
SQL Server Radio – a Podcast for people who work with data
Download This Essay: A Defense of Stealing EBooks (2013)
These are amazing, primarily because they teach the related concepts of numeracy and geometry/scale all at once. From free play and 'building' to patterns, simple arithmetic, they just keep providing a direct physical analogue for numerical operations. Used on me, and on my children.
> Your reasoning is just as strong when used against you, as when you employ it. It fails by parity of reasoning.

So what neutral term would you suggest we use instead that is acceptable to everyone being described?

> Your opponents are of a similar mind.

Please don't make assumptions about my views on abortion or who my "opponents" are, especially since I've very explicitly tried to refrain from opining on the matter.
Wow. It can't even use its gun right. Mindblowing.

Meanwhile outside Pentagon, university teams from across the country with limited budgets are building robots that drive, fly, make stuff, and so on with little to no human intervention.
FWIW, from any of these debates I've read on reddit at least, I've encountered almost no pro-choice people who believe life begins at conception. The party line seems to be that it is a zygote until birth - well, of course they'd never state it in such clear terms as that, instead you get any variety of mental gymnastics to avoid the question, but one thing they are absolutely certain about is, it is not a life.
https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU

Pot, meet kettle...