skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they all stand to profit from it and have influenced democratically elected governments to participate in it specifically without the people, doesn't it actually make corruption the more plausible cause?

Wait, nevermind. I forgot that giving government officials money is free speech now. Carry on. ;)
Klarismo (YC S15), a Service That Makes a 3D Model of Your Body, Raises $2.1M
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The flaw in your argument is that if anything goes wrong they will expect New York's authorities to intervene.
I just saw a few minutes of gameplay of this new King's Quest and it doesn't look very Sierra-like to me at all.
Knock yourself out:
https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/rh-python3...
As a US citizen you should be filing US taxes regardless; Whether or not you owe anything to the IRS depends on a lot of factors, talk to a specialist if you have anything complicated going on. Short story is you have a foreign income exclusion of about $100k. Incorporation wont shelter you from income, and as far as I can see most of the legal "sheltering" approaches don't really work unless you're talking quite a bit of money.

To your other paragraph: your relatives shouldn't have paid any extra tax multiply. You can end up filing 4 forms, US federal, US state, Canadian federal, Canadian province, but there is a pretty comprehensive tax treaty so you end up paying in one place and claiming a credit in the other. Overall it's often nearly a wash, and whether or not you pay a bit more or less will depend on where your tax residency is and where your income is generated.
I really like the sprites they have some character though the shiny dirt is not really my thing. Any idea when content like structured gameplay or stories will start to be added or is this more like Minecraft where you kinda just play with the world?
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Using the structured clone algorithm for worker postMessage calls is standard:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/workers.html#communic...
Easier/more efficient to program in stack-based languages like Forth, lower power consumption, simpler designs are easier to radiation-harden, and more. Why do you think no-one uses Core i7 in space?

Dunno who downvoted me, some fanboy probably. Nevermind I got karma to burn.
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> "'Crazy, right?' Torres later said. 'I kind of felt like Bruce Wayne.'"

The Batman comic where he rounds up the homeless and imprisons them sounds unbelievably depressing. It can't be as bad as the story where Batman exterminates the street children of Rio de Janeiro, though, so there's that.

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-08/news/mn-324_1_death-s...
The World If
You might check your facts before spouting this kind of sentences.

Sadly the people on the Libav side never spoke up and nobody really checked or asked since they are "EVIL".
I would have a look around for developer job postings at your university instead of trying to track down and maintain commercial contracts.
No, those statistics exclude merge commits . Here's the command that generated those outputs [1]:

git shortlog -ns --no-merges v11..HEAD | head -n15

git shortlog -ns --no-merges n2.4..HEAD | head -n15

[1] http://marker.to/smY3KT

Michael Niedermayer is an EXTREMELY prolific dev who has been banging out FFMPEG code for more than a decade. It's by no means a one-man show, many other devs make large and valuable contributions - but in relative terms Niedermayer absolutely dominates FFMPEG, both in terms of personality and code output.
I've run across stuff in mathematical contexts where they'll throw in a derivative (or other operator) just to get the expression in the form they want.

It struck me as a bit odd, because hey, where's the change happening? But ultimately it was just a convenience, and maybe it had some underlying meaning in the original context, and maybe it didn't.
No HTTPS on Ubuntu.com. Acceptable in 2015?
> I assume this is an unbiased opinion as much as it can be but could you elaborate on what about FFmpeg is a "mess."

Examples: 2 prores decoders, 2 prores encoders (or 3), 2 different resampling libraries, libstagefright integration that does not work, more global context structures compared to libav, etc... They also refused to remove some very outdated (non-working) code like xvmc.

> why doesn't someone (like VLC) take the best features from both projects and create their own library?

Because it's a lot of work. An enormous work.
"Am I ready?"

Are you a programmer? Yes? You are ready.

Seriously in the current market you don't need to be a very confident programmer to be contractor in the UK. Quit your stressful jobs and get into contracting NOW. Money is 3x better. Hours are better, employers are more flexible with contractors believe it or not. And when shit hits fans, just bail and go find another contract.
Thanks! There was a time when graphics coding was more creative (people get quite creative with what we have, but we can only take it so far). John Carmack was writing Doom's engine, Ken Silverman the Build engine, etc. Everything looked and felt different. The standardization of rendering hardware and APIs has become a blessing and a curse. On the bright side, it saves us from reinventing the wheel, but on the downside, there is some art in reinventing the wheel. When I launched Doom for the first time, it was basically Wolfenstein in terms of gameplay. But it was visually beyond anything I had seen prior, and the visuals created an entirely different experience on their own (and I used to be a large proponent of the "graphics don't matter" camp). It is incredibly punishing (from a business standpoint) to be in the engine business - even if you are one of the big guys, but I feel like somebody has to add a little diversity to the arena. Using these newest techniques is very refreshing to me because it allows for all kinds of tricks that simply are not possible in your traditional modern polygon pipeline.
There have been some spiritual successors to that game that can be played for free:

Heroine's Quest: http://store.steampowered.com/app/283880/
A complete remake of Quest for Glory 2: http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/qfg2/homepage/homepage.h...
Saying it's branding is a little disingenuous. I like to joke that NYC is just a brand describing a truly shitty city, but that's not really the case. What I've noticed about the WSJ is that a lot of the commentary is primarily business focused. There is very little mainstream media that focuses on business with the quality of the WSJ. It's also sort of like the National Enquirer of the business world; so highly niche entertainment as well.

There are some realities of actually owning/running a business that are hard to understand if you have not done it before. Realities like how cumbersome and obnoxious most government attempts at regulation are, including and especially taxation. I have yet to meet a person, including prominent SV billionaires, who wouldn't give 100% of their money to the gov't if they thought it was spent well and transparently. The reality is that it is not, and these people feel rightly that they are better allocators of capital than the government, and so oppose taxation. In the Hard Thing About Hard things, Horowitz writes that most management books are written by people who have never even managed a hot dog stand. I think that a publication that is so overwhelming supported and favored by business owners even despite it's obnoxiousness at times must have some underlying value. It's probably best not to dismiss it as 'simple branding' just because you can't wrap your head around that position.
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Maybe I've missed something, but I can't get it to use HTTPS.
> There has been only one brand that I can recall to have bought because of "hidden" advertising.

If you recall it, then they did not do a very good job at hiding it, right?
As someone who is just dipping my toes into Rails (but has used plenty of other ORMs in other languages): ActiveRecord doesn't have native left join support?!

I'm really glad I came across this before starting my first Rails project. Thanks for the post!
The Computers of Our Wildest Dreams
I do not disagree with your point. However, if a meme works on the unconscious as many ad campaigns supposedly do, then it seems to me like anyone that makes the claim that they are "immune" should viewed skeptically. No one wants to think that advertising affects their choices, yet advertising seems to work.
> China is not a party to the TPP; China's absence from the treaty is practically its defining attribute.

What do you think of RCEP, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/06/just-when-you-thought-..., the TPP-like agreement for Asia, including China?
Considering their "Universal Windows Apps" strategy, and the history of how Chrome went from a minimalistic browser to a bloated resource hog, keeping the browser with only the essential features makes more sense in the long term.
Yep the terrain needs improvement. :) Sprites are just placeholders I bought from an asset pack. I am currently working on a building a small prototype game that will be very simple, along the lines of Capture the Flag - so not quite a story, but structured gameplay at least.
It runs on our most powerful server with 96G RAM :)
"..do you risk finding a subpoena from the SEC in your stocking?"

People actually worry about the SEC under the Bush/Obama administration?!?
+1 for Freeagent. We've been using it for 6 years now and still love it!
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Have you had a look at http://racket-lang.org/ and the associated books?
I wonder if some sort of app could be released that you put on your phone, and now the delivery company knows where you are, and they can send it to there (or early-abort a delivery attempt if you are out of diversion range). And they can use the app to ping you that a delivery is imminent and please come down and collect it.
>After I convinced her that there's no self-destruct button on PCs

I attempted that. For nearly two decades, to no avail. Regardless of whether it was Windows or Mac OS X.

I had brought over an iPad 2 to show them. They had iPod touches (an upgrade after I gave them Nanos many years earlier) and she played with it for a bit.

Next time I went over they had traded in their iPod touches (on Amazon) and each had iPad 2s.
If national control of contested territory was a board game and China pulled this move at my house, I would not invite them over again.
Dagger, Fracture, and MCSema are three projects that directly try to decompile to LLVM IR. The Binary Analysis Platform can also export to LLVM IR.
I made http://probhunt.com to help people discover problems to solve. I've had some really good feedback so far. Would this help you?
The whole situation is really representative of the whole philosophy of doing aggressive cleanups/rewrites. Maybe it'll improve things on the very long term, but you will have a really, really long period where your product is completely unusable, and will drive a lot of pure frustration.

I hope some big entity ends up throwing money at the situation, it seems fixable, just a lack of manpower to fix it. I mean, Google relies on it a whole lot for one.
> Especially as somehow "leader" is being interpreted by everyone as "the guy who does all work noone else does, and takes all responsibility noone else wants to take"

That's what leadership is.
This is all news to me but the FFMpeg / libav split and apparent attempted coup d'etat of FFMPEG the other year all looks very sad. This reminds me of the XFree86 / x.org splits, the EGCS/GCC splits etc.

All very sad but makes for interesting OSS history! I find FFMpeg very useful, but then again I find VLC and libav useful. In fact, it is all useful. I hope it all works out.
>Not everything is an American conspiracy of some kind.

Sure. Unlike the Russians, or the communists, or the terrorists, this time there's a true global threat.

>What if China wants a piece of the Philippines or Vietnam?

Exactly: what if? Are we going to prepare for every possible scenario? There are a lot of them.
Can someone tell me if the following makes sense? I want to use Bayesian networks for sysops. What I have in mind is hooking logging, process information (e.g. resource usage), and other information as nodes to a Bayesian network and then training it in a production environment. From my admittedly small understanding, it seems like a properly configured network like that will be able to triage issues and even infer causes and take potential actions to correct them. Of course you would need to limit it's ability to act so it doesn't decide to hose your entire system. Since it has the power in some sense to observe, it can even train itself by observing the results of its actions.

Anyone know of anything like this being used or have ideas why this would be stupid to do outside of it being difficult to get right?
A huge thank you to Michael. It's easy to forget how difficult playback was just 5-10 years ago. FFmpeg has been invaluable.
America do this thing in the whole word while China just do this thing in China Sea....
Your only two choices are not an overpriced Mac and a cheap PC. You can build/buy a reasonably priced PC and install a GNU/Linux distribution on it.

As a Java application, Minecraft runs perfectly fine on any operating system.

As for your parental controls, if you wish to apply them you can do the exact same thing on any GNU/Linux platform.
"Refused" ? In Libav any patch has to go through review, anything that had been put in review had been managed as any other patches by any other sources.

Libav is about rules and not leaders.
It really isn't that complicated. Nobody is claiming that there is a paint-by-numbers approach to writing the Novel of the Century. Even if you had such a technique, people would still screw it up. Nothing, not even "emotions," automatically makes a piece of fiction good. Nothing comes for free, ever. Packing in the emotions is no more likely to make your writing good than packing in the rationality. The best you can do is inspire people to write and experiment, so that some good stuff is written along with some bad stuff, because that's just how it goes. Especially at the level of decent fanfic like HPMOR, it would be nice to see fewer instances of deus ex machina and naked wish-fulfillment fantasies.
Who Needs Architects? Because YAGNI Doesn’t Scale
Education is tool of the oppressors.
It is if the interface is connected to a rocket.....

You're right. The syntax is grim and debugging/troubleshooting is not pleasant.
Yes, that's true. Americans can be taxed for income earned outside the country.

I'm not an expert on this subject, but I don't think that income earned by an incorporation would be taxed if it's incorporated outside the United States. However, the incorporation would have to pay its employee, and that employee's income would be subject to taxation if the employee is a US citizen.

It's not quite as bad as it sounds though. The first $93000 of income earned abroad is not subject to taxation. Many countries (such as Canada and Germany) have reciprocal income tax treaties with the United States that keep citizens from being double-taxed. A US citizen in Germany, for example, wouldn't have to pay any US income tax on income earned in Germany as long as that income was subjected to German income taxes.

Other income such as stock dividends and capital gains is another matter. I'm not entirely certain if that is double taxed or not.

The IRS has a web page listing income tax treaties with various countries: http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/International-Businesses/Unite...
How many are waiting for YC fellowship result?
The day Sam tweeted, got 6500 applications. Many of friends lost hope of selection.I think it doesn't matter whether we get or not. What matter in startups, we must enjoy what we do. Kick ass! Lage raho!
Connection multiplexer for Go: serve different services on the same port
>"Firefox Hello is opt-in. If you don't use it, it will just be a button in your toolbar, "

Are you being serious right now?

Ok, how about this, We auto-install the Ask Toolbar on every single Firefox installation, 100%, everyone gets the Toolbar.

But don't worry!

If you don't click on the Toolbar which automatically installs and appears in your browser, you won't use it!

It's "Opt in"!

The funny part is, can you tell me how to uninstall Firefox Hello completely?

Mozilla's NO SURPRISES policy says I should be able to uninstall unwanted extensions with no loss to my browser.

So, can you help me achieve NO SURPRISES by removing the surprising and unwanted third party Hello feature?
Ask HN: Do we need a website for early startup founders to network?
The problem I’ve faced is that I want to do business development and networking with other small (early) startups like mine, but there’s not an easy way to find other early startups and their contact info in similar categories to mine. Do other entrepreneurs have this problem?
Also not all packages are things you want delivered to where you work. For example if you are transgender and not out at work, and buying clothes.
That's only because people in general know very little about themselves.

Socrates knew the answer all that time ago. Who would have thought!
South tries to absorb the North de facto creating an option for Korea to become a regional military super house

Can you detail your reasoning? If the lessons of West/East Germany are anything to go by, reunification will be followed by an inward looking period in which the work of integration absorbs all resources.

Also the Nork military while large, really wouldn't add anything to the capability of the South - it's poorly equipped, malnourished and badly trained. If it wasn't for the risk of collateral damage to Seoul, any modern military could rout it just as fast as Israel won the Six Day War or the Coalition rolled over Iraq in Gulf War 1.
I recently interviewed for 4 jobs, one of them was one of these type of "you must implement this in 1 hour". It was painful. I didn't finish in time. Apparently the idea was you much choose language X, it will e pretty easy with language X. I chose Y, and they said why did you choose Y, that was stupid. Result - I chose one of my other 3 offers, took the one that made me a staff programmer. And I live in Seattle, ha ha bay area.
If you can lock it, they will let you rent, sell or share it
Neat - I was not aware of Unreal's use of SDF. I am consistently impressed with Unreal's improvements.

It took some time before SDF clicked for me, and IQ and Shader Toy were responsible for that. :)
> In spite the fact that in the case of friends, family, coworkers I can be the one persuading them in a different direction and I also know a bit about them (you cannot suggest that in the case of person-company relationship both are as strong in influencing each other, maybe in large numbers of people protesting and that's a huge maybe)

Companies, in many ways, strike me as amazingly straightforward to manipulate. So easily swayed by the almighty dollar that such trite as "the customer is always right" gets dolled out as actual management policy at times.

We block company ads, our eyes scan past the ads that remain, we spam-list their emails and rip into them on our various review sites when they wrong us.

Companies realize, though, that talk is cheap, and see through our bullshit a little better. And, sadly, there's very little self control by consumers at times.

> you'll eventually end up stuck somewhere in the past, like the old nut in the hut living on top of a mountain

It's not so bad here. I don't even have a Facebook account. There's enough ad blocking options out there to kill several news companies several times over. That's before installing a proper separate firewall box.

> while everyone is throwing their personal data to Microsoft and friends telling me that it's going to be ok because "the functionality provided is convenient". Which makes zero sense.

It makes zero sense if you lack agency and choice. You have an opt out. It makes zero sense if you provide what you didn't will to. Opt ins are superior, I'll certainly grant. It makes zero sense if you haven't recognized the full ramifications and potential impact of sharing the data you share. They don't know what they're getting into.

But it also makes zero sense to dismiss "convenient functionality" as a reasonable rationale to give data freely, by choice, if you understand the impact and potential ramifications of it. There's a reason this stuff works. Ignoring that merely blinds you to the beast, and robs you of taking as much advantage of it, or to defend against it's detriments.
No, I don't think so. I was going to write a long and detailed post but I have a really full schedule this morning.

I'll just point out that Python suffers from a deployment issue. Getting a web project up and running can be a nightmare (no, using Heroku merely hides the problem...it's still there). Even on the desktop it can get really cryptic and confusing for a newbie. And, of course, releasing and sharing your app is --from the vantage point of a newbie-- just about impossible.

On something like VisualBasic you can package-up and create an installer for your app with one click. Anyone can then install it and end-up with an icon on the desktop they can click and run the app. The "path to exe" is simple.

Again, I don't have time to dig deeper. We love Python and use it extensively for our web (with Django) and desktop work professionally. And, yes, I am teaching my kids programming with Python. But, no, I don't think Python is the new Basic, on more than one front.
It would be easy to understand algebra in school.
> universal set

But now you're talking about non-standard set theory[1] which is fine but you are kind of side-stepping the issue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_regularity
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Custom. It's meteor and Ethereum's javascript interface to their network.
> Is there an easy way for users like me to simply pay Mozilla for the product? I'd much prefer that than being made the subject of a tug-of-war between internet giants.

You can always donate to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation at https://donate.mozilla.org. They do really important work, and there are legal limits on how much revenue the corporation can send upstream to the foundation.

As far as I know, Firefox only has two points of monetization: the default search engine and sponsored tiles on the new tab page. It takes roughly ~4 clicks to switch to DuckDuckGo and disable the tiles. I don't think just changing those is enough to satisfy folks, but I'm not sure how to draw that line. Basing it strictly on monetization wouldn't exclude things like Pocket, which frustrates a bunch of folks on HN.

Can I ask you to elaborate more (perhaps we should switch to email, or, ironically, Firefox Hello?) on what sorts of decisions bother you, and which are non-issues? It seems like the hot buttons for folks tend to be: Yahoo, Pocket, Hello, Tiles, H.264, and Australis. Am I missing any? What would your paid-for Firefox look like?
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