jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible that Armitage was also a source. There was clearly a coordinated effort from the Vice President's office to discredit Joe Wilson. However, Libby claimed that Russert was his source too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Russert

"In the Plame affair, Scooter Libby, convicted chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that Russert told him of the identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame"

"Posthumously Russert was revealed as a thirty-year source of columnist Robert Novak, whose original article revealed Plame's affiliation with the CIA."

Written by Robert Novak: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/my_friend_...

"Russert and I were both uncomfortable about being witnesses, for different reasons, in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case, but we never discussed it. He always supported me, despite demands that he throw me overboard. When my memoir was published last year, Russert was generous in granting me abundant time on "Meet the Press" and his own MSNBC program."

I'm not sure how Russert could throw him overboard if he wasn't a source.
no, 1 in 2 chance. unless you suppose they can go to facebook after going to facebook.
If Pirates of the Caribbean, the ride that sends people on a spirited voyage through the Spanish Main, suddenly blinks from green to yellow, the center might respond by alerting managers to launch more boats.

Why not just have all the boats going at all times (assuming there is a line)?

average Magic Kingdom visitor has had time for only nine rides - out of more than 40 ... In the last few months, however, the operations center has managed to make enough nips and tucks to lift that average to 10.

Maybe it's just me but raising that average by only 1 ride doesn't seem like a very significant improvement for all that effort.

If they just allowed a fewer number of people into the park on any given day, would the customers be more likely to return again? I wonder if more people would spend money while inside the park if it was less crowded?
To be honest, I've never actually thought about peeing on my ISP.

But the single most enjoyable experience I've ever had peeing was at Martin's West in Redwood City.

They have an old-fashioned long tray shared urinal like we had in kindergarten, but thankfully I was there early and had the whole thing to myself. And they had just filled the entire tray with crushed ice!

If your aim is good, you can make any pattern you want. I tried for the Mandelbrot but only got a few spirals going. But man, was it fun!

What did you say your open source project does again?
My point remains that it's better to have some money saved up for it than to have nothing.
It's incredible even for non-scientists like myself.

That people deny reality when there is such an overwhelming mountain of evidence that the Earth is over 4000 years old (as one example) is deeply depressing.
Feynman loved logical puzzles, and knew lots of them off by heart. What would actually have happened is that the interviewer would have got as far as "there are three light switches..." when Feynman would have interrupted by reciting the correct answer.
The aforementioned risk factor you mentioned earlier would make deliveries below a certain size uneconomical.

This sort of thing would be most useful between producer and distributor, or between distributor and dealer. The last mile to the consumer would require a lower risk profile than currently exists, including the risk that the customer or someone near the customer knocks down your drone during delivery and prevents you from re-using it. I don't think drones are sufficiently disposable for consumer deliveries yet, even for completely legal goods.

I recall seeing a video of model aircraft enthusiasts doing remote-operation races through a forested area. If you could get your UAV through a wooded area under the canopy at decent speed without crashing it, it is very unlikely that anyone would be able to follow it through unless they already knew where it was going. If you were able to program a predetermined evasion route through a volume with a lot of navigation hazards and concealment, it would be very difficult to maintain tracking.

The problem for the defender is at least one order of magnitude higher than for the attacker. The defense must be equally strong everywhere. The attacker need only exploit the weakest points in the defense. UAVs make drug interdiction harder. And I'm not certain I want the DEA to wield the sort of power required to counter all possible UAV-based drug muling.
As a first order approximation they should maybe offer you a bond with 5-10% yield per week, month or year (depending on your age)
Recent...

"NASA halts third attempt at SLS practice countdown"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31055677
The single greatest difference between the United States and Argentina is the world's debts, as tracked by the IMF, aren't denominated in any of the pesos or peso variants Argentina has used over the past several decades.

Were the us to try and trade out dollars for NuDollars, they would find the dollar won't go away because the world will still be using it to trade and pay down its debts.

The dollar being the world's international trade currency has a significant anchoring effect that makes it extremely difficult to extrapolate from lessons learned in other countries to the United States.
What do you think you know about these people?
Let's assume 50% of the population is retired and has saved money. The other 50% is working full time. A deadly virus wiped out 50% of the working population. All products are now twice as expensive.

>. At least in the US inflation is the result of decoupling dollars from gold and the direct theft of gold and silver from the citizens by the government.

No, it is caused by ignoring the fact that labor cannot be stored. Gold is just a token, it is like an entry in a balance sheet but harder to forge. It doesn't actually store anything other than itself. You can't store labor by turning it into gold. Gold was already in the ground and was dug out by labor. There is no way to get that labor back. People age. They can't be stored like gold. The inherent mismatch between gold and people is what causes inflation. The only difference is that due to its limited supply gold then swings back to deflation and then inflation again but simply introducing a gold standard doesn't solve the inflation problem, it is the origin of the inflation problem. Fiat currency is just a stretched gold standard. They are still tokens, they are easier to forge and more importantly fiat money doesn't age either. So inflation must still happen as a consequence.

> It is, however, an obscured tax on savers, a transfer of wealth from borrowers to debtors.

By this logic aging is a tax on savers. Defaulting on debt is also a tax on savers. Savers deceiving themselves is a tax on savers.
Or real estate. But in times when interest rates were higher, saving in the bank made more sense.
So many java applets. The dark corners of modern web. I'm never ever going to run one of those again in my browser.
Your logic is impeccable, but there is a lot of strawmaning and questionable assumptions.

It seems likely that the entire political spectrum wants cops held accountable. It is a fairly non-partisan issue that corruption of the police is a massive problem. The right wing hates the idea of people not following the rules, and the left is usually suspicious of the police at best.

And you've judging a right to protest about the corruption of the police force as morally American while protesting corruption in the electoral process is somehow unpatriotic. Those are both extremely civic things to be protesting, the equivalence is very strong. Both are core US principles of freedom and self governance.

Also the idea that the right wing protestors are more organised than the left is extremely suspect. The left are stereotypically much more organised and mobilised for protest - left wing politics has a long and proud history of working effectively through mass movements. Protestors are one of the pools the left wing draws its candidates for (there is that wonderfully classic photo of Bernie Sanders being arrested, for example). Trump is a more iconic figurehead but the left has far more effective logistical and advocacy support around protests. BLM protest leaders quite possibly are going to be a part of the next generation of Democrat leadership.
The problem is blocking it almost legitimizes it because they say "big tech" is suppressing the information. It is the same effect you get when you try to ban a book. Everyone wants to read it to get the juicy details.

The way you counter misinformation is by debunking it and showing it is fake.
Thank you for the constructive answer.

I thought Signal was open source, and the distributed binaries matched the source, and that is was allowed to run your own servers. Are the servers even open source?

Are there lirerature regarding the technical/conceptional bits Element/Matrix? What is the tradeoff there?
Of course not. I just wanted to provide a glimpse on the other side of that coin.
Which is a short wall you just jumped. To get into the walled garden.
What if I am a WhatsApp user but I do not have a Facebook account? Will Facebook use images from WhatsApp conversations with my friends who do have a Facebook account? So much for "WhatsApp will never cost you a cent"(post acquisition statement)
The rules are subjective so they are more like whims really.

The President put out a video asking people, in plain language, to go home and co-operate with Capitol police. In this same video he reaffirmed his contention that the election was fraudulent, and said that the protesters were loved. Whether he did this sincerely or as a ploy to increase the likelihood of being obeyed, nobody can say without mind reading powers.

One camp will say this video can be interpreted as harmful because it contains the claim that the election was fraudulent

Another camp will say you are allowed to hold the position that the election was fraudulent and at the same time condemn violence.

Twitter has chosen to interpret the video to say that there is a risk of violence despite a plain spoken appeal against violence. They are essentially interpreting the meaning of the message in a way that is contrary to the plain language used in the video.

In such a scenario I would probably not treat it as a rule, since this kind of rule can be made up spontaneously and can be used to stop anyone from saying anything really.

I think it should not be celebrated when a corporation decides to enforce arbitrary rules based on its own interpretations of someone else's plain words.
Counter point: they have no problem charging $1000+ for iPhones and lock them down to only run the operating systems and apps they approve because consumers of them were largely not technical enough to understand they don't own their own devices.

Apple is motivated to do this as soon as they feel they can get away with it and keep profits as high or higher.
I hope you are joking: “I, a paid employee, have a wonderful solution to our problem that will save the company a lot of money, but I won’t tell you if you don’t pay me even more.” I think the answer to that would be something like “hmm, if you aren’t willing to do your job for the salary we already pay you, I don’t think there’s any reason to pay you at all.”
It's great! But I think you're already in it now.
At the GSoC 2009 Mentors conference, I was amazed that a majority of attendees were running OS X
All kinds of people invest in bonds, even when the government isn't enacting QE. My retirement investment account consist of government bonds, too. Investment banks earn money through IPO fees, merger fees, etc. They also can borrow money from depositors and have raised their initial capital from shareholders. As they're 'investment banks', their primary business is to select the best assets to invest their cash. These assets include other companies (aka stocks), properties and bonds. If you're in Australia and you have a superannuation account (i.e. government enforced savings), you're likely a bondholder too, unless you told your superannuation fund (the entity responsible for investing the forced savings) explicitly not to invest in bonds.
From what I see, it seems like they want to have a dead code remover for ie9 but don't know how to do it properly (because in the case of dynamic languages it is tricky). In the meantime, they have a wrong implementation that also detects a specific benchmark and cuts some corners with it. I could almost bet this has something to do with a performance evaluation being linked to a benchmark score.
Sorry, but looking at the current sex abuse issues going on in the military, and the complete breakdown in the system set up to deal with them, I wouldn't rely on internal whistleblower procedures
I didn't know what this site was, but found this article that provided some context: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10270643-2.html

"Alice is not a traditional middleman reseller. It takes no markup, CEO Brian Wiegand told me. Instead, it collects a "fee" from the consumer packaged good (CPG) manufacturers--the people who mix your toothpaste and put it into tubes--for shipping products out, and it passes all the customer data it collects from people buying the products back to the companies that make them. The manufacturers set their own prices. "
Transgenderism and transsexuality aren't disabilities. The gender a person identifies with doesn't in any way make them less dangerous.

Regardless, Manning was never a threat to society because his "crimes" never hurt anybody. He revealed corruption and I don't think his gender or sexuality played any role in that.
Very cool! I suffer from the same problem :(

I had an interview with a small startup I adore and had to code a simple python scrapper with the startup's CEO. I was so freaked out I totally bungled it up. Needless to say, my confidence went down the toilet.

I think I should accept that I don't do the traditional tech interview well. Next time, I find myself in such a situation, I'll suggest the short contract or coding exercise.
The only worthwhile hackathons I've ever seen or participated in were related to the release of a new API, one that none of the participants had any access to before release. This arrangement benefits both the hackathon attendees and the sponsor: attendees know that they're starting from a level playing field, that if there is a competitive angle to the hackathon, then everyone will be judged on how well they use the new API in their software and not on what they wrote before they showed up. For the sponsors, it is a trial by fire, testing their API architecture, backend, documentation, and usefulness.

I completely agree that the optimal result for an engineering-driven hackathon is a long list of bugs and a couple of surprisingly awesome demos. But I would add a room full of excited-about-pioneering developers, and a battle-tested developer support team.
My thoughts on the topic:

1. Don't ask the end-user for permission to use their location data until the last possible moment. When someone will benefit by sharing their data, they will be more likely to do so.

2. For iOS, ask twice. First, use your own dialog box to ask if you can use their location data. If they say no, persist that and don't ask them again unless they perform a similar location-requiring action. If they say yes, then you can trigger the iOS location permission request (this way, they are much less likely to say no to the official request).
6.8%. https://www.brusselstimes.com/economics/154783/euro-zone-gdp...
Demand has been reading greater than the capacity for some time now.
Much like nuclear fusion, the year of the Linux desktop is just on the horizon.

Jokes aside, desktop apps on Linux are more common than ever, thanks to Electron. We all bemoan the continued gobbling of good, sensible software by the bloated web, but I'm forced to admit that it's actually kind of nice to have some level of support for commercial desktop applications, even if it's not quite first-class.

By contrast, the state of the Linux desktop is a little less sunny. No matter what your opinion on Wayland actually is, you certainly have to admit that the transition is not going very well.
I wonder if we could regain the level of intellectual maturity of the 19th and 20th century and not criticize those who already give away so much that they are not working hard enough.

This is literally Animal Farm / team lead "multiplier" nonsense.

And like in Animal Farm, the pigs profit.
Various tax law changes could make that inaccurate.
So like std::ios_base::fmtflags should actually be 19+ different functions and/or classes?
An aircraft carrier also has the benefit of being operated under a vastly different framework than a regular IT system: military vs. civilian. This means any inconvenience of using the system only matters if it leads to clear operational risks. But I've seen plenty of companies implementing solid (real) security measures only to see employees looking to bypass them themselves due to the inconvenience they caused, thus leaving doors open for attack.

The defense in depths / layered defense principle is probably well known in most companies but a strong defense is usually more expensive (in every single metric) than a strong offense, and it only has to fail once. A budget to cover this is easier to justify in a military setup for the reason you mentioned: lives. A trained soldier is expensive to replace, and so it a warship. This justifies a huge budget. In the corporate world the balance is "can we expect to lose more money (image, etc.) from the projected number of hacks than we save by not implementing specific measures?".

And lastly, companies like to say how they employed "software engineers" but the reality is that they employed mostly "coders". Coders are no more software engineers than bricklayers are civil engineers. A lot of the infrastructure and software architecture is left to people who don't have the broader picture because it's assumed that the particular system is inconsequential. Turns out almost no link in a chain is inconsequential when you're faced with a very determined, very well funded attacker.
Natural gas heating is common in Houston. Most new construction I’ve looked at in north Houston use gas forced air for heating. I have never seen electric central heating in Houston; I am sure it exists, but in my experience most houses that have central heat, have gas.
> 50 kB/s means you'll be downloading a 10min video like 10 hours

Very misleading phrasing: you would download in 10 hours a ~10 hours long video, which (of course) could have been downloaded in a fraction of the time.

The throttling has the user download at a speed similar to that required to viewing the video.
The aim of the project is to create a useful, minimal, and fast web browser. But we all are learning as we are developing it :D
Girlfriend has a 2008 MB that I bought off Ebay, other than the hard drive dying (and giving me ample warning and time to replace first), it's had no problem. Since it's limited to 4GB RAM, it isn't really ideal for development, but she runs Photoshop and Illustrator on it (albeit, a bit slow for my taste).

I personally own a late 2011 MBP (same as the article, I believe) with 8GB RAM, also no problems, running a pretty standard development set up.

I have another 2012 MBP through work which is a bit beefed up, though still nothing fancy. Also no problems. Also manage a couple of 2010 Mac servers there which have been running steady since late 2010.

Oh, and none of these have SSDs. So, say what you will about non-SSD, they work well enough for development.

All in all, have to agree -- whatever fits your budget, at least in my personal experience, will work pretty well. I know that people do certainly have issues with them occasionally, but when I compare my luck with them to my luck with various other brands (Compaq, Dell, etc), they've lasted significantly longer with few or no problems.
6:30 wake up

7:00 drive to BART in walnut creek

7:15 park at Walnut Creek Bart

8:00 get off BART at Montgomery

8:05 arrive at office

8:05 - 9:00 grab breakfast, informally
sync with Product Managers

9:00-10:40 code alone

10:40 standup meeting

11:00 - 12:00 informal design discussions with team mates, lots of white boarding

12:00 - 1:00 grab lunch, play super smash brothers with colleagues

1:00 - 4:30 push changes to prod, review code, pair program

4:30 head to BART

4:35 head upstream on BART to civic center

4:45 catch BART from civic center (get a seat)

5:35 get off at Walnut creek

5:40 drive home

6:00 arrive home, eat, play with kids

7:00 kids bedtime, free time for parents (generally try to spend this together)

9:00 go running

10:00 wife goes to bed, I'm less of a sleeper so I usual stay up another hour or two working on side projects or sometimes just playing video games.
The last record-breaking accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the Ixtoc I, in 1979. I should also note that the Atlantic Empress spill, also in 1979, and the Amoco Cadiz, the previous year, had a combined spillage equal to the Ixtoc I.

The record-breaking deliberate oil spill happened during the Gulf War, in 1991.

In the past thirty-five years, there have been ten oil spills in which over a million barrels of crude were released. I don’t see how you can classify this kind of thing as “low-probability”, in the same category as asteroid strikes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_spills#Largest_oil_spills
I thought that was an attempt at being funny, in a "See: recursion" kind of way.
Does anyone know of a subscription service for physical books? Becoming enchanted once again witb being able to turn an actual page. Looking for a Netflix of books
I came here to share my all-time favorite resource on SVG:

http://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that

Sarah Drasner is awesome, and even though the preso is 4 years old(!) it's still relevant and inspiring.
I use an analogy whenever such an argument is used against me:

It is not about secrecy, it is about privacy. Consider what you do on the bathroom. Whatever you do there is almost never a secret, but it is private. If you close the door of your bathroom when you use it, you know the difference of secrecy and privacy.

Also you have to consider other people like activists who need privacy for many reasons include their own safety. When you ignore privacy right you are giving incentives for companies not to respect it. But people who use this right benefits everybody, even the ones who don't care about privacy.

Ignoring privacy because you don't need it is like saying free speech is not important because you have nothing to say.

It is important even if you don't care about it because the people who use this right will benefit you and everybody else.
Definitely not... because there's no need to proxy all the requests just to be able to dynamically change the endpoint (or other details about how/if it accesses the safe browsing endpoint).

In aggregate, that's not insignificant traffic, so you wouldn't want to use your own resources to process it without a worthwhile reason.
That seems consistent with my point.
It's less "copyright law is good" than "copyright law is already being used against us so it might as well be turned around on them a bit".
what's wrong with BNF? as a language descriptor it's simple and concise, isn't it?