skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with what you are saying, "terrorism" is a propaganda word for sure. However it also does have a specific definition; that is, using threats or violence to create a political outcome among civilians.

Your comment highlights my real point though... they are not "our" bombs. Maybe they are Bush's, Cheney's, Raytheon's, Boeing's, Obama's, or Clinton's bombs... but to refer to them as "ours" groups in ordinary people, many of whom do not approve. This is why I took issue with the possibility of categorizing Saudi Arabia as a "terrorist country", and why I prefer a term such as "state sponsored terrorism".
In the realm of prank names, this one is actually pretty good. It's not sexist, racist, obscene or infused with hate speech. I can see shutting down a prank name that's got hurtful overtones. But this one is playful and harmless.

Here's hoping that the authorities relent.
“Part of the main reason for going public was to continue to establish Lending Club’s brand and credibility,” he says.

I feel like this doesn't apply to most companies nowadays. I think Lending Club is in a special place because they deal with financials, which requires an increased level of trust. A lot of companies like Uber, Airbnb, and smaller startups like Wealthfront, Betterment, etc are able to generate pretty solid brand recognition and trust without going public.

Also, this article really makes it seem like the only reason companies aren't going public is because they aren't ready and that none of them are making any money. I feel like that is a vast overgeneralization. The ones that are making money, or are successful are still going to be able to raise money privately. I know everyone here thinks the sky is falling down and funding is drying up, but I don't think that is the case for GOOD companies. Sure your uber for X might not get funding anymore, but solid companies I imagine are still able to raise new rounds reasonably easily. Why would you want to go public when you can raise adequate sums of money through private financing?
One extreme end of the scale ;)

I feel like investing a few hundred extra bytes on some styling might be worth it, a la http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ vs http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
GNU Terry Pratchett

In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the clacks are a series of semaphore towers loosely based on the concept of the telegraph. Invented by an artificer named Robert Dearheart, the towers could send messages "at the speed of light" using standardized codes. Three of these codes are of particular import:

G: send the message on
N: do not log the message
U: turn the message around at the end of the line
and send it back again

When Dearheart's son John died due to an accident while working on a clacks tower, Dearheart inserted John's name into the overhead of the clacks with a "GNU" in front of it as a way to memorialize his son forever (or for at least as long as the clacks are standing.)

http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
I think it's both funny and creative. Got better PR for a science project than we've seen in a long time. Your objection is as immature as if I said you had a bad face and your name was stupid.
The Senator's hockey stadium in Ottawa has been through a few names since it was built in 96: Palladium, Corel Centre, Scotiabank Place, Canadian Tire Centre.

In the past few months I have heard all 4 names used for the facility.
I am curious... What you are missing from SSMS modern versions, that is so much better?

The intellisense/code completion is very good in SSMS, as long as you are on modern versions of SSMS/SQL Server.
I've always found the idea of the universe being a simulation rather silly. There are estimated to be 10^80 particles in the observable universe.

Assuming our universe is being simulated on an earth sized computer (this is mind bogglingly ridiculous to me) and that the simulation meets Bremermann's limit (also ridiculous, since we're 40 orders of magnitude away according to this http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3.pdf), then it would take on the order of a whole earth day to simulate a single time step.

Of course, perhaps the host universe doesn't have the same limitations. Such speculation seems pointless. Maybe solipsism is true. Maybe the simulation runs on magical fairy dust.
Please explain it to me if I'm wrong, but doesn't logging into Facebook on Tor defeat the purpose of Tor?
hey everybody, we're doing botcamp at betaworks this summer for people buildingaround the chat UI (alexa, AI, fb messenger bot, etc). we'll host 10 in new york and invest $200k in each. apply via our bot, of course :)
But X11 was there before and installing random packages on your Desktop (or piping stuff from curl to a root bash, etc) is not secure. That is not controversial, I'd think.

The point that canonical is trying to push that installing random packages is more secure with snap/snappy because they are sandboxed (to some extend). However, as Matthew Garrett points out, this sandboxing is practically useless as long as you are running on X11, since a sandboxed program can send keystrokes to other applications, grab keystrokes, do window grabs, etc. So it still has as much control as unsandboxed applications as long as they are running in a normal X11 session.

He is right to call them out on this.

There might be a slight conflict of interest here.

Since he is actually stating (known) facts about X11's security model, I don't see the problem.
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> "Hiring prominent feminist seems like a good way to do that."

Then you should be looking to vote for Bernie Sanders.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/09/i-am-a-...
> Couple of thoughts - I feel that those complicated stings are almost entrapment. And cannot help but feel just sad about some of the guys. The skills that they learn in the military are hardly marketable in the civil society.

They agreed to murder for money, and you feel sorry for them?

I agree that there are structural issues to address here - the conduit from ex-military to mercenary work seems to be quite active, and it's not healthy for society to allow that to continue. But these guys are accountable for their actions just like any adult in a free society - the fact that they were in the military does not absolve them of that responsibility.
Is that the Copenhagen Interpretation of spying?
Their CFO at the time has since gotten fired for among other things, getting Walgreens into this without doing a lick of due diligence. Evidently he bungled a number of other things, hence getting fired. That kind of laziness strangely exists even at large, deep-pocketed organizations where time and resources certainly aren't standing in the way of doing old fashioned work and analysis.
Solar singularity? Please let 'singularity' become code for 'baseless prediction' rather than AI apotheosis.

Let's give Teilhard de Chardin kudos for 'he does not exist but he will' and give RK credit for his screenreader & MIDI work in the 80s.
I am curious why you "wouldn't have imagined this possible", is the reason technical or political?
One thing I've heard of is people "leaving the bottle open" next to the bed. That way the ill person can "accidentally" decide for themselves.
This is a good point. Today's current tech role models, both male and female, are sending the unfortunate message: "Be born rich, have daddy pay for you to go to Stanford or Harvard, party a lot and make friends with rich future investors there, and you too can become a successful tech founder!"
Ask HN: Building an iOS app in golang
Can building a IOS app in golang be approved by the appstore, since golang has a different runtime than objc. What are your thoughts?
Not if the user merely intends to get past a firewall the country has... their purpose isn't anonymity, but free communication, unfortunately they must don anonymity to achieve free communication.
Got Users?
According to the article, facebook has a .onion domain.
I am from the Netherlands. Euthanasia is legal here, although strictly regulated (as I think it should be by the way, this is not the sort of choice that should be taken or approved lightly by anyone involved). Several doctors had to sign off on it, and they were thorough in making sure that this was his decision alone and that nobody around him was "pushing" him into it. Fortunately (if you can call it that), his medical situation was a textbook case of unbearable and hopeless suffering, and also he still had a clear enough mind to express his wishes. That made the approval process fairly straightforward in his case.
I did a PhD in pure mathematics decades ago, simply because it was so interesting. None of it seemed practical at the time (eg. category theory, topology, Horn logic) but that changed when computing began to embrace these ideas. In fact, one of my profs suggested that I study whatever I want until I reach 30, when the concrete begins to settle. That was really good advice for me.
I really like Adam Curtis from an entertainment perspective (similar to charlie brooker/blackmirror), he feels like real life twilight zone.

If people haven't read Adam Curtis's THEN NOW, it's well worth the time - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/78691781-c9b7-...

"HAPPIDROME - Part One" is great too - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/5a7b18b5-0ec3-...

His conspiracy theories remind me more of Alan Moore's definition. "Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up ... the main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy, or the grey aliens, or the twelve-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control, the truth is far more frightening; no-one is in control, the world is rudderless."
Tor does not only allow anonymity of identity, it also can provide anonymity of location and anonymity of destination.

If you are in a country or organization that would prefer you not visit Facebook, this can be useful.

If you would prefer that Facebook not know your location and IP address, this can be useful.
>redefine a word

>expect others to follow suit

>"win" arguments when they don't understand your new terminology

Let me try

You don't understand oppression at all. Oppression is when you put flower petals between pages of a book to flatten them. Thus, humans cannot be oppressed.

is it working?
So if we pass enough rules the will of the voters should eventually take precedence?

I wonder what incremental changes we could make to get people to go vote their interest and to more carefully examine how elected officials make use of the vast power handed to them.
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Fuck the GFW!!!
To crib the top Reddit comment on this article for free internet points:

"Yeah, they laughed Elon Musk off so much that Daimler acquired nearly 10 percent of Tesla in the early days.

But at least they found an 88 year old (!) former executive of Daimler that dismissed Tesla."

"https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4fmrrl/german_a...?
Unfortunately, there's a segment of society that will extrapolate the high-profile failure of one woman to reaffirm their misguided belief that her gender was part of the reason for her failure.
Outside of the people who actually work on the ship, how many members of the public are ever going to have any reason to call this ship anything at all after the poll is over?

I mean, it's cute to give the public an opportunity to name something, but half the people who voted in the poll have probably forgotten the ship even exists by now.
http://www.tcl.tk/about/language.html

is decent place to start. Then move on to

http://www.tcl.tk/software/

and there are all the Tk (GUI) APIs and libraries.

If you wade through that, or you get stuck, #tcl on freenode is a great resource.

Edit: #tcl told me to pass on this:

https://core.tcl.tk/jenglish/gutter/index.html
This argument proves too much. If we wanted better sneaker materials or retractable football stadium roofs surely we could have accomplished those tasks for far less money. The opportunity cost of the Apollo missions were enormous, even if there were positive outcomes that spun out of it.

Or to put it more elegantly: "Stop there! Your theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no account of that which is not seen."
in what way would she have been a role model? some evidence that being a young woman from an ultra-privileged background where high level patronage by deep state power brokers is your path to success? yeah, sure, she really "beat the odds" on that one.

in fact I think that the current pending implosion of Theranos is making a good role model of her in a way she probably never intended or desired. she is a role model of what not to do: rely on insider connections to carry a fundamentally flawed (and possibly fraudulent) business plan.

a cautionary tale if ever there was one.
Yes, I want to live in a world where the identities of the drivers of cars I get into are known with certainty.
No, you retain all of the properties of Tor hidden services: censorship resistance, authenticated end-to-end encryption, onion routing that hides your source IP.

Obviously if you log into a Facebook account with your real-world identity then all actions performed on the site will be linked with it, but that is expected.
Never had any problem with this whatsoever. Where are all the mass persecutions you people are so paranoid about? You really think the gov't cares you talk about weed with your friends on the phone? Get over yourself. They don't; they do the same shit on their days off and probably cheat on their wives too.

If fact, everything is constantly getting more and more permissive in society yet you're still terrified they "collect my data. OMG my privacy!!" Just be honest about what you really dislike: authority. Your parents never taught you to respect authority and now as a 20-25 year old after an undergraduate sociology class you think you're "oppressed" by the "man".

lol.
Warfangle is correct, I was warned specifically about this when I started treatment. When you go on an SSRI, your fatigue lifts before your mood does, which can lead to a few dangerous weeks.
This is the new form of advertising I suppose.
The article says its https://www.facebookcorewwwi.onion
Or 1 person uses 1M facebook accounts over Tor...
Github: https://github.com/mefistotelis/swars
Many people throughout history realize that a happy life only comes from knowing God, who is the source of joy.

For instance, consider the famous mathematician and physicist, Leonhard Euler, who wrote in
"A Defense of the Revelation Against the Objections of Freethinkers",

XVII. Proportional to the measure of knowledge that a reasoning creature
can acquire, he cannot be happier than when he guides his will in a manner
that conforms perfectly to the duties known to him and when he tames the
affectations that could oppose them with so much success that there are
none left that do not conform to these duties. Any man who has reached this
state enjoys true tranquility of soul, and there is no longer anything
capable of altering his tranquility. Nor can anything increase it,
since it is only when understanding reaches the most perfect
knowledge that the will also improves because of this knowledge
and submits itself more and more to the will of God.
Affinity fraud.
> Dylan and Julia both have functions which are generic by default

And Perl 6.

> in CL you cannot use multiple dispatch on parametric types.

You can in Perl 6.

> In Julia even something as basic as mixed-type addition – e.g. `1 + 2.5` – is defined in terms of layers of generic functions, but the compiler is clever enough to boil it down to a couple of machine instructions. This allows multiple dispatch to be used everywhere, which is really transformative.

MD has been used everywhere in Perl 6.

Perl 6 has maturity issues, including performance. But I see these as temporary issues.

> It seems a bit remiss to have a series on multiple dispatch and never mention the two languages – Dylan and Julia – that take the paradigm the furthest and most seriously.

Are you omitting Perl 6 because you don't think it's ready for prime time or you don't know enough about it's MD features?

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I note that the OP series is about "runtime subtype-based polymorphism". I'm surprised at the exclusion of compile-time MD in a series which purports to be a general guide.
3D Building Massing Model of New York City
But we can determine the maximum speed of causality, can't we?

I was watching a (Bostrom, I think ?) presentation where the vocabulary used to explain Einstein's "c" (the speed of light) included words like "maximum speed of causality". That blew my mind. Because light moves as fast as it theoretically can (many Newtonians believed there was no ubound to the speed of light), light speed still cannot breach the absolute limit of 299 792 458 m/s. That speed limit is embedded directly into the action-reaction architecture of our universe.

(Anyway, didn't mean to hijack)
duplicate, please check before submitting stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11527942
Define sentient entities
Yes it can. I completely agree - both in dense urban cities with very little parking and in retirement communities, universities etc private car-sharing networks would be a win-win for residents and the folks managing the community.
The maximum storage capacity seems to be 2953 bytes ([1]).
Although that's with error correction level L, so you can only read it as long as you have 93% of all codewords.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage
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I think the title is missing a important aspect that your swiss army knife doesn't have it integrated: GUI.
People are going to get very angry if Haves vs. Have-Nots becomes Dies vs. Die-Nots.
Podcast from 2011. Focus on the removal of GeoCities from the web as an instance of a larger problem of not letting the future decide what is important.
Basic functionality is similar. We differentiate with messaging types/triggers, in-app and email, NPS, also enrich new contacts with Clearbit data in Slack so you can see name, face, company, social info, etc.
If those people can create fiduciary malfeasance with no ramifications other than a verbal repremand in a toothless media and gutless Congress ... I don't see the risks.

What is the risk?
Agree that you can delegate for individual bills, but my point was that most people won't delegate for individual bills most of the time, but probably will choose delegates for "categories" of decision making if the system is set up that way.

Surveillance law is a pretty relevant example, since for most people not on HN it's a relatively low priority, and there's a fairly high likelihood that if they're able to delegate somebody to vote for them on a general area like "civil liberties issues" (for most people, a delegate with a decent libertarian credentials) and "national security" (for most people, a delegate who promises to be robust), the person or committee that decides for whether a particular surveillance bill is considered "civil liberties" or "national security" in effect holds a casting vote any time most of the public doesn't feel strongly enough to make a bill-specific decision. Somebody has to resolve differences between a budget balancing bill popular with the public's preferred delegates for "taxation" issues and a bill with public spending implications popular with the public's preferred delegates for "health issues", "education issues" or "social policy issues" too. Since they're supposed to be administering a process rather than enacting a particular programme of government they were elected on like a de jure executive, they're probably also subject to far less scrutiny.

Of course, the system still has the advantage that the public can step in and overrule their regular representative whenever they feel strongly enough to do so, but not necessarily any more effectively in practice than powers to force a referendum as a form of public veto.
Postgres does support bitmap index scans, the issue Robert mentions here is that those currently cannot be the "driving" table in a parallel scan.
> Or even someone physically accosting you and retrieving a brain scan. They could do the same thing and force you to give up a password, but at least the password you can change later on.

For that matter, a password is always your choice to reveal or not, taking the cost and alternative into account. Biometric information isn't.
Don't forget ShinWei-3 and Octeon3. Octeon is among my favorites since it has accelerstors for common stuff.
Hi there. No, DriveNow uses technology from BMW's partnership in Europe that started some years ago. For North America, BMW chose to partner with us to power ReachNow.
I'm afraid that this will put SA in a very bad position, bad enough to gain some hate from around the world.

The day this alliance between the US and SA starts to diminish or ends, it's not going to be worrying. Muslims already get so much hate everywhere, if the home of Islam gets bad PR, the middle east will turn up worse than it already is. I hope I'm just being pessimistic here.
This is a very interesting thought process. Tumblr and 4chan in my mind are extreme examples of the unsterilised Internet you refer to....

> Consuming unfiltered internet might be looked on in a few years like drinking unsterilized water

For the last year or so I've decided to avoid news outlets as much as possible. So I've updated my Reddit subscriptions to remove anything that might be a news channel, I no longer frequent the BBC news website, and avoid newspapers and TV news as best I can.

The constant fear mongering and general bad news is at times overwhelming but oftentimes just unnecessarily miserable (IMO). It's like being given a long list of problems you can't do anything about. So I've decided to simply switch it off.

I would much prefer your approach where my news could somehow be "sterilised", taking out anything that is overtly negative leaving only factual stories (e.g. business, technology and so on).
> Binary values can be stored as base64 in regular old JSON as well

But in JSON you'd encode that Base64 as a string and the application must know that the data isn't really a string but a blob of some type of encoding. That probably means wrapping in another struct to provide that metadata. Ion provide a terse method of doing the same while maintaining data integrity:

'image/gif'::{{ R0lGODlhAQABAIABAP8AAP///yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw== }}

The 'image/gif' annotation is application specific, but all consumers know that the contents of that value are binary. In the binary Ion representation, those 43-bytes are encoded as a 45 byte value (one byte for the type marker and a second for the length in this case; as little as 47 with the annotation and a shared symbol table), making the binary representation very efficient for transferring binary data.

Since Ion is a superset of JSON, it's by definition more complex, but the complexity isn't unapproachable. Most of the engineers I worked with assumed it was JSON until coming across timestamps, annotations, or bare word symbols.
Thanks! Totally agree. It's where our team and customers spend their entire day. Excited to be building on top of Slack.
I don't know that that means much. When the American big three saw Japanese carmakers overtaking them in terms of quality, delivering products people wanted etc., many entered into these ventures and bought sizable stakes, etc., but maybe except for Ford, I don't think they extracted much out of those partnerships.