skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like it's snake oil. The only positive reviews I can find are either on his website, or almost undoubtedly fake.

See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/optometry/comments/43m6js/is_endmyo...

The only positive comment at the bottom is from an account that was made specifically to make that post, it's as old as the thread, it's almost certainly fake.
We could absolutely be spending this money on better things. If Hillary and Co. would stop doing suspicious things we could move on to spending this money in other places.
Too be clear he is not going to be making an apology. Interestingly, Japanese leaders themselves are not very enthusiastic about receiving one.
If they're reordering trends for ideological correctness, it's not a stretch to assume they're doing the same for other content.
Only a bit of it.

I do have a Robert Mappelthorpe t-shirt that is safe-for-work, if a imposing (it's a tightly-cropped self-portrait of eyes), but unfortunately most people don't get why it's funny to wear to work :(
Obstruction of justice anyone? Ooops, wrong caste!
your parent is suggesting a pappabear approach, "i heard what you said, and although she might not have a problem with what you did, I do"

it protects her from trouble, and frames the dispute as between the founder and newhire.
Some Interesting Quotes with Security Takeaways from Sutherland’s Scrum
Orangutan from Borneo Photographed Using a Spear Tool to Fish (2008)
Deep Learning and Shallow Feelings: Can Robots Ever Replace Humans?
> Many people disagree with Wikileaks style raw data dumps irrespective of the source's wishes.

I found it extremely ridiculous how WikiLeaks attacked the Panama Papers leaker multiple times for not leaking full data to the public and accused my organization of intentionally targeting eastern countries because one of our donors is USAID, when, according to the official statement by the leaker that came out a couple of days ago, the leaker tried contacting WikiLeaks multiple times and then decided to pursue another way once he realized that WikiLeaks simply isn't responding to him.
Hard question. I am working on this software for almost 10 years now and there were times where I was working on it fulltime, there were times I was also working on numerous other apps and businesses, and also two years when I basically quit the tech industry to focus on wine making, but keep working on this app for couple of hours a week just because I don't want to let my business partner down.

Currently I am also doing some freelancing (iOS apps) and run my other tiny software company.

Starting this partnership is actually funny story: one day I seen an ad which says "Looking for programmer" and there was no other information or text, no company info nothing. At that time I was product manager with big team reporting to me and I feel quite unhappy, missing my days as a programmer, waking up at 5 am to do some coding for fun. I seen it as a sign, so I just replied, quit my job and the rest is history.
Dear recruiters: Please treat me like a person, not a diversity stat
Stop speculating. Just ask yourself why are all the emails missing from her IT admins account? I used to own a blackberry. I could use more than one email account on it at a time.
When I installed 12.04 LTS, I was shocked at how radically different it was than 11.10, and that it was going to be an LTS release. This introduced Unity as the default, among other changes, and I was concerned that they were being too aggressive.

It's odd to be applauding them for this attitude, frankly.
Fire him, even if there are financial consequences to you. It's the right thing to do. Sure, do it right and follow the law as best as possible... but do it.
Peter Thiel Is a Delegate for Donald Trump
the suggestion was to OWN it not IGNORE it.
Unity was switched on as the default in 11.04.
I found this summary a bit hard to follow, so I read the 2008 Nature paper the author refers to [0]. (It's behind a paywall, but the supplemental materials in [1] are available.) It seems like Silicium is using an approach that's similar in concept, but there's not a lot of technical detail in this blog post. Presumably that's because they are trying to commercialize their research.

The topic is engineering more effective thermoelectric materials -- they generate an electric potential when subjected to a thermal gradient. Here you want a high electronic conductivity and a low thermal conductivity, which is hard to achieve because electrons transport heat very effectively.

The approach outlined here is to use an array of doped silicon nanowires instead of a bulk material. They make the nanowires thinner than the phonon mean free path, which essentially confines the dominant heat transfer mechanism (lattice vibrations) in this system to one dimension. The nanowires are thick enough that the nanowire array still has electronic properties similar to bulk silicon, so you can get a lower thermal conductivity without sacrificing electrical conductivity.

The programming::materials design analogy at the end of the blog post is interesting. This is actually one of the core philosophies of materials science -- (hierarchical) materials structure (and chemistry) dictates physical properties, and is highly dependent on processing and fabrication routes. You engineer materials with more desirable properties by manipulating their structure. The hard part is learning reliable structure-->properties and processing-->structure mappings.

[0]: doi:10.1038/nature06458
[1]: http://www.wag.caltech.edu/home/jamil/Nature-SiNWs-TE-supple...
It's absurd on is face to claim that the Secretary of State of the United States, exclusively using a private server, "didn't know" that classified materials would be flowing through her server. It's even more absurd to say "they weren't classified at the time." Classified materials don't need to go through a formal classification process in order for them to contain classified materials. Either the material is or isn't and a Secretary of State would know that.
Agreed. My daughter's grandma was programming path following algorithms for industrial robots before I was born. She has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a masters in physics. She is also a 3rd degree black belt. I expect that within 20 years grandmas will be running half of all tech companies.
Building a login flow that doesn’t require entering a password for Apple TV
I often find that artists who I like tend to work together (this is especially true in hip-hop and electronica, but also in rock music as well through side projects). I've found some of my favorite albums this way; and it's weird esoteric stuff that other people tend to like (just harder to find unless you know to look for it).

Is there an algorithm that suggests music based on the degrees of connectedness to the individuals who made the music? I discovered Kanye West long, long before he made it big because he did a guest track on a label-produced mixtape. I said "man this shit is dope" and tried to track him down, but was only able to find other guest tracks on like a Mos Def album and a Common album (this was in like 1998, 5 years before he released a solo album).

I really miss that way of finding music, because it introduced me to a lot of artists who were similar enough I would like them, but different enough that genres started to morph into one another. A good example there would be Nine Inch Nails vs. How To Destroy Angels - Trent Reznor is behind both of them, but HTDA has a much more haunting, ambient sound compared to the sharp edges and distorted beats of NIN.
I did a double take at one sentence in the article: "In order to retain some file browser functionality, Nautilus remains at version 3.14." That sounds like the current version of Nautilus has no file browser functionality--which struck me as ironic, because a while back I tried everything I found suggested to stop Nautilus from changing my wallpaper (um, Unix philosophy?) to no avail, and ended up reconfiguring Cinnamon so it would always run Nemo and never run Nautilus.

I hope what was meant was that 3.14 had some particular features related to file browsing that later versions dropped.
Most employment contracts allow for a probationary period during which the contract can just be cancelled. It sounds like this was a new employee so it may well be the case.

I believe sexual harassment is considered gross misconduct, and that can be grounds for immediate termination regardless.

A good lawyer would be able to advise.
This doesn't surprise me, most of the computers and other equipment in the research facility I work at are directly hooked up with Ethernet. The university manages it's own IP block but doesn't have any oversight over what goes on, no firewall. Most of the security is in the router which connects to the same network students on campus use. I've heard horror stories like the 2nd floor printer which was hijacked and turned into a porn server, researchers locked out of compromised equipment (worth millions). I spent months hardening my system and setting up my own local network after my first Linux box was rooted days after hooking it up (probably hours).
Acid?
Calling someone a "MILF" is tantamount to saying "I'd like to fuck you." It has all of the same meaning: "You're a human (mother) I'd like to fuck." It's disingenuous to call this a compliment.

Dudes on this thread are being histrionic, like, if I can't call a woman a MILF at work, what's next, the PC gestapo are going to prevent me from making eye contact with women.

I can't stress this enough: if not being able to call a woman a MILF in your day to day life is an imposition, you really need to reevaluate how you talk to (and think about) women. I'll skip the moral appeal and go straight to self interest: on average, women just don't like that shit. You catch more flies with honey than you do unwelcome, overly sexually aggressive comments.
Windows 93
The 'communal pot' in the United States is actually 'broad taxation of 5% GDP of one of the strongest, most stable economies in the history of the planet'. Social Security maybe won't be as much as estimated today, but it assuredly will be around unless the United States economy totally collapses— and if that happens, all your savings will be for naught anyway.

Or, I suppose, if people listen to fearmongering about how 'Social Security won't be there' and get rid of it. But old people do vote a lot, so that's relatively unlikely.
A Letter to Poor People
Can we not say people are generally dumb? Einstein is a person and he was not dumb.

I can do syllogisms all day long.
Something about `git clean` being capable of deleting your entire home directory just sounds messy. It's a cool project, I think it could use better implementation.
Parallel destruction?
You probably mean this: http://www.crossrail.co.uk/news/crossrail-documentary-the-fi...

Not on iPlayer any more but you can buy it on DVD if your don't think tunnelling is boring. :)

http://www.londonreconnections.com is also a detailed resource.
There is a meme, where Nixon was complaining about losing his job for 18 minutes of missing tape, but Clinton getting a pass for 30,000 missing emails.

Irrespective of your political leanings, what is the magic behind making emails disappear? Is it incompetence, gross-negligence. I think, its another standard DC "plausible deniability".
> Those of us who aren't from the USA never really understand what causes insult or not.

Believe it or not, some of us from America don't understand it either. IME, your best bet is to think of the most uptight, prudish, puritanical person you know, and that's what composes the moral censors in good 'ole US of A.
what's the Linux's bleeding edge ??
Also Puritans.
I have a feeling that this case is going to be studied for years no matter how it turns out.

In ethics the appearance of impropriety is generally considered enough to be a breach. I think most independent observers would admit that there's plenty of bad-looking stuff here, however with the election season in full swing I could be wrong.

More interesting, I imagine, is the legal maneuverings going on. Assuming that something went way wrong here, and please enough with the clintonesque tu quoque arguments, it's fascinating comparing what happened to the witnesses after the investigation was launched here compared to, say, aaronsw.

In Aaron's case, a school set up a camera and caught him accessing files he shouldn't. In the Clinton case, scads of sensitive emails were sent all over the internet from a server that shouldn't be handling them.

The difference in evidence here looks astounding, especially if you know something about email.

In the first case, a lone prosecutor is able to use the full force and weight of the U.S. government to harass and threaten. There's a small number of people involved, limited resources, and lots of press.

In the second case, over a hundred FBI agents are working hard night and day, one supposes, but evidence goes missing, hard drives which need to be in evidence are instead sent to secure destruction facilities, and we can't even seem to be able to to locate low-value secondary information. Press consists of lots of pieces slanted against the government's case.

My money says nothing comes of this. I'd give 50-50 odds that in some fashion it's tossed to the Congress to consider impeachment, and of course that'll never happen.

There are a lot more incredible contrasts between these cases. I hesitate to mention them due to folks getting upset about their political candidate not looking so good.
All software licenses are limited. Im limited to following the BSD license conditions in BSD licensed software or I won't be able to redistribute the software.

The only non-limited license is the non-license that goes under the name public domain, but then I am again limited to only use software that was developed 100 years after the developers death. Some punched cards "programs" from IBM in the late 1800s should thus now be the first unlimited "software" which everyone is free to use.
Let's encrypt setup on Nginx
+1 on glium as I've previously mentioned here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11620852

As someone who spends a lot of time in OpenGL it's a really solid, rusty API that's quite a joy to work with.
Owner of Stumptown, Keurig, and Peet's Acquires Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
How to measure data-drivenness
Opting out of email for well and good
Poliigon: PBR Textures for realistic materials
Seems very odd, here it works

clemme@ubuntu:~ $ hostname -f
ubuntu

clemme@ubuntu:~ $ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"
I'm sure a lot of people here own their own domains but kinda don't host and maintain the server themselves. You can be a spoiled politician and use your own device with your own domain without hosting your own server.
So very true. We're all crazy variable as humans.

I'm 6'2" and broad, and thick. I've had a great friend from childhood who's 6'2" and skinny as a rail. We could not have more dissimilar ways of eating healthfully, but doesn't that make sense when you think about it? He basically eats little meals all day, and I concentrate my calories so that I don't stay constantly hungry and engaged in eating.

The only advice that's truly universal, is that you can't lose weight unless the equation is (Calories-In - Calories-Out) = Gain/Loss. How you get there is totally individual though.
There is a deep body of economic theory that argues that it's much more efficient to simply auction off spectrum than to have a government agency make decisions about "who will provide the best or cheapest service" using that spectrum. Indeed, the old model of licensing spectrum to who the FCC thought of as the best users resulted in the current problem of prime spectrum being allocated to low-value uses like broadcast television.

Tom Hazlett's papers are a good introduction into the orthodox view of spectrum economics: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1583098.
Can Alloy reinvent the web browser around tasks?
If I'm buying with limit orders, can someone explain how I'd get a bad deal on one of these exchanges?
That being said, I can attest to at least the Shaker melody (well known from Copland's "Appalachian Spring") as a touchstone of American culture. It's pretty good.
I think that more information being available about order flow practices is all-in-all a good thing, and I encourage the relevant regulatory authorities to watch it like a hawk.

That said, I much prefer my free trades from Robinhood that are the outcome of payment for order flow, than I did the $25 it used to cost me to trade. For the kind of trading I do, it is a much better deal to let the internalizers capture the spread (even if it is not the true spread) than it is to not have internalizers.
"since no one will want to be the first one to make a move."

It's a work environment, not a bar. No one should normally need to make a "first move" in this context. Sure, work romances do sometimes happen, but I don't think our population is in any danger if they do not.
Staedtler and Faber-Castell's productive pencil rivalry (2011)
There are games of this sort, the earliest I'm aware of is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_%28seri...
Don't forget its not just emails! she never texted anyone either!

"In addition to the emails, the State Department also does not have any text messages or BlackBerry Messenger messages sent to or from Clinton during her time in office, the RNC claimed. The State Department declined to discuss that declaration."
My bike ride into work usually feels significantly more sluggish if I skip breakfast and/or coffee.
Advocating against something is not the same as suppressing advocacy of that thing.
Crowdsource app feature ideas and crowdfund the implementation
Stalin's Blue Pencil – The Tyrant as Editor (2013)
HaveIBeenPwned.com Creator's Course on Ransomware
Agree with this point. It's one thing I learned about trying to approach non-tech folks.
IMHO rarely-updated sites are exactly the sites that I wish had RSS feeds. If there's interesting content being posted every day, I just visit the site. But people won't keep visiting phrack.org every day for 4 years hoping for an update.
Just posted a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667521
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed the initial suits, suing for information related to Hillary Clinton's e-mails. Then they were taken over by Clinton acolyte and hatchet-man David Brock, using his super PAC money. They have since had a, um, strategic restructuring.

Incredibly, this line of inquiry has been dropped by CREW.
The point about segmenting is big.

I was absolutely baffled to see "people can't afford to move for work" answered by "the typical household is more mobile". That's not the same thing! The typical household isn't involuntarily unemployed, which is what we're talking about in the first place!
> Isn't this the least bit fishy? To say that politicians are held to a different standard than the average citizen is in full effect here. Its a HUGE cover up. How is she not in jail yet?

I think that's a bit of a misreading of the situation. First, Clinton was allowed to use a non-state.gov email address as Sec of State. Colin Powell did exactly that and ran into the same problem of some unclassified emails being classified after the fact.

Secondly, the Sec. of State has original classifying authority so there are things she can do with respect to classifications that a normal person with a clearance cannot.

Third, State Dept emails sent over the open internet are not meant to be classified, there are other secure networks for that. This is not a case where someone was intentionally handling classified material on a system it should not be handled on.

Lastly, deleting emails does not mean a crime was committed. People delete emails all the time, people fail to archive their emails all the time. Now, with the State Dept there is an archiving requirement with NARA for official email. But would the aide's emails fall under that? Probably not.

Now if there were criminal charges pending or a subpoena and Pagliano destroyed emails to get around that, it would be a different story. But to date, that doesn't seem to be the case.

Clinton showed poor judgement in setting up her own email server simply because she of all people should know there is a target on her back and that the use of a personal email server might look suspicious. But as of yet there hasn't been any clear evidence of criminal wrongdoing. That could still change but I think the likelihood of a smoking gun has gone down considerably.
Were there any repercussions for his account?
What, like dad jokes?

> I have a fear of speed bumps. Im slowly getting over it.

Dad jokes are one of those things were people shake their heads and sigh, as if they're displeased, but internally they're laughing their butts off.

... Or maybe I only think that because I'm a dad?
I thought the jury was still out on saturated fat? Can I start eating butter with abandon?? I'm excited.
First reaction: How the hell are people voting lame videos onto the HN front page? Ugh, this place it turning into Reddit.

Second reaction: OMG this is mesmerizing. Wait how much time did I just burn watching the entire thing?
I like Postgresql, but it's far from superior to MySQL from an ops monitoring point of view. MySQL exposes a lot more information and run-time stats than Postgresql does. Simple things in MySQL are also impossible in Postgresql. How do you simply and effectively guarantee that your Postgresql replicas are not lagged and are indeed connected to the master and successfully writing down new logs in a streaming hot standby replica? You can, but it requires that all of your replication accounts also have superuser access on the master. Fun stuff, that.
The internalizer could price improve you to an "incorrect" NBBO price and pocket the difference.
Lever started as part of YC Summer 2012. From the early days we've building a company that earnestly values diversity and inclusion. As one of our founders, I'm so proud of the authenticity of this post!
sending a drawing of a spider to pay your bill is what I would call art when it comes to trolling
Never a Dull Moment (2007)
Have you ever worked in a government secure environment? Regardless of the politics, if anyone else other than her had done this they would have been fired on the spot, and had possible charges brought depending on the outcome of the investigation.

Saying it was not considered sensitive at the time is exactly why the government defaults to sensitive and will change it later. Additionally, managing your own server off to the side when you are a high ranking government official just looks suspicious.
> 1. increases the potential for commercialization

I don't get this. If an idea is good, monopoly is icing, but not required for its adoption. If say NREL comes up with a something that increases efficiency of something by 2%, I'd want all of America and potentially the world to use it. If NIST finds a cheap way to make welds more robust and void free, I'd want every bridge, building and car to use these new techniques, not trapped in a patent monopoly.

> 3. Further US manufacturing

Do US Gov patents require that manufacturing be in the US? Is government sponsored research an R&D arm of industry or is it to undertake projects that _don't_ have a direct economic payback or are too large or too risky?

What you say might be the "correct answer" but it isn't one I find palatable. The majority of government sponsored research should be open to all. In some circumstances I can see limiting it to people in the US and under even narrower circumstances, limiting it via a patent.
I really don't want to defend Uber, but how are Uber drivers employees, yet taxi drivers and livery drivers have always been independent contractors tied to a base or dispatchers for decades?

There are a lot of labor abuses out there in America that I wish would get attention, including contractor classification, but I'm not sure this is one of them.