skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fair enough, for those far away women that men with small penis' would not be able to reach
I wish they had kept some of the commit history - would be tough to parse the project without it.
> > the "DOM is your API" paradigm

> What does that mean, exactly? Do you have any resources you could link to?

Check out the "Thinking in Polymer" talk from Polymer Summit 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjiUmx51y8

Specifically talks about "the DOM is your API" at 0:49 --> https://youtu.be/ZDjiUmx51y8?t=50

disclaimer: technical writer for polymer
For the TS experts out there, any real world experience with Influx? (https://influxdata.com/)
All non-trivial NoSQL databases support (or will support) SQL - otherwise programmers can insert data, but end-users can't consume it. No reporting, no revenue.

Cassandra has actually deprecated their original data access API in favor of CQL (Cassandra SQL.)
> The Quran is a complete manual that details everything expected and required of a good Muslim, from the food that can be eaten to the appearance of your body.

This couldn't be further from the truth. For example, Salat (Praying) which is the 2nd most important pillar of Islam right after the oral declaration (statement of faith - Shahada), you can't find anything whether How-To guide or tutorials in your so-called manual, and the same holds true for thee rest of the pillarsm and this very reason is the chief problem mainstream Sunnis have with Koranists[0] who only endorse the teachings of the Koran while rejecting completely Mohammad's sayings (Sunna).

So, no the Koran is not a complete manual for the Sunni Muslim fundamentalists, far from it. It just complements Sunna and both constitute the canonical reference for those people.

As with your deterministic overview of the inability to separate Islam and State in Muslim-majority countries, you just have to read about the experiments of Tunisia, Turkey and Albania and see for yourself how secularism developed in those countries despite all the challenges and concerns you cited in your comment.

Literal Islam whether Sunni or Shiite version pose indeed a challenge for secularism to flourish in Muslim-majority countries but to write off in absolute terms, secularism taking root in those countries not now not ever is shortsighted and unfair. However, it's still refreshing to hear orientalists views every once in a while on those topics.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quranism
Ask HN: Creating a prototype with strangers; how to protect against future risk?
Hi! Throwaway here to dissociate from real identity.

So I was accepted into a pre-accelerator program this summer with 3 other team members, and we do not know each other well. It is part-time (we keep our day jobs) over 3 months, with the goal of developing a prototype product by the end.

It is very low-pressure in that we do not recieve financial support, only mentorship, and it was also heavily marketed towards students and recent graduates. The program is in its second year, and from looking up last year's teams, it seems like most of the groups fizzled out/ went their own ways at the end.

So my question is: what do I do to protect myself from the possible outcome that one or more team members drops out after the summer, but the prototype is turned into a successful startup? I am trying to avoid the situation that they could come back later and claim ownership. They seem like good people as far I as I know so hopefully this wouldn't be an issue, but I also want to plan for the worst-case scenario.
Are there type classes in Elm?
i can't say much for telegram as their encryption has been broken, and is not an openned, but whatsapp's new signal protocol designed by moxy marlinspike doesn't use sms to authenticate. It doesn't by default require authentication, but rather has it as an option and the option generates a long 80 character passcode or QR code, to be communicated in person or via some out of band communication channel, similar to threma. Maybe they are talking about old whatsapp?
There's a longer and more informative story at UW Today:

http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/12/uw-undergraduate-t...
Are you sure that Palantir options expire after the 90 days? The options offered to me were NSOs; I wouldn't have had to convert them.

Or are you making a general statement about companies similar to Palantir?
Indeed, I'm familiar with the Japanese and Chinese distinction. Less so with Korean. I've replaced Chinese/Korean with just Chinese in my original comment.

Anyway, this is just a superficial observation as mentioned in the first sentence.
We decided to go all in on open source. Given our history, anything but a "here ya go" license wasn't going to go over well. We're aware that someone could fork it and compete against us, good on them if they can. Making money in this space isn't easy and if they can do better than us we'll ask 'em for a job. We know the source base :)

As to why that license, I think it was because LLVM or clang or both had recently picked that and all the lawyers at all the big companies liked that one. We don't particularly care, if everyone yells that it should have been GPL we'll fork it and relicense it under the GPL. Our thought was that Apache is well respect and even more liberal than the GPL but we can be convinced otherwise.
Reousrces for this include anything you can get on Bernays ( the Adam Curtis "Century of the Self' is a decent survey ) and "The Hidden Persuaders." Also maybe Marshall MacLuhan.

Really, media/advertising literacy is pretty important. If you don't know who the sucker at the table is...

This being said, it may or may not be actively malicious per se but it certainly tries to hack your unconscious thinking to affect your behavior. I'm just not quite ready to broadly label that "malicious" just yet - although some of the anti smoking propaganda now makes me wonder that I should.
yes, sort of -- I mean that Roman Catholicism includes pro-celibacy views, particularly regarding priests (to go along with pro-marital-sex views; it's not single-sided.)

The point was to show the contrast -- the Puritans were only pro-celibacy for the unmarried, which they viewed as a temporary state; they had a pretty one-sided "everyone should get married and have lots of sex" view. They themselves considered this to be in opposition to RC views. (And, in particular, comments about the Puritans being anti-sex are way off base.)
That sounds like a nightmare, traffic-wise.
> Against what, though? The key that Whatsapp asserts is valid for the other user?

No, against the other person sitting at the table with you via QR code scanning.

Or their voice speaking the public key via another channel.

> just what the app presents as a signature or QR code. Open to correction.

What's wrong with the QR code? That QR code is a hash of the public key and exactly what you need for this identity verification purpose.

If the pubkey changes after you've scanned it, you know you've got to verify that person again before sharing anything private over that channel.
> I hope you are joking. Popular/big subreddits are astroturfed like crazy and often have mods devoted to controlling the narrative. Example: you'll have to search long and hard before finding anything positive about Trump in r/politics.

Astroturfing definitely explains the heavy Sanders biases at /r/politics, but the anti-Trump bias there doesn't even require astroturfing. Reddit is overwhelmingly left-leaning, significantly harder than the general public. Add that to the fact that Trump doesn't even do well in the general public, the anti-Trump narrative in /r/politics isn't even surprising.
WW3 IS HAPPING Now BUT YOU CAN'T SEE IT SEE IT
"Visual design for editor tabs

We have a visual design for how editor tabs might look in VS Code. We will start to implement the design in the next milestone."
Then you'll probably be very excited to read about http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/core/4.0.0/Pro...
An Analytics Tool helping you visualize the other 95% of your business data
I don't think so, if the links are relevant enough and it isn't overdone.

If someone's using HN primarily for this purpose, that's a different story. But seibelj's most recent comments include housing, transportation infrastructure, freenet, and software licensing. Sounds like a real community member to me. :)
Americans need jobs.

The democrats want to soak the rich (I agree that, we probably should pay more anyhow), create a comprehensive social safety net, broadly have a larger role for government in individuals lives.

The republicans seem very concerned with collective security, 'judicial overreach' (any policy they don't like from a judge), and smaller government - this mostly seems to manifest itself as a firm 'no' to any proposed solution from the democrats.

Neither of them (at least at a national level) is focusing on what I see as the elephants in the room:

1. Broad swaths of the country that were prosperous 20 years ago are now not - and enormous areas that were busy 40 years ago are now dead wastelands. If you go out to a rural area, you'll see this, go on a road trip, go thru small towns, the only new buildings (built after ~1974 or so) are usually government or at funded by outside capital, (like McDonalds, or a Wal*Mart) sure, the college towns and county seats are often somewhat prosperous, but not like they were even in the 80's. If you look in third and fourth tier cities, you see similar trends.

2. In either place, rural or urban, its also very very hard for the young to find a good job, with or without a college degree - this has a multitude of causes - from we're teaching our youth the wrong things, to companies expecting inexperienced workers to come magically all trained up for the job - this topic alone is a couple thousand words - just suffice it to say, something is wrong.

Neither party is really speaking to this, they broadly don't see outside the beltway - I blame free trade, one size fits all regulation, and excessive defense spending (instead of say, infrastructure) for this malaise - I believe very strongly unless we fix these problems, they will come to breach the very foundations of our republic and we may end up with a much worse system than we have now.
Privacy and the New Math
Do we have proof of wrong-doing here? I may have honestly missed it if there is some.

From what I've seen, we have a group of folks who have used the laws of the land to their advantage. If that's the case, there's nothing wrong with that, and it would be fairly dumb to not use the laws to one's advantage.

It's not patriotic to pay more in taxes than one is legally obligated to pay.

Even us "mere mortals" do the best tax dance we can come April, cramming in all those extra credits and deductions, sometimes even fudging the numbers here and there. Our only disadvantage is we cannot afford to hire professional companies to do this tax dance on our behalf.

I'd argue, if folks are upset by the current tax laws that allow (and some may even argue, encourage) this behavior, then we ought to change the laws, not get upset at those capable or smart enough to use them to their advantage.
You might really enjoy the Strange Maps[1] section of bigthink.com. There are some real wonderful ones in the past entries. I have this in my feed, but look at it far too infrequently for how interesting it looks.

1: http://bigthink.com/articles?blog=strange-maps
Well, I can assure you that if train ridership increases, the risk will increase as a function of the attack vector and the threat by muslims. As that risk profile increases, so will the "security nonsense" and difficulty getting there increase.

Also, the degree of expedience at which airports function leaves a lot of room for improvement. There is really little reason why it could not get far more efficient. You seem to also miss the fact that even if you establish a route through 1,000 miles of other people's land and have dispossessed them through eminent domain, and you have blasted your way through ecosystems, you are then stuck with specific routes that can only adapt by scaling throughput of that specific route.

Think of it this way, with the pestilence of douchebags overrunning Austin there is no way that rail could have accommodated that growth, let alone even triggered it. What, are you going to build high speed rail infrastructure across multiple states to California to accommodate the flow of douchebags to SXSW and ACL? You'd be lucky to be done before Austin has suffocated itself and the bubble bursts and the next fad has drawn the attention of the pretentious class.

I won't disagree that train travel is more comfortable, but hell, you really need to be because the trip, at best, is going to take you three times as long. Because what you are also missing is that we are talking about high speed rail here, we are not talking about fast rail like Acela, which is quite convenient in the NE corridor, but also only because of the population density. But even that train stops on a regular basis, which is also a function of what makes is even remotely not a horrific idea even though it still loses money. The problem with air travel these days is that the Airline industry has essentially captured regulators and legislators and are raping the public with high prices they are colluding on and ever decreasing service and features, also essentially due to collusion and a lack of real competition.

Don't get me wrong, I realize that train travel has some benefits and is probably more energy efficient and less polluting, but reality is that it is in no way cost effective let alone adaptable and flexible.

The thing that kind of irks me the most about he wide eyed, pie in the sky, rail supporters is that they have absolutely no idea how much it actually costs to provide the kind of level of rail and public transportation infrastructure that you see in Europe. The costs are astronomical both in long term investments and in M&O. There are inklings of how much it really costs, but reality is that no one really have an accurate understanding of its cost because European governments keep that information under lock and key, lest the rabble find out how much their money is squandered.
> A common NRx thread is that pretty much any chief executive (which includes military generals) would do a better job at being President (and even better King) than the more traditional list of possibilities like lawyers and professors.

Which is immediately disproven by the disastrous presidency of our first "MBA President" GWB. (See the fellating articles before people realized how awful he would be at managing the country[1])

[1] - http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2004/08/the_first_mb...
"Evidence has come to light that X has acted in ways that are both illegal and unacceptable in our organization."

versus

"Y complained that X was flirting with her, so we had to fire him."

It needs to be made clear that management finds the behavior unacceptable.
When I think journal, I think a permanent record of rdbms transactions or perhaps even a blockchain. I agree with you though that the persistence of data needs to be defined when discussing a journal of any sorts.
Ask HN: How much is my domain tiny.chat worth?
This was spotted last month. Not listed there is that he's the sole shareholder of April Fool LTD.

The other company he is on, Brightao Corp., could be interesting, but it could also be legit.
Check out the image at the top of the post:
https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/
Ha! I'll be checking that out in Freenode now. (Wonder what mpm would say after all this time...)
Please somebody elaborate on this - it's not an easy concept for a layperson to grasp.
We've been to the moon but humans have never put a manned craft in geostationary orbit, or returned from it - the delta-V requirements are different.
Making New TypeScript Projects a Breeze
'fuck, not again' - said the cryptographer. The title of the project is potentially very misleading.

I know most of you take this stuff seriously in your codes and rely on the well know cryptographically secure random number generators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseud...
Interesting, I felt like this was a recursive joke. Show the mine for nearly all the worlds production of lithium and then show a oil sands derrick which can't provide enough gas and oil for the cars in the state of Maine. Not that mining for Lithium could be done "better" but that the article was a poorly articulated argument for how electric cars are either 'as bad' or 'worse' than petrol cars.
This feels to me like there are a few other questions to ask:
- do your target users have a preference for desktop vs webapp?
- can you achieve everything you want in desktop vs webapp?
- How do similar solutions from competitors deliver? How would you differentiate?
- do you have the skills/time/inclination to provide desktop support when a user can't get your software working with Win XP and a badly written printer driver?
- What's the pricing model you will use with lone users? Sell once, sell once and then try and sell upgrade; subscription?
Kudos to the author for trying to set the record straight. As an EV enthusiasts who has tried to read up a lot about this stuff, it is depressing to see the sheer amount of propaganda and misinformation being spread about electric cars.

According to the fossil fuel fan club, the electricity going into your EV is somehow always from coal. Of course all the other electricity not used for electric cars is of course pure as newly fallen snow.

Of course they fail to mention that a lot of power is simply wasted at night anyway. E.g. in Ontario you could charge your EV at night without requiring any increase in electricity production.

Nor do they mention the fact that oil refining requires a huge amount of electricity. In fact it requires so much electricity, that you could have use that same electricity to drive an EV the same distance as gasoline car would drive with the gasoline refined using that electricity.

But really I think what it comes down to is that people like to lie to themselves. They like to invent little lies that will justify the actions they already made. They want to drive that gas-guzzler and so they look for fact that will support that decision.
I think you may be reading it the wrong way. I've been in their IRC channel a few times - there is very little trolling happening in there, lots of genuine enthusiasm.

..combined with a stated and enforced policy of zero tolerance for public dissent, mostly as a defense mechanism from the divide-and-conquer concern trolls who tend to infest political communities. They characterize it as a "24x7 Trump Rally", and that's exactly what it is.

If you're more interested in the discussion than the echo chamber, there's /r/asktrumpsupporters. You'll find little of value on the main subreddit unless you actually support the guy.
Have you tried a chorded keyboard?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard
I love VSC but let's be frank, on a N2940 cpu with 4GB of RAM, there is no debate as to what editor is faster and less memory hungry, Sublime Text is.

I just started with the whole asp.net core thing though and so far the experience has been really great when working with C# and Typescript. Better than with ST. So now it's VSC for .net dev on linux and emacs for the rest.
Why chatbots must be cross-platform compatible
How? The author just said they use a Linux laptop.
I've read that "sourceware" article before, in the distant past when it was still a roughly accurate picture of the market (maybe 1995 or 1996). It's weird to read it again now, in a world that is so remarkably changed. Linux, the scrappy little upstart with a million or so users at the time of the paper, is now the most popular OS (or at least kernel) on the planet, powering billions of phones and servers. NT was viewed as the unfortunate but inevitable future of server operating systems.

I remember looking at IT jobs back then, and seeing a business world covered in Windows NT machines; I even got my MCSE (alongside some UNIX certifications that I was more excited about), because of it. Looking at jobs now, the difference is remarkable, to say the least. Nearly every core technology a system administrator needs to know is Open Source and almost certainly running on Linux.

And, the funny thing is that the general prescription (make a great Open Source UNIX) is exactly what it took to save UNIX. It just didn't involve any of the big UNIX vendors in a significant way (the ones spending a gazillion dollars on UNIX development at the time). Linux got better faster than Sun got smarter, and ate everybody's lunch, including Microsoft. Innovator's Dilemma strikes again.

Apple is an interesting blip on the UNIX history radar, too...though, they're likely to lose to the same market forces in the end, as phones become commodities. I'm a bit concerned that it's going to be Android, however, that wins the mobile world since Android is nowhere near the ideal OS from an Open Source and ethical perspective; but, I guess they got the bits right that Larry was suggesting needed to be right.

Anyway, it was a weird flashback to read that article. Things change, and on a scale that seems slow, until you look back on it, and see it's "only" been a couple of decades. In the grand scheme of things, and compared to the motion of technology prior to the 1900, that's a blink of an eye.
This looks to be the same technique as Dan Kaminsky's DakaRand, including the debiasing: https://dankaminsky.com/2012/08/15/dakarand/

See also Kaminsky's implementation of the same approach in pure JS: https://gist.github.com/PaulCapestany/6148566

and Ryan Finnie's implementation in Perl: http://www.finnie.org/2012/08/14/twuewand-2-0-released/

The big concern I have is how reliable this is on virtual machines. Just about all physical machines I'd want to use have high-quality, trustworthy-within-my-threat-model (i.e., "if the NSA wanted to attack my silicon, there's easier silicon for them to attack") hardware random number generators, and all physical machines I'd want to use pick up sufficient randomness from the kernel's entropy magic thing. But virtual machines often don't have access to the hardware RNG, and they don't have access to enough other hardware to populate entropy. It seems like this technique would be particularly risky there ... although I don't think anyone's published an attack on DakaRand yet, so maybe it's fine!
Agree Atom is slow. How would you compare with Sublime?
Galileo had a cat?
That's not quite true. YouTube does have to follow the DMCA as required by law, and so they do so accordingly.

They also have a separate automated system ("Content ID"), which can automatically block videos or put ads on them and pay the content owner (the latter being a unique feature not possible with just the DMCA), and because it's controlled by YouTube and is more flexible than the law, it provides a generally better experience to the uploader compared to getting a DMCA takedown notice.

If an uploader gets a Content ID claim, then they can dispute it, and if the person making that claim is forced to file a regular DMCA takedown if they want the video to be taken down. Content ID is just the initial step in some cases, but at any point in the process, the DMCA takedown process can be invoked.
You keep saying Powell "did the same exact thing" -- but that's undeniably false. Powell used his personal AOL account from time to time when the official .gov mail servers were down. Clinton setup a private email server. Totally different things.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar/...
It spins for a millisecond to have a chance of obtaining half a bit actually. It takes two clock calls to create a chance of getting a bit, and only if the bit pattern changed during that period.