skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this article meant to rebut the claims of Clinton et. al. who claim that Snowden could have been an effective whistle-blower? (ie this article is saying he already tried that path and it didn't work)

> Cooper turned to Hillary Clinton and asked, “Secretary Clinton, hero or traitor?” Clinton, who earlier in the debate had described herself as “a progressive who likes to get things done,” replied, “He broke the laws of the United States. He could have been a whistle-blower. He could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistle-blower. He could have raised all the issues that he has raised. And I think there would have been a positive response to that.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/hillary-clinton-i...
52 Technologies
Make sure you use that same logic next time you are in a discussion with someone about Nazis in the 1940's.
was wondering why everything suddenly was going 2fps
DuckDuckGo runs a free XMPP server - https://duck.co/blog/post/4/xmpp-services-at-duckduckgo
This is great news. In general I'm hoping this makes it easier to do browser testing in more CI services, rather than isolating this type of testing to services that have to specialize in it just to get it to to work.

One (minor?) benefit over Phantom is having working file uploads, though it would be awesome to have that in Phantom too.
There are many devices that are not smartphones.

Yes, most devices support the abstract concept of a messenger app, but they each have their own runtimes and APIs that the app must be written for. Writing a web version supports a huge number of clients in a single pass.
Why is that on Hacker News?
Thank you a lot nisa. You're right it's very clear (especially the reddit thread).

I like a lot this kind comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/4mkh8j/confirmed_jacob...
Your reply is appreciated. :)
Or double-entry book-keeping. This is an data pattern that predates electronic computing by centuries.

Any time I'm delivering a user experience that involves work-in-progress or benefits from any kind of history, I reach for event sourcing. Turns out that's a majority of business processes, at least in my customer sector.

I've found it straightforward to implement and realise the benefits of ES & CQRS in isolation. Complexity arises from assumptions of RDBMS/REST semantics in underlying frameworks or connected services.
I'm sure you can appreciate that you know absolutely nothing about how Muhammed Ali was treated by whites his entire life.

Simply assuming that he was treated badly and therefore justified in his blanket discrimination towards others is academically lazy and ethically unacceptable.
What is the scenario for which I need decent-but-not-cryptographically-secure random numbers at such a rate that the speed of the RNG is material to my design?

Serious question!
super monkey ball suddenly becomes a motion sickness test.
I have a "dumb" phone but I don't expect it to be able to run a XMPP client. Even if it could, it's screen is too small and there are only numeric keys.
The falsehood here is in your claim that they said they would only invest in the winning companies.

The NYT article you reference doesn't say anything about them wanting to invest only in winners.

What they've always said is that they need to invest in all the companies that might be winners, knowing that many of them will turn out to be losers, and that in order to ensure they got all the promising companies in their portfolio, they need to be highly founder-friendly.

Indeed, the strategy has a self-determining aspect to it: in order to invest in more winners they also need to invest in more losers, and by ensuring they invest in all the winners, they can afford to fund more losers, which helps to ensure they capture more winners.

Andreessen explains this thoroughly in his EconTalk episode from a couple of years ago [1].

That NYT glossed over this point is their doing, not Andreessen's, but even then you've claimed something that isn't at all true and dang is right to point out that you're capable of much better.

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/05/marc_andreessen.htm...
> Where will the jobs come from for them?

That's a pretty weak criticism. Where are the jobs going to come from to employ the millions of people that used to be farmers (in 1875)? Where are the jobs going to come from to employ former delivery milkmen? Or what about the jobs for people that used to handle telephone call switching?

The same place they've always come from: economic dynamism. The solar industry, as one basic example, is adding 100,000 new jobs every four years at this point. In 20 years, that one industry will employ a million people - up from almost nothing in 2005.

We've got five million job openings presently. The labor market is quite healthy, with the U6 unemployment rate down to where it was before the recession.

Besides, unleashing all of that educated labor will result in increased innovation and economic growth, not less.
Of course. I think competition is good and my words were not meant as us vs. them although in hindsight I see that they sound like it.
Alan has done work that I believe is directly related to this idea of recorded, atomic object states at VPRI under the name "Worlds". Of course Alan may chime in and let me know that it is totally different but these following two links may prove fruitful for you: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2013002_experiments.pdf and http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf

Check out the rest of the experiments that VPRI been pursuing here: http://vpri.org/html/writings.php
A Young Man Quits His Old Life and Goes West
Syllabi and URLs for computational, data, and investigative journalism courses
Seymour Papert Mindstorms [93] [pdf]
If you're looking for a continuation of OMeta check out what Alan's previous research lab CDG (I believe it is largely being folded into HARC) is working on with ohm: https://github.com/cdglabs/ohm
Hmm... I'd be very interested in talking to the person(s) who downvoted this. Do you think creationists are scientists? Have you had any extended interactions with them? Have I written something that is - to this audience - inflammatory?
Why on gods green earth would we want Slack to have access to internal government communications?
It's worth noting that this is an issue in the RFC repo, not a pull request. Which means it's not an RFC, so much as its a wishlist item. There are some simd items available with a feature on nightly, and there has been a little movement towards stabilization, but it's not there yet. On nightly there's also a helper crate for simd and multiple for cpuid feature detection, for example:

https://crates.io/crates/simd

https://crates.io/crates/x86

https://crates.io/crates/raw-cpuid

Edit: also rust nightly has inline assembly which is slowly moving towards stabilization, so when compiler intrinsics and the crate don't cover the use case, it's inconvenient but technically possible to do simd work in asm.

Edit 2: And as mentioned by the issue author themselves, there's the llvmint crate (https://crates.io/crates/llvmint) for LLVM intrinsics if you don't want to use the simd crate or roll your own with assembly. I don't get what's happening here.
Somebody has to create the wealth before it can be redistributed.
Because a sufficient number of Hacker News users thought it belonged on Hacker News.
Simulations, including those that use Monte Carlo methods, might be one class of examples.
Let's hope so.
Mahout 0.10.x: first Mahout release as a programming environment (2015)
I just use XVFB.

xvfb-run --server-args='-screen 0 1024x768x24 -ac' chromium-browser --user-data-dir <url>
> AnyPixel.js’ straightforward hardware/software framework makes it easy to build any display where each pixel is an interactive element.

Interesting apostrophe here. I'd never consider how to attribute possession to a package name.
Google's C++ style guide is much more interesting:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html
HN worries me. I often see leftist articles on the top. Author of this article is a commie. As Russian, I hate commies.
Top 5 reasons why email will continue to dominate
I commend the decision to not encourage overtime, and in the UK that probably doesn't take much pleading for you to achieve. I've lived and worked in France and worked closely with most nations around the world including the UK.

Ultimately from your description it sounds like the increased non-profiteering wages would not come out of company profits. Thus in the end it's just like all the other businesses then. No need for all the flowery language about how there's other priorities than making money. If you had to ditch everyone and go to Malaysia to "be competitive" then you'd do it.
> It cements the US's position as the hegemony for all things trade and trade practices.

I think you mean China. :)
I think its because HN attracts people in academia, who are largely left-leaning.
Google internally does not always follow this guide. Different project can come up with its own style.
Surprised to see AWS Aurora *slower* than RDS
We migrated from MySQL RDS/AZ to Aurora and a number of our queries became ~22% slower.

Old DB: t2.medium RDS AZ

New DB: Aurora r3.large

For example, a representative set of SELECT queries run against both DBs:

$ time rds-db < perf_test.sql

real 0m34.502s

$ time aurora-db < perf_test.sql

real 0m42.240s

=========

We got a reply from AWS support person who contacted Aurora Tech team on our behalf. I include his reply, relevant if you're seeing similar degradation of performance. In a nutshell, single queries are _expected_ to be slower on Aurora. Aurora will scale better with concurrency.

"Nice talking on the phone with you! I have talked to RDS team about your issue with performance after switching to RDS Aurora.

The RDS team pointed out that Aurora’s performance will not be better than MySQL if the concurrency features are not used or if you are using Aurora as a traditional MySQL. They said Aurora will be highly beneficial if your work load is highly concurrent.

Aurora though should have 5x more throughput than RDS MySQL but only when the work load is used efficiently as it works well with multiple concurrent queries."
A lot of the IP issues with TPP are exactly what I meant when it benefits Americans more than other countries, since foreign countries tend to be less restrictive about intellectual property rights.

Also, we really need a Powerpoint summarizing all the issues, both for and against, from all perspectives, with TPP. It's such a huge agreement, and taking only some aspects into consideration, such as IP rights, shouldn't invalidate other aspects of it. It should be considered as a whole.
The Story of My Addiction
Python Library for Nuclear Weapons Effects
Also https://m.me
They /can/ but I've found that almost every team I've interacted with sticks with the style recommended by g4 lint.
DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector
This tool looks great, but I'm not very familiar with LibreOffice --- does it support macros from Excel? I have a use-case in mind but it would require logic not directly in the cell's formulas.
4 spaces? seriously? Why would anyone type out 4 spaces instead of one tab?
No, it's not the same, because the big benefit of UBI is you don't have to pay a huge gaggle of bureaucrats to verify this person gets benefits and that person doesn't.
My Alan Kay moment was this, long ago on the Squeak mailing list:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

And quite frankly, that's what I've been doing...for example http://objective.st -> if you have a way of talking about and playing with architectural elements (mostly the connectors), the rest does pretty much fall out.
Very cool. Perhaps Adafruit, Sparkfun or the like will whip up with a kit that utilizes these types of led arcade buttons, but on a much smaller scale. Also, I wonder if they make "mini" led arcade buttons so you could tighten up the array a bit. It seems that smaller buttons would create better visualizations if space was limited.
> demanding a democratic open process would lead to no free trade deals at all

Sounds like a win-win.
Google's Project Loon about to go for pilot in India
> Trade deals are by their nature multilateral.

The problem is, these deals aren't about trade, let alone about free one. They are about changing laws. And lawmaking hidden from the public is a very problematic idea.

> Try to do them democratically, and they simply won't get done

There is no need to make massive debates during development of these trade agreements. I agree, it can slow them down. But, they have to be done in public fashion, so when problems arise, they can be spotted right away and then criticized and fixed. That's something not just doable, but it was already practiced before.

> It's reasonable to take issue with the contents of the TPP, but demanding a democratic open process would lead to no free trade deals at all

You can't take an issue with it if: 1. you can't see it until it's too late. 2. there is no way to fix problems in it except axing the whole thing which is much much harder (fast track).
This is far too simplistic, especially when you consider the issue of gentrification and the rise of housing costs associated with it. You ignore that this leads back to the same issue: Poor people are now living in a higher-cost area where their previously held job no longer suffices to live.

So now you force these poor people out of homes that they used to be able to afford into even poorer areas with worse job security. This is assuming that they're even able to acquire new jobs. And it would only get worse with automation.

A basic income that doesn't scale based off of CoL is one that's bound to fail in the face of automation.
> Samsung Universe S2000

Not to be confused with the Honda Galaxy S III
In that it destroys a greater proportion of the language's expressive power? :-p
Yep. I agree with those observations. Static types can be very handy to reduce developer cognitive load. Automated refactoring tools are also pretty nice. All I'm saying is they're no substitute for a test suite. As a software quality guarantee, they don't even come close.
On the Left
You configure your editor to expand a tab into four spaces.
Personally, i use tabs of size four with expandtabs setting. That way i don't have to press four spaces and my files look the same across all editors and platforms.
Everything requested is already in Rust. For rationale behind current design, read RFC 1199.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/1199-simd...

Rust SIMD support tries to be type safe, so there are some subtleties involved for comparison and shuffling. (C SIMD support is not type safe.) I can imagine people disagreeing with decisions here. For example, one may have better type safe design, or one may opine it should not be type safe. But the linked issue lacks any details and is not very useful.
I like the idea of UBI, but the problem with schemes to improve wealth equality is that usually the middle class ends up footing almost all of the bill.

If a rich person feels that their wealth is threatened, they can evade the negative consequences of the scheme (taxes) by relocating their head office to the Caymans. On the other hand, if a middle class family is negatively impacted by the scheme - They cannot evade it; they can't afford to move to another country because they rely on their jobs for income.

If UBI is to be instated, we would also have to implement harsh laws to prevent the upper classes from evading taxes. Moving wealth to a tax haven should be made a criminal offence (with jail time).

Also, income (passive income in particular) should always be taxed based on the country of origin (from which the payment originated) instead of the complex network of case-by-case tax treaties that currently exist. A single, origin-based tax system would not have all the loopholes that a complex case-by-case system has. Any country that refuses to enter into the origin-based tax treaty should be kicked out of the UN and trade sanctions should be imposed.

In practice, a rich person is currently not bound by the laws of their own country; they are bound by the laws of the country whose laws are the most convenient for them - They can literally pick and choose how much tax they want to pay.
You realize that the majority of IPs submitted may not be from a known cloud provider/test suite, and so you're still dealing with the rate limiting from falling back for most requests?
I am currently building my own Z80 based computer. It's been a great experience building up my electronics lab and I wish I had done it years ago. I recently received a Russian made Z80 that I ordered off ebay. Probably the only product of Russia I've ever owned.
I mean, I understand your perspective, but it's kinda bizarre.
The line about gridlock making free trade deals impossible seems to be the standard response to every criticism of the incredibly secretive negotiation process, but it never gets followed to the logical conclusion.

What is the point of having a democracy if the very principle of "rule by the people" gets subverted every time it presents an inconvenience?

Perhaps having a democratic open process is worth missing out on one of these deals.
A good reason for sticking to monospace characters is that they're always displayed the same, regardless of your personal editor and editor configuration choices.

Also, you don't need to type 4 (or however many) spaces directly. Most programming editors can be configured to insert spaces when you press tab, or to replace existing tabs in a file to spaces.
The side effects:
"I live in the Central African bush. We pay for slow satellite internet (per MB d/l). Just ONE of our computers has secretly d/l'ed 6GB for Windows 10. We track & coordinate anti-poaching rangers in the field with these PC's + GPS. F* You Microsoft!"
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4mcdon/i_live_i...
Yes I find her total lack of ability to hide her incencerity refreshing. I prefer to know what the likely outcome will be once she's in power. The dangerous thing about politicians like Obama was his excellent persuasive ability, such as his ability to generate reassurance that things will change and it was a very believable.

For ex, I was convinced he truly believed in reducing the militarism of America. But he then managed to push it well beyond Bush, which was beautifully implemented by heavily leaning on the CIA/NSA who operate well within the constraints of secrecy and deception required to maintain that public perception.

In his first year in office it was revealed the CIA destroyed 92 video tapes very likely to contain evidence of torture. A perfect opportunity to confront one of the most serious abuses of power in United States history and he did nothing in response, not even a token stepping down of the director, and there was hardly an ounce of public backlash against him. He won the Noble Peace prize that same year. Amazing.
Note that this is the public style guide (intended for contributions to Google open-source projects). The internal style guide has some differences, mainly to more-closely match the styles of internal C++ and Java (things like naming and indenting).

In my experience, any Python code in the core codebase follows the (internal) style guide. Big mostly-standalone projects like YouTube have their own style.
Jeri Ellsworth has built working transistors at home.

Point contact germanium BJT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmotkjMSKnI

Etched silicon FET:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcKwOo7dmM

The rusty razorblade + pin point contact diode doesn't need anything special because it's a Schottky diode, with a metal/N-type semiconductor junction. If you probe lots of places you can find an N-type region where the dopant is random impurities. But the transistor needs both N and P-type regions, so I don't see any way to build one with common junk. Jeri's point contact example works by diffusing phosphorus from phosphor bronze into commercially produced N-type germanium using a high current to heat it. Phosphor bronze is arguably household junk but I don't think germanium diodes are.
Would people in high cost of living area paying higher income taxes which subsidize the lower cost areas be a massive ripoff to those in the high cost areas?
As someone who has been using OTR/DuckDuckGo as my primary chat server since early 2014, I would recommend against it.

When it goes down, it goes down for multiple days, even a week. Prolonged outages have happened twice or thrice in the last two years, with no helpful messages from the staff. Heck, they didn't even bother announcing the outage before I posted on their community forums.

Their server stopped pushing offline messages to clients a long time ago. People complained, it still doesn't work on my end.

They said they would look into creating a status page, but we still can't tell during an outage if they know about it or not.

The bottom line is that maintaining their XMPP server is simply not a priority for them.

You should look into other providers that use better servers, and are also interested in maintaining their node.

EDIT: I'm basically asking you people to recommend a better XMPP node, somewhere you've personally had a good experience over a long period of time.
Virtually everyone does type one tab and uses a text editor that expands the tab to four spaces in the file.
That sounds like it would be an awesome language! I love cljs but often share the feeling that its implementation is too heavy and too far removed from JS.
I don't remember conservative mobs shutting down speakers at college campuses, or attacking the political rallies of people they don't like.
Please don't recommend Pidgin; Pidgin is the IE6 of the chat world… it's terrible, it holds back the rest of the world, and it just won't die (although I know this was in response to the question; just sayin')
That is why it is called basic income and not deluxe income. The goal is to put food on the table and a roof over your head.
"Collaborative storytelling, screenwriting, disrupting Hollywood : I could see the first writer using our product and winning the Academy Award — all in my head."

RFS #15 "Hollywood 2.0" ~ https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#hollywood
Reminds me of http://tools.suckless.org/sent/
You can also do it with my project which is based only on Java, https://github.com/machinepublishers/jbrowserdriver
In case anyone wasn't aware, Ubuntu is best known as an introductory Linux desktop distribution that's made a few contentious design decisions over the years, furthering its separation from traditional FOSS community values and practices.

There are hundreds[1] of distributions built around the Linux kernel, and Ubuntu was the only one to try (and be immediately condemned for) including Amazon results in local searches, which anyone who didn't want was free to disable or else try any of the many, many Debian or Ubuntu based distros without.

I don't know of another version of Windows 10 that I can install if I don't like some aspect of how it collects data or prevents me from administrating my system, but even if there were, how many users would know to set up WSUS servers to prevent errant update behaviors?

[1] http://distrowatch.com/
Part of the reason why it needs to be killed is because there is so much in it, and it is an all-or-nothing deal negotiated in secret!
These ip ideas have been brought forth before in American Law and unequivocally been voted down. And an attempted end-run around the American legislative branch should be opposed on principal by Americans, even if the letter of the law seemed germane. There is a reason it wasn't done in daylight.
Email will die out