skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all really. The leaks revealed the frustrations, biases, egos and banality of functionaries in a big political party.

There was no scandal -- everyone knew, including Sanders, that the party didn't like him or his candidacy. You can be sure that the RNC and associated actors had similar communications about Trump and Cruz.

What the leaks did is perpetuate the circus atmosphere of this election cycle. The longer and more absurd that atmosphere gets, the better for Trump. Trump is great for Putin, as Putin no doubt sees him as easier to manipulate for a variety of reasons.
>fiberglass lines

*fiber optic
Cities in Korea have no trash cans too. Clean, clean, clean. I had to carry my trash everywhere, but whatever.
>Now that the whole world is my neighbor, my immediate Internet neighbor, do I make any concessions at all, or do I uphold the ancient tradition of satire at all costs? And again, is a culture that takes mortal offense when an image it holds sacred is mocked a second-rate culture that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century, my twenty-first-century that is?

The answer to this question is quite simple: France is a nation-state, if you wish to be part of the French nation you need to fulfill its two most fundamental clauses:

- the desire to adopt a common history, in its glory and its shame

- the desire to live and thrive together: "to have achieved great things and achieve more, together"

France is an assimilationist country and the French state takes its sovereignty from the Nation i.e the People. If you wish to come here, if you wish to be part of it, then you need to uphold its principles and traditions.

And of course, it should be needless to say that no one is forced to come here and that on the contrary, they are urged to leave as soon as possible if they find out that they have a burning desire to murder journalists- cartoonists when those draw their prophet the wrong way. That is non-negotiable.

I find it remarkable that the "multicultural crowd" fails to adjust their views so they can be sound with their moral principles when switching their country-wide frame of reference to a global one. If you sincerely believe that cultural minorities have a right to govern themselves and that moral monism is "oppressive" then how come haven't you figured that the French are an underwhelming minority at the world-scale and that their conception of the good life (eudaimon) - not only differs than yours - but includes protecting their public space from religious interference.

So to reply to your question and playing to your rules, dear author:

>And again, is a culture that takes mortal offense when an image it holds sacred is mocked a second-rate culture that needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century, my twenty-first-century that is?

Mutatis mutandis, this apply exactly to your disdain for the French tradition of satire that you hold in perspective with your globalised view of the world.
I also think it's human nature. Humans are always looking to better themselves. Take someone from 1900 and bring them to 2016. They would think they are living in paradise...for a while. Then they would get used to it and start thinking about everything that's wrong and how to fix it.

Now, on the plus side it's that drive that improves the human condition. But it comes with a lot of negatives too.
The work you might have heard about GEGL - is all about providing foundations for such non-destructive editing. The highlighted split-view / curtain preview in the blog post is implemented using these new capabilities provided by GEGL. Adding new features that cement themselves as new things in the file format is part of GIMPs roadmap after GIMP-2.10 / 3.0. 2.10 / 3.0 are aiming to provide the same functionality that GIMP-2.6 / 2.8 provided but with GEGL as the core and thus higher bitdepth.
Except there are real examples in the world where it really works. The data is compelling.
Whether it is a compromise does not alter the defining characteristics of capitalism and socialism, those being private ownership and communal ownership, respectively, of the means of production and exchange.

These terms are not used as in the vernacular but are precisely defined pieces of economic jargon.
From Holdren's memo:

> Specifically, each agency: i) shall use a twelve-month post-publication embargo period as a guideline for making research papers publicly available

Twelve month? Seems Europe is heading in a better direction:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-eu...
As far as I understood, "high fructose" in HFCS is only high relative to the corn syrup that was hydrolyzed, but not processed with isomerase, i.e. essentially compared to corn syrup with no fructose at all.

Most commonly used HFCS varieties contains 42% or 55% fructose [1], which compares well with 50% in sucrose.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fructose_corn_syrup#Compo...
True. It can be very frustrating for people when their "fuzzy-logic" (for lack of a better word coming to mind) is not accepted as a proof and they don't see how it isn't iron-clad. Fuzzy-logic gets us through most of everyday life with minimal mental burden, and so is definitely useful, but it doesn't hold up in an argument where you're trying to prove something. It can also go the other way though; some topics are inherently fuzzy, and trying to impose rigour on them just ends up wasting everyone's time and leaves nobody convinced.
I actually think this biases mate selection (not necessarily in a good way) toward people of similar or slightly greater/lesser income
> Why? What is the advantage of abstracting everything from the raw CPU so much

Portability (and not just between architectures--between operating systems as well).

> and now treating JavaScript as CPU op codes?

Web Assembly does not treat JavaScript as "CPU op codes".
But the economics are there. If there is money in centralized solutions that same budget is (theoretically) available for de-centralized solutions.
This will probably turn out to be wrong, but I will take a stab at it:

Calls to violence or discrimination.
ok for the 3d printing of the "structure" but then how to make it reflective? do you use regular allumination chamber or what technique ? which precision you can achieve to validate the prototype ?
Laugh; "mistress disspelling" is a time-consuming and expensive remedy which focuses on the symptom of the infidelity. After weeks and months of manipulating the mistress, assuming it works, the husband may just find another one. Back to square one.

What if he already has several? Do you hire three counsellors with three strategies to dispel all of them? That's going to get really expensive, fast.
I don't remember there being any way (unless you count BAT files) to easily get started writing programs.

The DEBUG utility would let you write small utilities in Asm, and PC magazines would publish source code listings in a format suitable for use with it --- the assembler had no labels so any address calculations needed to be done manually, but IMHO that just made it easier for people to see how "code" and "data" are really the same thing interpreted in different ways. It was limited to producing "flat binary" COM files up to 64K in size, but you quickly realise that when using Asm, 64K is a lot of code and a lot of interesting things can be done with far less; most of these utilities were in the hundreds of bytes to single-digit-kilobytes range.

Compare that with today when a compiled "Hello world" binary in C is already larger than the majority of the utilities supplied with MS-DOS...
That limits your choices quite a bit. For example there are a large number of attractive women with terrible incomes and/or no savings, for which "scoring a successful man" may be a "valid" mating strategy
I have always loved Snippets and the whole Chrome Souces ecosystem in general. In fact, I use Sources as my editor of choice over Sublime, Notepad++, etc. I find the "map to local" feature outdoes anything I use from the other editors. Only gripe is I wish snippets were stored as text files (or at least that was an option)... couple weeks ago my Chrome profile got corrupted and I lost like a year of snippets.
Open Source Exploitation and Burnout
Yes, exactly. I'm totally serious. Considering Microsoft's actions up to this point vis a vis Windows 10, it's hardly a stretch of the imagination that they'd do that. It's amazing how many issues in technology come down to trust--or lack of it--when you boil things down.
This relearning problem goes both ways. People trained on GIMP tend to find Photoshop annoying and difficult to use - because they have to relearn. People accept spending extra time and struggling when learning a new skill; and are frustrated with tools (or really themselves) when something they think they know how to do suddenly is difficult.
Did you know that the subsea fiber optic cables which the submarines hack are only 17mm thick? [0]. Great companion story at ARS from a while back worth a read.

[0]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-th...
A lot of world class engineers would leave Google to go to their competition. The promise of maybe getting to work on self driving cars is a big recruiting carrot. Improve ad revenue by 0.01%? Will that motivate a top 1% engineer to sign or stick around?
Your definition of moral agent is not very useful.

For me, a moral agent is not one that can 'feel responsible', but one that I can affect, by changing my own behavior, when it does 'something bad'.

The discussion of internal states is less useful. Also, the discussion of morality of people I can't affect is less useful.
If you're looking for some fun, you can reverse bias a zener diode and measure the noise that comes out of it. It's shot noise, and you can measure it quite easily with just some simple passives and an ADC.
Project much? Looks like you're the one getting all heated and angry at someone defending the social sciences and are trying to attack them. It's better not to bring emotion into discussions of science.
US military plane makes emergency landing on Russian airstrip
The divorce rate in the USA is nowhere near that high. It peaked at around 60% in the 80s and has fallen to below 50% since then.

There is a reason many woman want the apartment in their name as a co owner before they get married: otherwise they'll have no recourse on divorce. Even if they helped pay for it, they need their name there or they have no rights. This is how it is in China, relatively simple. As for parental rights, lots of moms never see their kids again as they go to live with the husband's family, same problems, different victims!
Decomposing a function into its even and odd parts
All things being equal, yes women would have the upper hand.

But cultural norms warp things a little more. The cultural tendency is for a man to marry down, and a women marry up in social level terms.

Which means there's a layer of women near the top who can't find a husband. Particularly in professional careers. And the lowest social rung of men have no women to marry down.

This asymmetry means there's a band of powerful and successful women who don't normally find husbands. They become China's "leftover women", who have basically given up on the idea of marriage beyond the age of 27. One recent solution here is these women look abroad for suitable husbands. Despite being negged annually, the social stigma of not marrying up takes many options away from women.
If you had a specific design in mind, it might actually be more satisfying to generate the STL triangles directly. You can fit your parabola in 2D (by, say, computing reflection angle to a fixed focal point), then just rotate and dump out STL.

The wiki has a nice intro to the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_reflector
> The most common question students have about mathematics is “when will I ever use this?”

The author then goes on to provide 6 semi-abstract reasons as to why abstract reasoning matters. Since this question is most likely to be asked by a child, it is code for "how can math-skills make me money or get me a job." Upon hearing the author's answers, 13 year old me would conclude, "it doesn't, and math is as useless as writing poetry". A child who isn't thinking in this practical way is already academic minded and doesn't need an answer. "When will I ever use this?". It obvious! "In next year's math class".

It is sad that a student can leave high-school with almost no classes that ever makes math less abstract. The most beautiful moment in my life was my freshman college physics class. It first filled me with joy and then resent. Because I almost didn't go to college and there was no reason I wouldn't have understood this course at 13. Same goes for finance.

So answers should focus on applications like modeling simple Newtonian physics of a satellite in orbit or predicting the RPM when a 4-stroke engine red-lines based on max-stress specs. Or show them useful short cuts like the Rule of 72 and if they are curious show a derivation. Show examples of ratios/percentages, how fractals can simulate a landscape, ray tracing, or examples of the Fibonacci series in nature, etc.
> China female/male ratio is heavily unbalanced. There is a LOT men on market for women to choose.

The ratio of females to males that women actually want is balanced the other way. And it's that way pretty much everywhere in the world.

A f/m << 1 just means there are more men to settle for, not really to choose.
What about PySide or PyQt?
>But despite the rising prominence of Russian hackers in this news cycle — and Chinese hackers before that — it's worth pointing out that the United States has grown fairly proficient in cyberspace, too.

How am I not surprised that in an article about US espionage the American s̶t̶a̶t̶e̶ media makes sure to remind yet again us how bad, bad, bad the Russians are.
I'm not sure exactly what a platform completely focused on sharing ideas is. I mean I share ideas on the internet, Facebook, HN.
New species of Pacific beaked whale confirmed
Ah, well, never part with tangible money for a virtual service. Especially one that refuses to inform you of the ingredients in their dog food.

DRM is something worth the cost of ignoring and avoiding.
While this sounds sexist, would any husband actually argue against that part? Let's be frank, here
Edward Snowden revealed a long time ago that the NSA also taps the undersea communications cables for mass surveillance (which obviously includes US citizens).
So, I'm not trolling - I don't like UIs if they don't provide more functionality than data entry, I think they are counter productive. So, seriously, what advantages does it provide, beyond being 'accessible' to people with cli allergies. I'm curious.
Assume all oceanic cables rigged. The CIA has been doing this for decades.

Added: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/...
This comment is an example of something we desperately need less of on Hacker News. It's predictable, racist, and has a complete lack of intellectual curiosity. Please do not do this here.
The mindset of a programmer
Similar to Global Thermonuclear War in the movie WarGames, the only winning move may soon simply be not to play :O
I don't own a tinfoil hat, but... man, that incites all sorts of ideas.
I doubt it adds much to the download size. DevTools already has a copy of the CodeMirror js library for displaying JavaScript in the debugger with syntax highlighting. I suppose you could strip CodeMirror of all editing functionality, but that sounds like more trouble than it's worth.
I just got to try this out yesterday. Like many others, I wasn't convinced going in but now I'm a "true believer".

I don't think VR will directly compete with the traditional video game interface, much like handheld consoles don't directly compete with PC gaming. I do think it will spawn a whole new branch of the gaming industry.

As a side note, I don't think the screenshots do justice to just how _good_ 'The Lab' looks once you're wearing the Vive.
An original source: http://www.manifestoproject.it/bre-pettis-and-kio-stark/
Right, because every woman is entitled to a wealthy man?
Physician Suicide 101: Secrets, Lies and Solutions
Evidence?

Also false dichotomy. We do not know the percentage of successful marriages with undiscovered affairs.
Writing music and stories. Some painting. Learning to speak a couple new languages. Stimulating other parts of my brain/personality as much as possible
Crowded apartments and poverty in early 20th-century Budapest?
He or she is probably conflating the Catholic inquisitors who convicted Galileo for a heliocentric heresy and the popular myth that the experts who dissuaded King Ferdinand from supporting Columbus thought the earth flat, rather than too wide to cross with contemporary technology. It's just a rhetorical device intended to diminish the otherwise learned.
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Just a solid browser would not help when Android is not designed for that market. And when devices are effectively crippled by lack of support/updates, and questionable bloatware.

This does need to be close to a 'from the ground up' initiative. And that has nothing to do with latest developer trends.
"This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails..."

I've attended "audits" of VVPATs. They merely verify that the printer still worked as expected. Nothing more.

This turf has been hashed and rehashed. The Election Verification Network (academics, administrators, activists) have covered this many times. Auditing electronically mediated elections is impractical and adds little more certainty in the results.

No, crypto voting doesn't help.
The context of the article is recent comments by political candidates about Russian cyber warfare. The subs' capabilities were revealed at a conference three weeks ago.
Maybe... But it's way more libertarian than any of today's societies... I mean, we still have so many prohibitions - drugs, prostitution, euthanasia, freedom of speech, ...
I'm not a fan--I use them because the alternatives are terrible. I use Uber, and I use Lyft, and I use Fasten the most (because they're still trying to establish market share and so the deals are great). But I use them primarily because Boston taxis are straight garbage that cannot be trusted to get you where you want to go on time and without hassles, and they want a price premium for the experience. This isn't the case in many other cities I've gone to (aside from the price premium part, which is universal in America), but it is in Boston.

But we're the "social engineering commenters" because we're rolling eyes at the idea that dealing with cabs is pleasant. We're shills. I don't think I've ever said this here, but: good grief, dude, get a grip, reality is slipping you.
Mathematicians need logical precision because they work in the realm of things which can be definitively proven or disproven.

Not really, by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, they are always working in a realm where some things cannot be definitely proven or disproven.
> The divorce rate in the USA is nowhere near that high. It peaked at around 60% in the 80s and has fallen to below 50% since then.

I should have stated that better. Historically, in America, from the late 19th Century until the present, women have filed the majority of divorces; approximately two thirds, regardless of prevalent economic circumstances.
Do you have any leads on bpm detection? I tried doing it in Python a while ago for a project and the library I used was always 5-10bpm off...
“We are aware of this matter, but the specific Terms of Service violations are ones we cannot discuss further due to legal considerations.”

Bullshit. They're lying like most other companies in similar positions (Amazon comes to mind). There is no TOS violation. Whatever their reason for closing the blog, it's certainly not because of anything written down. Neither the TOS or the TOS violation actually exist. That's why they won't say anymore.

This is a classic Internet company technique. For no reason, just shut off access. The user has no recourse. I guarantee the money this guy spent on a lawyer is a waste. I just hope he can change the logins to sites that use that email so he doesn't lose all his other accounts because of this.

Without regulations like we have for other utilities, these companies have free reign to fuck up people's lives for arbitrary, unknown reasons. Exactly as they like it.
"If you wish to converse with me, define your terms." -Voltaire

Perhaps it depends on what you mean by "precise", but philosophical arguments do tend to start by defining one's terms or disputing the opponent's definitions, expressed or implied. When continental philosophers talk, that's the only part I can follow.
If this sort of stuff interets you, I highly recommend the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage". [0] It tells the story of Cold War espionage from the submarine warfare point of view. The book also covers "Operation Ivy Bells" which was a joint Navy/CIA/NSA mission whose objective was to place wire taps on Soviet underwater communication lines during the Cold War. [1] Sub placed a listening and recording devices over Soviet cables and was able to capture their communications. The device was fairly large as can be seen from this picture [2]. I'm sure they're smaller now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Man%27s_Bluff:_The_Untol...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells

[2] http://www.therebreathersite.nl/11_Closed%20Circuit%20Rebrea...
I'm sure that there is a learning curve for people going from Gimp to Photoshop. In my case, going the other way, after over a decade, I still find Gimp a massive pain in the arse. It's not just that it's "not what I'm used to", it's that it's bad.

Recently I had to make some end-credit cards for a short film - ie. white writing on black backgrounds. Gimp managed to make even that painful. Things like, placing an immovable dialogue over the handles of my text box so I can't get at them. If I try to replace text, it reverts to its arbitrary choice of font / size so I have to type new text in the middle of my existing text, then delete the original. No "duplicate layer" shortcut. Just gratuious annoyances that are good for nobody, and bad for everybody.

Edit: I have a feeling you might be a Gimp dev, in which case I should be more grateful for the work you do, which I still use and benefit from even though the UI frustrates the hell out of me.

Edit2: I just found the Duplicate Layer shortcut. Not sure how I missed it before.
"There's a strong moral argument in favor of the DNC leaks: the American people ought to know that its political process was corrupted by powerful actors within its own institutions."

Actually, the moral argument would be in favor of both DNC and RNC leaks. Selectively leaking a ton of dirt on one dirty party but not the other is not aiding democracy. Instead, it gives one the moral, high ground immediately. That one might be accused of facilitating the leak but many parties available to scapegoat in day & age where hacks and leaks happen all the time. So, this could be a setback for U.S. "democracy."
Oh cool!

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Damn :(
I suspect the relationship between school maths and what mathematicians do is a little bit like the relationship between touch typing and programming, in the sense they're separate skills but being good at one of those skills reduces friction with the other.
Site appears to be down. Archived at:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160313135722/http://www.lights...
I agree with that one, and the quality of the alternatives, too. The problems I have with Evernote are subtle but they act like speed bumps on a highway, sometimes.