skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If the argument is true, then it would also be true even if the person saying it were hypocritical.

And nobody said otherwise -- for the core argument.

But in real life we don't usually know whether the thing (let's call it A) itself that an argument tries to prove is true.

We only know that the argument in favor of A is formulated correctly (follows its premises correctly, etc).

Regarding A though, there might be other premises we haven't checked (and weren't mentioned in the argument), other facts that invalidate it, etc.

Thus it is enlightening to know if an argument for A is being made hypocritically, to evaluate the possibility of A being true in a wider context.

E.g. if I say "A is good for everybody, for X,Y,Z reasons" and I do the opposite of A, then the possibility of A really being good for everybody is somewhat lessened by the prior that "the person proposing A does not follow A".

This is because:

a) nothing guarantees that X,Y,Z (the things mentioned in the argument) are enough to prove that A is good for everybody.

b) the fact that someone proposes A but does the opposite, adds credence to the possibility that there are benefits from NOT following A.

Heck, even if the argument is that "A is good for you for X,Y,Z" and it's correct, someone that knows X,Y,Z (since he put forth the argument) but does not follow A, might know something like A+ or B that's even better, and tries to sell me short.
I'm a big fan of naproxen with a large glass of water.
I feel like it's funniest website I seen in last couple of years. Probably they just too late for the Fools Day.
The reason HSR rail wasn't routed down I5 is because the I5 corridor is unpopulated vs the HWY99 corridor which has several major cities.
This has come up in the local papers a few times here in Wellington, New Zealand. The prevailing theory is that it's a diesel generator on a ship in the harbour.
thanks! That's interesting that you took such a hit from having your loans paid off. I know that has an effect, but that totally dropped you out of prime territory. When shopping for your mortgage, you may want to see smaller mortgage brokers who would be able to give you a slightly better deal versus going to a larger bank. Good luck!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12292973
This article presumes that everything that is not illegal is acceptable behavior. Which isn't true.
$35 billion market cap, but it looks like the daily volume is never more than ~$200,000...
I have the 8bitdo from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluetooth-Controller-Classic...

Highly recommend it. Very high quality controller, feels just like the original.
The first thing I did was to turn off the wifi on my kindle, so I don't have to deal with upgrades or ads. And somehow I can add my own .mobi file to my kindle via usb. I added pdfs I converted to .mobi that way (with some software I found through a google search).
Read schiffern's comment. I know nothing about engineering so I can't tell if what he's saying is correct or not – but that's the point, isn't it?
> Can we trust this information? The answer is: not fully, because the link timestamp can be altered by the developer in a way that’s not always possible to spot. However, certain indicators such as matching the year on the timestamp with the support of technology popular in that year leads us to believe that the timestamps were, at the very least, not wholly replaced. Looking at this from the other side, the easiest option for the developer is to wipe the timestamp completely, replacing it with zeroes. This was not found in the case of EquationDrug.

https://securelist.com/blog/research/69203/inside-the-equati...
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>They're not comparable. You give information willingly to Facebook and accept their terms of service.

Sure -- I agree that they're not comparable (that said, I don't necessarily agree that FB is better than Gawker privacy wise just because it's a different model. In fact I believe the opposite -- and don't particularly care for the "volunteer" part. People volunteer to all kinds of societal harmful stuff).

But my argument above checks to see the validity of the parent's comment after "assuming that they're comparable".
Do you hear a background hum?

Errr, now that you mention it, I guess I do.

It is driving the world mad. Is it driving you mad?

Yes I think maybe it is.

Did you hear the background hum before today?

No, but I definitely do now you've mentioned everyone else hears it.
No reason to think so. If you know your platform is being used to commit a crime and you don't act to stop it, you are culpable as an accessory. I github shut it down themselves well before any government agency got involved.
My instance isn't reporting anything. Also compains the install.sh is wrong...
Not the OP but I would definitely start here to get a handle on the Bogle approach: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

The Bogleheads forum is also often very useful for getting your personal finance questions answered, though of course the usual Internet stranger disclaimer applies.
Because they are probably making more money accepting them, than they are losing money from getting blocked.
That was part of the basis for low costs, the other part was that the original Hyperloop paper avoided the costs of connecting population centers by putting its termini far from the population centers it was supposed to service on either end.

Of course, that makes it kind of silly to compare it as an alternative to HSR, whose high costs include acquiring land in the very expensive neighborhoods of the population centers it was supposed to serve, so that it would actually be a useful means of connecting population centers.
This will improve: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/08/windows-7-8-1-moving...
WooHoo!! They hosted their website on AWS. And totally ignored privacy sensitive nature of census. Also deployed Google Analytics. And as with anything these days, added in a healthy dose of Trump. Neat work, guys.

BTW, this looks like neat program name, "Bernd is studying Creative Industries and Information Technology".
It certainly wasn't a very smart thing to do.

But I think the main point of the article was "different rules for them than for us."
That's not it, and I think you know it. If Thiel supported any candidate that championed the importance of the press to an informed electorate, it would be better. But right now, he supports a candidate who openly states his desire to strip citizens, in this example the press, of their constitutional rights.
why the heck even use openCL?!

leave a openCL layer there for the unwashed masses, but provide a decent API for anyone wanting exactly what the product is.
It's completely absurd when a 64GB microSD card is less than $20.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDXC-Standard-Packaging-...
Great comment. I think I have similar goals - work on a job for about 4 hours a day so that I can do what the rest of the time. I have 2 questions:

1. Did you get the 4-hr job after a history of working full-time for the company? Or are there companies looking for people to work reduced hours?

2. Given that its 4 hrs, is it a live-able wage? I know it depends on where you live but my actual question is - does the job pay more per-hour just because its reduced hours?

Thanks in advance for your reply.
At this depth of the thread we're not discussing whether Thunderf00t is correct in his analysis. Computerex claimed that Thunderf00t wasn't "just some average Joe on the street." His background in chemistry was brought up to show that he has special standing. Mdorazio countered that from the perspective of mechanical engineering and fluid dynamics, he is in fact an average Joe on the street.

Doesn't mean he's wrong, just means he doesn't have special standing.
I was also told that having a signature on every commit makes pulling the entire repo take forever (because it has to validate every commit). Not sure how true that is.
Ira Glass on Creativity (or, the Gap Between Our Taste and Our Work…)
Be sure to check out the release notes, especially if you run FreeBSD (see known issues section).

https://golang.org/doc/go1.7
I'm the author of the blog. Thanks for the posts and interest shown.

This proposal is a generalization of the core Paxos algorithm. It's therefore orthogonal to all customizations and adaptations. I believe that they can all benefit from it, including RAFT.

If you read the thread on raft-dev, you'll see that Heidi Howard has independently come up with the same idea, and is working on a proof for it.
AWS isn't capable of supporting confidential information?

I'd think I'd have read about that somewhere because it seems like a fairly serious limitation.
>> Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace.

No love for Linode?
> I were to declare that it is obvious that the judge acts they way she does because she is "sexist", wouldn't you want to know the sexes of the judge and the defendants before deciding whether the accusation is true?

Defendants? Yes. Judge? No. The sex of the actor is irrelevant in determining whether their actions demonstrate systematic bias against a particular sex in their judicial decisions.

(There are situations where the sex of the judge might be interesting in discussing the sexism once it was established, but not in determining if it exists.)

Similarly, with "racism", mutatis mutandis.
30 year fixed rate.
I like to think of this in a different context. Being just a normal employee in a normal job. Suppose you get an idea to make the company more money or to automate all your work. Great. Suppose you even tell your manager your idea. The manager likes the idea but does nothing about it. You're now no better then when you've started. The real magic comes when you have the idea an execute on it yourself. Now when you have a stronger concept that you're ready to demo and show it to your boss, your boss will see you in a much different light. You're not just a worker, you're an innovator that with the right resources, can make the company more money. It's this kind of thing that has the potential to multiply your salary x10.
Hey can you email me at abhi@acksin.com and I'll help you debug.
You beat me to it by a minute. Yes. It would take them considerably more to add data verification, audit trail, full logging, etc. It would also kill part of that performance. And all of that needs to be done allowing for the extra data storage requirements. No AWS for you.

I'm not saying their overall architecture wasn't better than what the official census had, but the solution is not comparable without knowing all the requirements.
Cheaper, easier, faster, safer. Sometimes bad habits are better than good enough
Meanwhile, groups which Mr. Appelbaum had memberships in presumed that anonymous, evidence-less accusations imply any kind of guilt.
Minimise capex perhaps.
AWS is certainly capable of supporting confidential information.

Are two Junior engineers capable of producing an actually scalable, secure, fault tolerant system with adequate consistency, integrity, availability? Probably not. In a couple of days? Almost certainly not.

Could it have been done in less time and for less cost than a government did it for? Almost certainly yes.
Combine the best ideas from a relational database, a document store, sprinkle in some realtime change feeds, and an awesome admin interface. About all I need for a modern web application.
Yeah this is what I don't get. Yes they solved the scale issue by not having anywhere near as many questions, using plain html, drastically reduced javascript complexity, but they failed on the issue that dominated the headlines for weeks prior which was data security. Build it again using software that can be hosted in a government datacentre.
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I believe AWS and Azure can support government workloads. For example, Azure is part of IRAP which means the Australian Signals Directorate has signed off on them for certain types of non-classified workloads.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/CCSL

> Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 were among the first cloud services to achieve this certification for the storage and processing of unclassified (DLM) data. The certification recognizes the successful completion, review, and acceptance of a comprehensive assessment undertaken by an Information Security Registered Assessor. This certification can be leveraged by all Australian and New Zealand government agencies.

> ...certification provides assurance to public sector customers in government and their partners that Microsoft has appropriate and effective security controls in place for the processing, storage, and transmission of unclassified sensitive data (the majority of government, healthcare, and education data in Australia).
[S]He's probably one of the folk that got into the bitcoin game back when you could mine one in a day.

It's one of the things that puzzles and fascinates me about bitcoins in general - the early adapters have a disproportionate amount. Seems like a terrible investment because of the cap on growth - as soon as the currency reaches a certain threshold value, the select few cash out a few dozen or hundred. It drops again, they sit back and let demand build up again.
Alta Motors' all-electric motorcycle factory
It's no more dangerous than spray paint is dangerous. If you're prone to be an abuser, avoiding them is probably not a bad thing. But credit cards in themselves aren't the problem: it's about self-regulation.
Rents have to fall a lot to put us in a situation were that's a bad thing (we aren't moving for a long time), and then at that point we can just let the bank foreclose and move into a $500 a month 2 bedroom.
I'd love to see all the major cloud and hosting providers here.
This sounds pretty amazing but I can't figure out bindings for all the pronouns.

Who are the short sellers? Who are the brokers? are they complicit? Is one of them acting as the market maker for the stock? When the con is exploded and the money gets paid back, where did it come from? The short sellers? the brokers? thin air?
Disagree, the goal is to maximize net value. Getting more right from the start largely depends on your specific project and how well you can predict the future. In highly unpredictable environments, you're better off not trying to predict the future, because you'll likely be wrong, which will cost you more than if you didn't try in the first place.
Expert on MH370 Disappearance: 'There Is Absolutely No Mystery to What Happened'
As I understand it, it's a very common human failing called the Fundamental Attribution Error. I only have a passing familiarity with it, but its very seductive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
Who buys this sort of stock? Are there really enough people to make the valuation that high?
Btw here is a webservice that converts and sends ePub's to your kindle, without having to use Calibre yourself http://www.sendepubtokindle.com
the hypocrisy is in saying, hey i still believe in free speech, while punishing free speech because he doesn't like what was said. that just means he's all for speech that doesn't affect his bottom line.
So besides the boring stuff listed in this article, how about the database servers and developer environments? The actual tech stack running the show.
Pretty much any half decent software developer could have done what they did over a weekend. This is incredibly clickbaity and is definitely not the sort of calibre of article I'd expect to see on HN.
youtube-dl [1] can handle it, you can use it together with mpv [2] to directly play the video.

[1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
[2] https://mpv.io/
If you do that, you can also leave out the tube to make it even simpler and cheaper. My guess would be that it would be more energy efficient, too, as it gives the air more room to 'escape' from the front of the train.

Only problem is that it would turn the idea into 'just another maglev train'.
HSR can't fit in the median of I5; if you're going to have to buy a huge chunk of land, sure, you'll run it where there are more people.
Well, yeah. You also can't really use HTML except on the web. SVG and HTML are both formats that are most at home on the web and in a web browser. It does that job well. It does a lot of things that are impossible or cumbersome in PNGs. PNGs are good enough for logos, I don't see why you would care either way.
Hackers Claim to Auction Data They Stole from NSA-Linked Spies
Just make it automatic. Put 15% in every check and invest intelligently.

Don't be a trader, but don't have a religious acolyte of someone's investment philosophy. Most quarters my portfolios are growing 2-3x than my contributions. It's a great feeling.
It's more that if you don't have exclusive access to the hardware then you have no security. Fine for most things, but storing an entire population's details not so much.
I guess the real question is, why does india want this land? I mean if it was all empty sand dunes, I assume there would be no problem.

One answer seems to be water. Both India and Pakistan face issues with limited supply, and there is a treaty dealing with the rivers that supply Pakistan that it is worried India would break if water shortages became serious.

You want a technological solution? Massive desalinization efforts on the Arabian Sea for Pakistan, and a system that piped water inland for storage against possible drought, as well as improvements in existing water utilization for agriculture and other uses, would probably render a lot of the tension over the area moot from the Pakistani side. Pakistan should invest funds to develop it's own system of desalinization plants, and expertise and research into water desalinization and water conservation, possibly by working with MEDRC in the Sultanate of Oman, which is centered in Muscat, about a 2 hour plane ride from Karachi.

But I'm just spitballing, and this seems like one of those deeply complex issues driven by emotions that a purely technical solution won't work for.
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That's not true. In the ATP episode Marvo mentioned he wanted the theme song or clips to be able to sound really good (192 or 256kbps stereo) but their normal talking was nearly perfect at 96 mono.

Then add in all the gaps in people's speech where you need almost no data and he said he got pretty good savings.
I use it frequently, and it's painfully clear that they're drinking the "growth hacking" kool-aid. Their 20-40 minute ETAs are almost always way off. Pricing is intentionally deceptive; it's usually surging, but they don't tell you that until checkout. To top it off, their customer support is among the worst of any business that I've been a customer of, both in terms of service and infrastructure.
On weaponized transparency
You're welcome, glad you liked it!
There are active discussions on the Go Package Management mailing list and the intention to propose further improvements to the go toolchain for future releases. We had good discussions with the Go Team during GopherCon last month.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/go-package-managemen...
I suspect this is an area where both liberals and conservatives will be proven hypocritical. (Full disclosure: I consider myself fairly liberal.)

Background: Air conditioning is a luxury in most parts of the world. Even in some developed, relatively wealthy parts of the world air conditioning is not universal. When I visit Malaysia and Singapore the houses I visit only have A/C in the bedrooms, and only for sleeping. The daytime temperature inside easily reaches the mid-90s. And these houses are owned by people with first-world wealth, some in their 70s and 80s with typical ailments and conditions. The same state of affairs exists commercially--plenty of restaurants lack AC, including restaurants frequented by the wealthy. As long as you have a fan you quickly adapt. I suspect many places will never see the same level of ubiquitous air conditioning Americans enjoy because it hasn't always become as powerful of a status symbol.

(Also, A/C isn't all its cracked to be. Comfort is much more malleable than you'd think. Like most Americans I used to only drink cold water. After adapting to some Asian locales where you typically drink tepid and even warm water with your meal, if not piping hot tea, I could not longer even stomach drinking cold water. It's also bad for your teeth. I now prefer my Pellegrino at room temperature ;)

Why will it expose hypocrisy? Because liberals argue that the standard for cruel & unusual punishment should be measured by reference to not only domestic norms, but also international norms, and especially the norms of other modern nations. By that standard, lack of A/C doesn't even come close to being cruel & unusual, except in the most exceptional of individual cases. It couldn't even be considered any kind of punishment, certainly not in the Deep South. I grew up in NW Florida--Singapore and Malaysia are at least as bad.

OTOH, conservatives argue the standard should be measured only by reference to domestic norms. While not all conservative interpretations reference contemporary norms, many do. The contemporary norm in the U.S. is (and has been for decades) that A/C is absolutely necessary for a civilized existence.

We regularly hear stories about heatstroke every year and assume that the elderly are completely incapable of living without A/C. In our collective imagination it follows that lacking A/C must somehow be unhealthy even for fit folk, especially considering how uncomfortable most of us feel in the heat. I won't be surprised if and when I hear some conservatives make reference to norms in other countries when discussing the necessity for A/C. They'd have to, because most Americans think of lacking A/C as some kind of punishment. And even if that punishment doesn't rise to cruel & unusual, it would clearly be easier for conservative pundits to persuade by reference to international norms rather than trying to explain why A/C is punishment but not cruel punishment. It's too easy to counter the punishment-but-not-cruel-punishment argument, as a rhetorical matter, by appealing to our notions of healthy & safety. And those notions are pretty twisted.
Awesome! Time to recompile RaspChat :D
"If intelligence agencies invest heavily in sabotaging technology products it means companies with valuable assets need to invest more in Incident Response."

There is a seed of a startup company right there.
You can read through this thread to see what people want to work on for Go 1.8.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/098vr4999...
Warren Buffett probably didn't buy the AAPL - http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/05/16/berkshire-bought-a...
Here: http://investor.neuromama.com/uploads/2/4/6/9/24695823/impor...

It's a 68 page, haphazardly stitched mess of documents. Can't say they're not confident in their product:

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