skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The superficial explanation is that Russia supports Trump. I think that is an unsubtle interpretation which misses much of what is going on.

Russia wants to collapse confidence in the US: both external confidence from the US's allies as well as internal confidence.

I'm sure Russia would love many of the things Trump has espoused to come to pass: The US reducing support of the Ukraine and NATO and Japan and maybe even South Korea are all aligned with Russian interests. Trump's policy on Syria (insofar as I can understand it) seems well aligned with Russia's too.

But more broadly, Russia loves to cause chaos in the US democratic system. Anything that can make the US population consider their system corrupt removes any moral legitimacy the US has overseas, with strengthens Russia's hand.

Read the but in this story[1] about the Turkish Incirlik base. Be very aware that Russia would love to break any kind of Turkish/US alignment, and would love a weak Turkey. Ignore the Trump angle if it annoys you.

Sowing chaos is the game here.

[1] http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/06/how-russia-...
Dynamic Style Sheets – what you think about it?
Only one left:
https://keybase.io/inv/070ed67897
This site? http://www.flashbainite.com/ Seems to work for me.
I don't think commodity hardware will fully replace all business of places like Cisco. For one, Cisco does have large contracts like the Chinese Government -- they helped build the "great firewall".

I have no idea how this shakes out. But multiple companies in the traditional skew/license business are having to adjust (as others stated) to a different world.
The article seemed to imply they are letting go hardware people to focus on software.
Behind the Scenes of iOS Security [video]
You're looking at it the wrong way. If you can extract energy from dropping the rock through the wormhole, it takes energy to pull the rock away from the wormhole (and, by symmetry, it takes that much energy to move the wormhole away from the rock).
Why was this posted? Not news at all.
I don't understand.

What you need is a picture that makes the visually salient information tot up to about 160 bits.

That's tough, but since the human visual system is so powerful, it's not hopeless. But we would need real psychologists to help design the art generators, backing the results with experiments.
Is Guy Fieri in your node packages?
Why characterize Putin as a cartoon villain? I'm sure he is more or less a normal man with peers whom he likes, respects, and admires and peers whom he doesn't. Wild caricatures portend propaganda.
This is why I come to HN..to find articles like this. This defies what you learn at school, because I have been taught numerous times, to nod and stfu when you're holding a convo.

Always interrupt if you have something constructive to say in a casual/business conversation (unless you're in a debate), that's how you gain trust and credibility.
If that's true, they're just going to get screwed in exactly the same way iPhone screwed them. Mobile VR is going to be substantially more popular than VR-plugged-into-a-giant-expensive-Windows-box. The subset of people who want to maintain a PC is dwindling. New-to-computing users basically go straight to mobile. Untethered VR is better for social (no cords to tangle, we each control our own device), and that's not even talking about what's going to happen when AR hits. AR tied to a PC makes zero sense outside of industrial uses.

Microsoft better have a dedicated VR-centered mobile skunkworks going, or they're just going to repeat this entire "Two Windows' In One!" fiasco all over again. Except now it's going to be three Windows'.

You know Apple does. They're going to come out swinging hard with dedicated VR hardware, a dedicated VR OS and I suspect dedicated VR silicon too. With some kind of VR Facetime, VR iMovie, and partnerships with some major iOS app makers. Samsung is already shipping. Microsoft is already struggling not to slip into 4th place, in terms of profit. And Valve is, for the first time, in a position to offer a complete Microsoft-free platform of their own. While Microsoft is trying to compete with Apple at their new game, Valve is gunning hard to out-Microsoft Microsoft at their old game (an open PC platform).
I'd like to barge in and call false dichotomy on this. Despite the excellent citation, I don't think it's correct. I believe technology should let people enjoy more of their lives, not replace it. Understanding is essential to this, but it becomes cheaper as your technology improves, so you're not sacrificing happiness at a fixed rate. We've already gone from industrial steam engines to tiny glass wonder-phones in a couple hundred years, what if technology continues to become less intrusive? Maybe we'll all be look amish yet be omnipotent.
> I would have hoped there would be a category that basically means "stop what you're doing, we're in danger of wiping this thing out in our ignorance".

That's the precautionary principle. It would absolutely protect every location in the world -- in other words, it is completely unworkable and insane.

If you wipe something out that you never knew about in the first place, you've lost... nothing.
I a week ago I upgraded an oldstable debian installation to stable and now it hangs on shutdown and reboot due to systemd.

Thanks Debian.
CAS latency is about 13ns for DDR3/4. Back in the day 100ns RAM was typical.
There is a big delta between being fired and being downsized; like core dumps. Some have backtraces, some don't.
Showtime at the Musée D’Orsay: Watching Varnish Dry
I can tell you're frustrated from too much yak shaving. But once you become more experienced with systems in general, you'll feel much more comfortable around Docker.
Because as far as I know it has the only useful mod management tool. It's nice, works and doesn't cause problems. Every time I come back to WoW, there's the Curse client, ready to help me get my mods and settings all sorted again. It has never failed me.

Are you able to say why you think Curse is terrible?
Next to surprise profits there's nothing investors love more than layoffs.

My impression from hiring IT folks is that cisco was already a bit of a sweat shop... so increasing everyones work another 20% won't bode well for the remaining staff.
Ditto to this!
Of course I can.

But I can simultaneously recognize that America's racism runs so deep that it was part of our constitution. That our one civil war was a fight to preserve it. That it continues, somewhat reduced, to the present day. That Black Lives Matter is our era's civil rights movement.

Your turn. Can you recognize those things? Do you care about them?
And its going to get lot worse without company subsidized health insurance.
Here's a detailed metallurgical survey of this material.

http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA588144
> People tend to think that constant evolution is the natural state of the world becoming "more advanced". But really, evolution will only happen when there's a reason.

This is fallacious. It's so wrong that it overlooks the term ("genetic drift") that specifically describes evolution that happens "for no reason". All species constantly evolve, as noted in nn3's sibling comment to yours. This one has preserved its skeletal structure, which is an infinitesimal part of it.

From the heading of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil:

> The term living fossil is sometimes used in the popular literature, as if to imply a lack of evolution, and has occasionally also been taken to imply very low rates of molecular evolution, but scientific investigations have repeatedly discredited claims that these species do not change at all, as well as other misconceptions about living fossils.

> Living fossils are not expected to exhibit exceptionally low rates of molecular evolution, and some studies have shown that they do not. For example, on tadpole shrimp (Triops), one article notes, "Our work shows that organisms with conservative body plans are constantly radiating, and presumably, adapting to novel conditions.... I would favor retiring the term ‘living fossil’ altogether, as it is generally misleading."
> simple skills [...] are still good to teach because they are better than what most people do much of the time.

Heck, merely not pulling your phone out is better than what most people do most of the time.
Can you please elucidate on the evidence that Russia was actually behind the DNC leak? I'm genuinely curious. As far as I know, the only evidence we have that Russia is involved is the word of American officials.
Official Pivotal CloudFoundry backup tool
Well, what I mean is that once you get your Dockerfile to the point where it works, it will work literally anywhere you've got Docker installed. That is one of Docker's core value propositions. It's very hard to get something "halfway working" in Docker, because you've either got a process running containerized, or you don't have anything at all. "Slightly broken" in the context of Docker isn't really something you run into very often.
Very cool, could be very useful for things look like occupy Wall Street or even on a long plane ride with no internet!
Especially in an election year.
> The generalization was stated as an absolute

The word "all" was not used, and inferring it is unduly pedantic. English is not a precise language, which is why there are qualifiers like "all", such as:

1. leaves are green
2. all leaves are green

You used "These students are...". I would not infer that as meaning "All these students are..." and would be surprised if you meant it that way.
How many of us in America actually know what Putin's real policy positions are? All we hear about him out here is that he's a scary bad guy.

I think it'd be really interesting to see a neutral comparison of Clinton-Trump-Putin policy positions. IMO, it's not self-evident that Trump, a free market capitalist, would be closer to Putin, a former Soviet operative. I also don't think it's implicit that Putin's policy positions are automatically worth avoiding just because he's associated with them.

Also, even if Trump and Putin have similar beliefs, wouldn't Putin have an interest in putting in the person that is less like him? It seems that Putin's interest would be in a weak United States, which would give Russia more room to re-emerge as a world power. In this case, based on his belief that his policy positions are conducive to the health of a country, Putin would want a dissimilar leader to run the US.
The Legend of Question Six
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12295608
"People’s appraisal of their listening ability is much like their assessment of their driving skills, in that the great bulk of adults think they’re above average."

Well, the vast majority of people are actually above average drivers. If you got into 0 accidents over the past year, then you are doing better than average.

(Similarly, most people have more legs than the average human)
Yeah this is correct. Less often talked about but actually very important, the amount of energy required to break something[1]. Also as ductile structures deform under load they tend to redistribute the load more evenly.

[1] Hammer a piece of glass vs a piece of rubber.
I have seen actual Slavic non-native English speakers make this mistake (more than one). I haven't inquired into why. I was giving one of those people informal advice to improve their English, and that was one of the things I had to keep reminding them about.
They have plenty of results. All their work on GANs[1][2] has been great, and the OpenAI gym has proven to be pretty popular for reinforcement learning research already.

I'm not sure how "hype" is measured - perhaps people thought they were going to invent some kind of AI entity we would have to persuade not to shoot us all by now or something.

I know that all the papers coming out of OpenAI get hyped just as much as anything from DeepMind, Google Brain or FAIR, so there seems to be decent amount of hype still? But then usually that hype is justified, in which case maybe it is better characterised as "excitement"?

[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03657.pdf

[2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03498.pdf
Not that there's anything wrong with the Curse client from a user standpoint, but it might be worth someone's time to write a client that runs off of github. More open and all that.
Google is just another big company at this point. They want early career people because everybody there thinks that he/she is the expert.
Is this useful in some way? In an admittedly brief look at their site, the only thing I found was the "gym," and it seemed to require that you already be using other software.

How would we use this to solve real-world problems?
How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit
Barnes and Noble Ousts Its CEO After Less Than a Year on the Job
If you listen to tech CEOs, there's this huge "shortage of software engineers". Surely any former Cisco employee with software experience will be snapped up within days by all these tech companies desperately searching for tech talent.... Any day now....
the non-native bees shipped around the country (US) and that are the primary pollinators in agriculture appear to already be fairly resistant to neonics.
Can you present any evidence that neonics are destroying the food web? The difference might be "toxicity of legacy pesticides is a real concern, and destruction of the food web from neonics is fictitious."
Yet Ant and Maven don't need a daemon to be fast.

There is a recent post from the Android team, where they advise to allocate between 2 and 5 GBs for the daemon!
According to the CRN article [1], "The networking leader has a history of announcing layoffs at the end of its fiscal year each summer."

Yes this is a huge number, but seems like usual practice for Cisco.

[1] http://www.crn.com/news/networking/300081750/sources-massive...
I despise the tactic of repeating back what other people said - it shows me that the other person isn't really dwelling on what I said, or more often in my experience, are using that to distort what I am saying in order to fit a particular agenda. I rather someone not fake listening in that case and wasting everyone's time.
Honeybees are themselves non-native! They're an introduced species.
Hardware focused Engineers like EEs are probably who are being let go.
The Demon Hunter and Blademaster is each player's respective hero/champion and essentially a free powerful unit.

The DH player has the advantage during the early game, so is scouting around the map (the Fountain of Health being a likely location) to find an easy fight.
Most people also think they're a better-than-median driver.
Earth-like planet around Proxima Centauri discovered
Dagen H: The day Sweden began driving on the right
Depends on what sort of average. We might consider medians instead (with some way to make sense of these against the general backdrop of a non-continuous distribution).
Modern Dating: Excuses Incubator
Nothing Google does prevents you from enjoying the end-to-end nature of email. Send it to whomever you want. However the end-to-end nature also allows the endpoint to reject your message.
Similar idea to Ruby's .times() method [0].

[0]: http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Integer.html#method-i-times
Open-Sourcing the Airwaves
> Cisco along with others are looking by at things like licensing the IOS to run on any device.

ios is a custom-rtos for a custom machine (running on mips mostly). it runs control plane for your routers/switches etc. why would you want to run it on a non-csco/vanilla x86 boxes ? unless you can _somehow_ make control-plane h/w agnostic (easier said than done) i don't really see much value in doing this.
>You suggest it's an ethical decision rather than economic; that streamers deserve the support. But why?

I don't suggest any such thing. I think supporting a streamer or not is pretty amoral. It's all about whether or not you feel that you would like to contribute financially to a given streamer whose work you enjoy.

As for why they need support? I don't think many people would say that streamers universally "need" anything. It's about whether or not you personally would like to give money to a person who brings you entertainment. You admit that there are a few YouTubers who you support on Patreon. Many Twitch streamers (most that I've seen) are also YouTubers and produce content there based on their streaming.

At the end of the day, I think your misconception is that you think of "supporting the streamer" as a transaction in payment for content produced and that entertainment is not content (or in some other way not worth supporting in the same way that traditional "content" is).

The question is simple: Is the content entertaining to me? Do I want to show my appreciation for the entertainment? That's all.

Personally, I have not subscribed to any Twitch streamers and I don't intend to. I appreciate what they offer, but I do not feel compelled to subscribe. And I don't think there's any moral quandary there.
I can't decide if auto-normalizing my times to DST is a feature or anti-feature. If I didn't know it was there, I would consider it a surprising default.
There are many factors other than the number of accidents that also contribute to driving skill.

Now, if some holistic measure was also skewed in a similar fashion, you would still be correct. But that would require further analysis to demonstrate.
> One of the common error about evolution is that some people expect that any creature will evolve after certain time.

As I point out more thoroughly in response to farnsworth, that is not an error, it is correct. To prevent a species from evolving over time, it is necessary (though obviously not sufficient) that the breeding population be infinitely large.
It's already happening. Several examples come to mind, but for now I'll use one that is relevant to Cisco: Palo Alto Networks offers several subscription based services for its security/networking hardware.
I've only used it once. According to the docs, you should be able to do a "quick sync" which only gets the last 7 days.

Set up a cron job for that (after a full initial sync), and should be good to go.
This seems like a rehash of the book Pencil from years ago. A large book about only the pencil. While it was intriguing I could only make it through the first 100 pages or so.
Just google [unopened clams safe]. It's all over the Internet.
It'll be interesting to see if, in the event of (inevitable?) future forks to Ethereum, if this branch becomes a long-running "just leave it as it is and let the market sort it out" experiment.
Why people use patreon/twitch/... is an interesting question, and I don't think there is a good logical answer or a right/wrong, as with a lot of entertainment-related spending.

Some questions one might ask to challenge your example (but I don't want to imply you are wrong, it's your money you are giving to people you don't have to pay, it's your personal decision what you do with it):

Are your example YouTubers directly spending money on research/editing/filming, or are they also "just" investing time? Why is time spending research more deserving of money than time spend streaming if you enjoy the output of both?

How does money enable their creativity in ways that are not "less time spend making money in other ways = more time for content tantalor enjoys"?

With the creators I support on Patreon, I don't really think or know about how much time they spend on what they are doing (and some of them don't have a day job, so one might argue that they apparently already had enough money and my contribution doesn't enable anything more for me).
Been an angular dev for a few years and recently did a 1-2 transition. The API got a lot cleaner and the docs are pretty good. There is still a learning curve and (IMO) a lack of learning resources for anything beyond a simple demo application. Questions like "how do I get the name of the name of the currently activated route?" was one I recently was unable to answer and had to implement a different solution for then in 1.x.

I think angular will suffer from a trickle effect as developers migrate slowly over the course of years from 1.x to 2.x. There is no impetus currently to create advanced learning resources as everybody seems to pretty much be learning at their own rate.

That said I will be implementing future SPA applications using Angular 2 because it offers a very clear value proposition to me and has more great features coming within the next ~6 months, such as server-side rendering iirc.

Edit: To clarify my troubles with finding the activated route name stemmed from a rapidly changing Router API in angular 2. Apparently it's going to be easy in the final version (3.0) but there is no current solution for it apparently. Other then that I really like the new router.
It's also incompatible with Intel's desire for high margins.

My guess is this is an experiment or a way to burn excess capacity?
[Video] Behind the scenes of iOS security
I've been happily using django.utils.timezone for a while now and doing everything on the backend in UTC. For any user-facing timestamps, to some degree I'd rather keep that in the front end and a separate concern from my API.

Not saying storing user timezone and converting on the backend is bad; but this is simpler when localized timestamps aren't a core part of my app.
I wish OpenAI would work harder to hire more women on their research staff specifically.
Everything you do "demonstrates value." So what? You need to know what your date values, and that can vary wildly enough that you cannot reasonably predict it. Thus the purpose of a date is not to "demonstrate value", but to let someone else analyze your value for themselves.

Sure, you can find trends, but you're never dating trends. Real people are not averages of a population.

>Not sure what you mean.

When you say "but you're still demonstrating value", you are reducing dating analysis to a tautology. It will either be untrue or useless. Something has to fail to demonstrate value in order for you to determine not to do it. And you can't do that without knowing the person you're dating.

Which is at the heart of everyone else's point: Dating is about finding out what your date values, not 'demonstrating' what you imagine it is that they value.
I dislike it because it is counterfactual. Each anecdote is a datum.

The plural of anecdotes is non-experimental data, but data nonetheless.
the whole thing was a very vanilla overview of what happened and what he plans to do. I hope this isn't what YC intends to with their podcast.

He should have spoken about one of the many times they were on the brink of disaster or the company shutting down, not some time where he got offered a $B.

I hope someone like Tim Ferriss can get a hold of Zuck for 2 hours, and chat to get an in-depth view of him. The dude is going to be remembered as the Edison of this century. He should share more about himself outside the context of fb and their products.