skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The "C" designation actually means "confidential"

Good point. Though original quote still makes sense as "Confidential" is a classification level. So (C) does mean classified, as does (S) and (TS)
Meanwhile, the ChromeOS release of Chromium has had support for FLAC for a long time, but it's still feature gated on mainline Chrome.

4 year old issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93887
Big difference there! Applebaum blatantly crossed the line sexual harassment. Crockford... is kinda cranky?
What is the point in this exactly? FLAC is useful for selling lossless audio, so you'd be able to re-encode it into any other codec when needed. But to play something on-line (which browser support implies), you can as well use lossy codec like Opus at transparent bitrate, and save the traffic in the process.

That said, it surely doesn't hurt to have that support in the browser, I just don't see it being very useful.
quaalud.es (where the image is hosted) is one dodgy sounding domain hack...
Given you specified it - I'd love for you to specify what makes Third Wave Feminism so much worse.

Because - academically speaking - its primarily about being sex, sex worker, and trans positive Vs how regressive 2nd Wave was on those issues.
What "law" are you talking about? Because I was referring to the general, long established rule that ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law. Try your "knowingly and willfully" argument with a cop or with the IRS and see how far that gets you. It doesn't work that way and you know it, they proceed with the ticket or the tax + penalties and the courts back this procedure up. The point of my comment is that Clinton broke the law and mishandled classified information. Anyone who accepts that responsibility has to accept the consequences, even if they "didn't mean it", of failing to protect the info.
> It kinda makes me miss Bush.

In which respect?

Wasn't the Bush administration guilty of a similar offense -- albeit on a much larger scale?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
And what do you suggest, oh great bearer of condescension?
> Just because some villains started out being for law and order doesn't mean being for law and order makes you a villain.

That is certainly true, except for two things. First, the phrase "law and order" is a loaded term in American politics. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order_(politics) And second, Trump has made many xenophobic statements, both implicit and explicit. He called out Mexicans for being rapists. He called for a "total ban on Muslims entering the U.S." He failed to distance himself from endorsements by white supremacists. These things do not make Trump a Nazi, but they do make it fair to draw attention to the similarities.
As it looks now, the people who voiced concerns and threatened to pull out were the same person.
Last time I looked up the claims that autos have better fuel economy, all I saw were manufacturer ratings being quoted. I'd love to see a real-world study of real drivers.

I know that personally I can tell I'm a much worse driver in an auto. I'm lazy - so in a manual that means paying extra attention to lights and the traffic so I can engine brake and coast more and avoid stopping and starting from first. In an auto I'm simply lazy period so I end up driving more stop-and-go. I wonder how much of an outlier I am.
I'm doing everything in my power to save Capitalism.
F-104 airframe spares are readily available as well. I don't know if Starfighters has just been in the press lately or what, but I read recently that they acquired a few new planes.
Any details on the actual size of the attack and the attack vectors used?
I don't think anyone in that thread mentioned it, but Orbital has done static fires on the pad (sans payload).
This comment makes me uncomfortable.
This answer is just being contrary to be contrary. 'Most people' can't distinguish 1080p from 4k from 6 ft away, yet people still stream 4k content, which 'gobbles bandwidth' too.
1. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by built up property. Right now your goal should be to connect with others and make friends, settling down in a house on your own isn't ideal at this time unless you have a family.
2. Any credit union that'll accept you will do.

On the job portion, get a job that you like (can't stress this enough) that covers your rent+utilities, food and leaves enough to go out to eat a couple days a week as well as about 1K in savings a month if possible. Not sure what that is in california, but your an engineer so I trust you can use your skills to arrive at a decent figure.

Search for jobs anywhere you can get the word out, friends, indeed, LinkedIn etc.
How did he create that diff graphic?
Brigading forum threads and dog piling social media of people you have a perceived grievance with does not help 'marginalized' people. In fact your trying to marginalize and bully people.

Cry bully trolling and aimless power tripping under the banner of 'social justice' does not provide you any magic cover. I think most people can see thorough it this point and realize your only contribution is harassment and its destructive to communities like this one.
Apparently they came to the same conclusion—just a bit late.

https://status.linode.com/incidents/frq9sz7dyb1x
> No. Trump has said time and again, we have immigration laws and we need to follow them.

That's true, but that's not all he has said. He has also said that Mexicans are rapists, that Muslims should be banned from the U.S., and that he "doesn't know" about white supremacists. Among many, many other examples that I could cite.

Trump is not an idiot. He's not going to grow a little mustache and call for a "final solution to the Muslim problem." But it is definitely fair to compare him to the Nazis because the Nazis provide a data point of what can happen when you give political power to xenophobes, which Trump most certainly is.
Who funded your work, if I may ask?
> DUDE. WHY WOULD BANKS EXCHANGE $X IN ASSETS FOR $X IN CASH FROM THE FED. THAT WOULD BE POINTLESS. IT WOULD NOT CHANGE THEIR BALANCE SHEET MATERIALLY?

Actually, that's precisely what the Fed normally does. Banks need to maintain cash on their balance sheet to meet reserve ratios; being able to trade their assets in for cash at market price allows them to do precisely that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market_operation

Or to put it another way, OMO shouldn't not magically increase a bank's assets (which is what would happen if you took a $1 bond and gave it $2 in cash), but it should increase the amount of cash. It is not 'pointless' -- trading cash for assets, at the market price, is precisely how monetary policy works.

https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed32.html

"The Desk initiates this process by announcing the OMO through an electronic auction system called FedTrade, inviting dealers to submit bids or offers as appropriate ... The dealers' propositions are evaluated on a competitive best-price basis"

It's by definition a market price because the transactions are done via open auction to anyone on the Street.

Btw, your source is an op-ed contributor whose main thesis is that the Fed is up to no good, and also doesn't provide any references. He basically assumes that all the assets the Fed purchased are bad assets, without any proof. I took a look at those charts you shared and looked back and the Fed balance sheet. The vast majority of assets are T-bills, T-bonds, MBSes, e.g. NOT crap assets.

> -----> The burden of proof is on you <------

I don't really agree. We have two differing points of view -- why do you automatically get presumed to be correct? This is a forum discussion, not a trial. But if it were, I think the burden of proof falls onto the person alleging wrongdoing, like you're doing here.

> You can't win this one.

What makes you think this is about winning? I like to share why I hold my opinion and also see where other people are coming from, but frankly, you seem to be turning this into a personal pissing contest.

It's pretty obvious you made up your mind, and no amount of reasoning or evidence from me is going to sway you. Given that that we can't even agree on very basic facts, like how the Fed goes about its normal daily business, or its governance structure, which are all pretty easily verifiable on Wikipedia or mainstream news sources, I'm not sure what value there is to continuing to discuss this other than getting us both worked up into a lather.

Anyway, thanks for sharing :)
You put it best: '...On HN, it seems people like learning things from comments'.
As far as I can tell, their is not much evidence either way on whether written language moved from Mesopotamia or Egypt to China, and there definitely isn't a prepondance of evidence. Heck, we still aren't sure if Egyptian language came from Mesopotamia or not. There is also the chance that the concept of written language came from the Middle East but was re-implemented independently (after knowing it was possible and useful) from whatever proto writing existed at the time (e.g. oracle bone script).
They said "We will also be removing Douglas Crockford from our keynote speakers list to help make the conference a comfortable environment for all."

Imagine saying that about anyone, to any group (here it was to the whole world).

Let's say the invite you to a gathering publicly then wrote a tweet about "We will also be removing eli from list of invited guests, to help make the venue a comfortable environment for all".

That is just insulting, because it insinuates something terrible has happened, or you did some shameful unspeakable thing and they are just being considerate and not disclosing it publicly.
Paypal New Policy Terms Regarded as Draconian by Some Users
There's a lot that could be improved about the Node one.

The library and the the lack of clustering (so you can compare apples to apples) are the main two.

Honestly? Running at 39% of the connections on one core is pretty impressive. Especially with its low memory footprint.
Anyone know some particularly good Haskell books for intermediate Haskellers? Ones that skip over all the syntax and basic grammar, and dive more into whole-program structure, how to connect different parts together, rather than looking at individual parts.
I haven't seen this image posted recently. It's wonderful: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/4ehaka/on_the_road_t...

ON THE ROAD TO SUCCESS,
THERE ARE NO SHORTCUTS.
Actually, traitor is not at all a loaded term. It has a precise meaning as found in Article III of the Constitution:

> Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
To add to that, he fled to a country whose legislative and political transgressions far outnumber the United States'. Which, imo, hurts his credibility as a serious seeker of justice.
I was completely unaware that there is a long established market for mercenaries to catch war criminals.

Can you say more about clients and rules of operation?

What is the relationship to the multi-billion mercenary sector (Blackwater/Academi etc.) the Bush administration created to make its wars more palatable?
Plus with an efficient lib as well. They certainly didn't use a very performant one.
I found it a perfectly valid comment that illustrates the trade-offs that developers who have to code in support for the format would make, trade-offs that content streamers debating their codec choices would make, and trade-offs that consumers choosing their preferred format would make. Historically while streaming, lossy has been 'good enough' for reasons other than nothing else was supported.
For those interested, it looks like some theaters are selling advanced seating for September 15th and the following weekend. In my case AMC's Esplanade theater in Phoenix. It may be worth a quick google search to see what theaters in your area are showing in case you want to catch it that first weekend.
Thanks for your feedback.

Actually Bootstrap v4 provides an opinion to use flex box instead of the traditional grid.
http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/getting-started/flexbox/

I would say your suggestion is good. I don't have a convincing reason that `container-side` being a part of the framework. I'll consider to remove it.

What kind of content is never visible on mobile? `Scan the QRCode to view on mobile` and `Go to top` is a kind of this content.

Why does it have to be on the side? I think it's a good design to guide people to view on mobile. Or where do you think it can be?

Thanks!
I thought so too, it was surprising to see intelligent people struggle for years with the simpler parts of programming.

Maybe those guys were just unmotivated? Or they were hardworking idiots which had gotten a good math background by sheer will and hard work? It didn't seem so.

The alternative is the existence of basic cognitive talents you need for coding which aren't needed for math? Like for us color blind, that really can't appreciate some art?

None chimed in with support, so I'd guess my sample was unusual; a lot of the guys here should have teaching experience from academia.

(Category theory makes for better Org Mode? I'm curious, too!)
Those two facts can be explained, partially, as follows: People are delaying families longer now, as well as having smaller families(which maybe means you can get away with living in an apartment in a city which doesn't require cars). For example, the average age of first-time mothers went from ~21 in the 1970s, to >26 in 2014.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/14/46281645...
I think that was an affirmation of God's saving grace. It describes the ease of putting one's faith in God when suffering under great stress or pain or loss.

The 'grace' comes from the fact that God won't judge us for our sins because Jesus took our place in the courtroom. So rather than our being damned, Jesus saved us through His perfect sacrifice.

Crybullies are the persecutors, no? They're the ones to pray to God for deliverance FROM!
I would prefer to work with someone with a solid stance and clear idea like Crockford, even if that is completely opposite to my own because this is something I will always respect.

I think he is not conventional with his netbook if he still uses that and that pisses people off.
The fact that they've disinvited him so publicly and so strangely is itself an insinuation. Quite a strong one, in fact.

Imagine your child was expelled from your local school and the reason given was "she made others feel uncomfortable". And that was the end of the discussion.
FLAC is useful for listening to high quality music which hasn't been filtered and compressed. It sounds significantly better than lossy audio. Iscit so hard to comprehend that as more bandwidth comes online all the time, people won't want to compromise on sound quality the way they were forced to in the past?
Is say most people not being able to feel the difference between 1080 and 4K to be inaccurate. I'm always seeing people look at 4K video after watching 1080 content and remarking how crisper it is. Of course there is a very large majority of people where what they have is good enough. When the iPhone went retina people argued that the extra pixels won't make a difference. Then they tried it. Now look where we are.
Of course it is not factual. It is an opinion, as is your comment.

You are implying that you have no cognitive bias yourself, that it is not possible that your bias prevents you from seeing truth in my point of view.

That there are "people complaining about this from all sides" does not make it symmetrical, does not prove that all those sides are equal in standing.

That "this community is deeply politically divided" does not mean that divide goes right down the middle. America is deeply politically divided, yet it is overall to the right of much of Europe, such that our left is considered a European center or center-right. In other words, America has an overall slant, and Europe has a different one.

Are you not dismissively caricaturing me? It's one thing to agree to disagree, but your dismissiveness is rather astounding, especially given you are the site moderator. Perhaps you are engaging in tit-for-tat dismissiveness, in defense of the site you are responsible for. But still, that doesn't bode well coming from the site's moderator.

Do you believe that Y-combinator and HN moderators are representative of society as a whole? Or that somehow they are a non-representative set that is somehow free of slant? Perhaps you believe that if HN users, or its moderators, were predominantly women, or African Americans, or Latino Americans, that HN moderation, content and comments would be much the same? You must believe this if you believe HN has no slant. I certainly don't.
> FLAC is useful for listening to high quality music which hasn't been filtered and compressed. It sounds significantly better than lossy audio.

Doubtful. See https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

TL;DR: encode above transparency level when using the lossy codec, and it won't have audible difference with lossless playback. But again, that's only for playback. As soon as you'd want to re-encode anything, there is no substitute for the lossless original.
It's a loaded term because it's at best unclear if Snowden truly had the mens rea (legal experts go back and forth on this). Specifically, whether or not his intent was to aid the US' enemies.
Not really. You can't be put in jail without due process, but the law in question explicitly (and arguably, unconstitutionally) suspends due process.

You could also argue that the accused "should" be the one to risk conviction and pursue appeals in an effort to get the law in question struck down by the courts, but one could just as easily argue that the government should recognize the obvious abuse and injustice in their reading of the 1918 Espionage Act, and use the power and discretion it has - precisely for cases like this - to extend their recognition of the public service he's done to the abandonment of charges against him.

It's hard to make the "yes but rule of law" argument in a case where the law in question is being twisted, stretched, and misapplied as egregiously as it is here. After all, rule of law is a two way street, and in a government ostensibly of, by, and for the people, an impasse like this should resolve itself in favor of the people.
"Maybe you should take ownership as a citizen of this country and actually work to change the injustice you see"

Reading comprehension for a start.

Last I checked this was supposed to be a forum for people who thought they could change the world, and make it a better place. If you don't think you can handle that, or have no ideas, maybe you don't belong here. We don't need people who's only contribution is "We're all completely helpless, there's nothing we can do!". You'
re an engineer, you solve problems. Act the fuck like it.

Cynicism at this point is nothing but laziness.

You want a clue though? Maybe you should look locally and understand the problems there. If you're in San Francisco, there's plenty of things to do to get your feet wet.
Suppose I believe in non-interventionism. Does my continued stay in the US and participation in its imperalism-based economy mean any efforts of mine for justice are suspect?

My point being that there are larger forces guiding our lives than our individual beliefs and actions.

Or put another way: as long as Snowden criticizes the transgressions as he sees them of Russia, isn't this what credibility requires?
Tldr: if a vehicle is on a collision course with you, it will always be in the same position of your field of view, so there may not be enough apparent motion to draw your attention. To combat this, slow down a bit as you approach intersections to generate relative motion between yourself and anyone on a collision course with you. Also scan left/right twice to double your chances of seeing hazards. The brain is very good at stitching together a coherent scene as your eyes dart around, but this might hide the fact that you have blind spots where your eyes have jumped over potentially important details.

To improve your chances of being seen, turn your lights on and wear bright colors to improve contrast. Be aware that if the sun is right behind you, people ahead of you will have a very difficult time seeing you.
An NPR story on an explosion at an apartment building in Silver Spring talked about how many of the immigrants living there kept their life savings in cash, which was destroyed. Money can be lost.

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/28/491699553/silver-spring-explos...
Those who don't want to pay attention, won't do it without the laptop either.
> I'm pretty sympathetic to the cause of feminism especially in technology and I cringe hard at a lot of the casual sexism that gets thrown around, but this is truly baffling.

It's not that baffling. Being a victim of harassment raises your status in certain circles. People in those circles tend to accept your word without requiring any other evidence, and so naturally some people will find harassment in anything that happens to or near them that can be stretched or interpreted, no matter how far fetched, in some way to be harassment.

This is bad because it makes it harder for actual victims. Too many people making exaggerated or false claims will make people less likely to believe the real victims.

This is probably more general. In general, if some event raises status in a group a person is in, and claims of that event are hard to verify, some people will claim the event even if it did not happen to them. They may not even be knowingly lying. They may be convinced it did happen.

A couple examples are having Native American ancestry and being abducted by a UFO. Many people claim one or both of these, and there are groups in which those claims will raise your status. Result: a lot more people claim Native American ancestry than actually have Native American ancestors, and the number of people who claim to have been abducted by UFOs is way higher than the number who have actually been abducted. My guess would be most of these false claims are from people who believe they are telling the truth.

The desire for status in the groups you are in is very strong. For instance, I recall reading a book about the major criminal gangs on Los Angeles, and they talked about status within the gangs. One of the things that earned you higher status was being arrested, refusing to talk or cooperate, refusing to take a plea bargain, and getting sent to jail. Gaining status was so important to new, young teen gang members that they would purposefully commit crimes that would get them a few months incarceration so that they could gain the status. Note that unlike UFO abduction or Native Ancestry, serving jail time is verifiable, so they young gang members cannot simply claim they served time to gain the status. They actually have to do it, and they do because gaining status is that important.

Any evolutionary biologists here? I'm curious if our need for status is just a cultural thing, or if it predates culture? I believe that most of our current close primate relatives live in groups where status relationships are very important, so it seems at least plausible that this is something that developed very long ago, in the common ancestors we share with those other primates.