skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany Monsanto is 'the big evil American company' and Bayer is just a big company.
Snowden to President Obama: I deserve a pardon
That's happened to me a few times. Kind of annoying. :)
I chose a system with super fast capture and sort, and I have reminders scheduled to view and re-sort everything I've captured at specific intervals. This is working for me, for the first time ever.
Are these sites a thing (small sites that can subsist on their ad revenue)?

If I couldn't pay the bills for one of my services, I would rather introduce a paid tier, or at least a paid ad-free version. Or I would ask for donations whenever the money runs out, like Wikipedia does.
Because it seems that it is controlled under ITAR, the manufacturer seems to be following US law.

Googling other alternatives that are not US based like Verint seems to indicate that their manuals and support material are more or less available even for cellular tracking (e.g SkyLock)
Chelsea Manning ends hunger strike after winning gender surgery battle
Second this. Keeps me going on long hauls. It is definitely fine to build prototypes and the bases for products on my phone with.
How  to Reverse the Curse of Knowledge Bias
That's what we need is the government involved. They'll solve everything.
I think we're back to debating what is and what is not socialism here, but the conflict was between labour unions and the state-owned enterprises that employed them. Both of which are very social democrat / mixed economy kind of institutions. Hence the Thatcherite response to both privatise everything (making employee relations someone else's problem, and also making it much easier to fire employees), severely restrict the unions, switch UK power generation away from domestic coal, and finally have a punchup between the police and the NUM.

The Labour party failed to develop any effective way of saying "no" to naked self-interest in unions (In Place Of Strife passim). Intrinsic problem in 'socialism'? Possibly.

That is a great quote on Attlee.
Same. My todo list didn't start working until I started scheduling reminders at fixed times to look at and process the list. I have just barely enough willpower not to dismiss the reminder until I've processed the list.
India offers land to Elon Musk to test Hyperloop
Looking at our nearest relatives, primates, they seem to have a pretty chill life.

Also, I think there is a vast difference between spending time on something that is intrinsically rewarding, and on something that isn't.
The summer of Pokemon GO
Disclaimers are much cheaper.
I don't think it's been agreed yet.
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Keep in mind that in today's global environment whenever a merger is proposed it has to go through alot of government scrutiny. Not just in the US, but also with the EU and China.

See the Haliburton/Baker Hughes merger that was blown up by the US government.

From a merger arbitrage perspective this has been a very interesting deal. This is the 4th proposal Bayer has made for Monsanto and with an all cash offer this might be enough, again assuming government approval.

They've went from an original offer of $122 to a final offer of $128/share. And the deal includes a breakup fee of $2 Billion for Monsanto if the deal falls through.

Monsanto has played this very well but the $128/share offer represents a 21% bump from yesterday's close, which is a bit concerning. With the other offers that have already been presented such a large premium means the market believes that there is a decent chance that this deal doesn't go through, now most likely due to government interference.

The typical remedy for governments who object to mergers is to have a company sell of a division or twp to show that the new company won't be a defacto monopoly.

Unfortunately in this case there is very little overlap between the two companies. This means that there isn't really anything for Bayer or Monsanto to sell off here.

The newly combined company will own the agricultural space, with a seeds and chemicals integrated vertical that would impress Apple.
I rarely see it discussed in articles like this, but Apple OS X Server has a cache service that is relatively simple to setup. It provides a local network cache for OS X and iOS downloads (also app store). It wouldn't lessen the local congestion, but it mitigates the upgrade-ageddon effect on your external bandwidth.
This implicitly assumes that Trump has any actual Russian loyalties. While it's a popular accusation to throw about, it hasn't exactly been demonstrated.

What has been demonstrated is that he admires the authoritarian strong-man style of their leader. That is worrying enough.

Oh, and Snowden isn't a Russian spy. ;-)
Anyone seen the programming challenge on the comma.ai website:
http://geohot.com/projective_challenge.tar.gz

"In the pics directory, you'll find 5 short "videos" with 10 frames each of driving the same set of road. Different cars, different mountings, etc...

Your goal, write a program to localize them all with respect to each other in 3 space.

Deliver a 3-D map of the location and orientation of all pictures."

Very cool!
it's news because the cops and feds have fought extremely hard to prevent the public from understanding what these can do, how frequently they are used, and who has them.

they don't want this info out, therefore it's high intel value to the public and must be disseminated.

technical manuals hardware provide avenues for discovering defenses and vulnerabilities, which we're in dire need of.
I'd also like more information about the flight: quality, seat comfort, meal included (or pay for on the flight), meal rating, flight entertainment (in seat, group, none), cleanliness, etc.

I'd be willing to pay a little more, if the flight wasn't like being in a metal torture container or the cleanliness levels were so poor that I get to my destination with an immediate illness. But right now I can only see that some flights are more expensive than others and no idea why. And I have to go off of my average experience with an airline to guess if the flight will be pleasant or miserable (except for United domestic, that's always miserable).
I keep catching myself thinking or using the excuse I have no time, but I mostly spend my time on the internet or watching TV. Some nights I do the dishes or actually go for a walk, go grocery shopping, but mostly I'm just hanging on, making sure I'm ready for he next day. I'm freaking addicted to information and the internet, which leave me feeling frantic. I forgo sleeping for the internet and it brings me little pleasure. I wish I could stop, but like this morning I was sitting on the couch with nothing to do and I had to go get my phone which I've probably wasted 20 minutes on. It doesn't seem like much time but I could have gone to get toilet paper from the store which I sort of could use right now. I'd like to hear this lost from someone older, who was in the 80s or 90s and hear their perspective. I know my parents at least are hooked into the internet entertainment machine like I am and they didn't use to be. Was there more time? Was it better?
I've only recently gotten into iOS development and the state of XCode amazes me. It's awful. Frequent crashes, disappearing tests, syntax highlight shutting down... it really makes me wish there were an alternative.
> What you described is not inheritance. If you pass your "inherited" type to a function that expect the "parent" type it will not compile.

That is called “subtyping”, not “inheritance”. Java and C++ happen to conflate the two concepts, but it's perfectly possible to keep them separate.

> There is no subtying whatsoever in Go to begin with.

A struct is a subtype of every interface its methods are compatible with.
Until something can do the auto importing that Eclipse can do nothing will beat it.

On a side not I've also disliked IntelliJ's code quality defaults. Back when I tried it, it said that defining List objects without using type definitions for it's generic was ok.

List test = new ArrayList<String>();

Was not marked as a warning even though you should be defining that in every location possible, imo, to clarify what's going on. There were other things but it was a long time ago and I won't remember them unless I download it and try it again.

Although JetBrains can't be beat for CLion, PHPStorm, soon Rider, and PyCharm.
This is actually a really good summary. I also agree on learning Smalltalk to learn OOP since it has a really easy syntax, you can deep dive into implementation details if you want to easily and it enforces some best practices like setter and getter instead of giving you the ability to just declare members public.
I learned Java in University and switched soon to Objective-C and it took me a while to see reasons behind getters and setters especially since I worked only in small teams on short living projects at that time. Also s Smalltalk is purely OOP so you won't get distracted by numbers and bools behaving differently. And finally it gets you to think in data structures thanks to the collection methods.
Wonder how much of it will succeed in developing nations, where many roads are not well laid out and most importantly not well mannered.. On the flip side, the jobs of drivers are protected until the AI tech improves to cover complex scenarios or the infrastructure improves drastically, both of which can take decades IMO.
Zyklon B to buy Agent Orange... Such a nice fit.
Honestly I'm mostly fine with Google providing me services and skimming a bit of info on me in exchange, but I do find it annoying that after a recent update to Photos, my phone asks me every time I take a photo if Google can "have it" for Maps. Fuck you Google, no you can't.

Somehow it's quite different to know they want to take something from my phone and make it public, vs. just using some metadata for their statistics. At least they ask first. But it really does feel rather "stalky" after the 5th time or so it's happened.
He wouldn't. He would probably make a deal with Putin.
Quite. I suppose the interment of Japanese Americans in 1940's is a prime example of this. Later it has been widely denounced.
> It won't happen because Apple won't give you the option.

What won't happen, havoc in the ecosystem? How is Apple relevant?

> Swift 3.x has a large amount of syntax changes.

Yes?

> The compiler helps with the refactoring but it's still work.

That's not what I'm talking about. A bit of drudge work is fine, the issue of the Python transition is that you get usually hard to debug runtime failures down the line, possibly for a long, long time. With Swift, I assume the compiler just keeps complaining until you've converted everything more or less properly, you may have a few nits but you don't keep finding new breakages.
The civil war first started after they had conducted their anti-democratic coup, though.

They got about 10% of the votes in the elections for the constituent assembly due to write the new constitution. They responded by overthrowing the Duma and calling off the assembly.

I agree with you that many of their members probably did support democracy - in fact, many of them lost their lives for holding on to that belief and resisting an increasing authoritarian leadership.

I didn't make the distinction mainly for simplicity because even if we draw a clear line and go all black and white and call every Bolshevik anti-democratic, the majority of socialist and communists in Russia were not Bolsheviks.

Part of the problem with the Bolsheviks, to me, stands with Lenins idea of the vanguard party, which was part of the issues surrounding the disagreement between Martov and Lenin that led to the split: With the idea that they made up a revolutionary vanguard, coupled with the fact that they were outlaws for a large part of their existence, they conditioned themselves to believe they "knew better" and that they would have support, and that anything indicating anything else was just another part of government or counter-revolutionary propaganda. Then with the creation of the Soviets following the February revolutons - standing against the Duma as an alternative seat of power -, they surrounded themselves with people who supported them, and this helped them legitimise to themselves the idea that they did actually have support.

When the constituent assembly elections provided evidence that showed they had pretty much no support outside of the big cities, it was easy for them to dismiss it as the result of "counter-revolutionary" activity etc.

The civil war certainly made it worse. It both provided good reason and an excuse to crack down on opposition. When parts of the opposition chose to fight on the other side because they had legitimate reasons to fear a party that had just conducted a coup, it just made it easier to crush them and write them off as traitors and counter-revolutionaries.
Udacity NanoDegree Program for Self-Driving Car Engineers
Most accidents cost nowhere near $10 million. Hell, the 9/11 payouts only averaged $1.7 mil.
I'm busy because I work 60 hours a week so I can ensure my family has what they need as we grow.

My mentality, and I hope I don't break away from this (and continue down a spiral of working too much) is to gradually reduce my workload as my son gets older. Right now he's a tiny baby who I can support by ensuring I help with feedings and care so my partner can be happy as well. That's easy, and I can focus on boosting my career in the mean time. It helps he goes to bed at 7pm, so I am able to catch up on work after hours. It's not ideal, but it's the reality right now. To achieve what we want as a family.

Once he's older, I want to be able to spend actual daddy time and interact with him in a meaningful way. That's the goal, at least.
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

Amen.
I cannot sign this. I'm happy there is a debate over our privacy, and the information has come to light, but I still believe this man to be a traitor and he should be punished. A pardon is out of the question.
How have you produced less dirt? I've been trying it out. No shoes in the house has helped a lot but I'm curious about what other ways there are.
> China for some reason is viewed as comfortably capitalist

For the purposes of western companies with ties to China, they have capitalism - after all, allowing child labor in sweat shops is very capitalistic.

On the other hand the state controls a majority of enterprise assets even though the number of enterprises fully owned by the state is around 30%. And they also impose their will on privately owned companies, with the market not being free.

Also, don't confuse capitalism with democracy ;-)
The phrase "Youtube Community" makes me think of the sub-communities, such as the ARG communities - which use Youtube for video hosting, Patreon for funding, independent web forums (such as Unfiction) for data gathering, and apps (like Horror Amino) for community management.

Were Youtube to build feature parity to each of those sites, they might see more communities self-contained within Youtube.
A big win! However, the Guardian reporting adds a little wrinkle:

According to Manning’s representatives, doctors
have recommended that as part of her treatment
for gender dysphoria the soldier, who began hormone
therapy in 2015, be allowed to follow “female hair
grooming standards”.

ACLU staff attorney Chase Strangio said in Tuesday’s
statement that the government planned to still enforce
the male hair standards.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/14/chelsea-mann...
great, now maybe we can develop countermeasures to illegal & unethical surveillance methods like these. there are a few imsi-catcher detection apps out right now, maybe we will see more.
I think Nix does/comes close to what you're after.

Nix 'packages' are just text files describing the build/install process, so they can be version controlled (e.g. there's a big repo at https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs ).

Dependencies, build environments, etc. are fully specified by the package and isolated from each other, and there is an emphasis on reproducibility, so building/installing a particular package should always give the same results. (This isn't enforced, but a non-reproducible package is considered buggy, and there are tools to check if a package can be reproduced)

Nix packages themselves can reference external dependencies, like git repos and URLs, and usually provide a fixed checksum to compare the output against; if it doesn't match, the build is aborted. Wrappers/translators are also available to integrate with other package manager ecosystems, e.g. cabal/hackage for Haskell packages.

Results are cached locally (packages are only built once, until they get garbage collected) and remotely (if a build server has already built a package, you can fetch it from there instead).

For development environments, you can write a Nix package for your project then run the 'nix-shell' command to enter its build environment (i.e. all dependencies available, environment variables set, etc.)
I used to be on a H1B and changed employer 3 times, I'm well aware that it is possible.

But having a H1B comes with a stigma, not all companies are willing to get involved with a new petition.

And let's burst the myth of the "grace period", it doesn't exist. If you're fired you have literally 24 hours to leave the country. There is no "2 week grace period" to find a new employer. So yes, it is possible to find a new job, but it makes it very difficult to fight back when you're asked to work nights/weekends for example.
Looks nice and quiet simple.

I have something very similar, with a complicated spreadsheet modeled after You Need a Budget, but done with Python and selenium instead of Node.js. I even have notifications with Pushbullet set up inside the spreadsheet.

I really should clean it up and put it up on github one of these days but it's one of my earliest examples of scripting and honestly I'm quite embarrassed by it now
Yea I use Eclipse exactly like a text editor that has project management features, refactoring support, formatting, automated imports and class completion, dependency management, compiling and packaging.

That is I and most Eclipse users use Eclipse as an IDE. Not as vim/emacs.
It seems counter-intuitive, but I massively cut down on my grocery store time by going every day. Pop in after work every day, grab 3-5 items, hit the self-checkout and out. Takes about 5 minutes. If I forget something, no big deal, I'll be there tomorrow.

Whereas before you'd spend time thinking about the rest of the week to make a list, dash around the kitchen to check the essentials, drive to the store, spend > 30 minutes in the store getting everything, drive back, ... Probably 1.5-2 hours total.
Define your expectation of an advanced society please. They don't come out of a mold.

Perhaps an advanced society should involve one generation taking care of the next instead of the government?
Good point. I don't do it systematically and should. Whenever I do, I realize stuff that I should be working on and stuff that has turned into a bit of a black hole.
Isn't that what startups do these days? Collect every piece of damn information from each user visiting their site? Log when they hover over a link and all?
Kids form their base behaviour and approach to the world until three years old, this is the most important time.
"You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If we sacrifice our values because were afraid we don't care about those values very much." ~ Edward Snowden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M#t=1840
There's a lot of ongoing work in machine learning focusing on learning from few examples, online learning, more biologically plausible learning and so on. Most of it is done in the academia, and some of it is done at large corporations.

Startups generally have a short runway before they run out of cash, which isn't long enough to sustain this kind of exploratory work.
If we're all popping crazy pills and pretending America is an Orwellian, Stalinist wet dream where people disappear for having dissenting political opinions, why not go all the way and just assume Russia is pulling all the strings?
European pharmaceutical companies are still earning billions of dollars.
Suppressed are hikes of prices and not drugs themselves
Thanks a lot for this project, I've been thinking about coding in the browser for a while, but you guys went much ahead... it is just sad for me to not understand Chinese, but hopefully it will get translated to more languages soon now it is open source!
hmmm.... maybe....

That seems basically like you create a specification for what versions of which repos you want and it will create it.

Is that any different to just having a shell-script curl the repos and versioning that script?

What I had in mind would be effectively external dependencies that would appear within the source tree when cloned/manifested/whatever which would themselves be version-controlled.
It would effectively be a 'curl' or 'clone' of an external version of a child repo maintained by the VCS.

Does that make sense?
Which has always been a problem as both fingerprint identification and facial recognition are probability based, and often the confidence level is considerably lower than what anyone would be comfortable with.
> Vanilla deep learning is so far ahead of what most companies use for analytics, that very little research is needed to offer a product with significant advantages over what's in practice now

But by "vanilla deep learning", I think you are referring to this vs research into new models and algorithms. I think "research" in the context of "research-heavy start-ups" is not about new algorithms, but about finding ways to use even "vanilla deep learning" on their available datasets. Quite a lot of papers at conferences, for example, are not about new algorithms, but about new ways to use old algorithms.
Yep, from a developers perspective there is very little difference between asm.js and WebAssembly.

The main differences for developers will be the download size for compiled code will be smaller and the startup time will be faster.

Outside of those differences all browsers will consistently optimize for it. At least one upstream compiler backbend (clang/llvm) will support it. So you'll get more tooling from outside of the few folks working on emscripten and you'll more likely see support from language frontends like Swift and Rust.
Desktop waterjet cuts almost any material – and expenses
It's important to remember that the largest expense item for big pharma is not R&D but marketing & administrative.
I'm guessing that many people who are now alive would have just sat in front of the TV instead if there were no Internet.
Twitter Launches on Apple TV, Fire TV and Xbox One
I made 6 figures at my Facebook dream job – but couldn't afford the Bay Area
I actually watched that talk twice. The technique of introducing a seam set off light bulbs in my head that didn't go off the first time I watched it.
Unlike some other experiences here, I always had weird ideas in my head. As a kid, I would question if I just have an overactive imagination or am I really smart. I had no problem with a difficult subject like chemistry like my peers. Still I thought I might be a little crazy.

Long story short, I got IQ test, scored really high. Never after I questioned myself. I still think I am crazy, but I consider this a good thing. It helped me great deal understand where I am in relation with others.
New DNC leaks released
In the US, it is a hell of a lot cheaper to cook for yourself than to eat out. For poorer folks, it is the only option, or ramen.