skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet everyone's been digging for precedent. Found this:

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

Samuel Loring Morison (born October 30, 1944) is a former American intelligence professional, who was convicted of espionage and theft of government property in 1985, and pardoned in 2001. He was "the only [American] government official ever convicted for giving classified information to the press."

Seems pretty similar superficially. I wonder if he'll do it, Obama.

Also something quite odd is the number of pardons that seem a bit suspect. For instance Clinton pardoned his own brother. And Marc Rich. Think what you may of him (famous commodity trader, lots of shady deals rumoured), but his crime doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary.

Pardoning Snowden would be a comment on the surveillance state, something worthwhile to talk about. Pardoning some guy who smuggled some oil doesn't seem to have a purpose in regards to the state's role in society.
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This search engine seems to use only tf-idf inverted index for it searches and then a vector space model for ranking the similarity.

A search for "java twitter bot" places more emphasis on "bot" then on Java and then on twitter which is what a tf-idf would do.

A good start like you said but it's miles away even from yahoo or bing.
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Austin once had streetcar lines, so Austin is also the historical version.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2000-07-21/77996/
I feel like these aren't that substantially different to things that have been useful since the stone age, slightly repackaged.

Further, "by 2020" is a bit of a misnomer; these things are currently very useful.
>if its cheaper can it really be called a luxury

No. But for a lot of people, it is a luxury to have the freedom and flexibility to not require a car to go to your job(s), get your groceries delivered, etc.

There are situations where you can reasonably do without a car and save money vs. a minimum "clunker" car considering everything including housing prices etc. But they're in the minority, especially once people aren't urban singles.
Not trying to be pedantic, just posting to set the record straight:

- WPF, WinForms, ASP.NET, ADO.NET etc. etc. are all officially part of the .NET Framework.

- WPF doesn't do much (or any) direct interaction with Win32. It uses Direct#D for rendering.

- The CLR is the .NET equivalent of the JVM.

It's useful to look at the .NET Framework the same way as the standard library that ships with the JVM. They're both large standard libraries that include GUI Library (AWT, Swing, JavaFX, Winforms, WPF), database access (JDBC, ADO.NET).

In both cases, the extensive standard library can easily be used by multiple languages (i.e. VB, C#, F# in .NET, Java, Scala, Clojure and many others on the JVM).
Yes, I can think of a case where how it may be used to solve some problems on a M x N grid, where in you could move in either directions top-left to bottom-right Or vice-versa.

I perhaps used smaller where subproblem may be a more optimal use.
> since most programming jobs will involve solving problems you don't know how to solve on a regular basis

Yes, you'd think that would be blindingly, painfully obvious to anybody with the cognitive ability to tie their own shoe laces. And it probably is, to everybody except the MBA "efficiency experts" that are taking over my profession.
And yet the iPhone 4 sold very well for 3+ years after that "controversy" subsided.
Looks unreadable https://i.imgur.com/MTJziXw.png
cough...EngineYard...cough.. cough...
The main feature I would like to see is a commitment for long term support and maintenance.

How would such a commitment be demonstrated? Which existing projects have done a good job convincing you of their longevity?

What does lightweight actually mean?

I would like to make it possible to embed Python within your application without significantly increasing its size. For example, a standalone implementation of Lua is around 500KB, and of mruby is around 700KB. I would consider both of these to be "lightweight" - they could be embedded just about anywhere.

CPython 3.5, however, is closer to 4MB in size - large enough that embedding it would significantly increase the size of smaller applications. PyPy is much larger still, at around 40MB.

On the other hand, I intend for my implementation to target desktop and mobile applications, so am not too concerned about RAM usage at runtime. This contrasts with MicroPython, which targets microcontrollers with limited memory and is therefore designed "to minimise RAM usage" [1].

[1] http://dpgeorge.net/talks/pycon-au-2016-main.pdf
Probably not many, but it's a useful metric for showing just how far page bloat has gone in the last 10 years.

The average internet speed in India is 2.5mb/s, which is still 128 seconds. Just to download a webpage that's pretty extreme.
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Appreciate it, thanks. Don't misunderstand I totally respect anyone willing to get stuck into this stuff... I just think you're making a rod for your own back by adding this "distributed" requirement.

I don't see customers caring about distribution, whereas it would make several areas more difficult to manage... fraud for one. It's cool and all, but it's a walled-enough-garden even without that constraint... a constraint that regulators, reinsurers, etc will find alien and confusing.
And Israeli settlers have no qualms with using FB to incite violence (including deaths) just the same.

This is a tug of war between cultures, all sides are culpable.
Try to not leave this kind of comment on HN even if you are angry. You will just get downvoted.

This place is better suited for constructive discussions even if the votes aren't always fair.
I block ads because my niches are small enough communities that I only see ads about the last thing I googled

And that's annoying in more ways than one, being reminded so blatantly that you are being tracked well enough to identify individually
It shows snippets of the web pages under each result; however, generally not the particular snippets that contain the search term. I would think that would be useful.
In Norway, the tax authority will send you a summary telling you what you owe or what they owe, and if you don't have corrections you don't need to do anything.

(all bank accounts in Norway are keyed to a national ID number assigned at birth, and the banks report all interest income and loss (as interest on debt can be subtracted from your taxable income), and your employer(s) reports your income)

There are some exceptions, in cases where you have particularly complex tax matters, but most people don't have to do anything any more.
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I doubt it -- it was a long time ago, and why would she take a picture of her laptop? (I am sure it is in the corner or background of various photos though -- these things are ubiquitous).
I think I browse and read too many different sources that I don't see myself subscribing to one in particular.

Another commenter below mentioned Google Contributor [0] which seems like an interesting take on a cross-site subscription.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
https://youtu.be/NuCYHrSig94?t=5318

We think one of the most important questions now, when you buy a computer is gonna be what’s your favourite color. And this is more important in our surveys, in our consumer surveys this is far more important than most of the mumbo jumbo associated with buying a consumer computer…megabytes, megahertz, gigabytes…people don't care about that stuff, they wanna trust us to give ’em a really great computer, what they care about is ‘I wanna express myself and pick the color I want’.

- Steve Jobs, 1999.
Sources, please?
Not OP, but I tried Annex with Unreal 4 and the symlinks caused problems with the editor. Obviously that's a UE4 issue rather than an Annex issue, but it meant LFS was the only reasonable option at the time when I tested (~12 months ago).
Ha! Yeah, 14 is quite impressive.
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Here: https://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=709632

Cited directly from the submission that you clearly did not read.

Soldiers themselves are posting online calling for the death of Palestinians.

This is very far from the case of uneducated Muslims being whipped into a frenzy, and I say that as someone that adamantly views the Israel-Arab schism as a fight between civilized men and savages. I'm about as pro-Israel as you can get but the conduct of Israelis can get just as disgusting as their Arab detractors.
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>Ethereum contracts cannot be modified or voided by third parties (e.g. a judge).

Feature, not a bug. Same goes for Bitcoin and the government's inability to print shekels on demand.
yep! my car is 15 years old, has ~80k miles and I was hoping it would last pass 200k+ miles
I'd argue that the presence of so many money sinks is why a lot of us don't own cars.

Why spend money on a car when I can spend it on a laptop, smartphone, music, movies, apps, case, screen protector, headphones... and I spend money on a whole bunch of other hobby-related things besides those.

Really, what kind of money sinks did my parents have when they were in their 20s and 30s in the '60s and '70s? Video games weren't a thing, home video wasn't a thing, personal computers weren't a thing, cell phones weren't a thing (some of these existed in the late '70s, but they were extreme niche products the general public didn't know or care about). About the only consumer electronics that were around were TV, radio, records, and consumer audio/visual technology didn't constantly evolve like it does now: if you had a color TV and a stereo system (record player, radio, speakers), you never had to upgrade, and they were built like rocks and lasted forever. The only media you could buy were records and books.

So that's it: you'd buy one TV and stereo system your whole life, you'd have a record collection and a bookshelf, and you had a pile of money left over. Why not put that into a car? See also: mortgages and expensive classy furniture, neither of which are particularly popular among Millennials either.
Separate from the ads I have zero trust in the networks serving ads not reusing and reselling information about what sites I visit. I doubt this change fixes that.
In my experiments in 2010, GPU speed was irrelevant. The GPU could had performed the calculations literally instantaneously, and the GPU still would have lost to the CPU by several orders of magnitude. Quoting myself, in some contexts, "data movement efficacy trumps raw computational power": http://www.scott-a-s.com/files/debs2010.pdf
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He also may genuinely feel the guy is a criminal.
>Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed, whether they are posted by Palestinians or Israelis.

"[G]uarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action."

Brandenburg v. Ohio
If you're thinking of just one round of testing this is true. But if a 3rd party tester gets a reputation for being tough then everyone tests with another tester. This creates a race to the bottom, where the is an implicit competition to get a reputation as the least stringent tester. This is essentially what happened with the credit rating agencies during the financial crisis.
It will be great if they add communication tool like slack/hipchat in their master plan.

Reason, I am asking for this, it that I see such tools have critical to do development these days. gitter has already shown initial success/value of integrating with SCM.
~~Ah this is a good improvement that we should definitely pick up on the short term. I've added it to [0] for now, but I'll look into this more later, I'm sure that we've thought / planned about this before.~~

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19049

edit 2: You can do as requested actually [1]

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/merge_requests.html#...

In addition, from GitLab 8.12, we even store the refs for each deployment, making it super easy to check out what is live now.
> A REALLY smart deep packet inspection firewall would notice the conversation on port 80 was very SSH like not HTTP like, but whatever.

Hahahah, I've abused this at a previous employer as well. They filtered out all outbound traffic other than ports 80 and 443; so I put my home SSH server on port 443, and then used a SOCKS5 proxy via dynamic port forwarding. Luckily their packet inspector wasn't smart enough to tell SSL from SSH; and apparently nobody in networking was manually reviewing traffic logs.
People are already lining up for the iPhone 7
That would be an opinion of mine, not a belief, that people worth knowing try not to hold on to fictions.

Whether they end up doing so is less important, they choose not to whenever the choice is apparent.
I understand where you're coming from, but "open source" does not mean "I can read the source". If that were the definition, then Windows 2000[1] is open source.

[1]: https://the.bytecode.club/showthread.php?tid=147
Ask HN: Data visualization consultant
I'm working as a software engineer (mostly web, mostly backend). I've worked some years as a freelancer (now working at a part time job + contractor job) always working on the backend side.

I'm getting bored of this kind of job and I'm exploring data visualization. In my job (news media) my boss started to ask me to make some things with d3.js and I liked it, with the plus side that the "deliverable" is something people can see and if it's done well it could be easily shared and generate visits.

So I started to think about learning more about d3.js, build and show some things with it in my free time and then start looking for clients.

Anyone here already doing something like this? what do you think about it? what are your experiences?
How about the actual article?

"While the focus here is on Palestinians’ “incitement,” it’s actually very common for Israelis to use Facebook to urge violence against Palestinians, including settlers urging “vengeance” when there is an attack on an Israeli. "

"In 2014, thousands of Israelis used Facebook to post messages 'calling for the murder of Palestinians.'"

Sources are linked in the article.
Sources, please ?
Ditto, I loved that screensaver. jwz at least made a Flying Toasters module for xscreensaver, but there were so many great ones. I especially miss Starry Night, which seems like it ought to be trivial to recreate.
It entirely depends where you live whether a car is a luxury or a necessity. I grew up in a tiny village, where it was a necessity. now I live in a major European city, and it would be a luxury item. Something that sometimes saves me some time on the public transport, or the need to carry a few shopping bags a couple of hundred meters. I have a car sharing account but can rarely justify the cost of it when public transport is ubiquitous.
You do know that it's only fast because it's hosted on Google's CDN right? And if you're coming through from a search, there's a nag blue header you can't get rid of. Not to mention all the strict guidelines for things you cannot do.

https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/amp.livescience.com/55991-giant...
Works in Safari Technology Preview 12 on Mac OS 10.11.6: http://i.imgur.com/cdN7ky2.png
There are so many good things that it would be time consuming to make a list, but your general attitude and philosophy percolates through the product.

What could be better? Time management and planning (which is different from deadlines).

We're dreaming of some sort of "automatic milestones" (we use weeks) that allow us to put issues in "next time unit of work" (and eventually "subsequent time units of work") at the beginning of the week. Currently we create (and close) "%year-%week"-numbered milestones each week, for each relevant project, and that's extremely heavyweight to manage.

Such a workflow where you fill buckets by eyeballing tasks allows us to have a coarse grained estimate of when will things be done (weeks are quite a natural unit for that esp. when communicating to upper management or customers in a language they speak: "we don't have room for week 36 so this'll be done by week 37") as well as a bird's eye view with the cross-project milestones.
In the universe where they are cost-saving devices, not luxuries.

In a self-driving taxi system, the company has three options: schedule a cleaning after each trip (very expensive), have an auto-detection system or deliver a dirty car to the customer to get sent back, which will be a waste of time and gas, not to mention the bad customer experience.

Consider you can already get a portable e-nose (to detect spoiled meat, for example) for $150 on retail, the cost is definitively worth it.
For those asking for evidence: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jan/14/media-frustrat...

>UK news organisations are becoming increasingly frustrated by the continuing ban preventing foreign correspondents from crossing into the Gaza Strip, more than two weeks after Israel's military offensive against Hamas began.

>After months of attempting to limit access, the Israel Defence Forces are still refusing to open the Erez crossing they closed on 27 December, when the bombing campaign began, to anything other than humanitarian aid – despite a supreme court ruling ordering the government to allow members of the international press into Gaza.

>David Mannion, the ITV News editor-in-chief, branded the Israeli media ban "disgraceful", while Dominic Wagthorn, the Sky News Middle East correspondent, said the "unprecedented" level of interference was "very frustrating".
AdBlock has:

* AdBlock

* AdBlock Plus

* AdBlock Ultimate, now AdBlocker Ultimate

uBlock has:

* uBlock

* uBlock Origin

...and I can never tell the difference.
As an East-coaster, it's always a delight to hear about products "in the wild" where you've actually met people that worked on it!
It is immoral of them to block the ads that are giving revenue to the creators of the content you're browsing and show ads that give revenue to themselves on that page. The only difference between this and malware is that you deliberately installed it.
That sounds more appropriate for a vocational program in community college.
By open source, most people mean that the source is free to redistribute legally. The OSI definition is more formal. The source being viewable is not enough to qualify it as being open source.
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> It seems there is a never ending supply of time series databases being written on top of Cassandra. Unless any of them are significantly better than KairosDB I'm not going to change the top 10.

I really appreciate the work Brian Hawkins has done with KairosDB. We settled on KairosDB at work after having a bunch of trouble with InfluxDB. At the same time, it's very much stuck in the Cassandra 2.1 world* . There have been some significant advancements with Cassandra for this particular use case (new storage engine, TWCS) and KairosDB is missing out.

*Yes, it can be run on 2.2.x by enabling the now-disabled-by-default Thrift, but that feels like a last gasp.
It's not just terrible NAT, although that's popular. I already do NAT on a PC server, so I run wifi routers in access point mode, and still need to do periodic reboots because the wireless interface stops working.
For myself, I go caseless because, 1) I like the feel of a solid metal device in my hand over plastic or rubber, and 2) it's thinner without a case, and easier to handle.

I have a leather wallet case that the phone slides into easily for when its in my pocket, as I wouldn't want it to get damaged being jostled around, but it's quick to take out when I want to use it.
>It's a page about a camera app it probably needs to have images.

See http://www.bing.com as a counter example. They load in a beautiful animated background, far larger and higher resolution than any image on the Pix site. Total page size? 364KB. Yes, it's over 100 times smaller.

You can still have images and animations without it using absurd amounts of data. This is just sloppy optimization, especially for a mobile app where data usage is most important.
Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed

What about illegal actions like downloading copyrighted material? Depicting Muhammad? Criticising president Erdogan?
I wonder how many of those could be fixed by simply rebooting the router.

I've had numerous problems with my own Time Warner Cable modem/router. It'd always become pretty bad after about 3 days of operation, dropping my speed to about 2% of what it was initially. I spend months debugging the damn thing, using a custom router, swapping cables, etc, and nothing would fix it.

Until I got a timer and got it to reboot every day at 3 am (the https://xkcd.com/1495 route) and never had the problem again.
Site is in German. Google Translate has given me an idea as to the content of article but I'm still a little confused about how the timing attack works. Is someone able to explain this better please?
I assume that that doesn't take up a half-hour animation like going full-screen does?

I'm on 10.10 Yosemite, and have no desire to upgrade, since I'm sure that the annoying full-screen functionality is now slightly different and I'll have to spend a few minutes trying to figure out how to un-fuck it again.
Have you ever watched American TV? This reads like someone who turned on Bravo at 2PM one time and decided all TV must be like that.
>So what does Adblock stand for now ?

Same thing it did years ago when it decided that an Adblocker should default to allowing "Show Ads" for any advertiser which paid them a blood ransom: PROFIT
That's not true, Bill Clintons pardon of Marc Rich, a fugitive, on his last day in office is pretty spot on

And waaaay more questionable, but only questionable if you give the Clintons the benefit of the doubt still
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Eclipse has WindowBuilder[0] that can be used to design Swing/SWT UIs (no JavaFX AFAIK).

[0] - https://www.eclipse.org/windowbuilder/
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Thanks! I'm all for facts and I clearly missed this.
The !! is the reason I don't do git commit -m anymore. git commit -m "Stupid!!" gets turned into git commit -m "Stupidgit add file.c"
Legal under whose laws? Should censored content be invisible only in the country that requested the censoring? That might be a heavy technological burden to bear.
Just use uBlock Origin. These details don't really matter to most people.
Actually, there is some minimal support for map keybindings. See https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim
Overall, the reporting is biased to critiquing reports on Israel, but the reports themselves are not biased.

Wonder how much of that selective reporting is Omidyar vs. the journalists.
Good thing Israel isn't a U.S. State, then.
You are so lucky to live in a place that charges you < $15/month for insurance.

I live in Ontario and own a 150cc motorbike. Insurance: $129/month.
In the interest of minimizing bad experiences, people have long turned to trusted curators and tastemakers to narrow down their decisions. We spend money and attention on these pursuits; of course some people are going to want a more informed decision. We have favorite DJs because they play great music in the right order; we peruse travel guides to focus our trips abroad; etc
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That's how it goes. I bet the ads they get payed for are the least annoying to AdBlock. The “Plus” now stands for “More Ads”.
The phrase "digital intifada" induces an eye-roll nearly as severe as it's cousin "digital holocaust."

Comparing the deaths of massive numbers of civilians to Facebook posts is tone-deaf at best.