skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each of these points is up for serious disagreement.

1. His celebrity could increase exponentially when he returned home and was available to do a press junket and book tour. He would appear on every morning talk show and radio show and then a tour of the campuses, libraries and malls of America. This idea is absurd on its face.

2. He had the resolve to make the initial release knowing he was destroying his life - it is clear this is a moral stance for him and the personal damage is done. If he came back to the U.S., expect him to be emboldened and wind up working for a lobby or a not for profit.

3. Lobbying dollars >> optics.

RE: US Government interests:

1. It would make the democrats look weak on terror and intelligence in the face of an upcoming and obscenely hotly contested election.

2. It would be bad for morale of our intelligence agencies - by no means a 'soft' consideration.

3. It would, in fact, set a precedent that whistleblowers will get pardoned.

This last point is the whole issue. Neither this administration, nor future administrations, is going to be particularly fond of intelligence whistleblowers. Financial and business whistleblowers is one thing - but in intelligence? That is another issue entirely. All politics aside, though we may, as citizens, want this to be precisely the case and hope that if we ever held political office we would feel the same way, it is just unlikely that this attitude is going to be found within the upper echelons of the intelligence or political community.

Unfortunately, the downsides are hugely substantial to those in power and the upsides are widely distributed among the general public. With a risk/reward-matrix like that, don't expect to see any pardons coming down for Snowden anytime soon.
Really looking forward to 3D Touch use picking up, now that every notification is 3D Touch-able.
The real problem with the Cell was that each Cell SPE processor only has 256K of local memory. It has bulk DMA access to main memory, but that's more like I/O. 256K is too small for a video frame, a game level, or much else in a modern game. So everything has to be done on an assembly line basis, where data is pumped into a Cell processor, processed, and pumped out. Great for audio, terrible for everything else. In comparison, the main processor had access to 256MB of RAM.

If they'd had, say, 16MB per processor, it might have worked out. One CPU for collision detection and physics, one for NPC management and AI, etc. But giving each SPE processor only 0.1% of the total memory space was too constraining.
Strictly it will open your command in $EDITOR, but if you've "set -o vi" that's probably vi/vim/neovim.

Outside vi mode, C-x C-e does the same thing.

It's "edit-and-execute-command" in readline. Incidentally, this really does what it says on the tin: if you use "read -e" to enable readline support at a prompt, and you try to edit what you're inputting this way, it won't pass the result into the read - it will try to execute it.
Aren't those somewhat indispensable pieces of technical info though?

- what language do they speak

- what regional market do they shop in

- what is the compatibility of their client browser to render your ad
Not sure how long they will be around but I am not sure if this is a high yield project at this time. Instead they should be focusing on fixing defects and bringing important features to users.
Read up on Todd Marinovich before you ask that question.
If something can survive only on ads it deserve to die.
Just keep in mind, their "first tier" of customer support probably can't authorize that kind of thing, and probably won't even know what the heck you are wanting. I complained about the crappy slow internet and bad ping until I got to their actual tech guys, and told him the older modem did better, and he was like "Well, why don't you use one of them?", I said "Need the phone", and he told me to just put a splitter on it and use both, he'd set it all up and have the local office put one aside for me. I only even pay rent on the one modem, so it's actually an amazingly good setup, other then meaning I've got the start of my own "commercial grade" networking setup attached to a wall in the basement, with the modems, the router, a switch, and a server.
Postico, but it costs money.
I have no love for Oracle (at all, actually), but let's not kick the donkey when it's down. Having been through tech refreshes myself I'll bet most of those benefits would've been realized, regardless of data provider. Too much opportunity for a competent team to reduce or eliminate technical debt.
The "Why use it?" section of the Conrod docs might be relevant:

http://docs.piston.rs/conrod/conrod/guide/chapter_1/index.ht...

If you haven't encountered an immediate-mode GUI API before, you're probably going to find it a bit strange coming from Qt.
Does Paul (pg) have an active role in YC? Asking as a curious outsider.
Move fast and don’t break things: Running a startup on Elm
I don't know. But I do know that the end-of-year statistics from search-engines about what people searched for, are complete BS. I have such a list for the German DeuSu page:

https://deusu.de/blog/2015-12-03-alle_jahre_wieder_wonach_de...

Warning! This is definitely NSFW! :)
DomIRC – An IRC network for all domain name owners and their communities
> you'll still possibly reap massive perf gains over Hadoop in certain contexts.

Certainly, and unfortunately, the exact point at which Hadoop becomes the better option over big iron is generally an ongoing debate and shifting target. But there's no doubt that such a point actually exists.
One more limitation: a Presidential pardon doesn't affect state laws. If, for instance, Snowden had committed some crime against the state that he was residing in, the President would not forgive it.
These benchmarks are out of date -- Rust recently updated its SipHash impl from Sip2-4 to Sip1-3, making it actually the fastest for 8-64 bytes in some workloads (looking at the hashers outside of the context of using them in a map gives deceptive results).

(I need to get clearance to post updated results)
>But what Adblock Plus is doing here is illegal.

What law are they violating?

I'm a software lawyer.

As far as I know, nothing they are doing rises to violation of any law or regulation with regard to this particular move.

Is it unethical? Maybe. That doesn't mean it is illegal. It is certainly not coercive - you can freely install or uninstall adblock, and you are free to advertise or not advertise with them. They do not have a monopoly, natural or otherwise, and their product is wholly voluntary. If Microsoft were installing ABP as a matter of course in IE and they prevented you from uninstalling it - then there is an argument that this would be anti-competitive.

An independent third party distributing totally voluntary, uninstallable software? Unlikely.
I've got a deal for any company out there. Rather then spending millions on advertising provide to me a datasheet. Hell, pay for ad space where you can show off your datasheets. I'll buy the product with the best possible features for my use case.

If companies start doing this, I'll exclusively buy provided products from them rather then from advertised companies. If the data sheet you provide lies, I'll never buy your products again, so keep that in mind.

This is a simple and transparent way to get me to buy your products and it costs you less! Isn't that great!
And for guest houses etc the default password device is often unchanged you could always login and reboot for yourself.
Which is really the best place to put it in the end.
"Spatial Finder" was still a hierarchical viewing of the filesystem, yes.

There are many articles on the subject, but the "spatial" was about the idea that files and folders "remembered" where you put them, so that the same file was always in the same (pixel-exact) space you chose to place it and folder windows remembered their exact same size, shape, and location on the screen. Regardless to how you navigated to them, but since on the Mac Classic OS the Desktop was the "root" folder, you typically navigated to your folders in the same physical way every time (to the point where you might muscle memorize where your files and folders "are" in the space layout of your screen).

As a Unix user it used to be you could get a basic spatial mode from Gnome's Nautilus, if you wanted to play with it, but it looks like Gnome File Manager dropped that feature somewhat recently.
The Importance of Fuzzing Emulators
Is there support for antialiasing? Some of the shapes and text look jagged.
I don't see y combinator's specific involvement at all. It's certainly likely some HN community members aren't huge fans of Israel, since that country acts like an asshole all the time. I don't see much in the way of anti-Jewish sentiment, however, and being critical of Israel is hardly the same thing outside of emotional rhetoric.
Learning Programming by Teaching Yourself – Catastrophe or Brilliance?
My observation is that it's not HN/YC per se who do the bashing, rather it's a subset of readers who seem to hold anti-Israel biases, thus the "Israel is automatically wrong" type of comments that frequently appear in discussions.

That doesn't necessarily equate to antisemitism but doesn't exclude it either. Anti-Israel sentiment is often associated with strains of "social liberalism"[0] and related political positions, leading to anti-Israel comments being made in the context of policy discussion.

OTOH HN readers have shown keen interest in Israeli technological developments. At times praise for their successes has been evident, so obviously not all comments about Israel are negative. I've had the idea there are distinct subsets of HN users with different attitudes. Depending on the subject matter, one or another group is more inspired to add comments.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism

Edit: added reference
Sounds like that guy had a serious recreational drug addiction. How is that relevant to performance-related doping?
Obligatory link to How to Start a Startup Stanford class by Sam Altman:
http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

As the founder of a MOOC search engine, I am excited. Its good for my business :)

P.S. You can follow the class on Class Central [1] and we will send you an update whenever the course dates are actually announced

[1] https://www.class-central.com/mooc/7130/startup-school?follo...
I'm in the same boat, I would try to save articles into it, especially recipes but there are two reasons why I stopped.

The awful search with the web clipper plugin. It seems to match any single word in a saved article. It just ends up being faster to ignore the evernote typically unrelated results and look through Google results.

Inability to embed YouTube videos. Once again with recipes I'm better off using a browser since I'll have to open one up to view the video anyway. Most of the good cooking sites include a video embedded with the recipe, making for a more pleasant experience in the browser.
And yet you can buy a house in the outskirts in any major Indian city for way less. Which used to be how most middle class Indians used to buy homes in my dad's generation.

The issue is most of us want housing in luxury apartments with amenities with no match, and with transit infrastructure closer to office. This was and always will remain very expensive in any economy on earth let alone Chennai.

It will take more or less the same in any major city in the US. Most Indians think if they land in the US, all problems will vanish in thin air, milk and honey will flow from now. While what really happens is all your problems remain as is, except that you get a little better roads.

Please take a good look on all housing related threads on this forum, young people in western economies have it way difficult than any of us.
I thought you were already a huge Postgres advocate? Or do you mean 'upsides to postgres that appeals to heavy oracle sites'?
/edit Perhaps that wasn't you...

So #1 benefit of Postgres for Oracle shops is transition cost.
It's cheaper than Oracle (by sometimes substantial amounts), and relatively painless to switch to. A lot of code can move unmodified, all the same platforms, and often even the same teams of folks in the same jobs.
Postgres scales very well, at the very least it can handle 90% of a given company's Oracle load with no real issue.
Things like clustering, backups, failovers, and reporting systems can be re-engineered to work in similar ways on Postgres, though some will require substantial hackery.

The #2 benefit is stability. Oracle has a very bad track record (especially lately) when it comes to patching and supporting older databases. If you just want a DB to sit in the corner and work for a year, with push-button easy security patches at most... Oracle isn't really the product anymore. Oracle CPU (critical patches) are cumulative now, and the bloat is getting out of hand. I recently just installed a set of patches that were almost an extra 5GB for the footprint... minor for a 20TB database, but ridiculous if you're thinking of thousands of small distributed hosts.
Just because an exchange of money takes place does not at all mean that it's not under duress. A camp prisoner selling their personal property, or their talents to a prison guard is not a fair exchange of value either.

The creation of support infrastructure, and the need to defend it is an obvious consequence of settlements - just like the obvious consequence of that defense is the partitioning of Palestinian land, military checkpoints, disruption of freedom of travel, arbitrary detention, and the occasional excursion and killings.

These settlements can't exist without the frequent application of violence.
> At best, for every ad the new startup buys, the big incumbent buys two and you're back to more or less where you started.

Are you? Previously no one knew about the startup. Now one in three people in the targeted segment see it.
The only real features missing from the free version is filtering the result set and multiple connections at the same time. For filtering I actually found it easier to use psql directly - but the GUI is nice for browsing data and making schema changes.

I still bought it anyway after a few months to support them, it's saved me a bunch of time.
Ah, I see the disconnect; I assumed I was the one doing the recording. ;)
Let’s De-Polarize the California Farmworker Overtime Bill
SAS adds cognitive computing support
I'm surprised they got to shutdown YC Fellowship; is it already shut down, or they are planning on that next year.

Without YC how one could get access to YC network and get one to one advice without moving to bayarea?

online classes are not really one to one advice.
which... you can say about Africa too, just add enough
"great-" words before
I'm a little confused as to what you're trying to argue, because your last post suggested it is ridiculous to think an elite athlete could have ADHD, which is clearly an incorrect argument, and this post suggests that ... recognising ADHD in athletes is denying that any athletes cheat? Or maybe doubling down to say that you believe none of them have ADHD because it's more likely they are just cheating? Which also seems pretty nuts?
I'm with you. Like I said, I'm a donor. I think there's a good chance the families care, and the person might care. While I'm also not religious, if we're going to allow freedom of religion, it's important for the state not to disregard such things (though you and I are free to).
I consider Cuban cafe con leche an amazing beverage.
It will be interesting to see the reception that Oliver Stone's film Snowden[0] will receive when released later this week. Anecdotally, most of my friends never seemed to care as much as I do and certainly care less now.

0: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3774114/
Saeed Malekpour is not a Canadian citizen. Unless he was abducted from Canadian soil I can't see how the Canadian government can justify involvement.
You're in for a rude awakening if you think "China is not going to touch US in military terms during my life time"

Most people believe that the US will always have the better fighter planes, the better missiles, or the better tanks. In reality, we are about to be parity. They will be stronger in some aspects, we will be stronger in others.

If you don't believe me, go check out the Chinese J-20, J-31 aircraft. Their DF-41 ICBM. The Type-99 tank.

They have been catching, and fast. They already have some systems that are better than ours. They also have twice as many soldiers/sailors/airmen/marines.

Source: Former Intelligence Analyst.
The Perfect Company by Quartz
Why are you asking these things like they're hypothetical? The way we did student loans prior to 2005 worked just fine. Low income students weren't excluded back then were they? Just roll it back to that.
Onfim
Common sense in technology cycles
>> Is it possible to have a free society that's completely surveilled?

>It is, if a society's ethical and legal code and how its members actually behave are closely aligned (which prevents blackmail), surveillance is done by all to all, and the government has limited ability to arrest and prosecute.

Anonymity and privacy would still have to be respected for it to work. While I believe that this is possible (just finishing up first draft of my first novel, a scifi that looks at this) it's not going to be achieved by legislating our way to it (or that it'll even originate from our governments).

The main thing I think to point out is that individuals shouldn't be the ones we're keeping eyes on. Governments, corporations, charities, religions, and unions - basically any group of people - is where we should be demanding complete transparency, and surveillance by all.
Which part of the city you are in, btw? :)
Russian culture and the current situation in the country are quite different. Honesty and sincerity are highly valued traits, to the point that Westerners are still labeled as disingenuous for smiling too much - Russians view this as fake and therefore less trustworthy. This of course is changing, as the younger generations are more exposed to western behaviors.

The real problem is the economic situation and people that focus on personal enrichment by any means instead of building something sustainable. Basically, in an environment where you cannot be sure of what next year is going to look like, it's brutally rational to try and extract as much value now, as opposed to invest for the future.

As the result, you get everything from poor infrastructure investment and lack of true small business growth, all the way to bribing because the official taking the bribe isn't sure he or she will have this access tomorrow, so better to enrich now and as fast as possible.

This is not something that is endemic to Russian culture, but rather to the survival situation. Unfortunately, Russia seems to teeter in this state for centuries at a time.
Interesting points. I agree that having a degree is going to help you be able to charge a higher rate if you are teaching. I disagree with a few points though:

> Consider all of the potentially lost art/literature/music?

I don't think that would happen. Music degree != creativity. You could argue that the people not creating teach others who do create but I think the majority of people who go on to create great art are going to do that whether they get a degree or not.

> The community is not particularly open about sharing information

Maybe it's because we're talking about music in such abstract terms but this is certainly not my experience. I've been working towards a career in mixing for the last few years and there is an abundance of great teachers and communities online for a small monthly fee. Everybody is incredibly supportive, helpful, and even share work when certain people have more than they can handle. From another angle I've always found musicians more than helpful teaching each other new things (e.g. I see someone playing with a technique I don't know and ask them to show me how it's done).

> At any rate, I feel like either college should just be subsidized by the state

I agree with you here. I live in the UK and the most anyone pays for tuition is £9k per year. I actually looked into going to the US for college and the costs were incredible. However a lot of that is because students choose to go out of state and go to well known schools. Maybe that's where the change needs to happen. Big subsidies for studying in state.
Thanks for your compliment. You saying that helps me feel a lot more belief in myself again. I guess I'm perceptive. Montreal is a good place. I considered it as a base for my startup because it's affordable, open minded and has interesting culture. Never been there tho. I wish you a lot of good progress in your investor search. I'm currently looking for one and at a much earlier stage. Again thanks for the comment it lifted my spirits.
Wht? That's some seriously misplaced faith in capatilism there. I can think of 5 examples off the top of my head where group think delayed the uptake of more optimal solutions.
Knowing nothing more about this codebase than the above, I would fire everyone and make the CEO's nephew write it. It could hardly turn out worse and it would be a lot cheaper.

(I'm joking, but only barely.)
To clear that up a bit, you can register a channel like #domain.tld only if you control the DNS zone of the said domain, and you can't get op in a primary channel without registering it first.
The justification is based on human rights. Not on citizenship. Any country can pressure Iran to do the right thing, but Canada seems to be the one the coder preferred to live in.
I use psql most of the time...it's autocomplete features are scope aware, only problem is editing large queries - so I copy/paste from a text editor (which has syntax highlighting as well).
The World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked by Russia
I used Deliveries and built this because I was tired of manually adding tracking codes to their app. Agreed, it's not for every one but it solved a problem for me.
Big file support that works transparently without ever giving the feeling that it's tacked on. Real file locking support for those binaries is also critical.
seeing enough reliable reports of this to believe it's at least a somewhat widespread issue:

https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/775748665226895360
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/775751273299619841
For a 4x boost, I imagine Tensorflow and Torch will get support shortly after the GPUs start shipping in real quantities.
Beverage or powder?
Postico looks really clean but I can't get it to do autocomplete. I like aqua data studio a lot on windows, which does things like "select x from table as tbl_alias where tbl_alias<ctrl-space>" autocompleting against just that table's columns. It's not great on mac unfortunately.
I came to comment that Snowden's request for pardon would presumably require a conviction, but on further research you're right that the president's pardon powers are "unlimited" -- even before legal proceedings have begun:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/05/opinion/l-constitution-all...
Even then the argument can actually be solved by the "famous violinist" argument (http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/2012/02/the-under-rated-f...) and by pointing out that humans are not forced to donate a kidney, even though doing so has a great chance of saving the life of the recepient, and a live-donation results in a much higher quality of life for the receiver. In this case we value the body integrity of the first person more than the life of the second - even though both are undeniably human.
zoho offers free custom domain email hosting. It's also surprisingly good, the UI/integration between the pieces is very well done.
Don't they get around some of this "you can't spy on your own countrymen" thing by just swapping data with the British surveillance service i.e. "I'll spy on yours and you spy on mine and we'll swap afterwards"?
It's a little worrying that I should be concerned about the morale of TLAs who have been illegally drag-netting the entire world without repercussions.
The sabre engine is going to eviscerate these companies.