skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most interesting to me was that the "junior CIA officer" who ran the most infamous black site ("the Salt Pit") appears to be incredibly financially successful in the 15 years since, presumably via continued government service [1]. Just one of his multiple homes was apparently purchased for $1.3mil in the Virginia suburbs outside CIA headquarters. Whether he made this money as a blue badger or a green badger [2], it's still pretty surprising to see what appears to be a career public servant raking in much more money than is ever advertised on the CIA careers page.

To those who are aware of what goes on in these circles: did this guy actually get rich working for the CIA? Is this commonplace in a post-9/11, contractor-focused world? Or did this just inherit money from a rich uncle and his sub-100k CIA salary is completely misrepresented by these articles?

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/12/15/charmed-life-cia-torture...
[2] http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2007/07/green-ba...
>Yes, my complaint is that you are highjacking an article on species differentiation in giraffes to talk about purported human subspecies.

I did nothing of the sort.

>No, we emphatically do not have that high of a genetic difference

Yes, we do. The genetic distance between Nigerians and Australian aboriginals is .176. This is greater than the distance between almost any subspecies ever tested.

>DNA doesn't lie. Humans lie, or are mistaken

Yes they do. And they will even deliberately misrepresent facts to present things the way they want them to be. Like looking at isolated segments of DNA and drawing conclusions based on that (your link).
Well, the US and ROK would establish air superiority more or less instantly. And air power combined with counter-battery radar means that the North Korean artillery would be degraded with extreme rapidity. Plus, I'm sure the US and ROK forces are aware of a large number of the North Korean artillery positions already, and those would be among the first targets in any conflict.
>And society should absolutely start to dictate to Facebook what it can and cannot do to prevent it from abusing its power.

We have no good mechanism to prevent the government from abusing its power.

Those here defending FB are not arguing that FB can do no wrong, they are arguing that fixing a problem _with another broken system_ is not an improvement, and is, in fact, a step backwards.

I can opt out of FB, and I have. Facebook exerts no influence over me, compared to the influence the government exerts over me.
Plea bargaining is the modern equivalent to medieval tortured confessions. There is no incentive to look too closely.

http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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Oh wow, wasn't aware of that.
First of all, what's "prevailing rent" now would be "ridiculously expensive" few years back. That's lack of supply skewing market.

There should be other options than building in your backyard. Find underused places and build up there. The biggest problem is what to build and how: it's amazingly easy to screw this one up (too sparse? too dense? too high? too low?)
How much of that is down to climatological differences?
How did you think they display those inline previews?
Housing overshadows pretty much all other expenses in the Bay Area. So the key is simple: if renting, spend as little as you can. Then try to buy, so that you can be on the receiving end of the increasing housing costs.
One more proof:Interviewing on whiteboard does not work
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Just to play devil's advocate, maybe the requirements really are way over the line. In that case I wouldn't hold any grudges. Just because something is classified a felony doesn't mean it's morally wrong.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not suggesting this guy taking the dive for the execs is ok, just that someone lying about emission test results may not be as horrible as they're trying to make it sound.
The kernel extension implements Dropbox Infinite.
Your comment seems to imply that the people in favor of income redistribution are the ones that think that way.

But so do those who are against redistribution. I've yet to meet a person who was against redistribution, as well as against certain benefits they get from tax money (police force, etc).

Taxpayer provided services is income redistribution. Some people's incomes are being used to provide other people services.

Everyone wants free shit. That's why your comment is a bit of a non-statement. It's similar to saying "Everyone likes food". Or "Everyone likes money." It doesn't explain anything.
Add to this idea the Redhat-Centos rulebook: Make the project name and assets with trademarks (non GPL) so if the customer wants to distribute the code they need to rip off the trademarks (name and images) from the project.
Europeans also use credit cards way differently. Pretty much all cards now have EMV crypto chip which makes traditional credit card fraud impractical. The merchants pay for the EMV terminals themselves, and the risk of offline, non-EMV transactions is born by the merchant alone. This greatly diminishes the risk of the payment processor.

AFAIK EMV terminals are not required in the US, and the payment processor bears all the risk. This could explain why they must charge higher fees, too.
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One more thing

Since I have set-up both in production (and more than once) I can tell you for a fact. Kube is easier to setup and easier to run with less problems along the way.

Since I am running essentially the same cluster on kube that I ran on mesos, this is a no-bullshit comparison.

[To be fair]
I never used dc/os, I used marathon and chronos on top of mesos.
Last year, the Justice Department implemented new guidelines that call for linking individual accountability as part of corporate investigations.

It's ridiculous that this is only being done now - everyone in the US has been screaming for it since the financial crisis in 2007-08.
Motivation? Developing applications and services people truly enjoy.

Dream? Writing code that is used continuously in production for centuries. ;)
most likely they are going after this like a drug dealing or racketeering outfit, from the bottom up, using plea bargain testimony to make the path easier as they go.

but if not, yeah, this would be a farcical miscarriage of justice if a bunch of engineers end up taking the fall for this.
And Seafile is open source, too.
Here's in interesting ted talk on an international aid issue that not talked about alot:

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-hidden-reaso...
Point taken.

I don't watch either station so I was making an accuracy assumption about the post I was replying to. I don't watch Fox either but I unfortunately have relatives that often put it on when I visit. I think they believe the brainwashing will eventually convert me from my evil liberal Libertarian ways.[1]

[1] Thinking Libertarians are liberal is amusing in itself, people don't know what to do with a party that has both liberal and conservative views

And now I prepare for the down votes.
Thank you for sharing this theory. I agree with the theory that low interest rates are meant to incentivize riskier investments and can lead to runaway prices in capital asset classes that eventually must correct because they don't provide consumer value. However, based on this theory, the current actions of corporations and investors are rejecting the incentive to place riskier bets and I can't see run away prices on a capital asset on the macro us or global scale as we saw with housing from 80s to 2008. Perhaps capital allocation managers implicitly agree with the theory and taking cautionary steps to avoid the bust.

But I wonder if this fear of busts is holding back innovation. Society is helpless to progress at a faster rate because God forbid there is another bust and people lose jobs and hope about the future. I think companies are waiting with cash in hand to buy up the good deals in an expecting bust. But I would prefer to have the cash used for risky ventures and I accept the bust outcome.
Ford was also the only major American car company that didn't need a bailout when other auto Titans were groveling for cash. I wouldn't count them out of the race just yet.
I think you'd have to "take one for the team" and play the game until you get to or near the top then introduce it. Probably true of a lot of changes that should be made in places like that. That's assuming you have the will power to not be turned into what you're trying to change or get washed out.
>I personally think governments should regulate media outlets in proportion to their influence on people's lives. FB is the new IE.

IE went into a decades-long decline, because superior products came to market. No regulation required.

Who regulates the governments in proportion to their influence on people's lives?

I wish my government didn't bomb other countries. Can I stop paying taxes, so I can stop supporting the murder of people around the world?

You're asking an organization that backs its wishes with the threat of violence and jail to regulate an organization that lets you keep up with your friends hiking accomplishments.

Facebook could be irrelevant in five years. The laws you're asking to be implemented would be in place for another 100. Are you sure this is a good idea?
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Oh shit, you're right. I never look at that side of my MBP, I totally thought they'd moved to Thunderbolt-only. I'm actually really surprised it still has HDMI.

Still, I think the last non-USB-C Macbook didn't have HDMI either.
You can use `git stash apply` to apply the stashed changes without removing them from the stash.
This is a very good explanation of why some humans might have negative emotional reactions to a rational discussion of science.

Nevertheless, jpablo is right to call this out as a terrible failure of rationality on our part. 20 years before I was born, some folks that vaguely look like me were total jerks to other folks that look a bit different from me! That doesn't mean I should turn off my brain and reject science that triggers negative emotions.

Ignoring reality won't help us achieve our goals, whatever they happen to be.
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."—Calvin Coolidge
FWIW, I switched from an iPhone 4 to a Z3 Compact because it was the only decent "small" phone available. But a 4.6 inch screen is not actually "compact", as far as I'm concerned. I switched back to iPhones for the SE, which isn't that much physically smaller, but is a lot more usable nonetheless.

It turns out the important dimensions are the overall width (for being able to hold it one handed) and the screen height (to reach everywhere with your thumb), and the iPhone SE's top and bottom bezels don't screw up either of those.

With the Z3C you can hold it one handed, but you can't use it effectively unless you have gigantic hands. Making a phone fit in one hand isn't enough; if the entire face is covered with screen then it still takes two hands to operate it.
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Patrick @ Stripe just shared via Twitter that he sent original idea for stripe to patio11.

To which patio11 perfectly replied that note had gotten stuck in his spam folder :)

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/774309309874221056
There are a number of ways to do this. You could have your CI system create the new object manifest (say nodeapp1.yaml) completely with the image: nodeapp:$version. You could have your CI system do a simple sed, like;

sed -i -e 's^:latest^:'$VERSION'^' kube/myapp-deployment.yaml

Regardless of how you do that, then your CI/CD can run simple kubectl commands to deploy the new container;

kubectl apply -f kube/nodeapp-deployment.yaml --record

One of the problems here I've yet to tackle is if the deployment fails and you're doing rolling updates you won't get an exit for the build to fail in CI/CD. I need to do a call to the kubernetes api to see which revision of the container/deployment is now running and compare it to the previously running version to fully automate CI/CD. Haven't had time to set this up but I will soon unless I discover a better method.

Edit: Also I just realized my numbers are 1, 1, 2, 3. Woops.
You can dispute a charge on a debit card the same as on a credit card. Just say the merchandise was not what you ordered and you attempted to return it and they wouldn't take it back. Include in your dispute the email from them saying they won't take it back (or notes about the phone call).

They will suddenly want to get it back, and most likely will not argue against the dispute.

The rules are pretty clear on this stuff from Visa and Mastercard-- retailers are on the hook. With the kind of fraud they deal with ,being able to actually get the item back from the customer is a good thing for them.

Their return policy is asinine and counter productive. Maybe they think that so many customers will just eat the charge it is worth it.

But I would highly doubt you will lose your dispute (unless your bank is terrible.)

I have disputed various things over the years, when running into bad merchants. Only once has the dispute not gone in my favor -- and I no longer do business with that bank (Wells Fargo, it was a particularly egregious situation too. Over a $60 dispute they have lost $400 a year in revenue.)
Only if nothing's changed in the meantime, which certainly isn't the case.
Why does dropbox need to bring up a fake dialog? They could do the same with the system one.
patio11: I was just about to start making some progress on Starfighter... are you going to be able to leave it up, or does it cost too much?
In theory moving to a new job is an effective way of increasing salary.
Which branch are you building?

For the first time I was able to complete a build last night, Ubuntu 16.04, CUDA 8.0 RC + compiler patch, cuDNN 5.1, nvidia-driver-370, python-2.7, and compute capability 6.1 (for Pascal GPU) - but only when I switched to the r0.10 branch.

With r0.10 I see none of the multiple failure modes that I always see with master. It just went straight ahead and compiled the whole thing.
It is so possible to be happy without FB. Just decide your life is fine, despite the occasional time lags in you discovering certain information.

FWIW, I deleted my FB account months ago, and my quality of life has gone up. If someone expects me to be available via FB, I give them my email address.
>>how often do you audit source code?

>You would be surprised!

It doesn't really matter if you do. OpenSSL is one example showing there are critical mistakes of grand level everywhere, same as there might be cleverly hidden backdoor in that multi-100k source tree (or any of the myriad of dependencies) you "audited".
Fourier methods are good, but only when your potential is decaying slowly. If it decays fast, like van der Waals interaction which are plentiful in MD, you just have to do the plain n-body approx.
Not wanting to do the concept for Starfighter any injustice but I get the feeling it's as simple as they spent too much time on the tech and not enough on the business. A very easy mistake when the co-founders are technically minded.
How do you define "advancement" without happiness? What are you advancing toward?
Credit union or bank?
The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple).

Which API are you using that allows you to circumvent the OS X Accessibility Permissions control dialog? Or do you mean you're simply asking for administrative permissions in order to write directly to TCC.db? And in that case, what mechanism are you using to circumvent the permissions structure to permit you to rewrite to TCC.db without re-requesting the user's permission?
Can you explain your thoughts a bit more on what might be that "gateway"?
It was smart when semi companies became IP shops and outsourced fabrication, clambering up the value chain and expanding margins. I predict it will be seen as similarly smart for Ford to invest in software now.
16 seconds versus a fraction of a second. There's a big difference, somewhere, in what these two systems are doing to accomplish (ostensibly) the same task. And if it's not accomplishing the same task, they shouldn't be using the same verb (grep) for it.

And I disagree with this point:

Things like search time are *not* a productivity bottleneck.

I maintain old codebases. I don't know them by heart, I didn't write them and the documentation is often poor (for the codebase, the specs are usually decent, but that's the system spec, not the code spec). Search is critical for me to get around these things. A 16s search would be incredibly annoying and bottlenecking compared to one that's nearly instant.

Not having looked at the internals of either, I wonder if this is related to other performance differences in grep implementations across *nix systems.

EDIT: Exploring this, it seems they don't do the same thing? `git grep` searches, by default, only the most recent working tree or revision. It doesn't search every revision unless you tell it to. `hg grep` (don't have it installed) seems to search every revision by default, so restricting it to the current revision requires an explicit command line option specifying the revision range to search.
A couple of big auto companies are doing this in one form or another, GM have a start up arm based in Kitchener and Nissan are advertising for jobs at a new connected transport "start up" spread across SV, Paris and Tokyo. I'm sure there are plenty of others doing something similar.
Did you ask a coworker, or just someone random? If it was a coworker, that's... really weird.
It's almost always the little guys who take the fall. The banking crisis resulted in very few criminal charges...a lot of lower level employees lost their jobs and otherwise faced consequences, while the executives continued on as though nothing happened (they maybe took somewhat smaller bonuses that year, and acted chastened by the whole sordid affair, of course).

I suspect it'll be the same, though at least the CEO resigned over this. I'm sure Winterkorn remains a multimillionaire, and will continue to enjoy his freedom and lack of criminal record.
>I've seen people (myself included) that moved production clusters from mesos to Kube just because the activity of the development and how secure they feel with the community and the project going forward.

This is a bit disappointing and disconcerting to hear! I understand that technology doesn't happen in a vacuum, but when you have two well supported/known technologies, picking the most 'popular' one rather than something based on technical merit is a huge issue for me.
Luckily I don't own it, since it's unplayable for me anyway and I'm only buying DRM-free games. Just commenting on reports of those who tried to run it in Wine (expecting it to work because it's using Vulkan, and Wine already supports Windows Vulkan), and failed because of DRM.
Sure. But I've always heard that's because of CC company policies rather than laws?
The defendant has the option of pursuing a trial. If the defendant loses the trial, there is usually a more severe sentence.

The justice system in the US is "adversarial." The product of the process is the verdict. Any official information entered into the public record is a side product, not a primary.

In cases where a prosecutor thinks the public information is more important, they have the option of not pursuing a deal.
Yes, it is true that higher wages lead to fewer jobs, all else being equal, especially in the presence of free trade. The difference here is that corporations are not people. I don't care if they starve, as long as the people have somewhere to live.

Indeed, wages that go up increase fulfillment, all else being equal, but housing costs that go up increase civil unrest. It is not good for housing prices to increase unnecessarily.

Perhaps your discomfort is cognitive dissonance? If so, bravo. There are a lot about economics that defy common notions of decency, and you have to push through it to make decisions that bring actual long-term benefits. Human cognition is defective that way, but our remarkable intellect allows us to understand the bigger picture.
> IE went into a decades-long decline, because superior products came to market, because superior products came to market. No regulation required.

The decline followed behavioral changes in response to regulatory action and ongoing litigation (even it began before the resolution of the litigation), so I'm not sure you can concluded from it that regulation was unnecessary to the outcome.
Ah, I see what I was missing before: there's a patch 1 of cuda 8.0, which adds gcc 5.4 support, and is installed in the cuda section using:

sudo sh cuda_8.0.27.1_linux.run --silent --accept-eula
The problem occurs when you amend a commit that someone else is already using. That is rewriting the shared history. A merge commit is required to get the branches in sync again.

Amending your commit in your own feature branch or fork isn't a problem. I often amend commits to make a cleaner git history to ease PR/code review.

git checkout master
git checkout -b 10-new-feature
# Make changes
git add example.code
git commit
git push origin 10-new-feature
# Oops... left a debug message, fix it.
git add example.code
git commit --amend
git push -f # Rewrites the remote history with your local modified version

Consider --amend as the "Just the last commit" form of rebasing.
The original blogpost has samples and everything, resulting in a much better article

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
Actually, we arguably do. Go try to price a US health insurance policy with the same level of coverage and cost insulation [1] you could get in Europe: get ER or primary care, at any time, with the promptness they would get for appointments, while never paying anything other than the premiums.

I'd be surprised if you could even find such a policy.

[1] And, of course, the same "we won't pay for this" cutoffs impose by e.g. UK's NICE board.
Er... press isn't supposed to be regulated.

Unless that was your point?

The first amendment says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...

Where do you get that we should regulate the press?

Obviously you could argue that the constitution is wrong, and that's fine with me. It's just a document, but when you say "it has to be regulated..." what is the mechanism you're referring to?
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To me it started with a POC with the feeling "Hey, this thing is interesting lets try it out". The ease of use and the stability of it impressed me so much that I moved everything on top of kube. I know of at least one more company that did the exact same thing and now all their production infra is running on top of Kube.
What if someone maims me, or murders a close relative, and I feel the only way to repair the harm I've suffered is to punish the offender?

"Hurting criminals" isn't just done to deter future crimes, it's done to satisfy the needs of the victims.
He signed up to be accountable for this. It's a way.

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