skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for clarifying.

Where we disagree is on your opinion that military and CIA activities should not be secret. Secrecy has been critical to maintaining strategic advantage in war and national security throughout history. Nothing has changed about that now. To suggest that we should blindly ignore this seems disconnected from the real world.

> We shouldn't make out standards by comparing us to other countries.

I can see how it might have looked as if that's what I was doing. I am not. To clarify - I don't think the illegal programs are justified at all, and Snowden was right to leak them. I do think the international intelligence programs are jusified. Not because we should do what others are doing, but because there are large and powerful countries who don't share ours interests and intend to undermine us.
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So that's like ~$400M of income per month? Their expenses are mostly royalties and those are probably spare change compared to that income. Not bad!
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More often I see comments downvoted further after asking why they are being downvoted, as it is against HN guidelines.
Wow. Not being able to drive a new $40K car, live in a big house with a yard (in the most expensive area of the US) and only have one spouse work is near poverty?
> Still stuck in Chrome though, just because there doesn't seem to be anything better.

I think Firefox is better. It cannot be trusted to sync one's passwords between devices, but then neither can Chrome. Other than that, I think Firefox is by far the better browser. It's fast enough, standards-compliant and made by people who love web browsers.
> The Citizens United decision opened up a peculiar loophole for foreign money. Federal law prohibits “foreign nationals” — a legal term encompassing foreign individuals, corporations and governments — from putting money into the U.S. political process. But federal law also states that any company legally incorporated in the U.S., no matter its ultimate ownership, is a U.S. national.

> This was not a significant concern prior to the Citizens United decision, because corporations had been largely barred from spending money on federal elections. By lifting that ban on corporate political donations, Citizens United changed the equation and made it possible for a corporation that is 100 percent owned by foreigners to participate in U.S. politics.

[0]https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/foreign-spending-on-u-s-...
There's a cost you're missing in your equation. Automobile accidents are a major cause of death, particularly for individuals in their prime productive years (unlike, say, cigarettes which still typically wait until you're toward the end of your career to kill you). If automated cars can achieve even a fraction of the reduction in automobile deaths that they're predicted too, any developing nation would be stupid not to heavily subsidize widespread deployment of this tech.
The humor of oppressed Soviets, particularly Soviet Jews, is perhaps the best I have read.

This may be more modern, but one that I love is, "Once you've been in the military, the circus isn't funny anymore."
Maybe now they can start building basic quality of life features like offline Last.FM scrobbling that have been in demand for 4+ years!
> I wonder how much more free time we would have, if only 10% of workforce that currently does web/mobile/game apps (including myself) would apply their skills to automating their daily life with simple robots.

The skills for building a robot are quite different from the skills for building "classical" software. For example for classical software one can do correctness proofs/analysis, while for robots one can only do empirical tests or correctness proofs relative to a strongly abstracted world model. So in other words: Applying their (existing) skills into that direction would not have much value. On the other hand: If these people were investing years to develop the skills necessary for robot development, this would probably help; but who of this group is really willing (and can afford) to do so?
Such as, for one example that's been used to great effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_bomb
To quote a man who was actively surveilled by the US government for much of his later life and no one believed him...

"They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."

-Earnest Hemingway
you can actually buy only one of those cars!
Fair enough; when I said most people I meant companies who are not AmaGooFaceSoft and their international equivalents. Though I can't quite tell if you're doing GPU batch predictions and storing them or doing them in realtime with Spark Streaming.

Unrelated question though: any chance you will do blog post/paper about how DSSTNE does automatic model parallelism and gets good sparse performance compared to cuSparse/etc?
This seems more like an analytics workload.. you are querying a bunch of things you can't index ahead of time.

Why not put GPUs on your analytics machines? Or a cluster of them with SPARK. Or heck, distribute the spark cluster on top of your database.
> Try explaining rent to kids.

When it comes to kids, we often call it sharing. Billy has a toy truck you want to play with. You have a action figure he wants to play with. If you each share what you have, then everyone is happy.

That is all rent is. Billy has a house, you have cash. He wants to play with cash, and you want play house. If you each share what you have with each other, everyone is happy. Pretty simple.
They borrow from other banks or from the Fed. Borrowing from the Fed is generally more expensive, though.

In general, yes, the aggregated loans and deposits are largely tied together. There some fuzziness even here, though, as the Fed can inject money or move loans onto their books in a number of ways.
Got to suggest, emails may not be the way he would communicate concerns. Especially knowing what he did about how email is not private.
What's your point? Regardless of the personalities involved, I don't think anyone has refuted the facts of the leaked documents. Yes, humans are human and nobody is a perfect angel or robot ... but what does that have to do with the facts of what was released?
Perhaps... some companies would see that as an advantage? If you were a company who only wanted to hire young people with no family to keep them from working 70 hours a week, then locating in Silicon Valley could be a great strategy.
I think there's a fair amount of room for a workflow that does most meaningful commandline manipulation inside the editor, in which case leaving vim in emacs mode and "just" knowing C-r and C-x C-e could be sort of reasonable.

I certainly understand being skeptical of "vim modes" - they are often incomplete in painful ways. As mentioned above, I often run up against the limitations of bash vim mode when trying to change what's inside quotes.
Singapore is pretty much the success poster child for government-corporate central planning. Otherwise it would still be a fort on a rock.
Spritz---a spongy RC4-like stream cipher and hash function
Also: The Bolt is rumoured to have a 60kwh pack, I'd be interested to know how GM are building those at that price point.
One of the perks of being an engineer is I can spend less on my attire and grooming.

I shave once every two weeks. Most of the time I have a scruffy patchy beard. I love being lazy. The downside is I'm perpetuating a bad stereotype. Perhaps engineers would have higher social status if we dressed the part.
Pretty soon competition in ad-blockers will result in advertisements.

The first guy to invent the Ad-blocker-Blocker will be rich. That is, until someone creates the Ad-blocker-blocker-Blocker. Then that is the guy who will be rich. That is, until the....
whistleblower protection?
Do you really expect to get resource data when you send POST or DELETE request? If yes, then web (and REST) is not as perfect as you expect.
I know someone who worked at the ATC over the summer, so I asked him. He said there is no sure fire way to get a self driving one. You basically have to get lucky with the time of day and your start and end points being within the zone they are testing. I'm pretty sure the zone is the downtown area and areas near it. But I don't have exact details.
The evil demon which Descartes described is very real - it is one's own mind conditioned by dogmas, traditions and so called collective consciousness, and the illusions that such a mind produces are as good as real.

Simulations can tell nothing new about the true nature of reality, because any simulator would reflect the current assumptions up to date and will be based on an oversimplified model. Weather simulation is not a weather. Map is not a territory.
Every generation they have claimed this and indeed their SOC's have been impressive but showing one benchmark that doesn't include any intel or AMD "desktop" chips for comparison is a bit ridiculous.
Why compare the picture of a chassis in an assembly line to an advertisement picture of another? Of course the first one looks unfinished, because it is unfinished.

Hatchbacks are practical. If I just want a car that looks as nice as Tesla, I can get a Ford Mondeo.
Many documentaries have been broadcasted on TV in France about Mosanto. It was depicted a the evil personified (like http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsan...). Most of this must be correct because no repeated broadcast has been prohibited.

Now, I wonder if this was a plot. Maybe Bayer has favored these broadcasts to reduce the cost of takeover. Maybe Bayer is worst than Mosanto. Welcome paranoia.
By calling Iraq a disgrace you are effectively calling the 9/11 a micro-disgrace. That's how these two differ in the order of numbers of lives lost.
Next up, the Sonicwallmare.
Maybe by leasing them, and recycling? Something creative anyway.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInforma...
Good point. At some point in life you won't be able to run away from standing up for what you believe in (at perhaps small or medium risk to self) or else direr consequences may result.

If you believe he acted ethically, then sign the thing with me.
> To give a tongue in cheek example, how many countries have someone "in charge" with a PhD (in a STEM field)?

If you are hinting at Angela Merkel: She rather got chancelor despite having a PhD in physics.
Time spent cooking isn't a factor when determining the health of the meal.

I make five medium sized breakfast burrito's on Sunday night and refrigerate them. One every morning. That's a whole wheat wrap, a couple eggs, green peppers, and chopped onions. This takes me about a half hour on Sunday including cleanup and 5 seconds to grab one out of the fridge each morning. I supplement it with a granola bar.

I won't claim to be ultra concerned with my dietary balance, but you definitely don't need to spend a ton of time cooking to be healthy.
That car looks terrible also. I'm biased because I ordered a Model 3, but the Chevy Bolt looks like it was purposely made ugly to steer people towards combustion engine vehicles. They would have done better to make the Chevy Malibu body electric or hybrid.
One reason Pharma companies in other countries can sell drugs for far cheaper is that actual manufacturing costs of most drugs are pennies. Once an American company discovers a safe and effective drug, foreign companies can simply look at the publications on how to synthesize the drug and don't have to spend any cash on R&D.
Isn't GM the same company that knew about a faulty(possible fatal implications) ignition system and let it be because it wasn't cost effective to fix it publicly?
I grew wary of GM the moment I read that news and watched Jon Stewart butcher them on Daily Show.
I'd buy a Tesla definitely for their effort to improve safety more than the "coolness/tech" factor. If only I had so much money.

... flies away from HN to do the daily job ...
You would do well to read the article, specifically:

“WADA has been informed by law enforcement authorities that these attacks are originating out of Russia,”

A quick google search of Fancy Bears (the name the hackers have used on their release page) links them to APT28:

"APT28, as it's known by FireEye/Mandiant, is also called Tsar Team by iSIGHT Partners, Sednit by Eset, Fancy Bear by CrowdStrike, and Operation Pawn Storm by Trend Micro. This attack group goes after NATO, Eastern European government and military agencies, defense, and Russian adversaries, the report notes."

WADA didnt investigate, the investigation is done by competent security analysts, and whilst I am aware that anything is this sphere is possibly misinformation/propaganda from both sides, it would seem evident that after Russia were sanctioned for doping, then hackers release data on suspected US doping that there is an easy link to make. And there is very little to be gained by another adversary trying to make trouble between the US and Russia with such an attack.
consciousness can observe herself. the thought can't. the eyes can't observer himself. we should speak of autoconsciousness. the animal is consciousness but not autoconsciousness. the human can be autoconsciousness.
> A mode of thought I would expect in socialist countries, not the US...

The United States government has done an excellent bit of propaganda to convince the bulk of the public that they are the most free people on earth. We salute the flag and sing the national anthem at games. We have the presidents' pictures on the walls of our classrooms. We chant "USA" at political rallies.

But the government of the United States has perpetrated terrible violence and destruction of liberty against its own citizens and many more abroad. Through endless military engagement abroad to harassment, detainment, and imprisonment at home, the government serves its own interests first, and enhancing and preserving your liberty is not among them.

I should be very concerned about coming to the attention of anyone within government -- at any level. Even the local code enforcement board can extract time, energy, and money from you should you come under scrutiny.

But as others have said, you're already on the lists. No need to be paranoid. Go ahead and sign the Snowden petition. It's just one more data point on your dossier. The government already has enough on you to put you away for life if you become inconvenient to the state. Three Felonies a Day[1] and all that.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
That talk was by Chris, who you are replying to.
We had an office alarm system that would occasionally trigger incorrectly. It was movement and heat sensitive. The alarm would trigger on weekend afternoons. We were puzzled for weeks until it turned out to be a combination of the second hand on a clock and the sun shining through a window and warming it up.
I want all my spouses to work!
Some other countries make it work. Other other countries have health care systems that are way worse than the U.S.

So: it's good to know that things are different in other countries, but it doesn't actually address the point I was trying to make.

Of course single-payer works if we imagine that things in the U.S. are different from the way they actually are. Lots of things work that way.
The Bolt looks exactly like about half of the cars on the road here (Netherlands, but it's about the same anywhere else in Europe), that alone should be a pretty good indicator of its potential. I'm not so sure things would be different in the US, maybe they need to make a saloon at some point but other than that most cars I've seen on the road in the US are hideous as well...

As an aside, I personally think the Model 3 is absolutely hideous to look at. The Model S is very good-looking on the outside but not more so than most non-EV saloons in the higher segment. I don't think 'good looks' are going to save Tesla.
Author seems a bit biased against Tesla, and pro-GM. First off, no mention of the fact that Elon Musk has said that he wants competitors for Tesla. He wants the entire market for electric cars to expand (more potential customers for them, right?), and they have said that they can't do that all by themselves. This is why he has open-sourced Tesla's patents [1]. Second, the author says Tesla is reaching the limits of its potential. His evidence is that they are unlikely to meet Elon Musk's lofty production goals. If Musk gets to half of his production goals, that will be a huge success. This is how he constantly drives his company forward - by making huge promises that he knows Tesla will not meet, but will still be greeted as a giant leap forward.

It's the market's short-termism that has led to this epidemic of 'If you don't meet our arbitrarily-set profit goals designed to enrich us at the expense of almost every long-term goal, you are dead to us.' Musk is playing the long game, not Wall Street's game.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you
Let's not exaggerate. $100K/year in the Bay Area (as a single person) isn't living it up, but it's not "a near-poverty lifestyle." It's a "living in the East Bay with roommates, commuting at least an hour, (very) occasionally going out," lifestyle but it's eating good food with a roof over your head. If that sounds like poverty, well, you should see real poverty sometime.
How Cops Have Turned Baltimore into a Surveillance State
It's not so much about blocking as it is about delaying the module waterfall. E.g. a module that did `await new Promise(_ => setTimeout(_, 5000))` at the top would prevent any of its dependents from being loaded for 5 seconds.
EDIT: Dan below + another source told me this is actually legit.
Await essentially is blocking.
They already have offline for anybody with premium. It's a slider on any playlist to download it to disk.

Though I may misunderstand what you're asking for, as I don't quite get the Last.FM comment.
About Vim 8 and how to keep the Vim ecosystem healthy
Bots, BaaS and the Death of Apps
Is there any reason GM can't just make the bolt compatible with Tesla's super chargers? Seems like a win for both parties.
Then the problem is in the social norms concerning doing business with unpopular people, not with the knowledge that leads to my being unpopular. Personally, I will do business with anyone, no matter how much I dislike them, and I think it would be a good social norm.
Simone Giertz:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ
Thanks! I remember this now! That is one of the all-time great threads.
I'd wager a word-of-mouth campaign or televised PSA would sooner help kids that young (though I love the idea of the app).
Lets take the product of Silicon Valley, the Tesla. Even take the cheap one at $35,000. I don't think that is much to expect in a lifestyle also considering you make more than most people.

Henry Ford back in the day raised wages and cut hours because he noticed not even his employees had money or time to enjoy his product.

I think Silicon Valley is at this same point. Work your butt off to not enjoy life. If your single I think the economics work out but for families the area is very hostile.
> We knew as our family grew that we wouldn’t want to live with a roommate forever. So when the opportunity arose for me to supplement my salary by selling my Facebook stock, I took it. I’d been granted a few thousand shares when I got hired, and after the company had its IPO in 2012, I sold all the shares that had vested.

> We could finally rent a house for just our family, no roommate. It was great, but that also meant even larger housing costs. In order to afford that, selling stock became necessary every quarter it vested. Obviously, this is not the path to financial security, but when the sum of money that lands in front of you isn’t life changing, you look to the short term and what it can do for you right now. In many ways, this follows exactly with the Silicon Valley hustle that many startups fall into. The path in front of you isn’t always clear, so you hedge your bets.

WTF? If your day to day financial survival depends on selling stock as it vests you're either a) an idiot or b) backed into a corner. In this guys case, it should have been obvious when he started the gig that it wasn't sustainable. If not immediately, then when he moved out and started selling stock to cover renting a house.

A pretty simple rule is that you should be accumulating capital, not spending it to cover operating expenses. Sure if shit hits the fan, and it invariably will at some point, you will be spending from capital till you get back on your feet. But it shouldn't be a day to day thing.
They have used it to help anonymize data when collaborating.

I think they'd have a lot more trust if they explicitly gave information on their data retention periods.
An async function is non-blocking. await is blocking within the async function. Top-level await basically boils down to a proposal to wrap your entire app inside an async function.
The thoughts on recreational drugs are not conflicted (for the most part), they are separate thoughts from groups which are at odds with each other.
What I always recommend and didn't see in the comments at a glance:

Think of something you want to build, then build it. Learn the language as you go along. Pick whichever language seems like a good choice for your particular project (based on popular opinion). Learning OOP and how to build applications in one language transfers to other languages without much effort.

You also learn how to break down projects to simple tasks with this. If you want to build Facebook, first you need to have a simple HTML file. Then it needs to be served by Apache/Nginx. Then it needs JavaScript for UI behavior, then it needs a back-end framework for routing requests, then it needs a database for data persistence. Most projects can be broken down like this to make learning not the equivalent of drinking from a fire hose.
As someone that is a genius and have two little brothers that are geniuses... Nope... Still the same. Beaten down, considered bad, pressured by your parents ot be the best, impossible to talk about what you like.

I think the worst was when we went to see a councellor and, i quote :

Why are you coming to see me? He seems a Genius, he does not need any help. He has excellent results.

After hearing that, i just gave up. My results went down but still high enough to get into high maths and physics when i finally get into university. That was the two best years of my life and i would love to still be in that environment.

Luckily my brothers were able to jump some classes and so had to endure it for less years. That is all it does. Help them get out faster. It is just a loss of time for everyone.
This does not bode well for the next generation's social skills.
Regardless of specific events, you need look no further than their business models to see the difference:

Apple produces and sells premium devices (arguably fashion pieces) at a premium price. They make their money at the point of sale.

Google produces and contracts with manufacturers to produce devices, and provides services. They make their money with ads.

These are both widely known and accepted things, and these mean that Apple has a vested interest to NOT scrape your data, where Google has a vested interest to scrape as much of your data as they can.
Would you ask the same question if it was a boy called Max?