skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama has granted pardons or clemency to well over 100 people while in office. He has directed the DOJ to fill the pipeline of clemency cases for him to review before he leaves office, with a focus on people sentenced under harsher guidelines that were revised while he was in office.

Obama won't pardon Snowden not because Snowden doesn't have the right friends. He won't do it because it would be a politically unpopular move. Everyone can get behind pardoning someone sentenced to life for shoplifting under a three strikes law. Snowden is much more divisive.
> Second, both black finishes exemplify Apple’s obsession and mastery with materials engineering.

But first, the Jet Black one is going to scuff and nick like hell. But because of feelings Gruber thinks it's both better and a demonstration of materials mastery and engineering.

Thanks Gruber, 12 paragraphs defining why a poor materials choice that requires a case (which counters the thinness of the phone which was the justification for why the headphone jack is gone) is a demonstration of mastery.

Here's the tl;dr of any Gruber review of an Apple product, he loves it. All the issues are examples of courage, and all the real problems don't get talked about ("where the whatchamacallit jack used to go"). He'll point out a token "problem" but, just like in this example, he then goes on at length about why it's actually some bold solution to a problem that's not actually a problem but is really about how dumb some users are (so dumb that the thing they're doing wrong even gets an entire paragraph of a footnote about how Apple is even helping them through the hopeless superstitious morass of their lives).

Even points that might be interesting to read about (the camera) can't be trusted because he's such a compromised reviewer.

A much better, and still favorable, review is the other one on the front page today by the Verge. There's issues with that review as well, but at least the information in the review is well balanced and considered and not thousands of words of apologia and user blaming.
That's because we hire computer scientists when what we want is developers.

Addendum: The end result of this confusing mixture of market forces is a fleet of workers unskilled at either.
I daresay, for recent college graduates, buying used cars and even clunkers has been common for a very long time.
I think it's important to take the bigger picture into account here. Letting us know who she is was a key part of that comment, since it's immediately relevant to the content.
Several countries in Europe undoubtedly require businesses to accept all denominations of euros with the qualification of denying change (for obvious reasons, try paying 10EUR with a 500EUR bill).

Some places limit the number of coins you can use (there were people paying fines with hundreds of coins).
Gravitational pull 'has role in quakes'
I've never heard Eleven Madison described as farm to table. The authoritative tone claimed in your original post is becoming more and more dubious.
Show HN: Wagstarter – just launched after 6 wks dev, feedback needed
Every rule has its exceptions. Sometimes it's nice to be able to quickly verify that the person answering a very specific comment about a specific company works at that company by avoiding the initial confusion or having to click anything. Let's not be overscrupulous.
Why would Obama suddenly stop whistleblower persecution? It's the one thing he will be famous for. And you can't ruin a bad reputation.
I sort of feel the same way. But then again people have different interests. And he happens to spend a lot of words on black vs. jet black, but still in the end concludes: "But what matters is what happens when you turn them on and use them."
Dunno but Gruber doesn't use a case and he's not writing this review for the average iPhone buyer. He's writing for people like him who are obsessive about these details.
not necessarily. if they get paid to do the tests whether or not it there is a positive or negative outcome, that incentive is reduced.

The choice of 3rd party should be open, transparent and done by the regulating agencies.
Yes, I don't own a car because I don't care... It has nothing to do with my crippling student loan debt and my need to live within walking distance of public transportation.
In addition to never use `sudo !!`, on systems that I use, the sudo is aliased to the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash

echo -n "Are you SURE you dumbass? [N/y] " >/dev/stderr
read -n 1
if [ "$REPLY" = "y" ]; then
echo >/dev/stderr
exec /usr/bin/sudo "$@"
else
exec echo -e "\n:-)" >/dev/stderr
fi

That way even if I already typed my password, I systematically get asked if I'm sure I want to execute the command.
S/he means you think YOU'RE the problem, rather than the victim.
Yes. The real libtiff people are trying to resolve that with the domain owner; he seems to be at least a little bit more cooperative than the libtiff.org one.
This is so much letting other people or countries decide what you should do. The Land of the Free should make its own decisions, no matter what China or Russia finds.

In my opinion, Snowden did something really patriotic, but you may have another definition of what patriotic means.

Even if Russia forced information out of him, against his will, that should not block a pardon. Then it's even more important that he tells the US what he told them.
Good luck immigrating to Australia if you think the US has "closed down" - you might get stuck in a concentration camp on an island.

Belgium is a little special because of the fragile Flemish vs. Walloon "ethnic tension". It seems to be stable so long as both sides are permitted equal subsidy.
This is marked as a dupe but is clearly not. Of course flag abuse is nothing new on HN for Apple articles.
Not really.

Eclipse doesn't have a nice Swing/JavaFX UI designer like Netbeans does, EMAT isn't a match to the Netbeans profiling tools and the web tooling from Netbeans allows workflows not possible in Eclipse.

For example when editing JSF files you automatically get completion to the session beans, or JavaScript code. Editing JavaScript code takes into account the JSLint documentation and besides completion there is static analysis taking place as one types.
I don't know anything about the space, so I won't comment on the concept, but on a very superficial level: too much text, not enough images above the fold! I can't exactly pinpoint what i don't like about the texts, but they somehow seem a bit complicated to me.
Anyone know why GitLab insists on "Merge Requests", while BitBucket, Github & others have "Pull Requests"?
Never mind, I found it in the Gist...

https://gist.github.com/sacreman/b77eb561270e19ca973dd505527...

1 x DalmatinerBD server
GCE n1-standard-16 (16 cpu, 60GB memory, 1 x 375G local SSD disk)

I would assume that is the same setup they used for all the other tests, though not clear about that yet

Anyone know the network bandwidth on these instance types?
To make it even worse I also can't handle fruits and berries. They also give me headaches because of their sugar. Getting decent carbs is really hard.
Donald Trump, Pepe the frog, and white supremacists: an explainer
"Yet". I'm sure it will... just give it more time
Think there's room for more nuance around saying inequality increases as wealth increases. Eg a public transit system and a limousine service could both increase the wealth of a community but might have different effects on inequality. Services like Facebook or google naturally lead to extreme inequality due to the information availability differing between the company and consumers.
The McDonalds prompting sounds more like a use of the Nearby Notifications API in Play Services ( https://developers.google.com/nearby/notifications/overview ) than simply due to location monitoring. I can't say for sure, though.
Use uBlock Origin, not uBlock.
My cofounder and I were vet school classmates. Wagstarter is a labor of love that I've always wanted to build, so in August I finally got busy on it.

I would appreciate any and all feedback, no matter how harsh, especially on design, copy, and overall feeling you get from the site.

It's really hard getting initial traction on something like this, so if you like Wagstarter, I would appreciate you sharing it with your friends.
Is that more than usual? The NSA has your number, anyway.
I was just about to point this same thing out. Asking good questions works so much better than trying to tell them how they are wrong, so after validating them start questioning their logic (or lack of logic). I actually learned about this in therapy to assist in communicating better with my wife (who has a personality disorder) and then later realized it's the Socratic method. Validating the things you agree with is still important too, but this article is missing the second part where you question their claims.
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This is so confusing, why do ad blockers do that?

For adblock, there is "adblock" and "adblock plus"

For uBlock, there is "uBlock" and "uBlock Origin"

Are there similarities between both those cases?
The nice thing is that every libtiff tarball contains a copy of the web site. So at https://rawgit.com/vadz/libtiff/master/html/index.html you can view a partially functional site (the images don't work very well).
Been there done that, too much work.
Thanks, appreciate that feedback.
Sorry, it's not clip that has problems with Unicode, but rather PowerShell when piping to native commands. I should have remembered that fact.

One can set $OutputEncoding to UTF16LE to make things work. In that case, clip has no problems with Unicode, but by default PowerShell will use CP1252 when piping data to native programs. Maybe the variable can be set differently only for your module.
Ad++ :)
I love the part about AssistiveTouch. I was just in China last week and also noticed this and couldn't explain it. I thought it had something to do with Chinese writing/characters. But this makes more sense: "why don’t they click the home button? Because of a widespread misconception that the home button will wear out, thus reducing the resale value of the iPhone."
Sports go in and out of fashion all the time. For example, in the communities that I'm involved in, open boat canoeing has been on a fairly long-term decline but paddleboarding is extremely popular, at least in the Northeast, these days--which requires big and hard-to-transport gear. Sea kayaking remains pretty popular as well, as far as I can tell.

Not sure what the overall hiking stats are. I can say that a lot of national park visitation (such as to Acadia in Maine) is up. https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/SSRSReports/Park%20Specific%20Rep... (I'm told it's way up this year. The speculation is that Americans are putting off travel to Europe for various reasons.)
I dont understand the how/why it is, though. anyone have more information?
Public Cloud – Someone Else's Data Center or Something Else?
Right now, Gerrit and Phabricator give an almost unrivalled code review experience - the ability to queue multiple comments up and submit them at once, mark previous things as fixed, keep track of a patch as it evolves along with the comments that were made against it. However the Github/Gitlab PR flow is easier for most occasional contributors.

My question to Gitlabbers following this thread: do you have anything in the works for improving code review to better match some of the use cases which are handled so well by the Gerrit/Phabricator approach?
I just mentioned it because I'm familiar with it and I am excited about the .NET Core stuff letting you use it in more places.
Brace expansion can also be nested:

$ echo {a..c}{1..5}
a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 c1 c2 c3 c4 c5

It is worthwhile noting that brace expansion is strictly textual and is performed before any other expansion.
As a gen X-er, we didn't have new cars when we were young, either. My mother said it was a bit of a problem - good cars required less skill to drive, but it was older people with skill that got them. Meanwhile the young, inexperienced drivers have the crappy old cars that you really should have some experience before driving them (For example, I remember driving for half a kilometer on a dead-flat tyre because I didn't recognise the feel of that pull. Something felt wrong, but I had no idea what...)
He cannot pardon him right now. That would be too controversial in the US, and it might reflect on Clinton. But after the elections, or in the last month of his presidency, he might do this without consequenses.
>It has kept me thinking what "intuition" really is, how it develops and happens in the brain, and what would be needed to build AI that has intuition.

http://danroy.org/papers/FreRoyTen-Turing.pdf -- TOWARDS COMMON-SENSE REASONING VIA CONDITIONAL SIMULATION: LEGACIES OF TURING IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

http://www.mit.edu/~tomeru/thesis/tomerThesis.pdf -- On the Nature and Origin of Intuitive Theories: Learning, Physics and Psychology
Testing Angular 2 apps – Part 1
I agree. Its a pretty tough problem, however it is good to cross the bridge when it comes. If the search engine stays really niche, perhaps it may not even be worth it for the spammers, while doing enough to cater to the somewhat self-selecting audience. For example, the number of people who want to get to the front page of HN is likely to be a really minuscule fraction of people wanting to get to the top of search results.

Also, I wonder if is it possible to detect promotional content by analyzing things like call to actions and such?
It's to be expected. If you ran a hardware company, wouldn't you give the free/early access units to those who give the warmest of reviews?
fanbois gonna fanboi
A trick I used to use in the floppy disk era:

$ mount /mnt/floppy
$ mv !$/file_I_needed .
$ u!mo

The last command would umount(8) the floppy.

I use !! all the time, specially when first using find to see which files I will operate on and then doing the actual operation:

$ find . -name '*Foo*.scala'
path/src/main/scala/foo/Foo.scala
path/src/test/scala/foo/FooSpec.scala
$ git add "$(!!)"

Shameless plug: I actually use nq, my find wrapper: https://github.com/rbonvall/nq
Hey there - we have a process for requesting usernames that aren't being used actively.

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/support/#dormant-usernames...
The thing with OpenOffice is that (mostly) everyone abandoned it for a better governed fork long before it got handed to the ASF.
The Right to Be Forgotten in Your Application
Not that I'm aware of. There is no way to even verify the card.
https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=45876

||acceptableserver.com^ and might as well ||combotag.com^
MSG sounds like a scary chemical, while sugar does not. Maybe we should call it a sucrose tax instead?
I dunno about the first, but the second looks oddly reminiscent of when i had a N800 and the router at home didn't have a first clue about wifi power saving.

IIRC how wifi does it is that the device signals the router and then shuts down the radio for some 100s of ms. This indicated to the router to hold the packets.

Now if the router do not have a clue about the signal, it would likely treat the device as gone. So when it comes back on and expects to continue from where it left off, the router gets royally confused.

Not sure why doing a dhcp request would fix it though, but then i have not the first clue about OSX innards.
Existence IS meaningless, this is the very beauty of it: you can give it any meaning you want.

You can even give your superego a face and think there is a big guy in the sky that loves you and cares about what you do.
What's your opinion on double-blind randomized medical trials where half the people are given placebos, and the other half are given treatments that have not been fully proven to be safe & effective.
The 32-bit version is free.

I agree that any comparison skipping it is meaningless, it is the "standard" in this space, to the extent there is one.
From 2007 to 2011, the number of cars purchased by people aged 18 to 34, fell almost 30%, and according to a study from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, only 44% of teens obtain a driver’s license within the first year of becoming eligible and just half, 54% are licensed before turning 18.

It would have been nice to see more data. 2007 to 2011, car purchases among that age group dropped 30%. What did other age groups look like? That was right after the crash, so I suspect other stopped buying cars as well.

And what's with quoting how many teens get licenses? What did it look like 10 years ago? Was it the same?
What the diff?
What's a glaring problem from a cardgame standpoint and not due to simplification is there is no defined order of action in a turn. You can play cards, attack,trigger effects and then play other cards immediately and the outcome of such actions is not deterministic.

An exact sequence of events can be replicated with the timing of them altered and you'd get different outcomes.

Whole board affecting secondary effects can also have unpredictable interactions with cards in play's triggered abilities.

In MTG parlance, the "stack" is broken in Hearthstone.
Agreed. I run into this on Reddit from time to time - I see lots of the things I'm used to and would have read in the past, but I don't see the unexpected. When I occasionally browse before logging in I discover that there's a lot I'm missing.
The Nintendo DS did it over 10 years ago.
I might still have somewhere an archive of issues of "The Ambrosia Times"; before my family had a connection to the Internet, reading and rereading the Bitwise Operator column of The Ambrosia Times was my window into programming which went beyond what was taught in Dave Mark's "Learn C on the Mac" (although most of the content in those columns went way over my head, and I never programmed a game for the classic Mac OS which wasn't programmed either in Klik & Play or, later, in METAL BASIC).

> Escape Velocity

A game I recently described as "Poor Man's Sky" ; )

"Escape Velocity Override" is the only game in its series that I never completed, because of the registration "incentive" – "register or Captain Hector will steal X% of your credits (even before the thirty day trial period has elapsed)" was a surprise that left a nasty taste in my mouth, and I never went back to the game after that.

I still have a pilot file from an early (I think the first) version of "Escape Velocity Nova" which featured a "bug" which enabled me to play multiple contradictory plot lines to completion...

> Asteroid

Don't you mean "Maelstrom"?

And don't forget "Barrack"! Or "Apeiron"!
Powershell is probably the closest we have currently in terms of that experience.
Whoa, never thought of that. It's definitely possible. I'm going to give that a try. Thanks!!

Edit: It worked! (I used the cut stem of a q-tip instead, wasn't brave enough to try a paperclip; lots of lint)
How do you manage to claim that your computable logical inductor dominates the incomputable universal semimeasure?
It might be helpful to think of them both as open source projects (though it's slightly murkier) where there have been forks and drama in both codebases.
Lucy Kalanithi: “When Breath Becomes Air” [video]
As long as all you are concerned about is the difficulty of moving from one point to another (presumably of a minimum distance) you are correct. You probably are not accounting for the overhead of actually owning a properly maintained and insured vehicle. The former has little cumulative effect on your life, the latter is an really complicated situation fraught with personal choices and teeming with people trying to take advantage of your naivety. Cars are a huge responsibility, 100% luxury, and generally a burden, make no mistake about it.
4 star places are interesting to compare and contrast, but they're only a small fraction of the story as far as food critics are concerned. Moreover, for diners, they're typically rare special-event experiences.

You really have to investigate the 1/2/3-star places to see what's really exciting and up-coming. If you do that, almost every major city (hell, even many 'burbs and rural) has something special and worthwhile to offer.

Stack-ranking stuff like SF>NYC or #1,2, 3 or whatever is kind of pointless, as is saying that a sushi place is lesser because it lacks "decent" cooked fish. Much more fun to consider each restaurant on its own terms and in the context of the city and population it serves. All the great critics do that and while some may "stack/rank" their reviews, there's a lot to say about 2-star places (and no, 4 is not "greater" than 2, it depends on the occasion and the intent of the diner).
Gitlab's terminology is actually closer to the underlying VCS terminology.

git pull <branchname> // fetch <branchname> from a remote host AND merge it into the current branch.
git merge <branchname> // merge <branchname> into the current branch

I suspect it's someone's pet peeve that "Pull Requests" are named incorrectly and they got an opportunity to rename them when building Gitlab.
You always have a schema. The only choice you have is whether your tool helps you validate it or not.
Your remark is valid.
But admit that this post created the discussion.
And led to interesting information sharing.

So I +1 your comment. And I +1 the article too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11963551
Artificial Neural Networks, Elixir, and You
Maybe you're just checking it more often and so it appears to change less frequently?
Modern economy cars suck. They're less fuel efficient than they used to be, they have less power, they're not as stable and they're in need of constant repairs. They're also more expensive than they were 20 years ago. I could forgive a lot about a 10 year old Toyota Corolla when it was only $700. I'm not as forgiving now that a 10 year old Toyota Corolla is $5k.

If the cost wasn't enough, modern cars just aren't fun to drive. Compare the Honda Civic to my father's generation's idea of an economy car: The Ford Mustang. I'm told that car was a blast to drive and my father could afford one as a high school student.
> I think it also works with letters.

Indeed it does. According to the man page :
"When characters are supplied, the expression expands to each character lexicographically between x and y, inclusive, using the default C locale."

$ echo {a..z}

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

But it does not seem to work with ranges outside ASCII such as "à..é", "あ..お", or smileys range, even though my locale should be ".UTF-8" compliant.

Also, you can specify an increment value :

$ echo {0..42..7}

0 7 14 21 28 35 42

$ echo {z..a..3}

z w t q n k h e b
> He won't do it because it would be a politically unpopular move.

If that were important in granting pardons, Clinton wouldn't have pardoned Mark Rich. Those politically-opposed to Obama will remain so regardless of what he does, so he couldn't care less.
You clearly are ignoring fair use, because you are so invested in supporting incumbents for some reason. Would you like to tell why you think that just because someone makes something that a powerful incumbent doesn't like, that is must be shouted down. It wasn't even violating trademark because of fair use http://www.inta.org/TrademarkBasics/FactSheets/Pages/FairUse... . Why are you on their side, because clearly you are. Why? Is it because you are paid to do this? Something else? What is the position you are in? Because you trying to discredit the author so intently, you must have some interest, and it seems dishonest that you don't reveal it, because it is not a position a rational person observing would come up with, not in any way that I can think of anyway.
Sounds like you're going to have to find another job. I would take what ever they give kill it at your new position for about 6-12 months and then find a new job. Give it enough time to show a new employer you can do the new job.
How power affects the human brain