skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowden used journalists (really just greenwald) to vet the documents.

He did attempt to use internal channels.

His original intent was not to go to russia, it was a last resort.
Is South Park (still) cool?

I'm not sure what the best way to judge that is.
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=South%20par...
I've dealt with that in Düsseldorf and Graz, mainly.

It's an international problem.
I really do not understand the cynical posts here, but given the path for Ph.D.s trying to get tenure is getting more difficult. Deep Science ventures are providing a path ahead. I understand the writer is vested in his venture. I was watching the ultra-endurance documentary the one in Tennesse, he was telling its usually people with Masters or PhDs who excel at this because they are used to planning and preparation.

A Ph.D means you have higher than average IQ and you have grit, honestly, without will-power no body completes Ph.D. which have great correlation of success.

You can learn marketing (which is very important), improve you EQ with seminars but Depth of Ph.D. and grit to the finish line is not easy to get.

Its not automatic, but I agree with the essence of the article.

edit: I am not a Ph.D.
Pardon Snowden (for non-US citizens)
See elsewhere in this thread for why the comparison to sync XHR is very misleading.
> In general, Elastic Beanstalk works fine and has a very gentle learning curve; it didn’t take long for all teams to start using it for their projects.

This is one of the most pressing issues I tend to evaluate on infrastructures. I'm curious to see a few months down the line your opinion on how the dev teams embraced Kubernetes' setups independently or if they kept depending on a dev-ops team to do so.
You mean a training-effect?
In what way is it too simplistic? Is it not correct? I don't think I commented on whether or not it's good. Though I happen to think we'd be better off with a more democratically organized society.
Here is the thing...
https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-6-Cup-Stovetop-Espresso-Make...
According to comments and my own experience, it make a perfect coffee. But tedious to use.
I signed the petition at whitehouse.gov that got about 142,000 signatures... it didn't help much but I will take action here too.
Solving the First and Last Mile Problem with Kafka Part 1
Yes. Let's rephrase that first sentence.

"Any module with a dependency on data that it needs to execute will have to wait for that data before it executes."

That's a good thing.
There are already legal structures in place in every state in the US that define in excruciating detail the modalities of multi-owner real property. Many of these are used as vehicles to pass wealth on to heirs tax free and engage in a variety of other living arrangements (condominiums).

All this seems to me to be is a sophisticated company attempting to pass off as new and innovative to the unsophisticated public something that already exists.
Twitter Just Launched a New Video App for Amazon and Apple TV
Thank you, this is my point exactly. Why should anyone work hard to get an advanced education and build a good professional resume, then go to work at a job that pays far above the average family income for the US, just so he can live like a part-time grocery store worker?
It's the same UX I have with my visiting aunt. We've managed with it just fine for a long time.
They don't ask permission. They offer a cool service don't tell you what they'll use that information for. Go through [0] and [1], and you'll probably find at least one thing you didn't explicitly opt into. That fits my definition of not requiring my permission. They have to ask.

[0] https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup/

[1] https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
I like to read on the train, but I'd like even more to read at home without someone having an insipid conversation two seats over.
Facebook in Los Lunas: Our newest data center
You can't even chew gum in Singapore. Australia probably is free if you are not an Aboriginal. Hong Kong Free as long as China doesn't want you. This list is crazy. The free countries are probably all third world but then people are free to literally eat you without punishment.
Definitely – they quickly threw together a big developer conference and stage presentation in a couple days as a last-minute response to GitLab's live stream.
4chan's track record of getting people elected is pretty terrible. See also: Ron Paul.
Demotivating only if you've ignored the many public discussions about how this was going to be the case.
Just stay away from Elixir language. The community will do anything to keep you away from OOP concepts.
Dell Unveils UltraSharp U3417W: Makes Its Curved Display More Curved
I'm not an expert in finance, but isn't this simply a CDO (collateralized debt obligation) of real estate assets?? In other words Point is simply a CDO fund? The minor differences are that the home owner ("partial home owner"?) assumes the upfront "risk" with the initial down payment, and the homeowner happens to be a few degrees closer to the "owner" of the CDO??? The only innovation that I see - and really its not much at all - is that there are fewer degrees/layers between homeowner and CDO-owner (holder of the fund).
I was referring to industry specific factors that continually push prices up. In the medical industry insurance companies have market power but individuals do not. So providers see their prices slashed by insurance Companies. If their desired price is X and they know he insurance company will cut their price in half they charge 2X. To do so they also have to charge uninsured patients 2X. Because the uninsured have no market power they largely get stuck with 2X and the price sticks. Suddenly the listed price has less to do with the greater market than the specifics of the medical.
Andy Wingo used it for his work on V8.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/v8-users/kIVoA7GZAcY
So, US invaded and annexed someone in past 50 years? How's the weather in your version of reality?
"Maybe Bayer is worst"

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/08/0...

http://anonhq.com/yes-bayer-drug-knowingly-infected-people-h...
OK, in a theoretical world where meetings aren't hours long with no agenda and tons of circular, pointless discussion, I agree.
It's also based on yet further misunderstandings (in this case not understanding the ability of engines to do speculative fetches).
Key word here is "advocating".

It's our job as citizens to oppose these things. Raise a fuss. Write letters. Get upset. Donate to causes that oppose this.

The enemy here is not these corporations but complacency.
If they're still making breaking changes like this, then why have they declared version 1? They should still be on version 0.x
Haha, I think I closed the tab after reading the same. It's like creating a startup is like a loaf of bread you pick up at the store on the way home.
>cell based location tracking, offline, and no data given to any other service

Awareness uses cell based location tracking (along with GPS when necessary)

And yes you can do everything here by coding it yourself, that's not the point of the API.

The added value of the API is that it coordinates the requests of all the apps on the phone in order to poll the sensors as little as possible and allows you to create complex conditions (like walking OR in the park AND headphones plugged in) while balancing them for battery useage.
The content would not be appropriate for Twitch, although YouTube Live Streaming does have better bitrates than the Ustream being displayed.
From the article:

inflation-adjusted incomes for the mass of Americans have finally started to rise in a meaningful way
Are you saying you've never wasted your time online looking at the digital equivalent to a juicer informercial?
For sure. I'm not neglecting my child at all, at least like to think I am not :) When he is awake in the mornings and evenings, we spend ample time. Of course, weekends are a great time together as well.

Didn't mean to make my comment sound like I am neglecting my child, but I could see how it could be perceived that way!
Tracking Spotify’s Growth to 40M Subscribers
Maybe not "supposed to be", but historically rather common:

http://washdiplomat.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=8985...
I agree that top-level await is weird. But the bigger issue is that importing stuff shouldn't be an imperative statement ("load the code at such-and-such address"). That's marrying the language to irrelevant details of how it's parsed and executed. Instead, import should be a static construct that can get special treatment from interpreters and compilers. Header files in C are another instance of the same mistake ("let's make imports work by textual inclusion"). Such tricks can save time in the short run, but a proper module system like Java's is always better in the end.
I think qwerty's explanation is a little bit too high level. It feels to me more like a definition that people that already understand OOP can use to talk about it than a useful definition for a beginner to understand it.

OOP at it's core is about answering the question "Where the fuck do we put our code?"[0].

Imagine it's the long ago and year is of 1 B.O.(before OOP). Your language has primitive types and functions. You maintain a large line of business application. Someone has just invented the apartment building so you are given the task that to make sure your application handles apartment units correctly. You go through and find all of your functions that take parameters like "int streetNumber, string street, int zipcode,string city", and you add apartment number to them getting "int streetNumber, string street, string apartment, int zipcode,string city". Having these 5 parameters that you pass into all the same functions is super painful. It's also error prone to edit.

So you decide there has to be be a better way and decide to create structs. You decide to group these 5 parameters together into struct(which you just invented) called mailingAddress. This is really great because you have organized these 5 parameters into one object, so mailing address is now 1 parameter instead of 5. And if you need to add or change one of these parameters there is only one place to change it. You won't accidentally forget to add apartment to some function because as soon as you add a mailing address parameter it comes with an apartment baked in. But unfortunately you still have to hunt down every function that is scattered around your goliath project to find what functions modify this mailing address. You have an itch that this could be done better. You lock yourself in your closet and go into a deep meditation for 3 days.

You come out decide there is a better way and you create classes. You decide that you'll group all of these functions that modify and interact with mailing address and put them in the same file with your struct and call it a class. This is great because in the future when you want change how the mailing address(which is something that your stake holders cares about which we refer to as the domain) works you know exactly which file to go to.

It really is that simple. 80% of OOP is just making sure you group the right code together in a way that you can find and change the code when a stakeholder asks you to.
There is much more advanced OOP foo, and for that I would ironically suggest https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-type... which will blow your mind when you're ready.

[0] - yes of course it can be get more complex in terms of typing/ encapsulation/inheritance/polymorphism.
[1] - I know this is simplistic because functions are data.
Are they ever going to release any of the Echo products outside of the US?

It feels
In the second paragraph of your link, one learns that only certain individuals with particular conditions actually benefit from herd immunity over simple vaccination. We can assume that none of those people are libertarians, so the "valid libertarian opinion" is simply to vaccinate and let others do as they will. The primary victims of the lessened herd immunity that results from less than total vaccination are the people who don't vaccinate. This is a problem that solves itself. Presumably Gary Johnson simply opposes the creation of some sort of Trumpian Vaccination-or-Death Squad.
What's worrying is not so much that the petition to be considered as Mass surveillance... but that the petition coupled with data obtained through mass surveillance. Who knows what kind of flag it will raise signing this petition will have when coupled with a ton and a half of seemingly unrelated data.

What recourse one has to proove wrong some top-secret algorithm once said flag has been raised ?

Paranoia is extremely contagious and often countered with more paranoia.
Deprecating the PCOMMIT Instruction
The pronouns he and him have been prescribed for use to describe a person of unknown gender for centuries. You have to willfully ignore the English language to find a misogynistic conspiracy in pronouns.
Introducing BabySqueel: Elegant Queries for Rails
If this catches on, the biggest risk I see is that Point (and others appropriating this model) will artificially inflate home values while tremendously negating potential upside for any buyers who buy with Point.

A home which might ordinarily sell for 400 might now sell for 480 because sellers can expect homebuyers to Point their way into affording more home, so might as well charge more for that home.

I don't see this ending well for anybody long-term except for buyers and investors who buy into markets before Point et al. catch on.

What's the expression? "It's expensive to be poor," I think? This seems like a perfect example. Buyers, especially buyers with less capital to risk, trade some immediate cost for a decent loss of upside and a decent gain of downside. Except because quite a few of these less-advantaged buyers could probably have afforded to eat the cost they sold to Point, sellers realize they can charge more to still make that money back from the buyers who otherwise could've put that money to better use.

Good lord, the more this stews in my head, the more this entire pattern seems like a massive disaster waiting to happen.
Another Tesla Autopilot Fatality
As a Ph.D. student, I found this to be an interesting outlook, albeit a bleak look at the current job market. My research is in machine learning, and I'm hoping my job search will be easier :P
EU Executive Proposes New Copyright, Communications Laws
Not without a price cut, as well
Boston selected as focus city to study self-driving vehicles
Show HN: Rainbow bezier in React
If you use GNU Guix, you can install it quite easily:

guix package -i guile-emacs
> There isn't some secret reservoir of especially heroic people to draw on.

This is true, but irrelevant. The conversation at hand is about the fact that we are actively firing heroes for taking heroic actions.

> They are not expected to place their lives at unnecessary risk (like trying to negotiate with an armed, unstable person) on behalf of the public.

Again, this is a straw man argument. This is not what I am proposing.

Please read the posts you are responding to before you respond to them.

> Bottom line: If you display a gun and emotional instability in the presence of a cop, you have forfeited your right to necessarily walk away alive. If you think that's unreasonable, then I suppose that's your opinion.

That's not my opinion, it's the straw man you're presenting. Please respond to what I actually said, not to straw men.

My actual opinion, which you have completely ignored, is that when police make the correct call and correctly identify that a suspect is not dangerous despite the fact that the suspect is holding a gun, police should not be punished for doing the right thing.
Probably only for a false negative, rather than a false positive; and surely the probability of the former can be minimised by cranking up the sensitivity (and not being picky about what counts as a beep).
It's available in the UK now, not that I would ever buy a product like that from Amazon.
I would argue that it's the other way around: the difference is there because of the double standard.
GitHub cranks up project management
Then they should be held liable for allowing violence to occur. That would fix the problem pretty quickly.
I have accounts on both Deezer and Spotify because of bundled accounts on wireless providers. So far I prefer Spotify but only because of the Discover Weekly feature.
"Now, the most successful investors are increasingly coming to the realisation that searching for the low hanging fruit in web-tech is nearing the point of diminishing returns."

This is true in the sense that the amount of VC poured into things such as social networks or SoLoMo startups is decreasing and the amount of VC poured into things such as machine-learning based startups is increasing. Even though the amount poured into the first is still larger than the amount poured into the second.

However, this article shouldn't discourage people with just an undergrad (or even without an undergrad) to start startups. A group of 22 year olds might know about Deep Learning and might just apply it as a medium to a solution in a different narrow domain than a group of 40 year olds will.
I have never seen any evidence, not even a single anecdote, that said "I was bullied until I ignored them".
Removewat 2.2.8 Windows Activator
This is true. Still it's a lot of work and prep but I guess If someone is bent on releasing docs they're gonna hopefully plan out for the future.
The best web browsers of 2016
>I still don't think referring to it as (un)favourable makes sense. It's simply the cost of doing business. If Spotify can't convince enough people to pay them enough money

Got it and I totally understand exactly what you're saying. It's a matter of perspective and what you said is also true.

That said, let's put some context and boundaries around "unfavorable terms" when it's used to analyze Spotify's financial situation.

If we use an alternative perspective of measuring how Spotify can compete with Apple who has solidified an anchor price[1] of $9.99, it means that Spotify is heavily pressured to not be more expensive than that.

Yes, Spotify could theoretically charge more such as $11.99 to cover the higher licensing percentages of 55% or 58% but they probably feel that it kills their demand curve.

Spotify's pricing has to work in between "free" (piracy) and Apple's $9.99. They don't have the leverage or differentiation to convince consumers to pay $11.99.

So one perspective is that Spotify needs to increase subscription prices to whatever level they need to in order make a profit and to hell with losing millions of customers to Apple's $9.99 deal. Possible eventual outcome is that Spotify dies in bankruptcy because of dwindling user accounts.

The other perspective is that $9.99 is a too much of a consumer-ingrained psychological price so don't bother fighting it. The better chance of survival is to renegotiate with the record labels for more "favorable terms" so it's possible to make a profit at $9.99.

So far, the digital music streaming business can't figure out the money puzzle to make everybody happy. Many consumers already think that $120 a year is too much to pay. At the same time, many artists believe they get too little money[2].

tldr; Spotify can't lose a price war

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

[2]http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2015/09/24/my-song-was-playe...
Yeah... The BLS lists medical services/commodities inflation rate for 2015 at 4.1%/3.6% respectively [1]. Why did my premium go up 20%, then? Why did most people's premiums go up at least 10% or more? Their methodology just doesn't match reality. Just like the 4.9% "unemployment" rate.

BTW, the government has vested interest in under-reporting inflation - the COLA is indexed to it.

[1]http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf

[2]https://www.ssa.gov/news/cola/
Like you said, it's for matchmaking on the spot during lunch hours.

I don't see the problem, I applaud the initiative.

It solves a simple issue: where do I sit when I know no one.

For those who are ambassadors, you can make new friends.
> The reason is obvious: 9 times you might survive trying to do the right thing and then get shot dead on the tenth.

If police aren't trying to do the right thing, then absolutely nothing differentiates them from a gang.

I have no objections to officers erring on the side of self-preservation, but that's not what we're discussing here. What we are discussing here is a cop who did the right thing and is being punished for it.
Fork() can fail: this is important
> Nothing will drive down drug prices faster than a public entity producing drugs in competition with private corporations.

State supported entities competing with private ones is now "free market?"
I don't think he should be pardoned. He claims that it's because he helped the public see the sinister plot of our government and their internal spying. Ok, fine.

So, should we have pardoned Jack Ruby (if he were alive) for killing the guy that killed JFK? No.

Why does Snowden deserve any different treatment. He still release confidential information. It's not like what he did can just excuse that fact. He exposed US spying, internally, externally, around the globe. He didn't just focus on the US... No pardon. Doesn't deserve it.

Just my opinion.
If anyone is interested in deep learning around Blizzard games, there is an active AI community around Hearthstone in the `#hearthsim` and `#hearthsim-ai` channels on Freenode. cf https://hearthsim.info. Starcraft AI discussions welcome!

We're also discussing support for such projects using game replays from HSReplay.net :)
> The future of advertising hinges on the combination of nuanced methods, creativity, better data collection, and delivering a personalized experience.

Curious, any agencies/advertisers doing this now?
* There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945

* The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3578807
Yes, but they'll also make efforts to find and imprison the mugger, suggest being prepared for physical violence in case it ends up being necessary next time, and other such things beyond that.
The GP is partly commenting on the absurdity of physical assaults being normal in schools. The question is why is that?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr9hqjsWcAA_liW.jpg

[Fig. 1]
Chris Wanstrath is a really good speaker.
I think it is great that the Bolt exists. We need as many as possible electric car offerings. And I do think that Elon Musk also welcomes more electric cars from other manufacturers. The article is a bit negative about Tesla though. It is obvious that a car manufacturing giant like GM could bring a car quicker to production than a small company like Tesla. It also seems, that GM is just responsible for the bodywork and suspension, anything electric seems to be of LG make. There are also rumors, that the production is limited to 20-50k cars per year. So much less than Tesla is already building, and an order of magnitude less than planned for the Model 3.
Quit grumbling about the Bolt's exterior form factor. GM is starting with something mainstream. As the article mentions, the Bolt is being built on the same Gamma platform line as gas cars. There are about a dozen cars built on the Gamma platform, and they're selling well. GM can put different sheet metal on top of electric drive if they see a market.

The real achievement is range. GM finally got good range at a low price point. That's what's needed to make electric cars go mainstream.

(YC-type business opportunity: get public charging points to report their status (available, in-use, broken) and transmit that to cars and phones. There are maps of charge points, but not enough status info.)

Tesla no longer deserves a market cap half that of GM.
I tell my kids about how much TV I watched in the 70's and 80's. I loved TV! I still do.

My kids (14 and 13) don't watch any TV. They don't even particularly like movies.