skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically same thing Snowden did except he leaked to fewer people who were a bit more reliable. The problems were two fold:

1. A pile of unredacted, classified, and legitimate operations in the hand of foreigners which included at least two being targeted by them. They should've never had this information. He could have cherry-picked it to whistleblowing stuff during time he organized all of it but didn't. I'd have done the opposite to protect legit ops and sources.

2. He put all that at risk of foreign agencies, esp in Russia or China, getting it given their hackers are badass while reporters' IT groups are... average. After seeing Citizenfour, I was pretty confident his stuff could've been grabbed multiple times if he didn't have the element of surprise. It was also clear his tradecraft was weak vs what I read about in espionage non-fiction. I bet the journalists more so.

So, definitely parallels to Manning. I expected it from Manning over Snowden given Manning was a stressed-out youth going through an identity crisis in a war zone whereas Snowden was a trained spy claiming moral high ground in general and aiming to protect decent people. I'm not letting him off on dumping the foreign stuff. Especially while many of the targets do the same shit to us with local, legal protections for their own spies doing it. He needs to own up to that.
I don't agree with your reading of Thiago's tone--you found it patronising, I found it trying hard to be polite to Bram, who's being the same dismissive senior dev he was when he rejected Thiago's first and second attempts at patches to do what was done very well in neovim.

As for why vim should care? Because at this point I'd put money on neovim as the long term winner, and if I were Bram, I'd worry about vim joining vi on the sidelines as 'still developed, still in use, but not the vi everyone uses when they log into a linux box'. I'd look at my codebase and neovim's, at my toolchain and neovim's, at my community and neovim's, at my velocity and neovim's, and I'd imagine neovim eclipsing vim over time.

Maybe that's fine. But Bram is hardly some god-king who's position as foremost developer in the vi universe is a lifetime appointment--especially after he took that position from Bill Joy.
High freedom from corruption in Chile, a country whose government is essentially a kleptocracy? Yeah, I would take that with a hefty dose of sodium-chloride.
Isn't this basically asking for skewer mode? https://github.com/skeeto/skewer-mode

That is, you can already integrate quite well with some editors. I think IDEA has something similar, as well. Most of this is not in creating all new protocols and whatnot, but simply setting up reasonable defaults in tools you are already using.
Surely not "useless" but it doesn't reflect the way speech recognition is used today. Unless you're routinely listening in on two humans having a phone call conversation that they don't expect a computer to be hearing, which is what the test set actually contains.

If you looked at modern performance on test sets from the 1980s (like Resource Management or TIDIGITS) you might be under the impression that we'd achieved human-level accuracy levels years ago, but we clearly haven't. And similarly, what users expect from speech recognition today is in many ways much more demanding than it was in 2000: vocabularies are huge (think about all the words you could say to Google), latency needs be very low, and no one thinks it's acceptable to require users to perform enrollment any more.

So yes, just like other benchmarks, we should retire them after a few years. The fact that a modern computer could get 100,000 FPS on a video game from 2000 wouldn't be considered a "milestone."
Yeah ok, brave guy but he will eventually get shot for doing this. Call me a coward, but I'd never do something like this. I have a kid to raise.
Ask HN: Use Appengine or Stripe? How are your “card declined” rates?
Stripe is the best payment processor I've dealt with over the years, but in the last month, our "card declined" rate has gone from zero to 100%. Sadly Stripe is simply responding with "ask your customers to call their bank and instruct them to accept the payment", which is completely impractical at this level of failure.

We have never had a chargeback, our customers are reputable (school admin staff), and our customer satisfaction rates make me blush. So why are the banks now declining all payments?

Our service runs on Appengine, so it's possible that a scammer's app has tarnished Appengine's IP range with the banks' fraud detection systems. If this is the case, then all other Appengine apps should be seeing their decline rates going crazy too.

If you use Appengine or Stripe and accept card payments, I'd really appreciate it if you could comment on your decline rates below. It's quite possible that this issue is only affecting us, but if others are in the same boat then a simple up/same/down will let us isolate the issue with Appengine, Stripe or the banks' fraud detection system.

Thanks!
That sounds ridiculous to me.

Do you use a paper towel so that you don't have to touch the door handle on your way out of the bathroom, too?
I didn't even spell his name right. Still a good quote.
Yes, because your holidays are for recreation not for recuperation. When you're sick, you're sick. Go home, get rest, forget about work. Makes happier and more productive employees since you treat them as human beings.
Personally, I just got unduly annoyed by it, ranted on HN, and only bought 1.
Swuum – the contractors job site
Yes but if in the past you could blame your internal developer for making slow SQL query, now these rich possibilities to perform really stressful queries to your DBMS are open to the public, right?

The main riddle to me is: in case of RDBMS in backend, how can we guess in advance which indexes are needed and how can we forbid/limit all "heavy" queries?
He witnessed white cops and a handcuffed black male who he claims was possibly muttering to himself.

No one was beating anyone, no one was bleeding out.

Common-sense is he interfered and made the situation worse.
I think the tacit claim made by the article was that the entire interaction was almost entirely race-driven, suggesting that:

1) The person he tried to help would not have been accosted by police if he were white

2) The author would not have been beaten and abused if he were white.

3) Perhaps neither would have happened if the officers were not white.

As the story fits in with the over-arching narrative of so many police departments across the country being explicitly or implicitly racist and heaping brutal unspeakable abuse and murder on nonwhite populations.

I think all 3 explanations above are plausible, but there's certainly enough police brutality floating around out there that white people can get their fair share as well. And nonwhite officers can certainly dish it out.
But he's probably right (and he's certainly the most qualified to comment on this incident). I'm pretty sure if I had walked up and said, "Is everything all right? I'm a medical doctor in case you need a hand with anything." the situation would have gone much differently.

Furthermore, even if he isn't right, there is plenty of evidence of a growing white nationalism/racism in this country that the article wouldn't be any less relevant if you could somehow prove that these four particular officers are not racist.
I don't understand it. We've had washing machines for decades in this country. Surely USA can afford them as well. You can get a used one for nothing. Literally.
What a complete waste of time, impound lots are even worse, i assume they did not give you an opportunity to call someone to get your car.

No breathalyzer on spot?
What is luck?

Does Messi score a goal on every attempt? Does he score a goal on every third attempt?

To me, "luck" is everything you don't control. You can call it fate, reality, "the grind", or life. The fact is you don't have complete control over most aspects you think you have control over. It is an illusion.
Better to be on the right side of history. I mean, if you are asking the question, you have already made a personal decision that you would like to sign it. Not doing so would be betraying yourself. That would be worse than not getting a security clearance I would have thought. In any case, I doubt the spooks would be really that bothered. You can still spy AND take the moral high road :-)
Did you have to upgrade clusters for your clients yet? Is there a way upgrade clusters to a newer version of k8s safely?
On the contrary, I wouldn't say robots use anything because that implies a conscious actor.
Open source Kaldi gives you 7.8%, Microsoft didn't went too far.

Also, major issue with this kind of research is that they combined several systems in order to get best results. Most practical systems don't use combinations, they are too slow.
How about cephalopods?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence
Sorry for the late reply.

> It depends what those issues are

Not really. Female rejection implies and is consistent with male domination, it's simply addressing the root cause rather than the symptom. It doesn't claim to change the situation at all.

> Why is this of value?

First, let me stress that this is not a cause I've picked up for myself, so I'm not the ideal person to ask.

However, within this thread there are sources that show measurable benefits to increased diversity in the workplace. As I wrote in the very sentence you partially quoted:

> when a desire to increase the diversity within tech workplaces is present,

What I'm saying here isn't that the question needs to be asked, merely that addressing the issue in this way doesn't preclude people who DO want to ask it.
Bitbucket: Support GitHub-style pages for repositories and teams
Remember this is with low quality sound. It could be much higher under better conditions. Amazon's echo relies on good hardware as much as software, with an array of good mics.
No, if you look that's only the CC component of the test, with and without context; not the whole test.
Are you exaggerating or are you seriously concerned that the police will harm you? No matter what your race/gender/color/face/etc., citizens are far more dangerous. There's simply tons of them. Even in the US, this whole police-violence thing is a bit of a red herring. Yes, it's terrible, police need to be checked more, etc. But no, it's not a "massacre" or remotely the top reason someone will be killed.
It's not clear to me how that's actually going to result in smaller file sizes. Are they quantizing these deltas? Are they planning to exploit certain consistencies in font design that will lead to the deltas being more compressible? A delta does not intrinsically require less information than an absolute value.
Are speech recognition systems also paired with vision recognition systems to determine intent? Seems like that would be where research would be headed.
Do you have any relevant criticisms, or are we all supposed to just pretend we already know what your problem is?
I lived in rural Michigan for a few years. I knew every city cop by first name (very small city. like "how on earth to do you call that a city" small), and it'd generally fit that description. But the sheriff, state police and tribal police .. wide berth.

Obviously anecdotal so I can't disagree with you. Just that my experience of rural police was a mixed bag. Black uniform good. Blue uniform bad. Brown uniform really bad.
I like NetBeans
http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache-netbeans-w...
Not trusting your employees is usually a bad sign.
tldr: issue changed from "new" to "open" after over 4 years
Over here on the US West (ie, the left of the rocky mountains), yes, humidifiers are needed.

Worst I experienced was Southern Utah - while driving down from SLC I could feel the moisture leaving my lungs. I imagine Arid-zona is probably even dryer.
I like NetBeans and I like Apache
http://robertjliguori.blogspot.com/2016/09/apache-netbeans-w...
Agreed. That's the kind of image that will be greatly enhanced by the faked software bokeh coming in a software update soon.
He didn't interfere (he asked some questions as a certified medical professional) and he didn't make the situation worse. The officers made the situation worse, and he probably made things better for the guy in question -- would you want those particular violent abusive officers spending the next little while with their full attention on YOU? Ideally they'd be in jail, but if he distracted them for a while the guy's probably better off -- maybe the author took a beating the guy would have received.
There are people in places that are not as humid. Why does that surprise you so much?
It's safe to say that the future will still use metal to build things.

Saying you want roughly 100% fossil free energy is bold but might happen in our lifetime.

Saying you want to end all mining period is just environmentalist virtue signalling.
"Pardoning Snowden would still leave too many unanswered questions. If he's innocent, then a trial would clear the air."

That's not true given it's Espionage Act. The ridiculous setup of that Act essentially says he can be hit with highest charges, not provide anything classified for his defense, have released entirely legitimate stuff, and still get convicted due to technicality of the law. Plus, our legal system is an adversarial one not designed to bring out truth: prosecutors aim for convictions while attempting to dismiss anything that undermines it.

Best way to get truth, like him or not, is a pardon where he can say anything with immunity. If he's bad and ego-heavy, he'll slip up eventually. He already does on some things while enjoying the interviews too much. ;)
Heh. It runs from San Diego to the North Bay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Camino_Real_(California)
Don't confuse introvert with shy. they are different things.
The FAQ link is broken on the page, any ELI5 on what this brings beyond using Arch's package manager and the general goodness of choice?
Both of which are awesome in and of themselves, just wasn't sure if there's more here before I jump in.
"This sounds like evidence of a playful sense of humor, unless there was a different reason the crows didn't want to get on the scale"

One reason could be that they realize they will get more fruit if they postpone getting on the scales for a while.
Agreed - they've gained a bunch of brand capital, wonder why they're starting fresh.
Conceivably all of my work could be done from home. But one portion of it would require a company provided cell phone that they could forward my extension to, and the other part would require me to run a bunch of expensive commercial software (yay CAD) on my home computer, with license servers set up to support it. Or if they don't want to let personal computers on the network, I'd need a relatively beefy company PC.

None of that's impossible, but doing it for the whole company is apparently enough effort/money that we haven't done it.

We do have a couple of remote employees, and they're a hassle with our ancient phone system. Once you transfer a call out to them there's no way for them to pass it back to the internal system. It's not a good setup for people who are frequently taking technical calls but need to send ordering/pricing questions to coworkers in customer service and quotations.
But he didn't identify himself as a doctor. I can't help feel the encounter may have gone differently if he had.

Not that the behaviour is any more acceptable if he was just a random passer by.
Here are high resolution images of the bookshelves: http://imgur.com/a/eoDng
Wow, that works? Video games are pretty much the last thing that holds me on Windows. Everything else is solved on Linux. I am very interested in any solution for this problem.
This is the example of how hard it can be for companies, especially successful companies, to alter their course even slightly.

Github success was about making code repositories pretty and social. But this is no longer enough to keep evolving as a company of their size. Yet the internal product DNA still revolves around repos, so as a result, issues, wikis and now Projects (!) live under a single repository.

This is backward.

A project is a way to group resources to achieve a predefined goal. Those resources include multiple people, multiple issues and multiple repositories. Sticking a project under a repository makes no sense.

In fact, a code repository in most organizations is a fairly small and an insignificant asset, just another way to organize code, i.e. function -> module -> directory -> repository, etc. It's quite awkward to think of what your company is doing in terms of repositories, so anything Github adds to repos feels out of place by default.

Another example of repository-centric thinking is the homepage of https://github.com itself when a user is logged in. It's the most important page of all, yet nothing on it has any relevance to me: just a list of people I like starring random repos. Same thing for the organization home page, just a list of repos, again.

The Project idea is great. It had the potential to solve all of these issues by giving me a tool to organize digital assets in a way that's important to me. But sticking it under a repository killed it.

[EDIT] It's easy to be me and be posting a comment like this, telling successful people what to do. But it's enormously hard to have a large team of PMs, developers and designers, all of whom are smart and ambitious individuals, to actually do something that falls outside of the settled way of doing things. Kudos to Github founders and employees for getting it this far and congratulations on dealing with big company problems ;)
Chevrolet Bolt, affordable, long-range electric car
Consul 0.7.0 is out
The way you're thinking about things is very natural in the realm of computers and math, but insane in life at large.

We do not follow universal, perfect rules. Humans make judgements on what is appropriate or not based on preference.

It would be perfectly in keeping with sanity and normal behavior to decide something is worth the regrettable extinction of an intelligent species, while maintaining actual codes of morality.
How is it at all legal for the government to demand payment for something when you are not convicted of a crime? It's effectively a 100% discriminatory, corrupt, and unaccountable tax. Completely reprehensible.
Guys, someones bots going haywire.
Hey cool, 3rd author Shane Gonin is now at Janelia (where my lab is) and I know a bit about this work. Funny to see it pop up here.

The kind of electron microscopy (EM) of brain tissue I do relies upon embedding the tissue in a resin called Epon. Epon has excellent cutting properties and low intrinsic contrast in EM. But in order to embed tissue in Epon it has to be completely dehydrated, which quenches genetically expressed fluorphores like GFP.

My fantasy for these genetically expressed buckyball-like proteins is that one could engineer their interior to be sufficiently hydrophilic that GFP fluorescence would survive complete dehydration of the surrounding tissue, instead relying on the polarized residues of the amino acids in the interior. This would let us combine highest quality EM with highest quality light microscopy in the same sample -- which would be very useful indeed.
That's what Metafont was supposed to be, too. See, for example, http://www.antonvasetenkov.com/metafont-demo .

But it seems that it ended up being used for a much more narrow purpose in the actual TeX stack that people use.
He should ignore a racially motivated beating by police because other people of the same race are responsible for his high standard of living?

There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to begin. How about that his high standard of living is primarily due to his hard work and intelligence, not the graciousness of his white overlords.
It is preposterous to expect people to write their own HTTPS support on top of something as primitive as GnuTLS!

This attitude towards practicality, if you will, that runs rampant in scheme-land is one of the major barriers for adoption. If you look at Common Lisp, these issues do not exist, the end result being a multitude of substantial real-world projects across a variety of domains (commercial, opensource, academia, industry and so on).
No, he mass-dumped domestic and foreign operations... including those used on highest-value targets... onto foreign journalists intent to publish best of it. That either equivalent to what Manning did or pretty close. They latter published lots of this with real consequences for NSA's SIGINT. He also didn't have to.
Happens all the time with autonomous driving. I've heard so many people argue that self-driving cars need to be 100% perfect, but they always overlook that humans aren't anywhere near 100% perfect drivers.

Frankly, we're lousy drivers.
'Ok Google' is a different problem though - needs to be a low resource, always-on listener with a low false-positive rate. That's quite a different problem space than general speech-to-text.

I think I get about 50% hit rate with 'OK Google' and I'm a native English speaker :).
How many times can you afford to be unsuccessful? I am not advocating an aversion to risk, mind you. I am simply asking the question. My guess is that it is deeply personal and has more to do with life goals than that of work/career goals.
The rent is not flowing to myself. Universal education is the way to go. My dad fought in WW2. He got to go to college for free (mostly free) because of the GI Bill. Younger siblings didn't. They were poor. He ended up much better off than the younger siblings. It's called the greatest generation but the only reason I can see for th8s is because they had the greatest opportunities presented to them.

His professors weren't rent seekers and they got paid better than me. See it's possible to live in a system in which people make a reasonable wage without being rent seekers or others getting screwed. I'm using rent seeker in the pejorative sense that term denotes in colloquial speech. It's not a zero sum game. Society was better for the GI Bill. Even those who didn't directly use it. My uncles, while not being as well off as my dad, were better off overall. They got out of poverty as the economy got better.

We had a system in which college didn't put people in penury, didn't keep rents flowing to teachers, and was an overall benefit to dociety.

I grew up in Panama. During Noriega times were tough. People did things for far less than they normally would have. After all, the value of a glass of water to someone dying of thirst is far greater than it is to me in my present condition. There's a point where the race to the bottom becomes dehumanizing. There's more than maximizing/minimizing dollars. I feel sorry for people who can't see that. I've never met you personally but from posts I've seen of yours you appear to be a libertarian with a reverence to market forces. In a world of 7 billion people I think most libertarian ideas don't scale well.

I used slavery in the normal sense of the word. Think hard enough and you'll see that man in desperation can volunteer to be indentured but when the situation isn't so bleak he will try to leave. Of course his desire to increase his wages may lead to a violent response from the employer. Especially if the practice has become normative.
But you just repeated my exact points. Those reasons are precisely what makes it a moral hazard to have this structure.

Without the government guarantees, banks would think hard about whether a loan was repayable, and schools wouldn't have nearly as many anthropology or art history programs cranking out unemployable specialists year after year.

The government guarantee removes economic consequences for certain actors -- for the school and the bank, but NOT for the student. The student with an art history degree is now stuck with a massive loan that is not even dischargeable in bankruptcy, whereas the bank and the school suffer no consequences for having trained someone in an unemployable specialty of little to no economic value.

On the contrary, they are incentivized to do that.