skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those signatures are illegible.

Not that he ever really disappeared, but it's definitely interesting to see the resurgence of Snowden in the zeitgeist now that Pres. Obama's term is coming to a close. A big part of it is undoubtedly people knowing that pardons uptick in the November - January time period for obvious reasons, but I wonder how much of it is worries that the next administration will not be so amenable.
Thanks so much for replying. I did notice the Moral License and was confused as to how it works. I will attempt to get some high profile users I know to help pay for some continued development.
I was thinking the same. We'd need only the dam of Gibraltar for that and let enough water in to compensate evaporation. The article includes a warning about long term increases of salinity and the need to pump salty water from the deep layers of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.
Pretty much every company relies on government subsidies of some form or another. (Cheap transportation infrastructure and a workforce partially or entirely educated via the public school system are two of the larger subsidies governments provide.) Taxpayers generally don't have a problem with that when those subsidies are a net benefit to society.
Anyone know if there is a live demo anywhere already? I guess I'll have to clone/host it myself?
Map Comparison for DO, Vultr and Linode: http://imgur.com/mesaHoN
You do now! I built custom HTML emails for my startup.
Danielle probably doesn't want to work with you either.
Can you please PLEASE do a write up more on this!?

I would love to see some more concrete examples of what you're stating as I an ignorant of that which you speak but super curious....

Can you please explain in pics what youre talking about?
I assume that sama's comment addresses harsh and unreasonable negativity.

Here's an example of a negative comment that (rightly) hasn't been downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12509856

Here's an example of a negative comment that (rightly) has been downvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508752

If sama is talking about negativity in general, then it would be a very sad thing to complain about people being negative. Because negativity is important, especially in discussions, especially for the reasons you touched upon. But I assume he knows better than to complain about people disagreeing.

I think he's just complaining about the number of people this topic has attracted that have come here simply to vent. And I agree, it's kind of a pain, but within a couple hours they get sorted out of the discussion. It's great that it's possible to say what they say on HN. And I just don't think it's worth complaining about, especially as someone involved in the production of the linked story. That's just feeding the trolls.
>why isn't any other medical benefit made free and literally forced upon you like fluoride is?

Not only does this not have any merit regarding whether or not we should add fluoride to our public water supplies, but the U.S. government (and many others) quite literally already does this.

We add niacin to flour. We add iodine to salt. We add vitamin D to a litany of food products.

And this quote:

>aluminum production produces fluoride acid - a substance so toxic that we cannot dispose of it... So we began fluoridation of the water because the only place we can store it is in your liver"

Is just completely rubbish. He's basically claiming that we're just walking land fills, using our livers to avoid leaving fluoride acid everywhere.
GCP is head-and-shoulders better, at least in my not-super-involved experience (that is, I haven't automated everything). Azure has been buggy as all hell. Terrible confusing slow portal. Slow boots. Machines that hang, requiring the "Redmond shuffle" (resize a Windows VM twice to get RDP working again). Insane SSD situation.

AWS is solid but feels cluttered, I guess. GCP is just ... a breath of fresh air. And it's way cheaper than Azure (last I checked, some VMs were 1/5th the cost; our overall cost is 1/2 on GCP.)
Which House members want to just end Social Security?
And when Jobs died, we needed a new icon to worship and show us the Future. Musk was in the right place at the right time.
Nah, in fact I'd say it's the opposite. There are more middle if the road comments and meta complaining. The HN crowd is notoriously hard on everyone - especially so if there are technical questions involved -and it has been that way forever.
I wish they would refresh the product line soon. I need to replace a laptop, but I refuse to pay the Apple premium for old products.

If you look at Macrumor's buyers guide, it's all over due except for the Macbook. (http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac)

Days since refresh:

149 - Macbook

338 - iMac

485 - MBP

556 - MB Air

700 - Mini

1001 - Mac Pro
There is a great talk on this by Simon Brown

http://www.codingthearchitecture.com/presentations/sa2015-mo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_rBDIC51C4
This is a mistake. The list should be the set of languages both people already know. Letting syntax learning be a barrier to problem solving will not be fun and it will create an initial imbalance in the pairing.

You will eventually want to move to an ELO-ranking like system to make sure the pairs are roughly balanced. Otherwise, there's no way it would be fun for an expert-level C developer to pair with a newbie JavaScript programmer and have to spend the whole time explaining what pointers are, etc.
Blank state, loading state... Making sure both of these work for the component (if needed).

Top X items and no more being rendered.

If there's a presentation logic like Red/Green for some number using Css classes, I will test that one out as well.

Stuff like that.
This is mind-twisting in it's own way.

The core idea of react is (simplified) that "time is eliminated"* as mental concept to keep track of.

So in a way this is game programming without the concept of time.

( * Essentially you focus on state and could thus create/display any component in any state )
If that's the case you shouldn't misrepresent why you don't have fluoride
There was never, ever, the remotest chance in hell this was going to happen. Obama has nothing to gain from this, and has never said or done anything to give the slightest impression he had any sympathy for Snowden.
Paradromics (https://paradromics.com) is working on full-bandwidth neural interfaces.
This is fine if you believe that unit testing every 40-line chunk of code is remotely worth the time and effort. I don't think that is true for most applications.

How long does it take you to write and test all those tests? Could you have been doing other things with that time? At 40 lines of functionality, the tests are going to be at least as big as the things you are testing (??), so what kind of a multiplier are you taking just on lines of code written? How much does that cost?

[I run a software company where I pay for the entire burn rate out of my own pocket. So these questions are less academic for me than they are for many people.]
Your not going to learn math without rote memorization , repetition.
I'm kind of particular about headphones, there's only a handful I actually find comfortable, and charging is always painful for wireless, so I'd actually prefer analog, low-tech... the cost difference isn't worth it and greater chance of failure in my experience. Keep it simple already.
Harvard Study: Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided
Why not just hold your tongue instead of saying a joke about rape? Doesn't really seem like that much of a limitation of your freedom, and it might really have a positive impact on someone who has been through a terrible and traumatic experience. Doesn't really seem like not joking about rape is pushing the line out too far.
What does dynamic vs static have anything to do with preferred indexing convention? The former is an execution time detail, the latter is how to index memory.
Why should we expect there isn't a correlation? They do mention it in their analysis. At the end of the day, just because there might be a systematic bias in your result doesn't mean there is a systematic bias.

All real-world analysis (especially for observational studies) rests on certain assumptions. It is always true that these assumptions might be wrong, but it is important to think about whether or not the assumption is plausible. It seems plausible that on average, a lawyer who is able to get better outcomes when they don't settle is also able to get better outcomes when they do settle.

Furthermore, even if most cases are settled, the rare cases that do go to trial can have an outsized impact. Usually people settle because a bad judgment is devastating (as well as not wanting to pay legal costs).
How do you know this is true?
Signal bug lets attackers tamper with messages
Hi jamwt. We haven't forgotten your(?) excellent work on stud!

Both changes.rst and the man page explain where Hitch came from.

Hitch has seen significant changes since we forked stud 0.3.2,
for example proper reload/sighup support, an improved configuration format, and OCSP stapling. Running it on a large scale (cert/ip -wise) also works better now.

If you're ever in our parts of the world, let us know and we'll buy you some beers/coffee/$beverage and tell you all about how your old project is doing.
The signatures are from the members of the house intelligence committee, the names of which are listed in the top left corner of the first page of the pdf
What do you dislike about Go?
Ask HN: What's a simple app/software that made a lot of money?
What are some apps or software that made decent money (6-figures+), but aren't hard to make at all?

Think something that a programmer could make in a weekend or two.

Does anything come to mind?
The Chevrolet Bolt is a quiet revolution: An electric car for the masses
Business Idea of the Day
Yes I did... Tell my why, irrespective of anything else, that the dental benefits of Fluoride in everything is what we should do?

I am not saying we shouldnt I just want to hear the statement for it... as I do not know. Again, I am just relaying a quote... and I personally have no idea. Also, I'm not "defensive" and I actually find calling someone defensive to be a really lame way of discussing anything.

Don't be defensive when I call you out for beating your wife. Stop resisting.
Win32 and .NET apps can now be published in the Microsoft Store
Snowden insists he has not shared the 1.5 million
documents with anyone, but the Russians officials publically concede that he "did share intelligence" with their government.

"Russian officials" here refers to a single MP, Franz Klintsevich. If you look at his widely-quoted words carefully, which offer no specifics, it sounds more like he's simply speculating that that's what Snowden did:

"Let's be frank," he says. "Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do," adds Klintsevich. "If there's a possibility to get information, they will get it."

EDIT: Apparently, Klintsevich actually said "to be frank, I think that he shared..." in the original interview ("я думаю что поделился что поделился"), but for whatever reason, NPR dropped the "я думаю" part in its translation.
Open Design Kit
I'm nearing 50 and I'm still coding. I'm looking forward to retirement where I'll be able to code more (contributing to open source stuff for instance) and do all the things I don't have the time to do now (more hardware, etc...)
It depends on whether you see your "neighbor" as one of you. There are many social divisions, particularly in certain countries - by class, origin, region, etc.
The reason foridation has additional FDA requirements is because it's essentially a medicine, not a food supplement like iodine - which is an essential nutrient. So to justify the medication of entire communities at the exact same dose of a non-essential pharmacological product in an effort to ensure poor people receive enough flouride seems misguided. Calcium has a similar hardening effect on teeth and is present in water already - forming the scale you see in the shower Ca(CO3). Additionally, flouride stains your teeth [0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis
HTTPS, Mixed Content and Why It Matters [pdf]
Yay marketing! I feel inspired to remove expensive healthy ingredients from other products.
Which plan is that? I'm in NY and looking for a plan
Product clones using WebTorrent
You might be surprised how much of your traffic already goes over ipv6. Much of your Google and Facebook traffic, for instance.
This tired trope:

> Rather than avail himself [Snowden] of the many lawful avenues to express legal, moral, or ethical qualms with U.S. intelligence activities ...

Yes, Snowden obviously should have chosen to sit in USG's cage instead of having meaningfully exposed their criminal conspiracy!

I guess the struggle of being on the wrong side of history is that you have to double-down on efforts to keep the temporary condition going. These skinjobs know that when their reign is over, it's over for good.

FWIW I think this idea that Obama is all of a sudden going to pardon Snowden is laughable. But the outcome of this situation will be a good indicator of whether Obama was actually a decent person trapped by politics, or yet another empty salesperson for the status quo.
They don't need it because they have sustainable businesses regardless of the press, so they don't do it. Musk wouldn't have a business without constant coverage and a strong brand (brand equity helps him cut deals no one else could).
Another way to phrase this is: If you take on big enough challenges that are important enough to America (and humanity), the government will rightfully help fund your quest.
Down votes for no fluoride toothpaste? Good grief...
Why Use Flow? Static Typing in JavaScript
'Tis an interesting point.

> Drug dealers

Perhaps drug dealers (and their suppliers) can implement testing, QA and proper labeling.

I'm not totally sure about software patent lawyers. But, deep down, my gut says that if software patent law wasn't to crappy, perhaps the occupation would be perceived in a better light. Maybe they could push for reform from the inside?

On the whole, I think every industry can do some introspection on how they can affect more people for the betterment of society. It would do us all some good.
> This is because our art history is not chronological; not neutral or about simultaneous cross-styles, outliers, and other things going on at any given moment. Our art history is organized teleologically — it's an arrow. Things are always said to be going forward, and progress is measured mainly in formal ways by changes in ideas of space, color, composition, subject matter, and the like. Artists and isms follow one another in a Biblical begatting based on progress toward a goal or a higher stage.

Very well put.
This is a great point about making sensible assumptions. Too often I see evidence that people think that data analysis should be devoid of assumptions, and any assumptions completely invalidate the analysis. In reality, almost all analysis will have some assumptions, and the good questions to ask is how plausible are the assumptions and what is the plausible impact of what happens if the assumptions are wrong.
NoSQL Meets Bitcoin and Brings Down Two Exchanges (2014)
As someone with a kid, who lives in one of those towns where the crazies managed to prevent water fluoridation, I'm always looking at toothpastes to make sure they contain it.
Because it's hugely regressive.
negative return is a thing
Accredited investors only? If so, even lowering the floor to $10k might not help the OP (geared toward helping swanson with the details rather than any kind of suggestion).

Edit: and Kapil has answered :-)
You can definitely contribute. If you're a software engineer, then you could join a research lab as a scientific programmer. Good labs are well-funded in these areas and will have funding to cover salary for a programmer to implement data analysis pipelines, polish research software and make it publicly available etc.

Alternatively if you're a software engineer or a product designer, or many other roles, then you could join a company working on commercializing genetic medicine. They're are lots and those companies are definitely not just looking for people with PhDs.

Once in a place like that, you'd be able to chat further with people about your career direction.
I regularly have 50 tabs open on my 8G MBA in 4-5 windows. Recently I moved from Chrome to Safari thinking it would save me battery. Well it didn't. Because Safari used so much more memory it started trashing. And I could forget about running virtualization...

So now I'm back on Chrome....
I grew up in San Diego, have been working on tech in SF for almost a decade, and love the idea of moving back.

The quality of life in (western) San Diego is so hard to beat. A couple dozen (or hundred) of us moving back with some meaningful experience and success could go a long way towards making San Diego a viable place to more easily build and sustain real companies.
Guide to Fixing Mixed Content [pdf]
Standards happen so slowly. By the time people agreed on what should be in this, that agreement would be antiquated.

We need something like what happened with OpenID and Oauth. OpenID may be gone, but one company made a few bucks on it and OAuth is largely inspired by it. Someone needs to find a way to make a buck moving profile data around in a meaningful way then that becomes a de-facto standard that gets copied and used all over.

Then the government can regulate something that already exists rather than regulate something shitty into existence.
There was also a plan in 1965 to fill part of the Bay by leveling San Bruno Mountain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_Mountain
It is a curious, and useful, way to arrange a document
Seems to be a response to the following op-ed from today's NYT --

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/opinion/pardon-edward-snow...
Yes, but the instructions that I've found to do so are based on installation via shell scripts, which I'm not comfortable with. I'd like to understand it well before running it even in a test setup.
How much better?
It turns out white collar workers are the same. How many IT staff, engineers, accountants, legal workers, and dozens of other professions have watched, glass-eyed, while their whole departments have been shipped to India, Philippines, and Latin America.

Only when they themselves get to train their own H1B replacements does it occur to them that maybe transgender bathroom usage and legal weed were not the issues they should have concentrated on.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this allow for a much richer set of alerts since you're able to use the elastic search query syntax? This also allows you to alert on an empty result set which can be pretty handy.
This article read like wanker fluff - it doesn't say anything about why AirPods are worth $150 dollars or how theirs are any different than the $20 you can get on Amazon. I have a pair of bluetooth headphones that has voice control - and I've had them for over a year. And I use them every day.

But its not revolutionary because "Apple did it." The argument was more sex selling and shmarmy feel goodness, but it didn't enumerate WHY its a better experience.

I'm also not convinced that people will start talking to themselves because they bought $150 headphones. That makes you look like a "dickwad."
I haven't used it, but Nomad has specific support for Java apps.
Have either Clinton or Trump publicly/officially stated their opinion on Snowden?
How Hillary's Campaign May Be Using Big Data
The author is really late to this particular party.

https://replacethessn.xyz/
Event frequency analysis without arbitrary windows
"The most comprehensive formal systems yet set up are, on the one hand, the system of Principia Mathematica and, on the other, the axiom system for set theory of Zermelo-Fraenkel (later extended by J. v. Neumann). These two systems are so extensive that all methods of proof used in mathematics today have been formalized in them, i.e. reduced to a few axioms and rules of inference. It may therefore be surmised that these axioms and rules of inference are also sufficient to decide all mathematical questions which can in any way at all be expressed formally in the systems concerned. It is shown below that this is not the case, and that in both the systems mentioned there are in fact relatively simple problems in the theory of ordinary whole numbers which cannot be decided from the axioms."

From "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica And Related Systems" by Kurt Gödel, 1930

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Formally_Undecidable_Propos...

http://www.csee.wvu.edu/~xinl/library/papers/math/Godel.pdf
As someone who works with a tax law firm that is ranked pretty high on the legal500 (and obviously, I know a rank can be gamed relatively easily), I must say the experiences I've had with them have been excellent. For all intents and purposes, they are exactly what I would expect from a good law firm.

I worked with several "independent" lawyers before, and honestly, they are nowhere near close to the level of skill of my current law firm. In addition, they're quite responsive, much more than the average independent lawyer. And yes, they're more expensive, but not outrageously so. They seem to reach a favourable outcome faster, and seem to be more effective.

Tl;dr: Love the lawyer I work with in this firm, he gets the job done when I need him to + has a great team with broad experience to back him up. He's managed to resolve any tax issue before we even went to court.
Are you advocating for less testing on toothpaste or more testing on cosmetics...
I'm sorry, but which guideline have I violated? I was only trying to help.
Wiki article on Heuristic
@marcoperaza: Define treason?
Was waiting for its final release. Recently built an app using it and the documentation kept changing. Found it hard to keep up.
> Mr. Snowden is not a patriot. He is not a whistleblower. He is a criminal.

Quite a statement! It's obviously not black and white. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I think the conversation needs to be inclusive, frank and factual. And this statement from our representatives shows a major problem. They don't want conversation, they want sound bites.

As an aside, I saw the movie last night and highly recommend it to anyone unsure or not aware of what happened. It seems to be accurate enough to portray the essence of his experiences and decision making process.
Did you just call them Cylons?
This was my exact experience learning how to program at 24.
Exactly. Producing small trucks with the options/amenities American consumers expect was less profitable than shifting that consumption to full-size trucks.

In the same time span, full-size trucks have grown a fair bit, so it appears it's now possible to market a mid-size truck (the Canyon and Tacoma are quite a bit larger than the old S-10 or Ranger). Nobody is actually selling compact trucks in the US any more, nor does anybody plan to do so (that I've seen).
I am a lawyer yes. But let's say I have a good cv.
"Snowden is a spy who has caused great damage to the U.S. A spy in the old days, when our country was respected and strong, would be executed" - Trump

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/45731493447363379...
> The idea that art has an overall goal of advancing or perfecting its terms and techniques is made up. Imagined. Idiotic. Except to those benefiting from this intellectual fundamentalism. Someday, people will look back at this phase of art history the way we look back at manifest destiny and colonialism.

I wonder what name historians will give this period...
I've often thought React would be perfect for creating games with. Even attempted my own framework similar to this using the canvas but it fell down when it came to rendering. I felt like React really didn't suit the update/render loop approach. It doesn't seem to talk about it on the project page so I wonder how this works. Using the DOM?