skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking not, but then: the place was founded by Peter Thiel, who spoke at the Republican National Convention.

It does smell like revenge, especially given that the numbers are so unusual and the company is probably dealing with security clearance issues. The fact that the numbers are so strange in the supposed pool should raise lots of red flags about one particular country too: were these people with family connections to China? That is normally disqualifying. Is the company expected to hire people who are certain to fail the clearance process, and then get stuck firing them for that failure?
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Didn't anyone else out there have a PandaBoard?

And TI was probably smart to exit OMAP for phones/tablets when they did. It's too hard to beat Apple/Samsung/Qualcomm in this space now.

(The Sitara/AM335x on Beagle is just an OMAP without the video DSP)
In the US system the Federal government has almost no power to change local zoning directly - except for the big carrot/stick approach implied in the article. The states and local governments have become reliant on streams of federal dollars to build roads - so tying road money to "your zoning law must be this tall to play" seems likely if there is enough buy-in from the civil servants involved.
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I find 5Ghz to be more reliable - perhaps because it is not as congested as 2.4
I tried to get it released before, but was shut down by the "open source office". So I can't give you the exact script. However, h2o has a script that launches a cluster, that's very similar:

https://github.com/ledell/h2oEnsemble-benchmarks/blob/master...

You can also do stuff like following in python to execute some code:

os.system("scp script_demo.py " + sys.argv[1] + ":/home/ubuntu/")
os.system("ssh " + sys.argv[1] + " sudo chmod 777 /home/ubuntu/script_demo.py")
os.system("ssh " + sys.argv[1] + " './script_demo.py'")
os.system("scp " + sys.argv[1] + ":/home/ubuntu/output/* ./output/")

Then it will execute, after it executes - shut it down.
My personal experience goes the other way but that's a sample of one. They have been very aggressive about "follow through" on IBR certification and annual re-certification. If I do not provide last years' full tax filings, they will not approve re-certification.
Looks like we're on a different Interweb, works for me; and travis was a spurious reporting problem, compiles fine (and is now green just to make you happy) :)
besides the ratings/reviews note that sometimes compensation is also tied to metacritic scores
AFAIK, moz's CA isn't just for FF. On linux, the default "root CA" used by google chrome is mozilla's NSS as shown here[0].

Also, other root certificate programs may follow suit.

[0]: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...
Keep a CHANGELOG
Facebook is being taken somewhere it never wanted to go
Elephants have a wide range, but it's not as though they teleport across that range in the dead of night. They're large, you can track their calls for miles, and they often take predictable routes for their entire lives. You don't need to protect empty land, you just need to have rotating teams covering the elephants.
SVG works for the trivial graphics use cases that are presented. But it falls apart for anything that requires more complexity, or dealing with documents of arbitrary complexity.

There is little provision for incremental rendering, and poor control and visibility of the internals of the rendering process. Once you dump your SVG to the browser, that's basically it. There's no way to find out what is going on.

It's really nice to just set a break point in your imperative Canvas code, or WebGL code and see exactly what is happening, and use all the standard debugging and profiling techniques. I have yet to see the same for SVG.
I was in Tanzania last summer and saw elephants in one of these parks where poaching is a big problem. We were lucky to see them; it was beautiful.

Our guides told us that natural selection causes elephants there to grow ever smaller tusks, making them less attractive to poaching. That seemed somewhat hopeful to me: maybe evolution will happen fast enough so they can re-bounce in numbers after they produce no ivory anymore.
> and now doing a master's at a large state university

ahh, Georgia Tech
> The part that doesn't make sense to me is... what does Palantir have to gain by discriminating?

A very good question: What does any company, or any person, have to gain by discriminating?

Yet, many do.
Here's one article:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/09/22/california_s_...

There are plenty more.
People are going to want to watch the debates live for the same reason people want to watch sports live. You can argue all you want for why a post-processed sports game is going to be so much better, but the truth is that's not what people want.

And the sort of people who are going to want to read a fact-checked version of the debate are in the tiny minority and likely well-informed enough that they have completely made up their minds well and truly before the debate.

I do however think that fact checking is an absolutely great idea, it just needs to be done live. There could be a fact checking team which can interrupt candidates with objections, or ring a "pants on fire" bell, or something entertaining.
Crazy Comodo. When that happened I resolved to never renew or buy new Comodo certs. It might be that Comodo backed away from that ridiculous plan but to be honest I don't really care - the CEO portrayed himself as a douche and it seems safe to assume they're a toxic company.
Ask HN: What are some exemplary React apps to study?
Which is admittedly very cool, for some applications - but the PRUs can't account for the huge price difference by themselves, I wouldn't think.
> why is everybody so adamant about using Signal?

Because it's convenient, secure, open-source, and well-designed.

> Outside of work, I don't own a smart phone and refuse to

That makes you, in the eyes of most people, a weird outlier.
The title article says: "Although some sites have recorded declines, elephant numbers have been stable or increasing since 2006 in Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda, and range expansion has been reported in Kenya."
Voting Republican Supports the Democrats and Vice-Versa
Relying on referrals sure does punt the ball down the park to the employees from the employers. I wonder how much it allows the company to say "It's not our fault!"
Give Wire messenger a go, you don't need a phone number for it.
Coverity has been doing "dynamic analysis" in the way this article uses the term for a long time; they ended up creating a system call tracer that lets them monitor an arbitrary build process to find code to analyze:

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lin...

(starting from "Laws of Bug Finding")
I'm using Chrome and pressed Ctrl-U. Nothing happened. What was supposed to happen?
Agree, it's more about noticing whether or not you're focused than it is being forced into a workflow.
Is there any plan, even a low priority one, for picking up maintenance for something like Gtk# or Xwt or Eto.Forms? Or for extending UWP or Xamarin.Forms to Linux?
Even if other browsers don't follow suit, 10% is enough for effectively no one to choose their certificates. When there are other, even free, alternatives, why would anyone voluntarily give up 10% of their potential users?
The regulatory compliance costs would put an undue burden on smaller players to the market though and end up stifling new entrants.
This 3rd world cabling...
Like erikpukinskis writes, you simply vote with your feet. Because the currency is now a commodity, the miners and developers need to be keenly aware of the needs of its users to stay competitive.

https://fee.org/articles/the-nature-and-origin-of-money/
The article makes a good point. But one reason I favour watching such an event live is to get ahead of the mainstream analysis before it starts to influence me. i.e. I only have one shot at a blank slate and first impression

This is similar to why I might want to watch a popular film on opening night, before the rest of the world declares it a winner or loser.

The headline and "winner"/"loser" judgements of tonight's debate will be loud and unavoidable by tomorrow morning. Their impact can be insidious.
Aren't there some set of claims that a candidate makes that nearly everyone can agree are objectively false? What's wrong with annotating a debate with that sort of information?
Some of the biggest differences are:
(1) Exponent is a free open source project, and we don't try to charge developers to use it. (Titanium is open source now but they try to make money by charging people for premium features--which is totally fine, but just different from what we do)

(2) Exponent is based on React Native which is newer and people seem to like better (search Google for blog posts about experiences using React Native and then search Google for blog posts about using Titanium), though I can't actually compare them personally since I don't know that much about the inner workings of Titanium.

(3) You can do instant app updates with Exponent since the JS is run on the device rather than being cross compiled to native code. I don't think you can do this with Titanium (though I may be wrong -- they've added a lot of features since I last checked on it)
Or else the smaller tusks will mean poachers kill more elephants each hunt to meet their ivory tonnage criteria?!? Could be a double edged sword.

I heard on a podcast recently that the main cause of elephant deaths in the 1920's and 1930's was.... the manufacturing of billiard balls. Apparently it took roughly 2 elephants worth of tusks to manufacture one set of ivory billiard/snooker balls. Astounding - whereas a piano keyboard would usually only take up less than 1/2 a tusk because they used laminated sheets of ivory.

At least we can be thankful that the modern plastics industry was born out of the need to create 'artificial ivory' billiard balls which exhibited the same bounce and noise properties. Although one could argue that modern plastics are a whole ecological blight in their own right...
Doesn't "Breathe" do this?

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/06/13/apple-breathe-app-for-ap...
Please remember, in reading explanations of this, that the entire financial industry has a vested interest in complicating what they do to the average person.

The basic theory of Glass-Steagall is to separate risk-taking in finance with the "mundane," finance, as Krugman was saying.

On one side of the coin in finance, you have the boring finance: home loans, small business loans, that day-to-day stuff is not complicated and is necessary service to the economy. By the way, we can't let these banks "fail," or go out of business. That would cause economic destruction beyond what is reasonable. Fortunately, this type of banking is not very risky, either.

Now, you have the other side of banking, which involves risk-taking. Some of this is stuff such as investment banking and private equity which is actually very necessary for efficient allocation of resources. These types of businesses need to be allowed to fail, though, since not letting them fail would be a redistribution of wealth from the taxpayer to the rich, and it would also mean people who are not good at efficiently allocating resources get to keep their jobs while smart people who can do it better, get crowded out by the politics of government handouts.

Also on the risk-taking side of finance you have securitization and a lot of "financial alchemy," stuff. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac arguably even fall in this category. This side of finance needs to also be allowed to fail for the same reasons.

I hope that makes sense. I recommend picking up an intro and intermediate-level macroecon textbooks for further reading.
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They have a solution??? They must be keeping it in a safe and they never applied it, obviously.
What's the wager? Clinton beats Trump? Sure. $100?
I did read the article.

Here is one specific context where they are facing potential penalties because employee racial distribution != candidate pool racial distribution.

On the other hand, in a different context, tech companies as a whole are taking a lot of flak because employee racial distribution != population racial distribution.

> You also appear to be assuming that there's no way the qualified candidate pool could have as many women and black americans as the broader US population

How is this even up for debate? Women and blacks are both underrepresented in majors like computer science compared to the population average. That flows directly into the candidate pool that tech companies need to hire from.

And this article cites one specific example where the 'qualified candidate pool' looks nothing at all like the American population average.

You're saying if that candidate pool only had 15% women, we'd want Palantir to hire just 15% women?
I have to disagree here - the prevailing religion in the US is money. The almighty dollar ruleth over all, and the high priests of Wall St. tell us what truth actually is.

You can explain away most of the really messed up things about the US by simply following the money.
The difference between sports and debates are that the post-processing in sports isn't going to change the most important "outcome," i.e. who won.

But post-processing when it comes to debates can mean overlaying information on top of the video that identifies clear falsehoods -- undermining a candidate's ability to play fast and loose with the truth to win, knowing that there's no real penalty for doing so.

So the "winner" might emerge differently if for example, news agencies didn't publish the live video, but each agency did independent fact checking (if the video were under embargo) and then each published annotated and unannotated versions.

You could still watch the vanilla version if you wanted to, but at least there would be widespread access to factually vetted versions as well.
I have been grafting asynchronous support into my codebase by a) writing new code with it and b) using AsyncContext [1] to run asynchronous stuff synchronously.

The performance:lines of code ratio you can get with async is quite high. Using ADO.NET you can run mutually exclusive queries in parallel for up-to a 2x speedup (depending on what the queries need to do):

using (var connection1 = ...)
using (var connection2 = ...)
{
var getSomething1Task = GetSomething1Async(connection1, ..., cancellationToken);
var getSomething2Task = GetSomething2Async(connection2, ..., cancellationToken);

await Task.WhenAll(getSomething1Task, getSomething2Task);

// now aggregate results from 1 and 2
}

And it's more or less the same lines of code you'd need for the synchronous version.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/9343733/242520
> K8s developers are most definitely not primarily sponsored by Google - more than 60% of K8s devs are NOT Googlers.

The key metric, in my view, is how many of them can approve PRs into master. How many of them are not Googlers?

Moreover, what would happen if a PR arrived that might make K8S incompatible with GCE, but be otherwise better for everyone else? I am certain it would be summarily rejected by Google.

> Overlay networks are definitely not a hack - many partners set them up with great benefit. The fact is networking is hard (tm), and unless you're just looking for a flat network, then you're going to have to use SOMETHING.

I respectfully disagree. The use of multiple IP addresses per node is a hard requirement of K8S, even though it is arguably unnecessary in environments whose servers can be bound to arbitrary ports.

By doing so, K8S made an explicit tradeoff that was better suited to Google's cloud offering than others'. I'm not saying it was the wrong decision; I'm simply saying that it forces complexity on those who operate in single-IP-per-host environments. (In case you think I'm unfairly laying blame, I point the finger equally at AWS and other cloud providers who refuse to make it simple to allocate a useful number of IP addresses per instance.)

I maintain my characterization that overlay networks are a hack: they make tracing more complex (tcpdump doesn't natively understand VXLAN or decapsulate their frames); they are compatible with few (if any) NetFlow analyzers (which are often used by orgs who use them for IDS and other purposes); and they add overhead to packet processing, particularly in virtualized environments that don't support VXLAN hardware offloading.
Forgive my ignorance, but why would anyone ever need to parse an SVG server side?

Now that you got me thinking, SVG might be a decent, if somewhat large, format for accepting sketches from users. Something like "draw a map, and we'll find it on Google maps for you". But I am certain that that (SVG user input) isn't a thing yet.
> Why should the interests of potential future residents outweigh those of people who already live there?

If all the residents agree to not sell or build more densely or whatever, fine, but once someone does, why should their right to do as they see fit with their own property be trampled?

Most people would agree there's a line somewhere, but 1) no one actually wants to build a nuclear waste dump in the middle of a suburb and 2) we've gone way over the line to the point where people freak out about a little bit more housing in an area full of housing like it's the end of the world.
What kind of models do y'all make?
I worked at Palantir in the covered period and did a ton of interviews, 5-10 a week. I experienced exactly this dynamic - very large numbers of applicants who had a bachelor's degree from a South or East Asian university, a year or two of work experience, and a Masters from a mid-tier US University. The large majority washed out on the FizzBuzz-level technical questions on phone screens (or asked in person at job fairs).
Thanks so much for providing a written transcript of the audio. I can't tell you how often I've come across some interesting looking podcast, but haven't had my headphones, or the time to listen to it. I find I have much better retention and faster consumption when reading plaintext. When I listen to audio only content, my mind tends to wander, and I get distracted with something while the words wash over me without sinking in. Reading text requires more engagement, and it's easier for me to maintain my focus.

I wish all audio content producers included a text version with their work as well.
i have no idea. over.
Since many major clients support it out of the box, I'd say that at least for verification purposes, it has more users than PGP/MIME.
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The general form of this question is: do we care more about government departments in their role as equal-opportunity jobs projects, or do we care more about the government being "effective", doing the most it can with each tax dollar?

In this case, I can see how "increased cohesion"—although decreasing the "jobs project" value—would be extremely helpful for increasing tax-dollar ROI.
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Yes, it is a real shame, because Inkscape in itself is really awesome. For me the best vector drawing tool available ...

But I also gave up trying to use the output for scripting. It would have been a way straight to madness ...
I agree woth this. I and my friends always wondered how so many Asians get accepted to top UK universities (with very high English-language requirements), when they can barely speak a word of intelligible English.

Now I have a close friend from China, and the mistery is solved: others are doing their exams/essays/assignments for them.

Keep in mind though, this is likely a huge generalisation (not all Chinese cheat and other nationalities cheat as well), and I put more than half of the blame on the universities themselves (they earn a lot of money accepting these kinds of students), but long-term, it really dilutes the value of this education in my eyes.
Show HN: PHP Compressed Strings Library
Has there been work done generating 3D models of faces? Like Mesh files that can be loaded into Open GL.
Congresspeople?

https://www.google.com/search?q=congresspeople&ie=utf-8&oe=u...
I've seen American university CS grads wash out on FizzBuzz level questions at alarming levels as well so this is not exclusively a phenomenon with these backgrounds.

How in the world are people making it through schools (with a MS!) without actually.... uhh.... you know.... knowing the subject at all?
Congresspeople? Members of congress? Persons what are elected to work in that big domey building?
Glad you're aware of context, but apple jumping into new tech is responsible for their massive dominance of consumer computer computing which, you'll be pleased to be informed about, is mainly done on phones and tablets.
Since much of their work consists of analyzing classified data, they may also be screening out those they decide aren't likely to obtain those clearances. Many defense contractors hire you provisionally (and might put you on a non-classified project) but don't expect to keep that job if you wash out of the background check process. There are plenty of interview questions you could ask to avoid candidates that you know won't make it.
Fix the American educational system?
Sure, everyone can do their own research; but most won't.

There may be some bias to fact-checking, but at least it's better than relying on the candidates to do their own fact checking (i.e. usually a hugely self-serving and distorted view of reality).
Aha. Thank you. You helped me figure out Trump's angle.

After he loses (badly), Trump will claim the election was rigged, stolen, whatever. Because the returns won't match the polling. An argument well worn by the left when Gore beat Bush in 2000.

Please recall that Romney was surprised he lost. He too thought too much of the polls. But whereas Romney had a decent campaign, posing a credible threat, he faced the most sophisticated campaign in history, with an amazing ground game (GOTV).

Comparatively, Trump has nothing resembling a campaign. A twitter account. Some campaign stops. No volunteer organization. And certainly no ground game. Rather, Trump's effort is solely about enriching Trump, a play book he's copying from Giuliani, Grigrich, and a host of other faux GOP candidates.
I wonder why.

Were I making such superior LEDs, I'd market the living shit out of it, including lifetime warranties and public demonstrations of quality and whatever. If you can't ensure recurring sales by making the product shitty (like most companies do), you need to grow very fast to compensate. Once such a brand reaches high enough trust level, it should not die without making you FU money.

If anyone here is thinking about starting a company making high-quality, lifetime, user-serviceable stuff with well-defined lifecycle from purchace, through repair until eventual recycling / scrapping for parts, please do so; I'll happily put you next to SpaceX and Tesla on the "list of companies I'm an active fanboy of" list.
Does Palantir make US citizenship a requirement for most of its job positions? My understanding is that this is common place for most US military contractors but I was wondering if this applies to government contractors at large.
Not so weird. I also have a smart phone for work -- so i don't have a personal one.
> You're saying if that candidate pool only had 15% women, we'd want Palantir to hire just 15% women?

Well, yes, that's only fair. Efforts to expand the ratio of women in the qualified candidate pool notwithstanding.
My favorite Pomodoro Timer is:

http://tomato-timer.com/

This one is lacking some features (I understand it aims to be minimalistic, but it cut flexibility on the process...)