skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the Pixel will have good resale value. It seems just as well-built as an iPhone, but unless Google changes its update policy, the Pixel won't be able to run new versions of Android after two years. That is a huge drag on resale value.

I don't know about you, but if I was in the market for a used phone, I'd go for one that could run the latest OS.

The Pixel seems to me to be a vindication of the Apple model: controlling both the hardware and software can get you a pretty good product, and in the case of upgrades, you only have to support the hardware that you yourself have released. There is no technical reason Google can't support the Pixel phones for years, like Apple does, but I doubt they will do that.
Ya that's true. I'd just really hate to ever see another 10,000 line jquery monstrosity ever again shudder lol.
Minio/dsync: a distributed locking and syncing package for Go
Tools like this for C already exist, and have existed for some time. They've failed to reach fixation, even in security-critical areas like kernels. If that is going to be the answer, then a different approach to making C safer is definitely required.
At what cost to performance? Very rarely are there solutions that exist without tradeoffs.
Thank you very much for the info! I spent so much time searching in vain for these superblocks, but that was more than a month ago, so now it makes sense.
Tom and Jerry Push-Button Kitty (1952)
Thailand seems to be in a semi-permanent battle between difference forces trying to control the govt. Is either one any good? I speculate the current govt is not any good, if they are cooperating with the Chinese.
Author admits he wrote a spin-piece

"So why, then, would I write such an anti-Roman article? Because I’m trying to give people who’ve received a eurocentric education a different set of goggles to try on: the lenses of Roma’s Asian contemporaries, some of whom genuinely did believe the Romans were “primitive” and “unclean.” This is a perspective we almost never hear about in the West, and I think it’s an interesting one to ponder.
I do my best to keep my facts straight — but all the historical stories I write are colored heavily by my own interpretations and blind spots. My favorite history writers are Will Durant and Pierre Briant. I realize that this kind of “interpretive” historical writing is now considered obsolete — maybe even dangerously slanted and over-simplistic — but it’s the stuff I enjoy reading, so it’s what I write."
How humans will learn to coexist with bots
>Rajiv Fernando was not qualified to be on this particular natsec expert board that comes with a Top Secret clearance.

I don't disagree with you.

>Political patronage isn't necessarily wrong when you're handing out the typical ambassadorships which people tend to actually be qualified for.
However, it certainly becomes "actual corruption" when you start putting those people in impactful roles that they're utterly unqualified for.

But again, you're not really arguing against HRC as much as you are the status quo. Again, Bush appointed a supremely unqualified man to head the agency responsible for protecting America during emergency- I didn't pull a random example out of my ass either.

You're suggesting that Hilary's patronage is unique because the beneficiary could potentially have serious responsibility- Im saying Bush's beneficiary let New Orleans drown, then grossly botched his responsibilities while Americans killed each other for food. I'd suggest the oversight of American emergency preparedness is a life-or-death matter, as the blood of ~1,200 American citizens is on Mike 'heck of a job' Brown's hands.

All that is to say that consequential political appointments can be had through patronage. Unless you can somehow show that this appointment was directly requested by Rajiv, again my response is that he probably didn't want this particular position, but it's the one that was left after HRC exhausted the choice positions.

Again, I don't think the action was responsible but I can't see how it was out of line with the dysfunctional status quo.
Yes. That cloud setup punches through firewalls and is just turn key. I wish they made routers.
I disagree. I think he's unjustly going after the employees, or even if that isn't his intent, that's how it's coming off. I felt like I needed to speak up for them, because as an employee myself, I would hate to speak up about bad conditions in the workplace only to be dismissed by someone who knows little about the situation saying "But he knew what he signed up for, why is he complaining?"
I think you're taking this a bit too literally. Consider a less extreme case; given a choice between a pound of gold or the current financial equivalent in Berkshire Hathaway equity (about 150 shares), which is more likely to provide higher returns over the long run? Buffet is basically making an optimistic case for the American economy, arguing that gold is a hedge, while market investment is a strategy.
I agree with you that writing build scripts and using build tools both are not very hard. Who finds them hard? I'm sure Babel and webpack could be improved. What would you propose for how to improve them? Thanks.
Trump vs Clinton: Bitcoin Illiteracy in 2016 Presidential Election
https://play.golang.org/p/X6zItReejE

> tmp/sandbox459432416/main.go:10: err declared and not used

Go won't compile unless you handle your errors.
Others are thinking they see clues...

http://macdailynews.com/2016/09/30/macos-sierra-code-suggest...
"The AmpliFi online store is currently available only for US-based customers."
It only takes one "sociapath".

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

Warning: the "Plot Threads" section has spoilers.
even then, it's true super power status was achieved after ww2 when we did have the Fed. not a nitpick, it is a central part of his false premise.
In California, one way space is wasted is with free parking in parking lots attached to businesses. The business wants to reserve the lot for its own customers for various reasons. In the limit they hire guards to keep people from using the lot for nearby businesses. Paid parking would allow one to park once and visit a few places that were within walking distance of each other.
It's called talking your book. See this thread [1] from the last time Bill Gross said that banking and finance are "permanently damaged" a little under a year ago. He's bombastic and clickbaity and it attracts money from likeminded, bearish investors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11217860
If they made a 2 pack it would probably be around $230 with my guesstimate.

3-pack $300 or $100/item
2-pack $230 or $115/item
1-pack $130 or $130/item
Hey, I'm glad you like it and thank you for the input! That's a really good point - I've pushed this commit forward which resolves this by only counting occupied floors in quality-of-life calculations - in other words, if a user makes a bad floor decision in the future, they can delete that floor to undo the decision and figure out what went wrong. It probably won't deploy to the contest site until tomorrow, though.

https://github.com/webrender/10ktower/commit/a6b8fe2234f713e...
The trading part is easier. Keeping clients/AUM is harder (ie clients leave to put their $ into other asset classes).
They want to be home for Christmas?
Shhh... That was for suspense, it's more of a "plasma slug" weapon
Wordo Dictionary (https://wordo.co/@aminozuur)

Wordo is a minimally designed, and social dictionary. You can follow your friends and see which words they like.

There are some tiny bugs in the regular expressions, which sometimes incorrectly display definitions that are fetched from Wiktionary.

https://github.com/aminozuur/wordo/
(MIT license)
If you plan on writing your OS in Haskell in the usual sense (i.e. your OS executes pure Haskell functions and interprets some sort of IO monad) you're going to end up implementing a full microkernel in another language just to get started. Not to mention it'll be a microkernel with a GC.

The only way I could see a kernel being truly written in Haskell is in a DSL something like atom[1]. Atom is an EDSL represents code that not only doesn't need a garbage collector, but also has a verified constant bound on memory usage. However if that's what you're looking for, you might as well go with an EDSL in a dependently typed language like Idris to make verification easier and extensible.

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom
Call me a cynic, but my first thought on looking at this was "we can't do any better than a datum per hour?!" :) Must be a bandwidth constraint.
A mathematical history of taffy pullers
You had me until "MongoDB".
What are the user privacy policies and technical implementations?
> Sadly there seem to be no desktop apps that are maintained anymore.

iTunes supports RSS if you're on Mac or Windows though it's not obvious (File->Subscribe to podcast... add RSS link)
Since everyone is chiming in with their preferred reader, I really like InoReader, and have been using that for the last few years. Works quite well.
I wish they didn't do 24V PoE. I know they are coming from a WISP background, but a AP seems like something that should support 802.11af. It's not like it's something exotic.
Call me an optimist, but the data may have been binned by hour.
> This is a $1,000 lens--definitely not a kit lens.

It is also definitely not an f/2.8 lens like all the other top lenses associated with this camera. I too have found it puzzling just like the parent did.
I love this graph
That's a beautiful graph but NOAA's insistence on non-metric units frustrates me endlessly. Knots for speed are bad enough but "inches" for pressure is multiple levels of wrong.
Read Inherited Fill Data of a Shape and Adding ActiveX Controls into Visio Drawing
Well, there's Chicago.

But sure. Persuade whatever West Coast city to aggressively build for density. For better or worse, we don't do these things as top-down directives in the US.
Yes, I understood what he was trying to say, but his comparison was too far over the top and inaccurate to not be called out. His wording introduced and failed to account for the idea of someone having a monopoly on gold.
I would be immensely curious to see the raw data given how the point spacing changes (assuming those aren't actual data measurements). The drop and recovery around the eye are so staggeringly smooth.
Why do they mean by "upstream and downstream providers"? I would think it'd mean the ISP associated with the IP address from the logs if they had it? Not sure why they worded it that way or if they meant somthing else?
Why, again, attack the man instead of the argument? It's especially grating when the entire thread is about ad hominems.

Saying that Scott Adams has been known to be irrational is at best tangential to the example he gives to qualify whether the Trump and Clinton campaigns are using emotional manipulation, especially ad hominem attacks, to achieve their respective goals.

It's an appeal to emotion built upon an ad hominem: you use your attack on Scott Adams' ability to reason coupled with an association fallacy [1] to attack me in order to invalidate my line of argument.

Specifically: Scott Adams is irrational; you presented an example by Scott Adams; you therefore agree with an irrational man; this makes you irrational; your arguments are therefore irrational; let's not bother debating your irrational arguments.

I might be wrong, so attack the flaws in my reasoning, not me or the author or my examples.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
If you have Netflix, I highly suggest watching Black Mirror S1E3 'The Entire History of You', as it is a pretty great dramatization of a total memory record and replay future...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
Well, technically he's right because the NSA isn't rifling through your emails, Yahoo is.
Cash has no utility either. At the end of the day, cash, gold, silver..are monetary instruments. To say a monetary instrument needs to have utility is a bit ridiculous. Do we want to go back to the days of carrying around bags of salt?

I don't know how many cubic feet $7 trillion of US dollar takes up...but if I have a cubic feet of $7 trillion anything I would take it, convert it and purchase whatever I want with it.
You have to buy from a European reseller.
It's biuriful tears up

And now back to our regularly scheduled React component.
KickassTorrents mirrors go down, but new KAT sites quickly spring up
One thing I like about the iPhone is the strong emphasis on security. Many features in the iPhone are built around it such as password inputs eventually stop working after a certain amount of tries, plane tickets show up on home screen without needing to unlock the phone and default encryption. I like knowing that if I lock my phone, not even the FBI can get into it. This gives me confidence to use services such as Apple pay. How does the Google Pixel compare in security?
Fortunately, there are precautions you can take, up to and including permanently disconnecting from the Internet.
sigh... s/KGS/KSP/ my apologies, I can't edit the prior comment.
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VR experience creator and editor (beta) published to hashplay vr (also in beta)
> I will defy you and in the process cost 10k+ people their jobs without them having any say or knowledge of this

There's no way the govt. would do anything more than skewer (or attempt to) a few sacrificial lambs for violating a gag order. There's no political win otherwise.
Right, they didn't make up this case. Everyone who has worked in a publicaly traded company knows you can't trade until a few days after the earnings release. It's double so for the CEO! How could he have not known that? I am sympathetic to the possibility that the govt my go after someone that didn't work with them, but he committed a separate illegal act, selling that stock. They didn't go after Martha Stewart for talking about the cia.
I'm in Chicago, in a dense-but-not-a-high-rise area. LTE on my phone was drastically better than wifi on any device -- on weekday evenings, my laptop was useless. In a 700 square foot apartment. Bought an OnHub, now shit works. Google is definitely not full of shit when they say that the routers are really solid at optimizing the setup.

I could've fussed with placement of the old router, hunted through the channels, installed different firmware, or whatever -- but I don't spend that much time at home, and that's no longer what I'm interested in fiddling with.
Which series is that? I'm curious to read/watch, but struggling to find it.
That's terrible. What about:

- Proxy settings
- MAC address cloning
- Port forwarding
- Strict security controls
- Wifi bands, 2.4 vs 5GHz (I guess this is less important)
- Logs
Many verification systems can understand virtually any proof you can throw at them, so any memory management scheme for which you have a rigorous argument for correctness should be able to operate with no additional runtime overhead. And if you don't have such an argument, you've already lost no matter what language you use.
I remember reading in a credible source, I believe the NY Times, about a private contractor threatening the life of a U.S. State Department official in order to make something happen, and getting their way. Look at all the things Blackwater (most famously) and other did, with (almost?) complete impunity.

I have no expertise in the matter, but my impression is that the law isn't a consideration in combat zones. Perhaps someone with actual experience can comment.
Reading the comments below, I fear for our future. It seems no-one trusts information from any source any more, which gives us an excuse to lazily discount any critics of our own beliefs.

The US presidential election in particular seems to be condensing into two very distinct sets of beliefs - one following a colourful businessperson, and the other a jaded politician - both of whom should be pursuing comfortable retirements instead of high office, in my completely irrelevant opinion (I'm not from the USA). Both sides discount everything the other says, because "you can't believe anything these days" and they can easily find their own media outlet that agrees with their point of view.

My fear comes from the devaluing of the fourth estate. If the losing side on this election hears anything but "it was a fair race, but we lost" from their media, and given America's unhealthy predilection for firearms, you're not far off a civil war.
slides:

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jeanluc/talks/clarkson2015.pdf

paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1608.00152v1.pdf
"Secure Enclave" has no parallel on Android.

Plus their SoCs are quite good.

(Maybe not what GP meant, but that's my own take on their hardware)
What's more wrong about inches than knots?
iirc its inches of mercury, which isn't much more helpful. I've frequently seen it labeled as "in. hg"
Project Cybersyn: Socialism Through Cybernetics
I agree with this except for two cases, which I would LOVE counter arguments for.

Case 1: checked exceptions. This is what Java used heavily in the early days, a bit less today, which basically requires you to deal with known exception scenarios. It was good because it wouldn't compile unless you explicitly said "I'm not dealing with this" or you dealt with it. But its bad because it requires your methods to throw some list of exceptions all the way up the call stack. I think there are some other problems that Experts(tm) around here can probably point out better than I. Still, checked exceptions seem to be a valid pattern in some contexts, and this feels like the same pattern Go follows. That said, I dislike Go's error handling for the same reason: my code is really cluttered and unclear this way.

Case 2: when you catch everything, you may not throw the right thing to your caller(s). Even worse, you may swallow an exception unintentionally and leave callers hanging in the balance. It's not that it's impossible or particularly difficult to avoid making these mistakes by wrapping everything in a Try[T], just that it's easy to make the mistake of catching more than you intended.
> Yet the US is on track to vote in another president whose primary national security strategy on her website is to expand NSA power and increase domestic and foreign intelligence gathering.

Scary indeed
I don't see why binning would be advantageous here. If it's noisy, apply a moving average. But binning it is just throwing (time) data away. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great we have access to this data at all. Just curious why it's not higher-resolution.
You can switch to the metric system on their website [1]. The graph can also be switched to metric by changing the "uom" query parameter from "E" to "M"

[1] http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=42058&unit...
If taken literally the dimensionality is odd. Pressure is a force applied to an area (force/2-d), and that's just a length 1-d (as written)
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part I
Whilst I appreciate the recommendation, I do not understand its relevance in the context of this thread.

What I am reading in your comment is an implication:

- that by attacking the use of a quote to ridicule those who have read Ayn Rand and attempt to present her ideas, I am myself promoting Ayn Rand's ideas,

- and that the other ideas of Ayn Rand's (beyond those illustrated by the metaphors used in Atlas Shrugged that lead to this quote, which is very specifically about government use of bad laws for manipulation) are relevant to this discussion.

This would lead for a need for a response to Ayn Rand's body of ideas as relates to "economic and common-sense grounds" (which I assume is not related to the quote by the grandparent), as opposed to specifically the original post or the direction I have put the thread in.

Is this the correct interpretation?

If so, I disagree that Ayn Rand's entire body of ideas is relevant to the discussion of the specific case put forward by her metaphor and narrative in the context of this quote and discussion.

An example of this kind of association fallacy: Heinlein promoted incest in his later novels (e.g. Lazarus Long's relationship with his mother post time travel). Incest has negative connotations in modern society. It would be possible to use an appeal to emotion: "Heinlein promotes incest! You like Heinlein, so I can't listen to your argument, since you promote incest." It would, however, be manipulation to do so. A similar line of argument is used to attack certain religions today (I've even seen some French politicians try to paint Muslims as barbarians by pointing out a few incidents of goats slaughtered ritually in the bath tubs of social housing projects).

Every writer, every body of work has flaws. The beauty of discussing ideas is to hash out a better set of values and ideas to better model and understand the world we live in. There are even valid uses of appeal to emotion, when emotion is used to transmit higher information content than can be done via contextual awareness and shared culture, or to transmit complex ideas quickly. You could even argue that's a large reason for the existence of art (much of which is paid propaganda, other propaganda of the artist's ideas spread using appeal to emotion).

To use a writer's flaws to censor their work out of discussion is a subtler, more powerful version of Orwell's 1984 book censorship. I hold that all books should be discussed, even the "unpalatable" ones.
Webpack alone requires hundreds of dependencies. You are populating your node_modules directory with megabytes of code, any of which could stop working. If you plan to maintain your code for years into infinity then it's no problem. Otherwise the shop down the street doing the same thing without it will be much better off.
Try:

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/show_plot.php?station=42058&meas=wd...
Usable sure, but aesthetically pleasing? Material design is almost brutalist in its aesthetic. It's the opposite of beauty.
There are plausible solutions for both of those, or at least a clear direction to look for solutions. Unfortunately, there tends to be a critical mass that decentralized systems need to reach in terms of adoption before they become truly feasible.

Consumers aren't interested in buying a "UWB mesh hub" or some such, which wouldn't appear to do anything but drain batteries. But they might, for example, buy a car stereo or security system that uses a wireless device to deliver specific features, and which also happens to help saturate the city with a p2p mesh network.

Likewise with cryptocurrency, most people are not interested in the hassle for some intangible privacy benefit. But a lot of people might be interested in a crypto video game currency that can be easily traded, even between games. Or perhaps a currency-like mechanism to implement quotas on the mesh.