skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly disputable.

They include Kerry espousing the principles of Democracy, but not the fact that he was trying to convince the opposition (which does not want an election, including one overseen by the US) that they might want to have an election.

I'm not sure what the point here is. The Syrian opposition is a very wide range of groups. I'm pretty sure everyone knows this, no?

The New York Times completely avoids publishing Kerry say that the reason that Russia intervened in Syria was because if they hadn't Daesh was likely to take over the government; and that the US had been hoping to use the ISIS threat as leverage to negotiate American support within the Syrian government.

That simply isn't true.

The second map on http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034 (ie, http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/news/special/2016/newsspec_13854/im...) show this. The Syrian government's core cities (Damascus, Homs, Aleppo) are/were mostly threatened by the Syrian opposition forces (the "FSA").

They say that Daesh was gaining enough strength to threaten Assad in the future, and they hoped that would get Assad to negotiate.

The New York Times edited out Kerry's admission that much of the Syrian opposition have allied themselves with "Nusra and Daesh": al Qaeda.

I haven't listened to the whole tape yet, but I'd note that at the very start the female speaker specifically says they are trying to avoid aligning with Nusra, but that she thinks Nusra is waiting for them to get desperate.

I'm not sure this is editing it out, as opposed to the fact that the Syrian environment is extremely complex and changes rapidly.

The FSA is getting destroyed at the moment, and FSA-aligned groups include a wide range of other groups, which change their alignment with Nusra (and the Kurds) frequently.

The clips of Kerry describing how a US invasion of Syria would be completely illegal, whereas Russia was legally invited by the government of Syria got dropped

I haven't heard this yet, but it sounds correct to me? I don't think anyone in the US is advocating for an invasion are they?

Edit: I've heard this part now. I don't understand what you are saying - is there anything new or controversial to report here?
> Apple, a public corporation who publicly fought a similar request.

The FBI went public with the case, not Apple... and the warrant was signed by a public criminal courts judge not a FISA court. That's a critical difference. There are no examples of successful challenges to NSLs, don't downplay the seriousness of doing so.

"Going public" is not really an option for the stuff we're talking about (as the Yahoo case I mentioned made clear, the whole warrant is predicated on secrecy ). If they do they could face serious financial penalties or face their CEOs going to jail where yes shareholder value will take a hit. The markets are very sensitive to large lawsuit liability and CEO changes.

So I don't see how you could challenge these laws as a public corporation without knowing full well you will damage the share value.

Their obligation to maintaining the stock value is only part of the issue here. You're expecting these businesses to be heroic martyrs when the state has stacked the chips extremely high against them. There's no question who is responsible for this mess.

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.

Four more years!
I actually meant maybe we shouldn't be holding a heat and RF-emitting screen two inches from our eyeballs. My phone gets hot when streaming a lot of music - I can only imagine how hot it gets while using all that processing power to run a VR program!
Renewable green energy before it was cool.
People really hate GoLang's error checking because of the impression that there is a lot of repetition around err != nil statements.
Twitter, Microsoft, and Google say they haven’t scanned messages like Yahoo
I would have thought some wealthy game company would want to buy the company behind a game this popular.
You cannot protect your privacy with just mathematics. It won't help against government tracking your cell phone location or looking into your bank account.
Are you referring to the instances where error is a return value, but an error result under the known inputs would be impossible, so it would be pointless to check it? That's not exactly the same as removed for brevity.
Yeah, doesn't seem viable. What's the plan for monetization?
Right, but how do you tell (not speculate) that this is the case here, and not - for example - the Panama Papers?

My guess is that the very vast majority of these documents are real and should be taken very seriously.

Now, it does look like they may be from DCCC and not the Clinton Foundation - Guccifer 2.0 in this case being a stupid, bragging and amateurish hacker.
I'm sorry, but have you used Yahoo Mail?

I don't believe they are capable of writing the "siphon" they are accused of. To be honest, I don't think they actually have engineers. I think they just use summer interns.
I think I'm at around 785 total hours at this point. One of the few games I play much.
Alleged Guccifer 2.0 hack of Clinton Foundation raises suspicions
To be honest, KSP's a hell of a resume entry. It's like asking someone why they might join the Peace Corps.
Add it to the spam filter? The security team probably reviews the spam filter code, but perhaps not the particular weights and measures it uses on a daily basis. So you set up a parallel filter for "arabic spam" that generally looks like regular filter, just tuned a little differently.
You're right. There are a lot of cognates. But in first year Latin we are taught and given exams on false cognates, so I guess I always treated each cognate carefully because our prof was always trying to trick us!

In translation class, we were taught about false friends, so this added to my paranoia probably.
For coders thinking they'll just build something cool?

This is your competition.
Would like to see this for web apps.
I also think a lot of you are being uncharitable:

I am sorry you are feeling ganged up on, but I am an individual, not part of some group "lot of you." I am a medically handicapped woman with a shitty life who just likes talking with people and that's it. I was in no way judging you as an individual and I started out with stating that I have sympathy for some of your points.

But as a woman who has really had to deal with a lot of shit on HN and gets told all the time that I am basically imagining things, and as a homeless person who has very much experienced classism and exclusion while homeless, I think that "small percentage" that is attributable to the color of their skin is significant and not to be dismissed.

I try really hard to talk about just treating all people decently and in some places that gets my remarks routinely deleted. I am a white woman and part of my so-called "white privilege" is that I have a predominantly white genetic disorder that is the root cause of my poverty and homelessness and I get a whole lot of fuck you over that. With being homeless, I am presumed incompetent and people tell me to go seek out charity and are incredibly dismissive of my attempts to try to figure out how to establish an earned income that works for me in spite of my medical situation.

There are a lot of things I have dealt with in the last few years that are a huge head fuck and often make me suicidal because I feel strongly that my financial problems should not be anywhere near as bad as they are and are made far worse by classism and the assumption that a homeless person must be a total fucking loser with nothing of value to offer. And there are times when this just seems like an impossible trap that cannot be escaped.

I expect that I will escape it, but I have my moments where it just feels really hopeless because of the shitty attitudes and behaviors of other people unnecessarily compounding my problems.

So how do you propose to magically solve their poverty if that is "the real issue"? Because from where I sit as a homeless person, that comes across as an excuse to not deal with racism, which is real and does have an impact.

And maybe you can stop for a minute and think about how you are lumping me and others together because we happened to have all spoken to you in this one discussion and aren't all in agreement with you and that's the basis for this grouping and accusation that we all, as a group, are being uncharitable. And then wonder what that says about the personal experiences shaping people of color and other groups who do not know how to separate their color or other traits from persistent poverty.

If you have no solution for that poverty, how useful is it to say that is the "real" problem?

Thank you for replying.
I think "rate" refers to install rate, as in how many users install the app, not install speed.
So, in a sense material design is too restrictive to let designers think outside of the box.

I get that opinion. But allow me to play the devil's advocate:

Mobile interfaces are small and restrictive. Touch screens and gestures have zero discoverability. Interfaces must scale to a multitude of different screen sizes and resolutions. Flare hurts usability in these situations. When designers break convention it is far more likely to result in confusion or frustration by end users. Well defined standards can enable me to use your app without even looking at the screen and drastically improve accessibility for things like screen readers.

I think the tendency toward flare stems from design education that emphasizes print media and tries to make a direct translation into Web/UX Design. Print media, and advertisements are meant to grab your attention, establish unique brand design language and brand identity. But If I'm already on your website or using your app you already have my attention. You've already sold me. Now simply help me accomplish the task I am here for in the least painful way possilbe. Branching out beyond common guidelines and creating new interface conventions may scratch your creative itch but it is rarely more efficient or easy to use that established conventions.
This group's DNC hack has already been tied to Russia by way of the forensics of a previous hack on the German government.

One of the strongest pieces of evidence linking GRU to the DNC hack is the equivalent of identical fingerprints found in two burglarized buildings: a reused command-and-control address—176.31.112[.]10—that was hard coded in a piece of malware found both in the German parliament as well as on the DNC’s servers. Russian military intelligence was identified by the German domestic security agency BfV as the actor responsible for the Bundestag breach. The infrastructure behind the fake MIS Department domain was also linked to the Berlin intrusion through at least one other element, a shared SSL certificate.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-b...
The "privacy" apps nowadays (Signal for instance) is morw about security than anonymity.
The inability to build densely due to parking requirements is one of the things that makes neighborhoods pedestrian/bike commute hostile in the first place.

If parking is truly an issue, the market can of course solve it with private parking lots.
Nexus 6P and 5X have the same camera, and it's one of the best smartphone cameras out there.

DxO rated them 84, while iPhone 7's is 86. While Pixel's is ranked 89, it's not that far ahead. And 5X is a really cheap phone, I routinely see deals under $200.
I read Joel's blog back in university, this must have been around 2010. I was very inspired and I remember binge-reading his archives during several late night coursework sessions in the CS lab.

This seems to have been around the time the hipster-tech culture started taking off in a big way. I graduated right in the middle of it, and looking back, I realise I'd taken for granted that the professional tech world would follow Joel's more adult way of thinking. Instead we have a cult of youth. No planning (under a misguided interpretation of "lean"), minimum processes (under a misguided interpretation of "agile"), no knowledge of design patterns (TDD supposedly makes this obsolete), weird fake hipster quirkiness (but omg don't make any jokes about killing ex-girlfriends, or Anil Dash will put you on an industry blacklist).
Thoughts on Bookmarks
Install rate is referring to the percentage of users who install the app at all, versus those who choose not to because the app is too big.
Original artice on Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/09/29/winteg...
If your app is mostly targeting startups (cue stereotype of hipsters on Macs in coffeeshops and coworking spaces), then Android should probably not be your first choice of platform.

If your app is targeting a non-startup audience and you can identify a conference or tradeshow more relevant to your actual audience, that may be a better place to try for attendee interest than a startup conference.
That particular employee may not be. Obvious solution is to have a page ran by some reasonably trustworthy organisation where people can report these breaches before passing them on to their superiors.
Quoting from the article: "At some point investors – leery and indeed weary of receiving negative or near zero returns on their money, may at the margin desert the standard financial complex, for higher returning or better yet, less risky alternatives."
How is Cicero not "Classical Latin"?
Two. The URL is a constant that is guaranteed not to return an error. It is not brevity.

Anyways, the point is I don't understand the point of err != nil bashing here, given there are two programs in the article that only contain one error check each.
> Glad he also threw in some "buy gold" scaremongering too.

I'll bite; why is gold a bad investment? Does it not have low risk and stable value? Hell, these days it even has REAL value as a special metal.
The bar for treason is a little higher than refusing to secretly forward some emails.
Apps that claim "privacy" only actually protect the security, not anonymity of their users.
The PSVR also specs 120 fps (and is capable of it), whereas Oculus and the Vive are at 90.
We have pretty good evidence:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-b...
Attack of the Repo Men (2003)
Maybe in that case they'd be willing to pay a bit more for a more guaranteed spot - like something they actually own or something they are sure of. In a free-market-ish system, perhaps people would build more parking at that point.

Seems like an example of an "economic calculation problem": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Every time I find code where people skipped checking for errors, I want to drink
I agree. Am looking for a help desk, will check out Reamaze. Trello as a help desk seems quite limited for now, but maybe it'll get better.
> Mayer was probably too new and too scared to deal with this, especially when she had to think about her new baby.

OK, I normally think misogyny claims are over-blown and people are way too sensitive.

But your comment positively reeks of misogyny.

Rather than go for a down-vote, because you're able to edit your comment, I think you should reconsider the phrasing and delete the misogyny. If your comment doesn't stand without it, I believe deleting it would add to rather than subtract from, the discussion.
Cliff-Dwelling Bees Carve Their Nests Out of Solid Rock
Unicode is not known for its consistency in dealing with these issues. The original idea behind Unicode was to be able to represent every then-extant character set with perfect fidelity (i.e., go from X to Unicode and back, and you should get the same data). Why are there letters like U+212B Angstrom sign (not to be confused with U+00C5 Latin capital A with ring above) or things like half-width and full-width characters? Because they were present in Shift-JIS, not because of any coherent notion of what constitutes a glyph. Han unification was driven more by the need to keep from blowing a space budget than by actual rationalization of whether or not the scripts deserved separate spaces.

Note that Klingon isn't in Unicode (it was explicitly rejected by the UTC, with a vote of 9 in favor of the rejection proposal, 0 against it, and 1 abstaining). Tengwar and Cirth, though, are actually considered serious proposals for Unicode, just really, really low priority compared to, say, Mayan script (for which the first proposal should be going live in 2017). Mayan script is interesting in its own right because it's the script (well, of the ones I'm aware of) that most challenges normal conventions on what constitutes letters and glyphs.
Apple is also the most profitable company in the history of the world. So, they have more ability than most to fight something like that.
Police don't even do this. If I am a gun owner and I want to go buy a new gun, I am under more strutany than a police officer who received his training and psych evaluations 20 years ago. Disallowing guns won't stop violence, but it will make for an easier police state. While I am not a gun owner, I do think it's a little amusing that a few bad people (comparative to population) have used guns for harm and now after centuries they are bad. No one had an outcry during the olympics rifle competition - so does that mean only "good people get guns"? It's a no win argument on both sides.
This is actually one of the best, current use-cases for today's mobile VR. There will be more, though.
America needs more slums!

The suburbs of today must become the favelas of tomorrow!
UAP-AC-Lite and UAP-ACs and UAP-AC-LRs are available next-day-delivery from Amazon... I recently bought a UAP-AC-LR (to compare against my OnHub) and had it two days later via Prime.

They now even allow basic AP config via an Android/iOS app, so I didn't have to install the Java-based controller on a Windows box...
That's the problem with responding to people who don't actually make complete arguments.
At the risk of repeating a comment I made further down in a thread, the average QA Engineer salary in Mexico is literally 10X more than one of these devs was making. Anyone trying to justify this in terms of the Mexican minimum wage is trying to sell you ocean front property in Arizona.
> Go back and replace jQuery with underscore, lodash, ramda... It's literally built into the language, and the person added a script tag to include an 85kb file just to run a loop over 3 elements. THAT'S the problem.

Well, jQuery in particular is somewhat of an exception. It achieved such a high level of ubiquity, and solved such a vast array of cross browser issues, it was not unreasonable for a front-end dev to add jQuery as the first step in any project. Similarly, while its "literally built into the language" that's only true in cases where you can drop IE8 support. I would personally be very surprised if there weren't still more quality developers who knew the jQuery or underscore api's better than the native javascript ones.

I think the more general sentiment here is: If you use map / reduce / forEach / etc with jQuery / underscore very well, you can very easily transition into dropping or changing those libraries. But your comment made it sound like you were less interested in how well they could code and more interested in which API's they knew (and knocking them for defaulting to the most widely known ones).
The Return of the Utopians
If only he had taken the high road and not dumped millions of dollars in stock shortly before it tanked, we wouldn't have to wonder about why he's in prison.
I read your question a few times but I'm sorry, I still don't understand. Can you rephrase it?
Pretty cool, but one nitpick: when you save as SVG it embeds the font as a base64 encoded url(). Neat trick, but it bloats the file a lot. A simple chart with a few elements ends up being 250kB. Hand-written SVG would be two orders-of-magnitude less than that.
Local regulations are a big problem, but so are federal ones. In particular, the mortgage market in America is hugely distorted by the implicit subsidies offered by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that buy and securitize a large majority of all mortgage loans nationally.

Crucially, loans qualify for purchase by Fannie and Freddie (and therefore have lower interest rates) only if they meet standards set by the Federal Housing Administration. These standards have always been hugely biased towards suburban single-family homes [0], and in some ways have become even more so recently. For example, Dodd-Frank amended the FHA rules to stipulate that at least half of the units in any new multi-family condo building must be sold before any buyers can qualify for an FHA-approved mortgage on any unit in the building. This rule alone has effectively killed the market for new-construction condo buildings in most American cities, since only luxury buildings in the hottest markets can expect to pre-sell half or more of their units to cash buyers or buyers who can get spec mortgages.

0. E.g., by specific practices such as "redlining", introduced by the National Housing Act of 1934, which created the FHA (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining), but predominantly by lending standards which have always been far more lenient for new single-family homes than for any other form of housing. Federal housing and transportation policy have also promoted suburban over urban development in myriad other ways; for a broad take, I recommend Kenneth Jackson's book Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), https://www.amazon.com/Crabgrass-Frontier-Suburbanization-Un....
While I may agree with some criticisms of minimum wages, there are jurisdictions that mandate a minimum hourly rate. Most of the US states are such jurisdictions.
Are we there yet? - Rich Hickey

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...
People really hate handling errors
https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/7168220
Facebook Messenger is 130MB. That's the very definition of "kitchen sink".
The goals of Eve follow some of the inspiration in his talk.

http://witheve.com/
Anyone who's interested in this might want to check out the OSRM project, which uses a much more complex routing algorithm to efficiently find paths through the entire OSM graph, instead of just a tiny subset: http://map.project-osrm.org/

(Also, it's open-source.)
I think the Chinese case is different in that they have never lost their majority status in term of population. Consequently, the invaders were either eventually assimilated into Han Chinese, be driven out or became one of the many minority ethnics in China. Modern China is still populated by more than 90 percent Han Chinese. Considering how many invaders have passed through China, the male DNA of Han Chinese are surprising homogeneous. The majority O3 haplotype is the same as those found in the ancient bones in some archaeological sites.
> Maybe you care about the camera, but I barely use mine except as a scanner replacement when sending documents.

Yah, if I go back through my photos there's the occasional "that looks cool!" but the vast majority fall into 3 categories: receipts, equipment and equipment closets, and cats. None of those scream a need for exceptional image quality.
There is some good research already on how page load times can impact conversions.

https://www.quora.com/How-do-page-load-times-affect-e-commer...
Enacting laws under the guise of trying to improve women's health with the effect of closing abortion clinics is only surface level "acting within the public framework of our governance". These laws are ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. I claim the legislators and their supporters knew this before they enacted the laws. Unfortunately they also know that it will take the Supreme Court time to make this ruling. And in that time the state laws will act to close many abortion clinics. It doesn't seem very legitimate to me.
Meanwhile, I was using Nokia's official podcasting app before the iPhone 1 was even a thing...