skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The history of various trade pacts is that they've not much lived up to their promises. They're universally opposed by the rank-and-file of both the Democrat and Republican parties now.

There are very strong arguments that what's holiding back economic potential and equality is not more itereations of NAFTA or WTO talks -- global import/export trade is already a phenomenal amount of all commerce. Price savings, where they're realised, seem to be based more on wage depression and raping the environment than real gains in per-worker prodictivity or comparative advantage. Worse, the current round of international agreements being shopped as "trade pacts" are far more in the style of power grabs for corporate and oligarchical interests, including ever more regressive copyright, trademark, and patent laws, a two-tier courts system through ISDS, and numerous actions which will raise prices through increased corporate profits rather than wages.

There's a long list of economists and other experts opposed to the TPP, TTIP, BITS, and TiSA treaties, including Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Tony Atkinson, former US Labour Secretary Robert Reich, and anti-poverty crusader Jeffrey Sachs, among many others. I've been making something of a sport of posting TPP and related items to my G+ profile over the past few months -- Google support the TPP.

For tech issues, see the EFF's explainer: https://eff.org/issues/tpp
> Are they in-directly supporting Trump ?

So it's your opinion that because Trump is extremely bad, Clinton is immune to criticism? It doesn't matter if she also has problems?

Criticizing Clinton does not necessarily mean support for Trump. They are both terrible candidates, just in different ways. While Russia does seem to be pushing for Trump, criticism of Clinton's ties to Wall Street are another matter.

(That also does not imply some sort of false equivalency. When it's time to vote, a strategic vote for the lesser evil may be necessary, but that doesn't mean Clinton shouldn't be criticized for her own problems.)
Check out wikileaks on twitter.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/784572142444740615
I have schizophrenia and I create a program that combines mnemotechnics with 3d n-back and facial expression memory system to understand.

http://vernetit.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/eo-and-peo-memory-sy...
with 15 minutes of training my mood changes and i understand the sitcom tv series emotions and the people around me intentions and emotions. I experiment also more willingness to do things.
Here the program link

http://competicionmental.appspot.com/tts3dnback

Sorry my poor English. I am from Argentina.
They don't show anything like that at all. Shame that Trump advocates sexually assaulting women though - perhaps that's his common ground with Assange?
The author is a woman. We've had this discussion before.

With all the talk about machine learning here on HN, I'm surprised nobody has come up yet with an ML-powered (opt-in) filter to hide these comments away. 'Tis truly the scourge of the Internet these days.
I honestly don't think the location should be a factor. How many countries are there that don't have things like national security letters?

I'd rather have a system where the same criteria apply to all CAs independent of their jurisdiction, coupled with mechanisms that guarantee transparency (like Certificate Transparency) and stuff like key pinning.
Meta-question, is this considered on-topic for HN? I wonder how it is distinguished from another notable leak about another candidate that hasn't made the front page.
Finish the easiest one first to get you started. Rememeber it doesn't have to be perfect.
I like OpenSUSE! Easily available images of OpenSUSE for Docker and Vagrant would be nice.
Boot-bundle, DRY for dependencies
That sentence's ending crashed my reading process - after thinking about the correlations related to small towns, bartenders and googly eyed girls for a while I had to reset and restart...
Start with any and get your ideas flowing. You can always rewrite or change it later. You might find you don't even want to write a game and therefore the game engine decision matters even less than you think.
At least looking at the stores, they seem to be making a come back at least in what concerns tablets/hybrid laptops.

Hybrid tablets have killed the netbooks and the majority of people are going for 2GB/4GB + 32/64 eMMC hybrids with Windows 10, and not to those Android ones that kind of look like a desktop. For most pockets across the world, an iPad Pro isn't an option.

The whole thing with .NET, Longhorn, Windows 7 and 10, was also a causality of the typical Windows Dev vs DevTools "wars" and most of us that follow MSFT blogs and news, know to which side Sinofsky was sponsoring.

Somehow UWP seems to be what .NET and eventually Longhorn should have been all along, lets see how it goes.
The author is a bad writer.
She needs Bernie Sanders' supporters but for these people the transcripts show that Clinton is the devil, friends with Wall Street, not trustworthy, etc.
Yahoo hit with another lawsuit claiming anti-male discrimination
We ran in to this on a project recently involving line item currency calculations that were coming up off by pennies vs what the API was calculating.

We were directed to use HALF_UP rounding to two decimal places for each calculation.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/Rounding...
I think he's saying that when you are locked down to a choice between a shit sandwich and a total shit storm with like 1 month to go throw away your grievances till 2020 and suck it up.

Doesn't mean I agree with this, tho I mostly do, at some point you need to realize that there is a time and place for criticism and this isn't it.
They wouldn't have benefitted Trump during the primaries. He needed a few things in his back pocket just in case the end game was tough.
You're missing the forest for the trees.

Did Clinton take money (either for herself or for her campaign or for her foundation, it doesn't matter which) from businesses that are canonical symbols of Wall Street money and power? Then she's tainted in the eyes of everybody that is against corporate influence on politics. The contents of the speech isn't particularly important, because it is the influence of money that matters.

Stop looking for traditional political "scandals", and start noticing the anti-corporate-power, anti-globalism revolt that is causing a lot of people to vote "anybody but the usual bribed politicians".
Keep it straight in your head, and use strict comparison.

Hey, at least when JS implicitly converts your types, it actually does type conversion, rather than merely casting them, so you often get what you want (looking at you, C).
gotta have a way to measure your ROI.
iPad only. It's listed in the App Store as TIS-100P.

US App Store link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tis-100p/id1070879899
Trump is now the standard bearer for the Republicans, and the party's de facto leader. If he's elected, the Republicans are going to have to learn to at least pretend to share his views or else be divided against themselves.
Ask HN: How can I calculate a system-wide relative rating?
I have a web application with multiple tracking objects. These objects all have a many-to-many relationship to each other.

I need to create a rating system that provides a rating based on the combination of the relationships that each object instance has with other object instances - aka rating every instance of every object relative to one another based on their relationships with one another.

I've got some ideas but I'm keen to get some input before I commit any code.

Thanks HN community - you're awesome :)
> " but usually such things are in the 6 figure category or later and require something larger than what a startup can pay."

RethinkDB's support prices depended on the size and needs of the customer, so were very reasonable for my company.
Saying that psychologists don't understand the scientific method is similar to a saying that democrats don't understand something as basic as the separation of powers in government
There may be some truth to your assertion that recent Trump coverage has become more negative. This is primarily for two reasons.

Admittedly, coverage during the primaries hailed Trump as the anti-establishment political maverick that would redefine the GOP. At the time, the coverage was nauseatingly positive and, at the very worst, ambivalent. The media coverage on Clinton, on the other hand, was clearly confrontational (perhaps because she was the "incumbent" candidate). This sort of coverage has elicited some soul-searching among journalists and mass media based on the logic that the media infatuated with The Donald and gleefully collaborated in his political ascendance (yes, Trump is a colorful man, but, truth be told, he is far worse things as a person, a subject that has been prominently covered).

And this brings me to the second point. The recent turn in Trump's media coverage (in terms of tone at least) is also fueled by his numerous scandals, mistakes, and missteps. It is beyond me when the tone really became adversarial (perhaps after the nomination when the attention shifted to him and there was a long overdue re-calibration in how the media engages with his campaign). In truth, this is a referendum for or against Trump and this argument is further compounded by the fact that staunch and prominent Republicans are abandoning their party's flag bearer in support (more or less) of Clinton (this is unprecedented considering the vitriolic opposition that the party and its supporters have for the Clintons.

While it can be argued that media coverage has shifted in Clinton's favor (mostly due to Trump's own fault as an individual and presidential candidate), the same cannot be said of Wikileaks whose agenda from the very beginning has been admittedly pro-Trump. Wikileaks is partisan and this, while not a disqualifier in of itself, says a lot about its motivations in releasing leaks that paint a non-flattering picture of the Clinton campaign.

That said, these transcripts do not reveal a lot that is new about Clinton as has been noted by other commenters here (except, perhaps, for the fact that she says political leaders need to have private and public positions on policy matters) and her campaign has already been vindicated by the administration's admission that there is a political motive behind the leaks. The political ramifications of these leaks may not be as dramatic (the fodder that they afford her opponents has been unsuccessfully utilized by her foe-turned-apologist Sanders) as Trump's recent bombshell video leak of supposed "locker room banter."

1. News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences (http://shorensteincenter.org/news-coverage-2016-presidential...)

2. A deep dive into the news media’s role in the rise of Donald J. Trump (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/06/2...)
Wow, that's a nice collection of problems. They are exactly the opposite of the dry and artificial "word problems" students are used to.

The discussion at the bottom of the blog post is also very interesting. The socratic approach is very good to "break the ice" and introduce the application, but I wonder how scalable this approach is. Does the teacher need to be very knowledgeable/entertaining to pull this off?

BTW, I'm working on a new project, which is essentially "math lessons by email" that will walk readers through the math material from the NO BULLSHIT guide to MATH & PHYSICS. Anyone interested in learning or reviewing basic math (expression, equations, functions, algebra, geometry) should signup: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/t/4C2D9C45B88734F3 (it's free)
It could be that I'm misunderstanding the problem, but I don't think that, in general, makes a lot of sense to define functions acting on NA values. What you really want are functions acting on arrays that may be missing some values, but not necessarily functions that can act on those missing values. This is because the NA values are an effect of the data tabulation, not some deeper mathematical necessity. In that sense, wouldn't it be much easier to endow every array with another list with the places where values are not available and define procedures that use other underlying functions to compute the results while filtering out the NAs? For instance, you could have two "mean" functions, one that filters NAs and then returns the mean of the rest, and another that returns the mean of the whole array and if there is an NA it just returns NA. Both functions could use the mean(x::Number) function but just wrap it in a different way. Or is this missing the point completely?
This is an earlier release
That's based on a flawed notion of balance, the idea that news media should publish equal amounts of "negative and scandalizing news".

It's flawed in that it assumes that equal amounts of such information exist. When Trump shoots some grandmother in the face, people expect equal prominence for "Hillary came to my house and left the bathroom light on".

Parts of the news media have been bending over backwards to avoid the appearance of partisanship, which gave us the endless faux-scandal regarding her mailserver.

The same principle leads to news media sometimes creating the impression that global warming is some sort of scientific debate, because they feel the need to give equal billing to the doubters while reality is 99-1 lopsided.

Trump may actually have a positive impact in the end, in that he may stretch the concept until it breaks. Indeed we can see it breaking down in the last few weeks with, for example, newspapers publishing harsh editorials and endorsements against him whereas they remained quite in previous elections.

If the current trend could continue for another six months, we'd see every article in every newspaper end with "cetero censeo Trump delende est"
TIS-100 was released about a year and a half ago.
Half of all US K-12 schools use Clever. Help us keep their data secure
Then when IS it time to criticize her? Voting for her because she is the lesser evil doesn't mean she gets as free pass on criticism. That kind of dogmatic devotion is always a terrible idea and against the very idea of democracy. If Clinton doesn't want criticism, maybe she should expand her platform a bit and earn her votes.
"A known password is a bad password."

We have lists of known passwords. Virtually anything up to 8 characters. Many things above that.

There are lists of millions of real-life passwords dumped from services. All of those should be used to screen passwords on entry (directly or by hash) and force a password update on match. It's reached the point that this should be mandated by law.

I know far too many nontechnical people still using utterly broken passwords (and who've had multiple accounts hacked, and insist that they're doing nothing wrong....)
I added quora.com to my search result spam blacklist for content cloaking back before Google made them tone it down so you'd at least see the text you saw in the search results. It'd take a top-level management change to consider going back.
Could you expand on your second sentence, perhaps with an example or two and how you'd imagine they're be taught in class?
Mysqldump-secure: Encrypted mysqldump, compression, logging and Nagios integration
So who gets that money? You support democracy in China and the Communists start an uprising. You support Communists and the other side starts an uprising; someone is always pissed off -- it isn't "government" vs. "the people." It's vastly more complex. Rarely are there two sides -- more like 200. Intelligence is a wilderness of mirrors as James Angleton had said.

You could say "end the CIA" but that's sticking one's head in the sand -- as long as there are people, there are going to be bad people and groups. Obviously the determination of what is 'bad' isn't so simple.

This is a complex issue and redistributing money doesn't solve it.
I think a lot of us fall into this trap too. I personally try to get over it by remembering that it's software and you can always change or improve it later. Initial version doesn't have to be perfect. Also, focus on the use case and get a crude working version. After, you can then move on to the little cleanups if time permits. If you're like me, once working version is ready you'll realize how little impact any of those micro optimizations have. Hopefully, after starting and finishing a few projects this way, you should realize bikeshedding is just taking time from another project you could be starting or working on.
> And large support contracts are lucrative with enterprise customers, but they will not buy into a relatively new database product and entrust its crown jewels to it.

While it's still entirely unclear whether and how RethinkDB and Horizon will develop from now on, I have become more hesitant to use a 'relatively new database product' even for my side projects, let alone something 'important'.

This was my first experience using some piece of technology (library, framework, etc.) that suddenly potentially won't survive, and it's probably a good thing that I learned this lesson with a relatively unimportant side project.

Still, it becomes a bit of a fulfilling prophecy: I'm now even less likely to invest in a new database product.

I really hope RethinkDB and Horizon will find a home, because I've really enjoyed working with both.
I'm a fan of Javascript. It has proper lambdas, true lexical scope, will soon have TCO, and is a really flexable language.

But it's not without its warts, and this is one of the worst. Although it's sometimes fun to mess with, nonetheless.

To see this taken to one of its logical extremes, check out If Hemmingway Wrote Javascript's entry for Douglas Adams:

// Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to write JavaScript...
function kevinTheNumberMentioner(_){
l=[]
/* mostly harmless --> */ with(l) {

// sorry about all this, my babel fish has a headache today...
for (ll=!+[]+!![];ll<_+(+!![]);ll++) {
lll=+!![];
while(ll%++lll);
// I've got this terrible pain in all the semicolons down my right hand side
(ll==lll)&&push(ll);
}
forEach(alert);
}

// you're really not going to like this...
return [!+[]+!+[]+!+[]+!+[]]+[!+[]+!+[]];
}
It is if you just want to build some game for fun in a few hours/days/weeks. It really does not matter that much then usually. And if you think you made the wrong choice, at least you have some working prototyping done which helps you with the rewrite.
This election has been so bizarre that I now believe that none of it has been by chance.

I dislike conspiracy theories, but lately I've actually been wondering if something really heavy has been brewing in the basement of the illuminati.
A download or rss link would be nice. I could not find it on mobile.
I think that paper is "submission worthy" itself.
> This article argues strongly that our present computer-based metaphor is likewise off-the-mark

Well, it is a metaphor, so, by definition, off the mark. The article only does well to hammer home the fact, as does the OP (at least, early on).

The metaphor eventually breaks down when you take it too far, too literally, otherwise it wouldn't be a metaphor. It will be the exact same thing.

The brain-as-hardware-mind-as-software is a useful model for dealing with the mind-body problem, and giving us a fair idea of how a virtual mind can exist in (on?) a physical brain.

Of course, you can't fault earlier ideas of thinking about the brain: it is only natural (and beneficial) to think of the mind in terms of the most complex man-made (or man-understood) technology currently available, without necessarily holding fast to it dogmatically when a better model is found.

Think of it as necessary stepping stones to the destination.

If anything, it is naive to think that the brain/mind works exactly like our current computing architecture. It is also naive and premature to completely banish the idea that the brain is some sort of computing mechanism.
No, I want men to stop thinking that exploiting the economic and social disadvantages of women is an acceptable way to get sex. Because I'm a decent human being and would like other men to be decent human beings.
Still don't understand why this site has any respect, they just spammed Google results then locked the answers behind a sign up wall to build their userbase.
RTFA won't do you much good. It's pretty light on detail. (IMO) It spends most of its time meandering about and trying to sound like some sort of really mind-blowing techno shaman.

So much so, that I doubt the authenticity and accuracy of the information that presented.

I felt like it read a little more like a paranoid fringe article.

I mean "Siren" in this case is named for the seductive nature of the power of the servers (greek myth reference) as opposed to a "warning siren" sounding the alarm of unrest.

It gets worse, rambling on about the danger (and inevitability) if/when this power falls into the hands of corporate america.

Cliche
We were suggested for the lawsuit an approach quite similar to what you describe. However, it seemed less likely to succeed quickly.
Top Gear – 100 Pound Car Challenge [video]
"It's morally acceptable to be a slave but not to own one? That's asinine."

The "economic transaction" model is in almost all cases a fig leaf for the abuse of women, even in jurisdictions where prostitution has been legalized or decriminalized.
That's why that approach has been offered in courses traditionally called "Numerical analysis" that have been available to math students for... how long?
Nothing game changing, but she's obviously very happy with the current status of this--great economy, and our wonderful foreign leaders. These fair, moralistic, truthful, immune to corruption Foreign leaders.

"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders,"

Yes--it worked well for her, and the wealthy.

It hasen't helped me much? Oh, wait----I'm waiting on 6 X 6v halogen bulbs for my microscope. They are coming from China. It's been 26 days. They cost me $9.99. Free shipping picked up by the Chinese government. If I get them; I will have benefitted! Yea!

"Mrs Clinton told bankers that they were best-placed to help reform the US financial sector."

Oh really? Banks won't lend to me. They raised my fees to jaw dropping levels. I sometimes wonder why I even have a bank account.

I probally won't vote this year. I don't think it will matter who gets into office. Part of myself is hoping for Trump. He will throughly piss everyone off, and maybe we can regain some democtractic congressional seats?

As to the all important Supreme Court nominees; just because they go in conservative, doesn't mean they won't do a bed flip while in office? History has proved this, or at least that's what Dr. Helbright said in political Science 101 in that hot classroom years ago. I did double check his claim, at the time. Why did that conservative justice (Robert's) save Obamacare? They are not robots. They seem to get more understanding with age? It's not so black/white when in their glory days, with the exception of Clarance Thomas. He is quite the consistent guy?

I'm not a Rebublican, or Democrat. I'm still waiting for the right party/person. And it's not that other idiot. Forget his name, but my goodness--is he fried, or just ------?
Watching the videos, this really brings how it felt learning to code circa '76-'77... with Atari-2600 style sounds, an assembler (ZOMG), a back story plus achievements! Love it :-)

These kinds of games should be mandatory for CS education. Even better if you could toggle through the entire architecture being simulated, Bus, CPU/ALU, Memory and all.