skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdata: It can be escaped. I grew up in a divorced household. Poor. In the middle of nowhere. I even had a kid early, at 15. I'm now firmly in the middle class. I feel that if I were less risk adverse, I could find myself moving even higher up.
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There's no proof that he targeted civilians. He may have, he may not have. How do you know he did? Who told you so?

1) It's a war. There is a fog of war where accurate information is not always available.
2) It's a common tactic to lie about your enemy to garner more money and weapons from your US sugar daddy.
3) The US government itself has an agenda to topple Syria for it's own reasons and those of it's Sunni ally, Saudi Arabia.

Given 1,2, and 3, you are confident that you are in possession of the true state of affairs, even as you conveniently discount that the sarin gas accusation that so infuriated everybody originally, has been proven to be a lie.

But hey, let's go to war with Russia based on unproven accusations. I wonder if you're old enough to remember Iraq, and the lies we were told about that? In 2003, we were told a lot of lies to get the population behind the destruction of Iraq. That was 13 years ago, so you were probably in high school or grade school. But it does happen that our government lies to the populous when it wants to destroy a country.

https://off-guardian.org/2016/07/25/assad-the-tyrant/
At least we have a pretty clear idea of how to reach a future where all electricity is sustainable. We don't really know how to do that with gasoline.

I don't think the effects of removing that energy are significant. The amount of energy we use is utterly negligible compared to what the sun shines upon the Earth. Climate change is a problem because the impact of CO2 is orders of magnitude greater than the energy released in generating it.
> there is a legitimate question about nations and foreign actors meddling in a sovereign state's electoral process

I agree that it's not black and white, but meddling in foreign elections goes back as long as it was an option. The US did so with great success in the Cold War.
This is a stupid move announced in the most stupid way possible. Was it intentional? CC mission lost a lot of credibility today.
Is that correct: September 26, 2012 last update?
>if it can be detached from ego it can be transformed to a positive "wisdom".

I doubt it can be detached from the ego in anyone but the most advanced practitioners, if at all.

Anger creates a cognitive bias and narrows your attention to the object of threat. It distorts your perceptions.

I think the best way to handle anger is to acknowledge it and consciously try to let it go. Even the strongest anger will dissipate this way, because in order for anger to persist it has to be maintained by rumination on the object of the anger.
If you're moving 20 m/s in a tank of water that's moving along the ground at 2 m/s, your ground speed is 22 m/s.
Apple products have always been minimalistic. Minimalism has nothing to do with being cheap. Minimalism is doing things like removing the floppy disk drive at the turn of the century, carving a laptop out of a single piece of aluminum, or removing all jacks except one or two.

Besides, it doesn't matter. The writer isn't saying that any one of his possessions is minimalistic. He's saying that his number of possessions is minimalistic.
> I don't believe the air can push the airplane...

Before I reply to you, first tell me if this is some sort of strange form of trolling, or do you really believe that?
Racial identity is a biological nonsense, says Reith lecturer
In my experience, it has too many false positives to turn on.
China’s longest human spaceflight mission begins on the Chinese space station
I don't think "fighting the compiler" is an accurate description of the Rust coding experience. There is a learning curve during which you feel like you fight the borrow checker a lot, but once you get it you will find that the compiler is actually helpful.
New HN feature: automatically de-AMPify links. I was wondering why Engadget was looking like garbage.
The Adams quote, as with a lot of other things that Scott Adams has said lately, is pretty biased. 'Because they said things this way they're obviously guilty' even though that's a huge leap in logic. It's the kind of thing you would say when you want to paint someone you dislike in a negative light in a way that's difficult to outright refute (because it makes no logical sense).

> "My impression is that the Soviets were never the villains that they were portrayed to be in the West. They knew they were behind, couldn't keep up with the US, and were quite afraid of western efforts to subjugate them."

Well, the Stalin government killed millions of people, had massive propaganda campaigns, and was rife with corruption. They certainly felt there was an existential threat, as did the US and other western nations, but that's not surprising in that sort of political environment.

Were they villains? Well, not necessarily. Undoubtedly there were a lot of officials who truly believed in the cause they were supporting, but there was also a lot of self-serving abuse of power that started at the top and worked its way down, at the expense of the citizens (to a larger and more extreme extent than what happens in the West).

TL;DR very few people are truly evil but it's hard to imagine the soviets as good guys either; the same is true of the current Russian government, which is very apparently corrupt and frequently abuses its power and, lately, starts wars it knows it can get away with, so there's a very tangible sense that Russia's current motives are bad for the majority of people, including Russian citizens.
This is what's called a bald assertion.
Please, just please tell me you don't work in cyber security full time.

That "if you can't secure it perfectly with one tool, you're doing it wrong/you've lost/etc." is so mind-bogglingly anti-security that if you are in charge of more than your home network for network security, that company has lost. That's like saying "If your application needs high availability instead of just being reliable, you've already lost."

We secure networks by putting things on different VLANs. And putting them through firewalls that govern access between different parts of the network. And by enforcing user-based access control via the firewall ("next-gen" features) and then hopefully, at the application level. And for privileged systems, we are pushing to use two-factor authentication.

I just listed off 6 different access controls for a given application. Hopefully, each one of those independently would secure the application pretty well. But the sum of all those make for a very well secured app, with no single point of failure.
Gasoline is subsidized. The taxes exist to pay for road construction and maintenance, but they're not high enough even to cover that, let alone the costs imposed by the pollution released when burning the stuff.
He also worked on this http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article-Old_School_Color_C...
Something like obj.rename(newName). This might seem like a trivial change, but the underlying idea is that we're no longer dealing with a setter only affecting one particular field, but an abstract message that may affect arbitrary internal state.
Isn't ethanol from water and carbon dioxide endothermic? If the electricity is less than the energy of the ethanol then the rest of the energy comes from cooling off the reaction vessel and contents.

If that's true then you'd need a heat source, possibly waste heat from other activities, to keep the reaction cooking.
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733856
It doesn't pass for discourse on HN - that's why it's been flagged into oblivion.
Hell, in today's day and age, if we didn't have HIPAA, I absolutely would expect doctors to offer discounts in exchange for sharing my health data with researchers and drug makers.

It's sad, and I don't advocate it, but it's true.
Just to be clear, I picked he Russia/China example as an illustration, not a claim they are actually involved.

Maybe I should've picked Switzerland and Norway as my examples to avoid clouding the issue... ;)
Not a physicist, but if a plane is flying by 900 km/h compared to the air, and the air is moving by 100 km/h relative to Earth, it can make the plane fly 800 or 1000 km/h relative to Earth, can't it?
Read a previous study on this same topic, and they hypothesized that it was due to cultural differences. In the US, socialization happens mostly through coworker interaction, and people's worth is assessed by the job you have and the money you make. Where as in Europe, socialization happens mostly out of work, in bars, coffee shops, etc. And people's worth is judged more from their hobbies, knowledge and social qualities.

I thought that was a pretty good hypothesis. It even reflects in the political tendencies each place demonstrate. A lot of people in the US aspire to be CEOs or rich, most people in France for example aspire to have a good glass of wine on the coast of France playing bocce ball all day.

To give some context, the other study I refer to found that Americans are happier when they work longer, while European were happier when they worked least.
Yes, just one.
Properties are not a huge deal, I agree, but they sure are annoyance in Java (compared to e.g. C#).

That is, instead of one line of the code declaring the property, we end up with 10 lines doing the same thing, because we also need to declare getter and setter.

So, a realistic "POJO" that has 8 properties, will have 8 lines of code in C#, but 80 lines of code in Java.

Sure, your IDE will generate the getter and setter, but when you are reading the code, you have to check whether getter and setter are trivial, or perhaps they do something else, too.

It is quite common to get burned by a setter that someone made so that, after setting the value, it also does other shit like, hit Google Analytics, which is why everything is so slow.

The above problem is super easy to spot in 8 lines of code, but much harder to spot in 80 lines of monotonic, repeatable code, especially so when they are decorated with another 100 lines of code that is IDE-generated comments like 'Sets the foo'/'Gets the foo'.

My 5c.
Where did this Russia angle even come from? This is hilarious. I feel like in a bad Cold War flick. Can you dig in your brain and find out where you have picked up that piece of information? Fascinating.

That aside, WikiLeaks timing releases is little more than the NYT picking between the story that goes to the front page with big picture and those on page 6. For that to be propaganda there needs to be some agenda other than "maximize attention" and I haven't seen that.
Hipmunk's UI is amazing if you know what you're looking at.
I can't reply directly to pdx, but pdx seems convinced that Assad has not targeted civilians despite ample evidence to the contrary, based on one post from a site that strains credibility, and takes acceptance of the very clear fact that he has done so to mean someone is advocating for a nuclear war with Russia, and accuses me of not being old enough to remember Iraq. How these conclusions are reached is left unstated besides "you don't have every single fact that could possibly be had about this despite that not being necessary." You've shown the level of credibility we should attribute you, which is none.
Wikileaks can only work with the material they have been given and have always tried to maximize it's impact as part of their enabling role as a publisher. I don't see how in this regard temporal optimization differs from timed release, proxy release or fundamental analysis (such as statistics), all of which they have offered in the past. As for 'agenda', this is like saying the organization has a 'purpose' - to quote their about page: "the analysis and publication of large datasets of censored or otherwise restricted official materials involving war, spying and corruption".
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I don't dispute that, but it's not what I was referring to. Some polls ask what people think of the president (favorability ratings), and some are more specifically geared to asking about the job the president is doing (approval ratings). The article I linked to from Gallup points to situations where they do not always correlate as you would expect. For example, Bill Clinton in 1993 and 2000. In 1993 he had 59% favorability and 49% approval,and that just about reverse by 2000 when he had 60% approval, but only 46% favorability. People disliked him after the scandal, but they also conceded he was doing a good job.

So, what I wonder is what questions are actually asked regarding candidates? There isn't any data on them doing the job itself yet (unless they are an incumbent, which none are this cycle), so are they asking about how much they like the person, like the policies, or how confident they are the candidate can perform well? The answer to that question may lead to different likely reasons for the question at hand. Sanders is a likable guy. I like him. I'm also not convinced his policies, as expressed on the campaign trail, are feasible. Conversely, Hillary Clinton isn't very likable. I don't really like her. I do agree with many (but not all) of her policies, but most importantly I think her policies are feasible and have a chance of being implemented if she's elected. I am, in fact, the exact sort of person that might have expressed a favorable opinion for Sanders but voted for Hillary.
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Well, we're not exactly talking about HRC either. Focus, don't dilute the topic. There are actual words by PG, SA that can be compared to Thiel's. The dissonance between them is the problem here, especially as relates to YC policies.

tl;dr: does YC doing nothing about Thiel mean "culture fit" is dead as a concept?
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I love the fact that literally one of the most qualified people in the world answers it and my first response is hmmm... hasn't OAG been replaced by Innovata as a schedules provider by now?
The advantage of a monorepo is that you have atomic commits. What you're suggesting does not provide that.
He's no HoaxHotel.
You for sure flagged my post here.
And it's up to date, and is augmented by much, much more data.
And this just out - adding to my other post:

http://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/788121240036896768
What's your pricing like? I don't see anything on the site, and I don't have a PCB on my phone right now to upload to see if I can get a price.

If your price is comparable to DirtyPCBs, you have a new customer.
> Are politics bloggers journalists? Are bloggers who occasionally talk about politics journalists? Are people who livetweet a news event that they're involved in acting as journalists?

No. They are respectively a blogger, a blogger, and a Twitter user.
The question is then, who published the trump tape and why were they not the publisher for the DNC leak, and the opposit, why were WL not the publisher for the trump tape?

Was it the source choice, or the publishers choice? Both?
Using violence to bring industry and politics together? Don't we have a word for that?
Seats and galleys are BFE (buyer furnished equipment), so you can't blame Boeing/Airbus for cramped seating.
"I had a lot more sympathy for Assange and Wikileaks before the recent releases that seem to have been timed to influence the US elections."

Since pretty much all of the mainstream media influences the US elections with their bias, I'm happy that there is an actual source of information that they can't ignore.
It's been a few months now that I've been teaching my daughter (6yrs old) to code.

She's in first grade now and learning to immediately identify words.

We've been using paper flash cards to practice with her and I thought it's gonna be a fun idea to create an application with her.

We sat down together to plan, sketch, think and design. Credit is 100% hers. It was an amazing experience and I enjoyed it a lot.

My first mobile app as well

Stack:
React Native
Redux
Principium Starter project used to start it (shameless plug).
I'm not too worried about it, because AIs will need to feel and dream and care and suffer and empathize to begin to be as intelligent as a human.

Imagine a human who lacks empathy entirely. That's a disability. They may be able to do some amount of destruction, but at some scale they simply lack the social intelligence necessary to compete with the entire species.

This is the most common mistake I think people make when reasoning about AI: they think human limitations are weaknesses. But they're not weaknesses they're tradeoffs. Natural selection has had a chance to reward all kinds of variations, including more cortex, and less empathy. But we ended up where we are because of tradeoffs.

Any AI which is intelligent in the same way humans are will also have our limitations. Any AI which doesn't have our limitations won't be as smart as us in those respects.

You have to really ask yourself what the difference is between a human with an AI simulator and an AI with a human simulator. In the limit of simulator quality there is none.
Too late for an edit: I forgot to name the airframe. This was the next-gen 737 (-7/8/900).
a guess, but i'd wager "rare" here meant the code should in the main prefer immutable data structures (etc), not that the invocations per unit time of a particular method should be low.
> At least we have a pretty clear idea of how to reach a future where all electricity is sustainable. We don't really know how to do that with gasoline.

Sure we do (ish). Look at Brazil, they pump more renewable bio-ethanol into their flex-fuel cars than they do gasoline.
I volunteer! I have a machine that turns ethanol into energy and a good time.
> There are even plugins and shell scripts that will make Mercurial act like a mono repository for many small repositories

Seems kinda backwards to me, why not project portions of a monorepo to behave like individual repositories? That way you get atomic commits too.
The article's title: "We're on Slack! Join us!"

The submission's original title: "Creative Commons migrates away from open communication protocols"

Per HN's guidelines [1], "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait." This is editorializing on part of the submitter; and further, I disagree with the implied substance of the submitter's argument.

I think it's nice that they're on Slack now, because it's a platform that's popular with developers right now. They explain why they think Slack is a great choice (accessibility, familiarity, popularity, variety of supported platforms), and as others have pointed out, they are also on IRC and have bridged their IRC to Slack... so this is a best-of-both-world scenario.
Here's a friendly introduction to the main concepts of machine learning. No background required. (Feedback is always welcome!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYeteZQrUcE&list=PLAwxTw4SYa...
why would you make this kind of info public?
That's pretty neat! Reminds me a little bit of the old terrarium game that microsoft used to demonstrate .NET, or maybe of a version of spore that doesn't suck, or even a little bit of the nature of open-source: build something, send it out into the world, see it grow and develop from where you started it.

Genius nefarious builds could definitely be flavored as a reward, and I agree that that's one of the big draws of this system: if you manage to build something that's good enough to survive and spread but still flawed in a way that you can exploit, kudos to you! Reward: you get to break into anything that's guarded by your creations. :P Just good luck building something that you can exploit that not enough other people can for it to not succeed.

(I think I'd love to check this game out when it's further along, BTW. Do you have a news list I could throw an email address at?)
Russia tells the US ‘if you want a war you will get one EVERYWHERE’
Quick summary: (1) Dodges the main issue of Trump's being not just a controversial candidate, but as we now know, an apparently unapologetic, serial sexual assaulter; along with (2) Thiel's blatant indifference to this fact; (3) to which Mark says, basically "Whatever about this sexual assault stuff -- of course FB can't afford to alienate any significant sized constituency, such as the pro-Trump electorate".
Sorry, but anybody who support Hezbollah is given the moniker "State sponser of terrorism".

Iran and Syria support Hezbollah because they are unhappy with Israels expansion. Lots of people are unhappy with Israels expansion. How many UN resolutions have condemned Israel for it's actions? You count them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_UN_resolutions_con...

We are Israels big buddy, so we give scary names to the countries that support Hezbollah. But at the same time, we support rebel groups all over the world. Hell, we're supporting rebel groups in Syria right now. We also supported them in Libya.

Don't let the fact that Syria is on a list because of our unhealthy relationship with Israel, make you forget that we belong on that same list ourselves.
I agree with you completely. My comment was written after discussing this elsewhere on the internet where the context was that people are trying to discredit wikileaks and Assange as a source. I've edited my post to reflect that.
My phone rings everyday, at least once. Get that same mumbled message about IRS and it's from random numbers.
Rust's JSON serializer is really fast (~300 MB/s). http://erickt.github.io/blog/2014/12/13/performance-digressi...
It's interesting for sure, but as a consumer rather than a business, is there a use case for this?
I take it you don't use your phone as a primary camera and/or have kids then? The camera alone is enough of a selling point to me. Having high performance internals in a reasonably sized package with constant android updates are all just icing on the cake.
They're authoritarian in a sense too, but only in the ways you would expect people inside of an institution wanting to expand that institution's powers.

Trump is authoritarian in a different, more overt way. He's proposed extreme authoritarian moves like mass deportation, religious tests for entry to the US, camps, and directing the justice system at political enemies.

Maybe you don't see the difference between their versions of authoritarianism, but I do, and a lot of other people do too. It's an unfair comparison, and I think you should be able to recognize that.
> [...] but he provided ample explanations for his actions anyway.

As far as I know he hasn't provided any explanation for what people are actually concerned about.

> Is it me or you feel like you can decide who is part of the community and who is not? Why is that?

If you can decide that he is, why can't I decide that he isn't? In a society that respect the individual we can all decide who we want to associate with.

> Neither is fair or sane.

If people have the right not to support him then it's also their right to not support YC or any other organization they think is benefiting Thiel. You seem to expect a scenario where people should dismiss their own opinions so Thiel can enjoy more freedom.