skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It's quite likely that competent people who set out with ill intent will manage to achieve some ill.

This should not be confused for a belief that setting out with good intentions will yield good results. It's far, far harder to improve things than it is to make things worse. Social policy does not function on the "Law of Attraction".
Lego-Like Wall Produces Acoustic Holograms
Billionaire claims he has been harassed after blocking access to public beach
I'm not sure this is relevant to my point that coding isn't easy. I don't know anything about pastry-cheffing.
Ok, using Intel's currently shipping 14nm numbers vs Samsung's currently shipping 10nm numbers from your source:

• Intel: 13.4nm "standard node value"

• Samsung: 12.0nm "standard node value"

• TSMC: 18.3nm "standard node value"

• Global Foundries: 16.6nm "standard node value"
Interesting to note that the most natural translation of Linus's statement is:

"if the only benefit of using Java was excluding Scala programmers, that was enough of a benefit."

Scala adds multi-paradigm heavily complexified syntax on top of Java.

Scala : Java :: C++ : C
Sam, do you have any comment on this video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&t=9m35s
It makes sense. I'm learning a lot doing it myself and I'm actually getting some contacts / networking. However sometimes I feel like I not advancing with my project development as quick as I should because I spend most of my time hooked on reaching people (on Twitter, HN, PH, Reddit, etc.).
IANAL (but I work often with them) and, about (2)... It'd depend mostly on how it's presented. You could either argue along your reasoning (only sub-directories are licensed) or say "it's right there in the 'documents' subdirectory that comes with the project, it's in another directory only to have things better organized, so all the project is licensed".

Probably you'd be able to find legal precedents for both arguments. Still, I agree with you that it's good to pay attention and understand the licenses (or get legal councel if you don't) if you're planning on doing anythnig with these projects (and others too).
I know Google has gone the route of removing the steering wheel but it seems that even if vehicles have self-driving capabilities some level of "manual override" will be desirable especially if you're not in a densely populated area. Using a car to pull a stuck vehicle out of the mud is certainly a valid use-case that not everyone will want to give up. Yeah it might become illegal to use manual driving modes on public highways or something but I can't imagine that we're going to be strictly limited to what the GPS software says is a valid destination and I'd find it impressive if software was written for every action people do with cars.

That being said these technology companies always seem to move towards smaller feature sets that intersect with the use-cases of the largest user bases and power users are often forced to hack together their own custom solutions if they don't fall into the general population of users so if anything this article is a warning to not let the Apple's and Google's define how we use self-driving cars.
“It was routinely closed for private events and in the winter. They did not apply for a permit and were never told by any public official or entity that a permit was required,” said Khosla’s attorney, Dori Yob, in a statement.

“However, when the subsequent owner continued these practices they were met with threats and harassment in an attempt to coerce them to forfeit their private property rights and allow public access to the property on terms of the County and Coastal Commission’s choosing,” she added.

As if Khosla's permanent closure of the access road (and effective annexation of the beach proper) were in any way comparable to a "continuation" of the previous owner's practice of occasionally closing the road for private events.
Isn't that already exist. Simple search will just work just fine
Mxnet Implemention of the Fast Neural Style
> If you are asking why Clinton won over sander, while sander has a higher opinion rating, feel free to write your suggestion.

In favorability or approval (whatever that means in the context of a nominee) ratings? They mean different things, and aren't always directly related[1]. I could definitely see how Sanders would be liked more, but people would believe he's less likely to do a good job.

1: http://www.gallup.com/poll/14797/presidential-approval-vs-fa...
> built upon the massive pile of conspiracy theories and mountains-made-from-molehills that constitute the argument against Hillary.

Like the "conspiracy theories" that Hillary's campaign was behind the violence at this year's Trump rallies?

Seems like they're no longer 'theories'... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&feature=youtu.be...)
WikiLeaks Alleges Ecuador Disrupted Assange’s Internet Connection
I do not think your analogy applies here. Finding 8 critical-risk bugs in a project from an audit is bad news. It is highly suggestive that the codebase is riddled with flaws.

Smoke, fire, yadda yadda.
In an ideal world, such would be maximally desirable.

Personally, I care about having the most interesting technical ideas and interesting minds at the conferences I choose to attend.
If Teddy Roosevelt couldn't break up the two-party system, I'm not sure anybody can[1]. Political parties aren't even necessarily about policies at this point, I'm afraid; they seem to have turned into badges of identity such as religions once were. We're not quite there yet, but calling oneself a Republican or a Democrat is starting to feel like identifying as Lutheran vs Catholic during the wars of religion in the 16th century. For an example of how awful that kind of dynamic can go, particularly with an extra-radical fringe element stirring up populist sentiment, I would suggest Dan Carlin's podcast on happenings in the city of Muenster in that era[2]. It's thought-provoking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Party_(United_Stat...

[2] http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-48-prophet...
The "state actor" is Ecuador: http://www.wsj.com/articles/wikileaks-says-state-party-disru...
>> Why should random companies get to legally print knockoff Mickey t-shirts just because enough time has passed?

Because after a while is supposed that the investment paid off. Why should a single company keep Mickey or any other IP right hostage forever?
This is a common misconception. Look at how much stuff has come out from Trump's past. You probably thought Trump went through lots of vetting in the primaries, but the reality is that it was super light. The same thing is true of Sanders. Clinton went very easy on him and stayed positive for pretty much the entire primaries. The republicans would not have been as nice.

I actually think that Clinton was the best choice against Trump because she is so thoroughly vetted. There's effectively nothing that could come out that we don't already know. Any other candidate could have a myriad of skeletons in their closets that would only come out with well resourced oppo. That's not even including Sanders' proposals that would result in a decent tax hike on middle class families. Republicans would have pushed that HARD and you have no idea how that would have been received.
Raft is more-or-less equivalent to Paxos. Its protocol is more detailed but no more efficient than the core, original Paxos protocol.
Poor choice of link on my part, the license is there in the Github repo:

https://github.com/wdas/ptex/blob/master/src/doc/License.txt
Care to explain why? Let's start the dialog.
Could be a challenge to keep the internal compass working right.
> If you didn't get X grade or Y internship (or any random thing like that), your chances at a good career were well, uncertain.

You left out one thing: if you do get X grade or Y internship, your chances at a good career are still uncertain. There is no magic bullet.

> A lot of people paint the 1950s and early 60s such that you could do okay in high school and not go to a 4-year college and still manage to provide for a middle class family.

To an extent this was probably true in the US, but the reason was something temporary: there was a huge economic expansion going on in the aftermath of WWII, with new markets being created, and many industries were willing to basically overpay their workers in order to increase production and capture market share. In the US auto industry, for example, most new car sales in the 1950s and 1960s were genuine new sales--families who had never had a car before or who were adding a second (or even third) car they hadn't had before. In that environment, yes, a person with a high school education can have a middle class income, because the cost of his labor is a minor expense compared to the potential value to be captured.

In the current US auto industry, by contrast, almost all new car sales are for replacement of previous cars--the market is saturated. That means there is a huge price pressure being exerted, and hence a huge pressure to drive down wages and to automate jobs that used to be done by human workers in order to reduce costs. In this environment, a person with only a high school education is unlikely to have the skills that would make them valuable enough to a company to be able to earn a middle class income. (Note that I said "unlikely"; it's possible to develop such skills without a college education, but statistically few people do.)

Does that mean things are more uncertain now? I'm not sure. I said the situation in the 1950s and 1960s was temporary; it was also not the same in all industries. So I don't know that one can make a general statement either way.
Creating the Poster for Exposition Machines À Dessiner
It will not save this extremely boring game. It will not return trust to the team after lie about multiplayer. Only useful lesson NMS gave us - generated content is pretty boring.

I hope there will be games for future generations of computers, maybe quantum computers, where world will be generated on the molecular level. Maybe very small world, but it will be interesting just to increase time speed and bring some action there - just watching of micro-world evolution will be interesting.
Ellen Pao's corporation breaks ties with YC. That's the accurate headline for this piece.

The reason they didn't go with the accurate headline is that nobody would care, because anything Pao touches has as much of an effect on YC's bottom line as TCombinator[0] did.

People are losing friendships over this election. Does this not seem a little extreme to everyone else?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3860183
the reason it failed abd the guy got fried was simple

if state company records were kept off-site on a computer, it will make quiet ledger rigging and stealing from state companies harder. That would be outrageous for every commie as every commie was stealing cash from the state one way or another.
I am not familiar with them, can someone tell me how Redpsread compares to versioning you playbooks/manifests/"infra as code" with git tags and branches?
Razer acquires THX, the audio pioneer that George Lucas started
Tried t quote you, but my mobile browser does not work well here.

Your 
'tinfoil hat conspiracy theory'
 is anything but. Balanced, objective reporting in the US died in 1987, the very day it was no longer required by law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
You could try this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vim+cheatsheet&t=ffab&ia=cheatshee...

There are similar pages for various programs, including blender it seems: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=blender+cheatsheet&t=ffab&ia=cheat...
But I think picking the detail to be conscientious of is the trick.

Important details are just as annoying to check as less important details.

IMO, it's the ability to discern and apply elbow grease to boring things that matter, and walk away from unimportant things that really predicts good outcomes.
The Abyss
I have been in exactly the same position a number of times over the years. One day I realised that the reason I gave up promoting them is that I never really knew how my marketing efforts were doing so it always felt a bit futile.

This actually inspired my current project, which is all about measuring the results of your marketing (http://flockmetrics.com).

I think several things are helpful here. Understanding the key benefits of your product and figuring out who will most benefit from those features.

Once you know that you need to figure out how to explain your product in a way that those people can understand how it helps them and then you need to find those people.

I personally have found once I've been through that process and can see that I have a product that will make peoples lives easier it motives me to want to get the product to those people.
Wasn't this supposed drone quote said before Assange entered the Ecuadorian embassy? The quote was in 2010, but Assange wasn't at the embassy until 2012. Not to say I believe that Clinton was seriously considering assassinating Assange, but I don't think that not wanting a drone strike in the middle of London is a valid argument against it.
In default vim, i inserts to the left of the cursor. In ijkl, you simply map h to insert left of the cursor. It's even on the left of your new arrow keys so the mental map works better too!

I'm a huge ijkl fan, because I learned wasd long before I learned vim.
Hillary's team states that she is still very opposed to gay marriage. She is simply lying now.
One of the things that I'm going to do in my game, is to make entire categories of items unusable or gimped across entire bands of space. So as you progress (the leaderboards are mainly based on how far in "the direction of difficulty" you can get) you will eventually get to a point where you have to abandon your favorite strategy and come up with a new one.

Even without this, due to the rarity of items that have little penalty for benefit, you will often have to improvise, as your required item will likely not be available with exactly the right combination of compatibility and stats.
> For comparison, a quick Google suggests suggests there are roughly 1.25MM lawyers in this country. And yet, when a controversial court decision is made and journalists are expected to write on it, the press generally is able to grok the arguments made and summarize it in some form. If a presser is held, they are capable of asking relevant questions and challenging things. I don't think that's the case when it comes to anything related to computers, and I think that's indicative that our liberal arts colleges are failing to stay up-to-date.

Are you a CS professional by any chance? This sounds like the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/231746/after-seei...
This is 900% rationalization.

> When you see him and his followers advocating misogyny, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, aggressiveness, and basically all the other -isms and -obias, it becomes much harder to "see the other side" of the debate

The exact same argument could be convincingly used to discriminate against members of the two largest organized religions. Are you also going to ask potential hires who they voted for at the last election too?
Maybe "interested parties"?
Yes, semantically speaking, manipulating the 24 hour news cycle does require participating.

If there was any actual news in the emails, released each day, then it wouldn't be manipulation. It would be news, like how WashPo released the Trump sex assault tape the same day they got it.

As it is now, they're withholding empty, hacked information and timing the releases to participate and manipulate headlines during the U.S. election period.
Yeah, that subreddit is terrifying. I'm more afraid of the people in there than any other terrorist group. E.g. another comment on the same thread says very matter-of-factly: "Let's just say by now you should have already bought multiple guns."
you might want to give spacemacs a go... it's quite good after you translate whatever vim config to emacs config. out of the box it's actually quite great and this is coming from a hardcore vim user that can't stand using a text editor without vi bindings and proper macro support etc. Everything is done pretty well and there isn't anything that I have found dealbreakingly lacking so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKF41ivkBb0

it's also under active development so if that's your thing check it out.

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/
500 linux PCs...Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these??
It would feel so much nicer if they were hidden. You can't fear something you're unaware of. Even if there's lots of horrible things, any one person being made aware of more than a few is unlikely.

I'm by no means advocating a lack of transparency but ignorance is bliss.
Good riddance to drivers!

The American Myth survived our abandonment of horses. It didn't seem to crush the importance of the Western in our culture.
Inside the Data Science Summit 2016: 1400 Data Scientists Together
I was going to suggest some form of automated testing during development and monte-carlo simulation of games to run a batch of "10,000 playthroughs a night", paired with a cost-function to "evaluate" the strength of a character-build (it can be as simple as "total damage" or "total DPS") and see if some outlier(s?) appear.
> Trump campaign claims to coordinate with him.

Citation please. I haven't heard anything about that.

> Running Wikileaks as a year-long oppo research firm for Trump

Wikileaks can only leak what they've been given. Maybe people are feeding them more info about Hillary, but I would respect Wikileaks far less if they withheld information during an election year to protect a candidate.

The voters deserve to know everything there is to know about their candidates. It's an assault against the voters to withhold negative information about a candidate because you don't want their opponent to win.
By "manually checking" I mean that I have to use my own brainpower to notice places where null can leak in to code I'm writing; the compiler doesn't actually enforce the type safety I thought I had. I do use Option to handle sometimes-nulls after I notice them.

EDIT: since Jython doesn't allow raw nulls to leak in from Java libraries, and Kotlin prevents accidental use of nullable values at compile time, it naively seems like Scala could prevent accidental null introduction despite living on the JVM. Or as a distant second-best, prominently warn about the perils of null whenever introducing its type system to beginners.
Smart move by Apple. I'll be following their moves to improve Siri closely. The fact that they're hiring researchers as strong as Ruslan makes me feel that they've got real potential to drastically improve Siri going forward.

I think that Siri has the potential to improve non-linearly. If they can get Siri to be slightly more useful, the millions of iPhone owners will instantly use it more, creating a virtuous feedback loop.
I thought you were exaggerating at first, and then I went to try and donate. Wow. The "donate to OSTIF" link looks like text (black), when all other links are blue, and, as you said, the PayPal link isn't working (so that removes my first donation method), and the Bitcoin link requires me to copy/paste an address to my phone (there isn't even a QR code), so I just plain can't donate.
Anthropocene and Empire
Federal prison camps are not that terrible: https://www.bop.gov/about/facilities/federal_prisons.jsp

Think of it like a three-year, $100 million sabbatical "upstate." That is enough time to read through the great books. Room and board are covered and there is a commissary for personal items.
Okay. So what is the correct number? Do you disagree with the core of my argument, or are you just interested in quibbling?

If Trumps support was something extremely small like 1-9% for any group, then I would say there is a pretty good possibility that that group sees something very wrong with the candidate. If it is something more, like say in the twenties or higher, then there is hardly a consensus.
I don't know if you know this, there's never not been Russian troops in Sevastopol...
Check out the video. In the example, rendering of an animated model goes from 0.25fps without it, to 4fps with it using CPU rendering, or up to 40fps using CUDA for the example model....

I'd say that is large enough to have the potential to fundamentally alter how people work.
> If enough people who are voting Clinton purely to stop Trump voted 3rd party, 3rd party would actually have a chance.

It's actually the other way around though. When including 3rd parties in polls (Florida, for example), Clinton has consistently done worse.

This is why you're not seeing any mainstream media coverage of Johnson or Stein -- it hurts their golden goose.
WikiLeaks: Ecuador cut off Julian Assange's internet
As a phd, I'd be perfectly fine with my kid(s) finishing with a HS diploma. Why? Well 1st, it would be a lot cheaper for us! 2nd, I wouldn't at all be worried as long as the internal drive is there to further their own education.

A lot of people have the idea that once formal education stops the need to learn ceases. In fact, the need to learn should never cease because progress can always be found. What changes is that once formal education stops, learning becomes self-driven. So whether a person has a HS diploma or a phd is irrelevant if their internal drive to progress has stopped.
> generated content is pretty boring.

Why not let the lesson be that space content is pretty boring, or that resource management is boring. Just because they did it poorly doesn't mean that the type of content they made was the problem.

Procedurally generated content has been around for a long time and has been done waaaaay better than NMS did it. There are plenty of rougelikes that have interesting procedurally generated content.
Should the same happen to your family home?
Exhaustive, informative and insightful. Please don't write that stuff were people won't see it. :-)

(I'd add that X.25 was moved into the OSI standards, btw. But you certainly know that.)

But you agree with my point that you couldn't really implement all those protocols in a serious manner, at least not at the time. You saw specifications of buffer counters that were "infinite". OK, that is possible to implement -- and today maybe even efficiently.

Also, the ones pushing this were states and big corporations, typically telecom. The exact details motivations you seem to know more about, but you don't really touch it? The academic world felt pressure to conform and go OSI instead.

(I would argue that with IoT, protocol/processing overheads might again become an issue on Earth and outside of instruments in the oceans?)
>Why would you choose death over, say, removing yourself from the environment? Couldn't you move to another country(assuming you had the resources), or move out into the forest and live as a hermit?

>Is there something more specific you could talk about with this? "with demands for a certain conduct that I cannot sincerely present". Are we talking about something like being gay in an anti-gay society, or something far deeper about the basic structure of society?

If I dress my thoughts up into a book with a narrative it might be just good enough where people excuse my depravity as 'wit'. I'll wait until I publish and if it goes nowhere, then I'll end it. Until then I'll keep pretending, and it's the pretending that kills me. Most people are lost. I get overwhelmingly sad when around people because I can't help them. Too much empathy and self awareness. I honestly have no idea. Just being around people makes me sadder than if I wasn't around them. What actually makes me happy is not chilling and hanging out, but teaching someone and watching them learn and seeing the resultant joy that brings. That's why I greatly enjoy getting lost in music and playing with friends. There's people I know where I honestly don't know a single detail about eachother's lives, we just play and communicate that way.
I can think of many from Disney that I'd rather fork than Donald. ;-)
I got into a PhD program with < 3.0 GPA average.