skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, Django is in some ways similar to Rails but, at least, in Django I know how to exclude some parts of the framework (e.g. if I don't want to use Django forms, I'll just go on and use vanilla HTML forms, if I need raw SQL, I'll go for that rather than Django queries). I suspect that the same kind of thing is, at least to a certain degree, possible in Rails as well, however it seems harder to achieve because in Rails the components that make up the framework seem very tightly coupled. Obviously the opinion that I have formed may be distorted by the fact that I know Django/Python quite well, whereas I know little about Rails/Ruby.

EDIT: obviously I agree with you that, if you want more freedom and if you are not using many of the features that Django offers, then it would make more sense to use something light-weight like Flask, which is a very nice framework.
That's an excellent point that I had not considered. The doling out of emails over time, segmenting them into topics (should a leak be editorialized?) and offering up what are essentially promotional teases for more data ... that does seem to move the needle away from "journalists educating the electorate" to "politically motivated guy with a chip on his shoulder".

Honestly, Assange shouldn't have been the face behind the leaks. It should've been the agency's "face", and it should've been dumped all at once, like most of their past releases.
A little more detail from a neutral source on why Birkenfeld was jailed: http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1928897...
My biggest technical complaint about Scalaz. You can't effectively communicate concepts that involve nameless symbolic constructs, and slang as a replacement is inherently exclusionary.
IDEs are simply horrible at actually editing text. vi/emacs don't have much of a learning curve either if you use none of their features.
> That's what you want

No it's not. I'd like a degree, I'd like to learn from professors how to research in this field, I'd like to publish papers, and eventually after some years in the field I want to retire and become a full time lecturer/researcher.

A code-camp cannot offer me that, only a university.
It could be that people support Clinton for reasons unrelated to her personal skills at manipulation.

I mean, even leaving aside all issues of substance, campaigns spend a lot of money hiring people specifically for their manipulation skills; even if it's all about manipulation, the candidate's skill isn't the only weapon in the campaign's arsenal.
Oh, I found that one, but the quote isn't sourced there either, and this appears to be a hit piece biography of Thurmond.
Even taking it at face value, the quote is grossly taken out of context, just as I said.

"I don't have anything to apologize for. I don't have any regrets. I may have said some things that I could have left off, because I favor everybody receiving equal treatment. Race should not enter into it. It's merit that counts."

In any case, I'm not trying to claim that Thurmond wasn't a racist, no matter how much you'd like to pretend that I am. Strom Thurmond absolutely was a racist. So was Byrd. Both later denied it (Byrd with his "change of heart", Thurmond with his "state''s rights" argument). But, oddly, only Byrd's denial is given credence. Why?

Edit: given the full, in context quote, the source appears to be:
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/1998/07/13/met_233245.s...

Which also says:
"U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., no longer supports racial segregation."
So much for Thurmond never having repudiated it. That's literally the second sentence in the piece.

"Intellectual dishonesty", indeed.
Auburn?
My suggestion: if you care to understand the comment, highlight the parts you don't understand, and maybe venture a guess as to what it actually means.

Finance both is and isn't confusing. The language is obfuscatory. Many of the concepts are actually pretty straightforward. There are the occasional kinks.
Wikileaks and the Russian-state-linked DCLeaks may have zero anti-Trump documents, but the 1995 Trump tax return and the surreptitiously-recorded sexual assault boast tape are examples of leaks exposed in this campaign. I believe the anti-Trump leaks have had significantly more impact than the anti-Hillary leaks so far.
And what don't we already know about Trump? Even if true, if this is serious journalism, why they keep printing she said he said? Wouldn't it be excellent time to print the stories of the alleged rape victims of Bill Clinton too? Since they publicly admit he and Hillary is a team? If you think media is not one sides, even if sided slightly more sane side, you're out of your mind.
None of this is responsive to my comment. Hillary Clinton did not win in a squeaker over Sanders; she crushed him. The voters made a clear choice, and it wasn't for "the right kind of lizard". This is the Democratic primary we're talking about, and it wasn't a "lesser of two evils" race there.
But the aWatch "Edition" Edition was a big failure, right? They discontinued it and replaced it with something costing like 1/5th as much? Why would they be eager to extend the branding to the iPhone?

If the ceramic aWatch Editionv2 is a huge success, okay, sure, maybe. But... you really think they're confident of that at this point?
They could license Google's driving tech: Google is open to partnership. The first iPhone proved that Apple hardware and Google software can be a winning combination.
These islands are actually controlled by Taipei...
This is not an excuse for poor documentation, but I've found that not relying on documentation in general vastly improves my productivity. It requires being comfortable digging into the innards of the libraries and frameworks I use, which helps me understand performance characteristics, extension points, understand stack traces, understand failures when they happen, find bugs, learn language idioms, etc.
It sounds like he didn't actually go to jail for the crime he blew the whistle on, per se, but for continuing to cover up part of the crime afterward by refusing to produce information they knew he had. Maybe all the folks who got non-prosecution agreements actually cooperated with investigators.
Considering that Hillary wanted to "drone" him, it's a safe bet Trump can hardly be worse, deal or no deal.
I think maybe assets are related to regions of space, at first I got no snow or water planets, then I got loads of them, purely anecdotal though, I don't know one way or the other.
This isn't disproving my thesis that people on political beats sacrifice impartiality and independence on the altar of access.
The words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" were spray painted on an adjacent building. Are you suggesting someone who didn't oppose Republicans, and their candidate, did that?
I'm willing to bet a small amount that the leader of the "No Man's Sky" project either "lost the battle" with his subordinates or was unable to fully get his vision across to his team. To meaningfully create an interesting procedurally generated world, you need to approach certain things one step removed. For example: Game Balance. If you're not going just bolt a simple hand-crafted game on top of your procedurally generated world, you might want factors that affect game balance to be significantly affected by the procedural generation, which means you can't directly game balance the game anymore. Instead, you have to indirectly balance the game.
sounds like his alternative approach is not having sources at all
The sheer complexity of establishing a car brand is not what it used to be, but it's still something on the order of nation-state hard - I have a source who used to work an Hyundai back before the S. Korean economy crashed in the Asian Tigers mess ( he then emigrated to the US ) and the car-making experience in Korea was akin to war by his lights.

Since he was also in the Korean Marines, I trust his judgement.
I see how people might look at how close java & javax are, and think scala & scalaz are equally close. They are not. Scalaz is a completely separate project from the core Scala project.
I wonder how far off the Canadian region is, which they teased in Jan to be coming this year.
I have direct access to both Russian and Western news/propaganda.

There's a lot more warmongering in Russian state funded press than anywhere in the West. I haven't seen any Western news outlets talk about how "US can turn Russia into radioactive ash" in prime time. Technically true, yes, but you don't bring such things up routinely. It's as if you were talking to a guy, say, arguing about something, and every now and then he'd mention, "by the way, I have a loaded gun, and I could shoot you... but I won't, yet".
There actually is what I believe a credible alternate explanation to Wikileaks supporting Trump, and it's that Wikileaks (or perhaps just Assange) is fighting for relevance, and is willing to be the obvious pawn of others to keep that relevance. What if it's not Wikileaks that's drip-feeding the information, but the source itself? One would think Assange would be smart enough to not promise what he hasn't already gotten hold of, but perhaps he agreed to a release schedule before getting all the information, and is following through on his promise. Not that I think that excuses being a pawn for what is most likely a state actor trying to meddle in the national election of another country.

Neither case really paints a good picture of Wikileaks as an impartial journalistic organization.
I'd say just be paranoid, and you should be fine. Incognito tab, VPN if you feel the need, anonymous communication method (ricochet.im?), etc.
I hope you don't try Clojure then, is much worse there ;)

Joking aside, in Clojure this a feature, one of Clojure's theme is "embrace the host"(leverage java apis).

I don't know Scala but in Clojure you definitely need to become familiar(if you aren't) with Java if you are serious about writing productions apps in it.

Also, abstractions leak.
I think it's an important reminder that China's technical achievements occur alongside significant restrictions not found in other countries.

I would hope that foreign press covering news in the United States (my country) would place events in context for their viewers, and be equally fair and factual about it.
My concerns were more along the lines of power drain.
> what would undermine the credibility of an institution of journalism

You missed out the most important thing which would undermine the credibility of an institution of journalism. And it is the the most common one which is the most heavily engaged in. And that is choosing not to report certain stories and facts, even though they are of great significance.
React is not optimal, or it would require O(N^3) time at least. Think for example of a linear structure like a listbox, and then consider that a perfect diff requires an algorithm like Smith-Waterman, which is O(N^3). (Perhaps faster algorithms exist, but they are probably not really significantly faster).
Absolutely Assange has had an anti-Hillary slant; I don't consider Wikileaks and Assange to be the same. Maybe I should (?). I guess I give leaders to have the latitude to have opinions that don't represent their organizations.

One look at Assange's Twitter is all it takes to see the obvious anti-Hillary bias. The shrill "Hillary's got an earpiece!" post is one of the most glaring examples.
Maybe I need to use a different word, especially I used it a little self-deprecatingly. I do answer questions (often at eyeball-dessicating length), but I also insist on the practices.

I sometimes referred to Pivotal Labs as a debating club that produces code as a by-product. Everything is up for debate. "Strong opinions, weakly held" was a frequent motto.

But that didn't mean we started from scratch. Almost all projects start with the core practices and stick with them fairly tenaciously and inflexibly (in the face of the circumstances we have seen before), in order to facilitate the immersion.

Yes. I need a different word. I am not conveying this well at all.
> We had several great pitches from people who have never given a talk before; we asked about presentation experience as part of submitting a talk and we did a little googling too. It’s crummy to turn away such a good presentation, but it’s also risky to entrust your conference audience to someone who has never presented before

I don't care about how a presenter presents their information at a technical conference. If this was a conference for public speaking and entertainment I'd think it's important then.
True. I've listened to the feedback and worked on making clear the message and what transparency means for the startup world. Still no sure if the About page, Submit page and tagline are clear enough for the purpose.

I also had some critiques about the logo (https://www.producthunt.com/tech/transparent-startups-2), so I decided to change it as well.

I'd appreciate new feedback about these points.
I don't think that's a particularly fair reading of the audit. First, they had the audit done at all, which is something a very short list of software products can even claim. E.g., and I am not casting aspersions on the project, I don't think `dm-crypt` has done a formal 3rd-party audit to date, and it's probably the next-best alternative to VeraCrypt, not counting the last version of TrueCrypt itself.

About the only really unfortunate thing that I saw in the audit was the addition of the old Soviet 64b block cipher that they need to remove. They shouldn't have added that, noble though the goal of adding non-Western-derived algos might have been. But the remainder of the issues noted in the audit are likely there from TrueCrypt, and as the VC team fixes them, it will mean that VeraCrypt is definitively better than TrueCrypt. That's a good piece of information to know, as I suspect there are lots of people around still using TrueCrypt because nobody has really produced anything better yet.
I'm completely unfamiliar with NYU, but isn't it possible she had outside scholarships or grants?
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They make light-hearted animations, but their software looks seriously hardcore.
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sure... but I'd rather have 1 mainframe than 500 PCs. They typically have higher utilization, the problems don't need to be parallelized, you don't have to think about your network.

I still use PCs for everything I do, haven't yet found a need for a mainframe personally.
Thanks, get your 50 roubles
He didn't oppose them, either.

On the other hand, he did endorse Trump.

If you endorse someone, without pointing out what you believe to be their flaws, when you know those flaws (and, really, I don't think Thiel could claim excuse by ignorance here), you implicitly support those flaws.
A distraction from what? There is nothing incriminating in the released emails. We learned that: DNC personnel liked Hillary Clinton better than Bernie Sanders and that Hillary Clinton was saying to bankers what she is saying in public. Where's the scoop that we are supposedly being distracted from?
> My dad always believed that if you're going to do anything, you should try to be the best at it.

This is a hard balance. I have found that being very close to the top in many different things you do while only being "the best" in one or two is far more productive and efficient.

Often the amount of effort you need to expend to be #1 instead of #2 is exponential. Sometimes it makes sense, but most of the time it doesn't.

And, if you are very consistently #2, you often wind up with the top spot more often than you would expect because #1 stumbles.

Consistency is consistently underrated. :)
That's a fair and nice argument. I do think BBC is a fine example of covering all sides of an issue.

My only complain is that sometimes the narrator's personal sentiments get mixed up with the factual reporting.
Scientists are optimistic that the promise of fusion energy is only twenty years away.
Insert mode is for noobs. ;)
The line between evasion and avoidance is really a matter of opinion (that we colloquially call 'case law'). It's hard to know what the delta actually is... I would argue that intent isn't really that different between the two.
Sure there are alternatives. For the record and as a direct response to cloudjacker, my proposed alternative is called precious metals.

What's yours?
While I agree with the gist of what you've said, MacBook Pros are the one area that definitely DO feel stale to me. I think this article says it pretty well: http://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2016/10/16/how-di... .

For a long period no other laptop manufacturer could top Apple when it came to build quality and durability. The MacBook Pros have definitely fallen behind in the past 4 years. I'm really looking forward to the rumored refresh at the end of the month.
The danger I caution against, is that I've seen colleagues jumping to obscure, and in some cases, obviously broken crypto products, because "I read an audit that Veracrypt is insecure".

That some person's weekend project doesn't have an audit like this expressing issues doesn't make it better - it makes it worse. Please consider that when reviewing the context of this paper.
I'm not sure that's such a good filter in this case. There are a lot of cool new languages out there, and most people would rather spend their time learning rather than fighting with poor docs. Anybody "comfortable with advanced programming" will also be aware that there are many other languages with better documentation.

Also, I think it attributes the bad documentation complaint to the wrong thing.

Look at the tutorial, for example: http://docs.scala-lang.org/tutorials/tour/tour-of-scala

The intro page just lists a few selling points: OO, functional, static typing and extensible. The second page has no continuity and is about "Unified Types," with a big complicated diagram and a blob of code. No explanation what to do with the code to compile it, run it, load it in a REPL or anything. I need a tutorial just to be familiar enough with Scala to use the tutorial. The entire "tutorial" is like that with no continuity and no connection with anything coming before it.

A person can go to haskell.org, navigate to the documentation, start with the tutorials, and eventually learn the language. That would be nearly impossible using the scala-lang.org page, without a huge amount of pre-existing Java and functional coding experience.
Scalaz has (or should have) ascii names for every method I believe. If you can find examples otherwise we can fix it.
It wouldn't be the first false flag attack in a US political campaign in recent memory. (See, e.g., Ashley Todd.)
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That sounds pretty anecdotal, only because (also anecdotally) I was surrounded by many, many wealthy kids at my school whose parents put insane pressure on them due to the perceived status of telling others that their children go to "insert well-branded school here"
His expertise is in deep learning, not that this is a surprise.

Was Siri already based on neural nets?
> If the Republicans fall apart after this, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution will certainly devour the corpse, and one of them will eventually grow fat enough to take its place and push the others back down and away from the table.

I think it's far more likely that if the Republicans fall apart, a large component will pivot and eat up one or more of those other parties to retain a Republican designation with slightly different values. It's a mistake to think of either of the two major parties as static.
Sure, but it goes without saying that Caml/SML/Lisp -> Clojure is more straightforward. This is Java to Scala, which is relatively painless and doesn't require a major mental shift early on (though of course you'll need it eventually). Any Lisp variant does require a mental shift, unless of course you already knew a Lisp! Which, in my experience, is not the case with most Java programmers.
I liked this chart so much I made my own version that adds options for non-inflation adjusted and dollar-cost averaging instead of lump sum investment: https://gregstoll.com/~gregstoll/stockmarketreturns/
“So the Chicago protest when they shut all that, that was us” – Aaron Black, DNC
I definitely know what you mean by remix boredom. Can you elaborate a bit on specific instances of what you mean by "player-significant emergent effects" for example in Minecraft?
Can't wait for the Mickey Mouse repo in 2024.
This seems to imply that all political views are equal.

They're not.

For example, "Jews are a race of parasites that should be exterminated" is a political view, very popular in some countries back in the day (and in some other countries even today).

I don't have any problem blacklisting people who believe in that, and act to make those beliefs a reality, even if the acts themselves are legal (e.g. funding a political campaign to gain power). Do you?
I'm not sure what you mean by building libraries to be used 'day-to-day'. If you mean that the Scala community is in general more interested in building libraries/tools used by professionals than hobbyists I'd agree, but I can't think of any popular libraries that aren't used day to day by all of the developers on our very very large scala team.
Yes, was typing on my phone so was trying to keep my message short :)
You'd be surprised.

Palm CEO in 2006 Ed Colligan, about the upcoming Apple iPhone: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

Dell CEO Kevin Rollins, after Dell had released the Dell DJ Ditty (lol) mp3 player: "So this [the iPod] might be an interesting new product but I’m not really believing this is going to turn the industry upside down." (...) ""Apple's created a niche. If you look at the grand scheme of things, this quarter we are supposed to achieve something like $13.5 billion in revenue. Apple's in the $2.4 billion (region), so the size and scale is not even in the same league."

Creative's CEO about Apple's iPod new model circa 2005: "I think the whole industry will just laugh at it, because the flash people — it’s worse than the cheapest Chinese player. Even the cheap, cheap Chinese brand today has display and has FM. They don’t have this kind of thing, and they expect to come out with a fight; I think it’s a non-starter to begin with."
Apple would likely claim they invented the electric car, too.
CNN once called the sinking of the Titanic "BREAKING NEWS": http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-breaks-news-of-titanic-sinkin....
I've been using Clojure happily for years without needing to dip into Java for anything other than something like parseInt(). Leiningen is a joy to use compared with anything Scala has to offer and Clojure also has its own library repository. When I asked on IRC where to find Scala libraries I was advised to go scavening on Maven Central. Jeez.
> You have absolutely no room to be calling someone else "intellectually dishonest".

* You did know that Clinton called Byrd a "friend and mentor" but didn't know that Byrd repeatedly & profusely apologized for his racism.

* You did know that Thurmond "apologized" for his racism but didn't know that Thurmond didn't really mean it.

* You call me out for not providing a source (which ceejayoz provided below) but ignored purephase's request for you to provide a source above.

Not to mention that we started this thread with your (incorrect) claims about Byrd + Clinton but now we're talking about Thurmond.

Convenient. Maybe next time you should try googling for a few minutes before you press submit.
I remember reading that in the original Elite they artificially limited the procedural content. They could have had more but worried that people would get bored or just see it for what it was.