skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental problem is that we are not at war with any nation here. We have repeatedly stated that we are at war with terrorism. So we've got a bunch of citizens of foreign nations that we took captive on the suspicion that they were engaged in terrorist activity, but we can't prove it. They aren't really prisoners of war, and there is no war at the end of which we can reasonably expect an exchange of prisoners. They're stuck in indefinite limbo with no trial and no expectation of release.

I don't know how we can defend indefinite detention of people on the suspicion that they might have engaged in terrorist activity. It's basically just kidnapping to hold them this way forever. I think there's a legitimate argument that taking them captive to interrogate them is reasonable, and perhaps even some moderate time of detention. Giving them a trial would also be reasonable. I don't think there's a legitimate argument for holding foreign nationals without trial indefinitely.
Seems like they're being purposely vague.
I'm sure your temperament would be much better if it was you revealing shady government dealings and having your life constantly in danger.
When did Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition change its name to Project Include? These are the exact same extortionate tactics that Jackson and Sharpton have been peddling for decades.

http://www.skeptictank.org/gen4/gen02379.htm
This is why "term limits" sound great in theory but are worthless in practice.

The people who are writing these laws by another name (guidance letters, recommendations, etc) are nameless, faceless people who no one will ever know. And unless it's an official "memorandum of understanding" or similar, we won't even know their names.

The people we see and hear in the news are just the distraction so we miss the real show.
Obama and Hillary have already bombed plenty of places with plenty of innocent people.

If you are against that you are yourself doing what you accuse Altman for.
The thing is, "good for the world" is a subjective notion.

In my studies of philosophy I am yet to find any system of ethics that provides an objective and universal definition of right and wrong - if you find one, please let me know.

Until then, we are all dealing with subjective opinions - it's just that some opinions are more popular than others. In democracy the most popular opinion wins, but this does not imply that an opinion is objectively "right" (as we know from history).

Hence, I find this recent trend where people classify other people's beliefs as "objectively wrong" - with no consideration for the subjectivity of their own beliefs - to be deeply troubling. Such behaviour is a departure from reason; only dogma remains.
1) The .git directory doesn't play nicely with mono-repos. Since all files are just hashed files that live in the .git dir, knowing which files in there are part of a subtree is hard. On the other side, Mercurial .hg dir uses a tree structure to track files, so you can do things like NarrowHG[0].

2) As well, Git has multiple client implementation (like git, egit, jgit, etc...). Adding new features is a bit more complicated as all the implementations need to add them before they can be more widely used. Mercurial has one implementation that everyone uses. So new features are easier to add.

3) The .git structure is simple, which is great, but it's become the API for git in a way. While mercurial explicitly says you should never rely on the structure of the .hg directory. If you want to interact with the .hg dir from other software, you should either issue 'hg' command or start up a command server[1] to talk with it. So it creates a cleaner API barrier. Because of this, the Mercurial team can make changes to the .hg dir to better serve different needs (like those of a mono-repo), without breaking the world.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/Google/narrowhg

[1] https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CommandServer
The FBI did. James Comey announced before congress that she had pretty much lied about everything, including having classified material. If you go to youtube and search for something like 'Comey vs Hillary lies' you should get a video playing her claims and his findings. I'd find it for you, but I'm at least theoretically working atm.
I think HPKP might also suffer the same issue.
Carefully timed means biggest impact, which means Wikileaks stays high profile, gets more funding, etc. There's nothing wrong with being a bit self serving if that results in an overall higher score on whatever your final criteria are.
If that was true, how would Clinton docs affect FARC negotiations? Is Clinton habitually buying cocaine from Colombia or what would be the reason?

I would understand if Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs until she has been elected or until after the next presidential debate. That would make a lot of sense. But this FARC <--> Clinton doc connection doesn't.
This. The whole process has turned into character analysis and character assasination, rather than whose policies make the most sense for America. Both parties and the media are to blame.

There's a ton I personally dislike in the published GOP platform (eliminating the EPA, walking from Kyoto, completing the Keystone, defunding Amtrak, etc, etc) that bears discussion, rather than judging and yelling who's less evil.
Should all views be accepted as equally valid?

Isn't the right to hold your own judgement the heart of freedom? And what is that judgement if it cannot be expressed? If it cannot have consequences?

Sure, we must protect the expression and dissemination of thoughts and views as key to democracy but when it comes to implementation of those expressions and thoughts we also have a duty under democracy to vigorously push our own judgements.
Have you not heard that all the other polls oversample democrats by a larger ratio than they put Clinton ahead by?

You can actually read the sampling percentages yourself, on most of them.

Anyway, I'll just leave this here.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/10/actuarial-review-of-...
Trolls potentially one major reason Salesforce and Disney dropped Twitter bid
It's not dirty laundry its negotiations the deal would become public.

Look at how many deals with Iran and N. Korea blew up early own because one side leaked (usually intentionally to tank the negotiations) some information that meant no further negotiations would be possible.
It's rather easier to enjoy a high approval rating when what you need to do to maintain it is to not express any opinions and avoid taking any decisions and give sufficiently magnanimous answers to a few unimportant questions here and there, and not being caught doing anything offensive.
Is Assange the only one using the wikileaks twitter account? Because it's batshit crazy at times https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti...
It's basically just like Carl Sagan said:

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/85171-one-of-the-saddest-les...

EDIT: That said, I don't NECESSARILY believe that the Clintons have absolutely, for sure been up to no good. But I am a little suspicious, given the facts that the FBI found. There's plenty of stuff that they could do to exonerate themselves. I just suspect it won't happen, especially since the FBI has seen fit to say "no bad intent so no crime"
A store still has to buy the milk from a dairy. All their buying power isn't going to make their milk cheaper than milk delivered directly by the dairy.
Acing the in-person engineering interview
You may be joking, but honestly most Politicians are sales people with better vocabulary. So, I am sure Steve Ballmer would be a better running mate than Bill Gates.
You're absolutely correct for 99% of games, but for this one they really talked it up at E3 that that was exactly how the game was going to be. They repeatedly and pointedly said over and over again that everything you saw was legit and randomly generated. I'm almost 100% positive they even said specifically that it wasn't scripted.
Red Hat uses SHA1 certificates for their CDN [0] (that provides packages for RHEL7 and, I assume, other products).

It is a "private PKI" but their (current) intermediate and root certificates do not expire for a long, long time. Hopefully they'll move to a SHA256 root in the near future.

[0]: https://cdn.redhat.com/
Indeed, but it's not one person. It's him and apparently 40% of the population, and large parts of the Republican establishment have also fallen in line (and many more would have if another 5% had switched to his side and made him the frontrunner).

These things don't happen overnight, and the single most important firewall may be the presidential term limit, and the absence of any similar office (like Russia's "prime minister" that Putin switched to when he was term-limited, installing Medvedev as his puppet in the meantime).

I'd hope that the limit is such a binary line that 8 year's aren't enough to change that perception. But who knows? Maybe he could have created a narrative to legitimize another term. Some sort of crisis... The usual.

But, luckily, the worst now seems unlikely to happen. It still seems important to run up the score, and then we'll see how his party deals with it. Ideologically, at least on economics, there isn't much left of what was called conservatism a year ago.
Thanks for the correction :)
If his support is unchanging, the "global elite" have nothing to worry about, as long as people show up to vote on 11/8.
He recently said they have info on Trump but won't release it.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345...
Many people enjoy going to places, and wealthy cultures seem to like watching people do it competitively.

Wouldn't you use a teleporter?

Also, food for thought: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
This is offtopic so I'll leave it to just this one reply, but thanks! Lack of quoting in HN's markdown is the only part I have actual frustration with it; I usually use the two-space + wrap format because it makes it much more clear that it's a quote; I find your version hard to tell. But that said, I checked on my phone, and I see what you're saying about mobile. Ugh.
Perm. Contractor rates need to be much higher to be anything worth talking about.

EDIT: Basically, never accept the first offer. Brits rarely negotiate, but I negotiated up my last salary 50% over the initial offer, after going in specifically knowing the top end of the stated salary band was lower than what I'd consider. If you take the initial offer, you're being paid less than your employer was willing to pay. I've never had an offer pulled, in London or elsewhere, over trying to negotiate it. I've declined positions where I didn't get it quite high enough, though.

If you take the initial offer, then you'll be very lucky to get a good deal.

And aim for niches. E.g. PHP devs are dime a dozen. Talk to a recruiter and flat out ask them what skills they get most demand for and highest salaries for now. Just be honest and tell them you're considering what to skill up in. I do backend/devops stuff with AWS and other cloud services etc, and that'd doing ok, but there are other opportunities. And network as much as you can. You'll get your salary up a lot if you're coming in via a suitable recommendation rather than the normal hiring channels.
Flight search is an incredibly dumb domain e.g. in this case, the carrier is regulated by the government to keep fares within a reasonable bound, but only for residents of that country. People booking from overseas can be gouged with impunity!

Let's not talk about codeshares.
In one of my interstellar medium classes I remember learning about the physicist Geoffrey Taylor's estimate of the yield of the first atomic bomb. At the time, the energy of the atomic bomb was classified information, but photographs of the explosion like this one [1] had been published in newspapers and magazines. Crucially, this photograph was labelled with both the time after the explosion, and a scale bar. With just this information Taylor found it was fairly simple to calculate the energy of the explosion. He ended up publishing two papers about it [2] [3]. In astrophysics, his calculations are now used when modeling the effect of a supernova on the surrounding interstellar medium.

[1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Tr...

[2]: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/201/1065/159

[3]: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/201/1065/175
Yeah, even with "unlimited cloud storage" they only store the original quality of photos for the amount of space you pay for, past the initial few GBs.
The post-WW2 soft power strategy by the US was awesome and extremely effective. Sadly, it seems that by the 70s the pentagon had become solely obsessed with the projection of hard power. I personally reckon this has a huge amount to do with the decline of the US's popularity around the globe in the subsequent decades.
Obama in 2011? He certainly didn't say it was based on religion, but these were almost all muslim countries of origin:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presi...
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gUAdAYFbIc

Highly disingenuous. First of all, even Bernie Sanders agrees that having open borders will causes wages to plummet. It's the dream of the Koch brothers.

Second, Hillary didn't vote for 10 ft wall and never proposed a 10ft wall. She voted for the Secure Fence act of 2006:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/hr6061

This isn't a wall, it's fencing placed at various spots across the border.

Stop lying.
Similarly, the article mentions that Google Flights is now more closely competing with Hopper, a mobile app for finding flights. Hopper already offers this price prediction service, and it is powered by Sabre's price prediction API: https://developer.sabre.com/docs/read/rest_apis/air/intellig...

Disclosure: I own another competing flight search tool, https://concorde.io
People's homes are not commodities: cities need to rethink housing
Your questions present a false dichotomy. You can be against the news anchor merely because of his principles and against the school board because of theirs.

To me this is logically consistent because you believe the viewpoints themselves are incorrect.
I trolled my IRS scammers for weeks and learned something really dark
How hard is it to get a cell phone with tethering? C'mon, this can't really be a big deal.
Totally agree with 'genericpseudo and 'joesmo. YC's created the environment that's so tolerant of racism and sexism. If they don't want people who care about bigotry to abandon the site, it's up to them to change the dynamic.
So, Uber becomes popular because it's 'better', by destroying the unionized taxi industry and now the contractors want to be considered employees? If you wanted that, why not just drive a cab?

Many of these modern companies destroy what they think is old and out-dated and only come to realize that those companies already used that business model decades ago and it evolved into what we have now. Uber will eventually evolve into a cab company. I suppose it's a great way for some venture capitalists to make a ton of cash and destroy competitors, but not so good for the average person.

Bitcoin is another good example of this. It takes a centralized and federally insured organization to truly have the security that the general public needs. Many websites need to be hacked and millions of dollars stolen to come to this conclusion. Banks figured this out 100+ years ago.

The other issue is that they shouldn't be considered employees. Drivers can work as little or as much as they want, which doesn't sound like an employee to me.
I think the Russians are just fine either way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-...
systemd-nspawn can drop capabilities too.
The Week in .NET – Bond – The Gallery
(Ozgun from Citus Data)

We find that the primary motivation for using cstore is reducing disk I/O / storage footprint. cstore_fdw keeps a columnar layout on disk in compressed form and reads only relevant columns. For example, it's commonly used for data archival purposes.

That said, cstore_fdw doesn't yet make optimizations related to query planning and execution. We made experiments in that direction (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8423825), but making those changes production ready is no small effort.

Since all benchmarks in this blog post are for in-memory data, I don't know how much they would benefit from cstore. If I have the time, I'll give it a try and update this comment with the results.
Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
Yes, but when coders buy a computer for work, they should take care to buy one with professional version.

That is what I do.
Portland is amazing in the summer, so if you get a chance to come visit us and attend this conference, please do!
Carriers have fleets of yield management analysts whose entire job is to keep the ticket prices from being the fair market price. Don't worry, prices will avoid settling on a steady state.
I've found /r/wikileaks to be a decent breakdown of the more interesting leaked documents.
"In this election year, as we honor our right to govern ourselves, those in power and those seeking it should affirm that a regime of secret law has no place in a democracy."

This was a darkly amusing way to finish the article. Both major candidates have openly endorsed expanding government surveillance and reducing legal protections for privacy and access to law. There's no plausible election outcome that would scale back secret law.
For what it's worth, they addressed the "going downhill" issue in one of their latest podcasts. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2016/10/Podcast-89-The-Decline...
Fine, but then one can't claim his philosophy has anything to do with "releasing everything without any consideration or censorship." He is de-facto censoring/holding back knowledge that he possesses, with a specific agenda in mind.
My experience creating a Telegram Bot
Thank you - fixed.
Just deployed the Org side github pages and missed that.
Walt Mossberg Google Pixel Review
Show HN: A tool to get “Deep Work” done
How to avoid latency and memory spikes on snapshotting in an in-memory database
> When the campaign of a presidential nominee (Hillary) is recruiting the homeless and mentally ill to cause violence at Trump rallies

Citation very VERY needed. James O'Keefe is not an acceptable - that is, truthful - source. [1]

> The tolerant left is on some radical moralistic high ground right now and it's far more dangerous than any words Trump has said.

You need to unpack this. I don't understand how any ideology of "radical moralistic high ground" is more dangerous than Trump's "rigged election" rhetoric, which calls into (unnecessary and unfounded) question the system our country is built on.

[1] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/James_O'Keefe
More info here: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program

But the tl;dr is that you need to wait for the next round of expansion if you didn't already participate in the current round.
The entire scenario here was posited as this being equivalent to when republicans were terrified of a black president being elected. You might not agree that this was the problem, but it's the scenario being discussed.

For the record, the whole "Kenyan, Muslim" stuff was overly racist. Almost no one came out and said that they were opposed to Obama because they were racist. But when you falsely accuse a black man of being a secret Kenyan Muslim, you're just racist.
It happens here in the US in Washington, too, with houses on Indian reservations owned by people who are not part of the tribe. They have long leases (around 100 years) on the land, and own the house on top of the land.

The terms of the leases typically require that the lessee return the land to its original condition when the lease expires, which means demolishing or moving the house and replanting appropriate vegetation, but I've read that usually the tribe will accept the lessee leaving and turning the house over to the tribe.

If you are ever buying a house in Washington and see something that seems too good to be true, like a beachfront house at a low price, look carefully for something about a land lease. The practice of leasing land from tribes and building houses on it goes back a long way, and some of the early leases are expiring in a few years.
Zenefits opens up to third-party developers and launches a suite of new HR tools
They aren't the same kind of thing either, America isn't voting to remove itself from any kind of union.

I guess we'll see what happens.
Excellent point, but to discuss politics on HN is a waste of time as there isn't an easy way to know who you are talking to - the same type of operatives you refer too are also crawling HN and pretty much every other popular social media space. Marco is either completely oblivious to the phenomena (and has bought into their narrative hook, line and sinker) or perhaps he himself is also artificially incentivized.

The same could be assumed about Sam Altman who yesterday wrote an equally damning article (damning to himself IMO).

I am not accusing anybody, and certainly would not and am not jumping to a conclusion based on a single article - and would welcome Marco and Sam's rebuttal - but am instead looking at the larger picture here... there are reports[1] of popular YouTubers being offered $$$ to endorse Hilary and so it's not too much of a stretch to assume they would also pay prominent people in tech too (and not to mention Hollywood as well of course).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIjpp270dI0
Baidu...?
> We should be admonishing Hillary and Trump supporters who turn a blind eye to their unethical tactics and ends justify the means mindset.

You don't consider Peter Thiel to fall in this category? Why not?
They say that this won't affect any SHA1 certificates signed by a root that has imported and trusted, but there's a lot of devices that ship with their own self-signed certificates installed. I hope all the vendors have away from SHA1 or there might be a lot of "broken" devices.
I'm curious, how does one gain access to flight schedules/fares? Is this something that anyone can get their hands on and create a service (complexity aside), or do you need some sort of license that costs thousands of dollars?

Does each airline have their own way of exporting this data? Is there a single entity that aggregates from all of them? How does the actual data look like? (Is it a dump every X hours, or something more modern like a stream you can subscribe to?).
I just gave it a try because of this comment. Found the UI rather confusing actually. It only showed me one flight? And, that was almost double the price of what I booked yesterday (and found via http://hipmunk.com which is my personal favorite tool that I think has an excellent interface)