skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is EXACTLY a best-case-scenario, but I have no idea if/how it can be done. (ie: one user account, username: <user1>, but <password1> unlocks and boots into a typical desktop, and a separate <password2> unlocks into another totally different environment)
You've just justified first world countries creating an artificial prison for political reasons. I am not surprised, as so many Americans justify and support Guantanamo Bay (and the holding of prisoners without charges or trial indefinitely).

America has become the Black Mirror reflection of itself and its foundational ideals, and is a terrible world role model.
Extradition is a process that involves an extradition court and a right of appeal. There is absolutely no way they are bundling Assange onto a plane without Wikileaks screaming blue murder. This is highly unlikely to be credible.
What's your opininon on the linked video.
+1 for Toastmasters.

Among other things, Toastmasters will cure you of what ails many accomplished speakers. That is, the verbal or non-verbal tic (umm, ahh, so, like, wild gestures, hands in pocket).
Show HN: Your name in Japanese
Must we pick apart every word in an idea, ignoring the bigger picture?

Is it so hard to think an activist billionaire who has thrown his assets around to influence the world his way (not just the Gawker lawsuit), outside anything resembling a democratic process, isn't interested in continuing to do so for his benefit?

I should point out too, to some extent I view YC as 'undemocratic'. A small group of people guiding the world as they see fit with their investments that can have large repercussions in the world is hardly a democratic industry. I don't limit this view JUST to YC, but to how our economy works as a whole. So there's that.

The problem I have with your simplified summation is that it's high level, press-release like rhetoric.

He's a "conservative donor", to sum up your position. Let's see what the conservative side of the country is up to...

The conservative side of the country has been anything but conservative with their policies. Including huge deficit spending, waving away climate change almost entirely, attempting to suspend lynch pin principles of our nation (habeas corpus among others), motions toward tearing down social progress gender/race issues, investing heavily in police state (research Chertoff and his nudey scanners), and attacking labor at every turn (Koch bros heavily financing Walker's union busting machine in Wisconsin), and are by far the more "bomb first, ask questions later" segment.

Lump Thiel's self-serving headlines in there from the last couple years and yeah, he's not to be trusted, IMO. There's no way to simplify his motivations as "conservative donor". He's as suspect as the rest.
The VeraCrypt Audit Results
This looks very, very interesting. I'll have a deeper look into Qubes this weekend for sure. I wonder how good their repos are in terms of up-to-date packages and software
As long as you hold Michael Moore to the same standard.
I not only use vim but I use vim mode in Atom and within tmux.

Vim mode all the things.
I don't believe that increasing liquidity produces much, if any, value for the world. The stock market itself is pretty disconnected from any real value, and at best any benefits just benefit rich investors buying stocks. It certainly doesn't increase production.

But the opportunity cost is what I'm getting at. So many very intelligent people could be producing immense value in other areas, but instead drained away doing this garbage. And they are incentivized to keep anything useful they invent a secret.
I strongly believe that there is no dirtiness in saying "your candidate is repugnant and we want nothing to do with his high-profile supporters". Sorry about lobbing in a Godwin, but I feel it's appropriate here. I've been watching a lot of WWII documentaries lately and it struck me just how excited and happy Germans were to see Hitler come to power. Before going to war, he was considered by many around the world to be a strong, positive leader for a resurgent Germany — to the point where people were asking if maybe authoritarianism wasn't such a bad thing after all. Seeing that made me wonder: how exactly would we prevent such a thing from happening in the future? Within the confines of democracy, the best way, as far as I can tell, is to repeat loudly and confidently as soon as we see it: your candidate is terrible, this is the path to fascism, this mockery of politics is beyond the pale and cannot be supported by reasonable people. And this especially applies to supporters with influence and power.
IMO, the problems with scientific research in China have little or nothing to do with state repression and more to do with an overcommodified educational system: too much competition at every step from primary school exams to tenure track positions, too much pressure to get high impact publications every few months, too much administrative bloat and rankings-centered priorities.

In other words, they have the same problems that American researchers complain about on HN all the time, only worse. It's fine to find the quality of Chinese research intolerable, but there should be more awareness that that's where we're headed.
> There is a difference between what you're describing is different from what is occurring -- she campaigns on LGTB rights and freedoms but her private positions is nothing short of abject disdain for LGTBs.

Source?

> She tries to run on anti-establishment but there is no-one that is more establishment than her.

Sure, but that's just marketing, not substance.

> She tries to run on fighting for women's rights but she is an apologist for her husband's sordid history of sexual abuse towards other women, and not only that but she will readily accept funds from people that are the most misogynistic on the face of the Earth (the Gulf monarchies).

It is not clear that Clinton ever sexually abused women. He cheated on his wife, yes. But that is a far cry from 'sexual abuse'.
Likely huge, I'm already aware of two QC companies in Canada who are staffing up to look at building a quantum cloud and offering quantum compute workloads "in the cloud" - so to speak.
Statistics are actually a planned feature. I decided to ship before I made it. It's going to happen at some point :P
One summer in college I interned for a company that was building components of the 787 fuselage. If you want to talk about completely retooling a manufacturing process, imagine going from aluminum riveted aircraft to an entirely unprecedented full composite construction. It was something to behold.
An aside - it's been mentioned many times in recent years that the rules regarding email for adminstration officials were never so clearly defined as to preclude someone from running their own email server and the Bush administration employed many non governmental email accounts and servers. They even 'lost' Up To 22 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controv...
I'm honestly curious as to why that was never investigated with the same level of intensity.
My RSS feeds are a carefully crafted web of information

Well there's your problem. My suggestion would be to tune out. Get in to some life threatening sport like parachuting or rock climbing or dirt bike riding. We (men especially?) love fear, especially overcoming the real kind. Helps put the pathetic "news" in to perspective, I find anyway. Running and sweating in general help to.

Also, don't worry. Our generation isn't the first to live in fear. Our parents lived through The Cold War, and their parents through the very hot wars of WWI & WWII, and before that no modern medice, and the marauding hordes of barbarians, and so on.
Basic econ 101: they are still profitable...
Hey, I'm glad you like it! We will not take any features away -- we'll just introduce new paid features ;)
I'm curious, where do you teach?
For that to be, Trump would have to win (or have post election influence) and Thiel would have to believe Trump's low education, semi-ludite supporters could be convinced the tech that displaced many of them is good.

It's hard to image Thiel could possibly believe the latter but surely it's impossible that he believes the former.

>...Liberal newspapers...

Like the WSJ?
How did the previous story ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 ) get knocked off the front page so quickly?
If candidate A gets to write off a controversial, possibly illegal, statement as "a joke" then candidate B does too, right?
That's an odd side line to take it on. Surely it is much better to consider her history as a whole? As far as I'm aware isn't she quite the supporter of what I am assuming we would both consider fundamentally immoral regimes across the world?
I don't think I am being fooled, but most people would say that. I totally support friends and family who are voting for Trump and Clinton, even if I like neither of them.
Yes, this is more the sort of thing I meant.

Sure, when it comes to hateful semi-anonymous bad things said about people on twitter or whatever, celebrities are prime targets (and that kind of sucks, celebrities are people too), but I'm more thinking about active physical-world types of discrimination, the kind that end up with you being beaten, possibly killed, or just denied otherwise deserved opportunities.

Being rich/famous doesn't guarantee you won't suffer from that sort of discrimination, but anecdotally it does appear to lessen the chances by a great deal.
Can you name an example of an 'extremely illegal' thing they have done?
Maybe he knew about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY
They are missing a huge value proposition: A chauffeur costs more than a car, and that's what I want: A personal driver to take me point to point, on demand, low-latency.
The empty promises of fibre-to-the-premises feel a bit like the internet analog of "trickle down".
Speaking as a woman in tech, I thank the team at Project Include for standing up in public. That's hard to do and in itself, means a lot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12727836
What a shock that Calais is packed with, among other nationalities, Ethiopian people. To be honest, it seems like internet cutoffs are the least of the bad news coming out of that region on a daily basis.
Uh, ok... what countries are involved?

Also, how does that work? Customs officer asks you to touch-unlock your phone.

You say, no I have a pin code!

And then they say, oooh then, nevermind, please proceed?

That does not make sense.
> However, I think the only reason he has this stance is because of his difficulty in finding a job.

I could work at mcdonalds.

The problem I have is how we tend to reward some attitudes, which to me seems weird. I have a huge problem with the job interview process and how I'm advised to behave or not. It sounds like I'm on some reality TV. And still, getting a job is one thing that could solve many of social problems, meaning socializing.
I'll look into porting it over. Thanks!
Not to mention many results in optimization/computer-science came out of Russia.
Maybe. What I'm saying is that there is a correlationm but we can't say there's causation, at least not how the American propaganda states. It is plain simple propaganda as the soviet Russia used to do.
> I'm just not going to spend that much of a premium on a what is almost a repackaged phone sensor.

One of the more spectacularly ignorant and stupid things I've read on HN, which is saying a lot.

> but you get deep depth of field.

Oh, right you don't actually know what you're talking about, you're just parroting talking points you read somewhere.
Once governments drop even the pretense of the rule of law, bad things start to happen. You get a populace susceptible obviously crazy demagogues and that usually doesn't end well.
Tell me when there is actually a useful computer, otherwise it's all talk and no action
You'd have to ask him. But that is clearly what he is doing.
The article itself states that Assange is alive and well. The issue is his internet access and what this portends, not whether he is alive.
> You mean the time Clinton campaign needed a way to counter Bill's actual sexual assault victims Trump was hammering them on.

1. Trump was not hammering anything, accusing Hillary for Bill's infidelity has never been a hammer over the 20 years it's been used (in fact it's usually backfired). The strategy was flopping as irrelevant even amongst republicans. Reminder: Bill is not running for president.

2. Kenneth Starr's investigation dropped all of these accusations back when it was trying to find anything to pin on him, none of them were credible, the only thing they got in the end was infidelity in a consensual relationship

3. And Trump's bringing up of Bill was only a flippant attempt to direct people away from his Access Hollywood tape.

> Wikileaks: 'Democrats prepared fake Trump "grope under the meeting table" Craigslist employment advertisement in May 2016' https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787060280832380928

Er… so? That reads like a criticism ad prep:

> This will be a microsite

Which I guess they ended up not having to run since Trump has been providing the quotes directly.
Many comercial products always had the source available.

For example, usually with the professional version of compilers the source code was also there, just not on the student/hobby versions.

Just recently I got hold of an old Turbo Pascal 5.5. brochure where Borland explicitly referred the availability of the source code on it.
It allows it till last tab with that domain is closed. Upon that it should stop allowing it.
To take his support of the Republican party to mean that he is against non-white, non-males is dishonest and straw man. If you have some evidence then present it. Thiel is both Libertarian and gay. Clearly he doesn't support everything in Trump and the Republican party.
Laptop batteries catching fire are such a rare and dramatic occurrence. A simple battery is much more likely in which case you should have come prepared with your charging cable, a very reasonable mitigation scenario. The difference here is agency - a user is empowered to bring the tools to ensure a best case scenario. When your OS decides restart time is NOW, you are not empowered. Quite the opposite.

Software is meant to serve us, not the other way around. Updates can wait for when we're ready, it's a purely coded decision to resolve otherwise. There is no value, worth, expertise, or pride to be extracted from being a slave to your machine which makes it all the more stunning that this is still happening to people today and that people like you can excuse it.
With 232 points, 172 comments, and only 1 hour old, I would think it should still be there, but yeah, I'm not seeing it either.
Your quote doesn't really address the point I'm making. Sure, as head of the state dept she would be involved with very large deals between our "allies" and U.S. corporations. The question is who is responsible for the supposed growth in sales that occurred, and can this growth be traced to her doing or her urging?

It's also worth noting that the article says Saudi Arabia donated tens of millions in the years before she became Sec of State. So claiming the money was for a quid-pro-quo is a stretch. The fact is, any nation friendly to the U.S. probably has had a substantial donation to the Clinton Foundation in recent memory.
If it is profitable, it will be financeable.
I must agree with the parent post - Trump and HRC operate in entirely different way. HRC is basically the avatar of corruption, if corruption were personified it would look and act like her. She doesn't need alternative reality, the current reality of the government is completely fine, she feels in it like fish in the water. She knows all the levers, and she knows how to abuse the system and how get away with things. Of course, this requires lying, violating laws and so on - but it's all accounted for in the corrupt system, and all is already part of what they are doing. The only worry is that not too much is publicly revealed and enough power is there to make what is revealed go away. So far it worked fine.

For Trump, it's completely different. His strategy is built on two pillars - exposing the existence of the corrupt system and presenting himself as somebody who can fix it. The second part, unfortunately, is completely false and that's where alternative reality comes in - he needs to paint himself as somebody capable of doing a thing he has no idea how to do and no capability to do. That's why he always proposes over the top things - to capture one's imagination and paint himself as somebody who can do things. The proposal itself does not matter, neither the facts he claims to base it on - what matters is the image of somebody who knows how to do things, and has the guts to do them. Since the reality of his capabilities is rather modest, constant stream of fiction is required to keep this idea alive.
The heat still has to go somewhere. Ceramic just won't melt or fail in the heat, but it will conduct it well enough to your skin.
>English is close but we don't have separate words for blue and light blue.

Azure. Celeste. Cerulean. Cyan. Teal. Turqouise. aqua. Aquamarine. Lapis.
I do have personal projects, but they're ambitious and I tend to lack the experience and the proper motivation to work at home.
Denounce and reject Thiel.

Do it now.

There should be consequences, no matter who you are. Lines must drawn, and this is the clearest articulation I have seen to date as why Thiel must go.
Wikileaks's foundational theory was there were bad organizations and good organizations, and random leaks would impose a 'secrecy tax' on the bad ones, forcing them to take extreme opsec measures which would make them less effective, and this would gradually bend the moral arc of the universe towards goodness.

But be may be seeing another outcome: the greatest tax is on the organizations where its supporters care about what's right and wrong and true and false, while organizations that spew empty invective and bullshit have no tax. Perhaps what we ended up with is an 'intellectual honesty' tax.
>carbide, even though brittle, is much less brittle than ceramics

To clarify, "carbide" here is short for "cemented carbide", i.e. ceramic carbide particles sintered together in a metal binder. It's tougher than the pure ceramic although still somewhat brittle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemented_carbide
I am looking into space every night. Let's wait giving them credit for manned space flights until they launch someone into space.
That sucks, sure. Did they actually ask you to unlock your phone?
From the viewpoint of a self-supporting individual (not having someone else foot the bill) who would only be interested in learning about new topics in a field, does anyone here think it is worth hundreds to thousands in cost to attend a conference, and why? Is there anything there one would definitely miss about advances in the field if not attending? Or is it more about (essentially) self-promotion?
> Agreed, the price is way too high for this decent crop sensor camera.

The price is lower than a 7D Mark II or a D500 (in my market).

The fixation with sensor size if ludicrous. I mean, if you want to spend as much on a 6D and deal with its bulk and shitty autofocus while trying to convince yourself you have a better camera, don't let me stop you. But you're in la-la land.

(And I don't even own, or want to own, a Fuji.)
You could say I planned it that way to show it to core audience. Or you could say I am just a reader of HN and decided to show it here :P
Funnily, I am not American, though I do live in the US. British, and Australian by birth and heritage.

And I have never once claimed that the US is a role model for the world. In fact, a quick glance at my comment history would show that in many areas, I believe quite the opposite.

The artificial prison was of his own making, not that of any country. He chose to seek asylum, blaming a lurking boogeyman ready to extradite and or execute him, and continued to use this, rebuffing multiple attempts to resolve the issue (and arguably in many ways no other person would be allowed to do, dictating how, when or indeed if he would be allowed to be interviewed).

Certainly, many governments act in appalling ways. But Assange put himself in a predicament where he is now in legal hot water for his _actual_ avoidance of due process for _alleged_ activities.

Not like Guatanamo.

And not like your ad hominem attacks upon me to suit your cause.
If that is assassination-insurance should those bytestrings be keys to decrypt files that are already in the wild?

Anyhow, I find the tweets very interesting. But I lack the context to know what they mean. Were those tweeted before the blackout? After?

The UK FOC thing is particularly interesting. This might sound silly, but perhaps somebody at MI5 was not happy the possibility of Foreign Office correspondence being leaked and decided to something, anything, to stop it from happening.
US is basically using the same tech as China ATM for manned launches...the Soyuz spacecraft. An amazing reliable (and relatively cheap!) design from the USSR/Russia.
You're asserting that Assange supports Trump because of the fact he's opposing HRC on the basis of "if you're not with us you're against us" mentality.

Believing that sort of dichotomy is "pretty silly" and says plenty about you.
wow, thanks for posting that link.
The place looks amazing and it's a great way to explore.
According to the plan as stated in the article, China is planning to have its own space station in 2020. By the time ISS is scheduled to retire in 2024 [1], China could very well be the ONLY country who will have space station.

[1] http://www.space.com/24208-international-space-station-exten...
People keep saying that. It is the single most common rebuttal given to this argument. But I can't understand how it makes any sense at all.

It's a two-person race. It's zero-sum. To materially oppose one candidate is to materially support the other. That is, i assume, why Trump's campaign keeps claiming they coordinate directly with Assange through an intermediary.

Can someone (calmly) explain why anyone should take seriously the idea that Assange can singlehandedly run virtually the entire opposition research campaign against Hillary Clinton and not be supporting Trump?
We're working on Overwatch, but DirectX 11 just isn't quite there yet :(
Hidden Gems amongst startup tools
I have the french baccalaureat. To be honest, I doubt that I can really come to the US that easily, or I really don't have the money to do so.
OS/2 shouldn't have failed!!!! To bad DOS and Windows apps ran better in VM then native OS/2 apps that would just hang 10% of the time!!!! Another reason I loved my Amiga!
Given his attitude, Trump seems way more likely to invade other countries and n general sable rattle.

Also, I wouldn't call what Obama did sable rattling. Russia did invade several countries in the last years (Georgia, Ukraine, and maybe I'm missing one more?). If you don't have a good response for that, then how can you be trusted to defend your other allies (Poland, etc.)
Aylan Kurdi is dead because of Hillary.
> mocked in photography circles.

I have yet to see Fuji mocked in "photography circles".
I would love to make one like that. But idk how to make it work on the system level. Would I need root access?
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