skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the USA some people are rich while all the others are getting poor, in China some people are rich while the rest are being lifted from poverty every day. Figured it out already. Have you? Obviously not. Did the US government allocate several billions of dollars for getting poor villagers out of poverty just last week or are they all still plotting to cut more and more from social security and food stamps as always?

and the only reason US citizens don't leave is because they can't. The US makes it stupidly hard for US citizens to renounce citizenship. http://fortune.com/2016/08/11/us-citizens-renounce/

You are extremely ill-informed about the suffering of your own people.
what are the other open source options?
http://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-sto... has a lot of answers (was published last summer).
> What? How does a better screen make the camera better

It doesn't, it makes the photos you take from said camera look better than if you also looked at the photos from a crappy screen.

Not trying to step on any toes; I just wanted to explain what they meant.
My Nexus 5 was my favorite phone. I replaced it with a 5x but I still prefer the old form factor more. The fingerprint reader is nice and so is the camera on the 5x.

Google hit a sweet spot with the Nexus 5 in terms of price performance and form factor they haven't been able to replicate since.
I think its insane not to have dependencies and third party code in your scm. Although it seems facebook plan to move those to a package manager due to performance problems and libs touching ten thousand files in a path release.
If we could process enough CO2 to reverse current inputs(i.e. the equivalent of hundreds of billions of tree growth) we could possibly think about scaling up the process to remove all the CO2 from our atmosphere as fast as we can. But we won't run out of CO2 unless we take all the ethanol we're producing with the CO2 and store it, instead of generating energy from it via combustion.
how is that any different than any other ignoring of potential errors...

fs.saveFile(file, function(err){});

I'd spent most of the last month dealing with a codebase that ignored potential errors systematically... which was a HUGE problem when you WANT to throw an error down that hole... "turtles all the way down" and they're eating all the errors.

It's not limited to Promises, or even unique.
I read it once, and was immediately duped.
I've been working on https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env/ and there's a similar request although using babel-polyfill rather than the service https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env/issues/20
That's been there for at least half a decade
9-year-old girl's business pitch to Mark Cuban
How many remember the Smurf Attack –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack ?

I remember claims that this type of attack was fixed forever. But physics doesn't change... Easily.
Vim recognizes and cares about file types. If I edit a file with "#!/bin/sh" at the top, I'd like vim to provide syntax highlighting for a shell script. And if I edit a file named "*.c", I'd like vim to provide syntax highlighting for C. That highlighting makes it far easier to spot typos.

UNIX didn't support a wide variety of things people expect and find more user-friendly on modern systems. At an OS level, the OS should absolutely treat everything as a bag of bytes; that doesn't mean every tool built upon it should.
Probably not at the language level. If you watch the Goetz talk you linked to he answers this at 50m36s. The bytecode and JVM will be able to represent riefied generics, but at the Java language level they'll still likely maintain erasure for Object types.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc9vs_HFHVo&list=PLX8CzqL3Ar...
From the first sentence of the API docs:

> The Low Fare Forecast (beta) API forecasts whether the lowest published fare will rise, fall or stay the same within the next 7 days.
The ‘Sin’ Card: How criminals unlocked a stolen iPhone 6S
U.S. Cyber Command’s ISIS Efforts – Slow Progress, Few Results
Size and no reason to unify. There are Democratic, Republican, Communist, Apolitical, Spiritual, Agnostic, Antitheistic, Christian, Rich, Poor, Socialite, Introverted, Moral absolutist, Moral relativist, Vegetarian, Carnivorous and many more Atheists.

Reading that list you will note that there are Christian Atheists. People who claim to be Christian but reject the idea of god. They are... atypical people.

Pretty much people from any and every walk of life just say "Oh, that god thing was silly, well time to move on", and then they continue with their life.

Why would anyone expect this group to be cohesive on anything except that one thing that literally define the group "the lack in belief of god". We can't even agree if we reject god or just don't see any evidence for god.

Now that we are big enough that me, living in Nebraska, can just run into atheist on the street, there seems no pressing need for an active community. I suspect many other feel the same way and smaller activist groups are picking specific battles.

> coexist relatively peacefully

Is there some violence I missed?
Is this related to Assange's announcement of (automatic) retaliation for disconnecting his internet?
Patrick took a job at Stripe and shut the site down. My personal opinion is that the the site was over-complicated and he never actually figured out a good model for making money before the developer in him created an uber-complicated platform.

It also had lots of scaling issues. I tried it a few time and there were frequent errors/downtime. Something that made me not want to use it again. For a potential employer? It's even worse.

It's also a little disappointing that he took a job at a corporation, when he was looked up to in this community as someone that 'made it' with their own company.
>Trump is an existential threat to our democracy

If one person, even a President can be an existential threat to your democracy then your democracy is already in a very bad shape.
Fair point, but it really depends if Trump is being unethical in his campaign and might be as president. Sure he frequently spouts utter nonsense. He's only unethical if he knows he's doing it. Hard to say with that guy. With the Clinton emails, we have evidence of unethical behavior, and we have many prominent defenders responding with "look how bad Trump is". Sure that's what conservative media has been doing to Hillary 90% of the time, but there's not a lot of love for how embarrassing Trump is right now, as a conservative AND a human being. Thiel's recent silence (AFAIK) is telling.
Do you realize that video is her arguing against a constitutional amendment to define marriage as ONLY between a man and a women?

And which is the better moral position: flip flopping, if in fact she did, on gay marriage where today she very clearly supports it and has precisely articulated why including fully supporting the Obergefell vs Hodges ruling; or someone who explicitly stands against it, in favor of states making their own decisions, and is in favor of a judge who was no friend of the LGBT community?

Trump says he would defend the LGBTQ community. How? By nominating another Scalia, he has said.

Scalia in Lawrence vs Texas, is lamenting that mere disagreement with people's choices (i.e. sexual behavior) can no longer be a reason for putting them in jail. That's who Donald consistently claims he wants as a judge on the Supreme Court.

Whether it's bigotry or bad judgement, it is bad policy. And only one party right now stands on the side of LGBT rights, and it is not the Republican party at all by a very wide margin.
On the one hand, there a significant number of people that can't fizzbuzz applying for the jobs.

On the other hand, there are a significant number of people that can only do the interviews and are not good engineers in general once hired.

This is made even worse by 1) the cottage industry teaching people to crack/break the interview process, and 2) the number of people hyping their personal "brand" via conf talks, standards nonsense, etc. as a way to sidestep more engineering vetting. (Not everyone does this of course -- but there's a significant number of people that do it just for career upside).

Personal anecdote as a hiring manager: I've found that some of the best interviewees but mediocre mid-level engineers are those with a history of low to mid-level jobs at the largest companies.
Thank you for all the comments! I've had a great time chatting with some of you. New features will be added:)
Having to wait a much longer time till waiters acknowledge you in the German-speaking countries is certainly a bigger part of it than the smiling or lack there of.
> I don't get why that's frustrating, without image and speech recognition AI isn't possible

Wait, what? The most commonly known (and perhaps oldest) AI test in no way requires either image nor speech recognition.

Millions of blind and deaf human beings would like to disagree with your claim that they are not intelligent or sentient beings.

Seriously, what is the basis of this claim?
I recently made StockDroids[1] -- it's still not much but it's a good start if you're in the market for a new phone :)

[1]: http://stockdroids.com/
I assume you mean starfighter, not stockfighter. It's closed or in the process of closing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12415786

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464647
WhatsApp is locked to a single device and phone number. And the browser integration requires your phone to be connected to the internet. At least you can export the messages. I understand this is not "lock-in" but it isn't the best solution either.
Open source encrypted chat
Would one feel particularly good telling one's children that one joined in a rabid witch hunt driving people from their employment (Eich) and business associations (Thiel)?
Double Solitude
>Why should a fundamental right require a constitutional amendment? IMHO, this is a cop-out for Scalia: he knows how hard it is to put together a constitutional amendment, so instead of just saying "no" and appearing like a bigot, he punted the question as a constitutional amendment. I'm sorry, but I don't buy his argument.

Because the constitution says what it says and it doesn't say what it doesn't say. It is a fundamental right, but the drafters of the constitution failed to mention it in explicit enough terms to adequately protect people. In fact, the people that voted in favor of gay marriage must have agreed that the constitution didn't adequately protect these rights, because they heavily referenced amendments (AKA modifications) to the constitution in their decision.

The constitution isn't perfect. If it was, we wouldn't have needed amendments to give women the right to vote, or to make minorities count as whole people. We need amendments to make it better.

For all I know, Scalia may have had bigoted alterior motives for his vote. However, I'm simply evaluating his argument (which if you'll reread my statement I wasn't actually agreeing with).
Of colour? What colour? Blue?
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lol, possibly the only reason this landed on Top
You are correct that all of those are rights. The question here is what is the course of action that will lead to the best outcome?

People who believe YC should disassociate from Thiel are doing so based on the belief that the consequences of not doing so would be to promote a Trump presidency, which would have bad consequences to a variety of minority groups, etc.

People who believe YC should not disassociate from Thiel (I am one of them) would assert that doing so would set up or perpetuate a norm in which it is acceptable to ostracize people for unpopular opinions (unpopular relative to a certain community or context). Brendan Eich was another semi-recent example of this.

The effect of this, I believe, would be to: a) further balkanize and polarize our politics, and b) to exert chilling effects discouraging people from airing unpopular opinions, which in turn would inhibit an open marketplace of ideas, which, I believe, is necessary for progress. I believe individuals and societies can only grow by being exposed to a variety of ideas, some of which they disagree with, and ostracizing people who disagree would prevent this from being possible.

So both sides are arguing there are negative consequences they are trying to avoid. Which side an individual will come down on, I suspect, will depend on how much weight they place on each type of negative outcome.

As a personal aside, I know what it is like to have to be ostracized for holding an unpopular opinion. I am an atheist in a deeply red and religious state. I have tried to "come out" and quickly had to "get back in the closet" based on the intensity of ostracism I received. So I admit this kind of thing has made me more sympathetic to people holding unpopular opinions.
And at the rate the first round is currently going, the next round is probably at least 5+ years down the road. So don't hold your breath.
Palo Alto's Keeble and Shuchat Photography to Close in October
> ... the key (or password) is kept obscure...

I often think about this, and the conclusion I've come to is secret != obscure. Obscurity describes information you do not know but can research to determine; secret describes information you do not know but and must guess.

But I agree that the argument that the NSA probably uses obscurity (I speculate to make messages harder to attribution to them and not to protect the secrecy of the content) isn't very moving.
Hopefully they'll ditch Java and go with a superior language.
This.

Around 40% of Americans support Trump. Can you reasonably declare that 40% of society is a danger to itself?

You win over people with empathy and reasoned appeals to shared values, not firing them and refusing to associate at all with them -- that just drives them further away.
FWIW, all supported devices on iOS 10, even the oldest models, run without slowdown in my experience. I agree that hasn't been the case in the past.
There was no take home test for me. It was a 45 minute multiple choice test, a timed coding problem after that which you could skip if you did well on the test, and then a 3 hour or so chat that involved an hour of coding something and various systems and algorithms questions
I'm not the one to whom you're replying, but FWIW, I think you did fine.
Seconded on ITA Matrix, great piece of software!
It's called the American dream for a reason.
Being made to believe in a god isn't the same as believing in one.

Silicon Valley thinks AI is not an epistemological problem, as if neurons can be perfectly simulated atomically and that all intelligence processes can be categorized as structured vs. unstructured. Very naive conclusions.

Ironically, they BELIEVE if you simulate the axiomatic neuron perfectly, emergent properties of intelligence will mystically emerge after some undefined threshold of complexity. They are permanently unable to simulate the two billion years of neurological evolution and natural selection for such a belief to hold.

If you must emulate human intelligence, you must be able to navigate the realm of distilling reality from the overlap between truth and belief. Mocking how humans observe reality isn't enough.

Abrahamic religion explored the alternative intelligence problem in great depth over two thousand years ago. It's a pity the results have been lost to Progressive axe grinding.
I was surprised by this word too, some two years ago. You never know when a phrase you took for granted actually turns out to be a political label!
That's a good point. Low population density makes rioting impractical. I think it would be more accurate to say replace riot with violence in my preceding comment.

When I wrote small scale rioting I was thinking more along the lines of small groups of people hunting specific targets. Vandalizing or setting fire to minority houses/churches/businesses.
What are your favorite travel hacks?
Influence leading to gross negligence / corruption. Power corrupting all. Not the OP, but just a guess.
The issue of inflections can be mitigated by applying Porter's algorithm to each word before you examine it. The algorithm isn't perfect, but it is fast enough to use in a context like this. An Emacs Lisp implementation is available:

https://github.com/kawabata/stem-english/blob/master/stem-en...

You need to read Japanese to make sense of the comments, but it does seem to work, and for cases it can't handle an exception list shouldn't be too hard to implement, most simply by just including exceptions in the dictionary and falling back to exact matching when you can't match a stem.
>> No, my position is based on the fact that our treaties on the treatment of prisoners of war apply to nation states. [...] our treaties around prisoners of war are not directly applicable, as the past administrations have made clear.

(I asked for references to support that claim already -- got nothing from dpark...)

What your position is based on, according to yourself, is wrong. I added this link around ten minutes before you posted that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_20...

It address exactly those unlawful combatants and laws.

It was drafted as a result of a decision by the US the Supreme Court. (As I noted, another Supreme Court decision was that the Geneva Convention do cover unlawful combatants.)

(I also added a link to the Geneva Protocols, discussing when a POW can be sent home.)

Enough, bye.
Are you skipping the, "...Clinton recalled having many discussions related to nominating an individual for a drone strike." portion of the quote on purpose? That's not "formalizing the process for authorizing a drone strike," it's, "choosing targets for a drone strike."

If your standard for whether or not a story has happened is mainstream news coverage, then you and I perceive the world in extremely different ways.
> Are you honestly suggesting that UBL, Ulbricht, and Assange deserve to be treated the same way?

I specifically used language that steered clear of that incinuation. "State problem", not "problem in general." "As history has shown." I was referring only to the similarities regarding the outcome of offing the leaders of those respective communities, as well as how state leadership simply refuses to reflect on their past actions.

I really struggle to find how you drew that conclusion out of what I wrote. There was nothing concerning that subject, never mind a suggestion - in fact it was quite the opposite:

* Ulbricht would have had no market, if drug abuse was treated as a health problem and not a criminal problem.

* Assange would have had nothing to leak, if the state wasn't make shady deals.

* I can't think of any effective solution to terrorism. Making a demonstration is all we have.

"two of those three problems."
They did post the code on github (https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK) with the Microsoft open source license.

Presumably you could feed it speech from a running instance of gnu-radio.
The commenter said nothing about consciousness. He simply said that just being able to hold a conversation is not a particularly useful measure of intelligence. The broader form of that is that we don't even know if humans in general are intelligent.
What the history of open source teaches us about strategic advantage
What a useless definition. I could just as easily say that no being (artificial or not) can be considered intelligent so long as it believes in flying spaghetti monsters.
01-Jan-1984 01:01?
Wow I had no idea this existed.
Lightfactor open sources Node.js FIDO certified UAF server
>This will not happen.

This will happen.
I don't have a use case for this (yet) but ... the demo is absolutely incredible. Very nice work
The Left is the party with the rent-a-mob
Show HN: Decode Consul KV data into JSON in Node.js apps and watch for updates
China's gini coefficient has been rising rapidly at the same time it has been getting rich, which is why migrant workers living squalor lived right next to (or even in the basement of) our upscale apartment building in Beijing. China has been getting rich, but the money is distributed in an increasing uneven fashion, and didn't get better during my 9 years there.

And as long as you want to fling around ad hominens...
This is just an anecdote though. I work in the US and can come in after 10am and leave by 4pm if I want. I can work remote when I want to and have done this for a week out of state and just random weekdays. This is all on a 40hr salary that hasn't been cut. I bring my dog to work and go to lunch when I want to. I shoot the breeze with coworkers when I want to. We still get our work done. There are some times when I work later, but it's because we're trying to get something out and I want to help.

Just saying not everywhere in the US is as bad as people make it sound...
Exactly my point. I am not totally against reinventing the wheel. Sometimes its fun and sometimes interesting results do come out of it. I am especially looking at the servo project.

But considering the amount of collaboration effort it took to build this (fb said they collaborated with multiple companies in different timezones), wouldn't it be better to spend a little more time understanding npm's codebase and get it patched ? Maybe I'm wrong, but yea just a thought.
Serverless Basic Security
Or even mock emergency calls where the callers aren't in a rational state of mind.
> Support has been dropped for Windows Vista and earlier and macOS 10.7 and earlier.

Windows Vista was released in 2007, OS X 10.7 in 2011.

For some reason, third-party software seems to support old Windows versions much longer than OS X. Meanwhile, Apple stops supporting old hardware in new OS X versions quite quickly (IMHO), probably for business reasons.

I had one Macbook in the past that I had to put Linux on, just because most software dropped support for the most recent available OS version.
figure out in the sense of discover? sure

Figure out in the sense of work out the updates, particularly for f:R -> R, if you already understand NR? That's totally doable in 5 minutes with paper; it's just figuring out an x intercept. And remembering/finding f such that f(sqrt(2)) = 0

I've also been asked, in person, the derivative of x^x. Hope you remember logarithmic differentiation! It's not like, had you happened to not have used this trick for a derivative in the last 10+ years, you could look up and recall in 5 minutes given you understand chain rule. I remembered it, but what kind of filter is this?
I think this is true, but JS also "sucks" in different ways, so not keeping up means expending seemingly unnecessary effort in maintainability, reliability, etc.

Angular 1 is impossible to maintain compared to Angular 2, for instance. Angular 1 fixed a lot of problems vanilla js faced. It's all improvements.
> "It would be easier to list her positions I don't like. Off the top of my head only the Patriot act and Snowden come to mind. Keep in mind that I'm fiercely pragmatic, and so things that I would like to happen in a perfect world I don't hold as a political position because of how unlikely it is to happen."

So do you like Hilary Clinton's support for fracking? Do you see that as a pragmatic choice? How about Wall Street regulation, where she's basically admitted she thinks it's best if Wall Street regulates itself, do you see that as pragmatic? How about her support for TPP, which will end up encouraging more jobs to be taken outside the US, do you see that as pragmatic?

> "As far as Bernie goes, some of his stated positions seemed to be a little too disconnected from reality. Like his medicare for all plan and his free college plan weren't concrete enough to be taken seriously by the public at large."

Other countries manage to have tax-funded healthcare and tax-funded higher education systems, and still pay less overall than the current systems in the US. Bernie laid out how he was going to pay for it. If some American people ignored the offer and the details, that's their fault, not Bernie's.
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