skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH, many of his old Republican enemies who were calling for WikiLeaks to be treated like al-Qaeda love him, for now. And they have a lot more power and influence than the anti-establishment outsiders that were his old supporters, so he's definitely improved his own situation.
Obviously a bash script should believe in God. All it has to do is look around itself at the complexity of it's world and conclude God must exist. I plan to shred any of my bash scripts that do not figure this out within their useful lifetimes. I will print out and file the ones that do. I've written a long text file which explains this in terms a bash script can understand and left it globally readable on my system.
LBJ didn't run for reelection.
> Kids don't need dumbed down displays. We already have dumbed down displays for adults.

Highly relevant to this statement (which I fully agree with):

http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...
I've given to Watsi before and gotten follow-up emails, violating criteria 4.

I would recommend having a separate "spam" email address for donations and other such sign-ups.
Yeah, that line really stood out to me too. Google is attempting to shift away from being a search tool which funnels users to a destination site, and instead become the destination itself, where sites submit their content in search of users.
Prayer Times in London for Muslims
I don't mind coding but I hate the other tasks that come with it (hardware, networking things, loads of setup). When it's part of my job sure but if I am programming instead of doing something else. I have not thought of a project that I can get so motivated about that I am willing to give up the little time I get to myself to work for free (obviously I am not going to strike it rich with my cheesy side project).

Also 99.9% of the tasks I wish to do are solved so it's not like I'm going to make my life easier by solving the task. For the few that I find that I want I understand they require extraordinary resources/programming skill that I just don't possess.
That's the thing -- they're trying to convince people that their product is a "meal replacement". In the same way that caffeine and other stimulates are de-facto "sleep replacements" (and alcohol, a de-facto "self-esteem replacement") for many people. And indeed, most highly processed foods (a.k.a. "junk foods") have been successfully positioned as "replacements" for ... foods that actually come from farms, small bakeries and dairies, and so forth.

But whether any of these actually are viable "replacements" (considering long-term health and other side effects) is again very much open to question.
The problem with paywalling the news is 1) news can not be copyrighted. You can keep people from copying your story word-for-word, but you can't keep them from repeating the news in different words and 2) nobody will ever see your news because it doesn't show up on Google. You have a chicken and egg problem - without subscribers you won't get a reputation for a quality product, but if you paywall everything nobody will know you exist.
>> number of contributors is probably a reasonable indicator

In case you don't want to click on the links:

Scala: 287
Go: 704
Rust: 1599
Hard to compare to someone who was never elected and served prior to the advent of modern communication or even polling to determine things like that (hardly implying that I consider modern polling authoritative).
You'll be happy to know that we support Gavin Brown's fee extension: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-brown-epp-fees-00

The implementation is here: https://github.com/google/nomulus/tree/master/java/google/re...

And a sample domain create EPP message with an attached fee from our test suite: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/javatests/goog...
Doesn't really affect VR, VR is absolute. Those are just for desktop controls...sort of up to the developer which way they want it to drag, but the default is left/left...may have to update that since I do hear your preference is more common.
Hey Silicon Valley: President Obama Has a To-Do List for You
This is what I don't understand. During technical interviews, why don't we just give the potential employee a laptop and ask them to solve the problem as they would during a regular work day? Why can't they search Stack Overflow, and perhaps reach out to a friend or even a random person on IRC for advice? Isn't this how the real life works? They may not know anything about min heaps, but perhaps a 15 minute research will help them solve the problem better than anyone who actually memorized Cracking the Software Interview by heart? Isn't it better to measure discipline and ability to learn and solve problems instead of measuring existing knowledge?
According to http://www.baeldung.com/java-8-adoption-march-2016, the breakdown for march 2016 was 64% Java 8, 29% Java 7 and 6% Java 6.
Depends on your definition of won, I guess...fourth job in a row using Hg. I've never used git professionally, just for OSS stuff.
This is not invisiblity. It's putting your safe door behind a curtain. Yes, fewer people are seeing the safe, but the curtain is not actually increasing your security, it's just preventing casual attackers from seeing you as a target of opportunity (who, for the most part, are also not going to get past real security, anyway).

I don't know that it's dangerous, but it's not really additional meaningful security, in my opinion, so long as it has zero downsides. The example of the NSA keeping their algorithm hidden does have downsides. One of the biggest downsides of doing some non-standard thing is that you might not realize that you are actually weakening your security. If you have some protocol that involves not revealing the existence of a server to casual attackers, that's completely fine with me, but it's worth noting how easily these things can get conflated together.
Sorry, yes that was my point. :)
It might as well be that the alt-right is already the one filling the gap.
California is the worst in the United States when it comes to the population vs state legislator issue. 80 members of the assembly and 40 members of the senate for 38.4 million people. Compare that to Vermont with 150 members of the House and 30 senators for a population 600,000. California could be construed as taxation without representation. You are completely correct that more legislators means less big lobbyist influence.
If you are doing dates the nice way as yyyy/mm/dd you should use dashes - ie yyyy-mm-dd. Let the slashes mean other styles.
I live near the corner of Austin and Madison in Chicago (you seem familiar with the geography and that you'd know what that implies) and I do not believe it is the case that residents of that neighborhood have a general attitude of "let the police do whatever they need to to reduce crime". I can be more specific if we need to be.

More importantly, we have a Constitution precisely so that the residents of crime-stricken neighborhoods cannot simply vote to repeal protections they've stopped liking. By the way? If neighborhoods had that ability, I'm fairly certain Kenilworth would make a lot more use of it than Englewood.
> So, is all of that news necessary or important to our lives? As it turns out, no.

Or not yet, anyway.
Stanford engineers solve the mystery of the dancing droplets
> Trump is not Romney or McCain.

And in four years, when the Republicans elect candidate X, you'll say "X is not Trump or Romney, he's literally Satan."
I recommend https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webvr-api-emulatio...
I dislike the entire primary system, party system, and all of the other baggage that goes with it.

I feel like my voice as a voter isn't adequately represented by EITHER candidate that is left.

Maybe instant runoff disapproval voting would be a better option; remove the most hated candidate from each iteration until a winner is left.
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it's weird then how, at this point, overwhelmingly violence has been against rather than by trump supporters. Except actually it's not, because when you label someone a fascist, then anything is justified in stopping it before it takes hold. so you have people trying to jump the stage, you have headquarters being firebombed,you have physical assaults of people outside events, people being beaten up for wearing trump hats.
You don't have to bring in a nefarious motive for SV starting to lobby harder to make sense. When they weren't being heavily regulated congressional ignorance about tech didn't really matter. Then Washington starts coming out with some really misguided information and privacy laws like sopa so the big tech companies had to get involved or wind up dealing with bad regulations.
It might have also been a 'bootleg' DVD from China or downloaded a version from there. I've had quite a few where they had done a horrible job translating into Chinese for the subtitles already, and then did a literal machine translation back to English.

The character on the screen said "Hello", the English subtitle said "You good." Which would be the literal translation of nihao.
Yeah here in the Bay Area there are multiple store brands that have lactose free, and they are almost all cheaper than Lactaid (although Lactaid seems to go on sale here a lot bringing it in line with the store brands).
I disagree. The com/net zone is 144mm records, thats about a billion dollars per year in revenue. The technical requirements to store 144mm records with metadata and have multiple redundancy, backup datacenter failover etc. does not come close to that in costs even if those costs are 10%. The cost is completely divoriced from the technical requirements, its simply what the market bears and is use to. They have momentum on their side.

Some of the new tld's are very inexpensive right now, but that is only the short term business model to get market share. Their renewal prices are often higher and will stay that way.
A-Frame is caught up and supports the latest WebVR 1.1 changes. Rift/Nightly (until Vive support lands in FF), or Chromium builds.
Seriously? It takes 5 seconds to add an eslint rule to avoid this issue.

http://eslint.org/docs/rules/handle-callback-err
Besides the post of rdrey, this is also a nice PR/marketing move targeting the open source community.
Good point. We'll see how it shakes out when they aren't having record years.

Hotels typically have about a 5 year cycle.

Families can get a more memorable experience and usually a more economical one with a home rental. My property has even been getting small corporate retreats.

There's a lot of people that have never tried the hospitality sharing economy. Only 6% have [1]. It's kind of intimidating and unknown the first time but once you do it you realize it's pretty awesome.

Also - hotels will be hurting when businesses adopt home share credit card rewards. You'll see a shift from business travelers. Many have Marriott rewards cards as an example like they used to have Blackberries. They'll demand a more flexible option which will be a game changer.

Example: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/content/airbnb/

Hotels are definitely worried - they're just not putting that out there because most of the large brands are public franchises.

[1] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology/publications/assets/pwc...
This got modded down, I guess, because people haven't seen the video that outright proves that Democrats are paying people to start violence at Trump events.
But according to the article 82% of revenue still comes from the print edition, so it's not a chicken or egg problem it's a lose-lose. That's why I'm suggesting a strategy where you maintain the perceived value of the print content could be more successful long-term.
You seem to be missing the majority of my point, but I agree it's an arbitrary distinction as a technicality.

However, 32 US states do declare English as their official language. That's certainly more homogenous than the EU, the original point of contention. Just 2 of 28 EU states declare their official national language as English, and only one of these has English as their only official language (indeed, only the UK has English as their official EU language, which means English may no longer be an official language at the EU level after the UK leaves).

In the US, half of all states have English as their only official language.

This is all barely to the point, though (language is only a small part of culture). While the US may not be homogenous, it is clearly more homogenous than the EU, and by a large margin. The attempt to suggest otherwise was just absurd.
> one of the candidates in this election has previously stated that Assange should be killed

Is it really biased to expose lies and wrongdoings of a person who called for you to be executed without trial?
That's fine for the percentage of people who own something like that, have an off-site disaster recovery plan, and regularly confirm all of the previous items are still working but until that number is anywhere near 100%, it's not “something of the past”.
This thread really reinforces my respect for Altman and others like him. Of the 1,000 or so comments in this thread, hardly anyone managed to capture this simple, yet profound concept as well as Sam.

If Trump is bad, he's a symptom more than a disease. Shunning Republicans isn't going to change their mind, it's going to drive them to echo chambers like /r/the_donald where they will have their beliefs reinforced, not challenged.
The argument is an appeal to nature. In the context of food, though, this argument has been anything but a fallacy in the past. It's not unreasonable to question whether a single-source producer of processed food stuffs is safe for everyone when consuming large quantities over a large period of time.

Do they know why their bars are making people sick, yet? What more subtle issues (contamination or formulaic deficiency) could be lurking, now, or in the future? It's clearly a risk, even with a lot of engineering know-how, especially this early in the game.
Can I just say, anyone who uses the fee extension over crazy price api's or downloaded lists is my friend!
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> Why should a fundamental right require a constitutional amendment?

Why do the Bill of Rights, the 13th, and the 19th amendments exist? They're all designed to protect fundamental rights. An amendment would afford non-traditional marriage the same protection.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

A high school which school costs 36k/year.

It doesn't have to be a sinister conspiracy. It's explainable simply as "people help their friends" and "people tend to be friend with those in the same social circles" and "there are a small number of people with larger amounts of wealth and power, who all run in the same circles."
That came very early for me. I also believed Wikileaks was a force for good (I was thrown off by the name, Wiki implied to me being something like Wikipedia), then they released the Collateral Murder video in 2010 which revealed Assange's intentions (propaganda). From Wikileaks' perspective, it was a great move because it brought them massive publicity and they basically made their name off of it.
I agree with the other comments suggesting you need to speak with your managers, but I'll go one further.

I too work for an R&D organization (CSIRO). Last year I was moved out of development into a management position by my boss because they felt I would be more useful in a Product/Project management role.

The interesting thing was during the discussion, my boss outlined how R&D people aren't developers, developers aren't managers and that managers aren't R&D people.

Your manager likely understands this, but wanted to give you a shot at running the project you created. In the early days, you may be the best person to maintain it as you saw the potential and likely had great insight and vision.

This is also seen in start-ups where many early start-up CEOs can't make the transition from discovery to growth. They can get the company to the early stage of growth, but then in comes a growth focused CEO to lead the next stage.

I also have a friend who only joins companies at this stage, and takes them from < 20 employees to > 100.

This is the same as launching a rocket. The booster that gets you to the outer atmosphere doesn't get you into space.

All of this is to say, you may have a fear that your manager thinks this is the job that you should be doing, but don't be surprised to hear management is aware of the challenges, but doesn't want to take away your baby before you're ready to give it up.
Is there a rule that says you must remain seated for the entire duration of a 15 HR flight?
Armory CEO Manifesto
California citizens retain legislative power and exercise it fairly freely including on matters of taxation, where they have sharply constrained the elected legislature, and retain the power of referendum to undo any act of the legislature (whether on tax or other matters.) As such, whatever the ratio of citizens to members of the legislature, it's ludicrous to suggest that it is "taxation without representation."
Actually you can survive a year, if you build up enough energy storage.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.ht...

>.. but they are inherently worse and less healthy than less-processed foods (generally)

this is such a stupid oversimplification that any amount of critical thinking can debunk it.
More Disruption Coming from Software-First Responsive Organizations
> Well, you're arguing that someone doesn't get to "enjoy the First Amendment" if we don't nod along and provide a compliant audience.

No, that's not what I am arguing. What I am arguing is demanding that people will be purged from the community and everybody cuts ties with them because they views do not agree with yours is not a good thing. You can disagree with Thiel, you can argue with Thiel, you can ignore Thiel, you can do whatever you want. But if you demand that YC severs ties with Thiel because he committed thoughtcrimes - that's where lose my goodwill completely.

> Disagreeing or, worse, choosing not to associate with someone based on what they say is, to gauge from this thread, considered a terrible sin.

No, it's not. Nobody, including me, ever said disagreeing with Thiel is a "sin", let alone "terrible" one. Demanding that YC shuns him - even though they themselves obviously don't want to do it - because you are disagreeing with him - yes, that would be terrible.

> So: why aren't you out there providing an audience to speech you don't like?

Because I don't want to?
Obsessing over New York and San Francisco, we ignore the real rental crisis
You might want to look at these UK companies who have helped produce the badges for the last two EMFCamp events:
http://ragworm.eu/
http://www.hcduk.com/
You say "thats the language he understands", but that's a really dangerous way to be thinking.

Look at it this way: assume you support gay marriage, and the supreme court had gone the other way. Some business partner finds out you support gay marriage, and they vehemently disagree with that, so they refuse to do business with you. They tell all of their other anti-gay acquainances to also stop doing business with you.

What would you think of that? Would it make you reconsider, would it make you suddenly be against gay marriage? More likely, it would piss you off and create even more division.

That is literally all that cutting business ties with Thiel would do, create division. Cutting a person off because you disagree on something political will never change their mind, it will only make them hate you right back, and suddenly you have two separate groups.

Remember after world war 1 when the world went "screw Germany", and ordered massive reparations, and shunned them from everything? Remember how that just caused animosity and hated right back? It triggered another, bigger war.

After WW2, on the other hand, the allies integrated. They actually worked at meshing together and creating something better, and it worked. Germany is no longer heavily nazi, or even kind of nazi.

For another great example, see the religious history of England.

Cutting off Theil and having everyone who doesn't support Trump boycott him just sends him a big middle finger, and makes a big rift that is going to keep causing problems in a big casual loop.
> Because in the end, it's ONE PERSON, ONE VOTE,

Not sure this is really true. Because in the end, ads are effective, political spending influences people, and people like Thiel have vastly more money than I do.

If we were only worried about how Thiel was going to cast his own vote, then we wouldn't be having a conversation right now. But we are having a conversation, so it's a bit disingenuous to pretend all we should care about is one man's vote.

Let me ask you this - Why do you think the FEC chose to implement a limit of $2700 for individual donations to a political campaign?

Is it possible to think that law serves a legitimate purpose, and ALSO to think it's fine for billionaires to give multiple millions to a candidate? I allege that it is not.
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(almost instead of completely useless) because there's still a ~50ms Lambda penalty
I couldn't agree more. The problem with most work sample tests is the length and the format. Most are too long and they have you start with nothing. Adding a rest endpoint to a little flask app is perfect.

It's a shame nobody actually does this kind of work sample test. And thanks for that study. It'll make for some nice ammunition. :)
Imagine to witness a Tsar Bomba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba 64km tall mushroom head. About 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) in diameter, was prevented from touching the ground by the shock wave, but nearly reached the 10.5-kilometre (6.5 mi) altitude of the deploying Tu-95 bomber
There's definitely evidence that heavily implicates Russia.

But for someone like you, I don't think any evidence will update or change your opinion. For some reason you've equated WikiLeaks and Russia, and don't have a solid grasp on how WikiLeaks actually works (anonymous source dumps data to WikiLeaks, WikiLeaks releases that data without any contact from the source whatsoever).
I must live in a different part of the UK than you, because I rarely get any small talk. Yes, they do come and ask if everything's okay, but that's it really.

When I visited the US it was like every 5mins asking if I wanted anything else, a drink, etc., etc.
An interesting link, thank you.
It's not quite that businesses get to vote. Businesses get to nominate some number of their employees as electors. I was an elector for a former company of mine. I could have voted however i liked, had i not quit the company before an election came along.
> It might as well be that the alt-right is already the one filling the gap.

By their volume and tone in shouting on the Internet, yes, for sure - but in numbers? I seriously doubt that the alt-right is capable of maintaining a nationwide powerful political party.
The novel elements of this have already been released individually, particularly the lattice-free MMI training which can be run through Kaldi's nnet3 configuration.

Also, don't assume that a 0.4 % increase means drastically better real-world results. This dataset has been around longer than I have, so by this point Microsoft has just gotten really good at tuning.
I think the idea of Soylent as a replacement for food is almost like an uncanny valley type affect for most people.

Food is life. If you've replaced food with some manufactured shake, it just seems fundamentally wrong. Meals aren't obligations, they are when people get together. They're a time to reflect and experience life. WTF are you doing that eating dinner is too much of a burden?

I can see using something like Soylent as a backup for fueling up while traveling or leaving it at your desk or in the car for a pinch situation. Full on food replacement conjures up images of lonely, single people giving up on life.
Stop forcing your programmers to perform manual tasks