skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but I can help. The dumps are huge, so there are probably lots of things I don't know about too. I suggest reading everything for yourself--can't take anyone's word for anything. Another fun hobby is if you look up various politically relevant Wikipedia articles and compare them before & after the election.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2175#efmAAGAAi - This is the Wikileaks email describing a strategy (bird dogging) you'll hear more about later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMzYaO2syE - This video shows one Zulema Rodriguez who will appear in later videos around 17:36. She appears to be lying to the cops and blocking the road at the AZ protests. We'll see more of her later.

https://beta.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?two_year_transactio... - This is FEC data showing Zulema on the payroll of MoveOn.org. Note how the dates correlate with the previous item. This casts quite a bit of doubt on the story she told cops in the previous video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=5IuJGHuIkzY - The infamous O'Keefe video contains a description of bird dogging that's a lot less innocent than the one above. They discuss getting people to cause violence at the Trump protests. Zulema, in particular, mentions being both at the AZ protests (which we've corroborated above), and at another, more violent protest.

https://i.sli.mg/dNBRek.png - This image shows that the person seen in the AZ protest videos matches the person in the O'Keefe video.

Note also that there was a fiasco over the ACORN videos some time ago from O'Keefe, causing some to suspect the video was edited. That said, it's interesting that the protests taken credit for were violent and that the information can be matched up with independent information and videos.

Finally, though it's not related to Podesta at all, there's also been a recent attempt to frame Julian Assange for CP by an extra shady porn site:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/58o29r/text_summ...

This part is just to show that weird stuff is going on. Note also that you can test the DKIM signatures on the emails yourself. There's too much crazy this election. I advise that you test things yourself, don't take anybody's word for anything. I don't claim to be infallible and things get weird as hell if you look very far into them. It doesn't help that a lawyer went on CNN to give a completely bogus claim that only journalists are allowed to look at Wikileaks. That claim is utterly false: https://popehat.com/2016/10/17/no-it-is-not-illegal-to-read-...

That aside, you could get in trouble if you have a security clearance. But that's due to the agreements you make in getting a clearance, not due to any law that gives "journalists" special privileges the general public does not also enjoy.

EDIT: One more thing. People are starting to spread totally fake Wikileaks images now on social media. I suggest adopting a links or GTFO approach to dealing with that.
CMIIW but didn't modems use to work like this? Like, put your phone receiver on top of the modem while it makes strange bleeping sounds?
The CIA has clandestinely produced cultural propaganda throughout its existence.
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Thanks for the info

Shame about the status of the dvdisaster project - as of 2015 the Mac OS X and Windows ports are discontinued.
There is very little competition by design in the US pharmaceutical market, so indeed, it contains many of the worst parts of private industry without the typical benefits of markets.

Just like the recent issue of EpiPen pricing, people (including the next likely president) spread the myth it was the result of a lack of regulation even though a single competitor, and there were many who tried to compete, would have made such a large swing towards high pricing a near self-destructive act for any company: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/08/29/reverse-voxsplaining-dr...

The question is not whether or not the market is too free but whether or not to put the final bullet in one the last remaining freedoms of the pharmaceutical market at the costs of reduced R&D and fewer new drugs: http://www.ibtimes.com/should-government-control-price-presc...
Ask Georgia, Ukraine, Lithania, Estonia and Finland this. Then try Canada.

These 600 bases were welcomed by local governments. Have you noticed how the terms "first world" and "second world" used to designate US and USSR allies respectfully, but now just mean "countries that have it good" and "not so lucky ones"? Curious coincedence.
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy'

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.6b00260
It was a civil case, so no one is found guilty. It was settled, and part of the settlement was the google made contentid.
I am neither an US citizen nor living in US, and have not said anything about Hillary in my reply.
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Hi, I'm one of the engineers working on date/time fields [0] (you can see the design document for them here[1]) for Firefox.
We're on the way to support them and hopefully support them well.

Now, I also happen to be working on refactor of our Intl code, so I should be able to help with the number field being inconsistent.
If you can file a bug and prepare a minimized testcase, I'd be happy to fix it! :)

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069609
So you think there was little or no difference between the Clinton administration and Bush 2 with respect to foreign policy?

Most people agree on most things. Politicians are marketers who arbitrage differences to get elected.
> He was certainly a privateer, but I'm not aware of any out-and-out piracy

To the English he was a privateer. To the Spanish he was a pirate. =P

And Francis Drake also oversaw the massacre of 600 surrendered Irish rebels and civilians.

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

So yeah, there's plenty of dirt on this guy.
I'm okay with publishing dnc leaks. Or RNC leaks. Or whatever else he wants to leak. But there was absolutely no reason for him to provide cover for Russian intelligence. If they wanted to publish the leaks, they could have. He wasn't protecting anyone by providing anonymity. He was just providing plausible deniability.
Because "easy to pick up"/"easy to learn" means "most ideas aren't new to me", i.e. "it adapts to my particular way of thinking".
What do you think of Synflows HLS, IDE, and so on for that?

https://www.synflow.com/

I haven't seen hardly any FPGA users or experts review it.
Same question for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12776179
Go's defererence operator `*` is prefix, like in C.

The point here is that type declarations are regular to read, and those tend to be the tricky ones. Expressions tend not to be so difficult, and are more commonly factored if they become complex. For various reason, type declarations are not so practically factorable.
Excellent talk, thank you. Really puts a lot of things in one place.

Wonder what city councils are going to do to supplement the revenue lost if and when income from parking spot use shrinks due to a combination of smaller fleets and individual cars in the fleet spending less time parked up.

Of the 4 exponentially improving technology clusters mentioned: battery storage, electric vehicles, self-driving hw/sw, solar pv -- I'm trying to imagine if any one of them might not ramp up within the 5 to 10 year time scale Tony is talking about. And I guess it would have to be the software[1] part of the self-driving hardware (sensors + compute) / software combo. And perhaps lithium[2] ore extraction. I don't know enough about the technologies of solar pv to hazard a guess. If battery storage happens we definitely get electric vehicles (along with better laptops, tablets, and phones).

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/self-driving-car-engineer-nan...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium#Reserves
Self-publishing over publishing, sure, but this is very based on the content of the book. As someone who actually interacts with College Confidential and the like, an educated book on the subject making money doesn't surprise me in the slightest, but it takes knowledge and time to write. You can't just write whatever you want - the author was lucky enough to know about a subject in a favorable market - parents and kids who are Ivy-obsessed will easily pay for a book on the subject given how many small in's and out's there are in the process.

Edit Note: More info on why the market is favorable for the subject
If I get to decide how many minutes, $10k seems good. I would take a few days off my life if it gave me near unlimited flexibility with how I can live the rest of my life.
The US is a sea empire, the Russians are a land empire.

Ask the Poles, non-Slavic Central Europeans, people from the "stans" of Central Asia and others about their love of Russia.
This article and the (currently) highest rated comment with the Medium article is making me want to write more.

I've always considered a simple blog where I just write short commentary on articles I've read that I feel are incorrect or incomplete. One thing that has held me back is knowing I'm not a brilliant writer. However am going to try and keep in mind the great blog post by Paul Graham that stresses to always write in short sentences. Good luck me!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/jane-jacobs-str...

I read this recently, which I found to be a more interesting take on Jacobs. In particular, on how easily linked article wants to blame trump on rural and commuter neighborhoods as uniquely isolated and un-diverse.

I agree with the take from the New Yorker article that cities don't organically solve this problem even if mass development is kept out -- the history of urban life in the US over the past ten years seems to be a reduction in diversity, especially in areas without a lot of recent development, due to skyrocketing rents and trendy-but-not-diverse incoming populations.

I see more real diversity - people of different backgrounds interacting and doing the same things - in a lot of suburbs these days than in more urban cores, where's it's largely reducing to a relatively homogenous set of affluent residents and the more-diverse-but-non-resident-and-distinct set of Uber drivers, restaurant staff, store employees, etc.

Or, to quote:

> She believed in that virtuous, reoxygenating circle whereby density—and short blocks and small green spaces—guaranteed diversity. This no longer seems so, at least not in Manhattan. In the past fifteen years, the density of my Upper East Side block has remained constant, and the play of old and new buildings, parks and streets is unchanged. (No one can build without several years of planning hearings.) But we have lost two toy stores, a magazine store, a cigar store, and a stationery-and-card store, and gained two banks, a real-estate office, a giant Duane Reade drugstore, and, to the bafflement of the neighborhood, three French baby-clothes stores. (The best theory is that these are part of the settlement in hedge-fund divorces.)
You missed the whole gaming market in that. There's also offloading I/O (eg Bittorrent) and audio/video playback or conversion. In business desktops, I could see additional uses like security coprocessor or accelerating analysis of large data sets coded in parallelized R or something. Plenty of use-cases in HPC with them long being consumers of FPGA's, ec. Server farms, esp cloud, are competing on performance per watt with FPGA's being champs in that in certain workloads.

So, I see plenty of opportunities on consumer and business side. I think adoption in consumer space will be quite low like with other high-end equipment.
Perhaps we'll finally start being able to get mobile devices with ECC memory, now that its useful for preventing the nominal owners of devices from having actual control or visibility into their operation.
Just look up his behavior on the Central Park 5 (and he still thinks they're guilty, even after all the evidence). Also his nationwide stop-and-frisk desires. None of that has to do with illegal immigration and it's very racist.
I'm not against publishing this stuff in general. And in a normal election, it would be totally disqualifying.

There are mitigating circumstances, however.

1) Her opponent is totally unqualified for the presidency, and is basically a fascist, and a bigot, and obsessed with revenge.

2) The information was obtained via espionage by a foreign power, attempting to interfere in the US election. I can only imagine what kind of stuff we'd find in RNC emails.

As far as I'm concerned the correct course of action here is to elect Hillary, and then have congressional hearings into both the contents of those emails, and the methods by which they were obtained.

Hillary is a crooked in the usual way that politicians are. We can survive another crooked politician in the White House for four years. Trump would be the end of the republic.
"Data Science from Scratch" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033400.do
The “spiral rule” is just an approximation of the actual rule as defined in the standard: declaration follows usage.

Even with typedefs, that declaration means “when you call baz with a bing and a pointer (named bratz) to a function of type boff(biff), then you get back a pointer to a function of type foo(buff).”

It’s an extremely concise notation for expressing type information without (much) special type syntax, and I think it’s quite elegant in that way.
Code like Shakespeare, you say??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
Yes we do. Grab em in the pussy = sexist attitude. Nationwide stop and frisk in the inner cities = racist. Central Park 5 fiasco - also racist. Denying black people housing in the 70s - racist too!
"Nothing practical to show" ... I think you may be misinformed. There are a great deal of practical advancements (raptor engine, carbon fiber tanks, software and sensor suites that enable autonomous landing). There's tons of room for discussion around the mars architecture but to discount it because there's "nothing practical to show" is incorrect.

If you're not an expert in the field it might be worth it to do some research before immediately discounting an idea.
What is 'the MTA'. Everything I tried to find just talked about 'Cheney on the MTA' without ever defining Cheney or the MTA.
For what it's worth, they bought it as a failing product with decreasing sales volume. It could be that for the reasons they laid out, it could not be reasonably produced in such small quantities without incurring a loss, which would explain why they were sold it.
That's a good analogy. In many places, owners of lead-contaminated buildings must remediate. One issue, of course, is poisoning of resident children. But another is contamination of the surrounding environment. Paint manufacturers are also liable, but that's a separate issue.

Basically, this is just environmental pollution.
Never Trumpers a Conservative Embarrassment
Battery technology is a lot like bitcoin and gold in that once it is manufactured, users are not dependent upon a state controlled centralized network for it. It's revolutionary, and will probably be heavily regulated given the amount of independence it will provide people.

The big secret in a lot of countries where energy and communications are state monopolies or semi-private corporations is that they are LOADED with debt that the govt used as a private slush fund.

If you are looking for "off balance sheet" liabilities in a government, look at its utilities that are exempt from public records laws. This is where a lot of the bodies are buried.

If people start dropping off the grid, states will just convert the power bill to a straight up tax bill, but without the pretense of a service attached to it. There are already precedents for charging electric vehicle taxes to make up for the shortfall in fuel taxes they create. Govts say, "well, if they are using the roads, they should pay for them." except gas taxes go into the slop bucket of general revenue, and the roads have been paid for through other taxes. The largest state expense is employee salaries, yet all road maintenance is done by contractors, so the "roads" thing doesn't really wash.

When Greece was trying to sort out its default, it outsourced tax collection to its utility companies as part of the bailout.

Efficient power storage will be a game changer, like a redrawing of international boundaries game changer.
Gold + blue LEDs is about the tackiest combination I can think of. Blue LEDs were cool for a few years in the late 90s because they were new and high tech. I think they lost their fashion value in 2000 with the release of the PlayStation 2 (which had a blue power LED). By then it was obvious they were cheap and widely available. People still using blue LEDs in 2008 were clearly out of touch, and in 2016 the only way they can possibly be cool is if they're obviously ironic, which the Corpus Clock LEDs aren't.
NoSQL is not easy to use. At least not easy to use correctly in failure conditions, if your data has any complexity to it at all.
A History of Storage Media
Recognizing scientific literacy and illiteracy
Or Nim:

var str: array[10, ptr byte]

(and much richer types)

Edit: and while I'm here, Nim has other sensible syntax for this low level stuff...

var b: byte = 10
str[0] = addr b
echo $str[0][]
> this is the time for character assassinations.

Speaking of that, a weird UN "partner" / extra shady porn site was caught doing something like that just last week with fake CP allegations that got picked up by a few media outlets:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/58o29r/text_summ...
FYI, no proof has been given that Julian is still at the Embassy since the episodes last Sunday (no sightings at the window or balcony, no picture or clips). The WL subreddit in general believes there's been fishy activity on their twitter since then.... they just now tweeted the long awaited "prove Julian is OK" tweet, but unfortunately it is just some sentences of text. I think at the minimum there is cause to raise an eyebrow.
Their twitter is complaining that if they had the Podesta emails earlier, this might've been Sanders vs. Trump.
Start working on a project Friday afternoon and well through the night. It sets the tone for the weekend.
Taking any nationality as a race is stupid. The whole notion of race is stupid. And racisim is now impossible because race doesn't exist. It's a shorthand wherever it is used. Read culturalist if you prefer.

There are a large number of teatotallers in the UK. There are large numbers of people who don't like to drink much and don't drink often in the UK. There are people who like to drink often to excess. Rain is wet, sugar is sweet...

It is difficult to find a group of friends when in a new country. I've heard expats claim Indians don't accept white people and scoffed similarly. I'm sorry if you haven't (yet) found a social group you like. Blaming the inhabitants of a country because of their culture, attitudes and practices for that is not something I have to treat with respect - whoever does it.
I'm curious what the impact will be of the upcoming improvements to easily support multiple IPNS entries on a single node, along with navigating the Ethereum blockchain, which I'm guessing will make more complex authority schemes easier?
You don't think that cheating in the debate by providing one candidate with questions in advance is significant?
> They aren't negligent

What would actually qualify as negligence in your view of the world!? This is as bad as it gets, this isn't an ordinary mistake.
I understand the benefit of designing software components (and stacks) to run and autoscale on Kubernetes - I actually did that with my open source project SocketCluster. See https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster/blob/master/s...

I think that standardisation should happen at the level of the stack/component (not at the application level). Most application developers don't know enough about specific components like app servers, databases, message queues, in-memory data stores... to be able to effectively configure them to run and scale on K8s (it's difficult and requires deep knowledge of each component).

I think it should be the responsibility of open source project owners to standardize their components to run and autoscale on K8s. It's not practical to delegate this responsibility to application developers (whose primary focus is business logic).

Application developers should be able to use an OSS stack/component at scale on K8s without having to understand the details of how that stack/component scales itself.

So for example, if I wanted to run Redis as a cluster on K8s, I should be able to just upload some .yaml files (provided in the Redis repo) and it should all just work - Then I can start storing data inside Redis cluster straight away (without having to understand how the sharding works behind the scenes).

Rancher has the concept of a 'Catalog' which pretty much embodies this idea.
I always heard of the right-left rule, which seems simpler and more accurate to me.

http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html
former SpaceX employee:
There are a couple of YouTube videos around where they talk about the nature of the systems. I'm pretty sure I can't talk about it but I'll try to find the videos.
It's sort of bizarre to describe Russian intelligence as a 'whistleblower'
I had the first note 7, LOVED it to bits.. then sent it back for a replacement, got a S7 Edge loaner.. hated it. Got the Note 7 replacement, Was back in heaven.

Sent the Note 7 back, and have now got a Note 5 64GB. I like it and will keep using it... but I still miss the Note 7. Am eagerly awaiting the Note 8 or whatever is coming next from Samsung.
Reactive and evented models are much harder to reason about and design properly. When you're just doing things sequentially in a fabric script it is much easier to make sense of what is going on. As soon as you make things reactive and evented to support dynamic cloud topologies you are basically on another planet and none of the old rules apply. This is why it is hard to design "cloud native" systems. I don't think it is the lack of interfaces and standards but the model being inherently non-sequential. In many cases it is also non-transactional and barely eventually consistent.
This just seems like an attempt to generate drama.
Ask HN: What should I do if I can't find any startup I'm interested joining?
I am currently working at a later stage startup that pays off pretty well, both in salary and in stock options. But as I always wanted to start a startup and don't feel like I am not learning that much any more at my current company that is helpful to help me get closer to my goal, I decided to look for opportunities in some very early stage startups, in hope I can learn a few thing a bit more for early stage startups. But after I searched through the angelist and YC job listings, I failed to find any particular one that I am passionated about.

Should I apply some anyway and hope I will learn a thing or two no matter what they may turn out after I join them (or I _might_ be not very happy giving up much in salary and stock options to do something I am not super excited about)? Another reason I am looking for a job change is I want to move into the bay area that there are more people making interesting things.

Sorry if I sound to be too undecided. Any feedback/suggestion would be really appreciated!
> [IPFS] is not trying to become a pirate haven. Why? Well, mainly because piracy inhibits adoption.

Really? The number of BitTorrent users is considerably greater than the number of IPFS users, so surely the exact opposite is true.

Maybe a piracy platform build on top of IPFS could be its killer app.
What is his prime objective, then? If his prime objective is X, but he's spending all of his time and money working on eradicating disease, he's certainly not taking a very effective approach towards achieving his prime objective...