skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all unsubstantiated, honestly. I don't believe any of the rumors on either side, because both sides have a huge incentive to lie and insinuate bad things about the other. It's dirty politics 101, and the Clintons invented it (say what you want about them; but they are masters of dirty politics -- which you have to be to become president).

I judge them based on what they've said; and Hillary has offered up some good ideas and a whole lot of rhetoric while Trump has spouted inconsistent positions, many of which are frightening to me. Furthermore, when you do even a cursory bit of research on their statements, it becomes clear that Trump either doesn't know the truth or simply doesn't care. Add to that the ease with which Clinton manipulated him in the debates (she goaded him into a fight which plays well to his 30% base, but makes him look very unpresidential to the rest of the voter base). If Clinton could manipulate him so skillfully, how would he react to provocation elsewhere on the international stage?

Regardless of Trump's politics (which I happen to disagree with), he as a person has shown that he is unfit to hold public office at any level. He seems to have little regard for ethics and fair play -- his idea of "fair" is when everything goes in his favor, and everyone is conspiring against him when it doesn't. He is little more than a con-man reality TV star, while Clinton has lived a life of public service.
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Truckers and delivery workers are a club so to speak. Usps waves to UPS drivers. Teamsters are safe and polite driving - wise to other big rigs

Do not underestimate the disrupted's ability to disrupt the disrupter. I can so see where driver delivery drivers block driver less vehicles. And disrupters can become quite cleaver
IIRC they were revoked in the course of the investigation (somewhere in the last two months).

That being said, the risky bit is that they actually signed those SHA-1 certificates in the first place - a certificate that could be specially crafted to "collide" with one for a site an attacker wants to impersonate. It's not really all that important whether they're revoked (though there's nothing wrong with revoking them just in case).

As for CAs being the weak point, luckily we're going to be living in a mandatory Certificate Transparency world in the not-so-far future.
Maybe that's true, although realistically it's not just the US who played in the Middle East; Europe played in the region for about 150 years, the Soviets had their fun, etc. Besides, a lot of the harm we've done is just making some terrible leaders extremely rich, and well armed.

Putting that aside, this would be happening in some form without that, because of climate change. The sad fact is that we're entering a period of increasing global instability, as previously livable regions become unlivable, and visa versa. I can't think of a single reason why some desperate Eritrean (for example) would say to themselves, "Oh no, these people who have been central to that process of climate change don't want me to live with them. I guess I'll just stay here and try to make it work. Maybe I'll starve and die, but hey, it's the law."
interesting that Budweiser was a large driving force in the invention of refrigerated train cars, and now they are the first delivery with the driverless truck. AB-Inbev definitely understand the importance of distribution and are always looking at new technologies to make it more efficient.
The problem with most chinese brands (Xiaomi, Mijue, etc.) is the non-existing software updates.
Molecular dynamics simulations can be used to answer a range of structural biology questions, but abstractly many of them can be phrased as evaluating the difference in free energy between different conformational states. In molecular dynamics this is done by thermodynamic integrating the energy of over the state space volume for each of the conformational states.

An alternative approach is to directly map conformational states to their free energy. This leads to a problem of searching for candidate conformational states (e.g. the folded state, transition states etc.) and scoring them. Usually for a given computational budget there is a trade off between better conformational sampling or higher accuracy energy scoring.

Historically, searching and scoring methods have been designed separately. For example [1] improves sampling while [2] improves energetics. This is done because they historically involved different aspects of the simulation and each is lot of work. But searching and sampling are not really separable, in that the deeper one samples the more challenging the task of the scoring function becomes--discriminating stable from unstable conformations.

Another application that can be thought of as searching and scoring is the game of GO. My impression is that one of the major breakthroughs with AlphaGo is that they were able to integrate models for searching and scoring together and learn the models simultaneously. It would be awesome if similar architectures could be applied to molecular modeling.

A remaining challenge in applying GO models to molecular biology is that while the representation and scoring rules for GO are fixed and quite easy, the ground truth for molecular simulations comes from heterogenous experimental data (X-ray crystal structures, small molecule activities, directed evolution antibody screens etc.) and higher levels of theory QM simulations, which have their own challenges. However, I think the principles carry over--complicated scoring functions (e.g. free energy) over large state spaces (e.g. protein conformation space or chemical space) can be learned by combining models for searching and scoring. I think deep learning is poised to tackle these problems.

[1] (Conway, et al., 2013, DOI: 10.1002/pro.2389)
Relaxation of backbone bond geometry improves protein energy landscape modeling

[2] (Park, 2016, PMID: 27766851)
Simultaneous optimization of biomolecular energy function on features from small molecules and macromolecules.
Augustine's Laws
Well than and there just isn't a whole lot of training data to play with. It's doubtful that a simulator could ever model actual landing situations well enough that the whole thing will a) work on Mars and b) not overfit weird behaviour in the simulator. Faulty ground sensing has resulted in the loss of more than one mission, and deep learning isn't going to fix any of that.

Oh, and s/wastely/vastly/ ;)
This.

Wapo has a huge social media team that tries to get free traffic from sites like us.

The paywall is a clumsy and ham-fisted attempt to monetize that traffic. It is unfriendly to the community and provides no value to many non subscribers.

I have no issue with ads or polite monetization (I am a publisher myself)... but paywall sites really don't belong on content aggregators.

If I posted a teaser article with thin content for a $199 report on HN, I would likely be banned as spam. Paywalled articles are very similar to this in principle.
Even government budgets have to adhere to some standardized schemes of reporting. See also rating firms.

Otherwise even the US would have a balanced budget and no debts. (Ignoring the fact that the US is the main force behind trying to change the account rules to make them look less bad.)
Chromium has a CT policy in place, and the Google CT team and the Chromium team who make inclusion decisions are separate, so currently this is working well. There are a number of non-google logs currently included.
Ask HN: What are some productivity hacks for remote employees?
I'm working remotely since last year. There's a major productivity issue, some days I don't feel like working. Acquiring new skills are hard, with so many distractions around how do you guys manage to work from home/remote?
Europe doesn't have the money or resources to maintain that for the decades and decades it would take. Resisting the inevitable is suicide, not the other way around. Is it going to be pleasant or easy? No, it's going to be difficult and fraught with upheaval, but it's the result of choices we've all made for decades. Time to pay the piper.
No, it's pretty clearly downvoted because it contains no elaboration at all, which with one exception all other non-gray posts do.
Devil Daggers came out this year. People seem to really love that game. I think you'll find more of a crowd than you think with most aesthetics. I would try to keep up with the gameplay trends though. Did anybody ever like using PgUp/PgDn to move their camera?
Spying on citizens via our own tech
Not trolling, serious question: What is the audio/mic equivalent of covering your webcam with a sticker?
The backdated certificates that have already been found are explicitly being added to OneCRL, which is to say that they are explicitly distrusted independent of what the CRL/OSCP responder of WoSign and StartCom say.
Used to fly to Barbados from Heathrow, which is why I had my honeymoon there. When we booked it's retirement hadn't been announced if I wasn't already travelling by Concorde I would done the LHR-JFK Concorde with QEII back round trip.

I think flight time was around 4 hours, looking at the other folks arriving in reception hours after us all looking shattered after a 9ish hour flight was a great experience.

Would do it again tomorrow if I could worth every penny.
I didn't even consider that, thanks for a new perspective. Good point about sweating in freezing weather though, you're right, you definitely want to stay as dry as possible in (for example) the boreal forests of Canada.
I have the same issue with my galaxy s7 edge. It's incredibly frustrating to use without a case.
Good example of how unions impede progress.
It should be

#define ELSE ;} else {

analogous to FI, to keep the appearance of semicolon as separator in the then clause.
> a certain domain
do you know if this domain is as broad as "app" or "photo app?"

Example If I make a product called GoldGram, that will display trend prices for gold gram - it will be violating trademark?
That's what I wonder about as well. I suppose with some smarts, it might be possible to ignore touches along the edge when it is held a certain way, but why unnecessarily complicate things? Even a 4 mm bezel would be fine.
Thanks for the link. I'm in Toronto, and I'd heard that plain packaging was being considered, but I didn't realize the the gov't had committed to it.

Since I don't know any smokers, and places that sell cigarettes aren't allowed to display them in a visible location, I haven't really even seen what cigarette packages here look like for the past couple of years.
There is a thing in HTML5 called Subresource Integrity (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...).

It looks like this:

<script src="https://example.com/example-framework.js"
integrity="sha384-oqVuAfXRKap...."
crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

I wonder if browsers could keep a cache with those hashes as keys and whenever the integrity hash has a match, then it can take the JS from the cache. That would save huge amounts of bandwidth and pages would be so much faster to load.

Probably right now we're fetching the same version of jquery hundred of times from 20 different domains a day.
Journalism in 2016
Errors from Microsoft's Cloud
Hello! (I'm one of the instructors) -- If you're currently residing in Finland, you can get them through the University of Helsinki Open University (I know...). We'll post more details on this shortly.

If you're residing elsewhere, contact your local institution and ask if they'd be willing to accept the course as a part of your studies.
My hauwei got android 6 a few months ago. Definitely a long wait, but they update regularly as far as I know.
Interstellate: Neuroscience Art
[podcast] This American Life – Seriously?
Practical ES6 book free to read on GitHub
To maintain level flight, a plane has to generate lift equal to its weight. It generates lift by forcing a mass of air down. More mass means more air disturbed.
It was intended to deter aggression, which it did successfully!
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And to compare to military planes, the B-1B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_B-1_Lancer

"With upgrades to keep the B-1 viable, the air force may keep it in service until approximately 2038.[133] Despite upgrades, the B-1 has repair and cost issues; every flight hour needs 48.4 hours of repair. The fuel, repairs and other needs for a 12-hour mission costs $720,000 as of 2010.[134] The $63,000 cost per flight hour is, however, less than the $72,000 for the B-52 and the $135,000 of the B-2.[135] "
Ahh, I get it, Thank you! In the same way var scopes to window if defined outside of a function, let scopes it to the current script block. That is very neat.

I'll read more into uses of let over var. Function level scoping a la var feels like less mental overhead, but as I read more I'm sure my opinion will change.
Could Google influence the presidential election?
>Halt and Catch Fire

I've gotten behind but what I've seen strikes me as reasonably accurate although I wonder to what degree later episodes are sort of overlaying a stereotype of today's silicon valley onto that era. I admittedly worked for a large east coast computer maker at the time but I think the overall busines culture even at smaller companies was a lot more buttoned down at the time.

The first season captured Comdex well enough to give me unwelcome flashbacks :-)
My research group has been trying to address this problem by using user interactions with a website to create this "ground truth". One assumption is that you have to look where you click. But there are more subtle user interactions that could be helpful.

Video and demos and source code:
http://webgazer.cs.brown.edu/
Lucky it's not based in the US, that's the sort of thing that gets you sued.
I actually don't think that would be all bad if you in addition paired some parsers and serializers for other formats in your standard library.

That could actually be a really fun language: "you can write this in Haskell-syntax, Python-syntax, or C-syntax, we don't care, just make sure that you enclose it in the corresponding

<parse-as lang="c">
// ...
</parse-as>

and then `myprogram.c.x` will get compiled to `myprogram.x` which is a standard XML file, which you can then edit with `x-to-py myprogram.x >myprogram.py.x && vim myprogram.py.x` and have a field day of it."

Sort of like the PL equivalent of Lennon's Imagine.
We will have self-driving lawyers long before we have real viable self-driving vehicles.

If I'm ever in an accident with a self-driving truck, they'll probably stack the jury with internet-enabled toasters. =(
unplugging it
I have the Xiaomi Mi4C, which gets an OTA update every week. Most changes are cosmetic, but typically includes substantive android security updates at least monthly.
Not the case for Xiaomi... weekly updates
What if, say, the trucking industry loses 50% of its jobs/salary in 5 years? That's a lot of displacement even in an industry with high turnover (I don't know if those numbers are realistic, but I do think there will be faster and more massive displacement than self-serve checkout and automatic toll roads).

What I'm curious about is whether whatever industries truckers are heading to now can accommodate that many more workers without problems. Just because there's a high turnover doesn't necessarily mean that wherever truckers are heading now could handle 10x the influx of employees without funny consequences.
How does this compare to IPFS?
We've spent a lot of money and effort on fusion energy, without succeeding in creating a reliable, cost-effective energy source.
Wow, I really struck a nerve here, eh? Alright, beer is great, we must all do our part! ;-)

I've drunk plenty of beer and it all tastes bad. I'm not inexperienced. I much prefer the flavour of fruit juice. I really do think there's a huge social pressure to get to like beer. Maybe after a while our brains get to enjoy the bad flavour and associate it with pleasant past experiences. I have learned to put up with the flavour of beer and sometimes I am able to ignore the bad flavour of beer if there are other parts of the flavour that are enjoyable.

I don't think anybody likes beer the first time they try it.

I feel the same way about coffee too. It's a bitter drink and it smells bad. It cannot possibly be true that these substances would be popular if it were not for the side effects. What is a popular bitter beverage or food that has no other side effects?
Video chats are common, but actual eye contact is currently impossible: you either look at the other person's eyes, and thus you appear to be looking off, or you look at the camera, and then they see you looking at them but you aren't actually looking at them in the eye.

There's currently research going on to find out if there is any way to make eye contact possible, but I don't know of any proposed way so far.
Not to take away from the great work of NASA engineers but EOL is kind of a misleading term when it comes to space science missions. At lot of mission end times are based off of funding and the lowest level science goals of the mission. While those are being completed they gather a case for continuing the mission and usually get it. Of course the main cost is getting the stuff there in the first place so why not add a relatively small amount to make it last?
I really love the idea. I use pomodoro timing for my work, but I always have to decide on the spot what I want to do for that 25 minutes. If I'm working on one task, that's easy, but after I'm at a good stopping point with that task it's hard. I like the idea of mindfully making the todo list every day or week.

Three pieces of feedback:

1) I have to click "done" after editing anything and if I forget and click on something else it undoes my edit. I'd prefer edits to be saved automatically.

2) I think the defaults should be 6 hours or 8 hours available for each weekday.

3) It wasn't immediately clear to me how to proceed after planning. I edited the url to go back to the root and then saw the timing functionality. Maybe something that helps first time users find the "Today" button top-left.
Self-driving semi-truck makes first trip – a 120-mile beer run
Horrific flesh-eating bacteria that killed man in four days expected to rise
> It’s also the only JavaScript allowed: author-written scripts, as well as third party scripts, are not valid.

Minor nitpick: they're allowable in iframes. I.e. sandboxed.
GSA's 18F has lost $36M since its inception in FY 2014
The destruction of the longshoreman/dockworker career happened over the course of about 10-15 years during the 60's and early 70's. Containerization basically made their jobs unnecessary. That industry was far more unionized than truck drivers in the US are today.

To be honest, I don't think, as a society, we should be sad to see the truck driver go. It's a tough job with an awful lifestyle, and a work environment that's basically impossible for women and people of color.

What we should be concerned about is what all these people will do next - most won't have any other (labor) skills. Many of the longshoremen got "golden parachute" type payments to retire early, thanks to the negotiating power of the union. Most truck drivers, I think, will not be so lucky.
I see a "put back" button. Isn't it a synonym for procrastination? :)

I suggest following for at least taking one step away from procrastination.

https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
I think machine learning can be employed to filter out accidental touches from the meaningful ones. It is already done in iPad Pro that allows to use Apple Pencil while holding your hand on the screen, and still detects meaningful touches.
> The surprising aspect is that Authz has a validity of 300 days (which is likely to be increased)

This is not true. Authorization lifetimes are only going to get shorter and shorter [1], and have already been reduced to 90 days.

[1] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/upcoming-api-changes/179...
Could you clarify what you mean by "grumpy, unemployable mess"? I'm assuming that you mean that you got a glimpse of what software development could be like, but didn't find any traction in the industry?
My issue with this method and most other methods, is that I have no good idea on how much time I need to actually allocate to each project/goal.

I work in research, when I start a project I have no really good idea on how many hours I'll have to put into it in order to complete it.

Same goes for some of my personal projects. Let's say, I want to learn Data Analysis in Python... I can't really come up with a good idea about how much time that will take me.

What I actually feel the need (as a procrastinator, which is the target of this product) is to keep tabs that I'm working on something (productively) every day.

Pomodoro method helps me a bit with this, although just as a metric, not really as a day scheduling tool as it was intended.

I would actually like to hear some thoughts about people that also struggle with this and how do they manage to stay productive (productive on their personal point of view).
One way to do so is to make the UI in a way that it does not have anything actionable on the bezels. Kind of a "virtual" bezel.
Show HN: Top 10,000 Hacker News Posts of All Time – Interactive Visualization
One that I've seen is plugging something into the audio jack, and then breaking it off and taping over it. That way the computer will detect something is plugged in and turn off the mic. Of course this won't be possible once Apple, and then everyone else, gets rid of the audio jack from computers.
I'm not a fan either but Galaxy S Edge is quite popular and I think it has sides that are far more prone to unintended interactions. Yet, I never hear of anyone having that issue.
Hello HN,

I am one of the developers that built sizzleanalytics.com. We built this tool using d3, dc, and crossfilter.

We'd love for it to become the "github for data visualizations". You can upload your own data,
clone or fork public visualizations, or keep your data private, all for free.

We're actively building out new features, so we'd love to hear your thoughts.

If you're interested in how we gathered the data for this visualization, here is a blog post about it:
http://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2016/10/hacker-news-datase...

Archives of all 10MM json files are available there as well.
My 1.5 year old Xiaomi Mi4i still gets weekly updates and has been since the launch, so that's not true.

[edit] It also still holds a 2-day charge after all this time and for it's price (180 euro's) it has been my best phone purchase in years.
Nice webapp and UI. (to the author) To state the obvious.. You'll see a lot more people adopt it and stick with it if you layout your vision in a few page tutorial.
Ugh, there's so many things like this. My Spotify is also constantly adding data to my local app directory even though I told it through advanced settings to store all music on a different drive.

For an app that's just a web backend in a wrapper, it is horrifically inefficient.