skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those statements are always hard to trust, however, since you don't know how many of them are people who may not feeling comfortable stating their true beliefs in that forum or don't really care but are trying to encourage people they believe would vote for the other side not to vote at all.

I would bet that we're seeing a lot of that this year because there are many Republicans who don't like a Democrat winning but also aren't keen to have their personal reputation tarred by support for their party's candidate. If, say, you feel there is an immigration problem it's much easier to say something about email servers rather than trying to defend Trump's positions on the issue or defend yourself against charges of racism.
Note that nowhere is the word "reopen" used in the original source materials.
Given the sheer number of cases and the government's prior willingness to name and shame Wikileaks, I'd expect that probability to be low without further evidence (high uncertainty remains).
Ensure is not indicated for tube feeding so hospitals should not use it for that. I have first hand experience with this after having been hospitalized for Crohn's and put on a liquid diet. For sole-source nutrition in a hospital setting a formula designed for that, such as Jevity, is used. If a hospital tries to give you Ensure as sole-source nutrition they are doing it wrong.
:o how did you know about my stuck finger! I need to learn to hack better to counter-hack people like you! ;)

Fix confirmed!
I think if you don't have a Mac, great, there's nothing _wrong_ with the new ones per se (assuming you didn't want to come in at the lower price point they completely eliminated).

After so long, though, this really needed to be an upgrade machine for existing Mac users... and maybe it is, but it's not a compelling one. It's certainly not one at a good price.

I was hoping to upgrade my 2013 MBA - but there's now nothing directly comparable, nothing sub-£1K. My options now seem to be (a) hold out for new Macbooks (non 'Pro'), (b) buy a refurb MBP, or (c) switch to a Lenovo or something and stick Linux on it.

The only thing stopping me doing (c) is identifying a laptop which I can stick Arch on and have all the hardware Just Work™ with decent battery life and sane fan usage.
Same could be said for politicians. cue laugh track
Thanks for the response! Great points, I totally agree. The article is definitely worth a read :)
I didn't have to. Upgraded nicely using do release upgrade
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I like few things about macOS, is there a reliant way virtualise it?

If I make switch to Linux, I really don't want to lose my digital purchase in iTunes or Mac App Store or iBooks.
Bill Clinton was impeached, but not removed from office.
>The code will tell you what is happening regardless of what is intended, the comments will tell you what was intended regardless of what is happening.

The comments will tell you what was intended at some point regardless of what is happening. In any mature code base that includes these "what not why" comments, the comments will inevitably document old intents that have since changed.

> Maybe I'm biased because I'm pretty proficient in the business domains I specialize in, so I can understand, conceptually, what the application is suppose to support and consider the validity of the programmer's intent as well as the code's function.

Given that, why do you need these kinds of comments at all? You already know what the code is supposed to do anyway, why introduce a comment that you might later forget to update, leaving less knowledgeable colleagues confused?
Yeah I had recruiter reach out to me via email, they said that had come across my CV and was I interested in a specific role there. I responded I would interested in hearing about the role and seeing if it was a fit. The recruiter's response was that I would need to take a Hacker Rank coding test before proceeding. Before proceeding to hearing about the role that is.
I'd agree with this. The journalist in question (Alex Roy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Roy) is an auto enthusiast and race driver, and is well respected even in auto enthusiast circles, which are notoriously anti-self-driving-cars.

Journalists can be manipulated, but Alex Roy's tweet (https://twitter.com/AlexRoy144/status/791996855114694657) is more an endorsement by a car enthusiast with 30+ years of high performance driving experience than a journalist, IMO.
I totally agree. I desperately want Clinton to win, and I think she'll make a great president. Those who believe her victory must be an illuminati conspiracy should be given as little ammunition as possible.
I can't source this at all but I remember getting into an argument (maybe on reddit?) about how the lack of changes after almost two years between refreshes meant the product line was "dead" or that apple could no longer innovate.

Edit: It just seems to me that if they do nothing it means that steve job's death is also the death of apple, but if they do something big its an indication that they've forsaken their core user base.
I don't think you watched Comey's presentation. He said that Clinton should not be prosecuted (ie. no conviction).
That may be so, but it doesn't change the fact that HRC (or Trump, for that matter) should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. As it currently stands, an indictment hasn't even been recommended.

Under such circumstances, the exposure of a search for a smoking gun is suspect.
Note that "reopen" is not used in the original source materials.
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Previously there were some interesting posts in terms of technology, email servers, DNS etc related to this political case in HN comments.. that's the reason I decided to post it.
When my current MBP eventually dies, I'm seriously considering going back to windows. With the new Windows Linux Subsystem, it removes the biggest issue I had with windows. Apple hardware was always superior for a long time, but PC laptops are finally becoming just as good (maybe because of the strong push by Microsoft Surface).
In many US cities before Uber, there was simply no way to get a cab when you wanted it. Markets match supply with demand but not when they're highly regulated.

I recall a few 45 minute hikes through San Francisco on a Friday night, futilely waving at each full cab that drove by
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We're doing strict self-policing so that this isn't the case.

While founders are getting their startups off the ground, they're working 8-10 hours a week as mentors at the center for entrepreneurship.

It's just too much of a risk to flout the clearly defined congressional cap, and since we can help founders, we want to ensure we can continue to do so as we scale rather than calling down the wrath of Congress.
As much as I would like this to be true, I think that's a pretty biased interpretation of his letter.

My reading would be this: "We found some new emails. They're relevant, but we don't know if they're important. We're looking into it."

What I find interesting is the timing of this letter and, possibly, the fact that he wrote it at all. But we can't judge the significance of those without knowing if this is standard procedure. For all we know, he may regularly send letters that say things like "I spelled a word wrong on page 875 of our report. Agents are looking into correcting it and resubmitting the report."

Or this type of letter could be highly unusual, especially days before a presidential election.

Either way, he had to know Chaffetz would be shouting this from the top of a mountain...
> Continuing on with the status quo is just as much of an action and a choice as pushing forward with automation

Of course, but public perception is, you know... not largely logic-oriented. Whether or not you personally find @abduhl's argument convincing, there's still that emotional hurdle you'd have to clear to convince significant numbers of people to sign up.
But when you look at the characteristics of ZCash, it is just another garden variety alt-coin, despite the credentials of the people behind it.
That's a good point - I remembered when Reddit open-sourced a good chunk of their codebase and had figured Hacker News and Reddit shared some of their foundations, but looking into it I appear to have been mistaken.

I think restricting myself to only open-source hardware would make something like this impossible. I don't think I'm running any proprietary drivers on my Linux desktop now, though. It's stock Xubuntu using the hdmi and vga ports built into my motherboard and I haven't had any issues with it. I don't do any gaming though - the most GPU-intensive stuff I've done on Linux is running RViz and Gazebo when I was using ROS for robotics.
This could be a stepping stone to a fully redrawable keyboard.

There was one (not redrawable, but who looks at the keys anyway), but Apple bought it and killed it: http://ergocanada.com/products/keyboards/fingerworks_lp.html

I had one. It was not good for typing.
There's still time for AirBnB and Uber to fall in the latter camp. Some have more runway than others.
One half of the country is going to be mad no matter which he choose.
The majority of them have no idea what they're talking about if you ask them "what about the emails?" and are just parroting a talking point. Even if she was fully cleared and they were made aware of the fact that Republicans have done the same thing, it would not change their minds.
so we should wait till a statistically-significant percentage of people die before we tell everyone, "yep, definitely dangerous. Lets add some regulation" ?

I wonder if they could shut him down on the basis of car insurance requirements and the legal definition of "driver". If "driver" is defined as the "person" inputting control commands, then either you dont consider the computer a person, and then nobody is legally "driving" the car, or else the software somehow meets the definition of a "person" or driver, in which case its an unlicensed driver operating the vehicle and insurance may not have to cover it.
I see, thanks for the clarification. I need to try it then.
So far from what I've read, Sid borrowed inspiration from board games such as Risk, as well as his own experience developing defense related simulation software.
I've always voted democrat as "the lesser of two evils" but this email situation has really ruffled my feathers (and is why I am voting third party). I get that there is favoritism in everything, but the idea that Hillary (at least before looked like she) walked away scott-free after committing what I believe to be a very serious crime whereas any one of us in a similar situation would have been thrown in jail right away and smeared as a terrorist didn't sit well with me for obvious reasons.
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As a third-party voter I really don't want to get into a discussion about the major candidates.

But as a hacker I am interested in how the political system operates. So let's speculate that a candidate is elected to office and then is indicted on a felony. What happens? Obviously anybody can be elected president, so there's no legal problem. But Congress also is charged with certifying electors. Would they certify electors for a candidate that had legal issues? If they did, the candidate could just pardon themselves once in office.

It brings up some weird issues.
Motivate yourself with real life stories of top startups with a copy of Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work.

Then for a dash of reality get a copy of Ben Horowitz's The hard things about hard things or Andy Grove's Only the paranoid survive.
My mind is made up only because I'm pretty sure the casualty rate will be sharply lower. Humans are horrible at driving.

As for your question, you basically destroyed the conversation when you asked "Is your family an acceptable casualty?" If you just wanted numbers, you shouldn't have made it personal like that. That's all my point is here.
Would the FBI want to admit to the committee that wikileaks had data they didn't unless they had to though?
Most people (including the technical) that I've mentioned the name to, don't recognise it or know what it does. Maybe its just us hyping it up amongst ourselves?
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"Can't she just pardon herself?"

Nothing explicitly prevents it. It doesn't really matter anyhow; Congress has the exclusive power to impeach. Impeachment is the mechanism the constitution provides deal with criminal presidents and the president can't block it.

Make no mistake; the last thing Comey and Clinton+Obama et al. wanted was to fill news cycles with "FBI investigation reopened" 11 days out. It's bad, whatever it is, and this is a CYA move; Comey believes he needs to be able to claim he notified Oversight and made this public prior to the election.
If everybody in society deserves a living wage, then society should pay for it instead of regulating productive activity out of business.
>inherently a danger

Can you expand on how they are an inherent danger, rather than a possible danger? I only challenge you because Tesla has published several occasions where Autopilot has possibly saved lives by auto-braking.
May sound delusional, but I'd like there to be actual jobs. Job sites are usually devoid of actual, interesting opportunities. (I'm not a person that is interested in building user interfaces)

Bonus points if you don't require my linkedin because I don't have no fucking linkedin.
Two weeks are totally reasonable. If you intend to sell the thing in less than two months, that information should already be ready
> That's the entire function of a newspaper

Exactly. And newspapers aren't doing so well on the internet.
Agreed! Every time I'm hiring, I insist that my job posting has a "email your CV directly to the hiring manager" link, and it astounds me how much push-back I get.

It boggles the mind that a company can devote half a dozen designers to optimizing the experience for potential customers, but for potential employees it's "Well, HR says you have to fill out this form, and I guess what they say goes."
You're thinking of the EB-5 green card perhaps
He did the right thing disclosing now. If voters don't care and Hilary wins anyway, she'll have won with all the information on the table. If the voters do care and Hilary doesn't win, then it would've been pretty shitty to hide that information from them when they had a chance to act on it.
> The thing that is telling for me is that they didn't even look at the 2nd generation thinkpad carbon

Come on, it's reasonable to assume they had every existing device with anything resembling a touch bar to analyse and learn from.

If the problems with the thinkpad's adaptive keys were obvious to most users, they were obvious to Apple engineers. Problems with other devices are opportunities to them.
> not in the standard nor supported by MSVC

to be fair MSVC doesn't support a lot of things that are in the standard either
Her campaign staff certainly cared about this issue.
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> peace of mind as a result of extensive fraud protection measures

I don't want "peace of mind". I (a Canadian) want to be able to buy something online from a US supplier and have it shipped to me in Thailand. This is just not possible with any kind of chargeback-enabling payment method.

Just because you haven't been in a situation where the "fraud protection" is impacting your life (or your sales) doesn't mean those situations don't come up for others.
Of course. But acknowledging and working with that illogical public understanding of things doesn't mean I can't argue against it when I encounter it online.
If Bitcoin was 5% of transaction volume it would be an amazing success. Even a 2% (assuming a country with a medium sized economy) would be massively game changing. I believe 2% transaction share is at least possible in the next tens years.
A very comprehensive "remote" option list, because I've noticed the following possibilities for "remote" jobs:

- truly remote from any continent/planet

- remote from one specific continent

- remote but within these timezones

- remote but within commuting distance of HQ

- remote on Friday
I love this paragraph of the Request:

> The singular includes the plural; the plural includes the singular. The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter genders; and the neuter gender includes the masculine and feminine genders. "And" as well as "or" shall be construed either disjunctively or conjunctively, to bring within scope of this Special Order all responses that might otherwise be construed to be outside the scope. "Each" shall be construed to include "every", and "every" shall be construed to include "each". "Any" shall be construed to include "all", and "all" shall be construed to include "any". The use of a verb in any tense shall be construed as the use of the verb in a past or present tense, whenever necessary to bring within the scope of the document requests all responses which might otherwise be construed to be outside its scope.

I've seen similar paragraphs on other legal documents, but this is the most thorough I've seen. It's basically just a huge middle finger to all (any?) armchair lawyers who want to weasel out of the order.
You didn't address at all what forces the programmer to keep the prose and code in sync. If you still have code that's read and translated by the compiler, and prose that's ignored by the compiler completely, how have you actually changed anything?
There's a few likely differences, although it's hard to tell
from the limited info in the Clinton case:

1) Saucier generated the classified information. He took the photos. I don't think there was evidence the Clinton was knowingly sending classified information to non-cleared individuals

2) Saucier himself deleted the files from his laptop after learning he was under investigation. The FBI in Clinton's case determined that there was no willful attempt to obstruct justice

3) The quantity and quality of the information likely differs. If the Clinton emails contained photographs of classified military hardware, we'd probably see more motion.

See Comey's quote comparing the Petraeus case to the Clinton case:

"So you have obstruction of justice, you have intentional misconduct and a vast quantity of information," Comey said. "He admitted he knew that was the wrong thing to do. That is a perfect illustration of the kind of cases that get prosecuted."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/politics/james-comey-hillary-c...
As a gamer with a VR headset, I must admit that I pretty much never play VR games anymore.

VR conferences/chats are where it's at. Multiplayers experiences are awesome. VR movies are also awesome. VR porn is also one hell of a huge market.

The games? ... meh. I think it's too real for me and I'm lazy in real life. I love playing Minecraft on a 2d screen. In Minecraft VR, I build a house and simply lounge around until I'm bored then switch to a VR living room app and watch a movie on a huge screen instead.

The only games I play (and it's very rarely) are plane and car simulators.
Well, I did skim a little bit through Eve's source code, specifically the files in https://github.com/witheve/Eve/tree/master/src and subs, and the first thing that stroke me was: it's not literate. As a matter of fact, it doesn't have more comments than an average code base, maybe even less.

Why? Where is the prose? What makes programs supposed to be written in Eve different from Eve itself?
Bitcoin has exploded? That would be the 113th time it has died[1]

[1] https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/
My experience is old, and I worked mainly in backoffice/clearance stuff, but that said...

I worked for Salomon Brothers in the mid-late 90's, and they treated developers extremely well. Us backoffice guys got extraordinarily good facilities/equipment, humane working hours, a lot of freedom in tech use, etc. All for above average pay, even for NY.

The trader support devs I worked around and with had it a little bit differently; their processes were much more reactive than ours, they worked under enormous pressure, and there was a lot of "less than cordial" interaction with the traders. However, they got paid quite extraordinarily, and there were never grudges held after the trading day; you could get screamed at for a few hours and go out for refreshments with the same guys a couple hours later. It was a dynamic that you had to have a certain personality to be able to handle, but no one went in there not knowing that.

Just a data point.
Lenovo Thinkpad T460s can go 2560x1440 (so not super high resolution, but not really bad either), 10 hours battery. Certified for RHEL 7.2 and Ubuntu 14.04. For more portability, the X260 is good too (1920x1080 in a 12.5 inch screen), and currently certified for Ubuntu 14.04. See https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd031426 for certification information.

I've been using the X230 as my daily driver for a while, and it's held up quite well running Fedora. The trackpad was a bit jittery, but that just required a quick parameter fix in Xorg.conf (I don't think that is even required anymore).

The only complaints, are that Lenovo has pulled some stunts before, mostly with their non-thinkpad line, such as Superfish. Or the recent issue with a Microsoft-specific release of one of their Yoga machines. But, stick to the models on the Linux certified list, and it should be OK.

Other than that, it would be nice to get a 3k or 4k screen, but I'm having a hard time seeing how that would be a big deal on a smaller sized screen. As long as it is above 1080 vertical (I have issues with some IDEs default layout on my current X230 with a 720 vertical resolution screen). But the newer models are available with at least 1080.
Yeah I also considered that. Got a VM instance and tried a couple of times. It works when it works. There are a lot of rough edges.

Now, if we give that a couple of years to mature. I might go back to Windows too. Seems like a reasonable setup if it works perfectly.
Also, it was the DOJ that signed off on granting immunity to key actors. The FBI's actions didn't go unchecked.
Yes, but only 13" with slower CPU and 50% less USB ports.
Everything is relative. What you need to survive short-term is much easier to understand then the long-term effects of subtle dietary differences. The core of my point is that treating a pile of molecules as the same as food is not scientifically sound reasoning "from first principles".
Apple product line is a huge misaligned mess right now. Not surprising considering articles like http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/25/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball....
I was about to argue that I found cryptocurrency tremendously useful when I wanted to shift a largish volume of money from HK to the USA without messing around with banks and immigration, and then I realized that probably fell a bit under "illegal activities."

Heh, you may be right.
Joel Spolsky's essay about never doing a full rewrite seems eerily appropriate. It should be obvious that systems that have been going and going for centuries will have quirks all over the place.
It would be rather funny if America's justice system is so inefficient that one agency would have all of the evidence necessary for an investigation and another would fail to at least ask for it.
I don't know if it's more or less "for humans" than any other programming environment, but I think the search/bind/commit model is an important interesting approach. Given a good enough way to connect new external resources as Eve databases, I can see that model making Eve incredibly productive as a high-level glue language.
Awesome. You, sir, are my hero.
But what if your IDE simply adds the debugger buttons to the touch strip instead? They could even have the correct icons and update state as you debug. Seems even better to me.
No conviction needed in civil forfeiture.
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