skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In his defence, how can Gov. Perry distinguish

As with most of his responsibilities, his job isn't to actually make the decisions, it's to appoint a panel of experts to do this for him. He is ultimately responsible for the decisions that panel makes, and should be judged based on the quality of people appointed and the level of work they did.

In this case, two panels would be relevant: The Texas Forensic Science Commission, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. It's not Perry's job to figure out the science or whether justice is being served, but it is his job to appoint people to do that.

And we know that these groups have failed horribly at doing so, and we know why: In large part because Perry purposefully stacked it with people who would reflexively side with prosecutors rather than pursue justice. (This was mentioned in the article, and they even linked to several sources that discuss this in much more depth.)

Or do you think the Texas Forensic Science Commission also shouldn't be expected to distinguish between good forensic science and junk forensic science?
Ask HN: Is there a resume/CV version management app?
Nowadays, job seekers need to constantly tailor their cover letters or resume/CVs to any specific job posting in order to pass the stupid ATS system that most of the companies use for application screening. It kind of becomes a headache when you need to manage multi-versions of your resume. Is there any app or web service designed for resume version control?
Im not reading anything about opening ports on your routers firewall. Does this somehow circumvent this? Reading it further it seems to explicitly say "local" which probably implies you.ip.address.[0-255] is targeted.

I think this technology is intriguing and with some real use cases (more peer to peer) but the api seems disorganized. I cant tell if it wants to be another webstandard or be something different.

A part of me wants to dislike this and consider it as a distasteful competitor to pre-existing technologies that have learned to survive without "the web". Another part realizes that sandboxing these technologies protects and enables the average user in regards to awesome tech. This certainly wont replace torrent, webrtc or other existing p2p technology. But I certainly think its a cute way of opening up the field.
Relevant to watch. Before the Flood - Full Movie | National Geographic
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90CkXVF-Q8M
> Once you can launch an invasion without losing any soldiers, war seems like a much less dangerous proposition.

Yes, but how can you stop everyone else from doing the same, if the AI part will be trivial to replicate?
> In fact you're using it right now

Thanks, I could tell when my fan spun up when I loaded the page and my browser lagged.
(throwaway to express unpopular view on touchy / inflammatory subject)

I think it's clear that Rolling Stone engaged in poor journalism. They did not properly fact check, and the story had too many questions and holes to publish. Sabrina Erdely failed in her job as a journalist.

That said, I'm not convinced that Jackie fabricated this story. From my read of the situation, Jackie was hesitant to be featured in the article. There is not much upside for a woman to be featured in a national "rape on campus" story. You risk becoming the subject of internet hate and death threats in exchange for basically no personal gain.

It has come out that many aspects of her account were false. However, just because she lied about the details of the rape does not mean she was not raped, or sexually assaulted, or that something terrible did not happen to her. It's possible she lied about the location, the fraternity, etc., and I can see motivations for that: avoiding retaliation or attempting to remain anonymous. If you believe that she was raped or assaulted, squirrely behavior like that seems more reasonable.

Thus, it's very likely that Jackie lied about the specifics of the situation, but that something terrible (rape or assault) did happen to her. This interpretation is more in line with a rational persons motivations than inventing a rape story for unclear motives.

In a similar vein, I would recommend this This American Life podcast on the subject: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/581/...
I think it is a great idea for devices to be web servers to allow remote devices to serve as their user interface.

I lean towards using bluetooth as a discovery mechanism rather than wifi. Google's "Physical Web" I think does something along these lines, though I am not sure whether or not they are thinking about web servers on these local devices. I think that is a key part of the idea.
I just (10 mins ago) ordered one from Pimoroni. 6.50GBP including the cheapest domestic shipping option. That's 8.14USD.

There's no way to save on shipping by buying multiple units, as the limit is 1 per customer.

I'm guessing shipping (the padded bag plus postage) costs them about 80p, so in reality I paid about $7, not $5. About $1 of that is tax.
By the editors of the New York Times, according to the 2013 book, "New York Times: Disunion".
What state? Employment law varies considerably from state to state, and I didn't think that's federal law (but IANAL).
This works much less well, for many people.

For NY Times, the fact that I have non-persistent cookies as a Firefox extension helps greatly. For other sites (WSJ especially) I've got to jump through several more hoops.

Given that the goal on HN is discussion of the article, and that the workarounds aren't evident or foolproof, this is a consistent pain point.

And simply using the "web" button does not consistently work. You should be aware of this.
Ha! That's very interesting. I mean I never knew that people tried to claim that there was some long history about the word lede", but that's just how it was referred to in every journalism class I've taken and in the papers I worked at. I like using it because its distinct spelling makes it obviously different than all the other meanings of "lead", and journalism has all kinds of jargon anyway..."graf" (paragraph), "nutgraf" (summary paragraph of a story), "subhed" (sub heading inside a story), "refer" (pronounced "reefer", an item that references something somewhere else in the paper). And "TK", for "to come", which I still use when writing or coding because it's very easy to grep for.

Reading this made me want to look up `cq`, which is what you jotted into your story as meta-text, next to a weirdly-spelled name or just weird fact to indicate to whomever is going to edit your story, Yes, this thing has been double-checked even if it looks weird, so please don't change it to what you think it is -- an example might be "Katharine Weymouth `cq`", for the former publisher of the Washington Post, whose name is often spelled as "Katherine" mistakenly.

I've heard other journalists shrug and say they've heard that `cq` stands for "correct but queer". But apparently its likely origin is Latin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadit_quaestio
Hi Olivia,

I've tried reaching out to Alex Ehlke, Chris and yourself (these accounts I saw across a few months on HN). Please let me know either way (if there's a fit or there isnt). Thanks!
The fact that we have morality (on average) doesn't imply it's always pretty. Nor does it imply that it scales well to modern society with billions of people.
I'm not a climate change denialist, but I am a climate change optimist. I think it would be possible to cap things off at two degrees, but we would have to start sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere and doing something with it (like big tanks or put it underground as dry ice, etc). Anyone that thinks we can stop this by producing less CO2 is deluded. We're well beyond the "unmitigated disaster for our current environment" ppm level.
If we can't fix this, at least life will evolve and move on after we and many other species go extinct due to human activity.
Inside the RIG Exploit Kit
GST: GPU-decodable Supercompressed Textures (~2x smaller than standard DXT1)
This was published less than a month before the Civil War started.
I don't know what's going on with Samsung's QA process. Their cellphone apps are buggy, their newest flagship cellphone has a design flaw that is still being root-caused after global recall, now another hardware design flaw in washing machine.

But today, a complain from my friend who works in Samsung Research America at MTV may explain something: on his posted screenshot, the boss sent an email to ask them to fix bugs during the weekends...
File Income Return Online for Free| LegalRaasta – TaxRaahi
Hm, I am not clear what you're suggesting. You don't want to value votes differently, so what do you want to do about those people who won't do their homework for some reason?

You should also note that in most democracies this is already accounted for. The people who feel they didn't do their homework simply do not vote, and leave the decision on others.

I lived in a communist country, and we had a system that was controlled by, ostensibly, the experts (the party members). It was a disaster.

In practice, democracy works; it doesn't work in theory, because you're wrongly comparing it to some fictional system which makes ideal decisions (whatever that is). It works in the U.S., it works in Switzerland. Those are some of the most developed countries in the world.
Your attempt at humour has been rightly sanctioned, but you weren't all that far from the mark. Jove is another name for the roman god Jupiter, and as such a Jovian planet is one that resembles Jupiter - ie. large gas giants, where metallic hydrogen is certainly thought to exist in nature.

Not by Jove - inside Jove.
Software Freedom Conservancy Publishes Agreements for Linux Compliance Program
Wild guess: people who keep Xcode and its associated command line tools up to date have smooth experiences. Those who don't, do not.
True, but don't forget that large scale events also would occur without human intervention. It cant be denied that our actions are the cause for a lot of changes, but a volcano or an earthquake are just natural occurences. We live on a big ball of mud.
Take a cue from http://www.businessinsider.com/a-look-at-minimum-wages-aroun...
> I believe that democracy in theory is excellent, but in practice is a failure, not because of democracy per-se, but because a gut-feeling vote and a properly-researched vote count the same.

I don't like this line of reasoning, because I do believe the issue is much more fundamental: people want different things.

Now, there is an argument that if people do their research properly, they will have known all the consequences of their decisions. And hence everyone will have the same ordering of concerns from "most serious" to "meh". That's not true for the fact that consequences and the future are really really hard to predict. Not to mention that "what exactly are good things" is still very subjective. Look into philosophy, there are a gazillion moral frameworks, even if you just pick Utilitarianism, it's still unclear what constitutes "utility".
Pinker isn't taken very seriously by historians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1tuivk/steve...
(Also involved with creation of an app that has received press.)

Assume everything you write to a journalist, unless you specify otherwise, will be used as written in their story. You should go out of your way to write statements that you expect them to fancy and essentially copy and paste.

When emailing them, read back over what you've written and re-write sections to make them punchy sentences that could serve as introductions, headlines, captions, anything for their story.
New Scandals Show How Pervasive Mass Surveillance Is in the West
I think you are confusing "you" with "everyone". It's a common mistake.
You're storming the beaches of Normandy. You duck behind cover. Suddenly a shot rings out. You're dead. The kill cam reveals you were killed by a human-controlled enemy, standing on a seagull in the skies above. [1]

Unfortunately, humans will find advantages that shouldn't be used in any sort of game that tries to build a believable world.

That isn't to say it's a bad idea. You'd just have to design the game with human enemies in mind. I was very interested in The Crossing [2], which incorporated that of mechanic. Unfortunately, it was canceled. :(

[1] Not a made-up problem. https://youtu.be/UfZFHdywYLA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crossing_(video_game)
You can go to Treehouse (http://referrals.trhou.se/shadkhan2). I learned for 3 months straight and got a junior web dev gig for 65k. You will get a 50% referral if you sign up.
I own an affected model. The exchange program is seemingly not worth it. My compensation offer was $295 if I purchased a Samsung replacement, $195 for non-Samsung. I chose the "repair" because those amounts were approximately 25% at best the cost of a suitable replacement. I have several dogs, so I do a lot of laundry daily and need an expensive unit geared toward large families because of it.
I am not an expert in decision-making processes, and I have not an idea of which process would work better, since I understand the big picture: We want to give every person the ability to express their needs with their vote.

I am just a concerned person, since most of the candidates spend too much time discrediting their opponents, rather than discussing about their proposals.

The electoral process had became a reality show rather than a mechanism to choose a representative, and it is saddening that people are picking a candidate because of a catchy slogan, rather than because of their proposals...
Makes me wonder if any game companies have seeded empty servers with bots, acting as humans, to give their games a sense of popularity.
I think you're thinking about the difference between full information games vs partial information games, rather than stateless games (the state of a starcraft game is stored on a central server, the computer just has no access to it).

There's already been excellent progress in poker AI based on traditional game theory, see http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/.
Brew works great most of the times and it is indeed very human friendly. The problem sometimes arises when you need to install something a little bit more exotic than usual (eg. graph-tool was my last case) in that case lot of things can go wrong.
Treehouse Courses (50% off)
Notes on writing well
The only reason I used karabiner in macOS was for TouchCursor.
But TouchCursor is originally a windows app, so when I transitioned to windows I didn't miss any of karabiner.
OTOH I haven't found yet something like that for linux.
I really think the movie Idiocracy nailed the scary potential future of democracy. If elections continue and build on this trend of featuring reality tv show style candidates and media that lives off hyperbole, eventually we'll just start electing the most popular celebrities.
I'm learning an instrument over last few years. To be honest it's super boring to practice the same notes over and over again. Then again all the skills I learned I learned through boring repetitions.

So if someone tells me programming is boring I'll just nod. It takes too many repetitions to finally start to appreciate something.
Even if something very bad happened to "jackie" it does not give her license to go around and accuse innocent people of gang rape. Two wrongs do not make a right.

More importantly it was the amplification of the accusation through the national media that made this case so much worse. Every case of false rape reported damages thousands of real rape victims by undermining their credibility.

On the use of throwaway accounts to avoid downvoting I think you should be brave and stand by your opinion. At worst you will lose 4 points.
Using Neural Networks to generate human readable passwords
Computer simulations suggest war drove the rise of civilizations
The uneducated who cannot properly express their gut feelings in an intelligent manner have one day where they are equal to everyone and where they can escape from the tyranny of the experts and of the well researched individuals, who mistakenly think that they themselves act always within reason when that couldn't be further from the truth.

This election shows more than any other that people will bend the facts to fit their feelings. The well educated just have more tools at their disposal to lie to themselves about it. Everyone works primarily by their gut feelings and everyone rationalizes it after they've made their decisions internally and unconsciously.

If after this election you can't step back and see this then this is further proof to me that the system works and works well, because it keeps tyrannical well researched experts in check from their own irrationality. It's not an accident that an overwhelming majority of well educated experts who write the policies that drive a country support free trade and globalization, while real people who are not disconnected from the real world and who actually feel the effects of those policies do not.
does anyone know who the author of this is? I couldn't seem to find it on the article?
The success of democracy and its creations have stabilized dictatorships- a constant even small surplus in a economy where the human individual matters near nothing, keeps societys with a frozzen over public relatively stable for a long time.

Dictatorship is what came most natural to our animal ancestors, so we tend to rationalize it while condemning the "Zumutung der Komplexität".

But are they stable? Dictatorships tend to embrace the conservative point of view, which produces usually overpopulation, raging nationalists (the bottled up anger redirected against the guys next door) and religious fanatics. So if this economic surplus, aka innovation is not imported (or even more dangerous constantly produced)theey unravel rather fast, usually by the forces they called upon to stabilize.

There is no inbuilt re-juvenation without weapons. So every new App - any new product or production methode, disturbing the equilibrium, can blow up such a social powder keg.

The seperate problem usually associated with democracys, is that the fullfillment of all wishes in the wests way of life, is rather self-destructive on society.
<Anecdata Begin>
I have several couples i know who really looked forward to having grandkids, after raising (quite large) familys. And in the west this just doesent happen any more. Nothing more depressing then seeing those baby-boomers and there bottles all in tears about "What went wrong with there kids?"
<Anecdata End>
It doesent make the situation better, that democracys have a tendency to import large swaths of people from dictatorships - mostly for economic and sociological reasons.
this will make some people in finance very happy.
The part that struck me the most:

> We have been so accustomed to hear from infancy eulogies of the wisdom which shaped our Constitution, praises of its perfection, hymns to its symmetry and strength, that to doubt its fullness of all excellence has come to sound like sacrilege.

Some things never change.
Yes, I didn't say I loved it, I just liked it. Though in my experience the trend still goes on, with everyone around me on facebook and constantly checking their phones. That said, Black Mirror is about extremes, not necessarily about how things are now.
How exactly do you avoid it? It spread like the plague in almost every Linux distribution. The only way to avoid it is by running BSD, Slackware or one of those one man show Linux distributions.

I have issues with apache not being restarted by systemd for obscure DNS resolving reasons.
I was kinda hoping to see some projects from the NSA. Noooope.
With regards to Linux (though Android's Chrome has chrome://flags and chrome://gpu as well, so maybe some of this applies as well):

It didn't work for at first, but I got it to show me the "Ah snap! There was no error compiling the test kernel or running it, but the numbers don't check out." message at least. By changing the deviation var to e.g. 0 in the debugger you can also force it show you the results (JS: 0.56, JS&Turbo.js: 1.74), but I don't know if those results mean anything.

Steps to maybe fix:

Does e.g. glxgears work?

On Chrome, check the following two pages:

chrome://flags/ <-- I enabled "Override software rendering list", "Experimental canvas features", "WebGL Draft Extensions" but don't know if all of those are necessary. Better change them back later.

chrome://settings <-- Advanced -> System -> Use hardware acceleration when available

chrome://gpu/ <-- Check if WebGL is enabled, etc. (also check log messages at the bottom)

My graphics hardware is a positively ancient Intel 965GM.
(On Windows on a much faster CPU and using Intel HD Graphics 4000, I get JS: 1.28, JS&Turbo.js: 3.82.)
According "Democracy, god that failed" from Hans Herman Hoppe, it is failed miserably. He sees it even inferior to aristocratic monarchies with good reasons.
Ask Tom Randoph, who was CEO of FrameFree. He's now at Quicksilver Scientific in Denver.
Reading the benchmark script, and the explanation of it at github, I think the deviation is there to account for floating point artifacts. I.e. where JS = 0.01499.. and GPU = 0.01500.., that's fine, but if the numbers (read results from the fractal function) are deviating more, that's an error.

Edit: Actually, "(JS: 0.56, JS&Turbo.js: 1.74)" seems to be a valid result from what I've seen. May just be that the chosen deviation value is an unfortunate edge case.
> First person shooters can have super accurate AIs that are really frustrating to play against.

The Worms series is also notorious for this. Their AI targeting seems to flip between "clueless" and "godlike", with very little middle ground. E.g. https://youtu.be/gqPITW04vRQ?t=1m20s
A very small part of me wanted to reply with "Lennart Poettering does..." but then my self recanted and agreed with you.
It really does take a kind of person, I kind of mentality to study things like this. IMHO this person may have genetic traces to persons like say...H1tl3r or T
I don't mean to be offesive here, but did look at how their laptops look like?
Speed Queen probably makes the highest quality machine right now. Then he's correct that it's then commercial machines. But those are very expensive and enormous in size making them impractical for consumer use.

The business model right now is really built upon the fact that there are very few appliance manufacturers left. Consolidation has taken away the competition and it seems like those remaining have set the bar pretty low. I think they know if they make a cheap dishwasher that lasts 3 years, that person will have to buy another machine. Throw in new models each year and consumers have no hope of keeping track of what brand is good and who they should trust. Confusion reigns when it comes to buying appliances. So people don't hold the manufacturers accountable. I see a lot of similarities with the mattress industry.
This. I see criticisms of systemd all around Hacker News, but I find it really easy to create a unit file on a production system and just go systemctl start <unit-file>. I sometimes even create shell scripts for some tasks and create one-off unit files so I can run them easily as the right user, and have proper logging for free.

I'm not a system administrator and I just appreciate that the user-system interface is easy to work with, for the occasions when there's no dedicated sysop in the team.
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/democracy/