skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dark thought, but your country may one day slip into becoming a totalitarian state, where the data of private companies is appropriated by the powers that be.
The main concern is that technology is allowing police to expend more policing effort than we want them to. Their powers aren't supposed to be perfect, and pushing their success rate too high is dangerous for society.

Exactly. Imagine if we had perfect enforcement of laws against sodomy or miscegenation. In addition to the increase in human misery, it would have been impossible for a reservoir of free personally-invested persons to circulate in society, agitating for change.

Manual search forces the police to expend energy enforcing the laws, which forces them to prioritize which laws to expend energy enforcing, which (sometimes, when we're lucky) forces them to be responsive to broader societal values.

These databases create a vision of the future which is the very same boot stomping on the very same face in the very same quantity, forever.
Pop ups are awesome when they have content I want. They're a quick way to draw attention to something important while retaining the page they are on. These aspects of usefulness unfortunately apply to ad-infested pop ups.
I use the command line for the majority of my day and I still use a Git GUI (Tower for Mac) because in one single window I have all my repositories traversable, I can instantly see what is changing, and get a diff of a file in one click without leaving the window.

For any commit/merge/push/pull standard maneuvers (probably 99.8%) I do, Tower is faster. Anything 'complicated' and I'm using git in the command line.

But I do agree about the Eclipse git client. It's the worst client I think I have ever seen. Every dev I know that relies on it regularly finds away to bork their local version or to screw up the central repository on a regular enough basis that it's not even a surprise anymore.
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I'm just going to leave this here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome

(And yes, I've woken up in the middle of the night and had to start working on my computer because the solution to a problem came to me in a dream.)
I completely disagree with this proposal.

All websites should be allowed to play sounds any time they want to. Without it, webapps can not reasonably compete the native apps.

I am a developer of web games and being able to play the sound from the beginning, without any interaction from the user, is one of the most essential parts of the game experience.

If you visit a website which unexpectedly plays a sound, you should stop visiting it / downvote it / ask the authors to stop doing it. When you are surprised by the sound, the problem is not in browsers, the problem is in authors of webpages / webapps.
> Before Safari 10 ES6 was supported in 54% then in Safari 10 is 100%. This is wrong approach to web, it is the same approach that MS had in the past. Ignore standards and make some improvement with new version for bragging rights.

How is implementing some of a standard, and then completing work to implement 100% of that standard "ignoring standards"?
this seems unnecessary as you need a html file and browser to bootstrap anyway. There is more to it though, it can continue to run after the browser has exited and intercept push mesages.
Most important: It could be fixed by any semi-capable amateur with a stone, garter and some swearing.

Because it was so lightweight, my father could once bring a replacement door in public transport without breaking a sweat. And because it was so simple, he could put it in in half an hour without any prior training as a car mechanic.

If not for the antiquated 2-stroke engine and lack of exhaust filters, it could still be an example for very good, cost efficient and environment friendly engineering.
Read Quinn Norton's "Hello Future Pastebin Readers!"

https://medium.com/message/hello-future-pastebin-readers-39d...

Norton's law: Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.
Why are you criticizing a straw man, getting upset at him, and then calling him me?

If you read my comment I never said those issues where the most important issues of the moment. I never said that black people marching is equivalent to islamic terrorism. I never even said I was worried about black people walking. Then you say I have an elitist attitude when you didn't even take the time to hear what I had to say. I think that attitude is rather elitist.
Well the one typing sure doesn't know what the one in charge of the stomach is up to, it just sort of talks to us by yelling incoherently and causing various levels of pain.
> The rising power consumption of CPUs made it less attractive to focus on cycles per second, so clock rates stalled.

I'd pay for having more single-threaded performance on my desktop where power is not an issue. But I guess the average user (word-processing, browsing) does not care. Gamers also don't care since they can use special hardware, because games are more easily parallelized (if you divide the screen into individual blocks, then you can just divide the rendering work to individual cores).
Impressive.

One question: I couldn't find advanced form components, and specifically dropdown/multiselects. (a bit like this: https://selectize.github.io/selectize.js/, or this: http://wenzhixin.net.cn/p/multiple-select/docs/#the-basics1)

Do you plan to implement this kind of components?
If the Vyatta CLI is important you might consider VyOS [1], which is the open source version of Vyatta. It was forked from the community edition after the Brocade stopped development of it and close sourced the main edition.

[1] https://vyos.io/
Hate crimes like the 54 year old man who got beaten up by a group of blacks in Illinois because he voted for Trump?

Hate crimes like the 11 year old in Texas who got beaten up by his fellow students for voting Trump in a mock-election?

Here are the "hate crimes" committed in Trump's name:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/1...

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/election-night-hijab-attac...
(b) can look like this:

Luminus is a Clojure micro-framework based on a set of lightweight libraries. It aims to provide a robust, scalable, and easy to use platform. With Luminus you can focus on developing your app the way you want ...

http://www.luminusweb.net/

http://www.luminusweb.net/docs/useful_libraries.md
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Nah, it's just how these games are. The first two fire emblem games on GameCube/wii were merciless in the same way on the normal modes. 80% hit chance sounds good until you miss and the entire battle goes south because of it. Since these games had permadeath, a miss could mean restarting if you didn't just hit reset mod battle.

Sometimes those odds are just those odds. A lot of gaming which uses pseudorandom had given a lot of people the gamblers fallacy as their understanding of probability. In some games it perhaps makes sense; in league of legends I believe the Critical hit chance is pseudo random to feel less swingy, which is probably healthier for a competitive game. Diablo 3 weights it's unique drop rates to ensure that players get a steady supply of relevant uniques since there is no trade economy in d3 anymore. This also makes sense in isolation.

Other games though that don't have as strong of a reason to fudge the roll give a really bad impression of random to players.
Also important to keep in mind is that the "data" also includes instructions --- and running out of instructions to execute is even worse than data; with things like OoO and superscalar, the CPU can still keep going with executing "around" instructions that are waiting for data, but only as long as it can continue fetching instructions.
This was the use case for frames.
It is interesting to consider that we may not actually want a 'crime-free' neighborhood, depending on how crimes are defined, and the distribution of personal and public costs associated with policing behavior and punishing offenders.
I don't know how things are in the states, but a lot of banks in the UK ask you to input randomly selected characters from your password rather than asking for the whole thing. This suggests they're storing the passwords in the clear. The financial times wrote an article about it recently:

https://www.ft.com/content/33503e4a-8f95-11e6-a72e-b428cb934...
They could at the very least require a dialog asking for permission to play sound. I think this wouldn't be a problem for web game developers like you because anyone who wants to play a game would say yes without a second thought, but it would be a massive quality of life improvement for the average Internet user.

It would be great if every web administrator behaved nicely to users but that just doesn't happen, especially when ads are involved.
I think @jondubois's comment was about the 1st part of @CoolGuySteve's comment regarding the "deceiving employer":

>> you have to deceive your employer until the transfer goes through

It sounded like it is morally bad to do so. @jondubois says that there is nothing wrong in it as you do not belong to your employer.
I think this discussion has already gone the rounds on HN multiple times, and it usually gets pointed out that running any installer at all has more or less the same risks as pipe something from the internet straight to the shell -- while this looks scary, it's actually no less safe than how we install any other software.

I agree it doesn't look ideal and may not be best practice, but what do you feel is a better realistic alternative? What is the main issue for you? Is it the lack of a hash or checksum to verify what you downloaded, and make sure you didn't get a malicious site or a compromised package?
I met one of the first few people at Secret on a pub crawl in Vietnam. Hearing first hand what it was like behind the scenes made it sound like possibly the biggest shit show ever.

I'm curious to see what Secret does differently now.
>EDIT: I understand a libertarian or non-conforming opinion is not popular on HN or in liberal circles, hence the down votes.

Nah. I'm downvoting you because you are complaining about downvotes in the reddit passive aggressive way that is specifically forbidden in the guidelines.
It's licensed under the GPL, where you're not allowed to add any additional terms. The citation notice it spews out is annoying, but can be disabled, and you definitely don't have to include it anywhere.

The author just asks for citations because he's in academia, and citation backrubs is how anyone can justify getting time to do anything (including maintaining some software) in academia.
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4GHz seems to be the soft limit with x86 processors.

Ten years ago, the single-core Pentium 4 stalled just shy of 4GHz. Today's high-end Core i7's also have a stock frequency around 4GHz, though of course they're at least ten times more powerful. AMD tried 5GHz at one point, but that was just a gimmick and most of their current models stick to 4GHz or less.

Despite having radically different designs and process sizes, roughly the same frequency remains the point after which energy consumption just runs out of control. Performance-wise it doesn't matter because we've gone multi-core and found ways to get more work done per clock cycle, but I wonder why the top frequency seems to be so consistent.
2 questions:

- Isn't it common courtesy to cite important tools being used for data processing? Why is this a problem?

- Wikipedia says the tool is under GPLv3, so from a bare licence perspective you should be safe to use it for whatever you want, shouldn't it?
Same problem here. Win10 FF49
There is an officially maintained port (by microsoft) of openssh for PowerShell. There's also full ssh support in the Bash for Windows support.

Maybe someone can explain to me what's valuable about PuTTY or KiTTY given this?
I think people still don't really know. Forced sterilization was routine in parts of the US up until the 1970s (and widespread prior to WWII).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#Unite...
The IBM POWER8 goes up to 5GHz, for those few applications where single-threaded performance really matters.
I think part of the issue with Democrats vs Republicans is that the Democrats are basically gerrymandering themselves by clustering in ~10 states.

Let me explain: if you are a liberal living in a red state, it sucks. Lots of them move away, and they move to one of the bastions of liberal culture. That person's vote is now completely wasted since their state is already > 50% democrat while their original state now has 1 less person able to cast a liberal vote.

Not only is it liberals wanting to move out of their conservative hometowns, but it's also people moving to the larger cities. Many of those larger cities are in the same liberal states. And people who are willing to move to a big city for a job are probably liberal, or at least politically neutral. Another vote wasted.

So you end up with the only people who still want to live in the rural states are just naturally more inclined to vote Republican.

Compounding this problem, if a red state has a few cities that are heavily liberal, because of gerrymandering, the democrats have far less congressional representation than they should have. The republican state government sees to that.

A crazy idea is that the 50 states would be reorganized, just like congressional districts. Many of the less populated states who share similar values merged together. Like the entire bible belt / midwest could just be 2 or 3 mega states. The southeastern states could merge up and be Dixieland or whatever. Boom: less senators, less EC votes, everyone wins!

More realistically, we just have to get past the fact that each state has a minimum amount of power in our government. It should be scaled more with population, or the % that the candidate wins by should mean something (so all those wasted votes in heavily liberal states would actually count for something).

Ending gerrymandering at the congressional level would also help solve this problem. I hope we see algorithmic districts in the next 10 years.
Neat, but it still measures only technical aptitude. Anyone can look impressive playing with a fun project over a weekend. But how do they do at the grind when the important tasks may be much more mundane? In my experience this is what separates the good hires from the bad.
Maybe that was true 2 years ago. Now Microsoft is maintaining OpenSSH for powershell and there is Bash for Windows providing direct linux binary support.
Solar is expanding nicely on its own. Nuclear is expanding, but too slowly. The reason it takes so long to build is because of bureaucratic regulation due to historical opposition.

Now, if we're serious about ending climate change, why not agree to setting a global target temperature?
They have plenty of trouble keeping 0% illegal immigrants. It's not possible in a free society.

Greece, however is a good point: if you make your economy bad enough, no one will want to go there. This worked for the US during the recent recession.
At good bootcamps, most people are already extremely self-taught. I had basically mastered jQuery, Python, and SQL when I went to a bootcamp (Hackreactor) to get better with algorithms and the latest frameworks.

It's really about how much money you have. If you've got significant savings like I did, it makes sense to pay as time becomes more valuable than money in your life plan.
A frame that displays the item you clicked on on the right, with the faq links on the left, would be great for this use case. The only thing I think was wrong with frames was that the main url didn't point to the frame you had open, like url#framename.
I tend to be more tortured by my dreams of coding, I toss the idea around in my head, but rarely come out with a solution. Any idea's on how to better utilize my dream state?
Perhaps you should consider doing your research on this subject before writing such a contentious post?
I don't think that's correct, the password field is case sensitive for me.
There's several proposed, common sense resolutions to the paradox that still allow for plenty of ET life.

For example, regarding signals and probes, it may simply be that our time scale does not overlap with ET's. The universe is 1e10 years old but our civilization is only around 2e3. Perhaps the last signal aimed our way passed us millions of years ago and the next won't be for millions more. Similarly for probes coming here: if one landed a few million years ago, it would probably be buried under miles of rock by now. Perhaps we've seen one in our time and dismissed it as airliner lights.

Another explanation is the math is simply too hard to cross the galaxy. It would take tens or hundreds of thousands of years just to get to nearby stars, most of the industrial output of a planet, and you have to be really sure where you're going because by the time you get there, the civilization might be long gone.

ET might simply be stuck like we are.
> The problem is not more rational talk on these things. The problem is not better honest intellectual discussions. The problem is that people honestly don't give a shit about most things political. They want to have strong emotions, and they don't care to look for facts or models.

This is so true. I wish it was feasible to only allow educated people to vote =) Most people are just too stupid or lazy to truly understand what they're voting for.
> Well, it isn't deep learning for one thing.

You know, I didn't actually realise that. I had only glanced at it and assumed they were applying these ideas to deep models.

> Drop the number of dimensions in W2V and it's really pretty small, and still expressive.

I don't think it's crazy to want to be able to do get better performance with small memory targets though.

They're working on other directions too, but maybe this is useful for their product groups.
I can't help thinking that the government might be better able to e.g. distribute medicaid if half (or more) of the government wasn't constantly doing everything in its power to prevent, disrupt or impede it. That's not usually a problem that charities have.
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Does anybody know the status of RocketLab's facilities [1]?

[1] https://rocketlabusa.com/rocket-lab-launch-complex-1-ready-f...
Why would you use PuTTY _or_ KiTTY given that lxrun and a Powershell version of OpenSSH exist?
Yes, they are excellent at distribution. They are much better at making deals with carriers. I don't consider that hardware besides just managing more SKUs.
> needs to be constantly repressed via ... CBT

oh well. the internet has ruined me (every me, not just the the me).
Ask HN: Ever refuse to build something for moral reasons?
A lot of times we talk about what makes the internet good and free and what makes it bad (e.g. auto playing media in a page). As developers, we are often asked/demanded by managers, sales people, and CEOs to build things simply to make money. Have you ever actually said no to something you don't believe in?
That's not true for all browsers.

As @ben_bai pointed out above it works that way on Chromium.
My bank used to do this as well.
"The truth, or validity of Clifford Algebra is confirmed by Occam’s Razor, it provides a simpler model of mathematical objects than does vector algebra [...]"

What? No. No. That's not how Math works.
HOW THE NSA FOOLED THE WORLD WITH THE HELP OF a SWEDISH GENIUS
It’s not at all agreed upon that the New Deal helped the recovery. It’s just as much argued that it prolonged the Great Depression. It’s baffling to me that you’d state that like it’s a historical fact.
It's not only a question of getting enough power IN but also of getting the "consumed" power(waste heat) OUT
Ask HN: How do you serve Torch models in production?
I have been using Tensorflow for my latest project. I have been very happy with it but there is a piece of the project in which it would be easiest to use Torch, for the pretrained models. Only thing I am stuck on is how people are serving Torch models in production. Tensorflow has a nice serving system, but I can't seem to find any recommendations on how to best serve Torch models in a low-latency application. Thanks!
I think a lot of HN users are exhausted by the political discussions and are flagging such topics as a matter of course, especially given the HN guidelines regarding submissions on political topics. Quality of discussion likely doesn't enter into it.
People get creative: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1445540
Well, I disagree with you but appreciate that you took the time to give the reason for your downvote. I always try to do the same as well b/c I think if everyone did that we would never have a need for such EDITS as the one I made above.
> we're supposed to not do anything that requires any form of confidentiality online? can't book a doctors appointment, transfer money, send emails to family?

You probably won't want to do any of this stuff outdoors in 10 more years, or indoors around a smartphone, television set, refrigerator, or any object with flashing LEDs on it. As a combined network, smart audio coverage can be made to be so complete that incomplete areas will arouse suspicion.

Registering on (or even visiting) an internet site is just slightly different than signing a contract (and in some opinions, legally equivalent.) If you had to sign a form with your address to visit a prostitute, and you couldn't even open the door without it recording your license plate number - what kind of expectation of privacy could you reasonably have?
Oops. I thought this might be an attempt at rapprochement with their janitorial staffs. Perhaps the wrong nomenclature for our new era.
TI has some interesting parts (including microcontrollers) that are rated up to 210C:

http://www.ti.com/lit/sgzt009

Here are some MOSFETs that are rated to operation at 300C(!)

http://www.x-relsemi.com/EN/Documentation/Datasheet/DS-00113...

Not cheap.
Did he not also want to layer on entitlement expansion (free college? Who was going to pay for that?).

I actually think Bernie would have lost. Interesting thought exercise though.
Time to ban crackers during Diwali. Looking at the data there is always a spike around Diwali time.
It's elitist because a huge amount of people in the Democratic party are upper class white people. They are not working class and they are not minorities. And yet they still care about the issues very much. But, it's hard for them to know which issues to focus on since none of them actually personally affect them. So when they focus on racism, instead of the basics like jobs, it is a bit elitist.

I think a better answer to your original question is that, of course, if a democratic candidate is asked specifically about something like black lives matter or lgbt rights, they should talk about how they support the cause and what policies they are pushing that will help out. But, they should primarily stick with the the basic issues of security (financial security, national security). That is what the working class wants to hear about, and that is who the Democrats need to win back.

People who are more concerned with black lives matter or lgbt rights are going to vote Democrat no matter what, so it's not like we're going to lose those votes.
As a pakistani, that cracked me up. We are at the top of the list of porn searching countries, I think ( http://tribune.com.pk/story/823696/pakistan-tops-list-of-mos... ) and porn sites often have AdultFriendFinder ads, so it is possible that a pretty large number of pakistani people signed up. (Assuming there's a free sign up)
I'm sure that is also preventing lots of people from using randomly generated passwords.

I do, and it's not fun when I get asked to type in the 12th, 13th and 15th character.
is that true?, Bicameralism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Interestingly the story of A. Turing usually ends with WWII, and doesn't go on to tell that the state he did so much for forcedly sterilized him, driving him into suicide.