skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts I haven't seen mentioned in the comments:

1. Diamonds, like gold, are highly portable pieces of wealth that hold value across economic shifts. When rich people go on the run, they usually carry hidden diamonds with them.

2. A good looking woman in certain jobs will be approached very frequently by other men. It's not just waitresses, think pharma rep. The ring is an effective shield, and the bigger the better.

Putting these thoughts together, the pointless rock is actually providing a good amount of security to the woman. Even if you disappeared, or if she wanted to disappear, the diamond will always have value and can get her through a few months expenses. Second, you're helping her avoid confrontation in public life.

Now realistically, some women have a back office job where everyone already knows their marital status. Many women today don't need the precious stone as pawnable thing of last resort. So I don't think its wrong for a couple to skeptically evaluate the value prop I've described above.
The company has become an enthusiastic supporter of Linux

Curious to know from any users out there: How well does Mono work, especially on Linux?
It's hard to find someone who was there as an intern in 1998, much less in a leadership position.
I bought an X-T10 a year ago and I don't like it at all. The lenses are excellent, and the build quality of the camera and lenses is impressive, but that's about it. Battery life sucks badly, the very proprietary and esoteric battery sucks when visiting less-developed countries where you can't buy a new battery easily, camera takes too long to boot, autofocus is too slow, fly-by-wire manual focus has an annoying lag, manual focus is awful with electronic viewfinder, jpeg colors are ugly and offensive forcing me to process raw files (I'm perfectly happy with Canon or iPhone jpeg colors for what I do). The lenses are not significantly lighter than DSLR lenses and are just as bulky.

It's too bad because I really wanted to like this camera. As I said, the optical quality is excellent, and the build quality of the metal construction is something you can't find in anything produced this decade apart from Leica.

Since I got my Fuji, I shoot my Nikon FM3a (mechanical film SLR) more. It's lighter and much less bulkier, never runs out of battery, and I am happy with Velvia 50 colors.

I want to sell my Fuji gear.

The X100T has a leaf shutter, and it's much smaller. It's a very nice camera for what it's supposed to do, but I can't justify buying a secondary camera at that price, and for me X100T can't be a primary camera. I need a SLR with interchangeable lenses (or at least a normal 50mm equiv. lens, not the wide lens of the X100T).
I interned on Atlas (FB's enterprise advertising platform purchased from MS a while back) and this was the impression I got. Everything has a dollop of feel-good verbiage piled on top. We're not selling ads, we're "building more meaningful connections between businesses and their customers."

The initial value proposition of online ads was click = confirmed intent. When not enough people click, they construct increasingly convoluted notions of purchasing seconds of mindshare at a time. Of course, at a certain point these purchases become as untestable as a billboard on a highway, a big difference being that highway billboards don't prop up industries, ecosystems, and even geographical regions like online advertising does.

If someone calls shenanigans on online ads, it will be far more catastrophic than if they did the same on billboards/radio/TV ads.
Reducing overplotting in scatterplots
Do you really think they have changed? They got this "We are good guys now" talk going on recently and I'm not against it, but I have lost all trust in them, they have to gain it back and can only prove themselves with actions now.

On a side note, I'm also displeased with microsoft's products I'm almost forced to use. Can you imagine that uninstallation of Visual Studio 2015 from SSD takes 20 minutes? And it doesn't even fully uninstall it. Windows updates are no better. Really makes you wonder if it's still 1998 at Microsoft.
I was kind of being sarcastic. It's interesting to say that some miscalculation won't impact billing - if you consider that they will charge you for displaying your video x times, but give you the wrong estimates on how long your video was really watched by the users. That will impact your decisions and you will adjust your campaign adequately, and will have impact on how much you spend. So, will impact your money, even if it's billed correctly
So you are accusing Wikileaks of sitting on a trove of data that was highly unflattering to Trump?
It's interesting to note that the hack that likely got access to Podesta emails and subsequently handed those emails over to Wikileaks is recorded in the leaked emails themselves.

It was a typical phishing email scheme easy to recognize and ignore by anyone who's used a internet connected computer for more than a year, but for some reason not by their own IT guy who tells Podesta to click on the link! EDIT: Actually he does send the correct password reset link as well, but still identifies the original email as authentic. The link in that original email is a bitly one - clearly an email from Google themselves lol

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899

I don't know much about FSB's hacking abilities but I would guess they are a little more sophisticated than this.
Glasgow University offers a Simpsons philosophy class and it makes perfect sense
Very nice overview!
Thank you.
Trump team preparing plans for wall, mulling Muslim registry
It's commercial, privately licensed software... that said, the out of the box defaults for MSSQL perform better than most databases, with features far easier to configure. I've been hoping for this for a long while... much better for most use cases than Oracle.
The right certainly would've complained about a coverup if Comey hadn't said anything about the additional emails before the election. It was still a gross breach in protocol and wholly inappropriate.

As a rule the FBI simply does not announce they're investigating someone because it can damage the investigation, and because it could unfairly tarnish someone who has done nothing wrong.

The encroachment of political calculus into the Justice Department is not a good thing. Let Democrats or Republicans howl about whatever, the DoJ and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies need to do their job the right way, regardless of partisan complaining.
There's one road the gps says "take exit 36" then at the last possible second it says "keep left" which is exit 35 (they share an exit ramp).
More than 1 in 10 tests voided – Theranos lawsuit
Can this be merged into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12967921
I'm fairly sure the whole "cuck" insult thing grew out of chan culture. I think it was adopted by /pol/ and then disseminated to the wider alt right community. The funny thing is that while it may have started as an insult to those not extreme enough in their views it evolved (devolved?) into a general purpose insult. Do you like Apple? You're a cuck. How about M$, also a cuck. Google? Yep, cuck. It's basically lost all meaning now.

Even on /b/, which is known for putting up with the absolute lowest quality shitposting on the entire internet, insulting someone as a cuck will now be met with a litany of retorts regarding your "low quality bait". Weird times.
Hey, I used that a few weeks ago for a personal website. Thanks for making that!
I don't understand it, but looks nice.
They were not the ones predicting anything. Polls were doing that. They were just reporting what the polls said.

Judging by what you say I would have never heard anything bad about Clinton. No one ever brought up her emails. We didn't hear anything about a new investigation. /s

Oddly enough we never really did hear in the news that Trump had two court cases coming up after the election. I literally never heard that mentioned on GMA. I heard about the Clinton-Comey investigation every morning.
> The issue with that is not that innovation is being stiffled though, it's rather an issue of privacy.

Encryption was an innovation. Communication that's private as a matter of technology rather than as a matter of legislation is an innovation.

Along the same lines: recording and time-shifting video and audio was an innovation. Enshrining the state of copyright law at the time would have prohibited it.

Innovation often does things that existing developers, users, and regulators didn't anticipate.

> For instance, there's nothing in that sort of regulation that prohibits any innovation on encryption that would reconcile the user's reasonable expectation of privacy with the authorities' wish to have access to the user's communications.

There's nothing in that sort of regulation that prohibits perpetual motion machines or time travel, either. The resolution of those two expectations is that one side loses and the other wins; the only question is which.
I don't think anyone, besides maybe a few extreme environmentalists, is opposed to technology in the abstract.

All luddism - including the original luddites - are opposed to specific technology that they believe harms them. The original luddites were manual weavers who were opposed to mechanical looms that did their job faster and better than they did. The modern luddites are lazy Marathi auto drivers who are opposed to Uber (or Biharis) outcompeting them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
I drew this... not sure if I should feel disappointed that nobody's done it before, or smug that nobody's done it before.

http://i.imgur.com/KihrZQD.png

I am sorry, my Vs are not very consummate.
uh, well, redhat is worth $14B and i'd say at least $1B of that value has been dumped into its open source projects over the years (of which there are a LOT), so we already know what that looks like.

i think the frontier you are speculating about is currently at 2 or 3 times that magnitude. what does a $100B-$1T of market capitalization behind linux and its ecosystem look like?

i think the major players are aligning to answer that question... we'll find out soon enough.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/rht?ltr=1
When 99% of the academics agree on something, you could say the science is more-or-less settled.

Go back 50 years and 100% of doctors thought stress and diet caused stomach ulcers. We now know that's not true.

I'm not using this fact as a knock against climate change. I'm just saying consensus across academics doesn't mean they are right.

If you had said "There is consensus across academics that humans activity is mostly likely the cause of global warming" than I wouldn't disagree.
Life lessons from Entrepreneurship Journey
Is your startup idea taken?
Well, you should at least compare apples to apples. A fanless power supply will cost your more like $200, a quality small case will cost you $200, a fanless cpu cooler like the NoFan will cost you $100, so you're at about the $700 range, which is not too far off. A $100 permium to get all of this integrated, and able to cool 200W (as opposed to about 100W of cooling in the generic solutions) is a lot less extravagent.
0dB is pretty loud, no? IIRC it's the loudest sound expressible on an audio CD. (Decibels are a log scale - true silence would be minus infinity).
Westerners feel freer to say what they think, and don't like working weekends. What a bunch of weirdos!
That's definitely true. Many Eastern European countries were directly affected by the Ottoman Empire, so that would make sense. I guess that's the case in any school curicculum, but my issue is more with "World History" books that should be titled "Western World History" instead.
They add a reminder of history, for those of you who are quick to forget.
“Tech CEOs, call your offices”
At this point in the internet, it's almost a given that any single link you click is going to have an auto-playing video and 5 MB of JavaScript tracking scripts.
Asynchronous processing with in-memory databases
Well, unless you have the 950 pro [1] released last year, in which case it's only about 20% faster for reads, and 25% faster for writes.

That said, it does appear to be half the price of the old pro for the same sizes, so there must have been some significant process improvements to get Gen 2 at half price with better speed.

[1] http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/co...
LINQ and Lambda expressions had me liking C# a lot back when I used it for an Entity Framework project I was on(well java got Lambda expression not too long ago though)
Hate to break it to you, but Gingrich is near the top of Trump's short list for Secretary of State:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-election-day/gingrich-...
> I think a White History Museum in Africa would be fine, but it would be about the history of white people specifically in Africa, which is not very pleasant. It would be mostly imperialism, slave trade, apartheid, etc.

That seems surprisingly narrow minded and makes me wonder whether you feel that there is a particular narrative that needs to be followed. European/white descended people and organizations have done some pretty amazing stuff in Africa. And continue to do so.

One might ask how much time must pass after an event before it is considered history? Given that the Smithsonian African-American includes sections on Barack Obama and Anita Hill, as well as photos and memorabilia relating to sports stars, including LeBron James, it seems that the necessary time must be quite brief. As such I would expect an honest White History Museum in Africa would include the many significant positives.
I got tired of filling out timecards so I wrote a simple script to print out my timecard for me (I still double-checked and signed it). Word got around and I added some features to default to your hours/billing numbers from the previous week for people other departments. It was really cool walking past the timecard tray every week and seeing it evolve from the pile of yellow cardstock timecards with a few folded white paper ones (printed from my script) to eventually almost entirely printed ones. It was something that just took me a few hours on a slow week, and probably ended up saving the company quite a lot of time.

Now that I'm doing contracting work, I did the same thing again when I got tired of invoicing from a spreadsheet. Not that generating an invoice is all that hard or time consuming, it's just one of those tasks that takes me a lot of inertia to start, so I would put it off. I'll probably clean up and post the invoicing script on github one of these days.
This. All the Visual Studio stuff (shame, as their tools have long had a good reputation). .NET . Etc.

It's a trap.

Been around long enough to have formed that singular impression of such Microsoft initiatives and to have it confirmed, repeatedly.

They failed in mobile. They are losing mindshare elsewhere.

It's a trap.

I'm not going to try to back up my statement, here and now. Just keep it in mind. The more wary you remain, the quicker you can move away when the noose tightens.

Cheers
> I thought Trump was supported by economic and not name calling or racial issues.

What I actually said (emphasis mine):

>> part of what sent people to the polls for Trump

The conversation from some quarters has been to group people into neat little boxes that they don't actually fit in. People voted Trump for many reasons. It is a fallacy to hypostatize them all into a singular perspective. When you see the world is more than this, you may begin to understand how Trump happened.
In 1998 I'd been a professional developer for over five years. I remember the Halloween documents. I agree with you that it is important to understand history - but things change and I also think its healthy to eventually move on.
No, there is no evidence of that. What is clear is that 'someone' provided illegally obtained materials to Wikileaks, and all indications are that it was Russia. Russia chose to provide information that was damaging to Hillary Clinton, and not Donald Trump.

Wikileaks just ran with what it got.
If you have visual studio it tells you what the var is.
Did your program show up on Hak5 2111? I saw 'fuck' in Darrens console and it made me go WTF. Now I know what that might of been :).
Mozilla underwent a process of "DeCOMification", because they went too far with XP/COM, and wanted to dial it way back.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specif...
As an owner of a Samsung SM961 that I've had for a few months now - no it ain't!
no idea why this is downvoted. The emails provide this evidence. It can be searched literally right now on wikileaks. If the emails are real, these FACTS are included in emails:

- Campaign used influence to influence RNC via Pied Piper technique of promoting the weakest candidates...it worked.

- Campaign planned to oust DWS. They influenced the DNC to promote HRC over Sanders.

- Coordinated with DOJ.

- Coordinated with reporters both in feeding questions to RNC candidates and getting leaked questions in debates HRC was participating in.

- Stage protests at DJT rallies.

TO BE CLEAR, whether you believe the emails are genuine or not they DO contain this content and that is nearly indisputable.
Apparently QuickSight is an OEM of ZoomData http://fortune.com/2016/03/14/zoomdata-adds-amazon-data-sour...
How the U.S. Army’s ‘Phaser’ can wipe out an entire fleet of drones
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144, as well as the References section at the bottom of: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for...
I don't exactly follow what people would call the mainstream media closely, but what I was exposed to mentioned all of these things (or at least the fact that she was accused of them), while their coverage of Trump that I saw consisted solely of unedited airing of him speaking.

I sincerely don't understand the claims that the coverage was biased against Trump. If anything, it seemed to me that they were personally against him but in response to that they overcompensated and skewed the coverage too far in his direction.
You're doing a bit of cherry-picking but I guess it's only fair, since reality conspired to do it similarly. Not sure how far off the polls were in aggregate.

But my point was mostly that the media doesn't have much to do with the polling. And secondly, I think it's important to distinguish between ideological bias and just simply mistakes. There are many pollsters from all over the political spectrum and I'm convinced that they made a best effort to be accurate, and that it has just become difficult to do accurate polling. Or that the polling may have even given a very accurate picture of reality, but that volatility has just increased dramatically.
Not even an option in the Windows 10 era, where our computers might reboot at any time on short notice. (work computers with group policy tweaks are something of an exception, but still)
The world has always been in a mess. Even if it straightens out it invariably becomes bent again. I like talking about the solution I found, but the signal to noise makes it hard to have a rational discourse.

There are answers and there is hope. Go find it :)
I highly encourage whistleblowing in situations like this.
I had it installed and running in a couple of minutes. The wait is what I remember being the worst on Windows. apt was quick and painless though.
When any sign of disagreement with the agw cult results in swift, abrupt and pretty much permament death of ones career then it is no wonder that not many people do that.

Ive had a few chances to personally speak with some scientists and they were not 99% sure what is happening
Please just make C-ABI's first-class citizens (especially on the GUI front), then all other languages can bind to that.
It apparently also has its heat and heat-related throttling well under control compared to the 95x series, which may well translate to much better sustained performance.
We are doing the exact same thing for our Android development. Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS.
I was in Florida visiting family over the weekend and this exact study was mentioned by the local news with a series of interviews. It was completely obvious that it was a commercial and nothing more.

One of the key things that tipped me off was that they compared "prescription strength" Ibuprofen to Celebrex once, then didn't mention it again. I get that it is like for like (prescription for prescription), but the vast majority of people taking Ibuprofen are not taking prescription strength dosages.

This should not be "news" it should be given to doctors to consider. We probably need a medical body to review these types of papers to determine whether they are actionable by medical professionals.
Hi - Co-Founder of Bindle here. First "Show HN".

Bindle is a web-based SaaS built in Rails to help small businesses manage the process of requesting and approving time off, calculating PTO balances, and seeing who's off and when. We've just gone live in the U.S.

I've been a software developer for 20 years. Happy to answer questions about anything.
There’s also the Stream API and lambdas in Java.

Operator overloading is probably the worst feature ever invented, same with Class Extensions, reducing readability of code.

And with a switch to C# Google would neglect the Java ecosystem on Android, requiring us app devs to rewrite everything again.

I’m not sure there’s an upside to switching to C#.
That is a good observation. This is something we don't have today but we're working on.
Yeah... the me from that era would never have thought that MS would be where it is today.
In a sense, yes, it's unknowable, but in a softer sense, it is. You can poll people with doctoral, master's, bachelor's associate's, high school graduates, and people who didn't get past high school, didn't get past elementary and see what the results are and make a determination as to what education level might make people happiest.
I am currently on no side to be convinced from. I just simply do not know and getting others opinion.

It was in one go except this comment, why? :)
I feel like it's too late for that - too many usb devices are already out there.
in a forward operating base there are firefights every day.

see: restrepo, korengal films.
How well does this support Unity development and debugging?
I wrote a blog post about this yesterday [1]. The mainstream media has manufactured the "fake news" meme to deflect from the vast amount of fake and manipulated news it pushed through the election. I post the example of Trump supposedly mocking a reporter's disability as a good example of the way the New York Times and other media, supported by their "fact-checkers", completely manufactured the news to suit their preferred narrative.

[1] http://newslines.org/blog/lets-talk-about-fake-news/
There is a world of difference between "hiring X from a pool of cheap labor" and what Uber does. ODesk is hiring X from a cheap pool of labor. Uber is push a button and you get where you are going.

Fundamentally, Uber is a Walrasian auctioneer that solves the socialist calculation problem within the transportation sector.

I consider that to be innovation.