skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Republicans use state powers, law enforcement and the judiciary, to criminalize and oppress their opposition and to promote their own interests. I don't see Democrats doing the equivalent of any of the following. I'm not saying that to be partisan, but to point out a very serious situation that has become normalized - I would say the same if the Democrats were doing it. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say it is semi-authoritarian.

* Bill Clinton was impeached. As you point out, he did commit perjury. However, the legal standard for impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors; it was one of only two impeachments in 240 years (EDIT: Plus a third, Nixon, who IIRC would have been impeached if he hadn't resigned). Those are very high standards; obviously if Bill Clinton's wrongdoing was the standard far more would have been impeached. In fact, perjury is very rarely prosecuted for anyone. For example, GW Bush ran an illegal surveillance program - a far more serious crime - and there were no consequences.

* The 2000 Presidential election was decided by Republicans on the Supreme Court. Arguably it may also be a legally legitimate decision, but it was apparently a political one, as the vote was party-line.

* Democratic voters are accused of criminal fraud, with no evidence, and the GOP uses the government to suppress their voting.

* Organizations that register Democrats to vote are criminalized and shut down. Acorn is one prominent example of many.

* Organizations that promote Democrat-favored causes are criminalized. Planned Parenthood is one.

* The GOP used state powers to investigate Hillary Clinton endlessly, on Benghazi and her email server (note that nothing was found for either). Trump is still leaving open the possibility of continuing to investigate her. It cost her the election. Compare that to Trump, for whom there are no known investigations despite brazen sexual harassment, sexual harassment of minors, tax fraud, and much more.

* The FBI openly took actions, contrary to its rules and traditions, that undermined Clinton and probably cost her the election.

The list goes on and I think the pattern is clear.
Well, the brother wrote an online quiz that gave out bogus medical advice.
It tends to never guess what I draw. :/

I'm not sure if it's because I'm left handed, but I tend to draw everything backwards from all the examples that the bot has seen.

I also think that the other examples it's seen are horribly drawn in many cases, making me think perhaps a 1 minute time frame would yield better results. I can't draw anything meaningful in 20 seconds haha.
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This bias was consistent across all polls (swing state polls, anyway, didn't look at the others).

I'm not sure if there was actually even a single poll where Trump's support was overestimated.
Ask HN: Blockchain type system for systems testing
Hi everyone,

I am trying to do some systems integration testing within a bank - where we are tracking trades as they move from one system to the next. On some systems users have to perform some manual tasks before releasing the trades for succeeding systems.

I want to find out if there is some Blockchain style system for doing this where each system owner is sent a token when required to act or validate and then the user passes the token down to the next system owner after processing is done.

We would ideally like to have a dashboard where we can see the where each trade is in the workflow.

We used Jira for the last round of testing and we were not particularly happy with it.

Thanks
The transition from Java to C# is pretty easy and pleasant as C# is similar but better.
The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
What do advertisement metrics have to do with the election? As far as I know, the story about "Facebook + US Election" was related to people posting/sharing/therefore make trending fake new stories, which is unrelated to the Facebook ads/ad metrics side of the business.
>since we have (I may say) all the naval Stores of the Nation in our hands, it will be easy to obtain the mastery of the seas, and then the united force of all Europe, will not be able to subdue us. The only way to keep us from setting up for ourselves, is to disunite Us. Divide et impera. Keep us in distinct Colonies, and then, some great men, in each Colony, desiring the Monarchy of the Whole, they will destroy each others influence and keep the Country in Equilibrio.

-John Adams

http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-01-02-0003#P...
A prescription strength dose is only 3 normal ibuprofen tablets. That is an extremely common dose for people to take on their own with OTC ibuprofen, but it is also prescribed by a doctor in a single pill for convenience and to make it easier for insurance to cover it.

The point of the study is to compare long-term, daily use of NSAIDs. It isn't saying that you should take Celebrex for a headache (nor could you as it requires a prescription).

You shouldn't be so quick to dismiss a study that you think is "obviously a commercial" if you aren't familiar with the subject matter at hand.
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The Fuji lineup is a bit of a mixed bag IMHO.

The X-Pro is a bit weird for me to use with zoom lenses. You have to switch to the EVF if using zoom lenses. The larger primes obstruct the OVF ! The X-Pro2 has a control dial layout which can be a bit of an "acquired taste".

I like the X-T lineup. The X-T2 is awesome TBH.

But then none of the lovely primes have optical IS :-/

I consider the X100T, no matter how lovely it is to behold, to be the "thinking photographers' camera". And I don't understand the lens, why is it allowed to focus that close when the image is so soft at closest focus. I had the X100T for a while but didn't go well for me.

Olympus/Panasonic seem to have some very compelling bodies/lenses. With Olympus I could have IBIS and then have access to stabilized primes such as Panasonic Leica 15mm f1.7 and 25mm f1.4.

Currently trying out the X-T10 with 18-55 kit lens and that seems to be coming out good. The lens is stellar between 23mm to 35mm at f/4 and the Classic Chrome film simulation is something I can get behind.

Interesting times these are... choice aplenty we have.
Literally the unicode character for hammer and sickle (U+262D)
I got "finger" as a prompt at least twice, so that's one of the things. It didn't recognize the ones I drew though. It expects it to be flat and pointing up with the nail, not bent.

Perhaps the toes are drawn facing down?
To the original question of "Would it had made any difference if it were an unknown US hacker?", I believe it would not have made any difference in the election which is what I believe is implied by the question. As to whether it makes a difference at all, sure it does in other contexts (e.g. foreign diplomacy), but the email writers and the contents are what helped make the difference in the election. Blaming the releasers is like blaming SMTP or computers, it shifts responsibility.
Point ceded, Clinton did win without super delegates. I misread that. That said, I believe sanders would have beaten Trump. I also believe the wikileaks emails and do not believe it was a fair contest (primary or general election). Again, I agree you are correct Hillary won, however I do not believe this was "fair". I believe the emails to be genuine as they were not disputed, and some were released by the government itself. I won't try to convince you how to interpret the content, but much of it certainly seems clear to me that between the non-agression pact, references to keeping in check due to their "leverage" over him, and the entire internal DNC scandal with DWS, ect. that this was anything but a typical primary.
This seems to be an over-engineered solution to this problem. In my experience developers do pretty well balancing picking up unfamiliar technologies with doing things that they already know well. This really only make sense to me if you don't allow developers to choose what tasks they work on themselves.
Seems to be some overlap with VSTS
Based on the current developer zeitgeist, I expect them to transition to JSON.
For me the best asset of React is not having to manipulate the DOM directly with jQuery, which in my experience leads to code that injects DOM elements from everywhere making it very difficult to maintain.

This is certainly not a replacement.
I've gone through a few photography phases over the last ten years. The first two didn't stick because I got sick of carrying around a huge camera. It just wasn't practical for me. Even the Olympus 4/3 system I had ended up being too much. Last year I picked up a used X100S and it's been an absolute pleasure to use. It's small enough that I never have to ask myself, "do I really want to bring my camera with me?" Instead I just throw it in my bag and I'm on my way.
> Four years of dissembling and foot dragging caused this.

This is an interesting reminder what this whole scandal is actually about - Benghazi.

The whole dragnet search through emails was actually impelled by a frantic search for some way to claim that Clinton caused the death of American ambassadorial staff by malice, or at least gross negligence. This is a concept that has been thoroughly investigated and debunked at this point. In fact we've probably spent more Congressional time on this than Watergate at this point, and they haven't found a single misdeed. It's the biggest McGuffin since Citizen Kane.

But that's how you do it when you're determined to manufacture a scandal - if you can't find dirt then you can go digging and find some point of non-compliance with the investigation, just like how an investigation of Bill Clinton's blowjob was turned into an investigation of (gasp) perjury. With enough months in front of a Congressional panel, everyone will slip up sooner or later. After all, as the lawyers say - "everyone commits three felonies a day", and it's probably more than that for a government official given all the regulations they need to comply with. They will eventually find something.

By the way, back in the day Watergate was actually a big scandal and news outlets certainly would not have knowingly published private communications that were illegally wiretapped. I think that really goes to show how far American values have fallen since the 70s. Our media has abandoned their journalistic values, and is little more than an outlet for tabloid gossip and clickbait.
>Microsoft knows if they open source or port MS Office to Linux, they will lose a massive market share and millions of people will stop using Windows.

That's a huge assumption. There's no real indication that people would stop using Windows if Office existed in Linux.

If that were the case, then porting Office to OS X would've had a similar effect, don't you think?

Ultimately I believe the reason Microsoft doesn't bother porting to Linux is that the market-share is just not worth the cost of re-writing for another platform, and keeping it updated.

Additionally, as a compromise Office 365 runs on browser, which further decreases the incentive to port to Linux. Since you can get a similar experience using Office 365 on Linux, that said I won't be so disingenuous as to imply that the experience is as good as a native application.

In conclusion, Linux has a very small market share, so making a native application for it might not be cost effective. Additionally, Microsoft might see that market share as "served" regardless due to their online Office 365 web application.
+1

The media bent themselves into some really odd shapes to make Trump's continuous string of gaffes appear somehow "normal".
> You can now easily defend yourself if you surround yourself with civilians like ISIS has done

That is a very dubious assertion. If the stakes are high enough, a sufficiently equipped aggressor will attack a city despite the civilian population within. Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Falluja,
FYI, This page crashes on my iPad Pro in Safari 100% of the time.
Well, it sounds like they're working with Linux in some markets and going their own way on others.
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The Hatch act forbids federal employees from influencing an election. With the exception of elected officials obviously.
If we hear someone claiming that there was a zero-day exploit, then I will agree with the assertion that it can't be blamed on bad security practices.

If not, which mean either bad passwords, bad support practice or known vulnerable software, then the nation state angle is just an incentive issue that describe who has an incentive to spread the hacked data.
Slightly uninteresting: while I now pronounce it as 'TUH-pull', I pronounced it as "TWO-pull" in my younger years because of my background in music, where we use the term 'duple', which people usually pronounce as rhyming with the latter.
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So many safe-spaces will be revisited after watching this video.

[edit] And the down-votes just prove what the video is about. Lmao.
Watch out for third party libraries breaking with this release. A couple that we use use were importing some modules from 'react/lib' that moved to 'react-dom/lib' such as CSSPropertyOperations.
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who could discount such pressing corroboration as "There are Phillip Agee vibes from Assange/Wikileaks/Snowden"? maybe make extremely serious and specific allegations when there's actual evidence for it
Not really, this study was required by the FDA to be performed by Pfizer. That's how drug safety studies are always conducted in the US, by the drug maker under the supervision and guidance of the FDA.

http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm143534...

"Q: Does FDA test drugs?

A: No. It is the responsibility of the company seeking approval to market a drug to conduct laboratory and animal tests on the safety and effectiveness of a proposed new drug and then to submit that information to FDA for review by CDER physicians, statisticians, chemists, pharmacologists, and other scientist."

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/SpecialFeatures/ucm...
"...receiving mail even though she specifically made sure that that box was unchecked..."

One would hope laws about fraud would cover this situation.
Just want to chime in what a big deal their (very low) pricing is, at least to me.

As a software engineer, I have been in a tricky situation a couple times when my boss asked me to build out data visualization features in our internal admin dashboards--including generic visualization of arbitrary data in our SQL database.

Of course, the correct answer is, "We have better things to use our time on, we should buy something for this". But the boss is never happy to hear that:

* These services start at around $1000/month, even for very small-scale data.

* There are additional charges per-user.

* There are additional charges (hundreds per month) for more data sources (e.g. if you have a second SQL database, or dump some data to Redshift)

What's more, it is next to impossible to find pricing information on these service's web sites. Instead you resort to Quora[0] and hope the information is accurate.

I have used both Periscope and Looker, and loved them. But according to the Quicksight pricing page[1], my company could get everything it needs from Quicksight for under $50/month.

After I hit submit I am planning to run to my boss and tell him I finally found the one. (Of course, we'll see how the demo goes first ;)

[0] https://www.quora.com/Can-anyone-share-their-experience-and-...

[1] https://quicksight.aws/pricing/
Fascinating pictures in the article. Everything about Fuji's lenses scream quality except the lens caps which IMO feel flimsy in comparison to the stunning build quality of their cameras and lenses.

There's no perfect camera system for everybody, but I have to say that I recently got an X-T2 and it's a phenomenal camera. I love not having to mess around with complicated menus most of the time as the physical buttons and dials let me often do just about everything I need to. The kit lens it comes with is surprisingly good and the first additional lens I got for it (16mm f1.4) is jaw-dropping.

That being said, there are numerous reasons to check out other camera systems and Fuji and Nikon and others all have their strengths and weaknesses.
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When the light got in for Leonard Cohen
Using Fastlane for Continuous Delivery of iOS Apps
NSA released their info on Oct 7, a month before the election.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-blames-russia-for-recent-hac...
Any good sources to read and learn more about this form of advertising? Thanks
Yeah just this time iPad Pro was the one supposed to be doing the cannibalising but it never materialised
Not only recommendations but actual laws banning teen drivers from having some number of passengers under 21 or some such.
I know it's big in Taiwan, the place I've spent most my adult life. Taiwan is not in SE Asia, though. Also, I believe BMM is the dominant chat app in Indonesia.
> Couldn't such a thing be considered "attempting to influence" and expose them to losing their jobs or worse?

The maximum penalty under the Hatch Act is removal from office, so no "or worse" here.

In hindsight that's rather a major fault with the Hatch Act, since it means there's little downside to influencing the election for someone who doesn't care about losing their job, or who expects to lose it anyway if the opposition party wins.
I think long term microsoft is planning on putting VSCode on Azure so you never have to leave your browser or the Azure bubble to write your apps.
Interesting. I wonder what would be your opinion on languages with even more magic, like Swift.
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Is there any practicality to claiming the hack originated from a "nation-state"?

Any time news worthy hacks are ambiguously attributed to massive geographical regions (i.e. CN, RU) which can easily be proxied through from anywhere in the world, how is it any different from saying "we're certain the hack originated from somewhere on this planet, trust us."?
Not even when they are making huge investments into Azure, which pretty much requires linux to be a viable alternative to AWS?
Strange.

Somehow this manages to bypass Chrome's "Mute Tab" and play audio anyway.
We did announce today that there is a new extension for Visual Studio Code which is cross-platform: macOS, Linux, Windows.
Check it out:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-mssql...

Get VS Code here:
http://code.visualstudio.com/

There are native command line tools as well:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...

More to come!
I really like that video. Dehumanizing Trump supporters is as bad as dehumanizing any other group. The answer is good reasoned discussions instead of harsh out of place answers. Playing nice has its reward in the long term.
Depends on if they can sell the loan to someone else. PNC Bank may have actually made money from the deal.

Another consideration is the person making the loan at PNC can be better off even if PNC is worse off.
Even people that voted for President-elect Trump reel from this election. It was the most divisive Presidential election in my memory.

I believe you are seeking to find offense where there is none.
A lot of Trump voters did it just to spite liberals. Small things like whether the candidate would do a good job running the government didn't really enter into the picture because hate of "the other side" is the only thing that mattered.

And it continues now, I was just reading someone saying that the choice of Bannon is great because it upset liberals. Apparently that's the only qualification you need to run the government of the world's largest economy and military.

This logic, if liberals hate it it is good, is going to be the ruin of the republic.
> risk a possible scenario of coverup accusations

That has no significance when weighed against the risk undermining democracy and effectively choosing the next President, which is what happened.
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>so the assertion that the attacks originated from Russia isn't saying much.

You seem to have a prejudice that you are not willing to challenge.

TreatConnect:

>This discovery strengthens our ongoing assessment that Guccifer 2.0 is a Russian propaganda effort and not an independent actor.
> Sanders supporter who voted for Trump

There's an undeniable indicator of an unsound mind right there. The correlation in policy goals between Sanders and Clinton was probably about 0.8, but you went with the guy at 0.1.

The only noticeable commonality between Sanders and Trump is that they're both white males, which I suspect is a significant reason for your absurd trajectory of political preference (whether you'll admit that to yourself or not).
There is the iPad Pro for example. With a 4G connection and a decent terminal, it could be quite useful for managing things on the go.

There's also just the scenario that I don't have my laptop but could really use an SSH terminal and CLI environment at the moment.
These particular hacks were concerted spear fishing over months, IIRC. That's a hard threat to defend against.
Go work at a company with a $100M+ online advertising budget :)

Sorry for the trite answer, but this kind of knowledge is so new and ever changing, and there is so little incentive for it to be documented externally, that if you're really interested in it, the best way is to become one of them.
> have been waiting for MS to acquire Resharper or Jet brains :P;

Please don't. They make way too many awesome tools outside of Microsoft's area of interest, like CLion, Kotlin, RubyMine etc.
Also, there is evidence of Russian government collaboration with Trump's organization, and the Russian ambassador said his government had talks with Trump's people during the election.
The best 2016 supermoon photo we've seen yet took several years of planning
In a similar vein, Unreal Engine 4 added support for VS "15"/2017 in yesterdays 4.14 release.

https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/unreal-engine-4-14-release...
Getting Started with C# and Cross‑Platform .NET on a Mac
dingo v. 0.13 (HTTP/2 support)
Linux is a kernel, not an OS, and Microsoft has been abjectly hostile to the OSes that use Linux and respect user freedoms.

If they weren't, they would have never pushed hostile proprietary vendor lock in tech like DirectX12 or Universal Windows Platform in recent years.
Kerry: 'Overwhelming majority' back US climate action
I remember asking someone why Cyberpunk died and he said, a dystopian and orwellian future where we lose our individuality in favor of technical advancement? Why would anyone be interested in that as fiction, it's what we're living today.
I don't think they have to switch languages. With official support/talent working on Xamarin.Android (which is already great) coming from both MS and Google, that'd be enough to make C# on android a sure thing.
I'm guessing the bank doesn't keep the loan, they pass on the shit to get polished, repackaged, and resold.
They are harshly critical of unchallenged power, so of Obama, US foreign policy, and Clinton. People perceive that as a bias against Democrats but I'd expect we're about to see some good reporting against the Republicans now.
This is a big reason why nobody should do it, regardless of how "righteous" their outrage is. It ends up hurting uninvolved people.
> Isn't it illegal for Federal employees to attempt in any way to influence an election?

It is, but law enforcement and Congress only investigate Democrats at high levels, not Republicans. Trump did many things that may be illegal, but there were no FBI investigations. See this post for more:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12969225
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