skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most likely scenario for war is Putin thinking he has more control over Trump than he does, launching an aggressive attack against Russia's neighbors, and then Trump feeling embarrassed and responding in kind.

But I agree wholeheartedly: the first and foremost purpose of the NSA should be securing the USA's IT infrastructure.
I'm currently undergoing a very long evaluation of both products. I agree, the AWS UX is a dumpster fire. Even simple things seem to make no sense, and if I had to guess without checking I'd say they went through a hyper growth of their cloud.

I also agree that their long-play is Azure. You just wait, they'll put a major investment into IntelliJ or Eclipse to make it more Azure friendly too.
.NET would have had a real chance at being the android application platform if it was philosophically in the state that it is today (open sourced toolchain/compilers, open-source friendly MS, Mono/Xamarin in good shape).

Moving android away from Java is going to be a big undertaking and I doubt Google will undertake such a huge project only to move away from Oracle and closer to MS.

If they ever try to replace Java, it'll be Dart or another language they acquire in future. Dart has good chances.

They already have an early stage framework to make Android (and iOS) apps with Dart[0]. It's also the main GUI toolkit for their Fuchsia OS [1].

0 https://flutter.io/

1 https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/
What are some things that C# has over swift
Yeah, I was thinking about that when I wrote the comment. They were most useful for `Observable` objects for event handling in swing; you don't really need that with C# events.

There are still uses though. Lambdas are the future, but there are lots of OO-first libraries that are still quite popular. It'd be nice to create e.g. `new Newtonsoft.JsonConverter() { ReadJson() {...} WriteJson() {...}}` etc on the fly sometimes without needing separate classes.

It's possible in F# though, so nothing dotnet specific is preventing it.
Analysts say Airbnb is hurting hotels more than predicted
Never trust
It's an intentional misrepresentation of an opinion, such as "So, [misrepresentation of parent opinion], huh?"
Hi choward, you are not blind! :) We're working on a date picker. If you have specific requirements (especially around localization) we'd love to hear it to make sure we consider it but it is in the works1
From what I recall, you need to wire money to XE, and then pay XE for another wire to the destination account. I did this once a long time ago. While the wire fees were on the low side, it is not a cheap way to transfer money.

XE does offer the advantage of doing the forex conversion from USD to your currency. However, I don't think the OP was asking about changing currency.
Not only does that count not include the superdelegates, but the page you linked to, in the only mention of superdelegates, below a count labeled "pledged delegates" (who are not superdelegates), specifically says they aren't. Further, by the logic you just used, had the count included "superdelegates" that Hillary Clinton won entirely, you would be suggesting that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic Primary without them (he would not have).

Bernie Sanders lost decisively. But because Wikileaks strategically leaked the right hacked emails, his supporters believe instead in a false alternative history. It's Wikileaks you should be angry at.
So I've been wondering: was it usually the soldiers themselves who did all the fortification work, or did the Roman armies have 'grunt workers' and engineers that they took with them on their conquests?
This "racism is a system" always sounded to me a bit a rhetorical voodoo, because it allows people to claim that there's still "racism" even if they have no evidence beyond what's in their heads besides the difference in socioeconomic outcomes between different races.

This, however, is absurd. In economics, there's a crucial distinction between historical processes (e.g. accumulation of wealth or economic development) and general economic processes (e.g. the pricing of a good) in that historical processes are not mean-reverting. They're subject to certain rules (e.g. preferential attachment, positive feedbacks, increasing returns) which make them generally path dependent[0]. As a result, initial differences will perpetuate themselves for an indefinately long time.

For example, a familial lineages might remain poor or rich for an arbitrarily long time purely through inheritance. New York might remain more populous than Dallas for an undefined amount of time since the economic benefit of moving into any of those two cities is a function of their population (through economies of agglomeration[1]). And Peru might remain much poorer than the United States for an eternity, because how much capital and labor countries draw to themselves if proportional to how much innovation going on there, which is itself a function of those variables.

History, even as completely blind process, will still produce self-sustaining inequalities. But none of this has anything to do with "racism", but with the fact that the past matters and we live in a world of crucial events. In a mean-reverting world, in all likelihood, there wouldn't even be such a thing as an European colonization of America. In a sense, you might be right in thinking that non one wants all this. But calling these process a result of "racism" is beyond stretching the meaning of the word.

There's no way to maintain a reasonable expectation that different entities (nevermind races) should attain equal outcomes unless the "Just World Hypothesis" is assumed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_agglomeration
more like idiocracy
I can't believe WiX hasn't already died. I tried using it 7 or 8 years ago. What a terrible idea to use XML like that. But, that was back when XML was ... the ... bees ... knees! I mean everyone was gaga over using XML for everything.
The girl demoing VS 2017 pronounces tuple as 'TWO-pull'. That can't be right, is it?
The Waldo moment would be used to compare any iconoclast in this marketing article. Trump is just the most well-known target of the day.
Content Is Everything – Communication as Sharing Content and Influencing Others
You're misreading FiveThirtyEight. Quite how you're misreading it I don't know, considering since "Because superdelegates can change their preferences before the convention, we are not including them in our delegate targets" isn't particularly unclear even without the emphasis I've added.

As it shows, she was nearly 400 ahead in pledged delegates based purely on primaries even before considering that expected most of the additional 700 superdelegates not tied to primary results were expected to vote for her as well.

Of course she influenced the superdelegates deciding to vote for her before all the other votes were counted. Influencing people to decide to vote for you and publicly endorse you is what people running for office are supposed to do...
Unlike Canon, Sigma is another manufacturer who has kept all its lens production in Japan.

https://m.dpreview.com/articles/0773575852/making-art-inside...

They also have a very strong job-for-life philosophy to try to retain skills and experience.
SP1 seems to kill the editions. All features are now available in all editions, including Express Edition.

Thus the explanation marks in the blog title are very accurate :-)
Why passion is important
Key word again being "now". The economy goes in cycles, and there will come another time when few or no companies are hiring. It's happened before.
Nobody is being banned from the internet. They are merely being banned by a privately owned American website. Businesses in America have the right to refuse service to any individual provided it is not due to protected status. In America your opinions do not grant you protected status.
Yes, it's a trap, but not much different than the traps other companies are attempting to lay for you.

Remember that the majority of people working at Microsoft today probably have little to no memory of the tech world of the early 2000s. They don't seem too much better or worse than others in attempting to shape open-source projects to their benefit - that's something you should always be wary about.
Inaccurate analogy. There are several analogies one can come up with to emphasize the "who" over the "what" and there are several analogies that can do the opposite. In this case, even if the "who" matters in some other context, it shouldn't matter with regards to the "what" which is the same regardless. So while the who does matter, that's a different question and a different discussion and arguably shifts the discussion away from the what.
Objective C support? Never going to happen. Swift support? Unlikely, but a stronger possibility thanks to its cross-platform support. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
There are folks that don't realize that acetaminophen or ibuprofen are in many cough and cold formulations.

But they aren't really dangerous per se. Certain population groups shouldn't take them, some can't tolerate them, and there are consequences to taking them over a long-course (which is what this was comparing). But for most with everyday aches, pains, colds, and so on, they aren't that dangerous.

You know, use responsibly and stuff.
I forgot about the upgrade to the RTM. Perhaps with the improved installer/uninstaller this may be a lesser issue. For now I'll stick to putting it on a VM, if I do.
Or something like T-800s. I'm sure someone could hack the Atlas a bit https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY?t=29s
It's 3D model, streaming download as you move around.
Why do you consider Go unsuitable for UI development?
That's a great documentary. I'd like to see a followup on some of the people he interviewed. Some research online will show that the "Mattress King" had lost his young son shortly before this was filmed
Curious that the article quotes Assange but fails to mention that he's not been seen since his internet has been cut off back in October.
I don't see the location.search (or toggle) used anywhere in this PR :(

edit: 'isProfiling' is used but never declared so it most likely already was a toggle they used.
> From what I see in my feed, it seems 100% of "progressives" have doubled down on their hyperbolic, established, in-group rhetoric

Then that's a problem with your filter bubble.

> I followed everyone that I follow because they are programmers, not because they are "progressives".

Which is why your view of progressives produced by that is distorted. Programmers who happen to be progressives aren't representative of progressives as a whole (they aren't representative of the broader group along class/income, education, race/ethnicity, or gender lines, among others, and several of those do correlate with preferred approaches.)
This might create a new problem: Without obvious mistakes like word salad, you can no longer evaluate the probable quality of a translation. You might read a translated news article and be oblivious to missing or mistranslated facts, because the text flows well and sounds convincing. The old method had telltale signs of breakdown and the resulting text was always clumsy enough to warn anyone off with regards to trusting it too much. Hmmm. Interesting times.
I thought MS was (quietly) killing WPF and burying it next to Silverlight? Not soon enough I think. Nice idea, headache inducing implementation.
In this specific thread? I think context is relevant here.
Both 'TWO-pull' and 'TUH-pull' are acceptable.
I just picked the states which actually decided the election. For all I know it was 8% off in Oregon too but that wouldn't have mattered.

It did appear that there was a systemic bias against Trump in the polls, whether intentional or not.
> unfairly singles out the alt-right movement -- one can't say that they are wrong in their dogmatic mistrust of the media

A lot of alt-righters distrust the media because they think it's controlled by Jews. That's a regular theme on alt-right websites.

So yes, you can say they are wrong in their dogmatic mistrust of the media.
Was playing with it - it's great. I was flying around the towns I know, but I'm reminded of the places that I need to go when I get a chance:

Golden Gate Bridge

The Washington Monument

Disney World

Yosemite

Beijing

The Grand Canyon
Saying something is 3D is meaningless. 3D video is one thing, 3D models are totally different.

From what I saw in demo, it looks like they are generating simple 3D models from the photos. Which is pretty damn cool!
Yes of course, I shouldn't have implied it would be all negative. You're right, more recent history would include lots of positive stuff.
A lot of simple tactics are overlooked by a society raised in decadent comfort compared to the Romans, or any other agricultural-era empire. Our overwhelming force and technology has come at a cost to our creativity.

If you look at most battles throughout history, there is a single, simple tactic that almost always assured victory: rolling logs downhill at your enemy.

But because we have so much whiz-bang tech doing our fighting for us we've delegated our thinking as well.

A marine I know of often complained that the most effective tactic the Iraqi insurgents utilized again and again was to set up a missile or RPG pointed generally in the direction of a military base and fire it off long after they've left the area. Even if the rocket doesn't get anywhere close to do any damage, everybody has to stop what they're doing and go on the defensive, and even when they've located the source of the attack, nobody's there.

A stupid rocket that doesn't damage anything can bleed the U.S. Military of millions of dollars at a time.
I wouldn't say that was because of .net/C#. Nor did the iPhone succeed because of ObjectiveC or Android because of Java.
A React library called "onclickoutside", https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-onclickoutside, for dealing with clicks from outside a DOM node's tree.

Sounds like a simple thing to have, but when I wrote it it just didn't exist. In half a year it's gone from one guy needing a small lib to deal with closing a menu when you click on the page, to a library with loads of optional functionality, fixes and improvements filed by 24 contributor, and over fifteen thousands downloads a day.

It's probably the most successful piece of software I've written to date.
Dataviz: Explore how illegal drugs have become cheaper and more potent over time
It is definitely a step in the right direction.

But I'd argue that the most used microsoft product in the world (besides Windows) is MS Office. What holds a lot of people back from running Linux is that they don't like dealing with compatibility issues with LibreOffice and MS Office.

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. And I don't blame them, any reasonable business would not do something like that.

But unless they do that, I don't see how they can claim to be cooperating when they refuse to port their main product to Linux.
"The IDE formerly known as Xamarin Studio for Mac." Or maybe just a graphic symbol.
Thanks, we're excited! We started using Angular 2 early this year for Clarity (it was at one of the betas). We should probably write a longer blog post around that (around the journey itself as well as adoption across VMware when Clarity was private), might be useful to others!

As for TypeScript, yes we mainly use TypeScript!
FWIW it guessed my lightning correctly (a simple `z` like shape). Its 2nd guess was "zig-zag" and the 3rd one "star" for some reason. So it really looks like for this network a zig-zag and a star are more similar than I would've guessed.

I guess a star is a zig zag looping on itself, kinda.
I wouldn't be surprised if she had an ulcer before taking the pills and it irritated them or she has an especially sensitive system as some do.

I say this mostly because it is common (though not recommended) to take them on an empty stomach and it seems her reaction to the single pill does was extreme.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12960149

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965314
Hi Mokwa, thanks for your feedback. We shied away from recommending angular-cli in the very early stages, but now that it's become more stable, I see that it would be valuable to add that in our documentation. We'll be working on it very soon. I filed an issue for it on Github if you are interested in subscribing to it: https://github.com/vmware/clarity/issues/79.
When the government has less power, it's less worthwhile to buy it off.
YMMV, but I've heard both TWO-pull and TUP-pull in academic and professional contexts. From a quick google search it looks like both pronunciations are generall accepted. I prefer TWO-pull myself!

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/12980/how-to-pron...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12737515/how-do-you-prono...
Announcing .NET Core 1.1
Sort of like that YouTube auto-play-by-default bullshit. I know that as a user I've accidentally had it plow through dozens of videos -- and ads -- while I was AFK, but it probably looks good on somebody's metrics...
Suppose my livelihood depends on using my phone while driving (which entails all of the distraction, etc. described, and sometimes results in poor driving on my part). I wonder how much enforcement would be required before I would stop using my phone while driving (and incur the requisite loss of income).

Right now enforcement is at, what, 1/1000 rides (to pick an arbitrary number)? If it was 10/1000 would it influence my behavior? I imagine that 10X or even more enforcement would be required, which may not be practicable.
Really good point!
My # was 522621, I registered in the spring of 1998. My password was hacked well over 10 years ago and I've never been able to recover the account. Not that I would ever need it, but it would be nice to have it back.

IM seems like such an established part of the internet now, it's easy to forget how amazing it seemed when I first saw it. Finally I could chat with my friends without us all having to be on IRC at the same time. It was also much easier to use than IRC, which brought in a lot of other friends I had who were less technically inclined.
An opinion without justification adds nothing.
`ReactPerf.start()`
Why the downvote? How visiting forbidden places isn't on the top of mind for people using this is beyond me.

Area 51, White House grounds, Russian military bases, Syria. I know the experience will vary, but think big.
Might be. Also, in any case - this adds stuff that wasn't in the original Alive AFAIK - supposedly it knows to only run tests that were affected by your last edit and show line-by-line red/green/gray coverage indicators: did someone say NCrunch?
Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM
German here, I don't find that translation odd at all

Just as another data point, I do. I'd only use it sarcastically, like

Und, wann ist denn der kleine Scheißer fällig?
We have many museums and exhibits that include all races. And I imagine this one does too, although I haven't been there yet. You can't talk about slavery and civil rights without talking about white people, in both negative and positive roles.

There are exhibits on this stuff in existing American history museums, but it's a very big topic. For any historical topic, if you can fill an entire museum, trying to fit it into a few exhibits is just impractical.
This reminds me of issues we face in the legal profession. Lawyers have convinced ourselves, through elaborate rationalization, that every person deserves legal representation. Yet lawyers clearly make decisions about what kind of work they want to do, and what kind of clients they are comfortable representing. For example, most divorce lawyers tend to specialize in representing husbands or wives (not both), and most employment and labor lawyers either represent the company or the employee consistently, etc. But on the other hand, many defense lawyers become prosecutors, and vice versa. The key is that whatever role we like to take, we make ethical decisions within that role. If I am a prosecutor, I work for the people and my job is to "do justice". If I defend accused criminals, my job is to advocate zealously for the accused b/c anyone may be falsely accused. This system relies on discretion -- that is, the individual professional is free to decide whether to pursue a matter or take on a client. Unfortunately discretion does not exist in most software development efforts. Unless you are contributing to free software on a voluntary basis, it is likely that you will be called upon from time to time to support businesses that you don't like. This is a hard problem and I don't think there is an easy answer. If anything, the answer may require that you forego many of the economic trappings of success if you wish to live an ethical life. I don't expect anyone to make that decision, although I admire those who do. Not so much the Richard Stallmans who can live on their celebrity, but the people who adhere to those ideals and do not have celebrity to fall back on when they can't make their rent.
Dropbox Infrastructure Updates
The thing that stuck out to me about the presser was the quote from the VP of Cloud and Enterprise Group, and that someone high up on Azure team is joining the Linux Foundation board of directors. This indicates to me that it's really a desire to compete effectively with AWS and Google Cloud that drives this co-operation, rather than a desire to expand Linux. Nothing wrong with this of course. Azure is a major cloud platform, personally I think it's better for everyone if Linux runs well there.
The information I've read claims that the new MSBuild system will be released along with what is now called Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Standard 2.0.
huh, interesting. Thanks.
I thought there were some free rides on the Henry Nicholas Drug Party Private Jet involved in the sales courting process. [0]

[0] http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/06/business/fi-nicholas...
That's why you have to have your archers to protect the castle from the orc hordes :-)
This is pretty neat! My only complaint is that you haven't labelled the axes. You can estimate the Y-axis pretty well based on the listed number, but the X-axis is a mystery until you click the graph. Even two date labels at either end would be welcome.
IMO operator overloading is less bad than goto. (C# has them both)

C# also has yield, async, structs, reflection on generics, and a number of other features.
I presume it said "check the box to opt-out of the newsletter", instead of being "check the box to opt-in to the newsletter".
Burgeoning products must often ape the establishment to gain traction, even if they are best suited for slightly different applications.
This is a great tip. I had no idea this existed.
> Those who identify as "alt-right" aka Far Right

While the alt-right is defined by some toxic views (white nationalism, particularly) also found in some parts of the far right, it's a distinct group.
For those who found this article interesting, you might want to take a look at this article [1] detailing how Cooke Optics makes their lenses. It's a decidedly more "old world" way but interesting nonetheless.

For those unaware, Cooke makes motion picture cinema lenses that can cost tens of thousands of dollars each and they have won a number of Academy Awards.

[1]http://www.redsharknews.com/technology/item/1466-how-cooke-m...
Arctic Sea Ice Graphs