skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty ignorant statement. How do you explain Martha Stewart?

Typically principals in schemes like this are smart enough to avoid direct links and work through minions. Based on the story on Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/the-personal-bloodbat...) she personally retailiated against someone who pointed out some of the problems with the business.

If Ars has that story, you can bet the US Attorney will get stories at least as juicy and incriminating.
My health, after having been hit by a car while cycling (airlifted to Stanford Hospital back in 2013), and having gone through depression several times in my life which could have taken bad turns.

My family, who was supportive of me quitting my first job from stress and depression and gave me the time to recover.

My childhood friends, who all grew up in SV together and still remain close friends (just went on a morning hike together on Thanksgiving day). We definitely keep each other sane amidst the insanity, anxiety, and hypercompetitiveness of modern SV.

My social situation, which spares me from the fear that many peers feel regarding the upcoming presidency and the emboldened vitriol of the hateful.
I'm thankful that I don't have to worry about my surivival and the survival of my family and friends. Too many people around the world have reasonable doubt that they will survive to tomorrow or if they will have another meal.

I'm thankful for my friends and family who's support I couldn't do without.

I'm thankful for all of the strangers and community members that have helped me along the way, asking nothing in return. I hope I can do the same for many others.

I'm thankful for all of the great people who stand up for others and do good when they have nothing to gain.
(I'm not defending the method you describe from Texas where there's no physical proof to audit against)

I was listening to something specifically talking about California counting mail-in ballots. They said California took longer than most states because it's big, it has liberal laws about eligibility (counting provisional ballots) and citizens are pretty sloppy about filling in mail-in ballots. They described coffee and spaghetti stains obscuring the choice. They will fill out "clean" ballots in pairs with their best guess. I'm sure that's a small number of ballots.

When I've voted in person they deliberately have me feed my ballot into a machine to confirm it was valid.
Totally agree here. There is a lesson to be learned from all this stuff going on here.

Think about France during the French revolution. If it weren't for the revolution being an organic movement, but more like another power that took control of France and removed the king, monarchy would have probably end up being reinstaurated shortly after that, just like it happened in Spain with Napoleon.

Chavez kept winning because he commanded a lot of popular support. Maduro on the other hand ended up affecting the very people that could keep him in power and he lost the last election badly. He's so afraid of the fact he has lost popular support that he has been trying crazy delay tricks on everything from referendum to state elections.
They should probably start with their desktop OS first.
I am thankful for my life.

I am thankful for my kids who think of me as their 'rock'.

I am thankful for my relationships and experiences.

I am thankful that I have Asperger's and think logically about everything.

I am thankful that I live in the age of information, which will (hopefully) make the world a better place.
Can you share your email? I'd like to discuss in depth
Many people commit fraud. Who can tell how efficient our justice system is? If it happens, it happens silently.
China must be laughing right now. While Trump cancels TPP, and stops the pivot to Asia, makes America isolationist again, China is busy expanding, building networks, and taking over. Hopefully 4 years isn't enough to make a lasting shift.
Adding to that I would say it's a little bit luck with an eye for disruption.

Look at slack. We thought people had all the stuff they wanted but slack came out of nowhere. We thought skype/sms/gtalk was good enough and came WhatsApp. And snapchat, now it might look like a neat idea, but imagine that couple of years back.

There is always room for disruption. Few categories of products are almost like fashion. There is no additional value they are bringing to the table. And there is no logical reasoning or no proper prediction possible on what becomes the next big thing.

Then there is this room for replicating similar succuccessful ideas in emerging markets. Hundreds of ideas waiting to be explored in hundreds of markets.

Then the unexplored beast of enterprise software. Not the makrt of consumer products rebranded as 'for' enterprise but actual tools or services that improves existing ones, many of which are decades old. But you need to be deep inside the domain to disrupt here.

And of course finally the innovative ones. Which are the hardest but perhaps the most publicised making an impression that startups are all about innovative ideas.
Okay, so I was a rave DJ in the early 2000s and opened for some of the most popular DJ's in the world at sold out clubs and I'm about to give some real advice.

Yes, all of this stuff about producing music is important, but people who can mix records are a dime a dozen. You need to be able to do it, but it's not enough to get gigs.

The way you get gigs is to be popular. You need to go clubbing every weekend. You need to go to after parties. You need to promote on social media. You need to throw your own parties and book other DJ's so they'll book you at theirs.

Nobody is going to book you on talent. You get booked because you get people in the door and that really only has a little bit to do with talent and a lot to do with personality and networking.

You'll never make a living that way, though, because nobody pays money for local DJ's except at weddings and bar mitzvahs.

Alternatively, you can spend 10 years in your bedroom learning how to be a really good music producer and hope some popular DJ signs your single and then gradually build a following and then maybe in five more years you might make what a junior sysadmin makes.
Measuring by power supply allows human participants if the limit is 20W.
Overheated Arctic sign of climate change 'vicious circle'
No I think you got it wrong. They're using a lot of algorithms to filter out the noise in the market and make speculative moves (bets, gambles) with a certain amount of certitude (weight, size) with the goal of making money.

I believe they keep that fund private because the risk factors must be through the roof. And frankly, they don't need that external money to make a ton of more money.

Do they have low latency, very fast computers, yes. Is it what's making the difference, no, I don't think so. It's the models they use to assess and predict - current and future moves - that makes the real difference.
Vim. There are vim like modal editing plugins in most IDE's but I use vim specifically for 2 reasons.

1. The windowing. None of the editors/IDE's with full gui front ends handle windowing as well as vim (and emacs). Just this morning a was stuck in visual studio trying to track down an issue, swapping files everywhere and forgetting what I was trying to find by the time I got there. I opened up vim and could have it all in one screen, simplifying my mental load. It's also great for day to day things, like having a multiple views and a controller open at once in an MVC app.

2. Scriptability. Vim script is the php of editor languages, it's very easy to get started and/or write some quick and dirty scripts. Most of my day to day pain points are scripted behind a couple of key strokes. Also like php unfortunately, it's warts become noticeable on larger plugins.
I certainly dont know if he is guilty or not, he very well may be. My point was more that it is common practice. So common there is a widely used name for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing_(finance)
The linked article suggests that the models in the animation are supposed to represent 21st-century vices. That's all very well and good, but "The Garden of Earthly Delights" wasn't supposed to (and doesn't) represent 16th-century vices. Certain images from the "Hell" panel may be more historically situated, but the center panel is -- if it's about vices at all, which is not at all clear -- about more-or-less eternal human ones.

Edit: one of my favorite pieces of art derivative of "Garden" -- a reading of the music painted on one of the figures' asses. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2U
These are valid concerns, but they're not good reasons not to provide general-purpose compute HSMs. If you want an external company to have certified the software, the policy which goes on a general-purpose HSM, that may be entirely sensible from a business perspective; I'm sure if general-purpose HSMs were a thing, with standard HSM platforms, such certified programs would be available on the market. Many would probably be made by the manufacturers of the HSMs themselves, providing a vertically integrated solution, support-wise.

Fulfilling this market, with the need for the outsourcing of liability, etc. is not mutually exclusive with providing general-purpose HSMs.
Slightly o/t; my 2008 macbook is on its last legs. Are ThinkPads still sending metrics back to Lenovo HQ? I simply can't justify buying the new macbooks.
hindu? hindi is the language
I live in Arizona and we're in a similar epidemic. Even places that offer a more traditional burger feel the need to 'elevate' it by putting it on an 'artisan' slice of brioche, using arugula instead of lettuce, and some kind of aioli.

To be fair, it sounds easier here than in Seattle, and everybody here has their favorite spot to grab a good normal burger, but it's an odd concept to me that we have to have recommendations for that menu item lol
That volatility is deadly to the retail speculators. They get wiped out, off the markets, by this 'false' liquidity, which literally wiggles them out.
So if the 2011 paper shows similar conclusions as this paper... and if people as well as this CNN can "tell" criminals apart from non-criminals could non-criminal people's unconscious bias lead to non-criminal faced people to see criminal-faced as actual criminals and kind of funnel them into criminality?

That is non-criminal faced people might show bias against criminal faced people such that these criminal-faced people resort to [petty or other] crime to get by?

Of course, one question is why this bias might have emerged in the first place. What was its genesis?
Flexbox is really worth trying. It is a much more natural way to layout responsive components imo, and is great for layout design in particular.

However, that said, the majority of components I build are still not in flexbox. It's a useful tool in the toolset, but not sure I'd call it the new default yet.
And Clinton Foundation in an alternative history. It was Douche v.s. Turd.
Thanks for posing this article. Kareem Serageldin was certainly guilty but actually goes to strengthen my original argument -- it is rare to find Arab financiers on Wall St, it is telling that the one prosecution on the 2008 CDO disaster is an Arab guy!
"Their method is straightforward. They take ID photos of 1856 Chinese men between the ages of 18 and 55 with no facial hair. Half of these men were criminals.

They then used 90 percent of these images to train a convolutional neural network to recognize the difference and then tested the neural net on the remaining 10 percent of the images.

The results are unsettling. Xiaolin and Xi found that the neural network could correctly identify criminals and noncriminals with an accuracy of 89.5 percent."
MIT's PDF of the Minsky book was given the HN hug of death for a while.
I played with one tonight at a local museum. Had 4 lines on it.
I would buy a Windows phone that I could put on a dock and use like my desktop (but understandably slower). That's where it is going (or should be), and that is where MS has the advantage.

Processor improvements are mostly going to efficiency rather than raw power these days, so time is on their side. Being able to carry your computer around and put it in a "desktop dock," or "laptop dock" would be amazing. It will make having separate phone apps and computer apps seem as kludgy as carrying an iPod, a computer and a flip phone was.

They're really close too. Shrink the surface a bit, make it cooler and put a cell radio on it. Boom!
Godaddy rumored to acquire Host Europe
Bad guy is easily defeated. "I'm sorry, I've accidentally spoiled my ballot and marked the wrong candidate, may I have a new one to fill?" Bad guy's ballot goes in the trash, you fill the spare new one, you still have the original blank one to hand back to him. Bad guy wasted his time.
One of the nicer things about Unix is that it tends not to change. There's a lot of inertia to overcome in Unix, which is why Ubuntu made (and continues to make) such a big splash, for being willing to change things quickly (and not always for the better).
"I'll pay you to go watch The Big Short and then try to tell me that again"

That's the problem with 'The Big Short'. It's a terrible film because it mostly points the finger at bankers as somehow 'guilty of some crime' - and they are not. They are 'guilty' of doing some things, but not breaking the law for the most part, and they didn't get into some other issues, particularly they didn't want to point fingers at the millions of Americans who lied on their mortgage applications.

There weren't really any crimes obviously committed in the 'big short'.

Maybe the hucksters in Florida overlooking issues on loan applications.

Maybe the ratings agencies ... but it would be extremely hard to prove this one.

Ultimately, the banks stupidly gave credit to people they should not have, and it inflated really badly and got out of hand. Stupid lazy bankers all around bought crap without doing due diligence and they paid the price.

It was people making a lot of bad bets due to the underlying failure of information the system.

All the individuals lying on their loan forms are at least as guilty as anyone else.

"At banks. At rating agencies. At investment firms. In the government"

You'll have to list specific examples, because I see greedy people making stupid decisions, not fraud.

The ratings agencies didn't commit 'fraud' - they did not accept 'money to change their ratings', this would be fraud. What they didn't do well is their actual jobs, because to do it well would have meant less business. So this was a conflict of interest that led to a really bad outcome, but it's not outright fraud.
Yes, I know. I want those anti-tamper features, and I want to be able to take advantage of them to secure cryptographic policies designed and coded by myself or other people in the open source community. And of course I would be free to audit that code before making use of it.

And if you don't think a secure tamperproof general-purpose Turing-complete execution environment in a compact form factor with contactless induction-powered interface isn't an interesting opportunity for innovation, I really don't know what to say.
Yeah, the US will really improve its chances of that not happening by having an army in half of the middle east.

Also the Taliban have never done terrorist attacks on US soil.
Same here. I keep thinking that there must be a way to legally take advantage of people that will easily believe Trump's lies. There just have to be a way, anybody have any good startup ideas? I'm not joking. Half the country is willing to elect Trump. I'm sure there is a market there.
...everyone will ask you to play your favourite song, and you'll have less of an excuse not to, which is a massive PITA.

Sure it's a pain, but at least coming from the standpoint of playing in conventional bands, I've found that audiences love it when you can play requests.
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FWIW- Chromium was realllly unstable until the recent 52 -> 54 update that took place on the 22nd. Since then, it seems to be a lot more stable and performs better (on my crap hardware). I would definitely give it another shot.
Regarding colo servers, there's no luck involved at all, just a price tag.
If David Boies -- Mr. SCO v. IBM -- cuts ties with you, that's a serious mic drop against your credibility as a company.
Harmonic mixing is amazing, but really as long as your mixes aren't out of key, it's fine. You can just tell when two records aren't in tune, you don't need to write down the keys of all your records.

I tried using mixed in key and stuff but what I mostly did was mix every record I had with every other record I had to find out what sounded good. I don't think there's any replacement for planning out sets with practice. Sometimes you just play two records that are a little out of tune because the drums sound good together. Nobody will ever complain about it like they will about train wrecks.
My guess is that part of the focus on fake news is a bit of deflection. The media hyperfocused on the Comey story in the week leading up to the election, and in the end that turned out to be nothing at all. Instead of looking at the issues in their own reporting, they're spending all the time talking about fake news (which is still an issue, however).
Still reading, but in case anyone is interested in the grugq'd hardening project (Ironsides) that Matthew referred to, it started as an open source project. I believe I have the fork that has the most recent public commits, as I was playing with it a few days before it went away:

https://github.com/patcon/darkmatter

Unfortunately, the wiki was one of the most interesting parts, as I remember, and that wasn't preserved.

Disclaimer: Goes without saying, but VERY stale code, and light-years behind the current project.

EDIT: some interesting things I remember from the wiki: triggers to losing a wifi or bluetooth signal (so that actions could be triggered if phone was placed in a faraday bag and lost touch with a paired bluetooth device or mobile hotspot or whatever), trigger for when temperature dropped (so actions could be triggered if someone tried to pull a cold boot attack)
Bdhed?

Still too many?
Flexbox is conceptually more difficult than older float & grid based layout systems (it takes some time to wrap your head around the relationship between `display: flex` containers and the various flex-* properties that child elements utilize), but it makes certain things dead simple that were nearly impossible before. For example, vertically centering content (almost comically difficult before flexbox) and fixed-width elements mixed with expanding elements that will share unused space in a row. In a lot of ways flexbox acts like old-school table layouts--which were easy to use and predictable--but without the ugly, non-semantic, and verbose markup. Best of both worlds really.

They are supported in all self-updating browsers, so unless you have to support IE<=10 they are safe to use and extremely convenient. Replacing a classic grid-based layout with flexbox saves an astonishing amount of markup. I've been using it exclusively for the last six months or so.

I found this CSSTricks article helpful when I was building my first flexbox layouts: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
"Meh" news because we had a higher profile match just recently: AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol (both much stronger than DeepZen or Cho).

I mean, it's mildly interesting that DeepZen uses fewer resources (just ~40 CPUs and 4 GPU, compared to AlphaGo's ~2k CPU and ~200 GPUs, IIRC). But that's relevant only to hardcore Go enthusiasts who would want to run such AIs on their own hardware.

In contrast, the next interesting milestones in Go AI are:

* AI beating a team of cooperating top pros, say top-10 humans vs AI (easy)

* solving Go (hard)

* finding ways to translate insights gained from observing strong Go AI into real-life situations relevant outside of Go (my personal favourite; Go has that fascinating simple-meets-complex abstracting property [1])

[1] https://rare-technologies.com/go_games_life/
There are places I'd take something like this but not my laptop. A CTF competition at a security convention, for example. I've already got a burner laptop that gets wiped every time I use it just for this purpose.
What I don't get is why they're all virtual machine based, though I think someone posted a brief explanation for that in response to me last time this came up. Moreover it doesn't help that I am violently allergic to Java. But when it comes down to it, the smartcard industry giving people JavaCard is the same as not giving them actual, full access to the chip. It's probably the best thing going with regard to my article, but there's still something amiss there.
Did the CEO of Reddit Pierce Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?
I suppose it's a subjective matter, but I think Shake Shack burgers are nearly perfect. De gustubus non est disputandum.
They should all have man pages already. (That's Game Center and Passbook/Wallet though.)
It's refreshing to see on HN more people aware of injustice based on skin/race, thank you!
Some SQL databases (e.g., SQL Server and PostgreSQL) offer key-range locking which, along with a serializable isolation level, will prevent this race condition.
>So this was a conflict of interest that led to a really bad outcome, but it's not outright fraud.

Interesting. Is there a strict legal difference? I guess I perceived it as a spectrum and the flagrantness of the conflict of interest and the profit derived from it seemed like it approached what I imagine as "fraud" in my head. But then again, I'm not a lawyer, or a banker, or an economist.

Thanks for the reply, I'm now doing some more reading on this myself.
Yeah WTF? they look like they could be dates or incremented...
"taking real wealth" from whom? It is not a zero sum game.
I assume that the clause or more specifically was intended to say something like or more specifically, NSW
My only disappointment is that they didn't have to pay more for their incompetence. IBM has been on a mission to replace their workforce with cheap labour from India for quite a while. I'm glad the work they deliver to their clients is finally being exposed for what it is - junk code with no quality control.
this is not a race in cassandra.

IF NOT EXISTS causes replicas to agree on the result using PAXOS, and only responds with success if a certain number of replicas concur + write the transaction to disk.

i believe it is a quorum for SERIAL consistency level, and local quorum (quorum of replicas in the local DC) for LOCAL_SERIAL.
The point being made is that you're cutting out the bad parts in the US in order to make the comparison, but not cutting out the bad parts in the comparitor. Rural murder rate in the US is less than combined rural + urban murder rate elsewhere? Quelle surprise.

Similarly, by cutting out the urban parts of the US in your comparison, you're cutting out 70% of the US population.
That's actually insane. I work for a different part of the company, sure, but I'm on an $11m USD project right now, as just one of my ~5 projects.

For as much as I've heard about this census issue, I thought it was a bigger (monetary) deal.
What flavor of Vim do you use? e.g. terminal Vim, Neovim, GVim, etc.
Your awareness of racial injustice is refreshing to find on HN, thank you!
Yes, used to be called Digicash.

The difference is that with E-Cash you can have anything as a bases, you could issue E-Cash Doller or E-Cash Bitcoin.

> I am curious how does this style allow banks to better control the money supply? Better than say a Federal Reserve requirement which is also an electronic ledger of sorts?

Better compared to Bitcoin, not the system we already have.

Ecash+Bitcoin could be better then the current system because the Fed can actually change the base money, with Bitcoin that is not possible, but with Bitcoin+Ecash you would still have a fixed size base currency, while 'banks' could still increase and decrease the amount of E-Cash in circulation.