skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does! And you can do wonders with it. It has functions that make it capable of doing almost anything.

Also, my project https://requesthub.xyz/ relies entirely on the transformation capabilities of jq. See real world examples of jq transformations in this context: https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/1d57953aa285b9bf5b51712268cf...
I think he's trying to point out the hypocrisy of the overall media-opinion on the matter before the results, vs now. I'd argue that people are a whole lot more "interested" or "curious" in the possibility of vote-manipulation or hacking now that the really unexpected candidate won. Hillary was a sort of "okay" result, yet Trump is, well I'm sure you've been reading HN and the rest of the internet.
I've been using daily contacts for years until I had a minor irritation in my eye for a few days, went to see a doctor, who told me I have an infection and I'm in real danger of losing my eye. Got antibiotics and luckily everything turned out OK.

I got the impression that eye doctors are not big fans of contacts, and that my situation wasn't uncommon.

Had a LASIK shortly afterwards, worked out OK, so far of course. I'm sure it has risks, but I haven't seen proof those are worse than contacts'.
Many people on twitter linked him to Watergate's Halderman.
An we will arrest you for obstructing arrest.
For the unaware, you can now get 1 month sleep in contact lenses. No removing every night!

Shits works!!!!

I own an online eye glass store and rarely wear my own frames.
I thought HN welcomed diversity of opinion.

Starting flamewars was not my intention.

When I posted the comment the title of this posting was quite different and it made more sense in that context.

If you wished to ask me to substantiate the comment - you could have done exactly that, no need for threats.

EDIT: I've read the thread in it's entirety.

You're right, it's not the level of discussion I had hoped for.

But I will still maintain that I acted with intellectual integrity and if people have collectively steered towards the lowest common denominator - that is just the way people are.

A sign of times perhaps, but so was this US presidential election. I subscribe to Marcus Aurelius' philosophy of stoicism: "All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them."
> I'd like to know not just that these things happen but if the person who is experiencing these issues is more or less happy compared to before the corrective laser eye surgery.

I had PRK done a few years ago (my prescription was too strong and my eyes dilated too widely for LASIK). Before I had that done, I had a strong astigmatism and nearsighted in both eyes. It was bad enough that it was "surgeon's discretion" whether or not to perform the procedure - the ophthalmologist doing all of the prep visits warned me several times that the surgeon may refuse when he reviewed the file.

I've got almost all of the lingering issues the article mentions, plus a few more. The most annoying is a muscle-memory tendency to "hyperfocus" when I look at objects at certain depths of field, like my eyes used to do in order to compensate for the nearsightedness. It's usually imperceptible as it corrects itself immediately, but it stumps autorefractor machines and the eye muscle fatigue causes headaches.

I'd still get it done in a heartbeat. My alternative was a world of semi-clarity that had a ~2ft radius around myself, that very rapidly devolved into a world of multi-colored blobs as the world around me blended together. Without glasses, I couldn't see or do much of anything; I had them on from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to sleep. The ever present anxiety of "does doing that risk my glasses/contacts" (particularly anything water or beach related) and "do I have enough backups" was stressful. Stress that I didn't even notice until, about 3 months after my surgery, I realized I hadn't so much as thought about my vision for weeks. I just took it for granted I could see stuff. Sometimes I'd see it with halos, sometimes I'd see it with a bit of glare, but I could damn well see it.

In HN speak: Think of glasses/contacts as a critical external dependency to your system, one which you have no control over. If it goes down your whole stack goes down until it comes back. Your entire system will be exhaustively and defensively designed to ensure the stability of that dependency. You're so busy protecting that dependency that you never get around to adding new features that might, possibly, somehow cause that dependency to go down. LASIK/PRK gets rid of that external dependency at the cost of a few mild (but known) exceptions that you may have to handle.

tl;dr: 10/10 would do it again
Did you mean Dennett, instead of Chalmers? I agree that the Dennett's conclusions seems to be false almost on a logical level. The self is an illusion for sure, the consciousness for sure isn't (EDIT: not saying here that there exists 'pure consciousness without content').

> Don't just read about it. Go ahead and have the experience yourself. It changes a lot of perspectives. You don't even have to go all the way to the highest levels described in the literature - the intermediate stuff is revelatory enough already.

It is indeed. The more you meditate, the more you see that most of the things that you do 'outside' are meaningless, just playing with your representations of the world and pretending they are real. Of course we can't do anything to somehow reach the 'real' world, but at least we can drop the pretending part.

The title of this book may seem both scary and beautiful in this regard: http://www.buddha-heute.de/downloads/treeriver.pdf
Not sure I'd recommend it for beginners, but I just love the title.
The first SMILE procedure seemed much easier on my eyes, at least for the first days. Then it was horribly ruined by an antibacterial eye drop that we later found out that I'm allergic to.

The LASIK procedure gave me a dry eye but they, sensible enough, switched me onto another eye drop, so it's hard to compare.

A couple of months after, the LASIK eye is slightly more dry than the other. </anecdata>
I'm a co-founder at https://www.dailydrip.com and we produce 2 screencasts per week in each topic (5 minutes a day, 5 days a week, 3 times it's just text), but we always provide a full text script for the video screencasts for those that prefer just learning via text. Also: search, as mentioned.
Sure, no way our intelligence community could ever mess something up as big as this...

Remember 9/11? Iraq WMD?
Here's Hillary Clinton's opinion of elections:

“I do not think we should have pushed for an election in the Palestinian territories. I think that was a big mistake,” said Sen. Clinton. “And if we were going to push for an election, then we should have made sure that we did something to determine who was going to win.”

http://observer.com/2016/10/2006-audio-emerges-of-hillary-cl...
Looks interesting. I'm looking for a more secure minimal OS, for use with backend services. Would it make sense to use it as a server OS, or is it primarily for desktop use?

Also, is there a docker image that is ready to go? That would be immensely useful.
they have 1 month sleep in contacts now.... I was like you and hated the process. Once a month changing rocks and I have zero desire for Lasix
Emscripten[1] comes with SDL support (cf its test suite [2]). Not sure how complete it is.

[1] http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/

[2] https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/master/tests/hell...
By the way, can we now discuss South Carolina?

Paperless touch screen voting there me and we have no idea who won any election.

Completely unacceptable.
Glasses are amazing. They help me see better and they make my face look like my face. Been wearing them since I was 7 or 8. 29 now, no regrets, never want to get away from glasses.

I clean them with a t-shirt when smudges happen to impede vision. Happens only when somebody pokes them with a finger. If your pillow is soft enough, you can even lie down on them and the glasses are just fine. They don't care, they just bend a bit.

No weird shit to put in your eyes. Take them off whenever they annoy you. Change your entire face every few years when buying a new pair. That's always exciting.

I guess I'm lucky that I can do sports and such without glasses. Means I can just take them off when they'd get in the way. Same for fogging when I transition from cold to warm. Take them off, carry on.

My doctors always said I should avoid wearing glasses 24/7 because something about eye laziness, but I am much more comfortable when the world isn't blurry. So I wear them 24/7 except for certain sports and sleep.

<3 glasses
I've gotten custom/wavefront LASIK on two separate occasions.

The first time, left eye came out perfect: 4k hd quality, better than blu-ray.

Right eye however had noticeable visual aberration running diagonally that made it impossible to read for long periods. I adapted, but after a year I went back for a top up.

My second LASIK was easier, and my vision seemed promising. However, a few weeks later, I suddenly and without notice found my eye leaking like a sieve for maybe an hour. Needless to say I was a bit more than freaked out, but I got better fast, and over my next two visits to the LASIK centre found "nothing to be wrong". While my vision started to deteriorate, they thought it might recover after the swelling had subsided.

Six months later, and for my most recent catchup, they noticed a "corneal wrinkle". Got everyone in the joint to take a good look at my eye, and then they've lifted me up again to try to "smooth everything out". So far so good. 5/7 would do again.
This is my opinion but the way LASIK consultations go, the results aren't clearly shared. From my understanding, the doctors should know with fairly accurate determination whether the laser you're paying for will result in light diffusion: they dilate your eyes so they know the diameter of your pupil and they know the diameter of the laser. The wider the laser, the more likely light won't pass damaged or original tissue. So I feel the operators know the odds they you'll experience defects but don't tell you. Instead, they "recommend" larger lasers. Personally, if defects are a certainty, then that information should be shared. The language used in these consultations make the buyer feel that the results are not certain, that no defects will likely happen when in fact, the operators know full well what defects you'll likely experience.

That said, I wish I had taken my chances with PRK.
Li-ion battery is much better but I don't need an Arduino board nor sensors - we've plenty of - and I don't get the 4 motors design... more problems and no particular gains.

Al these kits and chassis look like a different mix of the same - not so good - parts.
A History of Native Americans Protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline
Love and Death in Revolution Square
The point is that it's a difference in degree, not a qualitative difference. It's true that we are the only animal capable of passing written law. That doesn't mean other animals don't have property. A silverback's nest or mate is his property, by all definitions that matter in gorilla society. This is recognized by all members, and all members know there the penalties if the rules aren't respected.

Our property laws grew from these exact ways of thinking. Property is natural.
Pro-tip: Ultrasonic glasses / jewellery cleaners are ~30 USD on Amazon [insert affiliate link here].

I dunk my glasses into my cleaner every morning while I'm showering.
It is, you can watch videos at the extensions marketplace.
> Just have an audited code and its verified executable run in a physically secured system.

Do any of those exist? Is this possible in practice, in this decade?
Best of luck.

If I had -9 I'd consider surgery just like you.
You can get one eye done at a time, which means what we're really talking about is a 1/10,000 chance of being a pirate.

Full disclosure: I've had LASIK three times[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13025716
You are lucky you can use contacts. I honestly don't know if I would have had a corrective surgery if I could use contacts. My eyes are, however, so dry that I never found a brand of contacts that would stay in my eye for more than 2 hours. After that, the eye would be so dry that I would blink them out.

The quality of eyesight isn't binary, though. The chance of total blindness from LASIK is, what?
Well, I largely agree with you because I'm not an anarchist and the poster above isn't one either. I certainly find anarchism appealing in the sense that I'd rather live as a hermit or with minimal social contact and be left to my own devices, solve any conflicts by mutual negotiation and so on.

Unfortunately this approach generally fails with anything more complex than a tiny village of 1-200 people at most. There's no particularly system with which hierarchical/authoritarian structures can easily be replaced (observe the tendency of most religions to end up concentrating temporal power even where said power is doctrinally discounted) and attempts to replace fallible human agency in the hierarchy with an incorruptible technical solution typically veer into absolutism and tyranny, whether by institutional capture or simple inertia.

The basic problem (it seems to me) is that we don't have a good theory of government by which we can measure institutional health and reliability. Anarchists and libertarians are excellent at pointing out the shortcomings of government, but as you point out their response to this is basically dismantle it, which seems to be about as sensible as saying the cells in your body will enjoy greater freedom if one would only commit suicide. Governments exist for the same reason that complex multicellular life exists.
It's hard to read this in a way that doesn't suggest that real, serious diseases aren't, at which point it becomes hardly distinct from a troll comment. Please post civilly and substantively on HN; we have to ban accounts that refuse.
In this case, we're talking about 'social pressure' on a pizzeria that should be innocent until proven guilty, but is being smeared by accusations based on little to no evidence (other than "wake up sheeple" type evidence).
Exactly, no approach is clearly correct: https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/93350/an-intuitive-wa...
While I don't disagree that programming can be a difficult and I can see reasons to not want to program, I would even less like to argue with reality. Non-programmers are losing jobs quickly and programmers are gaining them.

Perhaps if enough people left other fields to code it might temporarily lessen pressure on those fields to allow the people who cannot or will not code to stabilize. In the I do not see a a guaranteed for any not making software.

As for the author's implicit assumptions on degrees. He never does state it, he just implies it several times. His first argument that one needs a degree so they can be as good as Sony was only one such assumption.

I have not had good opportunities at stock options yet... I guess I need to get in on the ground floor of something.
Bullies are cowards. That lesson from school is generally true for bullies in real world too.

Government is just that coward bully. True that US government's tyranny has been rise year on year under leadership of presidents of all political stripes and yet it has meant zilch for either their political goals states good objectives.

All the recent wars by US government have been massive and spectacular failures, fight against terrorism has only created far more threats, people's approval of drug legalization is all time high, gays are safest they have ever been and it is easiest to get almost any kind of gun illegally than in past.

Politicians are very eager to control you life but they are so incompetent with that power that eventually it would not matter. The only problem I see that increasing government spending which will slow down US economy.
> Someone is going to exploit my local password manager remotely?

I don't know - who are you?

Even if you are not an especially valuable target, malware is pretty widespread. It steals credit card numbers and other data; if the attacker had a hack for a popular password manager, why wouldn't they go for it?
Even better.... they have 1 month sleeping contacts. No need for everyday removal. Just switch out once a month.
Windows is not better than mac un that sense
Would you mind sharing the title of the book?
Author here, I updated the project's README based on the feedback in this thread. Thanks for that.

So a bit about the project and how I use it, indeed, it is similar to http://myrepos.branchable.com/. I use it to keep a list of repos I use across all my environments so I can:

1. clone projects without having to make directories and having to find the repo URL

2. update them without having to cd into them

3. having them available consistently throughout any machine I have at the same location
No, my point is that people should think their partisan rhetoric through, unless they want to put themselves into a position of being a complete hypocrite.

But since you asked, yes, I do think these "concerns" about Russian hacking of the US electoral process are stupid and a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the next President (which according to the rhetoric of many on left over the fall, is undermining to democracy itself).
Get the one Month sleeping ones. I switch out only once a month now.
I've been wearing glasses since I was an infant. I'm used to them so they aren't that bad. Contacts are a huge pain in the ass and I can't see as well with contacts as I can with glasses. It took me 20+ years to find a pair that actually look good on me (odd face size) so I treasure them now and I bought four pairs of them so I don't ever have to worry about it again. As a bonus I've found out I can sleep in them comfortably.

So the only time I ever take off my glasses is in the shower.

As an aside I always wondered how they are able to measure an infant's vision before they can really communicate.
Is there a benefit to reverting to 2x2?
What Is an Easy Way to Discover All of My External Facing Systems?
this is like the origin story for a supervillain. hard at work in his/her lab, a flash of gamma radiation turns this intrepid jellyfish geneticist into ...
Every software company offers eye insurance.

Even without, it was 1k a year.
> It scales beautifully

It wastes resources, both CPU and RAM, so scaling is usually throwing more hardware at the problem instead of rewriting the whole thing in a more efficient language/framework.

> has a great security track record

Does it really? How many of us are stuck on old and vulnerable Django versions because our clients won't pay for the increasingly non-trivial job of upgrading to the latest backwards-incompatible version?

> the core team keeps up with the times and new technologies but does so at a sane pace and without rushing things

That's a nice way to spin it.
Baby funny moments
Contacts got a lot better.
The articles don't debunk each other, they are in fundamental agreement on observable facts.

Both accept that it is possible for the Russians to hack the election. Both state that it is reasonable that Trump actually won. Both agree that the only way to be sure is to conduct an audit.

They do differ. The medium article digs into depth on the technical details of how doable the hack is. The 538 article digs into depth on the quality of the statistical evidence.

They come to opposite conclusions. The medium article concludes that we should audit because eventually someone will try to manipulate the election. 538 is more concerned with raising public concern about fairness. I am more concerned with actual fairness than perception, so I agree with the medium article.
Economies can be modeled to fit any way so that it is in balance with fundamental rules in play within of a sovereign country/region.

First thing that needs to be modeled correctly is the government. Whats is it? Is it going to be authoritative or democratic. Now if it is authoritative, it servers a minority in power. If its democratic, shouldn't it be optimized for welfare of its citizens? Once that is defined, it becomes easy to model economy right. The right thing that should've been done is to let go of attitude "too big to fail" and let the market correct itself. Contracts were made between banks and investment banks. Those were valid contracts. Those who found themselves at the short end of the stick knew what they were getting into. It was the expert bankers who created those contracts. They didn't held their end of the deal. They basically caused a mess and got away scott free.
Why does it have to be a foreign government hacking?

An election tech worker or contractor with an agenda, could easily achieve the same results without having to go to the great lengths of breaking into the network using malware etc.
A friend of mine served as the registrar of voters for a small town in Connecticut. He told me there is a whole procedure they have in place to even handle the ballots once they are placed in the machine. There has to be a chain of custody.

There is always that aspect of it, it someone can get a hold of a box of ballots and somehow slip those into the process, it would be easy to circumvent any machine that relies on a paper audit trail.

A double entry system where you get your paper ballot optically scanned and you also place your vote into a independent system maybe even an electronic one could provide a better check against having just one system as a point of failure?
A friend recently introduced me to Keepass[1], it seems to be an open source 1Password.
I'd be interested in opinions on that, especially @tptacek's.

[1] http://keepass.info/
I have naïver questions:

taking this port of GNUnet[1] to Javascript through emscripten, where does the GNUnet code ends and where does JS starts? What functions are exported by the GNUnet code? In this case, Clojurescript is used, but I suppose I could reuse the "ported C" part and write my own pure-Javascript app on top of it, right? How difficult is that?

[1]: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web
Strawman / slippery slope.

This isn't an ISP blocking free speech, discriminating against minorities, nor assaulting anyone. It's an ad network that stopped doing business with a company that violated policies.
Stupid lay rhetorical answer: aren't real particles already understood as emergent phenomena of their fields/wavefunctions?
Mac users are pre-ordering $699 Eve V crowd developed computer on Indiegogo
Green500 Reaches New Heights in Energy-Efficient Supercomputing
It'd be nice to be able to access Facebook and talk to my friends while in China, and having censored communication is better than nothing.

Thanks very much for sharing your perspective.

My concern is that -- if we don't draw the line somewhere -- the U.S. will (continue to) become more like China in this regard, over time. A state of affairs which I'm sure Mark Zuckerberg will be perfectly willing to accomodate, and work with.
Possibly apocryphal anecdote: The Trump campaign, knowing the they were never going to get any electoral votes from CA, instead spent resources in CA having volunteers there work phonebanks that called voters in states that were in play.
Ask HN: What are you hacking on this weekend?
Do you have any side projects you are working on or something you are hacking on this weekend?
Small sample might be at fault here.

For a counterexample: has the embargo on Iran worked?
I assume that the people who voted for Trump just don't care about and even actively hate their children, so they will be happy with this quite expected news.
That's not "elections", it's specifically about one election, for an occupied territory without the capacity to self-govern. You can be a huge democracy zealot and still agree that the Hamas victory was a setback for Palestinian independence. I am, and do.

Come on.