skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, while there was an irrefutable bias in the DNC during the primaries, and shitty moves made against Sanders as a result of that bias, that is not the same thing in any way to rigging the primaries. That's a much stronger allegation with no evidence I've yet seen provided. The DNC was deplorable and idiotic in its rejection of Sanders and active working against his campaign. But the primaries were not rigged.

Second, how exactly was a level playing field created by leaks that targeted a single party and candidate? Was there some demonstrable advantage HRC and the DNC possessed versus GOP candidates and the RNC, which was neutralized in a fair fashion by the leaks, thus creating an equitable and balanced standing among all the parties and candidates? That seems to require quite a lot of evidence and explaining.

Third, I don't think there has been any stated allegations from the Obama administration or intelligence services regarding hacking voting machines and tallies. I realize some people are suggesting it without any evidence being out there. But the administration doesn't appear to be making those claims from all I've read so far. That's a wholly different issue that would require an incredible amount of organization, effort, and evidence proving it occurred. "Hacking the election" seems to almost be used as a bit of a colloquialism, more akin to "life-hacking", and where administration officials are concerned, specifically focused on the data breaches and leaks in an effort to "life-hack" the election through creative social and political engineering, not manipulating voting tabulations. However, voting machines != electoral process. They are merely the mechanism by which the process culminates in a decision. The machines can be entirely sound, while the process can be hacked and manipulated.

Also, a couple of nitpicks:

- It's the Democratic Party, not Democrat Party. It's members are called Democrats, not the party itself.

- In this instance, you wanted to use "lesser" not "lessor".
Climate change expert sentenced to 32 months for fraud, says lying was a 'rush'
I have just the company you're looking for: This company is working on solving the most difficult problem the humanity has been ever since it existed--how to get laid--it's called Tinder.

That's right! This problem is so hard that NOBODY can claim to have figured it out. And I haven't even gotten to the market size--the potential market size is literally the entire humanity! Not everyone wants to share what they had for lunch, but EVERYONE wants to get laid!

Hope this answers your question!
'The EPA’s highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate change was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison Wednesday for lying to his bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid doing his real job.'
You mean if I don't have the freedom to decide I don't like freedom, your goons will punch some freedom into me? Sound very un-free to me.

Reminds me I still have my unread copy of Nozick gathering dust.
Yes, we want flying cars, and yes we "need" them if we want to solve congestion and traffic as our planet grows beyond 10 billion people.
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Yup. They were first and they iterated & made it great. Didn't even have to write an Android version for a while.

When you compare the amount of work required to get a startup off the ground then to what is required now. (dual mobile platforms & web & social) And the total number of apps & services. It's a deluge of information.

Then is there much change to start a service or company these days & see success? Maybe I'm getting too old, but normally I'd be full of ideas. These days I can't think of any.
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Wordpress typically requires caching not simply because the PHP response time is so, but because it puts out so many SQL queries that it'll overburden the database. If instead of caching, you go to horizontal scaling on wordpress, you'll quickly find that the database becomes the bottleneck.
Well, we can always eat the immigrants!
No, only if public sector and life expectancy are increasing. And they can be increasing just as well in a shrinking demographic.
to do a small combustion engine VTOL vehicle its even harder I have only seen it work with several two stroke engines.

Another optin is turbine like the AirMule, but will be hard to use it for civilian operations the hourly cost is brutal and noise and heat is really annoying for nearby people and even passengers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Aeronautics_AirMule
Another NICU father here, congrats!
The "premise" for the em-drive has been determined to be a thorough misunderstanding of the physics involved, so you cannot rule out any potentially contributing force in the experiment.

Yes you heard that right: guys who misunderstand physics go and design a reactionless thruster which, when measured in their shoddy experimental setup, produces a measurable thrust.

If there really is a measurable thrust, then the Laws of Motion are wrong and General Relativity is wrong. I'm disinclined to believe that long-held principles of physics will be upended by some guys who designed something based on a misunderstanding.
I gave myself the new rMBP with the touchbar.

I spent countless hours reading all the articles bashing Apple for it, and finally concluded that much of it boiled down to the fact that it was an expensive machine for the specs it delivered. And that is undeniably true.

But I stare at the darn thing virtually all hours I am working and a significant chunk of my leisure time as well. The reality is that for my actual computing, things like weight, battery life, how the keys feel, the screen, etc., matter far more in my enjoyment and utility of the computer, and on that measure Apple continues to knock it out of the park. I got my first MBP because of the retina screen, and soon thereafter realized I could never go back to using a device with a lower pixel density. I kinda feel the same with this machine when it comes to color: It is just stunning. Given how often I am looking at it, that dimension alone made this purchase worth it IMO.

The Touchbar has in fact mostly been a gimmick, although pairing it with BetterTouchTool has actually been extremely powerful and I've come to use it more and more.
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There is also a coupon code on that page to get 30% off. Total cost for the ebook and the dead tree copy is $20 + shipping. A steal for Bunnie's usual high quality work!
I like traveling, so working remotely from Australia for a couple of months, then switching things up in Japan for a while works well for me. I haven't been able to do that for a few years though, since my current employer likes to see everyone in the office at least once a week.
I'll assume that PM is a real role in your company and not a glorified status metrics report generator.

The first thing to keep in mind is that being a PM has nothing to do with the skills of a developer other than to judge estimates and evaluate design decisions. It's a DIFFERENT job. You're not the developers' peer and you're not s super lead (anyone who says those things is telling you they just want to be left alone to do whatever they want). So, here's the simplest version:

A PM is responsible for WHAT everyone on the team is doing, a dev (team member) is responsible for HOW they will do the work assigned. That division of responsibility is not black and white but it's a good razor to start with. Anyone who tells you it's not a real management role or you're not a people manager is badly mistaken. Because the PM role in most companies wields authority through persuasion, you are the only true people manager there is.

As the primary conduit between the world outside the project (with its many, often conflicting, stakeholders), and the world inside the project (with its many, often conflicting personalities, styles, and levels of experience), the PM has to deconflict both worlds and harmonize the two. That means you will always have to choose who to disappoint at any given moment.

The job of the PM is to maximize the value of the project for the company. Everything else is secondary. Note that value, in this case, covers a lot of ground from economics to morale and increased capability to tackle the next project. Always be prepared to explain your decisions on that basis, and, if you can't, why are you deciding that way?

The final thing I would tell you to expect is to spend 2+ years at the role before you begin to become comfortable with it, if you ever do. You are either wired to be a good PM or you are not. The mechanics aren't hard, the social dynamics and the situational awareness are.

Good luck!
so like... a sovereign wealth fund?
The screws are accessible on my MBP 2015. They are just not in recessed screw holes, and are flush with the body of the laptop.
Working remotely killed my mental health. Even with Slack, Hangouts, and all the rest, I became lonely, had difficulty focusing on work, and generally became significantly less happy and productive. I tried a coworking space, and while I made some great friends there, it still wasn't doing it for me.

I've been back at an office job for about 3 months now and it's been a huge improvement. I love being in an office with a team of people all working on the same thing, solving problems together, and socializing.

Obviously, different things work for different people, but I wish I hadn't bought into the remote work idea as wholeheartedly as I did. It's important to be aware of what you get out of onsite work in addition to the drawbacks.
Public sector unions are the most powerful bodies on earth, more powerful than 'big oil' etc..

I'm definitely not an 'anti government' type of person, but this kind of dysfunction is systematic.

They have the power to pay themselves a lot, and they do it, it's not even a public/private issue, it's just measure of power.

If progressives want to make actual progress, they need to tackle this issue.
Self flying aircraft are much easier than cars. Fewer variables and years of experience in military contexts.

My parents live in a rural area 16 mikes from our city center. Due to terrain and roads, it's a 30 mile/60 minute trip. With a flying car/shuttle, its no more than 20 minutes.
Some might argue that if your relationships are threatened by your views/being yourself, then they're not worth having to start with. Although that said I do understand where you're coming from.
Crystal binding to Sciter could be a good choice.
I can't argue with that. :)
Are there any opportunities for getting involved say in some open source projects? I'd be definitely curious.
You sound very negative towards conducting more experiments on this, when the results have been unexpected every time it's been tested. You're displaying the kind of dogma that science has been fighting against since the dawn of time. Either it's true or it's not, but we can't tell until we test it. And so far, it's only been disproven in theory, not in practice. That's worth more experiments.
Yes. Even if it's the most likely thing, experimenter error, for a half-dozen teams to all have errors and not spot them? That's quite interesting! It's the same situation we had with the FTL neutrinos a while back.
I think this is what the positive case of Poe's Law looks like.
Working 10 hours a day for four days is simply not an option anywhere in the private sector.

Most competitive company white collar staff probably put in a little over 9 anyhow.
> there is no way a Macbook can compete with a proper Thinkpad

Isn't this one of those YMMV kinda things that really depends on the person, though? It seems equally wrong to say that no one could be productive on a MBP as it is to say that no one could be productive without a MBP.
> Cut the bullshit and just run Linux on the bare metal,

I run Linux on Linux via vagrant, it's not about my program running faster it's about isolating a client projects dependencies from each other so when I have to work on that system that is still in production on PHP Current-1 or Ruby-1 I don't have to fuck with my host OS at all.

In fact I have very few developer bits and bobs installed on the host (mostly just JetBrains stuff) and all the actual tooling is run in the VM, this makes for far easier deploys for myself since my process is

pull projectname/(site||name), pull projectname/vagrant, vagrant up.

It takes me less than 30 minutes from reinstalling to having half a dozen projects with all their weird dependencies and cruft installed and I never have to worry about breaking something else or needing to blow away a machine for some reason.

I'm happy to trade some performance for running damn near everything in a guest OS for that.
I think the conclusion of the article is pretty spot on:

>At the top of the cascade, nature works forcefully and unilaterally. Up top, gender is quite simple—just one master gene flicking on and off. If we learned to toggle that switch—by genetic means or with a drug—we could control the production of men or women, and they would emerge with male versus female identity (and even large parts of anatomy) quite intact. At the bottom of the network, in contrast, a purely genetic view fails to perform; it does not provide a particularly sophisticated understanding of gender or its identity. Here, in the estuarine plains of crisscrossing information, history, society, and culture collide and intersect with genetics, like tides. Some waves cancel each other, while others reinforce each other. No force is particularly strong—but their combined effect produces the unique and rippled landscape that we call an individual’s identity.
There have been quite a few downvotes for suggesting that illegalization may not be the best remedy.

What are people's thoughts on something like: https://youtu.be/YUA8i5S0YMU

tldw:

Controlled trophy hunting big game is one of the most effective ways (sadly) of protecting the hunted animals.
People put common car engines on aircraft all the time. The problem is that "certified" aircraft engines are expensive due to that designation (think regulatory capture). There are several cheap auto-engine options for homebuilts. Maintenance can be done by the builder for homebuilts too. The costs are almost completely due to the small market size.

I agree with you that electric motors are awesome (they're what I do) and you're right that you can easily put 2-4 of them on a fairly conventional aircraft for amazing redundancy.

The problem with the quad-rotor configuration is that the motors are doing all the work. With real wings you get a better lift to power ratio but you also lose VTOL capability.

Having said all that, I'd still like to see a small short field aircraft automated to the point that the general public could use it.
"realize that the problem isn't that they get too much but that you get too little."

In relative terms it's effectively the same thing.

-> Public sector employees are generally paid too much for the value that they produce.

It's a function of power: their unions are the most powerful organizations on the planet.

They will pay themselves whatever they want.
I've had the X1 Carbon 3rd gen (Refurbished) for a few years now as my personal laptop. I don't do much heavy lifting with it, mostly League of Legends, Counter-strike, and some side programming. But it's my favorite laptop I've used. The 14" size is perfect for me and I like the feel of the rest of it. Performs well and didn't break the bank.

(I've always owned windows PCs, though I've used MBP at work for 2 years now, and have had a MacBook Air that I resold because it was too small and didn't have a niche to fill after my ultrabook and my ipad.)
Eh, fair enough then. If you don't have to setup redis yourself it doesn't really matter
A VM is absolutely the best choice for experimenting with operating systems. Dual booting is rather inconvenient and can be risky, if you are not careful while setting it up. My guess would be that OP does not have a free or convenient way to do VMs.

I use VMWare Fusion, KVM and plain Qemu (especially for non-Intel systems). All three allow convenient kernel debugging using gdb built with --enable-targets=all. Also, Fusion and KVM support nested virtualization, if you plan to tinker with hypervisors.
That's for visual flight rules. There's no way this works with VFR. For one, the examples are all major cities where there's Class B airspace, requiring positive separation. So it's basically "clear of clouds", however that assumes you're cleared into Class B. There's no possible way this works with the existing ATC system.

Flying cars won't use the same airspace as turbine powered airline planes, so a new airspace designation could exist just for cars. And drones. Because drones and flying cars will be competing for the same airspace so all of them will need to use the same system.

Added: Flying cars (and to some degree drones) do compete with the same airspace as existing general aviation flights. And that's a big problem. The legacy aircraft would have to avoid the new airspace, most won't ever get an upgrade to fly autonomously; alternatively, the flying cars will have to be programmed such that they can always yield right of way to legacy aircraft.
> You literally cannot ban it any further.

Eeeeh, even the definition of the word banned is very debatable. It definitely hasn't been flat out banned everywhere. And China did have pretty lax laws regarding this.
Part of Ward Cunningham's roadmap is to make mirroring (even to other wiki implementations) much easier.

That said, given that he's the original inventor of the wiki, I'd say he's earned a bit of patience on our part. Let's wait and see where he's going with these ideas (some of which are: federation, bi-directional linking between wikis, forking & merging, transclusion, etc.), a bit longer before contemplating setting up a "classic" wiki with this content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
Prior Art: Storks, the movie.
Am I correct that "Signature Edition" means no Linux?

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/53ri0m/warning_micro...
Worth noting theres various deals available on new EVs too

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/22/new-nissan-leafs-11840-...
What is the solution?
In general aviation (anything other than the airlines for our purposes) midair collisions happen with alarming regularity anywhere there is any congregation of aircraft (typically within 10mi of a non-towered airport). Add to this that they are nearly 100% fatal, unlike traffic collisions, and you have a recipe for disaster. There are systems coming online to help mitigate this issue (ADS-B) but they've been in the pipeline for years and won't see universal adoption until 2020 in theory.
It's an interesting question...

Let's assume for purpose of shareholders, I believe Zuckerburg (famously) has majority interest in voting shares.

In practice that should mean he controls who is on the board should they not vote in alignment with his preferences; however, certainly there could be other agreements/contracts the guarantee board seats here and there, that should all be available as a public company I just haven't looked.

At minimum, one would "assume" Facebook required board approval of a $1B+ acquisition.
This is fixed now, but for historical context:

Twilio has a feature to allow you to make calls which appear to come from a non-Twilio phone number. To do this, you have to make an API request (see here: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/outgoing-caller-ids); Twilio then responds to your application with a code that the user needs to enter, you tell that code to the user (via e.g. displaying it to their web browser), and Twilio calls the user to ask for the code. If they key in the correct code on their phone, their number is verified for your account, and you can now use it as the caller ID for future calls from your application.

Because this causes an actual real-world phone call but doesn't look like a phone call to either Twilio or Appointment Reminder, it (at the time of the attack) bypassed some protections like, to name one example, AR's anti-abuse rate limiting logic.

The bad guys "attempted to verify" the phone sex lines in the Caribbean, in much the same way as a legitimate AR customer would attempt to verify their office phone number so that appointment reminders would appear to originate from their office (and they'd get callbacks) as opposed to originating from our 1-800 number.

Some of our customers are at larger institutions, which require you to put in an extension prior to reaching the customer. Think "hospitals." The bad guys put in an extension with over 100k digits to keep their phone calls from timing out. (Dial a 5, wait a second, dial a 5, wait a second...)

The economic incentive here is "If someone calls a premium-rate number that you control, you get paid money." The economic damage is "If someone calls a premium-rate number, that someone pays to do so", so all the money the bad guys made came from either Twilio or I.
I think realistically all of the caroplanes will be built more like quadrocopters than normal aircraft. It's much less efficient but the only thing that really meets manuevability and safety constraints
I've been working remote now for 5 years. All from home (sometimes from a car or a cabin). It takes discipline and limits. In my case - limiting my urges to finish out a project or get a bit further at 2am. It can be a blessing and a curse. I'm getting ready to 'venture out' - spend time at coffee shop or coworking. For the record, I've been 'remote' in many roles; employee and consultant. Overall, for me, I find routine an absolute necessecity to get work done. By routine, I mean 'get dressed as if going into the office' - it's about mindset.
1) Selling ambassdor positions to the donors (check the xlsx file which has higher paying donors getting 'better' countries) 2) Co-ordinating with Super PAC

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/807308520546848769
Do people really believe that flying cars would solve traffic? Now all the traffic is in the sky! And thanks for ruining everyone else's view with your cars. Not to mention flying cars would be extremely hazardous depending on the height. You'd pretty much be required to create specific airways and means of signaling at busy locations. Congratulations, you just created another layer of roads.
There is a 250KIAS speed limit below 10000'MSL that applies to everyone flying VFR including airlines. They're quickly climbing out above that and end up being a non-factor. The real issue is all the other general aviation aircraft.
Picked up my SurfaceBook the day they were launched - there were definitely teething issues, sometimes the detaching process would fail, there were sleep issues (not sure if Intel cops the blame for that one).

All of these issues have been resolved with firmware updates by about 3 months after launch - reliability has been rock solid from then on out. Can't recommend it enough.
It doesn't help that the majority of our team is onsite, so any alternative is 100% for my benefit.

This really seems key. I've done various sorts of mixed telework/onsite teams, and it never works well. I think either the whole team should be onsite, or the whole team should telework. Anything else will leave some people out of important interactions.

You can even mix on a day-to-day basis, as long as you follow the same schedule. One office had a general practice of everyone in the office Mon-Thur, and then everyone teleworked on Friday. It was great.

The office I'm in now, though, has some people teleworking one day a week, and working four 10s so they're off completely on Friday, and some others working five 8's, in the office every day. It's murder to schedule a time when everyone has access to the same interaction tools.
Well, probably because you are a fucking ass?
> all their little named terms

Whose---The authors of the articles', or "HNers"'?