skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's a lot to assume, including a.) that you know categorically that the U.S. really has engaged in "considerably more manipulation" and b.) that the quantity of manipulation alone determines the morality. For instance, does manipulating two elections to depose brutal dictators add up to a "moral loss" against manipulating one election of a peaceful, "benevolent" country to gain access to its resources?

I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of arguing which interventions are "more moral"--just pointing out the flaw in your reasoning.

So, let's just concede that you are completely correct. That still doesn't argue for the U.S. doing nothing in response, as some seem to suggest. It's actually mind-blowing that people are offering that as a reason that the U.S. should not protect its democratic process--allowing anyone to engage in an all out assault on it with impunity.
'exec' and 'eval'? No it's not, the importlib machinery is used (which doesn't just eval(read('import.py')))
I think it's referencing middle-out compression.
> Perhaps you can write a tiny web app that loads instantly and still retains a full set of features, but most of the world cannot.

I've long been skeptical of this line of thinking emanating from major thick client JS framework authors. I think they underestimate what people are capable of.

> Over time, Ember will become like gcc -O3 for web apps, intelligently optimizing them and delivering them as fast as possible, piece by piece, to your user’s browser.

I've been observing these trends for years and what I'm seeing is this: ever since these new thick client JS frameworks became so trendy, web performance has dramatically decreased, not increased.

This one-two combo punch of framework authors condescending their users as "our target audience is devs who can't hand code" while simultaneously promising performance that's just as good as hand coding and perpetually failing to deliver is a toxic stew that is crippling web performance.
Twitter for anything political is horrible, but politics pretty much is horrible everywhere right now due to extreme polarization.

Personally I find Lindy West the author responsible for this horrible cultural polarization after all she wrote very similar horrible things on exgawker site jezebel, that targeted individuals for harassment as well.
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No, the previous method was very different, and it required developers to modify their apps for Chromebooks, if they were to work at all.

This article explains it:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/05/the-play-store-comes-...
"A new generation of Chromebooks"... that are likely to not have any meaningful retail distribution in Australia, if past experience is to be any guide.

Any Chromebooks that have been available locally have been generally much lower spec versions than what have been available in the US. I don't know why Google Australia isn't doing more to increase their visibility locally?
The choice is to not participate. Boycotts are not supposed to be easy. This discussion reminds me of the "It's impossible to not use Facebook" arguments.
that defeats the whole purpose of dropbox though. You can have a cheap ftp server for $10/year if you look hard enough.

But the argument for dropbox is that you have a client for almost every platform you can use. With S3 you'll have to use a 3rd-party software, which might not function properly.
You're right, that does look similar... I expected this to be based on some type of RNN!
Yes. LWN has the details: https://lwn.net/Articles/701964/
> I profoundly believe that believing in God is by definition non-analytical.

Why by definition? There are many people who purport to believe in God because they claim there is evidence that God exists. That claim may be false, but it doesn't seem to me to be logically incoherent.

> For example, I think most people can agree that it's trivially morally bad to cause pain for no good reason.

Sure, but that just begs the question: what is a "good reason"? The Inquisitors thought that they were saving people from eternal hellfire by torturing them. Does that constitute a "good reason"?
If the idea of project creation isn't standardized in UI presentation then it isn't an IDE.
You may be stretching the definition of sort of. The Boeing factory, while indeed large at 13.38 million cubic meters, is sort of smaller than the Grand Canyon at 4.98 trillion cubic meters. This is like saying that the number 1 is sort of close to the number 372,457 (number of Boeing factories that fit in the Grand Canyon). Tongue-firmly-in-cheek I'm definitely going to go check out the Boeing tour now.
Tangential: This is the first time I've seen the .google TLD in use. Looks...weird.
That's a completely different situation.
In NL and BE, there are often public urinals during festivals like this:

http://toilet-guru.com/pictures/amsterdam-street-dscf3952-tn...

But generally, in Europe, there are about zero free public toilets and just a few public pay ones.
It was Wen Jiaobao and much earlier than Xi Dai. Economist and Time were recently blocked because of Xi jinping articles.

"China bashing" is simply a euphemism for being critical on china, any kind of criticism is applied the term. The CPC just cannot accept criticism from anyone in any form, so they block it all out. Only low value news sources like CNN and Fox remain.

Chinese are incredibly self critical in china but do not like it when foreigners are. Face is a huge deal in Chinese culture.
It's not. Taiwan is fully democratic, has elected a president from the Democratic Progressive Party and has very few people who self-identify as Chinese.
Useless is a pretty relative term. If what I want is something I can send some emails on, watch a movie or do facebook; something light, cheap and instant on is pretty appealing. It's like a tablet with a keyboard.

And there's the management features that have made them so appealing to schools. Cheap to acquire and easy for someone without a great deal of IT experience to manage.
Why do you need 10 hidden layers of 500 neurons each? That sounds pretty crazy to me :)
My comment was in a subthread about computers playing chess in a more human-like manner.
You don't see Google on first page of search results by googling “search engine”
Biases based on personal experiences are one of the core tenets of NIBMYism. It's not about what's better for you, it's what's better for the community at large. I could care less about George Lucas and his art. With that said, culturally and economically a Star Wars Museum will have undeniable wide-reaching impacts on this city. Sports Basement will never have that impact. Nor will a museum change the fact that the Presidio and Crissy Field will remain a hub for fitness activities.
Writing software for others
Don't like Twitter? Don't be on Twitter. We don't need a whining essay on the subject.
Hopefully like some other chromebooks have been, they will be relatively hackable (e.g.: they will make it easy to install your own OS on too if you want).

edit: relatively easy -- I'm typing this on a Toshiba Chromebook on which I flashed a new BIOS to turn it into a regular PC laptop. Had to do the washer removal trick, etc. I think this was a good trade off on Google's part, between security and freedom, actually.
CPython is the spec (or really more the CPython test suite). Just like the Ruby MRI. It's a simple, plain interpreter without many frills, and to add or remove a feature you have to submit a PEP which goes through a specification process.

Python started as a one-man-band project and of course didn't have a specification.
Internet doesn't work that way and people don't want to pay, it's simple as that. Even HN readers avoid paywalls like plague. Just check every thread when it comes up.

Internet is all about sharing and linking. Ads suck but this is the best model we have yet come up with the way we assume Internet works.
Granted. Just as you can easily corrupt memory.

Just as you can statically link libc, without it showing up in the symbol table.
Count me among those that care very much for American Illustrators and would love to see the development of a world class museum devoted to their craft, but who also didn't care for the proposed locations in the Presidio and Chicago lakefront.

I personally think the Expo Park location near USC would make sense.
The 32GB iPad Pro 9.7, Smart Keyboard and Pencil are $599, $149, and $99 for a total of $847. The Samsung Chromebook Plus is $449 and has a keyboard and stylus
Why not break it into parts and build them in thematically appropriate locations? You could have a little one in Nevada (Tattooine) and another in Antarctica (Hoth) and Florida (Dagobah). I think this would be more appropriate and more well received.
This is significantly different than the Voice of America.

H.R. 5181 establishes a Global Engagement Center, funds it, creates an official in charge of it who works for the Board of Broadcasting Governors and makes them immune to civil law.

With the passage of the resolution, the Executive Branch is empowered to reinterpret prior domestic propaganda protections so that American citizens that do not believe official US narrative can be engaged/targeted by influence operations.
i think he's asking if there's replication for the data stored on the master in case the master goes down, i.e. can there be multiple masters?
The original versions of things built with NodeWebKit and Electron were unbearably slow, it's true, but they've come a long way.

If you want to build a cross-platform desktop application with any of C, C++ or C# knock yourself out. Someone using Electron will have good-enough prototype within weeks while you're still working on your build process.

Where you can focus on one OS you can get better results with a pure C++, Objective-C, or Swift result, but when going cross-platform it massively complicates things. Today JavaScript is a pretty good answer to that problem, and performance is adequate enough people are willing to pay the price in terms of footprint.

Software that exists but is suboptimal is better than software that doesn't exist but is hypothetically better.

If you don't like those applications and think you can knock out something better in C++, by all means, but you've got quite a hill to climb.

Microsoft Visual Code, as one example was written deliberately using Electron even though Microsoft obviously has some amazingly talented C++ people who can build cross-platform applications: Microsoft Office and a compiler. I don't think they took that decision lightly.
Don't rely on a closed platform for your communication.
In the US we are dealing with the problem of real news.

So is China.
New human organ discovered by Irish surgeon
Golang is considering to accept GitHub PRs
What's stopping a compile of Erlang to JS via LLVM and Emscripten and just taking the expected performance hit?
There's an SD slot, no?
I also think as a parent, it might be relatively easy to monitor a (younger) child's use of the device through Chrome itself.
According to what I remember reading in https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engine-not-camera before the Black-Scholes formula started being applied by traders, the market prices did not correspond to the prices predicted by the model, because there was no other mathematical model to price options, most of the trading was done based on heuristics, and the market was highly inefficient. For at least the first few years when the Black-Scholes formula first started being used by traders the market converged on the predicted prices. As speculation and arbitrage opportunities were identified, the prices of options diverged from the result of the Black-Scholes formula, and other models were developed, based on the Black-Scholes equation.
I bought a new chromebook a few months ago. One of the nicer ones, not the super cheap one.

I'm just as disappointed as I was when I first used a chromebook 4 years ago. It's slow, already crashed once - requiring a full re-install, the touchpad barely registers my finger, and it loses battery in a few days. Seriously if I leave it alone for a few days it drops from 100% battery to like 5%.

For $449 I'd rather buy a 5 year old macbook air than use another chromebook. I'm selling mine.
Sure, but that works without from `__future__ import print_function` in Python2 as well.

But it gives different output; the print() prints a tuple whereas the function print() prints a newline.

Also compare print(1) and print(1,2) with and without the __future__ import.
Markdown-to-jsx (safely convert markdown into proper React JSX)
Google barely sells them directly, they don't market them that much even in the US with the exception of a few devices.

As for the specs well honestly the "high end" Chromebooks are a joke, are you really going to buy a 1000-2000$ Core i5 Chromebook?

The CPU and RAM on these things doesn't matter that much for their use cases, even with the general purpose android repackaged apps it still wouldn't matter, what does matter is the storage and even the Core i5 models come with 32-64GB storage usually which is a joke.
This slide show has its proposed design and the other ones

http://sf.curbed.com/2013/9/18/10196782/final-design-proposa...

Lucas' building was trading a generic store for a generic building that looked more at home housing sleezy mortgage brokers than to be a world-class museum.
I propose we start accepting pull requests by automatically converting them into Gerrit CLs
("change lists", same as a PR but different terminology). Reviews would still happen on
Gerrit and the bot would update the PR of activity on Gerrit. Gerrit is still where we'd
run trybots and push the "Merge" button. We would never merge on Github. Gerrit would
remain the upstream source-of truth.
I think a more accurate comparison is this: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=ember%20javascript,r...

Regardless, I've bet on Ember both at my company and personally because I think they've done a lot of things right and their community process sets them up to continue on that track. As long as the community and innovation continues, I don't think it matters if React keyword searches are 20x Ember's.
I can get a 256GB version of the iPad pro, I don't care about the price atm, I want an option.
This article is silly.

When you see the graph of wait time by person (country), you clearly understand that this is perfectly deliberate, and expresses exactly the assessment of President Putin about the moral quality and actual importance of the person and her country.
> Which for me personally means, that I would rather C and Fortran directly or better yet, a C++, .NET or Java binding to them.

Being able to describe things with a syntax that looks almost like pseudocode and runs highly-optimized C/Fortran code to do heavy lifting has huge, huge advantages.
Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it is not true. There are many reasons why Google may not want to reveal long-term plans so explicitly.

It's clear that existing Python codebases will be maintained for the foreseeable future – there would be no reason to build this otherwise – but this may signify a shift away from Python for new extensions to the project, as this now makes it possible to integrate Go packages with relative ease.
What about the google crapware, does it remove that too?
>I would just need a way to run VScode or sublime

I'm assuming Crouton is still an option on this device, so that would give you an Ubuntu environment. Not as elegant as a native app, but it works.
Again, extermination camps were not in Germany. Not one. US/french/forces can't have liberated anyone from those extermination camps, since their troops were not there. Only the soviet army reached the extermination camps - those camps who were still there and not closed earlier.

Concentration camps were also in Germany. Many. Sure the US/UK/French army liberated people from there.

The Wikipedia articles on these topics are actually quite good. Don't spread FUD.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/extermination-camp
Really? Blaming Trump for a terrible business model?

No matter how far you are in the SV bubble, even you must admit that was one hell of logical leap.

> Hopefully that will not be the case, but if it is, money for startups with hazy revenue models will not be cheap.

Sounds like a great thing to me.
Icy ridges found on Pluto
Both my workplace and the one big open source project I use homeassistant all use python 3. Do you have any data to backup python 3 adoption being a failure? I know it was certainly painful for many years.

As a python 3 user everything seems fine on my end. Though 3 has its own new warts. They are smaller and more forgivable warts for now but its probably not a good sign.

I do agree the direction python is heading is not very interesting anymore but that doesn't mean its dead or useless now.
Chromebooks have generally been okay when it comes to bloatware (OEMs seemingly aren't allowed to do more than pre-install easily-removable (Chrome) extensions, and even that doesn't seem to be very common). Maybe that's going to change now that this is closer to an Android device.
Sell and Hold Strategy
I also think the TI location would make sense, assuming transit can be properly planned. I haven't looked into it much but I believe I've read that the plan was to run increased ferry service to the museum. Does anyone know how viable this is?

Also, I'm assuming sea level rise and soil liquefaction due to earthquakes are a major concern on TI. Are there plans to remedy these issues and can they be built/engineered around?
Why do I have to log in to linkedin for this??
Why is this BS on HN?
Dress: add symbols back into a stripped ELF binary (~strip)
That may be true, but really they are a interface to decision making logic( AI ). The AI looks for text to power it, that might be spoken word, or in your case in a few years I can see a camera reading your signing and having the ability to sign back to you.
Has a core m7 and 8 gigs of ram, that's fast enough to run Bitwig in crouton
A few days?! That's a killer feature for me... most laptops can barely get through half a day.
> I remember a couple years ago there was a guy claiming he could run Twitter himself on 4 really big servers.

I worked with said person and I feel like he would get along very well with Arthur Whitney.

It's definitely easy to make guesses on how an org could be streamlined from the outside. Though Medium needed to grow quickly and that takes having a lot of people to create features, sell, etc. They didn't grow and needed to scale back and change their strategy. I've seen quite a few startups go through continuous hiring booms then layoffs over and over again.
Don't like the article? Don't comment on it. We don't need whiny bitching on the subject.
Yes, I suspect that it is a bad thing. People who like modern UIs greatly outnumber people who like ones from the '90s.

The most straightforward explanation as to why Craigslist remains king is simple: network effects.
If most of the numbers you encounter yer day-to-day are on the order of 0.00005 (the relative volume of my house), then perhaps 1 would seem as unrealistically massive as 372,457!
The master nodes only have soft states. All actual states are stored on volume servers, together with the actual data.

If one master node goes down, the other master nodes will elect a new leader and control the system.
The most interesting thing will happen when an Android phone with a screen & keyboard is Android with a Chrome desktop. Marketing shouldn't be burning the midnight oil to figure out the branding of Android/Chrome cross overs.
There's a long way between your price sensitivity and "not excusable". There's a place in the market for this, without question, especially since it sports removable storage.
Wait, the way he defines the quad tree color property requires that you manually input the color for each region. If you wanted this to be part of a general purpose algorithm in real software then you'd need another algorithm that determines the color of each region - a very expensive operation if you wanted the maximum benefit.
I think there is a line where it makes sense to speak up. Short term revenue isn't always worth the long term reputation hit.
Well, go on then, why spend just an afternoon when you could spend 5 whole days. Make a YouTube that's 10x better, host it from your closet and watch the megabucks roll in as you take down Google.
Samsung says its new QLED TVs are better than OLED TVs
I don't believe it is from reading the comments on the article.

It's not just this cable, every future Trans-Atlantic cable recently installed or planned within the next 5 years ( except Hibernia Express, which goes to U.K. But also has a branch to Eire) is avoiding the UK.

But it has nothing to do with Brexit, the new systems are being driven by the content guys and they don't have any data centres in the U.K.

Brexit won't impact any future builds to the UK. The UK is still well served by the infrastructure installed during the .com bubble. although it is getting a bit long in the tooth now.

London will continue as global financial centre after Brexit, and new infrastructure will be built when it is demanded. Indeed Brexit should be seen as an opportunity to de-shackle the UK from Euro legislation to encourage more content players , data centre builders etc to base themselves in the UK and drive new cable builds to the UK.

- Peter Jamieson

Principal Engineer - Core Network Support at Virgin Media & Chairman - European Subsea Cables Association

EDIT: Here's a link to some further information: https://data-economy.com/avoid-uk-completely-go-directly-new...
>Medium currently had a full fledged Sales, Support, HR and even a big ass operations dept. And 2 or 3 offices across United States. Their operations & other business depts were quite big in head count, even rivaling local oracle offices

Holy shit, sorry if I'm coming in to this discussion late and empty handed but isn't Medium basically a fucking blog?
I've actually found it to be a pretty good filter because you can curate the sources more carefully than you can on other systems.

Tumblr is a waste of time. Medium's too much of a commitment. Facebook is dead to me. Reddit's political feeds are full of trolls.

So that doesn't leave much left.
At CES 2017, Acer debuts its $9,000 gaming laptop
I'll refer you to the original source where I picked up this trick: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000393/ch01.htm...

"Transforming and Reducing Data at the Same Time"

I highly recommend David Beazley's excellent book, it made me a much better Python developer, helping me produce both idiomatic and efficient solutions over the last year. That book is programming poetry.
They mention exactly two third-party apps installed:

https://news.samsung.com/us/2017+ces+Samsung+Chromebook+Plus...
I too honestly thought this was satire.

But it looks more like a political statement, and one which appears to be clouding some technical judgement over why routing the cable this way may not be the best idea ever, as outlined by one or two responses to that article on the LinkedIn site.

As to Brexit itself, which appears to be the main reason for routing the cable this way, and any negative effects feared - for whom? It seems to be some nebulous fear of some sort? Nothing particularly specific anyway, other than he thinks 'Brexit will be bad'.

"Thought leader." Hmmm..
It's not only about the hardware but also about the training data sets, the neural network topology...

Then, if something better than MCTS is found that will provide advantage too. Remember that those bots are hybrid solutions.
Introducing ical-archiver to split out old iCalendar entries
I think he meant that it looses its charge without him using it.
For content creators Twitter can be both an invaluable tool and their worst nightmare.

If only Twitter could fix that second part they'd probably be able to turn the tide.
A GUI to configure systemd services