skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong. Voting is one of the most basic and fundamental forms of engagement when there are elections available, but far from "the answer" to problems with government. Very often combinations of other forms of activism, whether directly in the electoral process (working campaigns, actually running for office, etc.), or less directly related to the electoral process specifically (public lawful protest, various forms of direct petition), and even outside the formal bounds of the law (civil disobedience as protest, for instance) are necessary to address some problems with elected governments, and, many of those (even voting) often require substantial organizing, mobilizing, and communication to spread ideas to work effectively.

And whichever combination of methods is needed also often takes many years to be successful.
There is a deeper problem here, and it's that voting in America doesn't provide the citizens with evenly distributed representation. I'm not talking about the electoral college. I'm talking about first past the post. In Australia, you literally cannot throw your vote away. It's order of preference with instant run-off. Maine just passed ranked voting laws for their state, and I'm curious to see the effects.

The US is an Oligarchy. Some people are really angry right now, because their stawperson didn't get elected. But they weren't angry for the past eight years of domestic spying, predator drones and kill lists. This anger only helps solidify the rule of the elite, because it keeps Americans fighting each other, and not the war industry or the banks or various other entities that can basically get their laws passed no matter who is elected.

http://fightthefuture.org/articles/the-fallout-of-american-a...

I really like the EFF, and I'm glad they're fighting for our rights to speech and privacy, no matter which party is in office.
Not everyone should vote. If your views are substantially outside the mainstream there is no point in voting.

Voting pragmatically in local elections likely still makes sense even for people with extreme views. A few of the races are likely to be close and have candidates with disparate viewpoints.
I'm not sure I like your tone, comrade. What are you hiding?
They have said they will be open-sourcing the codebase. But it doesn't appear to up on their Github yet : https://github.com/appdotnet
I'm not blaming, just trying to better understand what's going on.

#1

I'm not grumpy with Consumer Reports. I don't know that I would have caught the debug mode bug. For future, I'd encourage them to contact reviewees when something seems out of whack.

Their only mistake was a weak mea culpa. I can't speak to that.

Consumer Reports has done excellent work in the past. Our society is better for their efforts. But I'm disappointed that they haven't adapted to digital media. I now refer to The Wire Cutter more than CR. How'd that happen?

#2

Apple's laptop line is being screwed by Intel's new CPUs ship dates slipping.

I can't find the specific analysis right now... I thought it was Chuq, but this is all I've found:

https://chuqui.com/2016/10/how-apple-could-have-avoided-much...

https://chuqui.com/2017/01/apples-2016-in-review/

#3

I have no idea if the Touch Bar is any good. But I'm glad Apple is doing it. Just like I was excited by switching from gorilla glass to sapphire. OLED is the future and Apple needs build that core competency. Better to try and fail than not try at all.

#4

I'm worried that Apple dropped their screens and wifi hubs. If they can persist with the Apple TV, then they can keep those other niches products alive.

#5

I worry about the Mac Pro. I don't like the feeling of abandonment. I'll always need a desktop and it's about time for me to refresh. There's been lots of suggestions; I like Matt Yglesias's notion about making the Mac division a special case within the org.

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/11/27/13706776/apple-funct...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/11/28/yglesias-apple-f...

Apple has acknowledged the desktop problem and said "hold on, it's coming." I'm content to wait and see for now, maybe another 6 months.

#6

Apple is doing so much right in so many other ways. I'm an ecstatic Apple customer. I've transitioned family members to Apple hardware; my support burden is now greatly reduced. And I totally buy-in to their emphasis on services going forward.
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Apple wouldn't have a problem with extreme secrecy if their compensation went above and beyond the companies they compete with for engineering talent. But their compensation is basically equivalent, or even less.

So except for some particular affinity for an Apple product or team, or variance in interviewing success, I typically see undergrad/masters/PhD graduates vastly preferring Google/Facebook offers over Apple (I use these as an example because each company typically has a standard offer for each group).
Liberals are not very libertarian; especially under Malcolm Turnbull. There is a small strand of libertarianism and that's the Liberal Democratic Party.

Australia has an unsustainable property bubble that has made a large chunk of the middle class very wealthy. This has shifted the culture from self reliance to 'don't rock the boat.' This alone is an anti-innovation tragedy.

The bubble will pop eventually and the taxes will go up. Aus can't print new money and we have an untouchable entitlement culture. If you can't pay the new taxes they will use the firewall to block your site. It's going to be a mess and I wish them the best of luck.
Yes, in a classical two-party system, voting for lesser of two evils is the only option.

But in the US, there's also the question in which state you live in. For example, there's no point voting Republican in California, nor Democrat in Texas.
Oh interesting:

So the short answer is - not in the demo, but yes in your own code

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The demo's model rendering is powered by load-collada-dae ( https://github.com/chinedufn/load-collada-dae ) which right now has a default shader (what you see in this demo) and very few options to manipulate that default shader (I'm still thinking about the API)

Planning to update load-collada-dae to allow the user to pass in their own shader (with non-constant shading if they so please)

But skeletal-animation-system works completely independently of whatever renderer you're using so you could swap out load-collada-dae with, say, regl or Three.js or your own custom library.
> when Moxie himself said that I should trust WhatsApp without having the source code and the ability to put it on my device.

What are you talking about? All I can see there is that you asked for the source code of the QR generator and he delivered. He does not say you should trust WhatsApp.
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I'm going to guess they expect their handheld to last longer than 2.5 hours like a phone though.
I love betterexplained and I almost religiously check if it has an article on any topic I'm reading up on.

At least the free content can't stand alone, but it makes khan academy or coursera videos much easier to follow if I've read an article on Betterexplained before hand, and I think that has tremendous value.

Does anybody have experience with any of the courses? Are they worth it?
Google is using machine learning to reduce the data needed for high-res images
It would call for special skills and oratory, normally associated with Leadership. We should be a better country than this. We need a leader that will inspire us to be our better selves. We haven't had much of that lately; we'll have to wait at least 4 more years for another chance to elect a Leader.
You should have a look at Sway. It's a Wayland i3-alike with a few extra features. It even plays nicely with X11 only applications via X-Wayland.

http://swaywm.org/
The next question would be can the server mark a message as undelivered after it's already marked it as delivered.

If it can un-deliver all messages as well as have them re-sent with a new key then there may as well be no keys.
You know why voting taxes were ruled unconstitutional, right?
I would love to see some data on this. A lot of times people tell me that one way to solve social issues to get start some type of activism (march to the capital, start a rally in your town, etc). However, I haven't seen much data on the effectiveness of those things.
I'm trying to take this article in good faith, and I find it difficult, for two reasons:

1. The author equivocates online critique and criticism with being 'silenced'.

2. The author thinks it's too risky to share "insights about Silicon Valley" online, but does not think it's too risky to advocate for immunity from critique for the already powerful.

I understand that the message of this post is to have the listener consider how online discourse tends to coalesce into witch hunts, which is totally valid.

The thing is, when I share ideas or controversial takes with my few "trusted friends", I don't expect them to engage me on the surface level without critique or criticism. I expect them to call me out on my shit (and presumably Paul and Jessica have the same expectation). The people I trust the most are the people who can critique me most fairly and most accurately, in good faith.

By reducing all critique of online 'powerful individuals' as attempts to target and silence them, the author I think misses the bigger issue: it's not the act of critiquing that's the problem with online discourse, it's the shape and manner in which it's conducted.
Was a reference to this post: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2012/rails-is-omakase.htm... where Rails is described as a curated set of defaults/components/tools/options.
I'd agree that the documentation is pretty sparse on this, but there's also a significant PEBKAC problem in this case - literally the only example in the README for the gem (and all the tests) shows it using a key that's a long hex string. The "security flaw" is a developer using a crypto library without a clear understanding of its requirements.
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Along with the aforementioned IPPROTO_ICMP; you can still use file capabilities(7) instead (or as well, in the case of older kernels):

# chmod 0711 /bin/ping
# setcap CAP_NET_RAW=eip /bin/ping
Years ago I volunteers to work on a local campaign to help a candidate. I use to think local elections were different as well, but during that time I realized local elections are pretty much just as screwed up as elections on the state/national level. It all comes down to money, advertising and building a narrative.

People don't pay attention to what mayors actually do, plus a terrible mayor can live off the planning of the previous administration for most of their term in office (and thereby take credit for things they didn't touch).
This has also bothered me for a long time but they've actually been doing a much better job of this over the last couple of years. I had never met a member of the Safari team either until this year where I got to chat with one, at Google's Chrome Dev Summit no less.

They also revamped the webkit.org site and started releasing developer previews of Safari every two weeks.

They still have long way to go in this area but they seem to be moving in the right direction so I'm hopeful.
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I'm reading this and thinking yes.. YES.. I recognise the phenomenon she's describing, I see a lot of downside in online discussion.. and then:

> One reason I have hope for a solution is that I do find I can speak more openly on Facebook than elsewhere, so maybe that’s a clue about what direction social media 2.0 might take.

:(
I don't know how Executive Orders work; can they be rescinded, countermanded, or otherwise cancelled out by the succeeding President?
I happened to have the Security Notifications on for a while now. I see the message: "X's security code has changed." pretty often.
Under what circumstances does a new pair of encryption keys get generated?
To know that Jessica Livingston has experienced this and feels this way is extra disheartening.
In the United States, that's prohibited (for federal elections, at least) by the 24th Amendment.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxxiv
Off the top of my head, stress reduction and meditation are part of the Dean Ornish program, which has some evidence for slowing atherosclerosis progression. Next question is, would causing a reduction in activity in the amygdala lead to reduced cardiovascular events?
Agreed! Especially if it can play movies. I hope they make some sort portable display dongle.
> OWS should denounce these implementations as least as firmly as they do open source Signal client forks.

They don't. Moxie does not want the forks to use his servers or the name of his app, that is all.
Better for who?

There's also the problem that many jurisdictions have 2+ elections each year. A federal poll tax would create quite a bit of room for local poll taxes that would be that much more abusive.
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That's a poll tax, and in implementation is what is known as "regressive". That $50 is far, far more dear to some minimum wage single mom, than a CEO. That in fact is the objection to many of the voter IDs GOP states keep pressing for; the goal, as stated, is simply to prevent voting fraud, but the actually results are to disenfranchise the poor, who can't necessarily afford the $25-50 cost, nor can they afford the time off work to take public transit to a DMV (or similar) during the times they're open. Effectively, you're setting the bar higher for the poor than for the rich to vote.
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Because the ability to clear their own caches would be just too much power and control for those poor innocent Appleheads to handle.

iOS has to be the most intentionally restrictive general-purpose OS in use today.
>why is he moving to Tesla which is equally secretive?

In what way is Tesla secretive? They make all kinds of announcements about things that aren't actually "real" yet.
Hired.
I don't think anyone likes the secrecy. I don't know anyone who doesn't want their name attached to their work.
I just think that the more emotional voters, the ones more easily manipulated by propaganda, are more likely to keep voting when it costs something, whereas people who don't care all that much will just not bother anymore.
I'm not sure if that will generate a representative and, uh, positive outcome.
This will be a great social experiment...even more so when there are 500k Model 3s around, competing with the Model S/X crowd for the same superchargers.

Paying $10 for an extra 20 mins to finish their coffee may be worth it to someone in a $100k Model S, less likely for a $40k Model 3...
Do all Ethereum startups really have to fund themselves through tokens? No one has funds for investment anymore? I'm scared of these token-funded startups because eventually many of them will turn out to have been scams, or ruled by incompetent managers.
> ...in an attempt to box in Trump.

Allowing intel to share the data between each other has absolutely nothing to do with boxing in Trump.
Secret by default - they never had to share it with 100,000s of people building it all.
Last time I tried it, I found it somewhat lacking in the copy/paste department.

Iirc copying between Wayland and X11/xwayland apps didn't work. Any news on improvements in that area?
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The subject could be seen as very complex but for most use-cases there is a simple litmus test. Do you need censorship-resistant transactions or a neutral/decentralized timestamping server? If not, then you don't need a blockchain. That's really it.

In the case of a vendor, accepting _bitcoin_ has own security advantages, and bitcoin comes with its own blockchain built-in. As a vendor you probably wouldn't really need to worry about the blockchain as much as you would need to worry about avoiding exchange rate fees.
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Well if we're being strictly accurate it could mean preserve meaningful dynamic range of the master recording in a manner which ensures that it'll sound like it has a greater dynamic range when played using the new output medium than the vinyl recordings which everyone's actually used to listening to the song on. But that's rather cumbersome phrasing amounting to essentially the same thing, besides which I'm pretty sure that in practice a lot of remastering involved actively increasing dynamic range etc. relative to the original master tape because the sound engineers (i) wanted to restore dynamics and other aspects of sound quality lost during the original mastering process and (ii) thought it sounded better and would sell more CDs. I guess ultimately it depends whether it's believed that fidelity to how it sounded to the original sound engineer mixing it in the recording studio or fidelity to how it sounded to a generation growing up listening to records is the priority.
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Ha I thought it was a Safari problem on my machine and I was going to say "I'm pretty sure Apple would make the website render properly in Safari".
Love the JQuery + Webpack defaults!

The main issue I ran into when trying to develop a web app with Go was debugging. Web apps are multi-tier systems, and Go doesn't give you stack traces when something goes wrong, which is something I don't have the patience for when there are plenty of good and mature languages to use that do have stack traces. I know a common response to this is, "just practice better system design," I'm not one of those people who believes that I need to define an API for every internal piece of code. I just want to be able to find an error quickly and move on. Does Buffalo have a solution to this? I really like it so far.
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I don't know but this sounds scary to me, we just went from threats to national security to any crime.

However—and this is especially troubling—“if analysts stumble across evidence that an American has committed any crime, they will send it to the Justice Department,” the Times wrote. So information that was collected without a warrant—or indeed any involvement by a court at all—for foreign intelligence purposes with little to no privacy protections, can be accessed raw and unfiltered by domestic law enforcement agencies to prosecute Americans with no involvement in threats to national security."
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> This environment of abridged civil liberties, police militarization and increased surveillance is what many Americans wanted, post 9/11.

No. Nobody wants to live in the iron curtain.

This is an absolute and total failure of leadership, from the Bush administration through the Obama administration. 16 years of inexcusable failure. (It probably goes back even further)

People with bombs have not created fear, politicians have.
This is really a test of ycombinator users.
actually for my last project I started building my backend using my gulp build process.

This allowed me to have a prod build and minimize, use es2016, reuse code between frontend and backend with a pretty easy to understand process, set up special debugging builds very easily and so on and so forth.

There was really a lot of benefits to it.
And thank you for the feedback!

So, it turns out that this demo doesn't use Three.js, but the idea is that, if you wanted, you totally could :)

And I'm a Blender noob as well, this tutorial series on character modeling, texturing, rigging and animation was super useful for me. Has a nice pace and doesn't skip over any details -> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIoWrOlIRw
It's hard to believe that less than one human lifetime has elapsed between when a bad staph infection would almost certainly kill you, to a period when you could destroy most any bacterial infection, and now we're worried about being right back where we started. Evolution works fast, let's hope we can stay ahead in the arms race.
I didn't even know they have a patent on the tech for listening your conversations when using Facebook... and now I read about brain waves.
> The 9/11 hijackers were mostly on tourist visas from a place with almost no history of terror attacks:

Your source (correctly) says they were mostly from Saudi Arabia, which has a rather extensive history over several decades of terrorist attacks (both attacks in Saudi Arabia, and attackers outside of Saudi Arabia by Saudi nationals and/or with Saudi sponsors.) There is no sense in which Saudi Arabia is (or could be fairly described in 2001 as) "a place with almost no history of terror attacks."
After checking out a few guided meditation apps, the one with my favorite library has got to be Mindbliss https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mindbliss-mindfulness-medita...
The only thing that would make me feel safer would be the sandbox.
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it's €320 in France, which seems to be about the same as £280 so I guess brexit has nothing to do with it.

It's a long tradition of making European pay more when it comes to electronics.
Using systemd to manage docker images, I've found journalctl --unit foo to be massively useful when debugging "why did this docker image crash?".
"Jesus never mentioned Paul"

According to Luke, in Acts 9:15 he did:

"But the Lord said to him [Ananias], “Go, for he [Paul] is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel."

Apart from that, Peter also understood that Paul had been authenticated by Jesus as his apostle, see 2 Peter 3:

"Bear in mind that our Lord’s patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."

Being an apostle meant that Paul was expressly authorized and enabled to represent the Lord. Hence the saying, "you can't slip a piece of paper..." meaning that one can't try and play one off against the other, as if they hold opposing views. Paul represents Jesus, nothing more, nothing less. Paul is merely a servant, the words are those of Jesus.
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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6321/159.full

Here's the full text of the paper
The study seems to suggest only babies that were themeselves male would have trouble making it to birth. So female babies being born to homo sapiens mothers would still be half-neaderthal, they just wouldn't have Y chromosomes which is what the study was tracing ancestry through.
None of that means that it isn't worth showing up to vote against an obviously terrible local candidate.
Do elaborate, please! :)
The management was probably given a bonus for expanding their mobile presence five-fold between 2015 and 2016 :)
I recently cleaned my primary laptop of most all utilities. One in particular, Disk Drill by Clever Files, was impacting performance and reliability.

Websites have become resource hogs. I want something like The Great Suspender Chrome extension for Safari.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Meanwhile, I take extra care to shut unused tabs.
A way of exploiting it is talked about in the article which would effectively allow Facebook/Whatsapp, or whoever is coercing them, to read all messages sent by a particular device.