skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did Clinton actually manage to fix the roads? ... and voters were simply retaliating for a tax increase.

Not a great argument because many people view one of the primary responsibilities of local government is to maintain the roads (in USA). If they cannot properly budget and allocate money, regardless if the tax increase worked, it was the wrong way to fix the problem. With this mindset government can fix every problem by raising taxes.... Not acceptable to most people.
Germany, Japan, and the UK.

Managers not MBAs is a good book that summarizes the problems with the current management culture.

Basically, by having a class of people who have never done the grunt work of a particular job, you ruin what the Army calls "Unit Cohesion".
The restaurant business is all about signalling and having the right people doing the right imaginative artisinal ultra-trendy hand labor.

Its very much like the prostitution industry or pr0n.

None of those are going to automate any time soon.
FWIW, when we hang out with my wife's colleagues (she's a neurosurgeon), almost everyone assumes that my job is more demanding and interesting. When we hang out with my colleagues, its exactly the opposite. Grass is always greener.
Snowden claimed he raised his concerns internally before coming out publicly, but the government denies that. I can't say who is correct, but I don't really trust government agencies to investigate themselves.
Likely in the hopes that the story won't be as big a deal when she's actually released, and won't receive as much attention from potentially dangerous people.
I'm curious about what a micro payments world would be like, but I'm skeptical about their prospects in the near-future.

In general, I don't think people like being nickel & dimed, and that's basically what micro payments are. Subscriptions allow one to rationalize the price upfront, then consume without concern. This appeals to heavy consumers, consumers who overestimate their usage, as well as consumers who don't want to think about each purchase.

There would need to be a large enough category of people who would be willing to buy a few articles per month, but not want a subscription. And that would need to generate a large enough profit beyond paying for the micro payments implementation, support, etc.
I know these days we're all treating it as an established fact that Sweden's extradition request for Assange is actually a cover for him to be further extradited to the United States, but it has never actually been proven.
I think any space-related MacGuyvering should be termed Kerballing.
This is a pleasant surprise, because I've noticed that newer versions haven't been coming too often. I use GIMP on both windows and linux and it seems like the windows version has stagnated, could be the same situation for linux as well. Not that it matters since I'm not really a graphics/UI person. And most of the time that I fire up GIMP, it's for very simple things, or else I'm forced to google how to do things. I took a course on photoshop, where I followed all of the steps to do the projects and exercises. But unless you use these programs constantly, you're not going to remember how things are done. So GIMP is fine for my uses and suits me well because it's free. I understand there's a free version of photoshop (or whatever it's called) that can do most of what I use GIMP for, but that's only available on Windows, so I stick with GIMP because I'm using linux most of the time.
Last company I worked for did that to great success. All our customer got a custom version of our product tailored to their needs and their project. At least half our customers where doing something that needed at least one new feature that we didn't currently have. If you build your business model around that it is not necessarily a problematic model.
> President Obama inherited all of those "bad" things you mention.

I agree Obama is doing what the American people want, but he did not inherit all of these programs. E.g. he substantially expanded the program for drone strikes: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/01/12/reflecting-o...
No, it's just still very small

/joke
That's what they _said_, yes. Remember the rhetoric of the time-- distinguished government officials said both Manning and Snowden had "blood on their hands". Manning was in custody, but multiple senators and representatives called for Snowden to be assassinated.

In summary, I'm gonna need to see some actual proof.
Being correct cuts both ways, I'm afraid. If you'd like to offer an opinion on the matter we have to ask that it have some basis in reality. (This is not satisfied by uttering "Science.")
That's a very interesting scenario, Mr Devil's Advocate
https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
You asked for examples, I gave you examples and you disappeared.

My original post made an analogy about CNN. It has very little / nothing to do with 538. There, second question answered.
7 TPS is theoretical and very optimistic. So far it's best day was just over 4.

These numbers will not change until the blocksize is increased, which still looks unlikely.

https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?timespan=all
Now, if it would work it's actually cool

> no buttons worked
> no hotkeys
Interesting. Often I hear that you are only worth what value you can provide in any one role. Like for me working in bioinformatics, I am paid much less than if I took my skills to pure tech. There is only so much value my skills can provide in this industry, but if I went to tech my skills could provide 3-4x the value.

Despite being able to show I could get paid much more at a tech-company, my company will not pay me more. However, you are claiming that the opposite is also true. You are not paid based on the value you can provide to an organization, but based on how much you COULD provide to other organizations.

So I think you are wrong. These are all just attempts to justify why companies are averse to highly paid employees, but will happily spend 10x a key employee's salary on a new machine or on a month worth of consultants.
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as someone who isn't a scientist I found this link to be a bit easier to consume: http://gizmodo.com/an-enormous-atmospheric-anomaly-has-been-...
Opera Software ASA was founded on that day.
Manning has felt female since 2009 and possibly earlier. While on leave, she was incredibly comfortable with this gender identity, "trying to blend in as a bored woman looking for something interesting to do even though I was actually exhilarated." After the leaks (but before going to prison), she wrote: "I wouldn't mind going to prison for the rest of my life [for leaking information], or being executed so much, if it wasn't for the possibility of having pictures of me... plastered all over the world press... as [a] boy... [...] the CPU is not made for this motherboard..."

The absolute worst disservice we - as random onlookers - can do to people with gender dysphoria is to deny their sense of self.

Please try not to.
Manning is a woman, not a guy. It is fucking disgusting how many people here want to misgender her.
Hi all, if you have the time I would appreciate some critiques on this hobby site that I've been slowly developing for the past 2 years.
I will comment my hackable note-taking app (which has image upload paste) in case anyone is interested:

https://github.com/divbit/grimoire

currently supports image paste -> embedding (this was a crucial feature for me as well) and notes in markdown, latex, html, inline javascript (so you can do a note with some d3 or whatever).

I decided to not do live markdown preview because the save feature is fairly quick, and it gives more space on the page for editing on my small screen.
Reminds me of Simple Note, which I've been using ever since Evernote became slow and bloated (https://simplenote.com/).
This isn't about ethics. It's about power.

Whistleblowing is the powerless and disconnected eroding the power of the powerful and well connected.

They don't appreciate that.

As a result, nearly every whistleblower will suffer greatly for their actions no matter how they do it - unless they can curry favor of the powerful somehow. Public perception can be purchased.

For further enlightenment I recommend the 20 minute youtube video Rules for Rulers by CGP, as well as the followup.
Polls take time to move, some moved, some weren't re-polled before the election, and no polls aren't just polls; poll are a statistical sampling of the electorate and do allow you to draw a trend line and notice things like hey, that piece of news made a different in the outcome. That elections happen only once is not relevant, it doesn't invalidate the poll data that shows minds were changed.
Copy-pasted code: Data redundancy

300 column lines: Support for management buying everyone nice, new, giant monitors.

Logic in 20 places: But what if we want subtle differences between each implementation?

On a more serious note, a product that I've worked on was started in about 1998 in C++. We support something like 15 different platforms, and we've got our own implementations of things like vectors because we needed a least common denominator codebase; the standard libraries of a lot of platforms didn't provide what we needed, or provided implementations that were incompatible with other platforms. By the time everything we needed to support was modern enough (in about 2010), the system had a few million lines of code, and replacing things with library functions/classes would've been a nightmare. New development is saner, but the legacy stuff is entrenched.
According to the job ads that need someone to "hit the ground running" they do.
Bash may be worse than Ruby or Python for scripting, but it's far better as an interactive shell.

And I'm quite happy not having shell use hold back evolution of Ruby or Python, and not having drama like Ruby 1.8 -> 1.9 or Python 2.x -> 3.x affecting shell use.
I love Google Keep but I wonder when they will kill it. When Google Apps aren't directly monetized it makes me worry (Wave, Reader, etc).
Please don't make up generalizations about the HN community to score rhetorical points in an argument. That's never substantive.

Also, that bit about Patrick was needlessly personal. He has the same right to offer an opinion as anybody else does, and your 'royalty' bit is just posturing.

If you want to teach us something about how to be more imaginative, that's great, but the best way to do so is simply to convey information.
Absolutely. Whether you attribute his superior strategy to learning from Manning's mistake or his own native intelligence, there's simply no doubt that Snowden leaked his data in a more effective and less damaging way.
A screenshot or two would be really helpful.
Kobo Aura One. Bit more expensive yet high quality.

Preview on macOS is also good.

EDIT: I don't know, when that review was written the device was just released. The device received various firmware updates since then. I convert everything to EPUB with Calibre.
My understanding is that President Bush was able to revoke the pardon because it hadn't been executed yet. This won't be the case with Manning's commutation.
Of these, points 4 and 5 are easily fixable by making these things free for everyone. Accordingly they have been fixed in basically all other first world countries than the US, and several developing countries as well (like India and South Africa).

This is also reflected in infant mortality rates; of the 35 OECD countries, only Mexico, Chile, Turkey and Slovakia have worse infant mortality rates than the US. For some US states it's even worse, e.g. Alabama is worse than Lebanon, and Mississippi is on par with Botswana.
Statement on the Commutation of Chelsea Manning (From the Man Who Busted Her)
The general topics I'm talking about quite interesting:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_learning

I recommend this systems dynamics paper for proposing a simple model to help quantify the tradeoff between investment and execution:

http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.p...

The logic there applies to many contexts, including:

* working "smarter" vs. harder
* investing in a new skill vs. executing using existing skills
* investing in workforce education vs pushing them to work longer hours

If you are interested in a conversation and trying to understand, may I request that you ask specific questions?
You can't expect people to know that

I shared the link, so that people who weren't aware of Chelsea's preferred pronouns, could learn which pronouns she preferred.

this whole preferred pronoun issue is nonsense;
you do not have a right to tell other people which words they should use.

You're right to say that in general, I cannot control the words that people use, about me, or about others.

But I do respect the choices that people make. If someone would prefer that I refer to them as "she" or "her", or "him" or "he", I will use that pronoun. And I would question: why would someone use an alternative pronoun, knowing that the person would prefer an alternative? Why would anyone choose to knowingly attack and hurt someone, purely for sake of labeling them with a pronoun that the person has identified as inappropriate?

When someone has identified their preferred pronouns, it is entirely appropriate to use those pronouns, and it is inappropriate - even abusive - to deliberately choose to use an incorrect pronoun. I do state "deliberately choose to use", because there will inevitably be people who mistakenly use an incorrect pronoun, for lack of knowledge, but people who are aware of the correct pronouns and deliberately choose an incorrect pronoun are conducting a bullying, abusive attack, and should be stopped.
I think it's one of these: https://www.udacity.com/course/deep-learning--ud730
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbF0BXX_6CPJ4TgDuCDIN...
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Yet presto takes around 5min to compile on 4 cores with 8GB.
Or 20 to 28 hours on raspberry pi with 1GB swap.
It's also untrue. Snowden leaked huge masses of data to those journalists. He didn't pick and choose what to give them beyond the most cursory of glances.

The second half of your post seems to be arguing about the word "release" versus "leak". The former is a superset of the latter, both are accurate. Certainly nobody's saying what he did was legal.
IME companies that do this are always crippled by technical debt. Why worry about maintainability when you won't be here in 6 months anyway?
My impression is that it's not a big thing yet because many of the tools really don't support monetization any too well right now (I'd be interested in hearing counter-examples). That said, once the tooling catches up, it will be interesting to see if it actually takes off or not.
It is unjust to measure a sentence by the chance outcome (this would mean one person ends up with a light sentence and the other ends up with the book thrown at them for the same action due solely to chance). The evaluation must be in the action, not whether luck was or wasn't on your side. The fact that releasing so much classified information indiscriminately could have been very damaging to real people is the problem. Furthermore, simply saying no one was directly harmed is an incredibly low bar. The ability for diplomats to do their job has been significantly harmed by such a release. This does have real consequences for real people.
Is Ruby dead? Hell no – Analyzing RubyGems stats for 2016
This is really great! Finally I can dump the Evernote beast. I think the UI could be polished a bit (collapsable Tags/All Notes section), but other than that, I'm 99% happy.
No system is going to be perfect, but I think it's worth something that they're at least trying to do reasonable things.

The real question is how many times do people fall into that tricky edge case vs. how often is there a fairly clearly case for a termination?
Rust's IDE story is starting the year off with a bang. :) It's taken me until now to realize that the protocol is semi-standardized: https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol . Are Rust and Typescript the only two languages with implementations of this protocol so far? (EDIT: nevermind, found http://langserver.org/ , which implies there are quite a lot of these.)

I'm also fascinated to hear that it's using both Racer and rustc to provide autocomplete. Is there any long-term plan to provide "quick and dirty" info from the compiler itself rather than from Racer? EDIT 2: Ah, the final paragraph addresses this. That's what I get for commenting before I'm done reading. :P
The Voder, the First Machine to Create Human Speech
Those seem like fair criticisms, although I'm just a beginner with Tensorflow right now. I don't doubt there's room for improvement!

We were building a character based RNN for generating text, with some special tweaks to it. This wasn't a good fit for Keras based on what we were reading, and there was a great straightforward Tensorflow example already out there which we could work off of so it made more sense to us at that point in time.
There is also a standard file server software.

https://standardfile.org/
"Tiny", a strange name for a company.
The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming – Slowly
Hm, okay, well since we're preaching to the choir here I'm not sure why I got the downvote.

Your question was vague.
The 1884 US presidential election in cartoons
Twice amongst the thousands of lines of code I've read this month is nothing. There are many other sources of awkwardness that trump this, much like any any other code in any other language will have awkwardness in places when you scale up to that level.
Floppy disks were well on their way out, and people were still complaining about a 2 MB footprint.
Related, here's a post by the author [1] about Evernote which sheds light on why he went about making this. Interesting read.

[1] https://medium.com/@mobitar/evernote-is-what-happens-when-yo...
That line you're talking about sounds more like the traditional science/engineering divide. Maybe staticians are data scientists, but what we call "data science" is really data engineering?
It's a tradeoff for security.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when(if?) Bitcoin upgrades to SegWit. This infrastructure is designed to support off-chain transactions while settling on the chain.
That should be "You'll need to update bundled libvpx to 1.3.0 first".
Please, don't use google translate.
I'm a loyal NYT subscriber and I've suggested to them that I would be most willing to pay more for my subscription if they could please remove all ads. Did not get a response from them though.
The pricing on shinyapps.io is prohibitive if the post gets any more than a trickle of page views.

The embed-directly-into-HTML is the approach I use for my Jekyll blog and it does not require much effort. (I just have to set a YAML flag to load Plotly library)
This is not the same and relies on the pardon/commutation not being fully executed.
I like this idea. It's remarkable how bad the Apple Notes apps are. I'm trying to get started with Standard Notes but running into trouble.
Both Standard File servers are down:
https://n3.standardnotes.org
https://n1.standardnotes.co.uk
Yep, that's right -- Don was the guy who came up with that procedure.
> Russia is just a straight up "adversary" now? Infuriating.

...in this context, when were they not an adversary?
As a recent new father having my mother and father in law has been extremely helpful. For my wife and I we made a decision to move from NYC to live in the same city as them to start our family and that decision has made our lives much easier.
Sure, and that's probably part of the reason why emails aren't considered intellectual property.
That's more like it! Naturally, the answer's no - there's plenty of material the public doesn't need to know about, and which could compromise ongoing operations if it were completely transparent. Sources who want to ethically be whistleblowers need to work with reputable press outlets, releasing only what is necessary to people they know will further trim the leak - until the final product does only good for the public.

Here's a quote from Snowden on just that:

"I never published a single document on my own because I believe that the model, the ideal of American government is actually quite a shrewd one,” he said. “I tried to emulate the model of checks and balance. Instead of making a unilateral decision, that ‘The world must know,’ I worked with the free press, institutions that we trust, American journalists.”

Could Chelsea Manning have chosen a better way to release the documents than WikiLeaks? Absolutely. Do I still consider her a whistleblower? Yes - though I would never claim she was as responsible about it as someone like Snowden.
I've gone ahead and made the $500 USD payment. Anxious to hear the next steps! :)
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> What jobs have been created by this automation?

HackerNews is read by a very weird set of people. All highly motivated and smart. Now, I've worked in a lot of small companies with people who are fairly smart but have no realy desire to win at work (or get promoted) they just want to turn up, do the work and go home. Home is time for family, hobbies, pub, etc.

I've noticed that simple web apps replace people. Excel or an access database, some scripts and someones job is suddenly much easier. People move on, or get demoted to part time, or some small pay cut (or years without a pay rise) and eventually leave.

These are usually the 18 - 25 year olds, employed to help out accounts or a manager or as a secretary while the PA is busy. These are the people that I don't see around so much these days. The gossips, the ones who remember your kids names, who have time for a chat. Who organise a night down the pub where the whole team bonds. They are the glue and the social oil that makes the machine move smoothly.

But they don't seem to get hired these days. Who needs them to print out a thousand letters and put them in envelopes? gmail will do that. Who needs them to find that document filed away in the back office? Or to go to the other office on the other side of town to find that blueprint?

Automation does kill jobs. For good and for bad. Life goes on.
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> The script doing the backup did not catch the error. That may seems sloppy, but this sort of thing happens in the Real World all the time.

I disagree. I mean, I agree those things happen, but the system administrator's job is to anticipate those Real World risks and manage them with tools like quality assurance, redundancy, plain old focus and effort, and many others.

The fundamental of backups is to test restoring them, which would have caught the problem described. It's so basic that it's a well-known rookie error and a source of jokes like, 'My backup was perfect; it was the restore that failed.' What is a backup that can't be restored?

Also, in managing those Real World risks, the system administrator has to prioritize the value of data. The company's internal newsletter gets one level of care, HR and payroll another. The company's most valuable asset and work product, worth hundreds of millions of dollars? A personal mission, no mistakes are permitted; check and recheck, hire someone from the outside, create redundant systems, etc. It's also a failure of the CIO, who should have been absolutely sure of the data's safety even if he/she had to personally test the restore, and the CEO too.
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Manning certainly has already paid a harsh price for her decisions. I think reasonable people would say that it was "enough" at this point. What good does it do to keep Manning in prison for the full 35 years?

As for outing what people "really think" of Berlusconi... I suspect that no one was surprised (including the clown himself, Silvio).
Why is this no longer at the top of the front page? ~900 points in ~1 hour alone. Please, mods, some transparency?