skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chelsea Manning is a woman; please do not misgender her by referring to her as "that guy".
This hasn't been true of HN for years.
"News on spec" doesn't sounds like a great business model.
You can create any set of axioms you want, but unless they carry a reference to something that happen "outside of Math", at the "Real World", they are only useful for nerd-sniping.
I have used it in commercial embedded hardware shipping tens of thousands of units, in the USD 1000 range. Speed is excellent for the most part - where it's not it's trivial to call out to C libraries. Agree about docs but what would really help at this point would be more QA on Stackoverflow. And a good Windows port.
Control a tracked robot with your mind (or joystick)
I don't think Trump won based on people thinking he was right, or that his positions (what positions?) were correct. There were some people who believed that, but not enough for him to win. Trump won because there were enough people who voted "not Hillary" to put Trump over the top.

You don't persuade people like that with facts. You persuade them by running a candidate less flawed than Hillary.
See my post above where I explain monitor and TV are competitors. A monitor made nowadays is a dumb TV (and, much more, but not a smart TV).
It doesn't need to be free - good medical reference books aren't, either.
With the LIGO discoveries last year I thought about gravitational waves too. Having such a wave having effects visible with the naked eye would be huge. It would probably rip the planet apart.
My number's based on cost of living. At $100k, in the area I live in, I have a good standard of middle class living but I still have to work hard to save, go on vacations, and make major purchases.

At $200k, I could maintain the same standard of living, easily pay off all of my student debt in about a year (without sacrificing anything), easily buy a house, buy a new car outright after saving excess money for 3-4 months, pay for my kid's college education outright, and save a ton of money for retirement. At $100k, I constantly have to pick and choose which of these things I work on.

If I made $200k, living in the same area, I might not be wealthy in the grand scheme of things, but I sure would feel like it. About 70% of the negative stress in my life comes from anxiety about being able to afford everything my family will want and/or need eventually.

Interestingly enough, I have already lived through the experience of having my salary double almost overnight. I used to live in a relatively low-cost area, but I was still getting paid about $25k below market. Then I moved to a higher-cost area, and took a more advanced position at a company that paid a little more than market rate. Went from below $50k to just under $100k. The impact on my life was significant. I went from feeling poor and helpless to finally being able to breathe. I used to be depressed and angry all the time because I could barely take care of my family and my household. Now I'm more or less happy.
Yes but this says specifically suicides and unintended overdose.
Another reason not to use anything Google releases - they can kill the tool you rely on at any time without any emotion! They were getting $15/mo from me - now I will save $15/mo and use ad blockers again.
Well spoken, and spot on!
It seems to me that the sense of entitlement to the office is one of the things that people found so repellent about Hillary.
Well, he assassinated nine bystanders for every human target designated by algorithms and identified by a mobile phone, he assassinated kids having a barbecue in Yemen, he assassinated US citizens after secret trials where they had no representation, he let the CIA conduct military operations and strike without even having a designated human target, he waged a war on whistleblowers, he presided over a fracking boom, he turned the whole planet into East Germany, he presided over the militarisation of police and the ICE prison maze where undocumented immigrants can simply disappear, he wasted two years of Democrat majority in both chambers of Congress on a single law, he tried to accelerate a new Cold War days before the end of his term, but sure, let's focus on LGBT issues.
> If I were to murder 100 people randomly should I be absolved because it turned out one of them was a child molester?

You sound ridiculous. Let's get to the real question.

> So because there happened to be something bad among the 250k documents, the act itself is completely absolved?

In short, yes. Her 7-year sentence has already been quite enough.

I will concede that the outlet through which the leaks were published didn't meet the standards to which we usually hold investigative reporting. Manning chose to disclose all cables in confidence to a team she felt could sift through them for evidence of wrongdoing. That team then proved themselves irresponsible by publishing everything. They should have been far more selective about what they disclosed to the public.

I don't blame the source here. I absolutely do blame the coverage.
Well yes but the article includes accidental overdose

> “Maternal Deaths from Suicide and Overdose in Colorado, 2004-2012,” found that of 211 maternal deaths, 30 percent were from self-harm, defined as suicide and nonintentional overdose deaths occurring during pregnancy and the first year after giving birth.
Hi everyone. I just wanted to show you my latest side project. It's a small React app I built to learn reactjs.

I ended up learning quite a bit more as it turns out, notably CouchDB and it's javascript implementation, PouchDB. Some great tools for what I wanted to do: a web app that doesn't care whether I'm online or not.

I initially wanted to track my own spending, so I built an even simpler app that only worked on my computer localhost, and I often forgot to save a purchase when I only had my phone handy.

Now I can track everything I spend, wherever I am !

Let me know what you think.

By the way the code is here: https://github.com/jfoucher/budgetTracker

It will probably look awful to experienced react users, but please let me know what you think, feedback is the only way to grow.

Thanks again !
I'm not upset about the commutation of the sentence, but I do think that some punishment was just. I'm not enough of a legal scholar to argue how much might be appropriate, and I think we can all be pretty sure that she's not going to be in a position to dump that kind of data again, so there's not a risk of recidivism.
I knew I was forgetting packages. I do in fact use Tableau. Will add it. Thanks for the catch!

As for LaTeX, it would have never occurred to me to add it. I have no idea why not, but it doesn't. Maybe because it feels more like a chore than a tool. It's like an anti-tool. I mean, I do or did in the recent past use LaTeX, but in more recent years I would farm that out to someone junior to me who hadn't worked with it for long enough to prefer pouring bleach in their ears to being faced with tweaking one more broken LaTeX template.

I probably should include classical stats packages. They really should go in here. But I've been coding since I was a kid and typically eschewed classical stats and math packages because of my perception that they were slow walled-gardens, and that as soon as I had a method figured out in Matlab or SPSS I'd end up rewriting it in C, C++, or Java to make it work with other things or at scale. That was hammered home in the first company I worked with where we did modeling in SAS and then rewrote every model in Java because SAS couldn't keep up.

I'm not suggesting that classical stats packages aren't data scientists tools. I think they are. They're just not my tools because of the curious niche I found myself in.
You can build Shiny apps in RStudio and publish them with one click to shinyapps.io. Works very similarly to publishing with Plotly, even though Shiny is a server-side package vs. client-side for Plotly.

(You can build a Plotly chart in ggplot, embed it in a web page and then script it with JS to get a visualization. Frankly, that's a PITA. You can write R/shiny code that will generate a visualization, with HTML controls etc, and you end up writing a web app in R and that's a different PITA. I would like to see Plotly generate a web wrapper that automates wiring up a plotly graph and scripting it from an app so you can update data on the fly to make it a visualization. Supposedly they are working on it with their dash framework, but it's not released yet.)
I like Google Keep as well, but I can only really use it for "simple" notes that I take while mobile. The lack of any kind of formatting system is a detriment I think.

Also, the UI on desktop is pretty poor. A native mac app would be a huge boost.
Yes, although IMHO it's not a very good one. Some of these should be taken with salt -

http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com/
How a Mere Prick of the Finger Can Diagnose a Concussion
Literally the first thing that happens when you create a wallet in breadwallet is you are given a seed phrase with instructions. Many wallets use this technique (BIP38)

If you ever lose your phone you can recover your wallet with this phrase.
What are some things Apple has really excelled at in the last two decades?
Salaries are the same at companies that offer RTTs and companies that do not. I’ve more RTTs and I’m more paid that all my friends with the same profile in similar companies.
I guess that invalidates by definition #2.
That gets into a murky definition of "performing" though. Performance is often limited by other people, many of which may be long gone. It can also create a culture of people unwilling to admit mistakes. It doesn't take long for these behaviours to produce massive amounts of technical debt.

The policy doesn't seem to be working for their UI team either.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421564 and marked it off-topic.
Or, just like software engineering or any other profession in the world, there's going to be a need for people to solve hard problems and people to solve easy problems. Data science isn't different.
In my view, that's an incredible achievement.
Fast Trader Pulled a Fast One on Some Customers
Startup infusing patients with 'young blood' to combat aging
It's a little condescending to blame this on the educational level. I know plenty of very educated people in the US who are fanatics and don't listen to others. I think it has to do with the obsession with winning, competition and binary thinking the US has.
MarketPlace by madebyApp
LetsGo just raised a whopping 175$ million!! Do you want your own marketplace app? Of cause you do, buy the complete source code at our website: http://madebyapp.com/marketplace/

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/letgo-raises-whopping-175-million-financing-for-its-used-goods-marketplace/
Even assuming anyone could actually know this, the real damage is going forward. FSOs gather a lot of information just by talking to people, and people are going to be very circumspect if they think what they say will be repeated to the world with attribution. How much would you say to a friend or relative if you knew the first thing they'd do is put up a Facebook post with whatever you told them?
FTC alleges Qualcomm forced Apple to use chips for lower patent royalties
>Snowden released a large volume of information to well qualified journalists who very carefully combed through the data to find the things most relevant and important for the American public to know. Information that was legitimately classified and had no whistleblowing value simply wasn't released.

This is a poor defense of Snowden's actions.

If it was given to a journalist who wasn't authorized to have that information, it was "released" in the only sense that is legally relevant, even if the general public doesn't have that information. Imagine saying what you just did, but replacing "journalist" with "KGB agent".
This is a great library. It's simple but flexible. You can treat it like async key-value storage but it has extra features like using different databases, all while handling the details of IndexedDB, WebSQL or localStorage support.
again, the use case I made up is not important. And to argue the use case would be missing the point.

However, for argument's sake. People can counterfeit drivers licenses, or passports. Good luck trying to counterfeit something on the blockchain.

Edit: to expand on this, think of a poor country who doesn't have their technology up to par as a 1st world country. To build the infrastructure to even have that government database is costly versus using an already existing infrastructure to do most of the heavy lifting.
The money that they can spend per employee is 1.57M / # total employees. Not, 1.57M / # of employees who left. They don't know who will leave. Their cost of good initiatives will be spread over all their employees.
Congratulations! It's nice to see that we now have both Android (https:/mconversations.im) and iOS covered by usable and secure XMPP clients!
There is no record of any individual being physically harmed, but the leaked diplomatic cables were highly embarrassing, hurt the interests of the US, and were completely unjustified. They weren't exposing malfeasance or war crimes. They should not have been released.

Manning did it wrong, Snowden did it right.
To be clear, Bush both pardoned and 'unpardoned' Toussie. He wasn't undoing a prior President's action.
China to develop prototype super, super computer in 2017
> You don't know that the new features would have saved it,

Or could have killed it even faster.

Imagine that at the beginning you decided not to accumulate "technical debt". Instead you got some product that developers believed had no "technical debt" and because of that it was late to the market. Money were running out and once customers started using it you had to be really lucky for new features to make enough impact to stay alive. Because customers don't necessary care that much about features that are easy to add, but maybe want some features that are hard to add and nobody anticipated that. Either way I cannot find a reason for "technical debt" to kill a product.

I put "technical debt" in quotes, because even the underlying idea of the concept doesn't make sense and relies on a belief of knowing how to do it "the right way", which I don't think can be a good way to write software. It's better to substitute it with more complex concepts of flexibility and simplicity and corresponding trade offs.
Except that Chelsea did not exercise the Whistleblower Act.
It doesn't matter what she identifies as, they is appropriate in all cases male or female.
I had a client with a Linux server who wanted to automount the share on their OS X workstations. I cannot believe the hoops I had to jump through to make something as simple as NFS work. Every iteration of OS X seems to make traditional *nix utilities less and less compatible and remove valuable tools for no reason other than obstinance.
She had this much control over what WikiLeaks would do: she could have given them less.
Oh, OK- pattern matching failure, on my part, then :)

That's a Verne book I haven't read, also.
"May"? We're way past "may". The Arab Spring was catastrophic.
This is so great. This and an encrypted calendar are some of the few things I was missing in my daily workflow.
No problem - it's really gratifying to know that it helped you. I'm not so interested in monetizing - I've received an awful lot from the wider OSS community, and I did the project as a way to give something back.

That is a really good idea on the app. I do have some ideas for making DDL and DML available via the web interface, but sadly I'm extremely short on free time in the last couple of years.
Would love to have a chat about your view on security posture between smaller and bigger companies, but couldn't find your email in your HN profile. Mine is in my profile so if you have the time, please send me a message.
I totally got your point. I am playing Devil's Advocate to those who are recommending going to the other extreme and spending enormous amount of money for employee retention, including a significant increase in per employee salary.
Anyone else notice how "pandering to X" is the last argument of someone who refuses to think critically?

Political pandering is intended to help you buy favor. The President of the United States does not need to pander to the people who elected him. It would be more like pandering if he did this some time before the final days of his term. And typically, pandering happens to gain the favor of the other side, which this will certainly not do.

Therefore it's much less likely to be pandering than, say, commuting the sentence of a mentally unstable person who's been in jail for 7 years, attempted suicide twice, and needs medical assistance they can't get in jail.
So what? You can't expect people to know that, this whole preferred pronoun issue is nonsense; you do not have a right to tell other people which words they should use.
He omitted to mention dark pools & how blockchains can help there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_liquidity

[p.s.] The "social" angle was the most ridiculous thing I've ever [read]. Yeah, let's pour in tons of money to build a tech so it gets printed in the New York Times. Is this guy for real?
Yes, I specifically remember a lot of hub bub about Steam deleting entire home directories if a path was input incorrectly. Glad that never bit me.
Thanks - I'll try to get hold of an ios device to test it on. Sadly my webdev skills are fairly lol-worthy ;-)
> "Relational" means "tabular".

Relational database can be expressed in tabular form, but tabular data is not necessarily relational.

> (A "relation" in relational theory is a table with a name, fields with names and types, and the data in the table.)

A relation is a system of one or more functions (in the mathematical sense) each of which has a domain that is a candidate key of the relation and a range that is the composite of the non-key attributes.
Last 35 years? The US has been arguing about and getting distracted from inequality since it was just colonies. In 1773, Boston merchants (smugglers) started complaining about liberty when all they really wanted was to keep the price of tea a bit higher. [0]

If you're serious about wanting change, you should appeal to the values of the capitalists. Don't complain about inequality, complain about inefficiency. A capitalist economy is supposedly (and probably) more efficient than a command economy, because a centralized bureaucracy is worse at allocating resources than a decentralized market. The central tenet of the free market is that decentralization is more efficient.

So what happens when a capitalist accrues more wealth, as is natural for some to do with luck or skill? Eventually, the most skilled or most lucky have most of the wealth. Wealth forms a log-normal or power-law distribution. It's natural and nothing to whine about. Unfortunately, this is an unstable system. As the wealth distribution becomes ever more long-tailed, what once was a free market becomes more and more like a centralized bureaucracy with a handfull of capitalists allocating resources instead of a handfull of bureaucrats.

Redistributing wealth, fairness aside, is simply the most efficient way to keep the market growing. It closes the loop of decentralization. Think of a Bayesian Meta-Bandit, a Bayesian Bandit [1] that selects a Bandit according to the probability that Bandit is best. No matter the history we've observed, the probability of our best Bandit in fact being best never reaches 100% and we always choose the lesser (according to our observations) with some non-zero probability. In the same way, the best societal strategy is to redistribute according to the probability that our best allocators (our wealthiest capitalists) might make a mistake or get unlucky.

Too much redistribution and we lose efficiency, because we're not giving the bulk of our resources to our best allocators. Too little redistribution and we lose efficiency, because our observed-best might either (1) just have gotten lucky in the past and aren't actually better or (2) might get unlucky in the future and we need a hedge against random failure.

Aaaanyway. Anyone who argues against redistribution needs to do some thinking about why capitalism works.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Resisting_the...

"Colonial merchants, some of them smugglers, played a significant role in the protests. Because the Tea Act made legally imported tea cheaper, it threatened to put smugglers of Dutch tea out of business."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed_bandit#Probability...

A Bayesian Bandit chooses actions according to the Bayesian probability that the action is best.
5 Things to Do Before You Die
Thanks, appreciate it :-)
My guess is that your favored alternative kills a hell of a lot more people, probably via starvation and malnutrition.

ETA: if you don't believe me, please read this. http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
Then Obama's action would be the letter of clemency but not the spirit, and there would be room for disagreement about whether Assange should keep his word.

But since that's not what happened and Obama's actual action honors both the letter and the spirit of clemency, there's nothing worth debating here.
Not OP, but my office has it. And yes, it is insane and is a result of poor office planning. Unfortunately, I can't elaborate because they did not give any reasoning.
There are a few elements missing that I would really love to see. Mostly native image upload support and embedding. Live Markdown preview WYSIWYG editor.

http://texts.io/ Came close.

I really hope that this project will develop into something better.
The digital tablet based art is still a better experience on photoshop rather than gimp (I admit I have tried this version but not recently), but there are also more mature alternatives to that end. Photoshop also has some better features for working with 3D files natively that I don't think gimp has tried to tackle.

At this point for me I am doing Krita for art and photo manipulation, and Inkscape for vector. Krita has really come a long way recently and works well on Windows as well as Linux. So far I have enjoyed working with many files at once in Krita and some of the live edit things (crop/selection sort of stuff) feels a bit nicer.
Microsoft testing Project Osaka, collaborative Office tool for sharing tables
Announcing Rust Language Server Alpha Release
No. Manning is not a woman. He is biological male who has been psychologically damaged from years of solitary confinement in prison (and probably before as well). That the US government paid for his "reassignment" is a tragedy on top of a tragedy.

If you thought Manning needed suicide watch in prison, he's going to need it even more on the outside. See this from NIH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21364939

Quoted from link above:
> Conclusion: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.
Should you encrypt or compress first?
That is not true, and is easily verifiable by reading Chelsea's chat logs with Adrian Lamo.
I use Dropbox Paper for my note taking, it has nice formatting options - although I am acutely aware that Dropbox could drop it at any moment, so something like this suddenly becomes very attractive.
We live within a rules-based system. For Manning the rule was "We'll give you this security clearance, here are 100 classes about not spilling the things you know to anyone else."

I too am troubled by the decision, but it does seem a bit out of whack with the total lack of punishment for the higher echelons of government. Lately it seems like the rules-based system we have been living under is cracking.