skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drone strike programs will expand everywhere for the foreseeable future, regardless of what Obama did.

They're a nearly ideal weapon. There isn't a military on this planet that would not choose to employ them over almost any other tactic.
Full source of 130k+ extensions: https://crx.dam.io/

Github repo: https://github.com/mdamien/chrome-extensions-archive
The house of lords is a bit more than a detail.

The crown may not be part of our democracy, but that is the problem considering how much of our land they own.
I'm not how we can arrive at an objective number. But it certainly happens with some frequency. See, for example, the one I posted just above:

Consider the recent misleading article about economists' feelings about market-based education. Scott Alexander points out what it seems to me can only be a deliberately-engineered effort to mislead:

By leaving it at “only a third of economists support vouchers”, the article implies that there is an economic consensus against the policy. Heck, it more than implies it – its title is “Free Market For Education: Economists Generally Don’t Buy It”. But its own source suggests that, of economists who have an opinion, a large majority are pro-voucher.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/30/contra-nyt-on-economist...
Pure speculation on my part, but I think to some extent writers are conditioned to think of writing things a certain way by the sheer amount of literature they read, creating a reinforcement loop where there are various idiomatic ways to explain things and moving too far away from that is jarring to the reader.
Check out this [0] video! The visual system plays a huge role in how you process sounds - the brain uses all information it can get.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzo45hWXRWU

edit: After watching the video three times I can influence which word I hear just by thinking 'the right way'!
That uses "racer" for rust I think. It looks like Rust Language Server also uses racer + some other stuff.
1) Our government broke the law left & right.
2) Our government has outlawed leaks.

In the context of (1) the law (2) is unjust, and thus punishment is unjust.
‘5-D protein fingerprinting’ could give insights into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
Then you remembered you were on HN?
There is a really cool 360 video of this actually by Discovery VR. Just watched it a couple days ago in my headset and learned about synesthesia. Is this what you have maybe? Seems like a pretty cool super power! ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obrBAysVef0
it returned the exact Wikipedia page that pvg told you it would return

Which particular wikipedia page is being so thoroughly referenced in this thread? Which particular post in this thread provides a URL?

Perhaps you could post the URL of that Wikipedia page?

Is it so terribly hard to copy and paste the URL of the page which is being cited?

After all, you have referred to this specific Wikipedia page in your comment, but you have still not provided the URL.
“be your own bank” is at least honest but it's very different from what most proponents say.

> This is no different from modern day identity theft.

Identity theft is a nuisance caused by large companies trying to dodge responsibility for negligence onto the public. The failure mode is that your credit rating is damaged, not that all of your money ends up irrecoverably belonging to some guy in Russia – and you have legal means to solve these problems.

> Bitcoin isn't ready for the average user, much like computers in the 80s weren't ready for the average user.

Fewer people could afford them but 80s PCs were incredibly useful – things like VisiCalc and WordStar transformed offices, the gaming industry had grown enough to support multiple dedicated studios, etc. People were willing to pay large amounts of money to own a PC precisely because it had real tangible value. Other than paying off ransomware, what can an adopter do with BitCoin which is significantly harder / impossible now? (Or, for many of the distributed ledger proposals, couldn't do faster using existing PKI?)
Then maybe you shouldn't (repeatedly, incessantly, decade after decade) engage so shamelessly with forces of corruption and darkness such it that inspires people to take great personal risk to expose that information.
There is no reason for a quasi-proprietary fork of HTML. We already have enough standards as it is.

HTML is perfectly fast. Sites are only show because of the media/ads/stuff that's put on them, most of which is a business requirement.

Factoring site speed/weight into search and traffic rankings could've easily pressured sites into making much better progress that would benefit anyone using a browser, instead of this random fork that also takes away even more of the limited time and resources that a publisher has to work on their main site.

I like Chrome and Google's efforts in making the web faster but this is one of the worst projects they've ever started.
When did The Guardian or the South China Morning Post vet anything with the US government?
The self hosted back-end has a lot of moving parts. Why was the decision made to use code instead of say a text file on EC2 via a simple web server? cf https://github.com/standardfile/ruby-server/wiki/Deploying-a...

Also how easy is it to use the editor API? Could you for instance create an outliner editor?

Why was the choice made to take up 2/3 screen with tags, filename leaving only 1/3 screen for a note. Vim user, so it appears awkward to view RHS of screen coming from a culturally LHS language, English?
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The Problem with AMP – Daring Fireball
That's not the thesis of the article. The thesis is basically that Simonides and other writers got alot of flak for wanting to be paid, but the author believed that the flak was really for pointing out a relationship that was already in place, just in a kind of reciprocal gift economy instead. More to the point, that the gift of words in the previous economy was always reciprocated by something more valuable so that the writer would remain in the patron's debt.

So the people who believe that writing should always be untainted by money (or reciprocity) are failing to understand and live up to either the patronage system or the "modern" monetary payment system.
Camlistore - https://camlistore.org
I was hoping that the article would get into this kind of business model. There are also a lot of low-end jobs where a good employee is simply wasted because their business model relies on cheap workers who quit after a few months. There is a sub-economy where these people travel on a carousel of new jobs, never having to deal with boredom setting in. So there's always plenty more of them, and you never have to match their 401(k).
> you have it, you just have to wait 10 mins to an hour to spend it

And then after 10 mins to an hour you find you can't spend it because it's been marked invalid, and the guy you sold your iPhone to is long gone.
Deep Q Learning Plays Atari “Asterix”
Yes, nvalt is Mac only.

If you are on Windows, I highly recommend ResophNotes. It isn't open source, but it's excellent software very much in the spirit of nvalt. I've combined ResophNotes with Autohotkey and Merlin Mann's notes taxonomy and it's a killer combination for me.
As a mere desktop guy. Where could I find a quality resource on safe ambient temperatures for desktop computers? I tend to assume that the magnetic HDD would be the limiter.
Atom is based on sublime text. They are quite similar anyway. The differences are that sublime text is faster, less buggy, almost never crashes, can open large files without freezing, and costs 70 dollars or you get an annoying popup every half hour or so.
Someone already mentioned the JOOQ blog .. this post should help you out https://blog.jooq.org/2014/08/12/the-difference-between-row_...
Why we need a new professional network?
I agree with the Manning pardon, I don't think Snowden deserves a pardon. Manning's motives and understanding of what she was doing is worlds different than Snowden's.

Snowden sought a position to access more information for his leaks and he leaked information on valid espionage programs along side the unconstitutional ones.

Let him live out his days in Russia, he paid for it with intelligence.
RLS plugs into the compiler so can fetch more info than YCM, which mostly uses racer (which sort of emulates the compiler but isn't perfect).

Moving forward I'd say RLS will end up being better. As much as I like YCM/racer, it will be very hard to make the type info complete without reimplementing a full typechecker.
I knew alwsl (Arch Linux as Windows Subsystem for Linux) long before this WSL distribution switcher ;-)

Anyway, I run Linux as workstation so I don't really need WSL. Plus I have never laid my hands on Windows 10 so far (I ran Cygwin on the only Windows 7 machine we have at home).
"I'd describe this as a discovery engine for lectures"

I like that idea. Thx @gary for this work, interesting in its own right, could prove ^very useful^.
> You can satisfy "do not betray the owner" and "have full freedom" with an architecture where the owner gets a password/key that unlocks management functions or BIOS reconfiguration, and physical access (short of desoldering) is insufficient to access those functions.

The problem with this model is that it destroys freedom as soon as the user isn't the owner. That is somewhat what corporate IT departments are looking for, but it's even more problematic when a person goes to the store and brings home a device that some corporation has already appointed itself "owner" of. In other words, the third model devolves into the first.

And it doesn't really buy you anything. If you use FDE and erase the decryption key from memory when not using the computer then you don't need hardware to protect your data, math is already protecting it. Past that you can only want to prevent compromise of the boot loader, but in that case detection is just as good as prevention which makes prevention an unnecessary evil.

And lab environments don't need this either. There you put padlocks on the computers after setting the flash write protect jumper, don't even install hard drives in them and boot from the network. It's the same situation -- detection is more important than prevention. Someone can cut the lock but then you know that computer is compromised.
I've always found Laverna buggy.
“[Snapchat has] to find that balance without killing the soul of Venice,”

They definitely have killed it, and not coz of real estate. Glance anywhere and you'll find pursed lips, cocked heads, eyes wide, trying to capture the perfect moment... on camera. Each person the star of their own social media fantasyland.
Yes, it's true that everything is politics! Misgendering people is transphobic politics! It shows a tremendous lack of respect for people and it's deeply offensive; that doesn't change because it's done in a "civil" tone.
Users tend to flag purely political stories and moderators add downweights to them. That's part of keeping the balance on HN, which is not a primarily political site: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
How to Create an Unforgettable Brand on Social Media
Read: a successful business in a high-paying industry in the middle of a bubble raises rent prices in the area around it...you could have written this story about San Francisco, New York, etc.
I commented on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13423073.
The new Evernote client on iOS has me considering re-starting my subscription there. They seem to have simplified things and refocused on their core purpose and that's something I'd like to support.
Now will Julian Assange be extradited to the US to face charges?
This has nothing to do with corruption. People talk even without getting paid. Not everyone realizes what they're saying is important or will become important in the future. Most of the time it's just background information.

Also, there's not necessarily an element of "great personal risk". It may just be social or embarrassment or minor damage to a career. If some flunky at a Peruvian consulate has a bit too much to drink and says his boss is an asshole, it gets written down and goes into a file somewhere. When people see that on the internet they think "Man, I really need to watch what I say to the Americans."
I'm not trying to stoke the partisan fires, I'm saying that saying "NYT doesn't publish rumours" is demonstratably false.

I acknowledge they are op-ed and opinion pieces.

I don't have the wherewithall to do massive in-depth research on the subject.
The 13" mid-2012 non-Retina was the last reasonably-upgradable MBP (granted thickness, old CPU and display): 16 GiB RAM (2 x 8 GiB SODIMMs), 2x SSDs (deleting optical drive with 3rd-party tray). It was available until the release of TouchBar-equiped models.
No, but you're cherry picking very old articles, so I'm not terribly convinced. Commentary and articles as the election versus Clinton proceeded took him quite seriously.
How would you describe Russia? How would you describe Snowden's flight from prosecution in the US?

Russia was an adversary before the Crimean annexation, shadow wars involving Iran and Syria make that clear.
Love of the job, professional pride, curiosity, ambition, etc. are why I work in this field. Money, perks and career progression are why I work at this company.
I honestly believe the majority of the downvotes are because of tone, not position.

As for hate comments in response to any of 'adrienne's in this thread, I see three that are very uncivil and have been flagged dead (and won't appear unless you have showdead on). Another is arguably uncivil and has also received a net negative votes. If you have a separate tally, please point it out.

That's not to say all of the downvotes are purely for tone. There are people who will downvote out of spite or disagreement. One issue I do think a majority of HN members agree on is the value of civil, substantive discussion, regardless of topic. As a result, HN members do overwhelmingly downvote incivility, including incivility directed at 'adrienne's comments. Please note that multiple commenters have mentioned exactly this. If you contend that they're being insincere in doing so, you of course are free to do so, but it's unlikely that you're going to be able to constructively engage with them from a position of bad faith.

I want people to be able to discuss these types of things. Regardless of what people think should be, it remains a fact that not everyone agrees on a whole host of issues. Changing one's mind is hard; changing someone else's even harder. If I can't approach the discussion with the perspective that there's hope of some sort of understanding (if not yet agreement), I'll refrain from saying anything. It's not useful—and very likely counterproductive—to do otherwise.
Cassandra is mentioned, I agree it's great for storing metadata and can be used to build efficient graph implementations but it's cited for Graphs and Relationships? I think that can be misleading as Cassandra is a a distributed column based key-value store.
You need the medium, gravity, and 'push' to get a wave. Calling them <medium>-wave, or 'push'-wave doesn't really tell you anything useful, so they're called gravity-waves. An alternative would have been buoyancy-wave, but apparently this didn't catch on (buoyancy and gravity are really two sides of the same coin, anyway).
Diplomats need to engage with other countries, no matter how they're run. They also need to be able to talk clearly with one another about what they think things are like without it getting dumped all over the internet.
Misgendering people is uncivil. It is insulting and dehumanizing. Why don't you start requiring civilty from your fellow HN commenters, rather than just me?
Could be. I'm not sure what that means, though. Do you mean having a more custom UI?
> How are leaders of EU countries decided?

Same way as the structure of the EU itself is decided. Governments fight to keep things away from a vote. Regularly a vote is called anyway because some politician uses the promise of a vote as a way to get elected. Then the EU loses the referendum, election, ... that is called, and then the result is ignored.

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

Direct quote from Wolfgang Schauble (according to Yanis Varoufakis) : "elections cannot be allowed to set economic policy for the EU".

That sums up the attitude of the EU, and is the attitude that permeates both the EU itself and the basis of it's support. This is a quote from a private conversation I had with a Dutch judge. "What would have happened if we had let elections decide ? Norway would be driving on the left and we wouldn't have the Euro anywhere". The EU is seen by the local elites (the non-businessmen. Lawyers, teachers, doctors, ...) as a way to impose what they consider good policy.

The EU institutions itself are importantly not the real basis of power in the EU. Politicians get sent off to the EU to have a cushy, but faraway, job. It's where political careers go to die (especially the parliament). EU politicians are perceived to have less power than the local ones, even though the opposite is true. And that's what's really happening in Europe : power is shifting more and more locally. Barcelona's increased independence is big. The real power base of the Belgian and Dutch governments is specific cities (Antwerp and the Hague). Outside of those cities, things are going very wrong and support for the government is nonexistent.
Do any of arch's benefits (aside from rolling releases) matter much in a virtualized environment?
> a world in which access to things like Google Search which we take utterly for granted now are forced to become paid services. What are the implications of that, particularly for the world's poorest?

hmmm so Google will stop being a de facto monopoly while ad networks crumble? Maybe free and/or open search will start flourishing again because finally there is incentive to write readable HTML for all crawlers instead of only returning scannable results when they detect the (highly peculiar) GoogleBot.

Maybe we'll get search engines again that do proper ranking (I hear actual pagerank was not a bad idea), or ones that do a proper AND-search of your keywords instead of trying second-guess you. Maybe they'll even return more than the top 1000 results. Search engines aren't that hard if you don't try to be as big as Google immediately and they just try to be good at that things they're good for.

Walled silos of user-supplied data will fall apart because it's no longer a viable strategy to special-case GoogleBot access to get your locked data appear in the results any way.

Google can no longer afford to arbitrarily overlook tactics which are against their TOS, as long as the player is big enough.

All the while, small business can still advertise if they want, easily enough by making a deal with other businesses (perhaps through a middle-man) and self-hosting the banner, click-through link to the other. Maybe some self-hosted analytics. And because in this hypothetical dream-world the craziness of these huge 3rd party ad-networks is gone, this will actually work, it'll pay, people will click.

Ads will therefore become much less shady as they are currently perceived (like, merely deceitful, not as a proper possible danger to your computer, your data and identity). Hopefully this will change the public idea of what ads can and should be in such a way that these ridiculous 3rd party ad networks with their "accidental" malicious code and ubiquitous tracking will never get a foothold again.

There might also be some downsides, though.
The parties always strive to get the most favorable jurisdiction for their cases.

That is why Samsung built an ice skating rink in front of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas -- to lobby the judges who heavily favor patent holders -- literally thousands of patent infringement suits are filed in this particular court because of this.
Back in the days when I recompiled Chrome for the Pi 1/2, I used a qemu-chroot environment prepared with debootstrap for building. About 10x faster than the "real" Pi, guess it's still way faster than a Pi 3.
How has the public benefitted from any of that? It sounds like your morbid curiosity has been satisfied, but who didn't know Libya under Gaddafi was a cesspit?

> Unless you think we're better off
> not knowing about this stuff, that is.

Who didn't already know all of that in broad strokes?
I disagree. Manning's intent and actions are far short of those of Snowden.

Snowden leaked information on valid espionage programs and possibly gave Russia the keys to the castle when he fled the country. I used to think Snowden deserved a pardon, and had it only been about the warrantless wiretapping I would still feel that way, but he leaked a number of things that damaged US relations in ways that have been highly beneficial to Russia.

I think Snowden is both a patriot and a traitor for what he did.
It's neat, but only if you live completely inside the Apple ecosystem.
I have no idea how anarchist groups work like, I have never encountered one. I'm not an anarchist myself, just like I'm not a pacifist. But I understand where they & their derivatives are coming from.

Many human organizations have similar problems, I'm not really surprised it happens in an anarchist group as well.
which is a dead link
I am curious if there is a true statistically significant number of people who provide false answers and if it is growing.

plus do polls take into account where they are polling, some areas are hostile to one party or another and they may not get a good response regardless of intent