skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So because there happened to be something bad among the 250k documents, the act itself is completely absolved? If I were to murder 100 people randomly should I be absolved because it turned out one of them was a child molester?
Weird :/

It works well in Firefox on my desktop from 2009 (with 4GB of DDR2) … Do you also have performance issues in Safari or Firefox ?
Red is actually quite cool lang. Thanks for posting.
His lazy comment doesn't need rationalising.

VS Code is not 'a very bad app'. If you know of a comparable app that uses fewer resources to a significant degree please let us all know and I'm sure we'll all switch.
"Relational" means "tabular". (A "relation" in relational theory is a table with a name, fields with names and types, and the data in the table.)

A "relationship" in an ER diagram maps to a "reference" in relational theory. This is part of the type safety/domain system of RDBMSs.

If these concepts are muddled, SQL will never quite make sense :)
Firing for mistakes can make sense in the context of a small company that has to pay enough to rectify the mistake that it significantly impacts the budget. If this cost needs to be recouped, it is only fair that it be recouped from the salary preserved by terminating the responsible party. We're not all megacorps.

This is going to depend on the severity, cost, budget, importance of the role filled, etc., but I think it's probably one of the only semi-plausible justifications for firing based on things that do not reflect a serious and ongoing competency or legal issue.
> I can't imagine robots being able to program computers for awhile.

This actually puzzles me (especially since writing code requires no physical robot, just "an intelligence").

Just recently, we had some AI beat the world's Go champion?

Poker, chess and countless other games are long done.

Programming, in many languages for many tasks, isn't that much of a stretch. In all these games you have a number of primitive operations, sets/rules of valid and invalid state, a goal to work toward.. "same as much of programming, in principle" ;)

I guess at this point the only things holding AI back are (A) the impossibility of parsing human-formulated requirements and specs accurately (we suck at this to, but we're also for now "the only alternative" and can be talked to by same-species inconcise/inconsistent spec-writers painstakingly), and (B) how to deal successfully with all the glitches bugs inconsistencies incompatibilities and special-cases in the various unavoidable-for-interop-required-by-specs human-made APIs, libraries, tools, stale repos, protocols, frameworks..
There is nothing fake about the news coverage that CNN provides. It cannot be honestly or rationally equated with the fake news phenomenon that we saw on Facebook during the election.

Also, 538 was the most accurate model during the election. They were the only ones fighting against the narrative that it was a sure win for HC.
It's right there in the article:

She copied hundreds of thousands of military incident logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which, among other things, exposed abuses of detainees by Iraqi military officers working with American forces and showed that civilian deaths in the Iraq war were likely much higher than official estimates.
Great explanation, thanks!
> “Mr. Snowden fled into the arms of an adversary, and has sought refuge in a country that most recently made a concerted effort to undermine confidence in our democracy.”

What an amazingly loaded statement that is. Russia is just a straight up "adversary" now? Infuriating.
> The New York Times has deftly adapted to the demands of digital journalism

EDIT: And from the report itself: [0]

> The Times employs the finest staff of journalists in the world

> [Elsewhere in the report, in case you forgot:] Our staff is made up of the world’s best journalists

> We have defined multimedia storytelling for the news industry and established ourselves as the clear leader. Yet despite our excellence ...

> The print version of The New York Times remains a daily marvel

> We continue to be the most influential news organization in the country

First, I'm not a hater: I think the NY Times is one of the more important institutions in the world and read it daily.

IMHO they have been dragged into the digital age kicking and screaming, and their execution has been barely adequate to keep afloat. Financially, they've been cutting staff. Their digital products are clearly the product of old-school newspaper people trying to adapt their product to a web browser and to claim cred by doing some clever tech that has little impact or value (such as 'Snowcrash').

Look at their homepage: Does it look like, A) Any digital-native news site you've seen? B) Something optimized for the user and interface? Or C) Is it an old paper layout adapted to digital. (Answer: C). Look at their branding, the typeface: Overdone custom typefaces may have been a symbol of status and resources when printing presses were used, but now anyone can make a typeface on my laptop. The branding says loudly We have come to you from the world of paper. If someone used that typeface for anything else on the web, it would look bizarre; I can imagine the HN response. When the NY Times gets rid of that typeface, I'll believe they are all in for digital and aren't just trying to adapt. (EDIT: They even say it themselves in the report: Our largely print-centric strategy, while highly successful, has kept us from building a sufficiently successful digital presence and attracting new audiences for our features content; but then still can't let go: We need to reduce the dominant role that the print newspaper still plays in our organization and rhythms, while making the print paper even better.)

Finally, I fear the NYT suffers from narcissism, similar to the U.S. President-elect. This report (see the quotes above) and prior internal reports I've read (very few, a small sample) repeated many times how the NYT is the greatest. These reports aren't for marketing purposes, but for internal consumption. I'd be worried if I saw that in my organization. Narcissists are fragile; they keep telling themselves how great they are because they can't handle reality.

EDIT: A few edits after I read the report

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[0] https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/
You've assumed the person using "they" did know enough about Chelsea Manning's recent history and chose to use they as some kind of statement.

You should probably be talking the the person who called her "guy", or the person who said she was forced to change gender as a punishment, (both in this thread) rather than the person who politely used "they" because they weren't sure whether to apply she to the time she was identified as male.
Manning is a woman; is there some reason you're calling her a "they"?
"They" can be used in the singular, and many communities use it in that manner frequently! Merriam-Webster has a great piece on this. [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/singular-nonbi...
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"JavaScript is the worst tool". Ah, no matter how many times I see it, it never fails to rub me the wrong way for some reason.

Its faster than Ruby, Python and PHP by a mile.

It now has async/await.

The amount of work that goes into making it good for front-end apps is amazing.

It has a fairly large ecosystem.

Dynamic / unityped nature lets you prototype quickly.

Tooling such as TypeScript lets you switch to static types when being dynamic just wont cut it any longer. Oh, and TypeScript has generics! (can't believe thats still a differentiator in 2017)

TypeScript can typecheck JSX templates.

It has PureScript for when you want even stronger type-checking and abstraction powers.

It doesn't have: multicore green threads (probably not going to happen) and large ints (coming soon).

Here, have a look at https://facebook.github.io/reason/ and https://facebook.github.io/reason/modules.html and see how many equivalent features it provides using just lexical closures and free-form objects (the TypeScript overlay can also approximate some features of algebraic datatypes via tagged unions and control flow analysis)

Really, the JS sucks meme is getting old, fast. Sure there are more powerful languages and higher quality ecosystems, but its quite far from being "the worst".
It also reads as someone who understands the pronoun issue, but doesn't understand the temporal rules around pronouns. Instead, just opting for the traditional gender-neutral pronoun.

There's a lot of different perspectives and opinions, and honestly the rules aren't clear cut yet. At this point I pretty much always refer to people as "them" online.
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Well, my college (not a fancy one mind you) was actually using povray to get people started on opengl circa 2000. Don't know if it was the best method but it worked. As for OpenGL itself, back then the best resource I remember were the NeHe tutorials
Or punish our (future) leaders for basic human depravity.
he did pardon Marine General James Cartwright who released details about the cyber attacks on Iran. That one is was a surprise
Is there a list of emails that contain actual unfavorable/damning information?
Yeah, true. To the point where I suppose it's basically standard in a bunch of regional dialects.
> Some of that information was dangerous and harmful.

So dangerous and harmful that it harmed no one.
Singular they is indeed a thing:

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

Whether it's applicable in this case is another question.
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Has anyone found a way to finance serious news that is both sustainable and open. I fear the subscription model limits the best, 'real' news to the few who can and will pay for it, and keeps that news out of the online conversation.

EDIT: What about micropayments?

(See this comment for more on the subject

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421905 )
Speaking of classical logic, I came across a book on Fred Sommers' work entitled "The Old New Logic" (David Oderberg is editor). I haven't read it yet, so I can't comment, but based on some excerpts and reviews, it sounds like a good read. I thought I'd mention it here for those interested. Link: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/old-new-logic

Also, those interested in the fallout of Russell's paradox are encouraged to look into Lesniewski's mereology (this is a topic that occurs in my master's thesis where I attempted to formalize the structure of Aristotelian living things mereologically using many-sorted logic). In short, Lesniewski held that the axiomatic set theory of the day betrayed the intuitions of naive set theory and resulted in paradoxes. He attempted to dispense with the these paradoxes by proposing a formal system known as mereology that replaced the primitive element relation in set theory with the parthood relation (other relations can be defined in terms of parthood, e.g., overlap, disjoint, proper/improper parthood depending on which one you assume, and vice versa). Link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lesniewski/
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Assange has only to say something nice about Trump, and all will be forgiven[0].

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/08/do...
Slavery and the Holocaust were legal (within the legal context of their respective nations' legislation).

Sometimes even governments' actions are illegal.
We're friends now…Russia will hand over Snowden shortly after Trump removes sanctions…we have always been at war with Eastasia.
She was always a woman; she just presented as a man for many years. The NYT presented the information quite well when they said, "Ms. Manning was still known as Bradley Manning when she deployed with her unit to Iraq in late 2009."
That was not in the diplomatic cables. What wrongdoing has been exposed in the diplomatic cables?
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> Manning released a large volume of information to the public en masse

No. She leaked the documents to Wikileaks, who decided to publish them uncensored. She had no control over what Wikileaks would do. Other media outlets opted not to release information they considered dangerous.

And, as @mhurron pointed out, there is no record of someone who was harmed by that information being released.
What exactly did Manning blow the whistle on? While Snowden exposed what he believed was illegal spying on Americans, Manning just leaked a bunch of classified information about war that he/she believed was immoral .
> But there is more than just reporting single facts ...

And facts are tricky things. They can be easily manipulated, either by the people in the 'photo' or by the person who took it.
If he did it during the campaining, which was basically the last 18 months, the Republicans would have been all over it.

Not that I'm praising him, he's been terrible wrt surveilance and transparency.
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> Rail systems are almost never profitable. The US, at least in spirit, doesn't like government subsidies.

Excuse me? Japan privatized its rail system in the late 80s, doesn't subsidize any of the JR companies[1][2] (which are all publicly traded to boot), and has a profitable enough industry that there are now numerous private operators[3] of various sizes who successfully compete.[4]

1 http://www.railway-technology.com/features/featurelevel-play...

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Japan

3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyu_Corporation, and see the box at the bottom for lots more

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Greater_Tokyo#Oth...
I think the point is that line of reasoning is pretty self-defeating, because the guy left. But if they had paid him in line with what value he was bringing to the company, he might not have.
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That was quite harmful. Nobody is going to talk to you in confidence if what they say, attributed, is going to get dumped on the internet.
Just because something is constitutional does not make it ethical.
Judging by the sensitivity of the documents is not how you judge the ethics of it. That by chance the damage from the leak wasn't a lot worse does not count in Manning's favor.
Ideally these libraries will fall back to in-memory storage, which is lost when you navigate away, but keeps pages working when they expect to be able to write then read back a value in the same page.

Some browsers like Firefox throw exceptions when you try to touch storage in private browsing mode. This can be super annoying since it tends to break pages that use storage and haven't been specially tested in that mode in that browser. A library-based memory fallback helps avoid that. AFAIK it's what Chrome does with storage in incognito mode: just save calls in RAM, return them if asked for, then throw it away when navigating.

There's a PR to add this for localforage but it's been stuck in purgatory for a while and seems to have some resistance despite the utility: https://github.com/localForage/localForage/pull/555
16-bit, Lab, good text support…
Ad tiles aren't hard to get rid of in enterprise environments either.

You can remove all of the Windows apps with a powershell script, and then you just have to shove a modified start menu layout in the default profile before capping the wim file to roll out your installs from.
"Just in: President Barack Obama has largely commuted Chelsea Manning's remaining prison sentence. She has been jailed for nearly seven years, and her 35-year sentence was by far the longest punishment ever imposed in the United States for a leak conviction."

- The Marshall Project

https://www.facebook.com/TheMarshallProject.org/posts/186396...

I highly recommend subscribing to the Marshall Project Opening Statement: https://www.themarshallproject.org/subscribe
By whose definition?

Since you went there:

Oxford dictionary says: "A person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity."

What is illicit? : "Forbidden by law, rules, or custom."

Is what the cables actually revealed customary? Probably.
Yes, but Ms. Manning's gender is neither indeterminate nor unknown. Ms. Manning is a woman, and she has publicly stated that her pronouns are she/her. This is not difficult information to find.
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It'd be nice to see more of a focus on news rather than advocacy. I'll decide my own opinion.
Is a lawyer not incompetent if he green-lights the corporation's involvement in an actively malicious scheme?
Just not in a real datacenter.
> But the rest was basically just normal communications.

Which may have had wide-reaching consequences, with respect to the Arab Spring.
Depends on which metric you look at. While Bitcoin has much faster settlement time than international wire transfers, it has slower throughput (~7 TPS max currently).
also being tortured in custody and put into solitary is much for the crime. I don't understand why Obama had to wait so long (couldn't he have, at least done it two or three months ago?) and why he's letting Chelsea stay in the pen till summer? Why not let her out more or less now?
Others would say -- and I would say also -- that in general, the public has benefited greatly from the disclosures in the more pertinent cable leaks.

The thing to keep in mind, though, is that Manning didn't simply dump these to "the public"; she gave them to Assange and his people, who (after some falling out with each other, and a lapse in some basic security practices) managed to leak the passphrase to one of their private keys.

Which isn't to say she's not responsible for the consequences of her actions; in any case, she's already very much paid the price for the decision she made. But still, it was not her intent that the cables be simply "dumped in public".
Irrelevant when it comes to whistleblowing and legality. The government could not function if people were justified in releasing all information they disagreed with. Surely the set of information related to actions that no one disagrees with is empty or nearly so.
Picolisp. I found it very easy to embed.
Not the parent poster, but I consume a huge amount of writing in PDF form.

* Most modern browsers have it built in

* Preview on MacOS is good

* Kindle and iBooks import PDF files

* SumatraPDF and Skim, depending on your OS
It is not other people's responsibility to know what your preferred pronoun is; you don't have a right to a preferred pronoun; you don't get to tell other people how they should speak. They is perfectly appropriate in all situations as it is gender neutral.
Not at all, if they take "no" for an answer and don't call back for, say, six months.

Once or twice, my answer has been "yes". In fact, that's how I got my current job.
I think you're comparing apples to oranges. Writing code is nothing like playing a board game.

A more apt comparison would be having an AI create board games that have logical rules, are enjoyable, and are extremely deep.

In this case, specifying a fitness function becomes non-trivial.

Like with designing a board game, how do you know if the program you are writing is getting closer to the goal? Let's say you use the number of unit tests passed as a metric. Ok, but who wrote those unit tests? And more importantly, how do you know you're getting closer to passing some unit test?

In summary, we are still far away from an AI that can fully replace software developers, unless we get a general AI out of nowhere, of course.
I quit when I had a better offer elsewhere because I felt undervalued by my employer.

I went from a local company with overseas offices paying poorly for my niche into an international company paying nearly double without even flinching at negotiation. That was eye opening to me as a signed up 'what matters is autonomy, mastery and purpose' guy. Not only that but the company matched salary raises to a local unions pay negotiations which meant that my until then roughly cost of living raises suddenly doubled. I also ended up getting an annual bonus bigger than I was contractually entitled too as well. All in I more than doubled my salary which let me do things like rebuild our family home.

I realised that not only did I feel my work wasn't recognised at the previous company but they were actively taking the piss. I also realised that whilst I didn't do anything I did for the money reward (I genuinely felt this bonus scheme would have been as worthless as others) the actual monetary demonstration of value in raises and other rewards really makes your value apparent in a manner very meaningful to the rest of your life.

I still think the competition for bonuses and raises can lead to all sorts of degenerate behaviour from the POV of the business and stress on an employee but I really see the absolute value of monetary rewards now when they appear out of your expectations.
The new bit was the video itself.

Saying "X happened", and offering "Here is video that demonstrates X happened" are very different things. A video of an event can be of such overwhelming significance that its importance is impossible to calculate.
OJ stole a TV after being found guilty in his murder trial decades later? 30-life. Yeah. Talk about a disproportionate punishment.
This is going to get confused with Pixi, the more and more popular 2D rendering engine for Javascript: http://www.pixijs.com/
Also the article states tat manning tried to approach the NYT and washington post, but was refused/ignored.
HN is one of the few places left for open political discourse with little partisanship or blundering hostility. Your comment/account suggests that you have no intention of continuing that trend. Down-votes represent a reaction to that, not your particular pov.
"He" is the pronoun that was used in their past, "she" is the pronoun for the present. When we're talking about the past+present for this person, I think "they" is not unreasonable. At least, it's more reasonable than trying to call someone out for their pronoun usage when the discussion is about a much more serious topic.
Well, what happens if you break the signature? - the IME does not start up... - Exactly what we wanted.
> People are not just tools, they are the reason we have an economy in the first place.

Please explain this basic fact to the people at Davos.
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Do you really believe that the government should be able to do whatever it wants in any area with no transparency or oversight? That's what you're saying — that nobody should be allowed to disclose something that government officials don't want them to, without any further consideration — but I have trouble believing that's what you mean to say.
Reports on studies are there to create one-liners, bite sized phrases that are to be repeated and retold over and over.

So, memes.
This is not true. The courts found that a president can pardon a supposed crime before charges have even been filed, as well as any time before or after trial/conviction.

This was the case with Ford's pardoning of Nixon, as well as Carter's pardoning of all those who avoided the draft during the Vietnam war.
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I have settled on Google Keep for my note-taking, for ease of use and durability. I like that Standard Notes is similar, but adds privacy and the option for self-hosting. Being open source and extensible is a bonus!
> the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses

In 2008 they did not have a 'supermajority', usually interpreted to mean a veto-proof or filibuster-proof majority, in any house of Congress.

Also, today Republicans control both houses and the Governer's seat in approx. 33% of states.

Finally, the Dems can't win in some states due to gerrymandering and voting laws that prevent even a majority of Democratic votes from winning the election.
Maybe for you money is more valuable than time, and that's fine, but I was talking about time, not money.
The person you're replying to said "especially." It is also valid when the gender is known.