skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's a lie, and a particularly boneheaded one.

Is that occurrence enough to conclude that all their reporting, on everything, is flawed? Because if so I think I could find similar examples from effectively any mainstream source, and any partisan (HuffPo, Breitbart, et.c) ones as well.

Who exactly should we trust when our criteria exclude everyone?
> Only some gory videos, that don't really teach us anything (everyone knows bombs make "collateral damages"

So you've never actually watched (or read about) the Collateral Murder video, huh? It's a helicopter crew killing people with guns, not bombs. And they kill exactly who they intend to.

Maybe don't form strong opinions when you don't have the slightest clue what the facts are.
Standing trial isn't a prerequisite for a pardon. Nixon never stood trial either.
It is viewed as a measure of last resort to rectify an injustice. Reigning monarchs had this power throughout most of Western history; and the tradition was carried on to modern heads of state.
I think most people here pretty clearly see that blockchains can be useful. But tons of relatively unsuccessful projects or worse, projects with grand claims and no details and evidence behind it cause widespread skepticism against new projects that don't clearly argue why they don't fit the pattern. Serious blockchain projects have a lot of "allies" that make them look pretty bad there.

Projects that clearly fit the pattern of good use cases get a lot less flak than startups or initiatives that do further out things and don't talk about details.

Unclear definitions (e.g. is a distributed ledger without expensive proof-of-work a blockchain or not?) are another issue.
In a Lispy context, I find brackets confusing. But then again, I don't know Clojure.

(To me, it is a context thing, I think - in lagnuages like C/C#, there parens, brackets, parentheses and even angle brackets flying around, and it is not a problem at all.)
> It would do a lot to encourage others to indiscriminately leak classified info

A one-time presidential commute or pardon would do no such thing. Saying that "this specific case has been looked at and deemed to be okay" doesn't automatically equate to "everyone can do this and they won't get in trouble." There's a huge difference between whistleblowing and treason
The prosecution admitted as much at her trial. Read up on United States vs Manning for more details.
That's understandable, but Manning's sentence has been unusually cruel in its execution, and unjust when compared to other people who did without being punished at all.

See, e.g. the conduct that Colin Powell described in this email:

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30324

[EDIT: click to view the PDF to find the actual content.]
We are effectively in a post-constitutional era...

It's been a grey area with NSA spying and many other federal overreaches for a while, but with Trump it's official.
Fuck Obama.
They mention Clojure, and the Clojure interpreter is a Java program, which is not native. So there is nonzero information in mentioning that the interpreter is native.
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Hi, HNers who write technical content:

Can you recommend any good forums and sites with information for technical writers on improving their skills, chatting with fellow writers, etc?

This is for people who write ebooks or books, manuals, references, tutorials and similar documents.

Thanks in advance
Neat! I wonder why they're not part of kernel release tests.
I agree.

I recently had to write a project in Ruby and all this random syntax is driving me mad.
Obama has been pardoning people since 2010, and in fact pardoned a whole big chunk of people in December of 2016.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons
If you configure it to not load remote images, how does it fare against the email privacy tester?
> It is without contention that the vast majority of the leaked cables revealed nothing that anyone considers wrongdoing.

Right, and nobody is contending that. Rather, the act of commuting her sentence is contending that 8 years is a sufficient punishment for a leak which hasn't caused any concrete harm to US citizens or interests. 35 years is more than most rapists and many murderers serve, do you really think it was a just sentence?
They have; most notably the Republicans when LBJ crushed them in a landslide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...). Or even -- again, the Republicans -- as recently as 2008 when Obama won (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...), and the Democrats has a supermajority across all three houses and beat McCain by a larger margin than Trump beat Clinton.

I won't wade into the debate about Obama's future, and will point out that I think the USA's effective two-party system is pretty busted, but yeah -- the USA has a pretty polar political past.
Off-topic but.. "they"? Manning isn't a group of people. Just say "she", it's really easy.
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Come on now, "They" does not imply any gender and is appropriate to describe any person
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The singular "they" has been used for centuries and is currently somewhat socially acceptable, especially when the gender of the person in question is unknown or disputed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_English#P...
Description and comparison of type systems by Gary Bernhardt
February. False story about Carson dropping out. Their own "fact checker" lied about it.

August. CNN edits footage of sister of man shot by Milwaukee police to make it sound like she was calling for peace. She was calling for riots in white cities.

November. Random street interview? Nope, their own cameraman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSfS2u-SmoI

Repeatedly and continually edits/mistates Trump remarks, not just on Muslims and Mexicans.

Repeatedly libels Assange with false statements about his charges.

"hands up don't shoot" never happened.

The list goes on and on, and your second question is irrelevant.
The difference is between organizations that admit when they're wrong by issuing retractions, firing people, etc. and organizations that allow known falsehoods to linger without comment.
Obama commutes WikiLeaks leaker Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence
Here is a picture (I think) of this phenomena; it's much larger than I thought!
That is good to hear. Ordered my pi!
It can and has been undone before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Toussie
Or maybe you should ask the downvoters to explain themselves.

Unless that's the only tool of "expression" they have.
It is also interesting to think your number, 200k, is strictly based on how much you make now.

What would your 18yo self said about 100k?

What do you think about a Netflix engineer making 300k? They'd probably be happy with 500k (though, cost of living, derailment ahead..).
“they” is an acceptable pronoun for any person; it is gender-neutral.
Obama Just Commuted Chelsea Manning's Sentence
There was a Planet Money segment about these. (I think it was Planet Money.) Apparently, there's a setting on these machines for the balance between convenience and loss prevention. It's up to the stores to set it where they want.
General question: How do you handle cases where people surf in private mode in Safari? Safari doesn’t allow localStorage in private mode.
Iirc Blendle let's you ask for a refund after you finish reading.
This has been discussed before. A President can pardon people for crimes they may be charged with in the future.
That's only an issue if you don't account for uncertainty in your polling data. If you ever read their articles or listened to the model talk podcast you'd know that a huge amount of effort was put into trying to quantify the uncertainty in the polls based on historical polling errors and factors unique to this year.
Things that are based on rules will be and should be automated. You are saying that the person that fixes the technical aspects of a picture is screwed. So fucking what? With tech you will have 1 billion people taking technically perfect pictures, but it's still the photographer, which can also manually do the what the tech does, that will take a picture of the right subject.
You can spin any type of classified material as "corruption" and "wrongdoing". Who draws the line?

What if someone indiscriminately leaked everything on the Manhattan project during WW2? Would they be a hero because they "acted on their conscience" and showed the world that the big bad USA was secretly developing WMDs? Or would they be a villain because they just taught other countries how to do the same? To the peace loving left he would be a hero, to the nationalist right he would be an enemy.

Bradley/Chelsea Manning is no different.
Legally they wouldn't be able to convict Manning of the same crime again. The state can do what they do with every dissident; surveil her in the extreme and then prosecute her for some trivial offense.

Law is extremely complex and dense. You have certainly broken laws but haven't been punished for them sole reason that you haven't drawn the ire of the political class.

Do you think it's just mere coincidence that anytime a citizen embarrasses the police they end up being busted for some trivial offense? The Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent the state from harassing citizens and to rate limit the states ability to execute revenge convictions. With everyone having a dossier on them now, the state implicitly chills citizens from pushing back against the government.
No, Manning did not act on "conscience." Manning had no idea what was being released. This was in retaliation for being a bad soldier who couldn't handle even a cushy role.
The President doesn't have the power to unilaterally reimpose criminal consequences, which is what an unpardon would amount to. Instead, subsequent Presidents would have to argue the person was never really pardoned in the first place. George W. Bush did this with Isaac Toussie.
That's really only possible on a single user system. VFX studios usually have large NFS servers (filers) typically running proprietary filesystems, and with hundreds or thousands of clients writing files simultaneously they don't get all laid down on the attached arrays in nice neat chunks representing entire files. Typically they would even try and distribute writes to multiple raid groups/arrays for a single file. Also consider the size, you were able to copy it onto an external drive to recover. Studios don't have a spare, empty filer sitting around to dump the random contents of a few racks worth of disks onto.
Congratulations to Chris and team on getting this release out the door.
So let's pretend the sentence was reduced by a week instead. Would that still be the same thing?
Excellent that you and the parent are representative of all of humanity.
Not a whistle blower. The cable leaks were just a bulk drop of decades worth of material.
Did you forget to link to the picture?
That's only part of it. A good data scientist is also good because they know how to answer hard questions.

In those situations math isn't "shitty trivia," but instead a tool to be leveraged against those hard questions.

You can consider the derivation of SVD to be shitty trivia while throwing np.linalg.svd around while engineering features. That's fine! Good luck visualizing that data in a meaningful way, or dealing with non-linear data, if you're ignoring that "shitty trivia."
I get you, I also have a lot of issues with my mac. But the reason why I single out Windows 10 is because I haven't had a single one of those issues on Windows 7. For me personally, Windows 10 is a downgrade in stability and overall usability, not an upgrade.
By definition, a whistle blower must reveal evidence of the commission of a crime. The term does not extend to "actions by the government that I disagree with" or "things that violate my personal interpretations of the Constitution"

If you misuse the term, you make it more difficult for legitimate whistle blowers to get the protection they deserve.
Manning had no knowledge of the video. It happened to be in the blind data dump.
For desktop machines, the biggest challenge is not cooling the CPU, but the GPU, for several reasons:

1. Mid-range cards and higher consume twice as much as a quad-core CPU.

2. Much more vertically constrained (other expansion cards on the bottom) than a CPU, so heatsink designs are very limited

3. Heatsink is much less standardized, partly because of (2), and partly because of different PCB sizes and the fact that is has to cover VRM chips as well.
>> "More than a million supporters of Edward Snowden have petitioned President Barack Obama to pardon him, but the former National Security Agency contractor hasn't submitted the required documents for clemency, according to the White House."

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/snowden-no-clemency-r...

Forms: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/application-forms

____

EDIT: Appears the only way to contact Ed is by Twitter:
https://twitter.com/Snowden
> Ms. Manning is set to be freed on May 17 of this year, rather than in 2045.

She must feel ecstatic! It's good that she will be free to live the rest of her life as the gender she feels comfortable expressing.
I thought the same thing but there's no way a native English speaker would use "they" in that context otherwise. It made me have to go back and see if Wikileaks in general was being referenced.
Gallium does really weird things to aluminium.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHHI2Lk79cY
"They" is perfectly acceptable since it is gender-neutral.
convenient for him to agree to be extradited to a country that hasn't requested his extradition, not the one that has...
Did you mean hysterical?
I'm a lawyer, and I continue to disagree.
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"Or it's Obama recognizing that someone with mental health issues the military is ill-equipped to address who has been in custody for seven years has been punished enough."

Playing Devil's Advocate: if this is the case, why did it take until the last week of his tenure as President for him to do this?

No, this smells of "legacy". Obama could have done this years ago.
Ah that sounds like an interesting proposal. A sort of personal "Advisory Board".
The point is that they're both formal systems of reasoning, not that they have exactly the same properties. The techniques and abstractions from both PL and formal logic often generalize well to both.
What if you don't want to overwrite the original?
Yes, but the simple fact of the matter is that the hospital wouldn't be in business if they couldn't afford to provide the care. So the care is going to be administered ANYWAY, at a much greater cost than it should have been, because people wait until their problems blow up into emergencies before seeking care.
They == people in govt with access to this info.
Are you saying you're re-writing SVG animations into transitions? I thought SVG was more performant, but can't seem to find metrics and comparison benchmarks
You know, some of your points are valid. But as another reply to this post stated, there are uses of blockchains outside mainstream industries.

In fact, lets talk about faxes. We still have these relics of the past generation in our offices. Why? Because it acts as a mechanism to collect and store timestamp events. Blockchain precisely does that.

How about a blockchain implementation that solves this problem?
The military justice has a possibility for parole release before the term, unlike U.S. federal civil justice. So there was always the possibility of a such release.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/21/bradley-mannings-sente...
The "collateral murder" video, which was based on Manning's leaks, is really quite chilling and definitely shows wrong doings that were then covered up by the government. There was more, but this was the most visual/memorable.

I suggest you turn your scepticism to 11 and go watch it, see if you still feel the same way. https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/

(warning: if watching civilians, journalists and children being killed in cold blood bothers you, maybe don't go watch it, just read about it instead)
I don't know what Chelsea Manning's pronoun preferences are, but I have plenty of friends who prefer "they," which also happens to be the gender-neutral singular pronoun in English.

For example: "Someone came by asking for me earlier? Did they give you a name?"

Many people who do not identify as male or female prefer "they."
And to add to this, Swedish people score among the highest for happiness. I'd like to see the other commenter explain that...
We, people in tech, regularly see and think about alternative business models. We think about what structure works. When it makes sense to have investors. Whether it makes sense to have investors at all.

There are many ways to structure a business! Not every structure is a fit for every business concept. Not everything is best suited to a bootstrapping methodology as you describe. Conversely, not everything is suited to unspeakable amounts of VC funding to hyperscale.

It's a set of individual decisions for individual needs in individual circumstances. No options on the menu are universally good or universally bad. Each is a tool suited to a purpose. Would you call a wrench "bad" because it's not good for creating holes for screws?
Pronouns are interesting. I have transgender friends who prefer "they". I like to use it as a gender-neutral pronoun when I can get away with it, and hope that usage becomes more acceptable as time passes.
Amazing work! What was the motivation for this project? Was it that motion graphics tools for web don't exist, or the tools that exist weren't good enough?
I enjoyed reading Atlas Shrugged, but I understand it is a work of fiction.
Little unethical behavior was actually leaked, though. The killing of the Reuters journalists probably should've been leaked since there was a sort of cover-up (government refused to give Reuters the video or concrete details), so I'll give her that.

But the rest was basically just normal communications.

I think she's served more than enough jail time, but this didn't really seem like a conscience-driven whistleblowing to me.

Snowden, on the other hand, leaked some seriously shady and unconstitutional activity (along with other things that IMO did not need to be released publicly). That very much did seem like he leaked it due to his conscience.
The word "they" has more than one meaning. One of those is for a person of indeterminate or unknown gender.

For example I can and routinely do say things like "If that person wishes to do XYZ, then they must first do ABCD"
I am not American so I don't know the constitution of the US. It was an innocent question but people here seemed not to like it somehow.
It's a large topic and you're right, we will have to make trade-offs. For the most part I'm okay with giving up "I should have full freedom to modify a computer I own" in cases where I voluntarily allow others to use it.

One possibility I like to think about for PCs is replacing usernames with a root of trust (hash). A trusted ROMed hypervisor downloads the configuration (or loads from cache) and netboots.

But ultimately it's bigger than PCs. Embedded computing is becoming pervasive and allows easier monitoring and control of what people can and cannot do. Today people accept that owners or manufacturers can set whatever policy they like even if it's user-hostile.
For a soldier committing this level of deliberately treasonous crime, Manning is lucky there was no execution.
although this does heavily resemble a troll account so perhaps the downvotes are because this account is trying to stir up trouble instead of engage in civil discourse as opposed to downvoting to disagree with you.
https://github.com/localForage/localForage/blob/master/src/u... seems to be the only check. They would actually have to try setting an item then remove it to catch the private browsing use-case
EDIT:misunderstood the question. Seems like they are https://github.com/localForage/localForage/blob/master/src/l...
htmlwidgets[0] and flexdashboard[1]. Essentially it's writing rmarkdown documents. Shiny integration is optional.

[0] http://www.htmlwidgets.org/

[1] http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/
> Unfortunately the comments are a pile-on of negativity, rather than a discussion of possibilities.

I don't think that how the community is supposed to work. HN is all about discussion of existing content. It is simply a bad form to go to discussion of "blockchan for big banks" article and start talking about "blockchain for ad networks".

Yes, maybe someone out there is making something where blockchain is genuinely a right technology; if you find such a project, submit it to HN and there may be actual positive comments on the blockchain idea.

Or even better: write a blog post about real-life problems which are best being solved by the bitcoin blockchain, and submit it. I am sure people will read it with interest! (I am not being sarcastic here -- I am genuinely interested about useful bitcoin applications)
Wow, same here. I relate to every point, which has never happened with any "culture and values" brief before.
It's totally relevant to the conversation we were having about 538. You should answer it.
Also consider that, since this was an emergency fix that applied to vehicles, every single one of the 600+ fleet has to be retrofitted. That's a massive amount of rush labor and gear.
Same with their presentations at conferences. They hire really good people, pay them a ton (300k+), and fire them when they stop performing.

It's a good way to get great people, if you can afford it.
It's not atypical for a president to wait until the end of their term to issue pardons and commutations, for legacy, or any other consideration.
As in, they won't buy a hammer from the town down the road? Instead they'll cast the metal head, and chop the wood for the handle? Mine their own metal ore? It can't go all the way through.
Murder, torture, blanket domestic spying etc., are not (or have not recently been) considered crimes when the federal government is the actor. The line isn't so clear.
"They" is a perfectly cromulent pronoun for women.
> These used to be core "hacker" values.

They still are. YCombinator shouldn't be confused for the hacker world.
Well, that's why I said "outrageously." It's a lot more clear when there's an obvious wronged party and the outcome is an American in prison when they shouldn't be. It would surely be challenged in court, and won.
I love it when people pronoun-bully other people. It shows how progressive they are
The POV of the government should be nothing more than the POV of the people.
In this context, it reads as a refusal to accept usage of her preferred pronoun.
No need for total oxygen evacuation. You actually just have to drop oxygen content in the air down from 21% to 15% to make most substances (including oil and grease) inflammable, and this air is perfectly safe to breathe for humans.

In fact, if you consider the partial oxygen pressure (which is what matters for your lungs), this air is no worse than the air you find inside an airplane, or at a 2500m (8200 ft) mountain peak; Wikipedia says 140 million people live permanently at above 2500 m.

Now, this already exists and is called a hypoxic air fire prevention system, and is used e.g. in some data centers and in archives of valuable documents. It's not used in fast food restaurants though, because they have better ways of preventing and extinguishing fires at lower cost.
Sorry, non-native speaker here. But wouldn't "they" apply when you don't know when the gender of the person? In this case you do know.
Logic is bogus everybody knows the USA is the most innovative country by far.
"the Hillary e-mails are actually very chilling when you start reading through them"

What chilled you, specifically?
Wouldn't It Be Nice If Everyone Knew a Little Queuing Theory?