skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seven years is still a long time for whistle blowing. I'm glad to see she is still getting released though. It's important to note commuting the sentence is not a pardon. Chelsea will still have this conviction for the rest of her life.

I know there is a lot of controversy with Manning compared to Wikileaks et. al. as far as not redacting documents or using a discriminating news source to filter them. Still, I oppose state secrets and the Hillary e-mails are actually very chilling when you start reading through them. I still side with Manning. Too many of the Snowden documents were redacted with critical information (like which hardware encryption chips were compromised by the US government). No one has the actual Pentagon Papers outside of very specific news agencies. Manning gave the entire story to the people .. and I find it more sad that we didn't see more outrage and change from that release.

I also see another message here. Obama is trying to leave a positive view of the Democratic legacy with this lasting memory. It helps people forget about the predator drones, secret kill lists, continuation of torture, NSA spying and the expansion of war, military and the American hegemony throughout the world. I wish people would see this manipulation; this handout to the left to keep them angry at the incoming administration and not at the government that continues to spy on them and kill people without trial in and endless sea of never ending conflict.
At the time water-based heatpipes weren't used for coolers, which made all coolers much, much less efficient. Today practically every CPU cooler uses 2-8 heatpipes and that's what makes all the difference. (Well that and not using top-blowers anymore).
> a fraudulent-transaction-free processing network

except, of course, for all the fraud, thefts, exchange collapses, "hacks" and sorry-for-your-loss events in every other part of how Bitcoin works in practice. Except for the fraud, it's completely free of fraud!
While he isn't blameless, the ACA helped a lot of people, the economy recovered greatly (admittedly all he had to do was not fuck it up), permitted states to legalize weed. For me I have to say the ACA is probably the biggest reason why I liked him well enough. I was able to stay on my parents insurance until I was 26, and then since I was self-employed I was able to easily get insurance through the marketplace. Now that process I'll admit hasn't been as smooth for everyone, but for me it worked okay.
Not arbitrarily. If it's a conditional commutation, then there would need to be hearings to document and assert the violations of those conditions first.
I have a special hatred for self-checkout machines that attempt to monitor your bagging without an escape mechanism. Let loss prevention do their damn job and let me give you my money already. At least I can still vote with my feet and always go to a cashier in these places. Someday I probably won't be able to.
You probably mean 2SA, not 2FA.

Also Google 2SA allows you to 'trust' or 'remember' devices to circumvent multiple queries for a code. Is this what might have occurred ?
Wow. I'm actually seriously considering starting something on a smaller scale (tower defense for mobile as well) in the next few days as my next long-term(ish) side-project. I've done native iOS and Android for a few years now, but nothing with Unity as of yet. I know C# well enough. Other than what you've mentioned, do you have any immediate tips before I fall face first?
Chelsea Manning to be freed in four months after Obama commutes 35-year sentence
I'd add do you need high level of transactions per second. If you need to reverse a hash every time you make a transaction, that's not going to be fast or efficient.

Also do you need transaction anonymity. A blockchain is also a public ledger. You may hide behind a secret key but everyone can see what that secret key is doing and has done since the begining. As soon as Morgan Stanley notices that this big trade has to be Goldman Sachs, then Morgan Stanley can observe all of the transactions that Goldman Sachs has done from the begining. That problem alone should close the debate. Markets need anonymity for all the other market players not to arbitrage your position.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation (I know it isn't a study, but this was the one video I remember mentioning that more money doesn't equal more motivation)
> English variants of Anabaptism (Quakers, etc),

It's important that you know that Quakers aren't Anabaptists[0].

They hold the "peace church" thing in common, and have both essentially fallen out of consort with mainline Protestantism, but that's about it.

[0]http://www.quakerinfo.org/index
And admit you're the cause of the Assange investigation which has kept him locked up in an embassy for years as well.
Political cowardice, mostly. It's something you can only safely do once you're a lame duck. Not sure why they don't typically do it in December, though.
For anyone else who was curious:

Commute - reduce (a judicial sentence, especially a sentence of death) to one less severe.
1. 100 years is way too long. If it took a century for society to sort itself out, that's a good demonstration of my point.

2. "the lowest 65 percent" is a pretty big segment. How were the lowest 40% doing, or 20%? I don't know the answer, I just think it's a useful question.

3. Much of this article talks about how rising income is not the same as a rising standard of living, and how it is "plausible" that standards of living decreased for the first 70 or so years of the industrial revolution.

4. Even if wages and standards of living both went up, inequality on its own is a concern. Your quote shows that inequality was worse a century later.

5. I'm not calling for anything specific. My only point is that it's not acceptable to say "we don't need to worry at all, everything will work out". We do need to worry, but it's totally possible that after worrying we'll come to the conclusion that no major changes make sense at this time.

I've just seen a lot of people say "look at the Industrial Revolution, we'll be fine" and I think that's exactly the opposite lesson we should have learned. And I honestly didn't have UBI in mind when I wrote that comment, I was thinking about maybe some kind of subsidized education program for people who need to switch careers because their old career no longer exists. Or anything, I don't know. This isn't my field. I'm just saying this is worth a lot of thought and study, preferably by people who know what they're doing.
Come on, a collection of binary values for all of the threat models on a product used by millions of people is a scale by any other name. How good is the product at covering each of the threat models?
It's too bad it took a presidential order to commute her sentence to 8 years, when it probably should've been the longest sentence she should've gotten by default, if not much less, if she even had to be jailed in the first place. I think she only got imprisoned for so long because that's how the military operates. Right or wrong, they want to set an example of soldiers that something like this, so that others aren't encouraged to do the same.

Also, too bad Obama didn't pardon Snowden. He should have.
Forget what? There was no pardon by Obama, so that agreement does not apply.

Why would you want to detract from the good news of Chelsea having a release date in the very near future and conflate that with a different issue regarding Assange?
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It is cheap to make GIT hashes but it remains impossible to day to generate git collisions.

The cost of hashing only has to do with the creation of blocks. Which blocks are not required to be cryptographically verifiable.
So this is great, but note that development has seemingly fallen off to close to zero over the last year:

https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie/graphs/contributors
It's been reported in the news for the last month that Obama has no intention of retiring from public life. He's going to be a major spokesman and "spiritual leader" of sorts for the Democrats going forward. The reason is that the Democrats don't have a good "bench." Most of the Democrats remaining in positions of power are creatures of big-city machine politics, not exactly likable populists who can counter Trump.
Dismissing Python Garbage Collection at Instagram
does anyone know if the OP is talking about search ads, or display ads? I stay away from display ads because it's chock full of fraudulent activity, but even search ads I see about 90% lower conversions than organic search. so wondering if this is the same problem....
Ironically, Snowden likely skipped the country as part of his leak precisely because of what had happened to Manning. Claiming that there's mercy for him if he comes back for a last minute commute by an outgoing President after 7 years... I mean, who do they think they're fooling?
Ah, you're the guy why newer LGA2011 caps come with a yellow-red warning sticker about "NOT USING ANY FORCE"? ;)
Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence
People are humans and human nature nearly always leads to political behaviour (i.e. behaviour not optimal for the organization as a whole) in any organization of more than a few people.

Pressed on all sides, dealing with unreasonable demands from above, and with internal competitors and naysayers to fight off, even the most enlightened manager may sometimes behave in ways that treat people as easily replaceable.

Even if intellectually they know they aren't.
Any big reason to upgrade?
It's useless information then, any real executable is native. In that sense you can say Perl is native (Python, Ruby, JavaScript/nodejs).
Indeed it would. I recall some work being done on a giant 3D printer than that print buildings out of concrete; figuring out a way to do the same with lunar materials would be a huge step in the right direction.
I don't know. There are many here who continue to take a pro-government pro-surveillance position inspite of the Snowden revelations. Many in the country and the mainstream media seem to think of him as a 'traitor'. That would seem to be equally disturbing, if not more?
what is currently being called "fake news" is not the same thing as editorial bias nor do I equate them in the sense that I don't distinguish between the two. I do distinguish between them.

however, fake news and editorial bias are used to accomplish the same thing: disinformation. that is the level which I equate them.
If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

Commuting the sentence is "granting clemency", isn't it?
I have done some benchmarking of Qt/C++ vs Eletron/node performance while I was working on rbkit-client (https://github.com/code-mancers/rbkit-client) and frankly performance gap is huge for stuff like parsing, processing and anything which is CPU bound.

So if Nylas is parsing imap messages then both parsing and rendering difference between a native and eletron app will be big. Fortunately browsers workaround some of this problem by consuming json and stuff - formats browsers can natively parse.
It does seem cool, but for some reason, I feel like the tone is Big Brother-esque. "Imagine if..."
Yes it does, via configuring multiple postgres servers with synchrnous and streaming replication options.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/warm-standby.html...

https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon
He's overcome similar sorts of challenges in the past. Early in his career, Zuckerberg was notoriously awkward on any kind of stage. (His 2008 appearance at SXSW was, by almost all accounts, a debacle.) Now, he's pretty good in those kinds of forums. He hasn't yet gotten crowds cheering on a regular basis, but hasn't yet had to, really. And as a bunch of people have noted by now, the 50-state challenge seems designed in part to help him practice speaking to non-technical audiences of the type he'd have to rally in any run for office.

(And if it takes hiring an acting coach, well, he's got the money. And he certainly wouldn't be the first politician to quietly take that kind of professional advice -- even setting aside the ones like Fred Thompson and Ronald Reagan who already had personal theatrical experience.)
Yes. I predict that in 2017 there will be many "business Blockchain" products that will be a transaction ledger in a Merkle tree - because this is actually really good and a useful idea! - and that developers will be able to tell buzzword-prone management "oh, we've been using, ahh, blockchain-related technologies since 2005!" cos they use git.
1. Wealth disparity is an issue because wealth in America correlates very strongly with political power, which wealthy people in turn use to amass even more wealth and political power.

2. Oh man, where to even begin?

a. Repeal of ACA is the most obvious one. According to the recently released report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office[1], 18 million Americans will lose their health insurance in the first year when ACA is repealed. Over ten years, this number will increase to 32 million. In other words, by 2026, one in ten Americans will be without health insurance.

b. Trump wants to strip FCC of consumer protection laws[2]. It's pretty obvious why this will be horrendous for the average American.

c. He proposed pulling out of NATO. This one should also be pretty obvious: NATO is the major force that is keeping Russia in check. Without America there would be a NATO, and without NATO, Russian geopolitical influence would expand massively, reducing America's influence as a result.

d. His cabinet picks are a major disaster. Department of Labor headed by a guy who has fought against labor protection laws all his life. Department of Education headed by a woman who wants to abolish it. Department of Energy headed by a guy who has a degree in animal science. Department of Housing and Urban development headed by a guy whose only "qualification" for the job is having grown up in a poor neighborhood. Environmental Protection Agency headed by a guy who is a close ally of the fossil fuel industry. It gets worse and worse.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/17/...

[2]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/trump-team-report...
>I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter?

Because as soon as an average person can't install Microsoft Word they get frustrated and give up. I wish it wasn't the case but every single non technical person I have tried to push Linux to has had zero interest.
Because the elections are a show that are only designed to keep the plebs angry at each other. 2016 was a great season of American Next Great President .. except Americas forgot it's just a TV show and not real. This intensifies that effect and makes the left forget about all the war, drones, spying and everything that will not change under this or any other administration.
This made me genuinely happy. Thanks, Obama. For real.
Gmail automatically downloads and caches images, and loads them from their server instead of from the original remote server, when you read the email.
He tells good jokes and invites all the media and Hollywood personalities to White House dinners and cocktails.

I mean what more do you want from your president in order to like him?!
I don't personally run a fanless build... I use the design I mentioned at the end of my post, liquid cooling with almost silent fans (Noctua brand, like you linked).

The defining feature of a fanless build really is cost. It's hard to build a machine that will stay silent under load for cheaper than the heatsink I linked above. At the same time, fanless builds don't dissipate enough heat to enable high overclocking (so you can't eke out the same performance as you could using fans).
Only 37 % of NYT readers access the paper from the home page. The rest are coming from search, social media etc. [0]
While I see a possibility of converting the first segment (37 %) into subscription paying users, I am curious about what they are doing to convert the rest?

[0] (As of 2015) https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Digital-News-RISJ-Challeng...
"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ (US Department of Justice) case," WikiLeaks wrote on Twitter.
You're totally right. The trouble is that when 538 was saying "wait, hold up, we're not sure," and in all their commentary being very clear that that 25% chance was a real, important possibility, people were taking it as, "oh, they think Hillary has it in the bag." People are taking their being rightfully less certain than anyone else using the same data as meaning they were just as wrong as anyone else, when the data itself was lacking. They weren't.

(Of course, the degree to which the data was lacking and the reasons for that lack is another issue in and of itself.)
> If logic has nothing to do with reality, it means that the Law of Identity is inapplicable to reality.

That may be the case. If our brain is only capable of forming self-consistent schemas (consider how it reacts when encountering new facts that contradict existing schemas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance), then the world's apparent consistency may only be a consequence of our contemplating it through the human brain. (To be clear though, it's consistency within single schemas—not between, where contradictions abound.)

> If so, then: a. things are not what they are; b. things can be and not be at the same time

Can someone be a hero and not be a hero at the same time? I think there are some subtleties to this issue arising from the nature of language. Certainly at our scale (i.e. not quantum scales—although even there I don't really think 'real' inconsistency is happening, but it's less clear cut) a certain kind of consistency has very strong empirical support (it's probably our best supported hypothesis!), so it would be adaptive for us to build models of the world that would reflect that property—but this doesn't mean we've hit on something deep about the nature of reality.
Yes, me too. Though I don't think it will be the ultimate return. I do believe that someone else who has reached the unreachable can point the way, but that at that point it will still come from within.
This DoJ list of clemency recipients includes both pardons and commutations.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemencyrecipients
> Subsequent presidents can "un-pardon" people pardoned by previous presidents

I've never heard that, never heard of it happening, and don't believe it's true. However, I've never researched it. Can you cite an example or a source?
That's not really the same though. Did Clinton actually manage to fix the roads? If he did, that wasn't a mistake and voters were simply retaliating for a tax increase.
He really does. Regardless of whether you like his politics or not he really seems like a genuine, down to Earth person. He always seems professional and articulate. I will miss that aspect of a president.
Not nearly as much as the amount I would bet that Manning will never get pardoned.
I don't understand how any encryption like this helps, unless it's end-to-end. When somebody breaks in, they just get the encryption keys as well, no? Can anyone point out what am I missing here? Thank you.
Assange agrees to extradition if US releases Chelsea Manning
Well yes any real executable is native. The perl executable is indeed a native program. It's a native interpreter for Perl.

But there are also interpreted interpreters aren't there? Which aren't real executables, and aren't native. It would be possible to write an interpreted interpreter for Perl, maybe in a language like Ruby. Jython is a real example of an interpreted interpreter (if you ignore that the JVM has a JIT, but it isn't AOT, which you've said that you think is an important criteria).

And so it isn't useless information.

The distinction is particularly relevant here because the RPython technology they are using to build their interpreter means they can either interpret their interpreter using the Python interpreter, or they can make a native interpreter by compiling their interpreter to native AOT. That's probably why they used that particular wording.

So, again, not only is their terminology consistent with the rest of the industry, they are also making a specific and interesting point here, and it isn't useless information.
The really sinister thing is that we have paid, bad faith actors whose full time jobs are to spread misinformation and shape narratives online. There is just no way you and I, amateurs commenting sporadically in our free time, have the resources to combat armies of paid trolls.

What's the difference between this and a lot of PR?
Manning will be released in May this year, just after Trump's first 100 days in office. It's almost like Obama is timing this as a reminder of himself at a point in the future where it's bound to provide maximum irritation to his successor. (I don't think that's the actual intention, but we can definitely look forward to some interesting tweetstorms from Trump in May.)
> Later in private several people were disgruntled and claimed the person only had to do so because they had messed it up before despite being told to use a different approach repeatedly.

This sounds like every tech company ever. I used to excitedly watch youtube videos about the extreme measures startups took to scale to "massive" amounts of traffic while undergoing huge growth spurts.

Now I just kind of roll my eyes and think "Yeah, obviously a message bus in a relational databse using rails wasn't the optimal solution for scaling that app".

In the real world emergencies happen. The unexpected happens. But the truth is that if you actually prepare and have been around the block once or twice, they don't happen all that often. And when they do, there's usually a handy little knob to ameliorate the issue.
The answer to your question is the same as: will the cost of living drastically drop in the near future?

Nope. Salaries? Same.
Those people didn't die in a flood - instead, over thousands of years, they relocated

Yes, that's exactly what I said. They walked away from the coast as sea levels rose, taking their DNA with them.
Why can the US president meddle with the sentence of a convict? Isn't that against the separation of powers?

Not that I have anything against this guy Manning in particular, just asking why is this "tolerable" in a democracy. Isn't it a risk, that the president can pardon whoever he wants?
top of the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421298
the clemency is also 6 months into the future. presumably, at that time, things will in a slightly less absurdist position for someone like him. I cannot imagine him getting anything resembling a fair trial right now. In 6 months? sure.