skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know they have mistaken a TV crew for some armed people. Big deal. This sort of fuckups happen all the time in any war. That's called "collateral damage". If you don't want any you can't shoot on people from a helicopter 300m away from your target, through a low res B&W video. In fact there are very few things any army could do if we wanted to have zero collateral damage. When congress authorizes a war, the reality is that they authorize the fact that these things may happen.

I'm not pro-Irak war, quite the contrary. But the fact that civilians have been killed isn't exactly a hidden secret that was uncovered by the leaks

> Maybe don't form strong opinions when you don't have the slightest clue what the facts are.

This sort of insults has nothing to do on HN
Notice the article starts by talking about the mythical "superstar" instead of the more common "sub-performer" or "redundancy". Employee turnover FUD is all over, when existing dysfunction is ignored. I interview and hire in 3 days. I run through tens (if not hundreds) of interviews and the commensurately large resume pool. 1-2 hours every day, is barely a chore for the ability to hire someone smart and interesting to work with day to day who has the skillset we need. Employee turnover is expensive in tech, but not replacing specialized workers that are no longer useful, is worse for both sides.
Money I'll give you, but the vast majority of software is not going to be "interesting" or progressive. There are tons of major corporations doing "boring" work.
Well, if we want to be correct, he is not a she. Science.
I know individually people are going to have a hard time, that seems pretty obvious. The comment I was responding to was saying that technology was going to lead to less jobs overall and I was just pointing out that each specific technology has led to less jobs overall (otherwise generally the new tech wouldn't be worth it) but the economy as a whole generally creates jobs elsewhere to compensate. I was mainly wondering why he think the economy can't create the new jobs any more.
I'll assume this isn't a joke and that you just aren't well versed in computer science nor in database theory. While Postgres doesn't use distributed consensus it does use distributed transactions to maintain consistency (a major tenet of ACID compliance).

In a distributed consensus environment a substantial number of proofs of work (in Bitcoins case a hash) must be performed to gradually ensure that a block in the chain is consistent and thus come to a consensus that it is in fact valid.

In Postgres a transaction can be verified and guaranteed to be consistent among nodes using a two phase commit protocol. Essentially a transaction is attempted, verified, and then committed by the nodes of the network in a guaranteed, and very secure, manner.

The upside to the Postgres method is you do not need a substantial number of individual processors to perform proof of work to securely verify consistency.
Exactly the opposite.
Please don't forget Aaron Swartz.
I have worked on projects that are so old they called them legacy projects. Old Visual Basic, COBOL, Fortran, PreAnsi C, etc.

I've also upscaled databases and programs to modern technology.
Yup, this is what finally got me to make the switch. There are a few things that aren't the same like alt-click for column selection (alt+shift+click instead), but it certainly made the transition easier.

Keyboard commands are actually the reason I haven't stayed with pycharm for my day job. I'm hoping more IDE-like features make their way into the python extensions - like vagrant/docker integration with build systems.
There have been schemes for trusted timestamping (e.g. based on PKI) around for a long time:

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

NB Having worked in the area I find document security (particularly authenticity) to be a fascinating subject and its not inconceivable that a blockchain based solution could be interesting but I'd love to see how such a thing would actually work in practice and some kind of idea why it is better than earlier approaches.

"because blockchain" isn't really an argument.
What do you think is the appropriate sentence for this crime?
Just order the prison not to release them. That's what Bush did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Toussie
Obsolescence is inevitably from a given philosphical point of view.

Capitalist economics with 3-month lead times is just one.
There's also the small matter of Snowden currently being holed up in Russia, even if it probably wasn't his intended destination and he hasn't actually provided them with any useful information.
Don't forget, even 2 MB was still a somewhat inconvenient size when floppy disks were only at 1.44 MB capacity.
s/Obama's/America's/
Sorry. I didn't know which pronoun to use because I didn't know if gender changes apply retroactively, grammatically speaking. I'm having trouble knowing which one to use to write this post, too. At the time of the leaks Chelsea Manning identified as Bradley, a male. Is it politically correct to use 'she' for all past references, including the times where Chelsea Manning identified as male? Or would it make more sense to use 'he' when Chelsea Manning identified as male, and 'she' when Chelsea Manning identifies as female?
Blendle gives you your money back if you don't like an article, no questions asked. It works quite well I'd say.
The book, "The Spy Who Couldn't Spell: A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets" by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee tells the story of an American intelligence worker who tried to pass off information to other governments just prior to Sept. 11th.

His motivation was money (selling his secrets for millions of dollars) and when he was caught, he was hoping to have his sentence reduced to 8 years so he may be with his family.

I think it would be encouraging to others to leak if the risk of making millions for their families to getting caught still allows them to live life if the punishment is anything less than life.
That's pretty cool.

I kinda wish the likes of NPM would output cool skeletons and heavy-metal vampire chicks while I wait ten minutes for it to install stuff.
It's really something that Akatsuki is doing amazing science after the trials and tribulations that satellite has been through. After failing orbital insertion around Venus, it went five years in heliocentric orbit to reposition itself for insertion around Venus again. The team ended up macguyvering its secondary attitude control jets[1] for a long burn (~20 min) that they weren't designed for, but it worked and allowed for a successful insertion--albeit in a non-ideal orbit with a 9 day period instead of the originally planned 1.25 days.

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/06/japanese-space-probe-t...
They got it done by killing everyone, working multiple shifts, 24/7, no days off, etc. Some people left after it was over, due to burn out. Surviving TS2 was a test of Pixar's resilience that they passed, but at a cost.
Manning was also being mistreated in prison, and that mistreatment would be very likely to get worse under a Trump administration. If Clinton won, a commutation would have been much less likely.

It's worth repeating that while Obama commuted her sentence, he didn't pardon her. What he did was say "she's been punished enough", and it's entirely consistent to say that Manning has been punished enough but Snowden hasn't.
The incident had been reported and covered by the press, there was no 'government cover up'. The new bit was the video itself.
I don't even think you are talking about more net deaths. Every percentage point you raise taxes or healthcare costs pushes a group of people underwater. A certain percent of people who have bankruptcies will commit suicide/beat their wife to death/yell at their children until they develop mental issues etc. Economic policies have consciences that are diffcult to measure.
Yes and no. If you're unhappy with your job, having a big bucket of money thrown at you is unlikely to make you suddenly happy at your job. But raises also usually come with the recognition that you're doing a good job; that the company is wanting to keep you around. Not getting a raise in 2+ years gives the impression that the company doesn't care about you, and what you do doesn't really matter.
What are you thinking the salary of early stage startups are in the Bay Area? I really doubt the ratio is 2:1 compared to Paris.
Well, in most cases `[]` is used just like you'd use a quoted list `'()`. Clojure vectors are nice for the performance they give.

Having maps with `{}` syntax is also nice if you ask me. Makes reading a little bit faster.
The gender of the person in question is not unknown, and doesn't need to be disputed. Chelsea Manning identifies as female.
Yes, but politically, "we dropped her sentence to seven years in jail" is more tenable than "we pardoned someone who never stood trial nor served a day in jail".
Air brakes replaced human breakers on trains.
Sounds like you needed better sales people.
That's a valid point, but if you don't know enough about Chelsea Manning's recent history or prison sentence to know her preferred pronoun (or even read the article where it's made very clear) why even comment?
Thanks, I didn't realize the military had retained parole after the rest of the federal government abolished it. If I'm reading the link correctly, 10 years would have been the minimum time served in this case. If it were likely that parole would be granted at the earliest point of eligibility (would it be? I have no idea), this commutation then amounts to knocking 3 years off the minimum sentence. Which is not nothing, but less dramatic than the headline 28 years.
The Negroid thing is more speculative, due to the lack of decent human remains with that age, but we DO have some old remains (older than 10.000) that are seemly negroid, for example the skull nicknamed "Luzia" that was found in Brazil. (there are some others too, but Luzia made international news when it was found).

Some people are trying to find more remains, and others are trying to do genetic research on those remains, one theory is that there was two (or more) waves of migration.

Another theory, is that the people that crossed the strait 22000 years ago were negroids, and "co-evolved" to have Asian features like modern Asians because of converging evolution or coincidence.

A third theory that was more popular when there was fewer evidence (when Luzia was first found) was that Luzia features were just normal genetic variation, and that she was a mongoloid that looked negroid because of randomness.
I have Google Fiber but on the lower end the 50/50 plan.

Yeah it just seemed like a lot of data to me. Especially if they are just text files not images/videos. Depending on database I don't know. I recently backed up a MYSQL database and it was only in the 10's of MB's with several tables some with over 45,000 rows.

That is something to look into bandwidth monitoring.
thousands of people lose cash and misplace car keys too.
Yea, from the POV of the government having the public realize all the illegal, unethical and irresponsible things you've been doing with their tax dollars would be absolutely terrible. Someone may end up getting jail time - or even worse - lose their reelection!

/s

Anyone who is able to condemn Manning would also condemn the soldiers of Hitler's army who chose to disobey orders to kill Jews because it would have been against the law.

Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's wrong. And if our government didn't engage in illegal activity (like torture, political uprisings, wire tapping) then perhaps people like Manning wouldn't have to leak information that could compromise a few undercover agents.

In this case, the benefits far outweigh the costs. Find me a politician or soldier who got jail time for committing acts of torture in Baghdad and then we can talk about penalizing Manning.
Amish restrictions on technologies aren't absolute. They can buy things from "English" companies. Some of them even use mobile phones.[0]

[0] http://amishamerica.com/do-amish-use-telephones/
Yes, you're right. I missed it. I guess he's making a point about wanting his own chat history searchable on his client, and yet opaque to the server-side Slack operators. I agree it's not a great application, though.
While super-interesting (and something that I wish I had time to really evaluate against Elasticsearch/Solr), I feel like it's missing one of the most useful things about Loggly/ES/Solr - the ability to quickly visualize log trends. And despite the statement that it's a "distributed and coördination-free log management system for big ol' clusters", I'm confused why you would want a "big ol' cluster" without visualization or field searches more complex (and less computationally expensive) than regexes. Am I missing something?

e: To be fair, I'm not attempting at all to defend Elasticsearch/Solr, just slightly confused about the actual use cases in prod.
HIPPA makes perfect sense.

I see your point about using the data for other research. Hopefully reviewers of the paper, at least, get to look at the data.
They added support for lazy loading React modules. Helpful for large SPA-style apps. https://webpack.js.org/guides/lazy-load-react/
When they're given those labels, they are. The question is whether the actions are accurately described by those particular words. That's why phrases like "enhanced interrogation techniques" are employed, to make a distinction between that and torture, for example.

(Note, I'm not arguing that I think any particular actions are or are not criminal. I'm too ignorant of the details to meaningfully speak one way or the other.)
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they) covers this topic quite well.
> Many people on HN are probably familiar with a similar design pattern: hiring consultants ...

The two major reviews I'm aware of, including this one, were conducted internally.
The Bill of Rights for Data Scientists
"circus and farm animals"
Obama has said that the two cases are different in that Manning has gone through the legal system, sentenced, and serving time, whereas Snowden is in a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US and hasn't been tried under the US legal system.
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Maybe he'd be president of the new California Republic. But, I don't see him in high regard, don't agree with his politics, and don't agree with his willingness for mass surveillance.
No one said everything they do is fake news. I said it would be hard to have confidence in the data. Yuge difference.
Different circumstances. Spying for money should be treated radically differently than spying for conscience.
1) IMHO then supports that they use the term because it is trendy to use, not for technical reasons. (FWIW other blockchain enthusiasts insist that proof-of-work is an elementary part of the concept, and I think that is a useful distinction to make in comparison to other distributed or cryptographic data structures)
There really wasn't much in the way of corruption and wrongdoing in the diplomatic cables. If anything they showed that the mundane private details of US diplomacy match US public diplomatic stances quite closely.
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Very understandable. I believe pronouns apply retroactively.
It should be noted that you can even if you in 99.9% of cases don't want to mutate state.

For the few times when you want to squeeze the last drop of performance, you can use transients[0].

[0] https://clojure.org/reference/transients
The chip package cover is usually nickel, not aluminum, and even if it was, it could be sanded away to copper.

The other side (heatsink with fan) probably had to have been full copper (not the pipe/aluminum)

Either way, it doesn't seem worth the effort for marginal gains.
Valid point. The possibility is real, but the difficulty you highlighted may make it less likely.

Not that there is no precedent of course (Nixon).
Having already attempted suicide twice, I don't think she would have lived through 4 years of the Trump administration. Obama literally saved her life.
I keep Sublime Text around for ephemeral scratch space, for quickly opening and then closing files, and for browsing through large files. Otherwise VS Code for my editing.
3 out of every 5 of these deaths were caused by overdose. This seems to be conflating two very different phenomena.
What does "the ability to quickly visualize log trends" mean concretely?
That's true.

However, if the supposed motivation is because somebody is suffering...why wait another day, another week, another month, another year?

If this took place before the election, you could call it a principled decision.

If this took place immediately after the election, you could call it a cautious-but-nevertheless-sound decision that might have otherwise been passed on to a (presumably friendly) successor.

Instead, this has taken place three days before he leaves office.

Manning hasn't gone anywhere in seven years. This was not based on a long bout of soul-searching or a sudden new development.

This was a move to either bolster Obama's legacy, or grease the wheels for a post-Presidential opportunity.
According to this article, the prosecution failed to provide evidence that anyone was killed due to the leaks. I don't know if anyone was harmed, but it really doesn't seem like it.
When "somebody" breaks in, what level of access do they have? In a larger business, access should be compartmentalized and enforced not just with policies but with encryption where possible.

Virtual machine or cloud service administrators shouldn't have the ability to read customer data, they should just see binary blobs.

A devops/sysadmin employee might have access to the machines running the database, but even if they log in they shouldn't necessarily have read access to the database files, and even if they should, again, customer data should be encrypted blobs to them.

This means that even if you phish the CEO of the company, you still have to obtain additional access to read customer data. If using AWS or Azure encryption properly, it may even require obtaining credentials for multiple users.

This isn't even the full extent of the encryption possible, keys can be placed in silos per tenant, and decrypted only once a user logs in. Then even if you are a developer, you wouldn't have access without intercepting client communications.
"Statisticians" taught everyone NHST, and relegated bayesian probability to the appendix for decades. Once you realize what has happened there, you will view that title with very little respect.

I am glad to see machine learning, ai, "data science", whatever, grow as a separate field. The statistics programs had their chance.
Understaffed is an understatement. We have been able to fund one full-time developer, Dmitry, for the fourth year now. I am the maintainer, and I'm currently working full-time on Krita because I got burned out on my paid job, but that's not really funded. There are a few other people who help answering questions and triaging bug reports and things -- and that is it.

We try to keep up on tumblr, reddit, twitter, facebook, the forums, email, irc, phone calls even! We love our users, we love what our users are doing (see https://krita.org/en/item/made-with-krita-2016-the-krita-art...), but it sometimes gets very hard to deal with some people :-( I want to help them, but I cannot fix Ugee's drivers, and I want to help, but I also need to find time to code...

There are just too few people helping out; too few people who remember that Krita is an open source project, that it's really easy to start hacking on it, and that it's really easy to start helping out with helping others and doing bug triaging.

We might have done too good a job already: there are a lot of people who think that there's a big company with scores of employees and a professional help desk behind Krita. While it's me, Dmitry and a few others carrying the load.
Yes, those are definitely use cases for the average user.
Ask HN: Have you ever worked on *open source projects* killed by technical debt?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marijuana-arrests-2014_u... very much contradicts your assertion (which isn't backed up anywhere in the article you cite, either).

> At the same time, arrests for the sale and manufacture of marijuana also continued to decrease in 2014. These arrests reached an all-time high of 103,247 in 2010, but they’ve since been falling, reaching a nearly 20-year low of 81,184 last year.
Given that people are downvoting this, it's interesting that an article just got released confirming that Zuckerberg more or less said the exact same thing I did, from NYT today:

"It is pretty common when you announce a big deal or do something that all kinds of people just kind of come out of the woodwork and claim that they just own some portion of the deal," Zuckerberg said.
The good ole Nixon pardon
Obama commutes sentence of intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning
> "things that violate my personal interpretations of the Constitution"

The fact that it's even feasible to release confidential information about government action implies that there is some ability for individuals to interpret the law. Otherwise, if the government does it, you just have to accept it as legal.
I will elaborate.

Percentages are not good measures of small quantities. 25 percent of zero is still zero.

It's not a meaningful number.

If you're dealing with small amounts, use small amounts. This is junk.
These comments are beyond simplistic and illustrate only a basic understanding of Bitcoin and less about how it works.

A distributed ledger is a decentralized data store in which the data contained therein is cryptographically validated as true and correct (read: unaltered) as the protocols for communicating that data are Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT).

A blockchain is a distributed ledger where the transactions are committed to the ledger in batches.

That's it. It's that simple.

In the financial realm this is beyond valuable in that FI's no longer need trust their employees, not their customers. The means by which the data is secured precludes the need for complex security systems at the network level, reducing entry and operating costs to that of simple disk space.

These systems have existed for literally decades but they have languished in obscurity until Bitcoin demonstrated exactly how powerful such systems could be.

Edit to add: The benefits become much clearer and simpler to understand once you spit out the Bitcoin koolade.
Yep, been there. To be honest, nothing much changed when I left. The org was big enough that by leaving I wasn't doing catastrophic damage, so I had no leverage there. By staying, I was just allowing them to bleed me dry a bit longer. Took me too long to realise that and get out.
Some do this, but (most?) Amish can definitely buy industrially-produced tools. Some even use (non-electric) power tools: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/22/172626089/insid...
Those are "simple" signed logs, not a blockchain.
I look forward to a day where we don't need to celebrate our leaders for basic human decency.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries is a fairly good resource for practising queries and for looking at others queries against a relatable dataset.
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Also the god of truth/order/reason, projectile weapons (bow & arrow), and colonies...