skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My version is waaaay better.

No, really, it is. Theirs is a little list of known U2F devices from known U2F device vendors. Mine actually detects the the device is a U2F device regardless of its make and model. As far as I know, Yubico wrote that spec, so I'm a bit surprised they didn't implement it in the udev rule.
This doesn't appear to include student offices, which, especially at large state universities, are very powerful and misunderstood.

If you are a student, consider running for student office. It's likely (in fact almost certain) that your student government makes more decisions that impact your life and spends more of your money than the national government does.

They typically have multi-million dollar budgets, seats on powerful state-wide committees where tens or hundreds of millions are spent, and the ability to impact academic policy for students of the next generation.

Some also run sprawling field campuses, nature preserves or camps. I'm particularly fond of one that is run by the Albany Student Gov: Dippikill. Very special place.

Students in decades past fought very hard for the power and placement that today's student governments enjoy, and education "administrators" are always looking to carve them out and take them away. They need to be continually defended and used.
I usually read the top comment and a few branches, then I scroll down and start reading from the bottom and upvote stuff that might have missed the cut.

I scan most comments but I usually don't read discussions that have become too long (more than 2 or 3 back and forth replies) unless they're really relevant.
> It's barely been a week and it's already seven, I imagine the entire set of Muslim countries can't take more than a month or two.

Without further evidence that this is a stable pattern, you appear to be succumbing to this: https://www.xkcd.com/605/
I am not sure what your point is.

No, it is not sufficient to make a policy decision, for instance. But if I have to go and vote on this issue, it is at least something I could base my judgment on.
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Tangent comment:
https://i.imgur.com/Xm1qRI4.png

Does anybody know why the comments under this post are like that, at least for me? Is there a particular reason why people from Myanmar (some with latin name?) would comment this much more than any other?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_mode_and_effects_analy...

You don't have to mitigate failures modes that don't matter.

When you have existing mitigation in place, you can add more failure modes/effects "for free."
TDD, formal verification

i'd say yes
polling the database

Not true https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t9x04ed2(v=vs.110)....
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love the idea! Curious how this will evolve once people start adding more commands.
That is my favorite song!

"I don't want the world, I just want your half."
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This is the one discussion where insulting the party you're replying to is considered perfectly acceptable. You can always say someone you disagree with is <insert undesirable qualities here>, and nobody wants to admit that they're <insert undesirable qualities>.

Most people work to improve themselves, yet we do not expect anyone to be perfect, except here. Most people have faults. Some faults make them less dateable than other faults. Some they may not care that much about or don't know how to fix. After all, the average person falls short of many standards up until they die, despite all the attempts at improvement. It should surprise no one that a subset will always be that falls short, or they choose a different set to focus on. Yet we demand that such a subset does not exist when the subject of dating comes up?

> Why is it that for a partner you suddenly need the very best?

I don't know, maybe because a partner is one of the most influential people in your life and they can absolutely make or break it? They don't have to be the very best, but I don't understand why, in effectively every other area, people are often commended for being picky, but here, you are perceived better if you have anyone, anyone at all, even if it crashes and burns and results in some ruined lives one is responsible for (children).

Dating is not special. It doesn't get a pass. Some people just don't like the risk. Some don't assess well or don't know how. In any other area, we consider that the person's prerogative.

This all smells of giving the dating scenario incredibly heavy weight for no other reason but that nature programmed us to feel that way. I would like to think we can think beyond that, and also get rid of all the surrounding vitriol, judgment, and gossip.

You'll certainly do better in the self-improvement department if you avoid falling into the trap of: "I don't fit a certain arbitrary and hard to assess requirement, therefore I suck". I don't agree with the author's, err, parameters, but this is the one part I agree with, and I wouldn't be surprised he's happier for it. Nothing good ever comes out of thinking like that.
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The SQL Server licensing model is "per core", but the minimum licensing increment is 2 cores which costs (2 * $7k = $14k). It's obviously a confusing pricing scheme, but try pricing out Oracle some time!
> Isn't this kind of expected during a regime change?

No, it's not expected during a change in administration. While the positions involved are, I believe, all positions that serve at the pleasure of the President, they people involved are career officers that have served in senior positions under administrations of both parties (as the article states). It would be normal for them to have offered their resignation effective at the moment of transition, but they wouldn't still be there now if they hadn't been asked, and agreed, to stay on. A mass resignation just after the new Secretary of State has been confirmed is not normal.

> I mean, wouldn't many of them have been Obama/Clinton loyalists?

Probably not. While Joyce Ann Barr was appointed to her current position by Obama, she was appointed to her prior position (Ambassador to Namibia) by George W. Bush, and has been with State since 1979. Michele Bond has only held political appointments under Obama, but has been a Foreign Service officer since 1977. Gentry Smith has been with State since 1987, and looks like we was Director of the Office of Physical Security programs before Obama came into office. And the main figure, Patrick Kennedy, was appointed to his current office by George W. Bush, held a different appointed office previously under Bush, and held an appointed position for essentially the whole Clinton Administration; he's been a Foreign service office since 1973.

Between the four, it's like 152 person-years of foreign-service experience.

These guys aren't partisan loyalists of any stripe.
I did this at one point in my earlier career. My resume had a job change every 9 - 18 months. I was mortified to find that I was really unhappy at a new place after 5 weeks. I was discussing with my old coworker who let my manager know I was unhappy so they offered to have me back, which I did, but the reasons I left were unresolved some 6 months later so I left again.

This time I did some soul searching about what would make me happy. I knew the problem was really with me and though I had strong urges to leave, similar to my previous urges, I managed to stay at my new job for 6 years.

The takeaways from my sample size of 1: You can go back. If you left for some particular reason, it is possible that the situation remains unchanged and you will still be unhappy. If you leave again, you will likely burn bridges so be sure you want to be back. If you are doing this on a frequent basis, look within to understand why you have the need to change jobs so often.
Wow, HN. Now I know what filter bubble you're in. All of the comments in here are talking about some fabricated link between electricity and BitCoin when the reality is that Venezuela is aggressively and intentionally playing the hyperinflation game. BitCoins obviously threaten the redenomination event.
Looking up the case, the evidence seems to be:

- Defendant lied about getting into Harvard Business School, lied about being employed, was actually very in debt, and his wife had a $250,000 life insurance policy

- Defendant immediately fled the state after his wife died, leaving behind lots of expensive property, and soon started dating someone new

- Defendant had apparently kept insisting that his wife really liked Gatorade, which people who knew her found odd, and Gatorade is a good medium to hide the taste of antifreeze

- Wife was not suicidal, and had medical training, so she would have known that antifreeze is a terrible way to kill yourself

- Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop

Some jury members said the laptop evidence was what convinced them. It is conceivable that the sentence would be overturned if the laptop evidence is suppressed, which is what EFF wants.
yep as telo.. said - whatever will inevitably supercede git. In my own work it was VSS > Perforce > svn > git

All of those were good choices when they were new, and suboptimal choices when the next better solution came along.
The appropriate measure of capacity would be watt-hours, not milliamp hours.

IIRC the MacBook Pro has a 3 cell battery, meaning that you'll get around ~76Wh from the battery (11.2V * 6800mAh).

It's not safe to assume that all laptops will have a 3 cell battery. They might have chosen to install a 2 cell battery, in which case the capacity would only be ~50Wh (7.4V * 6800mAh). That's 35% less capacity!
It's a fun open experimentation. we sort commands depending on how many called was the command.
Wrong. That is not the issue here. In the draft which leaked, it clearly suspends immigrant and nonimmigrant entry to nationals of the listed countries. According to this, a US green card holder who is an Iranian citizen cannot travel back to the US after, say, vacationing in London.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3415909/Draft-Exe...

In addition, due to the suspension of Visa Waiver Program to nationals of these countries last year, an Iranian-Australian, (or Iranian-German, etc.), living in and a citizen of Australia for 30+ years and hasn't even visited Iran in that period, cannot visit the US visa-free any longer. So that means they need a B-2 tourist visa. Problem is, this E.O. suspends issuance of nonimmigrant visas to these people, so they now no longer have a way to enter the US.

Will he actually sign this E.O.? Apparently it was supposed to be signed yesterday, but didn't happen. He is in Philly right now so I'm not sure if this one's going to happen or not.
> How I understand that: If you can't format your commit messages, how can you be considered reliable to format your code how the company defines it?

This is a classic form of non sequitur. This kind of logic is the driver behind "If you can't be arsed to dress up in a suit and tie then you don't really care about your job" and "If you don't support our troops you are a Bad Person and you should leave the country".

Empirically, no one has shown formatting git commit messages to be predictive of code quality whatsoever. Sure, good engineers tend toward longer, more descriptive commits, but whether or not they follow proper text wrapping is totally beside the point. Poor code formatting is indicative of lack of skill, poor commit message formatting is indicative of a lack of knowledge of this one web page that most people have probably never seen.
My preferred solution to this is to generate links to resources like that (CSS, JS, etc) dynamically.

For each filetype, set up your webserver such that `filename.[10-digits].css` is handled identically to `filename.css`. In apache, you can do this in .htaccess with a rule that looks something like:

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.[\d]{10}\.(css|js|png)$ $1.$2 [L]

Then generate your links by throwing the file's last modified timestamp into the URL. The net result is that if the file changes, the URL changes, and so the cache no longer applies. It's better than using a "fake" parameter (e.g. file.js?v=2) because using fake parameters suggests that the file is dynamic, causing browsers and proxies to behave differently.
Daniel Hannan explains it better than I could

This has a partial transcript of his presentation at Oxford Uni

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-17/daniel-hannan-right...
Funny you ask this, my girlfriend was reading a biography about Lincoln and noted that it seemed like everyone kept a diary in those days. I said that I should start keeping one in case I ever become famous.

But seriously, I've thought about doing journaling for a long time and have never really done it in earnest. I keep copious work notes on a combination of a pen and paper notebook and a digital notebook. I've developed my own system for tracking tasks and notes over the years that works for me. Its not too unlike Bullet Journal except I don't do all of the monthly tracking stuff.

I started a personal notes journal on my PC, but I only put goals and important ideas that I have in it. I haven't made a good habit of writing daily. I believe that a honest journal would consist of daily freewriting and recalling/reflecting on the events of the day.

For my digital journals I wrote a couple of scripts for automatically entering in the dates. Used to use Evernote, but I dropped it after I started realizing it was a kind of shitty walled garden and it would be hard to get some of my notes out of it down the road. Plus they began restricting the amount of device for the free tier.
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Ah shit I was thinking of WHr which is different.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-17/daniel-hannan-right...
what a coincidence? I got my 5-minute journal from Amazon yesterday evening and started using it straight. I did yesterday evening and today morning. I am not sure how it works but I was tracking my sleep before and will do after. I bookmarked this thread and will come back and let you know my thoughts.
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I serve my Ludum Dare games from gh-pages. Works great.
>2.7 billion people are trying to survive on less than 2 dollars a day

2 dollars a day isn't all that little in places like say, India. Sure, they're not going to be living a life of luxury, but it's very different from $2 a day in the US, and you shouldn't have trouble feeding yourself and having shelter with $2 a day in India, which amounts to about Rs.50,000 a year. In fact even though inequality is increasing, a number of studies have confirmed that poverty and extreme poverty have drastically reduced over the past few decades. It still exists of course, but much better than what it used to be.
I don't understand, and I'm really trying. What's the additional failure mode --- one I don't already have --- that might get added because of the moral hazard of me having a U2F token?
i think it's commendable that he told this story at risk and cost to himself for the benefit of providing intelligence to the hacker community
Sure, that might work, but could you give an example.

Is a pattern

Argument-> counter argument -> Conclusion?

Or is it

Statement -> Illustration -> Amusing anecdote -> Insight

Or what?
What features from a CMS would you want? Web editor: Github edit button, prose.io?
Thanks, I've seen italki but [judging by https://www.italki.com/teacher/apply] it seems to focus on matching students to teachers who then can talk via Skype, while my question is more about services that replicate traditional teaching media. (recorded audio, video, printouts, perhaps whiteboard)

(Perhaps my question wasn't clear enough. My teacher is not yet looking for online students, just hoping to try some tools to see if it could work for him at all.)
I'm happy for you!

I was lucky in that when I met the woman who became my wife, neither of us was looking for anything other than to get laid. Sounds crass, but I think it helped me avoid the "look for a female version of me" thing, because we are nothing like each other.

After spending the first few months pretending that we weren't, in fact, falling for each other, we gave into it and 15+ years later, still working on staying together :-)
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Sure they are, Bucko. Sure they are.
America's foreign policy has been implemented well, which is the responsibility of these people, who, like judges, are forbidden from partisan political activity.

The philosophical and political decisions that dictate what that foreign policy says are given by the Secretary of State and eventually the presidential administration over these people.
Oddly, it gave me an office in Chicago when I searched my home address in Atlanta...
Huh? I use the Google applications --- and, particularly, their calendar --- all the time without using Chrome, and U2F is my first-priority 2FA mechanism. You can mint static random application keys for your native applications, and use TOTP as a backup for when you want to use a different browser (really, though, you should use Chrome as much as you can; it's significantly more secure).
> Per person? I don't see how. Yes, the building cost would definitely be higher, but not per household

It really is, in every market I've looked at. /u/kchoze goes into this for Canada, but I'll add numbers for my own area in the Midwest US

-- Suburban House (Poor, Damaged) : ~$80/sqft

-- Suburban House (Average Quality) : ~$100/sqft

-- Suburban House (New Construction) : ~$130+/sqft

-- Suburban Townhouse (New Construction) : ~$130+/sqft

-- Semi-Urban (Gentrifying) Townhouse (New Construction) : ~$170/sqft

-- Urban Condo (Average Quality) : ~$180-$230/sqft

-- Urban Condo (New Construction, Low-Rise) : ~$280+/sqft

-- Urban Condo (New Construction, High-Rise) : ~$290-340+/sqft

It's not uncommon to be able to afford a brand new suburban sprawl home here, but no livable permanent housing in the dense urban area, regardless of age.

> By definition? I'm not sure about that. There must be some middle ground between glitzy new condo projects and "the projects"

I want that to be true, but I've never seen a single instance of this in the real world, and I'm drowning in thousands and thousands of examples where this is not true.

Can you point to any real-world examples in the US?

> "the projects", which were also high-rise and affordable.

They were directly heavily subsidized. No one is arguing that government subsidization doesn't reduce those particular residents cost. But the article assumes governments won't be willing to subsidize housing for middle-class residents.
There's a very long-standing association of "neo-Nazis" with disaffected whites that are over-prone to violent behavior towards anyone that aren't neo-Nazis. (As far as I'm aware Richard Spencer has never been violent himself, but the association of neo-Nazi types with overly-violent people has extended back for decades.) So it's a bit more than just the "Nazis are the face of evil" type symbolism seen in the movies.

Evoking the sort of deep tribal behavior Mr. Spencer is engaging in, instinctively often leads to tribal responses (including violence). Which is unfortunate. I don't think Richard Spencer "deserves" to be punched, and I don't see punching as a noble act. Violence is only justifiable as a defense against violence, in my opinion. I actually think aggressor violence plays right into the hands of the "help we're being oppressed!" narrative, that seems to be a lot of the "drive" behind white supremacism.

I cannot see Mr. Spencer's philosophy to be anything but illogical and immoral to the rational mind. I therefore don't have any real good way to combat his (and other) tribalism, other than continuing to emphasize rational thought. Such is a much more difficult job in this current climate, when the current leader of the US got there half by exploiting tribal politics. But what else will work? I can't see the fisticuffs approach leading to anything other than deepening division.
> People seem to be under the impression that the senior civil service creates policy.

These are people in positions that, I believe, are all political appointments, not civil service jobs. They are all career foreign service officers who have been in non-political jobs at State for decades, and all but one seem to have held political appointments under Presidents of both parties, but they aren't "senior civil service".
I've come back to learn C++14 and it's _really_ nice. I love how lambdas, move semantics, templates, type inference, &c work. It leads to much cleaner and elegant code.

I'm still not so sure I like how iterators are designed, but maybe it'll grow on me?
Why? What is so great about profit? I would be very glad to give up profit for no scarcity.
Like 5% of our traffic comes from IE 6-8.... Thank god for jQuery. And, I can't recall the percentage, but a surprisingly large amount from the stock Android browser (not Chrome, the one that ships on really old phones).
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You are so fake.
I have a command line script for doing this exact thing in ffmpeg

for i in *mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vcodec copy -acodec copy "${i%.mkv}.mp4"; done;
I realise you didn't ask, but having tried a bunch of macOS demuxers, I've found MP4tools to be the best fit for me:

http://www.emmgunn.com/mp4tools-home/
For instances where it's not worth the time to reformat, I've always liked PC Decrapifier. Hard to forget the name once you've heard it :D

https://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
Why would you want to become a cog in a machine when you can build your own?

Many people run for office thinking they can change the fundamental culture entrenched around them. But then they realize that there are so many existing systems safeguarding the status quo, that one person can't do it. You'd need to hire a whole new administration.

Instead, what if organizations would contract with one another for services and respect each other's cultures as a take-it-or-leave-it kind of thing? Then market discipline would apply.
Thanks for the tip!

I keep a random google doc of some of my magical ffmpeg incantations that have worked in the past. I usually use it for cutting video segments out of longer vids. Seems like different versions have had different ways of handling things, and/or I really don't know what I'm doing!
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From an economist's perspective, bankers can create value. If you want to lend money and I want to borrow, but we don't know/trust each other, a banker can "produce" a big help to match us together and price the risk. Those are two examples; there are tons of other services bankers provide their customers.

I believe bankers add value this way. To my eyes "bankers don't produce" is just as unfair as "coaches don't score any goals."
Apparently they're looking for volunteers (http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer). I'm not involved with the project (although seriously considering volunteering), and it looks like they mostly just have scraped state/federal senate/congress/governor information and plugged it in, but aim to add more.
When can we expect the same article about WebP?
> People seem to be under the impression that the senior civil service creates policy.

Arguably they do create policy, in the Yes, Minister sense that they'll happily modify or kill a political initiative that would knock things off an even keel. There a lot of things that do or don't happen pretty much heedless of what politicians demand.

Of course, that doesn't derail your metaphor. A good PM can do a lot to guide a client or executive away from their original demands to a better plan that still satisfies them. This is still a huge loss of institutional knowledge and ability to execute properly.