skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Democratic party is not constrained by any of its purported principles when it's going after its political enemies.

Yes, it absolutely is. The reason the DNC is in shambles right now is because it tried to circumvent its principles and got burned in the process. For the next few years, the Democrats will be very mindful of their platform's legitimacy and reconstruction.

> It's not about principles, it's about inflicting damage on your political enemies so they are afraid to do anything that might further upset you.

This is extremely myopic. The goal of the DNC (or GOP, for that matter) is not to inflict damage as a deterrent. Arm-twisting is a part of politics, but actively sabotaging your own party platform for a brief gain is not a component of arm-twisting.

I'm not familiar with how Airbnb deals with liability (or even liability law in general), so I'll refrain from commenting on the majority of your thought experiment here. One thing that does stand out is a theme of "us versus them," where the "them" is "self-righteous billionaires." Neither end of the political spectrum has any want for billionaires, and they're all "self-righteous" in the sense that they put their money towards political action that you don't agree with. If you want to critique billionaires on the left like Chesky, be prepared to explain why he's any different from the Koch brothers (except perhaps in visibility).

> Read up on what Democratic politicians did or tried to do to Chick-Fil-A, to cheers from the left, because its founder was deemed guilty of thoughtcrimes.

I'm familiar with this[1] controversy, if that's what you mean. The closest analogue I can find in that circumstance was local politicians threatening to block construction of new Chick-Fil-As. I think that sort of response is reprehensible, but it's also a far cry from the federal government using its power to punish an individual business. In short: it's bad that they did that, but equivocating their (empty) threats with what you've suggested doesn't hold water.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick-fil-A_same-sex_marriage_...
... career DHS staff... including the head of Customs & Border Patrol, were kept entirely out of the loop until the order was signed.

Not sure who these "heavy sources" are talking about, given that CBP head Mark Morgan resigned in the first week of Trump's administration.
> Your response doesn't add anything to the discussion. What are these other definitions you speak of? Please tell us and cite them

Be honest: are you being open minded?

Here are a variety of definitions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
On desktop firefox for linux I notice that chrome makes vastly better use of gpu acceleration given nvidia card + official nvidia drivers are there plans for improvements on this front. This is literally the only reason to run anything but firefox on any device I have and would love to see improvements on that front. Without tweaking in about config my wifes computer which is anything but blazing fast with a dual core 3 ghz full screen 1080p video was like a slide show. Even after its noticably laggy to the point where I've had to install chrome.

I'm not sure if it makes any difference whether its flash or html5 video.
If I do heroin once and stop for whatever reason (because I didn't like it, because I was afraid of the addictive potential), why would I keep injecting myself over and over until the "chemicals did their job"? You're making a big assumption that people would keep going back to it instead of stay the hell away like you and I both do today (presumably). It's illegal but not hard to acquire.

For the record I've been prescribed opioid derived drugs and did not get hooked. Why? Because I know how addictive it can be, so I popped some to see what it was like and trashed it.

This world where everyone uses opioids pervasively won't happen because people would know or soon figure out how pointless and devastating it is. It's like asking why we don't have cultural customs where everyone murders a new family member each monday. Any culture dumb enough to try no longer exists.

In reality there is perhaps a good historical example of mass opium addiction you could tie your narrative to though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Some people have (perhaps unwittingly) chosen to identify as alt-right to distance themselves from mainstream Republican conservatives.
Science off to a rough start in the Trump administration
Didn't knew it by that name:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html
> Expecting things to stay the way they are isn't compatible with economic growth

If you rely on immigration for economic growth then you aren't really getting economic growth.
Anti-muslim terrorism in Canada
this could be helpful to iterate through tree-like structures. Such as trees. * I was going to mention Calkin-Wilf * discussed below.

Conway games also take values that are fractions but only dyadic numbers (2^k as denominator) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Numbers_and_Games
Yes, but that AFAIK still covers a majority of the Swiss private banking business. I have mixed feelings about that being lost because I see privacy as a human right, not just a right for Swiss citizens, on the other hand Switzerland isn't responsible to enforce our understanding of rights for non-residents.

In any case, I think it's obviously necessary for our banking industry to reinvent itself, if they ever want to be as relevant and profitable as pre-2008. Just as one indicator, their earnings per share dabbles around one quarter to one sixth to what they had ever since. Revenues look very similarly, around one quarter of what they had (maybe more, I can only look back 10 years since I don't pay money for this kind of data).

Point is, Swiss banking can either keep dabbling around in the less profitable and hardly growing woods, or they can charge into new territory, whatever that is.
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I started my first job out of college two months ago as a software engineer at Xometry; we make software to better connect manufacturing companies and machine shops in the U.S.

Our website just relaunched this morning, and I don't think a lot of people know about us, so I thought HN would enjoy seeing this :) So try us out and comment on what you think!

Disclaimer: All opinions reflected here are mine only and do not represent the company. All numbers listed are soft estimates.
That is irrelevant to this discussion of neotek's comment.

"I know this article is about more than just microbeads" is at the start of that comment. The frustration is not all plastic. The frustration is the microbeads.
Excellent. I added your link to the GitAlias README at https://github.com/gitalias/gitalias
Ah, yes, thank you. I appreciate the correction.
Instead of Leaving a Job, Why Not Take a Pause?
Adderall is basically mixed dextroamphetamine salts, there isn't a big difference between generic dextroamphetmine salts and Adderall despite what the drug manufacturer likes to say.

the new hotness is lisdexamfetamine, which is just dextroamphetamine bound to lysine, making it a prodrug as your liver needs to cleave the lysine off first. reduces abuse potential.

I wouldn't lose hope, though. You might as well lose hope if you mean free and clear legal access to dextroamphetamine.

but, there are illegal options if you want to get an idea of what it's like.

I'm not recommending you go buy street amphetamine, I'm not even sure what street amphetamine is like in Australia.

you might have access to methamphetamine instead of amphetamine sulfate which can come as paste or powder as opposed to crystalline chunks/powder like methamphetamine tends to be, it's a regional difference.

The point is you could, theoretically and hypothetically speaking, acquire street amphetamine + a 20 dollar milligram scale.

weigh out and try a low dose (~20mg, orally) after breakfast first thing in the morning to experience the similar effects to those that dextroamphetamine would give you.

Would it be legal? No. Theoretically though, people use the internet itself to acquire these things, cutting out a lot of the risk that comes with buying drugs the more traditional way.

That's just a theory of mine, though. Hypothetically speaking. Allegedly bitcoin and secondary wallets are involved.
> Why shouldn't free people in a free country be able to live that way if they want to (aside from ignoring minimum wage laws)?

Why should free people in a free country allow people to immigrate to their own ghetto's?
I haven't read the thread closely enough to be sure. Perhaps the MLK quote was particularly provocative in context but I didn't see anything outright uncivil about what the commenter said. Even if it was, though, it doesn't mean that you get to break HN's rules. I'm sure you can do much better than "fucking enraging".
They mostly seem to have issues with flights that transit through the US, which you can avoid.
Can someone explain this in a way that assumes no prior knowledge of Widevine or EME?
Australia and New Zealand.

That way if the world ends while you're away you'll be able to read about it in the morning
Emotionally Surviving as a Writer in the Age of Social Media
The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems: https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0206022

Abstract: An algorithm M is described that solves any well-defined problem p as quickly as the fastest algorithm computing a solution to p, save for a factor of 5 and low-order additive terms. M optimally distributes resources between the execution of provably correct p-solving programs and an enumeration of all proofs, including relevant proofs of program correctness and of time bounds on program runtimes. M avoids Blum's speed-up theorem by ignoring programs without correctness proof. M has broader applicability and can be faster than Levin's universal search, the fastest method for inverting functions save for a large multiplicative constant. An extension of Kolmogorov complexity and two novel natural measures of function complexity are used to show that the most efficient program computing some function f is also among the shortest programs provably computing f.

The catch is that the constants in the big-O are enormous.
Ask HN: Is YC ever planning on opening an international incubator?
If YC opened up an international office/incubator that would be a godsent. I think many of us here are worried, so worried it's hard to focus. An international office would open up a vessel to US investors, and people could work from said country without having to worry about the US Visa system. A primary candidate is Canada, obviously, but there are many other options also, both in the English speaking world and beyond.
Typo in the title - budiness
Bitcoin.com loses 13.2BTC trying to fork the network
Firefox no longer includes Hello. Hello only used standard WebRTC APIs, so anyone could create a comparable service as a regular website, such as Talky.io.

Extension signing can be disabled in about:config, but I think the pref ("xpinstall.signatures.required") only works in the Firefox Nightly and Developer Edition channels.

EME DRM is enabled by default in Firefox, but it won't work until the DRM blob (Google's Widevine CDM DLL) is automatically downloaded about one minute after Firefox launches. Here are instructions for disabling EME DRM and uninstalling the Widevine CDM:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
By "troll talk" I mean this is the language trolls use to keep arguments going. I'm not interested in arguing about Islam, I'm interested in you either following HN's rules or ceasing to comment here.
Also, fft gets an obligatory mention
This is possibly my favorite as well. MCMC in general is pretty magical.
That's an example of politics, not law, teaching people to suppress unfavorable evidence. The advancement and incentives you discuss are political, not legal.
Unfortunately for me, being in New Zealand, Spain is literally as far away as you can get.
I don't disagree as a general rule. It's good advice, as people tend to go a bit nuts when they discover their camera's drive mode settings. That said, the weekend I was thinking about was about 3-1/2 days of competition. A lot of that was shot in bursts due to the nature of the subject and environment (high motion sports with a lot of movement relative to the sensor plane with crappy lighting and no flash). In that situation, I'm perfectly fine with a low keep rate because I know going in that I'm dealing with a situation that's going to be tough for even modern AF sensors. Doing the same for a wedding reception or something similar would quickly become a bit of a nightmare, though.

In my personal work, that's not an issue as I shoot almost exclusively with manual focus glass (Loxia lenses, adapted glass, etc.). With focus magnification and peaking, it's very rare to ever have to reject a photo for blatant focus issues even when I'm using a lens with a razor-thin DOF at f/1.2.
> * a preference for facts and logic over feelings when justifying beliefs

As someone who falls in the middle on many issues, I've been saddened to see so many republicans deny the existence of global warming. On many issues that are hot topics in this country reasonable people can disagree, but on global warming the facts are very clear. If populist conservatism believes so strongly in the facts, why is there such a strong push to deny them in this very important case?
Also, check out the '--shortstat' flag available to commands such as diff and log.
Not right now. On wake, the USB peripherals will draw power but the screen stays dark after it receives a signal. It's something I need to look into more, as I recall some Skylake build with the same hardware mentioning that they didn't have sleep/wake problems.
Contrastive divergence for RBMs. Incredibly simple, but absolutely beautiful how it modifies the energy surface. Also, just in general a cool use of Gibbs sampling.
Do we need conferences at all?
I dunno about that. The dialogue felt natural to me.
That's interesting, because Brave has Widevine off by default and includes this notice in the preference UX for enabling it:

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Google Widevine Support

Google Widevine is a piece of Digital Rights Management (DRM) code that we at Brave Software do not own and cannot inspect. The Google Widevine code is loaded from Google servers, not from our servers. It is loaded only when you enable this option. We discourage the use of DRM, but we respect user choice and acknowledge that some Brave users would like to use services that require it. [info link to https://www.eff.org/issues/drm]

By installing this extension, you are agreeing to the Google Widevine Terms of Use. You agree that Brave is not responsible for any damages or losses in connection with your use of Google Widevine. [info link to https://www.google.com/policies/terms/]

Enable Google Widevine support [button label]

---

You can view this as a DRM mandate canary if you like. It's still in Brave 0.13.0. That's all I have to say for now.
You're using faulty definitions there. Even outer space is not a 'true' vacuum. Any pressure lower than atmospheric pressure is considered a partial vacuum.

100 Pascals in a lab would be considered a 'medium' vacuum. And in a tube the size of an actual full-size hyperloop, even that will probably be extremely difficult and expensive to achieve.

I think the hyperloop will end up being technologically unviable mostly because of the cost and the limitations of technology (like the expansion joints that will be required on a decently long track), but I hope I'm wrong on that. It may lead to new innovations which will be good.
Thanks for an actual substantive comment.

> The /r/altright subreddit says on its sidebar: "Another core principle of the Alt-Right is Identitarianism. Identitarianism is the prioritization of social identity, regardless of political persuasion. Thus, the Alt-Right promotes White Identity and White Nationalism."

This was actually surprising news to me. One issue I have with the term "white nationalism" is: can you be white and a nationalist (putting your countrymen's needs first, regardless of skin color), without being a "white nationalist" (aka racist)?

If you don't mind, I'd really appreciate your opinion on that question.

Regardless, if a subreddit with 16,000+ subscribers self-proclaims it is white nationalist (rather than just nationalist), then I have no problem conceding that it seems that it is kind of gelling into an at least partially racist organization, which would lose my support.

> The alt-right’s intellectuals would also argue that culture is inseparable from race.

That is full-on mentally retarded, there is absolutely no scientific evidence to support that assertion, and plenty suggesting the exact opposite. Jesus Christ. (EDIT: Just to be crystal clear, I realize that was not your statement, it was Breitbart's. I'm going to go look that up because I find it extremely hard to believe they would actually be stupid enough to say that.)

EDIT 2: Curious to see how long until my mystery downvoter shows up and downvotes my last set of comments. :)

EDIT 3: After a skim of the article, I feel quite confident that "The alt-right’s intellectuals would also argue that culture is inseparable from race" was an unintentional mistake, and replacing "race" with "nationality" or "community" would better express the writer's actual thoughts.

This whole phenomenon is very interesting to me. I don't think many people would deny that your environment has a significant effect on your character development (nature vs nurture), would they? Yet, when you extend this idea to the national level, these very same people will now say it is literally impossible for your environment to influence a person's character. Or, people will gladly visit a foreign country and come back extolling the virtues of the culture, but if the topic of conversation change from tourism to immigration, the same people would passionately proclaim that it is a delusion to think that there is such a thing as "culture" of a nation.
Start a subscription for two weekly newspapers with preferably different political standpoints.
Read all of them, this forces you out of your search bubbles while simultaneous giving you the option of slowing down your news and information intake
More than one million people will work from coworking spaces in 2017
As basic as it is, and completely uninventive, I've always loved Dijkstra's algorithm.

It was probably the algorithm that cemented my love of computer science, it's such an elegant solution to a problem and so simple once you understand it.
Software Carpentry's Instructor Training materials might be worth looking into. All of the materials are available here and are licensed under creative commons: https://swcarpentry.github.io/instructor-training/

The materials are aimed at people who know programming already and that would be teaching software skills to scientists with limited experience programming. From what I've read so far it offers a good overview of the important areas (e.g. cognitive load, novice vs experts).
Lawyers value and spend more time training themselves on breaking apart flimsy arguments and constructing good ones. Yes I do think this skill is worth the opportunity cost. And one of the skills to be learned early, so subsequent knowledge can be placed on solid footing.

As an aside, given I had to learn what little I know of argumentation on my own, I wonder if this is a coincidence or something intentionally kept out of the minds of the populace to disempower?

Anyway, I'd be in favor of a higher proportion of STEM reps. Beware, I think you'd find STEM folks who would/do ignore facts that don't support their pet conclusion. Integrity is critical in these roles in any case. I wish people were a better judge of character.
I really really like Lyft. It seems Trevis is kind of a scumbag, kind of like Trump in a way who wants to win at any cost and has little sympathy for people in his way.

Hearing employees at Uber crying, drivers getting scammed into leases, terrible customer support. I'm glad I didn't accept the offer.
> Extension signing is not forced though, can be toggled from about:config.

On the non-beta version? It's not supposed to be toggleable.
TypeScript: Mixin classes
And why Pascal based Titan? Is it the best investment in terms of performance per $ spent?

Also, how cost effective is it to use cloud GPUs for real world machine learning?
If you're claiming that uberx is the same price as taxis, you're wrong. Please do some cursory googling.
I don't think it's entirely irrational either. It sure makes sense in some situations. I'm just not easy with giving something so vital to the health of a site to a 3rd party
There's no such thing as a 'full vacuum' in the real world. If you think that invalidates the arguments in the video then that likely means that you need to do more research on vacuum systems...
I feel I have to mention the algorithm for matching with mismatches which I published in my thesis (http://www.daemonology.net/papers/thesis.pdf), simply because it gave me a legitimate opportunity to use the phrase "Fourier Transform of the FreeBSD kernel".
'Crypt-Keeper Wasp' Turns Its Host into a Self-Sacrificing Zombie
Similar just exchange postgre with MySQL.... For a fucking simple CMS! Not even Mission critical! But they demand oracle..
Very cool. How are you driving traffic? I imagine search engine traffic would be fairly low for this kind of niche.
Does anyone have any experience running a donation based or a pay-what-you-want side-project? Was it profitable?

I am asking because I am working on a small side-project called Email This (https://www.emailthis.me). I plan to let it run for free, but if someone is interested they can support the app with a donation.
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor your infrastructure and system health?
Are these crystals cubic? Like some sort of time cube?
1967 Bay Area Gravity Vacuum Transit next to BART track ... sounds like Hyperloop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#In_public_trans...

Using the well known pneumatic vaccum tube not just for parcels but for public transport is not a new idea. There have been such transports for some time long in the past. The current question will the first such public transport in this century be built in US or in China or somewhere else.
The Transrapid magnetic train was built in Shanghai China (called Maglev there) by Siemens from Germany, another such cool idea that has little usage - but it works like a charm there with 430km/h on a elevated 30km track for more than 10 years.
The HN guidelines ask you not to rewrite titles like that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I think you're confusing the issue; OS processes are preemptive, threads within a process are not. Preemptive threads are not the norm on Unix / Linux / Windows systems. The BEAM VM implements its own threads which allows for them to be preemptively scheduled.
No one has mentioned Singapore yet. It's easier for most people to get there than to Australasia. And, in the scheme of hereditary fascist dictators, the Lees are comparatively sane ;-)
>certain safeguards to prevent flagrant abuse

Except it doesn't do that at all.
twitter couldve banned trump months ago and his career would be over. but they know he brings them so much money/traffic they would never do it. as thiel said, they were working for him the entire time.
This may be the first time I've deliberately signed up for a newsletter. Great idea.
See also: chicken bus (and in the Caribbean, their less organized cousins, the chicken-Toyota/Honda/Nissan)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_bus