skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only point I am arguing here is that the popular vote for any election is meaningless (except an electoral tie) when the POTUS is decided by the electoral colleges.

If the popular vote decided the POTUS, then Trump voters in traditionally Democratic states (think Pacific NorthWest) might have turned out in droves and vice-versa for Hilary.
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Occasionally use Dia diagrams for ideas that map better with such a graphical representation (subsystem interaction and the interfaces of its boundaries).

Anything more temporary than that (AKA brain buffer) goes into a whiteboard or a paper notebook.
This seems to be a common false logic argument based on an unknown, where the event leads the judgement. "Fault" occurs when someone does something that is against the rules and results in an undesirable outcome. They are NOT at fault if nobody observes them doing the thing that is against the rules + nobody else observes the undesirable outcome that resulted in the causality from doing the wrong thing (because nothing happened).

Even if someone did observe them breaking the rules, the "fault" doesn't exist until the undesirable outcome occurs and is observed. Arguing that loss of privacy will make things safer is illogical, given loss of privacy creates "inverse causality", or causality created by blaming someone for something before they actually do it in an objective frame. Keep in mind that (us) Buddhists believe we are all a single entity, with very specific discrimination that allows each of us to believe we are also a separate entity with an ego. That ego requires privacy to pull off what it does.

The process of "speaking for others" is akin to speculation about someone else's internal subjective frame inside a separate internal subject frame (aka mind's eye) in the observer (the one speaking for the other) BEFORE objective causality occurs. My hypothesis is that, by phrasing the speculation for other entities to consume as if it is an objective fact (which is is not), the "speaker" creates inverse causality event which then spreads in a viral way through the aggregate. See "this video will make you angry" on YouTube.

Apologies if this is still a bit rough around the edges logically and semantically. I'm just now getting it down in words and it's still a work in progress...
Why flagged?
Early Electromechanical Circuits
I know the pain of managing the synchronization of your password store. That's exactly why we enable git by default now and auto commit all you changes like pass did before. For me it works great personally, but also with a team it's awesome.
It just feels like working with people that know git on something not encrypted.

Regard the windows support we would be happy to get as much feedback on that as possible. Nobody of us uses windows with gopass. If you have any idea how to improve the experience please let us know. Thanks!
Did you read the link? apparently it's the technically correct spelling. Never knew about this, always see it with an 'O'
What a day we live in when having a mechanical disk for a primary OS drive is straight up considered a hardware problem.

I fully agree with you, though. An SSD this day and age is mandatory.
Are you speaking of voters or the electoral college?
IANAL but as EU citizen doing stuff in EU I don't really care about the implications of US patent system. What I do care about is a license that is in a local language, designed specifically for the EU jurisdiction so every court would understand what its exactly about. In general though I don't think there's a huge difference as it's hard to believe that I would actually ever go to court based on some license terms.
Fast CDN-Based Repository Clones on Bitbucket Cloud
Snapchat files for a $3B IPO
I've always understood switch statements just fine.

However, after this article, I now understand them a little better.
> Spark is supposed to be one the fastest Java-implementations of a database system, and it's 1000x slower than the fastest C-implementation database systems, but this is clearly a problem limited by memory.

Wow.. so much wrong, I'm not sure how to unpack it all.

a) Spark is Scala, not Java, though both do use the JVM, so I'll give you that.

b) Spark is not a database system, though it is a framework for manipulating data

c) Spark is generally considered to be much faster than Hadoop, and does it's job well, but I'm not sure it qualifies as the fastest anything.

d) By any reasonable interpretation, the fastest Java database system is definitely not Spark. You will find that benchmarks of Java database systems generally don't even include Spark (as an example https://github.com/lmdbjava/benchmarks/blob/master/results/2...)

e) Fast is an ambiguous term... usually you are looking at things like latency, throughput, efficiency, etc. I'm not sure which you mean here.

f) If you know anything at all about runtimes, you'd know that if you've found a Java based system that is 1000x slower than a C based system, either your benchmark is extremely specialized, broken, or you are comparing apples & oranges.

Look, Java certainly has some overhead to it, and sometimes it significantly impacts performance. Before you get too excited about attributing it to runtime size, you might want to look at the size of glibc...
XPS hardware is probably better than Razer, but its not Apple level either though.
Angela Merkel is now the leader of the free world, not Donald Trump
From the FAQ:

Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs.

So, even Microsoft doesn't think it's a full blown IDE. With enough plug-ins it certainly could be.
Everyone is also negligent at one time or another.
> Instead they've become a SAAS Lastpass competitor which literally nobody asked for, in fact people were trying to leave LastPass due it it's forced-online nature (which naturally frightens people, having your passwords stored online somewhere).

I've used 1Password for a number of years and loved it and recommended it to friends and family, but their offering now just confuses me. I don't even know what their product is anymore, and I really need to be able to understand the attack surface of my password manager. So I've been looking into... other options.
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The only thing that will get Trump of his path is a giant whack with a clue bat. The contrast between various previous US presidents and Trump could not be greater (Bush the elder, Obama just to name two from opposing sides), he defiles the position.
John Pilger: The Coming War on China

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/12/02/the-coming-war-on-chi...
robocop is nigh!
It’s ridiculous how simple and fair the rules for this could be, if only they’d been implemented in law to cover certain scenarios that ensure honesty.

An example set of rules could be:

1. Periodic monitoring of connection speeds is to be expected, and any action requires a minimum of X samples (say, X=10). Measurements may be performed by any party and the measurement method must be fully disclosed. If more than 30% of samples are failing to meet advertised Internet speeds by at least 5%, or any one sample is more than 50% below advertised speed, customer is entitled to a one-day refund of Internet fees. If more than 5 total occurrences in a single calendar month are failing, customer is entitled to a 15-day refund of Internet fees.

2. If the Internet becomes unusable for more than 10 minutes at a time in a single month and the outage can be traced to ISP-given equipment, customer is entitled to a one-day refund of Internet fees. If Internet is unusable multiple times, customer is entitled to a 5-day refund.

3. If company has cause to adjust Internet delivery expectations (such as, too many additional customers to serve original speeds on pipe to same area), existing customers are all immediately released from any contracts and may terminate service immediately with no penalties. In additional, ISP is liable for crediting customer monthly bills for the remainder of service, proportional to the difference in service speed with a 10% penalty for violation of original contract by the ISP.

4. Internet is considered a separate service and may not be bundled with anything else.

And it doesn’t even have to say this much to be a huge improvement. The point is that companies have been getting away with lousy services FOR YEARS and appear to be largely unpunished, while meanwhile the number of customers overpaying and not receiving stable and promised service numbers in the millions.
If you have a country like the US giving you lots of money every year, then you can do fine. No problem is there are homeless and starving americans. Lets keep on sending that load of money to Israel. No problem is they use the occupied Golan heights to send arms over to Al queda in Syria. Top of the line marvel country. Bravo
> I think that the more tech insiders remain at arms length from Trump, the better.

> I think that we need more of the Valley close to Trump, not avoiding him.

Eh?

In any case, I think "stay close to Trump so he'll listen to you" is an idea that has been proven wrong over and over and over again since the second he became President. And you're going to be contending with his trusted advisor Steve Bannon, who thinks there are too many Asians in Silicon Valley. So...

I'd love to be proven wrong, though.
Spoiler: Money.
I know - it's fully searchable, everything easily accessible. What were they thinking?
Never. They're on the NYSE.
The "binary options" scam industry, which is mostly run from a suburb of Tel Aviv, has been targeting the Arab world recently. Mostly by default. The industry isn't allowed to scam Israelis, but the rest of the world's suckers are fair game under Israel law. They've been kicked out of the US, and recently, most of the EU. So they're telemarketing into the Arab countries now.

This requires hiring Arabic speakers, who are available in Israel. Greed apparently overrides Arab-Israeli differences in this area.

(Big 15-part expose in the Times of Israel: "The Wolves of Tel Aviv".[1] Summary: binary options are bets against the house, not against other speculators. Binary options "brokers" are not really brokers, they're shills for the house. Worse, the house cheats, tweaking the prices to make customers lose. Even if customers win, the house won't pay up. 80% of investors lose all their money. This brings in over 0.7% of Israel's GDP, and that's just the part that pays taxes.)

[1] http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-wolves-of-tel-aviv-israels-...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13550548
Which could in part be because of Snapchat, if we're being honest.
I've been looking for the same thing for weeks, I ended up just texting my electrical engineer friend
Honestly this is a bit of a bummer.

Not because it's good or useful for Travis to be on the advisory board, but because I want to live in a world where Uber continues to correctly be branded across social media as a fascist-collaborating parasite that nobody wants to use
And their GCP contract is for $400M a year?
Hard to change his mind when that mind is manipulated by Stephen Bannon. If Bannon leaves then I suspect he would fall more in line with a typical Republican President.
Heroku is like a cradle: it gives you instant comfort and feeds you all you need without effort when you're newborn. But when you're ready to start walking by yourself, it definitely will strand you.
Funnily, the way I see most people use Snap is "Twitter but video"
I know everyone may say these are outliers, but Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc all had ZERO marketing and acquired millions of users.
Part of me thinks that alot of what people are saying about marketing applies to companies with a weak product or little differentiation. A monster, highly wanted product does appear to be the the exception
The 'no politics, please, we're techies' likely reflexively flag anything that contains the word 'Trump'. I wouldn't be surprised if there are bots active to do this, the speed with which some articles are flagged is eerie.
That sounds like a good idea. Props to your teacher - I might try that myself, as there are a few things I've been interested in learning on the left hand but have had trouble with.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_vomiting_sickness

It was illegal to import canned ackee to the US for years, due to risk of hypoglycin poisoning.
Today on Hacker News I learned what a demagogue is.
I did exactly the same, but instead purely for fun and learning. Picked a random/blind clip from a naughty movie for extra motivation to get the first frames to the screen :D

I also worked from just the reference book, with no prior knowledge of video coding at all, which made it quite a puzzle to get something on the screen and moving, but it was extremely satisfying when it all worked (to some extent, the thing was horribly slow, broke after one group of predicted frames, and I never implemented chroma, just luma)
Company supplied image? There's your problem. :-D

If you were able to move to Linux - more power to you. Some of us are stuck with mighty machines and horrible system image with 10 kinds of disk/processor heavy background "management and security" apps running on boot.
I'd honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much, as I've often found myself agreeing with this refrain.

To pre-answer the common rebuttal I get, that VCs are taking moonshots at the chance of a VERY HIGH return; I'd ask why not look at VC investments in the sense of a more traditional portfolio, where you'd have your growth stocks, your value stocks, etc. If I could find a vehicle that reliably gave 20% YOY I'd throw fistfulls of money at it.

So can someone enlighten me as to why this isn't a viable way of looking at VC investment?
A few of those can be already done by the distribution, but if not, the main points are:

- make sure TLP is installed

- disable Bluetooth if you don't use it

- disable services you don't care about (file indexing for example)

- use the right cpu scaling governor (you're likely interested in powersave)

- enable power management on all devices which support it without issues (tlp-stat will give you some hints)

- check powertop for some ideas about what exactly is using the most power

- update your system to the latest version (kernel gets power usage fixes all the time)

- there's often even more things to do - arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management) and ubuntu one (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagement/PowerSavingTw...) may give you some ideas, but keep in mind they may be out of date a bit
There is no non-voting FB stock yet. It's still tied up in a shareholder lawsuit.
He campaigned on banning Muslims and signed an executive order partially to that effect the other day.
"When Spiegel travels between his company's scattered outposts, he normally has a Range Rover with a private driver transport him from building to building. The former employee described it like the president arriving: a black car would pull up and Spiegel would hurriedly pop out with his security detail."

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-its-like-to-work-at-snap...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13554835 and marked it off-topic.
Saw that in the process of writing gopass too!

> The difference is mine does not use PGP and is instead password based...

And we still wanted to use PGP because crypto is hard. :)
Arm's length here means close in his/her original statement.
>That's not entirely fair. Several Republicans have objected to things he's done on other bases, including the immigration E.O.

Ok, to be fair, out of several hundred Republicans, you're going to find a few here and there who object to many things he does (and the ones who object will be different, based on the issue). Similarly on the Democrat side, you're going to find a few here and there who break ranks with the rest of the Dems and side with him.

But by and large, you're not going to see any unified opposition from the GOP. You might from the Dems, but that doesn't matter much because they're a minority in Congress.
I'm not entirely certain that you read all the way to the end of my reply.

To really lock someone up, you need both a non-disclosure and a non-compete. And anyone worth a non-compete should make it really expensive for the company that is asking for it. You're trading away potentially several years worth of lost opportunity costs to basically not be what you are for some time after leaving a company.
We're doing nearly the exact same approach in my office out of necessity.

We "allowed" small amounts of downtime previously (say 10-15 minutes at a time for migrations), but over the last year as our customer base has expanded, the window has shrunk smaller and smaller as to avoid service disruptions.

We're now at a stage where downtime is effectively not allowed anymore, so we've taken to this approach (make a new table, dual write new records, then write all the old records, remove references to the old table) to mitigate our downtime.

It's nice to know that other companies have taken this approach as well, my team honestly didn't know if we were doing it "properly" or not (if there is such a thing as properly)
This is my thoughts exactly. I don't mind signing the opt out because it always follows an interview.
The media's attempt to create relevance for that misshapen CIA goon was one of the strangest things about this election cycle. Americans didn't want the TPP, didn't want mass refugee resettlement, and didn't want to side with Al Qaeda in Syria. Sorry!
Operating out of the occupied Golan Heights, Israel’s IDF has provided weapons, ammunition, logistical support to Al Qaeda rebels operating in Southern Syria. Wake up
I paid $45 for give.pizza. ;)
> There is immigration, and illegal immigration.

> Trump has given no sign of being against the former.

Except the current E.O., which affects currently legal immigrants, and a draft the administration has circulated which targets many more currently legal immigrants [0], and restrictions on currently-legal immigration that go beyond either of those that he called for on the campaign trail.

[0] http://wapo.st/2kOhRNp?tid
You say that, but I pulled out several instances of Duff's Device from production code a few years ago, and replaced them with memcpy( ) and memcmp( ) as appropriate. This isn't 1986 any more.
That's not exclusive. I am not willing to pay for a penthouse in Manhattan, because I can't afford it. I am also not willing to pay for a live in chef, and 10,009 other things because I can't afford them. That is not a failing of society it's how capitalism allocates finite resources.
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>a lot of people good at math have poor people skills

All the more reason to open the floodgates so we can get the few people with both skillsets.
How much money is git-scm going to lose if the search function is temporarily down?

Maybe not enough to afford a solution with more nines.
So why not just close it and sell it then?

Using a license to extort money from commercial entities who he seems to say use it without paying a dime for it and operating under the guise of open source is... warped in my pov.

I don't begrudge him making phat loot. But if that's the goal open source is not the right avenue imo.

Let the flame war begin but I don't see the point in open sourcing code if you don't want people to use it however they want.

YMMV and probably does.
Clearly we aren't running in circles!

I agree that those coinflip cases exist, but if cases are so close a coinflips (or elections) can decide them then why do sums like $500 million depend on them as in the article?

A system which promotes charisma instead of factual accuracy doesn/t just result in muddy grey areas where things were already close. Things like climate change, which pretty much all experts agree on, are grey areas to many people. Charisma is how we get trump instead of any other politician.

Every year that passes I am less in favor of the idea of democracy than I was the year before. The aggregate of a great many untrained people is generally stupid. Its just better than any system reliant on experts we have devised so far. This seems to be caused by the corruption of our method of choosing experts. Once we a get a reliable system that empowers experts I will be behind wholeheartedly.
click on go to old version.
Generally a good place to start would be powertop[1]

1: https://github.com/fenrus75/powertop

(my memory is it's in the Ubuntu repos so you should be able to apt install it)

it has an "I'm feeling lucky" flag,

> powertop --auto-tune

which theoretically should make good choices for you.
>The package management is still a mess.
If you mean for system updates I'd agree, but software package management is a shit show on Linux and it shows why less people bother writing software with & why Electron is popular there.

What's more easier then clicking an .exe ?
Yes. Regardless of anyone's stance on them, these stereotypes exist right now and are being re-inforced by society.

It's not easy to break down cultural barriers, and doing so in one fell swoop is near impossible. Employing these stereotypes in order to bring an end to them is not necessarily a bad thing
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Can you elaborate on the use-case of that UAV project?

It sounds rather interesting.
Yea that was really strange to see. I had to look up and double check what website I was on when I saw that
OK, so could you help me understand something?

I certainly can see how there could be some injustice in the gap between men and women in the industry. And I could certainly see how the lack of perspective from women causes decisions that are suboptimal in some contexts. There are probably some companies in some subindustries that would benefit from hiring women programmers.

But every company being desperate to hire women? I don't see how most companies benefit from hiring a woman vs. a man.

To clarify, I'm saying that it seems that hiring a woman vs. a man has roughly the same value to most, but not all, companies. Thoughts?
That's not what "arm's length" typically means. Of course, OP might not be a native English speaker.
This is boilerplate S1 language.
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Right call. Though I understand that being on the council is not an endorsement, it does normalize Trump and set back the resistance movement.
2% of the popular vote is not a vast majority.

(EDIT: I said "and we aren't even certain about that number because states generally don't keep counting after the state outcome is certain" but I was mistaken).
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Github pages just seems a step too far - sponsoring the hosting, fine, but I don't think anyone should go out of their way to make git depend on GH.
Trump has actively insinuated that he supports a nativist (i.e. white nationalist) immigration policy.
Not just OS upgrades - even updates alone are problematic.
And (although I don't think its Win10 specific) but there's chocolatey now too which is great
I don't like to use the US as a role model, why do you think that? Also, how do you know I am a brazilian?

I could spend a lot of time here elaborating a reform proposal, but that would be pointless, right? You don't have the power to do the reform even if you get convinced.

It is better to just come here and state the obvious, hoping that other commenters may be interested in learning some basic economics -- not of Keynes variety, which is a separate discipline -- and accept that labour laws are mostly bad.

After we get more people convinced of it we can elaborate a politically feasible reform.