skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example of an absurd question like that was one I was asked when I was applying for my visa; along the lines of "are you planning to commit espionage for another country against the United States". I assume they do it so they can pin you for perjury as well was whatever crime you committed should you turn out to be a spy. But it's just so absurd when asked deadpan like that.
Did she really mis-spell Hitler's name?

Also, I highly suggest everyone making the Hitler comparison actually read the definitive work "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany," so we can perhaps have some more intelligent comparisons than: "You know who else used repetition? Hitler."

Every article I read seems to have become a fun little exercise in "How can I put both Trump and Hitler into this seemingly innocuous article about cognitive fusion?"

It's obnoxious and old. If you want to actually do a Trump-Hitler comparison, read a book on the topic and write an actual paper about it instead of just flinging it out willy-nilly so you can fear-monger your readership into believing that actual dystopian eugeno-fascism is just on the horizon.
How would they discover you provided a fake profile in the first place? Sure they might be able to catch a percentage of people, but not nearly all of them.
EE (comp. eng) here, what's the best resource to learn about quantum computing from this background? Only did 100 level Physics.
The NSA.
This list is great, but appears to be a little out of date. A new crop of programming tools has recently emerged as the field grows from academia into industry efforts:

Forest http://forest.rigetti.com is an open source Python toolkit out of the startup Rigetti Computing (full disclosure I'm a co-founder of this project). Here's a link to a recent demo and tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoASc18P5Q&feature=youtu.be

ProjectQ is another open source Python project out of ETH, and LIQUi|> is an F# simulator from Microsoft's quantum research group.

These would be the best place to start to see the cutting edge of developments in quantum programming.
It talked to real hardware so it wasn't. There was also an effect of professors doing the same thing for many, many years and after a while they simply stop following the latest and most current things in technology.
Except this is the trap.

Most people involved in federal agencies don't get purged and replaced at every election; they have long careers in their chosen agency, regardless of who's in the White House. So it's easy to find someone who's been there through a few administrations and say "this guy has consistently proposed this idea under multiple administrations", but present it as "this idea dates to the administration I want to falsely paint as identical to another one".

The related trick is the West Wing bit with the reporter who keeps asking the press secretary to give an answer on whether the President has considered calling a lame-duck session of Congress: the reporter knows, and the press secretary knows, that if she asks the President whether it's been considered then it'll be true that the topic came up in a discussion the President was part of, and the reporter will be able to spin that to claim "PRESIDENT CONSIDERING LAME-DUCK SESSION" without an outright lie being involved.
CSS3 has automatic hyphenation (hyphens: auto) which you can tweak with manual soft-hyphens (&shy;), and there are client-side hyphenators (Hyphenator.js, Hypher) available as fallbacks.
Nicely written post! I've had this issue when trying to focus on just the content of the page.
It would be interesting to see if you can find any deeper filtering ideas from other browsers - like Firefox has a "reader view" that strips away cruft from pages. Or even looking at the source code of some open-source feed reader apps like Flym - they do a great job of scraping off content and caching it online in a searchable format.
Worth perusing this for thoughts about doing an FSM in go: https://talks.golang.org/2011/lex.slide#1
Twitter's back end is breaking under Trump's tweets
Everything about this came under Obama.

I actually wrote in protesting this policy over a year ago when they proposed it. It has nothing at all to do with Trump.
When I got aqainted with the APP, I knew right where they are going with it: facebook wants messenger to be their mobile application distribution system. Just look at how heavy the app is. It is way over engineered to simply be a messenger application. Facebook used to rake in money from facebook games. Who plays games on FB anymore? Web games were the largest games market in the world in the early FB era. I developed for some companies that had games and apps on FB. I was in the online freelance community at the time and a ton of money was poured into that. Now everything has gone mobile and they lost one of their gold mines.
If you checked my comment history and decided I wasn't a spam bot, perhaps you should've been more generous in your interpretation of my post.
The exception is if they peddle a Sun hardware solution. They will be slobbering like a dog with a bone if you show any interest.
What are the first two pictures?
> we don't care that much for people's stated preferences

I strongly disagree. The foundation of democracy and liberty is self-determination. Civil rights protect their stated preferences and other limits to the law and government. The philosophical foundation of the U.S. is individual liberty.

Calhoun would make lots of claims; people always have justifications. The people doing evil don't stand up and say so; they give rationalizations to sway the gullible and lull others into confusion or not caring. Hitler, Stalin, Putin, and the rest did the same.
The textbook by Nielsen and Chuang is great. If you're looking for an abridged interactive one then you might be interested in the one in the documentation for pyQuil:

http://pyquil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro_to_qc.html

It goes through the basics of quantum computing using the Forest toolkit.
Have you ever read the man-page for telnet? On my Debian system the last two lines read:

BUGS
The source code is not comprehensible.

That's probably one of the dividing lines. There are many programs that have "bad" source code, but which are still essential.

Another measure of "badness" could be how extensible, or not a program might be. Or even how many security-holes. With regard to security holes some projects such as Wordpress or Wireshark crop up too often.

But honestly? Most of the badly written programs aren't so bad, if you ignore a couple of outliers. If the benefits outweigh the drawbacks then the software leaves the world a better place.
The Machinists Who Keep the New York Times Running
I live in a country where metadata is recorded at the ISP level for government perusal. More than 60 agencies want access this data without a warrant [0]. Why does the Taxi Services Commission need to know my web browsing history? Or Greyhound Racing Victoria?

There's also a law specifically making it a crime to post any information about government actions deemed a "special intelligence operation" [1], which makes me think that they're recording this data in bad faith.

So fuck 'em. Fuck the government that seeks to monitor everyone in order to entrench their power structure. Fuck them for lying to us, by claiming it's about terrorism. Fuck them for indicating a willingness to prosecute anyone who shines a light on their shady actions.

That's why I use a VPN, running on a VPS I have provisioned myself. No, I don't trust the VPS provider, but they have no power to imprison people, nor have they demonstrated a desire to expand their power over others.

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/government-releases-li...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/26/journa...
I'm in the process of researching alternatives to conventional housing. It's a fascinating area to research. The alternatives, particularly with regard to new building systems and modes of living, are available at reasonable cost. The road blocks in the way are breaking with tradition/mindset and filling the gap with regard to rent seeking revenues both public and private, but mostly public in the form of property taxes.

I see us being on the cusp of a change in attitudes and the way we value housing.
It won't be primary. A surprising number of people post dumb things, or even talk about their plans to violate their visa conditions while in line for entry. This'll catch a lot of mundane violations, like folks planning on working or permanently residing in the country while claiming they're just visiting for a week. It's very intrusive and I'm against it, but it will be quite effective.

Most people aren't gonna create fake profiles. Or if they do, they'll be suspiciously empty. If someone is gonna go through that effort to get entry they probably can just refrain from posting their plans online in the first place.
The Happy City and Our $20 Trillion Opportunity
That page’s examples are mostly a bunch of paragraphs of prose (that part, TeX is great at), some with fancy formatting that took significantly more effort than the equivalent effect in InDesign or QuarkXPress. The one with the Zapfino doesn’t bother using any alternate glyphs (arguably the main reason to ever use Zapfino). A few others are vector graphics projects that would be best done in Illustrator, Inkscape, or similar. As you go down the list, the examples (like the thing with the hearts) start to be examples of tacky overwrought things slapped together by amateurs.

Obviously TeX is an extremely flexible system, and it’s possible (fun even!) to use it for all kinds of purposes it wasn’t designed for. Analogously, it would also be possible to write a web application in assembly code running on an Arduino. I said it wasn’t a very effective or productive tool for the job, not that it wasn’t possible.
In addition to other points against this measure, there are massive privacy implications. Loads of people could be reusing passwords or may reuse keywords for multiple passwords. A collection of such data by an organization can and will be misused.
About 3 years ago, I went to the old Palo Alto store with a defective (internally-shorted/overheated) MagSafe 65W charger still under warranty from original MBP purchase and a group of blueshirts tried to browbeat yours truly into purchasing a new one.. I asked for the manager whom only continued the nonsensical tirade of "take it or leave it." I went to the Stanford store, got it replaced (as they should) and reported the incident to corporate a couple days later.

Backstory: It released magic smoke and left a small scorch mark on the wood table on which it was sitting, right at the 90-degree MagSafe strain-relief which melted-burned the sheath to a brown/yellow yuck and exposed wires.
I loved the puzzle books, even though I wasn't very good at the puzzles. The titbit about his wife is this story (https://magazine.uchicago.edu/9506/June95BOBProfiles.html, NYT left out the actual puzzle)

> Smullyan admits the following puzzle might have come in handy had he designed it before meeting his wife.

> "I'll make a statement. If the statement is true, you give me your autograph. It doesn't have to be on a check, it can be on a blank piece of paper. If the statement is false, you don't give me your autograph," Smullyan sets up the puzzle. "Well, my statement is, `You will give me neither your autograph nor a kiss.'

And his puzzles always came with variations, like this (http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2010/05/raymond-smullyans-mag...):

> Afterwards, Raymond Smullyan joined me in the elevator. “Do you want to see a magic trick?” he asked. “I bet I can kiss you without touching you.” I was caught off guard. At that moment I believed anything was possible. I agreed to the bet.

> He asked me to close my eyes, kissed me on the cheek and laughed, “I lost.”

And this bit from the preface to The Lady or the Tiger aptly summarizes most people's attitude towards maths:

> Before he called the boy to the phone, the
father said to me in soft conspiratorial tones: "He is reading
your book and loves it! But when you speak to him, don't let
him know that what he is doing is math, because he hates
math! If he had any idea that this is really math, he would
stop reading the book immediately!"
Yes, my estimates are the present value of the liability the pension plan is incurring. It's what a pension plan would have to save to be fully funded.

Pension plans are currently not allowed under federal law to fully fund themselves because that would be so expensive it would disrupt federal taxation. Instead we are constantly building up future pension crises that will have to be paid in higher taxes and economic chaos later.
Sure, as long as you're okay with mutable data structures and the headaches they cause with threading.
It's sad that we won't actually get a list of problems that devs can tackle. Even so, I can entertain the thought of there being no ulterior motives, and that maybe Linux isn't actually an OS that everyone likes or wants to use.
Good Hackers Versus "Evil" Hackers
I do mean to have a good technical talk, apologies if I sounded derisive, I was kind of annoyed you would assume LeCun and I don't know what the Von Neumann Bottleneck is.

Anyways, as for showing that convolution runtimes are dominated by compute, not lookup, as much as I tried, I couldn't find the goddamn chart that shows the breakdown, but I did see that chart somewhere and my own experiments show that to be true. It IS true however, that in general memory access is far more expensive than the operations, but deep nets are basically "take the data in and chew on it for a long time". Besides, the way to beat the Von Neumann Bottleneck likely lies in fabrication technology, not design (like HBM2 and TSVs). What makes you think their SRAM cell is custom? It appears to be a standard SRAM cell. That's what I meant by "pouring memory on die".

And the von neumann bottleneck is primarily caused by memory access (aka data movement) being expensive. What happens if you have to move data between multiple truenorth chips?
> As a matter of fact, you are not. I'm sure you know about EINTR.

The problem with using signals to manage child processes comes when child processes are started by libraries. If the library installs a handler for SIGCHLD, it could conflict with other libraries or with the application which wants to do the same thing. The great thing about FreeBSD style process descriptors is that no signal handlers are needed–a library can start a child process and then wait for it to complete (and wait for other things such as network sockets simultaneously) without relying on signal handlers which don't work well when an application is composed of numerous independently developed libraries (as many modern applications are).
Any else read _Three Body Problem_ ?
I've had absolutely no trouble with my HP Elitebook (a few years old) and it's dock. I can even run two external displays and the internal one simultaneously.
The biggest problem in most of these cities is current residents preventing new housing from being built. Most of these residents own property of their own and directly benefit from the higher prices that result.

Most of these residents are also old. It's literally the boomer generation fucking over everyone trying to move in for their own benefit.
There is a strong argument to be made that we are at a decision point on vegetarianism. Of course we'll only know for sure in retrospect, but

* Vegans and vegetarians are growing groups, especially among the young.

* Food technology is improving and making it easier and easier to not eat meat. There are a few startups in this area, such as Impossible Foods, that may revolutionize how we eat.

* The world is becoming increasingly aware of the risk of climate change, and that consuming animal products is a significant factor.

* We have plenty of solid scientific evidence showing people can live healthy lives without eating meat, removing the "we need it to survive" argument. (There is also some evidence that eating less meat is good for you, but there is a lot to debate there.)

* Legislation is moving more and more towards protecting animal rights, even if we have a lot left to do.

So yes, I think the top comment is right. People eating meat today will be judged poorly in a few generations' time.
Wait these people that willingly hire illegal workers who are willing to work under minimum wage with little legal protection are worried their workers will be deported and will now have to pay higher wages?

The farming subsidies is already ridiculous [1] for little farmers give back. Perhaps they should innovate instead being left behind, clearly the market is moving against them.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21643191-crop-pr...
A: Most people aren't gonna bother, or do this right. B: Most people will leave their original profile up, so quickly searching might find that person's photo with another account. C: There will probably be a lack of activity. "You signed up for Facebook 1 month ago?" "Why do you have no friends talking about this trip?" etc.

People that don't want to get caught entering under false pretenses can just delete social media or not post dumb stuff on it in the first place. This isn't gonna catch spies[1] and terrorists or whatever, it'll prevent visa overstays and stuff like that.

[1] Though I heard of one spy getting caught cause she tried to collect frequent flier miles on her main account while traveling under aliases. So, who knows what kinda things will happen every now and then. But that can't be the primary aim of the idea.
What if I don't have any social media accounts? Do the officials just assume I'm lying and deny me entry?

This is insanity.
Yeah the best approach, the one I use when crossing, is to encrypt everything, then send part of the password to someone else who won't give it to me until later. They can steal your hardware, I guess.
Google will censor just about anything if a government asks them to and claims it's for national security. Hell, they even do it for the uber-rich independent of government.
Do we really need the USA anyway? What is honestly being lost if we're banned?
besides the fact that his administration will enforce it? haha

both parties are guilty. if trump doesn't want to enforce it, he wouldn't. if obama admin didn't want to brainstorm it, they wouldn't have
> The prospect has business owners in the valley on edge. Patricia Pantoj runs a travel agency in Madera, north of Fresno, where the city’s approximately 60,000 residents are predominantly Latino and work in the fields. This year, she said, fewer people than ever before traveled back to their hometowns in Mexico.

> “They didn’t want to risk it,” she said. “Everyone is scared, even if they have papers.”

So policy which was intended to reduce the number of immigrant workers might have an actual effect of turning undocumented temporary/seasonal migrants into permanent denizens.

Whoops!
Thinkpad x250 user here. When I dock with one monitor, my screen will occasionally freeze forcing me to reboot.
And who would knowing that it's basically given out exclusively to those who bribe their local government official? Frankly, that makes the passport a stronger negative indicator that this is someone who should be allowed to cross a border.
I'm guessing that you don't live in Japan. There, opportunities may or may not come after you have executed your card exchange, but don't leave home without them.
> Do we really need the USA anyway? What is honestly being lost if we're banned?

Good, don't come then. I've traveled the world a decent bit, and there is a reason why people from all over the world come to the US to start a business or try to make financial independence and a better life from their home country.
Indeed. In fact, I'm an avid programmer, but I'm not a programmer of that stuff. And I'm somewhat fearful of doing it wrong and creating some kind of massive security nightmare for myself or for my customers.
I have to say that makes no sense to me: it's his administration, and therefore his (administration's) responsibility. Could it be that it's a distinction without a difference: after all, people are opposing it because they think it is a bad idea, not because it came from him. If so, what exactly is your point? I don't understand.

(I wish you wouldn't call him names, it's a little uncivil.)
While the cost of living where the big-4 might be higher. Going from 130k to 300k would still significantly enhance a person's ability to retire very early, thus ending the grind.
I'm pretty sure that any US person or organization that doesn't comply with matters supposedly pertaining to national security will go the way of Joe Nacchio and Qwest.
desi = indian, pakistani, bangladeshi
It almost sounds like the sort of thing that happens often in the US. I thought the europeans were more resistant to lobbying and other related practices.
There's a similar saying referred to as Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy: "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge."

There's also another related topic on TVTropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CowboyBebopAtHisC...
That may be changing.
Sure that question is dumb, but it's not at all comparable to forcing you to turn over a password. Why would you make that false equivalence?
How do you set cron to post to Slack?
This is only a problem for foolish states/cities that raise money mostly from property taxes. Besides, the main problem is current residents not allowing additional housing to be built. The additional income from new properties would more than offset the revenue drop from property values.

It's not about millennials "jumping ahead" either. This generation came of age during the worst recession since the great depression. They are on track to be the poorest generation in American history. The combination of funding cuts to state universities and rising housing costs in places with jobs available gives millennials less choice and more debt than any generation alive in the US.

This is a generation that is the best educated but poorest in our nation's history, coming right after one of the richest and prolific generations. The implications are clear. The previous generation maintaining the status quo. They voted for the funding cuts and NIMBYism that resulted in the lack of housing and student loan debt of the current generation.
Considering how the NSA probably has access to this already, what does this mean? A few options off the top of my head. Not putting any probabilities on these, but it's interesting to think about. The options are neither exhaustive nor exclusive.

(a) NSA info is drying up due to resistance from companies

(b) NSA info can't be shared due to low-priority targets

(c) NSA info can be shared but there's something going on between NSA and DHS that makes this difficult

(d) NSA info can be shared, but only to people of a certain clearance, which makes this non-scalable for ports of entry

(e) NSA info can be shared but the goal of the policy isn't info, it's signaling
A few words from the author of Quick FPA
Sure, but I switched from Windows 8 Phone, never used iOS :)
Windows didn't bother me with the notification at all as far as I recall!
How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence (2016)
The idea that you need to buy a house, or that buying a house is always a wise financial move if you have the means to do it, is misguided. The question of whether it's a financially smarter decision to own a house vs rent (and invest the savings) is not easily answered, which alternative ends up better over the long term is different in different scenarios.

One thing that is true in most conditions, though, is that in comparing alternatives where a young person buys more house than they need (which used to be quite common) against renting a modest and reasonable "young adult" apartment, renting is likely to come out ahead.