skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm super interested in all that stuff, but I also feel that it's not for everybody. Like just yesterday I saw someone on the Rust subreddit who mentioned that they think Haskell is cool but it tends towards too high abstraction levels for their taste, which I totally understand.
When Lincoln was elected, there were days he had difficulty getting from his room to his office -- the halls of the White House were full of people who came looking for a job from the president.

That was the old patronage system, where you elect a president and he can appoint thousands, maybe tens of thousands of jobs. All of these jobs had one major qualification: you had to be loyal to the president.

As much as we hate it now, for a long time the system worked well. When the government was small, there simply wasn't that much real power to pass around, and the U.S. Constitution was fairly clear that the president should be directly responsible for the executive branch. Nobody else. The founders discussed at length the idea of a complex bureaucratic system of state, like the Europeans had. They wanted no part of it.

But as we know, once the system grew during the Civil War and afterwards, it led to a terrible amount of corruption. Something had to be done. So the U.S. enacted Civil Service reform, where the president is allowed and expected to bring a bunch of partisan loyalists with him into office, but the lower levels of the bureaucracy were to be left alone to the professionals. In this way public opinion could have major impacts on national policy with each presidential election -- but elections wouldn't become such a feeding frenzy for people looking to make quick buck off the government.

Now it looks like we're seeing the endgame of the pendulum swinging too far in the other direction: the deep state. As just some random internet dude, my suggestion to fix it would be to assert more executive control another level or two down, perhaps allow the managers at the next level, who are not appointees, more power over moving people around and letting them go.

If we do it right we'll probably correct too far in the other direction, and hopefully it'll take another dozen or so decades for yet another course correction to be made. Sadly, however, I expect much political wailing and gnashing of teeth during the entire process. Whether it's patronage or the deep state, there's a ton of money and political power being fought over.
2. Language agnostic; Common in other languages, but some avoid it by using
strongly typed enumeration instead of integer return type in comparison
functions.

6. Languages with pointer arithmetic, especially that the cast that losses
information is explicit.

8. It not at all obvious that silently ignoring the case failure is correct fix
for this, or if there is any issue here at all. Generally common to languages
with some kind of destructor and exceptions, though harmful in varying degrees.

11. Other languages generally make it impossible to write, or define order of
operations.

I think the most interesting observation you can make is how much of those
problems are caused by some form of implicit conversion between types (also
stopped after 20):

4. int -> bool
9. char -> *char
13. int -> bool
14. bool -> size_t
15. different enums
16. bool -> int

This generally agrees with bug log that I keep. Implicit conversions being one
of the most common source of problems in C/C++. When possible I just treat all
implicit conversions as errors using compiler flags and make all casts
explicit. Unfortunately this is something you can only do when working on new
projects, and hard to enforce in templates.
multiple active discussions, please check before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13683894

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684439
Several years ago, I wanted to get into autocad again but not pay for the latest and greatest. It was just for my own personal use of playing around and designing things so I had no worries of format compatibilities with other companies, etc. I had gotten a stack of autocad lt 2002 books for free from a professor at the college I worked at, so I set out on ebay to find a copy. Got one complete in box!

When it arrived, I fired up the installer, used the serial, and everything installed without a hitch. I ran the program and it asks to activate online. "No problem," I think, I used a legit serial from a legit copy, I should be fine. What I didn't consider was that the activation server was taken offline (I'm sure the official reason was "cost savings" but "force people to upgrade" fits in there pretty well in my opinion).

So now I had a perfectly good box of software and a stack of manuals for a product I couldn't use for no technical reason other than the company didn't want me to use it.
Quite nice. Ability to change colors would do good for some basic form of branding. The contrast is quite low as well.
> HP Proliant Servers

gods I miss the old DL380 G3 we had in 2009. Its internal USB port and rocketship of parts let me use it to replace a server closet with a bunch of VM & got me familiar with Xen & VMware ESXi
Oh yeah...the countries listed in that article, which one has a state in state without any influence from outside?
Or just use Scala.
Scala is like Java 13 in a consistent / elegant manner with functionality / features of half of the libraries listened.
those 10 lines keep changing b/w different linux distros and thats the problem pm2 solves elegantaly.
Interesting. I have a CPU with Intel Iris Pro graphics, which has 128MB of on-die eDRAM, which appears as L4 cache and which I assume can be used as both VRAM and cache.

I wonder if this is useful to me in terms of allocating/using it for the latter?
Good point. That could certainly be the desired goal, which is why it's frustrating that the media is running with the rumor stories without making the lack of substantiating detail more of an issue. There should be a lot of pressure for the leaker to back up the rumor, since the stakes are fairly high.
"He [NZ Judge David Harvey] also confirmed that the charges in the indictment relating to money laundering, racketeering and wire fraud are not separate criminal acts but dependent on the claim of criminal secondary copyright infringement."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case which links the actual legal documents
When you learn something, you can try using your newfound skills to answer questions on subreddits, mathoverflow, etc. It feels great to satisfy other people's interest and get feedback on it.
The funnier thing is that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the stories about Russia may - gasp - be true! No need to reach for your tinfoil hat here, friend!
I think I'd have to move away from the concept of using polygons for such an approach - I had thought about just using a simple 2d projection of a 3d path, but I'd obviously run into quite a few problems regarding occlusion and a bunch of other things with that.
But I'll be having a lot of fun trying out some different approaches to 3d rendering ;)
"Deep state" on the libertarian-leaning left is "federal bureaucracy" on the Rush Limbaugh right.
Not in case of known salaries per position. (Or at least small differences in case of ranges) But we won't get there in one day. Getting rid of tipping is one of the steps.
Going Paperless: Cloud Archive for All Your Documents
Another option is to have department heads elected separately from the President.

People make better decisions when the job they're voting on has a more specific description.
> preponderance of evidence

What evidence are you referring to. As far as I know none has been made public. There have been a lot of accusations and a few rumors but (gasp) zero evidence of hacking or any other troubling links w/ Russia.
Not sure I agree on this.

I don't think DRM is great (hate it, actually), but I do understand why the content companies would want it. If I were a content owner I would want to use some sort of DRM system as well, even if it's easy to circumvent.

Does it really matter whether DRM is enabled in Chrome? It has to do with ease of use more than anything. I don't like it, but I don't see how not including EME is good for the end user, if the alternative is having to install a secondary app.

You should want the whole process to be as frictionless as possible, even if that means giving up "amazing code quality" or "a beautiful standard". You can have great code and a crappy app. I don't think the world needs more crappy apps with great code.
Obama also attacked the Supreme Court.
Thanks for pointing they out. Might be nice for mods go add to the title.
A meta-discussion on note-taking: I see Show HNs of new notetaking software once a month or so. It's like a blog engine: everyone gives a shot to writing one. (I wrote a note-taking app a few years ago).

But none of these will ever touch the Evernotes of the world. I think the big step ahead here will be decentralization. Today, my notes are at the mercy of Evernote/OneNote/Keep.

Some newer options like StandardNotes [1] are taking this head-on. But even here the focus seems to be on easy import/export, which is a positive action that will have to be taken by the user to hold on to their data. One thing we know about user behavior is they they will not do anything that has friction.

A decentralized storage engine (like IPFS[2]) would be the ideal storage, which would allow copies of notes to automatically exist, and the user would not even have to worry about their storage provider going away.

Another point I want to make is that most notes don't have to be private.. anecdotal-ly speaking, most notes would benefit from being public, in that others will enhance whatever data/research you're collecting. So the next generation of note-taking will be about majority public, and a few private notes.

If anyone's interested in discussing this in a bit more detail I could setup a mailing list to discuss a bit more on the potential architecture of such a system.

[1] https://standardnotes.org/
[2] http://ipfs.io/
Do the boring work, save the money and retire early and work on whatever you want.
I've stopped watching TV may years ago when it become impossible to figure out what all those buttons are for.
> There's only one WC-135

Two in active service and a total of eleven converted from the base C-135, per Wikipedia.

Quibbles over details aside, I do take your point about the absence of reportage in the mainstream media on something that's not well enough understood to speak to the cause, and likely to generate a lot of unnecessary concern absent such understanding.

On the other hand, I'm not sure how I feel about there being someone - anyone - in a position to decide what the public does and does not need to know. In this case, we might agree that that power, to the extent it still exists in the age of the Internet, is being used for good. Is it always?
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A Demonstration of Self-Profiling
Instruments of Amplification: Fun with Homemade Tubes, Transistors, and More
Because NZ agreed to extradition terms with the US. If they hadn't done that, then the US could try him in absentia but good luck enforcing it.
The Macs are legendary for their design, but I have to say the winner is the MacBook Air. We have one at home, specifically the 2011 model MacBook Air. Such a fine piece of equipment and it still works pretty today as well as it did 6 years ago.
Should I do freelance of my skills on weekends or learn new things?
It sounds incredibly dumb and the fact that nobody has challenged and changed this is testament to the pace of public official life.
If somebody were to get a nuclear bomb on a civilian plane, the german government would be constitutionally obligated to let them fly to wherever they want.
I imagine that in real life the german government would ask France or Great Britain to quickly fly over and do the job for them.
Afterwards it's nobody's fault and we can all keep pretending that the Grundgesetz is perfect.
Note that there is no standard for the DRM itself. You can't play Netflix using W3C's specs.

The EME standard is only a JS API for launching arbitrary and deliberately non-standard DMCA-protected Content Decryption Modules (which are like plug-ins, but bundled with the browser).

In this regard EME is even more closed and less standardized than Flash and Silverlight were. The de-facto NPAPI was at least known and could be used by anyone. Now the CDM API is a vendor-specific DMCA-protected secret.
Ain’t CMS is a proof-of-concept for a new kind of content management system unveiled at Git Merge 2016. It’s still a work in progress, but you can start hacking on it here. Ain’t CMS was created by Ryan Hodson, a web developer and marketer at CloudFlare. I’d love to hear what you think, so please feel free to contact me at rhodson@cloudflare.com
Big Data’s Rediscovery of Data Warehousing and Semantic Models…at Google Scale
Why York in particular? I mean, was the subtext "York, which is our ancient enemy" or "York, which everyone knows is a grossly inferior university" or what?
It was an obvious joke relating to regional names for weather events.
I find it's easy to accidentally advance the track when really I want to seek.
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If the US government doesn't win this however, wouldn't they have to return most of his frozen assets?
"Understood. You should get your lady friends in tech to read the comments you posted on a throwaway. Do you think they'll feel safer around you?"

Are you seriously going to argue this isn't a criticism?
But, unlike Flash and Silverlight, they actually work well out of the box in for example Chrome and Safari. That's a first.

If the alternative is installing a secondary app, I'll take embedded DRM any day of the week.
Mujis notebooks with the dot grid are also excellent, far superior to lined grid notebooks.
He is a professional driver with stellar Uber rating, and tracks all events and other potential price hikes, being exactly where he's needed the most (he also chose one of the most expensive cities to work in, and lives in less expensive area). But this is a full-time job with some research and planning.
I tend to agree and think its a bit unfair to downvote this. Why must life exist with organics molecules?

Who would have expected arsenic based life (I don'think many would call this organic):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...
The intelligence agencies are not under "the presidents control". They are authorized and funded by congress. They exist to provide intelligence to various congressional committees like the senate intelligence committee.
> If clinical trialists use p-values wrong, how is moving to Bayesian methods going to be less misused and misunderstood?

Bayesian methods have the advantage that, while they can still be misused and misunderstood, at least when used correctly they tell us what we want to know and are easy to interpret (a posterior probability is exactly what you think it is) whereas p-values are hard to interpret correctly (a low p-value can imply a large effect size, a large sample size, or in the face of publication bias, lord knows what).

That said, I do think that the advantage to Bayesian thinking in research would mostly not be about the methods but about the attitude: aside from a couple of weirdos pushing Bayes factors, Bayesian statisticians almost universally communicate results using credible intervals (HPD) instead of dichotomizing the evidence into significant or not significant. Frequentist confidence intervals will get you most of the way there and could completely replace p-values, but if you're going to advocate for better statistics and uproot established practices, might as well go all the way and encourage better methods and better ways of communicating results at the same time.
Inside a Macedonian Fake-News Complex
Interestingly this has been discussed here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpaDEkkOcpM
I always, always burn the coffee with those things.
Variables declared using const are not immutable
It seems to me that the best way to encourage the development of a 'Deep State' is to exclude important stakeholders from things like the National Security Council.

When denied access to the formal structures, what are these people meant to do, seriously?
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GOLD: Risk Remains Lower on Pullback Threats
Or they'd continue to rely on Flash on platforms apart from iOS.

Some of the motivation for EME is a power-play to kill Flash while replacing it with something browser vendors have control over (and therefore the exploit surface, quality of implementation, etc).
Rather, we would still be using Flash or Silverlight with its security risks. The current situation is imo better than what we had 5 years ago.
> The only fix is for Qualcomm to mainline their device drivers.

And undermine their tried and true planned obsolescence strategy? Fat chance. Mainlining their drivers would disintermediate Qualcomm them from (obstructing) the Android upgrade process and could even lead to device upgrade cycles longer than 2 years (the horror!)
Can you write an even more sexist comment? Why not teach our children instead to respect other people?!
If you have great product you don't need DRM, you will make money of it either way. Look at CD Project RED (creators of Witcher game series), their CEO said "We can't force you to buy our game but we can convince you to do so" and they don't use DRM because they choose to. They made a lot of money because they just care about their product and their clients.
What a mess. They literally produced chimeras and used them as a building blocks and premises for another ones.
Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08057
I would agree, if they are installed the 'right' way (toggle down to close circuit, up to open) to match the rest of the world. It's extremely hard to toggle up with a full cup of hot beverage…
Man, welcome to the future.

Well, mostly unless said author has a persistent social media profile, you manually do it
I work on CAE software that started in the 90's but some of our biggest competitors started in the 70's or even 60's. It's actually a bit depressing how little has changed in all that time. Things move very slowly, perhaps because the software is so enormously complicated and has thousands of important features that are all vital to somebody. It's hard to abstract that into something smoother for the user without breaking many well established use cases or wasting computer resources (It's CPU and memory hungry, and no amount of Moore's law has made a dent in that). Now there are startups doing cloud based versions, which is great, but it's still basically the same thing except in the cloud. It's still a steep learning curve. It's still trivially easy for users to get things wrong without even knowing they're wrong. You still pretty much need a university course as training on how to use the software safely.

But, you're right, it's satisfying knowing that it's like building a house. You can put a lot of effort into designing it solidly with a long future in mind.
'Gladio Deep State' and 'Gulenist Deep State' -that erdogan has attempted purged to hell recently- are totally different.

Gulenists did not use any external influence.
I saw one senator use the phrase "Inconsistent with the values enshrined in our Constitution". I think they're intentionally making it easy for others to misuse the word "unconstitutional" after hearing that. "Constitution" is an uncommon word, and someone not carefully listening may conflate it with things that are actually unconstitutional, especially when people use the word "dictator" and "fascist" in a similar context.

I'd kind of like to keep the legal meaning of "unconstitutional"(an action that would be ruled against by the Supreme Court), because the alternative is for me to say things like, "It's okay for the President to do an unconstitutional act", which the fuzzier meaning allows.
A friend of mine experienced a somewhat worse level of harassment at her job. She lawyered up and quickly received an offer for a non-trivial silver parachute, and a mutual non-disparagement agreement on her way out the door.

Seemed like a fine solution, but it soon became evident that she had, in fact, been blacklisted: 18 months passed before anybody would even give her an interview, and that was only after deciding to change industries altogether. That silver parachute was, in hindsight, wholly inadequate compensation. Meanwhile her harasser has continued his career with no repercussions whatsoever.

When these problems are cultural / institutional, the threat of a lawsuit will neither benefit the victim nor effect any real change. Takes something more sustained and substantial than that.
I live in Switzerland too, born and raised here, and everyone tips only when the service is better than usual, or we round up and give a franc or two for the service
We've traded freedom for convenience here.

You used to be able to integrate playback with any browser you like. Now you can only watch Netflix in browsers that have a contract with a Netflix-approved CDM vendor. Netflix now has both legal and technical means to control what browsers are allowed to do, and they can prevent you from using an open-source browser to avoid it.
I thought of that immediately after I wrote the comment.

It would work -- if the department heads were of the same party. Perhaps each candidate could provide multiple choices for major posts and voters could choose which one they liked on election day. But it needs to be a single vote, and with a single clear leader at the top. Otherwise you'd have the old Presidential/Vice Presidential system where each could be of a different party. That's no good. That's just the deep state on steroids.

Remember the purpose of the executive is that at some point voters require "single wringable neck" The problem is that the system is so ginormous that there's really no way one person can be responsible for it all. Oddly enough, the system was really still quite useful over the past several decades even when it was too big for one person to plausibly be in charge. This is because it provides the president as a guy you can blame when things go wrong. Our problems? It's all because of that guy! Get rid of him and see how well we do!

So the real danger of the deep state isn't just a system run amok. It's rubbing people's faces in the fact that this whole "electing a president" thing is just so much bullshit. The specifics of the leaks or whether they're in the interest of the country or not? Not as important as the long-term damage to credibility the entire system suffers.

As the system grows it's more and more evident the reason we are supposed to have a layered, federated system. If you can't have that single person anymore, you really no longer have an executive. If the president can't be the guy we blame for all this bad stuff, the Congress is ineffectual and the courts are jammed up, then where do we go for peaceful redress of our grievances?
That's just in the US though. There's a whole world out there that is not the United States.

The British Medical Association certainly claims to be a trade union.

https://www.bma.org.uk/about-us/bma-as-a-trade-union

And they have engaged in collective action - e.g. the junior doctors strike.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/01/what-you-nee...
The coolers have a probe to pierce the seal, so you put the new jug on unopened & remove the seal with the empty jug…
Does DRM even work? I can hardly believe, that encryption keys are not leaked and determined hackers can't copy protected content.
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Appears to be 'cracked' as far as is possible- i.e, can remove the watermark itself, but not possible to undo the degradation to the original signal that the watermarking introduces.

http://cyberside.net.ee/ripping/cinex_wp_release1.pdf