skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i use a variation of this. With custom "ring tones".. vibration patterns. I encoded my common contact's names as morse.

dad, mom, sis, matt, work.. etc.
+1 for this. My initial reaction was my word, major outlets are barred from press briefings?
Wow. I would have read that in 2009 and thought that it was totally fine. Reading it now I see quotes like "calling them out is the only way to delegitimize them as political propaganda" and I'm extremely against the notion.

That article was a great dose of perspective, thanks for digging it out.
Check the date on that article. He wasn't president.
> Wow.. and what if the reviewer sucks? That happens. What if you get a lemon? That happens. What happens if the reviewer is being paid? That happens.

Literally the entire value proposition of Wirecutter is that the reviewers are really good and unbiased because they spend a lot of time and effort analyzing products.

> What amazing products are you going to miss out on? Most of the stuff on Amazon is just re-branded FBA shit.

1. Wirecutter / Sweethome don't constrain their recommendations / reviews to things you can buy at Amazon.

2. You can buy an overwhelming number of electronics / products off of Amazon. To insinuate that it's all white-label rebrands is disingenuous.
The press meetings are televised...there will be video record of what was said.
To be clear, you are comparing being banned from official White House press briefings to being refused a seat on Air Force one for four days for campaign coverage.
This is pretty easy actually: since the question is horribly vague on what the input type actually IS, I'm going to just assume it's a string.

So flatttening the list is just a string split on all delimiters. Done.

My Java is rusty but something like input.split("\[\],"). Done.

It's an answer of exactly the same quality as the question...
It's common for an organization to stop to review facts (aka investigate) before taking action or issuing claims or a defense. That's the stage they're at right now.

The people who jump to a microphone to say "nuh uh! not us!" before they've stopped to look at the situation are not people to work for. Because when they're wrong, things are only going to get worse.
I could imagine a scenario where the NYT et al were kept from the door, and the others had already entered. I'm not defending, I'm just trying to be reasonable.
Well, yes. But it has already proven staying power that puts it in rather a different class to "somebody's neat side project" in terms of expectation of survival.
I used to play video games a lot. CS, Sim games, Strategy Games were my thing. Now I find them boring. I found other activities that are more fulfilling like crossfit and yoga. I also spend most of my freed up time improving my self professionally -- tech moves fast. Overall, I regret playing video games, considering how much time I spent doing it but I don't regret doing it with friends.
The window inconsistently interrupts my game. Some games it is able to rip me out of it mid session to tell me to restart, other times it silently times out in the background despite my computer running at full blast.

I have set active hours but for some reason my windows partition - and not my ubunutu partition, so it isn't a hardware issue - does not reliably remember my time zone. It is often reset without rhyme or reason to this random default (I think NYC). I don't always notice and change the time one when it boots up because I have steam launch in big picture mode.

Also, why does it even need to ask for active hours by default? I am using the machine at full-throttle. That is a really easy metric for "maybe wait until later". It's already logging everything I do and sending it to Microsoft, it would be nice to see some usuabiltiy features come out of all that data

Inconsistently working is a commmon theme of my experiences with windows. I am routinely baffled that I paid $100 for this experience and wish that there was better Linux game support for AAA titles. I know I throw my money that way whenever possible.
Of course it's a false equivalence, one President was a Democrat, this one is a Republican.
According to The Hill, these organizations were also barred - BBC, Daily Mail, The Hill, Buzzfeed, LA Times

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321049-white-hous...
Wow, the downvotes are rolling in.
How ever did things get made into law in the past?

Compromise. Something that neither of the two major parties seem interested in anymore. It is that, not the allocation of seats to a party in Congress, which is why things haven't gotten done.
By that you acknowledge that it is "the norm"
> they encode information in network structure and rules for updating that structure

I think use of the term 'information' is not accurate. There are no bits and the whole information theory, it seems, is synthetic and has nothing to do with how the brain actually works. It is not a digital machine but electro-mechanical, if you wish.
Depends on if they start excluding organizations and lining up softballs from cranks.
This country appears to be on a very dangerous path. I don't remotely deny Trump and his administration's responsibility and complicity for taking us down this path, but given how widely understood his issues are within mainstream discourse, I wanted to take a step back and critically look at the not-Trump aspects.

Firstly, Trump needs to be understood in context as the outsider who none of the establishment took seriously, who disrespected everyone and touched every third rail of US politics, who railed against a corrupt system and argued to burn it all down. And 46% of voters bought that and won him 85% of US counties and the presidency.

And ever since, a vast "bipartisan" swath of US media and civic institutions, the deep state and many members of the elites of both political parties have been edging towards outright hysteria, active #Resistance, bureaucratic mutiny and widespread media/celebrity/talking-head delegitimization of Trump's presidency on a level that is utterly unprecedented in modern US history. The level of abject, contemptful hostility from ostensibly "objective" media outlets like the NYT has been breathtaking.

Many, many stories have been exaggerated, slanted and framed in ways that cast Trump as some comic-book villain/Manchurian candidate/Hiter-in-wait beyond any basis in fact or contextualization within existing/recent US policy.

I want to just be clear that I don't support Trump or his policies, I've voted and volunteered for Obama/Bernie and other Democrats, but what I see occurring is a ratcheting up of tensions towards outright war between Trump and the existing establishment of this country. And that in fact is exactly the way Trump actually can justify cutting off media access and purging the ranks of the IC after all the leaks. Bannon and Trump want a war against the establishment, because they know how much of the country is disgusted by the establishment and wants someone to use them as a punching bag.

Trump himself should be like a relatively harmless pathogen within our government's co-equal constitutional immune system - perhaps even an excuse to strengthen legislative and judicial oversight that's been badly lacking in recent years of executive overreach. Instead we're witnessing the fourth estate and military/spook bureaucracy go to war with Trump, which is exactly the sort of non-credible/illegitimate opposition that can enable him to actually consolidate more public support and power.
>> .. MagSafe

If they licensed Magsafe to a clone manufacturer they would definitely lose sales. So many Mac users love the Magsafe.

It's really too bad they discontinued it.
Probably boxed product vs download.
So, like Obama doing the same?

Or like countless other times, sans the mock-outrage (and the real outrage stemming out of ignorance)?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/10/cpj-report-on-...

Or:

Reporters Say Obama White House 'Most Secretive' Ever
Forty-one percent of White House scribes say George W. Bush's administration was more open.

https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ken-walshs-washington/2014...
Il piacere del sesso non è solo per i mariti ma anche per le mogli
It's still limiting access. Is what Obama did not bad at all, or just not as bad as what Trump's team did to NYT, CNN et al?
> How many cities would we need to add together to get to roughly 50% of the population?

While this is an interesting question, it's not the one that we should ask:

Instead, what is the lowest number of flights a candidate needs to take to visit a majority of the voters' nearby area? If the candidate can drive for under three hours to arrive at another area, the trip does not qualify for a flight.

See these links for the map visuals supporting this line of reasoning:

http://www.arbesman.net/blog/2011/02/02/the-city-states-of-a...

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-...

A popular vote system decreases the number of flights substantially compared to the EC system, and would make much of the US utterly irrelevant in a national election. The EC system was created to prevent this from happening.

Also, flights are a proxy for overall campaign spending. A popular vote system would reward spending on the most populous visits and (compared to the EC system) penalize visits to the least populous areas.
Coming from a republic in which the president is irrelevant and governance is entirely parliamentary in practice, I think it's highly refreshing to see a press secretary publically shooting the sh*t with journalists in this fashion.

The alternative means of getting questions from the public to leaders is to have self-interested politicians grandstanding, asking questions of politicians who are experts in not answering them. It's pointless.

They're not perfect, but these press briefings are far less stage-managed and more honest than any other public forum in which questions are asked, imo.
If you look at the actual, original question it was presumably a textual serialization of a simple data structure.
Fixed, thank you! (Typos that evade spellcheck are tricky!)
Blocking only NYT might not change things significantly, but showing that they will ban anyone who asks difficult questions means the ones who are left will think twice. The ones who keep "misbehaving" will also get banned. That will change things for everyone trying to get news.
For screenprinted shirts there is a very substantial setup portion of the cost though, the actual shirts are dirt cheap in any case but the setup for the print run can take a worker a couple of hours for multiple screens. The result is that for small runs the setup cost dominates. Leather jackets are just expensive to begin with, so I would expect the item cost to dominate even for small order sizes, resulting in a much shallower discount curve.

And even if the jackets were customized they were probably embroidered or had embroidered patches applied - the machines used for this are computer-controlled and there is essentially no setup cost involved (besides some time to prepress the art).
That's fair and you won't get any arguments from me there.
It's very easy to run singleton Linux machines on Azure and I have no complaints there.

I wasn't going to lay it out here, but, as I have your ear:

I'm not saying it's impossible to run a Linux stack on Azure - but man, trying to image the machine, for example, is a whole rigamarole.

Want to run your own image on a scale set? Oh, well, you
need to craft a JSON template, by hand. There also appear to be limits on how many machines can run off an image.

ARM is a a mess (IMHO), and it's impossible to select a custom image when creating a new resource group.
It also seems (correct me if I'm wrong) impossible to change the vnet of a VM/ARM after it's created. it also seems like ARMs can't share an existing vnet.
Again, please, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm new to this service.

I may have to drop to running a bootstrap script to get my stuff working, but the idea of doing a curl | sh is pretty horrific to me, from a security perspective.

Non MS-SQL as a service? Nope.

The new managed disks are very nice. I like those a lot :)

Also, Azure times out my ssh sessions :(
That's 9.5 internet years, so yes.
> I'm not willing to give a pass to another president because he worded it differently and achieved the same ousting.

Obama was a presidential candidate when that occurred, not a president.
Menkin is better on democracy.
Are you comparing seats on a plane to seats in a press briefing room?
It doesn't need to affect your CPU cache, because x64 processors have non-temporal writes (streaming stores) that bypass the cache.

The stuff about eagerly allocating pages is spot on though.

There is calloc which allocates and zeroes memory, but people don't use it as often as they should.
It creates plausible dependability.

Imagine the NSA publishing a crypto algorithm and contributes it to openSSL or some hypothetical crypto library using git. If they commit their new algorithm, everyone will be looking at that. They could do something devious like tinker with the way random numbers are generated elsewhere and reduce the possible keyspace of another algorithm to something very small and easy to brute force.

When this keyspace shortening is found out it would be hard or impossible to track back. No amount of inspecting the files that reportedly changed would reveal that the NSA did this.
Maybe this will send a message to said media outlets to stop making crap up and traffic in real issues with some impartial professional journalism that used to occur in this country.
I've no clue what XLD or CDDB is but I think the Spotify API might be what you're looking for..

Documentation: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/endpoint-reference/
Example Screenshot: https://d.pr/e2zG
The narrative from the New York Times and CNN claims that they did know. However, I was unable to find a statement from either Time Magazine or the Associated Press.

The issue is slightly confused by the fact that the New York Times newspaper was barred from entry, (which refers to itself as "The Times" in this article) while Time Magazine (of Time Inc/Time Warner, no relation to the New York Times) chose not to attend. CNN adds [1] that the Los Angeles Times was also barred from attendance.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/24/media/cnn-blocked-white-hous...
Obama wasn't president when this happened. This wasn't Air Force One they couldn't fly on. Limited space without the logistical capacity to bring in another plane seems a perfectly valid excuse to me.
Well played. It's the abstract factory, factory ... factory paradigm all over again.
But is this literal or serious? /s
Also this event occurred before Obama was President...

Not only are the practical aspects of the two situations different, but on top of that comparing the official actions of a sitting President versus those of a non-incumbent candidate make it even more falsely equivalent.
I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but liberals vote. There's just not enough of them to win Presidential elections decisively by themselves.

If you are a liberal, do not fall into the same trap the conservatives did after their loss in 2012. They believed that there was a Missing Conservative Voter Who Stayed Home, who could be won over if the party went further rightward. Ted Cruz bet his whole candidacy on that. Trump is proof that voter either isn’t real or isn't motivated by ideology.

I don't know what the Democrat version of Trump is going to be, but there will be space for one if you assume that there's Missing Liberal Voters Who Stayed Home and all you have to do is go further leftward to pick them up.
Please don't do this. It breaks the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13727131 and marked it off-topic.
A lot of people dislike Zed Shaw's books (the author of Learn ___ the Hard Way) for various reasons, and he has posted some things online that serious call into question his credibility (namely, claiming that Python 3 is not Turing complete).

Dive into Python 3 is a good book. I used it to supplement my CS classes in early college. There are some other good book suggestions on the sidebar of https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/ . In particular, I've heard good things about "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python".
I just saw a video of Jake Tapper talking about reporters working together and possibly protesting the White House briefings and how not going doesn't necessarily solve the problem. He suggests that going to the briefings to ask tough questions is more important for the press to do than protesting by not going. I probably wouldn't have thought of it in these terms before hearing his interview, but I won't hold it against the other news organizations (as long as they are going and holding the white house accountable for this decision).

https://youtu.be/MRE7cfkKi60?t=3m45s
Corruption. Monopolists hate net neutrality, since it aims to curtail their abusive practices. So they pay politicians to be against it.
The reporting on this is a bit hazy right now, according to CNN it was not a formal briefing but a "press gaggle" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_gaggle) and the CNN reporter was barred by a WH staffer because the organization's name "was not on the list" (http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/02/24/cnn-blocked-fr...).

This is a mostly symbolic gesture (these organizations still have their assigned seats in the room) but is very much against WH press tradition. Coupled with Trump's strong words at the Convention this is a sign for these organizations to tune down their criticism of the President.
I create, and I also play a lot of games (nowadays more board games). I also now spend a lot of time with my puppy. I get enjoyment out of all of them.

Also, even though I like to think I can create some pretty cool things, I don't see how I could ever create anything as intricate, beautiful, or full of discovery as Jonathan Blow's The Witness. That was absolutely worth the 40+ hours I've spent on it so far.
What is the timeframe where setting up TOTP is vulnerable? I haven't been able to find an indication of how long this bug has been in production.
did you even read the article, he was a candidate at the time and booted people who supported his opponent, how is that the same as the sitting president doing the same thing?
I think even a single briefing is a scandal.

Consider the words of Admiral McRaven (who coordinated the raid which took down Osama Bin Ladin):

> Donald Trump's war on media is 'biggest threat to democracy'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trum...

"He only did it once" is not a valid defense if you consider even doing it once as a fundamental assault on the Fouth Estate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
At this point, an unbiased observer who just looks at, say, NYT would likely come to the conclusion that one of the following statements must be true: a) President Trump is a pathalogical liar or b) The NYT is a pathological liar when talking about Trump.

There is no middle ground where NYT is being fair, and Trump is being reasonable. This means that any reasonable person with a position on this issue must take at least one of the two extremes.
Bullshit. Obama was a presidential candidate when this took place, not even the president. You're making this into a partisan issue; not the others upthread of you.
Sane media should stop going. No point participating in a charade the administration is directing.

Edit: apparently this is already happening. Time and AP among those who chose not to attend.

Dystopia.
Haskell -- cool!
How about these then:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/10/10/cpj-report-on-...

Obama vs. Free Press: White House Claims Ban on News Photographers Actually a ‘Win’ for Transparency
Has it honestly not occurred to you that he might treat him with disrespect and disdain because they earned it?

Just as one example, CNN was reporting on that fake new about the "golden showers."
People see the press ask questions and be ignored or be given responses that have nothing to do with what was asked and some of them take note. Not allowing the press because you disagree with them is a step away from only allowing government approved press. Welcome to the way things are/were in Nazi Germany, North Korea, Venezuela, Soviet Russia, and other great places to share company with.

Freedom of the press being curtailed to such an extent has /always/ signaled worse things to come in literally every historic precedent, ever.
There are a few places where the split into counties obscures the contiguity of the population, such as greater NYC (the five boroughs, part of NJ, etc.) and greater SF (includes Oakland, Berkeley, etc., down to San Jose). The same is true in the greater DC area and greater LA area.

Once you merge those into virtual counties, the number of counties is a lot lower.
In our FPTP voting system, a two party system naturally emerges. And during times of hardship, instead of a middle-ground being found like would occur in a multiparty system, things become even more partisan and contentious. It's a fundamental facet of our political system, and won't ever change by using the political system. The political momentum needed is just too great.
yes but all Presidents do this, including Obama
So you think this briefing was just a "special edition" or something?
Matthew, with all due respect, you don't know what you're talking about.

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view-source:http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=&d=4558611265887320&w=urwoW...

view-source:http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=&d=4592983872701813&w=Ghwdd...

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Not as simple as you thought?
By the way. 29.9% of eligible voters didn't vote last November. I think it's dubious to assume they approve of Trump. It's more likely they just see him as the same stupidity they see in all politics.

But I have this crazy hope that Trump will awaken some of these voters to progressive politics.
Does anyone else find this article confusing or misleading?

"Organizations allowed in included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also attended."

So, we're the only outlets allowed in the "conservative leaning" ones or the not-so conservative ABC and CBS as well?
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I completely agree. My request can be satisfied by simply removing the "s" from "briefings" to make it singular. As far as I know, this has only occurred at a single briefing.
This is exactly the strategy the WH is starting to employ.

Look at Russian tactics against the press in 2006-2007 and you can predict the WH next move. They are stealing from their playbook.

Revoke. Replace. Erode.
Julia's biggest hurdle is the lack of well functioning DataFrames (or the current fork, DataTables). Tons of issues around nullable arrays, etc. have really slowed progress. I do think it's got a ton of upside, but I've found that reimplementing my R or Python scripts in Julia to be too much of a hassle. Costs of reimplemention greatly outweigh the not insignificant gains in speed.

Also check out this article on updates to R 3.4. R tends to be fast enough for most work (I use it regularly on one-off analysis or things that won't ever make it farther than ad-hoc reporting/findings but can't imagine using it in production systems). The listed changes should go a long way towards making R just fast(er) enough for dealing with larger datasets (doesn't help with datasets larger than memory though). For large datasets all the momentum seems to be moving towards Spark (sparklyr is RStudio's SparkR integration. Very much a beta but getting better by the day). On the Python front Dask is awesome for out of memory computation that has no equivalent in R.