skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This argument is almost exactly what I was on about. I'd love to see some summary of it and why they came down where they did.
Until some bum sits on the rails lines just on the other side of where it crosses the surface road throwing god-knows-what about at 4:30pm as they have taken to recently at the Bundy crossing. This causes massive gridlock and has made the westside much worse in terms of traffic since the light-rail went in.
Why are you trying to move away from Github, out of curiosity?
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> While what they are publishing is true and should not be ignored

Why does this matter? I feel like the reason people are worried about bias is that it means the source is not trustworthy. If Wikileaks is publishing true information, they should be trustworthy, even if their choice of targets is not unbiased.
Original: http://newatlas.com/love-love-part-boat-artwork/16928/
I'm not saying they are. I am simply giving an example, Prague, where things are very different. Here, you don't have to suffer to be eco, you choose to go by tram because it is legitimately better.
Private Tools recommends using VPN for privacy rather than anonymity. For anonymity the page recommends Tor, Tails ...
Engineering visual search inside Pinterest browser extensions
LOL - typical MS software.
@LyalinDotCom, if you want a real world example of something causing poor performance, then clone my project [1]. There are a couple of 3mb T4 code-gen'd files [2][3] that bring VS to its knees. I suspect it's actually the Roslyn compiler, but can't be certain. I know that if I wipe the code in those files then the performance is restored.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/

[2] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/master/LanguageE...

[3] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext/blob/master/LanguageE...
All static site projects evolve into recreating WordPress.
I really wish the standard was to just ask you to upload your resume and cover letter as a PDF. Dont have any auto extraction. Then have some forms to fill out for basic info that shouldn't take more then 5 minutes.

I loathe the processes that have you upload a resume and then take 30 minutes to fill out forms of information that asks questions that should already be on your resume. It's feels painfully redundant but also makes me worry that they will look at the form data, not my resume/cover letter that I uploaded.
> 3.17 == possiblyPi

Seems bad style to me, but also contrived. Whereas

> PI == validate(parseFloat(fetchUserInput({ timeout: minutes(1), defaultOnCancel: 0.0 })))

as pseudo-code example seems rather more insta-grokkable to me than flipped. Get my drift? And it's lit==varExpr
digital twin seems like the first start of a humonculus.
Nobody makes "decisions" like this in an organization with the level of complexity and bureaucracy that the CIA has. A lot of these decisions can be seen more as emergent behavior, subject to politics, short-term immediate incentives, and the pragmatic observation that any attempt to make significant changes (i.e. "change the laws around classification of documents") has such a high time horizon that it's better to bypass the law than try to fix it.
Despite of my media.gmp-provider.enabled setting being set to false Firefox makes a connection to ciscobinary.openh264.org on port 80 and downloads the h264 decoder binary provided by Cisco.

Does this mean that the library is being downloaded (and executed) using plain HTTP without any authentication? Sounds like a nice target for QUANTUM style MITM attacks.
Honestly, what's the news here? The US's top spy agency is engaged in spy activity? This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone just as it shouldn't have surprised anyone that Russians hacked the DNC.

What's more interesting and important to consider is the way in which this is yet another move in the information war that Russia is waging with its enemies. Their intentions in this war are not to "uncover the truth" or whatever the purported mission of Wikileaks was at one point.
> This whole narrative of Wikileaks not being neutral is a very weird story, because they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true.

First off, I have no opinion on whether they are neutral.

That said, your argument imo doesn't hold much sway - not publishing something wrong, doesn't at all imply that they're not selectively publishing.

And while I agree that there's some interest as describing them as partisan, I also think that some of Assanges public statements make that really really easy.
The insane, continued obsession over Hillary's emails and the phrasing of the social media accounts is definitely not congruent with the clear-headed logic and essays that Assange has written in the Wikileaks manifesto, "Cypherpunks", and others.

The Wikileaks Twitter handle just used a Fox News video as evidence for something.

You could say the man's gone insane, but the theory of these accounts and the WL org being subverted by a state power sounds more plausible at this point.
Because housing is so cheap in Paris.
I am struggling to understand why xamarin supports F# but not VB...
I didn't meant the actual cost (as in Dollars) for the infrastructure but the associated disincentive. Collecting toll would certainly increase tax justice by relieving the general taxpayer. But that wouldn't solve the traffic problem because people will still need to travel somehow.
Text mode doesn't work on some sites because it can't identify the content. Furthermore it turns the page in a kind of text only ebook whilst text reflow works within the original page.

Reader mode is a workaround, text reflow is the solution. It a reason to use Opera on Android. I wonder if it's so hard to implement that nobody else coded it.
The way iterators are used in Rust is reminiscent of the use of lazy lists in, like, Haskell, enabling a distinctly functional-ish style.
Ask HN: Mac mail clients that support ADFS auth?
Org has moved to ADFS 2-factor auth, which so far limits us to Outlook on Mac. Outlook is not the worst client by far, but after using MailMate for over a year, its hard to adopt MS Office ways.

Is anyone aware of 3rd party IMAP clients I can try that support AFDS 2FA ?
Maybe AI is already in charge. :)
I would assume that there is certainly a section of population who do not procreate out of choice. Homosexuality has no promise of offsprings unless a deliberate choice is made. Etc.
This is a good paper for anyone interested in how modern Machine Translation works at the level of detail you might get from a well-written text in a college-level CS course (which is what I believe this is from). The paper starts with a background on statistical machine translation and then goes through the newer approach of sequence-to-sequence learning for translation, including word replacement and attention mechanisms. It's a good overview.

But if you are looking for a higher-level introduction that covers the same big ideas in ~10 minutes for a more general audience, here's my take: https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-part-5-...
I find the phrase "Political Correctness" to be hopelessly compromised. It's a real thing (the standard left-liberal 'circular firing squads' that form up almost everywhere, the pointless parsing of language looking fro something that might be offensive), but it's also heavily used as a all-purpose generic insult.

There appears to be a alchemical transformation that results in people's minds, where "<Obnoxious Statement X>" on its own is obnoxious, but "I know it's politically incorrect to say so, but <Obnoxious Statement X>!" makes you a Free Speech Martyr and a real deep thinker.
Not purpose built for sous vide but the keep warm setting hovers ~70C which is nice for well cooked but still moist chicken. I believe the smart model has adjustable keep warm settings and is more fit to purpose for sous vide. Instant pot also sell an affordable immersion circulator.
> What you just wrote was nuanced, and there's very little room for nuance recently.

It certainly seems like that has become the case though I wonder if it's always been like that and modern technology just exposes it better.

> "Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance"

I saw a stand up comedian misquote that as "Tyranny is the absence of nuance" which I think I actually preferred.

As for your point on the vaccination thing, yes there are absolutely is a debate somewhere in there about compulsory vaccinations and medical freedom, that debate should always be on-going since in such issues there are rarely absolutes, I wouldn't want them to be settled since settled issues never get revisited.

This is something I've noticed with politics, people hold a position, that position comes to dominance and then they are surprised when it back tracks from their point of view, I'm not sure why they find this suprising it's not like the arrow of progress is one way and while we are talking about the 'arrow of progress' whos arrow and what is progress.

Politics (and the vaccination thing runs slap bang into it) is absolutely messy and chaotic, that's just how the sausage gets made I think.
This is the first I'm reading about the 32 cores being 4 dies on a package - Not sure how well that will work out in practice. IBM does something similar with Power servers where 2 dies on a package are used for lower end chips.

Basically, using multiple dies increases latency significantly between the cores on different dies. This will affect performance. I will not judge till I see the benchmark though :-)
Concept-oriented programming http://conceptoriented.org. Not a language yet but an attempt to generalize OOP. It introduces concepts instead of classes and inclusion instead of inheritance.
"Bypass" means to go around something in order to avoid it. If there was a traffic jam on the highway, you could bypass it by exiting the highway and traveling down a side street.

"Bypassing encryption" then would mean to avoid the encryption step. Maybe it has a different meaning in the security community, but if taken literally, the phrase is accurate.
I would say that the alternative to that crappy process is something like "gradual hiring" (sorry, I'm the guy whose accent can be spread on bread) - you just start working with a guy, giving him basic isolated tasks, and as he successfully progresses with his work, task are getting more and more complicated (salary, permissions as well). After few months of such freelance-ish work you can know for sure that this dude is compatible with the team, able to solve problems, able to learn. And only then he becomes an employee with offer, benefits and SO.

I know a company (profitable, no-VC, small private hw/sw business) that has been practicing that for years. The scheme is quite simple: they "rent" people at bodyshops in Russia (it's relatively cheap there), work with them for some time and then offer them relocation to the HQ, paying some penalty to the bodyshop.

Another well-known company has different version of this: they just hire everyone after very basic sanity check. It's pretty easy to get in, but at the same time it's even easier to be fired. Turnover at the company is horrible, but there's very strong core of managers/designers/devs, that survived all battles.

My point is there's no way you can find out for sure the candidate is good for a) company b) project c) codebase d) team etc etc, unless he's clearly crazy/arrogant/stinks or whatever. So maybe that "gradual hire" is the answer.

P.S.: Being at the other side of hiring process sucks too. May be even worse.
I think the idea is that sales and gasoline taxes are already used to pay for roads and are already regressive, so you're replacing one regressive tax with another, which is (perhaps) no worse than before.

On the other hand, if you're replacing income tax with tolls or just raising tolls without lowering other taxes, then it would be regressive.
Signs of Brisk Demand from Snap Shorts as Stock Falls Again
Read very closely. I'm not saying they did anything. I never said "they" did anything; but rather just that I don't find any of your reasoning convincing, for the reasons I mentioned. I do think it is a plausible attack.

>why would they resort to elaborate techniques

Spy agencies in general, and the CIA in particular are infamous for concocting and using elaborate sometimes down right goofy techniques to assassinate people, and also for periodically failing at the job. This isn't just hyperbole, or me reading too much spy fiction, it's in the public record if you care to look.

>I'm not saying feds wouldn't kill a US citizen, I just dont think they chose to hack the firmware in this case.

I don't really think they did either, it's extremely unlikely. But I won't rule it out because I haven't seen any convincing reason to do so.

>As an aside, I"m not familiar with his car but I find it hard to believe that neither the ebreak, main break, ignition, nor transmission lever (assuming it was auto) could mitigate his situation. I think they would have to hack more than just firmware, since there are mechanical linkages and/or hardware interlocks on some of those components.

If you care to look into it I think you'll find it to be plausible to take control of the car's accelerator, and steer it with the brakes. In principle it's possible with any car that has electronic ABS, and electronic fuel injection and throttle. On some models, advanced features could simplify the job quite a bit. That's not to say that a quick-thinking person couldn't survive the attempt either, by applying the brake, or shifting the transmission or something.
Yup, Penny tries to focus on your discretionary spending since that's where you have the most agency. She tells you both your non-bills spending (assuming bills are mandatory) and your total spending, so you can get a sense of your spending that isn't basic needs. We also have spending goals which are curated to be mostly discretionary spending (eating out, department stores, etc).
Why is it bad? Does anyone expect spies not to have spy tools? Espionage is their job, after all.
I have to agree with the homeless bit, ride on the red line and after a certain point it becomes a mobile homeless shelter. Have heard stories of the blue line, and I'm just glad I don't need to ride that one often at all.

Sympathetic to those without a home, but it almost makes one want to never ride on the metro or bus again. Which is especially hard since I have no other means of transportation.
Is this insiders and private market investors hedging their restricted stock by shorting the common?
CEO has 100% responsibility that his/her company fulfils its fiduciary duty to investors. They do not have this more nebulous "duty to society" responsibility that puts them on the hook for every single instance of bad behaviour by any of the employees. It would be more than adequate for Kalinack to simply order a review of HR policy.

True I don't have evidence that the #UberSurvivor blog was fake but there's also been zero proof that it is real and I would be willing to bet money that none will ever appear.
But how can it be called a new language feature if it's not supported unless I add some external references (and the what's new page doesn't make any reference to a nuget package).
Some enterprising Hacker News-type should source/market a nice sealable silicone lid for the Instant Pot pot. So weird that the company doesn't sell them. I'd buy 3 for my 3 pots. Easy storage in the fridge, all in the same pot, then reheat tomorrow.
100% agreed. Yet another benefit of a single endpoint is that we rarely have to worry about backwards compatibility. It's a huge tax on engineering time to support those few users who're using a client that's six months old. We don't have that issue.
No CSS Grid Layout is far, far more powerful and versatile than tables ever were. Certain significant classes of layout problems that were either a major pain or even outright impossible with current CSS tools are about to become fairly straightforward.
I'm tempted to file this as another "Humans think oversimplistically, says oversimplistic study". The world is a massively complicated place, and nobody can come close to understanding it all. If your intellectual background tells you that vaccines don't cause autism and somebody comes to you with a study that purports to say they do, is rejecting it "confirmation bias" — or is it in fact the rational thing to do, even if you lack the medical expertise to explain where the study goes wrong?

Of course, your background beliefs are never going to be perfect, so sometimes you will reject the wrong things, but that's not because our reason is "broken" per se, it's an engineering trade-off: we have to take certain shortcuts, make certain assumptions, apply certain guesses, because working everything out in full mathematical detail just isn't possible.

(That said, I'm certainly not claiming that most people are brilliant thinkers — the line "Coming from a group of academics in the nineteen-seventies, the contention that people can’t think straight was shocking" would come as news to everyone from Aristophanes to Zamyatin.)
"I feel like the reason people are worried about bias is that it means the source is not trustworthy

No, people are worried about bias because the source could be selectively publishing truth with an ulterior motive, such as pushing a predefined agenda.

Propaganda is even more dangerous when it's true, but only tell people half the story.
Not sure, but it can't be better than moving processes between CPUs I guess. Also, does EC2 silently move VMs like this?
Hmm -- you're talking about programming in the small, as in line-by-line style.

Cognitive load also affects devs at the scale of a whole project, i.e. understanding how the program fits together across different modules, across state changes and across time.

What's the dick & jane solution for project-scale organization?
People leave managers, not companies
Saw this at a glance:

> Add to your Vim configuration:

" :w!!
" write the file when you accidentally opened it without the right (root) privileges
cmap w!! w !sudo tee % > /dev/null

https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_4849889.html

Much of it is like this, little recipes ranging from building EFI executables to setting up a Debian machine and so on. Like collected stackoverflow answers.

It's interesting to see how they write up these little how-tos in a way that gets the reader very quickly up to speed and hacking on a particular problem.
So Trump is simultaneously a complete incompetent blowhard and pulling off these mastermind plans??
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Even leaving philosophical skepticism completely aside, there's an indeterminate gap between a "fact" according to peer-reviewed literature, and a fact that would actually stand up to verification indefinitely, unless it's a fact that naturally gets verified a lot.
25 onsites?
Don't forget that rail (usually) has its own right-of-way.A badly planned bus system is never faster than driving; you're stuck in the exact same traffic. Rail (especially subway or Rapid Transit) though, automatically has the benefits of BRT... it doesn't get stuck in traffic.

Also when looking at e.g. Light Rail that goes on the road (like Muni's LRVs) you should consider the socioeconomic factors - the bus is looked down as for poor people in a way rail transit isn'. (Which is why, for instance, the NX is a thing; people wanted and got a specially painted bus while the N was undergoing renovations so they wouldn't be on the "common people" bus.)

Remember - a "regular" bus is never faster than driving.
Hello "abandonliberty".

Keep in mind, it also very clearly serves the CIA's interests to suggest that Assange is compromised, so people should take those who push this idea with perhaps greater skepticism than they do Assange himself.

Also, control of a private key only demonstrates control of the machine on which that key exists, so it is not definitive proof of anything. It is possible Assange's machine was wiped or hacked, or that the person in control of that machine was killed or taken out of play. There have been multiple mysterious deaths associated with Wikileaks in the past couple years. It is conceivable that Assange never was in control of the private key and that one of those people was, in which case it makes perfect sense that he can make multiple convincing videos but not produce that specific key.

Finally, the question of whether Wikileaks is "neutral" (whatever that is supposed to mean) is not particularly relevant given their implacable record of truth in reporting. The leaks are most likely completely true, and as new information, should be evaluated independently/objectively.

As someone who has read a few histories of the CIA, I can say that anyone who is their enemy is my friend. Their worldview and approach to international action has caused mass human suffering on the world stage for decades, usually in the name of protecting things like unfair trade agreements, destroying unionization efforts & democracy, and eliminating political affiliations that are not in the perceived interests (in terms of world hegemony) of the US government. In popular media this is portrayed as a "necessary evil", but in reality it is a sociopathic service to power that degrades the soul of all humanity.

Syria is probably the most recent example. The CIA was envisioning an eerily similar scenario to the one that is playing out right now...in 1986. [0] I encourage you to read up on their origins and history, it is a fascinating if extremely unsettling story.

[0] - https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP86T01017...
That sounds like you're suggesting I just use a normal pressure cooker :p
Thanks. Yes, other (server-side) languages are definitely coming. We're currently working with a prototype that integrates with Jupyter/IPython, and we're also playing with the idea of using Docker images for giving a full terminal. The biggest challenge is to give a powerful execution environment and make it easy for the viewer to play with the code and be able to run it.
20 years in the making, Visual Studio 2017 is faster, leaner, devops-ier
This ^.

The startup costs are way higher with Yodlee and (before they shut off access) Intuit. Their APIs are also not nearly as friendly as Plaid's.
This is why we say

> We're going to sidestep the issue of what, exactly, functional programming is or is not, and instead show off some features of Rust that are similar to features in many languages referred to as functional.

Many people think of "programming with higher order functions" to be a feature of functional languages, and that may be wrong, but it's also okay. The goal is to teach the stuff, not worry about what exacty "functional" means.
VIDEO: Astronaut Abby reaches for the stars
> Mildly ill; interminably coughs, sniffs, or sneezes

YES! One of my pet peeves. The worst, doing a phone screen/interview with someone who sniffs constantly while you're trying to problem solve.

There is a strong correlation between self awareness and intelligence, (I'd google for the white papers for those who will no doubt disagree).

Anyone who chronically sniffs is not very smart and not someone I want to work closely with or at all. How about that as a key indicator, lacks self awareness or consideration of others.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like this written in a Imba[0].

[0]: http://imba.io
It's so great to see Cleo expanding and hiring people.

I remember first seeing Cleo way back when it was just the two founders (didn't they meet each other at some startup hackathon type event?) and they were rolling out cleo as a SMS based money assistant.

Looks like you guys shifted towards the Messenger platform. We (http://dispatch.pm/) looked in to the messenger platform but found it a bit restrictive for our purposes. How is it working out for you guys? Do you see yourselves sticking long term to messenger?