skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used it in the past with the Freebase dump and was amazingly stable (also two years ago). I was using LevelDB on a pretty beefy machine. The big issue was the time for loading the data. At the time the MongoDB backend wasn't good enough. I posted my experience in a response in the thread.
go-qml, like the name suggests allows you to use QML together with Go. This binding allows you to also use Qt's C++ API. And it contains some tools to simplify deployment and development processes.
What system are you on that needs the shebang? bash 4 on Ubuntu seems to just run it in bash, though I guess it probably shouldn't :-)
Unfortunately it is not technically possible to polyfill all Web Components APIs. Shadow DOM is especially hard to polyfill in any sensible way (Google did try it, but failed to deliver a solution that would cover all use cases).

I'm sorry for the missing documentation on Github, I will write a proper project description with some examples later next week.
One alternative to a personal car is a shared car (one way car sharing), which eliminates B, C, D and partially A (depending on car share density in your area).

Article I wrote for Vice on that topic: http://svedic.org/philosophy/car-sharing-and-the-death-of-pa...
Exactly so, for the RDBMS model. Yeah, this has it's own issues, but it's the most direct method. We do a little extra trick with the indexing; joining on fixed hashes instead of the full value, but nothing crazy.
Hopefully the debugging functionality has low toxicity.
Westyland the movie
You clearly have some entrenched (and false) opinions about how talent and capability develops, some huge blind spots about the reasons for women's moves in and out of the workforce, and deep preconceptions about what people should and shouldn't be doing.

Since that reveals a rigid thinker, I will not bother to debate.
Ubuntu using GNOME is easily the biggest deal for Linux desktop in a long time.

The recent versions of GNOME in the last year or so have been rock solid. The designers have been tweaking it since 3 launched to make it pixel perfect. I like the style better than OSX and I'm a front-end dev. Especially in dark-mode, with the always black top bar, it blends perfectly with a terminal heavy workflow.

No semi-transparent background and grey chrome to distract from black terminals.

And splitting/floating windows is built-in with shortcuts so it's easy to have [terminal/dev tools][chrome] side by side without installing any 3rd party tools. I normally use a tiling WM (i3/BSPWM), usually combined with gnome 3 for window chrome/nautilus, but since the last reinstall I haven't felt the need as I like the new gnome desktop.

I hope their teams collaborate on a Gnome 4 release.
Lesson 1 on becoming a 10x programmer is knowing when not to write code. Look into rescuetime.com, it's going to give you much of the data that want to track.

Incidentally they are ycombinator alumni, class of 2008'ish.

Best of luck on your journey, I'll be keeping an eye.
Any screenshots of the visualizer?
By having managers as colleagues in any large business, and paying attention to what they do.
Come on guys, this isn't Reddit. If you're going to downvote at least say why?
I don't think he dismissed anything, he simply exposed what is currently happening.

We make a kind of deal with our governments, some things we agree to be kept in the dark about for security reasons (specific intelligence or some clandestine operation or other) but I don't think that deal covers the kind of surveillance snowden exposed and I don't see at all how exposing the actions of our governments is deluded or idealistic: can you elaborate?

Why would you prefer not to know what your government is doing when knowing doesn't break the 'willful ignorance' contract we entrust these people with?
I'm always torn on the amount of money and resources that goes toward fertility and reproductive sciences. Money and resources that should be going towards cancer research, vaccinations in the third world, etc. I'm not trying to be overly harsh, but nature is telling you not to have kids. We shouldn't fight that.

On the other hand, as a parent, I know how wonderful kids are.
Any WikiLeaks leak in that regard about the Russian government? Anyone?
While this is true, it doesn't mean that they don't work for Russia or even live outside of the US.
> the author seems to be well versed in the memes of the US political discourse

that's not exactly hard for anyone that payed even a little attention during the very controversial US political season in 2016. Same with Brexit. The terminologies and crux issues have been widely debated on the social web. I would say it has actually been very difficult to escape
They muse about the reason behind the sentiment neuron in the paper.

"It is an open question why our model recovers the concept of sentiment in such a precise, disentangled, interpretable, and manipulable way. It is possible that sentiment as a conditioning feature has strong predictive capability for language modelling. This is likely since sentiment is such an important component of a review."

They go on to frame that as an important consideration for further work like this:

"Our work highlights the sensitivity of learned representations to the data distribution they are trained on. The results make clear that it is unrealistic to expect a model trained on a corpus of books, where the two most common genres are Romance and Fantasy, to learn an encoding which preserves the exact sentiment of a review."

I'm wondering if a "funniness" neuron could be discovered in a model trained on millions of jokes of various funniness, or what sorts of undiscovered meaning there is in other neurons in this model.
> I like cars red

Interestingly, that word order is also valid English, though it has a slightly different meaning than "I like red cars".

Example: "I like [my] soup warm".

"I like soup warm, but you can eat it cold and left over if you want."

"I like having soup warm"

"I like my cookies freshly baked"

"I like men muscular and toned"

"I like my women blonde, so you can go for the brunette"

"I like cars red" doesn't quite work as well but doesn't seem wrong. Add a little context and it seems more normal. "As a buyer of many sports cars, I like my cars red, even despite the speeding tickets I get".

Perhaps a linguist could explain how this phrasing works.

(That said, of course I advocate teaching her to speak fluently and to use that word order only when she intends its subtlety of meaning.)
Makes sense, considering that snap goes beyond Desktop. (E.g. cloud etc.)
"The peoples" is unlikely. "-ing" after most verbs is unlikely. "the" is unlikely before "Freedom Caucus" and "NSC". There's no "the" in Russian, and ESL speakers often omit it, or put it where it doesn't really belong. The word "caucus" in itself is unlikely: I've never even heard of it before I moved to the US, it's not in common use abroad. "Whose" is unlikely. "To destroying" is very unlikely. "Will be happening" is unlikely ("will happen" is far more likely). "Be remembering" is very unlikely. "Do you be thinking" is very unlikely. And so on.
Yes, exactly. While those are still somewhat plausible (I am Russian, and I might have occasionally used all of these ironically), it was "POTUS" and "SCOTUS" that made me 99% sure that this text was written by an American (or at least a US insider). You guys love your acronyms.
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I agree, to quote Mike from breaking bad.

"Just because you shot Jesse James, don’t make you Jesse James.”

Snowden is skilled at data theft and not a source of wisdom when it comes to surveillance.

The liberal media (hate to use that term) is equally complicit. They have trotted him around as source of wisdom. The leaker of Pentagon Papers had a position that allowed him to asses the subject matter. Snowden on the other hand was a sysadmin.
That depends on what you mean by pluggable storage and how it's implemented ...

For example PostgreSQL supported custom index access methods, which you might see as a custom storage format (although only for secondary storage). You had to modify the source code and rebuild PostgreSQL, but there was a fairly clear separation / internal API that allowed that. Since PostgreSQL 9.6 you can do that without the custom build (i.e. you can create a new index in an extension and use CREATE ACCESS METHOD to plug it into the server).

We don't have such clear internal separation for the primary storage, but it's hard to ignore the possible benefits of alternative storage types. Another reason is that we're constantly scavenging for free bits in various places (e.g. flags in tuple headers needed by new features etc), and allowing multiple formats would help with this by supporting "old" and "new" table format. So it'll likely follow what happened to indexes - build a clear internal API, allow multiple storage formats internally, eventually make it usable from extensions.

(These are just my personal opinions, of course.)
A trigger on what? Every update, insert, delete, etc.? On every table in the view?

Even if that is possible, it may be a major performance killer. This has to be done internally, I think.
The usual argument against certs in DNS is that nameserver owners can quietly issue valid certs.

You have national domain? Your government can transparently create valid cert for your domain. For more details see https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html
What do you think about the huge title bars? Probably the most annoying thing about Gnome imho. I know you can adjust it, but still. If you Google you need to find a good fix that is compatible with your version.

I used Gnome for quite some time, but now I am using Cinnamon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14068566
The Human Design and How It Connects You to Your Inner Power
For my company, `that = this` means that your code review gets marked as "Revision required".
Please don't violate the guidelines by calling names like this. If you have a point to make, we need you to make it civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the article's authors would say that you have it backwards. You can't have acceptable alternatives while cities are forcing businesses and developers to subsidize car driving. How can the alternatives compete when the market is subsidizing their competition?

What this article is positing is that the conditions you describe are emergent, not determining. Change the policies and the conditions will adjust after a brief, albeit painful period.
The way I approach it is as a pyramid. First version, really shitty, I just need to get few customers/users and get him/her interested. if they see big holes, go fix it and come back. Work on fixing smaller holes and other features, collect feedback from a slightly larger audience. Repeat such feedback/iteration cycles.

As product becomes more mature, increase size until you have a 1.0, at which point you have a loyal fan base that loves the product and is willing to pay. Then you go full PR, market like crazy and burn VC money in growth.

The point is at each stage you are still validating and gathering feedback without the risk of losing out on a large number of customers.
> Snowden categorically dismissing anything that NSA does

That's not representative of Snowden's opinion at all. From the beginning he's always stated he believes in the mission of the intelligence agencies. Heck, he used to work for one.

"I am not trying to bring down the NSA, I am working to improve the NSA" [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/edwar...
The view that a child can only be produced by two parents of opposite sex has served us very well in terms of making children. Until very recently, if you believed otherwise, you might have had a lot of trouble producing children.
It's not hard to setup initially, but I'll admit that it's not very good.

It's not very good in a long-lived scenario where you're changing your replication topology for routine maintenance tasks. Changing from master to replica is easy, but now you have to rebuild that original master off of the former replica now. Completely start over. You can't just start up again from a given transaction ID. MySQL's GTID implementation is much better in this regard. You can change masters and replicas all repoint them without rebuilding. You can't do that (currently) with Postgresql. It's a major pain point.
the builder folks said they would accept a snap plugin, so snaps will work fine with this setup.
Releasing several year old files is signalling. "Next time it may include your zero-days". Remember the previous threats?

> What this have do with fun Cyber Weapons Auction? We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons, this message, our auction, poses to their wealth and control. Let us spell out for Elites. Your wealth and control depends on electronic data. You see what "Equation Group" can do. You see what cryptolockers and stuxnet can do. You see free files we give for free. You see attacks on banks and SWIFT in news. Maybe there is Equation Group version of cryptolocker+stuxnet for banks and financial systems? If Equation Group lose control of cyber weapons, who else lose or find cyber weapons? If electronic data go bye bye where leave Wealthy Elites? Maybe with dumb cattle? "Do you feel in charge?"

https://web.archive.org/web/20160815152123/https://github.co...
Animated GIFs that showcase the functionality would suffice, and are almost as simple as taking a screenshot these days. You don't need to record every nook and cranny of the toolkit; just enough to get the gist of the look and feel.
I am always torn on the amount of money put into antibiotic research [1]. A bacterial infection is nature's way of telling you that you need to die from a stubbed toe. Medical research is not a zero sum game.

1. Actually we put far to little into antibiotic research, but that is another rant.
And limiting our measurements to cities. Otherwise it becomes a measurement of "who has more rural and suburban areas" instead of "who uses more public transit in urban areas".
George Eastman advocated using the 13-Month Calendar; Kodak used it until 1989
This approach works with mostly static or server-side generated websites, but with JS-heavy SPA unsupported browsers would be just showing a blank page.

Currently I'm checking whether the browser supports Custom Elements v1, Shadow DOM v1 and HTML imports. If it does not, I'm showing the fallback page.
> claims along the lines like "Russia uses online trolling" seem exaggerated.

What?

gamergate, /pol, /b, alt-right, the_donald, antifa use online trolling. In context, saying a state actor uses online trolling is an extremely conservative claim. I'm sure there's online trolling in favor of and sponsored by US, Chinese and Macedonian interests (to name a few) too - but Russia's actions are much better documented.
CIA got it...
Authenticated Data Structures, Generically [pdf]
Nice. Any idea if it's digitally composited? I've seen image intensification/IR fusion implemented before with analog techniques and wasn't impressed; resulting image had a high amount of jitter and felt shoddy. Perhaps it was just that manufacturer's implementation.
Thanks for this wise and thoughtful comment, I really appreciate it.
Really cool! But needs more documentation
Please don't complain about downvotes or make generalized claims about the community. Controversial and divisive threads are already on edge, so we have to take even more care to comment civilly and substantively.
I've observed the whole Brexit thing with great interest, but I don't feel well versed in the vernacular. And for someone well versed, it'd be difficult to know what the person who's not well versed wouldn't know. Which is what we're observing here.
I've heard react native is not very performant because it essentially operates through a webview?
How I would define 'early':

* First minimum viable product (core features) - clearly label as such
* Take feedback from /customers/ (and those who claim they'd be if X were a feature; 'market research')
* If possible use any existing off the shelf process**

if there's a concept of how the process might be streamlined / optimized / customized / automated in full.
iOS allows dynamic libraries these days. Granted, it didn’t allow for them for a long time, but since iOS 8 you can use dynamic libraries just fine.
I'm thoroughly confused by your comment.

Let's start with the conclusion that individuals who cannot have children without this technology are being told by 'nature' not to have children.

In what way is this different from a cancer patient being told by 'nature' that s/he should die? Or an unvaccinated newborn being told by 'nature' that s/he should succumb to horrible illnesses? We could go on and on.

I'm not sure why you draw the line at giving potential parents the opportunity to have a child, something you clearly enjoy yourself.
Or maybe we just need more traditional intelligence because focusing on identified threat based on field intelligence is more effective than spying on every communications and hope to somehow filter relevant data point over noise.

If I two terrorists agree to act when a nyan cat is posted on a specific Facebook account no neural network can help you manage the threat. Human based investigation and infiltration on the other hand can lead to real world judiciary actions.
Harvard scholars are not credible, but we're debating the virtues of pimps?

I've learned what I need to learn. Moving on.
Right. However, things like "caucus" and "SCOTUS" are really unlikely to be written by a Russian, on any English knowledge level. We do make mistakes, but our mistakes are different. In this text, there are too few common mistakes, and too many strange things.
There is at least one very large bank (which I won't name) who is unable to move off ie6 for some internal apps which to my knowledge are still using this in some backoffices even today.... At least two years ago they were paying Microsoft less money than a rewrite would cost to support it so it kind of makes sense....

I only found that bad boy out after disabling some ciphers on some loadies which broke a lot of their stuff....
I stopped using this altogether and it makes my code better
Just wanted to say, thanks for working on this! :-)
Wrong. If parking is already the limiting factor and is already used to capacity, even assuming no other transportation mediums, tolling parking until it's just below capacity obviously won't reduce the number of visitors who actually make it into the attraction at a given time -- it will just reduce the number of visitors who are at any given time waiting for parking in traffic jams.

(You can stop reading now, the rest of this post repeats the above point in more ways for those who did not understand it.)

If this isn't obvious, think of any attraction with a line. Once there's a line at all, the attraction (cashiers, for example) is being used to capacity at maximum thoroughput. Increasing the size of the line does not change thuroughput, but does increase latency in exchange for no benefit for anyone.

If your parking fee is so high that even at peak time half your spaces are unused, it's too high and by lowering it you can get more visitors. But once it's at just the right level where there's, say, only 5-10% vacancy, lowering prices any further will merely increase traffic without increasing the visitor thoroughput at all (conversely, increasing is also lose/lose because you lose visitors while wasting parking)

In other words, there's a natural equilibrium price, and it sure as fuck ain't zero.

By the way, how the heck do you figure it's inconvenient to pay for the resources you use to park? You already do anyway, indirectly. Making it more direct changes nothing except helping reduce congestion, which makes driving more convenient. Nobody likes sitting in unpredictably long jams.

America is funny, we have lots of libertarians who suddenly become communists in the sole case of parking.
If you do nothing, you get 25k. Until you find a job that pays more than 25k, any work you do puts zero additional dollars into your pocket. That is effectively a 100% tax rate. It means you have zero incentive to work unless you can make the jump from 0 to more than 25k.
Most of these changes seem to just disallow weak cipher suites and RTT-1/0 connections.

Are there any other differences between modern TLS 1.2 setup and TLS 1.3?
That's far from true. Professional propagandists from Russia would definitely know about that stuff because they'd follow the campaign. Other trolls outside USA would see headlines that could give them useful information. I have no idea of nationality of the author but nothing in it precludes them from being Russian. Especially at this level in the game where people might put talent or time into faking things to generate a specific reaction.
Most computational biology researchers would be more likely to compare synapses to memristors nowadays.
Indeed we can either believe the world getting irreversibly worse after these leaks, is just a coinsidence, or somewhat related.

A lot of people died, it would be naive to think snowden's actions didn't contribute to it. However noble his intentions might be.
Colleges Resist Federal Effort to Gauge Student Outcomes
I'm glad to see that The Guardian has dug further into this story to try to determine what actually happened. It's disturbing how even established media organizations like the Washington Post, which published the original claims about the girl having been living with monkeys, will rush to publish a sensational story with little evidence to back it up.

The Post has since issued a retraction of their story:

"Editor’s note: New information has been reported since publication of this story that raise significant doubts about the veracity of the initial accounts on which it was based. The story relied on reports by the Associated Press and the New Indian Express quoting local officials who came upon her, and a video interview with the physician who treated her. These versions of what happened to her are now being questioned by other officials quoted in the Guardian and the Hindustan Times. While the girl appears to have been abandoned near the forest in question, according to these new reports, these officials do not believe she had been living among monkeys. The original headline has been changed..."

This serves as a useful reminder to not believe everything you read in the press, especially breaking news that hasn't yet had a chance to be investigated thoroughly.

HN discussion of the Washington Post's story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14064161
I think that would be fairly easy to create rules for, though. Only check at the level where registrars are handing out domains (i.e. trust the most-specific SOA, not counting TLD).

In fact, with LetsEncrypt or DV in general, I'm not sure what exists already to stop the scenario you're referring to. My TLD can decide they want certs for my domain and start advertising their nameservers to any IP addresses owned by LetsEncrypt.

As it is there's plenty of manual checking that keeps CAs in check. I don't see why the same processes couldn't be applied to such a system.
I'm often frustrated by the extremely cautious attitude some people have toward technology with the potential to have negative consequences, when it seems much more likely to create positive ones.

For example, self-driving cars and the possibility of an accident a human would have prevented.

I think sometimes we need to be a little bit better at accepting risk when it comes with positive things.
TaskRabbit is looking into selling itself
Do you have anything to say about the ethical and legal frameworks that the post I replied to was talking about?
I had similar experiences, effect was much weaker after 4-5 days but I think it was better for work. Initial 3-4 days were very similar to taking cocaine, I was too high to do good work.