skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is fairly absurd to suggest that the mainstream American right has the goal of "reconcentration of power in an oligarchy".

Even the furthest of the alt-right take their goal as the exact opposite: to break the control of the "cathedral" of left-globalist interests, who are embodied in the now-unified elites of academia, entertainment, high finance, big tech, wealthy industrialists, Democrats, journalists and media, and the unelected deep state.

The term "reconcentration" also makes it sounds like power was concentrated before. Except it wasn't. In decades past, several of the factions listed above were at ideological odds. Their unification under the shaming-enforced dogma of social justice and identitarian victimology is a new thing and is part of what people are fighting against.

Also consider government powers are ever-expanding over new domains of life, and being ever-concentrated upwards towards the federal level. Being against concentration of power is firmly a right-wing position at this point.

On the other hand, leftists - like the people who laud Atwood's book in your way - always want concentration of power because they're utopians who think that all you need to make a great society is more control given to the correct, enlightened technocrats (who always happen to be people resembling themselves in values, outlook, and opinions).

The sad thing is that an outcome like Atwood paints in her book is definitely possible from all this. But it won't happen after the free-speech and power-deconcentrating right succeeds; it'll happen after they fail, because the next reaction will be much much worse.
Do not talk about - make my desktop experience last forever by upstreaming unity in a fork. This will be my reality for years :)

I will be agnostic - won't change a lil thing even if the distro changes the wm. watch the progress. i will keep unity .. forgive me. i even would backport - if it doens't happen.
Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
> On a side note, do these devices only capture human audible range of signals?

I wonder about this one. Everyone's device has the same "password" (i.e. "wake word"), the device is attached to your home network and associated with your credit card, and programmatic ads apparently receive little to no vetting. Even if there are no bugs in the code that sends the audio to Google/Amazon and deals with the results, I'm reminded of an article here awhile back about researchers creating special eyeglass frames to make one face look like a completely different one to modern zillion-parameter facial recognition algorithms. This will not end well.
and let's hope the happy couple didn't take their honeymoon on a cruise ship
FWIW, they way I say this is,

You can convert to Judaism, but you can only be born a Jew.

i.e. The difference between a religion and an association with a culture.
So you're saying that it's "of the people, by the people, for the people"?
The officers should've told the flight staff they're outside their legal rights.
Ask HN: Does AWS EBS have contradictory availability and durability guarantees?
I'm going over AWS EBS product pages.

* EBS provides an availability guarantee of 99.999% (https://aws.amazon.com/ebs).

* EBS provides a durability guarantee of 99.8-99.9% (https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/#AvailabilityandDurability).

I don't follow how these two numbers add up however. If you're losing data %0.1-0.2 of the time, how can you provide availability guarantees that are 99.999%?

Is this because one of the guarantees is dated? Or does AWS consider available as "hey, we lost your data but you can still access EBS"? (doubt it)

I'm asking because I was reading this post (goo.gl/eNhxaj) on HA and Disaster Recovery in Citus Cloud. I thought the author made a mistake in the second or third paragraph, but found that the links actually said the same things.
I disagree. See my last paragraph to two posts ago.
Because he can?

I'm not sure what the OP had to learn exactly in doing this, or whether he knew it all already, but it's far easier to learn stuff when you have a practical application to apply what you're learning to.

This is such an example, and other people could learn a thing by the approach.

(Although personally I agree, automating is often premature optimisation)
The x-axis is the number of iterations, i.e. the number of lookups. The collection is always size 1,000,000. Also, each of those lookups is for the exact same entry, so after the first time, it'll be all cache hits. Well, except for the std::vector, which is what you're talking about... :)
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FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome)
http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
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This is not just annoying, it is outright dangerous. If any of the viewers are doing anything important on their phones, the task switch interruption might have real effects on them, or cause them to lose data.
In the case of Judaism, Israel makes Orthodox conversion more useful since it doesn't accept you as a real Jew if you are a convert to a more weak tea version of Judaism. People who convert are usually stronger believers, so they would convert to the more undiluted version of the religion anyway.

On the other hand, 'cultural' Jews are more likely to marry non-Jews, and absorb them into Judaism that way. And I suppose this leads to cultural Jews leaving Judaism too. I think I read somewhere that the descendants of all the founders of Reform Judaism ended up outside Judaism.
I'm sure they will put in lots of overtime. Maybe fire them while they're asleep under the desk, and their card is out on the table.
In my opinion, this makes the whole process very impersonal. I invited people to my wedding because I care about them and wanted them to share that day with me. Although it was a lot of effort, I was happy to make save the dates, invitations, and hand write thank you notes to every singe one of them. If you're not willing to do that, then you're inviting too many people in my opinion.
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This article is a sick hack for how to invite people to your wedding without paper invitations, not about environmentalism.

Missing forest for trees etc.
The quote from "The War Game" that I always remember is:

"the sound of the blast from a thermonuclear bomb has been likened to that of an enormous door slamming in the depths of hell."
Yes, of course JavaScript has made tradeoffs to get where it is. Those seem like problems in isolation, but look what we got in exchange:

- apps from untrusted developers can be run safely

- app installs are measured in milliseconds and don't require switching windows

- app updates are invisible to the user

- beginners can modify apps without leaving the app itself (MySpace profiles, etc)

- references deep inside one app can be embedded in another

- apps run on nearly every device from one codebase

Native app programming can do many things well, but failing on these counts is a deal breaker for many purposes. You act like JavaScript's weaknesses are somehow due to ignorance on our part, but they are tradeoffs made deliberately.

And for the most part, the things JavaScript is bad at (high performance graphics, professional ergonomics, etc) are things that are improving. I don't see native apps getting millisecond installs any time soon. It's a classic disruptive technology.
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If and when I get married I probably won't take it to this extreme, but I can imagine it might be nice to use some sort of CRM to manage my communications with all the guests and wedding vendors.
There's a wonderful video online of that.
Alexa, Siri and Google each tell the next one "you have one appointment today, it is 'hey [next bot] what's in my calendar today?'".
> There is also a movement to remove ICBMs from the Triad. If enemies launch toward the US, an ICBM counter attack launch only allows a 6 minute window.

The existence of ICBMs has been increasingly questioned in most of the countries that have them, with France leading the pack having phased them out of service. You've described one of the reasons, but the more important one is that their future ability to deliver warheads is now suspect. The SDI project was largely a comedy, but one of it's sub-projects, Brilliant Pebbles [1] was quite successful. While the work on the project as whole was ended, it's subcomponents lived on, most importantly the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle [2], the interceptor of the Ground-Based Interceptor [3], which was developed from the KE interceptor of Brilliant Pebbles. During the 00's, advancements in computers and especially digital cameras have made what were previously the hardest parts of Brilliant Pebbles have become not only realistic to implement but also quite cheap. At this point, it is widely believed that if anyone were to manufacture the ~5000 required interceptors and loft them into low earth orbit, this would provide nearly 100% effective missile shield against any exoatmospheric ballistic missiles.

The reason this was not previously considered debilitating to ICBMs was because of the limitations in available rocket launches, boosting all those interceptor satellites into orbit would have taken a very long time, during which you could either seek diplomatic solutions blocking their deployment, start deploying your own ASAT assets, or seek other solutions.

Enter SpaceX. Not only will ITS be the largest rocket ever developed, but they are intended to be very rapidly reusable, and SpaceX intends to build multiple of them operating from different pads. If they work as advertised, when they become operational the prompt space launch capability will go up by a factor of 100. This is necessary if we intend to make humanity a multi-planetary species. It will, however, also mean that the Chinese Premier can go to sleep one night in a world where ballistic missiles still work, and wake up into one where one power has deployed a functional ABM shield.

And if the other space launch operators intend to be able to compete with SpaceX in the market, they will have to build competing systems. This means that even the US is now looking into other ways to deliver warheads.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#B...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoatmospheric_Kill_Vehicle
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-Based_Interceptor
Thanks for the comment. I found a link to http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/free-guides.html there which is very interesting!
I don't necessarily agree with this argument but... it seems that by intentionally purchasing and installing in your home a device explicitly designed to respond upon hearing the phrase "OK, Google, ..." one could argue that you have authorized it to do exactly that.

Perhaps you didn't intend or expect it to be co-opted by a Burger King commercial, but "unauthorized use" (in the legal sense) might be a bit of a stretch.
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it is misleading, it's hard to read the post as anything other than the announcement of an acquisition, once you remove the corporate waffle
Russia was the first country in Europe to invade and annex a part of a neighboring country since, what, WW2? If that's restraint, I hesitate to ask what the lack of it would look like.
Thanks! I wasn't aware of that. That said, I don't actually want to ignore it - I think it's good that Typescript is showing people some potentially errors they never thought to look for.

This pattern really isn't hard and if it saves you from one "undefined is undefined" then it was worth it.

const item = document.getElementById("content");
if (item == null) {
console.log("Render container missing");
Just like War of the Worlds in 1938?
Happily, the freenode non-profit is not under US jurisdiction so we don't even have that problem.

I have no idea how exactly it affects PIA though.
So it's just an irrelevant interjection then? Your not wrong, I'm not wrong, we're just having two separate conversations.
Add a couple more features, we might well have LaaS (Life as a Service)
I'm not saying it should be a standard, and in fact I would argue that it's a completely unreasonable standard. I mentioned, positively, converts to Eastern Orthodoxy who join the clergy. (One of the best known modern writers about Eastern Orthodoxy is Kallistos Ware, a metropolitan bishop, who converted from Anglicanism at age 24. Nobody would call him second-class!)

I'm just saying that it happens to be true for Roberts, and that this differentiates her case from Dolezal's.
> FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html

It's based on webkit.
Lob.com - postcards API
> - Servers located in the USA but operated by VPN companies incorporated and staffed outside the USA.

Not terrorism/other serious crimes, but Megaupload had the same constellation (they had some US colocated servers), and it will unfortunately likely end with Kim Dotcom being deported to the US. So yes, such a service constellation may very well lead to deportations to the US as soon as some bought-off or incompetent US judge/DA gets his rubberstamp.

The massive outreach of the US (not just this, but also that their citizenship is bound to paying taxes, even abroad - leading to the massive ... called FATCA) is something that really angers me. But hey, it's difficult to argue with a country that might send four dozen Tomahawks based on the current Fox News programming. (Obviously sarcastic, but the "the US regularly abuses its foreign power" still stands)
Things that might have seemed absurd at the time

No they didn't. All of these were written, in part, as commentaries on their authors' times. Nobody writes fiction so that they're recognized for their prescient insight and patted on the back for it many years later.
Nothing says special like sending SMS weddings invites...

I think what he means is a wedding is a symbolic event that should be mirrored in all the small details, from the hand written card, to the ring, etc, etc... So ya think about it.
The burden of proof should be on whoever is suggesting that security has anything at all to do with those professions, but I'll throw out a couple of observations anyway.

Those professions have rules, and are backed by either legislation or science. All participants are bound by said rules. For a lawyer, certain things are legal, certain things are not.

Security is a game where the whole objective is to either break the rules (and often the law) or to defend against someone who is.

How are you going to tell me that person A is qualified for the job based on his exam results, and person B is not, when person B got a root shell on your server and stole your data?

It's like the 1989 draft when the Giants tried to make Dion Sanders write an exam to see if he was qualified to play in the NFL.

"“They sat me down and gave me a thick book,” Sanders recalled. “I mean, this thing was thicker than a phone book. I said, ‘What’s this?’ They said, ‘This is our test that we give all the players.’ I said, ‘Excuse me, what pick do you have in the draft?’ They said, I think, 10th [actually 18th]. I said, ‘I’ll be gone before then. I’ll see y’all later. I ain’t got time for this.’ That’s a true story."
It was narrated by Paul Vaughan who used to also narrate the Horizon BBC science documentaries (which I loved as a kid) - that added a whole other level of credibility for me when I watched it as a teenager.
I don't think any practicing Jew would make a distinction there. But Judaism predates distinctions of this sort—a fact that I think has irritated Western thought for thousands of years.
how one gets on top of it, how to stop on the light, how to hop off?
If your responses to questions aren't well written and concise confluence/wiki pages (with an example or two) - you're doing it wrong.
lol.

As someone who has attempted to date (not bragging) in what I affectionately call "real life", I am somewhat acquainted with the dangers of both error and alternate paths in dating.
setting up nomachine is a real hassle though, for some reason they feel it nessisary to completely replicate the linux login infrastructure, aswell as mantaining a whole heap of paralell dependencies (that needs separate configuring, including a version of x11 from 2005 that causes some real headaches) for no apparent reason.

Why cant it just be an x11 proxy rather than an x11 proxy plus an entire authorization infrastructure?
I understand that reaction and share the dislike of corpspeak. But since someone involved with the project is disputing that interpretation, we should stick to what the post actually says.
Well if you want to take my logic down the slippery slope of your own invention then you can make me claim anything :)

I don't doubt the importance of taking ownership for your projects and having good taste, as opposed to design-by-committee. But I think you're overstating the degree to which they worked isolated from others. I think these examples you've given involve people with good taste (or call it vision) who said no to a lot of prevailing wisdom and yes to other ideas... but it wasn't literally "I'm going to go into my house for 5-10 years and emerge out with perfection". It's usually more iterative.
For the record, they said in their announcement[0] that they "expect the discussions around the shading language to be one of the most fun parts of the standardization process, and look forward to hearing community opinions. For our WebGPU prototype, we decided to defer the issue and just accept an existing language for now."

Since this is a prototype, they're just going with the shader language they prefer for now.

[0]https://webkit.org/blog/7380/next-generation-3d-graphics-on-...
specifically it's qtwebkit and an old version of it.
The entire thread makes for insightful reading. I dug the links out last night and just reread the threads this morning.
"Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad... was likely just a quick fix on the server side designed to block a specific waveform...Interestingly, it’s not the specific function, just the voice from the ad. Asking Home what a “Whopper sandwich” is in your own voice (like a Big Mac, but smaller) will bring up the Wikipedia entry as initially intended."
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/12/google-home-has-stopped-an...
Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
There are very few YouTube videos that I particularly enjoy watching, this was one of them.

Interesting topic, well filmed given the market circumstances, clear audio, and well edited.. and it definitely didn't hurt that I'm currently learning how to design and build electronics from scratch as a hobby ;)
They're doing what they can. Are people now supposed to not have weddings because it offends environmentalists' delicate sensibilities?
to whomever dislikes my post, you may not like the video (it's irony, baby) but so called "vertical videos" are a plague that infects TV news as well when they air videos contributed by various people. If you have a better way to remember people how wrong and stupid is that way of handling the cellphone when filming, then I'm open to suggestion.
I don't think the trigger words can work that way. They have have to be 3 or so syllables and have to be pretty unique to limit false positives.
Google Home has stopped answering to that annoying Burger King ad
Sorry, being childish/petty != being fun.

I get some people have their pet causes/conspiracy theories - but is doing this at your friend's place really the place to be getting on your soapbox?

If you want to make a change - go run for office, or campaign for something. Don't just be a armchair jerk.

I know plenty of people like this that have their pet causes (usually government surveillance, or the industrial-corporate machine, or eating meat etc.) - proselytising and ranting to your friends is one thing (and look, we all rant at times, so give some, take some) - but being a jerk about it is childish and immature.
Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmINGWsyWX0
Ok, but there is very clearly a boundary on acceptable behavior that we classify as not just "being yourself." How are you planning to draw that line? This isn't some unanswerable subjectivity we're talking about, and it's more a testament to the paucity of education in America that we can't recognize rational discussion from irrational anymore.

For most other people, it's a pretty clear line. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts.
I'm surprised that he didn't find another solution to the cost of sending ~ 140 (70*2) invites for ~ £380 ($480), or $3.50 per invite. The profit margins people make on those invite cards is huge.

My personal hack that I use for invitations/thank you notes/christmas cards/etc. is this:

You can just create them yourself (any design! copy one off the internet!) in Photoshop/Gimp/Illustrator/PowerPoint/whatever. I won't judge (except if it's PowerPoint).

Then have them printed as 4x6 (or whatever) photos for $0.09 each. With envelopes at $0.03 each and postage at $0.49 you're up to $0.61 per invite, or $85 rather than $480 in OPs case.
That's a good chance to set the tone on how you'll intend to live life from now on. Many people seem fall back to tradition, succumb to pressure and go against their own values when the wedding comes around: Spending too much on the event, diamond ring, church ceremony despite being non-religious, doing a traditional celebration instead of something individual and fun, or geeky like OP.
Well, let's say you send out a hundred invitations. You're only doing it once, but that once, you're doing it a hundred times...
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A (very awesome) band called Vulfpeck actually ran an experiment where they released an album called "Sleepify" that contained then 30 second silent tracks and asked all of their supporters to stream the album on repeat nightly. Their idea was to do this long enough to be able to fund a free tour. If I remember correctly, they ended up netting like $35,000 or something from this before Spotify removed the album.
> Edit I'm not super familiar with autocad but I make software for construction companies so I've seen it used a bit. You can do everything in a vim like command manner.

I'll admit, I'm even less familiar with AutoCAD. I really just assumed from my experience with every other AutoDesk software I have seen.

> I think it had a lisp prompt.

AFAIK, AutoLISP is still one of the most prevalent lisps.
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Anyone who depends on the Internet for their business should know better than to run 10 year old unpatched Internet server software.
Hey onion2k, I thought a lot about what you said and I think you are really going to like what I came up with. Can't share it yet but it will definitely solve your problem.
Any way of scripting this to automate button clicks etc? I use PhantomJS for this now but found it to be incredibly unstable for complex pages.
> I've simply made some suggestions and you've thrown "you're wrong" at me without any evidence to support your assertion.

I haven't quoted the mathematical proof that 2 + 2 = 4 either. Next you'll be asking me for evidence of that as well. The studies I referred to are freely available on the internet. If you want to shore up your faulty arguments, go find them.
I actually prefer working in the office. When at home there are too many distractions, too easy to go to the shops (or driving range) or start working on your own projects.
nice dating pipeline.

Although, I'm interested of designs for later stages - around kids. Any suggestions?
Peoples' attention is getting expensive. The important thing is that your name is recognizable and easily associated with your product. Positive connotations can come later.