skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's not straight about it? You;re the only one having trouble with it.

He intended to go to one of three countries in south/central America. Why would you pick and book only one destination when you have US intelligence services trying to hunt you down? That seems retarded.

As you seem to be a fan of Occams Razor, what seems to be more likely?

That he was a liberty-minded contractor that discovered gross violations of personal privacy and civil liberties across the Western hemisphere and out of a sense of public good he decides to drop the dox bomb on the NSA and release everything he could lay his hands on?

or

This was some cunning and elaborately orchestrated Russian operation to plant a guy that used to talk immature shit on Ars Technica into the NSA in order to steal documents relating to the US and UK intelligence community's digital panopticon and then having hiom offload all he found to fucking journalists before he ever arrived in Moscow to collect his 'Putin's #1 Boy' trophy and life-time supply of Stolichnaya?

I mean, you complain that he didn't outright challenge Putin in a live broadcast. Think about it. What would that achieve exactly? Russia is a lost cause when it comes to personal freedoms and civil liberties. The only way that will change is if Putin and his cronies all fuck right off and die. That's not likely.

Snowden can not change a fucking thing about Russia, but a country he was born and lived in? A country that preaches freedom, democracy and liberty and asserts itself as the paragon of virtue where people may actually fucking listen if they can drag themselves away from the news-as-entertainment for a few fucking minutes?

As much of an authoritarian shitheel and all-round scum bag as Putin is, he is not responsible for every ill that befalls America. By complicitly buying into the propaganda that the Russians are to blame for every instance of US imcompetence or outright disrespect of its own constitution you are giving the actual assholes a free pass.

By blaming the Russian boogeyman under the bed every time a citizen identifies and cries foul of your country's gradual slide into plutocractic surveillance state you accelerate it.

I'm not sure why I should be surprised by any of this. This is the country that just made Donal Trump a fucking president and half of whom are convinced that Fox News is fact-based rather than irrational hate-based.

Oh, and "useful idiot" is the actual term that's used. I didn't make it up.
Presumably, the scope of the scandal would have been much smaller. His immunity would almost certainly have been conditional on him abiding by this confidentiality agreement, then, probably, some investigators (the senate oversight committee perhaps?) would review his evidence and shut down the illegal bits, and that would be that.
I think the youngest diagnoses was 12 (I need to double check) but it, generally, begins to manifest at puberty to mid-twenties, barring some jarring event. Even then, that is usually diagnosed as PTSD with Atypical symptoms, displaying in antisocial behavior. It's been a while since I was in school, so categorization may have (and has, since a new DSM has been published) changed, but they rarely make huge changes. It's, generally, language to accord to the societal language.
I used macOS and I'm not sure of others. I'm not totally against animations on Modern UI. But I think it is used heavily in certain places like twitter for example. The profile parallax transition and other animations is kinda laggy when I'm on the low-end processing machines. Also Airbnb's new design and Apple's product pages are heavy if I'm on a slow network. Animation/transition are mostly used to cover the slow network latency. Also most people think that it is fancy to use animations rather than solving a problem. I think design should be consistent across devices and networks, showing a different design for users on a slow internet connection is kinda ugly.
San Francisco Tries to Ban Delivery Robots Before They Flatten Someone’s Toes
You've been posting mostly ideological and/or unsubstantive comments, often to the point of outright trolling. We ban accounts for that, so please stop.
I think the OP is referring to the precisely timed leaks by Apple PR.

These are the articles with the words: "unnamed sources within Apple...".

An example of this was leaking the lack of 3.5mm earphone jack a year ahead so when it was launched the lack of the jack was old news, and not th focus of the news.
So it doesn't seem to be coming any time soon. But I can't imagine that on the long run, moving encoded atoms would be faster than sending encoded EM waves.
I kinda agree, but I'm not sure the problem are animations or effects, but where is the focus and the priority of the design, and the management and reduction of information and visual noise.

Reminds me this old post of mine from 5 years ago: http://www.feiss.be/blog/post/157
Well, you often have no other choice. You can go out of your way and install an open source OS, but then there might still be a backdoor in your hardware. Ultimatively, this can not be solved technically, but socially. In a country with a strong rule of law and democracy, you should be able to trust that the state builds no backdoors into your devices when they say they don't. And you should be able to trust the manufacturers that they don't do it by themselves. But unfortunately they have incentives to go both ways (short term profit + appeasing governments on the one hand, vs. gaining consumer trust on the other).

I'll go meta here: How can we trust food companies? They have incentives to decieve us, to adulterate their products, produce as cheaply as possible and sell as expensively as possible. There are magazines, websites, that do nothing but test food. It blows my mind when I think about that. How antagonistic is our society, when the people who make our food are working against us. The solution we developed for that are checks and balances in form of journalism and consumer protection laws. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. Whether its adulterants in food or backdoors in software, it's a similar problem.
The whole story can be shortened down to two sentences:

> Investigators traced a series of internal communications in which the specifications for “kitty litter/zeolite clay” were transformed into “kitty litter (clay),” the report says. Combined with inadequate technical review, this resulted in LANL workers filling waste containers with a mixture of nitrate salts and sWheat Scoop, a cat litter that is 100% wheat, according to its manufacturer.
Boy, how do you look like a company like Amazon and conclude they're not interested in minimizing profit. That is exactly what they do.
Make sure to read the linked blog post from Digital Globe. It is more interesting, in my opinion (it includes some interesting details and seems to be written towards a slightly more technical audience): http://blog.digitalglobe.com/industry/digitalglobe-moves-to-...
Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? At some point you need to render all those different tables. Using off-the-shelf comments is probably the most efficient system imaginable.

If you think DB is utterly incompetent you should take some trains in most other countries. I know it's a popular sport to bitch and moan about them (I do it as well) but seriously, the system works surprisingly well. Those displays are also some secondary info screens that were added later and are not part of the core system and thus probably don't receive the same attention as other more important things.
unfortunately the fact she is trans will make her an easy target to smear
It is, with that web frame being Electron (Chromium + node.js): https://slack.engineering/building-hybrid-applications-with-...
In the storage docs they mention that you do not need to know Git to use Mavo. They simply use Github as a backend for storage. So a beginner would merely have to setup a Github account to get persistence for their app.
LLCs don't have shares. It's a safe bet that it's a US C-corp or equivalent.
Of course, I meant that it didn't matter much in this particular case.

Every news outlet as well as technical sites seems to agree that it was NSA that enabled this attack, but if it all boils down to users opening email attachments that's something else entirely.
Actually a lifetime (of my father) service contract is very much like an one particular investment, that is an inflation adjusted annuity.

FastMail is no more free to terminate the lifetime service contract while my father still lives than the pension company is free to stop paying his annuity backed pension.
Aside: there's a great Todd Snider song about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPY0tomARjU
hm? confused what you mean. I'm just saying that a lot of people who do these programs in America come from rich families that can pay for it.
Thank you. I agree with many of your points.
Of course, I know about the discussion of (maximum) life span and also of life expectancy. And, obviously, the maximum and the expected value (life expectancy) of a random variable is something different.

I also agree with your statement that life expectancy depended heavily on how many people die young. Absolutely. But what is not correct is the statement about the number of centenarians. Please check, for instance, the Human Mortality Database yourself at www.mortality.org to see how quickly the number of them is growing. This does not only have something to do with larger birth cohorts entering those ages but also because of major reductions in mortality among people aged 80-100. And I would be very curious if you were able to provide a scientific reference to your statement that human longevity (do you mean maximum life span?) has been around 80 years for thousands of years. Do you agree with me (if you refer to maximum life span) that this is different now?

And -- as you say correctly -- I also agree with you that it would be advisable not to use vague terms. And in my opinion longevity is a vague term since some people use it for life expectancy others for life span. So it would be better if people use those clearly defined concepts to avoid confusion.

My comment about "no one dies of old age" refers to the fact that a certain cause (ICD 10 code) has to be entered on the death certificate. But I also agree with you here: the precision of this information at very high ages might be problematic due to multimorbidity. Your question concerning the "correct term..." I do not want to claim that I know the correct term. In my experience, people usually differentiate between senescent mortality and non-senescent mortality.

Final remark: It seems you are familiar with James Fries' influential paper from 1980 in NEJM [0] since he is talking about "ideal conditions" and "natural deaths", which is pretty close to what you write in your last sentence. :-)

[0] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198007173030304
Bloomberg reported it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/apple-sai...
Animals are just simply "killed for food". They are raised in absolutely deplorable conditions. This isn't meant to be accusatory, but in honest question. Do you think it is justified to raise animals in torturous conditions from birth to slaughter?
About ten years ago, I was riding with my friend in his car and he wanted to score a bag of marijuana so he called his dealer and in plain-speak said he was looking for some weed.

I stared at him with my mouth hanging open and when the call ended, I asked him why he would do that.

He said that the dealer didn't care because he was small time and no one was listening anyway.

I don't hang out with this friend much anymore but I hope he has since wised up.
It's actually quite a simple question, just asked using a lot of overly complex language which probably confused the questioner and his boss.

It's no different to having a list of key/value pairs and sorting the keys and the values independently, and hoping to get a meaningful result which is absurd.
Primarily?

I'd say it's primarily caused by a disconnect between what the human vestibular system (your sense of balance and spatial orientation) is telling the brain your body is doing vs the acceleration forces that your body is feeling vs what your eyes are telling you about what the body is doing.

Or in other words - differences in movement/locomotion your eyes are seeing in HMD vs what your other senses are experiencing.

Which probably would include latency as a subset.
ESRB (games rating system) is the same way. Almost no physical retailers will carry NR (Not Rated) or AO (Adults Only) rated games as a matter of corporate policy. ESRB DOES clearly list whatever content caused the game to receive it's rating though. If you're a dev who wants to make a game and distribute physical copies, you can still do so online through Amazon or some other distributor, and Steam hosts digital distributions without ESRB ratings of any kind simply because there are too many indie games for ESRB to rate (if they all applied for ratings that is).
Swedbank has provided this service for many years (https://www.swedbank.se/privat/kort-och-betalningar/kort/log...). You could also use one of the many independent sparbanker affiliated with Swedbank (they use Swedbank's platform).
It definitely can't be left to the parents, but of course a determined parent is going to shop around for a diagnosis, and of course some people are really hungry for a diagnosis. On the other hand it can be tragic when parents deny a problem and prevent their kid from getting treatment.

It sucks that so many parents let their own wishes interfere with their kids' medical needs, from inventing food allergies to denying mental illness. Some people just looooove a diagnosis (for themselves or their kid) because they love using it to give a certain context to their lives, and some people will live in denial for years because they don't trust doctors or fear stigma.
At University we had a question around this type of 'transfer'. I can't remember how it went exactly but we were to calculate the bandwidth of a jumbo plane carrying x amount of hard drives with y capacity to z destination. Given that the flight takes so many hours, what is the total transfer speed of data in seconds?

I saw a few students nearly have a breakdown over that one.
Perhaps we can encode high quality video onto physical media... using microscale structures to _optically_ encode the video data? We could then use snail mail to move these optical storage devices to end viewers.

Oh, wait. Darnit.
"The air inside the volume of a coffin can last you a few hours. Unless you are literally shoulder to shoulder with no other air, your oxygen will last as long as you need."

... unless there is a fire:

"Most drivers rolled up their windows and waited for rescue. The ventilation system in the tunnel drove toxic smoke back down the tunnel faster than anyone could run to safety. These fumes quickly filled the tunnel and caused vehicle engines to stall because of lack of oxygen. This included fire engines which, once affected, had to be abandoned by the firefighters. Many drivers near the blaze who attempted to leave their cars and seek refuge points were quickly overcome."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_Tunnel#1999_fire
I thought it was funny, that and the one where gcc doesn't tell you if your program compiled or not on quantum computers, until you observe the object file it is both syntactically correct and uncompilable.
possibly some kind of anomaly detection, but I'm not sure how you would model the data.
Scale matters. The latter is faster almost always - when it's not...well, now that's newsworthy ;)
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1506/1506.06668.pdf
"a fiduciary duty to non-employee shareholders"

I believe this is fairly difficult to prove in court. It happens pretty commonly; it's not super hard to dilute someone out if the company wants to. In fact, it's probably seen as a good move by the board and all current employees.
Can I get a timecode? That is a long audio file and I apparently can't quess the right keywords to find it in the transcript.

Edit:
I have now listened to the whole thing and there seems to be no mention of that offer as far as I can tell. So either I missed it, you mistakenly linked the wrong interview, this is anti-Assange Propaganda you hope nobody is going to check too closely, or it is guerilla marketing for the intercept.
Googler here. I've flagged this (especially the part about the dropped billing case) internally.

Note that this was posted to HN around midnight Pacific, so it's quite possible nobody from the Firebase team had seen it yet.
Why didn't Boeing or Lockheed Martin make reusable rockets?

Von Braun originally proposed reusable boosters, although he had in mind a parachute system with a water splashdown. A recovery system for the Saturn V was considered, but it would have added time to the schedule, and the "man/moon/decade" goal would have been at risk.
Britons' Falling Real Wages Show Challenging Times Have Arrived
Cartoon Guide to Facebook's Relay
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-introduce... gender identity and expression has been added to Human Rights in British Columbia. But even here it's a recent development and the so called BC Liberals (in reality, they are conservatives, hello weird Canadian politics where the provincial parties have nothing to do with federal parties) voted down Mr. Chandra Herbert several times before turning around and introducing the bill themselves.
I'm going to have to ask for a citation confirming that trans people (there are trans men too) are killed on a daily basis in the USA. That sounds like hyperbole.
The very fact that "common sense" can mislead us is half the reason for doing experiments.
I am still trying to figure out if the story that I read in the 80's pointing out the need to always test backup tapes that was reinforced by saying some guy in Sweden erased them by putting on a heated car seat in the Winter was true or just a way to drive home a point. (I have never forgotten that story but can't find anything on the web about it today at least.)
Fuze is an amazing functional reactive mvvm sample  based on Kickstarter oss app
It is much worse than that. You need 4000 logical qubits which are implemented as an error correcting code on top of physical qubits. This has 17 noisy physical qubits. You need millions of physical qubits to implement thousands of logical qubits.
Predicting day-to-day harvest yields of perishable fruit, like Strawberries.
SAR (Synthetic aperture radar) spy sats have been a thing for decades, and they can see through clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse_(satellite)
Yes, but in those cases the tunnel structure itself ends up taking up load previously carried by the material that's removed. That is why the walls of the tunnel are shored up with reinforced concrete rings, which provide mechanical support AND keep out water. That's why we have tunnels that are bored only a few tens of feet in the mud under deep bodies of water, and yet don't collapse or flood.
This is a much better (IMO)approach by Nvidia: http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/39762-nvidia-shows-off...
Along with my strong agreement with maxmcd's post, let me also point out that this isn't science. It's doctoring, which, when you really get down to it, is a form of engineering, not science. We measure success by whether the treatment works, and whether we understand the side effects and such, not whether we understand the mechanisms of the supposed cure or side effects. There is no requirement that we understand something for it to work.
Getting a person at a till to scan stuff you buy != meaningful interaction.

We could redefine "meaningful interaction" in a way that reinforces the "technology is destroying meaningful interpersonal interaction" narrative, if you'd like?
With a sample size of one I'd be pretty hesitant to consider this result very significant.
Mind sharing which algorithm you are using?
The wind, tides, and sun are all real, objective physical phenomenon.

The mind is not so
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Saying nausea is solved in VR is like a casual observer saying space flight is solved after the first Wright brothers flight.

I say this as a VR enthusiast who is optimistic about the industry.

You can't say it's solved until an HMD can forcefully move your viewport in-HMD without triggering nausea caused by the real body not moving.
Why? It's just x * y / time
That's not how contracts work. If you buy a vase on ebay for $1 because you think it looks nice, and the current owner agrees to that sale, it's yours. Suppose they then find out it's worth a million. The seller cannot unilaterally reverse the contract and "give you your money back". The vase is yours, they owe you the vase, and you owe them a dollar, that's it. If they wanted to own the vase, they would have to make a contract with its owner (that is, you) under terms that the owner is willing to agree to to transfer ownership.
For this matter, if I had to sue an employer to make them give me my job back, I wouldn't feel comfortable working with them anymore. Everyone would hate my guts, especially those with the power to make my work life miserable.

It's a weird Catch-22. You don't sue for your job back, you don't work there again. You do sue for your job back, you won't want to work there again.

Best thing in the case of wrongful termination would be to sue for enough money you can spend a year or two not working after your lawyer and the IRS take their cut and then take your sweet time looking for another job.
I assume they're sending the checksums with Bandit (lest a
truck hijacking lead to a MITM attack.)
You pretty much have to be on the water to see it when it happens, otherwise it is a less than memorable story on the evening news or in the next day's paper. If the animals are still around by that time, chances are that it takes on a different type of urgency. False Creek is a very confined space that is overrun by human activity, and I doubt that Burrard Inlet would qualify as ideal whale habitat either.
>I also do not draw a major distinction between attempting to prosecute American journalists under the espionage act and simply having them killed

I'm no expert, but _attempting_ to prosecute and actually killing is probably a worthwhile distinction.
This comment breaks the guidelines:

> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> until capital entirely replaced labour in production

Automation + Robots = capital and means of production become one and the same. For one in a direct way (you own robots and those do the work, which includes maintaining and building robots), but also because robots won't blink forcing people to do whatever, breeding and brainwashing them into whatever, eventually turning non-owners into perfect robots as well. I'm not even sure that's a prediction, we're clearly on that road and the walls to the left and right are too high to easily change lanes already; we're making them higher yet. If it takes a crash to change direction there will be no vehicle left to change directions with, that's my "prediction" anyway.
ah got it, i thought you were implying my parents were paying the taxes so i can have free education, which is right to some degree (i didn't downvote you btw)
And his point is, I think, that waiting for Kaby Lake would have delayed the launch by more than one or two weeks.
Bloomberg was the source

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-16/apple-sai...
the myopic eyesight of the masses.
I would like a refresh of the MacBook Pro that would include much-requested features, like one additional row of keys (including the ESC key), ports that you can connect something to (like USB-A) and an SD card slot. I would have no problem with the new laptop being slightly thicker than the current generation, especially if we could get good, reliable keyboards.

I'd upgrade my MacBook Pro in an instant, gladly paying a price premium for those (premium) features.