skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought XKCD's interpretation[1] of what the manuscript is about was, despite being comical in nature, the most intriguing...

1: https://xkcd.com/593/
I think the constraint makes the video funnier, take for example dinoflask's edits of Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTrrTX7YuY
You think that's funny but there is a good chance this will happen.
Inner-city blacks don't have a lack of stable family life because of "culture". It's because we lock up vast numbers of young black men for minor crimes right when they would otherwise be forming families.
House prepares to take a big step on self-driving cars
Just because A doesn't do X, but asks B to do X, doesn't mean B can argue the value of not doing X by saying “A doesn't do X, so neither should I" because: A (-X) ≠ B (-X)
I wonder if perhaps the article is a teaser for a forthcoming documentary?

> A chance remark just over three years ago brought me a com­mission from a television production company to analyse the illustrations of the Voynich manuscript and examine the commentators’ theories.
This is a major change:

"After JDK 9 we'll open-source the commercial features in order to make the OpenJDK builds more attractive to developers and to reduce the differences between those builds "
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...

Java Flight Recorder will be open source.
Yes. I posted my thoughts in another comment > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15184382

Honestly, I'm kind of scared/surprised more people aren't talking about this.
3 different jobs and school? You're already super human. Some of us are dying with just school or one job.
A Class Divided
Why is that an extreme assertion? Until maybe two years ago, it would have been considered extreme to call for a professor's head for anything short of real misconduct.
The Russian regime doesn't want Western liberal democracy because it's incompatible with the self-sustaining kleptocratic autocracy that they are running.

Individual Russian people may or may not want Western liberal democracy for any of a variety of reasons (they “not” side in part driven by regime propaganda), but those preferences are not controlling regime actions.
Too bad, I was looking forward to the abominable shitshow that was going to be Zuck's candidacy.
AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly
How are tests supposed to prevent new callers from violating the assumptions?
The segmentation of VCs by the author seems to occur on a few axes: attitude, interest levels in early startups, response time, interest in exit strategies, partner quality as board member, fund phase/timeline, network quality.

The book Venture Deals is a good resource.
You are correct.

The filter is completely useless if it is filled with 1s. In this situation, you would just use a larger filter. I am not sure exactly what the ideal size is, it depends on the desired probability of false positives, but an optimally large filter for the data you are using will have some empty bits.
Fibers from Synthetic Clothing Disastrous for Mankind and the Oceans
Working on Firefox Nightly on Android for me.
Can't wait! The smoke won't be that bad. No views from Rainier though :(
No, double digits of KGB and CPSU staff had bank accounts abroad just like Chinese CCP members do now.

And more power, means more money for them, just like usual.

To disrupt Russian political establishment, you do same things you do to disrupt criminal gangs. Plain and simple.

Gathering all of NATO's paratroopers and sending them to Moscow will work too, but at a bigger expense
I'm just waiting on Travis CI integration.
Open-Sourcing Mouse Tracking A.I for Website
This New Yorker article from March provides a lot of background on Russia's "Hybrid War" strategy and its motivations:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/trump-putin-an...

Reading that article left me pretty slack-jawed.

It cites a 2013 article, "The Value of Science in Prediction", by Chief of General Staff of Russian Federated Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov as a canonical text behind the Russian election interference campaign. After reading the New Yorker article, I tracked down a translation of that text here:

http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/Archives/English/...

Strange to think that the Arab Spring helped function as a trigger for white nationalist marches in this country.
Tolerance only goes so far. You can have whatever opinion you want, but that doesn't mean you get to escape the consequences of having views that people find objectionable.

You can certainly walk around town telling everyone they are stupid, but you shouldn't be surprised when everyone hates you afterward. "It's just my opinion" is a weak excuse.
USSR controlled all of the available media, but that didn't help, and 200..300k (unofficial: 1m) of working class went to Moscow streets in 1990. Meetings of modern russian opposition counts up to few thousands, mostly consisting of bored bohemians. Also, the opposition seems to lose the generic idea, chasing the wrong issues.

- When do we get vodka?

- The Center holds it. It is necessary to take away the vodka and the Kremlin.

(Boris Eltzin meeting with real people)

I'm not claiming that what we have now is the best vector of evolution, but the opposite forces are simply weak and up in the clouds by their nature.
It's basically breaks down to "two wrongs don't make a right."
Evan McMullin, previously the House Republican caucus's chief policy director, had the following to say on this topic:

This is a Kremlin talking point. The U.S.
doesn't undermine liberal democracies
overseas. Any examples otherwise would be
from the Cold War.

https://twitter.com/Evan_McMullin/status/905572789666635777
A similar question, but specifically related to "…in order to forge a new empire for the explicit purpose of ethnic Russian domination of the world." – what is the purpose of this in this day and age, it would take generations by which time the people initiating change would be dead, is it just an archaic form of racism?
Solaris had kssl doing much more of this 7-8 years ago. In their case SPARC T1+ CPUs had hardware support to accelerate crypto ops but iirc kssl did not depend on it.

It also did not require applications to support/know about SSL/TLS. So after moving to Solaris 10 we were able to make some legacy apps use SSL/TLS without adding any code at all! Pretty cool stuff.

They did have a few vulnerabilities causing kernel panic that Snorcle had to fix - so in terms of adding more complexity to the kernel it's a risky approach but in our case it was totally worth it and it helped that the SSL/TLS traffic was all internal - nothing public facing.
Oh man that will be glorious, I can't wait for future trips to Beijing without getting respiratory sickness. So far I'm like 7 for 7 on getting sick in Beijing.
Introducing CFire: Evading CloudFlare Security Protections
There's a more detailed tutorial on how to use physics to do 3D part packing here:

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Stochastic-Part-Packing
If you get into the habit of making a virtual environment and requirements.txt in every repo then it's smooth. Just activate the env when you're using the repo and use vanilla pip install to install dependencies. Then pip freeze them into the requirements file. It's a very similar workflow to a gemfile and bundler.
All of these cities are very nice !
Was this conversation with a recruiter?

I'm hoping this is a yes. That was... incredibly difficult to read.
Prop 58 was an anti-assimilation idea: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-elec...
Yes. Thank you. I honestly feel like it is a solution seeking a problem. Not to say it isn't solving any problems already, but I think it's still seeking a big enough problem that the general public starts paying attention and believing in its value.

Just as an example: I don't see why the US government couldn't adopt the best parts of crypto (e.g. the public ledger) but also be able to control it and how that kind of move wouldn't make it instantly the most trusted cryptocurrency vs all the ones we speculate on today.
I prefer to think of it as the mullet of the database world: Bigtable in the front, Dynamo in the back.
I think there is an important difference to whataboutism because what the parent mentions is not merely something similar but a reciprocal action.

Say, bringing up alleged violations of human rights in the US in response to mentioning censorship in Russia is whataboutism, but mentioning that not only Russia but both countries try to influence each others elections may signal that two countries are actually having a fair fight (for some definition of fairness) in the information wars as opposed to Russia being the sole aggressor.
We are using microrepos, we implement all logic in libraries then import those libs into another project that wraps it w/ the lambda logic. The lambda logic tends to be small and all the 'work' is done in libraries. Thought here being if we need to migrate to another serverless solution (or server solution) it's quick/easy to wrap the tested libraries in whatever the next logic should be.

Then we use Apigee a127 Node project to invoke the lambda's. This is where authentication is done (we use Auth0 JWT/Bearer tokens). The Apigee a127 project invokes the lambda and handles routing. We looked at serverless but didn't want to use API Gateway since we already had apigee. We plan to look at SAM next but so far haven't need it. We have a few grunt scripts that we can use for running the lambda locally so far not a big deal.

For logging we use an AWS ElasticSearch cluster and Kibana.

So far we haven't run into any big issues with lambda, we see better response times when there is a constant load on the system, I guess that helps w/ keeping the lambda's warm. Even cold start isn't a big issue b/c the $$$ saved is well worth it.

Automate EVERYTHING. You will quickly get a bunch of lambda's and you need a way to keep them all updated, manual SUCKS.
My sister taught in Memphis for 3 years. The kids she taught were of raise significantly differently than we were raised.

I will grant you that not all black people living in the inner city have the same values but I think it is factually incorrect to say that low income African Americans living in the inner-city do not have a common culture and common values.

My phrasing might be racist, if that is the case, can you point out how to express the same idea in a more neutral way so that I don't make the same mistake in the future?
That's not true. A requirements file is the canonical way to do this. Just use a requirements file and pip install -r requirements.txt. Then version control that file and other Devs do the same. Just like a gemfile.
Even if I agree with you, your comment is grossly offtopic and admits no constructive response.
True, we can't make predictions in the form of hyperparticularizations. But we can make predictions in broad strokes about industrialization and ecology and how our current behaviors will serve the welfare of future generations in those respects.
Pseudonym?
If say the Russians had had an information/disinformation programme to help Hillary win and she had won, I am sure Repubs would have cried to the high heavens, but I think the media would have been less vehement about it.

I do think the US does put forth the idea that we do operate from a relatively higher moral ground vis a vis Russia (and others) and human rights, freedoms, cronyism, corruption, etc. We have NGOs working to that effect in addition to the diplomatic ranks and corporate governance, etc.

It's not that we are wrong, but we're also not always right.
How to use whitespace in user interface design
Very interesting read - curious to see their implementation of the clustering algorithm
As I understand it, DC/OS is essentially a nicer interface for Mesos / Marathon with baked in monitoring, service discovery, security add-ons and a "package" manager-esque framework manager.

DC/OS is actually open source (I think) so I don't think it has any capabilities you could get for free.
Bitcoin – history of political thought
And maybe that's how you end up with the harvards and yales. The initial reputation is luck and the schools coast on it. Smart talented people attend but maybe they were going to succeed anyway
So you think Bill should complain or refuse, but you do the same and don't complain?
This is the second chapter in a book I'm working on that covers the history, purpose and future of bitcoin.
GraphQL will eventually I believe overtake the REST Api world.
Explore Iron Man's Futuristic Malibu Mansion with This 3D Model
Not really; FP and OOP are dissimilar in their approach to mutable state and it's management, for instance. You can come up with a synthesis (or probably many different syntheses) of ideas from the two styles to make a style blending inspiration from each, but they aren't directly compatible, and most direct combinations mhave tension between the two styles, or directly subordinate one to the other, for that reason.
Maybe the confusion over python 2 vs. 3 is why people have so many questions about it..

</snark, mostly>
This links to a GitHub organization page, which is spectacularly uninformative.

https://github.com/AssemblyScript/assemblyscript is a better link for this submission, I think. You get a README.md, at least.
Propaganda has negative connotations under the presumption that the message is dishonest in some way. The original meaning was 'neutral', and in that sense more information is being provided by the modern term than the older one.

>how does one call propaganda in general?

Communication.
100-140 miles is more than adequate for nearly all of the United States. While there are people who drive farther, the vast majority of the citizens of this country travel less than 40 miles for work, and I don't know anyone who would drive that far for groceries. People tend to want to buy a car for the largest trip they can imagine they'd take, even if that event may only happen a few times in the vehicle's lifetime.
Yes and without human drivers, much of the car is vestigial. Without human occupants, further parts can be eliminated.
There's a start demo button at the bottom. Worked on my iPhone on Safari
CD Baby Mobile
Hunter / gatherer.
It's what FB reported unless you have reason to suggest otherwise the $100K is quite relevant.
So why do you keep going back? Family?
The way he hand-waves away Apple's statement about there being no extra space in the device is arrogant and disingenuous at best.

Does the phone altimeter work as designed? No
Does the phone remain waterproof? No

Deal breaker.
yes, but a faster car with all other features being equal gives you objectively more features. There is a reason BMW costs more than a Honda civic. Right? Or else, if there is no reason whatsoever, Honda should be able to advertise in a clever manner and sell that Honda civic for the same price as a BMW 7 series or a Tesla. I mean if it's all subjective, right? But we can all agree that no matter what a Honda civic will cost less than a tesla. Yes?
Yes it is...
That's an interesting problem. Do you find it's that bad for a new project as well? I've otherwise heard nothing but good things about working with Swift, and it's the only macOS/iOS-specific language I've actually worked with a little bit for its rather quick learning curve.

So I guess the problem is pretty simple, if not immediately obvious for the details of it.

I sigh and guess that means I just have to upgrade soon...
It would be good to know if this was an internal or external recruiter. If the organization has contracted this out to another organization, then it should minimally reflect on Facebook and have maximum, laughable effect, on the contracted organization.

From what I've experienced with Facebook recruitment, they dragnet linkedin pretty hard and have at-least a 5-step process for interviewing that is designed to be implemented at high speed by internal people, but at-least lets you talk with internal people.

I stopped responding to their requests on Linkedin because you start over each time. Although the inquiries are interesting, it's not really fun to have a bunch of "first dates" constantly.
F-150 is a light duty truck.
> Why is a collective response inappropriate here?

I think that the default should be to allow a discourse that is wide ranging and open, and to only censure in cases that are truly extreme (such as incitement). Institutional censure carries with it a huge weight, and potentially the ability to silence opinions. Though I strongly disagree with this person, I must also try to imagine a situation where the roles are reversed, where I am in the minority and having my opinion censured. I believe that to live in a society that is truly free, it guarantees you will come into contact with opinions and beliefs that you find repugnant. It troubles me that the left has so aggressively mobilized against speech, not just disagreeing with it, but demanding that it be institutionally silenced.

That said, this school (being a private institution) and these professors (being individuals entitled to their own opinions) are also within their rights. Free speech does not free you from criticism for your views.
F-150 through F-350 are all considered light vehicles. The 450-650 are Medium Duty. The 750 other trucks are considered Heavy Duty. (For GM vehicles append another 0 eg, 1500, 2500, 3500)

Calling 250s and 350s Heavy Duty is mostly marketing, although, the current 3/4 and 1 Ton trucks are more capable than ever, so the marketing inflation does have some basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_classification
That would be silly since I now run a competitor — with a free tier that doesn't do that. :D
If you enjoy stories like this, and podcasts, check out The Pessimists Archive. Their latest episode was about chess and they have 6 other excellent ones before it. http://pessimists.co/
> not to be taken too literally

Sure, but it doesn't help you actually decide where the line is between "things which I should focus on learning" and "things which are massive skills that it would take many years to learn and I shouldn't bother." My biggest problem here is with "learn how to plan an invasion".
I get the attraction for compiling a non-web language (say Python) so that you can write Python and have it run in the browser, but since Typescript already compiles to JS I don't really get it. What am I missing? Can it be faster, or do more/different things?
Show HN: CheckPhish – Zero Hour Phishing Detection
Mine too. In fact, I've taught her to do it on command.
> we were able to make some legacy apps use SSL/TLS without adding any code at all

How did you deal with certificate validation?
Exercise.
Sleep.
Diet.
Work only 8 hours.
I think your last sentence gets at what I was trying to get across
They're raising rates while inflation is at the low end of their band. Normally, they wouldn't do that. Or rather, normally inflation would be going up now that the economy is. My point was that inflation and growth/employment may have decoupled.

This article expands that argument at length: http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/the-phillips-...
Looks like their DNS is fucked up. http://assemblyscript.org/ redirects to their GitHub org, even though there's a website repo in there that claims to be http://assemblyscript.org/.

Edit: apparently their website has no content, just a redirect to GitHub. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well I drive beyond the range of any electric car several times a month. Granted that's probably somewhere beyond "normal" use but it means an electric car remains infeasible for me. I'm not going to deal with the hassle of renting a car that often.
You are a little disingenuous - no one would be complaining if someone on the law faculty wrote a counter opinion piece. What's happening isn't an expression of disagreement, which would be fine, but an attack on Wax to try and suppress her POV. Her critics made no "moral argument" they simply condemn her.

http://www.thedp.com/article/2017/08/open-letter-penn-law-fa...
tldr;

By now, it was more or less clear what the Voynich
manuscript is: a reference book of selected remedies
lifted from the standard treatises of the medieval
period, an instruction manual for the health and
well being of the more well to do women in society,
which was quite possibly tailored to a single
individual.
Cool.

The Stanford paper microscopes are the cheap, analog alternative that use just a glass bead. For electronics, it makes sense to eliminate lenses and use physics to get a simpler microscope.
Please explain how "I don't have to init an ArrayList and add to it manually" is such a heaven-forfend perversion of that traditional, solid language.
Well, of course they are, but your first sentence is all I was after. Jazz and hiphop share the fact that they were authored, in majority, by african-americans and the songs in both genres, in majority, tell tales of poverty and hope.
> "can you elaborate on the libs available to 'migrate your data around'? ... Are you using Portworx for this?"

The tool I had in mind was 'REX-Ray'[https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/docs/external-volumes....].

That said, we're not actually doing the 'chasing db' config. Instead we run a HA Neo4j DB deployment as a Marathon service pegged to a handful of nodes each with local persistent volumes allocated to Neo4j. I.e. we can allocate a % of a node's resources to 'static' Neo4j deploys, and then let Marathon dynamically manage any remaining free resources on the nodes. Our other services then use the Marathon service DNS to look up the Neo4j service for read/write.

Portworx looks cool too -- will need to investigate.

Also, the DC/OS documentation is quite good in general if you're looking to dig in on this:
https://dcos.io/docs/1.9/storage/

> "Does Mesosphere reschedule your DB to another node that has an equivalent persistent and reserved storage(SSD etc.) volume configured on it?"

Yes/it can, but in that config you're booting up new/empty storage volumes. Obviously not what you want for many core persistence requirements though great for caches. We'll probably opt for this config near-term for our web-server SSR cache.
I used to dream about software development flaws applied to "reality". E.g. I've had radios in my dreams that wouldn't turn off unless I unplugged them because they didn't properly implement graceful shutdown. Or microwaves I couldn't physically use because I made that function private instead of public. Usually it was more like a nightmare - all sorts of things not working for nonsensical reasons.
I made something similar a while back! Took somewhere between 150-200 hours to print 60 connectors. I had to design the parts with a flat side so I could print them in PLA.

https://danwink.com/blog/2016/06/19/dowel-structure-with-3d-...
Interesting to note the DACA EO was signed when Democrats held both houses of congress and the White House. They could've easily passed it as a law but the constitutional challenges would have probably made it a short lived law. Instead, they took their chances with the EO route, opened the pandoras box and now Trump is trying to close it.

This is what happens when you decide an EO is better than trying to pass actual bills that then become laws. Trump is doing a lot of the same.

Sucks when elected officials are content to write part-time law in lieu of bills that require bipartisan support, communication and actual work to get passed.