skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 4 of 50 states have both a Democratic-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor. In 2018 that regionalization is going to get worse, not better; you will be defending 25 seats in areas where Trump took the popular vote

Thats one thing that has bothered me about the collective denial I've been hearing for a couple of years now. (I get a disproportionate dose of sentiment from the currently losing ideological line because of my age demographic coupled with areas I've chosen to live.)

The Republican party had at least 3 ways to win the national election (popular+electoral / electoral / congress-in-event-of-tie), while the Democratic party organization was overvaluing support for their ideologies enough to play games with the functions of their own organization to promote one candidate. I had perceived this was undervalued by all of the data science services, and news organizations, mostly because their bi-coastal locations that are unrepresentative of sentiment in the rest of the United States.

What I hear now is that 2018 is going to be this huge landslide of seats back in the blue direction, and I never saw anything supporting that. The idea is contingent on the President annoying enough people, but it also limits the outcomes to a mass switch towards a different party, when again that isn't the only outcome and no odds are in favor of that.

Anybody have other thoughts on it?
Why they aggressively don't support braces in favor of indenting.
Making Biased Coins Fair (and Fair Coins Biased)
Quite a few classically trained economists then go on to become neo-Ricardians or Marxists, as the content of classical political economy is often ignored or dismissed out of hand - but the idea of the classically trained economist as someone who ironically dosen't have much training in classical economics seems too real to me.
The Ballad of the Green Beret
This calls to mind the amusing Harvey Mansfield, who used to be the only "conservative" (arguable) professor in the government dept. (I missed him in my time there epochs ago.)

He gave two grades, the official, inflated, career-preserving grade, and the real (his true assessment) grade. You could come ask him for the real grade if you wanted to know the awful truth. ;-)
Ask HN: Community College Programs for CS or SE?
I'm interested in the community's experience with such programs either as a student or working with graduates or teaching in such programs.
The USA is 52 small companies though, and if you divide the population equally it's less per state than Sweden.
What is necessary for next steps in Deep Learning
I can't ban China as our suppliers at work are partly -Chinese, it's a royal PITA, I can't even whitelist them as they have to bound around VPN's just to get around the Great Firewall of China on their end.
This kind of response is amazing. Mistakes happen, it's the response and the resolution that matter. I was already a happy user. I am now even moreso. Well done.
Your link doesn't address the question. It's about an invalid transaction within the block, not the refusal to place a particular transaction into one. With over 50% of mining power you can definitely do this.
developer of AWX here. We're working on this! unvaulting is available during playbook runs but we definitely need to make it available during inventory syncs also. The features coming up in Ansible 2.4 will enable us to do this.
A display controller that can drive HDMI and a 2D graphics accelerator are different things. They just both work from the same framebuffer in a SoC's memory.
Back in my day, my Mum used to listen to the internet on our house phone!
Musician programs robots to play with him
I want to write a letter to my alma meter now :l
You call AAA like always:
http://newsroom.aaa.com/2011/07/ev-charging-statio/ https://electrek.co/2016/09/06/aaa-ev-emergency-charging-tru...

(Never used it, not a member anymore, but I do remember reading about it.)
You can effectively freeze anyone's funds by refusing any transactions that originate from their address
You know a lot of the current generation is going to end up worse off than their parents right? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/there-s-a-generation-...
Just avoid it... don't try to outsmart it, accept that it's poison and move on. The complexity of the issue is belied by the simplicity of the available solutions.
Since we're getting meta on the post, I find the tone to be haughty and demeaning.

"I’ll spare him the embarrassment of being named, or of linking to his project. Instead, I’m just going to call him a student. (No, I’m not a professor.) This 'student'..."

Why was this needed? What purpose did it serve the greater article except for the author to espouse their own superiority?

This kind of stuff needs to get the hell out of engineering. It turns away potentially many brilliant people that could join the field but fear the rejection by peers.
It is part of it in this case. You've just eliminated most of non-targeted scanners. Your log is much more readable and what is left will probably be dedicated attackers.

This might help in forensic investigation afterwards. Less crap to wade through.
Internet and digital stimulation has displaced 'real life'.
I can't speak on how economics is taught as I never took a class on it. But I can say "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell is one of the best books I've read. It could easily be a textbook.
> Sorry, I was sort of making a facetious joke.

Oh. I see. The joke went completely over my head.
Thanks czbond. And yeah, that's precisely the setup. Appreciate the response.
We're officially in the second largest bull market since WWII
Delta Is Flying into the Path of a Category 5 Hurricane Again
Back in the early days of the web, I always wanted an easy way to have a personal "presence" online, to stay in touch with friends and have a sort of virtual "contact list". Friendster (in its original incantation) was probably the best realization of that. I'd say that sort of thing was more or less needed & inevitable, at least at the time. Facebook originally started as a "better" version Friendster (and its successor, MySpace).

Today, Facebook is nothing like those systems of the past. It's now a horribly gamified, ad-saturated UX anti-pattern nightmare. I'm pretty sure that was also more or less inevitable, but for different reasons.
Books are just pieces of paper. They only add value when read by a person and add even more value discussed as by a group of people and add substantially more value when discussed by a group of highly competent people with experience.

Anyone gifted with vision and a brain can do the first option, it's even somewhat easy to do the second, but the third is really hard to pull off. HBS provides this at staggering cost (plus credentialing and a network) but surely someone can figure out how to replicate the case experience much more easily?
If you use use-package, you can add ":ensure t" to the configs to accomplish this same thing. If you're not using use-package, you should be :) . Example use:

(use-package unfill
:ensure t
:defer t
:commands (unfill-region unfill-paragraph unfill-toggle)
:bind ("M-q" . unfill-toggle))
TIL Facebook is the first human invention that lets you keep in touch with others.
Blockchain, Bitcoin, icos in 10 minutes
> What's the most widespread fundamental gate in the latest fab processes nowadays? Is it NAND?

Typical standard cell libraries have hundreds of cells, including cells representing logic such as muxes, full adders, and other frequently occurring clusters of gates. Logic is mapped to these in the way the tool finds most optimal. So I don't think it's right to say that there is a fundamental gate in modern processes.

Unless you are looking at it from the electrical perspective in which case the fundamental gate is the inverter.
> The starting point is so much more comfortable for all of these kids.

And which kids? My children have classmates who are homeless, who can't afford field trip money, who actually do rely on the free school meals.
Literally the first thing I do on any new machine is disable password logins, disable root logins and then punt the SSH port to the top of the range (usually 47999).

Every remote machine gets it's own keypair as well and links between machines also get their own key-pairs (key handling is PITA, I've yet to find a method I really like), Keys for work stuff are back up on multiple LUKS memory sticks (two in separate safes, two offsite).

I'm fortunate in that work machines are in the pet category not cattle category so we don't need to change keys that frequently (though I will rotate them out yearly anyway).
As you feel so strongly about this issue, I assume that you will not sit around and be complicit now that you are aware of the realities but instead will put in the hard work to marshall a campaign of change.
RIT 63.2%.
I recently read Welcome to Your Brain, and the authors describe the neurochemical basis of those bond formations well, for those who might be interested.
How often do people jump into javascript coding without having the faintest idea of how a CPU or anything else works? When high-level facilities are made available, there are always going to be people who go to the high-level facility without having any understanding of the actual consequences of what they are doing. I'd recommend the software folks who want to get into hardware to check out the book 'Elements of Computing Systems' and the NAND2Tetris project that its based on. Its quite easy to follow along with building your own quasi-HDL things run in a simulator (with no generative for-loop stuff, you have a clock line and you use it), then build up from there to put together a CPU, memory, develop a basic OS, implement a programming language, and eventually play a game of Tetris! All with nothing but NAND gates and the convenience of being able to 'use' those tons of gates without actually having to deal with them physically.
Did you take a look on chibios?
Putting in "what does the symbol sigma mean" into google (incognito mode) gives the google blurb of:

"In addition to being the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet, sigma also means 'sum' and 'deviation' in the mathematics world. Learn what each symbol looks like and how each formula works."

It first hit is titled,"Sigma Notation - Math is Fun", with the text 'Sigma Notation. Σ This symbol (called Sigma) means "sum up"'

I think learning the names of the Greek letters is not too high a bar to get started on learning physics and math. Fun too. You really need to know the names of things to start to understand them and ask people about them.

I think the reason people like compact formulas is that it is much easier to understand and check a formula if one can have the whole thing in eyes view.
Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think
Apple Announces Higher Limit for Over-The-Air Downloads
I dunno, I would think it's an honour to have the president of China give your child a Chinese name. But I'm not Chinese, and neither is Zuckerberg.
I don't see where you addressed the substance of the parent post--was your own post truncated?
> ... will insist using garbage passwords if not prevented from doing so ...

/etc/security/pwquality.conf

is how I prevent co-workers from doing so (on RHEL and derivatives).
Nice but still seems too slow.
iOS 11 is now available to download
I, too, like precision.

You are attacking him, by projecting your opinion of his motivations for writing the article, imaginary motivations rooted in "his" dislike for an industry.

Ascribing motivations to someone else I associate with straw man fallacy. And, you're correct -- attacking him for these instead of addressing his arguments can be defined as ad hominem.
Google actually has a technical how-to here: https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/store-secrets and in-depth solution architecture here: https://cloud.google.com/kms/docs/secret-management

Key Management Service creates and maintains private keys for you and provides an API to easily encrypt or decrypt some data. Basically call method KMS.Decrypt("name_of_key_to_use", <bytes>) and get back decrypted content. Secrets are simple text files encrypted with KMS and stored in a private storage bucket. For example we have something like "database-secrets.dev.json.encrypted".

We have a small library that took a day to write, used in all of our projects that does the following on startup: open private storage bucket, download encrypted file, call the KMS API, decrypt the file, and parse the raw contents as json. Now the app has the secrets in-memory to be used anywhere. No infrastructure required, nothing on disk and this is universally accessible whether inside Google cloud or on local machine. Takes under 1 second when running in the cloud.

I dont think I can do better than the documentation but let me know if you have any questions.
Please refrain from such blatant mischaracterizations, they really don't help the discussion.
Is the World Getting Better?
I'm teaching an intro Web Development course at the University level right now. No exams, only projects and homework. All submissions in github, so it's likely some will be looked at!
I hardly go a day without using iTerm2.

Don't worry George your responsiveness more than makes up for an honest mistake.

To everyone else: I would highly recommend if you make money on a daily basis using iTerm2 that you support his efforts:

https://www.patreon.com/gnachman/posts

Before you ask, yes I'm a patreon for George, his work inspires me.
It really is frustrating. I know it doesn't help the WaPo, but I subscribe to the NYTimes and the Economist and my wife's got a couple of other subs in there somewhere, but instead every site wants their $10-$20. Micropayments now!
I would place arduino among higher-level programming.
Since you are not touching registers and you don't know what is under the hood of Serial.print() (buffers? Circular one that can overflow? blocking? Interrupt driven?)
It is more for playing around with prototype.
I had no idea who was behind the project or that they even had a patreon. Going to chip in now. Thanks
Not a book, some great insights here.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/anders+hejlsberg
I think the pro leagues in the Philippines have a limit on foreigners and they are also limited to 6'6" so I guess that kind of exists.
Your explanation for fewer teens (but still the majority) learning to drive, dating, having sex or drinking is that they can easily afford everything on their parent's money? That strikes me as strangely backwards.

If your parents provided you with a car, wouldn't you be more likely to learn to drive? If your parents gave you a generous allowance, wouldn't you have more dates, buy more drinks and as a result be more likely to have sex, rather than less?

Personally, the reason I didn't have those classic "growing up" experiences is that I mostly don't think they will or should be part of my adult life. I don't expect to need to drive, I don't want to get drunk and I'm not interested in meaningless hookups. How most adults today grew up has little bearing on the way I want to live.
I tried to keep the comment short but yes, Lamarck does get too much off a bad rep nowadays. His theory wasn't on the mark but he played a big role in making evolution be an accepted theory in the first place.
Just saw this:

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/SEGGER-Adds-S...

The ecosystem is starting to pull industry players.
Hi,

I have been running mock interviews on Twitch for the last couple of months now, and the responses are incredible.

You can check out previous interviews on the YouTube[1] channel.

You can also hop by the Twitch[2] channel. I usually stream three times a week at 8 pm PST.

The interviews are 100% free and offered as a community resource. You can maintain anonymity as well. Feel free to jump on the discord [3] if you want to schedule one

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Today, after the Mexico city earthquake, there where 50 buildings collapsed, probably hundreds of people dead, and a volcano erupting... but your "news" site doesn't show any of it... sorry but your site is a miss
> I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I mean, do we want life to be uncomfortable for young people?

Yes. The result of rubber playgrounds is surprisingly more serious injuries.
Essentially every single aspect of the web is terrible. It was designed as a static document presentation system with hyperlinks. And for years and years and years, no matter how much interactivity was shoehorned into this system, the standards bodies absolutely refused to make any design decisions based on the absurd notion that it was an application platform. They have only changed this view very recently, and the consequences of their decisions made to optimize the creation of static documents with hyperlinks will continue to be felt for a decade probably.

Had the web been designed as a distributed application platform with HTML being a user interface layout language and such, things would have developed very differently. And because making it do anything interactive most often required misuse and abuse of the browser, it wasn't much pursued by bona fide software engineers who knew the pitfalls of ad hoc 'organic' development and 'just keep typing until something works' mindsets. So, that's what we got. Big ball of global mutable state, scripting languages designed to make it so you could have a button light up when the mouse hovered over it bent over and made to do real work, dependency webs so complex that they're generating novel unsolved problems for graph theorists at every turn, etc.

All of this because users want to be able to search vaguely for what they want and be using an application a moment later. Something that could be solved a trillion different ways but nobody realized at the time that it is what people really wanted. So now we oh-so-slowly move towards the web becoming an actual application platform, but hamstrung by companies that feel entitled to every data point we ever generate so they seek to insert latency into even the simplest interactions by requiring asking their machines for permission.
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
Good to know. We do our user provisioning through an internal portal which enforces everything. The ssh servers als gets configured to disable password login so the only thing passwords are used for is sudo. All web stuff is behind a SSO gateway with password+2fa.
Wouldn't you have to be close enough to his location to where he'd be within a bomb's range anyway?
Netflix doesn't seem all that worried about locking in with AWS despite Amazon arguably being their biggest competitor.
If you read the transition page linked in the email pasted above, you will learn that this won't affect most people.

You only need to update your trust store in a very narrow set of cases. All of the below need to be true AND you need to be running a system that doesn't already trust the AWS root CA - most systems already do. If the AWS website doesn't show an SSL error, you already trust the certs.

1) If you're actually forcing SSL verification in your client

2) If you're not using the GovCloud or China regions

3) You are using Redshift drivers prior to ODBC version 1.3.7.1000 or JDBC version 1.2.8.1005, or not using the Redshift drivers.
It is a necessary but not sufficient criteria.
Could've been a honeypot.
No. You will not stop ISIS by debating with them on Twitter.
US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in one year
Maduro calls Trump 'new Hitler'
Oddly enough, the most successful people have always provided their kids with an extensive safety net, but for kids in the middle class and below, I suspect that the safety net is withering. Student debt might be one measure to look at -- there might be others.
I did actually end up reading the first section (after seeing other comments in this thread).

All I can say is that it was pretty much exactly what I expected from the title. They describe income inequality, yes. But they fail to explain how this textbook is going to provide tools to understand it any better, or why anyone should read it. I also don't feel as if there was much in the way of ideas to be gained from it beyond the simple feel for the magnitude of the inequality. But without some theory to put it in context, that magnitude has no meaning. Some amount of inequality is likely necessary. The question is how much is too much. The article doesn't bother to ask the question, or even to hint that the textbook will provide helpful tools to answer that question.

I think it was Mark Twain who said there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. I'm sympathetic to the view that income inequality is a serious problem, but even so, after reading this article, I can't help but feeling I've been subjected to statistics, and not much else.
That was my experience too. I hear "she'll be right" fairly often, but I hadn't heard "she'll be apples" before. I couldn't imagine any country but Australia coming up with a phrase like that though.
When I lived in NYC our commute from not-so-cool Borough Park in Brooklyn was 45m and our rent was $1200 for a small walkup 1-bedroom
We’re building roads to withstand last century’s climate
Haha. As if there was any realistic link between addresses and people. They're even designed to be one-time-use..
I worked at one place where I was finishing up a product that was very different from what I was already working on. I wrote a description of what I was working on that was a lot like a provisional patent application and got an agreement that they did not have an interest in this.

Generally PPAs are a good way of putting a stake in the ground about who owns IP if you think a conflict will arise and they cost only about $60 to file.
Having more power full mcu (and with more ram) can reduce time to market.
You can use some rtos, heavy libraries, oversized buffers etc.
I disagree.

Sex puts you through a lot of suffering (disappointment, self-doubt, rejection, bad life decisions etc.) and simply is a great waste of resources (time, money, energy etc.) and in modern times even more so cause it isn't usually leading to procreation or long-term bonding.

Yes sex is nice but it has a heavy price.
On the other hand, if even you don't know what the domain corresponds to I suppose that does make it less privacy sensitive.
Looks like this is just a library so far. It'd be nice to see something that could compete with q using this.
"It's conflation to compare coontown with the_donald. Go there right now. You won't find "kill the jews" posts. You won't find "kill the gays/black people" posts. You'll find a ton of supportive people with a particular worldview--and there's nothing wrong with that."

Go read the comments. You will find plenty of that stuff.

"If the other candidate had won, would we consider her subreddit a hate sub?"

False equivalence. I don't recall Clinton ever saying she wanted to jail her political opponent. I don't recall her campaign ever retweeting literal white supremacists.
for one there's no legacy admissions at Oxford or Cambridge...
Isn't that what stackoverflow bounty is for?
A cold battery has less available charge, and a hot battery has less available cycles.
In my limited experience, the best ones are programs that have established 1:1 credit transfers for the entire AS/AA program into BS/BA programs at connected universities.
They've been known to use pocket calculators for ciphers and transmit over radio frequencies digit by digit.