skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an email exchange shortly after the election, Yarvin told Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel.”

“Peter needs guidance on politics for sure,” Yiannopoulos responded.

“Less than you might think!” Yarvin wrote back. “I watched the election at his house, I think my hangover lasted into Tuesday. He’s fully enlightened, just plays it very carefully.”

Surprise (unless you've been paying attention)!

EDIT: I suppose this is as good a place as any to point out that this is exactly the kind of journalism that Thiel has been attempting to have a chilling effect on.
> Rendering image-heavy sites requires quite a lot of RAM.

Is that the limiting factor? How many would you optimally do in parallel if RAM wasn't an issue?
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I want to suggest that "Führer" did have an unusual specific ideological connotation in the Third Reich that is very different from just saying "Adolf Hitler was the leader of Germany and FDR was the leader of the United States".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip
Can this so plaintext and operate without contacting a third party? There are a few "features" in this that worry me. One being the Open Tracking.

The client looks great and I'd like to use it but I frankly don't know what I'm getting. With Thunderbird other solutions you know what it's doing and how. Some of the features of this are a little strange for someone like me.
Ya, so accept that Apple decided your hyper aware use case doesn't need to be the default. Seems like you know what is up, so they are working to prevent unnecessary charges to the far larger, far less aware segment of the population. All seems good, no?
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And yet, my current client is using RDS, and they still have devops work, in terms of ensuring that the failover is setup correctly, the tables are correctly indexed, the IP whitelist is kept up to date, etc.

You could argue that using RDS means they face less devops work than if they ran MySQL on their own dedicated servers. That might true in some aspects, but then, with RDS, you also need to keep track of some issues that are specific to AWS. Availability zones, regions, management via console versus the AWS CLI, management of the keys, etc. So there is the question, which you must ask yourself, and your team, do you want to be learning skills specific to the technologies you are using, or do you want to be learning skills that are specific to AWS? Would you like to deepen your knowledge about MySQL, or would you like to instead spend time memorizing the various decisions that Amazon has made?

I'm not suggesting that there is a right answer, but I am suggesting that the answer is much more muddy and nuanced that Amazon's marketing suggests.
Do a favour folks for your non-technical friends. Show them how to turn off image loading by default in their mail client. And how to check link destinations in emails before clicking on them.

People need to know how to protect themselves from abominations like 'Open tracking' and 'link tracking'.
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You know what would be better, sending people back. Back to anywhere on the moon at all.
Transferring whole sqlite databases makes sense when one side (usually the client) really uses the file as semi-persistent database for some non-trivial timespan (we actually do that for most of our mobile applications, usually for long-lived read only reference data, but one of our applications actually POSTs modified sqlite files back to server as part of normal operation, which is in fact mainly a hackish way to overcome memory limitations of the hardware involved). Using it only as data format for the transfer is hugely inefficient in terms of both time and bandwidth.
That last paragraph will seem familiar to anyone running prior versions of Windows... What an ironic turn of events!
Maybe it's more of a placebo; you're more likely to drink the 20oz bottle quicker than the 2-liter. An open (even re-capped) 2-liter bottle will lose carbonation over N days quicker than a 20oz you drink in maybe an hour or whatever (at least that's how I see it)
I don't understand why they don't just fix that specific problem.
Heh, those machines are great. The temporary tattoo + chewing gum is the best. I have a collection of the weird toys and figurines from those machines (and similar ones around the world)
> No. It is in an attempt to resolve the real loss of money...

Naked apologism. So unthoughtful, and delivered with such a righteous tone.

If this was their intention, they could have implemented the feature honestly, informing users about what was happening, and offering a clear choice, such as an immediate popup, between "turn off for this location" and "turn off completely." That would have been fine.

But the existence of this "pro" to the deceptive and confusing behavior does not justify it.
Same here, NoScript, and never knew they had some kind of page limit on views.

I do, however, have to run my "dickbars be gone" bookmarklet every time I view a page. But since dickbars seem to be spreading everywhere, that bookmarklet gets a lot of usage now.
I occasionally hear people complaining about ads on youtube, but I have never seen a youtube ad aside from when random people try to show me a video on their computer. Do people just not use adblock+ any more?
This is not communicated and is completely bogus, do you expect users to "expand" the panel and read carefully the small text under which says "Not connected" and map it to, "hey this is me Apple, royally screwing with you, even though you wanted to turn off Wifi, and you just did that, I won't turn it off, I am gonna lie to you and keep eating your battery till your phone die"

That's exactly what happened to me when I was desperately trying to save battery and turn off services.
The first is doing the tour at golang.org, then reading Effective Go at https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html. There are lots of good reads at the golang blog, such as https://blog.golang.org/organizing-go-code. I really enjoy Go, and hope you do too!
I read and even quoted text? I don't get where I didn't read the article when I have few quotes from different parts?
Having WiFi greatly increases the battery drain on my iPhone 5C, so I always turn it off when I'm not using it. I'm not using the phone all the time so there are long periods where it doesn't need to be on, but I still want to receive messages etc (and hence can't use Airplane mode).

Edit: I originally said that having wifi on "at least doubles" the power drain on my phone but since I haven't actually taken hard stats on that, I'll just say "greatly increases."
I don't accept that. I think it's a common sense approach. I don't want my phone connecting to things without my involvement.

If the icons were consistent and there was a setting to toggle the behaviour of Control Centre then it would be a non-issue. I could set it up the way I want and it would work as it used to in iOS 10. But the icons are inconsistent and, as far as I know, there's no such setting.
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I have a phone that is 3D Touch capable and I never use 3D Touch at all. In fact I mostly avoid using it; it's Those Useless Options That Sometimes Pop Up If I Press Too hard On A Thing.

It's on par with OSX's "some menu items change if you hold down alt while they're open" behavior. Aggressively obscured.
No, not good. The old behaviour was better. If there was a setting to have the option of the old behaviour then it would be all good.
I never said it's a rational fear! I have never walked home alone after hanging out nor gone out to play alone except in our backyard.
All they had to do was implement it to cycle between three states: on, off-temporarily, and actually off.

Or label the damned things.

But no, they fundamentally changed how an important UI widget worked with no obvious indication that anything is different.
I have used it as a general data store, where I can accept eventual consistency. It is a very good distributed db if you are ok with the trade offs it imposes, mostly non-atomic commits to your cluster.
The point I was trying to make is that 'election' means election and not non-election, and the problem is when people don't care about the ab-usage. My understanding (admittedly very second-hand) is that this sort of nonsense in the USSR was the subject of widely-circulated jokes, indicating that those who cared about the difference found a way to express themselves, and to create a shared culture of cryptic dissent (less cryptic dissent was suppressed with more than the abuse of language.)
I was faced with this same decision. SO didn’t come with me and I was broken up about it until we reconciled and she eventually joined me (at significant financial cost to me). It was a worthwhile life experience but we ultimately moved back to our original home and are both much happier. In retrospect I can’t say I made the wrong choice but it was rough for a bit there for me personally

ETA the housing situation is bad enough in SV that I definitely wouldn’t do it again
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With my experience and background, I believe that I can help TruQC achieve greater quality of software standards for its clients. As a mobile enthusiast, I can help the company test various mobile and web apps in several mobile platforms.

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Not that I necessarily agree, but I've heard that Apple intentionally designed it that way because they didn't want users to plug the cord in all the time and effectively make it a wired mouse. They wanted users to actually use the mouse wirelessly as intended.

That certainly seems like a more logical explanation than literally no one at Apple anticipating such an obvious design consequence for a major accessory.
My concern was not about the administrative burden of publishing but of the difficulty of actually finding results which are publishable.

I'm not sure which the original comment though.
These kind of bullshit statements are exactly why iOS and Android SHOULD make it difficult for users to do stupid thing.

placebo. effect.

Turning off your wifi may give you a few extra minutes. It doesn’t double your goddamn battery life you stupid fucking liar.

You probably think homeopathic treatments work too.
I didn't know that panel expanded because Apple didn't communicate that fact either... But I just tried it with long press and still don't see what I am meant to be reading in the pop-out.

Can you take a screenshot of where this is explained?
Why would a God like that need money anyway, or care about getting fired?
This kind of thing is what makes me suspicious when I hear education experts say that N is too young to teach kids X. It's fine for each jurisdiction to have its own ideas about when to introduce particular topics, but they probably have very little info about how well things would have worked at a different rate or in a different order.

This all goes n-tupley when we consider any individual kid in. In that case you should just see what the kid can do and wants to do for yourself and not bother with what teachers think they are unready for.
Reminds me a little bit of some Stephen Shore photographs of banal Americana --but set in Japan... so banal Iaponia?
Yeah. Every now and again you'll also come across some 50-year old looking mechanical rice vending machine, selling 5, 10 and 15 kg bags of rice.
I HATE my friend's vintage Porsche. It doesn't even have Bluetooth like my Yaris! And the exhaust sound is so obnoxious. Who even needs to drive fast on the way to Olive Garden? Every car made in the past 10 years is better than that old Porsche.
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So Bluetooth devices disconnect when you hit the button to disconnect Bluetooth devices?
The architecture largely if not entirely supports that. Extensions and language services in VS Code exchange a flavour of JSON-RPC 2 and can run over HTTP.

Check out "Monaco" (https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor). Easy to drop into any project, and easy to back with OOTB or remote services. I use it in a few different projects for live config editing of custom JSON and XML schemas and excellent auto-complete capabilities.
You know caps-locking your words doesn't make them more meaningful, right?
Genelec are amazing speakers. They are the definition of reference. They are clean and they can be loud. They started out about the same time as the NS10 (1978) by the early 1980s they were the definition of the reference speaker. https://www.genelec.com/genelec-story-0

Once you use them you are kind of stuck. Your ear gets use to them and you mix to them. You can go to several different studios and you can mix easily. The idea is that the sound that comes out of the speakers goes directly to your ears and not reflexive sound. I have 1030a and they are small but I can mix in bad acoustic rooms and still have a great reference. You can plug any speaker of theirs into any of their sub woofers and have the same reference sound. So the use of Genelec has been growing and have become the standard. Sadly they aren't cheap but they are worth it. Mine are almost 20 years old and they still are great.
With Facebook and g+ is free. G+ is easy because it's 0 99,99999% of the time.

For Twitter you have to pay to a third party service like gnip. It makes senses since twitter is still losing money.
The referenced Buzzfeed article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15351006
Do QR codes provide any error correction, or is the a crease, fold or spec of dirt on the paper you printed on going to render your QR-encoded key unreadable?
Genelec's are the high-end of personal listening for music enjoyment, but they're far from flat. Studios probably have them as a reference for what some critics and fans will be listening on.
Bonus points for being classy despite being attacked.

> What a bunch of senseless FUD

Is not a very courteous way to begin a rebuttal. Definitely makes it feel like an ad hominem.
Do you mean you want to cache things that can't be serialised to memory pages, or you don't want the memory pages to be backed by files?

In the context of this article, many databases use the page cache to cache their data-structures, either in combination with private pages (ie postgres) or entirely (ie LMDB).
Another obvious scam: http://laser.online
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One can power up a device, to see if it's working, without actually using it.
Those "speakers" are not meant to be a primary sound source, but I have heard some phones from HTC that sounded MUCH better than NS10.
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What's the amp? There's a lot of info on /r/zeos for the best speakers at each price point.
Plus considering there was a manuscript on cryptanalysis written as early as 800AD (IIRC), it can hardly be considered the first. Additionally, I'd consider cryptanalysis (ie, decoding messages not intended for you) more of an "attack" than this nonsense.

I'm sure there were a million other "interfering with communication" instances throughout history,why they picked this particular one is totally baffling to me.
You can learn lots of interesting things by invading people's privacy.

I responded to the argument you linked. You're avoiding a more interesting discussion on the topic. Push the [-] button and move on. Your comment is blatantly hypocritical:

"Every time X is updated people complain about X; those people ignore the details of the update."

"Every time people complain about X other people complain about them complaining about X; those people ignore the details of the complaint."
from the author: "1yr look ahead, rebalance each year? Yes. We also looked at monthly. If you shorten the horizon the returns get silly and the drawdowns go down. At 1yr you can still hit 20%+ dd. At monthly you become a trillionaire with essentially no risk"
I will say that after going through their download form and download button, I learned a bit about how not to design a download form and download button.
I meant that the government funding trickles down to SpaceX and OrbitalATK through NASA's contract.
They're bluetooth devices. I'm not sure what your expectation is?
Asian here, Indian to be precise. While I agree with you, I must point out the side effects. This obsession with grades and studies pushes lot of kids on a sort of rat race. There is immense pressure to succeed and success is typically narrowly defined like high grades and a secure job. I don't know the numbers in US, but in India this has caused a lot of rise in teenage and young adult suicides, it is not uncommon to here of suicides of kids studying for IITs due to pressure to perform.
Another side-effect of this obsession with academic achievement has given rise to herd mentality where everyone is pushed to pursue similar career paths like engineering or medicine irrespective of a child's aptitude or interest. In India, especially this has led to a huge number of engineers who never wanted to be engineers. This has also meant that despite the aptitude lot of kids never got to pursue arts or pure sciences, in fact the popular perception of someone pursuing arts or pure sciences is that he or she could not make into engineering or medicine. Not to mention that this also discourages risk taking and entrepreneurship. Last thing I want to mention is that in Indian culture the idea of social perception is very strong, what will the society say tends to be a big factor in how decisions are made. This is one reason why despite sizeable population, India tends to be behind the world in pure science or in many sports. The mentality is changing a bit but not a lot and it is coming at a cost of many innocent lives.
Check out the `dep` tool: https://github.com/golang/dep

It is the future of official vendoring tools.

You could also look at `govendor`: https://github.com/kardianos/govendor

I've used govendor in some projects and found it agreeable. Best of luck :-)
I had multiple Thinkpads over the years and never noticed. I'm on an HP elitebook now, and just looked down for the first time. Yup - misaligned B key label.
The Hard Black. Delicious.
It is a variable setting for each code. Here's a damaged but readable QR code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#/media/File:QR_Code_Da...
Even if you are the fabled user who would turn your radios off and cripple your phone just to decrease your attack surface... like you’re walking into enemy territory... Wouldn’t you just use airplane mode?
It also excels at storing logs for later aggregation and analysis.
I think it's pretty clear that's just the NSA's lack of confidence in its leader.

The leak addressed in this article stems from 2015.
> I mean, there's verifiable evidence Russia tried to influence our election.

No doubt, I don't think anyone argues that point. Russia and ex-Soviet Union's KGB have always tried to manipulate Western governments. Propaganda and planting stories in newspapers was one of their favorite methods.

Any developed country would be trying. US is too important for anyone with any power or resource to not try to influence it.

However I don't believe what they did had any meaningful effect on US elections. We would have found out by now. I didn't believe it since it came out and I still don't. So far I see a PR story that has gone out of hand, it was pushed and promoted in order to explain what happened. Heck, people tell that story to themselves. "Surely, my compatriots couldn't have voted this, way, it must have been some super villain spy thing".

> This is just the first time Russia has been so involved in our politics since the Cold War, and the media is rightly running with that idea.

When did Russia stop involved being in our politics. It sent undercover spies to live and try to infiltrate think tanks and such. Remember the spy ring that was uncovered. Literal KGB agents living illegally around NY and such. That stuff never stopped.

> Is it that unbelievable for some people that Russia was involved in trying to influence our election?

It is unbelievable that they singled out Russians and keep running with it for a year without any proof that the Russian did anything to change the result of the election. The amount of talk this received, it would seem they have proof the Russian changed the votes in those Rust Belt states' voting machines. Unless we think those states are full of KGB agents this is story is mostly a waste of time.

And yes, the tragedy here is the opportunity cost of wasting energy on something like this instead of focusing efforts and coming with a new platform for the Democrat party, starting a new party. Instead its Russia, Trump said a stupid thing, his taxes, more Russia, he ate 2 scoops of ice-cream, back to Russia.

Sure they tried, they deserve some credit:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/democratic-agenda-unv...

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"Schumer: Democrats' top priority is health care, not Russia"

The plan -- "A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future" -- is a three-pronged approach that focuses on improving wages, lowering costs of everyday expenses and boosting job-training opportunities.

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But compared to Russia and the piss dossier and scoops of ice-cream that doesn't seem to interest very many people (if we assume media reflects and presents to people what they really want to hear).
If your kids can read at 3, then good. But the power-tool argument allows for flexibility.

I think I was a little slow, or at best normal in picking up reading as a kid. But for whatever reason, by about the age of 8 I was reading well ahead of the rest. So I never read The Cat in the Hat, but I read the The Hobbit long before most kids.

And I'm glad, because that second level is where the real power-tool lies. There's little point reading non-fiction at Cat in the Hat level. But there's plenty of facts available that are simpler to read than The Hobbit.

That isn't to say I didn't learn other stuff: my favorite childhood book was about science. But it had lots of pictures, and when fist got it, my parents read an explained it to me.
> Using the fifth root gives five intervals for each octave, a pentatonic scale. Why five notes? It is really easy to make something that sounds good in the pentatonic scale and really hard for a pair of notes to be dissonant.

Wait a minute! Is the five-note equal-division of the octave really one of those scales that "just sound good"? It's definitely not the same scale as the example he links to.
Very well said. I wish more people held this valuable understanding.
For the record that's how I do it too. Saves lots of battery and I'm not actively using the phone that frequently.