skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that at all. Handing dying piglets to an agent of the law and documenting their returning to the farm without penalty is exactly how you get laws passed. Stealing them and then trying to make the police look complicit is an unnecessary distraction if your aim is effecting behavioral changes.
While somewhat on the subject of window utilities: Is there a program that lets you make say a virtual desktop, then draw a box around a section that you can then take to your real desktop?

It would be handy to have for programs that are overly buttony and ribbony that you know well enough to navigate keyboard only (or that you use only for a specific subset of commands) which take up far too much screen real estate.
Sorry for being impatient and calling your argument nonsense; the main problem I see with that is the fact that these issues are orthogonal. You won't be trading meat to palm oil chocolate and unethical bananas. Portraying these two as issues that should be weighed against each other is not representative of the actual outcomes, and thus feels to me like unnecessary spreading of uncertainty.
I've been using a Chromebook as my primary laptop for the past 3 or 4 years... I do my programming, my blogging, and even photo editing on there. I have one Chromebook that has Linux on it as an alternative, just in case I need SSH or FTP access. But primarily, I'm doing everything on the Internet. There's a website or Chrome extension for just about everything.

Since most of my coding happens in PHP and MySQL.. I don't really need an official platform for that... I just use whatever tools my host provides and thats good enough.

I love it because I don't have to deal with "loading times" or viruses or anything like that. The worst thing that happens is that I open up too many tabs at once and it might crash every so often, warranting a restart, and while most devs might not recommend it, I do recommend it. I'll never go back!

Another advantage is that I only buy Chromebooks with T-Mobile SIMM card adaptions built in, as I can connect it and be wireless no matter where I go. So I won't buy any Chromebook that is not capable of that.
A reasonable handicap system is to allow the better players to take set(s) only if they can take two at once (depending on difficulty, the sets may or may not share a card). Sounded scary at first, but works quite well actually.
Bought. Nice.

Issue: Not allowing to resize window on YT link.

Edit: Actually it works now. Apologies.
I don't think you're comprehending the sheer difference in scale between 10^60 and 10^80.
I agree, this is about as impressive as some kid that builds his own browser in Visual Basic by drag'n'dropping in an IE control.
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One thing that doesn't make the two interchangeable is total ordering and range queries, which are only supported by B-trees and not by hash indexes. So the question is whether you're willing to trade that away for faster insertion and lookup.

> When you have fast byte-addressable storage it will pay to not read pages

It always pays to not read pages :-) An alternative way to look at it is that faster storage is more forgiving of more accesses, meaning the benefits of hash indexes might be less prominent.
> I too would like to see this verifiable evidence.

He went to the meeting because Russians said they have dirt on Hilary and admitted it.

Also, There was at least one Russian troll farm targeting voters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facebook-says-it-sol...

Russia also has a history of influencing elections in other countries.
Are you saying there are no witch hunts on the American right? (Pizzagate, Benghazi, emails?) Nobody with a stable and lucrative career in these witch hunts? (Alex Jones, most of Fox News?) No hobbyists who enjoy witch-hunting on the weekend? (Again Pizzagate - an extreme case of the right-wing “do your own research to pierce the media veil” bullshit rabbit hole.)

If that’s not what you’re saying, why is the actual point dressed up in that overwrought allegory?
It's really like that. In the countryside, you'll occasionally see rice fields with small walkways in between them in a + configuration with a vending machine hanging out in the middle. Presumably for the farmers to get something to drink...
These things are always hard to judge but there's certainly plenty of prior art: there's a ton of CS history for distributed consensus, distributed attestation, etc. prior to 2007 and the proof of work concept goes back to at least the 90s – see e.g. http://www.hashcash.org or http://www.hashcash.org/papers/bread-pudding.pdf.

Anyone who spent time on cypherpunks-l in the 90s would also be familiar with the discussions of e-currencies like David Chaum's 1989 digicash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash) which did not use proof-of-work but did cover a lot of the same ground for anonymity, etc.
I think you'll find Russia is doing a bit world wide.

They've just finished up the Zapad war games again, denounced Georgia having war games with the US. Getting back into Uzbekistan now that Karimov is gone. Russian companies are now supplying internet and phone service to North Koreans. Crimea is still going on with continuing threats to Ukranian sovereignty. Russian gov has just committed more funds to Kalningrad and the Far East. Two regions with some fairly significant strategic value. Russian has been funding the Venezuelan regime and doing so in a way that dodges US sanctions. Russian government is attempting to put Belarusian military units under their control. Russians have alledgedly been involved with the Catalonian independence movement.

This is not to say other countries aren't busy too but I think it's false to believe that Putin and the Russian government is only involved in Syria.
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What JSON-LD is supported in email and what could it be used for?
> It's not fair comparing speakers to headphones/earphones

True, but we are not comparing for the purpose of finding the "best value for money", we are trying to find an answer to the question: do the NS10s reflect the situation of today's average listener? My argument is that they suck so much that they are now below average... So I think they're not the right monitor choice in 2017
I feel I have the relevant real world expertise to have a say about that.

I am one of the principle engineers working on a game that was able to support over 1.2 million players concurrently, so I feel that I have some merit behind what I'm about to say.

ECC Memory does not have such an extreme overhead. Our gameserver is memory bandwidth bound. To put that into perspective a change from DDR3 to DDR4 saw a jump in performance of 34%~. Using non-ecc memory (which is obviously very available to the development team) only gave a penalty of roughly 3% in the worst case. (both DDR4 systems).

Why are we memory bandwidth bound? because we allocate 250GB of "game world" and phases and make teeny tiny modifications to them when you run around or pick up loot and shit. It's as taxing as you can be on memory bandwidth since you can't batch set or load anything.
It chugged on a 2 GB csv for a personal project, but it was tolerable. I wouldn't use this machine for work.
>Kelly turned his phone into the White House IT department after he said it wasn't working and the software was not updating correctly, according to the report.

On the bright side, it's not likely that an APT/nation state actor was responsible. Breaking things is pretty amateur hour.

Then again, maybe his phone sucked and they just wanted him to get one with a better mic/camera. Perhaps whatever compromising selfies were not of sufficient quality.
The more reasonable advice I was given was “keep to yourself when possible, lower your normal speaking tone by an octave”
> roblem is EVERY speaker made the last 20 years is better than these speakers.

I disagree heres.

"Real" speakers might be better, but most people listen to music on crappy laptop speakers or crappy bluetooth 1-inch mono speakers. The quality of the average sound reproduction device has been getting worse the last 20 years.
Yep. My FB feed seems to be 50% pictures of food and travel and 50% anti-Trump articles.

Even if you agree with the general sentiment, imagine a child growing up whose main media sources are the informational equivalent of a cross between crack cocaine and junk food.
Im the one leaving to Atlanta [0]. Crowdfunding might work, but how would you scale it? In my case, I dont need money from a crowsource campaign. I just need a job once I arrive by the 15th. Others who are leaving do so, too. Keep an eye out for those. :)

I think everyone in the US should take notice of how things are being handled because this could be you in the future.

[0]Link to my resume in case you are hiring and interested:

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The odd thing to me about Japan's vending machine situation is that it's largely drinks. Not much in the way of the snack vending machines that one frequently encounters in the U.S.

I suppose it's probably due to the Japanese aversion to preservatives / prevalence of convenience stores, but one would think they'd have come up with some tricks like the ones they've perfected with cup noodles.
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I now regret not making an account earlier (I'm 126xxx). I was totally fine being an Anonymous Coward.

It was only when I realized that having an account still allowed me to post as an AC that I finally made one.

I wish AC was still a thing for popular websites like reddit, HN, etc. Just start off the comment at -1 or something...

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> Officials told Politico that Kelly had not used the personal phone since joining the administration in January, and has reportedly been using a different phone since. He reportedly relies on his government phone while at the White House.

Then why did he bring it to the White House IT team because it stopped working/updating?

Edit: To clarify, it's not that he took it to the White House IT team (that's appropriate). It's the question of why he would notice if it wasn't working, the type of technical complaint described in the articles seems to argue a little against him not using it at all.
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Why would 'news' become dead? Nazism had a substantial impact on German both on its way in and out - it developed/repurposed its own special phraseology and terms and those terms later fell out of use (or at least, in out of use in the contexts of their Nazi use). But this happened through focused effort, up to and including laws. Nothing of the sort has happened or is likely to happen to the word 'news'.
How does this compare with AviSynth/AvxSynth?
The "common sense" part means that I know that you know that I know that you know that I know that you know...
Our galaxy has ~10^70 atoms. At an atom per compute element, we will use 1/10^10 of our entire galaxy for our own compute? 10^60 is a bit more than the number of atoms in our sun. Given our sub-exponential space advances over the last 50 years, it seems... ambitious... to turn our sun into a computer in the next 300.

If they're saying we'll be an interstellar spacefaring civilization in much less than 300 years, they really buried their lead :)
I have a pair of Genelec 8020's which fits the bill pretty well.
To an extent, JBL LSR305. $300/pair, self-amplified, takes XLR and TRS inputs.
There's a book on (roughly) this question:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish#Summary
People with too much empathy can be easily swayed by a couple of emotionally charged stories without carefully considering the long term consequences or the data.

Going off topic but gun control is a great example. There is a small group of Americans who want to take away the right to private ownership of firearms. It's a small group and not a real concern.

The problem is there is a decent chunk of Americans who are very empathy driven and you show them the picture of a little girl who was shot dead and reason goes out the window.

So what does the other side do? Push their own emotionally charged propaganda to combat it. And refuse to compromise even when they agree.
The reason to avoid very direct accusations in politics in news is to keep your powder dry -- so that you can have greater impact when you truly need to do so.
This is an obvious effect of Mark Zuckerburg refusing to believe in privacy contexts. Users have routed around the problem by using different accounts themselves for the different privacy contexts.
Not if they are large sophisticated state sponsored attacks.

I think we have to forego the stereotype of lone wolf havker (or at least not treat as the only hacker stereotype) when considering having a large population put their valuables into a single pot.
"I see people use this all the time as their main speaker?"

What are you talking about? Nobody uses the NS10 as their main speaker today. It's been a decade since they were in common use and nearly two decades since they were even manufactured.
Can you talk about the "pivot" from web dev? Would be interested in learning why you pivoted, how you decided to pivot into creating a game, etc.

Game looks cool though.
I see no reason why that would have resulted in any less of a witch hunt than the current outcome. This was a very mild and non-obtrusive instance of activism, and I whole-heartedly believe this was the correct course of action in this case.

Non-destructive activism is an overwhelmingly positive force for society. These were dying, mistreated piglets; calling this "stealing" is akin to giving a blessing for the animal cruelty that took place here.
I read a lot of /. back in the day. I even had my 5 minutes of internet fame with the Sony Rootkit fiasco ( https://www.google.com.mx/search?biw=1344&bih=759&q=sony+roo... ) .

However, I stopped going at some point because I felt I was in an "echo chamber". Actually that's how I started visiting Reddit and later Hacker News. I liked HackerNews because it had some contrasting values compared to slashdot, valuing "for profit" software efforts, and having more technically focused comments.
Well, maybe no trouble justifying it, but I'd hazard it's likely not a morally sound argument.
3. It's just a bug.

You know the sort of thing that happens to developers: Every. Single. Day.
This reminds me of Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"[1].

A timeless work about language misuse in Politics.

[1]http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit...
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I'm not entirely sure, but yesterday I observed some vending machines at a local university that worked with student IDs. The machines had a small antenna encased in the drink display, so presumably that model broadcast payment and/or inventory updates to some nearby receiver or via stock WiFi networks.

I'd expect that there would be a strong incentive to have the cards require network access to verify balances or else some enterprising hackers could potentially reverse engineer the process to add additional funds to the card.
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This only seems to work in practise for tools that are very small, otherwise exceptional writing is required (which, by definition, will rarely occur). I can't imagine (to pick a particularly extreme example) that anyone has ever learned to use git by reading the man pages.

In contrast, even features in pretty poor GUI apps are by default generally discoverable.
There's very little "misinformation" about him at all. He's cased, and cased correctly. Your own cite demonstrates it amply.

You struck me as better than buying this shit. You don't have to care, but I am disappointed.
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Oh, the Paycoin guy. That was clearly a scam.
As an important government official, would you rather he gone to the Verizon store when his phone stopped working?
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I don't get the bodega hooplah. Every startup is taking away some way of making a living of someone else.

It's like saying pizza hut coopted Italian pizza joints and drove Italian pizza makers out of biz. Sure, it did, but aside from the fact jobs were lateralized, what's the big deal about transforming the biz?

Same with Uber et all.
I remember also getting vended fries, but hot and cold drinks alone blew my mind coming from the U.K.
That's odd, because I've seen the number of cases where in-memory databases make sense increase over the last three decades.
I worked at Apple as a developer. I just went to another company just like everyone else does.

I know lots of people who have spent their entire careers there because the work is challenging and interesting. I also know teams that handle anonymous backend infrastructure e.g. AppleID or ADC where there was higher turnover.

No different to any other company.
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I have some fairly old paradigm floor speakers. I’d like to move to some decent bookshelf’s. I have an amp. Any suggestions? I use them for music, TV, and movies.
Phreaking.
I haven't tried it, but it should be possible to MITM SSL for your own machines since you have control over trusted certificate authorities.

There might be a better article if you search deeper than I did to come up with a quick link, but here:

https://blog.heckel.xyz/2013/07/01/how-to-use-mitmproxy-to-r...
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We are talking about something very big.

It's bad enough this is an emotive political subject, but it's also a complex one.
If I can continue to harp on my 'dust mote' fable. The life expectancy was 64 under the previous regime, and is 56 in the current one.

Some back of the envelope arithmetic.

8 years x 40 million = 320000000 person years.

Let us call that, assuming the higher life expectancy: five million dead.

That's the cost of bad government. Silent. Insidious. Real.

Now it's complex, because you'll say: "It couldn't be helped, we don't really know if the previous regime would have done better", and I'll agree with you. Then it becomes subjective because nobody can really know the answer and it's impossible to test.

I strongly suspect improper rule has led to at least several million avoidable deaths.

As I see it, if a government does 99/100 things right, but 1/100 things wrong, and those 1/100 things have a greater impact than the other 99... I think you see what I'm getting at. Good intentions, some gains morally, it's all kind of worthless if the big things aren't got right. To use a Comp Sci analogy, governments have their own version of Big O notation.
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You’ve completely missed the point of this comment
In the US, RedBox (well, CoinStar in general) seems to have figured out the right formula for successful vending machines.
Do you think the response was actually because of the two missing piglets, and not a politically motivated move in support for the farming practices?
WWCS (What would Clapper Say):

Nov 15, 2017, to Congress: "I can categorically deny that there were any leaks of this nature during my tenure as Director of National Intelligence."

June 22, 2020: "Well, yes, I did say at the time that I denied it. But I said 'categorically denied'- that is to say, under certain conditions, or categories, this could be denied. That is what I meant and I stand by that. I also used the word 'can,' which is a sort of conditional; look it up in your grammar books. I did not say 'I do deny,' but 'I can deny.' There are conditions that might allow one to deny this assertion: i.e. what exactly is a Russian, what does it mean to leak, or to have leaked, or to have an inadvertant leak. That is what I meant and I stand by that also."
Thanks! I remember reading this thread a while back and I thought it made it in.
I built a knowledge sharing startup back in 2001 called Woyano.

One thing we learned, as a general rule, it is difficult to effectively pay people to create good content on a social network.

The best and most knowledgeable people want to create content based on intrinsic motivations rather than financial ones.

One only need look at Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Quora, etc to see intrinsic motivation inspiring good content.

I guess the main point is that once you start paying people then the intrinsically motivated people aren't as likely to post on the same place.
Perhaps the QA team that does full releases is overburdened, lol.
Who buys stuff in a vending machine in the middle of nowhere though ?

I am really intrigued.
Just don't start wanting users to chat with emojis and you're fine.
Why are you comparing average meat to the most unethical plant foods? Only an insane troll would stop eating meat to replace the calories with the worst possible plants, and obviously average plants are much less bad than average meat.
This is a very good source and runs off of mobile and desktop nicely to my surprise. Please anyone take a moment and donate even if its $5. It could be you or your family next time in need (hope not)
Well, because you don’t buy the car. Ferrari owns it, you buy a license to use it.

Just like with all your online services, or your software.
If it was an Android phone they might root it which would prevent updates from applying as those check the integrity of the system partition before applying.
There's still "Anführer", which is a leader of a group and makes sense to me, as opposed to "leadership" without any qualifiers. That is, "leadership" seems to be often used not to describe the fact that someone leads or is in the lead, but for some shifting cloud of properties that lead to them being leader or in the lead, or making it a good thing they are. Totally off-topic, but my pet peeve of American English. I bet there's a German equivalent, but I sleep better not knowing it (it's not "Führerschaft", that I know).

Come to think of it, English "news" is more like the German "Neuigkeiten", while "Nachrichten" is more like the English "messages". But German news are as sensationalistic as everywhere else, so that seems to have no effect.
"A lawyer who happened to be Russian" is an extraordinarily significant misrepresentation of who Natalia Veselnitskaya is.
You think an unaffiliated individual just recreationally hacked the White House Chief of Staff's phone?
Oh wow, that's crazy. I've only been to Tokyo, where they weren't out of place, but out in the fields? Sounds like quite the sight.