skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do. Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that the old way of thinking has apparently died out.

At no point have I been more likely to convert to a free software zealot. I'll have to rethink my stance going forward on pretty much everything I do.

Anyway, thank you to everyone for providing thoughts and comments. This was most helpful.
>"Final custody decisions are always made by ICE deportation officers."

ICE seems to be an exception here, isn't? IANAL, my understanding is that for any person in US jurisdiction any decision on bond/custody is supposed to be made by a judge. I mean at least Guantanamo is, by some sleight of hands (for example US flagged vessels aren't while US flagged military base is?), somehow outside US jurisdiction. It seems that ICE actions are also excluded. History has been showing again and again that leaving the things unchecked in the hand of executive power is naturally leading to the abuse of the power.
Wow can you read this for me? I dont get it
A couple questions, if you’ll indulge me:

In pre-Quantim TST, you had the option when closing a parent tab to promote the first child, or promote all children. Are those options available? (For flexibility and safety, I use the former, and then “Right click -> Close subtree” as needed.)

Re. repeatedly undoing close tab (Ctrl-Shift-t (or Cmd) is what you mean?) I find that in FF 52ESR that it only un-closes up to the last 10 or so tabs. Do you know if that limit still exists?
> In 2000, Congress declared the next ten years the “Decade of Pain Control and Research,” after the Supreme Court, rejecting the idea of physician-assisted suicide as a constitutional right, recommended improvements in palliative care. Pain was declared “the fifth vital sign” (alongside blood pressure, pulse rate, respiratory rate, and temperature), and the numerical scoring of pain became a standard feature of U.S. medical records, billing codes, and best-practice guides.

This is one of the reasons that I find the push to solely blame physicians and pharma for the opioid epidemic misleading. In the early 2000's treatment of pain was being pushed, and it was deemed the "fifth vital sign", even though it is subjective unlike the other four vital signs. Physicians were being evaluated on how their patients said they treated pain. Given this environment, it is no surprise that pharma developed powerful drugs to target pain, and physicians prescribed these drugs in large amounts. We are today dealing with the fallout of this push.
Seems like this is being flagged out of the front page (and there's another similar link from boingboing.net), is it for not being original reporting? In that case, the linked article from Reuters is a good original source:

Trump’s catch-and-detain policy snares many who have long called U.S. home: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immi...
Has anything displaced Nixie tubes as a Pareto improvement? Nixie tubes offer an implementation of custom single-size "vector" fonts.
7-segment displays offer badly limited fonts. Raster displays are only partly competitive with vector displays in the recent "Retina" era.
But the DOS machines I used in my kiddiehood were much more powerful than the PDP-11s etc that Unix and its rivals had been developed on.

Sure, DOS was solving useful problems that Unix didn't. But there was no reason why an OS for computers with 20Mhz processors that whopping 640kB of RAM had to be as bad as it was.
I had thought two letter TLDs weren’t allowed till the mid 90s... but this shows they were allowed from the beginning. Maybe I’m thinking single alphanumeric domains.
Unlawful presence (for example, overstaying a visa) is not a crime, and improper entry (sneaking over the border) is a misdemeanor.[0]

0 - https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2014/07/is-illegal-immigra...
HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942165
Why is this being flagged?
I did a whole bunch of benchmarking of template engines, and even went as far as to write my own a few tears ago when mobile devices were slow and I was trying to eke out extra performance.

Turns out the bottleneck is almost never interpolating the template, it's the browser parsing/creating the resultant DOM. This is true with both the innerHTML and createElement approaches to constructing the DOM.
Isn't it like within 10% of the default gzip settings in every case?
Do you know, I'm not quite sure what you might mean specifically. Why don't you describe what exactly the problems are with describing the behavior of CO2 at the top-of-atmosphere. What energy transfer mechanism do you think is being missed?
Cheap, but not capable. You should price out an Amiga 500 and an equivalent 286 PC (VGA, SoundBlaster, etc.)
It seems obvious that, regardless of the legality, it will be used in parallel construction. Once these tools are made, they will be used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Yep, fixed!
>Sure. But are they really going to drag me into court?

Only if you don't comply.
Agreed. I'm worried SAE hasn't received as much peer review as other PAKE protocols.

IMHO they should have gone with J-PAKE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Authenticated_Key_Exc...) which is one of the few PAKE protocols that is not patent encumbered and decently peer-reviewed. In fact, that's why Thread (https://www.threadgroup.org/) selected J-PAKE as their authentication protocol.
I don't get you. You ask 'How should I handle this?' and then you proceed to argue with everybody who tells you exactly how to handle this.

You're violating copyright and the counterparty has indicated they mean business. If you stick to this then you will lose a lot of money and in the end it will still be removed. So there is no upside but a huge downside.

Pick your battles. This is not a smart battle even if you feel that you are in the right (you're not).
Still no TLS sendfile unfortunately. Apparently TLS sendfile is being used at Netflix to push over 150Gb/s on a single box. I can't wait until it's open sourced.
Do you realize that by bringing attention to this, that you're causing people to go find that repo? You're in violation of copyright by making it available, regardless of how many people download/view it. But now, because you're kicking it up on HN, Twitter, and Reddit about it, you're making their case stronger. Just take it down, this is not worth the effort or money.
> The car is surrounded by posters that read "Enter to win"

I just have to enter the car? Hold my beer!
Outside of the strict legal definition, it's a crime. This is pedantic and legalistic. Yes, you're technically correct. But most people consider violating the law to be a criminal act, and unlawful presence is breaking the law even if it's civil and not criminal.

People point this out regularly. Everyone either knows, or doesn't care for the reasons I just stated. It doesn't contribute anything to the conversation.
Number of mainstream pundits opposing Iraq War: 1

Paul Krugman
You'd want to use clip-path which isn't supported that well yet, but it does let you define non-rectangular hover regions. But there is still a problems with this approach.

It's subtle, but if you look at the Bloomberg implementation, if you move the pointer to the left at any point, it abandons the behaviour and highlights the menu item below the pointer -- even if the pointer is still inside the conceptual triangle region.

So I think you can get pretty close to a CSS-only solution in modern browsers, but the the small touches that make it feel great would still probably require writing some JavaScript.
If the tokens provide utility, e.g. this token is 500gb of storage and adoption, network activity, or technology productivity increases, the value of these utility tokens will go up in value on the market.

So it’s basically like a new commodity. Ether is compared to gas on the Ethereum network for distributed compute for instance.
The problem you're describing is more about your choice in stack than brotli. NginX solved this problem with dynamic modules. I would argue that compiling your own software is a core part of servers and apart of running any service on the web that you are developing custom software with. It should be an automated process with release schedules the same as anything else, because not knowing how to build your stack will become painfully obvious when the 'official' releases have a problem.
Yeah, after I posted that I realized that what I was remembering was a lot of fuss that they were going to charge, although I could have sworn that was more like 94-95ish. I do remember thinking that the amount was such that it'd not impact large companies but an individual, such as poor college students like myself at the time, might find it onerous.
I owe my entire career to GWBASIC, QBasic, and Turbo Pascal, all of which was done from an IBM PC. When I first discovered UNIX by way of Red Hat Linux I was utterly confused: all of those absurdly named directories in my root! And where were the executables? I remember pecking out some C in nano, compiling it, and then wondering how the hell you turn a.out into a.exe.
Seems to be frozen now. D'oh, I was too late to get my first FreeBSD feature (woohoo!) added to the 11.2 release notes. So I'll just randomly post it here in case anyone cares:

The procctl(2) syscall has been updated to support
PROC_PDEATHSIG_CTL, similar to Linux® PR_SET_PDEATHSIG. [r333162]
The thesis that there is no hard problem, or the thesis that we don't understand our own consciousness?
In the context of the parent comment I don't see how this is pedantic and legalistic. superkah was suggesting that being an undocumented immigrant is a serious enough crime to warrant detention. I am asserting that it is not based on the fact that it is a civil crime, or at worst a misdemeanor.
Are you factoring in the cost of the people to deploy and maintain that infrastructure?
If you had said Henry Neville that would have been interesting. Neville was a friend and supporter of Essex.
"Entailments of perception" is too broad and so doesn't pick out the right target here. My immediate perception entails that there is a red cup a short distance in front of me. Entailments about the outside world can certainly be false (e.g. that red is a property of the cup that lives in the outside world).

But what does the perception of a red cup entail about my inner state? Nothing that I can tell, except that I am having a perception of a specific kind. What does it mean to say that my perception of a specific kind is an illusion? It's hard to say. The perception gives me certain powers of discrimination that entail the necessary veracity of those aspects of the perception (i.e. I can tell red from blue, red from pain, red from pitch, etc). Are there aspects of perception that don't play a role in any kind of discrimination? Not that I can tell. And so perceptions themselves just don't seem like the kinds of things that can be properly called illusions.
I wish I had worked on other people's codebases earlier. Its a bit daunting when starting out but the art of understanding a codebase is invaluable and you'll learn how others use a language in interesting different ways
Custom Shaders with Google ARCore and Sceneform
Not as surprising since the Elephants came from just a few hundred miles away accross the Mediterranean Sea.
Co founder and CEO
Mac shows CPU usage as 100% per core. Means he has a quad-core or dual-core w/ hyperthreading.
Top of atmosphere is not the only part of the ecosystem that's the point.
So does this unfortunate and regrettable historical event mean that we can't use research, demographics, and psychometrics to determine likely outcomes and inform policy decisions?
This is so true. If cab drivers hadn’t been so universally crap to begin with, everyone wouldn’t have so readily switched to Uber.
A Twitter Bot Has Joined the Immigration Battle to Fight ICE with Facts
The article sort of implies but is unclear.

Berkshire's General Re does reinsurance, not re-"reinsurance". Is there a recursive step -- Could General Re face a claim that it needs to leans on the rest of Berkshire to pay?

The article says its insurance companies face a 2 percent chance of being "$12 billion" insolvent, which Berkshire could cover from non-insurance profits. But would that still be true if the claims came in, or would the non-insurance companies also have correlated down years?
I suppose Berkshire Hathaway is big enough that if it came down to it, it could liquidate equity ($500B minus devaluation due to whatever catastrophe) to make good on claims.
The customer takes all the risk. Reserving instances is a bad deal, that should be assimilated to gambling.
... the US taxpayer
Isn't not getting caught sort of part and parcel of silk road style evangelism?
Startups Don’t Need to Make Financial Sense
This instance isn't even like money laundering, it's more like grand theft.

They're not biased data into their ML algorithm and losing track of where the bias went, like the kind of systems Maciej describes. They're just cutting out the ML entirely and replacing it 100% with the biased answer they want.
I doubt many 90s desktop apps were designed around the expectation that the Turing Complete programming logic behind them could be explicitly disabled by the user.

And exactly what 90s desktop app had a menu that looked quite like that? Platform's then supported cascading popup menus with titles and icons rendered in native GUI chrome, ala the Windows 95 Start Menu. Any more flexibility required a lot of "low-level (whatever) diddling".

"Browser" incompatibilities are not much of a thing when you are developing for a platform provided by just a single vendor. But go ahead and try to port a Win95 app to OS7, you'll soon be longing to deal with the minor incompatibilities between different browsers (and yes, it's 2018, you don't need jQuery shims to reliably add two numbers together anymore).

CSS has long supported cascading popup menus without the need for any Javascript and browsers have long supported that CSS in a standards compliant way. Yes, if you really want some Win95 style menus you'll have an easier time in Visual Basic, but for most everything else it will be nearly impossible.

The webstack is not ideal by any means, but to suggest that it is somehow worse than win32 programming or easier to create responsive good looking apps in classic VB requires some mighty fine rose-colored-glasses.
I'm not so sure of that. Tiling is something that I do think is superior in many ways. However, I would be lying if I said I like it better than just dragging to the center of the screen the main app I'm working with.

Rarely do I really need/want two windows. Worse, since most of what I do is data entry, copying out of a browser is not something I will do by transcribing text, which means I'm likely reaching for the mouse. Which means I don't really care about the wins of a tiling window.

Granted, I do tend to side towards training of a more tiling like experience is far superior to just diving through. However, I no longer subscribe to the idea that knowing the shortcuts and other fancy management tricks of advanced window managers is necessary. I do it nowdays solely because it makes me happy. And this is perhaps why I find the phone so non-compelling of a platform to use.
AmEx Extends Win Streak with Amazon Card for Small Businesses
There are lectures that specifically use deep learning (in the form of fastAI's high-level `ColumnarData` API) to get state of the art results on the Rossmann Kaggle competition, but they _do_ borrow a good amount of feature engineering from the third-place winners from that competition.

It might very well be that the DNN sledgehammer is simply the wrong tool for the job in most structured-data cases; if that's so, even an article outlining _why not_ to use FastAI for these scenarios (with actual performance comparisons) would be nice.

That's all I'm looking for -- I should have mentioned that I am almost 100% new to ML/DL/data science & friends.
"quitting your job" is not "retiring", and $1M in 1993 generates a decent enough amount of long term interest for a low cost of living area.
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Reminiscing about the Global Evidence Summit
I agree that there is more dollars to be made on consulting, however there is little money to be saved by the client. It's all about promising cost savings while pocketing the difference and some more.
But I thought Bitcoin mining hardware was all online-only sales?
Everyone had an address, almost everyone had a phone, almost nobody had an email address. Not very useful.

How did you send pictures over email? I know what you are thinking, but no, you didn't take digital pictures. If you wanted to send one of your pictures over email, you needed to have an expensive scanner. And if you did, the pixel quality would be terrible. Not very useful.

Technologies like email need things around it to evolve, both technical and social. And the same is true for blockchain and cryptocurrencies.

I'm not claiming that either of them are guaranteed to be successful, but I'm claiming that a lot of arguments against it don't make much sense. Because those same arguments could just as easily be applied to email.
For $1m, the Bulls could avoid to pay it, and should, since they violated the terms of their insurance contract, and they are a huge profitable professional business, not a rube.
I travel the world over and Uber London is absolutely the best car service I've ever experienced. Want a bargin BMW 5 series to get you to your place -- Uber Exec. Need to treat a client to a S-Class, use Uber Black in just minutes. Every experience with Uber was a professional at a relatively low price. It makes San Francisco Uber seem like a dumpster fire.
IIRC OCB is now available for free under a reasonable license. I could be remembering wrong, though.
I really think the FastAI course needs to be taken with a heaping dose of salt in the form of "here are all the non-DL solutions to common problems" -- there's a ton of material out there already, but based on anecdotal evidence, there are a lot of folks very new to ML & data science in general that are taking the course (i.e. people like myself).
Having run a small hosting company for about 17 years now, I am laughing at this post... You greatly overstated the difficulty and understate the massive cost savings.
If you had followed the link in the PR release labeled "For further information, please visit: https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/security"

you would have found the following statement: "Forward secrecy: Protects data traffic even if a password is compromised after the data was transmitted" under "WPA3-Personal"
New icons in IntelliJ platform 2018.2
You’re also locking in to outdated prices. Moore’s law is at your back with cheaper prices every year.
A broken clock too is correct twice a day.

Clearly you have not been reading enough though. Almost all Libertarians have been opposed to Iraq war from day 1.
Is that actually the case? I've read a few things that seem to imply they've fixed the timing attcks without breaking the spec, but this was all heresay and unsubstantiated claims.
Did you like the party? The bill is due.

(Most per-core speed gains in the last decade or two have been due to more speculation and cleverer caching. Now we pay for it)
FIFA World Cup Russia [Reuters Graphics]
I imagine people are disagreeing with the way you describe it as a software problem when the firmware in those devices will be unverifiable, batteries will conveniently run out, and they surely won't be 100% tamper proof.

Just type in 'alexa google recording' and see the news of them being used.

Aside: Everyone I've described the securus scandal to has a problem with phones.
That was a very thought-provoking post. In the case of Unix, I believe that its awakening came once it became available outside of academia and the enterprise through FOSS *nix operating systems such as Linux and modern BSDs. This is anecdotal, but I remember when I first started using Linux when I was 15 years old (this was 14 years ago). The environment felt so powerful and so freeing compared to Windows. Later that year I learned about FreeBSD and started using it. I remember spending hours browsing the source code tree, reading documentation written by AT&T Unix guys and some of the original Berkeley CSRG staff. These experiences encouraged me to pursue a career in computer systems research, one that I am still pursuing today.

I didn't know about Lisp machines until the early part of this decade. But everything I've read about them generates the same excitement I had about Linux and BSD coming from Windows. In some ways Lisp machines are even more powerful than the Unix environment is. Unfortunately, there is no Linux/BSD analogue of the Genera operating system. Genera was never open-sourced, and I have not heard of any Linux or BSD analogues to Genera. The source code to some earlier Lisp machine operating systems have been released, but these operating systems lack the complete feature set of Genera.

Also, it would be difficult to develop a clone of Genera and have it gain traction in the broader community today. Linux not only benefitted from the already-existing work on the GNU toolkit, but it also emerged at a time when PC users were mainly using MS-DOS and Windows 3.0. The GNU toolkit and X11 is a dramatic upgrade from MS-DOS and Windows 3.0 unless you need access to proprietary software packages that could only run on DOS or Windows. But what if Linux had come of age during the days of Windows 2000? The story regarding Linux's adoption among PC enthusiasts might have been very different. In the case of a Genera clone, all work would have to be done from scratch, and it would have to compete against full-featured, readily-available operating systems like Linux, the BSDs, and Windows 10. It would also take a lot of time to write: the period of time between the founding of the GNU Project (1984) and the release of the first Linux kernel (1991) was seven years.

The closest thing we have to anything like Genera is Pharo, a modern derivative of Smalltalk. But even with Pharo it will take a lot of work to develop a suite of utilities that could make Pharo an environment that can be used as a daily-driver operating system.

Even so, I'd love to use a FOSS clone of Genera that's updated for the needs of the next decade or two of computing.
He did the "oil price above 75$ barrel by end of 2015 = all purchases for the year refunded" deal as well.

Which meant as an oil and gas recruiter, not only was I juggling a shitload of candidates whose rent payments depended on us finding them employment (which depended on prices getting above 75$), they also had huge credit card debts that they'd have to keep paying off of the price didn't go up.

Great fun.
If I understand correctly (a big if), then non-locality can always be made to work as time travel. Because locality is the same as saying causation is limited to speed of light, and causality outside a light cone is always time travel from someone’s frame of reference (I’ve never seen a space-time globe demonstration of that last part, but it gets said often enough).

Is that what you had in mind, or?
Questioning the value of a thing that has yet to prove it has a practical function doesn’t make one a Luddite (if we assume being a Luddite is a bad thing itself).
Back in the 90's I tried to attach my VHS tape and Polaroid pictures to email, before sending it over the 2400 baud modem. Didn't work. Also mainly because the other end didn't have any computer or internet.