skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Since Assange has already published the leaks in question, he obviously cannot be stopped from publishing them now; all the government can do is prosecute him criminally for obtaining or publishing the leaks in the first place. To date, there never has been a criminal prosecution for this type of behavior. Obama’s Justice Department ultimately concluded that a prosecution of Assange would damage the First Amendment. Their decision effectively meant that Assange was entitled to the same constitutional protections given reporters.

IANAL but this seeming to be the crux of the article brings with it a lot of legal baggage such as constitutional precedent, being charged ex-post facto for releasing info that's now public/republished, and the proverbial "letter of the law vs. the sprit of the law" type argument.

I can understand any motive behind prosecuting Assange for leaking military secrets; these are strategic parts of a nation state's defence and sovereignty. Go figure.

However, and it's not a popular opinion but, I do believe that if you opt to run for and eventually serve in public office your correspondences (both intra and inter governmental) should be totally public. Secrecy in this area I think leads to corruption viz. misuse of power, brokering sweetheart deals with private companies, and facilitating lobbying by special interest groups all of which, inter alia, don't have the public interest at heart. The classified nature of these comms IMO is purposefully designed to be a grayer area and thicker line than it needs to be.

In that light I don't think he should be reprimanded for any charges surrounding political/cable leakages (which exposed some of the issues I just listed) as much as any journalist would be for exposing mal-intent of an elected official or diplomat.
I wonder how this stacks up against a dedicated graph database like Neo4J.

Are arbitray-depth graph queries a design goal, or are the nested results just for optimizing network traffic?
Interesting, I didn't know about the blind spot problem for trucks. Is there a reason we drive on the right in America, then? I kind of assumed we just randomly picked it because neither answer solves a problem with the alternative (or the country we copied randomly picked, I don't know the full history), but it seems like there's a pretty solid argument to always drive on the left (at least, there's no reason to drive on the right)
I can picture the engineers of all the other commercial space companies in the world watching this and laughing, cheering and crying at the same time :)
The boostback burn is a hell of a thing too, there was a Space Shuttle contingency plan called RTLS that was essentially the same thing. IIRC one of the commanders described it as "an unholy act of physics". This is quite similar, albeit with much less mass.
Although he made out of produce the LSD, I assume money changed hands. I may be mistaken, but I think this is the syna qua non of a drug charge.
True, I'd forgotten that it went to Building 20, but Building 2? Someone wanted to use MACSYMA?

In any case by 83 or so they were building out Athena which was ethernet based.
I Beresheet the bed.
I dislike this comment so, so much.

> I use to go back and forth on Julian,

If there is some reason I should care about your perspective, you've certainly not shown it here. The expression is "used to", btw.

> but at this point I think he should be punished.

You know a UN panel decided his detention in the Embassy was unlawful right? The guy spent 7 years in a windowless room, separated from his wife, from his child, from his friends, from the sun...

> but what that punishment should be I don't know.

Why would you even write this then???

> I think Manning stealing the cables was an absolute wrong

An absolute wrong huh? That's quite an opinion. Other people see things differently, but you think it's absolute. ?????

> and Assange facilitating that shows a level of culpability

This really does read like it was written by a 90's chatbot.

> He should not be afforded American protection.

Mc'scuse me? That's not how the constitution works, or extradition, or any of this.

What a horrid thing to say.

Are we supposed to read this garbage and absorb it and let it in our brains without comment? I know this is supposed to be a polite forum but is this what passed for an opinion these days? Holy fuck.

> Crimes were committed, even if they were done with the best intentions, it was still a crime.

For fucks sake. Slavery was legal. Apartheid was legal. You know what was massively illegal? What Manning and Assange exposed. Shit like killing reporters for telling the truth, wars started for profit through lies, and a surveillance operation that beats the shit out of the Gestapo's wettest dreams.

> We all count, or no one counts.

I honestly can't even.
Photo Shows How Ridiculously SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rockets Are
In USA organic has a very strict definition. Natural on the otherhand doesn't actually mean anything
Don't forget some of the higher-level utilities like $.Deferred (which imho is still easier to use than promises) and $.Callbacks . Those two were always criminally underrated and underused imho.
Agreed, it is pretty epic. It is one of those things that really impresses how far ahead of the previous generation launch systems this can be.

Now it will be interesting to watch how "low cost" commercial heavy launch capabilities will be used. I know they are working hard on the the BFR but there is money to be made here that I'm sure at least Gwynn Shotwell is looking to take away from ULA and others.
I don't think this is correct, from [1]:

Today, we have a good mix of teams that are fully on Elixir, teams that are ramping up, and teams who are still waiting for the first project that will allow them to say, “We’ll do this one in Elixir.”

[1]: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/
He ran an internet forum with a cult following. It shutdown because:

> Thirteen months ago I was diagnosed with a very serious health issue. The prognosis is poor.

That was obviously a lie.
Nice! I was attempting something similar a while ago. I couldn't login with Facebook (the app appears to be under developing mode) so I couldn't test creation.

Do you do any sort of automated frequency analysis use aid aligning the phonemes to the specific timings of the song?
I tear up as well, it's an incredible, beautiful display of engineering and physics.
You’re confusing bb.com with DatBTrue. Zyzz was not a member of the latter
Their falling growth is the biggest concern for investors.

2016-7: 100% revenue growth, 105% trips, 51% MAPC
2017-8: 40% revenue growth, 40% trips, 33% MAPC
(MAPC = active users)

These are sharp drops in the growth rate.

The quarterly revenue data is more worrying - December Quarter 2018 was up only 22% over the previous year. (Page 121)
On Page 126 we see that even that revenue increase was subsidised by excess driver incentives, and netting that out the growth was only 17% year on year.

They have tightened things and their adjusted yearly EBITDA loss fell by $800m to $1.65 billion, but has this come at the expense of growth? Or has the growth simply become too expensive to chase? Or are electric mobility devices taking away the shorter distance rides?

And they had a loss of $890 million in the last quarter, and it's hard to see tangible evidence of margin improvement. (P128)

A valuation today of, say, $100 million needs to have net income of, say, $10 billion to be a very real probability relatively soon, or of one much larger later.

At, say, a 20% net margin and 40% growth $10 billion income would take 5 years. But that is a courageous assumption about the growth rate, given the above, and it also assumes significant margin improvement, which will be hard if the marketing spend continues, which itself is required for growth. And pricing is hard because increased prices simply move customers onto other platforms. This is not a winner take all market.

For the model to work Uber Eats growth needs to be maintained for a while, and that's possibility, although I suspect their margins will be sharply squeezed as big brand chains respond. (e.g with Mobi2Go and 3rd party delivery agencies they can roll their own)
There is much more objectionable content in the original post.
I left PD about 5 months ago, so my information might be slightly outdated, but I can confirm that Elixir is used quite a bit internally, including for highly available critical services that all event data passes through. While there might be some truth to Elixir starting out as an experiment, its adoption has not only spread to multiple teams, but it is also the language most new services are to be written in, going forward. The unique thing about Elixir is how it appealed to both Ruby and Scala folks internally.
Contractual limitations mentioned by a couple other people aside, options aren't even available until 5 days after IPO. http://www.theoptionsguide.com/criterias-to-list-stock-optio...
I agree with Greenwald: “The DOJ says part of what Assange did to justify his prosecution - beyond allegedly helping Manning get the documents - is he encouraged Manning to get more docs for him to publish. Journalists do this with sources constantly: it's the criminalization of journalism”
Firebase.com and all firebase hosted apps are down?
"% i" might(???) be interpreted as "print a decimal number without including the sign," where "% I" is (I think?) not a valid format string. This is pretty speculative though. And it still doesn't make a lot of sense to me that part of the file name would be interpreted as a format string.
> They're prosecuting him for conspiracy to break into DoD computers.

So for doing source research.
Why would you think dead grass is harmful? It's not dead grass that is harmful. The poison that kills the grass is harmful.
> No Uber drivers are exclusive

Bing is just a click away from Google.

Hulu is just a click away from Netflix.

My local grocery store is just one block away from a different grocery store.

Exclusivity isn't required to defend a large network. People are creatures of habit, and it would take a big innovation in the service or massive subsidies to dismantle that network.
Here's what I posted elsewhere in this thread - twice now - and is what so many people seem to be missing. It's not the subjects they're discussing, it's likely the manner in which their users are discussing them.

>Mozilla themselves has said that they didn't remove it for political reasons [or "ideological censorship" as you put it], rather it was the language and vitriol being used on the platform. As an example, it's one thing to use something like Dissenter to calmly and rationally discuss why you might think a nation should close its borders to all immigrants, it's another thing to use that same platform to say stuff like, "Fuck those worthless lazy piece of shit beaners coming to this country and stealing white jobs" (not my opinion, btw).

>I'm not going to pretend to know that stuff like that was posted to Dissenter, but you and I both know that language like that is commonplace on alt/far-right platforms. It's by no means a stretch to imagine that those kinds of posts are what got Dissenter banned.

This is the point: Discuss whatever you want, that's OK. Just don't be surprised if you get banned for being an asshole while discussing it.
Getting lots of data (for deep learning models), cleaning that data, and labeling it.
How to ignore files in your NPM package
This is a very poor analogy and I think you know it. Cracking the password isn't the same as using it to log in. There are still some extra steps required. In the case of picking locks there are no extra steps, you gain access immediately.

I'm only critizing the analogy, what he did, or tried is still illegal but it's barely a hack attempt and it's obvious they are desperate to charge him with anything, no matter how small the charge.
If you understand how CART decision trees are trained, then you can see why random forests are powerful by thinking through their training process.

In the first step of the decision tree training we pick the best feature split, divide the data into two groups, then train each of the two data groups independently. But what about the 2nd-best feature split? In some sense, we lose the information the other splits could provide.

To see this, when testing queries, the first step is to look at that best split and pass the query to one of the two sub-trees. But those trees have only been trained with half of the training set data, and thus have weaker discriminatory power. Every split down the tree has diminishing returns in terms of how much information it provides.

Now think about what the random forest does. If the feature which contains the best split is chosen for a particular tree, the split will be the same. But if it doesn't, then if the feature for the second split is present then it will be chosen. If the top 2 features aren't present then the third best split will be chosen, and so on.

Thus, across our forest we have representatives of a range of feature-splits, each trained on more data and thus have more discriminatory power per split. The aggregation step at the end combines the information gleaned from these different models. Each one of them is weaker than the original CART decision tree, but has gotten more information out of the data for the features it was given. Thus, together, they are much better predictors than by themselves.
Traffic congestion and inconvenience are caused by cars in vast disproportion to bikes. The sheer volume of car traffic is the primary predictor of congestion.
To ruby folks, it's like faster ruby. What is the appeal to Scala folks? As formerly a Scala folk, it hasn't had much interest to me (but I have no negative feelings about it either, it has always been a "cool another language" to me)
I think they're referring to places like roundabouts where you can cross halfway and the traffic only comes from one direction. Cars would never reverse off a roundabout and it's illegal and pretty dangerous to bike into a roundabout from the wrong direction.
“Jammin”, a Dave Sereny Jazz Music Re-Imaginesd Bob Marley’s Reggae Hit in Rock
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They got down at the expected speed just fine. Except that speed is enough to bounce two times if your harpoons fire but don't stick in the crust because it is even more crunchy than expected.
I'm really glad to see opinions like this that are strongly tinged against the centralized web, coupled with engineering work to enable more independence. Thank you.

A highlight point for me is that services should support both those superpowers and smaller entities, as yours does. Rather than isolating the open web from these entities, we need to make bridges between them so people can cross.
all 6 of them!

Each booster generates 3 distinct "booms". IIRC the causes of each are slightly different, but it's nutty hearing it in person!
It's an interesting question. A theory that occurs to me is that much of modern computing is the way it is due to network effects and historical baggage. We all fantasize of ways we could be doing things better, if only we could have a clean start. For us, the story of an entire country seamlessly jumping from a local optimum to a global one is practically pornographic.
McDelivery is the name of the global initiative and it is implemented differently in different countries. In the US, McDelivery is fulfilled by Uber Eats.
Why are we not boycotting this apartheid state? Their Prime Minister just announced annexation of the larger part of West Bank. It shows what their ultimate goal is and always was. Peace talks are just smoke and mirrors.
At some point I'd love a developer to use 'flummoxed' in their status update :-)

The methane question is an interesting one and for me an example of how hard it is to re-purpose science missions when you don't have a human there to implement the new experiment. I feel that it illustrates the limits of robotic exploration for now.
You uh... how do I say this... only living people have a thermal signature. There is value in finding a body as far as closure for the family and ending the search. So it would be a matter of whether thermal imaging improves survival rates, because of course finding more people alive is worth more than finding them at all.
As far as i can see from the article, Mozilla is still agreeing to sign the addon, just not to list it in the AMO site.

The article lists an 8 step process and claims users would have to follow that on each restart of Firefox to enable the addon. I’m not sure if that’s true, as the guidelines I can see on other websites seem to suggest self hosting addons shouldn’t have that problem.
If America drove on the left, the driver side would be on the right instead. This would only shift the truck blind spot to the other side meaning they would still drive opposite either way.
EdgeDB is not a graph database, i.e. we didn't build it for traversing super deep schemaless graphs.

On the contrary, we optimized it for the kind of applications that are usually built with relational or document databases. Those scenarios frequently involve a relatively complex schema with queries that fetch hierarchies of objects 2-3 levels deep. Doing that efficiently in SQL or NoSQL isn't as simple as it sounds (and the blog post makes a point about that).

That said, I expect EdgeDB to perform on par with neo4j on moderately deep object hierarchies. We also plan to add support for recursive queries at some point, although it's not a priority right now.
It might position itself as apolitical, but in practice it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
anecdotal, so take it for what its worth.

coworker, works his normal shift five days a week. will uber when he gets off work for two to three hours each day and some on weekends. his claim is over six hundred dollars a week plus he claims fifty four cents per mile on his taxes.

he seems seriously happy with the arrangement. he does mention you get into some sketchy parts of town on occasion and will turn off the app after a drop in one and go live when he is in the clear but he has yet to have an issue. he does not expect to drive forever, he is simply piling away a down payment on a home.
Building a Home Server
There may be problems with the business itself but the cars are real, they work well, and people love them. They're even best selling in their category in some countries. The fact that Tesla is now a mainstream production car company is incredibly impressive.
> the only way it can become profitable is to get SDC's

This isn’t self-evident. Their services are unit profitable in core markets. And additional revenue streams increase the geographies in which they’re organically profitable.
The way I read this article in English, were the original article still online, or had it been archived by archive.org and the Wikipedia link changed, then it could stay up. Does that make sense?

The article doesn't link to German coverage so it's hard to learn about the underlying matter.
Web Components could replace frontend frameworks?
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cglab.c...
Yeah, I could have worded that better. I know Zyzz was on bb.com only (well, and 4chan).
Statement from Chelsea Manning's Team on Assange Indictment
I have no doubt that many folks who should be protesting Assange's arrest but aren't are acting thus because they dislike him. But I haven't seen anyone actually make that argument explicitly. I've seen more of the opposite -- e.g. that even though he may be an asshole, his arrest is wrong and sets a bad precedent.
And they just had confirmation of a good orbit on the payload, which means every single part of this mission was a success.

Congratulations to the team at SpaceX!
Spoiler alert ;-p

(I hadn't seen it but realize now it was mentioned in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_alkalosis )
found my people
Atom's Vim-Mode-Plus is amazing. VSC's vim plugin still has a way to go. (It's buggy, sometimes things just don't work)
VSC is just not as extensible. If I want to change that bottom bar color, I have to set it in a config file, there's no hook to change it on the fly. If I want to navigate around the interface only via keyboard, it's not a pleasure. If I want to simply open a file in the file explorer on MacOS, I can't just hit <enter>... and I don't think anyone's figured out a way around that yet.
well, uber eats is in a lot of countries that grubhub is
you sound like a CEO.

this analysis is... insane. your numbers aren't estimations, they're just nonsense. a state of oversupplied drivers is not at equilibrium, the drivers are going to leave until they're not supplied anymore. oops, now you have to acquire drivers again.

so, so much dunning-kruger
Grown men are supposed to cry
Could LinkedIn go this way...bridge from its business network to casual social network also?
thanks for report. I just tried it, worked okay. I haven't seen that before, trying to work out why that happened. what browser and device did you use? if you try now does it work?
Looks great! How did you align audio with text?
Is Scala is beholden to Java garbage collection? I know one big advantage I like is that each process has separate GC so you can run it in certain situations without affecting the entire system
That linked article doesn't say that Assange had any RNC emails, only that Russia probably has some. Given that Russia is very pro-Trump it's not hard to imagine Russia only providing Assange with the DNC ones to publish.

And he has said that if he had RNC emails he'd have published them
I suspect that if someone did source research by breaking the security of your computer, you would want them prosecuted, too. Journalists can't be persecuted for what they write, but they're not above the law.
What are talking points? I thought the claim was that I am "alt-right", except now I find you don't support the only authentically pacifist candidate? Did you know that our blood and our taxes are being wasted at war in eight nations, right now? Which leaves out the dozens of nations where we have troops or spooks lurking in support of God-knows-what evil CIA plots? With Venezuela scheduled as soon as CNN can stage a convincing attack on a soi-disant humanitarian aid convoy? Meanwhile you're cheering on your best buddy Trump in persecuting Manning and Assange? Meanwhile you cling without evidence to a facially risible conspiracy theory about the Russians changing an election with a couple thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads, while most Trump voters aren't online but watch TV news for the entire 27 hours a day that Trump is on it? You're incoherent.

I am skeptical, and I've always been skeptical. You seem instead to be credulous. The topic of the day is bullshit, so skepticism is more appropriate than credulity.