skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Defunding Planned Parenthood would cut aid from millions of young women."

No, the "defunding Planned Parenthood" amendment would have simply removed their status as a preferred (and overpaid) provider of abortion services. Overall funding of family planning (including abortion) would not have been reduced, and Planned Parenthood could have still competed for such patients on level ground with all other providers.

I am pro-choice. Why do our opinions differ? Because I actually bothered to read the legislation. It's right there, freely accessible, on congress.gov.

There is a larger lesson here: major media agencies (including the big names like the New York Times, AP, Washington Post, etc.) generally never read legislation at all. A given reporter simply prints what a preferred legislator's staffer tells him/her to print. A great example of this was when pretty much all of the major media outlets claimed that "Republicans voted down a provision the (Feinstein Amendment) to deny gun sales to those on the terror watchlist", which was an outright lie. That amendment would have instead wiped out the ObamaCare repeal language.
Startup employees which took a pay cut in exchange for equity are going to be the biggest losers. At least VCs and private equity have some level of protection against a decline in valuation from their preferred shares/liquidation preferences. It won't protect them against bankruptcy, but it is a lot better than nothing.

Employee's generally don't have that type of protection, and the liquidation preferences also decrease the value of the common shares after a down round. So even with a relatively modest decline in overall valuations, a lot of employees are going to end up with worthless options/shares after a down round.
To be fair, a certain school of thought would say that those bugs are the browser's to fix, and that websites should deliver the browser whichever video it claims to support. If the browser advertises support for something it doesn't support, then it is up to browser developers (not web developers) to fix either the support or the advertisement thereof.

Edit: Not saying that's always correct, but there does seem to be a tension between: "make sure your code can work well, even in a bad environment" and "don't mask bugs, instead fix them where it makes the most sense to do so" (in this case: in the dozens of browsers instead of in millions of websites).
Talking about writing on PDA, nothing write as fast, as accurate as Palm VX. Not even today's smartphone responsive as that.
I still have my 2000. I bought it in 1999, second-hand on Craigslist. It's still a brilliant device. I really wish I had something in EXACTLY the same form factor that had a modern screen.

There is one aspect of the Newton that I feel is still unrivaled in all the pen-based systems: It has a little stylus caddy for when you're using the device on a flat surface. Not only can you store the stylus inside the device, when it's out, it's got a little place to put it in between siblings.

Another thing that is unique about the Newton is its heat dissipation. It never gets hot. When you pull the stylus out, it's frequently cold to the touch, even....

Such a great device.
Reply here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10878468
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark
Most people are complete morons when it comes to anything they don't have to deal with on a day to day basis. They know what they need to know to continue existing any maybe they know or learn enough to get ahead but beyond that people are generally ignorant and clueless to their ignorance.

For example, I personally have a stake in the gun control issue. I'm against "banning assault weapons" because I'm against a bunch of bureaucrats having a chance to define "assault weapon" because last time we gave them a chance they banned a bunch of things that make firearms look scary. Ditto for background checks but to a lesser extent. Existing implementations suck, a lot. The same goes for tougher laws in general, they don't seem to have done much of anything for the positive and there's anecdotal evidence they may be negative (look up some of the pro-gun number crunching exercises f you want an example). Why would I or anyone else who wants to go to the range want to encourage more of this? We see it as the firearm equivalent of security theater.

However people who aren't well informed on the details have had these two carrots danged in front of them as a cure to a problem in our society and they'd be fools not to reach for them when they're framed in that context. Meanwhile they can't be bothered to wonder why anyone wouldn't want these things. After all, some poll says $large_percent of people support $thing, yet they can't be arsed to even wonder why that $small_percent is holding out.

You find this sort of problem on both sides of any controversial issue.
The weird thing about the title change is that the new one isn't even true - they've been running the Kindle app store for quite a while...

The user "dang" posted further down in the comments saying that he changed it because the title was "over the top", which didn't seem like a good reason to me (but then again, I'm not a moderator). I can understand the desire to avoid sensationalism, especially if the belief is that this anger over third party Alexa skills is only about the problem in the article. In reality, though, this is just one of many issues that currently has the community up in arms, so I don't think the original title was as hyperbolic as they believed...
Dell has some premium, business-class laptops.
I'm probably bias since most of my joy has come from recovering from such a low point. There is almost anywhere to go from the bottom -- the top can leave you with long periods missing better days.
It's not a confidence interval, it's a credible interval. It's derived from a Bayesian posterior.

Confidence intervals are confusing and should rarely be used to communicate statistics to laypeople. (See the links in my above post.) Most of the time, you can tell people the definition of a confidence interval, and they will misinterpret this and think it's a credible interval.

This is why we went Bayesian at VWO - we felt it would be easier to change the statistics to match people's thinking than to change people's thinking about statistics.
>> I implore you to seek out your opposite. When you hear someone cite “facts” that don’t support your viewpoint don’t think “that can’t be true!” Instead consider, “Hm, maybe that person is right? I should look into this.”

Nooop. When the crazy uncle starts going on about how the lizard people at the US have formed a world government for the express purpose of using solar panels to take guns away from seniors ... no. There are ideas that are not worth my time to explore or disprove. So long as the crazy people stick to their crazy shacks, I am not going to engage.

Of course those crazies seem to be breeding uncontrollably. It may be time to reverse my position and actually start researching the vril.
Ask HN: has anyone seen Source Code movie (2011) and think it's crap?
Hi,

I know I shouldn't be looking for this, but please allow me to be a consensus craving bitch for a second.

I recently watched the movie in title, and I didn't like it at all. Nothing of it, the script, the music, the fact it was a perfect Hollywood package and nothing more. The director is the guy that made "Moon", which, IMO, it's on a whole different level (you should watch it).

I'm seeing that at the time it was released people praised it all around the web with 5, 4/5 or 4 stars out of 5, everywhere in places that seen to matter: IMDB, Metacritic, Rotten Tomatos, and all other big movie websites.

I'm finding it really hard to accept that only me and 10 other people didn't like it (I found a couple of blogs, and some isolated user reviews at Metacritic). Given that so far opinions of HN users have almost always been in phase with my thoughts I I'd like to test this once again and see if some of you guys opinions match with mine.

I might just need that special injection of HN "you are not alone" juice that we all know of :)

Also, don't take this too seriously (but it's not a joke as well!) :)

Cheers.
To be clear, the following comment is what we wrote on the subject: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/404r9m/ama.... The subsequent replies are not affiliated with OpenAI.
Thanks for the reply. I think you're doing great. Keeping your focus on the core components of your product is probably the best thing you are doing for your business.

I also want to say that your site has a great design. Are you doing that yourself or would you mind sharing the service you're using?
Thanks for stating it more clearly than I did! You've nailed it. It's always bothered me when people dismiss their ability to learn a thing, because they think some part will be difficult. They really have no idea. Yes, the task as a whole will have difficult parts, but we as individual human beings are far more capable than we give ourselves credit for.
Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests
If you're going to go from this "Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; Windows Phone 8.1; Android 4.0; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; BLU; WIN HD W510u) like iPhone OS 7_0_3 Mac OS X AppleWebKit/537 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile Safari/537", to something useful, you should probably give the useful one a new name and drop u-a on the drop dead date... That way websites can test the new way with their audience in advance.
some stores even charge you a different amount based on user-agent string...
http://ourworldindata.org/data/food-agriculture/agricultural...
I think you're completely correct. It's politically poisonous because it promotes a legal/corporate view of the world where you win by being glib, emotive, and persuasive, over a scientific/rational view of the world where you win by modelling and predicting objective reality more accurately than the other side.

It's easy to see how this destroys any possibility of rational policy-making.

It doesn't help that most countries suffer from literally industrial levels of PR effort, media spin, and online astroturfing, all designed to persuade, influence, and manipulate, and not to inform.

See e.g. http://www.businessinsider.com/astroturfing-grassroots-movem... for a very incomplete list of examples.

The whole point of PR etc is to deny reality. So the idea that the other side might have a point worthy of respect is deeply problematic.

It would be true in a world where everyone had access to unbiased information, deliberately misleading the public was banned by law, and public education was a significant policy goal.

That isn't the world we live in.
I was in a similar position as you (except instead of pursuing a web development certificate I was debating dropping out entirely, after having success with a side project and various development jobs).

Although I would have done just fine if I dropped school, I'm happy that I stuck with it. I feel now that I have a much deeper understanding of computing, especially after taking advanced algorithm analysis courses, AI, and more.
Agreed. That reminds of this old quote (replace france with SF):

>God just finished creating the world. He looks his creation and see France.

>"This country is to beautiful. It's unfair for the others countries."

>And so, God created the French.

On a side note, congratulations on getting married. Hope all goes well.
I assume you mean the `%"PRIuMAX"` bits. It is an eyesore, but it is how to portably write the specifiers for types whose size my vary across architectures. That is, blame POSIX, not GNU coding style.
Here's the problem with this: the planets' orbits aren't circles. And scientists had good enough measurements, that they knew circular orbits didn't match the observed behavior. So neither of those models are very good. It wasn't until people figured out that orbits are ellipses instead of circles, that we actually had a model that was simpler and more accurate than the cycles-and-epicycles of geocentrism.
Thanks, I missed that. I didn't notice the OpenAI flair.

I apologize for mistakenly assigning this comment to your group.
>>Ask yourself - how many of those issues affect you directly? And by directly I mean something you'll suddenly have to account for in your daily life and spending patterns.

Me directly? Probably very few. But that's because I'm a gainfully employed single white male and I have an incredible amount of job security. However, I'm definitely in the minority.

Besides, it's difficult to think of certain issues such as gun control in terms of direct and immediate impact. I mean, is lack of gun control affecting me right now? No. Will it affect me tomorrow when I'm watching a movie at the theater and some guy comes in and opens fire on the crowd and kills me? It's a very real possibility.
Cryptsy website is not updating prices. Anyone with an online wallet is gong to be quite cross.
I am still flabbergasted that after rating junk swaps as high as possible and being paramount in both misleading investors worldwide and bringing the world to economic crisis that is still being felt, that Moody's and S&P not only continue to exist, but investors still look to them for ratings!!

"Flabbergasted" is the only word.

Also blah blah no one in prison.
Yeah, it's ugly, but it's sadly the only way to correctly do cross platform prints where the type may or may not be 64 bit.
Neato. Thanks for the anecdote.

I recall reading from somewhere, probably on HN, that a lot of banks open up storefronts primarily as a means of shifting money around into different instruments, not because they actually need or want people to do business at that banking location.
>>You can search your meeting notes.

I never face this issue, very simply because after you use a real notebook for a while, you learn to organize information. Indexing information by date, topic etc is common for seasoned notebook users.
I'm not expert with Reddit, but what's interesting about this?
I was actually hit by that bug, which I erroneously attributed to firefox. I stopped using firefox as a result.

I will probably start using it again because I read this article. I can't help but wonder how many ex-users who wont because they don't follow the news.
Sometimes they aren't scared. Sometimes they are downright confident, down to their core confident. That is when they are most dangerous.

Nobody can argue with a true believer. Such people adopt views so strongly that no rational evidence can counter the irrational mystique they have written. Trying to change their minds directly, through conversation, only ends in violence. The willingness to cling to such beliefs, to take anything onboard as an absolute truth, is akin to an addiction. They have to fix themselves over an extended period of time.
Good comment, never knew about this as a concept but I've definitely seen it play out. (and what an amusing source of origin!)

But you might be right. I've been on HN for 3+ years and i've never seen anything like this happen before. This is clearly an abuse of power and is not in any way an act on the behalf of the community.
A new way police are surveilling: Calculating threat ‘score’
According to you, in the past, your vague power "theories" predict that "the pattern is long periods of stability". In fact, that's the only concrete prediction you've ever been willing to state.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987011

It's "conservative" to take as an assumption a prediction from your "theory"? ("Theory" is in quotes, since you work so hard to avoid testable predictions.)
Thanks! I do all the design, too. I went to school for design and I've been coding all my life—it's a useful balance.
The original title is correct in the literal sense - it is not an embellishment. There is ample evidence to support this assertion, and all of it is accessible in the Amazon Developer Forums. If you would like to make the claim that the OP is editorializing, the burden of proof is on you to show that Amazon does understand how to properly run this app store. Good luck with that, though.

Put the original title back.
...say 985 times out of 100...

985 times out of 100, people in general will mistrust the data. ;)
Resources Greg Brockman has been learning from
And if you paid physicians $0, the US would still spend about 2.4 times as much on health care per capita as the United Kingdom. In the context of this thread, this is the relevant point.
Well, we all generally agree that there aren't 'lizard people' in the US (we do agree that, right? ...right?), but increasingly less crazy ideas are now being regarded as similarly crazy.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872926 (107 points, 4 hours ago, 76 comments)
Oh man, I'd love to read a similar article from you about the engineering of the 757.

There's generally very few sources that go deep into the engineering of planes, I'd guess because there are trade secrets.
In what sense?

The only thing it can really do is inform me what sort of bizarre misinformation they have bought into. Unlikely ever to repair the drop in my opinion.
As someone who's been using little logs from a few months ago, I can say that it's had an interesting impact on my behaviour. The community there is incredibly positive. That has helped me actually be more productive as I aimed to have something "loggable" each day. I started out with a question of "won't this be like Twitter?". But through community management and various little things like markdown support and tagging logs under various projects, it's vastly different from the experience you get on twitter. One of those little big details things
No, I've left companies where I had a great manager, but could tell from the company culture that I would not be able to attain my professional goals or reach the salary I was looking for.
No True Scots Union...
Mr. Robot is a popular TV show about hacking which coincidentally just won a Golden Globe.

This Reddit account has no real relationship.
Like the US president is a secret muslim from kenya in office to take away the guns in furtherance of the global warming hoax? I see aspects of that narrative on TV almost every day. It's a daily reality for millions and millions of americans.
If they have a factual basis for their views that's fine.

But in general I was talking about folks who have, for whatever reason, said things like "oh we're not vaccinating our children", meaning all vaccines.

There is no reasonable basis for this outlook.
Platforms – Past, Present and Future
The DoD is the third biggest agency but does not include Veterans Affairs (3.7% of budget), the State Department (1.6% of budget), Homeland Security (1.5%), or the CIA (1.4%). I don't even include the DoE, which among other things handles nukes, or NASA which launches military satellites, has secret mission itineraries etc.

Then you also have to count that portion of the interest on the debt that was due to past military spending.

The amount of military spending the US government does is higher than what you are presenting.
"the important part is not whether the source is authoritative or accurate but that it's universally experienced."

This is very well said. In Silicon Valley, for example, there has been only one major newspaper publisher for over 60 years.
Your past experiences are truly irrelevant to the point you made and what I was responding to. And your ad hominem attacks are misplaced as well.

You have admitted you didn't go through the 2001 bust, so you, by definition, have no idea what it was like. Dismissing talk of 2016 being a bad year as doom-saying, exaggerating or self-aggrandizing clearly shows you have no idea how bad it can get for the industry as a whole. I don't care if you were unemployed and living in a car for 18 months in 2009/2010, because it's irrelevant to the point. There are plenty of people unemployed and living in cars even during the dotcom boom. But 2009/2010 weren't anything compared to the depths of the dotcom bust.
> What's the threat model there?

* It annoys me as a consumer.

* It reeks of incomptency ( yeah, go and disable that security check that looks like it is there to prevent malicious software to be installed on your device, yeah, yeah, that one ).

* It is a convoluted process.

* It leaves my device vulnerable. Let's not speculate (like you did apparently) but copy and paste from their own source:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1003016...

---

Update Phone Settings

Go to your phone Settings page
Tap Security or Applications (varies with device)
Check the Unknown Sources box
Confirm with OK

Step 2
Go to Downloads

Open Downloads on your device by going to My Files or Files
Tap on the Amazon App file (Amazon_App.apk)
Tap Install when prompted

Step 3
Launch Underground App

Tap Open to launch the Amazon Underground App
Use the Menu on the left and select Apps & Games

---

Yeah, I don't see anything about the "untick the checkbox again" part.
I don't think this is very true--what significant/majority of religious thought patterns are the same in atheism? The only one I think you could make a case for is ingroup/outgroup thinking, but that is not a majority of religious belief.
For some clarification (as I've worked in the ad industry for years)

1) Advertisers (actually their ad agencies) use software called a DSP to connect to ad exchanges and bid on each impression. They have 100-250ms depending on the exchange's rules.

2) This kind of Real-Time Bidding (RTB) is used for both premium space and unsold/remnant inventory. The separate "rounds" is going away and there's a rapid movement to do a unified auction for each impression with all possible ad buyers (premium to cheap) in a single auction.

3) Lots of publishers do actually set a price floor but this is far more complicated than binary yes/no for a floor. There's a lot of math/science put into the online ad auction and yield management space.

4) Many networks don't use RTB and are safe from this.

5) This malware issue isn't because of adtech (the tech part) but rather the incentives and lack of regulation and enforcement. Lots of politics and mistrust has required tons of javascript tags just to render a simple banner, and as we all know, js can do just about anything so it immediately gives a bad advertiser power to do whatever they want. This is something being worked on with some newer formats. There's also no consequences of "getting caught". Most ad networks and bad advertisers are not big corporations but little companies in other countries that can just change names and come back in a few days to do it all over again.
None of those concepts are as crazy as lizard people, are they?
I think you are right. But maybe it can be made such that some segment of both sides of the population could buy into what it says. After all, contrary to the popular saying, there are not just two types of people.
I think you may find out that the "bizarre misinformation" is a bit more nuanced than you think, and the issue is not about facts at all.

I spent some time talking to antivaxxers; I've shared my impressions in a parallel subthread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10878136