skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the Wikipedia page in the neighbor comment:

> ...to point out the fallacy of relying on teleological arguments for God's existence. Some use the phrase to refer to a form of the argument from ignorance fallacy.
People also have to wonder how a candidate can receive the most votes and still looses the election.

* 1824: John Quincy Adams won over
* 1876: Rutherford B. Hayes
* 1888: Benjamin Harrison
* 2000: George W. Bush

All these presidents won without the votes. Hayes was chosen by The House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

Added later:

The article you presented on approval and score voting is interesting and I like the idea. I have believed for some time that we need to do away with the party system and let each candidate stand or fall on their own merit.

I don't really fit into any party as I am an independently conservative liberal libertarian with social and anti social leanings.
Most articles are written for their hard-copy weekly publication, which needs to be finalized and sent to the printers on Thursdays (I don't know what time nor which timezone) to make it to their customers' houses by Saturday.
But will they continue to be profitable?

Imagine a new startup launches today offering ridesharing in NYC. Drivers - who already have Lyft running - add the app to their roster. After some advertising spend, so do users. What is Uber's strategy to stop them? Spend more money, usually - more advertising! More drivers! Is that sustainable?

What is Uber's moat?
Hm :)
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I don't know. I think I understand the viewpoint. I get emailed by random people all the time. I usually reply to them, and try to be encouraging, unless I'm super harried and it just slips through the cracks. But, as far as I can tell, none of them have really turned into anything. Usually, they end up ignoring my email. There's been dozens over the years and it probably would have been a better use of my time to ignore them.
The average GPA for UT of accepted people is 3.84:

http://www.utexas.edu/ogs//prospective/stats/pdf/GPA2015.pdf

UT is a pretty good CS school, but I wouldn't say a top school.
Respect to Greenpeace for sourcing and distributing these. They tend to get a good amount of news coverage. The more organisations that get involved in this, the more pressure we can place on our respective governments.
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My friends and I occasionally play "the spotify game" at bbqs. We pick two songs that we imagine are really really far apart. We play one on spotify, and then take turns to click on the "similar artists" tab to move closer and closer to the destination song. The winner is the player to play the destination song. The Art is to move closer to the target but not so close that the other player(s) can reach the destination...

I'm sure with the Spotify API someone could wrap this up in a killer game :)
We had this in Europe for a few months, it was painful there too, but eventually everywhere will be chip only and the swipe will be literally removed.

I understand the US is doing a slightly slower rollout so you guys might have to put up with either/or for almost a year, but once it is done you'll get used to using the chip pretty quickly.

The two "big" dates for EMV in the US is Oct 2015 (liability shift: merchants) and October 2017 (liability shift: fuel dispensers and ATMs)[0]. After Oct 2017 there will be no reason for banks to issue cards with a magnetic strip at all (although they CAN for travel).

In Europe some banks no longer issue cards with magnetic strips (chip only).

[0] https://www.aciworldwide.com/-/media/files/other/published%2...
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That's been tried - that was the plane that crashed on 9/11 heading for Washington(?) Not an ideal outcome.
There are no powerful people going through those lines. Just semi-rich ones. The GP's list would be more effective. And only if it got enough people to participate in our government by writing/visiting our representatives and demanding en masse to be heard. I just don't see that happening now.
There are no IAPs in iOS version.
> If Wright is not Satoshi and is actually trying to get people to believe that he is, what would he gain by it?

Prestige. The following of thousands of bitcoin enthusiasts.
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This is key. Law firm interns can out-earn new associates, but it's a short-term incentive that isn't going to be annualized.
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I've been very tempted to apply for PreCheck -- it seems like a great deal -- but I find it deeply problematic that the government would create a security screening mechanism so onerous that people gladly hand over their fingerprints to avoid it. The fact that that's even legal incentivizes them to make the normal system as onerous as possible.
Well, yeah, until you lock them all into the same cage. Then who cares how many per cage there are.
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I really think it's a shame that they moved to the F-35, instead of just continuing to produce F-22s. Stupid export ban. Then again, the extra payload may have been worth it.
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First of all because extradition is handled in the courts, not the parliament. And given how popular he is in most of Europe it would surprise me if any politician want to touch it. Helping the US would ensure political suicide.

And come on, snatch and grab inside a sovereign state, that is a close ally and with all the media attention his has. You don't really need to be an intelligence service to notice a guy like Snowden suddenly disappearing.

Ask Israel how much we like it when foreign states interfere within our borders. They are still more or less out in the cold after they executed the wrong guy. A Norwegian citizen, within Norwegian borders. You just don't do that.
Shady shells (backdoored PHP backdoors)
Agree - Uber suffers from the same problem as Square. They created a new product expecting it to be stickier than it actually turned out to be.

In Uber's case it turns out "better than a yellow cab" is a pretty low bar to clear, and neither drivers nor consumers have much loyalty and are highly price sensitive, creating a race to the bottom.

In Square's case it turns out merchants will gladly use a slightly-worse iPad UI for payments if the fees are lower, and consumers don't really care regardless. Again, race to the bottom.

Right now it looks like Uber is engaged in an epic price war in many markets where the prices are unsustainably low - and these prices are sustained by a combination of setting VC cash on fire and squeezing driver pay. Having no insider information into Uber, I'm a bit skeptical that they're that close to be sustainably profitable.
Wondered about this too, looks like scikit-learn has something for it:

http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/classes.html#module-s...
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I assert that it would be erroneous to call this a firing, precisely because a the primary reason people use the word, "fired," is because it implies 3 things:

1. Something I did was bad enough that I don't work there anymore

2. I didn't have time or space to plan for this

3. I feel injured and sad that this occurred

Anytime you don't satisfy those criteria, the situation isn't really what people think of as a 'firing,' - even a well-handled 'firing' implies extreme discomfort and bad feelings between the associated parties- it doesn't make sense to use the word if the situation doesn't correspond to the primary differentiating characteristics of that word vs. other similar words!

For example, 'laid-off' strongly implies that it wasn't really anything you did, though it does imply that you weren't the precious, necessary performer on the team. "Laid-off" is fairly neutral- you might return to work for that company again, etc. "Fired" strongly implies a much different situation. I mean, if we want to work on redefining the words, so that a situation like this can be called a "well-handled firing," that's all fine (though I might assert that it's wasted effort), but as it stands, I think that you'd have to spend so much time and so many words explaining how this firing was different from all the other firings people are used to seeing, that not calling it a "firing" at all makes the most sense.

Have a splendid day, quanticle! :)
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Having access to more critical data / keys / and so on, if he really planned to go out, there would be better ways.
Brand loyalty is practically a myth at this point. I don't use any service or any product without some reservations about the company that made it, especially when it comes to apps and cloud stuff.

People I talk to about this sort of thing USE online services, but we're also fully backed up and ready to move at a moment's notice. Probably a consequence of watching so many of these things go up in smoke.
I -might- be interested but I refuse to work with paypal.

Edit: Unfortunately, I also don't really do bitcoin and have never heard of the other two options.
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Is there any downside to using o-rings? How come no keyboards seem to ship with them by default? I just ordered an MX Brown keyboard, wondering if I should buy o-rings.
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I work with one of the 60% keyboards. The biggest plus for me is having the navigation keys within the home row, but the biggest negative is having to press fn to use the function keys. I don't know if I'd go so far to call it idiocy though.
While I don't think that the bubble is bursting, it does seem that the values some companies which have been massively overvalued, are being adjusted. I'd much rather see this than companies loosing 90-99% of the value overnight - That's a burst.

If interns are making $80k a year, I think most of us are safe (for the time being).
I fucking hate these arguments, that "we need secrecy to negotiate effectively". The problem is, the negotiations are "effective" on behalf of corporations, not the public. Yes, they happen in secret for a reason, but that's not a reason we're bound to respect.
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The best way to settle this would be to mention some papers you need access to and he would share with us how he'd get to them.
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Their work forces are increasing in cost. Savings are starting to shrink.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/27/tech-manufacturing-relocation/
I used a Cherry Red keyboard in an office for a while. It was pretty noticeable for most people around me.

The benchmark for keyboard loudness in my experience is the standard apple laptop keyboard noise or the standard apple USB keyboard noise. It seems like all mechanical keyboard switches tend to be louder than those, and will be noticed. It's possible though that depending on how you type, people won't care.

I spend a lot of time writing text and type quickly and with force, so people could really hear it when I got going on my keyboard.
I've never heard of a classmate not getting a return offer for the next co-op term or fulltime (if they were graduating).
I agree, but look at what Andresen said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_p...

>Craig signed a message that I chose ("Gavin's favorite number is eleven. CSW" if I recall correctly) using the private key from block number 1.

>That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.

>I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).

It's quite suspect he wouldn't be allowed to keep the message, and that no public message and signature has been produced. But assuming he's not lying, this doesn't really seem like a scenario where he could be easily tricked.
NSF budget is only $7.7 billion for 2016 FY. Sigh.
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What matters more, driver loyalty or user loyalty? Uber feels like the Kleenex of its industry. Outside of the tech hubs I don't feel that most people are even aware that non-Uber ride services exist. I certainly here people asking their friends "should we get an Uber?" all the time.
> A study of Season 8’s contestants has yielded surprising new discoveries about the physiology of obesity

No it didn't. Just another example of junk science.

> Now burns 800 fewer calories a day than would be expected for a man his size.

"Expected for a man of his size" is a fiction. What they are insinuating here is that the rapid weight loss did long term damage to his metabolism. But to confirm that, you have to have data on what is burn rate was when he was previously at his current 295 weight. (Which he must have reached at some point in his life long before the participation of Biggest Loser, on his way to becoming 400-something). Comparing to what can be "expected" based on plugging 295 into some model is not adequate.

Maybe he previously also burned hundreds of calories less than what can be expected of someone of his weight. Maybe it's been like that most of his life!