skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 17.3% of the voters turned out.

Which is about 7% more than usually turn out for May elections, and about the same as chose the currently sitting governor. Please don't suggest it wasn't a valid election.

As to confusing ballot language, I've never seen anyone write any clearer language that passes legal muster. It has to talk about two ordinances, one to be repealed and one to replace it, and the major points of difference between them. Go ahead, give it a shot.
Correction to the previous: The CycleConf changes are now part of the official cycle-react-native repo: https://github.com/cyclejs/cycle-react-native
Neither does whatmoji, though.

Taco: http://whatmoji.com/?i=21c542c341eb67e1cb7a4ba4a21052ff

Eggplant: http://whatmoji.com/?i=376bf089b6f3e4f4eb7e9e13c4ce1cb2

peach: http://whatmoji.com/?i=1633b26bb2deb796dab3660132424995
> And, unfortunately, it seems like intelligence-led prevention is the only real way to stop terrorism

I wouldn't expect British Airways to do its own SIGINT but there's no reason why it can't source that info from the current supplier. (And BA already collects the passenger info on the US government's behalf.)

Either way, no one is proposing to tear up the Do Not Fly list, risibly inaccurate as it might be.
Here, let me show you my ASN.1 ... :) Or worse, my TL1. :)
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has Apple done anything whatever in the self-driving car domain? I've seen literally nothing about it from them and I've been paying attention. I don't mean rumor mill stuff or "open secrets". Have they announced any products? Have they discussed any actual projects?
It's FREE during the beta. We will have more information to share about pricing closer to the general availability time.
World's largest indoor farm: vertically farmed, aeroponic, and located in Newark
It seems that (a) we need Dynamic features (introspection, dynamic dispatch) and (b) we need to use it sparingly. In short, it's a _cultural_ problem, not a technical one.

I suspect the solution is something as simple as a "DangerouslyCallMethodByName" method.
iPhones Too Expensive in India, Says Apple CEO Tim Cook
Because people's computers work on Windows 8, and stop working after "upgrading" to windows 10. Those people don't care that it's a 3rd party driver causing the problem. (If it is; it's hard to know sometimes.)

Here's one example, but there are plenty of others: https://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks/ASUS_EeeBook_X205TA/HelpDe...

Here's the faqs that begin "After installing Windows 10".

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1016168/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1016490/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1016169/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1013137/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1015923/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1015947/

https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1015970/

And it affects network connectivity, so you'll need to use a different machine to look find these FAQs:
https://www.asus.com/uk/support/FAQ/1015954/
>>There's just nowhere in the US where I feel like I might still be in the same spot 10 years from now.

Yet, funnily enough, the justification one hears frequently for enduring the housing premium of the Bay Area is the number of nearby jobs that make it easy to switch employers every 18 months or so.
But that seems to only use Seafile's servers, not S3.
>It was harder and less acceptable to use international labor then

This is very true. I know the big US car unions ended up screwing both the employees and employers, but have you ever wondered what would have happened in the 60's or 70's, had the line manager come over and told his assembly line team that they were going to not only be fired next month, but if they wanted a severance, they'd have to train their replacement recently imported from the third world?

I can guarantee you that there is a good chance this mgmt. team would probably end up dead or severely injured soon afterwards.

Today, the same circumstances elicit, at most, a few angry comments on some online media forum.

We've been conditioned well by out masters.
Homes might be cheaper, but the rest of our bills aren't

The difference in housing is so huge that it sometimes feels like it swallows everything else. But, make no mistake, everything is cheaper here.

Use a tool like this for some comparisons:

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l...
Upon reading this i have three questions for them:
1) Do you do backups?
2) Do you use source control versioning system?
and last but not least
3) Why do you kill so many kittens?
We evaluated solr for a project just a week ago. It does not have authn & authz that mongo has, and that was a feature we needed. Other that that, if all you need is a kv store, solr is great.
True, but you can at least say that whatever mutation/genetic set responsible for it did not occur uniquely in humans
6500 items in a table..that sounds like a lot more than will fit on a screen?
Richest Lithium Nation Risks Being Left Behind in Tesla-Led Boom
I would also add in the usable space (number of usable rooms). Many houses come with a formal dining room combined with a formal living room (often called the great room); they then have a family room that flows into the kitchen. Add in an oversized master bedroom, and you have quite a bit of square footage but not really anything you can do with it that you couldn't do with smaller houses.
It's probably also worth reading the recent Slate Star Codex blog post that cites this.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/23/three-great-articles-on...
') Only render what's visible. In our lists, each item has a fixed height, so we only render elements that are visible. This cuts down from having to render 6500 items in that list, to a good 20-30.'

silly me! Apologies!
I don't know. But even if it did, you might want this information for non-trading reasons like "how hard should I be looking for a new job?"
I mostly agree with AGL, who is smarter than me, but I may take a step further.

Negotiation is the most dangerous feature in cryptography. Nobody has ever gotten it right (I mean that literally).

Therefore, in the same sense as Dan Bernstein used to have a design goal of "don't parse", "don't negotiate".

Instead of having protocols that negotiate features, we should have protocols that have simple versions, and the only negotiation that should ever occur is "is this protocol in the set of allowable versions for my local policy".

If a version gets something wrong, like using implicit IVs for CBC, or using a hilariously broken cipher like RC4, the whole protocol should version. RC4 should take you from TLS 1 to TLS 2. Lucky13 should take you from TLS 2 to TLS 3. Want to switch everyone to ChaCha/Poly? TLS 4 it is.
They have not. It's not Apple's style to make announcements about products they're not sure they'll release, and they won't release an Apple car unless they believe they can do it better than anyone else. I think it is a strength of their brand that it is plausible that even after investing $10b+ in autonomous car research they may well decide to scrap the project if they think it's not right.
“The worst algorithm in the world?”
I am also burnt out on them. Winforms, Silverlight, WPF, WinRT now UWP. Just wait for the next change of mind. We have gone web even for internal stuff that would have been web based before.

If I absolutely needed a desktop app I would either go Qt or write my own simple win32 wrapper.
if you are considering this I'd check out druid.io
Why is a straightforward joke being down voted? Obviously I'm not really saying to not use any other languages. The wiki page on Brainfuck even says itself "is not intended for practical use, but to challenge and amuse programmers."
It definitely gave me pause when I hit the YT link.

Fair call.
IME: Apartments are expensive, and they have shitty features. Crappy sinks, bad laundry services, poor noise insulation, etc.

For many people, the options are: leave my parents large house, with nice amenities, and pay a lot of money to live in a crappy, small apartment for more money.

Doesn't seem like rocket science to me.
I'd like to see some sources for that, and less unsubstantiated inflamatory rhetoric. Trump is giving us more than enough of that.

Also, baby-boomers didn't happen until after WWII, and there are a lot more social services [welfare, social security, medicare, Obamacare, more trust in banks thanks to FDIC] and regarding social advances, women are freer, the civil rights movement happened, the sexual revolution happened, and homosexuality is socially accepted [I, personally, don't think the latter two are positive developments, but I mention them because I am in the minority]. You have baby-boomers to thank for a lot of that. Social advances since WWI? Yep, lots! "Dismantled" is hardly the word to use for the 20th century.
Hey, author of Immutable.js here,

You're definitely right to point out that Immutable.js is really not always what you want for small values that change all the time. Immutable.js collections are best used for just that: collections. If you have to copy an array or map with a ton of entries to make a change, it's going to be super slow - Persistent Immutable data structures can help with that.

But I agree with your conclusion that any JS objects that are being used as small tuples are definitely better off staying plain JS objects.

You also don't have to use all Immutable.js or nothing at all. Similar to how using an ES6 Map collection means you don't have to stop using JS objects. Use Immutable collections where they offer benefits, but spreading it everywhere is not a performance panacea, as you rightly discovered.
One thing did (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/800343142/tylt-vu-pulse...), and unfortunately Pebble just kind of screwed them over. I can't imagine there's any malice involved; integrating HR was an obvious step forward for the product. Backers got an update today advising us that Pebble and Tylt have collaborated such that the Pulse will be able to feed HR data to Pebble Health, so it looks like Pebble have probably been good to deal with.

Still, I imagine it leaves a sour taste in the mouth of anyone else looking at making "Smart Straps".
What is the most affordable way to get GSM service for the Pebble Core? It looks like it would cost $20 per month to add a "tablet line" to my current mobile plan which is way too much for me.
"No one forces them to take the gig."

The second someone says that, that's a sign they have no actual argument.
Just wait until they change their mind again.
This is not about moral philosophy, but practical matters. Tor's anonymity depends on diverse ownership of the running relays. As it stands, the organizations accepting donations to run Tor relays (torservers, noisetor, etc) already control a sizeable chunk of the total relays, and that's why the Tor project would rather encourage people to run their own.

Of course, many people can't or don't want to run an exit node. In that case, it's much better to donate to those organizations than to do nothing. But the Tor exit relays are not soup kitchens, and increased security for the Tor network due to more diversified operator group is not easily convertible to a dollar value.
Completely irrelevant.
this page is garbage. no useable information what so ever. just a fucking joke site
Interestingly, the company outsourced to run the two off-shore "processing centres" was started by an immigrant from Italy.
Microsoft's net income increased dramatically under Ballmer¹ however. Dude made money. Apple's stock has stagnated lately, though that may very well be temporary. I think people discredit how smart Ballmer actually was, given how badly Microsoft did technology-wise in that period. Ballmer was as logistically talented as Cook is, IMO.

I agree with you on cars though. Apple could strike gold on that one, and Cook may be the person to do it.

¹ http://www.statista.com/statistics/267808/net-income-of-micr...
That may be true, but that's not a good data set to use either way.

The graph only accounts for 45 million houses in the US, including only the houses owned by the young and the old. But that is a small fraction of US homes. (If those were all homes, the average household size would be 7 people.)
It has grown decades ago and stayed high. In this graph, the vertical gray line is 2006 (peak). The same rate seems to be going back to the 80s

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2016/05/ST_2016.05.24_y...

wish they had better graphs.
> a general mechanism for expressing high-level concepts

functions

> that a compiler can now about and optimize directly. For that, C is completely hopeless.

This has been done with C for generations, i.e. memcpy, strlen, sqrt, and even printf are recognized by the C compiler and custom code is generated.

The only problem is the C community has been slow to standardize on additional functions.
I think the real issue is total cognitive load.

There's the cognitive load of the language itself. There's the cognitive load of the libraries. There's the cognitive load of the algorithm. And there's the cognitive load of the actual code (number of lines times how hard each line is to read - smart coding conventions help quite a bit here).

But it's not that simple, because people are different. Different people have different cognitive load when presented with the same language. I think this is one of the reasons Haskell is so polarizing - it either has a low cognitive load for you, or a very high one. And if it has a very high one, you're not likely to spend the time and effort to get to the point where it has a low cognitive load for you.

> I feel like there must be some diminishing returns on making a language too expressive, implicit, and/or convenient but I don't have any real evidence to prove such.

I think that going to far in any of those directions probably increases total cognitive load, by making some other component worse.
And none of that should be allowed.
Cool but you definitely need to include "alternative" meanings. Consider doing something like Urban Dictionary so people can find out what the eggplant really means.
The spirit of this law is very noble. It protects minority owners of companies from abuse by management or majority owners. Are there some unintended consequences, though? Could a competitor buy 1 share from an ex-employee to get access to the corporate accounts?
This just in: people have personal opinions!
It's more than uncool. It means giving up a huge portion of your life to commute to work, to your kid's school, and to the grocery store. It's definitely not coolness that keeps me living in a neighborhood where I can walk to the grocery store and to work. It massively increases the hours of my life.
I'd give up current times to go back to the 50s-70s where you could comfortably live on one income in the suburbs.

I don't much care for safer cars, longer life expectancy, instant world wide communications compared to the freedom of living a much better life during one of the most prosperous times in US history. Quality of life experiences feels like it was much better before the 21st century race to the bottom. What's the point of living "better" if you're going to be chained to a desk or job for 50-60 years, or constantly have to retrain decade after decade?
> the subsidies went away

If you're talking about being able to claim mortgage interest on your taxes then that hasn't gone away yet. I don't know what other kinds of home owner subsidies exist.
Zzzzzzz!
The younger generation is simply not having children at the high rate of previous generations.

Anecodotally, most of my mid 30's friends have either 0 or 1 child, a few that got started earlier have two.

On the other hand, the millions of legal and illegal immigrants, especially from Latin America, are keeping the birth rate up. They do, in fact, many times live in much more crowded conditions. I have met a few Hispanic immigrants in my area as I speak Spanish, and in each case, they lived in single family homes with multiple families / generations.
That requires the parents to change the way that they interact with their children over time. That can be hard, especially if you never saw an example of it while growing up.
Alternate headline: Driver Falls Asleep, Car Refuses to Crash
Love your work on Immutable.JS.

When I was typing out the original reply, I meant to say "Don't use Immutable.JS for small objects" but ended up putting a period in the middle... which could have led to some confusion. I've edited it to make it more clear.

We've also had some perf issues with using Immutable JS for even larger arrays. I think paying the cost of shallow copying the entire array when modifying it ended up winning in the long run as our render functions could loop over the array much faster.
I'm amazed that she's still in charge.
Do you have any real, hard data to back your statements up, or just your own personal observations?
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of hosts that implement OpenStack?
I disagree. After a couple meager attempts I never figured out how to naturally follow conversations, and quickly parsing abbreviation-filled snippets of text is a skill I think needs to be learned.
<inserts entire James McMurtry catalog here>
Autoencoding Blade Runner: reconstructing films with artificial neural networks
Is this true? There's leaked Unreal alpha stuff from 1995, which was already doing almost everything Quake's bsp renderer ended up doing.
This is a pretty great personal account, and it helps me tremendously in my goal of understanding this group of people who feel left out and overlooked by their government. However, it's also a good demonstration of how people find ways to rationalize acting against their own self-interest.

One example: The author observes that the unnecessariat is having lots of economic value extracted from them, e.g. from required, high cost healthcare plans. She implies things were better when there was no requirement (and thus no coverage). I think that's a common sentiment among conservatives, which is why they have voted continually against Obamacare. But as she points out, these are people for whom even moderate healthcare costs can be devastating financially. So why didn't they all vote for Obamacare and for the public option, subsidized by higher taxes? And why didn't she consider that a reasonable enough future to even mention it?

I worry the answer is that they've given up on using (representative) democracy to improve their lives.
What if there was corruption on the local file system, what would happen then?

Also, what happens to files that were deleted from the local file system. I was under the impression that they would remain indefinitely available to restore.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.
GDC is C code... I'm talking UIKit.

Totally agree that on the WWDC they announce that UIKit is written in swift then it's officially dead.
I do expect to use it for my work.

But at this rate it seems like it needs to mature a bit and settle down before I should use it.
Apple Watch and Music have barely been out for a year; it's a bit early to say they haven't succeeded.

Likewise, it's a bit early to high-five Google on the Deepmind aquisition. The Go achievement is great, but how will it help Google's business? IBM holds the previous big AI-beat-human trophies (Deep Blue and Watson) and neither has done much to help their bottom line. And of course Microsoft Research did a bunch of interesting work under Ballmer.

Also, what successful new products has Nadella personally delivered with his "vision and tech expertise"? The biggest thing he has done for Microsoft is help them get over the loss of the Windows monopoly. He's like Obama in 2009--he gets a lot of credit for just showing up and saying "I'm the new guy, we screwed up, and we're going to do better now."
In Canada, FWIW, you can get tranched plans from most carriers starting at $5 month (it is their "tablet" option). The bills go up pretty quickly if you use it much, but still a decent option.
Sorry, I hadn't read it carefully. This should be for all households and shows the same pattern, albeit with a less useful display:

http://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-househol...
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> Similar happened to Balmer, he came in after the boom was over.

Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, before DOS on the IBM PC transformed the company. He was a big part of its success all the way through.....

> But tried to push into new markets (and failed.)

When he became CEO the company was under close US judicial supervision (which lasted more than a decade), under attack from the EU, and paying out $billions in fines. So he started with a mess and operated with one hand tied behind his back, but he still managed to triple turnover and double profits.

Ballmer had some spectacular failures on the new product front, but when he handed over to Nadella, Azure was already a success, Microsoft had an online Office suite better than Google's, and it was already moving into Android and iOS apps (of which there are now dozens).

Not the best CEO of all time, but he could have done a lot worse. He certainly beat the forecasts of the Linux/OpenOffice fans of the day, who reckoned the company would be out of business by 2007 ;-)
If these claims are true (specifically, that every local minimum is a global minimum), then why did the earlier neural networks have poor performance? Why did we need advancements like pretraining via stacked RBMs and dropout in order to make deep learning converge on usable/better models?
I just got a Moto 360 sport which has GPS, HR and BT. You can pair it with BT headphones, and it will play music from Google Play music without a phone.

The sad thing is that I actually like to listen to podcasts while I run. And, even though Google added podcast support to Play Music, podcast cannot be sync'ed to the watch. So I still have to carry my phone.
Your idea that there is some fundamental difference between big government and big business is false. Power is power.
>it is always government.

It is never this simple.
https://ting.com has a $6/month charge for a SIM card and then $3 for 100MB/month. It's $12 for 500MB/month.
Apple rehires respected encryption expert while overhauling entire security team
We are talking about error handling. My point: "let it crash" aka "failstop principle" is well known for decades, and practiced in all major languages.
How does this compare with Storm? So Storm is not needed anymore ?
How long after the crash of 1929 were the reforms? Well, there was the Securities Act of 1933, the start of the SEC in 1934, the FDIC in 1933, and Glass-Steagall in 1933. So, most of it was four to five years after.

We are now eight years after 2008. What's happened? Not very much, from my view.

> people don't easily forget.

I think that 2008 wasn't nearly as bad as 1929, and people therefore forget much more easily.