skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess they found out liberal economical policies lead to unemployment, and the poor loathe unemployment.

By the way Corbyn is a very bad example. He's a walking train wreck.
More like you might accidentally have Google decide your extension doesn't align with their business requirements and arbitrarily force you out of the Chrome store (after, incidentally, having made it nearly impossible for non-technical users to install extensions outside of Google's walled garden.)

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/21/how-youtube-killed-...
Web's most realistic raindrops animation
User centered design vs. task centered design
Fugio: a new open-source digital art platform and video manifesto and 1st tutorial
Oh, I think they get it just fine. They simply choose not to give into it.
Diet Free Weekends: Mike Whitfield Diet Free Weekends
Any chance they just all took drugs or something?
How does one get to be a former Russian?
Smart lean ideas for business development: part 2
>Apple claimed it improves battery life for mobile devices

Is there a source for that claim? I ask because FLAC is generally considered to be faster for decoding.

My guess is the MP4 container is the only reason they went for it (that and possible business/ecosystem reasons).
Why do they believe it? Obviously, in any one election you can say it's the headlines of the day combined with the personalities of the leaders.

So are working class people repeatedly irrational in voting for right-wing parties? Interestingly, UKIP are combining left-wing economics with right-wing social policies, and have made a lot of ground with the working class. Arguably, this is Trump's constituency in the US as well.
More clouds will be fine.
I didn't edit the snippet at all. But let's look at the whole paragraph:

What explains the consolidation of the highly educated into a liberal bloc? The
growing number of women with advanced degrees is part of it, as well-educated
women tend to be especially left-leaning. Equally important is the Republican
Party’s move to the right since the 1980s — at odds with the social liberalism
that has long characterized the well educated — alongside the perception that
conservatives are anti-intellectual, hostile to science and at war with the
university.

He posed the question "What explains the consolidation of the highly educated into a liberal bloc?"

Then answered it by saying that it could be because of more highly-educated women, because they tend to be particularly left-leaning.

What does that "explain"? The core question is why education tends towards left political views. A related question is why this is seen moreso in women. But suggesting that this tendency is explained, even partially, by the demographics on which the tenancy is seen is tautological... Unless there's some obvious reason I'm missing that women should be more susceptible to this bias?
How can one be a "former Russian"?

Also, socialism != communism.

Also, Stalinism != communism.
This sounds like a trademark lawsuit waiting to happen.

T-Mobile holds the trademarks for T-anything, Magenta, the color Magenta, etc for not just communication and networking, but also music etc.
Doctors are also among the highest-paid members of American society and, along with wealthy financial professionals, you will typically find them siding more with the Republican Party often out of concern for their tax bracket.
confirming, ex-gf who is commodity trader (coal, energy and oil lately) mentioned yahoo chat all the time. most of them are not very tech-savvy, so they are happy with it as long as it works
Also like Firefox, XUL is XML + CSS + JS. And that's what, close to 20 years old now?
Einstein's Quote We can't solve problems by using the same kind of. explained
>"The more education you have, the more you're prepared to accept the possibility that you're wrong."

I've never met or seen anyone who self-identifies with a specific political label who was willing to accept they might be wrong.

That includes liberals. To be honest, the inability to consider alternative viewpoints is an attribute I associate strongly with liberals in particular.
everynoise.com does something like that.

They don't describe their methodology in detail, but they use some sort of feature extractors to assign positions to genres (as some people have define them through song inclusion/exclusion) in a multidimensional space.

I believe they use some form of PCA, so the axes aren't so easy to put names on, but it does give some indication of actual variation.
Yet Silicon Valley has been noted as having disproportionately low vaccination rates.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/closer-look-silicon-valleys-dis...
There are those of us who prefer having a well-integrated "Internet suite" (web browser, mail client), a la what Mozilla used to provide prior to the Firefox - Thunderbird split, or what Opera used to provide prior to being turned into a Chrome clone.

> As if you did not already have the ability to put a mail client on your sidebar in Vivaldi. Using web panels, you can pin the email provider of your choice to an icon and open it in a sidebar at any point you like.

I... uh, I'm not sure, or at least I hope that's not what they mean by building a mail client. Not having to use a shitty web-based interface is about 75% of why I'm using a mail client.
Also the more economics courses you take, the more likely you are to vote GOP:

https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
I vote in accordance with my principles, even if it is against my immediate self-interest. Perhaps they are doing the same.
LastPass has lost my trust with the breach. And that was after their browser extension was doing wacky things for me all the time.
Or maybe the factory closing is a net benefit long term. Was losing millions of jobs in the farming sector a bad thing? Or the automation of the glass industry in the 1930's and 1940's that increased production and cleaned up emissions? Is the move to driverless vehicles and what that'll do to the logistics industry bad?

There's lots of examples of people losing jobs. That's sad for the individual, but long term it's generally good for the country. It'd be easy to say no to those forms of progress that hurt workers, but it'd be the wrong decision in the long run.

No-one said making the right choice has to be victimless, or that the wrong one has to be hard.
I don't like moral expectations, because I feel that it competes with precious narrative-time in public discourse with something far more interesting -- hard mechanisms. I believe in a policy / mechanistic fix of the importance of money in the judicial system, rather than spending time shaming one Peter Thiel.

I don't like moral expectations because it works like a black box, which I would be okay with if only the results weren't so lacking and unreliable. When discourse is constrained by limited resources, I prefer to speak of mechanisms because I feel it has a more plausible relationship with moral results.

When I'm one on one with you, then of course, we might discuss our moral framework and expectations, standards which may go far higher than brute mechanisms.
I modified my main post with some more evidence in support of my theory which I'm posting here so you can see it as a response.

Professors in humanities that identify as Republican range from 6 to 11 percent.

Social Sciences 7 and 9 percent

2% of English professors are Republican.

Meanwhile 18% of social scientists are Marxists.

This evidence leads me to believe that Academics self select to be liberal and that people with a conservative mindset do not find academia appealing for whatever reason. The reason I rule it has little to do with intelligence of the groups is the prevalence of Marxism amongst academics. Intelligent people that use evidence to reason about their beliefs wouldn't be Marxist.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confessio...
Your comment about Corbyn is essentially tautology - he's unelectable because he's unelectable. Why? Why don't the working class want a leader who's promising to end policies which continue to hit the working class the hardest?

And why do the poor loathe unemployment? Why don't they loathe being poor more than being unemployed? Working minimum wage on zero-hour contracts means they're still poor.
Why do you have those principles?
Internet plus: une formule de microtransaction de Digital Global Pass
Vote. Raise money. Spread it around.
> he is the only candidate who doesn't want to send his demographics jobs offshore

Or at least he'll say that.

Whether he'll a) change his mind the next day, b) have any feasible plan to implement this, c) whether it's actually a net-positive for his demographic, d) whether he supports a bunch of other things that will hurt this demographic are all less clear.

I mean this is a man who manufactures stuff in China himself (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-admits-gear-made...).

Why not just increase sales tax and then give it to American union members if buying votes by subsidising them is a good strategy? It's basically the same thing, but it seems a lot less "American" to be honest about it.
The highly educated can afford to be liberal.

This demographic tends to be wealthier. Greater wealth means less required assistance and, therefore, greater opportunity to advocate on the behalf of others.

Such is my experience.
> I've used Rust on a variety of ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers including Atmel SAMD21, NXP LPC1830, and STM32F4

That's an encouraging start.

Having been there, and as reported on weekly basis by numerous people like @internetofshit, much of the code that runs the current IoT hype is utter and complete tripe. I have a faint hope that Rust could be something to help in that regard, even though at the same time I recognize that much of the badness in IoT has to do with financial considerations (too costly to make a good quality talking coffee-maker). Maybe it's especially because IoT seems to be all about getting cheap stuff out cheaply, I have this hope that at least having the language and development ecosystem help devs instead of shooting them in their foots would be a good start.
Reading https://syntaxdb.com/ref/python/sets I spotted an error. "setName = {} #another way to initialize set"

```
In [1]: s = {}; type(s)
Out[1]: dict
```
Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell (2013)
>> Trump: he is the only candidate who doesn't want to send his demographics jobs offshore.

Doesn't want too, but he'll muddle through and do it anyway. Just google "trump clothing china". In his world profit trumps all.
Superiority complex leading to a savior complex.
> First of all: Makes using a specific programming language a software much less secure? Probably not.

Quite the contrary, most probably yes. Mistakes happen, but different
languages make different kinds of mistakes impossible or very easy. You can't
get segfault when manipulating strings in Perl or Python, while in C it takes
plenty of effort to avoid.
Pithy answer 2: because they are economically privileged.

The headline is a broad generalisation, and as another broad generalisation poorer people are more religious and more conservative because they have harder lives, bleaker temporal outlooks and hope for a better life 'beyond'.
AI celebrities with distinctive personalities will be fun. I can't wait to see a real-life (as it were) Hatsune Miku making her own content.

EDIT: And then the inevitable schism among fans about what their base personalities should have been like, and the resulting clones, throwing the AIs into an existential crisis when confronted with their alternative versions..
That's why smartphones keep sucking more and more with time. Building products for the lowest common denominator get you shit, shallow products that don't use even a fraction of their potential.
I've heard numerous complaints from people with deep technical knowledge in this domain that Ogg is a terrible format - for example, see: http://hardwarebug.org/2010/03/03/ogg-objections/

MP3 is used where simplicity and compatibility are prioritised - Ogg is neither simple nor widely compatible. Where quality is prioritised, there are other alternatives providing at least as good quality.

So asking "Why is Ogg not used over MP3 because quality" misses the point - MP3 wasn't chosen for premium quality, and Ogg is awful at the things MP3 is good at. Apple supports MP3 for compatibility/simplicity, AAC for quality (lossy), and ALAC for quality (lossless). I don't really see how Ogg competes on a technical level with any of those, for their respective purpose.
Yahoo publishes FBI's secret requests for user data
1. They're less susceptible to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

2. They like to explore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_interdependence
Nice, this is something that has been driving me mad. Always liked how bandcamp or soundcloud kept playing the music in the background while browsing. Not the exact same, but seeing as how YT requires the videos to always be visible when played I guess it's as good as it can get.
Erm... I wouldn't say that the average liberal feels that there's much they don't know, and that they might be wrong about a lot of things. (I wouldn't say that the average conservative is like that, either.)

I believe that academia is the perfect place for the formation of cliques which over time exclude non-believers. Right now there's a powerful liberal clique in academia - but over time it could be replaced by anything, really. At some point eugenics were all the rage, today it's taboo, etc. And since educated people pass through the academia, and receive a lot of information filtered through the leading clique, they're likely to share the clique's views. (Whether, on top of that, educated people also simply exhibit less critical thinking and original opinions based on their own experience than the average person I don't know; I wouldn't be surprised by it being either true or false, I can certainly construct a believable narrative explaining both possibilities.)

Speaking of eugenics and such... how do I put this, in hindsight people reevaluate their ideas wrt what's scary, and the British Labor and Liberal parties' insistence that Nazi Germany wasn't particularly scary seems to me to be a pretty good example. I think this shows that "you're generally not threatened of things you understand" sometimes is less accurate than "you're not threatened of things that you completely misunderstand, while those who do understand them are right to be scared shitless about them." And sometimes, like in this case, "you" are more liberal than "them", and sometimes it's the reverse.
My alternative isn't one that most people would accept, but I'd be fine with money losing companies ceasing to exist.

I'm fairly confident that Snapchat could make money charging their users, if the fee is sufficiently small. Say $10 per year, perhaps as an in-app purchase, with the first 6 month being free.

We also may have to accept that some of these companies, Twitter seems the most obvious, isn't actually providing anything of tangible value to the average user and therefore can't exist. Of cause if some investors wants to keep throwing money at Twitter to keep the lights on, they're more than welcome. I know I'm not exactly being friendly towards Twitter, but it's a great example of a company that needs to fail. The only reason they don't is because investors have already wasted so much money that they're desperately trying so save it in hope of making the money back, by some miracle. Part of it might also be that investors, journalists and bankers are so heavy users of Twitter that they fail to see that the business isn't sustainable.

In the end the user will always be the one to pay the bill. Either by directly paying, or indirectly via advertising.
>IQ societies aren't representative of the IQ range they require.

And having an advanced degree doesn't mean you have a high IQ or are even particularly smart.

>I have a feeling people who feel the need to join one of those groups are more socially disaffected and have lower empathy than the their non-member IQ peers

Have a source? Anyway a lot of people are invited to join these groups when they're young, and I'd argue liberals are more likely to seek out the approval of others.

>And I haven't found your comment about libertarianism being rampant among professors to be true at all. Where did you go to school? That would be very much outside the norm.

I went to a mildly prestigious university. I have a Masters in CS and a Bachelors in Mathematics. I think it's likely that my teachers were more libertarian because I took very few liberal-arts classes, where I noticed the more liberal professors were.

Usually the ones that lean libertarian are old white guys. My Asian professors didn't seem into politics at all and the few female professors I had also didn't seem politically oriented.

I had one chemistry professor though who would go on and on about how much he hated the government and regulations and how good things were back when he could obtain [illegal chemical] easily.

Honestly the only time politics seem to come up is when the professor has some issue with some government regulation.

I can see how it might seem like many professors are liberal though, they believe in global warming, vaccines, human rights, but it turns out that many libertarians believe in all that stuff too.
Climate change? What does that mean? It used to be global warming but the facts were so blatantly unsupportive that the sly shift to 'climate change' was adopted. Now it's a mantra for unthinking people. But it works because heads I win, tails you lose. The climate is always changing. Temperature changes are slight and hedged with ifs and buts. Now if you mean that the CO2 level in the atmosphere has increased from the pre-industrial levels of around 270 parts per million to 400 parts per million today then I'm with you. Recalling that life on earth would be impossible were the level to reduce to less than around 120 ppm, let's get this into perspective. Meanwhile Arctic Greenland is indeed turning green (NASA study).
https://youtu.be/Yi8SFOJffFA while the temperature in that area has remained unchanged over the past 16 years prior to this year's El Nino.

Anyway, I'm sure that the greening of the Arctic and of many places elsewhere as evidenced by satellite imagery is a disastrous phenomenon we should discourage.

“An ancient forest has thawed from under a melting glacier in Alaska and is now exposed to the world for the first time in more than 1,000 years.". An observation probably invented by some imaginative climate denier?

As Judith Curry has said: "Efforts to link dangerous impacts of extreme weather events to human-caused warming are misleading and unsupported by evidence. Climate change is a ‘wicked problem’ and ill-suited to a ‘command and control’ solution. It has been estimated that the U.S. national commitments to the UN to reduce emissions by 28% will prevent three hundredths of a degree centigrade in warming by 2100...".
I find this comment to be borderline insulting, even when my political views are very liberal. Basically, what I read in your comment (maybe I'm misreading it) is that not having a liberal view means that the person does not understand the world, has an angry response, ignores the complexities of life and does not understand anything.

So, instead of just trying to understand what do these people think, feel and fear we just assume we're superior and think they're ignorant? Of course, there are ignorant conservatives, just as there are ignorant liberals. There are also really smart conservatives who have a really strong foundation and understand how the world works. They just have another view of which are the solutions to our problems, but it's really hard to say which is the "right" and which is the "wrong" view.

I also find surprising that religion is in the same bucket as climate change denial or anti-vaccinations. I've meet a lot of religious people who have already tried to understand things and have found that they believe in a god, or whatever, and that does not make them more or less intelligent, it's just a personal belief.

Finally, the correlation "higher education => magic knowledge of everything" is plainly not true, not even "in some cases". A degree just gives you knowledge in a specific area, and does not make anyone more intelligent just by having it. It is not a badge of superiority.

As someone said in another reply, this is just an attitude of "liberals are right, conservatives are not", but there's no right political view as of now.
That depends on what he was trying to do with that comment.

I believe that he's trying to make a distinction between the number of claims filed by people who take corners faster and the size of the claims made by such people when they do file a claim.

Generally, "fewer" is used when talking about things that come in discrete amounts, and "less" when talking about continuous things. For example, if you were comparing the amount of water in two glasses of water you would say that one has less water than the other, but if you were comparing the number of ice cubes in the two glasses you would say one has fewer ice cubes than the other.

However, "less" is often used even for discrete things when there is a unit attach, such as with money. E.g., we might reasonably say either "the waller contained less than $5" or the "the wallet contained less than $10".

Before the late 18th century "less" was used with discrete things. As with many things in grammar, some prescriptivist decided that people were doing it wrong and made a new rule, and we got stuck with it. And like other such bogus rules (such as not splitting infinitives and not ending sentences with prepositions) current usage is tending away from following the rule.

The main argument I've seen that we need different words for comparing discrete things and comparing continuous things is that it is less ambiguous when it would not be clear what word the comparison word applies to. For instance suppose there were two studies of possible cancer treatments. Study A produced 2 promising treatments and study B produced 4 promising treatments. All of the treatments from study A look like they will be better than all of the treatments from study B.

Using the prescriptivist take on "less" and "fewer" we could say that study A has "fewer promising results" (we are comparing the number of results) but study B has "less promising results" (we are comparing the quality of the results).

Anyway, I think that is the distinction he was trying to make.
Unpopular opinion on HN, but people are mostly liberals when the current system works for them and it's even more visible as observe the political spectrum outside the US. It's easier to say "the market solves everything" when it works for you. When it does not work for them, they turn either to the right or the left side. As the current system is mostly falling apart for the middle class, you then have a raising far-left and far-right as a consequence. That's also why the vast majority of rich people are liberals.
By becoming a true Scotsman?
Learn Scapy in 15 minutes
>> ... is a disastrous phenomenon we should discourage.

Yes. Google methane and permafrost melting.
Would be great to create a list of favourite shows
The whole browser is a "web-based interface". Vivaldi is built using HTML/JS.
Real AI is 10 to 120 years away with 70% confidence
Solving Ballistic Trajectories – Dev Curious
I read. I went elsewhere. Here's why.

The pages do not tell me what I would be paying for. For me, it's important to know what font file format is used, because I need to know what and how many hoops I would have to jump through in order to obtain vt fonts. (Best outcome is two vt fonts: one normal+bold, one light+demibold. This is why the multiple weights interested me in the first place.)

* https://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vtfontcvt

* https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons#Font_Support

There's also no information about the character repertoire. Does it have everything in the WGL4? Or the W1G? Or less than either? What does it have?