skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are American the moment you decide that's a good reason to start getting ok with religious discrimination is when you've given up on the very ideals this country was founded on.

I hadn't really thought about it until you said this now, but freedom of religion in this country predates gender equality, racial equality, and even slavery. There were founders of this country who were ok with slavery but drew the line at religious discrimination!
I think he meant something really advanced like an ear piece that can directly connect your mind to the Internet. One wouldn't even need to look at a browser for search results. Think of a programming question, and you get the answer without doing any reading.
> The food though...seems like everybody does it.

The people who work here are the sort of people who don't, and that's intentional. Enjoy the things that are provided, but understand the context and intent behind them and don't abuse them. We get to have these things because we collectively take responsibility for not abusing them. That's how you avoid the tragedy of the commons - if everybody abused them then we'd have to stop having them so freely available.
Reducing the cost of getting your message to the market without changing your customer acquisition rate is by definition not a zero sum game.
Gotta agree there. The roads are horrendous --they are worse than bay area highways, with only I-880 coming close. Average speed seems slower and peak traffic lasts longer (there are hardly any lulls, except for well into the evening).

I'd love to see more rail, but they need to widen their main highways (the occasional allowed extra shoulder does not cut it) or build new highways --and I'd wish they'd hire someone from Caltrans to spearhead the Mass-DOT, to modernize the way they do interchanges.

They also probably need a Hy-128 rail corridor (rails is all in and out of Bos)
Does anyone else find it humorous that this is happening between two CAs? It's always seemed to me that certificates (when combined with DNS) are almost the technical implementation of trademarks...proof of ownership over a name to prevent confusion on the part of consumers.

What's happening here is basically the legal equivalent of Comodo applying for a certificate for letsencrypt.org and claiming that it's okay because the people behind letsencrypt.org never did.
For those who don't know the term: it is using fines proportional to the amount of money one has available for spending on a day, as they do in Finland, where speeding tickets can go over $100,000 for the very affluent (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-...)

Yes, you cannot hope to reach complete equality of the impact a fine has on the drivers, but you cannot do that with demerit points, either. A driver who needs his car to make a living will likely be affected stronger than a driver who has a decent alternative.
I do think it's fair to criticize a religion's teachings based on the behavior those teachings encourage.

That said, I think the difference is one of degree, not of kind. There are violent Christians, too, after all -- and violent Jews (ask the Palestinians about these) -- and violent atheists. There are many places in the world where the Western concept of human rights has not caught on, and you don't have to be a right-winger to suggest that we who believe in such rights should continue to press the concept on others (even as we continue to clean our own houses).

You don't really say exactly what it is that you're agreeing with the right-wing parties about. If you're suggesting that Muslim immigrants should be excluded from the US, for example, that would seem to contradict your claim that you're not saying anything about individual Muslims.

So what is it, exactly, that you think "rational people" couldn't disagree with?
It's possible to understand the nature and purpose of the European project and still, resignedly, vote "leave". People voting "leave" aren't opposed to peace and prosperity. They're saying that the EU is so badly run and so antithetical to their way of life that despite the advantages of the European project, the UK is better off without it.

So far, I've seen most commentators cast aspersions on the UK public for squandering an opportunity for peace and unity. I wish more people would entertain the notion that the EU was so badly run and so antithetical to the UK way of life that leaving was the right choice, however sad it was that the EU dream didn't become reality.
I don't think the fat lady has sung yet. Fact is, in Britain, the most Euro-skeptic country in the Union, almost half of the population is now convinced that the EU is fine. From a historical perspective is amazing, considering the country was dragged in what it was, at the time, little more than a trade union, and is now a semi-federalist structure.

We only need a couple of generations of old angry men to die off, and then we'll be ok.
> Do employees want to join companies with the expectation that if any of these things happen at any point over the course of 10 years before an IPO, they end up with nothing?

This is a great thing to highlight. There's the company and the opportunity and then there's all that random stuff that you only understand after a decade in the industry.
I doubt there would be a major conflict in Europe with the US still being the dominate military force in the world.
Ants aren't constrained to a few lanes and can climb over each other if necessary and even build bridges out of their bodies.

Ants do not have to obey a two second rule to prevent hitting the ant ahead of them.

Ants don't have to wait for a good sized gap when merging into a busy lane of ants.

Please, no more of these antics. :)
It's still quite black and white: it's simply wrong. Just because it might be slightly less bad than others isn't a defence anymore than someone not hitting their SO until they've given them a verbal warning.
This is not reddit. Read the rules and stop whining about your downvotes.
Nexmo's inventory especially for North America numbers has been an issue for a while. Are you using them for Voice, SMS, or both?
Climate data lives in a wide variety of exciting calendars that no normal person would ever use. 360 day years? Check. No leap years? Check.

(I asked some of the scientists in my building, and apparently it makes the models a lot easier to write; just pushes the burden to post-processing)
Wow, thanks for clearing up a major misunderstanding.
1st Amendment of US Constitution regarding religion: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;

This has nothing to do with restricting immigration of certain groups for WHATEVER reason. That is the prerogative of a sovereign nation. In fact, it was only since the 60's that the US allowed mass immigration from non European nations.

If you are referring to Muslims whom are also US citizens, I agree with you. We need to very careful that Muslims in the US are treated with the same rights as anyone else.
If it's your thing, you could look up Haralabos Voulgaris - he takes on people doing advanced sports stats for betting purposes. He is straight gambling ($1m/day I think he's mentioned) rather than fantasy sports though. From following him for a while, I've had the impression that he has a team of programmers working for him at various points.
UC Berkeley 2016 Non-Required Summer Reading
> I hate what the Bologna reforms did to higher education

A bit off-topic, but what exactly do you hate about Bologna? I liked it that it shortened my studies (math) from 4 years to 3, although I would have appreciated a bit more depth (more elective subjects)... But then, I only have a very limited perspective, so I'm very curious about what other people think, and what possible improvements they see.
I noticed that right away. Things like "We believe we know good talent when we see it, yet we usually don’t—we’re terrible at evaluating people objectively"

Some are really good at evaluating talent/people. Author seems to want to lump everyone together in a mass of "we" to make some grand point. Missing the trees because of the forest.
That's how I understand it. "fill my bag with juices" is not the same as taking a snack for later.
You expect a lot of imaginary GBP inflation?
I'd like to see an independant Scotland, but I wonder if they would actually vote for independence this time around, even in the face of a Leave vote: the low price of oil, and the chaotic state of the EU might make that look too scary for the Scots
How is advertising zero sum?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11965486 and marked it off-topic.
You're saying you only want to vote for a party that could win. Why? For the satisfaction of feeling like you made a difference? If the polls showed that the "greater evil" party was winning by a large margin, would you vote for that too because the lesser evil one has zero chance?

People who vote against their own interest and focus on over-emotional bipartisan feelings are exactly the reason America's government keeps doing things that people don't like. They're so afraid of the "greater evil" that they'll even kill the greater good in a futile attempt to avoid it. The republicans will still keep on winning every couple of cycles, just as they always have. Voting for one of the two major parties is really a vote for the status quo of alternating republican and democrat governments. It's like sports, no team is ever really going to win. They just keep switching places.
I believe this is the paper in question!

https://futhark-lang.org/publications/fhpc16.pdf
Could you disclose/open source your methodology?
We lost what was closest to non-partisan news a couple years back when CNN decided to go liberal. Since then our news choices have been 100% junk. I might as well go with Fox, since at least it isn't trying to push Democrat framing of everything.

I wouldn't do any better by following news that refuses to cover anything that doesn't mesh well with the liberal agenda.

Those riots in the Paris suburbs... did you not hear about them, or do you think they were faked, maybe like the Moon landings? What about the sunbathing lady in the park? What about the people who claim to have been harassed and worse by neighborhood sharia patrols while doing things like carrying alcoholic drinks? None of this is safe, and it sure doesn't sound very French to me.
The scary part that is that my company's IT department also talks about "Watson integration" and a lot of execs are completely impressed. I have asked in some meetings what this would exactly do and how it's better than a few SQL statements but got totally brushed off.
> Why not organize around a sane leader instead of electing bigger and bigger idiots in some kind of suicidal hope that the system will collapse?

The voting systems make that hard. Eg for the US any one who wants to win the primaries has to pander to their extreme base.

Moving to range voting would help a bit http://www.rangevoting.org/
Ouch! MinGW is really in a limbo, sticking its fork into the proverbial toaster. Microsoft can change behaviors in MSVCRT.DLL, which can break MinGW programs.

Now I'm even more motivated to stop using MinGW.
In proportional systems, you have parties popping up on the fringe, as older parties vacate them.

See Die Linke (The Left party) in Germany taking over territory perhaps once held by the SPD (Socialdemocratic party).
They might still not think the EU is fine. Just that leaving is worse. There will be reforms of the EU regardless of this outcome I hope and the member states left might stand to gain from it.
What is this, a frat house? "Pussy"? "Bitch"? You do understand that's sexist, right?
Not just that, but there are lots of people who honestly believe that no one does hold a different opinion. They attribute a failure to enact the policies they support to a conspiracy of vested interests, rather than the fact that a large fraction of country disagrees with them.
I wrote:
> keeps depending on the same library from Microsoft.

It's actually worse. What I didn't understand it that it depends on an internal library which Microsoft says applications aren't supposed to use! See informative comment by geofft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11964589

Oops!
On the contrary, you see people using their vote rather than force to seek their will and self-determination. No arms fired.

In some ways, one of the main thrusts of this effort, the wish to be more independent and having self determination and resulting in more control over employment and immigration is understandable. Unlike the US where anti-immigration brings calls of racism, in the UK the animus is against people of the same "race". (it also affects people from non-EU, and of non-European descent, but less so).

I think this is the attitude evidenced when people decry "gentrification". Or No "Californians" in Portland, OR or Seattle, WA. People don't mind immigration (influx of outsiders) or change, so long as it's controlled to some degree and they have a benefit (unaffordable housing and competition for blue collar jobs from regions who are used to lower wages, makes it a wedge for people of that economic class).
I guess the changes happen too slow for a single person to notice within a span of single generation. So I guess I'll have to die in hopes that I have done my duty to change the world for the better and the next generation will carry the torch for me.
It looks like the average was around 35%:
http://predictwise.com/politics/uk-politics
Interestingly the odds went down pretty sharply as the election came closer, but it is not really fair to pick the lowest odds when evaluating how good the predictions were. But even 15% odds are not really all that unlikely, about a 1 in 6 chance. It isn't as though pundits were predicting leave.
I wonder >why< it got on the spam list. Perhaps it was simply unrecognized.
> if the advertisement lets you know about something you'd want but previously didn't know about, that's a net plus

i count those things not as adverts, but as information sources. An advert is something that tries to convince you to buy _their_ brand of a thing, rather than informing you of the existance of a thing you didnt know about. Suppose there's a universal catalog which lists all possible products/services, then you'd have no need of the former, but the latter is still a zero sum game.
First the Brits, then in a couple months the Americans. There is only so much room in Canada.
I don't think anyone is really claiming EU is fine. Or that the dividing line is defined along young/old.

What is being voted on is simply whether the good bits outweigh the sucky bits. Or whether the sucky bits are at least reformable.

Existence of the sucky bits is beyond question.
Sky news is now projecting OUT, ie given the trend looks like UK will leave EU.
Anyway, still many votes to come, margin is around 800k votes so far.
I was in both of those places (Saigon and all over India) over the last few month. That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline.
BBC forecasts UK vote to leave EU
If thinking about a programming question, just landed me on a StackOverflow page, even that would be miles ahead of Google search's offering!
I'm glad that you realize that the logical conclusion of your ideas is that life is a bad thing. What is wrong is your attempt to fudge your own conclusion rather than examine your incorrect assumptions.

Suffering is just the shadow cast by happiness. You can't have pleasure without pain.
Although I've lived in London twice, my viewpoint is obviously biased as an American living in New York City. But at least from over here, the "leave" campaign has not seemed to be based on a demand for reform of the EU [0].

[0] http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/06/brexit-ant...
Run some computer simulation. In a first-past-the-post system, voting for anything but one of the top two contenders is throwing away your vote.

The strawmen about only voting for the winner doesn't apply.

If you want to make voting your conscience easier, support something like eg Range Voting.

http://www.rangevoting.org/
the amount you pay to stay on top is directly proportional to the amount your competitors pay to get you off the top.
Right-to-left script rendering is part of the Unicode spec, whereas top-down scripting for Chinese is a font issue.
I just hope that trend you are talking about will keep up but...
I know someone that took part in World War II, he is alive still, this was not a long time ago, we are far from change my friend. Then look rwanda, somalia, balkans now middle east, north africa etc.
The ethereum/dao fiasco was obviously an accident waiting to happen
That is not a winning move, unless you are actually able to prevent the terrorist attacks, which seems unlikely unless you treat Islam differently to other religions
I worry that if we expand the definition of acceptable humor on HN, then HN would become something more like reddit. Not that reddit is bad, but I appreciate that the expectation here is to hold comments to a strict standard.

Humor is allowed of course, and sometimes it's highly upvoted, but it tends to be humor that is on topic (and so usually about tech or the tech industry) and also as a part of personal stories. People especially have their guard up here because this thread is tangentially related to politics. And like anywhere else, you have to make the right joke for the room, as in your joke needs to be somewhat harmonious with the mindset of the majority (especially if it's off topic, not related to tech, or inflammatory).
To a lot of folks, those candidates weren't appealing. They didn't inspire confidence that they could work on a populist agenda while also being competent political leadership. Paul more than Sanders, but a lot of people have trouble taking Sanders' rhetoric very seriously, or believing that it is well-based in facts, is well thought-out, isn't likely to have disastrous side-effects, that sort of thing.
> I've yet to hear an intelligent argument in favor of mass immigration, [...]

It's good for the people moving!

(There are other arguments, too.)
you want hands on, try Deep Springs: http://www.deepsprings.edu/
> “[Watson could be used] for the mission to Mars,” he said. After all, that small crew will be crammed together on a spaceship for a few years at least, and getting along will be essential. “You can’t make changes once they’re up there.”

So IBM does end up making HAL...
Yup. I got some money on Trump too, and tbh I was tempted to double-down on it now that we know he's facing a 100% "establishment" "PC" candidate.

I've gone through Italian politics in the '90s. We tend to be pioneers when it comes to political monstrosities.
I am bias on every decisions I make. I dont want to hire lazy people or people who stink or people who talk too much or busy bodies or on and on and on. Being a single entity among many makes you bias, just learn to be bias on the correct things.
There's a few free SSL providers, not including the various shared hosting services which offer free SSL.

Let's Encrypt is significant because their certificate is "trusted" in all browsers. The free SSL CAs that I'm familiar with are not "trusted" in any browsers.
UK votes to leave EU
So it draws a shell atop the stand in? That isn't enough. It doesn't seem to model flex, body roll, vibration or even accurate suspension movements. It won't fool car guys.
That's why it's entertaining to look at the ads in the Economist.
I think that arguments for leaving the EU based on concerns about immigration are implicit calls for a rethinking of the EU social contract with respect to freedom of movement.

It's exactly this idea that discussions predicated on group identity are somehow outside the realm of legitimate politics that leads to the very resentment that made Britain leave the EU.

It's a shame, because if the EU had treated this issue as a political one, subject to compromise and regulation, they'd have been able to come up with a political solution. Instead, a lot of people treated this issue as a moral crusade and provoked a huge, destructive backlash.

God, homo sapiens is doomed.
Arguably, wind is not very reliable, but point taken.
If the polls immediately beforehand don't match the election results, why do we assume the polls are wrong? Maybe it's the election that's wrong - maybe it's been fixed.

To be clear: I have no other evidence of a fix, nor am I talking only about this election. I'm saying, the question needs to be asked and the problem needs to be dealt with proactively through security and other means.

But here are some thoughts:

* Security requires making an attack more costly than its worth. How much are the results of a major election worth? It's priceless, existential even to some. The fates of nations and billions to trillions of dollars could be on the line. State intelligence services have many motivations to control the outcome. Is it even possible to secure something that valuable?

* Elections have been fixed for generations - probably for as long as there have been elections; it's certainly plausible that someone would try and succeed.

* The systems that need securing are not in a locked room, but spread across a nation, with a large number of operators. Again, very hard to secure. Finally, at least in the U.S., election systems aren't know for their security.

* If it was fixed, would anyone investigate? Would they even want to know? It would undermine the fundamental mechanism of democracy. What if the U.S. presidential election was fixed, what would happen? A do-over?

* Other than smoking guns, what better evidence could we have of a fix than a mis-match between pre-election polls and the outcome?

In short, there's a very strong motive, long-established precedent, and opportunity.
It benefited Wall Street pretty good after they sold hundreds of billions in bonds that were in reality; junk.
I've read that the reason US and other Western workers have done worse since the Cold War is due to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and with it, the fear that the population might support communism if capitalism became too predatory.

Once the USSR and its satellite states disappeared, US capitalism had no fear of a revolution ever gaining hand, and the results for the middle class have been as expected.

Seems like a valid idea.

I do know that in the aftermath of WWII, the Allies, under the Morgenthau Plan, treated the German population in the West very poorly. Essentially, the goal was to keep them in an agrarian state so they'd never be able to pose a military challenge.

After it became apparent that a large ideological battle between the communist and capitalist systems among the German population was being waged, and that the western population might just begin to choose communism, should things not improve, the Allies did begin to allow the West to re-industrialize.
Comodo is only large because of bulk deals they made with vendors of related services such as hosting.
You're sort of right, in the way that by the time you know an individual, you have lots of more information about that person and it should give you a better prediction of their behaviour than broad categories.

But to suggest it provides zero info is wrong. By knowing someone lives in San Francisco, you can adjust your probability that someone votes Democrat, for instance.

But with Islam, I see articles like this[1], which say "88% of Muslims in Egypt and 62% of Muslims in Pakistan favor the death penalty for people who leave the Muslim religion". So it seems fair to say if you know someone is from there, and they are Muslim, then there's a high probability they have those kinds of views. At least, as far as we can go off this survey. Am I misinterpreting this incorrectly?

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/01...
I don't really grasp your analogy but your definition of advertising is not complete. Advertising does indeed include messages to increase product/brand awareness. It could be argued that in most advertising, this is actually the case.