skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're providing evidence that the outcome exists in the real world. This is true. You are not providing evidence (neither did they) for the motive they described.

A letter would be nice (to the QA testers who vet these games) but because I (having been a QA at one point who could have had the ability to make similar decisions about what gets into games with almost no oversight, training, or checks+balances, albeit for a much more no-name group) really doubt that's the situation, I would also be more swayed by demonstrating a track record for single-party support historically, and potentially contrasting with other app stores over that time period, since I could absolutely see this occuring due to what I mention. (Improper checks and balances, lack of clear guidelines, less formal/consistent vetting process)

My "there is no evidence" should be taken as "the article seemed more conviction by 'THIS IS WRONG' than conviction by 'we find these systemic issues, here is the support for them'. In fact, it loops back to my original comment, in that both the articles and the flaggers were making a statement while providing very little other than the statement itself to support it.
Politically I don't care as I am not a US citizen. But just a quick search shows titles like "Never Hillary", "Avoid Hillary", "Hillary Clinton Cross the Road".
The only startup founders who can embrace failure are the privileged ones
Thanks for sharing your perspective!
I remember Stallman and many others, I believe even on HN, so not long ago, talking out against walled gardens.

Now it's the norm.
Granted, I just dabble in audio, but I'm surprised you're using Windows in the first place. Fully anecdotal, of course, but everybody I know runs OS X with one or another setup (Live or Logic, depending). I do audio more for podcasts and the occasional composition and Logic Remote on my iPad (an old iPad 2) is a really solid touch surface with surprisingly low latency.
For those flagging this, why not try an experiment? Put together two pallette-swapped games, perhaps 'Slap Hillary with a fish' and 'Slap Trump with a fish'. Submit these games to Apple and Google for app store approval.

If you're correct in your assumption that no bias exists, either both or none will be approved. If n=2 isn't enough, this should be easy to run with greater sample size.
Because every blue chip company has already pre purchase some new hillary act/law
The interesting thing is, I'm frequently on the front page, and am in the top 100 list for HN. I don't time posts, and I almost randomly post them. Yet, here I am.

I've had posts that crossed the 5 vote threshold and didn't make it to the front page.
Of course, book is a deadly weapon.
> They are a private enterprise and can do what they want

I'm somewhat skeptical of this argument.

For the lower protocol layers we indeed do have common carrier status/net neutrality rules.

The upper layers ostensibly see competition. But it is competition with strong customer-lockin. Consider people for which a smartphone is a big investment. If they buy an iPhone then they're now part of apple's fiefdom and all their regulations and imposition of moral values.
And that is how it should be. But the US and EU tax codes are such a bodge. F500 CEOs are taking $1 salaries because why pay 55% on a $20mm salary when you can pay 15% on preferred stock
dividends.
It has both 'Hillary' and 'Trump' in the title. Between those who care too much about one or the other, and those sick to death of the mindless prattle, political stories are going to get flagged.
While you were off murdering people you weren't really a threat to the US Government. The second you proved you could break into hardened computer systems, you became a direct threat to the US Government.
The Washington Times is indeed not at all a trustworthy news outlet. It is incredibly politically biased, to the point of overt absurdity. Due to the name, however, some continue to confuse it with the Washington Post and assume it has legitimate content.
With only a little practice, I found I can add up a column of 4-digit numbers in seconds. Faster than you can whip out your calculator app.

Its the impression that computers are easier, that gets me. Why not practice for 2 minutes and learn a better way? Instead of limping along with the computer all your life.
And it's flagged again.
I just hope they sell to someone who respects that people can have a need for multiple unlinked identities without nefarious purposes. Facebook's "real name" policy is bogus. They haven't imposed it on their acquisitions so far, but how long will that last?
> They are a private enterprise and can do what they want

No. Private enterprises have to obey the rule of law. If they don't accept an app, for example, because its developer is Muslim it will be discrimination. They can, however, ban apps with a green background just because.

Another different thing is that as Apple and Google have such a big impact on what people can use or not some extra checks can be in place. They are not a monopoly but a oligopoly.
I do find it interesting that all of the instances of "Hillary", "Hillary Clinton", or "Mrs. Clinton" are hyperlinks to the WaPo Hillary Clinton topic page, while none of the Trump references are links…
For reference, my grandparent post's karma comprises almost 8% of the total karma on my 1200 day old account.
Not 'themartona, but, I'm afraid of this article.

I'm afraid that we're not able to discuss interesting technical issues without the overtone of this presidential election's good-vs.-evil campaign (and both sides see themselves as good and the other as evil). We couldn't even have a rational discussion about a secretary of state not being able to use a mobile device with official email. It quickly became a discussion about the evil, corrupt secretary of state killing innocent ambassadors by using a private email server. Every interesting technical issue - and, in fact, every interesting political issue, about how the most powerful government in the world can't provide useful email services to its secretary of state, and how we got there - was drowned out by the good-vs.-evil talk.

I'm afraid that comments about the candidates instead of the technical issues will dominate. I can't even come up with a more silly example than the present one: something happened to Trump but not Clinton, or Clinton but not Trump, and with no evidence that this is about the candidates, it must be that one of them is evil and silencing dissent or paying off Apple or something.

I'm afraid that the tenor of us-vs.-them, good-vs.-evil arguments from the rest of the internet is infecting HN.

I'm afraid that well-reasoned criticism of the political candidates is getting ignored just because so much of it is ill-reasoned. If we expect every single article to have paragraphs of "BTW Hillary sux" or "BTW Donald sux", how do we expect to have actual, serious discussions of where the candidates are good or bad.

I'm afraid that articles like this are becoming normal.

Yes, I'm afraid of this article.
I think that's a good analogy. I don't read either magazine, so I can't comment specifically, but I get your gist, and I agree. Comments make this community better.
I attribute it to Apple and other Sillicon Valley companies being in favor of H1B legislations, and Hillary Clinton is the candidate that supports it from the get go.
I can't see how we can go from near-deflation to hyperinflation without passing through some period of normal inflation during which policy will be adjusted. Especially in the dollar, reserve currency of the world. The wealth has to flee to somewhere.

There's another classic reason for hyperinflation, which is a collapse of export industries causing a trade balance collapse. You can't print foreign currency.
The encouraging thing is this: there is a strong sentiment in the US that the government should not track firearm purchases, there are laws in place to that effect, and consequently it is very difficult to track down the owner of a registered gun. The political process works!

Now, if we just could de-fang Google, Facebook, the advertising networks that track users across websites and all the other data aggregators!
The "private companies can do what they want" / caveat emptor argument has to stop working at some point in a company's size and pervasiveness. There are loads of examples of things that private companies are not allowed to do.

Some extreme examples for an existence proof: sell DIY pet euthanasia kits, sell candy with bits of embedded glass, bury leaky canisters of toxic waste in the local water table...

Some less extreme examples to help move closer to the line of allowed/disallowed behavior: refuse ER treatment based on ability to pay, refuse to provide phone service based on phone number dialed, refuse to seat a patron based on skin color, refuse to bake a wedding cake based on religion or sexual orientation.

So, having established the existence of restraints on corporate bevavior, and the diversity and reasonableness of many of those constraints, where would the line be drawn for companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Google that have an oligopoly on most online communication and mobile software distribution?
Growing up in Generation AI
Why should they police what users can do with their devices at all? Providing strong guidance for the purpose of security seems reasonable considering that not everyone is computer-literate.

Anything else, that is policing content, seems self-serving (upholding brand image or whatever), dictatorial (imposing moral values, such as nudity == evil) and user-hostile.
Just search on the app store, you will find anti Hillary apps.
Oooh, right. So, I guess there's some pairs that are incompatible. Hmm :(

Maybe it also work for computationally equivalent (simulation/emulation) math where you're decompiling the machine language into a stream of logical NORs or such. That might connect more languages.
A quick search shows titles like "Never Hillary", "Avoid Hillary", "Hillary Clinton Cross the Road".

What do you say about that?

I mentioned this in another comment, but was downvoted for exposing obvious buffoonery.
This was being written about in the '80s.

Anyway, I'm thinking farmers could run through fields abrading the leaves, to get the plants to make their own insecticide. Could be cheaper/more effective.
Sonara is Telia, didn't knew about DNA I know that some of the islands and the more remote areas have had setup coop telephone/internet companies but overall there isn't much "competition" as far as number of companies go.

If you exclude MVNO's most countries have pretty similar number of mobile and broadband providers.
Charlie is now my hero, he applied queuing theory to improve time take to identify guns.

That's the right kind of person (comp sci and Intelligence background), using science to deal with a kafkaesque situation (no computers allowed) and managing to improve outcomes.
Opening their API also introduced a lot of noise into timelines. Especially tools/apps that allowed users to automate/schedule their tweets like Buffer and Hootsuite. When you see that 9 out of 10 tweets are just automated link sharing, you stop paying attention to your timeline.
Where does the vouch link show up? I don't recall ever seeing one.
I did the same [0]. It runs almost as fast as the Java implementation.

I'd be interested to see how yours works if you are willing to share it.

Edit: Plus one that is ~2x faster than Java by avoiding allocations [1].

[0] https://gist.github.com/jmikkola/6ac96ad6d6f66e772c33ec41ed2...

[1] https://gist.github.com/jmikkola/7ded8392226b7659c881f5540be...
Apple could have been rejecting one hundred apps which mock Trump without us knowing. You're a suggesting a trend based on a single data point.
You appear to be missing the point of the sentence and your question demonstrates this.

It's more valuable to have unbridled enthusiasm from a few users, than a bunch of users who don't care, and would easily swap you out for an alternative. Those enthusiastic users will be your champion, your marketing, your calling card and perhaps your best sales presentation. I think that is straightforward.

Using your Google example, their focus, initially was very narrow - search. Anyone might need it, but if you do that one thing really well, they'll love it and other people will hear it and have to try it.

It sounds like you are twisting up model, focus, opportunity and value.
> suggestions for speeding it up in the tracker is to just remove that and work on raw bytes (FFS)

This is valid, because UTF-8 was designed to make this valid. The UTF-8 encoding of a comma, 0x2C (also the ASCII encoding of a comma), does not appear as a part of any other UTF-8 encodings. Same with the UTF-8 encoding of the double quote, 0x22. So scanning for 0x22 and 0x2C bytes, without stopping to decode other UTF-8 sequences along the way, will produce the correct result for a valid UTF-8 input string. Then you fully decode UTF-8 for the individual fields when needed (and if you're doing a string-compare for some target value that's already UTF-8, you never need to decode UTF-8 for that field at all).
It's funny to see how holier than thou people get about these topics. Punch Trump "promotes violence" against Trump?? It's a game where you box with Trump (and he boxes back). What is this, the 1950's???
What sort of algorithm are you using for image classification?
There is too much info. Sincero i hace installed getpocket I just save articles and never read nothing :(
As the article elaborates, thats not the only issue, but at the end it shows how great the guy leading it is

> He got to the National Tracing Center in 2005. He never expected to stay. It was a stepping stone to maybe a cushier deal maybe up at headquarters in D.C.

> But then he started to think about ways to work with the antiquated system—and make it more efficient. Would it even be possible? “You mind if I do the whiteboard thing?” he says, standing up.

> ‘Well, that looks like what I'm looking for.’ Six Sigma, you know that kind of stuff?'

> “I just found it at Barnes & Noble,” he says, in a tone suggesting that this shit is basic.

> He uses the blue marker. “I mean, I know that the average person can type in 1,600 gun descriptions per eight-hour day,” he says, scrawling the numbers. “Why? Because I time-and-motion studied them. And then—I don't know if you know anything about queuing theory.

>Do you have one line with three cash registers—or do you have three lines come into one?” Arrows, circles. He's moved on to the black marker.

>“There's a whole science of mathematics behind queuing theory. So what we did was, I sat around trying to figure out what would be the best way to queue the traces up and punch them through....

>And now? Despite no increase in budget, no new technology, no new staff: “I'm doing twice as many guns, twice as fast, and almost twice as accurately as we did when I got here in 2005.”
I've seen one break because of the byte-order marker that sometimes gets added to UTF-8. I don't remember the details of why that broke it, just remember that it worked fine on everything except that.
People don't use books to kill, maim and disfigure other people, they use guns.

There are zero logical reasons to prohibit a database that maps gun metadata to the gun record (search by name is actually detrimental to proper investigations). I've heard lots of emotional reasons, but I haven't heard a single well reasoned logical argument. Just a lot of reductio ad absurdum.
EDIT: I was a bit wrong. Here's a post from dang explaining it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11843347#11844960

> The system used to say [flagged] only when the story was both heavily flagged and dead (closed to new comments). Now it says [flagged] if the story is heavily flagged, dead or not. Flagged-but-not-dead was the case here. That's why you didn't see a 'vouch' link, btw; there's no need to vouch for posts that aren't dead, since the purpose of vouching is to unkill them.
How Do Criminals Launder Money Through a Restaurant?
It's disgusting how this is flagged. Stop trying to hide facts.
What is the 1986 law which says "No searchable database of America's gun owners"?

Does that mean the paper files can't be sorted alphabetically by name?

Does it exclude more complex paper-based search systems, like needle-sorted edge-notched cards?

Or does it only refer to computer databases?
As pointless as they may seem, the web has a long history of games allowing users to pretend to punch various celebrities, and the "punch famous person X" genre probably predates that. There have also been TV shows like Celebrity Deathmatch, and IIRC one popular show for teens/tweens had its main character use her computer to put the face of another character into a boxing simulation.

I think the cat is out of the bag on the punch X genre for now, but society's tastes can still change over time.
Commuting can be tough - depending on where Amazon is... if it's downtown, close to the skytrain / Canada Line, then you'll want to live in close to one of those lines. Trains are much easier (faster) to get in vs. driving. They use the same pass system like in London (tap in/out). Driving downtown from Richmond, even Burnaby for that matter is a lot of driving. Parking downtown can be $8-15/day.

In terms of house - not sure. But Burnaby is the kind of place where you could probably still rent a house with a backyard (good for kids). Craigslist is a good start for finding houses for rent, too, otherwise ask potential co-workers for some advice on finding a place. It's quite competitive in the rental market, so give yourself a month or two to find a place. Ask your employer to bridge you a month or two with a furnished rental suite. That's what I did when I first moved to Vancouver...then you aren't worried about making a commitment before living here.

Best of luck!
ManeuverBuddy:The Uber of Moving
Go to the iTunes Store. Search for "Hillary".Enough anti-Clinton iPhone and iPad apps show up to indicate that this is an anomaly, not a systemic bias. The fact that a right-wing site got the WaPo to bite on it shows their gullibility rather than Apple's bias.
We are talking about neural networks not general AI.
Good for you. Do whatever you want.

I have a phone with me at all times. It's hardly an inconvenience to use it.
Is your argument that owners would just not take any money out of the company so as to not pay the taxes? In OPs example the company would still be taxed but just at different times
I don't want to go there to read peoples' blogs, though. Some sort of limit on content length feels like it is key to what defines Twitter (whether 140 char or something else).
The Java code is not a CSV parser.

I added the results of using Apache Commons CSV to the GitHub thread.

After using that, Python was actually by far the fastest. Hooray for performance sensitive code in C :)
Cell phone database is questionable, and cars are for those on the road. And I'm not liking the idea that in the near future, plate scanners will know where I'm going all the time. I should be able to move without the government knowing.
Any CSV reader should be limited only be disk access right? I wrapped together a C++ program solving this problem and got 0.124 seconds. But that does not do quotations etc.
Kendall Square's neoliberal cafe
The argument is that you eat one of those 5 units, and the other 4 are available for the hungry. Feeding livestock rather than people is the problem. That argument isn't airtight -- there are certainly issues of logistics -- but there's no propaganda.

A second argument is environmental: farming takes land (deforestation), water and fertilizer, and it pollutes via runoff and ghg emissions, so the less production needed, the better. Also, livestock produce worse runoff and emissions than vegetable or grain farming.

"Reaping the rewards of the rest of the ecosystem" isn't sustainable for 7 billion people.
There are satire apps on Itunes targeting Hillary Clinton.

It's very easy to make your case when you cherrypick one data point out of thousands.

Here's an app called Avoid Hillary[0] where you're Bill Clinton trying to dodge his wife. I honestly don't see how a boxing game with Donald Trump is any worse.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avoid-hillary/id1009997468?m...
I'm using the Watson Visual Recognition API: http://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition....
Do they provide a loaner in that case, even if not a Tesla? Or maybe your insurance company?
The Dam in the Desert
I agree, this feels like Microsoft bashing.

All they're saying is that if you go buy a new computer (which will probably have Win10 pre-installed anyways) you need to make sure you have software versions supported on those chipsets/CPUs.

And they did offer free upgrades.
Oh, I'll agree that the ratchet is real and that every proposal is intended to reduce and de-normalise gun ownership. In that sense, I can see why every single measure is opposed. It's the non-hunting rationales for ownership that are the irrational politics.
Right after the '1 hour ago', I think there might be a points restriction on being able to vouch.
That's cool about utf8 - what downsides are there to not treating utf-8 as raw bytes?
Interesting progression. For a while, it was flagged, and still racking up points at the #1 position, but now it's gone far away.

I wish we could actually discuss the issues raised by situations like this, without the pitchfork and flagging brigades coming out. You would think a site focused on technology could discuss IT security, hacking, and the potential influence of technology companies in shaping and directing political opinion. But unfortunately it tends to get shutdown before anything can get started.
"Wouldn't care to pay for these" means the same as "wouldn't like to pay for these": it means that they would not be interested in paying for them. I suspect you meant to use a phrase like "wouldn't mind paying for these". I hope this is helpful and doesn't come across as a pedantic correction. =)
That's not tesla exclusive. My dad's been waiting 3 months for a replacement airbag for his 2008 lexus. They were one of the ones takata (sp?) recalled but can't make enough replacements.
I'm not sure how I feel about corporate censorship. On one hand we have property rights, which I believe in firmly and on the other hand we have freedom of speech/expression.

If we are going. To live in a world where public discourse takes place through private avenues we need to decide as a country which takes precedent, property rights or speech/expression.
Reminds me of Goldratt's Critical Chain - he of Theory of Constraints (TOC), The Goal, etc
> No, says the gun lobby. It would give the government a tool to confiscate our guns. The idea of a gun registry is the great fever dream that lies at the heart of gun-control conspiracy theories: Government evildoers are going to attack us any day now. We have to be ready. (And you don't give the enemy an inventory of all your weapons!)

I mean, I constantly see the concerns of gun owners derided like this, but I've never seen a good reason why they shouldn't be scared of a national registry. The debate has been purely adversarial for quite some time, so I'm not sure why/how both sides should come together for a good-faith compromise.
This is called an en-caul birth and there is a lot of very old superstitions about people born en-caul, mostly that it was good luck.
Yes, they do. They are struggling to reduce their dependence on it but have not seen much success.
No thanks, Kuni, I'll take what's inside the box.