skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR; The 19-year black man is very small demographic and would have small sample size. Apparently, the sample for LA Times poll includes and outlier who favors Trump which then gets weighted disproportionately to arrive at conclusion that trump is favored by young black voters.
Isn't it more expensive for Netflix if people are spending more time watching it? Obviously they need to watch it enough to be willing to continue paying the subscription, but it seems like movies might be enough to do that.
There's another often overlooked flaw with inkjets: the ink dries out. If you're a typical household printing only a couple times a week, your yield / cartridge plummets. I've had inkjet cartridges that expired after 30 pages or less because i didn't print frequently enough. Jet cleaning wastes pages and pages worth of ink.
A drastically skewed poll isn't very "authentic" in the first place.
Heh, "computer on board". Waving my cane at you!
The issue I have is that Yahoo evidently didn't even fight the order. Even if they thought they would lose, they should have at least attempted it.

Or maybe they decided it was better to make money selling us out?
Winston Churchill gave the example of the time some do-gooders wanted to help the poor by buying out a bridge and eliminating the tolls. Afterward, rents went up by about the exact cost of daily use of the bridge.

http://www.landvaluetax.org/current-affairs-comment/winston-...
One thing I noted is that NY Times says that most polls have four categories of age and five categories of education; except these aren't categories, they are ordinal variables.

Age and level of education are slightly co-variant (you don't get many 18 year olds who have a PhD). Because the age classification and education levels are ordinal you should use an ordinal smoothing [0] function to turn them into pseudo continuous variables. Given the continuous and co-variant independent variables (as well as other categorical independent variables) and a categorical dependent variable the best analysis is probably to use a quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

[0] http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2100/1/tr015.pdf and http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ordPens/ordPens.pdf
Because other users with the same or more sophisticated models might have fiber optic direct connections into the exchange, and they will have algorithms which make those decisions before your optical nerves have processed numbers changing.
Is that the entitled corporate generation you're disappointed in ? You know, the kind of entitlement that thinks "the author's life plus 70 years" is a reasonable term for copyright length.

How many more works does the author create in the +70 years after death ? If the answer (I suspect) is zero, what possible:

".. promotion of the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

can there be in that time ?
+1 for maps.me, I've been using it for more than a year in multiple European countries and it's been rock solid, even if it sometimes takes a while to get a fix (though that's probably more of a problem with my phone than with the app).
Learning iOS from scratch, where to start?
> I just don't think that you provided a well-justified reason

I was implying something like why reading something from a textbook is better than a random answer on reddit or yahoo answers. Mind you, I am talking about posters talking about specific things, not giving opinions on a variety of things, which is why I mentioned "topics in which they are known for".

> Why is reassurance a good thing?

I prefaced my post with "personally" specifically to avoid this line of discussion. It is a personal perception, and as I said elsewhere it is futile to argue about perceptions. The answer is, it just is.

> That seems like it'd imply that you're relaxing your guard when considering their opinion.

That's reaching.
> Recently our legal team answered some of those questions.

Except, you know, the one that matters.

If that doesn't prove that Facebook is acting in bad faith, I don't know what could convince you.
Apple and Google are both shooting themselves in the foot by insisting on keeping their voice products within walled gardens.

Amazon is doing an amazing job of allowing the community to extend the voice functionality of their Amazon Echo. You can build an app that does just about anything you want and release it on their Amazon Echo store. There are already hundreds on there, and it's only a matter of time before someone releases a truly conversational A.I. integration for it.

My family uses our Amazon Echoes (all 6 of them, scattered strategically around the house) for hundreds of little things throughout the week. I control all of my lights, my thermostat, my entire home theater (via custom voice activated scripts). I even use it to make my tempurpedic bed vibrate ("Alexa, turn on bed vibration"). I use Echo for timers, and my morning alarm to wake up (which also triggers my bed vibration). I use it to query wikipedia subjects, perform quick math calculations, order new paper towels...

If you gave me a couple of hours, I could even whip up an Alexa integration that would let me open my garage door and remote start my car in the morning ("Alexa, turn on my car's air conditioner")! It would just be an Alexa command that triggered a custom script which would log into the web interface for my car link and would click the remote start button. Easy. I love building this sort of thing.

The possibilities are endless when you have an open, extensible platform. I don't understand why Apple and Google are being so dumb and close-minded, and still don't understand this!
No one said anything about legal threats. However, these are contractual disputes. Contracts are legal documents. Therefore, it makes sense to have the people who would know the most about contracts, contract dispute resolutions, and contract law involved.
The whole reason for being transparent about the polling methodologies is so we can analyze and critique them.
The article does not question the authenticity of the poll. It complements the pollsters on their documentation and sharing of data:

It’s worth noting that this analysis is possible only because the poll is extremely and admirably transparent: It has published a data set and the documentation necessary to replicate the survey.

It does point out an aspect of the poll that may undermine its utility in accurately predicting the result of the election, but it's a pretty dry fact, the repeated inclusion of a heavily weighted voter.

If Trump takes 10-20% of the black vote, then the poll did a good job predicting the results. I don't expect that to happen.
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Here's the repo of their build process for the core tesseract emscripten build

https://github.com/naptha/tesseract-emscripten/blob/master/j... specifically the line for lepton
Have you seen the comparisons to Princeton's Election Conesertium which did something similar but without the "special sauce"? He did a little worse, which is a bit of evidence saying Sam's more straight numbers are better than Nate's judgment.
> so he has a dog in this fight.

I don't understand this criticism. Usually when people bring this sort of thing up, they have a specific criticism in mind (e.g., Exxon Mobil on global warming): they have identified an opinion that is sufficiently, demonstrably, wrong, and then they go looking for a reason how someone might get it wrong, so one conclusion might be is "having a dog in the fight". But the logical chain here goes one way: first you demonstrate that they are wrong, then you ask why.

But what's wrong with someone working with polls in a professional sense, expressing an opinion on best practices in polling and statistics? After all, stuff that Silver writes about is quite consistent with stuff other people write about.

It should, at least in principle, be possible to address the relative merits of polling methodologies objectively, and people like Silver, and Andrew Gelman too (see his blog, in particular the xbox poststratification paper and the more recent differential nonresponse paper discussions), seem to be trying to do just that. But anyone professionally studying polls is going to have some kind of a dog in the fight, in the end. It seems hard to conclude anything based only on that.
Ah I remember the Pandora, but it's a lot more complicated and cluttered than what I meant. A gaming handheld wouldn't need a keyboard, for example.
I'm surprised nobody has made something for testing; how much would it take to make something you plug a USB into and see what it does?

(I.E. "USB is typing"/"USB is doing")
I really doubt that at this point. As a system, it's hard to ascribe good intentions to the behavior we've seen over the last few decades alone. The history of US policing is not a history of good intentions.
Yes, see the appendices of http://h41361.www4.hpe.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40F_...

The original VMS C compiler targeted a pre-ANSI "VAX C" dialect which had further differences. DEC C replaced it on the Alpha (I don't think it was backported to the VAX)
That's because taxing "work" is a silly idea when most work is done by machines and/or cheap foreigners. In the former case you tax wealth/production, and in the latter you tax imports.
AFAIK Theo de Raadt still has a bunch of racks of vintage hardware working as an OpenBSD build cluster in his basement (old photo circa 2009: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg). VMS-related, OpenBSD discontinued the VAX port in the 6.0 release this year. Never touched a VAX but from what I read the OpenBSD 5.8 VAX port is a lot more recent and better maintained than the NetBSD port.
Meh, a couple tens of thousands of dollars in destroyed equipment via a very crude vandalism attack. Sounds like a lot until you realize you can cost someone millions with a medium sized botnet and a long standing DDoS. For most large targets, a USB that fries a laptop or two is no big deal (assuming automatic backups or devserver or etc), one that installs a rootkit would be a much worse scenario.

Also, if you are talking about harming individual users, and you are the kind of person who would drop "killer" USB drives on a parking lot, how is that any different from just keying every car? You get no benefit, it only causes damage, it takes near zero sophistication and the end results is it costs people a bunch of money and police start an investigation for vandalism.
interesting article about why startups should never use Reactjs because if it's license

https://medium.com/bits-and-pixels/a-compelling-reason-not-t...
She has publicly said as much. How does this email add anything new?
Unless you're Oracle, Google, Apple, or Microsoft, you are not a peer with Facebook.

"To clarify: I know there exists rules and regulations. But if a big player like FB can just ignore them unless someone unleashes their lawyers, esp. if this other person is sitting half the globe away, then something is very, very broken and fucked up."

You're not wrong, but how would you cause Facebook to care? And you can't really say government, because that would require government to be looking over every single transaction. Ignoring the privacy/freedom aspects, that would take a huge amount of manpower that the government just doesn't have and isn't willing to fund.
This makes me feel so much less confused about that poll
The truth of what is happening is too inflammatory not to attract the ban hammer.

I'm not blaming Dan and Scott for that, they need to maintain civility and order, but it is nonetheless true.
Given "fetch" is not yet a standard, jQuery $.ajax is actually a decent cross-browser polyfill.
Right, sorry, I misunderstood. A preimage attack (that's the technical term for this) could indeed be modeled as a birthday problem with a fixed day ("someone with the same birthday as me"). This is much harder than finding a normal collision (two objects with the same hash, two people with the same birthday), though.
netlify does, according to their documentation.
Yeah, spent more time than I'd like to admit playing it...
It would piss off the dealers. They live on the service costs.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/524791/why-your-car-wont-...
http://utf8everywhere.org/

a very useful site especially when having to explain what utf8 is to other devs when working in a windows shop.
Thanks for the clarification. 5 minutes of internetting points out that that the 8 percent difference (39us, 31ger) is at 4 years while the 6 year us number is 59 and the ?8? year ger number is 77. The relationship between cost of college and low income graduates seems pretty unclear to me still.

http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/01/07/america-losing-gradua...
(and i make no claims to the authenticity of this source - 5 minutes of internetting...)
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You don't really need to estimate the distribution of ages; the electoral roll and the census will give you a distribution with an error that is several orders of magnitude small than the sampling error from the poll. For all intents and purposes the electoral roll and census data is so close to reality that you might as well declare it as such for calculations.
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No problems with alternate routes here, either. It actually works surprisingly well.
Copied from my comment above:

Even in the Model S, I use my phone's directions. Tesla's map app is great, and the UI is _really_ good (even better in the latest update!), but their source for navigation is garbage (and also their routing algorithm).

I hear it's cause whatever they use works offline, but also because Google wants them to send back real time data, but Tesla doesn't want to (forgot where I heard this though).

I would much much prefer to use the Tesla UI for nav, but the directions are really that bad.

I've used the built-in nav for about a year, and had to go buy a phone mount.
'working in a windows shop.'

Surely you're flattering yourself.
The offline areas are useless. They are basically just prefetching the map-tiles. You can't do anything while not online, not search in the offline area, map a route or anything like that.

Here maps blows this out of the water in comparison.
He's written about this poll specifically: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-leave-th...
I prefer the transcript, as it lets me digest this at my own pace.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/t...

Having said that, the biggest takeaway the podcast that I'm getting (still mid-read) is that it was /integration/, the incubation of children within a target culture and environment designed for success, that had the most profound impact.

It was society working, even if in an odd way, to extract people from a dysfunctional environment and raise them within a working one.

Based mostly on this and some anecdotal data, I feel that fighting 'segregation' the other direction, by trying to add 'non-problem students' to failed environments would have a similar effect on them; mostly in halting their growth and causing their integration within society that works to falter.

This suggests that the war on poverty isn't something that can be won by funding alone, but instead by fighting to spread the culture of 'good' society further.
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I wouldn't call it garbage, but maybe my area is better mapped.
Isn't San Francisco the same city that used made-up housing code to reject all attempts to build cheap "tiny houses" for the homeless? I seem to recall a tech multi-millionaire offering to build them FOR FREE and being denied.

You would think that a fully functional tiny house with plumbing and everything needed for one person would be far better than living on the street. But nooooo, it has to be full size houses or nothing I guess.
Sounds pretty creepy, especially right after watching "Westworld" :)
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Thanks for posting this!
Whole Foods is the only large grocery store I know of near what I assume is the biggest public housing development in Cambridge MA. (With a Trader Joe's just a little further.) It's not an affluent neighborhood but a lot of people drive through the immediate area because it's on one of the main feeder roads into the city.

I did look up the test scores for Cambridge Rindge and Latin which is the only public high school in Cambridge (which for those not familiar with the area has a tech/biotech boom in addition to being home to Harvard and MIT). It's in the bottom half for the state in spite of having some of the highest per-student spending in the state (and one of the better student/teacher ratios).
I think it will be really interesting to see what happens in election forecasting if Trump wins this election -- doubly so if there's no major scandal for Clinton between now and election day.
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Amazing how ignorant people are to what is actually in an inkjet cartridge. It is not the cost of the ink. The cartridges have precision MEMS components to dispense the micro scale drops of ink. As with anything mechanical, they have limited cycling, can clog with impurities in the ink, etc.
An open letter to Silicon Valley, from a woman in tech
I totally agree than calling on lawyers should be a last resort. But the article says "I wrote them about twenty letters into every form or email I ever found." This is the last resort.
> What you're describing is a pyramid scheme. Get more and more new people in to pay for those already there

That's how retirement works in most countries. The tax burden mostly falls on the "productive age" (18-65), so until automation pays as much taxes as the humans it replaces (corporate tax dodging considered), retirees in countries with shrinking populations are screwed.
A lot of the old VAX installations are industrial control applications, the device interfaces are exactly the things you want to keep. You can buy new VAX-compatible machines with the old Digital I/O buses and cables today: http://logical-co.com/product/ba23123-m9405-module-interconn...
Depends what you're being hired for, but I tend to believe hiring managers are overly biased towards CV bullet points on the highest common library/framework in the stack. This is after all the most precise information you can put in a job description that is actionable by a recruiter/HR-person.

But in my view, building your own framework first and then learning a standard equivalent gives you a much better understanding of the tech of the new framework which will pay dividends. For instance, I built my own PHP framework in 2001, and subsequently played around with Drupal/Django/other homegrown frameworks. When Rails dropped in 2004 I was immediately ready to jump on board because I had been through the same mental process as DHH had when he started building Basecamp in Ruby after having been frustrated by PHP. Whereas a lot of people complained about Rails' magic and lack of transparency, to me it was very easy to dive into the source code and understand the reasoning that led to its architecture.

Of course these things calcify over time, and you don't need to necessarily go very deep into every layer of the stack, but you have to at least be competent in a few layers or you'll be helpless the minute you hit a problem with a leaky abstraction. But in the case of JS, yes I think any time spent learning core JS is well-spent, and knowing only React/Angular is a real liability as a front-end engineer, especially because those frameworks are designed to solve heavy SPA problems which are only a tiny subset of the type of interactive web pages one might want to create.
no seriously. I'm a windows application dev, and I have been for >decade.

If all you see around you is wchar_t and LPCWSTR then that is what unicode means.
Hi Paul, why not address the real issue in the FAQ? As it stands now, using React in a project essentially nullifies any patent protections a company may have against Facebook. If I were to use React to build a successful product that fits into Facebook's business plan, there is nothing I could do to prevent them from stealing my concept wholesale.
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I have a 2016 VW Sportswagen that I use with my iPhone all the time. Everything just works and in 10 the Maps app in Carplay has gotten better.

About a month ago I was driving with a friend of mine in the passenger seat. Driving 45 minutes to some trails upstate. I asked him to put his Maps on (Android) so I don't need to get my phone out of my bad and fuck around with it while driving. He's got Galaxy 6 edge+ so I figured it just work... Boy was I wrong.

When he plugged it in nothing happened except autoplaying some music. Since I'm driving how no idea how to make it work. Turns out you need to download an App from the app store to make it work... but Android gives you no notification about it.

Then there's a whole on-boarding process you got to click through. Then you need to agree to let the Android connect to the Car all in all about 5 different agree prompts. Took about 30 minutes to get this going.

After all that the car would lose Android Auto connection with the phone every few minutes. Apparently it's a know issue with that model of Android and VW.

What a terrible experience. For a while I was thinking of getting an Android phone next time I need a new phone (break, slow/sluggish). Not going to happen now.
I thought this was a place where people discussed technology and society, not cheap petty name calling of a national candidate we don't like. @dang can you please block this user?
Why do you use OCR and not PDF to text conversion?
I'm not sure if he doesn't know his role, and I'm curious how tracking polls like this try to account for the large media attention paid to the poll and its methodology. This guy is known to stats nerds, and they've been tracking his moves and (rather mean-spiritedly) calling him "Carlton" for a while now.
> Anti-glare coating on rear view mirrors

The technical term is an 'electrochromatic auto-dimming rear-view mirror'. It's been an option on higher end cars/trims for the last ~5 years, even in Europe. On eBay there are DIY kits too.
But if it was determined that the part you did was done fraudulently? That's essentially FB's position here. And their contract states that the remedy for that is account termination and forfeiture of the balance.
> It's the opposite, actually: the original copyleft licenses such as the GPL were explicitly designed to promote Open Source by hindering adoption in some cases, namely those where companies want to distribute derivative works commercially.

I'm usually not the one to defend GPL but I want to point out that AFAIK distributing derivative works commercially is totally fine for GPL - you just have to follow the rules in the license (provide source code under the same licence).
Does it use API gateway?
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