skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more like 0.5 + 0.5 + 4 * epsilon = 1.0

Your choices are Clinton + Kaine (Dem), Trump + Pence (Rep), Johnson + Weld (Lib), and maybe Stein + Baraka (Grn). No one else could win without deadlocking the electoral college.

To oppose Clinton is little more than calling a turd sandwich a turd sandwich. One does not also need to point out that her douche opponent is a douche.

While the US elections systems virtually guarantee a two-party system, it does not mean the two on top always have to be the same parties. If the Republicans fall apart after this, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution will certainly devour the corpse, and one of them will eventually grow fat enough to take its place and push the others back down and away from the table.

I do wish a pox on both houses--along with a hemorrhagic fever, parasitic worm infection, and some kind of blotchy skin rash. I am not staying out of the election. I think Clinton would competently lead the country in the wrong direction, and I think Trump would be a national embarrassment on multiple fronts. Strategically, the best strategy I could follow would be to bash the presumptive front-runner, whomever it may be, to keep the two major candidates as close as possible, and hope that the minor candidates can somehow win enough states to deadlock the electoral college.

Note that it is unlikely that is the primary motivation for Wikileaks. But it does show that this game is not a zero-sum either-or.
Certainly, there's a number of issues with the Nuremberg Trials. They certainly were guided by many motives, not all of which were pure.

But my point is this: the same allies that came up with these reasons for prosecution, created such offenses, have been (not the only) ones to then go on and breach them, steadily, ever since.

i.e. my intent is not necessarily to hold up Nuremberg as a victory for humanity (though certainly _some_ of the things that came about from it are good), but to also implicate many of the allies and governments to follow as very much "do as I say, not as I do".
Ok, he has donated to her senate and presidential campaigns as well. Just not this latest campaign, obviously.
> Perhaps the car payment, but consider: fuel, depreciation cost (almost always overlooked), insurance, parking, and maintenance.

Well, depreciation is irrelevant if I consider the entire car payment a sunk cost. Anything I get for selling the car is a bonus. Otherwise yes, there are additional costs.

> If you can live without a dedicated car (taxi, Uber, car-share, rentals), it's often a surprisingly affordable option.

That is the part that hinges on location and the trade-off between transportation costs and domicile costs.

> Humans existed without cars for nearly 200,000 years.

Humans existed without cities for about 197,000 of those years, but I'd rather not go back to that.
So, in order to swim for the Olympic team, I must already have been a swimmer?
Already under 10 countries have shut down the internet in africa around election time. It is very possible
I have TrueCrypt 7.1a container and VeraCrypt was not able to open it even with the "compatibility mode". So I am staying with TrueCrypt for now..
Just here to say that I dig the Bubs from Homestarrunner inspired smileys.
I wonder how much of Reddit is just paid troll armies battling other paid troll armies?
Congrats Mackenzie and Dan, big fan of your work and approach to the challenges!
> If you vote third party in this election, you might not win this time, but you can start laying the foundation for a strong third party to emerge in future elections.

Assuming that there are future (fair) elections.

I have serious concerns about that if Trump is to become the president.

I've heard many people on the right having the same concerns about Clinton.
Chase Adam's Startup School talk on Watsi is well worth watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ
Imagination that's not based on anything is generally considered to be off-topic, sure.
Looks like it was in fact Ecuador: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/788099178832420865 .

I haven't seen any word on their explanation, though.
Popehat wrote a post about that. TLDR, Cuomo is wrong.
https://popehat.com/2016/10/17/no-it-is-not-illegal-to-read-...
I was not talking about making laws, I was talking about people's feeling. Maybe you are right, even if the country is taking over by more and more Muslims, and Christians slowly become minority and they cannot legally do anything about it and should just swallow it.
Speaking from Michigan and not Silicon Valley I've got to wonder which auto manufacturer would buy Apple's software?

All the major manufacturers have announced programs for self-driving cars except Fiat/Chrysler. They mention Ford which has stated they will be in production by 2019.

Now I would suppose if Ford, GM, Mercedes, Toyoto or any of the Chinese car makers were to have their software fail Apple might be an awfully nice fallback.

FYI Ford learned massively from its problems with Microsoft's Sync technology. All the engineers knew it would be a complete disaster but that news wasn't passed up to the execs. Now engineers have been brought into the process.

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2016/10...
> Why is one candidate's personal sex life a bigger problem than collusion with the media during the campaign

If you're prepared to dismiss allegations of (and supporting boasts about) sexual molestation to simply be "his personal sex life" you have a very screwed up idea of sex and personal space.
Why do anything? Of course you can use SVG, but the point here, if I've understood it correctly, was to specifically NOT use SVG.
The answer was written months ago: https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/747424519887925249
So far I think I've learned more about Java than Clojure CLR I think :)
Once you get past the setup/build stage and understand how it works, working with .net libraries is pretty straight forward. There's a few tricks with loading assemblies and working with namespaces that I need to understand better and will be the focus of future posts.

We definitely need more documented examples of how to get going on the CLR and I think this is holding Clojure on the CLR back quite a bit. Hopefully, my posts will help get the ball rolling.
Thanks for taking a look!
I do not think that was a good comment from Hillary, but I absolutely do not think this disqualifies her from being president: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2016/sep/10/hillar...
Yep, what the intelligence agencies got up to is quite astounding and I see no reason to not think are still doing that stuff we just won't find out for a while what they are doing now.
Hillary takes advice from Kissinger. I think third world countries should be vigilant.
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Web development: Everything old is new again.

I wonder when using shell scripts and/or Makefiles instead of Webpack/Browserify/Gulp/Bower/NPM/whatever for building will become popular again.
I fully agree about the community values, but how is having no good documentation helpful for building said community?

Also, it'd be VERY disappointing if the reason for this lack of documentation was the explanation from the root comment in this thread.
I guess so, I just can't relate to that mentality.
I encourage you to try NeoVim. I did. And I never looked back. After 6 months of Emacs, looks like I'll be back to NeoVim, and I am happy about it.
For myself, I look at people who produce code that meets the specification in as brief, logical, secure manner as possible without causing a maintenance burden for their fellow programmers or the support staff.
The important part is that both support major electoral reform that would enable third parties in general to be viable and to get proportional representation. If they can actually pull it off, I couldn't care less about the rest of their platform - the country can survive 4 years of libertarians or greens, it's seen much worse.

The catch is that said reform requires constitutional amendments, and these are gated on the states, not on the federal government (obviously, ratification requires state legislatures, but the states can also call for a constitutional convention, regardless of what the feds think).

So supporting third parties on the federal level is pointless from that perspective. If you just want electoral reform, vote third party for state legislature.
> if I just eat when I'm hungry

That is how I lost way too much weight. Got hungry, wasn't able to eat right then by the time I was able to eat I was no longer hungry. I gradually taught myself to eat very little and was very ill because of it.

Eating is a slippery slope in all directions.
I can't think of any instances where a computer science educator or course talks about theory 100% of the time. IMHO, a course that is pure theory can be quite boring.

The key is to differentiate the role of the computer from the role of the scientist. A computer is just an efficient tool for making discoveries in computer science, but it hardly represents what computer science is all about. Similarly, a telescope is a tool for discovering the realities of the universe, just like a microscope is a tool for biological discoveries. Certainly we need physicists to deal with the practical problems that affect our day-to-day lives, but the most high-profile work in physics aims to explore the unknown. In physics this is the nature of the universe - in computer science, it is the nature of computation and its limitations.
> The headline should've been "it takes 150ms to do server-side rendering with React"

Which, given I'm seeing much much less for a rather complex React app... makes me suspicious that something else is going on with their codebase.

I'm seeing maybe 150ms as the upper 95 percentile but median would be 30-60ms and my app isn't exactly small or simple.
Anyone know what part of the state the datacenters are located in? Or are they just all over the place?

EDIT: Apparently the facilities are in a couple townships around Columbus (which is in the dead center of the state). Neat. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2015/05/29/...
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Interesting, you may be interested in vi mode in bash.

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/bash-vi-editing-mode-cheat-shee...
TrueCrypt went belly up in May,2014[1]

VeraCrypt 1.0 was released in May,2013[2]. One year prior.

[1] http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net

[2] https://sourceforge.net/u/yanpas/veracrypt/ci/VeraCrypt_1.0b...
My dad always believed that if you're going to do anything, you should try to be the best at it. In terms of grades I certainly have not seen a positive effect, but I think the reason is I don't value professional education as much as passion learning, which for me is much more rare. The sentiment however has been instilled in me, and when I discover something that I enjoy doing its hard for me to be second place.
It will be interesting to see what happens with VR games. With a regular game you can always do something else - check your phone, walk away for a moment. In VR you are stuck staring at a loading screen unable to easily do anything else. We are already seeing cases where people will abandon a VR experience just because they cannot handle the load times. Content creators take note.
I'll play devils advocate here and unify both those points with Thiel's apparent views:

Striking back at Gawker wasn't about political correctness, it was about the boundaries of public/private life. He doesn't care if people hate him / judge him for his sexuality, but he believes it's nobody else's business and the press should be kept from revealing similar private info in the future. This reconciles well both with the specific case he chose to attack them through (Hogan's sex tape) and with a vague 'yearning for the past.' Past presidents had extramarital affairs as sort of public secrets with the press corps, because exactly this sort of thing was considered immaterial.

The second one is even easier to reconcile. Thiel believes there's a significant variance in the fundamental capabilities of different humans. The Thiel Fellowships are for exceptionally capable people, but he could still think the 'middle of the pack' needs higher education to maximize their contribution to society. He wants to make startup kings, not pull everyone out of school to start co-ops.
One interesting observation about what the narrator said at the beginning section of the video:

"It's not something a journalist is normally allowed to experience in this country."

I understand that you do not like certain aspects of my country, but do you really need to squeeze in comments like that when covering a spacecraft launch?

Edit: It was referring to the visit to the "secret launch base", so it is technically a fair statement. Still, the tone bothers me.
Or the fire bombing of a GOP headquarters and physical assault of Trump supporters at rallies. Both of those are significantly more serious than people saying mean things on twitter. I couldn't, in good conscience, vote for either candidate, but your examples are incredibly one sided.
> There's a difference between consenting and merely not calling the police...That's how I read the "they let you do it" quote.

So yeah...grasping at straws.

> If someone kisses you or touches you in a sexual way without your permission then it's sexual assault. It's that simple.

Which if we take at face value then every single teen boy has committed sexual assault, starting with the "yawn and put your arm around her" move.

As the saying goes, "If everybody's guilty of everything, then nobody's guilty of anything."

But we need to be careful not to conflate two issues here: suppose we even had iron-clad proof that he did it and was unapologetic and planned to do it again next Thursday, there is zero excuse for the press's near-complete silence on the Clinton emails.

I'm not pretending to offer a theory as to why this lack of coverage is occurring - just mentioning it as a data point.
That's interesting. But it seems like there'd be the "stream sniping" problem -- in games like StarCraft, this is where your opponent watches your stream in the background to find out what you're doing while they play you.

This can be solved for StarCraft by streaming with a 5 minute delay, but I'd bet that isn't sufficient to stop cheating when there are many people all doing the same programming exercises.
A PR/fluff piece that he bought a $500 mln yacht on a whim while calling for austerity in his own country cutting govt employees salaries and benefits?

That would be the worst PR piece you could ask for, unless you mean that you suspect that his political foes were the ones behind this story which is not unlikely but again not a deal-breaker and what's only important to me is the question, were the details listed in the piece factual or not?

Nothing more.
Part of the problem is our culture lauds perfectionism as a case of someone caring too much or being too ambitious. That's not what it is.

Perfectionism is a failure to optimize across a complex goal space, settling, instead, on ignoring the difficult (and beautifully complex) prioritisation problem in favour of over-optimizing a limited set of easily-defined goals ("getting an A") over longer-run priorities ("being a fulfilled and productive citizen").
The reason all countries pass new laws from time to time, including amendments to old laws, is that it is impossible to forsee all possible circumstances in advance.

This is also why there are people whose jobs it is to interpret said laws as they apply to specific circumstances (judges), and they also don't always agree with each other.
Software engineering is all about tradeoffs.

Since libraries have different use cases and characteristics than normal app code they can and should be treated differently.

A 10% cognitive cost for code that is used by thousands of developers is a very high price to pay for an initial 3x speed boost to one developer.

A 10% cognitive cost for code that needs to be understood 3-10x before it effectively expires (like most app code) is a great tradeoff for a 3x initial speed boost.

I'll get my app in my customers hands in 3 months, wear a little "tech debt" on the dev side, and get crucial feedback. You can take 9 months to deliver a functionally equivalent app with slightly better internals.
Come on guys, give me some honest feedback!
I wish macOS had 1st party FUSE (or equivalent) support.
It does prove he has some documents which other holders of the documents can ascertain he had and presumably shared with others in some sort of dead man's switch setup.

Definitely unclear if posting those hashes is a winning move though.
Semantics3 does what you want I believe.

https://www.semantics3.com/
It could be, however I would bet against it as both the US and Russia have plans. The US is looking at the commercial market to deal with LEO while NASA focuses on larger things. I believe that Russia has plans as well but I haven't read about them as much.

Here is a recent article that mentions a few possibilities:
http://spacenews.com/companies-pitch-plans-for-commercial-sp...

Notably, the company Axiom plans on making their potential module be able to function independently after detaching from the ISS. Bigelow also has plans for using their inflatable technology, although they've been working on this for quite a while and I've heard rumors of that the management is dysfunctional so for them to be ready in time for 2024 seems unlikely to me, a layperson.

My guess: 2024 will come and there will be perhaps some commercial space stations or modules attached but they will lengthen the date until ISS decommission at least one time.
Unless your argument is that HRC would be equivalently as bad for the US as Trump, this argument does not make sense. Neither Stein nor Johnson can win this election; neither has a chance materially better than that of Joe Exotic Speaks For America 2016.
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Agreed! That said - a lot of people don't realize that Amazon's services can be quite slow and think they can always throw it on there and it'll be fast.

They're often high latency (for a service - 180+ms) but are also high availability.

Slap a CDN in front (like Fastly) and get in the 10s of ms response time if possible.
Same, using vim "full time" was what really made me learn and appreciate it. Before that it was just something I would occasionally use when making quick edits on a server.
Slightly orthogonal to your #5: are you in a current job role where you ever bring up the topic of your customers or your clients in casual discussion? Do you ever refer to either group in less-than-stellar terms?

For my part, I do both. I have bitched and kvetched at times about my clients being cripplingly needy, aggressively brain dead, and the like. I certainly wouldn't say it to their faces, and it doesn't mean I don't rely on their dollars to support my business. Nor either does it mean I am producing lesser-quality work for them.

This is a non-issue. People everywhere bitch about the outsiders they have to deal with in language that would never be used in business proper.

It is a massive chasm of difference between calling a group "needy" and categorizing them as illegals, rapists and murderers.
What at all does Clinton have to do with these women pressing charges or not?

As for why a woman might not press charges after a sexual assault, there are a multitude of reasons that have been discussed in plenty of related literature, I urge you to seek them out.
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1. He has donated to her campaigns as well, several times.

2. If money that supports speech is equivalent to making that speech, isn't this just a matter of degree?

3. I understand. Doesn't my specific example seem absurd, though?

4. But there are many more limitations on money than there are on speech. There is no limit on speech in support of a campaign. There is a limit on money in support of a campaign. Is that not enough evidence that money and speech are not equivalent, at least legally?
You can click on any of the links in the article. It will get out of the Google AMP session, and open them in a browser. You can have your own site header and whatever series of links pointing inside your site, like you would on your regular non-amp landing page. This author is whining about a non-problem.
It's actually oil vs killing vs banning
I'll go a step further. Right now I've created The Perfect Semester for myself.

Right now I am taking:

- CS280: C++/Interpretations & Composition of Programming Languages
- CS288: C/Whatever random crap the professor came up with
- CS252: ARM EABI Assembly/Computer Architecture
- CS332: Operating Systems
- IS350: An Ethics Course

I'd love a college that will let me do something like this. Create a schedule for 4 years (like a normal degree) that will provide me with, you guessed it, a degree in "Software Engineering" where I learn about, you guessed it, Software.

I want to learn every popular language's ins and outs. This includes, but is not limited to C, C++, Ada, Lisp, Java, C#, Python, x86/x64/arm/MIPS assembly. I'd like to be taught, not lectured to, I want to actually learn from my professors. I want to learn about software abstraction, organization, revision, and project management. I'd like to be able to learn about ever piece of software running on a system and be taught how to implement them. I'd like to learn how to use every single tool in my arsenal to solve any problem in development or in my problem domain.

I want to actually build things with seasoned experts (my professors). I'd like to come out the kind of person, who when asked to solve any computer-related problem doesn't stutter but just hops right on it.

I've done, to the best of my own ability, just that outside of school yet there are just some things I cannot teach myself.

I love computers and I want the curriculum to mirror that.

And for anyone who want's to say "oh you just want the easy way out, you just don't want to take English/Math classes because that's too hard". I've heard this many many times before. I don't want anything easy. If anything this curriculum that I want would be far harder than any CS curriculum ever before it. But it wouldn't be hard for me. Not because I know how to do all of the stuff in it, but because I love doing all of the stuff in it. These things are what I excel at doing and I strive to know as close to everything about these things as I can.

Sadly, we don't really get a say in this sort of thing. My beard isn't nearly gray enough and I don't have a white coat, so in the end my opinion is unimportant.
Thank you, I did not know that.

Just to clarify, I'm not for coal either. It's just an issue that is never properly discussed in mainstream debates.
They can pry TrueCrypt 7.1a from my cold, dead fingers.

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm
Windows has an intermediate level though. The average consumer never gets past novice.
Heh. "Soft" as in "you won't die/get seriously hurt" landing.
>Because that's not the example you used. I wasn't aware you were refering to DNC donors with your accusation.

This is what I said

>And they also released social security numbers, names and addresses for hundreds/thousands of people, so they're obviously not that concerned with protecting people.

Sorry if that wasn't clear what I was referencing

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/22/12259258/wikileaks-leaked-...
These Five Things Will Land a Startup Founder in Jail
I have taken on 2 guys in Addis to work on our startup. They have barely been online for 2 weeks and can't do their job. By the looks of things I might have to let them go. Sad for them and the country.
You got it a couple weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606843