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I wish more thinking could be put into their words when people write political posts like this. As much as I'd like to see healthy debates over presidential candidates of choice, this post is not written to facilitate conversation between two sides. Using strong moral indicators ("shame"), finger-pointing to specific influential targets (YC and Thiel) and staying on superficial rhetoric, the author deliberately wrote the post in a way to try policing over people with opposite political belief, leaving no room for argument.

If the targets were not influential or the title gave out the blog content (e.g.shame on my neighbor for being a Trump supporter), it would be treated like yet another personal rant against Trump. If the post presented comprehensive but complicated political analysis, it would loose a big chunk of the intended audiences. I applaud for Marco's ability to convey his political opinion to big audience through a simple blog post. That said, if you are used to performing critical thinking whenever you read stuff, this post is probably not for you.

This post doesn't give people much constructive material to argue over aside from fueling more potential verbal violence. The same goes for most media political pieces. They are political snacks, cheap to grab and quick to consume, but too many snacks are bad for health, in this case, bad for decision making.
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They're coming on thick and strong with attempts to discredit the source because the source is seriously lacking in credibility. I'd already spotted and commented on the bizarre UN shenanigans earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12737648 The fact that the sole source is a dating company press release in which they claim to be a United Nations signatory and member, and that they accuse the UN of conspiring with Assange and the Bahamas police, should've been enough justification not to take everything as gospel. Unfortunately, Daily Kos are keen to attack Assange and not so keen on fact checking and research, as are Mrs Clinton's Twitter supporters.
> But you assume Trump's statements are literally what he wants to enact.

The usual complaint about politicians is that they rarely make good on their pre-election promises. It is interesting that even Trump's supporters are fervently hoping that he won't be true to his campaign proposals.
Nice, "practical VIM" is how I learned VIM. Very easy to understand given the examples.
If you are playing sound you can use the microphone for synchronisation.
If you keep bread in the fridge, it'll keep for quite awhile & be available to eat (unlike freezing it).

I used to live in a country with giant, mean roaches, so I got in the habit of refrigerating everything. Surprised it's not more common to do so w/ bread.
Henry VIII. May want to fix :-)
Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies
From the linked website:
"© 2007-2015 Bitly, Inc" - was this a subsidiary of bitly from jump, or an acquihire?
What do we want!? ... NOW!!

When do we want it!? ... FEWER RACE CONDITIONS!!
So it's OK to speak as long as you don't try to persuade someone of something?

If somebody's up on a soapbox giving speeches about their views, and I disagree with their views, should I not get up on my own soapbox and explain why I disagree and think people shouldn't buy that other guy's arguments?

If I think someone has a poor business history, should I keep silent when somebody else considers a partnership? Or should I speak up and say "I think that's a bad partnership" and try to persuade them?

You seem to have a view of speech being allowed so long as the first speaker is privileged never to be disagreed with by a later speaker, and never to have anyone try to persuade others not to accept the first speaker's argument. That's not how free speech works.
Looks like they used various neural networks and trained based on data they currently already transcribe professionally. So it had to be trained and only represents a subset of people who speak and have their works transcribed at Microsoft events.

Being Microsoft, I'm sure the place is diverse, but there's no mention in the paper on accents or dialects that I can see (might just be missing it).
Anyone who ever thought it was the first was deluding themselves. Assange has always has an agenda. It's just that his old supporters don't like the new flavor of his Koolaid.
Organizing it in different files wouldn't be a bad idea maybe:p THANKS!
Don't tell that to William Gibson. HATES Julian Assange. Has gone for broke in equating crit of Hillary with love of Trump, pushing rape allegations non stop. Generally being an ass.
Calls to mutate state, such as changing the name field, should be rare. I don't see the value in adding syntactic sugar to make it easier to mutate state.
Yep, Whole Foods does half-loaves.
Or we need a better way to reward players.

So what we want to do is tie the monster's success to the player's success.

One thing I've played with is to let Players take "contracts" to build security drone warships. The players will get paid a small royalty, plus a sizeable bonus for combat success.

To keep players from trying to rig the system in their favor too easily, the AI scripting language can be processed by the genetic algorithm. The players will still be able to exploit the system by nefarious means, but they will have to create bots that are tough on the surface, and hope that not too many others will discover and also exploit their backdoors. (I would love it if players started doing this!)
Many of whom obtained it by dubious means from different tribes of indigenous peoples.
Seiki 4ks have been sub 300 for a while, at least when they're on sale. (e.g. I've been using https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RBA9MOC/ref=psdc_6459737011_t3_... for over a year as a monitor after applying a beta firmware patch to get rid of the terrible latency. I got it for $298.)
Potentially, unless you happen to be in Russia... clearly if you live in say, Belgium (or Singapore, or New Zealand, etc.), it's unlikely that any Russian agency that has access to your searches will share that data outside their borders. Of course it's generally your service provider that you have to worry about.
Can someone help me follow the logic whereby its "facist" or "hypocritical" for people to find fault in someone who is supporting an admitted sexual predator and racist?
Where did we see political-only apartheid? I agree it's not sustainable.
The syntactical distinction makes us believe that there is a technical difference as well, but that is not the case. I find that misleading. If properties don't give us any technical guarantees, then a naming convention as in Java seems more appropriate to me.

And if you look at the guidelines I linked to, you'll see that the criteria that are supposed to tell us whether or not to use a property are much more subtle than making a network call vs accessing a field. Can you really justify a breaking change to a public interface because a type conversion is introduced in the implementation of property?

I think disguising a function call as a direct variable access is much more problematic than calling a function that may or may not do more than return the value of a variable.

That said, I do realize that reasonable people can absolutely disagree on this issue.
States can go bankrupt. The Federal government cannot.
Strikes me the key is to control more of the news supply chain and become their own aggregators. I think it's similar to the way Hulu is owned by some networks and some studios.
In my mind, this is analogous to the reasons why evaluation of lossy audio compression codecs requires human listening tests. Simply running some simplistic signal analysis like SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) completely fails to capture the as-perceived quality of a compression implementation.

To explore that analogy: In the case of lossy audio compression, the compressor deliberately introduces quantization noise into the signal. It does so by running a "psychoacoustic model", which attempts to capture a broad quality of human hearing called auditory masking. There's a number of different kinds of masking[1]: a strong tonal sound creates an "umbrella" across nearby frequencies that can mask quieter noise-like sounds. Similarly there's noise-vs-noise masking, as well as forwards- and backwards- temporal masking. (Yes, backwards. A sound can mask perception of a sound that occurred before it.)

In the audio compression case, we've built an algorithm that attempts to characterize exploitable phenomena of human hearing. These masking characteristics aren't perceived quite the same by human listeners as the model, nor even the same between individual human listeners. Thus the need for human listening tests. These, due to the experimental care and human subjects required, are expensive.

Back to speech transcription. Say the end goal is "how well does a human comprehend this transcribed speech"? (e.g. vs some standard, such as the original speech, vs. the original speech transcribed by a skilled specialist, etc.) The problem starts to look pretty similar. We can cite numerical, word-centric error rates, but that fails to capture how well meaning is preserved and transmitted. Imagine a perverse algorithm that did a perfect transcription, but then dropped or altered words for maximum meaning obfuscation. It might equal or even beat the cited error rates but be much harder to actually comprehend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_masking
It requires a lot of code because the rules that govern the use of fares on a ticket are insanely complicated -- literally beyond anything you could possibly imagine a priori. There are dozens of rule "categories", each larded up with tons of complexity. There's even "Rule Category 25: Fare By Rule" which is essentially a complete macro facility for fares, allowing carriers to literally take an arbitrary fare's rules, modify them in all kinds of random ways, and publish the result as a new "virtual" fare.

As for the GDSes, their code is primarily TPF assembly. So now add the LoC blow-up of using a very low-level language.

There are like 25 people in the world who understand this stuff, and half of them likely work at ITA/Google.
No, it is not comparable by any measure. If I move 30 km from my home to the South, I won't be able to understand people and the culture is totally different, the meal hours are shifted by two hours, the food is different, the work times are different, the social system is different, the wages are vastly different, the prices are different, the family organisation is totally different, the religion could be different.

Why? Because there is a bloody border in between. These are different countries, they have evolved separately for centuries. Don't you get it? Those are not two states of the United States of Europa, those are countries forged with a millennium of historical evolution.
I've contributed multiple issues and PRs which have been completely ignored. It seems from the outside that their focus on monetizing causes their API to be purposefully opaque and subject to change. It's been disappointing and certainly turns me off from ever purchasing private repo hosting from npm itself.

For reference:

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12085

https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8319

https://github.com/npm/couch-login/pull/13

I have a deep understanding of how it works now, and therefore more to contribute, but what's the point? I just keep running my own npm(s) instead and contribute to packages that appreciate it.
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A vote for Trump is protest.
There is no ".git" file. It's a directory with a lot of files. Some of the packing has been storage optimisations but the logical model (objects identified by hash) has remained the same throughout.

The nice thing about this is you can present the same logical model while being flexible about the way that model is persisted, unlike
Mercurial which has a fixed file format upon which operations are based.
Turing wasn't trying there to articulate a single target for AI research, he was responding to the claim that artificial minds were not possible even in principle. His response was basically, try this, if in open-ended conversation you couldn't tell one from a human, would you really still say there's no mind there? As you say, that's a really high bar from where we are, then or now.

I'm sure Turing's own goals for AI were broader than eventually passing the Turing test. He worked on neural nets himself and would've considered progress in perception as partial progress in AI.
Boeing is saying that airlines are ordering more planes with more cramped economy seating than they were before, even though they're the same models of plane.

"For almost 20 years, the standard setup in the back of a Boeing 777 was nine seats per row. But last year, nearly 70% of its biggest version of the plane were delivered with 10-abreast seating, up from just 15% in 2010."

So over five years, airlines were ordering more and more of these especially cramped 777s than before, which means the same class and the same model of plane has narrower seats and aisles so they can cram in one extra person in each row.

This is a discussion on new planes, but I would be surprised if airlines weren't moving to the new configuration on older planes as well whenever they do an upgrade or refurbish (or use those planes on lower-demand routes where the lower capacity doesn't impact the actual number of seats sold).
approval rating is different than favorability, which was what I meant (I should have used the more specific term).

In any event, if she's elected, she will have 4 years to drop below 30%, its an easy goal.
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What stops you from seeing code you aren't allowed (ie. the search algorithm) if its a monolithic repo?

Also, with a repository that large, how do you have it setup locally that is usable?
Conflating meal replacement products with junk food is silly. They accomplish entirely different goals.
Indeed, I decided to try it out (having never used it before) and was very impressed.

Historically my flight booking priorities were pretty much 100% price related, but now they're a combination of price and duration.

Alas most sites only let you order by one or the other (literal example: 35 hour flight for $1850; change the sort to duration; 15 hour flight $3300, scroll through the list for _ages_ to try and find the best combination of the two).

Then select the best option outbound, only to find out the return flight is 36 hours... Or that the 16 hour option adds another $800 to the price.

The HipMunk UI was really nice for finding good duration flights in both directions, whilst also making it clear the price implications of which return leg I used (which to me is uncommon, because so many sites treat them as disparate steps, so a change in return flight means you get kicked back to step one.

Not strictly comparing the experience to Google Flights (as I haven't really used it), but to a lot of other flight search sites I've used (Kayak, SkyScanner, WebJet, Airline sites, IWantThatFlight, HelloWorld, among others).

The HipMunk UI actually facilitated that search really well. Very impressed :-) (And it seemed to have equally good prices for the flights I looked at compared to other sites.)
Unemployment is really going to skyrocket if we start firing people for which presidential candidate they vote for.
Data-stealing CryPy ransomware raises the spectre of variable pricing for files
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The surprisingly complex reason you never see emoji URLs
Why not open source it so we can run it on our own hardware?

Why does something useful have to go away because a business couldn't be made of it?
still in the top 10 of the front page, and has been for many hours...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733445
But, if you aren't hiring a developer specifically to implement fizzbuzz for you, why are you giving them that as a problem to solve?

Hiring someone to work on a Flask REST API? Make them add a REST endpoint to a little flask app. Hiring someone to do CSS? Make them style a form. Hiring someone to build a database? Make them safely write to disk.

This is far from random - it's been almost twenty years since Schmidt and Hunter showed that a work sample is one of the best predictors of future performance, 24%, vs 3% for unstructured interviewing.

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...
I'm quite aware. Typo caused by my brain thinking about where it was going and not where it was.
> Reading in offense to what I've said? It's not there.

I would hope that the reason you compared not wanting to cook with, again, a socially crippling disorder was that you were somehow offended by the idea of other people having different priorities than you.

I can understand someone having an emotional outburst because they're offended by other people not being like them, along with a lapse in judgment and ending up writing that comment, but I can't understand how someone would get there from a rational point of view. I assumed, charitably, that you were somehow offended.
Journalists shower Hillary Clinton with campaign cash
It would probably look exactly like setName(newName).

For me a better question is - why is the name being changed?
What high level goal are you trying to accomplish that truly needs you to to directly mutate internal fields, after the object has already been created? Could the object - or system of objects - have been designed with a higher level interface, so that the outside world didn't have to concern itself with such things?
This. Local (non-sports) news in my paper is mostly city council stuff and the police blotter. A particularly salacious crime gets a few extra column inches.

Other than that, the paper is wire stories and advertisements.
Well we have a fat jar of 100 MB to deploy on Flink, so I guess it will be much larger if all modules have submodules.
I work for a registrar as well. You are right, I hadn't considered ccTLD's What I find really insidious about ccTLD registries is the crazy rules they have (and therefore the crazy business rules I must use to support them) this doesn't fix that, but as you pointed out it might help some of those small ones that are otherwise out of luck.
I do not think so, only because it's simply not possible anymore due to Microsoft's minority server and mobile market share. Microsoft can make plenty of money in the "embrace" phase. Extend may happen at some point down the road, but seems no more of a concern than what Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Sony and Facebook are attempting to do with their various devices and platforms.

Edit: my justification for Microsoft making "enough" embracing Linux/open source is that the computing/software market is larger than it used to be. There is room for many large companies to grow nearly as fast as they'd like -- and I expect that trend to continue.
When I see some one complaining code generation being design smell I gag a little at this hackneyed Fowler expression. I'm curios what do you think lambok does?
Historically, residents/property owners have often chosen to form a municipal corporation which basically creates a layer of government.

In the case of the Irvine Company, it's the descendant of the Irvine Ranch which never sold off most of its land holdings.
No. FTA:

law enforcement in more than half of all states can search against the trove of photos stored for IDs like drivers’ licenses.

Getting that data from Facebook is way more complicated, fraught with legal problems and lower quality than all of the systems that already exist in the legal system between all of the sources that utilize photo id: drivers license, passport etc
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Yeah, THg is the absolute best DVCS GUI client I've had the pleasure of using. Everything else is awful and confusing in comparison IMO.

I even use it for Git with hggit sometimes.
Andrew Johnson has her beat for that honor.
Advertising left the newspapers.

Look for example at used car ads. Sellers had a choice between paying the newspaper to run your two-line car ad for a few days for $20 or post it free to craigslist where you can attach photos, a lengthy description, etc.

And once sellers started posting there, buyers stopped looking in the paper for used cars.

I know a used car dealer that continued to run print ads in the newspaper for a while — but only for "old man cars" like Buick sedans, etc.
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The numbers used seem skewed in favor of promoting their product rather than a real comparison.

The number used for MPG is 21.4 which is the "Average U.S. light duty vehicle fuel efficiency".

In addition to passenger cars the light duty vehicle class includes SUVs and pickups (including 1/2 ton models such as the Silverado, F-150). At this time I don't believe there are any electric vehicles that would compete with a 1/2 ton pickup in terms of payload or towing.

It would seem the Passenger Car fuel economy would be the most accurate number to use; which is 36.4 MPG.

They do acknowledge this number at the end of the post:

>The average EPA fuel economy of passenger cars (not counting trucks) was 36.4 miles per gallon in 2014. Using that number puts gas and electric cars on a more even playing field.

Though doing so makes electricity only cheaper in 43/50 states and the savings is not nearly as compelling as the figures from the 21.4 MPG comparison.

TL;DR: this is is more of a clickbait product promotion article than a real comparison
> but there have been stories on less than 30% of the newsworthy items,

You assume they are newsworthy. Most of what I've seen, from a running tally Politico is doing as they go through them, doesn't seem overly newsworthy. The ones that have been reported seem to be mostly explainable, and look much worse when you assume context rather than put it in context, or allow the Podesta to put it in context.

> vs 10-20 stories on the single incident of Trump's lewd remarks.

Many people are very upset about those "lewd remarks". Possibly because they admit to real actions of misconduct. I think there's a false equivalence going on here. One situation is about a staffer for the Clinton campaign with lots of emails that sometimes seem to allege something, but are generally somewhat informal and it's hard to pin down specifics, and the other is about Trump himself admitting to sexual assault on tape, and then saying it was just words and he never would do something like that, and then people coming forward saying he specifically did it to them. For many people, a single true instance of this is enough to immediately discount him as a possible candidate they could vote for. That's a big story, and will get a lot of attention, as much as you might like it not to.
There's a material difference between questioning a sources's credibility and trying to discredit it.
What's his agenda ?
> People like Marco are ruinous to society.

More than Donald Trump (or Hillary Clinton) ever thought about being, in fact.
I've thought about replacing my Moto X, but the battery lasts two days. In fact I sometimes run out of battery because I forget I'm supposed to charge it.

I look at the pixel and nexus and other phones, and I see benchmarks where their battery lasts 7 to 13 hours depending on phone, and I assume those are all best case.

I never think about my phone. I think I'd think about it a lot, every day, when I got near the end of my active daytime period, or got home and realized my phone is still charging at work.
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Did the jet stream change in some way recently? Or are they just now taking advantage of it?
LET'S ALL LISTEN TO WHAT THE WHITE MAN HAS TO SAY ABOUT RACISM, SEXISM, AND WHY TRUMP IS GREAT!

Oh wait... only a fucking garbage person would write what Thompete wrote.