skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Noob :) Get TSA Pre, checkin on your phone, park your car in the exact right spot, walk directly to the security gate. Throw your two carryons on the conveyer belt and walk through the metal detector. Pick up items and walk to gate. Total time from car to gate is < 10 minutes at SFO.
This seems like a serious risk, and I'd like to see how the "partisan idioms" were collected.

"Illegal aliens" stood out to me as something I don't hear much from either party - the fight today is generally over "illegal immigrants" versus "undocumented immigrants". That looks like an obvious candidate for a marginalized phrase distorting the analysis.

"Death tax" is still around, but I think there's a euphemistic treadmill thing happening - plenty of people on the right will now say "estate tax" and expect it to be understood as a thing they're strongly opposed to.

Finally, the example given seems to be about maturation rather than moderation. "Turbans and terrorists" is rather un-encylopedic, and it would be totally possible to strip it from an article even while preserving a strong conservative bent.

I wouldn't be shocked if these results were right, but it also feels like a sociology paper I wouldn't want to trust without a secondary analysis.
SpaceX doesn't need to compete in a consumer market, though.
I've seen this in other areas too. For instance, banking recruiting at top schools has this crazy process of facetime and attending dinners, and showing up to lots of events. Does it correlate with success? Possibly, but weak at best. But the banks need some kind of first filter.

It's virtually impossible for a VC to take every proposal seriously. They need some kind of filter, and anything marginally better than "Read every tenth one that comes in" helps them out. Getting it via someone establishes reciprocity with the intermediary, and establishes that someone can find an intro. (This could be useful in selling)
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That you think this is a no true Scotsman fallacy just shows you have no idea what you're talking about and are just blindly ideologically raging. It's not a NTS fallacy, it's a words-have-non-arbitrary-meaning non-fallacy. The agenda you quote is about “Socialism“, or even more precisely “dictatorship of the proletariat”, the transitional period Marxists envision to precede communism. I'm not going to argue about that, I think history has shown how horrible of an idea it is. Communism is by definition a stateless (do notice how many times the state is mentioned in that agenda), classless society of free associations of producers and consumers with distribution and consumption based on “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need“ principle. Further reading: http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-wa...
Let's assume that the collection location needs to be at least twice the wingspan of the plane.

Why? But in any case, you could have a fast conveyor belt directly from the plane to the location, no need to carry them by hand.
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> It's worse than useless (like negative net effect) in terms of protecting society and individuals from the harms of drug abuse.

I wouldn't say that. For generally law-abiding citizens like me, the lack of availability has done wonders to protect me from drugs. At some point or another in my life, I've been tempted to experiment with the legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, etc.). I've never been tempted to try LSD or cocaine (for example), because there is currently no legal way to obtain it and I definitely don't feel like engaging in risky activities just to try.

Making all drugs legal and accessible will definitely have a negative impact on one portion of the population (curious people like me). A certain percentage of curious but otherwise law-abiding people will destroy their lives once drugs are legalized.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how voting works in other parts of the world, I'd like to describe the voting process in Canada.

Registered voters (which is virtually everyone) receive a card in them mail telling them where to vote. They bring the card, along with proof of address and photo ID to their polling station on election day. Their ID is checked against a list by two poll clerks and the elector is given a ballot. They take the ballot behind a curtain and make a mark with a pencil beside their candidate of choice. They take the ballot to the ballot box, where an observer watches them place it inside.

At the end of the night, the ballot box is opened by the two poll clerks, who are generally (but not necessarily) observed by several "scrutineers": one representative from each party. One of the poll clerks holds each ballot in turn, and announces who they believe the ballot was cast for. If everyone agrees, the ballot is counted. If it is disputed, a discussion takes place with reference to the printed rulebook. If there is still no agreement, it gets escalated.

Once all of the ballots have been counted, the results are reported to the Deputy Returning Officer, who phones them in to Elections Canada. The ballots go back in the box and the box is sealed. It is delivered to Elections Canada and stored in case of a recount. Enough results are generally available nation-wide a little after midnight (polls close at 9 or so) for a winner to be declared and concessions speeches given, although the official results can take a little longer.

The system seems to work. I don't see how electronic voting machines could do it cheaper, more securely or even very much faster.

I understand an American election is more complicated and may require a more complex system, but truly I feel electronic voting machines are a false efficiency here.

Source: Worked a few elections as a poll clerk. More details at http://www.elections.ca
You mean over 30 with kids? Or should we dust the authentic developer cliche?
This article is hardly about Wikipedia. You can feel the electoral smell from a mile away.
No true scotsman fallacy, activate.
It's up here (UK)
You're using the academic version of realtime, not the one that anybody cares about. HDFS's biggest problem is, and has always been, that it's literally impossible to tune it to give anything like reliable performance, mostly because the nameserver is a single point of lag for the entire system. "Worst case network and IO" latency is a huge stretch. Network performance is predictably sub-ms if you're using a network designed for modern distributed computing (A real stretch, I know, since almost all HDFS installations are on old-school core-router-tree infrastructure.) The IO operations are incredibly unpredictable - For a client at a time. Having individual servers that 10-20ms worst-case performance hiccoughs is nowhere near as bad for a system as all of your clients hiccoughing for even 5ms at the same time.
Yes, Dash (DashPay) has been up and voting on stuff for a couple years. Because I own 1,000 of the things I get to vote on stuff like sending devs to conferences and different ad campaigns to run, then the winning bids get paid out of the block reward. If we vote no the Dash just gets destroyed and inflation is slightly reduced.
The best I've used so far is Kap: https://getkap.co/ (Open source; currently only available for macOS)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/25/at-t-is-spy...

However, AT&T’s own documentation—reported here by The Daily Beast for the first time—shows Hemisphere was used far beyond the war on drugs to include everything from investigations of homicide to Medicaid fraud.

Hemisphere isn’t a “partnership” but rather a product AT&T developed, marketed, and sold at a cost of millions of dollars per year to taxpayers. No warrant is required to make use of the company’s massive trove of data, according to AT&T documents, only a promise from law enforcement to not disclose Hemisphere if an investigation using it becomes public.
I really hope for some success from Interledger[1] and the Web Payments Community Group at W3C[2] to start bridging the gap and letting people exchange money (directly) with whatever currencies they want.

[1] https://interledger.org/

[2] https://web-payments.org/
Building a connected piggy bank for kids
At 1000 cycles my 2 year old Note4 battery probably still held 80% of it's charge, but it's my go to internet/entertainment device and I charge it 2 or 3 times daily. All the sudden 1000 cycles isn't that many cycles- but who cares when the battery is replacable? This phone should be good for 2 more years so long as I don't drop it in the toilet.
I find the comparison to submarines in WWII to drones to lacking in intellectual honesty.

Treaties on new frontiers of war are common, we still have a treaty prohibiting the militarization of space. Someday it will be broken. Will it be a war-crime if it saves lives? What if ISIS has a satellite with nukes on it or something equally life threatening, should we heed the treaty even though doing so leads to our obvious demise? In WWII Japan was an existential threat to the United States.

There is no similar existential threat with drones, just some hand waving about China and Russia. And there are a dozen other ways the comparison breaks down.

What precautions are we taking to avoid harm to civilians? How do we insure transparency in this matter? How do we actually measure effectiveness? How do we prevent malicious groups from getting this tech from recovered drones lost in the field?

The comparison dodges all the really hard questions and just smears the US and the US military.
The command line in the demo is Hyper (made by the same people as Next):

https://hyper.is/

Stylizing is done on the terminal itself, and then anything (like Quicktime) could do a recording.
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Yes, but a single language makes it a lot easier.
You can't use it in the browser yet. That's why it has been excluded. You need typescript or babel to use it
i came to say pretty much the same thing... so true
sorry I can't take someone/entity seriously when they claim the internet's biggest flaw is shit-posting, or free expression as I call it.
The telnet password used by the botnets and the admin control for the end user are separate in many of these devices. My understanding is that the telnet password was set to not give the end user the access to change it, well, with the exception of technically savvy end users.
We released DemoKit last week to do precisely this (be able to script demos and record them, that way you can easily re-record them if your product changes, or if there's a typo, etc): http://blog.runkit.com/2016/10/18/introducing-demokit.html
The issue is that they have no idea how much money you 'actually' have.

If someone threatens you with a wrench, you simply do what they ask you to do and provide a password to your "account" that conveniently doesnt have much money in it.

"yes officer! I have done exactly what you asked me to do. Here is all the electronic money that I own. "
When I first came to Silicon Valley, going to LA worked like this.

- Drive to SJC. Park in lot next to terminal about 100 feet from PSA station.

- Walk into adjacent PSA terminal section. Pay $14 in cash to clerk. No reservation needed. Register receipt is boarding pass.

- The hourly B-727 pulls up outside and lowers rear stairs. Passengers get on with carry-on luggage.

- 58 minutes flight time to LAX.
> Go to any article and visit the “talk” tab. More often than not, you'll find a somewhat orderly debate, even on contentious topics like Hillary Clinton's e-mails or Donald Trump's sexual abuse allegations.

Oh, for the really good talk sections, you need to look at anything vaguely related to Macedonia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alexander_the_Great
The hardware 'Esc' key has got the boot. Controversy incoming.
(I can spare a couple down votes...)

What part of the internet do YOU come from, triplesec?

I've seen your kind before... You nitpick the form of some comment, but not the content... And along the way, you entirely misrepresent the original content.

It appears to me that amadsen is speaking plainly and asking if the study took maturation into account.

That's a perfectly good question!
Thanks! It's back up for me now as well. Hopefully we're not starting another attack.

As a side note, I seem to be getting 503'd from Fastly's CDN a lot today.
I've edited pages, created pages, and added sources, and each time someone has taken the small work I do and turned it into something with quality. I'm very impressed by Wikipedia.
I was willing to give your post a fair shake because I generally respect all HN posters, and because you included citations. Out of convenience, I skipped the videos and went straight for the emails.

Podesta did not say "US not a democracy". That was a forward he received about a study by Princeton. There's a solid academic debate to be had on the nature of democracy and representation. I don't see how this is somehow malicious or cynical on Podesta's part. I would hope that people involved with politics have some clue about what political scientists are saying.

Additionally, oversampling is a common polling technique[0]. I don't see how using oversampling for their internal polls means that Podesta forced other polls to be conducted in the exact same manner. To claim that multiple polls by separate organizations are rigged, you need much, much stronger evidence.

I'm also not sure that a stump speech by an opponent ever rises to the level of evidence.

Even if I accept all of your claims on face value, they don't add up to "we know this election is rigged".

After that, it didn't seem worth watching the videos because you have lost credibility in my eyes because I'm not sure you're arguing in good faith. I can tell from your two other comments that you're not just attacking, but your first post comes across as overly partisan (only accusations against Ds, citing Trump as evidence), so your larger point becomes muddled.

I'm still not totally certain whether you think this a problem with Ds or both major parties or an inherent problem to a party based system or something else entirely. At the end of the day, I think we probably agree. "The bigger idea here is that political parties are willing to do anything to advance their interests and it is a mistake to allow them to self-regulate when it comes to respecting the will of the people." If that was your original comment, I think the upvotes would be rolling in.

Finally, complaining about downvotes tends to make the problem worse.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/methodology/u-s-survey-research/s...
It's the washington post. What else would you expect from them?
Start asking why so many people want to alter their subjective realities. If what you find extends beyond mere curiosity, then address those things.
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Yep. I have a mid-2011 MacBook Air and the battery still lasts 3-4 hours, which is reasonably close to the original specs, especially considering 5 years of constant, everyday use.
Recurring payments on the LATAM markets
Hi, wanted to reach out to the community in search for input with regards to the problem of recurring payments on the LATAM markets in local currencies.
What are your experiences and input as to offering recurring credit-card (and debit, if possible) payments on the LATAM markets in the country´s local currencies?

Regards,

Mathias Laursen
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Container hosting with a homogeneous cluster constraint was a real requirement for me that I could not find a solution for amongst existing options but since you're a gluster dev you'd probably know better whether its possible; so happy to stand corrected. Thanks for correcting; and no offence intended.
The title of that article is accurate, where it says "stress" they are really referring to hardness and not tensile strength. The quoted 58% comes from this paper, it talks about "hardness" and "indentation strength" in the abstract:

http://sci-hub.cc/10.1103/physrevlett.102.055503
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Sure thing - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5NUadFuTNjc...

More videos coming :)
> How successful is the drug war? ... It would be interesting to see the ROI for enforcement.

As a jobs program it's probably pretty good. Law enforcement jobs. Prison jobs. Court jobs. Political prizes to argue over and differentiate yourself from the other guy.

As a control program it's fantastic. Look at all the traffic stops, civil asset forfeiture and surveillance they get away with.
You mean like Zoro?
ha, I do
You need to start reading https://www.saastr.com/ immediately.

Jason Lemkin has great insight into how to sell to SaaS products, how to run SaaS businesses and everything else SaaS.

Good Luck!
Atom, Google Chrome, Google Inbox, GitHub, Whatsapp, Spotify.
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> At some point or another in my life, I've been tempted to experiment with the legal drugs (alcohol, tobacco, etc.). I've never been tempted to try LSD or cocaine (for example), because there is currently no legal way to obtain it and I definitely don't feel like engaging in risky activities just to try.

There are a lot of assumptions in there - the biggest one is that, in a legal market, drugs which are currently illegal today would still be more dangerous than drugs which already are legal. That's a big assumption, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest the opposite. For example, the success of diacetylmorphine maintenance strongly suggests that it is just as possible to be a regular user of heroin as it is to be a person who drinks regularly in the evenings but otherwise lives a 'normal' life.

On that note, we dramatically overestimate the danger of drugs like cocaine and dramatically underestimate the danger of drugs like alcohol and caffeine. Alcohol, incidentally, is one of the only drugs for which the withdrawal can literally be fatal[0]. (By contrast, while heroin withdrawal can cause dehydration and other problems, as long as those are treated correctly, the direct effects of the withdrawal are non-fatal)[1].

[0] Benzodiazepines can also cause the same effect.

[1] This does not mean that heroin detoxification is easy or should be taken lightly. Lots of things can still go wrong, and it's one of the reason why detox programs exist. But partly due to the legal status of heroin, we ascribe these to the 'danger' of heroin as a drug, all the while ignoring that alcohol detoxification shares all of these same challenges and many more.
letting people exchange money (directly) with whatever currencies they want

If you had any idea the amount of regulation and ridiculousness involved in banking and forex, you'd laugh at this statement.
>Yes, but you're not committing a felony, risking jail time and fines.

I'm referring to the "reward" side of the ledger only. Do I understand you correctly, that under your model, there's no benefit to voting in the first place?

If so, I don't think you're modeling critical dynamics of the system -- I think you would be worried if e.g. only five people were officially allowed to double-vote, even if that wouldn't affect the outcome.
C has no such keywords. Why the need for this hackery? Curious also if putting that in a header and including it in a C++ program even compiles without leading to undefined behaviour...
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Given how complicated the technology is that they will be working with (as someone who has attempted to read the zcash whitepaper), I find this extremely unlikely. Sure there will be clones, but no altcoin "developer" will be able to properly maintain this, so bugs won't get fixed, or it'll always be lagging behind Zcash, or worse, they introduce unintentional bugs and completely wreck their blockchain and lose the money of the few fools who thought that the developers/company running it getting some money is bad
It depends on if you like the boring stack, and also what your normal stack is. If you mostly write ruby, Sinatra or Rails should be your first port of call: they're widely used frameworks in your language.

But no, don't go for the zeitgeist for no reason: zeitgiest is tautologically new, and new stuff tends to break a lot.
I was mentioning some interesting research I read about the supposed legit arguments against photo ID legislation. It wasn't an adversarial point to anything you said, simply something I thought the HN community might find interesting.
Alt-coin founders are still into the whole deflationary thing I see.
It's worth reading the Zcash perspective:

> At first, 50 ZEC will be created every ten minutes. 80% of the newly created ZEC will go to the miners, and 20% ZEC to the founders.

> Every four years, the rate of ZEC being created will halve (again, just like in Bitcoin). After the first four years the ZEC created per ten minutes will drop to 25ⓩ, but after the first four years, 100% of it goes to the miners.

> The end result (as shown in the diagram) is that there will ultimately be 21 million ⓩ, and 10% of it, or 2.1 million ⓩ, will have been initially distributed to the founders.

> With this approach, the founders are incentivized to support Zcash for the long haul (at least for four years), and they have limited ability to pump-and-dump.

From https://z.cash/blog/funding.html.

I don't know if this makes things better or not, but it sounds reasonable to me. From what I understand, "pump-and-dump" has been a concern in cryptocurrencies.
Also a significant drop in null dereferencing issues. The `if-let` syntax is brilliant.
Any stack has some headaches.
I usually make pencil marks (a star, underlining, boxes, etc.) in a book as I read it, to notate things I found especially interesting. Generally I will then also write a summary of the book, rewriting what I learned in a mixture of my own words and quotes from the book.
$20 is equivalent to 1300 rupees. You can get a descent meal for 200 rupees per meal.I should have added food and other expenses for $20.
Sharp had a similar phone. Samsung had the Edge, which is near bezel-less from the sides. And those are not concept phones, at least the edge is not.

Sarcastically, the success of these phones are dictated by how reliably they can be used, not by the size of their bezel.
Coincidentally, there's a measure on the Colorado ballot this year (I voted for it), that removes a state constitutional exception to allow slavery for punishment of convicted criminals.

Slavery, in the Colorado and many other state constitutions, is explicitly forbidden. Colorado, at least, allows an exception for convicted criminals.

I can't believe it's 2016 and I find myself having to say "yup, slavery is bad, let's not do that."
Have you been taking DNS monitoring for granted? Not today
No volume keys either
What will vi users do?
The big advantage of manual processes is that is very difficult to commit big scale fraud. It would involve thousands of people.
For those answering, what do you think of designing a "free" product to let the client use as a "gift" for their time. Perhaps your pricing tier has no freemium but after getting a meeting with the client you offer a special freemium version with the sentiment being "look, whether you choose our service or not let me give you this product which can help your operations even if you don't pay a dime"

I think for most this would seem like a good idea. You are both giving the potential client a chance to use the service and maybe signaling that you aren't desperate for the sale that you are just as happy if they just get value out of the free gift. But then there's pricing theory, maybe just giving away what is supposed to be so valuable "cheapens" your product and signals that in fact you're desperate to sell so you're giving it away.

I'm sure striking a balance is required here but I'm curious where on this scale from "generosity signals abundance" to "scarcity signals value" do your recommendations fall?