skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that Trump's recent issues with women have actually hurt him a lot. RealClearPolitics runs a poll of polls, where they average dozens of polls. While any individual poll may have oddities that cause it to lean left or right, averaging the polls reduces the odds of a few outliers throwing everything off.

Before the first debate Trump was down by 1 point (but trending upward) according to the RealClearPolitics average. That's within the margin of error on even the largest polls, meaning he was basically tied with Hillary. Then the Alicia Machado story broke at the end of the first debate, and his poll numbers went down to about -4. Then the bus tape came out, and he's now at roughly -7. That's well outside the margin of error. In fact, his poll numbers are now at the point where no one has ever won the presidency while being this far down so close to the election. He might still pull it off, but he's got a steep road ahead of him.

So he's gone from basically tied, to the point where he'd need something huge to happen in order to win. The biggest stories in that period of time were Alicia Machado and the bus tape. Most of the polls give detailed demographic breakdowns. He's dropped a little with men, but most of the damage was with women, where he's seen a double-digit loss of support in some polls.
DYN is experiencing a DDoS

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8
Short answer - no.

There is a long answer, but it requires enough knowledge of physics that you wouldn't have asked the question. But suffice to say, there's no chance whatsoever that this is dark matter.
I think ergonomically they are fantastic. I have owned one at home and had many at work. The problem I have is that at least previous generations they broke pretty easily for such an expensive chair. And I had some sticker shock with getting the one I owned at home fixed. I finally sold it.
Reddit is out -- my productivity is up, and I'm not happy about it.
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May have been a reference to an older device, the 808 pureview.

That said, Nokia has had multiple devices over the years that had a heavy focus on camera.
What else is missing?
Excellent experience. Quite precise geolocation and good support
Here's my take on all of this: https://www.sitepen.com/blog/2016/10/17/announcing-the-js-fo...

The feedback is interesting, but I think it helps to understand more of the history to get that most of the negative feedback here is overreaction. Some thoughts:

* No, the foundation isn't trying to dominate or tell people what to do. It's trying to support open source projects through their lifecycle. Running a project can be a rather lonely and frustrating experience at times, but can also be very rewarding

* Open source foundations provide legal protection to individuals and corporations that contribute and use open source software, and help ensure that one company or person doesn't turn evil and try to pull the carpet out from under the community (which has happened many times in the history of OSS)

* Regarding standardization, the foundation has members on TC39, W3C TAG, etc. Helping with standards is time consuming (and something I personally don't want to spend any time on), but it does help to gather ideas and have a way to contribute in a smaller way to the process

* As a foundation, we don't require any project to merge or conform with another. We have 3 testing tools (Intern, Mocha, and QUnit) which all have different philosophical approaches. But there are certainly things we could collaborate on, inside or outside the foundation.

* The foundation is not a place for projects to go to die. For example, many think of Dojo 1.x as old (because it's been under active use and development since 2004), but if you look at the work being done on Dojo 2 ( http://github.com/dojo/meta ), you'll see that it's on its way to reinventing itself as a modern TypeScript based approach to building web apps.

* Over the years we've worked with many large companies, and it's important to remember that companies are made of individuals. These companies have behaved on the OSS front in a very helpful manner (and I'm a huge skeptic in general). IBM has contributed as much over the years to JS OSS as anyone out there. The amount of help they provided in a11y and i18n is second to none, and they've helped Dojo, jQuery, PhoneGap/Cordova and others in significant ways.

* The list of founding members is smaller than we would have liked, but many times, you need to put something out there before people will join (it's more difficult to convince someone to sponsor something not yet announced than something fully baked). And just because you haven't heard of a company doesn't mean they don't do interesting and important things. The goal was not to just get a bunch of large companies to push their logos, but to get a group of people that care about the open web involved.

Overall it seems like the community loves to hate on things out of FUD (nothing new), but really we're just a group of people that create OSS that solves problems we have as developers. Really we just want to help, and a foundation is just one way to encourage collaboration.
No parts of Github are up for me (Ottawa). Over to you, Bitbucket.
Ask HN: How are all of these data dumps of user info happening?
It seems like every week there's some new story about data theft in the news (Yahoo, LinkedIn, Target, now Weebly). How are these attacks being done? Is it primarily SQL injection? Social engineering to get the database credentials? How can we protect our own databases from such attacks?
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It's still an issue. Let me show you an example.

Here's a website that's an SPA https://preactjs.com

I don't have an exact page count, but I was able to find 15 pages from browsing around.

Here's how many pages various search engines have indexed using the query "site:preactjs.com"

Google: 17
Bing: 6
Yahoo: 6
Baidu: 1

One of the Google results is an error page, but it presumably can't be de-indexed automatically due to there not yet being a way of declaring a 404-equivalent in SPAs.

I've also read (I can't recall where) that Google has a latency of a few days when it comes to indexing SPAs compared to server-rendered apps. This may not be a problem for you, but it's worth knowing about.
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GitHub employee here. We're monitoring an incident with our upstream DNS provider:

https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/789433336083001344
We've been looking at buying a house for the last few months and probably have viewed 15 houses or so - only one house (which nobody was living in) had a car in their garage - and that bizarrely was a Lamborghini.

NB This is in the area of Perth/Fife in Scotland.
not very useful to post a status update on a site that is experiencing the same issues with the same DNS provider.

maybe post a github gist? oh wait...
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I think the warranty stopped in 2007 if I remember right.
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359000 Results? Google Is Faking Search Numbers to Appear Big
Wrong. Short answer - yes.
There is a long answer but I too can be an Internet scientist and offer no explanations for my reasoning except "trust me, I know more than you do" as a certain political candidate is known to do (yes I went there).

Also looking forward to an epic beatdown of mounds of scientific evidence that is way above my head. But at least I will have gotten you to say more than "trust me".
>By now this is a technically solved problem, no problems.

Is it? We're not talking about load balancing GPUs - we're talking about a GPU just disappearing underneath you (like when the user picks up the Switch), while maintaining context and dynamically lowering quality - I can't imagine that being a trivial problem.

But that's not the major issue here. Nintendo is going to have to sell this thing for under $400. A mid-market smart-phone costs that much. Shipping a dock with a high performance GPU along with the actual portable isn't going to happen.
CircleCI is also down. As well as github hooks to slack.
Presumably YC has known about this and considers it acceptable.
You've moved the goalposts, perhaps without realizing it. I'm OK with signals intelligence. I'm not OK with "mass surveillance" in the sense that you probably mean it --- a giant data warehouse in Utah storing and indexing everybody's email.

The comment to which I replied talked about tapping Angela Merkel's phones. If monitoring Werner Faymann's phone calls prevents a war, I'm fine with that --- as, apparently, is Angela Merkel.

Meanwhile, for those of us concerned about dragnet surveillance, the answer is to replace the janky 80s protocols we use to send and receive electronic communications with modern encrypted alternatives.
I'm happy no CC details had to live inside your hipster bs stack.
Intercom as well :(
Also if a game does not have local multiplayer, people who want to play together will buy more than one game. At least I think it's the rationale behind this decision.

Also local split-screen multiplayer is harder to do since you have to do two (or more) graphic rendering at the same time, so dropping it allow the dev to spend more time on the rest of the game.
Totally agree. Live View photos on my 7D feels broken compared to the viewfinder: much slower AF, shutter-drop & recycle rate. & you really need a hood/3x magnifier to confirm critical focus. The only time I use photo Live View is for grabbing a still while I've still got the hood on from shooting video..
It looks like something you would find at an amusement park.
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Internet of Things. Remember this, "Genysis is Skynet".
Link appears broken. I think the "c" at the end of the link is a typo. Correct link is http://www.epictions.com/blog/search-engine/google-faking-se...
Other companies have gone that route already.

Nikon has had a model or two that is basically an Android phone in a camera shell.
> Yes, but the downside is that (afaik) you can't use an index to quickly retrieve the matches in order. You really have to scan your complete dataset on every search.

I'm not sure I see what you're driving at there. If you had a finite set of strings that you might have to compare, you could (for example) populate a graph or something with weighted edges representing the Levenshtein distance between strings (vertices). Offhand, it seems like your search could basically use a hash table to find the position of the vertex representing your string on an already-populated adjacency list.

It'd be big, but in reality you'd probably only populate the edges with especially high or low weights, depending on the application?
You are definitely not in charge under socialism. And the end result is not efficient either.

Even if you accept the definition of socialism from the followers of socialism, these points cannot be true, because either it is the government or the commune that is in charge depending on your definition of socialism.

And also everything that has to do with resource allocation needs to go through either of these political bodies by political decree or voting, neither is efficient.
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In particular, SubtleCrypto [0] seems to be what you're looking for. It's in the latest versions of FF/Chrome/Edge/Safari (and according to MDN, shipped with Edge last year and has been supported by Chrome/FF/Safari for roughly 2 years* [1]).

I can't find any support for Opera / IE, unfortunately, although Opera's been based on Chromium since 2013, so... presumably it's been supported for years, as well?

* Cross-referencing against browser release dates, that is.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/#dfn-SubtleCrypto

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SubtleCrypt...
"confident" is too strong. I think the chance is high enough to make the premise worth considering in this detail.
They changed that up with the new fortification mechanic where only some provinces have forts and they block hostile movement through adjacent provinces. It had some pretty major gameplay ramifications.
Hahahahaha you do realize Twitter is one of the affected sites, right?
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Heroku is down as well.
Ok, now how do we take the protesters waving, "Techie yuppie scum get out" signs, and get them working against these NIMBY assholes?
32GB iPhone 7 significantly slower than more expensive versions, tests show
Airbn is also down :(
No if its content is dynamic.
I don't think it is. I've been closely keeping an eye on Vue since its first release, and it has really matured quite well and steadily since then. I like to reference Vue with the Crystal[1] programming language, which has looked closely on mainstream programming languages and adopted the good parts of them, like Go's concurrency model, Node's asynchronous I/O, Ruby's clean & straight-forward syntax and object-orientation model and the performance and interoperability with C.

Similar to Crystal, Vue has looked at the other frameworks and adopted the good parts from them. I personally don't think the hype is anything but a result of hard work and a genuinely good framework.

[1]: https://crystal-lang.org/
I remember the rule of thumb is that a Moon-mass black hole is in equilibrium with the microwave background (in the current era). So such a planetary-mass black hole would be several times colder than the microwave background and would actually absorb energy.
Show HN: An Idea: Hitchhikr. Uberkiller?
I have an idea, and not much time to execute (just hired as network engineer). This idea response came from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758113 , and I was going to post a comment about it. Instead, I figure that it's probably more appropriate as an "Ask/Tell HN", and see if the hordes of uber-intelligent (lol, I made a funny, uber) peoples here can run with it.

I'm releasing this. There's no patent, copyright, trademark, or kitchen sink. I created it a half-hour ago. If you want to get me something if you use it, I'd like a good bottle of 12+ year scotch :)

Site/App: Hitchhiker (probably Hitchhikr.$something)

Reason: Uber-like, but drivers set price or offer free "hitchhikr"

Monetization: Skim % off of paid trips.

Idea: Hitchhiking was cool years ago, but fell by the wayside due to bad actors. The problem is 2-fold: "who are you picking up?", "and who's picking you up?" . Fb, LinkedIn, Twitter solve this. The second problem is "Do you get compensated?" You choose, and we do the hard part.

Details: Website and apps are portal to your account. Uses OAuth to Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIN for identity. Personal Security is paramount, and is why we require established ident. Some rides can be free, and others may be paid. This is worked out during "acceptance".

There's 2 lists: People offering rides from-to at time (with a cost), OR people needing a ride from-to (and if they're willing to pay,and how much). We can sync bus routes as well, so people always know of slower, more expensive ways back (think of it as fail-safe).

Before a ride but after accepting, idents are shared between all parties. During the ride, GPS coords on a realtime map are published. Anyone with that link can view realtime where you are at, increasing personal security and making a timedata-based map log.

Freeloaders will be encouraged to pay by a system that keeps track of miles, similar to the way "Magic: The Gathering" cards are traded on Pucatrade.
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Can you CC on HN, twitter doesn't work for people as well. HN seems to be fine.
I just realised how online adult entertainment has the most redundancy of any Internet service category, bar none.
So what about optimizing NSFW originals to make them appear "SFW"? What would such a thing look like? Presumably the skin tones would be the first to go.
This is only due to current screen limitations. If someone can pull off a practical light field display, focus and convergence should work together just like they do in the real world.

Real light field displays have already been demonstrated [0] [1]. As another example, the hype around Magic Leap seems to be largely due to some novel light field display technology using an oscillating optical fiber as a light field scanner.

[0] http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~dlanman/research/compressivedis...
[1] http://www.computationalimaging.org/publications/the-light-f...
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Definitely. If creativity were merely the creation of interesting images, we'd have to call nature far more creative than any human artist. The Grand Canyon is beautiful, but we don't put up a plaque giving the Colorado River credit for its thoughtful use of form and color.

Calling the neural network creative is like crediting Van Gogh's brushes for Van Gogh's brushwork. It's a possible use for the word, but it's very different use than the one normally meant.
Not sure why people don't like this chair. I've worked for a large company where everyone had Aerons and I absolutely loved the chair. I've even bought the higher end Embody from Herman Miller and I love that as well.
Elm doesn't have a DSL, you just call functions to create dom elements.

It's really much like JSX, but without the syntactic sugar of using HTML-like markup.
No, that is not at all what I am saying. I am not criticizing the word "patronizing".
Which might not be avaible.
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So the author

1. does not understand basic Google search strategies (for instance: Using apostrophes to search for exact Matches
2. then deduces that any "result" must be an exact result and not just a subset of any n-gram of the words entered in the search query
3. after which he tries to load a lot of results, only to get pinched out by Google's "likeliness filter" - which also protects Google from too costly deep-text searches (which in the vast majority of use cases are not beneficial to the user anyway) and then
4. finally accuses Google of fraud and "growth hacking" - thus starting to play bullshit bingo.
>> I'm guessing if you looked at all the 85% predictions, about 15% of the time the other outcome happened. That's what 85% means, after all.

That's what 85% probability means.

In this context the 85/15% is not a probability - it's a prediction representing the educated guess of a bunch of people about the actual probability.

Which is to say, the probability of people being right or wrong about an event's probability is not the same as the probability of that event.
Working here. Try a non-US VPN if you want to stop doing work again.
> Nibiru (where does this name come from)?

It's Babylonian, which was then co-opted by conspiracy theorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_(Babylonian_astronomy)
Not only are they doing that, but they are insanely arrogant about rejecting criticism that they're doing this too.
This sounds awfully like other ridesharing sites, like - just to pick a random one - flinc or roadsharing.com.
Where did I say anything about Tesla's success? I said that the need for a more efficient car was clear. There was a clear need and Tesla is one attempt (which has been shockingly successful) to fill that need. Contrast this to VR which... what exactly is the problem?

Individual implementations (Tesla/Leaf vs Vive/Rift) aren't the topic here. It's that both Tesla and Leaf were solving a problem nearly everyone agrees was there. What is VR solving?

Also your own linked article talks about how great Tesla is, how serious the need for something like it is, and then says "the only thing is it costs $94,000." So basically reiterating my point.
There are many sites that check if something is down, asking HN probably not the best way to go about this!

http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/github.com.html
It's coming regardless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly
I had a look at Vue after a long time and then weex a react native alternative using Vue.js instead of Reactjs. Backed by Alibaba and actively developed it looked really good. But a look at issues made me a bit afraid to use it. The primary language used for discussion, suggestions etc is chinese. Documentation however is available in english.

https://alibaba.github.io/weex/
Dude, comeon. The browser has evolved a lot as a platform, as has the hardware power of computers running them. Maybe we're re-writing computer history, but if that's the case then it's because we have to migrate everything to javascript and the wiser old timers want nothing to do with it.

* Do you really want to write CSS without a pre-processor?

* Do you really want to control a webpage's state without JS models in the browser?

* Do you really want to update html with individual jquery calls?

* Do you really want to write websites _without_ using jquery? Keep in mind that jquery is only 10 years old.

I'm glad that we have an open market to exchange people's ideas. Yes, a lot of it is crap, and even among the highly adopted packages there will be problems. But that's the beauty of the market-- people can vote with their feet.

This article sums up how I feel: http://mrmrs.io/writing/2015/07/27/too-many-tools/

> "Four–fifths of everybody's work must be bad. But the remnant is worth the trouble for its own sake." - Rudyard Kipling in 1890
I'd like to see more standardization efforts, easier way to separate your business logic from the UI layer. It should be possible already, but there's often still too much interference from the framework of the week.

One thing I've been working on lately is writing unit tests (and test runner) that have nothing to do with the underlying framework - no Angular references, no Angular DI, nothing of the sort. Much cleaner and faster, plus it's a more pure unit test because it doesn't test the framework or DI system.
How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is
Interesting, thanks.

I think Jason Miller, the Preact developer, re-tweetet the article about SEO & SPAs a few days ago.

But, because of progressive enhancement, I would using SSR on my next project anyways.
Heroku API Outage
I was going to comment to you this text, but figured it probably deserved a Tell HN: kind of treatment. Maybe someone can run with it :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759649

Tl;Dr: Uberkiller focusing on Hitchhiking, proof of identity, and set-your-own-rates. Skims from % of paid transactions.
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DRF with django its deadly combination.
Thanks for sharing your experience. As someone at a place with both ember and Mithril it's relevant to me. Can I trouble you for a couple more details?

Did you use MSX with Mithril? We found Mithril to be usable without MSX but clicked more for people with MSX.

What thoughts do you hear from people who work on the ember app regularly?
>One of the biggest beefs I have with Europeans who take issue at NSA spying on the EU is the misconception they have that their own spy agencies aren't doing the same thing to everyone else: us, Russia, China, and other states in the EU.

I've never heard of a fellow European claiming this, but I also think that discussions of such issues should be based on evidence rather than speculation and general paranoia.

NSA and GHCQ were unlucky, because such evidence emerged. So they can rightly be criticized on the basis of published evidence about their spy programs.

Speculating about what intelligence agencies do without any evidence and knowledge at all, on the other hand, is quite pointless.
>which can be beneficial or harmful to the overall appearance

You're going to have a hard time convincing me that this isn't a matter of opinion.
If it had a scanner I would consider a switch, haha.