skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absurd results aren't what you want, since they're readily dismissed as localized, and people could believe that hacking had no effect on the overall result. You want to prove that hacking took place, but subtly, so that people can imagine it was widespread.

More effective would be to preselect a precise number of votes for a few machines in a swing state, with totals just 3-4 percentage points higher than what polling indicates for that precinct. Email a few journalists before the election: "I'm a engineer working to hack the election for Clinton, but I'm sickened by it and I want to blow the whistle... attached are encrypted tallies for the voting machines we compromised in precinct XXX. I know we have a team in YYY and I think in ZZZ, but I wasn't able to get data for those machines out. Decryption keys will follow Nov 15th."
> Do you use a trackpad? Or a mouse? Do you find yourself moving your eyes back and forth between the screen and the trackpad or mouse? Honest questions. I'm not trying to be snarky :)

I think the difference is that the feedback you get on the trackpad/mouse is on the screen. It doesn't need you to look down. The same thing could not probably be said of the touchbar.
Sorry I didn't mean to phrase that they refuse to admit or deny. Editing post.

(Or not, too late)
Nothing. It's bad advice. Lots of companies run databases in containers.
The comments on the article by Tom Billings are far more interesting than the article itself was.
>The current system moderated the boom bust cycle.

Citation? From what I've read the great depression was a worse bust than anything that occurred during the 19th century, numerically speaking.
Those "wacky" things about any language are things that doesn't quite fit with your knowledge of already learned languages.
Why bother bringing it home at all? Set up orbital factories as well, and ship the finished goods back to Earth via space elevator.

Get rid of mining and dirty manufacturing on earth once and for all.
Very cool project and definitely a cool find.

Interestingly though, I do get a security dialog when this happens. There is an "always allow" option there, so perhaps I just never clicked that in the past.
But we're using a lot of the crust. No one will be mining under Atlanta. There are plenty of places we aren't using, but the crust is also thick. A mile down sounds really deep, much less 20 miles.

I mostly agree with you, but it might wind up easier to nab an asteroid than dig a mile under the ocean.
You really wouldnt' want to bring it back to the Earth's surface. You would keep in in orbit and make a satellite(s) out of it.
Reminds me of the Monty Python skit with the price of crotchless panties skyrocketing on Jupiter. It's all about supply and demand.
It runs fine. However, the challenges are the same as any other environment (e.g. AWS): Remember to set a Erlang cookie, and make sure the host name is sane/set and resolvable, otherwise you will run into issues with the portmapper (epmd).
Except it could:

> I believe that for the use-case of Touch Bar as slider

In the case of the slider, you could absolutely see the feedback (e.g. brightness in a photo or something) on the screen.
Nightmare Machine by MIT Media Lab
The next type of pollution: gravitational pollution. Increasing the earth's gravity.
I dunno, I think the settlment is right. I'm sure someone before Tomlinson invented a way to talk to someone else over electronic communication. Like, you know, the telegram? From what I can tell, Ayyadurai actually invented "email". Makes perfect sense to me.

Look at all the techies downvoting, because Tomlinson is such a genius for thinking that someone might want to use internet to communicate with each other. The reality is we call it email. That's something to brag about.
Agreed. The quality is just fine. I think because of the year-plus hiatus, we, the viewers, set way too high a bar for the return of the series. This takes into consideration that even though, in my opinion, the series was on par with the first 2 seasons (discounted for initial shock value and departure from conventional sitcoms and dramas), it was still engaging enough to enjoy despite not everything being perfect.
* I disagree that we made technical mistakes that hamper its growth.*

That's not a decision you make. That's a decision your customers make. Time will tell.
Good observation.

Look at the image[1] on the Apple website showing off the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro. Nobody I know uses their laptop oriented perpendicular to their desk.

One good vantage point to view the Touch Bar is standing behind the user looking over the their shoulder.

1. http://i.imgur.com/1iqXNZE.png
Ah, not this again. Just because they are NASA doesn't mean they are immune from pseudoscience.[1][2]

[1] http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/05/26/warp-dri...

[2] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/08/06/nasa-v...
Do you have a mouse or a touchscreen? You can already do this pretty succesfully: http://staticresource.com/theremin.html

(Note: android, and computer users can use this righht away, but iOS users will need to add this page to their homescreen before Apple is fully convinced that the users DOES want to hear sounds generated via the web audio API. Seems silly, but Apple doesnt trust that users know what they want)
I don't think that's really the issue with Android/IOS operating systems. The issue is not that they can't be general purpose operating systems, it's that they aren't used that way. People seem to want applications that do one or two things at most and cost 1$ that they have to re-buy every 2 months.

That does not result in people writing software that is very useful for a large part of a particular field, but takes 2-3 years to write.

But the fault is in the app store and the lemon market it creates, not in the operating system.
it's not worth discussing in my opinion.

No, I think it's worth discussing. I may not have understood you completely, but I for one appreciated reading your explanation. You may or may not be right, but I thought your exposition was coherent and worth reading.

GuiA: Perhaps you could be a little more rigorous yourself. Where in here do you start to disagree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12878939?

Presumably you agree that you could replace all the muscles and bones of a bird and it would still fly, but you feel it is not obvious that you could replace all the neurons in a brain and it would still think. Why not? what's different? What's missing?
I think the touch pad is going to be one of those things people will just have to try, and it might turn out to be an awesome addition to the input tools at hand. Or it might one of those things that sounded good in theory, but is just a pain in practice.

One thing to consider is that things like editing video are already mouse centric, and the keyboard shortcuts augment the interface. You don't leave your hands in home position.

If you're working on the laptop, using the trackpad, you're already in the mode where you are going back and forth, and your hands need to move around.

When using a mouse, trackball, etc, you can get into workflows based on having one hand operating the mouse, while the other does the keyboard shortcuts. So there could be very interesting uses with two hands.

What makes it not so compelling to me, is that I do serious work with my laptop closed, and a big monitor (I'm music producer/audio engineer).

The amount of information you need to get on the screen at once, if possible, for media authoring applications, requires a relatively rigid focus on the screen. Having my head hunched over a little laptop display is not going to work for extended sessions.

The problem of creating physical interfaces that work well with the screen relates to the abstraction that is involved in GUIs. You have to keep steady focus on the screen, keeping track of the mouse, and what you are doing. You enter kind of a trance, pretty quickly, where you have accepted a two dimensional representation of a complex structure, and are operating within its framework.

This divorces the metaphorical actions of the user in the GUI, which is what we care about, from the physical actions of the body.

For a new user interface to work, it will have to be incorporated into this metaphorical framework the user operates in.

If it deviates to much from the abstractions of the interface, it breaks the trance required to get into the flow, and will simply not be used.

I suspect one of the issues will be if users can actually quickly look down to see what they are touching, or perceive enough with peripheral vision, without losing track of where they are on the screen. It's a reasonable location for the touch bar. As the user gets used to where controls on the touch bar are located, the visual cues might be enough to consistently target the virtual control.

It could also be really helpful for keyboard commands that have a lot of modifiers, and which you don't use much. They can be real handy at times, but the trouble of looking up the key binding in the heat of the moment prevents the habit from getting built up.
Kai Krause
yes coffeehouses/cafes use to be where all the intellectuals gathered to discuss news and gossip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_coffeehouses_in_the_17...
> Stretching between London and Frankfurt, there is a private, mysterious network that is twice as fast as the normal Internet

In latency, perhaps. Microwave networks are famous for the minimal bandwidth they provide though.

It's also not even a case of using a shorter route. Speed of light in fiber =~ 2/3c, speed of light in "free space" (atmosphere) =~ 99%. On the exact same route, microwaves will be faster, with one tiny caveat. Light can be regenerated through a site (retransmitted without any delay, ie. pure optical regen), microwaves cannot. So in reality the situation is:

0-50 km: fiber wins, hands down (with one exception: cell antennas. Since you already have power + antenna approval, it can be cheaper to just microwave the signal to a central point versus get a fiber connection)
50-500 km: microwave wins, but wouldn't win on the same route (fiber routes within cities have to take the long and winding road due to approvals and obstacles)
500km+: due to the fact that it isn't known how to keep microwave dishes stable on the ocean that is near-inevitable on these distances, fiber wins

Some time in the future free space optical transmissions over either LEO satellites or solar-powered planes will win out over microwave terrestrial transmissions. Free space optics also have the massive advantage that they do not require approvals, either for the planes (vs very very tall masts for microwave, which definitely need approval and often face local opposition), nor do they require approval for the transmission (microwave transmissions at the power levels required for these distances require approval). Since free space optical transmissions have far greater bandwidth, I'm hopeful that we'll be seeing internet latency reduce as well. Also, while satellites aren't cheap, one satellite has about the same price as 50-100 km undersea fiber. Therefore a 500 satellite constellation is cheaper than laying a single cable from London to New York. Of course, fiber will remain the bandwidth king for the time being.
I'm shilling for anti-shilling.
I didn't notice the appendices in the draft. This may help, but the version I reviewed has a brief review of Linear Algebra and Statistics in Chapter 1. The language is written in a way that assumes mathematical familiarity. Putting this level of 'sophistication' in a "practitioners" book early on may turn off a certain demographic of readers. I say 'sophistication' because it's relative to the reader-- to someone with a math degree this section isn't sophisticated (in fact they'd find it completely trivial) and can be skipped. To a software engineer that hasn't taken a Linear Algebra/Statistics class in 10+ years this may appear too much for them. You risk losing the readers entirely or having them skip those sections. Again, this review is not friendly for the beginner and the 'practitioner' title is misleading here.

In my opinion it wouldn't be too difficult or much effort to define what these mathematical objects are and show basic examples with basic computations to solidify the concepts. The notion of gradient descendent & derivates (or partial derivatives) isn't that difficult to understand and could be easily explained in a page or less.

For example when you discuss the Outer Product:

"This is known as the “tensor product” of two input vectors. We take each element of a column vector and multiply it by all of the elements in a row vector creating a new row in the resultant matrix."

It would be nice for the beginner to see an example of this and as stated it wouldn't take much space in the book to provide one. I think these sort of things would differentiate your book from others. If you made it more friendly more 'practitioners' would be willing to read/use it end-to-end.
My big issue with the touch bar is it will be a far awkward reach for me when I use my desk with external monitor with a external keyboard. It's really only useful when I work outside my office. :(
Why is my crash dump file filled with 0xAAAAAAAA?
This is what gyms have become for many. I remember seeing a graph showing the decline in church attendance coinciding with the rise in gym memberships.
This logo is a work of a great designer http://zalitok.github.io She use CorelDRAW and Adobe Ilustrator for this purpose.
A counter argument to this is recompilation should not be painful: it should be standard.

And this is already somewhat true anyway: binary package distributions are a little like this. Someone else handles the compiling.

So take it further: distribute binary diffs for packages to control file size, kill shared libraries dead. Have the compiler write dedupe-friendly executables so your filesystem removes duplicate blocks in binaries efficiently and let the kernel page sharing system sort out runtime.
The science is pretty settled here. No such thing can exist by laws of physics. You might as well try making a perpetual motion machine or homeopathic medicine.
When you take into account where most of the Australian population lives, doing anything in the far north arguably qualifies as unusual :)
It's amazing to me how many people go nuts over marginal results that lack even a thin veneer of peer review.

There are plenty of bizarre conclusions (dark matter and dark energy, for example) that have been drawn from stark empirical data and have withstood peer review. The EMdrive is not one of them.
I bet you that's the main reason they don't want to open-source it for independent verification -- you would find code so dirty and hackable that you would wonder which state actors actually did NOT hack.
While I agree with your statement I derive the opposite conclusion from it. (I.e. these results are certainly false and you can see what that implies about economics and social science.)
Correct, although I would say that all children are bullied at some point (ie one step further). So I feel my parent was saying that this is something particular to high IQ children
Harder lawyered both the Hogan and the Ayyudurai cases. Ayyudurai is welcome to use his free speech rights to say whatever he wishes. I believe him on his relationship to Thiel about as much as I believe he invented email.
Did third parties get representation?
That is a pretty moronic comment. Go sit in a Physics 101 classroom.
U.S. Chief Information Officer Seeks to Upgrade Government's Computers
Smartphones and tablets undid years of training on my coworkers to stop touching my screen.

I just gave up and now always keep a microfiber wipe or rag next to my screen.
Is that so? If you're scrubbing the controller on the Touch Bar, you see the result on the screen, don't you? From the demo video, when scrubbing video, there is a keyframe on the Touch Bar, but you're also seeing the change on the screen.

Also, looking at my keyboard, the angle difference between looking at the function row to about 1 inch above the bottom of the screen (which I estimate to be the roughly the same as where a scrubber would be), is about ¼ to ⅓ of the angular distance from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen. I think it's useful to consider how the location of the Touch Bar and its display will affect our UX. In this case, I think the concern might be overrated, given how much we're currently accustomed to moving our eyes with our existing screens.

Please note that I'm not saying you'll never look at the Touch Bar. I do think there will many cases when muscle memory will be as effective as what we're used to with a trackpad or keyboard.
> Considering zero part of my keyboard is in my field of vision

Zero? Is that even possible?

When using a laptop, it's impossible to look at the display without being able to also look at the keyboard (and touchbar) by just moving your _eyes_. You don't have to move your head.

I think your assumption is not reasonable at all.
Yep, like mining anything asking how much is down there without reference to the cost of extraction is useless. Gold mines exist all over the world with large known deposits but feasibility comes down to whether it's worth it to extract based on current prices.
No need is a good thing. Ignoring our evolutionary heritage in our daily lives a bad thing

Anyway, any hunter from ten thousand years ago would laugh at the energy I expend in the gym. Hunters expend intelligence in order not to expend energy
Solar power is going to be way, way cheaper in space than even the most optimistic ground-based solar technologies.

For instance, it'd be practical to build a multi-kilometer diameter mirror out of thin plastic, and just melt the entire asteroid and distill off what you wanted.

To expand a bit: a mirror for a solar furnace on Earth has to be strong enough to hold itself up against the force of gravity and handle wind and precipitation loading. A mirror in space doesn't. It can be one molecule of plastic thick, with a few atoms of thickness of aluminum as a coating.

Plus you don't have to worry about cleaning off dust, bird poop, and whatnot.

You're going to need some station-keeping so a large, flimsy mirror doesn't drift with the solar wind, but even the purest asteroid is going to have some slag that will make dandy propellant.
I think that gyms can scratch a certain itch in that arena, but aren't nearly as comprehensive as what a church provides. Also I hoped for that when I started at a small yoga studio, but nobody really talked to anybody else there, as far as I saw, and I didn't make any lasting connections.
Who are you voting for? I am voting for career rejuvenation
World's first Levitating Lamp
Low Earth Orbit is still fairly close to earth, cost wise. (yay SpaceX). A gram of platinum in LEO is only about 20% more expensive than a gram of platinum on Earth.

It's the stuff that's cheap but bulky like iron, water & rocket fuel ectrolyzed from water that you'll want to mine in space for use in space.

Platinum and other rare metals will simply be waste products that are profitable to ship back to Earth.

edit: my original comment used "titanium" instead of "platinum", which made it nonsensical, since titanium isn't a rare metal.
Agreed. I didn't take from this that they were powering society for the 1%. I took that they were powering their own world and earning currency to keep them otherwise entertained. If you look at the small picture of what was going on, it is easy to see that perhaps they were cycling to power something to just to earn said currency in order to enjoy futuristic creature comforts like not having to watch commercials, eating healthier food, dressing up their avatar, etc. However, I took the idea of cycling as a way to occupy people's time and found that it could easily be a way to reduce or eliminate crime. If people are always riding in order to earn money to buy trivial things then they really have no time to be doing anything nefarious. I noticed nobody was watching a news channel or reading a newspaper which leads me to believe the trivial things (skipping commercials, food that is healthier and thus more expensive thus requiring more riding, and dressing up your avatar) are just enough to keep them satiated but not enough to invoke any feelings of unrest that could foster rebellion within the system (for the most part).
Rest assured that Apple has thought about this a lot more than you have, and this is the solution they came up with. Touching a screen is pretty tiring for your arms; imagine if you had no trackpad but instead had to tap everything on the screen of your laptop.

I assure you that very few people touch type the function keys; they will not be missed. The escape key I will miss, but how much I don't know.
Well, you're right that it's not a mathematical certainty that momentum is always conserved.

But there's such a mountain of evidence for it that we should have a very high bar for claims that it's violated. Thermal effects and measurement error are both likely sources of the discrepancy.

But another reason to be skeptical is that Noether's Theorem tells us that a violation of conservation of momentum is only possible if the laws of physics are not translation invariant, and we should be able to use the violation of conservation of momentum to illustrate a specific instance where physical laws are not translation invariant. That would be Earth-shattering. (But not, strictly speaking, impossible)
An anecdote:
Our kid is about to be moved to a program that is for kids who have emotional and behavioral issues. He would likely be considered high-IQ (tests in the 99% percentile, reads at level several grades above their own, etc), but has basically been unable to focus and learn in a normal classroom setting.

Last year, when he was 6, he had some issues as well, but was mostly able to stay in the classroom. This year, at age 7, the issues skyrocketed.

I'd be very interested in a study like this conducted on 7-8 year olds, because it wouldn't surprise me if they found some very different results. A 5 year old kid is so much different than a 7 year old.
Love this. Please go work at Apple
Depends on when the second person brings in a similar rock.
I was always curious if it is possible to land few water ice based comets on the Mars while no one lives there.
Cross-distribution, to be precise. You can't run amd64 image on RPi for instance.
That doesn't dispute whether he denied if Thiel was backing his lawsuit. Ayyudurai has explicitly denied he was, maybe Thiel's relationship is directly with his Attorneys, maybe he's lying, maybe it's just a coincidence both used the same defamation attorney.
I created an account to say this: thank you.

Having spent hours and hours trying to find to find my feet in the world of competing JS frameworks and gui libraries a friend said "Just search for 'declarative ajax' and click the second link". Good advice, because it led me to intercoolerjs. It's just so straightforward. Twenty or so minutes later I was back in emacs generating Django views because I knew, intuitively, what I needed to do to actually get things done.

It's hard to explain to people how quickly you can get working with it but something like:

<a href="#" ic-target="#datadiv" ic-get-from="/latest_data/">Get Data</a>

is basically pseudocode. I love it.
Labor has been doing labor for hundreds of thousands of years. Clearly we can discount that as a driver of progress.

Likewise, social ownership of the means of production has been the norm for many societies, even in Medieval Europe in some ways (e.g. community built and run flour mills, and laws that guaranteed access to mills for a nominal fee).

It was capitalism - however imperfectly implemented, in the same sense that Venezuelan socialism is imperfect socialism - that provided the environment for industrial growth.
You have a lot of strong opinions about something you have never used.