skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well written, and goes to a point I made yesterday to someone who was dumbfounded why Theil would support Trump. There are lots of issues. No one candidate will line up with every single issue you have so you have decide which ones are most important.

As an aside, Reason magazine (a libertarian mag) made a similar argument for Bernie Sanders being the 'best' candidate. The issues he could change lined up well with the libertarian agenda, and the issues that did not line up he likely could not/would not do anyway.
On the other hand, the taxi industry is a slap in the face to anyone needing to safely get to a destination beyond walking distance.

I used Uber a bunch while I was traveling around Southeast Asia. There were also times I had to take taxis. The taxis would routinely try to rip me off, refuse to run the meters, inflate the price at the destination and threaten to bring in police if I didn't pay the new amount that was 2-3 times the agreed upon rate. When running the meters, the taxis would routinely take long, roundabout routes to inflate the fare. And in cities without Uber, taxi fares were routinely as much as 5 times higher than in cities with Uber.

Meanwhile, Uber would tell me, in advance, the price I would pay, have a car show up without me having to flag it down and the drivers would use GPS to take me exactly where I wanted to go as fast a possible.

People like to focus on how Uber is exploiting their drivers and charging below-cost prices, but they ignore all the other ways that Uber is better than the taxi industry and all the ways that the taxi industry has needed to change for a long time now. I can respect Stallman's opinion, but when Uber is not only the cheaper option but also the safer option, I'm not going to choose to compromise my safety to make a principled point.
"If they are poor people who earns less than 1 lakh, i dont find a reason why they cant directly go to bank account and exchange money in next 1 month."

Perhaps because they can't wait a month before their next meal or fuel for their scooters or for household expenses?

"Now if those people are blaming govt for banning those notes, i find it funny."

I find it funny that some people find it funny that 85% of the currency bills in circulation are invalidated overnight. Maybe it's funny if all diesel vehicles are banned overnight because they pollute a lot? Or if mobile phones are banned overnight since they are used by terrorists?
Yup I'm using Firefox as my main browser, I'll see if it's any better on chrome when home. I imagine they optimize for their own, but it still makes a tonne of requests.
> You can only withdraw about 35$ of money a day from ATMs, and about 200$ per week by cheque

Dollars? in India? It should have been 'rupees' right?
So what was asking for banning Muslims in the first place? Trump clearly says he would do it, I fail to see what is complex in saying "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States". It is as clear as it could be.
Ya, I find this article annoying because it wasn't "factiness" that the polls showed Clinton leading. It was a fact.

It's also a fact that we now know that the polls themselves had some kind of measurement or sample error, and that whatever this error was, it or something like it also happened in the Brexit and Canadian election.

I'll take facts over punditry any day, even if they have errors, because errors can be corrected more easily than opinions.
That was the amazing part - it isn't that deep and doesn't have much protection.

Not sure because it's close to the Thames, or because there might be a Tube line close by.
Donald Trump's campaign gave white supremacists a soap box upon which to legitimize their beliefs of hate and fear. Hate and fear lead to totalitarian states and the authors opinion that Islamic state is the greatest threat to this country as opposed to the hate and fear that trumps campaign legitimized is unfortunate for the future of our country.
I appreciate that you've given a pretty topline overview but in the 90/10 example, if that 10% can be characterised and/or clustered can the algorithm be optimised for both groups involved? Appreciate that that's not always possible and can lead to lots of engineering overhead - curious what your thoughts are though...
That is a great signature line.
"Please, try a bit harder to really internalize that you don't have perfect comprehension of this extremely complex situation. And recognize that it is impossible to know what the future holds."
Totally agree, he is a man or principles with genuine concern for others, when he speaks, others listen.

More of his caliber.
http://www.playmycode.com/play/game/bigblind/graph-theory
http://www.springfrog.com/games/tronix/
http://jayisgames.com/games/planarity/
People like to believe there must be some really complex explication for each thing that happens, but just a few hundred years ago we burned a lot of women for being "witches" and a lot of homosexuals because we didn't like how they used their genitals, so many times the explication of "a big chunk of people can be really really stupid" is the actual answer, despute not feeling satisfying.
expressed in dollars for easy understanding of the HN audience. I should have said 35 $ worth. Edited.
I'm seeing that too. People are locking on a piece they like and hoping that he's just kidding about the rest.

She's hoping he'll be tough on radical extremists but that he's just kidding about banning muslims or creating a registry.
First, there’s no copyright on a general style, or theme. Nor can it be patented or trademarked.

So, legally, this is already nothing.

Second, this is not something Google invented – Google started with webmail, but many other companies had designed stuff like the in-frame editor, or other concepts before Google.

So, even if ProtonMail outright copied Google, Google, because they copied together many other people’s ideas, wouldn’t have reached the Threshold of Originality.
Silicon Valley's Secessionist Dream
Do you also use an ad blocker?
We are so screwed.

Edit: we've known about the greenhouse effect since Victorian times, why is this still so controversial?
A few months ago I discovered that spotify was causing my laptop battery to drain whenever it was open and I was not using it. I didn't bother to dig into it further but I guess that's what was causing the problem. I don't use Spotify ever so I wound up deleting it.
Jira with a kanban board for individual to-dos (we have a LOT of bugs and small change requests to track). Trello to track the big picture project pipeline.

Nothing beats Jira as a bug database in my experience because it really is a database.

But you have to configure it for your own process (which for a healthy team mostly means lifting restrictions, IME), and there's a huge learning curve for initial configuration.

Plus it can be overwhelming for non-technical people to learn to use.

My experience is that engineers grumble for a week or two about the learning curve, but if you give them generous permissions plus a walk-through a couple days in, they quickly learn to appreciate its power.
"I have absolutely no fears about being a Muslim in a “Trump America.” The checks and balances in America and our rich history of social justice and civil rights will never allow the fear-mongering that has been attached to candidate Trump’s rhetoric to come to fruition."

That's a pretty high-stakes bet.

America's institutions have never really been tested in this way before: Trump has lots of gifts to offer to congress in exchange for their cooperation with his plans, and he will probably get to select the controlling votes on the supreme court. Those forces potentially mitigate all of the checks and balances.

America will look very different in 4 years and Trump will be right at the fulcrum of that change.
Mac OSX and iOS didn't win out on UI/UX by ignoring "trivialities"
This is quite unwise from a power-psychophatic point of view- How can you know what people think, if they cant have illusion of anonymity? If they only talk in eye to eye conversations about "forbidden" topics, the world will unravel the day they realize how vast there network of dissent actually is. Could it be that somebody inside the Censorship apparatus of Chinas apparatus is actually trying to prepare the grounds for a revolution?
Resembles OWA and just about every other email web app. I don't follow your logic here.
Actually that's true, im sure there must have been at least one Jew who supported Hitler at the time (under an uncommon rationalization: it's our punishment for X, it's a test of God, or else)
I'm not sure why everyone thinks Obama killed coal. Cratering natural gas prices are what killed coal. So short of artificially raising the price of nat gas, coal is not coming back regardless of who is in charge.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/11/natural-gas-ambush-killed-...

http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Cheap-Natural-Gas-...
Admittedly, I don't have the study on me, so I can't confirm this. But I imagine the study would screen out anyone like that, that seems like a pretty obvious thing to do.
Yoshi's Island, for me, is my favorite Nintendo game graphically, followed by, in no particular order, Metroid Prime, Paper Mario, and Wind Waker.

But it's also my favorite when it comes to gameplay and audio. I don't think I've played a platformer all the way through as often as I've played through Yoshi's Island, and its music still randomly pops into my head quite regularly.
I'm sure he does believe in it - as I'm sure many who are "climate deniers" in positions of power do, but the profit motive to get others to not believe in it is simply too strong for a man of wretched morals.

I mean, one can make the rational (with a rather callous set of precepts) argument that if it happens after you're dead it doesn't matter - I had this argument made to me by a hedge fund owner/manager last year who I queried over his heavy investment in fossils - he is essentially looking to make a fortune and isn't concerned about the "far future".

Where things will get interesting is when these figures realise that it isn't far future, it's going to impact their quality of life - but by then it'll likely be too late.
Matt Cutts isn't the public face for the webspam team anymore, for months if not years now. I think since 2014.

He even left google and works for the US Digital Service since this summer.

And on the topic:
Nope, no penalty. At least no ordinary / known version of typical penalization.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying when a good story gets knocked from the front page all because people actually want to talk about it.
>I don't know who in the thorium boosters' club started the "light water reactors were meant for weapons plutonium" meme but it's nonsense.

Maybe the misunderstanding started from the fact that the first British power-generation reactors were intended to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Those reactors were quite different from light-water reactors: graphite-moderated, gas-cooled, and using unenriched fuel.
Does that also work if the dependence on the state tree is not hierarchical? I.e., subcomponents referencing the state in a random-access way?
I think it is hard because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

That follows there is no single "good" algorithm, and you need to have and exploit domain knowledge in order to succeed.
The amount of political heat that the Obama administration took for, the amount of effort that they poured into, their new coal regulations makes me skeptical of your claim.
A lot more than that because quality of life is many times better than India.

Seems like you were offended by his comment. He is just surprised to know the value of Indian Rupee. Nothing wrong with that.

That said, 10-20k INR is in no way enough for a family of 5. Yes, it can buy them food and power but it's not enough. It'll barely let them survive.
Well they're being forced to share their personal data with the American government now, so... just a different brand of the same thing.
Meanwhile in India renewables are outpacing coal...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Renewables-Are-...
This is the stuff we should all be protesting. This is the type of appointment that can be changed in no time if enough people make their thoughts known. Come on all let the powers that be know that you don't like the choice.
I may have gained productivity by focusing on work to distract myself from the anxiety, both pre- and post-election.
Strictly as a thought exercise, consider how often you find yourself saying "No offense intended."

The person you responded seems like most of "us" - most of us aren't ML experts. He humbly shared his experience with dipping his toe in the ML pool and reported back that he (metaphorically speaking) had to chip the ice off the pool before he could even get in.

This was useful information to "us" (non-experts interested in learning about ML). Calling his difficulties "trivial" for an expert in the field while true, came off as condescending. Telling him (him!) to check his ego came off as egotistical.

No offense intended. ;-)
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The author is assuming media have a sacred mission of objectively informing us. Media ethics haven't been honored in a long time, if ever.

If the Second Amendment is the last line of defense against tyranny, a skeptic and inquisitive mind is the first and most important one.
I don't care what they do or don't believe in.

Will they build out nuclear power? If yes, then good.

Will they engage in feel-good unilateral emissions cuts that hurt our economy and don't do anything about climate change? If no, then good.
Why? That's the whole deal about currencies. It's worth what the market thinks it's worth. A US$ is worth around 13,000 Indonesian Rupiah, about a hundred Japanese Yen and around 22,000 Vietnamese Doung. They're just numbers.
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I wonder if it will ever be possible to machine translate Japanese into legible English. Some of these translations are so strange they're humorous:

> (Hereinafter, abbreviated as Famicom Mini guy of GBA attention because it is not)

> By those who exploded before launch was in and out
What can citizens do about this? Trump hates women, so I'll donate to PP. Trump hates minorities, so I'll donate to the ACLU. Trump hates the actual physical earth - so what do I do about that?
Why I Predict We Will All Survive President Trump
You can donate to people who can take you to Mars
> very strongly influenced by the “question authority” ethos of 1960s and ’70s counterculture

Sounds like he's really a shining example of those hippie ideals. Strike back at "the man" and his regulations on behalf of those poor oppressed oil, gas and, coal corporations.

Pardon my language here, since I think of hacker news as a place for intelligent and respectful discussion, but, fuck
"The last prediction was a 29%, and a 29% chance is quite a lot."

A more relevant point the article made is that the continuous daily updates of the probability didn't mean much to real people. They may have represented real facts about the world in some sense, but they still weren't that useful to people in terms of keeping them updated. It's not very useful for a polling site to predict <10% chances right up until the very end, where it raises to 29%, and the 29% chance comes through.

Again, please very carefully note my distinction between useful and true. Noise wiggles and twitches months before the main event being continuously interpreted in the press aren't facts; they're just that "factiness" that feels like you're being informed, but you really aren't.

I did it too; it's not like I'm immune. I can't even promise I won't do it again. But it's not useful to the vast bulk of people.
Because: money
This.

He did a wonderful job of saying whatever people wanted to hear — even if he contradicted himself — and lots of people selected for what they liked.

I think it's fair to say that we have very little idea of what he'll actually do.
As far as I am aware, there are no 200 banknotes. The last time I visited India they had hundreds and five hundreds, no two hundreds.
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Not everything needs to be real business... Solid infrastructure has an associated cost in both time and money that not everybody is willing to pay, especially for side-projects.
> “He could read them while driving and fold them back up while driving.”

For maps from the 80's or older, that's actually a feat.

Most recent maps fold up in an accordion-like or zig zag pattern. But not older maps! The folding patterns were inscrutable. You made a horrible mess unless you remembered the exact steps with which you unfolded it.

Given the diversity of people on Hacker News, I'm hoping there's a printing press operator who can explain why paper folding machines of the olden days didn't use a logical folding pattern.
You probably haven't had enough physical exertion in your day to drain off your energy, and your brain interprets mental focus as a sign that there's something to be anxious about. Sure recipe for tons of nervous energy.

The suggestion to exercise to physical exhaustion is a good one. I usually don't have to go that far, though. Even walking a couple miles usually takes the edge off and gives the brain a chance to wander into other paths.

Doing something else that's almost entirely physically oriented can also help - a craft project, cooking, etc.
Well, you just made it harder to understand.

$35 is a pack of big macs in the SV. It could be days/weeks/months??? of revenues for a remote village in Indian. A dollar figure doesn't tell about the costs of living, it's misleading at best, manipulation at worst.

And we don't know the exchange rate either. So how many Rs 500 note is $35... not a clue.
yeah most likely "optimized for chrome" :/

I guess it works for me because i never close it, its just there and pinned and chrome does a good job managing pinned passive tabs.
Or OpenSFM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12835771
If you assume that most doctors shop at grocery stores, would you conclude that most people shopping at grocery stores are doctors?

Or would that conclusion only seem natural if it somehow fits your agenda?
Interesting... Where is this mythical land where the only source of income is from ferrying people to and fro? What do those passengers do for income?

Free market doesn't just mean free to drive for other companies (if available). It means free to work in any other field for which you have opportunity. Are you claiming that some people are only qualified to drive taxis?

(As for German politics, I think I'll take our free market over the astronomical shitshow that Merkel has given you.)
So, why is there no GNUber?

Most of what Stallman complains about would go away if there were no profit-seeking corporation sitting in the middle. If no one were trying to collect a 20% tax on taxis, you wouldn't need to pay with a credit card and you could have anonymous cash rides. Heck, without the need for a company to have something to take a 20% cut of, you could have actual ride-sharing.

A free, open-source app could be written and verified to not track its users, beyond the need to provide location services at the moment a call for a cab is placed.

So why haven't I ever heard of the free, open-sourced alternative to Uber & Lyft?
First I guess let me say that I would love to hear more of this kind of thing, as I think the rest of the US would right now, because a lot of us are shocked by the outcome of the election.

And while I can understand her feelings about Obamacare etc., it's very frustrating to hear someone voting for a candidate based on the actions of islamic extremists. The danger of being harmed or killed by terrorism is extremely low, especially here in the US. It's like people being afraid of flying, but having no problem driving or riding in cars every day, when statistically you're far more likely to be harmed in a car than a plane.
I've done this tour a few times and it is quite interesting. If you're at all into history definitely check it out. It also, somewhat recently, added a new section with more information on Churchill and his controversial rise to power.

As others have said, it is amazing that it is in the center of the city, but he felt he needed to be there in order to run the war effectively.
I much prefer Richard Feynman's term of "cargo-cult science" for what is basically the same idea.

But I think it's misguided to apply it to this situation. 538 had Trump at a chance of 1/3 on election day. Not because there were any polls that pointed at a possible Trump win, but because their model was excellent enough to detect the uncertainty in the polls (mostly the high number of undecideds and volatility).

Regarding the "mainstream Media" I fail to see what they did wrong. They showed Trump for what he is (after some hesitation). We now know that 30% of Americans are willing to throw millions of people under the bus, either because they're racists, or because they're willing to empower racism and an assortment of other hate just because some caricature of an imagined "coastal liberal" made fun of them. Another 50% can't be bothered to vote at all. Are people expecting the media to take its clues from these voters and triangulate their morals? Luckily, minority rights aren't actually subject to popular approval, even in a democracy.
We don't have bright line ideological tests but we already pretty much have a registry of inbound travelers.

I say bright line test because many visas require an in person interview prior to travel. That's a big opportunity to have de facto tests for the 'wrong' sort of person.
Even mobile phones have been at World Championship level for years, but there's no idea to know how close to perfection we are. Top computers still lose games to other top computers.
People are free to work for whatever company they want, but where I live they still have to provide predictable schedules, pay a living wage, sick leave, provide paid holidays etc.

I'd be completely cool with Ubers business model if they simply followed local regulations for taxi services (insurance etc) and guaranteed a living wage and a predictable schedule.

They are a taxi company and as such they are an employer. Dodging that responsibility by claiming your drivers are self employed contractors is BS. Luckily they are forced to follow exactly what I described above in more and more places around the world.

I suspect that if their endgame wasn't driverless cars, they would already have left any city where they can't dodge labor laws.
Or they assume that they and their families will be rich enough to avoid the consequences of climate change. Which is probably true.
Very much agree. The experience of reading it was interesting for me: on first reading I did not like it much, but the more I thought about the story and about how to interpret it, the more sense it made, and the more depth it gained in my view.

I should add I haven't seen the film yet but am looking forward to it. Has anyone who's read the story seen the film?
Because: externalized costs
I don't think that climate change is something that you can believe in. You can acknowledge or deny its existence but certainly cannot believe in it.

The problem with the coal and fossil fuels is that we use a technology to produce energy that is literally 400,000 years old. We have the new technology ready (nuclear power) yet we stick to this old, polluting tech. This is insane.
Don't show this to Trump he might get some ideas... For something Under the white house.
And general apathy.
Killing Coal: The Obama Administration’s Intentional Assault on an Industry

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/19/killing-c...
How should we go about doing this? Do we call a congressperson, or do something else?