skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think thats it entirely. I'd be very curious what their model had if anything for rural/urban voters. It could be that even if she knew there was very little support amongst rural voters, she as a candidate had no way at all to pivot her strategy towards these voters without alienating doners and her base.

Trump ran as the face of rural voters - every attack Clinton made became an attack on people who agreed with him. Perhaps not agreeing with every single outrage, but general statements such as "he's just a racist" were something that the rural voter had heard over and over again as a way to dismiss them. Trump turned the attacks into a provocation of his base.
Also, don't forget that one can buy a Samsung 960 Pro in a machine that comes with a cheaper SSD but uses a standard M.2 NVMe slot, and ditch the original SSD, for cheaper than any of Apple's capacity upgrades.
I don't know about that – now that she's lost every strategic decision can be made to look wrong. But the real problem was that people just weren't drawn to her as a candidate. The algorithm isn't to blame.
Maybe Trump just had a better algorithm?
Many were surprised when an actor, Ronald Reagan, was elected as President. Another actor was elected Governor of California, and arguably may have become President had he been born in the US.

Urrrmm, did you know that Reagan was the Governor of California for 2 terms, from 1967 to 1974?
Why you think that debugging and fixing deadlock in cluster in production (of multibillion business) is easier and cheaper than writing of functional test case? Maybe you just prefer trips to angry customer versus boring office work. :-/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nasdaq-halt-tapec-idUSBRE9...
I am in no way proficient, but I've been using it casually for about a year. I'm just now starting to feel really comfortable with it.
> When I think about writing my own language, I think of something with as few parenthesis as possible

Just swap [] with (), then they're a lot easier to hit. It's weird that parentheses are shifted but square brackets are not: the former are a lot more common in English text than the latter, as well as in many programming languages.
Landlords get their own subsidies. All maintenance and improvements are tax deductions. Plus they get to depreciate the property.
Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives
Yes, that's why you end up writing an error type and the conversions between various errors.
This is excellent chewing material, hence the upvotes.

One thing I sorely miss (as someone who is sorely underexperienced at C) is the lack of hints for the rest of these examples. I'm reading them and trying to keep up with what they do.

(I must admit, I am one of probably many who (lazily!) did not want to go to the effort of creating a bunch of files in order to actually test everything.)
Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
Not all wealthy are greedy. But enough of them are, like not all blacks are criminals and not all Hispanics are illegal, and actually to a greater extent. Language is imprecise and trying to police it belies a fundamental lack of respect or empathy.
How about "You Don't Need To Be An Elitist Prick"
> Why should I have to pay 40% of my income to pay for the medical costs incurred by that old guy who sold his house for $1.25M

Which he won't pay taxes on because it is his primary residence.

Those who happened to get shut out of the property market simply for being born on the wrong place at the wrong time are paying a much larger portion of the tax bill than those who were "lucky" enough before everything went parabolic. It's actually the opposite of a progressive tax, which Canadians claim to love so much (but the real reason they love it is because they think they're sticking it to someone else.....try and take their capital gains tax exemption away and watch their principles on taxation do a 180).
Sure, through a river, at the mercy of whoever controls the shipping where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf.

Which isn't so bad if it is handled much like the path from the atlantic inland through the great lakes, though regulations change depending on where you are docking - the recent viking ship had some issues with regulation trying to get to lake michigan/Chicago for example.
Page turned 404. Anybody knew why?
Leonard Cohen Has Died
... landing pads. not language pads. Sheesh!
I like this idea. What do you have in mind?
They are desperately trying to get their money out of China before the Yuan devalues or recession strikes.

The horror!

They're investing their money legally in the hopes of protecting or even (gasp!) growing their wealth.

Yes, there are some downsides to that investment, but there are also upsides, and it's unclear to me why they have the primary responsibility for ensuring that every dollar they invest minimizes harm.

I invest in index funds and I'm sure those dollars do some harm in the world (not net, I hope). Am I a monster?

It's reasonable for governments to take actions like this to protect their citizens. It's their job, in fact.

But it seems profoundly unreasonable to me to get angry at the chinese elites for investing their money legally in order to protect their wealth. Understandable, but unreasonable.
"Build quality" on a Mac to me, overall, is usually quite manic. Some things are really good - the finish quality on the materials used is always excellent, hinges are always excellent and long lasting, trackpads, keyboards etc are always finished to high quality and installed with a good degree of precision - you don't see too many uneven gaps etc.

In saying that, you're absolutely right about things like the poor quality cables, idiotic glued batteries, and parts that can't be easily replaced. Even i.e. keyboards - I've replaced Thinkpad keyboards before when they have worn out, simply because the new keyboard feels a lot nicer than a cleaned up abused one.
Top Quick Rails Performance Wins
Just learn how to RTFM.
The funny thing is that the VC model of maximizing the return on investment for a few while giving little to the many is the prime M.O. of Republican business. They also tend to target middle class and up in their offerings rather than aiding the poor. Hell, even the VC model promising it will deliver enough unicorns to make up for the others the fund loses money on is reminiscent of real estate promises & profit extraction of Trump's. Just quite a bit less bullshit and more well-off people getting results on Silicon Valley's end of that. ;)

So, they can't talk down to Trump supporters in businesses given all the overlap created by their elites extracting profits from bubbles or uncertain markets they create with little concern for others. There's certainly differences like with the immigration discussion. There's more common ground than they'd like to admit, though. Except for Thiel whose seems to be clear that Trump and his interests align. It might just be Thiel's personality but the business strategies match, too. That part was barely discussed here at least when I was in the YC vs Thiel threads.
Are you unfamiliar with USB-C? It offers some obvious benefits to users.
Not anymore with their thinness obsession :-(
No there is strong requirements for timely repairs in the US. They are all just local laws so they are varied by location. Landlord tenant laws are usually in favor of the tenant. In some places you can withhold rent until repairs are made. Enforcement can be an issue though and tenants may not know their rights. Not sure.of any state has a Tenancy Tribunal equivalent.

Anyway I am not aware of anywhere in the US where being a slumlord is actually legal or even being a semi-slumlord.

30 days for a maintenance request is absurd, well depending on the request, I guess.
> In particularly heated elections, right-leaning voters begin to lie to pollsters about their voting intentions. They are embarrassed, or afraid, or skeptical about the pollster's intentions and honesty.

You are in the right direction, but I think it's a bit not like that and not about lying, being afraid and being skeptical about pollster's intention.

If people feel shame for their choice, they would try to avoid expressing it anywhere, participating in polls, etc., especially in front of their peers. In regions where most have opposing views and shame for choosing the other candidate, they will feel pressure to keep their choice to themselves and they won't in the regions where most support the same candidate. Being afraid of something is a completely different thing and generally prevents voters to even vote, not just avoid polls.
BLACK FRIDAY 2016: SAVE 30% on SpinaliS ERGONOMIC Series Chairs in Canada
Home ownership can also tie people down to a location when they should be considering relocating to places with more demands for their skills.
Nebraska, not Iowa. Otherwise correct.
CLI's are automatable and scriptable in ways we still haven't achieved with GUIs.
They are also usually easier to write and to maintain.
There are many, many more reasons too.
I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be excited about the name: "wow, their programmers know about Ada Lovelace," or about the fact that campaigns are high tech, which isn't new but I guess is still a surprise to some voters.
If nodes taught me anything it's that we need more elitism. Letting front end coders build stuff in the only language they know has proven to be a terrible idea.
Because if you own the home and want to rent it out, that implies you own another home that you are paying those taxes on, or are otherwise renting yourself.
ThinkPad's displays have historically been embarrassingly poor for the price of the machines. Only recently do they have displays that I would consider adequate.

Only a few years ago with their IPS upgrades on i.e. X220s, X230s, suffered from numerous issues (poor gamut, image retention).
> The other factor is that the polls were likely rigged in her favor since she was spending so much more on paid advertising.

I very much doubt this hypothesis, as it requires a large, expensive and perfectly-secret conspiracy.

And for the journalists working in the next room to not want to win a Pulitzer for exposing it.
Ask HN: Mechanical Engineering Related Programming Jobs
Hi, I am currently mechanical engineering student. And I realized that I don't want to work as classical mechanical engineers. And I don't like most(but not all) mechanical engineering courses. Also I can easily say that I am programming/computer science enthusiastic. What should I do now? Is there any jobs for who loves & knows programming and knows mechanical engineering? Also which areas of mechanical engineering is most suitable for my purpose? I basically want to write code for food.
I LOVE this about Rust. Whenever I'm using another library, if a function I'm calling returns a Result, I know that I need to handle an error condition. With exceptions, you never really know if the code you're calling throws exceptions or not. The explicitness of "yes, this function may return an error condition" is really nice. And if you really don't give a damn about errors, you can just `.unwrap()` everything.
Open Database Exposes Millions of Job Seekers’ Personal Information
I'm tired of doing coding challenges
Inaccurate. Authentication of the order is required, involving the Sec Def. There are also provisions for the cabinet and or congress to declare the president unfit.
The Samsung PM961 is not top of the line. It's one of the more recent TLC-based alternatives that shares a controller with the top of the line products, but it's inherently slower and less power efficient.
A University of Louisiana student wearing a hijab was physically assaulted by two white men, one wearing a Trump hat, who ripped off her hijab and stole her wallet, according to campus security and local police.

Now revealed to be a hoax: http://klfy.com/2016/11/10/lafayette-pd-ul-student-made-up-s... as you can be sure are many/most/perhaps all of the other reports in this article.
> Who can say your "point" is right or wrong.

We've kind of decided on using a democratic process, which indeed is a form of mob rule.

As for the danger of this approach....so multi-millionaires have one less global city they can buy property in completely hassle free....I think they'll find a way to survive.
It's confused. The paragraph previous to that is talking about protecting people from discrimination. If you read it charitably there's a perfectly reasonable interpretation.

Of course, a CEO should write defensively even against uncharitable interpretation and this is a pretty spectacular failure on that level.
Given the amount of misinformation put out by the MSM this election they'd do well to blanket ban the NYT, CNN, et al.
You don't support the absolute freedom of contract?
It's EXACTLY as much bullshit.
Actually yes they can. This person is what Nassim Taleb calls the "Intellectual Yet Idiot".

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211...

And there is a lot of them.
Would this work for wireless vr?
Peer review is not for filtering software. Peer review is process which used by (professional) developers to help each other to catch bugs and share experience and best practices.
Basically, I said him that I found bugs and/or bad practices in his code.
so you are okay with supporting killing of innocent civilians half way around the world, bombing of hospitals filled with children and women? Pointing out all the flaws of Trump ( which are true, btw) but ignoring bigger flows of Hillary while assuming some moral ground is more fucked up imo.
Britain has voluntary voting too. The phenomenon has been observed in several elections there and in Australia, where voting is compulsory. So discouragement of voter turnout is neither here nor there in the effect.

In the end, it doesn't necessarily matter why it happens.

What matters is that it happens.
> If the user cannot be trusted to make reasonable choices because he doesn't understand or want to read security popups, you have to make the choice for them.

I would bring up a libertarian argument to counter this view, but unfortunately I don't politically lean that way do it wouldn't be authentic. Somebody definitely should make that point, though.
I'm sorry Hillary, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
Sure, if you want to sell. But if only some of the people want to sell, then the problem of non-compensated externalities arises again. It's a classic collective action problem arising mostly from the fact that things like air rights, street space, and so on, are barely tradable.
Oh come on. If you voted Trump and you got this email at work, and you had kids at home to feed, you would be scared out of your wits. This is the very definition of hostile work environment.
Suppose a business buys goods at $80 and sells them for $100. You're suggesting that his profit is $100 and he should be taxed on $100 income?
It's unfortunate that it's like this, but I automatically do not believe any scientific breakthroughs that come from China.

There has simply been too much fraud for me to believe anything they say.

http://www.sciencealert.com/80-of-the-data-in-chinese-clinic...
China Tries to Conquer Everest
Umm, I don't see a market here. I see the government charging a fine for behavior they find objectionable. If the government decides that you shouldn't drive more than 55 mph and they catch you doing that and write you a $100 ticket, you haven't participated in a market transaction in any way.
That's what I'm trying to do - keep the can't-dos from acquiescing to management demands in a way that makes effective people look lazy. It's the marginally-employed that are the least able to resist management demands for working more hours. If they work more hours than you do, then you're either working more hours for no gain, or you wind up looking like someone who isn't putting in as much effort as others.

Management expectations are a resource we all share, and that includes you. Yes, solidarity helps the lazy. It also helps the hard-working.
I've found $15-$50hr has little difference on these type of sites so for me I tend to stay at the lower end if I have basic jobs to be done.

$100+ people that can value-add and deliver with attention to detail. That said at these rates I flip to local people (AU) so this might just be the better environment.

I tried to use toptal once but after being sent a bunch of emails in the weeks after I signed up to the website, when I sent the job specs they never got back...

And I've stopped using Upwork as I find the rating system useless in helping you find decent contractors.

I feel as other have said is you need to be able to deliver projects. I've often heard hourly rate jobs are about lead gen. I know myself I'll give people some simple jobs to test out quality when I'm in the market for new contracts and those that pass the cut get offered projects.
Leonard Cohen has passed away
Indeed. More like BMWs.
Not quite sure. Something akin to the Bancor that Keynes suggested back in the day perhaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor
Anyone remember that really old game Outpost? It ran on Windows 3.1; used a CD recording of The Planets as its soundtrack. That's the first time I've heard of Tokamak reactors.

What these are trying to achieve is pretty amazing. I hope one day, one of these reactors will be able to sustain a greater output than input. It has the potential to move the planet into a completely different energy age. Imagine if we could build something with that kind of energy output on Mars.
I have no idea how to read the tables in there, so maybe they cover this, but:

Too much information is lost, in the "average selling price" statistic that graph is using, to be able to use it to definitively claim anything like "an equivalent house is selling for less than it would have before".

For example, that graph could just as well be caused by fewer high-end houses being sold, but the houses that are being sold going for the same amount they would have before.

Again, I think it's very likely bordering on totally inevitable that prices will drop, and that that graph is probably showing that. But it's not enough information by itself to make that claim.
Then it's UNREASONABLE for anyone poorer than you to get angry at you, isn't it? They're all irrational, but everyone with a higher net worth is more REASONABLE than you are, right? And you make exactly the average income in the US, so you're point of view is fair and balanced, isn't it?
This is a typical unintended consequence of top-down economic planning. It turns out cookie cutter solutions imposed by fiat reduce people's welfare.
This comment just isn't civil or substantive, which is what is expected on this site. If you decide to continue to comment, it has to be within the guidelines or we have to ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Crashes safari on iPad Air 2
Riiiight. So because the n-word and the f-word have been reclaimed by their communities, I shouldn't assume that folks not in those communities aren't still using the term in a derogatory fashion?

Please.

Go back and read the original post. SJW was not being used with a positive connotation in context, and to suggest otherwise is just being willfully stubborn simply to make a point.
It does matter why, because scare tactics against voters were used quite often throughout history by dictators.
Mostly true, I doubt Matt would fire somebody just for being right wing but there is such a rash of violent attacks (I've already seen a dozen videos of Trump supporters being beaten up) and rioting that it would be easy for a right winger to take it the wrong way.

Don't scapegoat Matt, blame the people going around beating up Trump supporters right now. That is not productive!
So we can put the outcome of the election squarely on FBI director Comey then?

Do you have a source for the internal poll collapse 1.5 weeks before the election?
This isn't even a new strategy, the exact same thing happened with GWB. Electoral college victory and everything. The DNC are incompetent hacks to not have seen this coming.
I'm not surprised parsing something nuanced is beyond state of the art. But what about "illegal immigrants are committing an epidemic of rape against our children" or "we have a flood of illegal immigrants"?

A lot of claims that were made this cycle are rooted in measured quantities where the measurements we have disagree with the claims.
1. Don't Linux users always complain about software not being compatible with Linux? Or is Linux not compatible with photoshop?
Man this was a surprise. I read this article very recently.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/1...

Which was quickly followed by:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/10/leonard-cohen-no-longe...
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Could put it more concretely?
> reinforcing a culture of empathy and goodwill

Starting off with politics and ending by threatening to fire people is generally not the way one cultivates empathy and goodwill.

I agree with your analysis of the motivation, but the execution was a lesson in what not to do.
Apple used to make their laptops out of Titanium, which is lighter than aluminium. I wonder if they could ever go back to it. Maybe they'll make a super high end "MacBook Pro Pro" :P
Contempt for others, virtue signaling to an inner clique, and not looking for common ground, was a pretty good strategy in this election for Trump, so I'm not sure why you think it won't win elections—clearly, it just did.
You don't need javascript is really cool~
>However, it's susceptible to vote-buying, which is a major part of the current election system's threat model.

Hmm, there is extensive evidence of suppression of thousands of votes, but no evidence of large-scale vote buying in recent years. I think the impracticality of pulling it off at a scale that can influence results without getting caught is prohibitive. Manipulation of who is allowed into the ballot box, when, and where is the main threat model you should be worried about.
That's a fair point.

And maybe having her hold more rallies would have worked against her in that case (people not being drawn to her) because there would have been the an increasing emphasis made on the comparative sizes of crowds (which was already happening to some degree).

That puts them in between a rock and hard place strategically - hold more rallies and get lambasted for having smaller crowds, don't hold the rallies and get lambasted for not having the stamina and not being accessible to the people.

In these cases, one wonders if a human in charge of strategy might have made better choices. After all, it was only just recently that a computer was able to outmatch a human in Go (heavily based on strategy) and I'm not convinced that an election involves less strategy and that you can rely on an algorithm to beat a talented human opponent.

And say what you will about Trump, but his strategy this entire election campaign has paid off incredibly for him and he did what most people considered to be the impossible.
"This is not the first time that EAST has generated enduring plasma. In 2012, plasma in a similar environment was maintained for 32 seconds, breaking the world record at that time. Since then, EAST has had its tungsten diverters and auxiliary heating system upgraded, laying the foundation to create long-pulse, high-confinement plasma.
Officially established in 2006, the EAST fusion reactor is run by the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei, which aims for plasma pulses lasting up to 1,000 seconds."

6 years after establishment, it got to 3.2% of its goal.
What was the new record time?
Samsung’s latest patent is a foldable phone
You have no right to force people to sell their assets at a low price. It's not unfair at all if they exercise their right to their private property in some way, like refusing to sell, that causes prices in the market to increase.