skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's called dog-whistle politics. It's subtle, so you have to listen hard, but here it is: "To the people who are used to influencing our choice of leaders, ..." and he goes on to describe "wealthy" and "successful" types of people. Basically he's talking "to" and "about" people like himself, namely, white men. The man is a bigot, and like all modern bigots, he hides (and shows) his bigotry in coded language like this.

edit: just to clarify, "people who are used to influencing our choice of leaders", I am interpreting in the context of voting rights in the United States, which of course were originally denied to everyone but white men. So those are the ones who are "used to it."
This always makes me laugh when I randomly come across it: https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq/blob/659dea9601b3a283d9c8...
Cronyism in my understanding is essentially hiring friends who are unqualified for a given job. In this case, it looks to me like what's going on could better be described as not hiring otherwise qualified candidates who publicly denounced you. Or maybe more tactfully 'limiting the applicant pool to people who share the same vision.'

To make this more concrete, in GGP Robert Gates is brought up as a respectable republican who Trump presumably would have appointed were he not engaged in cronyism. Google "Robert Gates Trump" then let me know if you really think cronyism is the best explanation for why Robert Gates didn't get the job.
Trump said he absolutely supports forcing Muslims to register in a Muslim database. The man must be opposed unequivocally and obstructed at every opportunity.
I'm afraid those aren't my initials. I'm in California, just been enjoying the hell reading through your posts that you nicely collected into an index recently I stumbled upon.

Your arguments are intriguing. I was tempted to fire off half thought through replies to what initially struck me as gaping holes in logic, but am glad I did not. The more I read, the more I realize that I need to put more effort into understanding what you're really trying to say before I can begin to evaluate it.

Almost a "see it as the painter intended" moment. Anyhow, thank you for your writings, for although I don't know yet if I agree with anything you said, it's certainly exposed me to new perspectives I hadn't considered.

edit - and yes, I do promise to read the books listening to your recommendation.
I have to pause, I think .5sec, to get second k.
Danish Blockchain Company Offers to Help Build Trump’s Wall
How about Don and Dawn, though?
Patents and trademarks maybe, but copyright? You have copyright on basically anything you create. Should I pay taxes on everything I put on github? On essays I write? What if I'm a famous artist? If I make some artwork to go in my living room, should I really pay 1% of the assessed value of that every year? If I write a book, is it not enough to pay taxes on the income I get by selling my book? Should I really have to pay taxes on it to keep it out of the public domain?
Because it would make the misappropriation of the work of poor creators cheap.
Bonus companion link:

Trump University and Presidential Impeachment
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2841306
thanks guys I'll find a way maybe I should join Military
It for sure is. However QML might also be all you are interested in, since Go already has a very good standard library which covers lots of things. Then the remaining question is which of those Go QML wrappers is of a higher quality and easier to work with.
Previous 300+ comment thread which referenced the actual paper, not a blog post about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12740456
The actual problem with this article is that experimental evidence for the variability hypothesis is not consistent across cultures. There's no particular reason to believe it is intrinsic... other than to support articles like this, anyway.
GP edited their post since I replied to make it less arrogant. Maybe you should edit yours too.

Edit: Oh and I'm sick of being denounced as a moderate. Seriously, the highlight of the entire election has been attacks and demonization on the other side. Fuck me for trying to point out shitty behaviour, right?
So if this poll said Trump was "8 points ahead", where did it say he was "8 points ahead"? A generic statement of "8 points ahead" is, when hearing about a poll with zero other context read to mean "8 points ahead in a national poll of likely voters with a representative sample", which is a national popular vote measure of limited utility in predicting electoral outcome.
Since Go has pointers and Java doesn't. I thus expect Java to be safer than go. However, I don't know why but I don't like programming in Java. It's too verbose probably. I also prefer Go because it is closer to the metal and it's a very simple language.
But is perfectly fine. Just only because the latest is 4 Months ago without much attention.

Or am i wrong?
Any thoughts?
Agreed, if people want a laptop compatible with GNU/Linux they should give their money to those that care to provide such laptops.
This is a great project and really gives you a great understanding of how bad each side has gotten.
The description of Naive Bayes is misleading. Almost all supervised learning problems assume that "Inputs are classified in isolation where no input has an effect on any other inputs" (quote from the article), but that's not why Naive Bayes is called naive.

The naive assumption made by Naive Bayes is that the features (or attributes) of each input point are independent. Let me explain from a simple example:

Suppose you want to find people who receive benefits they are not entitled to. The input data might have two attributes: cash on bank account, and amount received in benefits. Although you could look for data that have a high value in both attributes, the naive assumption made in Naive Bayes says that you can in fact make your classification without correlating multiple attributes; Naive Bayes assumes you can explain the labeling of data just by looking at attributes in isolation. In this example, this assumption is clearly unfounded, since if you only look at benefits or only at cash balance, you won't be able to tell how a person should be classified.

The data independence assumption made by almost all ML algorithms is that different data points are not correlated: the label of a single data point (person in the above problem) does not depend on the attributes of other data points.
Post-elections: Where the market stands
anyone didn't know this is how ALL these sites work... just doesn't care about facts, or the news... or the world even. if you care... you check facts... if you don't... then you don't check.
Distribution alone doesn't help, but if you knew the distribution of IQ and its effect on academic success (a fairly big if), you could statistically use it to determine whether groups underperform relative to their potential and hence, decide whether corrective action is needed.

Gender-skew of over 10%? That's more than expected given the IQ distributions of men and women. Let's look for what causes that.
What was the latest data on citizenship of home purchases in Vancouver? 10% foreign, 90% Canadian. And almost 30% of those Canadian purchasers were speculators.

Are the Chinese causing home prices to go up in Vancouver? Probably a little. The much bigger problem are the Canadians over extending themselves by speculating on home values.
20000% this. sadly... about 20% of the US prob reads the books they buy.
Thanks! I feel a little less smart now which is a good sign. :-)
CPython memory management
> If someone told me that a certain
> truth is not useful, I would be
> inclined to disbelieve them

Sure. But I didn't say that. There are some situations in which it's useful to know the Thai alphabet has 44 consonants, but not only is that generally not very useful knowledge for the vast majority of people, it might also lead you to conclude learning to read Thai will be significantly harder than reading English, which is probably not true.

A truth is useful. A given person's knowledge of that truth, not always, especially given that not all truths are simple enough to be understood by the layperson -- how else did we get to a place where evolution is "humans are descended from monkeys"?
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Please change your phone ;)
I think the discussion will occur for ever, if we continue searching for arguments for "why are these men so {dumb,angry,bad}?/ Why are these womans so {plastic, Feminine,dumb}".

I think we should stop thinking in that categories and Start thinking:"this One (Wo)men is so dumb!".
Categories for humans(behavior) where never a good idea.

EDIT: It may be easy, but easy isn't good anytime.
Just take a look at programming. Writing the good old "jump" was easy. Was it a nice idea?
Democrats have built-in Electoral College edge but no guarantees for 2016 (2014)
http://www.Onebrick.org
I don't see a big problem here. A virtual machine will not have the same conflicts. Besides, running a Linux distro in a VM is very efficient in terms of CPU and in turn battery consumption (I get <1% CPU with VMware). having the two OS's (OSX and Linux) in parallel should be the preferred operation.
>Subjective

Straight up.

apt-get /pip /equivalents are all astonishingly efficient methods of installing programs. Have seen many non-tech inclined people change their mind quickly once being exposed to it.

Perhaps we should be asking people to try first? A gui is a necessity in certain situations, but it shouldn't be lore.

Demand more and you will get more.
I'm a bit confused by the way the article describes MVC as going from "server-side" to "front-end" :)

When I was growing up coding native UI apps, MVC was all about front-end. UI toolkits were traditionally MVC or M(V+C) going all the way back to SmallTalk, and "server-side" typically meant apps without "V" or a "V" that was so small and hardcoded in without separation...
Imagine if the results were that men were inherently smarter than women. Could you conceive of a way that this would go over well? Nobody (men or women) want to deal with that. It's understandable that it's controversial.
Finally someone had the guts to speak truth
IMO, the problem is that media decentralisation has led to responsibility decentralisation. When a newspaper or news broadcast gets a story wrong, it in itself is a massive story. When a little known blog does, it isn't noticed. So we end up where we are today, where accuracy and reliability die through little mini chips at the rock over time.
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Throwaway for obvious reasons. It's dangerous to support reform against the reactionary left.

I'm a Trump voter. I consider myself pretty well educated (M.Sc. CS/EE, honors), and I work in a research lab. I'm not your typical Trump voter. Full disclosure: I'm also an immigrant (legal one, nearly 20 years), naturalized US citizen, I make several hundred thousand dollars a year, and pay a ton in taxes. I'm liberal on social issues. I support LGBT and gay marriage. I'm an atheist. I have a wife and a kid. I'm also pro-gun, pro marijuana, and pro letting people do whatever they want with their lives. I'm also extremely fiscally conservative, and against illegal immigration.

My FB feed was so skewed against Trump I had to close my account. Bombshell stories on Clinton wouldn't trend, while the most inane BS about Trump would immediately reach the top and stay there.

It is strange for me to hear FB being accused of being "too conservative". I certainly saw nothing like that "red" feed on WSJ.

BTW, I could elaborate why I voted for Trump if anyone is interested. I don't agree with him on everything, but on the balance he seemed like the lesser of two evils to me.
HOBO
Likewise. Not a trump or a brexit fan, but I've been called an idiot who knows nothing about the world, as nobody but an idiot would believe either of those possible. After the event, same people tell me that I didn't actually see it coming, you just always assume the worst. No. I read history. It seemed obvious that trump would win from when he announced his candidacy - because he was dismissed out of hand. Same with brexit. It all boils down to people believing perfectly possible things to be impossible. Challenging that challenges their sense of self.

Nobody likes Cassandra.
I agree that the Democratic party in the hands of the 'new' identity politics Left with Bernie Sanders style leaders is going to crash and burn much harder then the Republican Neo-cons were able to destroyed the Republicans.

But really, what choice do the Democrats have but to go as far into the kaleidescope of identity as then can go? The DNC has been totally disgraced as a sham. Its a puppet establishment in the pocket of Wall street and the Corporate Globalists just as much as the Bush Neo-cons were.

There is nothing left of the Democratic party for the working class. They threw the European Americas overboard as 'irredeemable deplorable'. And they think the melting pot and Integration are Racist oppressive ideas of the Patriarchy. The idea that America should have one national language is Racist. The idea that people need legal citizenship in order to vote and collect services is literally Hitler level oppression.

How are you going to bring that back to a 'Center'? Is there even a center for the Democrats anymore that includes The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence that was written by White Men who owned Slaves?

As bad as the problems are for the Republicans there nothing compared with what is happening to the Democrats.
IMHO it's somewhat orthogonal. You can can use the MVVM pattern with unidirectional data flow, where it's always obvious how data flows from a model/service to a viewmodel to a view. And were views only trigger model/service updates and never directly manipulate the shown data.

You can also however use MVVM with kind of a spaghetti data flow or apply unidirectional data view without MVVM.

I personally like MVVM a lot, and it also fits very good to the latest UI frameworks (Angular2, Aurelia, etc.). I would also always try hard to achieve a purely unidirectional data flow. I however don't care about whether to use Flux, Redux or anything else for that. In fact traditional services (aka implementations of some interfaces) that encapsulate a specific set of state work very well for me.
Except Ferarris are fast. A MBP has what, a Radeon Pro 455? That is laughable compared to a GTX 1060.
Why Upgrade to Open source framework Angular 2?
I agree. There's a narrative at the moment that the left should have listened to the right more. That's the wrong lesson.

The US GDP in real dollars is 2.3 times larger than it was in the mid-70s. In the same time period the median household income went up 1.12 times.

Considering the size of the US GDP, that's a staggering amount of money that's just disappeared into the 1%'s bank accounts. It's a multi-trillion dollar heist. People are so loss-adverse that they've been fine with not getting paid literally twice as much, so long as someone told them they'd have less chance of losing their job if they went along with it.

Regular Americans did their part - the economy grew, but they didn't benefit from it. The left should be making that crystal clear, that clarity should make people furious, and the left should ride a tide of justified anger to power.

What the they shouldn't to is ponder whether the right is on to something and it really is the Mexicans that are to blame for their job insecurity, or that taxes and regulations maybe actually are the reason that the median American household doesn't have the 6-figure income that they would have had, had their wages been commiserate with America's success over the last 40 years.

The left should act like the left, and address the economic problems of the poor and middle class people of America directly -attacking the deliberate fiscal and taxation policies that caused them. And if that doesn't focus group well, they should have some actual principles and do it anyway.
You could use any VM and make it fullscreen so you can swap environments using the three finger swipe set up in the trackpad gestures.
MVC was originally designed as a pattern for desktop UIs. It has a single controller and a single model, not the MVC style that Rails popularized with one controller class and one model class for every kind of data. In classic MVC, Views query the Model for relevant data. The Controller handles user actions and uses that to update the Model, then asks the View to redraw (preferably in some smart efficient manner). This is unidirectional data flow pur sang and it comes from 1988. How is React+Redux any different from this?

I agree with the author that components are the true innovation of React, because it encourages reusable building blocks by default. Contrast with classic desktop and mobile UI toolkits which, while often also using or encouraging MVC, do not require the developer to not subdivide their own codebase into reusable widgets. Instead, they allow composing an entire screen (window, page, form, whatever) from the built-in widgets. Making a reusable widget is possible but extra work and therefore not done. In React, it's the only way to go.

This is awesome about React, but it has nothing to do with data flow architecture, which is what MVC is.

The mistake webdevelopers made for years was trying to shoehorn DHH's backend remix of MVC into the frontend, throwing away decades of UI building architecture knowledge. I'm happy the Facebook people rediscovered MVC and I'm even happy they gave it a new name (Flux) because MVC frankly has gotten way too many definitions.

But saying that Flux/Redux killed MVC is like saying Clojure killed Lisp.
The problem now is information overload. Effectively we've gone from less information, to good information, to too much information causing overload leading to less information. This makes it easy for bubbles to form by various biases.
I'm currently building a P2P web app/social network that ideally should run completely in the browser and haven't looked at Gun before.

Can Gun be used on top of IndexedDB?

You mentioned "Peer-to-Peer electron/react-native fully encrypted social networks". Can you point me to any repos?

Thanks!
Props. That very much needed to be said.

> just twenty-three days after your witch hunt,

The thought processes of all these allegedly enlightened people are strange. For all the claims of "rationality", I can barely find difference with the psychology of the most primitive tribesmen. Just a better grade of pretexts.

(The murderous rage of the "rationalists" in the French, Russian, Chinese, Cambodian, etc. revolutions, all conducted by very educated people, is well documented and quite sad.)
$99 every year is enough to be a barrier to entry for individuals but low enough to for malicious actors to obtain the ability to sign code.

It doesn't matter how much it costs. Even if it only costs $0.01 a year it would offer the same level of protection.

The only thing the fee does is limit the number of developer certificates to one per bank account.
Interesting, isn't it? Filtering out facts that they didn't believe, not because they were trying to lie, but because those who demand that we "celebrate diversity" have so little actual diversity themselves that they all truly believed the same, standard narratives they consistently tell each other, resulted in a situation where one of their beliefs could be objectively tested, and they were all wildly wrong in exactly the same way.

What does this suggest about all the other stories the mainstream media (CBS exec: "How could Nixon have won? I don't know a single person who voted for him!") tells every day, in exactly the same way, about all sorts of issues that can't be so easily measured?

And what does it suggest about the academic institutions that enforce conformity to exactly the same set of opinions and narratives and not only filters information but fires and otherwise silences dissenters? And anyone who suggests that a system so utterly lacking in diversity of thought that there is no one left on campus who will tell them if they're wrong can't be trusted is called "anti-intellectual" and "anti-science".

It doesn't tell me that they are wrong about everything, just that they are likely to be just as wrong about some other issues they are adamant about as they were about this one, but that promoting their dogma, not working to find the truth, is what they really care about, which doesn't make them wrong about any particular thing, just not reliable.
Speed isn't the only thing you're paying for in a Ferrari
> Excited for the unknown and the prospect that he might shake up the establishment.

A lot of people say he isn't part of the establishment. The idea that someone who is rich and embedded in the media for the entire professional life is not part of the establishment is really confusing to me. Why do you have this perception? I am honestly curious.
It's because feminism is a self-serving ideology. They are not trying to clarify or resolve anything, they are trying to turn more people into believers of the ideology.

And it won't change, because feminism itself is an expression of female privilege. Stories about rape of women will always have more pull than stories about men being killed. Feminism has found these psychological loopholes (like more empathy for/willingness to help women) and is exploiting them as much as they can.

A man who is being killed was simply too weak and has rightfully been weeded out of the gene pool. Women do always have to be protected and are always victims. That is how society secretly feels. The rest is just confirmation bias.
> That sounds like a deepity[1] if ever I've heard one.

Your code becomes less peculiar to you and more in line with the peculiarities of the language as it's used by most people.

Shallow enough? Don't let an allergy to postmodernism become an allergy to a turned phrase.

Not sure what the rest of your comment has to do with my point, which was about, if you like, the pragmatics of programming.

Not concerned with the space of programs that type check. Insufferable haskellers...
Yes, we pay 7% PST on sales tax, which doesn't apply to groceries or restaurants, where presumably a lot of their spending would go. That's a far cry from the income taxes that should be paid if they're claiming resident status:

5.06% on the first $38,210 of taxable income, +
7.7% on the next $38,211, +
10.5% on the next $11,320, +
12.29% on the next $18,802, +
14.7% on the amount over $106,543

Generally, the ones who come over here would fit in that top tax bracket. They immigrate into the country based on a loophole in the immigrant investor program into Quebec, but then end up living here in Vancouver. As soon as they get their citizenship, the husband goes back to China and the wife and children stay here and no income is declared.

Property taxes are municipal, which does not contribute to healthcare and education. They may not be paying nothing into the system, but they certainly take more out of the system than they put in.

What makes this the most egregious is that many of them claim additional low income benefits, like discounted pharma drugs and even collect welfare once they've received citizenship.

There's also several pregnant mainland Chinese women coming into the country before they show, and having their babies here so that they get Canadian citizenship and all the benefits that entails.

Yes, it's fairly easy to get a student visa in Canada. There are tons of ESL (English as a second language) schools around downtown, with tons of latin american, middle eastern, Japanese, Korean, and mainland Chinese young people. Some of those schools are designed so that they don't actually have to show up, but still show up as enrolled for student visa requirements.
How is that clickbait? You mean just the title?
6,000+ businesses use IBM’s supercomputer ‘Watson’ – here’s why
That's hardware R&D for you.