skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Go ahead, tell us with a straight face that supporters of Donald J. "bomb the shit out of them" Trump are pacifists who just want to avoid all that nasty conflict. I'll wait.

Besides being loud-mouthed and support-our-troops kind of patriots, most of them are isolationists who don't care much for the US being involved in the other end of the world. That has been traditionally truer for the Republicans than for Democrats (with the exception of Bush Jr.) at the leadership level (as opposed to the voters level).

Also note that the "bomb the shit out of them" Trump said was for ISIS. And why not?

Whereas the previous 2 (or rather 4) presidential terms we have seem tons of "bombing the shit out" or meddling with local governments in places from Iraq to Libya and Syria, with dire effects (instability, civil war, chaos and other results of "bringing democracy"), and Clinton was all in favor...
The base didn't win the election. Moderates did as is often the case.
AT&T downgrades video quality on mobile with ‘Stream Saver’
That one seems a bit more biased. It's better to inform stuff without bias to have connect better with your audience.
Chrome Dev Summit Day 1 Video
Eh, or what about loyalty to amazon? If they had honestly messaged me and said that because of the age of my account and amount I had spent that I would get to be part of the first group in line to purchase, I might have even bought one just for that reason. Not that they needed more people buying them, but my loyalty to them would probably only go up.
I think that Google removed it from their results intentionally. Google has the ability to restrict results, and for it to be weighted so highly after they "fixed" it, and because they gave no indication of what was wrong, I think the "fix" was to remove it from the blacklist.

However, it doesn't change that I use Gmail and will continue to use it. It's still the better product for the money (free).
> Really? Because from what I saw, the biggest failure from Hillary was the email scandal,

I would say the sequence of failures is not understanding what voters were looking for. That didn't happen as a singular event. That happened at first, then later, it happen probably up until she canceled the fireworks show for celebration party. As a politician, knowing what the voters she (hopefully!) planned to represent wanted, should have been one of the top qualification requirements, would you say?

Losing the Rust belt was a major strategic failure. I can understand if it was down to a few electoral votes, could then argue it was random, but it was 60 votes.

> he managed to sell a message people wanted to hear.

But she's been in politics with all that experience. Out of all the people shouldn't she be the one who can sell people what they want to hear? Maybe the idea is that she has a higher integrity than Trump and wouldn't want to do that?

> biggest failure from Hillary was the email scandal,

Email scandal was not one thing. The contents of the emails show sequence of failures.

> If anything, Trump had a much bigger sequence of failures

Exactly, it was terrible, and she still couldn't win. That is just baffling to me.

> Those things are helpful, in the same way that being smart is helpful if you're starting a company. But smart people start failing companies all the time and experienced politicians lose elections all the time, too

That's a fair point I agree with that in general.
Is there a guide somewhere? I haven't played Hearthstone.
Amazon own website can't run properly on AWS?
A worthwhile plan, but a few months premature.
If you have enough CPU cache, the CPU will cache both kernel and user code/data for your process. If you run long enough and access enough user data that the kernel bits get evicted, then you'll take more of a performance hit, but the same thing applies to accessing enough user data that different parts of your user data get evicted.
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You can't think of an electron as a little ball whose behavior is described by a weird quantum mathematical formula. The universe is really made of quantum mechanics. The electron is actually an excitation in the wave function, a fundamentally quantum object, of which "tiny ball" happens to be a lossy and flawed, but not altogether terrible description.
Yes-- would be nice if top level comments got collapsed once the thread reaches a certain size. Then you could scan the top level comments quickly and figure out which ones you want to drill into.
> You voted for Trump because there is too much Kanye and Lebron in the media.

Correct. Other "minority groups" (as you put it) are allowed to be resentful about white overrepresentation; Indians are allowed to be resentful about black overrepresentation. Under Clinton, groups like Black Lives Matter would be given more influence and control, and that would make my life more miserable and make me feel more marginalized.

> You would think that after so many minority groups would feel attacked by Trump that they might band together.

Let's ignore the fact that Trump has never attacked Indian people, and his white supporters have never once attacked me.

At the heart of your post are two assumptions:

1. Indian guys have something to gain by supporting black activism.

2. I haven't tried talking to black activists.

Both assumptions are false.

Progressive black activists are greedy. They want to take, take, take, take, and take from white people, yet the moment you ask them to consider how it must feel as an Indian guy seeing so many black guys in popular culture, you're a devil.

Them: "We fought hard for our representation! Don't appropriate our struggle! You didn't earn any of this—we did! If you want more representation, fight for it yourself!"

Me: "Well, I guess that's what I'm doing right by trying to talk to you about this."

Them: "Go bother white folk about this—they're the ones holding you down, not us. I don't have the time."

As it turns out, white people are underrepresented in many important areas of popular culture, and the white people who are in popular culture are almost exclusively progressives who are happy to keep other white people out.

Racial politics are badly broken, but I trust white people over black people to give me a fair shake.
Its a little too early to write the history books because it all depends on how it plays out. Its not possible to say Trump's election is a turning point yet (despite all the angst on both the Left and Right) because we don't yet know how he'll govern or what he'll do. People forget, he ran as a Republican but was repudiated by the Right and he certainly isn't a Sanders-style Democrat but shares many of the same values of the centrist Democrats so change is in the wind, how much change depends on what happens next. Trump has single-handedly shaken both parties to the core. If this leads to a major change of one or both major parties then 20 years from now we can point to Trump as the instigator. If the two parties settle into superficial changes ("I feel your pain") to address the concerns of those who voted for him then his presidency will just be a blip on the road to the future and not a turning point.

Now on to your explicit question; By far and away the most significant turning point in our lifetimes is (last century) Ayn Rand's validation of reason by solving the problem of universals in her theory of concepts. I don't expect anyone here reading this to understand or appreciate this but it is an epic, world-changing achievement and, like Aristotle, she will be discussed in the history books 1000's years from now. She is a turning point in the history of man.
How does a paywall article with no comments make it to the top post?
Click the web link associated with the submission and follow the search link.

It looks like you've commented about paywalls/signups before. Are you having issues with using the web link? I've seen people comment about issues with the web links, but have never experienced it myself.
Yes because it's missing a quantifier which completely changes the meaning of the title. Only controversial to call this out because it's a climate change article thus impervious to any and all criticism obviously.
Yeah, who knows. They guy just kind of throws out these seemingly outrageous statements and moves on.
It's got 16 up-votes at the time of this comment. From what I've seen, ranking is based on some function of comment count, up-vote, and time.
Idea to stop riots, racism, bigotry, etc.
Here's an idea. Let's pass a law that ad revenue cannot be earned for news / content that promotes riots, racism, bigotry, xenophobia, homophobia, etc. It seems many are now making money off rioting and posting to youtube and across social networks.
Parts of it don't run on AWS.
I don't think the definition of "McCarthyism" is as narrow as you define it. I used that word because I though the analogy was appropriate and illustrated well what I was trying to express. Accepted definitions do not tie it to the use of government force, see e.g. "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism." from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mccarthyism?s=t
Poll: What are we doing? (Trump)
Depending on who you talk to, Trump is either a dangerous and illegitimate president-elect or our new leader with an exciting platform who will need a lot of help. There's been a lot of talk in the media about HN/YC [ http://www.economist.com/news/business/21710008-silicon-valley-right-be-worried-about-trump-presidency-it-helped-get-him ] but how does HN actually exit poll on this situation?

Thanks!
Chill. We have checks and balances // he really didn't mean _that_ literally!
Join because we're into it. [https://www.greatagain.gov]
Join because we want to subvert it. [https://www.nsa.gov]
Protest!
Lawyer up [https://www.aclu.org]
Donate to ___
Finally taking Pinboard's advice about all that tracking code [https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/797165214214987776]
An MVP [customer develop below in the comments!]
Dropping out of Penn State // withdrawing YC applications in protest [https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/797211040605990912]
Join the resistance [https://twitter.com/paulg/status/785769454516916228]
Fight among ourselves [https://twitter.com/paulg/status/796414575059107840]
A diatribe.
I just don't care.
Other ____ [fill in below]
Many Hillary supporters could defend her policies with substantive argument no more than Trump supporters. There's a reason why the country splits nearly 50/50 down the middle every election nationally (or some other stable ratio locally) despite the variability in party personalities, policies, and outcomes. Most people's opinions and accompanying rationalizations are derivative of their environment.

We can quibble about the popular vote, but somebody like Trump shouldn't have been able to come close to the Whitehouse if our republic was possessed of healthy institutions and structure.

Voters in successful and healthy democracies aren't intrinsically smarter than those in failed states. The principle differences lie in the social and economic environments that guide and inform their voting.
I worked at a top investment bank in NY which had/has that policy
Do any other games have this file included?
Haven't read the actual paper, so I'm infering from the article, but basically the argument appears to be that under common beyond-the-standard-model theories, it's likely that most heavy particles are unstable. Instead they argue that it's likely to be a weak particle that just happens to not be interacting with visible light. By no means a novel idea as the article makes it seem. Don't take that as a jab against the paper though. It's important to constrain what we would expect under existing theories, both as avenues for future theoretical research and to guide experiment. Frankly, until one of the experiments see something the standard model doesn't predict, everybody's just taking shots in the dark.
You can do that on Blink, and it was one of the reasons why I started the project. Option as Meta and Cmd as Ctrl :)
I'm not sure how one would go about compiling an objective list of the top 10 or 20 or 30 mathematicians (which would be required to answer your second question), but to answer your first question - we probably keep hearing about him because he was undeniably a good (if not great) mathematician and that his story is both inspiring (or feel-good) and tragic at the same time. We like narratives, and his life story is a narrative that is almost "magical" (to quote Steven Wolfram's blog post on him, "Will there ever be another Ramanujan? I don’t know if it’s the legend of Ramanujan or just a natural feature of the way the world is set up, but for at least 30 years I’ve received a steady stream of letters that read a bit like the one Hardy got from Ramanujan back in 1913 ... Are these numerical facts significant? I don’t know. Wolfram|Alpha can certainly generate lots of similar facts, but without Ramanujan-like insight, it’s hard to tell which, if any, are significant." [1])

[1] http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/04/who-was-ramanujan/
However, the address of this C call is calculated, which means that branch prediction (and the cost of potential misprediction) is involved. So additional cost we're talking about, is roughly a cost of L1 read (3-4 clocks by itself) - plus (0-<cost-of-branch-misprediction))
He didn't criticize him for his heritage. He said being mexican makes him biased on certain topics. Stop pretending tribal solidarity doesn't exist.
Awesome tool and easy to get started. Made a quick vis of a hackathon I did last year. Recorded using this gist (https://gist.github.com/qiaoxueshi/5910150)

https://youtu.be/BLX764QP1oQ
China ends anonymity on its internet starting June 2017
Break California, Oregon and Washington off into it's own country, a technotopia, ecotoptia.
Sure. But while most of us are happy to work our asses off to improve our own status and our family's status, how many of us really put a significant amount of effort (time or money) into improving things for people who are worse off than we are? Especially when many of the people who need help seem to hold opinions that we find repugnant -- racism, sexism, LGBTQ hate, etc.

One thing this election has made clear to me is that we can't rely on the government to safeguard our society. The Republicans, of course, want to actively dismantle the government, while the Democrats (at least as represented by Clinton) will put in the minimum effort required to give the appearance of adequate progress to their base, while still effectively pursuing the same primary goal as the Republicans: further enrichment of the 1%. In other words, I don't see another New Deal or even a Great Society happening any time soon, unless there is a huge swing of the pendulum back in the other direction in 2018 and 2020.

I've been trying carefully not to turn this into a partisan rant. What I've really been wondering to myself the last few days is whether and how it's possible to effect positive change in society in a way that is scalable and routes around the brokenness of politics. (And preferably doesn't require me to quit my job and work for some broke-ass non-profit...)
Catharsis / mourning
His story is very appealing as a story: young mathematical genius from India, learns mostly as an autodidact from only a few resources, re-discovering things on his own, often poor and sick. Finally gets recognized as a "genius" by the western mathematics world. Then dies young, leaving many insightful works that are only understood and applied years after his death.

And while it's incredibly hard to come up with a definition of "greatest mathematicians", he is quite high up there in many rankings, top 30 at least.
That's a fair point about speech being necessary to ensure acts.

I think that in this case the behavior being condemned was quite clearly intended to be behavior that affected your work (since the work of GrubHub involves being welcoming and supportive of all sorts of people who may be employees or customers). Whether that was the received message is definitely a different thing.
I'm curious, what do you plan to do with this list? The ones listed in this thread are valuable, sure, but the opportunities for imparting these lessons come up with daily interactions. I personally wouldn't stress out about trying to cover all the bases. Be a good person and a role model yourself and your kids will take on a lot of those qualities on their own.
The only answer I have for this happening is blatant sexism.

Of course -- it couldn't possibly be because it's yet another short Medium post promoted only by its author.
Yeah, as distance (latency) to RAM increases, the amount of on-die cache increases (another handy way to distribute heat with a performance bonus) and coherency becomes more costly, so in effect it becomes the core-specific RAM you mention.

(Oh, hi Kiko!)
I said shipping code, by which I specifically mean that which is left after all deletions (of which there are many).
Break California, Oregon and Washington off into it's own country, a technotopia, ecotoptia. (courtesy @zw123456 below!)
Added -- thanks! forgot that big one.
Ask HN: Is Touch ID fail-proof?
Are reads accurate 100% of the time (a given fingerprint producing the same ID for all reads)?
Is there a chance for collissions (2 different fingerprints producing the same ID)?
Can it be physically hacked (for example placing a picture of a fingerprint)?
Which was debunked: https://medium.com/@rhea/hillary-clintons-search-results-man...
Is there any accommodation for the per-user downloads implemented by Chrome, Dropbox, etc. (each with their own ways of sneaking around Authenticode verification)?

https://textslashplain.com/2016/05/13/cheating-authenticode-...
System crash, Trump and Tech
Trump doesn't use certain dog whistles and lacks the feminist shibboleths. That doesn't make him sexist. He has no problem hiring or working with women.

The only sexism I've seen this election has been from the hillary camp. Wouldn't it be nice to have a female president? wink wink
Why imagine? Isn't that what we've had for a decade or two?
Twilight Princess and Pikmin have similar files. I think there are a few other games which have them, but I can't remember which.
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Well, "most tasks" here is really just the things I've wanted to do -- not exactly an unbiased sample. Things like tracking objects, reading QR codes, matching more complicated hand gestures (than the built-in ones). Unfortunately, a lot of the really interesting things that could be done involve the high-res IR cameras, which aren't exposed in any way to userspace.
> The cost of virtual cals is usually due to missed optimizations and the possibility of misprediction.

Yep (plus one L1 read to get that VMT pointer). And the OP is pretty much consistent with this (at least within declared "indications of the order of magnitude" precision).
No comments actually improves the ranking
This piece is disturbingly ageist and naive in parts:

"That’s not because you’re inexperienced — it’s because you’re right. Your generation is, by definition, further ahead on the march of progress than everyone else. It is literally you who cause the progress as older people die and you rise into power."

The exact same thing was claimed by the young generations who grew into adulthood along with the rise of multiple fascist and communist regimes. Sometimes change is progress and sometimes it's not. Assuming that new beliefs are correct because they are new is dangerous and wrong.
I'm aware of TEVs -- I did write http://magcius.github.io/bmdview.js/bmdview.html after all, which compiles TEV back into GL shaders :)

My point was more that TEVs can't modify texture coordinates, since texcoordgen happens before the TEV stage. TEVs only specify how to blend vertex colors, texture samples, game-set registers and lighting results together using configurable formulas.
I'm confused. Was their 29% chance "wrong"? Would a 40% chance still be wrong? 45%?
MenuetOS
Moving forward together: thoughts on the U.S. election
Nexus kinda ran out of numbers, since they already used 7 for the tablet.

Google experimented for a while with weird model numbers like 5X and 6P, but seems to have decided against continuing it. It's the version wars all over again. Who wants to be stuck at 5 and 6 when Apple is at 7, Samsung will soon return with an 8, and Microsoft already played the "we'll skip ahead to 10" card?
My wife is about to become a citizen. It took her 17 years. And she's Canadian.
Reach out via https://coreos.com/community/ and see the current docs for different platforms here https://coreos.com/kubernetes/docs/latest/
Oh no, I'm so sorry to hear that you're hurt! Where does it hurt with regard to your feelings?

In the mean time, you can remedy the hurt with an SD card, and a Raspberry Pi Zero that you could buy at the nearest MicroCenter for the price of 0.99 and half an hour of loading RetroPie on it.
Well I built the backend of 3 startups pyoopil.com, zapprep.in, playable.in - they are all going to go bust in 30 days. these are products I've written and tested over a year. the startups will simply die. there is no way to port! The least they could at least release the source and allow self hosted version of orchestrate. but where is the sadism in that right?
America's divided recovery: college haves and have-nots [pdf]
Naw, everyone who understands monads wants nothing more then to explain it. Hence the profusion of tutorials and over-focusing on the concept.
> My own benchmarks show costs that are nowhere near the ones cited.

This is heavily dependent on the benchmark. In the OP, there is a ref to an academic research showing these numbers - and from my own real-world experience (NOT artificial benchmarks), the costs of 10K-100K are very usual. From a completely different perspective - there should be reasons why nginx beats Apache performance-wise :-).
It's not blocking me at the moment.
I was talking about /r/europe for example.

> find better ones

It's not that simple, having in mind that:

1. Current moderators clique holds the most adequate name for pan-Europe subreddit.

2. Everyone registering account from Europe-located IP address is being automatically subscribed to this subreddit.
I'm extremely impressed by this. If you ever decide to build an Android version, sign me up.
Another reason people might flag it is in the same vein as the one the gp noted, in that there's little to engage with. Given how other threads have gone on similar issues, they've generated a lot of heat and unfortunately very little light. Rather than create another thread where this can happen, raising tensions even higher, they're flagging it to prevent the same thing happening again, even if they support the post.
I have a Dropbox directory for small note files that I can access from desktop or mobile. I use Jota editor on the mobile side, but any that copes with CR/LF conversions should do for multiple platforms.
Google is not required to provide you search results. And they should be expected to market their own products.

To expect otherwise is foolish.
Personally, I've made a rule that for every two pieces of liberal media I consume on an issue, I should seek at least one argument against it from a conservative.

Online, the dangers of living in an echochamber are very real
> The United States already has a program for legal immigration, right? Why do we even need H1-B?

I'm pretty convinced you don't have solid understanding about inner workings of immigration and H1-B. You just have some hatred against this visa.

Most of jobs holded by h1-b candidates are temporary and their ranks stand at the very bottom of the food chain. These jobs last not more than few months and in very rare cases 1-2 years. So, they are the first ones to leave the company before the permanent ones.

H1-b candidates are very expensive to hire. Although, they do get paid very low.

Now, please go and educate five other people so that we can end this BS propaganda.