skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The day before the election, Nate Silver took a lot of heat from the left because he rated Trump's chance of success as being much higher than most other prognosticators. The day after the election, he took a lot of heat from the same people because he didn't rate Trump's odds highly enough.
> If you want free trade, the best way to go about it is to just lower your own barriers to trade: just because other countries are banging their heads against the wall doesn't mean we should do so, too.

Are you saying protectionist policies don't work? Because your idea would do nothing but hurt your own country by putting you at a disadvantage.
“8 Lines of Code” or “What simplicity really means” (2013)
Amanda Palmer's rendition is amazing as well: https://www.periscope.tv/w/1DXxyoEbXBLGM (starting at 3:01:56).
From http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/11/12/allegatio...

"Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has alleged that there is a huge scam behind the scrapping of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes.

“In the name of tackling corruption, a scam is being carried out on a large scale... On November 8, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes will not be legal tenders any more, all friends and BJP people, who actually have all the black money, were informed prior. Those who had large amounts of black money got enough to time to take care of it", he said.

That’s the allegation. And it’s worth noting that Mr. Kejriwal is the leader of a political party distinctly in opposition to that of PM Modi.
I'd like a rating system that intelligently weighs the reviewers and provides the overall grade after adjusting for individual review points.

Examples:

- if a person only posts 5-star or 1-star reviews, they are polarised and/or punitive. Any and all reviews from such users should be weighted accordingly - 5 stars clearly means "thumbs up, for whatever reason" and accordingly 1 star means "thumbs down, for whatever reason".

- if a person posts a fair selection of review scores, they are likely more thoughtful. Individual review scores from these users are more accurate.

- if a person posts mostly 2/3/4-star reviews, then any 1/5 star review is likely to carry a lot more weight.

To make score manipulation slightly harder, some kind of meta moderation would need to be in place too. Preferably on a per-category basis, so your reviews might have "good karma" on some topics and "bad karma" on others.
Thanks for saying that. I get tired of the constant lionisation of Churchill.
As an engineer for a related company, I sometimes go and look at the support forums or tickets for my software.

I find hundreds or thousands of complaints. Many are legitimate bugs, and some are user stupidity ("I need to check my mums email but she won't give me her password, can you let me in anyway").

For those which are legitimate bugs, I know, through user metrics, that they only affect a tiny fraction <0.1% of the users. I, and the rest of the engineering team have to prioritize our team between fixing these bugs for the 0.1%, and making the product better for the 99.9%.

It can be a tough choice, but when you've decided that it's time to move on and develop new features, hearing about individual instances of rare bugs is no longer useful. We just aggregate how many users are impacted by each significant bug, and from time to time quash the top ones.

Manually editing a database entry for a single user is no longer privacy-justifiable, so basically the only fix we can do is to fix the bug for all users at once. And if the bug is only affecting 15 out of 300,000,000 users on a product that makes 1 cent per user per year, I can't afford to spend more than 30 seconds on it really, yet most bugfixes are at least a days work.
Never seen this before, or at least never consciously seen this, but this article uses the word 'crore' to denote 10M. So instead of saying 28% of 115 million accounts that were opened, they say 28% of 11.5 crore accounts. Such a great thing that there's all these different regions of the world that use English almost unchanged, yet with these small cultural differences.
Yes, you're right. Probabilities of ~1/3 are quite hefty, but that didn't keep talking heads from blabbering as though a Clinton victory was a sure thing.

Some people are going to say we need better models, but perhaps the best thing to do is to quit relying so much on polls and counting. Predicting the future is a dangerous business even if you're "right" most of the time.
This is why we need good whistle blower protections. If Google does that intentionally, there must be quite a few people in the know at Google.

Even without, it just takes to open a throw away account here, and say something.
Data to Money: How Much Does Google Owe You?
My Hindi is bad. Nevertheless, it's exceedingly rare for a driver to fail to understand it.

It's even rarer for a driver to also fail to understand the words "MG road" spoken by a person pointing their finger at MG road (which every other Uber or taxi driver knew to take), while their Uber map also says to take MG road.

I'd love to hear about a single instance of getting a bad UK taxi ride fixed in under 10 hours with a simple text message. Could you link me to a description of how that works?
This has been fascinating to watch.

Conjecture: before the election, liberals wanted reassurance, so he took heat for not being reassuring enough, afterwards they wanted someone to blame for their shock.

Also relevant: people (other than gamblers) have no sense of what 70% means, so they round up to "Hillary".
Considering how large Microsoft is, I can't help but imagine that they have different engineering teams on each of those projects already.

I'm sure the frontend engineering team was excited about this, but somebody needs to give the backend engineering team a push
What an excellent word. "thruthiness" is an awesome word to describe what's happening out there now, so "factiness" as its corollary should also join the popular lexicon.

However, "factiness" as a concept has been recognized for much longer. The most popular expression expressing it would be the quote that Twain attributes to Disraeli: "lies, damned lies and statistics".

Thruthiness probably grew up as an antidote to factiness. Proper math education and recognition that most preliminary scientific studies are bullshit is probably a better antidote, but trusting your gut is an easier antidote, and often effective. It's just that when your gut is wrong, relying on your gut makes it almost impossible to change your mind.
My guess would be the soft tissue gets eaten by fishes. I don't know what would happen to bones.
I've been calling them that for years.
Possibly more than 50% of the country should consider not using Grubhub then. Political statements like this should be held in contempt.
Les vidéos et les photos ne disparaissent pas de SnapChat
If you hadn't included that last sentence I wouldn't have downvoted your comment. You can't just say "no offense intended" and then insult someone. Anyway, most of the people reading this are probably regular software developers that are interested in ML, not PHD holders in any field. It's obviously not written for academics at the leading edge of the field. And if something takes several years of dedicated study to master, it's challenging.
So you charge for your courses but expect others to provide services for free? Don't be that guy.
I stopped reading after that quote.
What Happens If You Do Not File an 83(b) Election
> What's wrong with our society that some people can be so morally bankrupt and bereft of good sense.
In the end, I think these scalpers won't sell for 8x because anintendo will just pump out more product. Still, it is sad to see this happen.

Morally? It's a video game. Scalpers are fine. Blame Nintendo for not making more of them or charging a higher price so the limited supply met demand. Everyone will have their NES Classic in a month or two.
I would add:

It allows foreign corporation (uber) not paying taxes in your country to effectively taxate working people with 20% ubertax.

Big one: uber tax is proportional to ride while their cost is fixed.

Also these days in sankt petersburg or other cities in europe, uber "driver" is a guy leasing 5 cars and hiring 10.. 15 drivers to drive them 24h. Similar to waht airbnb "shared" economy became: buying bigger flat, remodellibg it to three small " studios" and try to rent 365 days a year. It would be fine if openly told and admitted, but its not what airbnb/ uber tells what it does. Also normal driver/hosts can not compete ( economy of scale) with uber/airbnb middlemen.

Also airbnb taxate country's real estate while avoiding taxes itself. Also on proportional scale while having fixed cost.

They (uber/airbnb) should be banned.

*this would ruin their business model, so they choose to lie instead.
For me the most astonishing thing about this is that Rs1,000 is only 14 USD o_O
Show HN: Combinatorix, yet another combinator library in Python
That's discretization of electric charge, which is not necessarily the same thing as "an electron".
Tangentially related:

In a conversation with a producer and a screenwriter after my first film consulting contract, I quickly learned how much more attractive realistic scripts can be to potential directors. The fact that the film industry is actively embracing subject matter experts not only for establishing overarching themes and very central elements to plots but also to accurately represent even the most minor details is a fascinating turn in the last twenty years of filmmaking.

Minor details in the case of this film might be things like deciphering written sentence structure and realistically assembling new sentences. Minor details in the case of e.g. the matrix might be the use of SSHNuke. It's just nice to see.

•••

As for Arrival, it was easily one of my favorites this year, if not one of my personal favorite film of the last five. You should see it it you haven't. It's easily one of the most emotionally complex films we've had in quite a while.
It takes a while to load. Especially on shitty internet, but otherwise i did not experience any slowness so far.

Actually due to preloading the opposite seems the case. But i have it always open as pinned tab.

Also i use chrome, maybe thats a issue with your browser? (If not chrome)
I'm not blaming the tech. I like Python3 and start new projects in it when I can.

Yes, our code base is a giant fucking disaster. I wouldn't even begin to try to deny that.

I'm also pretty certain that there are others in the same boat to a greater or lesser degree. I've seen too many codebases that were the product of starting with a team of one or two and a mandate to move quickly. It's impressively easy to dig yourself into this sort of hole, and it's impressively common among startups in my experience.

I'd imagine that large enterprises are even more likely to have even larger legacy codebases without full test coverage. They may have more resources to throw at the problem but are also likely to have more political obstacles and even higher standards for verification that they haven't introduced new bugs.

But the GP was insisting that there's no reason not to have upgraded yet other than sheer stubbornness and unwillingness to learn new things, or even laziness on the part of the engineers. That's incorrect and insulting.
The problem is the potential for dodgy drivers. No way in hell I'd get in a car that could be some random Joe Bloggs with no oversight. There has to be a central someone that says "this is one of our drivers" that can be held accountable.
The BIOS way to do this is with an Option ROM. During boot, the BIOS scans for a special signature, and jumps to a fixed offset in that block. The OPROM init routine then hooks the various software interrupts that the BIOS, boot-loader and other OPROMs use to read from disk.

You can inject a custom one into your BIOS image, but if you have PCI/PCIe available, you can get cards that have an OPROM onboard. The easiest/hacky way is an old NIC that someone has reverse engineered enough to flash its OPROM; you're just using it for the OPROM, the NIC functionality is unused.
The author might point out that you are getting caught up in factiness.

I don't think anyone has figured out exactly how important white nationalism was to Trump's victory (he carried most of the traditional Republican coalition), but it is clear enough that he got support from white nationalists in a different manner than any recent president, and that he was doing things to court that support.
Indeed, nobody from Nix applied for funding as part of this round. However, grant is not Debian-specific. Not only have we already had a 3-day summit meeting with representatives from Guix and NixOS (!), we also can share a large number of the upstream patches, solutions, with these distributions.
He also caught a lot of crap from the media for giving trump that high of a chance including a fucking embarrassingly stupid and uninformed attack from Ryan Grim at Huffington Post.
Gregg Popovich on the Election of Donald Trump: 'We Are Rome'
Do you have proof or even just evidence of this? You could just be someone that wants to get the jab in at Google.
Stop tweeting at them and use the proper channel.

If your account is worth more than a few cents, they'll gladly speak to you.

KLM doesn't have flights for 3 cents, so doesn't have such a support-timewaster problem.
Talking to my colleagues in India, it sounds like it's going to get a lot worse. Many are resorting to barter trade. There's a huge and rising black market buying Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 currency notes at a discount. Banks are either closed or out of cash. ATM's are rarely topped up and the government claims they will take weeks to fix.

Some banks are seeing so much cash being deposited, it's weird. I was sent a photo of plastic bags full of cash tossed on the floor in the corner of a bank.

People are starting to get very very restless and often violent. Not surprising, as I hear they're queueing for six to eight hours only to be told there was no more cash to dispense.

The intentions were good, but this could be the act that topples the Modi government. This is a disaster in the making.
Any process @ pre-delivery stage ?
How is Bing more transparent than Google?
"As I type this, Trump’s crowd is chanting for Clinton to be jailed. It’s horrifying."

What is horrifying to me is the prospect of living under a government that is not bound by its own laws. It's fairly obvious that Clinton knowingly broke the law, despite others advising her not to. There are people in prison "as I type this" for similar, but far less serious offenses. Why should Clinton be above the law?
Portugal plans to invest €200M in startups
As others have commented this is not possible because it's not my choice to make the switch.

But more generally I see it like this: Without the law, Google would not exist as a legal entity. Incorporation is what allows Google to become a legal entity and it is also what protects Google's owners from having their personal possessions seized in case of insolvency.

So Google's owners have asked society for protection beyond what is provided solely based on market principles. In other words, they wanted rights, not just incentives.

I'm asking for the same thing. Rights that are independent of my ability to pay and are difficult to emulate through market mechanisms.
If you're having an affair or doing pretty much anything that you might not want people to know you're doing, there are a hundred and one ways for people to find you. Users aren't dumb. They know by the email receipt coming into their inbox complete with map that their movements are tracked. And they make a choice either way that suits their requirements or convenience. Having an affair? Get a cab and pay cash. Or take the risk. Personal choice, after all.

Uber might be a questionable company with questionable people in charge (referring to 'boob-er' by Travis Kalanick for one), but they're just flawed people, as apparently is the author with his quite childish style and apparent lack of reality or commercials.

Near me, Uber has made the previously shitty private hire cab industry up it's game, with more drivers and an app experience a bit like Uber. But, let's be clear. Uber probably weren't the first in this space, they're the ones that went out there, got funding, hired some smart people and delivered a good product and platform. And they existed because the industry, globally was pretty shitty, and bits of it still are. The good thing is that the consumer has choice.

And the calls in the comments that the platform should be free and open is lovely and idealistic. But do the talented engineers, designers and whoever else that works to make a well put together and scalable platform not deserve good pay for a job well done?

As a fair disclosure, I write, admire, build on-top-of free software and platforms when it meets my needs. I write this on a Mac, which also meets my needs. Choice exists and we're all leveraging it.
First he dragged PayTM into this. He said Modi has some 'deal' on this with PayTM. Later he deleted (not apologized) that tweet after response from PayTM founder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/11/11/paytm-chief-vijay-sh...
I'm only now realizing my interest in some things I could have spent more time learning when younger, yet even if I knew then what I do now, I still think it wouldn't've been something I spent 'my time' doing - not a lot of it, anyway. (Conversely, there are things I was interested in then that I have the resources to learn far mor effectively now, that I absolutely would've loved to have been tinkering with sooner.)

It's absolutely highly interest-driven, and while the information can sometimes be neatly standardized and labelled, that interest can't be.

It can be cultivated, but figuring out how best to do that takes tweaking and experimentation. As such I'll keep an eye out for Finland's progress on this and look forward to seeing what their findings are.
The government have much less replacements in cash for the cash being circulated. They need most of the money to go virtual, to bank accounts. They need every possible money to be tracked.

I didn't have an active bank account until now. Most of my purchases were done in cash (as any villager would do).

My online purchases were done through some of my friends' accounts. I don't even give my address for shipping.

I fear I couldn't continue the same.
How could you prove how a black box algo ranks you?
Well moderators are necessary to remove trolls. If your comments really were so trollish they felt the need to do that, I wonder why they didn't just ban you outright.
Renewed optimism for Trump pushes Dow to new record, best week since 2011
Open Letter to Paul Graham about Peter Thiel
Wow, and none of them even have [dupe] on them.

HN's story ranking system is undisclosed to prevent startups and/or VCs from gaming things AFAIK, but I'm wondering if it pushes things up based on time of day.

Alternatively, maybe the people who check /new are only around at certain times.

In any case, I'm definitely checking /new a lot more myself. Most of the things I've posted haven't "stuck" either, I realize just how many people this seems to be hitting.
>as long as people are getting something for their lack of privacy (such a slimy but convenient taxi service) they're OK with it.

There are more options than "use it or leave it".

We, as a society, can value Uber's service, and use it, and agree to pass privacy laws that would force them, upon user request, to delete every record of their transportation history from their servers. And they would be audited. Technically it is not hard.

The tech industry lobby would fight against it, the NSA and the FBI too, but I don't see why we the people would not support that.
I referred to them as The Company Which Cannot Be Named (Harry Potter reference) or 'duper.

I once pulled up to a bar 2 minutes after getting a call. The passenger got in the cab, and the passenger's (male) friend had assumed the pose that marked him as waiting for a 'ride'. (The observation is typically used by scumbags in Scottsdale to trick women waiting for a 'ride' into getting into random cars, which is why the taxi company I drove for lobbied to force ride-vehicles to have some sort of branding.)

Me: is your friend waiting for a 'duper?
Passenger: 'duper? (Confusion, then...) do you mean UBER?
Me: FRIENDS don't let friends get DUPED by eww-ber!
Passenger: LOL.

Really, though... "Ridesharing" is unsustainable for many reasons, the main one being that cars are expensive, and should the economy rebound, people won't be willing to wear out their cars for peanuts.
You miss the point...

C9 still offers their service for free...they're just asking for a credit card to verify identity or some such nonsensical thing...

And no, I don't just expect them to offer it for free...if they want to charge, that's perfectly fine. But don't say that it's free and then require a credit card...
Given some of the non-politically correct stuff Aaronson has posted on his blog, I'm sort of surprised and happy to see him so angry about Trump winning. Not everyone that had run ins with over enthusiastic social justice people online voted for Trump out of spite, apparently.
English translation via Google Translate:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=y&prev...

It seems that while the u-boot is missing most commands, you can connect sunxi-tools to it by hooking up the USB while holding the reset button down, and then use AllWinner's debug protocol to poke it.

I wonder --- if the SoC has no customisations, could run the ROM on another similar device?
Smart people find very elaborate and clever ways to be wrong.
Ask HN: How do I inspire other developers
So typically I am a solo developer. At my current employer I need additional help to keep things running smoothly since we have grown so much. So we've hired an additional IT/Developer to support some of our work.
This doesn't seem to be working out and this person seems to try to avoid anything difficult out of fear. I think they are capable, just completely lack confidence in tackling new things.
I've never really been in this sort of position before, but how do I give them some confidence and inspire them to tackle new things?
We don't usually use million or billion. We use lakh (100 thousand) and crore (10 million). This is very common. Most news papers don't ever use the terms million or billion. Many Indians find it hard to understand what million and billion stands for.
Yep, that's what happened to me the few times I tried to pick it up. I'm a huge Zelda fan but MM just feels like a chore. I really don't like the whole calendar-based thing, having to do the same things multiple times, having to revisit the same location over and over again. It kills the sense of progress that makes other Zelda games great. By far my least favorite...
I wouldn't consider ProtonMail a competitor of Google. I would assume they got penalized in search rankings like everyone else.

The fact that they went through Matt Cutts to get this resolved is telling - since he's the public face of Google for anti-web-spam/anti-blackhat-seo.

> @mattcutts We know Google is intentionally hiding ProtonMail from search results. Interested in talking before our data goes public?

Apparently threats help get you attention.
If you could communicate to a google employee the name of your site, they could investigate internally and identify any wrongdoing here. Whether they'd be able to show you the results after the fact I don't know though.
The only 100% way to be sure is with customers. That said, UX/UI design patterns are pretty well understood, your best bet is to hire out to a firm if you have no UX people on staff. https://www.usertesting.com/plans