skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we have to tax imports from places that don't in proportion to the degree that they don't

This is an interesting idea. Are there any examples of countries doing this today?
“Responsible Disclosure” is Wrong
To hide the uninstall of competing software behind a "Turn on" button through the dominant platform vendor may well be one step too far into the land of violation of anti trust rules.
Why do you consider the Clean Power Plan not tough?
I really think desktop computers are too complicated for the average user, and MS should move to a managed application model like apple is doing. Only apps approved by MS will be allowed to install UNLESS you disable this in the control panel somewhere with ample warnings. MS Could then force these companies to clean up their acts.
Children should not have to make this kind of decision—talk to your parents & kids about a living will today.
And I don't mean to demonize fission power at all. Just wanted to point out that a fusion reaction must be sustained while a fission reaction must be controlled. Of course there's more to that story as well since a fission reactor could be designed with some kind of passive failsafe (e.g. a frozen plug which seals the reactor core or something similar).
That's the problem with all abstractions.

The abstraction gives you hope that you won't have to worry about the low level details, it will be so easy.

But almost invariably, the abstraction breaks down or acts weird, or some low level error or limitation bubbles up, or the abstraction has horrible performance for some edge cases.

So now, where you had 1 problem - the low level thing - you have 2 problems - the low level thing, and the abstraction.

You don't have to be a uber-expert in the low level thing but it's really helpful to be comfortable with it.

I see it with ORMs - 'wow this is magic, I never have to do SQL again' - 'oh crap, a weird edge case, I have to do SQL' - 'oh crap, why is this so slow, guess I have to look at the generated SQL, and maybe hand-roll my own'.

(Not saying you shouldn't use abstractions, they can save a lot of work for the central cases where they work right.)
UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014)
Re: Tor. It's very effective but users must read the documentation not just plug and play.
First of all I feel there was nothing wrong in the original email. Trump's ideas about immigrants, muslims, women were largely accepted as wrong and he himself has either apologized for them or started to remove parts of it from his website.
So if there are employees who voted for Trump for those ideas they obviously would poison any workplace.

Second, republican supporters still work at the company. Bad mouthing the product and the app is not going to do good to any one. Not the people who work there, not to the 100s of people who survive on delivering food and 1000s of restaurants that are profitable due to orders.

I do not like to stereotype people. But the set of people who left such reviews as an impulsive act are definitely kind of people who are not going to do any good to society or US. And fox news and other similar media do no good to either side by manipulating news to create a strong divide.
Yes got to get over what happened. But things are just sad indeed.
Trump gets to work helping LGBT Americans by tapping anti-gay Ken Blackwell to his transition team.

“I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it’s a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,” Blackwell told the Columbus Dispatch at the time. “I think it is a transgression against God’s law, God’s will.”

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/10/1596184/-Trump-ge...
There are products out there that work like this. Our product, Elevate Web Builder, is one of them:

http://www.elevatesoft.com/products?category=ewb&type=web

although I'm not sure how many more there are that aren't hosted directly in the browser, as opposed to a standalone IDE that runs on a desktop OS.
And one response I have to that, developed from this conversation, is that this election is a turnout anomaly because the GOPe sabotaged the GOTV effort for Trump (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12932865 for a bit more on that).

And are you really sure about that? The AP, the "definitive" source I've been following through Google (https://www.google.com/search?q=election+results+2016+usa#eo...), says California reporting is 100%, and the nationwide margin is still about the same as it's been for some time, medium 6 figures.
Why is so difficult to harness that source?

Because there's a hard upper limit of 1367 watts per square meter.

And, practically speaking, you're not going to reach 10% of that (panel efficiency, angles, cloud cover, air transmissivity, weather, damage, dust/dirt, night/dawn/dusk, conduit resistance, storage loss, etc).

That means the only way to scale up is land surface area, about 10,000 square kilometers of solar panels for 1TW power production, covering about 0.1% of the USA.

(Don't get me wrong, I'm just presenting objective numbers. I'm thrilled about Tesla / Solar City pushing rooftop solar with "invisible" tiles, and think every home should be built with at least the whole roof covered with solar panels. Independence is a big deal, and having at least substantial off-grid power is important.)
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I think they were more mentioning that you can get around some of the timezone issues and other annoyances distance creates for the same cost.
Isn't 2FA considered dangerous now? We've seen how susceptible it can be to social engineering.

On a related note, I noticed that my Windows Phone displays text message notifications even when it's locked... So adding a PIN doesn't prevent an attacker from doing 2FA if they have access to my phone.
http://clojure.org/ :)
Github Link:
https://github.com/getstream/winds
Yeah, a fledged out demo account is a "must have" when showcasing a product.
>90,000 people die every year from simple medical mistakes in US hospitals

It doesn't really change your point, but just an FYI the studies that try to measure deaths caused by medical mistakes often can be dubious due to their definition of "mistake". For example, there are clear mistakes like mixing up patients and giving the wrong treatment to the wrong patient. But many mistakes are more questionable like if a patient is given the correct treatment but they are one of the few to experience a known but deadly side effect. The hospital is still the one to have directly caused the death, but it would be hard to argue they should have acted differently. The number of deaths can vary widely depending on how events like the latter example are categorized.
My guess it is all of the string converting back and forth to character arrays.
Sorry for being a bit ignorant, but is there a point to use PHP 7 if you have HHVM?
python can be packaged up. I haven't done it, but there are some popular 100% python apps with a UI that dint require any global python crap.
> To reciprocate a unum, you ignore the first bit and negate what remains!

> Notice that exact numbers have bit strings ending in zero and open intervals between exact numbers have bit strings ending in one.

So reciprocating an inexact interval gives an exact number, and vice versa?

> If you ask for 2 + 2 at this very low precision, there is no exact representation for four, so you have to use the open interval (2, 5), for example.

So what is 2 + 2 - 2?

I feel like this guy keeps contradicting himself, e.g. switching between impractically high and low precision depending on the question.
I think that's exactly the kind of workflow we should be able to create a graphical interface for.

I sometimes wonder if our ability to imagine what visual interfaces can do is limited by our experience with current GUIs. Right now, as other have pointed out, we're limited by the fact that GUI interfaces aren't really composable the way CLI commands are.

But what if we had something that is composable -- maybe something like Smalltalk on steroids -- where every program is a living object that can describe in detail what it does? Then, you'd be able to ask the program what inputs it requires, what its abilities are, and what outputs it can provide.

With something like that, it would be possible to visually put together interesting combinations of programs that we might not have created otherwise. Sort of the like what Bret Victor describes in 'Inventing on Principle'[1] where certain solutions to problems become much more apparent when you can manipulate things and try out new combinations quickly. I'm certain things like this exist (and have existed) in various forms, but I don't think we've explored the concept as fully as we can.

On the other hand, though, I agree with a quote from Eben Moglen earlier in this thread where he talked about 'point and grunt' interfaces. We've been iterating on the same paradigm for a long time. Touchscreens are better in some ways, and worse in others. We gain more physical interactivity with our devices, but we lose a lot of precision because we're now just smacking meat sticks against a pane of glass.

But you know, it's easy for me to sit here and complain about this on the internet. Actually doing something about it is much harder. Maybe it's time for me to fire up Smalltalk and give it a try. :)

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366
C++/C# repositories have more or less doubled since Jan16 (from 10000ish to 20000ish) and so have Java ones (75000ish to 150000ish).

So, there is not really an uptick in terms of percentage, the rise is more apparent in Java (and Javascript) case since they were more popular in the first place.

To see the relative shift in popularity, you would have to normalize the data against the total repos, I think.
Why Trump’s victory is a sign of a huge change
Right. I wondered if they meant something else, because that doesn't make sense.
I rushed this as I only had a couple hours to play about with this week, didn't bug fix, prettify or anything.

It's just a proof of concept for an election simulator that you might enjoy playing with.

Let me know if it isn't clear how it works and I'll try and explain it better!
author here;
The size depends on your platform and the way you build it.
If you used `qtdeploy` instead of `go run/build`, you should get a 2mb binary which includes Go's runtime + only the needed Qt C++ code.
(A normal go binary has the size of 1.5mb or so)
The rest are Qt dynamic libs, which are not all needed, depending on what you build. You can safely remove plugins and maybe whole modules. edit: and you can also compile Qt on your own to strip out ICU and other unnecessary stuff + with Qt 5.8 things will get even more lightweight.
This is sad. I heard about this listening to the radio this morning while waiting for the school bus with my son. I introduced my (future) wife to his music and our wedding song was "Dance me to the end of love." I gave her the Matisse coffee-table book set to its lyrics (https://www.amazon.com/Dance-End-Love-Art-Poetry/dp/19321839...).

I always wanted to meet him and now, I'll never have the chance.

R.I.P.
There were also cases of attackers tampering with the phone system to intercept 2FA tokens. Much better is authenticator-app-based or hard-token-based 2FA.
I hate that I can't fix my misspelling of "unencumbered" as I wrote it around 2 AM... but to further explain my imagined and laymen view point in terms of politics, the federal government would be responsible for things like borders and constitutional rights etc. but step back on things the state legalizes that do not infringe on those basic freedom's such as weed for example and money toward scientific research or a carbon tax, etc, that the state's themselves can decide on. Even Roe vs. Wade and Gay Marriage can be up for grabs. The places that are backwards cannot force people to live there and CA and other progressive states will get all the good people anyway. The country cannot have a black and white approach, one-size fits all, obviously as it is so divided as the author describes. How can you have people living in the past dictating our future? It is dead weight. Try telling someone in the backwoods they have to have more restrictions on their guns from a perspective of being in a crowded city. It doesn't make sense to have the same laws everywhere although I still think the gays and women's rights are fundamental but that doesn't seem to be the consensus on the red states.
The reason this works is because it uses Evolution Thinking vs. Design Thinking to find good people, which we need more of in tech.

https://danielmiessler.com/blog/why-you-should-hire-using-ev...
All of these things are true, but my deeper problem with Gingrich is his incompetence and simultaneously casual and spectacular overestimation of his own abilities. Read stories about how he managed his '12 bid for the Presidency, or how he managed the GOP after the shutdown in the '90s.

A Republican administration involves the adoption and execution of many ideas I fiercely disagree with. But I'm prepared to operate within a context of governance I disagree with --- so long as there's a backbone of competence behind it. Newt Gingrich represents a flailing, slapdash, amygdalic chaos, a marshaling of a militia of bad ideas aimed roughly in the direction of the aggrandizement of Newt Gingrich, and who cares how many American lives get in the way.

There are plenty of Republicans I disagree with --- can't stand --- feel moral contempt towards --- but can accept as the competent execution of an ideology that must, at some interval in American politics, take the helm. Even Donald Rumsfeld --- himself proven incompetent --- at least didn't lash his incompetence to a lizard-brained need to see himself in the newspaper. Gingrich is something worse than that.
The Real Lesson in Grubhub CEO Telling Trump Supporters to Resign
Asafoetida tastes like garlic but does not ferment - replace garlic with it and then try reintroducing. Try eating raw vegetables or pho style (where the veggies cook lightly in the broth after being served but not enough to become easily fermented and soluble). What you are aiming for is high insoluble fiber and limited soluble fiber - so you can still eat things high in insoluble fiber like banana, bok choy, green beans, nuts.
There's a large uptick in everything.

It would be nice to see a log version of this graph (either with just the vertical axis logarithmic or both).
If Thiel explicitly said "hence, women shouldn't vote" it would be bad. As it stands, he didn't.
sounds like you are a game developer who places more importance on things other than the gameplay. so not really a game developer.
Tech Hiring Is Design-Based, and It Needs to Move to Evolution-Based
It's going to be extremely hard to convert anyone who uses an RSS reader without import functionality.

There is 0% chance that I'm going to switch no matter how good your recommendation algorithm is if I can't also keep up with my current feeds.
I long for the day that Microsoft starts transitioning to C# on .NET Core for vscode. They made the right choice using typescript on the electron platform, but the difference in efficiency between C# and js is night and day. I've heard it's in the long term plans, but how that'll work I have no clue.
> Don't you get excited at the prospect of a leader not beholden to any special interests at all?

On paper that does sound exciting, but it's not something that I want at any cost. In specific, I don't want it badly enough to elect Donald Trump as president.
One more thing: Imagine what Trump got away with:
- all his remarks
- no tax returns
- active lawsuits
- against climate change
- firing on real TV
etc and etc

and here is a young ceo trying to voice his opinion to his employee at a company he created and runs. The most scary thing about this election is the impulsiveness, short temperament and impatience of people.
I'm working on this project, so slightly biased.

First, we show you both the chronological display in a list mode. That allows you to browse through things quickly and filter out what you're interested in manually. The personalization is used in combination with the image style layout. On that screen we try to surface the most interesting information.

Second, yesterday I was browsing quora questions about features of RSS readers. The most requested feature was personalization to help deal with information overload. I think some percentage of users doesn't need personalization, but the vast majority do.

Personally I was a big fan of Zite, I used that app everyday. Pity they were acquired and shutdown.
> Python 3 had no carrots,... The stick only approach doesn't work...

I don't use Python for any serious development these days, but this is my impression as well. Python 3's promise was "we'll break all of your code in exchange for a few minor things some people think are improvements." When users balked, the devs decided to force the change by brow-beating and shaming users, with predictable results.

Perl 6 had lots of carrots, but was so different that the only plausible portability story was to run existing code in an embedded Perl 5 interpreter with some kind of interoperability layer. It's a new language, still looking for its niche. Ruby devs were so used to breaking changes that they considered porting to 1.9 to be more of the usual. Meanwhile, C and C++ happily coexist, despite major divergence by C++ and minor incompatible changes by both languages.
"The world has become too complex for anyone to understand"

This is why I am excited to see free college tuition enter the debate. What I would love though is two extra mandatory years of high school. Teach government(so people dont think the president is a dictator), law(so people dont get taken advantage of), teach more about other cultures(so people can find out what they have in common, hopefully breaking the echo chamber), teach logic and rhetoric, and some more computer skills, maybe a basic programming class.

While I agree the world is too complex for any one person to understand everything(hence the specialization of labor). I do believe we can do better though, all is not lost :)
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That's my big takeaway from the last week. I don't want algorithms influencing how I think.
> people who think like you and me lost on Tuesday. We lost badly.

As far as last count Hillary won the popular vote (though not by much). The election was very close at any rate.

Trump was just better at parroting and promising the things he heard from rural Americans. He listened to them. And he sold them on their own ideas and made them sound tenable. That's all there is to it.
The new Godwin's Law I guess.
I wish Ruby wasn't run by Matz and his team. The number of improvements they can offer is just too little. And they don't do well to get and include feedback from others. It's true that they've been working on Ruby for a long time, and they deserve credit. But it's time for Ruby to grow past Matz and his team.

If Ruby can offer:
- real threads
- great performance

Then the conversation about Ruby would be about the right things - do you like the syntax, the feel, would it work for your team, etc. We wouldn't be bickering about "performance" all the time.
Peter Thiel Said to Join Trump’s Presidential Transition Team
Does anyone know an RSS feed reader with these features?

1) Deduplication

2) Grouping of articles on the same topic. For example, grouping all articles on Angela Merkel's latest Brexit comments, so I can easily choose one and ignore the rest.

Grouping would make me an order of magnitude more efficient when reading RSS. I'd happily pay $100 for that feature.

Also:

3) Efficiently and automatically manage broken feeds: Automatically retry (over X hours or days), automatically look for a replacement feed, and then let me know which feeds need my attention.
And that's the attitude many rural voters are revolting against, right there. Tired of being told how to live their lives by arrogant city dwellers who don't understand or have any experience with rural life at all, yet see themselves as smarter and better and qualified to tell rural people what to do and assuming their way of life is suitable for everyone.
Google "Psychoneuroimmunology" for the mental health implications and "Neuroimmunology" for the broader physical ones.
> Just realise that while you might not be, others can be affected by news like this. Not to play the "us hackers" card, but I do feel a lot closer to some people on this board (as in, I share their thoughts, sometimes) than other forms of media.

I came to work today and chatted with a co-worker about Cohen. We both like music, so it was a natural topic. I read through the comments to this story, and found 3 threads the mirrored the conversation I had with my work buddy. Not ones that were similar, but threads that actually developed along the same lines and points in the same order we discussed.

I think you're on to something with your point :)
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At least it provided some sources, than just bare assertions.
There should be a zeroth rule that an voting system intended to be used for government which would be that the average person is able to audit / understand the system. This was in an ACM magazine article.
I disagree. For me, and I think for many, online interactions are a just as much a form of socialization as going out in person. For very small groups, I generally prefer the in person version, but for larger groups, I think I get more out of the online setting.

Let's take our relationship, for example. I've been cohabiting some of the same online spaces as you for at least the last decade. For me, you are a valued part of that ecosystem, more so than most of my physical neighbors who I chat with in person a couple times a year.

No, I wouldn't recognize you on the street, but I struggle with face blindness, so it's a weak criterion. Would I "miss you" if you died? No, but I'd certainly reflect sadly on your death if I learned about it. "Remember the nice way you did X"? No, but I have trouble coming up with such an X most people I interact with locally.

There's no humanity here.

I'm surprised you would say this. Is this a recent change in your view of online interactions or have you always felt this way? Quantitively I find about the same amount of humanity here as I do elsewhere, and qualitatively I prefer many things about what I find here to what I see when I go out in person. Are you OK?

(ps. I notice that many of the links in the sidebar of your site are broken.)
The reason I've posted lately is to show the Trump supporter side. Is it really a controversy to point stuff out that is obvious but not in the echo chamber? The dirt we get for the sole reason dnc/media has created a certain narrative for Trump. Wishing cancer, calling people racist, sexist or what have you should not be acceptable.

For example: This whole thread was about how Trump is against LGBT’s while in reality he’s been advocate for them from the 80’s and its been a big part of his campaign.

I’m sure over time people understand what this election really was about. In the meantime is it really necessary to silence the other side of the voice?
Yeah, there's a fundamental tension between secrecy and verifiability. The main way I've seen this resolved is immediate verification, eg displaying the vote in a paper receipt kept by the elections board for recounts.
I tried using Signal but the problem is no one else wants to. So yeah I'd love e2e encryption but it requires both parties to use it, which is a problem.
I've been using nvm for a while now too, I love it!
? OP calls out a specific motivation. The motivation of the subgroup references is very clear. It's you who is trying to expand that to a generalization.
It wouldn't be so bad if they had like a suggestion box or something at the side with feeds you might like to add.