skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont believe anyone called it a failure. It was just not impressive at all, I think that is what the hub bub is about. Apple used to be an amazing innovator and they are not anymore. But most tech company's are cyclical in nature, Apple is on a down round and probably will be for the next 5 years. MS had the same thing happen, and now they are coming back. I bet when Tim Cook departs Apple will see the same resurgence.
I wonder how he feels as a gay man knowing that he supported a candidate who ran on the most homophobic platform a major party has ever had.
One organization I support is the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance[1]. For those of you that care about the redrock desert, please look into them. They were very effective in the Bush years and I'm hoping they will be again.

[1] suwa.org
On a Mac I rebooted earlier today (a little under 4 hours uptime) and Spotify's showing 11.06 GB written in Activity Monitor. This is without having listened to anything at all today.
2 days and 179+GB written while only 1.21GB was read!! This is on my Mac - I wonder whats the number for my Windows PC at home.
For those interested, here's a quick overview...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reform_in_Scotland

tl;dr - The Land Reform Act 2003 codified the long-held tradition of unhindered access to open country. This includes the great estates, forestry land, etc. Basically, as long as you behave, you can hike, camp, cycle anywhere you like. Obvious exclusions would be somebody's yard adjacent to their home, areas with active livestock activity, etc.
Wow, this is eerily prescient and the best explanation I've seen so far of the Trump phenomenon. Great read for someone like me who like so many others, didn't know a single person voting for Trump.
The people in the media were overwhelmingly anti-Trump, no argument. But the media's coverage of the election was not anti-Trump any more than reporting objective facts in the face of Trump's lies can be called "anti-Trump." They reported on Hillary like any other candidate, but they walked on eggshells around Trump, trying and failing to find a way to report on somebody they despised — and who constantly accused them of conspiring against him — without appearing partial. For example, there were way more stories about the how sketchy the Clinton Foundation was than the Trump Foundation, even though the latter has factually violated the law and the former has not.
This reminds me when Dell refused warranty repairs if VLC was installed[1]

Turns out that you could increase the volume causing hard clipping, which caused physical problems on the speakers.

[1] http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/...
Oh yes - I don't have the source right now, but there's a long list of things he plans to accomplish on the VERY first day of the job.
> Thiel was completely correct on this.

Well, it supposedly was Salena Zito who "is board member of the Center for Media and Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, and has worked for the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Rick Santorum" who was correct since she came up with it.

http://www.theatlantic.com/author/salena-zito/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-ma...

Personally I'm not sure on the state of the US when it's controversial to ask someone with little political experience how they are going to accomplish the things they say. I thought part of the reason to not go with a politician was so they would actually do things like keep their promises?
> The parties don't have to be trusted.

Actually, zwenger was right. Without a proof of work, they do.

What's a blockchain? It's a data structure with a cryptographically strong CRC mechanism. But there's nothing stopping me from writing a new set of data into a new chain and passing it off as the original.

Sure, you may notice, but you can't prove my new chain is forged. I'll say the backup chain you're using as proof is the forgery...

It takes a proof of work to make the chain effectively uneditable. (Uneditable without paying for the work, which has been selected to be too expensive to be practical.)
You didn't mention the Iran nuclear deal. I'm expecting yet another war in Iran within two years.
> It is important to note that even if you believe the numbers are fudged, they aren't more fudged today than they were in 2008.

No, it's certainly possible that more and more people have given up finding work since 2008, widening the spread between real unemployment and reported unemployment.
Trump Countdown
What's wrong with building that?
>The national legalization of gay marriage happened via the Supreme Court just last year. There is no reason at all it could not be reversed under a new court.

Yes, there is; it's "stare decisis". Even Dred Scott has not been reversed because of it.
> I was told it was because we handled PCI and HIPPA data for various clients, and that a clean drug test was required for compliance with those rules.

It seems you were mislead, according to https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Card_Prod_Sec...:

Q 1 December 2013 – Drug testing is not required in the PCI Card Production Security Requirements. Is this an oversight?

A No, PCI does not require drug testing due to the wide variances in country laws governing where or when drug testing is allowed. However, that does not preclude card vendors from requiring drug testing wherever and whenever they deem necessary.

I wasn't able to find anything relating to HIPAA, but I've worked around HIPAA since before it was passed and your post is literally the first time I've ever heard that claim. Not saying you're wrong, just that this is a new one to me.
Should product managers use the same tools as development teams?
5 days uptime, 310GB

I don't list to _that much_ music?!
> The author's view excludes fine art photography as well as a number of other types which value quality of speed and quantity.

Making it faster to get photos off the device helps fine art photographers as well, just not as much, because they're less latency-sensitive. I don't see any way in which it hurts them.
39 days uptime (I know), 206GB written, 5GB read. Mac.
It is refreshing to see a data structure "explained" without a drawing of some boxes and arrows. +1 there for the creativity -- I'd be even more pleased to see a data structure explained with words without relying on images at all.

Also:

...to check if a word exists in the text file, it takes
at most, as many operations as the length of the word
itself. Much better than the 235,887 operations it
was going to take before.

But your source for the words (/usr/share/dict/words) is probably already sorted! I don't think that's a fair upper bound to quote.
The second idea is also a great idea from a strategic perspective. At the risk of sounding doomsdayish, by spreading the federal government's agency headquarters around the country, it minimizes the risk of a single city-wide or even state-wide catastrophe (sea level rise, nuclear carbomb, Giant Meteor delivering on its one campaign promise, etc.) eradicating the leadership of most/all federal agencies.
Purely anecdotal but I suffer from Crohn's Disease and the only thing that really helped was Soylent. I can't eat solid food and since starting Soylent I have experienced much lower occurrences of symptoms.
The country is pretty evenly split. The reasons people chose to vote (or not vote) for a particular candidate cannot meaningfully be boiled down to the manner of discourse.

If this thread is any indication, neither of us is solely correct.
> Gay marriage is just the final nail in the coffin of marriage, which was already basically dead.

Please elaborate.
Thanks for the kind words! I would agree that the function we're trying to learn is very complicated, with many exceptions. But that only improves our comparative advantage, at least compared to novice chemists. We might also be able to help our system take advantage of the knowledge of physics that expert chemists use to predict reaction outcomes by giving our network access to the output of a physical reaction simulator.

Extending the system to (try to) predict yield percentages or chirality is straightforward. The hard part, in my mind, is that there aren't a fixed number of reaction types. As molecules get bigger, we'll have to move away from predicting one of a fixed set of reaction types, to directly predicting products - but this is a much harder problem.

Our system probably isn't good enough to design synthesis pathways yet, but that is the eventual goal. A system that also predicted yield would of course help with that, and that would be another straightforward extension.
>it would be pretty easy to figure out who voted for who when they step out of the polling booth and the tally updates.

I see this as a pro not a con. I want to be reassured that my vote was counted correctly. That is way more important to me than keeping my vote secret from anyone in the room.
Firstly, looking at politics in the UK and France (two countries that I follow closely) it was clear that there were a large group of people disadvantaged by the 2008 financial crisis who were outside the standard discussion seen in the media of politics.

Secondly, Trump won the nomination with a huge number of votes.

Thirdly, Brexit happened despite opinion polling being the other way.

Then I started paying close attention to crowd sizes at Trump rallies and when Hillary appeared in public. The crowds never got smaller for Trump despite the press and stories around him. I looked at Nate Silver's analysis and guessed the firewall could be breached. Yet the betting markets had incredibly long odds on Trump; so I bet. Modestly since I'm no (b|m)illionaire.
For the lazy:

>Fully-funds the construction of a wall on our southern
border with the full understanding that the country of
Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost
of such wall; establishes a two-year mandatory minimum
federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after
a previous deportation, and a five-year mandatory minimum
federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering for those
with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions
or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to
enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs
are offered to American workers first.
Not OP but I, personally, stopped using Fusion because of the constant annoying advertisements. I could understand if it were free but I paid a non-trivial amount for it out-of-pocket.

I can't complain about Parallels' performance. I was satisfied with it in that regard.
Ah wow, I completely misread. I'll take my downvote and move on then!
Clinton threatened Russia with a military response to a cyber attack. There are reasons to like Clinton over Trump, but a dove-ish foreign policy isn't one of them.
Normal Considered Harmful
Up 9 days and it has written 440GB
I'd look into Berlin and Hamburg. Berlin is changing rapidly with a lot of opportunity and Hamburg is already quite wealthy with a ton of resources available to it.
I think you overstate your defense. Some people did not vote Trump to satisfy hateful racism or sexism. On the other hand, some most certainly did. In my neck of the woods, that some is not an insignificant amount.
Torrent.
I had a bad reaction because I thought it was related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEST_(Scientology)
Are you looking for advice for yourself, or is that really a passive aggressive comment?

Anyways, the legality depends on where the poster is located. Where do you want an answer for?
I bought one. The dongle situation will be annoying for a while, and I don't know what my hybrid options will be when I get my first USB-C monitor. Hopefully it will have a thunderbolt 2 port for my older computers that I'm at Apple's mercy with (the Mac Pro being the primary example, but also the iMac).

Otherwise, it looks like a solid upgrade. I don't need the battery life and would prefer to trade it for 32GB, but I understand why they made that decision.
I am particularly happy that people outside of that SF/NY/Boston bubble chose Donald Trump, while acknowledging his character flaws, instead of paying any attention whatsoever to the mass media.

Though I fully agree with you -- We need a change (which change? I'm not sure!). Hilary Clinton definitely couldn't provide any positive change; also doubt Donald Trump can, thus I apathetically voted for a different candidate than either Clinton or Trump.
Yet, I fully stand behind President Trump (feels weird to say that, eh.. I know..) as our president, with our country balanced in unity. I hope for the best with his leadership of the next four years!
The real issue is the change in the phone system. Pollsters used to just dial a random number in the telephone book. Now most numbers are unlisted, and most people won't answer the phone to strangers (or the people that do answer are rather unrepresentative, at least.) All polling methods require getting a random sample of the voting population to be accurate. That's super hard, perhaps impossible.
" that means 235,887 operations for each string that I want to verify as a real word."

/usr/share/dict/words is sorted. A binary search would be much more suitable than iterating over each word, at least for a first run.

And depending on the constraints of the actual problem you are trying to solve a binary search is likely going to be the best well rounded case.

(This mostly depends if memory and disk space constraints are in place).

But I would imagine most spell checkers store their dictionary much differently than that of dict/words

(off to take a look at the aspell source)
Exactly.

The rise of the demagogues is a known core bug of the system called democracy, and what triggers it is fear and anger without a clear, objective, immediately identifiable cause.

If the cause is clear and straightforward (invasion by a foreign army), then fear strengthens society, and the whole system responds effectively with unity and determination.

If fear and anger exist, but the cause is complex and remote (globalization, automation, progress), and seems beyond the grasp of the everyman, then the masses turn to demagogues for "help", and are invariably wrong. That's what happened in the '30s. This is what is happening now - hopefully not with the same end result.
Same for me. Too bad, the idea is cool.
"A good blockchain needs mutually mistrustful parties who are not anonymous" - in opposite, blockchain is a good solution for open system with anonymous participants. For other settings, there are more efficient solutions(e.g. PBFTs)
I'm not sure if democracy failed us by electing the pussy grabber or democracy won by reminding us who we truly are as a whole. After all, we the people voted.

But then when I hear the popular vote, I SMH. Hillary should have won if every vote counted equally. It would have been a nail-biter since she re-surged at the end.

There should be nothing between each person, their vote and the total count which is the voice of the people. No delegates, no electoral colleges, no State borders, no nothing. Anything else is not a pure democracy.

We failed democracy.
Questionable but not necessarily incorrect. Clinton lost.
Legal immigrants must be paid more than prevailing wage.

People like to parrot Disney at this point but USCIS is closing that loophole.
it saves having to type ssh again :) Plus it's generally faster being UDP, and having predictive echo.
As a highly educated physician who voted for Brexit, I find your interpretation of the "Brexit movement" woefully incorrect. There are plenty of well informed, well read and intelligent people who feel that the concept of the European Union no longer provides a net benefit to Britain. No doubt there are plenty of well educated Americans who voted for Trump too.
It doesn't work on Firefox
Remember that a lot of users were in need a new computer and patiently waited for the newest Apple product.
That group was featured on ABC news coverage last night in the US. They predicted Clinton would win 70% to 20% early in the evening.

I didn't read what they said about their process but they were completely off too.
Education is the way to prosperity. We can look at Trump's win a loud scream from citizens that are in financial pain. The current government has not met their needs and they spoke out loud with their vote. The greatness of our constitution is that every so often governmental changes happen without bloodshed. We can thank the wisdom of our founding fathers for that.

The government's job now is to make sure that all it's citizens prosper as the global economic system changes. The tragedy of this election cycle is that the focus was not on how to make education available to all. We have a K to 12 system that does not produce a person that's ready for the workforce. It's expected that college is the next step. Yet college is such a financial burden on young adults that it becomes a problem rather than a benefit. First, we can't let that continue for the benefit of all. We need to make sure that education reform becomes the priority. Reform in terms of getting a person ready for the future rather than babysit them in schools.

People like to focus on spending more money and adding technology but that's not the solution. It's a deeper problem in the structure of the education system and parental support. I hope for our good the new president can see that and move forward with reform.
Personally, I think the biggest issue is that the DSLR makers just haven't taken integration seriously at all. My Canon 70D - with all its incredible ergonomics and amazing optics and sensors - has a wi-fi feature and attendant smartphone app that feel broken and tacked on, and ultimately don't work at all for me. If I didn't go out of my way looking for them, I wouldn't even know they exist.

It's painfully obvious that my DSLR should be able to immediately upload my shots to a cloud post-processing service integrated with downstream destinations like web albums, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. It was obvious a decade ago. It's easy to justify commercially, as a lucrative subscription revenue stream. The fact that DSLR makers have done next to nothing to bring us to that point - not even a single meaningful partnership between a DSLR maker and a software company - makes me think they deserve the disruption and market downsizing they will experience.
How CSS pseudo-classes work, explained with code and lots of diagrams
Yeah, this is a chicken and egg problem.

The US causes terrorism by steam rolling third world countries, but more or less has to do it now since these third world countries already hate the US enough to require this kind of policing.
> If I'm not free to ignore the outcome of the first issue

In what society are you free to ignore the penalties for breaking the law without consequence?

Saying that the lethal violence is at the forefront of our legal system because you're not free to ignore the law with impunity seems quite disingenuous.

I won't disagree that ultimately our laws are backed by the threat of lethal force. All societies have this same reality, though. Even in a pure anarchy, violence is the ultimate deciding factor.

Violence is certainly not the first tool of enforcement, however. Most US citizens can speed, or park illegally, or download a movie via BT, all without fear of being killed as an outcome.
If you don't like people making snarky references stop reading it.
Deep Learning Papers Ordered by Task
> Are you suggesting immigration is an issue because these places are diverse?

I think the issue is that no one voted for these sorts of changes, the situation in parts of Paris with groups of people sleeping and congregating on the streets and what is occurring in Calais are unacceptable to people accustomed to a "Western" society. I think we will see Marine Le Pen perform very well in the upcoming election in France.
The checks and balances are a republican controlled congress (House and Senate). And a supreme court where republicans will be able to select a majority of the members. The only check and balance left is via a Democratic filibuster.
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition
That was a dell issue, though, and had nothing to do with VLC. See the following comment by jbk (VLC lead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205875
Thank you! I guess all you need to do to get chemistry on hacker news is add neural nets to it.

I honestly don't know much about synthesis or the state of computationally assisted inverse design of molecules, except that it seems like a great idea, and that it is still early days. As you say, proper formulation of the guidelines is still necessary - as far as I understand, right now the synthesis people still use a lot of judgement at each step, and all these little choices will have to be recorded to build a useful dataset.
Part of the problem is how physically big the US is compared to most countries. Popular vote only would mean that cities (even a small set of them) would hold such a large percentage of the vote that the farmers and workers who drive the engines of agriculture and manufacturing could have almost no voice. Additionally, when this was all created, each state just wanted to govern themselves and they needed a compromise for what the federal government would be. So, instead each state was (and is) given a relatively proportional number of "special" votes to cast for President based on population. These have caps though so small, rural states get a little more power than they otherwise would (2 for Idaho instead of probably 0 e.g.) and super large ones get a little less. (This is not that dissimilar to how our Congress is set up). Additionally, each state is given the ability to decide how to vote for president. A state could say that the Governor just picks one or have an in-state vote that is a popular vote within that state (how most work) or anything they want.
Can't you just disable that feature? Why do the rest of us have to be stuck with dumb, disconnected cameras?
Yes, in terms of financial conservatism (they have more to lose), and in terms of not keeping up with social progress (fearing young activists). That's them getting relatively more conservative, compared to the moving society around them.

But people don't generally slide back from what they experienced as kids. A LOT of 18- to 25-year-olds today grew up as a kid in a society where it is acceptable to have friends from lots of ethnic backgrounds, to have friends who are gay or trans, to believe that women should be equal to men in society, etc. They're not going to lose that as they age. That's their base concept of "normal."
In New Zealand we have free public healthcare, education subsidies (though tertiary education is not free), and a top tax rate of 33%, while we still make most of our money from primary industries like beef, dairy and wood[1].

Public healthcare allows us to have a huge single buyer for our pharmaceuticals - Pharmac[2] - which brings a lot of power to negotiate good deals.

It might not be reasonable for the US to become like the Nordic countries, but things could certainly be better.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/2014_New...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmac
Which objective journalists are you thinking of? Wikileaks showed how many of these journalists were colluding with Hillary
Yeah, I didn't detail the trails and tribulations of our experience but it was terrible. Our Appium test suite took 6+ hours to run and it falsely failed 100% of the time. We would finish a feature, check our code in run the test suite over night and things would be broken and then we'd have to manually verify the fixes were correct in the A.M. Then go back in and fix Appium.

I honestly wish I still had the link to the Wiki where I put my full Appium deep dive. Appium is great if you want to work on Appium and not actually build your own iOS or Android product.
I'm in Tokyo right now, and my cab driver, in broken English, told me last night that he fears for the world.
Weird that 99% of the incessant name calling and hate comes from my liberal friends who believe that all Trump supporters are racist xenophobes