skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a schism on this site between the entrepreneurs and the technologists. The entrepreneurs will tell you that what Soylent did was hard. They found a population that would enjoy a nutritional supplement, but didn't like the branding of current offerings. The created and popularized a brand to serve busy, health-conscious professionals.

The technologist will tell you that Soylent is essentially a direct marketing business that mixes commodities (poorly) and sells them at high markup.

A similar narrative has existed in business news for the past year, where readers bemusedly read about a pyramid scheme company that distributes protein shake called Herbalife to see whether it will implode or not.
If this is true, the literature I've read--as a layman myself reading from sources written for the layman on the subject--is wildly misleading.

i.e. from the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

>Other theorists seek to quantize the gravitational field by the modelling behaviour of its hypothetical force carrier, the graviton and achieve quantum gravity (QG).
I just checked.

They gauges moving around is definitely random.

The updates are done with a "president.json" file, fetched every 15 seconds, but the timestamp in the json data only changes every 30-180 seconds.

So all of the movement is just random jitter to make it engaging.

Maybe a bit disingenuous.

(Note: I first thought they might be using websockets, but no WS connection is made on the page. Only a ajax fetch of president.json)
Looking though the source code, they have a jitter amount. It adds a little visual interest.
The Microsoft Terminology Collection is a great resource for this. I'm not sure how the license works though but it's probably worth a look: https://www.microsoft.com/language/en-us/Search.aspx?sString...
I feel that I'm an educated person, and I try to keep up with politics in America, but I really don't understand our system. How can some states be called with less than 20% of the votes being counted?
I thought the same thing, would like to see the background calculations running all three.
Thanks. Just re-read the original WSJ article that started it all. Here are some things that caught my attention:

- No Research to prove this methodology worked
- Influential parents with connections in D.C helped create a powerful board with members such as Henry Kissinger
- Theranos knew their results were flawed but did not report
- According to FDA, labs were deficient and their quality control methods themselves were deficient
- They claimed to run 70 tests from a tiny sample of blood from your finger tip when they had permission to do only one test from FDA.

This stuff is crazy. Kudos to the folks who did the investigative journalism to uncover these things. It looks like people's lives were put at risk with this company.
Check the websocket connection. Haven't noticed anything interesting coming down the pipe yet, but NYT is using it.
Thanks the_duke!
That's random, there is no network activity. Screams "black pattern", who on earth randomizes a graph on election results. Come on.
Watch live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
Nope, no websocket connection on that page.

That's what I checked first. ;)
Exit polling, usually.
Just like there are swing states, there are swing counties. As soon as you figure their results out, you can call the state with a good degree of confidence.
Too big to fail.
NYT is not known for accuracy
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I believe each individual network calls them at their own discretion. It's not an official "call" by the government or anything.

As to why so early, they have enough confidence in exit polls and other previous polls to say that, for example, Hillary is not going to win Oklahoma.
Hey.

Herbalife isn't a pyramid scheme.

It's a dimaryp!
The OP didn't say theranos specifically. The op said

> I'm actually pleased to hear that a tech company is going to perish.

How is this constructive?

This isn't some joy in evolution or plot/crop burning:

> Too many of them think they are invincible (airbnb)

The OP is upset ostensibly because I guess they are not humble. And apparently neither is airbnb in his opinion. I bet MS and apple were not humble either in their beginnings. Both MS and facebook were founded by not rags to riches but Harvard drop outs with wealthy families.
Spreadsheets where functions are entirely based on cell formulas publishing to bespoke internal data busses with in-house plugins that randomly stop working.

There can be no god.
In my area, there are several banks that had drive-up ATMs at some point, but most are unused nowadays.

One feature they had in common: each function button had Braille (raised dots for the blind) instructions also.

Yes, Braille. On the driver's side.

This could explain much of what I encounter on the roads.
When I step into the pond, the ENTIRE WATER LEVEL RISES AT THE SAME TIME! Water must travel instantly?

So, a hydro dam is actually a method for sucking the energy out of the entire surface of a lake, all at the same time! (Actually the pressure-waves travel at the speed of sound in water, a few thousand MPH.) It doesn't happen instantly, but damn close.
Gotta say that would be cool!
Fairly new to HN. GP? Best guess is grand-poster?
> In such cases, working with Python/BeautifulSoup4

BUT Rvest is a BeautifulSoup inspired library and works pretty much the same way?
13 of the best tweets about the election
A friend of mine once explained to me, that in order to make the internet and computing environments safer we have to stop making things easier but educate the people (e.g. don't put the single-point-of-failure antiviruses on the computers teach people not to trust links/emails/usb/devices but to check the source and acutally think). I think you should educate them on the topic, and help them to learn it.
When management is not being prioritize and we can't focus on client needs because everyone is doing different projects that causes delay of deployment to clients.
Hydrogen gas is insulating matter. Ionized hydrogen is conductive matter.

Too bad we don't have metallic hydrogen. It would be a solid conductor, just like any other metal.

"Conductor" actually means "contains mobile charges." Conductor doesn't mean "a hollow pipe which electricity flows through." Conductors are more like long, narrow ponds. They're made of 'electric fluid,' so if we have a ring-shaped pond, we can push the water along so it starts moving in a complete circuit, like a drive-belt.
And fiber bandwidth...and Motorola Iridium...etc.
> Rvest is for webscrapping newbs

down voted for calling people newbs. Also it always depends on what tool works best.
The NES and SNES eras have a pretty significant enduring appeal and are in the middle of a pretty lengthy resurgence, but you don't see nearly as much mainstream nostalgia for the previous 2D generation, like the Atari 2600. The graphics are just a little too primitive for most people, I think.

A lot of the earliest 3D games feel like they're closer to the "2600" end of the spectrum for their generation. Of course there are outliers like Mario 64 that have aged much better. Mario in particular doesn't get totally let down by controls the way a lot of other early full-3d-world games do.

Developers got a hang of things pretty quickly, though. The jump in quality from the stack-of-cubes characters in FF7 to something approaching recognizable humans in FF8 is pretty stark, and they improved further from there for 9.
You are off by several orders of magnitude.

There's a very handy calculator here
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/miccur.h...

If you put in the diameter of a 10AWG wire (2.588mm), and a current of 1A, it gives a drift velocity of 5.026cm/h.

For 20mA in a 20AWG wire (0.812mm), that reduces to 1.02cm/h.

Drift velocity is absolutely irrelevant to the propagation delay, which is on the order of magnitude of the speed of light.
Thanks, if you do nothing else, please (links to follow):

1. Read/watch the naughty dog presentation on Last of Us port where they talk about their time step. I have to say if there's one company who puts out stuff like videos and articles/books you should read, it is Naughty Dog. They know what they are doing optimization-wise, I just happen to find most of their games boring and lifeless from a design point of view, but I can still respect them greatly.

2. Read the GDC presentation about entity systems and the "roster" approach linked below.

3. Read probably everything on the Bitsquid site. Some of it is dated or even not the best, but I pointed some people here before and it really opened up their minds to what I was talking about when they were looking at my code. Changed their view from "black arts" to "wow, that really is simple and makes sense."

4. Read up on Entity Systems. But do not read things written by bloggers, authors of "frameworks," and various Java stuff out there (ex: Artemis). I hate to be so negative, but what I usually found out there is mostly garbage, wrong, and the authors disappear when challenged or asked about the hard, non-obvious parts. If you want good info, read code that's out there and figure out what seems good/bad, and listen to some of the people in the industry like at GDC talking about it. I tried to find one more recent talks, but so far only came across the Amazon one which seems pretty weak (though still interesting) and basic with regard to low-level detail.

Games knowledge is a tough thing because everyone is professor know-it-all and usually just hobbyists and throw away mobile game devs. Most people working on games who are competent are too busy or too sick of it to write about it. I hate to sound like one of those people. And that's why I don't blog about it or normally comment much. The only reason I'm mentioning it now is to pass time while watching the election. My games career was making me go insane and it was either family or video game development, so now I have more time in life to rant here. So, yeah.

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022186/Parallelizing-the-Naugh...

http://www.slideshare.net/TerranceCohen/terrance-cohen-dynam...

http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/2011/09/managing-decoupling-par...
And bizarrely, they don't charge a premium at launch.
Off topic, but I might as well say it here:

I just tuned in to CNN: I think the way they cover the results is ridiculous.

They just babble off random, pointless numbers without pause, with their fancy interactive maps in the background.

They announce small changes with a sensationalism that's almost pathetic (KEY RACE ALERT! ALL OFF A SUDDEN Clinton takes the lead in Florida!! (by 20k votes... with a vote count of 30%).

Very little actual, substantive discussion of key results to watch out for, of key states, ...

One of the biggest news channels in the world should be able to do a bit better than that, IMO.
For large, low volume transactions foreign currency works just as well if it's a pretty common thing.
Scott Alexander ('Slate Star Codex') wrote a very good post on how to think about the "chemical imbalance theory", where it's useful and where it's not. Here it is: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/05/chemical-imbalance/

I also remember reading another article by someone in the field which explained it in terms of proximal and distal causes, which is basically about "different level[s] of abstraction" as tbrownaw in this thread puts it. Will link to it if I manage to find it.
>There are plenty of hard working, talented tech people out there with grit and integrity and even actual products, held back by their lack of deep-pocketed Ivy-league connections.

As someone who launched a side project in the pharmacy space and closed a 6 month pilot with the World's largest company and still can't get a YC interview or VC response...I can tell you there is no justice in what happened to Theranos because it doesn't make it any easier for those people with actual products, it's just business as usual.
Don't worry, even if Twitter die, there will be another better product to take over.
I have. I used it for all of the research I did during my PhD over the last few years. Some of my Julia code ran on Titan.
Yes, Twitter is "absolutely essential" for getting information "from the source", and literally "any other source will have someone else's biases and spin". You've convinced me to stop reading research papers and complete my bioinfomatics education by reading Twitter. Thank you for opening my eyes!
Is there any research on this news impacting voter participation? Ie if they feel their party is losing do they throw in the towel even though they still might have had a chance?
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

I know in Canada they have a media blackout for each timezone until polls close (or are almost closed). The assumption is people will change their vote based on early counts.

However, that may have changed with the internet since you can't stop anyone from getting early results.

Edit: yup, looks like Canada stopped that back in 2014 [1]

[1]http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/election-reforms-include-end...
I don't have a LinkedIn profile, but another software engineer who lives in my city and shares my name does. I regularly get recruiter spam intended for him, because of tools like Connectifier that assumes that we must be the same person. At first glance, I don't see any way with your site for me to verify that you won't be making the same mistake.
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Thanks. So it's called "Originals", not "the originals" as misiti wrote.
> I'm having trouble reading the code and being able to understand what exactly is happening.

[...]

> Alternate question: How the heck do you deal with situations like this?

Rewrite the fragment so it's easier to understand. Because...

> [E]ach of [several nested] functions are present in different files (which are in different directories). (I'm sure there's legitimate reason for modularizing code to such an extent).

...you probably have code that works with several different abstraction levels
at the same time.

And no, there may be no legitimate reason to keep it that much split up (as
you call, "modular"). It may be just an abuse of overestimated DRY principle.
Well in this context, it's good to make it wobble to show people that accuracy is meaningless so far, because we have very low precision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
I think the idea is to indicate these numbers have error bands:

The estimates below include an estimate of uncertainty. We expect the uncertainty around these estimates to narrow, especially after races are called.

I don't see any reason why we'd expect the uncertainty to be updated more than every 30-180 seconds or why any of this is the least bit "disingenuous".
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And this tool should be in: https://github.com/mannynotfound/delete-trump
Capacitors store joules, not coulombs.

Fair enough -- a two-terminal capacitor that stored electrons supplied via one terminal could be charged without drawing any corresponding current at the other, violating Kirchoff. I do like your water-filled sphere analogy, and I agree that the word "charge" is an overloaded term.

But what would you say is happening at the top electrode of a Van de Graaff generator? It represents a reservoir of stored (positive) charge. Electrons have been physically moved outside the device, and we use the same language to describe this process -- that of capacitance.

I guess the argument would be that the objects in the room constitute the other terminal of the capacitor, with the intervening empty space forming the "dielectric," and that the electrons removed from the sphere aren't associated with the sphere at all, but have just been moved from one region of the dielectric to another?
Why is voting actually hard to do? Even though we're so encouraged to vote, there is a lot of red tape. For example, depending on your street address, you may have to vote at a garden variety pick of a building. At my university, I couldn't vote in building A because my apartment was on street X. I ultimately was not able to vote today because it was actually _hard_ to vote.
Disable jitter by running the following in console:

require('forecast/jitter').get = function(){return 0;}
I'd venture further to say it's a perversion of "news" for a news site to be injecting garbage into the data for entertainment purposes.
I think it's an interesting way to represent uncertainty; it seems pretty intuitive to me.
I also feel like that would be the case, but they usually call it after the polls have closed in that state.
One way would be installing some good GNU/Linux (Mint is good for windows users, or Debian Stretch with GNOME classic mode).

And thus your dad can't install any software he just downloaded from some random website. And the GNOME sofware center is great in Debian Stretch (to be released though, sorry).

create scripts using zenity as a GUI for youtube-dl (and any other command you wish him to run)

Also, I would recommend uBlock to Adblockplus.
Where do you get your news?
The best way is to locate a problem or pain point in your daily life, and find a clever easy way to solve that problem. Copying or improving other product will destine to fail.
I think we agree, I was merely commenting on a techincality. :)
Related. Conspiracy theory websites are also very dangerous places to browse. My grandfather loves conspiracy theories, mostly the ones related to free energy machines, and he told me some sites that he went to. I was curious so I visited a few of them (using Firefox + AdBlock). This was the first time I actually got a virus just by browsing a site. It used an exploit that bypassed the browser download popup security mechanism, and it just installed itself. I legitimately got owned, and I was pissed because that just does not happen to me. Now I understand why my grandfather's computer is unusable nowadays.
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Pulling in big names, capital and media attention to something that is complete snakeoil is hardly worth emulating.

Perhaps those better connected people didn't succeed because they were operating in real environments with real products, where the competition is also more real.
Let's not do this again
Viewing is banned in Russia by uploader :-(
I can't walk across the world in the time it takes me to open twitter.
That would make sense, if they didn't have _actual_ error bands as well.
Sure it does. You just have to look at the list of articles, not the giant pile of random notes.

BEN FRANKLIN SHOULD HAVE SAID ELECTRONS ARE POSITIVE? Wrong.
http://amasci.com/miscon/eleca.html#frkel

EE would be much HARDER if Franklin had swapped positive and negative, since then our confusion wouldn't lead us to shatteing our own misconceptions. We'd never sit down and figure out what "conventional current" actually is. No, it's not backwards. And no, electricity is not made of electrons. In acids, the electric current is entirely a flow of protons. In dirt, oceans, and human bodies the current is at least two separate flows: clouds of positive ions passing forwards through clouds of negative ions travelling backwards. With two opposite charge carriers, what then is the "true" direction of electric current? What if there are five: +Na, +K, +H, -OH, -CL ?

Cute notion: Ben Franklin's kite string was an acidic conductor, a piece of twine which becomes insulating in dry conditions, so it's an electrolyte. And acid conductors have mobile +H ions to carry the current. (What's a hydrogen atom, with one missing electron?)

In other words, Ben Franklin's kite string is a Proton Conductor.

SO HE GOT THE DIRECTION RIGHT!!!!

:)

He only was wrong in the case of metal wires. In his day, a typical "conductor" was a small boy hired to hang from silk ropes, to connect the Leyden Jar to the "Electrical Machine." Or rather than commoners, sometimes they used chains of Elizabethan royalty, all standing upon insulating stools.
I'm pretty sure it's so people don't just leave right away.

No one want's to look at a static page fore more than a few seconds, once you have taken in the information.

And I guarantee you that there are plenty of visitors on that page right now, staring at the gauges with fascination.
I need a drink. Or three :-/
Well, I was referring specifically to the use of "obligatory/relevant xkcd", not the use of "obligatory/relevant" period. :-)
> it could disappear tomorrow and nobody would have to change their plans for the day.

Unless you're in an industry that depends on it for PR, like entertainment.
Unfortunately no. Got the equity pretty late (a rookie mistake on my part) and got screwed royally.
It is a intuitive visualization, but also makes it hard to tell when things actually change.
Haha, awesome find.

Did you just dig through the code or are you a NYT dev?
Yes, it is an abuse of our attention and a poor choice in information presentation. Who can we contact at NYT to complain?
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Yeah... the jitter being fake (and fast?) seems unnecessary per your other comment.

If the jitter was an actual uncertainty measure or something... or less fast...
Freedom isn't easy.

Jokes aside, you're overstating the difficulty to vote. You couldn't vote today because you couldn't pick the building to vote at?
> trying to be the slightest bit aware of what the sewage of thoughts in your head consists of.

That's a pretty useful thing for a "normal" person as a preventative measure to reduce the probability of depression (although there's tons of biological causes including things about gut biome, overstressed immune system, etc., and it's not clear if this 'awareness' would help in those cases).

But to a person in the middle of depression, that's like asking them to fire up a debugger and inspect the issue, when their very problem is that their OS barely boots up and refuses to run any program whatsoever.

The first paragraph about the 'preventative' aspect might be what you had in mind, with the second para's content implicit in it, but I feel it's important to make it explicit given how widely misunderstood an illness depression is.
> after which time they forcibly downgrade the software their users have paid for.

What happened? Could you please elaborate?
I don't know much about uBeam but I would just like to add that there are competing wireless charging startups that do have proven prototypes and real products on the market.

One example is Chargifi. They have wireless charging mats in coffee shops. (Their charging distance is much smaller than what's shown in sketches for uBeam.)
> I think the idea is to indicate these numbers have error bands:

It's also a hint that the page isn't static.
well as long as you don't have a bunch of them in your wallet you needent even pull out the individual card. i just tap my wallet.
Just out of curiosity, what transactional email provider are you using?
Right. You expect him to paint a rosy picture but he's walking a very fine line.
Not to mention excel errors have huge consequences.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinha...
But, by interviewing them, they might be able to find those annoyances and those problem areas. A skilled interviewer could probably find potentially solvable problems, that others may not have considered.
According to the nytimes it looks like the following right now:

- President: Democrats (72%),
- Senate (76%) and House (>95%): Republicans

Is this a good outcome for a democracy? And if so, why? Wouldn't this mean that the system is effectively gridlocked?
And it did it better than any other company, in the uk we had friendsreunited, it was ugly and clunky.