skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't people just decide to create a new SV somewhere and do it? It's just people you need to move.
I'm quite partial to Ireland myself, but then, I'm not a developer. Canada also seems lovely this time of year.
This is hard to have fun with given the current election status..
These days it doesn't take too long, honestly. I've had my job for about 3 months and I wouldn't mind something else. Significant changes, which they could have deigned to inform me of when I was interviewing, have made my job materially worse. At 3 months in. And this isn't some shit company, its one that's well known and revered here.
I leave work and I see Clinton is the probable winner. I drive home, get some dinner, and I get a text from the WSJ that stock futures are crashing because Trump might win?!? What the friggin hell pollsters? I get the feeling some explaining on the part of the newspapers and new networks is in order.
Watches markets around the world tumble

Yeeeaaaaah...
As the recent events show, these "error bands" would have to be off the fucking scale.

So in showing wrong uncertainty, they are being even more disingenuous.
Everyone mentions Brexit but I have to wonder it the roots of this goes back to the 90's. Remember the battle of seattle and the likes?

I can think of a few other more local (to Australia) events that seem to make sense when you factor in this bubbling discontentment.
Its also an abuse of CPU, at least in Chrome.
At this point I'd almost welcome a truly rigged system, or even a secret service member who doesn't mind a lifetime in prison. Eight years of W. Bush was bad, and frankly I doubt the economy could withstand whatever Trump has in "mind".
"People over globalism" sounds like code for "protectionism". You can't give everyone back their large-wage-unskilled-labor jobs with tariffs.

"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."

-Thomas Jefferson
Posting one's own status via gnu social (or mastodon) + IM/chat via matrix.org = awesomely decentralized future success!

I think next steps would be for a nice, neat little deployment/installation package for many users (ok, not all non-tech users at first) to be used on one's own website (to have one's own online presence). But even cooler; if all/most news websites/platforms would begin to standardize use of gnu social, then they would win a little more authority (away from silos like twitter). And, it would allow the news sites to "own their own content"...And it would be decentralized to help avoiding putting all eggs in one private company's basket.

Either way, I'm with you!
Let's start with a familiar example. The speed of sound is basically fixed, and signals caused by perturbing air molecules will propagate with this speed. This is true regardless of the gross wind conditions at play -- the speed of sound is much greater than the propagation speed of any single air molecule.

Similarly the speed of light is fixed, and is really the speed of propagation of electomagnetic waves. When you perturb electrons, other electrons will react to that change in the fields as it arrives at them with the speed of light. So even though the flow of electrons down the wire is very slow, the flow of energy or information may be very fast. In fact, you don't need electrons in between to move at all -- you can simply have empty space in between your antenna and the electrons you are moving around ;).

As it happens, these electromagnetic waves have components that stand orthogonal to eachother. If you take relativity into account, you can find a frame of reference where the magnetic field disappears -- really the magnetic field is just a relativistic correction of the electric field and explains why charged particles attract eachother differently when moving versus at rest. In any case, it is really just one field that is called electromagnetic because we used to think it was two completely separate fields!
Perhaps if the person being weighed jumps around, in which case the scale is doing its job correctly--or a very sensitive scale reacting to changes in air pressure. Scale readings generally do not jiggle/bounce with a static load.
I voted 3rd party to try to get the Libertarians above the % threshold on matching funds. It worked in 1992 but was squandered in 1996 by Perot's party. I was hoping it might work again with a party not built around one man. Sadly, the Libertarians did everything in their power to screw this one up too.
that's not the point; there are many successful female founders; the point I'm raising is some VCs, even top tier, rush to be the investor in next big startup run by a female founder, without doing the proper research about the company or the technology.
If I cared enough I would have used something with built-in comment support, or something like stevekemp posted in a sibling of the parent (aunt/uncle?). I'm not sure I want to do that, because it seems overly complicated for little value. Just having a way for somebody reach out if they really want to is enough for me.
I would also hope (I would write 'expect', but I am a bit cynical about the quality of US education) this was taught in elementary school.
Trump defeats Clinton in Battleground Florida
AP SecureDrop
I'm non-native English speaker/writer too. The qualifiers and disclaimers that I'm objecting to are not grammatically wrong. The point I'm making is that your statement loses all force due to the style.
This is rather mild considering some of the previous elections. Heck, this probably won't even be decided by the House.
To me Slack was always just a shiny IRC clone where your sensitive communication data sits inside an American company.

I find it ironic that Slack calls Microsoft out for making something like Slack for the enterprise.

I sincerely hope one day we'll have something like https://matrix.org/ and https://riot.im/ as the standard.
Why make a new one and not secede?
Yep, a VDG machine is not a single-ended device. I tell people that there are always two spheres involved, although usually the second sphere is below our feet: planet Earth. Charge conservation says that, with a VDG, the e-field flux extends between the upper metal sphere and the ground below it. So, to concentrate attention on just the charged sphere, while ignoring the oppositely-charged ground surface, is much like concentrating on just one plate of any capacitor.

Better: hang many different metal spheres from insulating threads, then use a HV supply to deposit various charges upon them. "Capacitor" is always taken to mean a pair of opposite-charged objects. But miscellaneous "charged objects" aren't necessarily capacitors.

Also, this:

ENGINEER'S CAPACITOR, not physicists'

http://amasci.com/emotor/enCap.html

While employed at MOS in Boston I temporarily threw together a floating, double-ended VDG with a battery/motor inside one sphere. Like this:
http://amasci.com/emotor/vdgdesc.html#diff

I thought it would much better communicate the true nature of electrostatic generators, but it never ended up in our exhibit. VDGs are just constant-current high-voltage power supplies. A long enough chain of 9V batteries would produce all the same phenomena ...aside from the 10amp short circuit current, and the megawatt arcing!

PS, weirdness

With VDGs I was triggering three separate kinds of spark. I've not seen this discussed anywhere. We have the usual kind, the thin straight "needle" that jumps between smooth spheres. Then we have the violet fractal tree. Attach a 1cm ball to a VDG sphere and watch in a darkened room. It periodically spits foot-wide lightning networks, just like the miles-wide kind. And third: occasionally I was getting "silent purple sausage" discharge about an inch thick and a couple feet long. In a lighted room they make a slight "thump" sound, so if you hear that noise from a VDG, try observing in total darkness. Sometimes the "sausage" would even produce branching (possibly nanosecond wave effects,) when it would leap out 1ft, then split into five branches from the tip, then proceed to the adjacent metal wall as five fuzzy pathways. Perhaps the particular "seed" at the micro-scale will determine the type of spark which propagates? Or maybe the "sausage" discharge was actually a relativistic effect seeded by MeV cosmic rays.
where you have two tanks floating in outer space, and water gets sucked into them by gravitational attraction

As a person who has always struggled to understand electricity (but understand Newtonian gravity well enough), please tell me more! Water is going from where to where?
Not surprised; a day of reckoning was bound to come for the left. Consider that even if Trump had lost, his power base would still have existed afterward. Trump is not the problem, Trump is a symptom.

The American left took its eyes off of what's important, namely the working class, and instead spent its time and political capital on frivolous[0] causes. This is a wake-up call to refocus.

[0] Lots of things some might consider important are frivolous when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck.
Just as they always do when something unexpected happens.
10 Types of Colleagues We Love and Hate (Mostly Hate)
I wouldn't spend $300 on a keyboard but I would spend $150 so I won't knock $300 when there's plenty of people out there that think $150 is insane. If you can afford it and it makes you happy why not?
Man, heading overseas in a couple of months. I remember how travelling Americans would all call themselves Canadian during the Bush years. This will only be worse.
LAPD Prepping for “Riot Mode” in Some Neighborhoods If Donald Trump Wins
If any mod is reading this, I think it may be smart to close this thread down, since it will spiral into political drama very soon.

(I assume their will be a post discussing the result...)
If the 20% is from the Democratic part of the state and the rest of the districts to report are Republicans and the Democrat is not ahead (or reversed) then you can make a call. It really does matter which districts have fully reported.
There's very little information it's trying to convey. If you don't want you're attention shifted you can just scroll down.
Looks like record turnout tonight, so in theory yes but probably not tonight. Plus, a lot of down ticket contests keep people interested.
I currently use gnu social for social posts (only for private family instance for now as a personal beta). And also use matrix.org for IM/chat (also for private family beta). I'm very happy with both. But if you can get your platform to continue to speak "gnu social" AND speak "matrix.org" for chat, I think you would hit a really sweet spot for numerous HN-centric demographics...at least for HN-type users...then make software dead easy to install, and civilian users will follow.

I signed up for your newsletter...no pressure, but I (and many others!) really hope you succeed! :-)
Ask HN: Is it possible to embed micro nano GPS chip in currency?
In india Govt has announced new currency denominations of 500 &2000 notes.According to rumours, which were circulating on WhatsApp even before the demonetisation announcement, the new notes would come with what is variously described as a "micro nano GPS chip", which is supposed to be able to help track individual notes by way of satellite.as per this [1],it seems possible but not at large scale.I think this technology is not feasible
[1]http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-22369628
A billionaire who could have taken it easy for his later years.
I genuinely believe he sees the country is a mess and he wants to help. What he has gone through to win is unbelievable.

Probably he gets some initiatives through and rest is politics. Likely D & R try to block his drain the swamp initiatives. In 'Art of the Deal' Trump outlines the way he negotiates. Taking extreme position and coming down.
Yep, it's so simple yet too complicated for twitter evangelists like the OP.Also big tech companies try to push people into their walled gardens since data is wealth and they don't want to share it. In the end I believe open tech will prevail.
The reality is sinking in the math is unavoidable
Tech Tools That Make It Easier To Operate a Coworking Space
The roots of this are 8 years of a black man in the White House.
This guy's writing drives me nuts.
One person who has been clear-headed about this for weeks is Michael Moore. Michigan and Wisconsin were supposed to be in the bag for Hillary, but that looks like where the surprise swing is coming from. Moore said from on the ground it felt like white working class people suffering from deindustrialization felt Hillary would do little for them, and might pick up the Molotov cocktail of Trump to throw into the system. His comments have been in lots of pro-Trump videos for weeks. Looks like he was right.
The keyboard is absolutely worth it and it's cheaper than that now.

The font though? I don't know about that.
Bing is selling ads for "Chrome" searches, not Google. IE/Edge default to Bing.
I'm not particularly well informed on the actual logistics of mounting a secession from the rest of the US, although at the very least I would imagine securing water rights would itself be a significant challenge for SV, but I very much doubt the "disruptors" in SV have the wherewithal to stomach such an endeavor.
Thanks, so much information to absorb, let me go through all this and get back to you. I shoot you an email when I processed all this :)
Trump is winning areas that voted for Obama. I don't think Obama was really that effective at courting the white supremacist vote.
I called the Gay Marriage Referendum (Ireland), the Brexit Referendum, and now the US elections.

Am now wizard.

It's 04:13 here but this is too funny not to stay up for.
Capital D depression implies they were diagnosed with major depressive disorder or are certain they meet the requirements and are aware of the difference between sadness and Depression.

If you see this elsewhere it is context specific. But for example there is a difference between those who draw suburban house plans and those who plan museums.
I don't want to scroll away because I want to see when the mean value moves based on real data, not jitter.

One can convey mean and standard deviation without animation.

When something moves, the way it moves catches the eye. Arbitrary movement is wasted movement when it comes to conveying real information.

Take electron orbital clouds [1]. They are a nice way to show uncertainty with a static image and without animation. Indeed, an animation of an electron moving around would not the tell the story as effectively. A blurred probability cloud is a better way to do it to tell the story of probability.

Also, a blurred cloud is useful precisely because it does not imply that electrons follow predictable paths.

[1]: http://www.scottsmithonline.com/interests/medicalschool/biol...
After standing on a scale and you get oscillations from momentum which soon resolve to your actual weight. You see the same thing when putting fruit on a scale at the grocery store.

You can see similar issues with most purely mechanical dials to one degree or another when they are responding to a rapid change.
I am not a doctor, but I think if you have been clinically diagnosed as depressed, you can call yourself "Capital-D depressed" -- IMHO, obviously.
Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?
Just wondering. No real reason to ask. (Completely serious question, however)
US election results and live updating map
A client recently sent me on a long chase after a font, just a font, not a family. I found it at an Italian type foundry; it had been created by a very talented expat designer. Font price: $1000. Speed at which I received a "nvm do not purchase" email from client: Near-instantaneous. Client's assistant, however, _totally_ took note and I can tell she is browsing small foundry sites more lately. Pricing is positioning.

Edit: Just remembered, client's assistant originally initiated the search for the expensive font by asking if we could use the same font as a high-end NYC-based clothing retailer. So, they were the ones who paid for it, and in multiple styles, too.
'Call' doesn't mean the result is guaranteed; it means that the person making the call is very sure that will be the result. See it as "if I were a bookmaker, I would take a X:1 bet on this" for a fairly large value of X.

Those making a call will typically check how well the results for the counties that reported results so far correlate with the polls and historical results, guesstimate what that would mean for the other counties, and call it when they think the result is clear (hopefully, they employ statisticians to make the call, but even then, it remains an inexact science)

For example, if a state has had over 90% votes for party P in all its counties in the past ten elections, the polls say that won't change, results of ten percent of counties nicely distributed over the state in terms of city/countryside, rich/poor, race, etc. show it hasn't changed, making the call that P will win is easy. Everybody would take that bet.

For an example of 'calling it' going wrong, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman.
For poll statistics this is like cigarettes not causing cancer moment
Yep. Trump is a monster, but this feels sort of good knowing how Clinton and her supporters acted. If only people could have seen the light about the Clintons a year ago, then maybe there would've been better choices today.

And remember! The blame for a Trump presidency lies with none other than Hillary Clinton. She's the one that cheated a popular opponent in the primaries, that strategized to promote Trump during the Republican debates, that infiltrated the media and turned journalists into self-admitted "hacks", and she's the one that interjected herself into the presidential race despite knowing that her "scandals" -- electoral corruption, mishandling of classified information, pay-for-play at the Clinton foundation, Bill's history of child rape, etc. -- all disqualify her as a viable opponent to Trump.
This was not going to be funny regardless of the outcome. The country is seriously split.
It doesn't save anything, it is just a startup script to get your tmux session set up the way you want. You can however, have env vars in the script or source from a particular file. e.g.

session "grnc_hub"
directory "/home/minhajuddin/a/grnc_hub"

window "server", [
pane("RAILS_ENV=production rails s"),
pane("source ./.env && rails s"),
]
...
RFID might be useful for anti-counterfeiting or close-range detection, but the maximum reading distance measures in tens of meters at the very best. And it's easily shielded off with a metal case. Tracking bills from space is stuff from bad spy movies.
Well, the reason we still have the election instead of just polling people is because the polls aren't always accurate.
DOH!

Fixed now.

I messed it up last time I was getting slashdotted by reddit and ycombinator, and everyone was complaining that the raw unedited notes were just a bunch of raw unedited notes.

Heh, it's still a 1995 gopher-era design, back when we put all our chapters on a single long page, to compensate for 300/2400b modem speeds. If it was broken up into many separate pages, you'd be waaaaaaiting for the text to finally appear.
She's a multi-billionaire heavily featured in the press. I think it's reasonable to want security.
This is a challenge no doubt.

Think back to the earlier email days...there was no central search for "discovering" others' email addresses. Nor was it easy to "host one's own email"; at least not without some time, effort, and tech elbow grease. I believe this sort of thing starts slow; for example, people share their emails at live get-togethers, and introduce other parties virtually via email, etc. I suppose this could help with decentralized social networks like gnu social...and then there are popular instances of gnu social, such as https://quitter.no

And, who knows...maybe for parents, family, or less-tech-savy, less adventurous users, they don';t hop onto this decentralized stuff at first...We leave it only for us...at least for now; to get all the kinks out. Then, later when software is easier to incorporate, install, use, etc., the regular users/masses will follow. As i noted above, they might typically join bigger/established servers, but could still connect with you. I've drastically and optimistically over-simplifying of course. But i think its possible. Hey computers were once considered the domain of geeks only, and now look how many people use them throughout the world. ;-)
Fira Code is excellent. I find it hard to imagine I'll be using anything else in the next few years.
Ask HN: who's hiring overseas?
If the answer is so obvious then just post it
Agreed. Seeing that the person you'd vote for is so far behind that it's not worth voting at all.
People are also inclined to forget things they don't like.
(for the story my father used google.com to search for "chrome")
I faced similar challenges with my mom, especially since she lives in a different state. She confessed though that she would only ask me. And I'm able to help because I'm in the tech field. I realized that all her neighbors and my other relatives, and parents of my friends & acquaintances, and millions of others would have absolutely no way to get help and protect themselves against online scams and threats.

So I started a free service http://www.littlecaution.org/ where I do talks and seminars about remaining safe online. Since it's just me on my personal time for now doing the workshops, growth and reach is slow. But I continue to work on it.

My belief is that using the right tools is of great importance but raising awareness is a bigger need. All the best tools are no match against human fallibility. So in these talks, the direction I take is about knowing the issues, being aware, and then followed by using the right tools.
Understanding Encryption and Key Exchange
LA times had it for trump. They had their own weighting. Their results when adjusted for commonly accepted weighting matched the common poll average. So it is in the weighting.
Wouldn't we not know until the Electoral College meets?
I like his humming, too, but at the risk of making a heretical statement, it would certainly be nice to have both options.
Except ... how the fuck is Trump going to help those people. It's like those poor, white, rural (, racist) working class folks are eating their face to spite their face.
Election Fraud and a Roll to Disbelieve
As someone who very much dislikes the prospect of a Trump presidency, and is in fact well to the left of the Democratic party and Hillary Clinton on most social and economic issues, I find this line of thinking quite troubling.

Perhaps rather than hoping for assassinations or voter fraud, those of us who identify as "progressive" could instead channel that mental energy into finding ways to better appeal to large groups of working class people who are imo justifiably angry at the state of things in this country.
That is pretty cool. Sadly iOS and Windows only, whereas I'm running Android and Linux.
Terminal vim handles italics, assuming the terminal does.
4% isn't much. Good site though, so thx.
Yes, we can find the answer as to why they were originally implemented.

However, my interpretation of the original question was that of "why are they still in existence?".
It sounds like you want to cut off your nose to spite your face.
It is for the stock market.
What's wrong with political drama? And I don't see any here yet, still pretty much the usual.
damn boys we out
One thing is for certain, political strategy is never going to be the same.
AndStatus [http://andstatus.org] is pretty lightweight, and is both a twitter and gnu social mobile client, rolled into one. While my usage is for my own, private (very small scale/family) gnu social server, so far its pretty good.
My mom has one of those, a Brother model that loudly proclaims it supports Google Cloud Print. Doesn't work with her Chromebook at all.

(Unfortunately we bought it well before she owned a Chromebook so returning is not an option.)