skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, let me be more explicit...

Stop talking about racism/xenophobia in relation to Trump's being elected. You cannot win the ~90% of Trump supporters by linking them with the ~10% of his supporters that are disgusting low lifes. You are distracting people from solving the problem.
Spiderweb Software drops Android support
Also I found Dialyzer (success typing checker) to be helpful in large projects:

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/dialyzer

The way success typing works it is a bit like static typing but when it cannot deduce the types it assumes success. However when it finds a discrepancy it is always right. So the more type annotations you add, and the more precise they are the more benefits you get from it.

It has also been there for many years. I think Python only very recently has started getting the same kind of things via MyPy. Of course, they had to call it something differently (Optional Static Typing).

Elixir has a wrapper around it, it seems: https://github.com/jeremyjh/dialyxir but never used it (I user Erlang mostly).
That's a pretty cool fix. I wonder how they found that. This also highlights another issue with closed source software (and a few open source apps too): complete opaqueness. Yeah, hide the logging and status by default but at least give me a way to see what's actually going on. The Spotify Android app is worse. I wonder if it also suffers from this issue (I swapped to Apple Music after losing all of my offline tracks in Spotify again)
> When buying a house, wouldnt you try to negotiate for seller concessions like paying for repairs?

Yes; but you typically do that before you buy the property, we've had texas for a while now.

All the talk about trade deficit with Mexico makes it sound like people think we just cut Mexico a check every year. As a nation, we receive goods and services for that deficit. It isn't money on the table.
How can something be forbidden in a national forest other than making it a federal crime?
Can't wait to see those lines cross!
I actually like the keyboard. I tend to glide over the keyboard to find the right keys, minimizing wrist movement. Combination of feel, sound, flatness are somehow very satisfying.

But! The butterfly keys are stiffer for smaller keys so ironically(?), the Fn keys and arrow keys are hard to find and press. I actually use the arrow keys so I find using the Ctrl shortcuts more often for moving the cursor around.
Minimum wage was very popular.

"Yet voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maine and Washington all look set to approve ballot initiatives raising their states’ minimum wages"
http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2016-election-results-c...
>>but that's all it is, a justification. And in my opinion, that justification results in less original content.

Given that more content from more people is being created today that at any point in human history runs counter to your statement

Copyright is about protecting the Gatekeepers, the Movies Studios, the Music Labels, the Book Publisher, not about protecting creators.

Karl Fogel does a great job explaining the History of copyright and why is it not needed to protect creators

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI

>> it's our own propensity to not respect the rights of the creator which has encouraged the adoption of DRM.

I do not recognize them as rights. Copyright is a Positive Right created by government. I am a supporter of Negative Rights theory and do not support any Positive rights at all

>>The rest of your argument centers on DRM;

it is not just about DRM,DRM is how they attempt to force my property to disobey my commands, it is also about the law the DRM is attempting to enforce on my machine
This is exactly the kind of partisan talk that leads to infighting, like Oculus vs Vive... Every Republican knows the Vive is better.
Thank you for mentioning Instant Runoff Voting. I've been trying to get anyone IRL to have any interest in it at all. Even the third party nerds weren't interested even though it'd benefit them.
Yes, this is interesting. I'd like to see some version of this (or range voting as referred to in another comment) implemented in a state and the reactions of the population - if voters felt like this more properly reflected their opinion.
Term limits mean just as people really figure out how it works and how to get things done, they're gone.
The contract with America is notable for being highly, highly unusual to broadcast your actual plans. Nobody did this before or after the contract with america until now.
Ok, so I did my bachelor thesis on Tries (suffix tries to be exact). So imma run wild

If you get to preproccess, the trie is best. Building the trie takes time and memory that is O(size of dict = k). After that, lookups are O(length of words = n). Meanwhile, binary search is O(n log k) (that factor n their is kinda contentious as generally you will find a mismatch early in the word).

So if the dictonary is really large, or you're doing a shitton of lookups, the trie is better than binary search. Sadly, in practice tries don't work very well with caches. However, there is a very interesting intermediary form based on something called LCP.

LCP stands for longest common prefix. The idea is to prevent rechecking the first part of the word by keeping track how well we matched at the left and right boundaries of our search interval.

There is another magic trick we can use to get this technique up to the level of a trie. This depends on the Range Minimal Querry. A range minimal querry asks, given a range (i, j) and an array A, what is the index of the minimum of A between A[i] and A[j]. It turns out that, with linear preprocessing, we can answer this in constant time. Now, we build an array that, for any 2 adjacent words stores their LCP. Any time we have an interval in our search, we don't go to the middle, but to the RMQ-index of that interval. This way we split our search space more efficiently. In fact each interval in this search method corresponds to a branching node in the trie.
All debates are bravery debates
Why is it when I post garbage comments, they get downvoted. But when people post garbage comments that slam one or more of:

1) Republican
2) Christian
3) Conservative
4) Anyone from Texas except Austin
5) Anyone who works in the energy industry outside solar

They don't get downvoted?
3.4m Dehumidifiers Recalled Due to Possible Smoke / Fire Hazard
Knew your name looked familiar, thanks for your awesome work on Sway!
But what about the phrase "eliminate the ban on X." Then you're not banning something.

It's almost like you can't just look at the verbs alone and distill very useful meaning.
I think the idea was to create a machine that inspires creators. Those seniors reading news could be writers documenting their next novel and those kids, potencial creators. I though Apple always sold that you don't need technical skills to be able to create something cool with the computer. This thing that apple was for developers I only read about it since the launch of the new macbook.
But that’s not how the world sees it. Many countries will see his request literally, and just completely refuse anything.

An example of such a miscommunication in Europe right now: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37799805
I think it is fair to ask healthy people to subsidize health care for unhealthy people.

I think the best means of structuring society's relationship to medical care is to make it available to everyone within that society, spreading the costs across all parts of society.

That, to me, is the most sensible approach, even when some people pay more than they use, or some people use more than they pay for.

Pooled costs and guaranteed access to shared resources is one of the things that society is/does. Medical care doesn't seem different from roads, schools, police, the FCC, whatever.

Whether the ACA does a good job spreading the costs around or getting people access to medical care, that's a separate discussion. But whether it should at all, not a question for me. It should.
A sulution is Toshiba Flashair SD cards which have a microcontroller and support LUA scripting.

https://flashair-developers.com/en/documents/api/lua/sample/
> “Comcast's purchase of NBC concentrated far too much power in one massive entity that is trying to tell the voters what to think and what to do,” Trump said. “Deals like this destroy democracy and we'll look at breaking that deal up and other deals like that. That should never, ever have been approved in the first place, they're trying to poison the mind of the American voter."

My prognostication is that when they "look at" stopping it (if they do) they will find what everyone who has worked in the world he's entering found out long ago: it's only possible through strong regulation. Fine, he'll think: I'll just embolden the regulators. This, I think, will be when the people who elected him will start to realize how business is done and that, just like in their private lives, they've bought into yet another CEO's fanciful promises that once again turned out to be self-serving in their entirety.
> For starters, immigration is a key issue for Silicon Valley for which Thiel can be a voice of reason to influence the new administration.

I don't know if immigration is as much of an issue for Palantir, given many of its clients are clandestine and won't permit non-citizens to work on their projects.
How is a miscarriage any different to an infant dying of natural causes?

Sometimes babies die naturally it's sad, but there is a huge difference between dying naturally and dying due to intervention or neglect.

Surly you can see there is a big difference between a woman having medically difficulty bringing a child to term and an abortion? In the one case she has done all she can to provide for the child in the other she has actively pursued this child's termination.

If the mother and the child are going to die with out intervention you attempt to save both. That may mean an early birth or c-section giving the child little to no chance at survival, but you still try, you still treat that child as a human.
In France Hollande have been moving goal posts every time these 'N days' plans failed. He's now thinking about a second mandate.

Out of curiosity, in this era of disruption (for better or worse) where are the plans to disrupt politicians ? So many flaws yet we keep believing in the same democratic design every election.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-c... Is this what you consider cleaning up our mess?
On a Windows 10 machine, deleting the data folder seems to have fixed the issue:
rm -rf C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Spotify

Note: Spotify will recreate the folder with a normal amount of writes.
http://www.jobserve.com/

They will start you just about any Western Europe country on your first job / contract. After that rely on your network as agencies advertising there are not 1st tier in the supplier chain
> Trump will pull back on the military interventions that it seems like many people don't even realize we're currently participating in.

This directly contradicts what he has said he would do [1],[2].

Best case is we are much more involved in Syria/Iraq by this time next year. Worst case? War with Iran? Proxy war with Russia?

Clinton would have been status quo, I give you that for sure.

For Silicon Valley, (and HN by proxy I suppose) Trump immigration policy will be a problem. I think he will prevent/discourage the best and brightest from around the world to come here, work, and bring substantial benefit to our economy (rather than the economy of their homeland).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWejiXvd-P8
[2] http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/09/politics/donald-trump-iran/
Well, I don't really expect this to cause oil extraction costs to go up. I don't think companies would waste money choosing more expensive drilling sites. But this could also signal an attack on local regulations too. It would make a big difference if local fracking bans were made illegal. Texas did that.
If you are looking to restrict the rights of property owners, the free market way to it is with a HOA - an agreement owners living within the neighborhood voluntarily enter into.

What? An HOA is created by developers at the time of development not retroactively applied on a neighborhood.

Regardless of that if an HOA was voluntary then it has no teeth when parcels are bought and sold. If the HOA passes along with the deed then you've just created a small neighborhood zoning board which is indistinguishable from a small town government and it's not a free market.
A sanctuary city is one that obstructs (directly or indirectly) the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

http://www.apsanlaw.com/law-246.List-of-Sanctuary-cities.htm...

Since this list is most of your bigger more liberal cities (LA, SF, NYC), I do wonder what it means to cut off all federal funding to those cities.
Like technical debt. We are long overdue for a good refactoring push.
I'd guess approximately 0.0% of businesses care about a self-selected Linux survey.

(and I should update my profile too)
OK, now I want to buy your book!
Hmm, I don't know how many of those truly are unneeded, at least without context on why they were created in the first place.

There may have been real problems with the Water Hyacinths as an invasive or endangered species, for example. And we certainly don't want to make it legal for people to change traffic signals at will!

I had actually expected to find oodles of needless cruft and "dead code", but I'm starting to think that it might be possible that most regulation is there for a reason... who'd a thunk it!
All the expert iOS developers I know use storyboards very sparingly, if at all. They can be useful for really quickly throwing together a prototype but they just don't scale to complex apps. There's way too much string typing, no way to apply consistent styles, no way to compose views out of reusable elements, tons of headaches with version control etc etc.
It will end up being made in the US though.
Yeah, that was a little condescending of an example.

I think I made my point much better here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12915513
Requiring an access point doesn't work in the field.
Could you explain Obamacare? That would be cool. Thanks.
Great project. Marking this as something to explore for our managing our office storage.
The TPP (and other trade agreements) is largely about establishing key US companies into foreign markets. The US can, unsurprisingly, command the upper-hand in most negotiations due to our massive economic influence. These laws include protections for IP rights, financial regulation, and food/drug safety standards that allow US companies to operate and establish dominance in foreign markets.

If the US refuses to build trade relations, or becomes known for breaking agreements, then that gives China the opportunity to come in and instead establish their entertainment, technology, banking, and consumer goods companies. This would be clearly at the expense of the US and would gradually erode our economic influence around the world.

People around the world drink Coke, eat McDonalds, search on Google, get loans from Wells Fargo, buy stuff on their Visas, etc, largely due to these agreements. This money funnels back to the US to pay salaries, taxes and dividends.

So, short-term, US sheep farmers benefit from not having to compete on fair terms with New Zealand wool. But long-term, all other Americans lose as the income streams from established American companies are transferred to their non-US counterparts.
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Ask HN: Source for expert, sophisticated quantitative election analysis?
Much has been and will be written analyzing the election outcome. Little of it will be accurate, and much less will be in-depth and sophisticated.

I'm not looking for the NY Times or FiveThirtyEight, but non-journalistic analysis by experts and perhaps for experts. I'm also looking less for novel and more for 'settled' ideas; that is, I don't want someone's innovative idea as much as the fundamentals. I'm looking for the quantitative - and hopefully comprehensive - fundamentals of what happened in this election.

(Let's set the goal of discussing this without any partisan discussion. This question is about numbers, not policy or politics. In fact, let's do it without even mentioning the candidates.)
On the flip side, Trump is putting a Climate Change-denier in charge of the EPA, and has promised to 'gut' the EPA... so I wouldn't necessarily trust judgement there on how effective the UN climate change projects are (instead of them just being opposed to them on principal, "Climate change is a hoax, so all climate change spending is wasted").
>- term limits on congress, a measure to reduce the revolving door effect of government officials going into lobbying.

Terms limit worsen the revolving door, because the reps focus more on their next job than actually legislating. They become incredibly short term sighted.

The real fix would be to outright ban gerrymandering and force the officials to have to represent a mixture of political views.
It is by definition ignorant which means "lacking knowledge or awareness of a specific issue".

It was not a personal slight. It was not intended to be insulting not repulsive. And I am confused why on earth you would bring basket of deplorables into this.

It is quite clear though that you are looking at everything as an attack against Trump and conservatism which it isn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ainot
It's anecdotal, but most people I know who voted for Mr. Trump did so because they disagreed with Sec. Clinton on matters of policy (SCOTUS was a big one) and/or character.

I voted third party, and those who disagreed with me doing so told me that voting for a candidate doesn't mean you align with all of the candidate's policies. I think most people in this camp knew of Trump's character issues, but thought that Clinton's character issues (corruption, e-mails) were more directly tangential to the office the two candidates were running for.

I don't doubt that racist folks voted for Trump because they identified with some of his rhetoric. But to label every Trump voter is unfair in the short term and may make them more likely to identify with the label in the long term.
"Elm is Wrong" is a good click-baity title. It's not out-right lying, but opinionated sure. It leads me to want to know in what way it's "Wrong", somehow broken fundamentals, stupid API, bad implementation, or what have you.

Given the response in this thread, I can only surmise it was a well chosen title for a blog post.
Trump won because the mainstream media was calling Trump voters racists.

Cry harder, NYMag. It seems you've realized that "new media" is your downfall. But you haven't realized that people stopped reading the old media because it's garbage. Because people didn't want to read articles in which they were demonized for what they believed.

The way you change people's minds is by leveling with them, finding common ground, and explaining why you think they're wrong. Not by mounting your high horse and riding off into insanity.
> So why even have they conversation? What good could that possibly do?

To see how the came to that conclusion. It's not like they hate brown people that speak funny, they have real issues that rightly or wrongly get blamed on immigration.
Superfund sites are expensive, and that's exactly why they're great for the economy.
These regulations seem completely reasonable. Several are protecting government-related insignia such as the postal uniform, and presumably serve a similar purpose to trademark law. Then you have a ban on transporting an invasive species (water hyacinth), restriction on the mailing of tobacco (often mailed to avoid taxes or tariffs), a ban on unregistered submarines (this isn't some ridiculous idea, drug smugglers have in fact used submarines to avoid border control), a ban on selling traffic signal preemption devices, ...
Our politicians like to use stupid language that projects confidence beyond what any reasonable person would possess. For example, presidential candidates are constantly referred to as "the next president of the United States," as if the outcome of the election were somehow predetermined.
I am super happy with my MacBook Air for my laptop. I only do light development on it.

I use an iMac + external monitor for real development, but I would really love if Apple just made a normal desktop, so I could choose the two monitors I want most, and upgrade the desktop separately.

Xcode and Android Studio are both major resource hogs. I am currently using 18.96 GB out of 24.
my best guess is that either

A) He was putting money towards the fall of our government as we know it, I think that would be consistent with his previous stances

or

B) He was investing in a future political career in the Republican party

but to be honest, hearing sama's comments on Thiel, it seems like he legitimately really likes Trump.
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Ah good catch. Probably still not wildly off for illustrative purposes.
I clicked on one of these at random (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1730).

This is a perfectly reasonable law that I would not want to see repealed. Don't you agree that it's bad for people to be allowed to impersonate mail carriers? It would facilitate identity theft through rifling mailboxes, make burglary easier, etc. What's wrong with that law?
You can pay upwards of $4000 for this laptop, future-proofing directly impacts resale value, which impacts perceived utility.

Sure, it's in Apple's (and every other equipment manufacturer) interest to have planned obsolescence, but utility is a key customer requirement / need.

Apple is not (yet) a pure fashion outlet.
SIXTH, a complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising
money for American elections.

Pardon my naivety but who does this target?
Buy health insurance if you don't get it from your employer. We'll help you pay for it if you don't make a ton of money.
Uh, we are paying it back? Why would any sensible household or business pass on ~1% APR loans to fund investment?

Our interest payments are less than 1.5% of GDP (down from 3% of GDP a decade or so ago).

People always whine about not running government like a business...
Good question, I think it's here:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/federal
It's quite a long list of cities (sadly the only sources I can find seem to be anti-immigration - http://cis.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map)
This kind of "shoddy craftsmanship" has been the accepted way to produce software for a very long time, and the effects have until recently been hidden by Moore's Law. Wasted resources didn't matter because everyone with money to spend would throw away their old machines and buy new, faster ones. People working at the extremes -- data centers and mobile phones -- have to actually think about resource use; maybe this will make its way toward the center.
Either that, or he'll just break his promise and let it go through.
Unfortunate acronym: SOL colloquially stands for Sh*t Out of Luck. But if you can handle the huge spiders and the like Australia would be an awesome place to work.
People filmed at Florida HQ were still very awaiting for that wall.

ps: their enthusiasm got to me. Somehow, no matter how low Trump's speeches were, if he manages to spin calmer, safer, leaner lives for people in America I'd be happy. If. Because if it goes as I imagine, grand but failing plans, hope backpressure, the disillusion will be grandiosely sad.
I wasn't talking about Palantir specifically but the valley in general =)
I don't know:

> THIRD, a requirement that for every new federal regulation,
two existing regulations must be eliminated.

Is scariest to me given a Republican controlled Congress. The one sided control makes me nervous.
you might call AdaDelta quasi-Newton: the inspiration for it comes from Newton's method.