skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Whatever happened there was a major fuck up. And Bill Clinton was right all along - the campaign had no message whatsoever.
Re: the DNC I think the focus on the DNC also over-emphasizes the power of the DNC (eg, the primaries are run by the State committees, not the DNC) while confusing the direction the influence flows in the DNC -- members of the DNC are influential members of the Democratic Party because being an influential member of the Democratic Party is how you become a member of the DNC.

If the DNC's role in the primaries was replaced with a laptop to add up the popular vote of all of the primaries, all delegates and superdelegates eliminated, the members of the Democratic party who would otherwise be "superdelegates" -- elected Democrats in Congress, top members of the state Committees, past and current Democratic Presidents, Democratic governors, etc -- would still have an outsized influence in backing one candidate or another, because they are influential people with personal experience with the candidates whose opinions are trusted by many people.

Pretending it could be any other way is silly; when I need an opinion on someone, as either a political candidate, a plumber, or a potential new engineering hire, I talk to people who have personal knowledge, whose opinions I trust. Demanding that these people not share their opinions is absurd.
> Actually no, secure boot is evil, and comparing it to GPG is fallacious. The objection isn't to code signatures in general, but the inevitability of baked-in privileged keys inherent in its design.

I mean, both my desktop and laptop have extensive BIOS options for key management - including removing the initial keys and loading your own.
As I understand it, this is mutual recursion accross services, which is a much more specific case. Forbidding it may be viable.
Well yeah but there are a lot of times folks don't have their laptops with them.
>"and also a lot more expensive, depending on the call, when you factor in the full cost of the cache that gets clobbered."

But a syscall doesn't necessarily mean a context switch right? It's just a mode switch if the kernel is servicing the syscall on behalf of the same process. The cache wouldn't get clobbered then because the kernel is mapped into the top of every process, for just this reason.

Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying?
Nintendo has had a history of unexplainable supply shortages for in-demand items. (case in point: Amiibo)
Apache Solr 6.3.0 released
What's wrong with our society that some people can be so morally bankrupt and bereft of good sense.

This type of behavior is literally all around us. I recently listened to a podcast about this exact phenomenon. It featured a couple that had a special rug that drove cats crazy. They sold it on amazon for ~$35. A bunch of people bought them up and sold them on ebay for a lot more, using the drop-ship method (the reseller ordered it using their amazon account with the buyers shipping address).

When people realized they were being ripped off, they returned it to the original seller, who had to handle the claims due to requirements by amazon. They lost 10's of thousands of $$. The creator called some of the people doing this and they laughed him off, telling him they were doing nothing wrong.

It was on planet money's podcast, I think. I can try and find it if you're curious.
Does it need to look at the cube again after it has observed the starting position?
If I was the only person in the organization, that might work fine. However, there are two main drivers of this methodology:

1. I need to allow other people to simultaneously evaluate stories, and a database works well to coordinate multiple people accessing the story queue.

2. Having metadata and stories in dynamo/S3 allows for much more flexible querying of ALL stories, to look for patterns, model the data, etc.
I see a lot of people blaming the technologies, and I think that's a problem.

The technology is just a tool. Tools that we choose how and when to use.

If an echo chamber exists, it's only because we, as individuals, create it. We like and comments on posts on Facebook that agree with our existing opinions and we unfollow the people who have different opinions. Our own actions create the echo chamber.

We also get our news from one or two sources, and we avoid the sources that lean the other way. Not all media has a liberal bias - there are many media outlets with conservative views, we just choose not to read them.

The tools aren't to blame - we are. The result we see and the America we live in are direct consequences of our actions. To rid ourselves of the echo chamber, we have to change our own actions. We have to specifically search out information that challenges our beliefs. We have to interact with people who have different values.
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Anyone that looked at his campaign site would have known that he was going to keep parts of it. Instead we have scare tactic headlines all over Facebook about how he's just going to terminate medical coverage for 20 million people.
I am entitled to argue that something is a threat to society. You are entitled to attempt a rebuttal.
> I think the correct decision was made here.

No it was not.
It says in the article:
Organizers ... failed to persuade a federal judge to block rival website operators from broadcasting chess moves ...

The defendants also said that they would not simply be copying audiovisual content generated by World Chess, but displaying the moves on their own computerized chess board while adding commentary and analysis.

The ruling directly attacks the business model of the organizers and will thus reduce the chance of attracting sponsors in the future. Hence, it is not in the public interest.

Chess is a peculiar game in that the visual content of any broadcast ie players actually playing, is subordinate to the moves made. Nobody watches a chess game online for 5 hours for the fun of seeing the players think. That's like waiting for the paint to dry. Take away the advantage of broadcasting the moves with commentary and analysis and your advantage as a sponsor is gone. I would have thought the judge would have understood this and taken it into account.
And the same for internal variations in environmental protections & so forth. I like the sound of some general system of assessing how big an "unfair advantage" the lack of a given regulation grants in the other country, and counterbalancing that edge with an equal tariff.
All of these outages could be prevented by opening sales randomly in time windows and in small waves. Or with preordering. The same applies to sales with price reductions, etc. All these companies shoot themselves in the foot with stunts like that. Why not make it more expensive if there is such a demand, anyway?
And, let's be sincere here, this is not some essential item, like food or shelter.
I remember the backlash, and it was bizarre, especially given this was the first Zelda game that gave us _some_ semblance of continuity. But I also do remember a Dolphin demo reel showing a more realistic Zelda that probably made people think that's where the next game was going, so people were naturally disappointed when their expectations were undermined.
You're making two very bold claims in your post. Are you really sure about that? Because I've learned to be suspicious of people who speak about economics and politics as matters of fact.
Could you in theory sue Google for (intentionally or not) discriminating against you in the search results? Just in theory.
Thoughts and prayers for you both and everyone else in the same or similar situations.
The problem isn't the arbitrage (which is a core component of capitalism and profit [1]) these people are utilizing, its Amazon's draconian policy towards sellers.

[1] Hat tip to patio11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087930

> They're likely using one of the world's oldest business models: "Buy things for $1, sell them for $2."
I absolutely made contributions to this issue when I had the chance http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/hybrid-concurrency-patte...
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Great article, couldn't explain the pain better. I worked a lot with Angular1 in the past couple years, and the controllers tend to get very messy because a lot of ui state and app data mixed together in the controllers.
I am using React for most of my apps now, but I look forward to see what frontend architecture will come out in the next few years. I feel as ES6/7 is getting more and more common for js development, probably some OOP patterns that are used in Java/C# will be developed for frontend, but of course, front end apps is still different from Java server apps because of the nature of the language and the purpose of the app (frontend is more view and user interaction oriented)
"We" don't capture most of the value though. Most of the value goes to a tiny percentage of Americans at the very top and everyone else loses their jobs. (Ironically many of the rich I've spoken with agree, while it's often the middle and upper middle class who argue this point.)

The simplest thing to do would not be to try to measure regulation differential legally speaking, but to measure and tax two more direct things: pollution and cost-of-living-adjusted wage differential.

Pollution could be taxed at the aggregate national level, e.g. via CO2/$GDP differential. This is a direct measure of the energy and resource efficiency of an economy, and it likely correlates with other kinds of pollution as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ratio_of_...

Imports from countries below the USA on that list would be levied an offshore externality tax.

Wages would actually be harder to assess since that gets complicated, but honestly the pollution tax alone would make a massive difference in leveling the playing field. Higher efficiency in that area also probably correlates positively with wages in more developed countries, so CO2/$GDP might be all you need to start with for a differential fair trade tax.

Some countries that are high on that list (low pollution) are there because they are largely undeveloped and don't use much energy. They'd get free trade with us that would help them develop, but as they developed they'd be incentivized to do so in a more sustainable and cleaner way to avoid incurring tariffs. Developing by screwing the environment as China and others have done would be disincentivized.

I'd also love to see human rights included, but that's harder to measure objectively and probably also correlates with wages and pollution-efficiency. Countries that don't give a damn about their population's rights probably also don't care if they huff heavy metal laden coal ash, and vice versa.
Thanks, I may take you up on that down the road!
What I want to see is a .05 next to 1.0 mustache and then try to reverse engineer the criteria from there
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I'll check this out, thanks!
Brittany Pettibone offered evidence that Twitter is shadow-banning her, here:

https://twitter.com/BrittPettibone/status/797186228894322688
Who do you think you're kidding? [citation needed] isn't the closer you think it is.
I'm glad that tools like this exist, I wasn't aware of them, thanks
I agree with your conclusion but not your reasoning. (you accidentally wrote "can" for "can't" at the end though, maybe you have time to correct it.)

So this is why I don't agree with your reasoning:

The fact is that Ambirex's comment at 11:22 PM Friday, November 11, 2016 UTC began with a capital T as his first move. Though he could have left it at that and left his opponents to reply, this was not his complete comment. The fact is, for the second letter of his comment he chose an 'h'. And the fact is, for the third letter, he chose an 'e'.
The fact is, for the fourth character he had a space.
The fact is, for the fifth character he had an 'm'.
The fact is...

And so forth. So while these are certainly facts -- still, they are quite creative facts. More creative than the work you put into beginning your comment with "the main difference".

So while I actually happen to agree with you, this idea of the moves being "facts" versus acts of creative expression is dubious -- where is the hard line that separates that from my reproducing your comment (or any other copyrighted work) by reference to facts? They are facts, true, but they are also the creative output of two masters of the field.

In general for cases like this judges try to look at the pragmatics. This is why the judge is quoted as saying "He said the public interest would be served by 'robust reporting,' and analysis of the event."

The fact that for him this includes fully reproducing all the moves (which of course seriously impacts the market of the organizers - as well as reproducing the whole of the 'creative output', rather than just excerpts - both of which are important standards in copyright) is one that I can probably agree with.

But if he felt that the actual interests in the matter were another way, you bet that he could extend copyright protection to the creative work of playing a game. After all, it is rare for any game between grandmasters today to match one from a database. When they do, it is similar to when similar melodies are created independently.

In fact, a chess game likely has waaaaaaaay more entropy (I am making quite a technical argument) than very short melodies which are clearly protected by copyright and for which many "variations" are already owned by others.

Why are the "facts" of the melody more protected?

So I don't really agree with your interpretation. A fact would be like "white won" or "black won" -- rather than the creative output into the moves themselves. Though more creative than mere fact, I do agree with your conclusion -- for the same reasoning quoted in the article.
Only half of my Nintendo holiday arbitrage attempts have been successful.

There will be limited availability for a short time, then a flood of product.
This kind of stuff is par for the course with Nintendo hardware from what I can tell. Is it deliberate? If so, does perceived scarcity drive more sales, or are they just sick of warehousing unsold products?
She flip-flopped.
Also, the comment box has a handle at the lower right, which you can drag to make the comment box bigger.
Yes, and this is actually encouraged by Microsoft to avoid anti-trust action. As I said, take a look at ARM for what an actual locked-down ecosystem looks like.

Manufacturers inherently want to lock stuff down (for one, they sell more devices when someone wants to try out a new OS), but functionality being called a "standard" should actually be accessible to device purchasers.
The basis for citing US share of world GDP is that the US has military commitments against adversaries whose collective share of the world GDP pie is growing, and their militaries along with it.
Leave that to the EU Commission. They have been look for å case like this for years.
You are correct. The author is considering the cost of accessing kernel mode code and data, which I don't think is fair
I wrote a 5-minute tutorial on this (would appreciate feedback): http://www.boostedsignal.com/blog/a28c2988-151e-42cd-b0ab-1c...
You can usually find the methodology analysts like 538 use.

The better ones are usually pretty transparent about them.
The Lawsuit That Could Save the Planet
I've encountered about a dozen people who are friends of friends on Facebook for whom the wall was a major selling point for voting Trump.
Abusing npm libraries for data exfiltration
Yeah, a business model is more important than the non-copyrightable nature of facts. Good thing the judge understood the actual law, which is not concerned with business models.
I don't think that money is the problem here. Most Linux development is also money driven and most kernel developers nowadays are doing it to pay their bills. In a way, money can be a confirmation, to some degree, that you are actually providing value to someone.

In my opinion, the key is that Linux is libre software.

Windows has to deal with lots of old drivers and userland software that are arcane binary blobs. In the Linux world, most software running on it is libre and the community can evolve it to work with newer systems. This is specially true for drivers, since most drivers are GPL and kept in the kernel source tree. This promotes a healthier relationship between the companies and individuals involved where, through shared ownership, everybody is on the same boat.
The article does not provide an answer and simply poses the question.
The fact that Google does not disclose any useful information makes it difficult to figure out what really happened.
Which accounts on Twitter, though?
This looks cool -- I'm using Python right now, but if I ever use javascript lambdas I'll give this a try.
Google has plausible webmail competitors. "ProtonMail" is not one of them. Can someone provide an explanation of why they think Google would elevate this particular random email provider in the media by penalizing their search results?
Everyone knows what the solution is. One way or another, the Feds need to provide broader subsidies and some form of reinsurance to the ACA market, the same way they already do to the medicaid market via those states who have expanded medicaid. The question isn't what do to, but rather who pays for it, and how. Since the Republicans are historically the party of fiscal constraint, Trump should have much more flexibility to deficit spend than a Democratic President would have. The debt to GDP % will likely increase but we have a couple decades before we find out if that matters or not.
It means that you can say anything you want [within narrow and specific legal limits] but so can everyone else. Freedom of speech =/= freedom from criticism or freedom from censure. Censorship by the government is prohibited but censorship by a private entity like YC is perfectly legal.
> how people use male pronouns when talking about engineers

In French, if there are 99 women and 1 man, you use the masculine plural.

Some languages are sexist, but it ain't a big deal.

> that it would be very atypical for them to be

It currently is atypical for them to be. When there are more, it won't be atypical.

> This pushes women out of STEM fields slowly but surely over time

But do you really think this is about pronouns? I think there are other issues like women making choices to go into other fields for other reasons. There are innate psychological differences between men and women (I'm not even sure I am allowed to say this let alone go near this topic in PC-world).

Open-source programming is a place where your gender doesn't matter at all. No one ever needs to know if you are female if you don't want them to.

Its a very objective field. If I do a code review - I don't ever need to know your gender, and I can judge the quality of your code.

I mean if you are a gun female coder, and someone says "women are scared away by pronouns and are being pushed out", what are you going to think of this?

You don't want a world of male programmers thinking that a women got a job because of some diversity hire.

If I were a male entering a female dominated industry, the thought of telling them to change the she's to they's makes me a little ill.

I'd like to see a survey on women complaining about this.

If there was a quality survey of women saying their top ranked issue preventing them from entering STEM was gendered pronouns, then this would absolutely be the biggest priority!

I think there are bigger issues and this is just a bike-shedding thing that is easy for SV white knights to make themselves feel good over.

> the truth is that in most of America you are still much more likely to be harassed for being female, non-heterosexual, non-caucasian, etc.

100% agree. But the nitpicking over pronouns enrages people, and distracts from the more serious cases of outright and blatant sexism. Everyone is crying wolf these days, and it is driving sexism underground.

I know it sucks real bad, but you have to bring people along with you to change their minds. This is why Trump won.
Funny thing, they are in stock in the local electronics store in my small hometown in Slovenia :)
Certainly not an apples and oranges comparison. The distinction you've pointed to is in no way relevant to the point that was being made.
WTF is sandstorm?
Americans need to stop dividing themselves into liberal and conservative. People are much more complex. This way of thinking is the best recipe for an eventual civil war and in the meantime it stops any reasonable political discourse.
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I run a home Arch server and wanted to install Sandstorm on it a couple of weeks ago to use GitLab, Etherpad etc. but ended up on a VPS because it wasn't supported.

Now it is!

Thanks a lot for the work, sandstorm.io team!
Honestly, it's a lot more complicated than that, and the article itself presents a pretty complicated (and flawed) model. There's no substituting for benchmarks.

Really, if you want a quick and dirty heuristic, the smallest program is likely the fastest. Everything else will bite you in the ass.

Anti exception stuf: the author repeats the old harmful "exceptions for exceptional cases" bromide while overselling the cost of exception dispatch (5k cycles is cheap in the scheme of things) and underestimating (or, rather, not mentioning) the icache cost of error checking.

Now that I'm looking, the author glosses over many other things as well, like modern system call interfaces (no exceptions!), cache pressure generally, and branch prediction efficacy. These factors are strong arguments against generating reams of template code using CRTP.

Like most analyses that purport to show the "true" cost of anything on modern superscalar virtual memory systems, it oversimplifies.
There is no ethical argument to be made for actions to benefit the species at the expense of the individuals it comprises.
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Anybody know if Sega Genesis is also coming out in similar fashion?
How is this "morally bankrupt"? It's just smart. Every business on earth would do this in there sector if they had the chance.

What's wrong with a smart and clever individual buying this to resell at 8x? It's not hurting anyone, it's just a stupid retro console.

What's wrong with society? People are struggling and getting screwed over by governments and big business, they badly need income and here is a small opportunity to get a piece of that pie.

Ultimately someone that wants the product who is happy to pay the price that it is sold for, because they deem it worth that price, ends up with the product in there life. And someone else manages to profit to, to gain some much needed income so they can purchase something they want in there life.

Hardly morally bankrupt. There is no change in the outcome here. There are still the same amount of people with these consoles, enjoying them as before. Nobody is hurt.

In fact you could argue that someone doing this is a net gain, because two people gain instead of one. Someone made a profit that wouldn't otherwise and someone got the console they wanted (and obviously didn't care about the price)
> insulting people or a group of people is not free speech anymore it's actually a crime.

This is incorrect. https://popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred-her...
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1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/09/14/493810206/episo...
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I really don't see why Nintendo didn't produce a bit more on launch - I mean, they're not some kickstarter newbie - don't they have some skills in demand-forecasting?