skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you are projecting opinions of 0.0001% of Trump supporters (or trolls, who knows) to 60M+ people who voted for him?

1. No, I'm looking at differences in properties of samples drawn from different populations to estimate differences in those populations. Trump-related online forums have a higher fraction of racists than Clinton, Sanders, Cruz, Rubio, Bush, and Kasich forums do.

If Trump supporters in general had the same level of racism as supporters of those other candidates, then we would expect Trump forums to show about the same level of racism as the forums of those other candidates.

2. You seem to think the size of a sample as a percentage of the population is important. It is not. For large populations it is the absolute number of people in the sample that is important, not the percentage of the population.

I am making the assumption that supporters of various candidates are all about equally likely to decide to post on their candidate's forums. It is possible that there is something about Trump supporters that makes racist Trump supporters more prone to make racist forum posts.

That is what you should be focusing on to criticize my inferences about Trump supporters, rather than basing it on your inadequate understanding of elementary probability and how it applies to determining the sample size needed to make reasonably inferences about a population from a sample.

> I see a bright career at WaPo or NYT for you :-)

Have an upvote. I like it when people who are wrong are at least feisty about it.
I guess Apple is one example I've used before, so I take back my previous statement there.

Still, I feel like that's a silly reason to advise people never buy the phone. Especially when they do provide an "insurance" policy with a "blessed 3rd party".
It's amazing what humans can accomplish if they're allowed to cooperate.
I see. What I was saying, that overall price of meat is really low and accessible and this stimulates overconsumption.
A portfolio of zombies might also be called a Private Equity fund.
Your statements are equivalent to you not caring about humanity because you implicitly disregard human suffering.

Since the reason people care about climate change, both for and against, is human suffering then we can disregard anything you have to say about it.

That you and you are clearly just choosing the most antagonistic thing to get a reaction from people. This is the last I will be responding. If I could down vote you I would.
At first I thought so, as the first time I saw it was a couple of months ago when I added a new account, but then I googled and found [1]

So I guess it's based on your routing number and whether your bank's online system has the proper framework to allow it.

[1] http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2009/2/12...
That is interesting. Living in Sweden, and having lived in the UK for 15 years, I feel the Brits trust their government much less than the Swedes do. In the UK there is strong resistance against a national ID card, as an example. Whereas in Sweden you can hardly live without one.

I got the feeling that the Brits didn't trust their government with that info and control it implies. In Sweden we have the opposite: ID cards are seen as an asset and surveillance cameras are severely restricted by the government, for privacy reasons.
This restriction hindered my usage of the site for a long time, and I ended up "getting around it" by actively waiting for freeleech events and grabbing as much as I possibly could during that time. With everyone else downloading as well, it was entirely possible to build up significant upload credit.
I think that explains some weird behavior I witnessed at several places years ago.

We were doing fine, but not awesome, and then management started taking big risks and we flamed out. Very frustrating to spend time and effort on something you know is killing the company.
> I have noticed systemic abuse of ad hominem labeling

You literally said it's due to developers' dim opinions. Lots of people don't like auto transmissions, and that's fine. Just chill about it.

> you know that all such source code is under strict non-disclosure agreements

Nope. Are you saying that all such code is under strict NDA? Likely, you can still say you signed one and cannot talk about it if that's the case.

> I wouldn't be at liberty to discuss or cite

As in, you cannot link to an existing, public article that supports what you're talking about? I call BS.

> any firmware or subsystem concerned with one task - such as running a vehicle - is by definition a unikernel

That's not a definition of a unikernel. You can easily have embedded systems with no kernel to speak of. It may be a unikernel, but since you're possibly under NDA you're not saying that, are you?

> Finally, as a firmware writer, please explain to me...

I'm not a the author of those systems, therefore I will not make assumptions about them. And I recommend the same to you.

What you're describing is behaviour and sure - they may behave like this for some reason. Blaming that on a specific part of the system, or technology, or developers that are dim and do stuff without a reason, without a good proof is neither useful nor helpful.
> [...] and very high price

Even if that's true they've effectively subsidized their rocket business and gained more experience through a greater number of launches. Often Elon is trying to kill more than one bird with every stone he throws - maybe he knows he'll need a solar network to support a Mars colony. This is how he gains the tools, people and experience to eventually roll it out.
> The fundamental fact remains that the compilers do not warn about the major problem of handling dangling pointers

I'm going to quote myself, emphasis mine.

"The end goal isn't for the compiler to verify the safety, the end goal is for the software itself to be safe in a way that's cheaper."

[snip]

"C++ compilers tend to give pretty good warnings that you can treat as errors, and __coupled with good external tools__ it isn't clear that rust is significantly safer than C++."
What is the Jargon File?
You do realize the bush administration started this entire thing right? Get your facts right.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/timeline
Here is the FCC filing:
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/report...
Jumping in on a few of these questions (not all):

> Why is diversity good?

In America this isn't really a question of whether or not it's good. The fact is we have diversity already, because of our history. There's no question of if we should allow our country to become ethnically and culturally diverse. That's already happened. So the only question we can really ask is, how to make the best of it going forward?

So I think (at least in the context of America) you've framed this question in a way that's missing the point, and designed to draw out straw man arguments.

> Why should we respect foreign cultures if they don't respect our own?

Respect is an interesting word. I think the answer is simple: it's just common decency. Growing up I've learned to be respectful of others, even if I disagree with them, and to not stoop to a nasty person's level.

> Why is racism against whites and sexism against men acceptable?

I don't think it's acceptable, and probably most people don't, but I know what you're getting at. White men feel like they aren't allowed to say certain things, or engage in certain arguments, or get reprimanded for seemingly innocuous comments. There isn't a simple answer there but I think everyone would benefit from some perspective taking. It's hard as a white person to understand what it means to be black, and it's hard for a man to understand what it means to be a woman.

All that being said, the vast majority of policy and history in America has been written by white men. Take a look at this picture https://modernlifepodcastnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/Pres... and note that all but 1 of them is a white man. Women were banned by law from voting in many (most?) states until 1920. Segregation was on the books in the south until the 1960's. And of course slavery was written into the constitution until the civil war.

So I think there's a reason why people get annoyed when white men talk about sexism and racism: whatever small sexism / racism you may experience as a white man really pales in comparison to the monumental sexism / racism of American history, and also the very real and more substantial sexism / racism that non-white non-men continue to experience today.
Soulseek is alive still somehow, and has a solid selection of rarities.
> (B) Why has this not been done to date?

For starters, since they will be in a low orbit (to reduce latency), each satellite will have a fairly low utilization. They will usually be flying over territory with no or very few humans within range.
And if it creates a de facto one-party state?
1gbps may mean the theoretical max physical-layer link from a terrestrial client to one or perhaps multiple, satellites, assuming 100% signal strength, no other users, etc. More than likely it would be 1gbps asymmetric from the bird and a much lower upload speed, just like DSL.
Do you think Spotify played a role in supporting the French police?

What.cd was an incredibly potent force for disseminating leaks. One can reasonably suspect that the closure of What.cd will slow the velocity of music piracy, and give more power to streamers/labels when it comes to marketing a new release.
How can crowdsourcing help us respond better to disasters?
Airbnb expands to experiences
Ok, given the election I have to ask.... Who's knowledge will we democratize?
Are there a lot of cars on the market with paddle shifters? I am not much of a "car enthusiast", so I'm somewhat ignorant in this area. Just need one to get from point A to point B.
How hard is it to find a couple of popular items and host those for a bit/few days? Easy way to build ratio karma.
Closing tech gaps can fortify advanced manufacturing, save $100B
> little external catalysts to move it downward before the end of the year.

I agree with the "before the end of the year" qualifier. In the longer term, one interesting external catalyst recently came up: Norway's largest political party Ap, who are likely to win the election next year, have said they will reduce the tax breaks on EVs costing more than ~$50k, essentially letting the tax breaks only apply to the part of the price below $50k. This would increase the price of a Model S by >$20k in Norway.

(Norway has been one of Tesla's biggest markets outside the US; in 2015 10% of all Teslas sold went to Norway.)
Apple is doing more than putting on a show. They've actively trying to build ML products that don't involve sending everything back to the mothership ala Google, FB, etc., but rather store and execute on the local device. (The efficacy and user experience of these products remains to be determined.)

From a security standpoint, Apple wouldn't have anything to turn over, because they never had it to begin with. Google et al, hoover up everything the least bit interesting.
In New Orleans, one sees these prices at local chain supermarkets (i.e., not Winn-Dixie or Whole Foods but Dorignac's or Canseco's) as well as what could be politely termed bodegas in the middle of urban food deserts with crime challenges (one local chain of which has the incredibly apt moniker Chicken Mart)
This still requires ground stations. Though I guess you could pay for "censor resistant" traffic where your data is bounced among the satellites until someone has a US ground station in sight...
Definitely!

I was burned by this and Motorola before as well here in the UK. The official repairers are just about as awful as you can get. Half the screen stopped working after a month. The official repairer cocked up the handset further and claimed water damage and sent me an invoice for £138 (handset price was £159 new) holding the handset to ransom. This was when Google/Motorola were the same company in theory.

A letter was sent back suggesting that they can insert the invoice in a body orifice of their choice and send it back now or it'd be small claims court. It arrived 5 days later by courier. Proximity sensor was dicky, so it went back again. That took a month.

Paying for an Apple product is almost worth it for the service. I prefer to go without either though.
This isn't theoretical, I've seen it with HTTP, HTML and elsewhere. Any time two pieces of software disagree on how to parse a chunk of data, especially if one of them is supposed to be doing some sort of security check, you should expect to find a vulnerability lurking.

I don't know if there's a name for this class of problem. I'd be interested to know.
People aren't generally using a 1 gbps connection at 100% capacity 100% of the time. If we assume customers use an average of 1 TB of data per month and the time they use it is pretty spread out (seems reasonable since they are going to be spread out accross timezones eventually), you can serve about 6 million customers with 800 satelites @ 23 GBPS, and with 4400 @ 23 GBPS you could do ~33 million.

Admittedly these numbers are all best case scenarios (except maybe the 1 TB average, that's probably generous), but even if you divide by 2 it's a decent number of people.
I'm Russian. The only cliches that I have about Russia are those derived from my experience growing up and living in Russia for 25 years of my life, before finally deciding that it isn't going to get any better, and there's nothing I can do to fix it.
Man, you have to tip your hat to Elon Musk and his teams. They manage to consistently up the scales - its almost like accelerating towards future!
It's also the Rails way unless things have changed since I last used Rails.
They're not poor. Across large parts of their land area, they're an industrialized country now. They have a middle class as large as the entire United States population. That said: most Chinese don't own cars, or eat meat with every meal, or live in 2000 ft^2 fully heated McMansions in cold terrain. In short, most of them live more ecologically efficient lifestyles by default.

Oh, and they instituted population control decades ago.

Nowadays, a poor country is probably somewhere in Africa or Southeast Asia. Not much of the world is "starving children everywhere" poor anymore.
I used the term 'motivate' specifically because of the PR language intending for customers to evaluate the Apple product as something that could be used by those who need to use their phone for private and/or sensitive reasons.

Apple of course backdoors their phones for government surveillance access. But they do motivate a threat model that includes government surveillance.

I know parsing my comment in this way may seem difficult, but I used the terminology I did on purpose.

There are no illusions that Apple achieved the security properties that it has motivated.

Google Pixel does not even pretend to address the security concerns of journalists, politically active citizens, IT professionals, or individuals contacting attorneys.
I wrote what I wanted to write, enough with sophisms.
Really? Voice input is faster for entering text. However, I can't imagine editing text by voice would ever be faster than using a keyboard.
Anybody looking to know more about the origins/organization behind What.cd would do well to check out Stephen Witt's monumental book on the subject: How Music Got Free (https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Obsession/dp/01431...)
> It's a triple play of radically reduced launch costs

Which is a very recent phenomenon, and still not fully materializing – SpaceX' Falcon 9 already cut costs in half in its class without reusing anything. Actually reusable Falcon 9s and the planned competitor products will drive down costs further still.
Thanks for that.

I've been using the same command but I was really hoping for being able to set the label from the command line, because I like to have them download to a temp folder and then auto move into folders by label when complete.
I think one can acknowledge that terrorists and terrorist attacks are definitely a real thing that exist, and at the same time one can think that the current reaction is completely out of proportion, where the whole society is giving away its freedoms to prevent a really minor threat?
I wrote a sudoku solver in my first year of college using some heuristsics and some sort of branch-and-cut algorithm, in java. It used bit masks to keep track of the state and possiblities, I was pretty proud, spent like weeks on that.

Recently I re-implemented in Pulp in an afternoon using ILP.

It's similarly fast, both can solve similar sets of problems. But the ILP solution was so much easier and shorter.
Doubt it. Elon's made his fortune by replacing existing products with superior alternatives. He's said in every case that driving cost down is one of the most important parts of creating something people want.

Why do you think he wouldn't do the same here? He knows everyone hates existing telecoms. He's trying to create a better alternative.
nobody uses their connection at full capacity 100% of the time
What the middle of the country thinks (as opposed to what the liberal caricature of them thinks). What their problems are. What they care about. What it's actually like to live there.
Um, where did all of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice just go?
In a word: yes.

Creating a product, starting a company, and finding users/customers doesn't actually prepare you for raising money. That's a whole other set of skills, and it's one in which founders are at an inherent disadvantage to investors. This isn't a good/bad thing, it's just a function of investors being experts at fundraising conversations, and founders being inexperienced.

Which is all to say that it wouldn't be fair be so hard on people for not knowing certain things. It isn't a reflection on overall quality and intelligence.
If you're interested in this kind of thing, you might like the book "Make It So" by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel, which discusses the interfaces used in movies.
The question here is whether the government should deal with personal data access rights or the people themselves.
Genetic breakthrough: Crops use more sunlight to grow
I don't know how they're going to get 25/35ms hops. If they're using low orbits to reduce latency, the surface coverage is going to be lower so they're going to have to mesh them in some way to span large areas. That means routers and intelligence which means uplink, interlink, downlink hops in both directions.

600ms here we come again.
Dark matter isn't "ignored", it is unknown. Not because nobody cares but because, as the parent said, the current scientific paradigm is incomplete and by extension incorrect.
Is this meant to be a sort of generic response to this issue? (which they still don't seem to be addressing here)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DeesTroy/posts/R7V3knn3f1s

Or perhaps to this?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/11/google_pixel_pwned_i...

Still waiting on Google to at least match, if not surpass, Apple's long-term support in regards to updates (which is about twice as much what Google offers right now, even though the Pixel has identical prices to the iPhones, at every level).
Thanks - I'm looking forward to reading it!
I couldn't decide whether to up- or downvote this: it sounds like equal parts 1) information worth bringing to people's attention and 2) slandering a team that seem really nice fellas to me. So I looked both companies up on CrunchBase, and can find zero overlap between investors declared there. Where did your information come from?
No. I wish they were more open about it, (if that's really the case!) but why would it concern me? Then again I don't see zcash as fundamentally questionable, so that may be the difference.
I understand that you wrote what you wanted to write.

Unfortunately what you wrote was FUD in the worst case and misinformed in the best.

Anyway I think we both are at a point where we understand the other's point of view. Thank you for the conversation. I believe we both hope a lot of HN folks will stumble over it over the next few days. :)
Average conversational speed is 110 to 150 WPM. Maybe you type unusually fast? Professional typists might type at 80 WPM and it takes experienced stenographers to keep up with normal conversations.

Again, speaking for speech to text takes some practice, so it doesn't quite make sense to compare a lifetime of typing against your first shot at speech recognition.
I'm not sure what you mean by "civilian use encryption". If it's SSL, then I don't see how they would have the means - so far as I know, it's still cryptographically secure, and unlike US, they can't just force certificate authorities to cooperate and allow them to do MITM.

There have been some attempts by the ISPs to enable MITM, but it's very crude - they basically block SSL, except for their own custom root certificate that they explicitly require you to install, and then they use that to MITM you. It's all very blatant, and I think there was only one ISP actually trying to do it.

Also, I'm not aware of any cases of dissenters caught because their encryption was broken. Most people who get persecuted for their views said all the things they did out in the open, either to make a stand, or because they were careless.
The same way terrestrial data links work - you work out your usage patterns and make compromises. You can't guarantee 100% bandwidth available 100% of the time.

This is some of the rationale behind data caps. While you can still exceed the available bandwidth if all your customers get on and use their connection to the max, a data cap forces your customers to meter their usage out over the month and reduce the impact of this concurrent usage pattern.
That sounds like a challenge
I agree that the US is above average in terms of protection against censorship, but I imagine that if it is an option a lot of people would specifically avoid US ground stations (US is above average in tracking online activity as well).
Then imagine how hard my heart dropped when I was taking a summer nap and suddenly Google notified me (through my Android phone) that some suspicious login activity was taking place in my main mail account. The panic!

Yes, I reused my Gmail password in $pwnd_service. Bad idea.

Fortunately Google managed to detect the unusual activity and lock them out, but maybe others aren't that lucky. That event led me to finally use a password manager and stop reusing passwords everywhere.

What an afternoon, trying to change password from all services I could remember. Can you remember all services you signed up for with your email? Cause I definitely didn't.

Quite a humbling experience.
> I have no idea how a security guard even works!

Hm. Can someone shed some light on this?
I guess in the US you could take advantage of the current Trump Scare.
Deepgram because their interview would be very meta, they just raised $1.9M, and they're a YC company: http://deepgram.com
Dashbot – Open Source Hardware AI Assistant for Cars
Fear of Data
There is an immensely profitable niche finding regulatorily dictated pricing schemes like this, or LIBOR, or various other "one true commodity price" setups, and mercilessly arbitraging them.
What to Do When It All Falls Apart
This year my MacbookPro died (battery exploded). Since I was frustrated with Apple's lack of support for this extreme case and the fact that the new models can't be repaired, I bought an Asus UX305LA and loaded Ubuntu onto it.

I have used Ubuntu at work for a few years but this was the first time I went with Linux at home.

For the most part, I love it! The whole OS seems to be really light on resources and the UI is pretty nice these days. It also passes a critical test, which is when I hand my laptop to a non-technical friend they don't even notice it's running anything uncommon. Chrome is Chrome I guess :-)

One thing that kills me is the fact that Linux is basically left in the dust when it comes to media on the web. I can't watch HBO Go, installing Flash player requires a PhD, and many websites just tell you to go away for using an "unsupported operating system".
Why EUV Is So Difficult