skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. By the time you make those signals provide feedback about your task rather than just whether Caps Lock is on, you'll have already accomplished your task and be into the part of the process where you're trying to download or compile some hack to use code to send something useful along Caps Lock signals. It's not a useful feedback mechanism when getting the feedback is an order of magnitude or two harder than the task you're trying to perform in the first place.
It looks light, practical and cool if you ask me.
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The reporter likely contacted a bunch of Theranos employees via LinkedIn (and probably sorted the list based on former/current).

Was Tyler the only confidential source to talk to the WSJ? Probably not. because of that whole two sources rule good journalists follow.
> Device data is encrypted with a user’s passcode

I think it uses the passcode you set on your phone, not the password of your iCloud account.
> I'm not going to say "you're wrong" but I think there are plenty of situations where you know or can anticipate what gear you need to tackle a certain scenario, where an auto simply can't know.

I know what you mean, the similarity between an automatic and a race driver was only meant to be about the specific context of fuel efficiency, not about shaving of a few more second from your lap times. But in the end, both of those wildly different optimization goals can benefit from a driver's superior ability to anticipate future power demand. And both goals create comparable challenges in "coaxing them through throttle alone", which describes my frustration with automatics pretty well. In day to day driving, people seem to want a certain amount of acceleration at non-aggressive rpm, and automatics that make it hard or even impossible to tap the full low-rev torque of a given engine make people buy bigger engines than they would need if the transmission would better support their use case.

Give me an automatic that allows me to apply unrestricted (by backshifting) torque at any rpm and I would look at it much more favorable.
That seems like a super weird comparison? There's some odd local conclusions being drawn/methodology being used but it doesn't seem to me to be the point of the article. Mostly what it gives is a run down of how else you can perceive these things about Trump.

What the author seems to be concerned with is: How does a guy that is blatantly evil in many ways in the eyes of so many people actually get a large percent of the vote? How did we get there?

It's making a pretty solid case that there is a lot of either baseless or unnecessary attacks against Trump's character which dilute the actual issues. Or maybe I'm extrapolating from what I believe is already the case, but it does give some other perspectives.

It doesn't matter that these perspectives "fall apart", the author isn't actually defending Trump. When you talk about perspective, it could be written by a bowl of soup and still be valid.
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I've lived in northern states where everyone does 10 over in the rain and maintains the speed limit even with 2" of snow on the ground.

I've lived in southern states where people refuse to go faster than 40 if the roads are anything less than bone-dry.

Totally depends on what people are used to driving in.
Don't forget that they hired the guy behind Google's self driving car, Andrew Ng: http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/30/andrew-ng-baidu/

Does it takes just a hire to compete against all Google's patents?
I was referring to nearline in the generic sense; I was unaware that Google had a product with that (rather confusing) name.
Which is only to be expected. Middle management is not about leadership but all about mitigating risk (Seth Godin explains this quite well in 'Tribes').

It's both a shame and moronic that often assembly line paradigms of management are applied to non-assembly line work (i.e. work that isn't the same for each iteration).

What's needed is to reframe work in terms of value instead of time wasted.
The stats errors are so common and easy to correct these days that there is a statscheck (ala spellcheck) program (can't find the link, sorry) out of the Belgium that trawls through journals and checks the stats. Mind you, these are peer reviewed and published articles. Still, about half have erroneous stats, sometimes ones that invalidate the paper. Yeah, we all screw up, but it seems like a lot of the screw ups happen much too often.

As for a place that has common stats errors and how to fix them? Well, just about every single intro to stats book, the entire R language, just about any library for just about any language, google, etc. The issue is not that the folks are making honest mistakes, that happens, it's that the system is perverse and incentivizes them.
Yes, sorry if I was unclear: that was my point. When I as a developer is paid to do something, usually someone (my manager, the customer etc) has already decided that whatever problem there is can't be solved without making a program specifically for it.
Meh; user funding saved metafilter a couple years ago.
User supported ads free model certainly will generate more money per enrolled user than would have been made on advertising. The trick is to keep the costs of the program low, and avoid giving people bad incentives that break the store for non paying users. This isn't actually difficult... It's not like they need to set up payment systems from scratch anyways....
In addition to the point raised by another reply, here's a thought exercise: who can stand fit to judge someone who has made defamatory remarks about everyone? Is the way out of a case to simply say something negative about every possible judge?

(No.)

My understanding is that judges, particularly at the higher levels, are assumed to be capable of remaining impartial unless there is a specific conflict of interest. Specific, like "I was involved in this case as a judge at the circuit level" or "I was an investor in this company" etc.
> That makes it even more important to remind ourselves what this site is and isn't. Is: a place to gratify intellectual curiosity. Isn't: a political or ideological battlefield.

Outside of a clickbaity headline which plenty of valid articles have, how does this article qualify as the item of a "political or ideological battlefield"?
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I'm with you on the prejudice part. But pedantically, its not so easy to dismiss 'race'. We see strong genetic pooling around the world. We can make up a new word for that, or use the one we have. Unfortunately the current word has been muddied by history.
There a bunch of places where we take feedback:

* https://input.mozilla.org/feedback/focus
* https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus/issues
* https://mzl.la/2g23JeE (Bugzilla)

(You can login to Bugzilla with a Github account.)

We have a bug on file for swiping:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1316949
It's more that showing him tweeting "I love Hispanics" is an unintentionally hilarious way try to prove that someone isn't racist.
It would be great if someone put together a guide on how to migrate from a closed source systems (e.g. gmail, google drive, dropbox, etc) to open source systems. One with detailed, but easy to follow, instructions.
How the 2016 election happened, by the numbers
Why would a JSON file be GBs in size? I think that's the more interesting question.
The thing is the statistics show the blacks should address themselvs cause the biggest contributor to black deaths are other blacks.
But as with everything evil whitey is at fault
And nobody goes to prison for it. Nobodies legacy is tarnished.

Why are we even talking about this?
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It's possible for folded paper to be effective, but not an optimal solution for normal hard shell helmets where the ability to fold flat is not a consideration. Just because EPS works best in that situation doesn't mean it's the only solution.
I wrote a library to handle (many cases) of invalid JSON, motivated by a similar experience. https://github.com/RyanMarcus/dirty-json

I'm on my phone now, but later today I'll test to see if it would have worked for the author. It's good for cleaning up JSON, but I would be weary of putting it (or anything like it) anywhere near production.
The first thing my phone asked me when I was setting it up was whether I wanted to enable iCloud backups, and I declined to create an account.
Manuals have traction control too
This other article has a bit more information about this helmet:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38004215
There's a 4th you're missing: lower reciprocating mass.

Low mass connected to the wheels(aside from the stator) combined with near instant torque control means they can adjust power to the wheels in a sub-ms(supposedly) range. Once you break traction it's really hard to get it back and you're fighting the momentum of an ICE engine in the non-EV case. You also have two completely independent motors so you don't have to fight with any transfer case or torque converter and it can just instantly shift power to where traction is available.

All I know is I can floor our 85D in the rain and it doesn't even shimmy, just plants and takes off.
Brilliant. Only problem is the enormous antenna and the >99.9% ping timeout rate :-)
"compete" would imply Chinese recognition of US patents, which seems hit-or-miss.
I'll speak to this point, because it's subtle but important.

The essence of racism is the refusal or inability to understand others as fully human. It's possible to be racist without hate.

My father didn't hate Chinese people, he liked them and respected them, but he couldn't quite see them as the same as him in the fundamental way. He said once, "Chinamen make good citizens."

When I visited New York City, I noticed that the races got along but self-segregated. I went to a large business cafe and all the tables were each one "race": Blacks, Whites, Asians, Hispanics.

Growing up in San Francisco my friends and all the people I knew were pretty eclectic: Hawaiian-born Chinese, Mexican-American Mormon, Japanese/White (his mom called herself a "rice-clackah" ("cracker" is a racial pejorative for White, and Japanese people stereotypically have trouble pronouncing the 'r' sound) she loved scandalizing people with that...), Black bi-sexual, etc..., and none of us every really "tripped" on it. We were all just people hanging out together.

Like Sesame Street, we were the real thing of what you see on Sesame Street.

I don't want to be all East Coast v. West Coast, but I definitely feel weird when I hear people talk about "I love the Blacks."

"BLACK people" vs. "black PEOPLE"

To quote Bob Marley (quoting Haile Selassie): "Until the colour of a man's skin / Is of no more significance / than the colour of his eyes"

And here's Albert Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Debt in of itself isn't a bad thing. Apple has $79 billion in debt. Facebook has $3B in debt. Microsoft is $60B in debt.
Exactly. So there was never 17 separate agencies each checking and finding out Russians did it. Which is what that statement meant to imply.

Moreover, note that James Clapper, the head of the OCI also lied to Congress about NSA in a very blatant manner: http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/

Also note from your source: "However, we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government."
Aren't you thinking of trade secrets by that statement? Patents would let anyone do it you just have to pay google their fee.
It is out of line, because the suggestion is only being made to the black (or Mexican, or female, or...) judge.

Has a white judge ever needed to explain why he didn't excuse himself on a case regarding race? Why not? Why is the white judge the default "impartial" judge, and the black (or Mexican) judge the one who is assumed to harbor bias?

(Edit: An in your example, it's really the "active involvement in civil rights struggle" that is more pertinent, not his race. We judge people by what they do, not the color of their skin or the origin of their grandparents.)
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> hot tech

your bias is showing.

I'm not sure what you consider hot tech but I can assure you whatever it is it is based on tech that has been around for ages and has just been rebranded. I find that people that hop from "hot tech" to "hot tech" don't ever build up a depth of knowledge and understanding to tackle hard problems in an elegant way. It is essentially a major contributor to the 1 year of experience repeated 10 times phenomena.
> I think it uses the passcode you set on your phone, not the password of your iCloud account.

May be true, but

> access to iCloud data including backups requires the user’s Apple ID and password.

probably doesn't requires the passcode that the user have set, because this data is available across several devices, and the only common thing would be the Apple ID and its password.
Great idea to offer the data to the one that is producing it and he/she decides what to share. Thanks
Sure i was talking about globally.
For me, it's not about being a "user hero." It's because if I pay for an account, I become a customer, and not part of their product. It completely changes the relationship in a way that is more favorable to me, which is why I suspect they will never do it.
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sigh. knee-jerk reaction to ban dangerous things.

first of all, a minivan can kill you doing 10mph.

second, cars with this much power (and more importantly, top speed), have been around for a long time. you can build an 8-second quarter mile car in your garage and drive it on the street.

more nanny-state nonsense. "think of the children".
Well, actually no, the author is right. You are paid to deliver results, be it adding new features, processing data, making widgets or whatever. The business really doesn't care how you do that.

Obviously you do write code in the course of providing those results, and all of the author's examples of what you should be doing are still examples of writing code, but they are the minimum code required to deliver results.

Another example of how you're not paid to write code is the frown you receive from stakeholders every time you say you are going to refactor something, or that you are going to rewrite the API to be RESTful.

They don't care, and they shouldn't
> Mind, since ~70% of the US population is white, that does imply whites are less likely to be killed by the police.

The thing is most violent crime is commited by blacks even though they are about 13% of the population.
So please don't act like evil cops just hunt them down for fun, that's the biggest gripe with BLM. They act like it's 1900 when that's just BS
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1318363
As a quick answer, the name comes from being able to recover data when some of it is "erased".

The only way to durably store data so that it survives a hardware failure (e.g. drive dying) is to store more than one copy. Full replicas are the simplest way to do this, but you've got a relatively high overhead (e.g. Store 1GB of data with 3x replicas, and you store 3GB of data). Erasure codes are a way to effectively store fractional replicas, so you only use 1.5x or 1.7x of the original data.

Erasure codes are great when you've got a lot of data and you need high durability but don't want to pay for the storage space required for full replicas.

Why don't we always use erasure codes for everything? EC isn't great when you've got small bits of data, and since there's a bit of math involved in reading and writing the EC data, EC has higher latency than simple replicas.

https://www.swiftstack.com/blog/2015/04/20/the-foundations-o... is a great into to how erasure codes work.
There certainly are genetic differences around the world, but they line up only vaguely with race. If race were about genetics, then there would be a ton of different races in Africa, and we'd probably lump all other people under one "non-African" race.

My favorite way to illustrate the arbitrary nature of race is to ask what the race is of our current (alas, soon to be former) president. Typically the answer is "black." Yet his mother was "white." If it were genetic, we'd say he was mixed, but we're still operating under the influence of old arbitrary rules where having just a small amount of black ancestry makes you "black."
How well do you know the sender? Because this looks like an attack, or at least a probe: something to try and crash the parser and see what response they get back, to see if you are vulnerable to some kind of heap corruption attack.
Problems arise because the world is inhabited by many humans.

One man's freedom may be another man's prison.
Did they have need to, given they are pretty homogeneous?

On the other hand you have to register with the local Koseki[1] and last names are positive indicators of ethnicity for the non-Japanese [except for haafu with ethnic Japanese fathers].

On the other hand, France by law does not track race characteristics, so they can't rely on census statistics to know how well or poorly a population is doing.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koseki
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If this were serious, it were a proposal to the shareholders. People at Twitter might like it to be a public utility, but shareholders will just laugh at you.
In the USA.
Supporting multiple platforms also has the benefit that broken code more often results in observable bugs.
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Thomas Piketty has articulated a path forward. I support his view that governments ought to step in and institute a global tax on wealth.
This is really cool. It's like a more robust watchsend.com for web.
You don't need Twitter to add that, you can have that feature today - get a 3rd party Twitter client, like Fenix on Android or Tweetbot on iOS & Mac. Both have the feature to mute by keyword (and yes, I did have Trump / Clinton / Election as mute words this year).

Both are paid software, but the $15 USD for Tweetbot Mac is absolutely worth it to me... in fact, I think it's a bargain for something I use every day.

(As a bonus, the third party clients are still ad-free as well, and no "while you were away" feature.)
Does not look good, IMHO. If this is not useful for anything, why even bring it up? I have never encountered this in real code ever.

int ((not_a_pointer)), (*ptr_a), (((*ptr_b)));
that's exactly my point! neither party has some kind of monopoly on intolerant ideas.
The code I'm still ashamed of writing
I too agree that Donald Trump is probably not racist - but I use that phrase in a very specific way: I mean only that I don't believe his actions are motivated by racial prejudice.

That, however, does not preclude wilfully pandering to & profiting from the racial prejudices of others - "acting racist" as compared to "being racist", if you will. And I believe he's far less innocent on that count.

For a good illustrative example, consider the historical incident where the DoJ sued him & his company for refusing to rent to black people[0]. I see no need to assume he did that out of any personal dislike of ethnic minorities - far more plausible, IMO, is that his motivation was the (arguably accurate, if distastefully cynical) notion that it was more profitable to discriminate: a combination of factors (eg, "white flight", and the generally-worse employment prospects for black people - ie, consequences of past institutional discrimination & of the prejudices of others) would have meant that renting to black people could be bad for the bottom line.

Or take his final campaign advert, with its ominous talk of a "global power structure" who "control the levers of power" over grained-up photographs of influential Jews[1] - again, I very much doubt Trump himself is personally anti-semitic; but I find it hard to argue with the interpretation (shared by the ADL, among others) that it was designed to pander to the anti-semitic sentiments that some parts of the electorate hold. And if reports from inside his campaign[2] are to be believed, Trump insisted on editorial oversight on every TV ad - so it's not like that could be passed off as, say, Bannon running that message without his knowledge.

That particular case does cause me to take exception to the article's somewhat histrionic passage about anti-Trump people crying "globalists? that means jews!": they're pointing out the anti-semitic euphemisms, not coining them - the author's shooting the messenger a bit there. That said, I do take his point that it could lead people who do earnestly blame "globalists" for their problems, with no prejudiced intent, into the arms of those who use the term in its anti-semitic sense.

Regardless, all-in-all, it's an interesting and thought-provoking essay - even if I don't agree with all of it.

[0] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/se...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-p... (subheading "I'm Going to Win")
>Institutional racism is real

Any evidence of this claim? Cause as an outsider to the US I see a black president and a lot of reversed-racism (affirmite action I think you ppl call it)
See comments below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12978192
Content Blocker extensions only run on 64-bit devices and iPhone 5C is 32-bit.
It has been broken in the Finder since Mavericks. I've filed radars, but its not as strong as ever.
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They have debt because they don't want to move money from foreign accounts to the US so they borrow money to pay dividends, but they don't have net debt.
If you are in the US, at least your data isn't being sent to another country. Outside the US, I think your comment stands on its own.
Just to add to the brainstorm: they could charge users who have over, say, 5k followers a monthly fee to reach 100% of the audience instead of some arbitrary mix of them. The fee would increase with the # of followers.

It's in the spirit of, but not exactly like, Facebook charging businesses to reach more of their followers by "boosting" posts.

It would align the fees with the users who value most directly from using the service as a mass media broadcast device -- a lot of whom are businesses or quasi-businesses. They could waive fees for governments, educational institutions, non-profits, whatever.
Pretty easy.

Take your foot off the gas. If you're still sliding, steer into the slide and correct. If necessary, rinse & repeat.

IMO, the only real advantage a manual has is the ability to do some engine braking.
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> Why is the speed of light faster for satellites than fiber?

The speed of light in a medium is slower than the speed of light in vacuum. Fiber commonly propagates at just 200e6 km/sec.

Latency is still important because it's a significant limitation of GEO satcom.

> Does anyone know if there are actual numbers out that show how satellites could transfer even a fraction of what's already travelling below surface?

I'm unaware of any fundamental physical limit that prevent optics in space from matching or exceeding the bandwidth of terrestrial fiber. In terms of engineering the main limit is likely keeping beams in precise alignment.
LinkedIn is banned in Russia – what's next?
Automatics makes the driver hands free for texting,snapchatting,makeup. A recipe for accidents. No I don't have data to back this claim.