skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, nope, sorry. I'll look that up.
This is actually a very interesting point. While the current raw data seems to show that this is the case, there are several mitigating factors, some of which could even completely reverse it:

1. In at least some states, absentee ballots are not counted unless their number is greater than the difference between the counted results. Some have claimed that absentee ballots historically favor the Republican party. If this is so, it could be that, were all the absentee ballots counted, Clinton would not win the popular vote.

2. It's been claimed that about 3 million non-citizens voted in the election (lawsuits pending--we shall see). Obviously, the vast majority of non-citizens would vote for Clinton. Therefore, if this is true, Clinton did not win the popular vote at all.

3. It's interesting to note that if Los Angeles County alone were not counted in the results, Trump would win the popular vote. And Los Angeles is a sanctuary city.

Of course, it's a matter of opinion whether a few, densely packed urban environments, many of which are sanctuary cities for non-citizens, should be able to effectively overturn the vote of the rest of the country.

So the "Clinton won the popular vote" point is not as straightforward as it may seem.
Humans still drive, if you haven't noticed.
Show HN: Defeating the Snooper's Charter by Visiting Bad Sites All the Time
Recent gun control efforts mainly center around private sales bans (you have to go to a gun shop and let them run a background check on the recipient). That means that the gun shop collects a fee for the background check, and also gets your eyes into the store where they might buy some accessories.

Most businesses would cream themselves for that kind of captive audience, and yet the NRA is one of its largest opponents. Explain that one to me.
Cloud Interconnect is the equivalent to this on GCP.
I suspect OP wasn't literal. You think he was?
"Those drivers would be happy with 8 and a half foot lanes, I've seen them shove giant Dodge and Ford pickups in to smaller spaces at 60MPH."

Why wouldn't they fit there? I've watched many Texans "happily" park their F-350 dual wheels in compact spots (http://cdn1-www.craveonline.com/assets/mandatory/legacy/2014... and https://ardent-camper-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/im... just to name two)
Coincidentally, I'm re-reading Lord of the Rings at the moment. Not sure if a work of fiction is the best source of moral lessons, but the whole point of the book is that the Ring of Power would corrupt even the most incorruptible. And somehow, this doesn't surprise me.
The article agrees with you.

"It is striking to hear this news from FDOT, the agency that may preside over the greatest pedestrian massacre in U.S. history. Four out of the five deadliest American cities for walking are currently in Florida. This is by design: in no other state has the DOT had such a powerful influence on the design of urban streets."
Well, what is fundamental isn't the point. If you imagine a world where different quantities are conserved, there would no doubt be different change-of-frame equations describing how they are. The point is you can imagine a world where energy is conserved but momentum is not. Actually it's possible to imagine physical systems, with affine frames of reference, where nothing is conserved at all.

Fundementality is a different thing, but it's more natural to assume conservation laws and take frame-of-reference equations are a consequence. You can do it the other way (I'm pretty sure, but not 100% sure because my physics math is rusty) but you're still making assumptions, and you still don't have one conservation law following from the other.
I certainly didn't claim to know. But at this point in history, if you want to have the highest chance of making the right guess: I would strongly suggest you go with the scientific consensus that the universe began with a Big Bang and is therefore not infinite, and the consensus of physicists that the observable evidence suggests the universe is not infinite for other reasons as well.

I kinda have to assume you didn't connect the facts that an infinite universe rejects the Big Bang model? Because there is definitely plenty of evidence for that model.

Yes, there are epistemic limits to science, that does not mean it's not evidence. And an infinite anything is an extraordinary claim. It's practically the most extraordinary claim.
Oh man it's discontinued!?

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/53bca41869bedd8b0d0...

Who else used to get a hard-on from seeing the footage of jurassic park animations in Softimage? I remember building up a machine with a Glint card back in the late 90s just to be able to fire up Softimage..
Python3 is ancient, can we stop pretending otherwise?
>No - it's not stripped, isolated, out of context.

If you weren't trying to take it out of context, you wouldn't need to keep dropping cues to try to stop people from processing the contextual information like insisting that your opinion should be considered a "full stop" and mocking the consideration of simple contextual data as "mental gymnastics".

You need to say those things because you're trying to confine people to only the isolated statement you've cordoned off. You don't want them to know that literally the next thing out of his mouth is that some "Mexicans" (meaning non-US citizens entering the United States illegally via the border with Mexico) are good people.

People are wary when they can tell someone is intentionally trying to block their access to relevant information.

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I think we're just going to have to agree to disagree. We see this situation differently, we've both exchanged our POVs, and there's nothing else productive to do here.

I would simply ask that moving forward, you please recognize this for the friendly disagreement that it is and not attempt to mischaracterize all Trump voters as actually-racist, pro-racist, dont-care-about-racism, etc.

Your private opinion can be that Trump holds racist opinions, but just know that a) that's not the only possible conclusion a reasonable person can make, as thoroughly discussed in this thread; and b) only an infinitesimal fraction of his voters agree that he is actually racist. 99.99999% of his voters would be among the first on the street if some of the actually-racist things that the media pretends Trump wants actually happened.

We may have different perspectives on this issue, but we don't need to be at each others' throats over that. Let's insist that we all recognize the good in one another and politely disagree where necessary. Further, let's hold accountable the conglomerates that are attempting to fan the flames of discord and conflict among the populace.

The reaction to this election does not bode well for the future of the republic. We must heal and come together if we're going to proceed.
> we're the dumbest possible intelligence

Collectively, yes. But individually, not so much, considering how hard it is to replicate human abilities in AI.
surprise surprise! an application of the theory of finite fields! as a high-level programmer (e.g. web development) I don't think to hard about the coding theory that goes into me sending a simple e-mail or a text. Or a tweet. Certainly there is so much going on!
Thanks - GCP doesn't match 1:1 on any of those. However, there are alternative (and for many use cases much better) ways on Google.

There's PubSub, Cloud Logging, Firebase (including Firebase Messaging), and all 3 don't really have a great direct AWS equivalent.

Take a look at the AWS/GCP equivalents at [1]. Mostly full coverage, although, again, some services work differently (usually better I hope!).

Email is indeed handled through either SendGrid or Google Apps [0]. Spam reasons I believe.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail...

[1] https://cloud.google.com/docs/compare/aws/
> Occam's razor is a good guide, but it is not a rule the universe is obliged to follow.

It seems to be, actually, because the rule follows straight from probability theory :).

> The point of the experiment is to zero out all pedestrian explanations.

Doesn't mean they did account for all of them. But that's why they're publishing. They've done all they could, they still get the unexpected effect, so it's time for other researchers to try it and at some point we will finally determine whether it's an error or new physics :).
That massive background image of the dog is a resource-hog. Just remove it and the site-loading will improve greatly.
In a species that was never exposed to SIV before, what is actually surprising here?

I really don't understand why you are even attempting to quite wrongly interpret the results of a study before HIV or SIV were even discovered that actually disproves your assertion.

This is a borderline conspiracy theory.
this is an offtopic question: does anyone know, why online magazines like nautil.us, vox.com and many others still don't use https? certificates are free and the additional server cost is minimal nowadays, so why don't they encrypt traffic? are ads and tracking the reason?
If one of the agencies has an effective monopoly, it would be almost meaningless to police them since they can't be replaced since they have no competition. (Yes, yes, I know what you meant.)
It doesn't seem like a final victory if the CEO is human. That slogan would better fit this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/05/30/ascended-economy/.
I suppose the ship has sailed a while ago on this, considering various projects I've had over the last couple years but:

You can create reusable UI widgets that are usable without the user knowing how they were written with an element like <div class="FrameworkName_imageCarousel" ...> also, and your client library handles FrameworkName_imageCarousel without you needing to know how that is done.

I guess where document.createElement is concerned you might need to do framework.create('image-carousel'); or something similar, but I suspect if you are programmatically creating your custom elements you are probably also going to have to do more with them than just create them, and at that point you are going to need to know what code you are expected to call to do whatever things you want to do.

When you say it's also great for interop I worry we have a different definition of interop - I don't call it interop when my way of writing a web site can deal with elements, I call it interop when other people's ways of consuming websites can deal with elements and I have a hard time to understand how interop is going to be great for consumption of non-standardized elements (robots etc. included under other people's ways of consuming websites)

My feeling is really that a benefit to this that does not seem to get discussed is the ability to limit 'interop' that the solution builder does not explicitly control with its implementation (except where the big players are concerned, who have the resources to overcome piddling limits like these). So no more easy crawler solutions, you want to deal with crawling our site and you're not google? Well you will have to reverse engineer our <asio-link> element and figure out how it works to crawl it.

Even if you automate a browser you still have to have code to click on asio-links to get the script implementing that element to run!

But like I say that ship has pretty much sailed anyway, this kind of thing just officially validates the direction the ship is headed. (and I'm not happy about the direction)
After reading this article I was reminded of Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question".

http://multivax.com/last_question.html
they are a lot louder to drive on intentionally, so if you accidentally steer onto them, you'll hear a very loud noise, and your car will vibrate just slightly - if you fell asleep and steered onto them, you'll instantly wake up again.

These are present in the US too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_strip#Continuous_should...
2017 Audi S6 450hp V8TT – Winter Wonderland
Regular QM has non-locality. Entanglement is non-local, at least any way that I've heard it to explain things like delayed choice erasers and the behavior of entangled anyons in confined electron gases. (Anyons (particularly fused anyons) themselves seem to have nonlocal quantum vales assocaited with them.)
Unfortunately the real world is not like Kitchen Nightmares. Often restaurants with good management still fail due to other reasons, the margins in hospo are razor thin, it doesn't take a lot going wrong to go out of business.
That's unacceptable anywhere.

I know Google support spends gobs of time quantifying customer success and happiness, gets measured and rewarded by these numbers. Nature of support anywhere is that sadly you'll always have some folks with a bad experience, all you can do is try to make it right by all.
"Second, for the purpose of marriage, gays are not equal: it is impossible for them to procreate, which is the purpose (but not a requirement) of marriage."

This an extremely biased statement. Just because a person is gay doesn't mean that they have different biology than a person who is not.
>Donald J Trump: "Mexicans coming to America are rapists"
>Random Person: "That's pretty much racist"
>Trump Supporter: "You're an idiot, ignoramus, shut up stupid, you didn't understand what he meant, he's not a lawyer - why should he have to worry about specific words"

That's not how this exchange with Trump supporters has gone. I believe it's been reasonably polite, despite some rather inflammatory rhetoric from the non-Trump side.
I've had luck using https://smartystreets.com/ if you don't mind using a paid service. They're far cheaper than Google.
"only about 5 percent of the mass-energy of the universe consists of ordinary matter: the protons, neutrons, and electrons that we’re composed of. A much larger 27 percent is thought to be unseen, still mysterious stuff"

What about the other 68 percent?
After reading the article, massive databases just
Seem like a stupid idea. It's like you're waiting
For a tyrant to come along and misuse them.

However, there is a strong dose of paranoia in the
article. To be fair, every state has enemies, and
surveillance is done for that reason as well.

Internet connected cameras, yes, very stupid idea.
Nautical flags are still used for almost all of competitive sailing.

They work exceptionally well. Sailboat races are typically started between an anchored boat with a flag and an anchored buoy. There is a countdown with sound signals and flags. If the race committee decides to enact a special starting rule, they do so with a signal flag. If a boat has started early, it's indicated by a signal flag.

I'm 30 and in my life in my local fleet handheld VHFs have become popular, but even so signal flags are not going anywhere.

I can recall and draw much of the alphabet because of this: B, C, I, L, N, Z, X, S, Y, P, 1st repeater and 2nd repeater are all vital in sailboat racing.
I am not a lawyer.

1. Talk to an attorney regarding liability.

2. Talk to an insurance agent regarding liability insurance (and perhaps product insurance).

3. Consider using a CPA or perhaps an Enrolled Agent for bookeeping.

You might want to steer clear of calling your business or classifying its services as software engineering and stick with 'development' or programming because 'engineering' may create an expectation of a higher standard of care than is typical in the world of software development or programming.

Regarding insurance, insure against your actual risks and/or in accord with a client's contractual requirements. What I mean is that until the company has delivered software to a client, liability exposure (beyond anyone can sue anyone) is very very low. A few small websites have a different risk profile than embedded control systems for avionics.

Finally, if $1000 a year is a make or break business expense, it might be better to line up some work before spending the money and to include enough fee to cover such expenses.

Good luck.
Agreed - primary motivation weren't savings, but much smoother UX with Kubernetes on Google. We're adopting container-based approach to development (and DevOps), so we explored alternatives, and chose Google Cloud.
In some countries this happens so often with regular driver that it would be business as usual, not abuse, when a self driving car was cut in front.
Little off-topic, but I don't think I've seen a JPG that loads initially as low-res grayscale before the colour loads in before.
dark energy and dark matter AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DMPie_2013.svg
The way I look at it is this: mathematics is just formalized perfect reasoning. Its job is to get you from a thing you assume to be true, through steps of formal inference, to a new thing that you can be sure is true if the original assumption holds. You then keep on chaining this, so from a small set assumptions you enumerate all the facts that follow from them.

Physics is a field of study that does experiments to identify what things are fact in our universe, and then tries to pick such a subset of math that best fits the observed data. If further experimental results deviate from what the chosen mathematical model predicts, physicists will pick a different model, up until the maths align perfectly with what they see. The reason physicists use math is thus simply because alternative to math is hand-waving and guessing, and physics is a serious field.
The Vagus Nerve[0] that controls every mammals voice box originates at the brain stem and travels through the abdomen, then back up to the larynx. It is also responsible for a multitude of functions from heart to the digestive track. Some people believe this is a clear case against ID, but to be fair, there are others who retort that statement[1]. It seems silly for a higher being/entity to create a central point of failure and "poor design" principals.

As you've stated, evolution is more fleshed out then intelligent design and the fact that it's a Scientific Theory means that it was well tested via the Scientific Method that is established to cast doubt[2]. Just that statement is so powerful because a group of folks actually attempted to disprove and/or prove via a method that is reproducible. ID is merely a suggestion that has almost no way to be proven/disproven. Centering an argument on a possibility is always entertaining when taken with a grain of salt, however, when a hypothesis becomes a counter argument to a Scientific Theory, credibility is difficult to achieve.

The crux of my issue with your comment is that you use the word "theory" interchangeably. While evolution is a Scientific Theory, ID is a theory[3] (lower case t), defined by "an idea that is suggested or presented as possibly true but that is not known or proven to be true". Comparing the two is disingenuous.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagus_nerve
[1]http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2011...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
[3]http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory
Not wanting to contribute to a country that actively discriminates against you is totally understandable. Hopefully it won't get to that point here in the states, hopefully we can remain welcoming to people from everywhere. Thanks for your patient responses.
Soviet WW2 T-34 is still in use in Syria and Yemen nowdays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OoS8Zhg6EM
AWS support has been rarely worth the cost in my various stops. Even at the highest support levels. Slow responses, having to deal with people sticking to support scripts, etc.
> Trump lost the popular vote.

Ok but what does that prove or show? Didn't Hillary know she was supposed to get the electoral college votes? I hear many mention that, but doesn't that just make Hillary's team look more incompetent.
The other 50% is subsidized by the NSA in exchange for direct access to your servers.
The rise of miniature 'microfactories'
Building Pararena 2
The logical extreme of your argument is to make everything a `div` with classes.

While possible, the main issue with that model is that it provides no encapsulation strategy. Encapsulation is one of the core tools for programmers for building complex programs, so having first class support for that in the templating language suddenly makes a lot of things easier.

Without encapsulation, a lot of things become more frustrating. Event bubbling has to be micro-managed. Dev tools are less useful. It becomes even more frustrating to deal with conflicting CSS IDs.

Steele's Growing A Language[0] talk specifically points to encapsulation as the core building blog for programs. Given how HTML is used nowadays (React + Angular are both "HTML as program layouts" models), not having encapsulation is a crutch

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Even 10 feet sounds ridiculously generous by UK standards! Only on motorways would you normally find 12 foot lanes (and even then, they're not always so wide).

I suspect many unfamiliar American drivers would be horrified by UK roads and wouldn't consider them "safe" - yet accidents and road deaths, per mile driven, are significantly lower.
I've lived in Boston, Jacksonville, and Miami and i think you're right on point. Miami has a special intersection (pun!) of retirees, newer immigrants, tourists, and young people (not saying any of these groups are bad drivers as a rule, but they certainly have a wide array of driving styles); combined with poor infrastructure design it's a deadly mix. I have friends who've moved from Miami to LA, and they all agree the traffic in South Florida is worse.
The molecular clock doesn't care when the island was isolated or for how long, it's used as a benchmark tool to differentiate the relative time period between 2 genetic sequences which share a common ancestor, it never gives you a date it can tell you that it took 4 times the time to arrive to state X from state Z than it took from state Y.

We know that the island is isolated sufficiently because of the unique SIV strains, we also know that the populations of the animals were isolated because there are no signs of cross-breeding.

There have also been countless studies to determine the age and the source of the tMRCA between HIV and SIV, and SIV is the source for every genetic study, even those that do not rely on using molecular phylogenetics to ascertain the time scale.

SIV and other primate lentiviruses are old, they are asymptomatic in the vast majority of their natural hosts which suggest coevolution which resulted effectively in cohabitation.

Most of the current work is done in regards to tMRC identification to build an accurate timeframe to understand why did HIV1 jumped from chimps to humans and HIV2 jumped from mangabeys.

We are also studying the divergence of different strains of SIV between different species of primates to better understand the virus, all of these studies find completely different time scale than what you are proposing, in fact other than conspiracy theories that were already disproven no science actually backs up any of your assertions.

Overall even if we take the studies that point to a completely different pathology and estimate the age of SIV at 100's or a few 1000's of years old, the divergence of the different strains still means it came first, spread across the primate population of africa, and then jumped to humans.
Sweden has accepted more muslim immigrants than most countries in Europe, and there are a lot of Swedes who aren't happy about it. There was an incident last year where a gang ran through the Stockholm train station randomly beating immigrants. I haven't been there for a couple years, but things sound pretty tense.
The authors really need to clean this up, the English is awful...
Jaxx/Monero Integration Update
I THINK IT'S a GIRL
If you care about pedestrians, add more pedestrian controlled pedestrian crossings. Train pedestrians to use them correctly.
If you get out into the country (especially the mountain areas which have always bread independence) you'll see similar mentality. That to is going away in favor of a more throw away society but for the time being you still have a lot of tinkerers and rural-renaissance people (farmer/welder/machinist/etc).