skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"if someone wins a popular vote by 2 million fucking votes, then they should probably win the election."

what if she spent TWICE the money getting them?
As a side issue to the current crop of first-adopter issues (I'll wait till this model is on its second generation - then I'm sure it will be a great piece of kit). I was thinking about the outrage concerning the denomination of 'Pro' on these models - with people crying that they're no longer suitable for 'Pro' use but I think I've come to the conclusion that the 'Pro' user of 5 years ago is a dying breed - Apple sees a future where they no longer exist.

Think about it - music production, video editing, photo editing, graphic design, coding.. These are all things which used to be considered extremely difficult but have now been made easier with fantastic, accessible software. Huge amounts of specialist hardware are no longer necessary or indeed desirable in these fields and the new MacBook Pro recognises this - software development (and other areas) are moving increasingly to the cloud and a huge development machine is no longer a necessity..

I'd suspect that Apple sees the future of its products and services in the cloud and the machines it provides will be slightly different gateways to that future.
I'm married to someone with anxiety, and our now-adult daughter has anxiety issues far worse than her mother does. Mental health issues are biological and usually genetic in nature. Frankly, mental health is far worse in my own family than it is in my wife's family, so I suspect the issues our children face are genetically more my responsibility than hers.

As an extrovert, it's generally my role in the family to go deal with stuff for them and run interference socially. My wife often takes me to social functions just so I can hold the conversations for her. I know she needs it, so I do it.
The first love of my life had severe depression. It was heartbreaking and awful. After we ended after 2 years (not directly due to the depression), I told myself that as much as I loved her, I would never allow myself to get in a relationship with someone like that again. It's too much.

The second love of my life had issues like anyone else, but the depression and anxiety didn't REALLY manifest themselves until a year into our marriage, after we were together for 6. I wanted to run. I wanted to quit. Not from the depression alone but because she refused to acknowledge a problem until it got REALLY bad. But she promised she would work on it, she promised we'd talk to a counsellor. I stayed. She went on anti-depressants. We talked to a counsellor. We got through it. Things got good again.

But they'll never be 100%. In the year since then, there have been 2 more dips. Each time, like the last, she refused to acknowledge a problem, I faced the decision "Well, either the person I love is a terrible person who I don't want to be with, or they're suffering from something, and I need to be there to help them." Each time she finally admitted a problem, and things got better. But she doesn't want to talk to a counsellor anymore. She's too stubborn, too independent, doesn't want to admit weakness. (Not because I would judge - I'm much more the empathetic and emotionally open of the two of us). So I don't expect us to be ever 100% again.

All this to say that I would give the exact same advice as you, thro32. If you still have the choice early, get out while you can.
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Click on the seller to get https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfi...

98% positive and 2250 lifetime feedback ratings means it's probably a good seller, just not authorized for sandisk and listed there to get around the rules. If someone took the time to report them the listing would be removed.

OTOH the same seller lists https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M55C0VU, which I've confirmed on my account is restricted. So maybe they are authorized, and just listing on any ASIN they can find that matches the product? I've done that sometimes.

It doesn't look like customers are being harmed in this particular case, it's possible some unauthorized seller created the listing and VP distributor simply jumped on it at a later point, the first seller could be suspended now.
Using DNSCrypt would help. Sadly if your after privacy, domain names are exposed in plain-text within the HTTPS request itself.
Social media in congress/local-government elections?
Do you know of any recent study/data about the role of social media in congress/local-government elections?
> The house also favors less populous states, even if not by design.

Out of curiosity, how does this happen in practice? My understanding was that seats were divided up by population (giving equal voice to those in more densely populated areas).
> There are treaties which define these freedoms as "human rights" but I think China is a nonsignator to them.

The ROC drafted and signed the UDHR (not a treaty), but the PRC was then at war with the ROC and doesn't view itself as a successor state to it.

The ICCPR, which is an actual treaty related to UDHR rights, was signed but not ratified by the PRC.

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

The Constitution of the PRC protects a broad range of political rights (!)

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People%27...

Perhaps the government's view is that articles 51-54 (on limitations of political rights) justify the very extensive restrictions that the government has put on these rights in practice.
> It's that if someone wins a popular vote by 2 million fucking votes, then they should probably win the election.

But everybody knows how the system works. It is late to discuss about its fairness.
> The part of the Net Neutrality debate that is so often disregarded (and probably the reason conservatives oppose it vehemently) is that it gives FCC (an unelected body of government, part of the executive branch) power to legislate.

Completely wrong. It gives to the FCC the authority to write rules. In fact, Congress cannot delegate its legislative authority to the Executive branch short of a Constitutional amendment. They tried that with the line item veto and Clinton but it was struck down in the Courts.

Rules and laws are very different. Here is a primer:

https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/basics-regulatory-proce...

And BTW, the United States population is about 320M and the GDP is about $18T. Shit's complicated. The idea that Congress should write every rule is blithering populist nonsense.
Yep, thats the strategy for msm to discredit independent and other news sources. Too bad they destroyed their brand during election.

It's clever branding I give them that, but I doubt it flies after election cycle meltdown.
Because Target's prices might not be 2x what other retailers are?

I tried to buy some dishwasher detergent on Amazon recently because my local store is almost always out of the brand I like. It was $16/12oz on Amazon, versus $3.99/12oz at my local store. I assume that's what he's talking about.
I see a lot of comments here in shock and disbelief. In the spirit of at least trying to consider the most charitable view if the events I would like to offer my justification for what happens.

Municipalities tax consumption on their territory. By contrast, the federal government taxes income and/or profit. The individual states tax one or the other or both. This division has to do, in part, with practicality of administering the tax.

The primary purpose of taxes is to fund the projects for the common good, plus the overhead. The secondary purpose is to promote or suppress certain activities, such as tobacco use. Tying a certain tax to a certain purpose is an exception rather than the rule. Most taxes go into the common pool.

Had there been a movie theater in town it would have been taxed. The same is true if both the server and the viewer were in the same town - the server would be taxed as a business and the viewer would be taxed as a consumer.

Moving the server to a different location leads to a situation where the consumption tax is not paid in either jurisdiction. Thus an arbitrary act of placement has dramatic consequences for the revenue of municipalities. It also puts local business at disadvantage, undermining the business tax base and jeopardizing jobs, so further eroding the funding of the common good.

Yeah, I prefer to pay less myself. I also run a Saas business and I would rather not have to collect the taxes. Still if I am concerned with the fairness of it, I have to admit that uniformity trumps my personal preference.
This comment simply attacks the source while doing nothing to actually refute its arguments.
Amazon has lost a lot o appeal lately. Since they moved to Amazon Logistics from DHL here in Berlin, I had several lost or non delivered items, items were delivered at 8pm to a business address or on Saturday - this all being a Prime customer. Working with customer support was a pain.

Several people I know - including me - wish for a real Amazon alternative, and I've been a customer right from the beginning spending 90% of my online money at Amazon.
I think they mean, this will not damage Trump, as it will be spun as a success, even as it causes damage to the average person. Probably applies to many, if not all, of his policies.
No, it doesn't. This is again a false equivalence.

Stories in the mainstream press can be slanted, or even false --- stories are retracted all the time! That doesn't make them "fakenews". Fakenews sites are spam, fabricated out of whole cloth.
It's rather amazing how when you call out people's preconception they hold strongly, you'll easily get downvoted here, regardless of how well founded or supported that preconception is.

If the original comment had mentioned how the purchase was from a black vendor, or a gay vendor, people would be up in arms about what that unjustly implies, and how without any sort of data to back that it's just stereotyping (at best). Do it for China, where people already have a strong preconception of the types of vendors present, and all that rational separation of anecdote and data and needing to justify your statements goes right out the window.

This isn't to say you can't call out vendors from China if you suspect they are a problem in higher proportions than other vendors. The original comment could have included "I suspect this may be a problem exhibited more often from vendors from China, but don't have data to back that up" or more strong statements with some data, but did not. Instead we have a statement that only adds to the comment when combined with your own preconceptions, since it adds nothing to the circumstances of the described situation without your own preconceptions.
2015 Macbook Pro, which has been the best machine I have ever owned.

Just as important as the machine though is the software/ shortcuts I have put on it.

-homebrew
-iterm2 mapped to a global hot key of cmd+shift+space (get to the terminal in a hurry)
-contexts.co is also a great tool that has almost resolved all of my window managment issues
-chrome mapped to cmd+1
-various other tools mapped to cmd+2 - cmd+5
-visual code studio. Nothing important to add. I just enjoy it. (not my ide though)

A note on osx window management,

Contexts.co resolved a lot of my problems but not by itself. For all you dev's who use Chrome and extensions or apps. If you're more than frustrated with how osX handles switching between chrome and your extensions (hangouts, keep, postman, etc.) try removing the app version and find the extension for whatever you are looking for. It's not perfect, but with context.io and the extension version of hangouts, when I cmd+tab to hangouts, it now actually takes me there.
The entire core of Mars is made out of ice. The reactor melts it, and it makes air.
It is not "fine" at all. CNN last week intentionally reported the absurd claim that Richard Spencer questioned whether Jews are people. They knew it was incorrect, and reported it anyway.

Only later did they issue a quiet retraction. This is par for the course for US media organizations.
Hi Craig, hi folks. I'd like to hear you talk with Buster Benson, currently at Slack, and Jonathan Harris, http://number27.org/

Thank you for rethinking the series! Al
No+Big+Deal+by+Lee+Clement+-..+No+big+deal+;)(descript
> The sarcasm in your post is, funnily enough, the opposite of the truth

Isn't that one of the primary mechanisms of sarcasm?
flipping a coin can be rigged. I practiced and can flip a coin in my favor about 80% of the time.
For what it's worth eBay does turn a profit most years: http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ebay/financials
Well, given that state breakdown, I think the right conclusion is that there are simply more murders in the US than other developed countries across the board, no matter how you slice it.
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So Facebook is even worse. Good for them!
"What you call reality is actually a collection of statements that you believe to be true."

"I believe that my position is consistent and the one that most successfully models reality, with the least ad-hoc adjustments."

If reality is only a set of beliefs, why are you trying to model it with another set of beliefs?

I've studied that Owl link in depth, and (though he appears intellectually honest for the most part) he mis-characterises Rand's views. I'll tap out here, but I want to point out that you definitely seem heavily influenced by Kantian ideas.
I hope you realize your business is about to go out of business. The only reason you can charge people now is because the automatic recognition sucks compared to humans.
A 2011 i5, 12GB RAM, 128GB SSD +2x 1TB HDD with two 24" 16:10 monitors. Using Sublime Text since 2012? (best software buy ever) for quick PHP fixes, Go micro services and scripting mikrotiks and lately Android Studio which runs very fast compared to my 2015 13" Macbook Air which, I'm using for all the above except the Android part.

Oh and btw, I'm running Debian 8.2 and Gnome and I couldn't be happier. Some day I will be installing onto the mac as well; though I really like the macos ui and everything it is starting to get ever more difficult to opt out from various updates etc.

EDIT: re-reading your post, I would definitely recommend dual monitors with 16:10 ratio for 24" size or less. I also recommend an SSD m.2 for swap, root, /usr partitions, specifically the expensive NVMe ones from samsung. I can't emphasize enough on how big of a difference they make even compared to sata SSD's.
I would love to see those!
> I should have insisted on some therapy for myself as well

Yes. So much this. I suffer from pretty serious anxiety. And just a few months ago I was fighting through the worst of it. Looking back at how much my wife was doing and how stressed she was... I feel like she could've benefitted from therapy almost more than me.

I wish we as a culture can get over the therapy stereotypes. Both my kids see a therapist on a regular basis and have been for years (adopted through foster care. Lots of trauma). We've been trying to help them learn how helpful it is. It's fun to see them ... brag(?) ... about going to therapy. They are excited when I ask them after work about their day and how they got to see their friend, the therapist.

When talking to other people who feel like they need therapy but are too embarrassed, and just tell them about my kids. Ask them if they would judge them for going. Talk about how much they love it.

One day therapy will be more common!
Methods change, path stays the same.
I received a maxed out 2016 15" MBP on Tuesday and so far am happy with it. The ESC key (or physical lack thereof) was only a mild irritant at first and I've already adapted.
Exactly!

>"And honestly, my life isn't that interesting to talk about. I draw every day, for example, but I can't really talk about that and be interesting."

You can talk about it and be interesting, just it takes real work to talk about it and a real effort on the opposite side to listen and engage.

I can talk for hours about topic I'm super into, but at that point it feels like I'm talking at someone not with them. Unless they're equally or (ideally) more knowledgeable about the subject than me, or they genuinely just sprouted a passion for that thing and could listen to you all day (rare) but that's usually preceded with some variation of "hey man you're really good at x, can you teach me? I've always wanted to learn about x" which doesn't fall into the context of 'casual conversation', it will always be boring.

And thanks, I'm glad you have found someone as well!
I'm not sure where this quote came from, but I can say that the Tesla app should avoid storing the OAuth token in cleartext.

Disclaimer: I work for Promon. See our blog post: https://promon.co/blog/
It's been three days. I guess you had no examples, but I'm still open to hear about it :)
I'm referring specifically to this paragraph:

Unique among the major international trade and finance organizations, the WTO has a mechanism for enforcing its rules. If a country believes another country has violated WTO rules, to its detriment, it may request the appointment of a dispute settlement panel to hear its complaint. The other country cannot veto the establishment of a panel or adoption of a WTO decision by WTO members. The panel reviews the arguments in the case and renders judgment based on the facts and WTO rules. If the losing party does not comply with the ruling within a reasonable period of time, the WTO may, if requested by the complaining party, authorize it to impose retaliatory measures (usually increased customs duties) against the offending country or to take other appropriate retaliatory measures against that country’s trade.

I admit I haven't read the actual trade agreements, but it appears that the WTO has no choice but to summon a panel to review Trump's claim. I'll write it out:

Claim(from you): Nobody in the financial or international communities is going to take any notice of Trump labeling anyone anything.

Assumption 1: Trump will file a dispute with the WTO.

Assumption 2: If a dispute is filed with the WTO, a panel will be convened to review it.

Assumption 3: If a panel reviews something, it has taken notice of it.

Conclusion: At least one person on the panel is in the international or finance community and will take notice of Trump's dispute.

Since we have a contradiction of the form P & ~P, either the original claim P must be rejected, or one of the assumptions behind the argument for ~P must be rejected.

I wonder: If someone is trespassing on my property and I call the police, am I merely a name caller until the court convicts them? It seems like initiating a formal process should be more than name calling.
Let's start a new social fashion trend.
Remix it to fit your tastes.
I believe the problem is that the number of seats in Congress has not increased in 100 years despite a huge increase in population. This has caused a distortion by giving tiny states more representation than they should actually have based on their population relative to the bigger states.
I hate when people use some brands publicity to promote themselves.

Tesla clearly has no fault here.

so basically:

- you need to download an malicious app
- your phone has to have some security bug to bypass 'sandbox' via some root privilidges

I can understand if you blame google for android, or user for downloading app. But after this chain, there is virtually no app you cannot hack.

>Promon engineers recommend that the Tesla app provide two-factor authentication, should avoid storing the OAuth token in cleartext, prevent easy access to its source code, and use a custom keyboard layout when entering passwords to fight against mobile keyloggers.

btw none of these suggestions preventing anything if you have the conditions above, suggests me they have no idea what they are talking about
Does it overheat with three monitors? Have an x220 (older notebook but with 16gb and SSD) and it is impossible to use it with two external 1080p monitors without cpu throttling.
Virtual reality is pushing gaming into another ‘golden age’
I purchase one (MBP 15). I did have some issues when using a external video card adapter (using DisplayLink drivers) that was then plugged into a USB2 hub that was then plugged into a USB-C to USB adapter. But since removing the driver (and the video card adapter), I haven't had any issues.
Not to endorse either candidate, but you're making a common mistake.

If the election were a popular vote, the candidates would campaign for that. They'd focus more on big cities etc. There's no guarantee Clinton would have won the popular vote if that had been the case.

Edit: If you're downvoting could you explain why?
Amazon used to be brilliant because you knew exactly what you were getting. The fast and cheap shipping was a (very nice) bonus.

All my recent purchases have been disappointing, from futons of 'odd' sizes or misleading descriptions, "no assembly required", or products which just aren't good quality with 4-5 star reviews.

I've got to the point where I'm going back to only buying direct from amazon (if I can even still tell, it's not as easy as it used to be). Even sticking to "known" brands is difficult since brand licenses are often re-sold cheaply to different qualities of third party manufacturers in an era of globalization and cost-cutting driving down margins.

What can be a completely "buy it for life" quality item one year can in as short a time of 5 years have "sold out" their name and the products a shell of their former quality.
I like the idea of teaching distributed programming using music. I imagine some people are more auditory than visual.

Also like that Joe is still experimenting and coming up with outrageous stuff like "Instead of a process playing all the notes, spawn a process for each note and make it play that note and then stop".

It seems like a silly idea, but what he's getting at is with the ability to create independent concurrent building blocks you can start to think about problems in completely a different way. Quite often that models your problem space the closest, and then there is less impedance mismatch between your problem space the implementation.

For example you start with adding items to a shopping cart, and instead of worrying about business logic, you're now stuck debugging locks, threads, futures and promises, etc. At the end of the process you see that there are maybe 10 lines which describe the actual business logic but there are 1000 lines managing the impedance mismatch.
The purpose of a private corporation to make the share holders wealthy, even if you have to appease a foreign government.

Many companies cooperate with NSA, rouge governments all over the world. Everybody does that. It's not new.

At the end of the day, people have to be paid and investment needs to be multiplied.
For me I actually spent a fair bit of time trying to decide what machine to get, after my iMac died. What I went with is a docked 15 inch MBP (16gb ram, 2.5ghz i7)

Display's on desk are an HP 32-inch envy (main) and portrait 24 inch dell p2414 (secondary)

Mouse is logitech m705, keyboard corsair mechanical keyboard

dev done in virtualbox linux VM, which i definitely recommend doing if you can get away with it.

I will likely move to a linux machine next time around, short of apple surprising us with a new release.
"it" in the article is Netflix (generally, video streaming). It sounds like you're talking about internet service. It seems perfectly reasonable to call one of those a utility and one not.