skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bigger problem is that the EC is a winner-takes-all system. If California has 55 EV's, and Candidate A wins by 1%, why do they get all 55 votes? Nearly half the state voted for Candidate B! I have found that the debate on the EC has been over a false dichotomy: either have the EC, or have a popular vote. What about distributing electoral votes based on percentage?
No, they would try to run up the numbers in big cities and large media markets, and ignore the rest.
Thanks for saving me the click.
An Interactive Tutorial on Numerical Optimization
"Some of Deepmind's recent papers are tricky to reproduce. The Paper also omitted specific details about the implementation, and we had to fill the gaps in our own way."

So, I'm not the only one seeing this issue. It seems like many recent AI papers want to look as impressive as possible, wile giving you as little implementation info as possible. This bothers me, because it opposes the very purpose of research publication.
I'm a hardcore proponent of Python 3 (because it's the only Python I've ever used/learned), but I'm OK with this book accepting the realities and for at least committing to writing 3.x compatible code:

> However, we will write code that is as much as possible in the Python 3 style (and understood by Python 2). The most prominent example is that in Python 2.x, the print command is special where as in Python 3 it is an ordinary function.

I don't specialize in the purported domain of this book, but if the author thinks that `print` will be the most prominent differentiator, then I'm guessing that there aren't a ton of situations where it'll be hard to make his examples 3.x compatible (for this domain, I'm assuming behavior of the division operator will be another prominent, but easy-to-fix difference).
My biggest complaint about C: SQL-like interface. These seems like a terrible decision to me.

If you are used to relational databases and SQL, it's a real struggle to get your head in the right place. Some of the gotchas:

Cell level vs row level consistency/locking (as stated in this article)
* Grouping / counting isn't really a thing.
* WHERE statements are actually used for identifying the key/value pair you want and not for filtering the rows.
* Indexes aren't really indexes. They are definitions of partitions and sort order.
> The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too.

So, how about this - instead of weighing electoral college votes by location, we could weigh electoral college votes by education level. That way, people with higher education gets more of say than people with lower education.

Pro-Trumpers need to explain why giving giving geographic weighting should be more valuable than giving educational weighting. There are a million factors that elections could be adjusted for.. why should we pick geography as a factor over anything else? Why should farmers be weighed more than University professors?

Is there something more special about farmers than university professors? Which one is more important for a modern economy?

How about this, we can weigh votes by race - black votes more than white votes. Isn't that just as valid as weighing farmer votes over urban votes?
More importantly after multiple form fill ups and feedback sought by Google from the applicants they themselves do not give any feedback back to the candidate except a yes no answer. Frankly it seems all the so called Transparency that google professes are nothing but horseshit
About 8.12x10^14 cubic feet, so about 1.77 feet spread over all of the Americas.
Not a problem. They can write their own Reddit in Go, with blackjack, etc.
Short answer yes. We make it a point to add the processing fees to the client's invoice. Since we use Stripe its 2.9% + 30¢.

There's a bunch of different ways to invoice your client with a credit card option. The two we've used are our accounting software https://www.xero.com/and one time invoice with https://slimvoice.co/ (which as an additional $1 to the fees).
This guy truly gets it. This is the single best description of what you have to get right to be a successful startup CEO.
if you mean by control, unlock, tracking etc, I am sure BMW supports.
I use a ThinkPad T410 (2010) with i5, 8 GB RAM, and 7200 RPM HDD and a headless Debian server running on an Intel Atom (also circa 2010) with 2 GB RAM and 7200 RPM HDD.

Most of my development is done on the headless server using ssh + tmux + vim, though I will use Visual Studio or gvim on the ThinkPad if my current development is targeting Windows.
> the 'Pro' user of 5 years ago is a dying breed... Think about it... coding... huge amounts of specialist hardware are no longer necessary or indeed desirable in these fields... a huge development machine is no longer a necessity

Mac (not macbook) pro user here, and I disagree. I bought a mac pro when it came out because it was a mac so it was reliable and intuitive, and the dev environment rocked, AND because it was fast (for the time). My team's builds and tests require a lot of processing power, and our company likes to keep things in-house.

I don't think that all of the world has progressed as far into the cloud as you propose, and I just want a fast mac.
I concede completely. You are quite correct. I'm sure Trump and the US nation will revel gloriously in the triumph of beimg noticed by a committee at the WTO.

But that's all they're going to get.
Clearly he understands what net neutrality is. I'm so glad he took to Twitter to show everyone his strong opinion on the thing he understands.

Repealing net neutrality is far more likely to shut down his alt-right nightmare sites as they fall under the cost margins of eyeball ISPs artificially inflating their peering costs (turns out playing out your Slytherin LARP fantasies in the real world doesn't provide the same revenue as companies like NBC can get).
Because nearly none of the problems he listed are real problems.

Please read through this: https://eev.ee/blog/2016/11/23/a-rebuttal-for-python-3/
Meet ALVINN, the Self-Driving Car from 1989
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IMO. Amazon.com has became a poor ebay.

On Ebay, it's clear that you're only buying from a 3rd party seller and you can see who it is and what's his reputation.
There's no evidence that archive.is or other archive sites have been hacked, or that they modified what they present as archived pages.

The snopes page doesn't even use simple photoshop methods to show how the images were modified.
Oh, wow, I didn't realize that about that service.

Recent Real Life developments have resulted in logistics limiting me to cold stuff I can put in an insulated backpack with a ice pack, but, yeah, I could use this to get cold and frozen stuff without much hassle. Thanks!
If anybody has questions related to the article (or anything else I might be able to answer really) feel free to ping me here!
I could say the same of opposing viewpoints being aligned with statist (or union) interests.
the context in which this applies is as follows as it seems you took offense at the syntax rather than semantic that introduces comic relief in the background of a much more urgent & dark situation in which the alignment of government oppression of civilians is being enabled by the Facebook platform. Let's analyze the spirit of that comment:

Zuckerberg is married to Facebook and he's being cuckolded by Xi's communist party.

Let me further explain that one cannot actually marry a corporation or an organization for the sake of a marital harmony but Zuckerberg's profit incentives is tightly coupled to Facebook's stock price.

In addition, Xi is not engaged in a misogynistic sexual relationship with Facebook, because a corporation has no gender and only exists as a paper & digital document, it should be impossible for humans to engage in intimacy with a piece of paper or a digital representation of a long declaration of the creation of a corporation, but I'm not passing judgement if it turns out that paper & digital legal text that describes the establishment of a corporation is a paraphernalia for some individuals, but actively dictating the terms in which Facebook is allowed to operate: completely within the needs & interests that keeps his power base afloat with none of the concerns of it's users and it's principles that traditional American democracy represents in which it was born in.
Movie: Wag the Dog (1997) – technology applied to fake news
US Navy Data Leaked: Tips to Protect Sensitive Data from Theft
She got more votes in a system where opponent did not optimize his process for more votes, therefore it is a meaningless metric.
1. The free burger malware was hosted from Google Play

2. The attack was performed at a restaurant near a Tesla super charger, offering a free Wifi which pushed the Google Play link as ads.

3. The app must not root the phone, but this is pretty straight forward.

4. Pretty likely near a Tesla super charger.

> Chances of this ever happening in the real world: Zero.

We certainly hope so.

We're raising awareness of IoT app security. Read our blog for the original technical details: https://promon.co/blog/
16GB was not much even 5 years ago. That "fantastic, accessible software" eats a lot of memory.
I can read, thanks. That doesn't answer the question. How often do they raise the caps? What happened before 10 years ago?
Black hole caught ‘burping’ galactic gas
> domain names are exposed in plain-text within the https request

Which exposes nothing more than the previous solution of having one ip per https domain, which made it just as obvious what domain you were connecting to. Putting the domain in the request allowed people running the servers to host any number of sites from the same ip. A convenience for the operators that exposed nothing new for the consumers.
Some thoughts about recent developments which may change your mind about solar panels being useless in Finland ...

Hydrogen production is now possible with renewable energy. There are some trains going into service in a few days in Germany that use Hydrogen instead of diesel. I also saw many hydrogen Toyota cars whilst in Japan. The technology is here, and works.

The break through in Hydrogen production happened in 2014. Just after which the hydrogen train started being designed. Only Toyota have been able to make the technology work in a cost effective way for smaller vehicles as far as I know. However, it's a simpler thing to do with larger vehicles like buses and trains.

Also, directly using the energy for things like Aluminium smelting does not require batteries. This is already happening in Germany. Even if it only works for half the year, the energy savings are massive. Without needing batteries, solar power is hell cheap.

When you can convert all the wasted extra power from renewables into Hydrogen, you can use that energy to power much of the transport and heating. This may make it cost effective to install the solar for summer months, but still have all the extra power generation ability for when solar is not producing. This is because now using excess power is now profitable, and it doesn't have to be thrown away.

I'll also note that the energy revolution 2 in Germany has produced massive savings in energy use. Apparently every euro of energy saved is worth three-five euros of cheaper energy generation. These energy analytics systems are now starting to be sold world wide.

I think there's still 20 years whilst existing infrastructure is being replaced, but we are already at the point alternatives are significantly cheaper. Even if we don't assume technology gets better every day.

Even in countries where the government is owned by the coal industry (Australia) coal mines are being closed down to be replaced by cheaper alternatives. Much of the world is without electricity, and they can get electricity for a much smaller investment with renewables, as renewables scale. Coal, nuclear and other older technologies don't scale down to the low end. At the high end they now can't compete on cost (even ignoring health and other pollution costs they don't get charged for in many places).
> The neutral pronoun in English is 'it,' and using it to refer to a human being is always wrong.

Absolutely not. It's perfectly valid to use "it" to designate an unborn baby, for example. Another example: "The person, who asked to remain anonymous, said they would press charges".

"it" and "they" have long been valid use cases of pronouns in the English languages and all its flavors (British, American, ...).
I think you're right. And I think that's why so many people are calling for the electoral college to elect Clinton rather than Trump.

Larry Lessig is probably the most prominent person calling for this. He has an op-ed in the Washington Post about this right now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-constitution-let...

Also, Dave Winer mirrored it here:
http://scripting.com/2016/11/25/lessigOnTheElectoralCollege....
Vertical accuracy is usually lower than horiztonal accuracy. It is more difficult to calculate elevation than lat/long.
> Chances of this ever happening in the real world: Zero

I dunno. I've seen more than one person get caught by setting up their phone for development (1), getting suckered into installing some mal-ware laden game (2)... 3 and 4 don't seem _like_ that much of a stretch in the valley.
Yes please !!
you know that storing OAuth token in anyway (encrypted etc) doesnt change anything right?

for screen readers and custom keyboards, thats why OS warns you with a really scary notice, that keyboard can read your passwords.

I dont think you can read OAuth token without priviledge escalation btw.
Ah, all right, thanks. That's just me not being a native speaker.
> may harm an entire language still in its formative years.

Who cares? If people don't want to use the language they won't, and if people do, they will. I refuse to feel bad for the language.
I can no longer edit my comment, but thanks for the examples given. I'm not sure if it's changed my views but I think I understand where the anger is coming from and I have something to think about when things like this come up.
Seamless Paypal integration. Paypal is very popular across Europe (and the world), and many prefer to use it over credit and/or debit cards (these payment methods aren't universally popular).
Any good deals for setting up a home GPU cluster? Like GTX 1080s, motherboards with multiple PCI Express slots, etc.
Once a tool is built, humans find more uses for it beyond its original purpose. It doesn't matter if it was meant for another problem or region. Anti-terrorism laws, surplus military equipment, censorware for China...
What was broadcasted exactly?
You are right upto 1948, when we fought for our independence to get rid-off Dogra Raj, and became independent and affiliated with Pakistan. So Pakistan did not occupy us. Each side (both India and Pakistan) narrate this story for her benefit :)
So there's a couple thing to unravel here. First, each county in the US runs their elections separately so within a single state you might see a couple different systems. Some places like my area in North Carolina use a system like what you describe except the ballots are scanned through an optical scanner then stored in case there's the need to do a recount. There's no central board above the county level that the ballots would be sent to for counting.

Second electronic machines are popular because they speed the election counting and are cheaper to run because the election board doesn't have to print tens to hundreds of thousands of ballots. A good electronic voting machine reports the vote 2 ways digitally to some vote tabulator local to that voting place and with a paper record that can be audited. The paper print out their having printed in this video is the end of the night tally that'll be reported to the county/state board of elections to be combined with the rest of the results.

Third doing it on a centrally located machine instead of over the internet adds a lot of security to the process. Trying to properly secure single purpose hardware like a voting machine that can be kept in a monitored location is a much simpler task than trying to find a way to ensure the Joe/Jane Voter's computer isn't compromised when sending the data to their counties board of elections. Not to mention that by accepting votes over the internet you're opening yourself up to everyone being able to remotely attempt to exploit the system. At least with a voting machine only connected to other election hardware attacks are limited to someone that's physically at the voting location. It's also tricky to prevent double voting while maintaining complete anonymity.
Or, maybe:

1. The thief saw the target (Tesla owner) have an Android phone

2. The thief somehow arranges to have couple of minutes with target's phone (with some sort of social engineering) and installs necessary software.

Chances of this ever happening in the real world: not zero.
If you're interested in the actual stats for your Steam library, check out the SteamDB calculator[1].

[1]: https://steamdb.info/calculator/
> run up the numbers in big cities and large media markets

You mean they would campaign where the people are.
Left to themselves,a significant number of people are awful. You know, between natural language processing, sentiment analysis, clustering and so on, IDing things like hateful tweets or persistently hateful tweeters seems well within the capability of today's AI. Nor do I think it would be too hard to find funding or a revenue stream for a reliable Asshole Detector. I mean, companies don't want to hire assholes, and browsing the news would be so much more pleasant if comments from assholes were pre-emptively labeled as such.
The quoted text is the last sentence in the article this thread is about:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-malwar...

If the Author of the bleepingcomputer.com article has misunderstood your findings and conclusions and is reporting as yours something you didn't recommend, you should let him know and ask for a correction.
Not attaching your brand to poor service is also part of managing a community.

If AWS started MITMing client HTTP connections and injecting code, would you be surprised people moved their official websites off the platform, even if a lot of people knew the old IP address?

That's not childish, that's not doing business with bad partners, and Im not convinced a space that started as official could ever truly be made "non-official".
Authoritative third party records that establish the period over which a building or land started to move is also potentially useful in resolving disputes over who and what might be responsible for the movement
(nb: I'm currently working with startup that consults on satellite/legal issues)
Yeah, Mars. We're not impressed. It's just a muddy frozen lake, not an ocean. Total crap idea. Also, your web design sucks.
This is the same issue I have run into with my clients most frequently. It seems like they are not interested in fixing this issue sadly.
> c. You cannot rely on reviews anymore.

The problem with reviews on these sites in general is that they're not written like editorial reviews. You've got to take them with a grain of salt whether they're incentivized or not.

The negative reviews can be useful only if they identify specific problems, but I see a lot of negative reviews by people who just didn't spend time reading the manual.

In terms of the "purge", some people on the reddit product testing forums have noted that many of their incentivized 3 star reviews were deleted while their 5 star reviews were not.

The new rules also don't ban reviews on products that were received for free. The catch is that there must be no obligation to write a review at all, and that the sample provider does not try to influence positive votes by making future samples conditional on those reviews.

You'll notice that the "I received a sample/discount in exchange for an honest review" has been replaced by "I received a test sample with no obligation to provide a review here. I am doing it on my own, bla bla".

There are a lot of honest incentivized reviewers out there. They may slant toward positive reviews, but if you read the text of their reviews, you can tell if the product is good or not. Full disclosure, I've done my share of incentivized reviews. Having said that, I spent way a lot of time writing those reviews (and doing photos/videos for them) than I did for my verified purchases. Mainly because I wanted to dispel any notion that my reviews were complete BS.

I actually look at other incentivized reviews for the products I've written, and about half are honest, and the other half are hyperbolic BS. I always do disclosures, but the #1 ranked reviewer in Amazon in my country does not disclose his incentivized reviews (he has gotten the same samples as me around the same time) and does not appear to have been penalized for that. I'm sure I get downvotes on reviews just because of my disclosures in my reviews, but I'm not going to leave out the disclosures just to boost my rank either.

In terms of "positive" reviews. I accept only stuff I want that doesn't look like it's crap in the first place. That already tilts me towards a positive review. Next, I always ask myself "is this good for the price". Most of the stuff I get is very low priced compared to their competition. Am I supposed to treat a $20 set of Bluetooth earbuds with the same critical ear as a $150 pair? I don't think so. So yeah, my bsr to hit 5 stars is pretty low. As long as it's well made and performs well for the price, I'm not going to be particularly harsh.

Finally, I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon and have a Prime subscription. How do I evaluate products I want to buy? I look at all the reviews, including the incentivized ones. I read them carefully to determine if the reviewer knows what he/she is talking about and whether they bring up any insights that the other reviewers don't mention.
Why this excellent movie reference is down voted, I know not.
FCC commissioners are also confirmed by the United States Senate.
I thought the competitor was Adyen.
Same here. I like to imagine that this was all the result of a consultation with a tourism consultant from Pisa.
They're both, as is the US. They aren't pure democracies, though.

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democracy_vs_Republic
What's worse is the battery life. It's ridiculously bad :-/
Are you using the US meaning of "leftist" here? The British meaning is a bit different, but you seem to be using the US meaning in a British context.
I don't think anybody is passionate working for others in the long term. And mostly young and inexperienced people are passionate until they get the full picture.
No, 4 hours total. 2 hours each way.
If Google buy Baidu, I am sure there will be another Chinese company which will buy Google. Are u OK with that?
Yes, that's what I learned too. That was before my time.
Google never cooperated with PRISM. As soon as news came out that the NSA was tapping Google's intra-datacenter dedicated lines, Google announced they would accelerate encrypting all that traffic.

https://www.google.com/amp/arstechnica.com/information-techn...
Thank you for posting this.

As a 20-something year old with Tourette's, I always like to read about older people with Tourette's Syndrome. I recently found out a coworker has Tourette's Syndrome at our office and being able to be open about it with someone else like that - even though the tics are different - has helped a lot.

Seeing someone that is older and isn't as self conscious about their tics as I am gives me more hope for the future.
7 monitors on my primary desktop (one of them being 40" 4k monitor), then have server where I run Hyper-V which remote into virtualized environments.