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> Polyphony... counterpoint.

Yes, sorry, polyphony was a bad choice of words. I'm not even talking about polyphony or counterpoint as musical concepts--you can certainly get the gist of these without years of playing Bach--I mean it more like this: they put those four part fugues in the repertoire because it's an excellent technical exercise for student pianists. It's easy to just play the notes, but much harder to bring out the melody as it bounces around the four voices, especially as it goes into the left hand and the weaker fingers of either hand, and more so when the voices overlap. In fact the whole thing teaches voicing in general.

> Improvising... is terrible advice.

Vocal call/response is different. I meant that it's a non-starter to expect a five year old (or an average fifteen year old, by the way) to listen to a random song on the radio and just improv what they hear on a piano with no sheet music. Hell, I've been playing for like 27 years and it would take me ages to transcribe by ear some random Chopin prelude that I could otherwise easily sight read (well... one of the easier ones anyway).

> If joy means informal pop songs... then start with that.

This is what I mean; you don't start with even "songs". I'm a fully grown adult. Reasonably good musician, I think. Played piano my whole life, trombone in high school, picked up flamenco guitar on my own. A few years ago I was left alone for a few hours with a clarinet; do you know what I accomplished after like 3 straight hours of practice? I could barely get through "London bridge is falling down", and I considered that an achievement.

My point is that you have to deal with the motivation problem well before you're anywhere near playing "Let it Go". And when you're ready to play a real pop song, trust me, your teacher will let you do anything you want if it'll get you to practice.
I didn't misinterpret the sarcasm in his post, and I do find it to be in poor taste. Awful taste. I generally find that type of sarcasm to be childish and arrogant slap in the face, and when you consider that it came packaged with ignorance I was reasonable in my response.
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Thanks for that link. I had been sort of hoping for reasons not to believe this, because it's sort of lose/lose (bad if our elections are being hacked, bad if a recount happens and 'magically' the president-elect changes, etc etc).
It reads to me exactly like something an Onion writer would write
This. I'm sure our Russian government would absolutely love to have the similar level of control. Currently, Facebook's too big for them (although they test the water with LinkedIn), but this is a clear signal.

And more countries (e.g. Kazakhstan) will likely follow the suit.
So you're saying that it was even less statistically likely (before the release of the new MBPs) that an iPhone owner would have a computer with USB-C exclusively.
not sure what happened, hn ate the link. trying again here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13019591
He isn't at least anymore.
That is true, but don't forget that those boundaries also come into play wrt polling place count and convenience. And that's been a clear attack vector this year in states like NC.
* no credibility with a large portion of liberals and conservatives after the last election

Citation needed that people think the NYTimes is lying (as opposed to selectively reporting). I don't dispute some conservatives believe the NYTimes is lying.
A completely independent group, led by Alex Halderman (who is 100% legit), has come to the same conclusion and is quietly demanding that voting machines in certain suspicious states be forensically audited:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/activists-urge-...
For the socket side of the same problem, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country and search for "Power cords with type A or B plugs which are rated at only 125 V may present a safety hazard" (each of the seven occurrences reflects a country that always or sometimes uses U.S.-style sockets with a higher voltage such as 240 V).
I think the other distinction there is that a "full stack developer" might have a comfortable understanding of how all these things work in quite a bit of detail.

The understanding does not mean that they want to take the time investment of recreating all that work from scratch.

For instance,

I understand branch prediction, cache lines and inter-processor synchronization. But I'm no kernel developer.

I know what the assembler does, and its goals. But I haven't made one, and any I made would be sub-optimal

.. This proceeds through compilers, operating systems and up to the web stack.

I mean, writing a renderer that fully implements "HTML 5" along with ALL relevant standards - that's a massive software effort. I barely understand it, but I understand enough to get the job done.
Heh I didn't know this and I'm not a Trump supporter but I had nonetheless noticed that The Onion was being pretty sycophantic and unfunny both before and after the election.
atrributing verbatim feedback to NPS is misleading though. getting feedback is just talking to customers, surveys and methods that have existed for years. saying its part of the NPS methodology is giving it credit for something it did not invent.
Apple still uses those and it annoys me. Yes, others still use them too, but I give Apple extra crap because I think they should know better by now but either they don't or don't care.
Are you arguing that it's /ethical/ for businesses to behave in these ways, or that it's /unsurprising/ that they do so? I'm confused.
Probably because he's just quoting the person above him
This is nonsense. As Nate explained, polls can have errors +/- 3 points, and those errors tend to be correlated across polsters, time, and space. If something happens 1/3 or 1/4 the time when sampling from those polls, it cannot be considered shocking when it happens in real life.
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I sort of thought that might be the case but it was the first thing other than my own home state to come to mind because my Dad is planning a trip up there for next year.
at that point its just a survey. why even prepend the buzzword "NPS" into it?
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Does Nate Silver have any credibility left when it comes to adjusting numbers based on assumptions?

Considering how drastically wrong they got things.
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Yes, butt covering with Butt Paste would be an excellent metaphor of its quality!

...which is precisely why I made my "protective" suggestion in the first place =)
Gerrymandering does nothing about presidential elections, which is what this is talking about.

The bigger problem is voter suppression through things like ID laws, eliminating early voting, and eliminating or moving polling places.
FAL3 is not used in LOA- seems like it won't be used much.
The guy on the phone laughed.
I've moved to providing a few random words, easier to say over the phone than capital y lowercase r number 1.... etc.
Can you elaborate on that last bit?

I know there are some possible counter-examples to universal grammar, like Dan Everett's work on Pirahã, a language which may lack recursion, and that there's more interest in usage-based theories recently. However, my impression is that most linguists are still pretty attached to a some sort UG-like theory of language and language acquisition. (Admittedly, this is partly because no one can agree on what does or does not constitute UG, but still...)

There have been a bunch of pop-sci articles about non-Chomskian points of view lately, but I'm not sure how well (e.g.) Tom Wolfe is plugged into theoretical linguistics gossip and a lot of the others seem to draw from the same pool of authors, like Paul Ibbotson, who had a piece in Scientific American and another in Salon.
Anecdotal and only related to your last paragraph, but as a security researcher I can say that 99% of the time attacks on a personal bank account are never "long term." Most of time, regardless of skill, hackers get in, cash out and disappear. It's far more lucrative (and generally safer) to empty the account than try to blackmail someone based on spending habits.
The web really needs to remember that content negotiation is actually a thing.
Systems that already exist need to be maintained. Why do people still write COBOL? Because it's cheaper to maintain an already in place system than to rip it out and replace it with the newest fad.
Since the grades are subjective, and largely determined by the first ascentionists, (although through consensus sometimes re-graded) this is not possible. My subjective take on it, up to 5.11+, can't speak for anything beyond that, is that a bump in a grade, any grade is about the same increase in difficulty. My climbing has mostly been in Joshua Tree, Idyllwild, Smith Rocks and a bit in the valley.
538 had a higher chance of Trump winning that basically any other poll based source pre election.
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> logic: the app state is entirely described by a single serializable data structure

I'm curious how frameworks like this handle dealing with large amounts of data? Let's say my data source has 25,000 rows that I need to search and filter through at any given time.

Using standard iOS paradigms I might store the data in a SQLite database using Core Data, use an NSFetchedResultsController to search the data, and display it using a UITableView. Any changes to the underlying data (insertions/deletions/updates) are automatically tracked and dealt with so the UITableView is kept up to date as the data changes. Behind the scenes there are lots of optimizations occurring in Core Data and the NSFetchedResultsController so only the data for visible rows are loaded into memory at any given time.

How would I achieve this behavior using a framework like this? How big/complex can this "single serializable data structure" get?
I'm not sure what you mean by that. 538 projected the election at 70/30, which gave Trump a much bigger chance than all other models. Moreover, the final outcome of an electoral college/popular vote split was a specific risk Nate Silver called out repeatedly.
Not snide at all, and I agree.
No, many fact check websites (such as Snopes) will debunk conspiracy theories by simply saying "there is no evidence to support the theory, it's just wild speculation."

This is a perfectly valid fact check.
Knowing that the reality of censorship is the same as existing networks (e.g. WeChat), what appeal does a Chinese Facebook have for Chinese?
W3C has a list of recommendations [1] on links like this, which they call 'Capability URLs'.

To summarize, the token should be random and long, so the keyspace is expensive to exhaustively search. The primary risk is exposure, this can happen due to user carelessness, being captured on a foreign server via an incoming Referer header, and others.

[1] https://w3ctag.github.io/capability-urls/
I was just curious whether there was any historical evidence that the state borders themselves were ever a result of gerrymandering. Then I remembered an exhibit over at the Oakland Museum of California about proposals for the borders of California at the time of its statehood, which included debates about the effects of including lots of Mormons to the east (or not). A discussion summarizing some of these debates, but with a slightly different emphasis, can be found in

http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/row/landsurveys/Study_material/Stat...

It might be possible to interpret some of the proposals for the shape of the California-Nevada border as reflecting a kind of gerrymandering or considerations of political strategy. Maybe that's historically true of other U.S. state boundaries? (But the states haven't generally redrawn their boundaries in response to demographic changes over time.)
How so? He had Trump winning probability at about 25%, he even explicitly highlighted:

- If Trump wins, chances are he looses the popular vote
- Likely polling errors are not independent across states
Well yeah. It's not a contradiction or a change of mind really to be concerned about one form of voter fraud and not another based on its likelihood. Individual voter fraud just doesn't make much sense as a method to swing an election. Way too many chances to get caught. way too many co-conspirators Voter suppression though or electronic machine hacking have a lot more potential. And not coincidentally those individual voter fraud protections can have a bigger effect as voter suppression than the fraud they might prevent.
Yes, his election prediction was the least wrong of all the high-profile public predictions.
Jobs at design firms, 'creative studios,' those sorts of things. WebGL more than Unity, but definitely both. Part of it seems to be the result of a big VR/AR push, going off of the job descriptions. This is all inference, though.
It's not wrong for it to be shared, but nor is it wrong to automatically affix a tag saying '90% bullshit.'

I would much prefer that such things weren't in demand; it'd be great to live in a world where every adult person had reliable bullshit detectors, so we wouldn't be swamped in logical fallacies and ancillary nonsense, but in the meantime the speed and connectedness of our social technologies has vastly outpaced the general population's ability to digest the available information, and so the disease of populism has broken out again as the new media go through their adolescent stage.
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Who does the auditing? How is that verified to be not rigged if there are claims that the election was? Why are audits less corrupt than administering an election? Is it easier to add or subtract votes one way or the other in a recount or audit, etc.? Honestly, I don't know the answers.

But I don't like any of this rhetoric. Lots of conflicting reporting going on, and lots of F.U.D.
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Then you want to bargain a discount, a faster delivery, a whatever, for being a public reference.

In other words, if they want something, and want it badly, instead of monetizing it with $$, monetize it with a case study.

Personal favor also. You go the extra mile for one user/infleluencer/decision maker in a customer company. Then ask to return the favor: "could you spend 15 minutes talking to this prospect of mine, it would help me a lot".

They can say no, find an excuse. But it will hurt them because they know you helped them unreasonably in the past, it was valuable to them, and you may be less willing to do so in the future.

Some will say yes. You just need one or two.
What does the generated code actually do when run, besides heavily exercising the JVM? Does it eventually print "Hello world" or something?
Requires just the flick of a pen. But making that pen .... is another matter!
I'm not sure what to think about this. It seems like overturning the result at this point could be even more destabilizing than a Trump presidency. Though ironically unfounded, it will look to a Trump support like the election truly was rigged.
I've always thought that last was a good idea. It'd be easy enough to implement on fb I think.
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> Oil producing countries and their citizens are usually royally fucked over

Mostly fucked up by politicians. Nothing to do with the fact that people on Oil rigs and me both willing to co-operate.

> Ways of living (farmland, hunting spaces etc) are destroyed along the way, for pollution, extraction of resources etc.

Don't see the problem with that.

> Workers leave their villages

They leave for better life. I left my village for better life. Village life sucks.

> And all for "disposable spoons", which will merely save "10 seconds washing a steel spoon", end up in huge piles of other plastic garbage in dumps, oceans, etc.

Dont know if it worse that wasting water on washing steel spoons but surely technology helps us manage that problem well too.

> the average working person in the US having less free time than comparable professionals (even CEOs) in the 50s or 60s.

The average working person in USA is having much better life that CEO in 1950s.
He's always been very open about the models they use (though not the parameters of the secret sauce) as well as the errors they've made, which says a lot to me. And while they were off, I do think they've been earnest in figuring out what the limitations of their model were: as they did during the campaign as well. They've also been very clear in pointing out the difficulty in making predictions of singular events. Others may pay lip service to this, or say nothing all.

You could also read this as him being weasels from the get go. From what I've seen, that's not warranted in his case.

A last point I always have to remind myself of: human psychology just doesn't do stats well. That's why we have these tools. Kinda like quantum physics or relativity. We are smart enough to figure out the math, but the results—or our interpretations of them— don't always jive with our intuitions.
This is sophistry. If I have a business, I can say "shirts and shoes required". We have laws about protected classes that are vulnerable to discrimination as exceptions, but on _my private property_ I can - within proscribed legal limits - dictate acceptable behavior, and ask people not adhering to those rules to leave.

You can dress it up, but Facebook is a private website. They do fancy stuff with information they collect about you and use it to sell you ads. They have terms of service that define acceptable behavior, and they have no SLA / guarantee about what you share reaching others or what others share reaching you. That is the deal.

If you don't like the deal, Facebook is not a right, and you can choose to not use Facebook or not, depending on your morals.

Now, what the article described, "Facebook does not intend to suppress the posts itself. Instead, it would offer the software to enable a third party — in this case, most likely a partner Chinese company — to monitor popular stories and topics that bubble up as users share them across the social network, the people said. Facebook’s partner would then have full control to decide whether those posts should show up in users’ feeds." <- This is completely censorship. Governments censor.

Facebook saying it doesn't want a bunch of Macedonian fake news click bait stories crapping up it's platform is a business decision by a private company.
When will we stop using passwords?
I think for fb to enter china it would first need to allow china to spy on its citizens. This censorship tool is just something they can publicly say they changed to allow them in.
It's less like they're competing for resources and more like they're competing to see which one will survive the longest against the immune system. The human body is a nearly infinite source of food for pathogens but antibodies aren't always very precise in the strain they target. False positives are largely harmless so the B-cells that produce antibodies are even less discriminating.

When you have similar strains of a bacteria or virus, they can all cause the same immune reaction (which is how vaccines work) but tiny genetic variations in each strain can also drastically change how effective the reaction is against variant. Since bacteria/viruses reproduce very vast and the immune system is very good at its job, you essentially get an accelerated arms race that heavily favors the survival of the fittest. Even one part per million difference in probabilities is almost enough to guarantee the dominance of a single strain.
Instead of complaining about ID laws which help protect legitimate voters (and prevents their votes from being suppressed), how about we complain instead about why nothing is being done to make it easier to get ID's?
This is a great example of how smart standards can leverage incredible pressure against vendors to adopt best practices.

What will happen is that if the new standard is accepted as is, every single implimentation will have to craft a Plan of Action and Milestones (POAM), and every security officer is going to write in "Waiting for vendor fix". That's a lot of pressure on Microsoft to change this.

Will it take time? Certainly. Years in fact. But if you want massive change, this is how you start.

I'm a big fan of Active Directory. But I applaud this move. I'm even more excited to see if this will filter down to banks. Probably not as quickly, but one can hope.
Family is different than employees. Your argument is an insult to our intelligence.
Various people are trying to explain the Wisconsin result, in which Trump-voting counties were three times more likely to have electronic voting than Clinton-voting counties. I made this image to illustrate: http://i.imgur.com/AZNr2Hd.png

It's probably entirely explicable by demographic factors, but the difference is stark and certainly prompts curiosity.
shrug, you (the student) lived in Mass and then you left. Regardless of what state you went to after leaving, you are counted as having left Mass.

Regardless you are a graduate and the graph still reflects "Where Young College Graduates Tend to Move".
I took a punt at $79 - around £50 at the time. Seemed like a pretty good gamble since the idea (resin/lithography printing) is proven, just not with smartphone screens. I'd forgotten about it until this post came up!

Was the concept that heavily doubted by so many people? The article is pretty snarky - e.g. "It is “a boon for democratizing 3D printing technology,” according to one idiotic tech blog." The comments are similarly vicious, people are treating this as snake oil. "Whether or not the ONO works or not, and when it will ship is irrelevant. We’ve seen cooler printers with more interesting technology fail spectacularly." The author seems to be deeply unimpressed that they might actually have a product.

Whether it works well is almost entirely going to boil down to the quality of the interface between screen and resin. We have a Form 1+ at work and struggled for a long time to get it to produce reliable prints. In the end we cleaned all the optics and polished up the windows and it seems to be pretty good now. Resin cost is the main bugbear - since they say you should change tanks ($50 a pop) every two bottles (litres) of resin.

Their timeline/Gantt chart shows they're a few months behind schedule, though that's not that bad for a hardware kickstarter that launched in March of this year (they hoped to be shipping in September). They're now saying shipping in January subject to their resin passing various international compliance laws. Depending how skeptical you are, they do have photos with rows and rows of semi-completed units.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olo3d/olo-the-first-eve...