skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that Trump's campaign was also deeply invested in using data to drive campaign strategy. Here's a relevant excerpt from an interview with Jared Kushner, Trump's son in law, who apparently masterminded the campaign strategy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusi...

"This wasn’t a completely raw startup. Kushner’s crew was able to tap into the Republican National Committee’s data machine, and it hired targeting partners like Cambridge Analytica to map voter universes and identify which parts of the Trump platform mattered most: trade, immigration or change. Tools like Deep Root drove the scaled-back TV ad spending by identifying shows popular with specific voter blocks in specific regions–say, NCIS for anti-ObamaCare voters or The Walking Dead for people worried about immigration. Kushner built a custom geo-location tool that plotted the location density of about 20 voter types over a live Google Maps interface.

Soon the data operation dictated every campaign decision: travel, fundraising, advertising, rally locations–even the topics of the speeches. “He put all the different pieces together,” Parscale says. “And what’s funny is the outside world was so obsessed about this little piece or that, they didn’t pick up that it was all being orchestrated so well.”

For fundraising they turned to machine learning, installing digital marketing companies on a trading floor to make them compete for business. Ineffective ads were killed in minutes, while successful ones scaled. The campaign was sending more than 100,000 uniquely tweaked ads to targeted voters each day. In the end, the richest person ever elected president, whose fundraising effort was rightly ridiculed at the beginning of the year, raised more than $250 million in four months–mostly from small donors."
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It's one thing to say that social structures show evidence of cyclic behavior. It's another thing entirely to say that it's an accepted fact that every democratic society will inevitably fall to anarchy and be reborn as a monarchy.
Your link for Kyklos doesn't match up with your summary. Polybdius's description cited on Wikipedia suggests that the cycle is Anarchy -> Monarchy -> Tyranny -> Aristocracy -> Oligarchy -> Democracy -> Anarchy, with each pair forming a basic government + degenerate form of that government and the cycle trending towards greater dispersal of power, until the final degenerate form of democracy (anarchy/mob rule) fails to provide a society at all and a new strong-man emerges to rule it.

The Strauss-Howe cycle has a very different mechanism; in particular, the time scales are much shorter (80 years vs. several generations), and the mechanism proposed is each generation's individual childhood/formative experiences rather than interactions & social cohesion between individuals.
Ya'll are beyond parody. It was added to CVS two months ago? Yay. I'll be sure to upgrade and rebuild from dev in CVS.

Call me when doas has finished reimplementing sudo, oh so much better and more auditably.
He does talk about "getting it wrong" on his blog fairly regularly. Example: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/krugman/2015/06/10/the-decad...
The Election: Of Hate, Grief, and a New Story
I find these what-ifs a bit odd. Sure it's interesting, but if those states borders weren't where they are, surely Trump would have noticed and adjusted his strategy accordingly. It not like one thing could have been different and not affected anything else at all.

The thing I find more telling is that Clinton spent well over twice what Trump did on the election [0]. If Clinton had that much of an advantage and still lost, then I think the democrats could have run almost anyone else and had a tighter race.

[0] https://www.opensecrets.org/pres16/raised-summ
Javascript is in the unique position where a lot of people (well, nearly everybody) that don't like it are forced to use it.
So I did some more digging through the MiKTeX source code[1]. There's a couple of different Wolfgangs mentioned in comments scattered around the source, but I'm not sure which of them (if any) prompted this flag. I did find the following comment:

Revision 3.6 1995/10/21 22:20:42 kempson
Fixed numerous bugs, improved error reporting and added the --wolfgang
option.

So apparently it was a PhD from around 1995 or so.

What's even more impressive is that their name got turned into a magic incantation: while looking at forum posts about this I found that a lot of people just said "always pass --wolfgang, it makes things better"!

[1]: https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wol...
What matters more is we don't create an environment where a facist government can thrive.

I am not calling Trump a facist but hand-waving away racist policies like deporting all Mexicans (Trump didn't say that, but it was taken that way) or disallowing all Muslims (again, Trump didn't say that but it was taken that way) as "SJW" is irresponsible.

I think we can have a country where both can co-exist. Maybe people need to realize they can't work 35-hour weeks at "the factory" anymore. Those jobs are long gone.

That sucks and we need to figure out how to get those people back to work but this whole "bringing back the jobs" is complete political BS.
People compile LaTeX outside of chroot?
This scared me a little bit. We've been doing a similar product https://vida.io. I think we've got a lot further with many components and dashboards, see https://vida.io/explore. At the same time, I'm pretty excited to see someone has similar vision about custom data visualizations.
One of the biggest irony is that a lot of dictators and there cronies are worried more then we are on democracy. Dislike it all you want- the day, your generals decide that you are no longer need - having money in a stable place half the world away, is a value for itself.
Maybe those declining political party's could ask some African dictators for donation?
So, to fight terrorism:

> “The Investigatory Powers Act 2016 will ensure that law enforcement and the security and intelligence agencies have the powers they need in a digital age to disrupt terrorist attacks, subject to strict safeguards and world-leading oversight,” a statement from the Home Office reads.

And as expected some wheeling and dealing once they have the data:

> Many law enforcement agencies will be able to access this data, but so will lots of other, less obvious public bodies, including the Food Standards Agency, ...

First they steal private data of more than 60 million of innocent people. Then they share it with "less obvious public bodies", where we have to trust it is in save hands.. It is just a matter of time before this data is out in the open. How could we ever feel more safe when they do this? They better call it "The Criminal Act 2016". Is this what people vote for in a Democracy?
Interesting discussion on the Star Wars universe.

Myself, I prefer the murky old corners of the Alpha Quadrant, fending off treacherous Cardassian freighters in the Trek Universe.
The title suggests it is Windows damaging the speakers. When it's actually the bootcamp drivers provided by Apple correct?
The page at 'https://orizens.github.io/echoes-ng2/#/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure script 'http://www.youtube.com/iframe_api'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
Yeah, same here (more or less): I think Amazon doesn't compare favorably to Google or Facebook, but it compares pretty well to almost every other employer out there...
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Good question and this will be the biggest challenge. The answer is equity. But be careful before giving too much equity too easy away. You should have a big pipeline of candidates and know exactly what you expect from whom and how much you are willing to give away and on what conditions. At the beginning some might join your venture full-time, some not. Latter ones are easy to get but eventually it might be hard to get them out of the current jobs if the prospects are not to positive or let's say the first round is rather small.

Once in later funding stages (A, B) you have much better financial power and thus, you'll update or upgrade your senior management team anyway.
How Much of Obama's Climate Agenda Can Trump Undo with the Stroke of a Pen?
You will in practice hardly ever see outliers like you descrivbed in system A, where one run is significantly faster. You will often see cases where one run is significantly slower. The reason could be things like cache misses, swapped out code, some bad code path happening etc (all these on very different timescales). These things tend to happen only occasionally, so the reversed case from your example A (seven five second runs and one ten seconds run) is more pluasible. Because such factors tend to be things you can't easily control, taking the minimum is a good approximation when optimizing a code snippet as opposed to the whole program.
I took me a while to figure this out but i agree with Ali. However, i'd argue that as a CEO with a product background (the same probably goes for engineering) you can still spend time with your product teams through Phase 2 and maybe even in Phase 3. It is just a slightly different role, a more guiding function.
Exactly. I've met too many front-end devs who are unable to separate the architectural pattern from the implementation of the library they are using. They have the larger mountain to climb when needing to learn a new framework.
The first generation of Intel MacBooks was terrible. The plastic broke all the time while also turning yellow, and many CPUs could be overheated (instant shutdown) just by running `yes` on two cores.
This is very helpful too. This deserves to be in a website :)
Thanks, I clearly didn't get it :-)
An Open Source AWS AMI for training your own Prisma-style photo filters
#DataMustFall Has Fallen
Are there any nice Jenkins plugins for making a decent dashboard?
Yea, I also laughed :)
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It works on non linux unixes.
Flocking behavior of birds perfectly simulated with .js
[0] http://www.thegreenhorns.net/

There ya go.
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Small towns of 10k? What about the city of hundred thousands? Or the city of millions? Off the top of your head, would you mind speculating as to what % of America lives in cities or urban environments?

Are we forgetting that small states and small districts generally get an unjust magnitude of political power? That the gerrymandering game of the last 30 years have favored these small states with small districts? Are all American lives equal or do those who live in cities matter less? The answer is yes. American lives are equal, and those who live in cities are worth less.

Trump did not win the populist victory. Hillary Clinton did. This is twice in recent memory that the majority of the United States was overruled by the minority.

As people criticize Hillary Clinton for arrogantly not visiting states and cities she thought were victories, do people in those states not realize that they get an unjust magnitude of power and influence every time election season rolls around? And that big cities and states basically get zero attention?

And why? Is it because big states like California or Texas are unworthy? Yes, thanks to the structure of American politics and districting. The Texan economy is doing great by the way.

Or did you think that Trump is a populist candidate? So popular that he didn't win the popular vote? Do you believe that Trump will ever win the popular vote?

How long should American voters remember that they were twice denied by minority voices? For how many years ought they bear this stain in their trust in government legitimacy?
In fairness, it's not the developers but their managers setting unreasonable schedules that preclude any chance of optimization.
I like to use "ped" (Lee Eaken's "sed done right" rewrite in perl, which allows in-place editing):

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEAKIN/ped-1.2

https://jakobi.github.io/script-archive-doc/cli.list.grep/00...
don't misuse the word corruption. you're obscuring the argument you're trying to make and misrepresenting the argument of the post you responded to.
It's was never intended to completely replace sudo, but now you're just pulling teeth.
More visible in night mode
cat FILE | perl -lne 'm|(REGEX)|&&print$1'

Pays for itself pretty quickly. I default to pipes for the delimiter so you don't have to escape file paths.
Of course - that's a feature of the GPL - not a bug.
True. But say somebody burns a flag on inauguration day (probable). Say Trump tweets that the person should be arrested (also probable). What happens? Does the person get arrested, or do the police know (and follow) the relevant court rulings?

If the person gets arrested, do they get prosecuted, or does the prosecutor know and follow the relevant court rulings?

If the person gets prosecuted, does it come to trial, or does the judge throw it out?

If it comes to trial, does the person get convicted, or does the judge or jury rule that this behavior is protected by the First Amendment?

At every step, the flag burner should be home free. If they wind up facing a year in jail or losing their citizenship, that is not just time to start being concerned - it's time to start thinking seriously about leaving the country. But I'm more optimistic than that. I think, however, that it will be interesting to see how far it goes before it's thrown out, to see exactly how broken things currently are...
Ahh, yes, files with newlines.

You can use find -print0 | perl -0ne 'print($_);' ... using a null instead of newlines.

You're correct that -delete is easier in this case, but the perl one liner is handy (as a starting point) if you're doing something conditional, or changing file extensions in bulk, etc.
Who is still designing desktop first?
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Open Sourced
This is fantastic! ASP.NET Core documentation has definitely been lacking for some things, and I learned a ton from this.
hey Dawson - would love if you could go into more technical depth on how things work. Cool product!
Disconnect Between Research and Technology, Undermining Attempts at Innovation
Ideally yes, but drop-in replacement electronics for a popular model would be almost as good.
That looks like a very interesting journal, and besides the Open Access journal content they have considerable supplementary material here: http://innovationsjournal.net/
What can you tell us about the algorithms you used or where did you start on learning A.I. ?

Interesting approach for logo creation!
Travelocity paid for 100% of my tuition and books to finish my Master's degree. I did sign an agreement that I would stay there for two years after graduation, though, and I had to maintain a B or better average.
Riiight, but honest question: do we think that constitutes a crippling of democracy?

The Hearst family is one I'm familiar with and referring to above.
FYI, I thought I'd give it a try today, but it appears to be broken (syntax error in the console).
Yeah, except those five things have disgusting (to me at least) ingredients like seafood, mushrooms, kale, nuts, etc. so I go home hungry.
> I was under the impression I was helping the Kickstarter for Next Thing Co. much more than rewarding Allwinner

I feel like it's impossible to do one without doing the other. Maybe the reason that you'd support the KS is to help out Next Thing, but I can't escape the thought that ultimately some of my money would be going to Allwinner as well.

> Do you have some information for me about fresh violations or ongoing reticence about the older ones?

I haven't taken the time to actually audit their releases or anything, so I'm basing my opinion on the older issues, like the CedarX stuff in early 2015. They claimed to have fixed the code, but there was good evidence that they just renamed the offending functions and recompiled to hide what they'd done. Not to mention the "rootmydevice" issue from earlier this year. Even if I attribute those to sloppiness rather than maliciousness, I wouldn't want anything designed by them to be part of any kit I actually rely on for something.

Everyone has their own reasons for buying or not buying things. It sounds like some Allwinner-based equipment makes a nice addition to your collection, and I don't begrudge you that (not that it would matter if I did). I'm not a dedicated hardware collector, and I'm not severely constrained by the price of a more expensive processor, so I can afford to be ideologically picky. Other people are in different situations.
I believe he is referring to Colin Kaepernick and his actions on the field (taking the knee during the national anthem to bring attention to police shootings) as well as his statements to the press about other political matters.

Rightly or wrongly, many people are not pleased with this. Especially as other players have either joined in or spoken out.
I think a lot of voters found it impossible to take Clinton seriously on _any_ proposal she was making. The naked pandering and secret agendas were much too obvious.

Trump too was nakedly pandering. He was just better at it and had a more receptive base for it. He was better at keeping his agenda secret as well. Does anybody have a clear idea about what his administration policies will really be?
I find this to be fairly involved but a good follow-up to introductory texts. Casella, George, and Roger L. Berger. Statistical Inference. 2nd ed. Duxbury Advanced Series. Australia ; Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury/Thomson Learning, 2002.
Scientists say gut microbes may play role in yo-yo dieting, obesity
Will gladly use, but what is the code's license?
Isn't the usual approach for these things to not use IP or wireless at all, but some other simple serial protocol like ZigBee and have them talk to a gateway "controller" that's connected to the outside world? The last time I played with wireless sensor networks that's how it worked, and they can actually form their own mesh network.
Some recent discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12978300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035996

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12992672
Unless they can push the cost onto taxpayers. People with oceanfront property usually are pretty well off/have influence.
Screeps is an MMO that turns JavaScript into RTS commands
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Making it more searchable is awesome!

I have some feedback as well, Firefox tells me the following: "Connection is not secure. Parts of this page are not secure (such as images)"
All of the compilers I tried automatically detected it and did their own tail-recursion.
Smartphone microscope and app for testing your sperm
Palantir plan to engage in disinformation and document fabrication [pdf]
You have a good point re needing a working tractor. However on the GP's "just by it from AliBaba" I'd really be surprised if such items would last long enough to become the "rusted one in a field" at a later date; I'd expect the "expensive" home made one might be that long lasting though.
Show HN: Monique.io – a new kind of monitoring system (AI + Unix + Javascript)
Only works in Chrome...
I tried it, but got a Firefox is not supported message. Why not? What's the missing feature?

Otherwise looks pretty cool! Nice business, it's inspiring.
Zeroconf networking? I've done a bit of that, both Bonjour (Apple) and UPnP (Microsoft). It is doable.

I recognize that these things are tiny, but I've worked with extremely limited, real-time devices too - it can be done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking
When your Internet history is no longer history- UK's Investigatory Powers Act
Do you run linux or win?
if linux: any issues with drivers?
What is a democracy but the choices of an informed electorate? If that electorate is misinformed, then you don't have one.
> Trump too was nakedly pandering. He was just better at it and had a more receptive base for it

If that was true, wouldn't more people have voted for him?
That's not true. In fact, he's even brought up underestimating the impact of the internet multiple times as an example of when he was wrong. For instance:

"And what about me personally? I don’t have a turban and crystal ball hidden in a back room, and I’ve made some pretty wrong predictions in my time. The thing, however, is that all of these bad predictions involved stepping outside the models I understood. I underestimated the payoff to the internet; well, I was speculating about technology, and while that’s my right, I don’t have any special expertise."[1]

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/non-prophet-econ...
Hi Dawson - What is your background? What's your team consist of?
Capitalism is not inherently corrupt, nor is it the only system which can be corrupted. I think we can both agree on that.

But the current version of capitalism dominant in the world is corrupt, and desperately needs radical change. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be many well-thought out alternatives with good leaders - so we end up with Trump and Farage peddling demagoguery.
It wasn't? Then why did they? As I've repeatedly reminded, sudo is in ports.

I thought credential caching was left out because it was another unnecessary bloated feature creep and doas is supposed to be minimal and more secure. Apparently people couldn't live without it, and it's added in three releases later.
Sure, the frameworks aren't doing anything fundamentally difficult. That's why there are so many. But they are doing things that take design, coding and craftsmanship and many hours of testing and debugging to get right.
Screenshot, maybe? Haven't noticed any issues here, on desktop or mobile.
I can't beat the compiler even 0.01% of the time? Really? Because that's the point of the article -- I just grabbed the first piece of C I found and managed to beat the compiler.
I have had the same results as you did. It's a bit of a power hog, but extremely powerful. I think one of the best bets for this device is to embed it into a power supply block and put them into the outlets of your house. Seems kind of limiting but I couldn't find any combination of batteries that would make it last more than a few days.
Grafana 4.0 with alerting is released
Such a intimate and inspiring project -- cool to see it be recognized like this. I could see doing this with a partner but we'd probably have to dispense with actual snail mail aspect. Still sketch but maybe just take pictures of the drawings and share those back and forth. Aside from the cool personal exchange, the practical experience you would get with viz design in even a month or two of this would dwarf what you'd get from taking most formal visualization courses.
Who Called Git? An Unusual Debugging Story
"The Investigatory Powers Act dramatically increases transparency around the use of investigatory powers." --

Doesn't that make it sound like they were monitoring people's web history already?

With 48 odd bodies able to access people's web history, it surely won't be long before this access is abused.
Old Samsung ARM Chromebooks used to have a similar problem where some ALSA settings would overload and destroy the built-in speakers. Mine actually started smoking and melting after I installed Debian.

https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2012/12/10/how-to-fry-spea...

I don't want to compare a $300 browser-in-a-box with a $2000 laptop, but issues like this aren't unheard of.
The whole idea about the post is quite interesting. Definitely shows the high performance capabilities of the system. I really appreciate the addition of the parallel insert via INSERT ... SELECT which is quite handy.

I have a question about the topic of the post. The method presented could also be simulated with a MATERIALIZED VIEW? Are they supported in Citus? In any case, the technique presented is pretty cool :)