skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: How did we get talking about the US Presidential polls on a submission about telomeres? Let's try to keep discussions on topic as much as possible rather than moving into inflammatory territory (as you did upthread) just because we might be able to tie it in somehow, no matter what's been said upthread.

Original comment:

Polling is inexact. It's a sample. Just as many people misunderstand how "theory" is used in science compared with in conversational speech, or how <particular topic you have knowledge about> is misrepresented in the news, and general public misunderstandings of statistics, and that the line between polls and predictions wasn't made clear. All of that can and should be improved.

I wonder what the demographic breakdown is of people who refuse to answer a phone call from an unknown number, or refuse to answer polls or surveys if they do pick up?

There's a lot of miscommunication going on with people not listening to each other. It's great that you are engaging in the conversation. Using the polls in the non-nuanced way you are here is just as bad as how the polls were used. As you mention upthread, there's a lot of assumptions being made all around, attributing positions and beliefs beyond what's actually being expressed. Let's engage each other honestly and with charity, and find some common understanding, if not agreement.
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I'm not an experienced manager or anyone to give advice thereof, but I have experienced what your co-founder is currently going through. Last Year in January, my father passed away and the next 8-9 months were miserable for me. Sleeplessness, anxiety and depression were almost feeding to each other and took a toll on me. I could hardly sleep for an hour at night for consecutive weeks and months at a time.

I would start getting palpitations followed by dangerously high blood pressure. Touch wood, nothing major happened to me and I'm back to normal life.

If you guys can cooperate with him and give him the time, I'm sure he will come back to leading a normal productive life.

Like someone suggested, give him an indefinite leave of absence and have him work with therapists and recover fully.
Don't listen to the reviews here. My MBP 15" (late-2016) is fine. I get all day battery life too. You can return it Jan 8th if it doesn't work for you. Hearing complaints from people who never used it is tiring.
Perhaps that's a problem that professional status would help solve.
how would we regulate your mama
and her hören zone you communist scum
Which raises an interesting corollary: is there such a thing as an "indiscriminate" leak?

Recent events have shown that WikiLeaks' practice of leaking anything they have has instead created an opportunity for targeted leaks by selectively passing information to them.
Gotcha. We're doing the same thing here. The only problem is that Circle doesn't cache the image layers, so we do a full build every time, which takes about 10 minutes.
Unless the marketable value is too low and does not cover the start-up costs.

In Germany for example health care insurance for start-up founders costs like 200€/month more than for unemployed (assuming they have savings and low income), because they set this fee by law and people do not like rich business owners there.

Or last week a court decided that commercial webpages must not link to potential illegal sites and it is their responsibility to check if it illegal, e.g. if the other site contains a CC-ND photo that was modified. From your hobby webpage you can link to it as you please, but if it is a start-up webpage you can get sued for 6000€, even if you do not know there is that photo.
We do this by checking a `kubernetes.yaml` in with the source code. That way it gets bundled with the image as part of a Jenkins build. Deployment is just a docker pull, extract kubernetes.yaml, and kubectl patch.
The risk with Trump isn't so much that he might blow his top (which of course he very well might). It's that (if Joe Scarborough's not entirely substantiated disclosure -- he hasn't named the "foreign policy expert" he claimed to have heard this from, which is unfortunate) he apparently doesn't seem to have a solid grasp of what nuclear weapons are for, and what their limitations are -- or even we actually still had them:

He said on his Morning Joe programme: “Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump.

“And three times he [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can’t we use them.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/696241/Donald-Trump-asks...
It's probably not the same people making these comments, but it's funny to juxtapose "these web technologies are plenty fast, and size is no issue" and "I need 32GB ram + 4 real cores on my macbook for serious web dev".

If the whole system is dedicated to a single page, sure a few hundred KiB of minified javascript is absolutely fine. But neither the developer's system or the user's system is dedicated to a single page. It adds up. It tends to keep adding up until some significant percentage of people hit the limit where stuff is slower than makes sense, considering the AAA games I was playing on a laptop 13 years ago with literally less than 10% of what common laptops today have.

Anyway, kudos for caring about efficiency.
Pretty sure NixOS came out of TU Delft too (and that they're still involved)
> so for (almost) all of them the current is preferable to an alternative system where their victory is less certain.

But publicly holding a position in office that a majority of your constituents disagree with, in a high profile question should be a much worse disadvantage than voting to change the system?

> Additionally, they are almost all part of one of the two major political parties; both of which benefit greatly from our current system.

At least for primaries, it would be beneficial for the parties themselves (if perhaps not for the candidates) to have both runoff votes and some kind of approval.

> Ultimately, the problem is that it is very difficult to change the rules of the game when the winners are in charge of making the rules.

This is what I don't understand though as a non american. I don't consider politicians to have much different goals and opinions to my own. If they did, they'd be replaced.
Is there a universally or even widely accepted difference?
This is my favorite passage from Titan:

With a talent for seeing things anew, Rockefeller could study an operation, break it down into component parts, and devise ways to improve it. In many ways, he anticipated the efficiency studies of engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor. Regarding each plant as infinitely perfectible, he created an atmosphere of ceaseless improvement. Paradoxically, the mammoth scale of operations encouraged close attention to minute detail, for a penny saved in one place might then be multiplied a thousandfold throughout the empire. In the early 1870s, Rockefeller inspected a Standard plant in New York City that filled and sealed five-gallon tin cans of kerosene for export. After watching a machine solder caps to the cans, he asked the resident expert: “How many drops of solder do you use on each can?” “Forty,” the man replied. “Have you ever tried thirty-eight?” Rockefeller asked. “No? Would you mind having some sealed with thirty-eight and let me know?”34 When thirty-eight drops were applied, a small percentage of cans leaked—but none at thirty-nine. Hence, thirty-nine drops of solder became the new standard instituted at all Standard Oil refineries. “That one drop of solder,” said Rockefeller, still smiling in retirement, “saved $2,500 the first year; but the export business kept on increasing after that and doubled, quadrupled—became immensely greater than it was then; and the saving has gone steadily along, one drop on each can, and has amounted since to many hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

Rockefeller performed many similar feats, fractionally reducing the length of staves or the width of iron hoops without weakening a barrel’s strength[...]
Good luck with regulating math.
When I tried it, I found it to be slower over ConEnu. ConEmu takes some customization, but I found the experience to be better once I got past that.
At our data science company, we're building a marketing automation platform that uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize email marketing campaigns.

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This is pretty on the nose. It has a lot to do with the diversity of America and the fact that they see most other Americans as "the other", or an out group, and don't want to support them.

I don't have the details on hand, but Robert Putnam (Political science, Harvard) did a study about Americas breakdown in civil engagement that speaks to this point quite a bit.

Here's an article that talks about it: http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/...
That's the joke. The vast majority of the US has either 0 or 1 option for 5+ Mbps internet, and 1-5 options for dial-up/DSL.
Amazon employees share thoughts about suicide survivor
The first thing needs to be a culture change: "move fast and break things" is not an acceptable philosophy when you're dealing with millions of people's private conversations.
"A third objection is that Easter Islanders surely wouldn’t have been so foolish as to cut down all their trees, when the consequences would have been so obvious to them. As Catherine Orliac expressed it, “Why destroy a forest that one needs for his [i.e., the Easter Islanders’] material and spiritual survival?” This is indeed a key question, one that has nagged not only Catherine Orliac but also my University of California students, me, and everyone else who has wondered about self-inflicted environmental damage. I have often asked myself, “What did the Easter Islander who cut down the last palm tree say while he was doing it?” Like modern loggers, did he shout “Jobs, not trees!”? Or: “Technology will solve our problems, never fear, we’ll find a substitute for wood”? Or: “We don’t have proof that there aren’t palms somewhere else on Easter, we need more research, your proposed ban on logging is premature and driven by fear-mongering”? Similar questions arise for every society that has inadvertently damaged its environment."

- Jared Diamond, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"

(A must read book, by the way.)
How did this new information affect your life? What did you miss out on?
Voat.co seems like a promising Reddit alternative. Less censorship for certain, definitely not shill-proof however.

Solving the problem of shills/astroturfers is IMO the most difficult and important challenge in accommodating public online discussion moving forward.
I ended up there for the first time last night and must say that there is a lot to like about it. I found some good communities and integrating media and so on all felt quite streamlined, and the system was snappy.

It's just too bad there are a dozen IMs/voice/video and a dozen slacky/feed companies.
For reasons I'll never understand

Probably to make whatever grain-sized impact he or she could possibly make towards preventing the scenario described in that movie from ever happening.

I miss the Cold War (during which I also had teachers like this).
And not just the technology; I mean, what's Arrakis if not a fantasy world?
I highly recommend all of NK Jemisin's works. The first novel in her most recent series won this year's Hugo for Best Novel: The Fifth Season.
Addendum: very disappointed that I got downvoted for giving my on-topic opinion. I thought HN was better than this. Many of you gave your thoughts in the comments, which is great! Debate is far preferable to abusing the voting system.
>They're the only technology anyone understands

I wouldn't describe personal vehicles in such base terms, it's more that cars, trucks, off-road vehicles, etc are the only form of manufactured goods that are both suitable to the world portrayed in the films and widespread enough to be accessible to everyone.

All complex manufactured goods in such a world would be irreplacable, at least within the lifetime of anyone living in that time period. Radios and other electronics are also widespread and suitable enough to be considered a necessity but they'd be destroyed by the EMP effects of nuclear warfare (hence why every vehicle in Mad Max appears to be from the carburetor/pre-electronics era).

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistuingishable from magic and although the mechanicals of a car are well understood by laymen, their existence carries an air of magic/reverence as they cannot be replicated by the society which possesses them. IMO, the closest comparison is that of a Cargo Cult rather than an extreme extrapolation of existing car culture.
All of those things are falsifiable, we just don't yet have the capability to conduct the experiments that could possibly falsify them.
Origins of Venmo
Funny, for all the claims that evolution has been defeated, humans act very much like everything under evolution has acted since it got started.

And those genomes that want to make a better version of themselves seem to just follow what evolution wants them to do to this day. Without evolution, and the precursor to it (Big Bang if you will) the genomes wouldn't exist to begin with. It is not from their own cause that they came to exist.
You didn't engage the content of the book. You just said you didn't like it because liberals did. That's content free.

The phrase that comes to mind is epistemic closure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_closure

You will only accept a description of your reality from inside of your reality. Contrast that with the author who actually moved to Louisiana and lived there to find out what they think. Advantage the author.
OK, but the fact that the countries with the worst aging demographics are, like, Italy, Korea, and Japan illustrates a certain pattern.
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> What if The People's democratic vote is to commit collective long term suicide for short term gains?

I mean, obviously, individually, it's up to each person to choose. But when the majority chooses for everyone (including the minority), is the minority bound to respect that decision?
Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as Tidal Disruption Event from a Black Hole [pdf]
Just a note, looking at the way most companies I've been involved with handle RF testing, it still feels like some electrical engineering is at a premature stage also.

Testing a transistor is the equivalent of testing an if statement. Both are trivial. The difficulty comes from testing multiple of these components acting in sync. Let's be honest, it's sometimes not worth the return on investment to test outside of your requirements.

If software has potential to injure someone, I would hope that it's been tested to similar specifications that hardware is tested on.
I would prefer they open up the services-side so that it would be possible to at least extend the lifetime of things a bit.
"requests per minute" is such a useless unit of measurement. Please always quote request rates per second (i.e. Hz).

Makes me think of the Abraham Simpson quote: "My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!"
Whitewashing by the BBC is becoming commonplace in this post-truth era. The article doesn't bother to mention the fact that Wallace was racist, even enabling and documenting the beating of indigenous "workers" during his first trip in South America predating his less violent South East Asian tours. Wallace wrote

Can the tropics be permanently colonized by Europeans, and particularly by men of the Anglo-Saxon race? This is the question that now occupies much attention in view of the mad struggle among the chief European Governments for a share of all those parts of tropical Africa and Asia still held by inferior races.

http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S562.htm
"Perceived value is the worth that a product or service has in the mind of the consumer. For the most part, consumers are unaware of the true cost of production for the products they buy; instead, they simply have an internal feeling for how much certain products are worth to them." [1]

Some times you just can't sell an item for more than it costs.
This is particularly true for technology companies who are pushing the envelop on the technology front. For example, the EO-444 tablet sold for $2000 in 1993.

[1] www.investopedia.com/terms/p/perceived-value.asp
[2] http://www.oldcomputers.net/eo-440.html
>The simulation hypothesis, to me, is not terribly surprising or interesting

Well, it might not be interesting in terms of answering what I consider to be the truly fundamental questions (the answers for which I'd also argue are outside the realm of thought), but it definitely is interesting in terms of what can be accomplished or understood within the realm of thought, just as many other things are.
> their primary obligation is to the ethical standards of their profession, not to their employers.

OP here. The intended subtext of my post was that it would be nice if our industry had ethical standards as well. (:
Part of what the article is saying is that inequality and mobility interact.

If each unit of economic growth creates fewer jobs (say because of automation), the productivity gets captured by a smaller number of people.
> serious stuff should be built and tested before pushing anyway

Yes and no. Build in your CI server that's set up to mirror your prod environment after pushing, but before merging. That's what the whole industry of CI providers and integrations built into and around GitHub and GitLab is for.
So, the biggest complaint about Instant-runoff voting seems to be that it can lead to a counter-intuitive scenario, where a candidate becomes more popular, but loses the election.

From what I've seen of constructed scenarios that have this situation, they have 'left', 'compromise', and 'right' candidates, with the majority of voters tending to prefer left>compromise>right, or right>compromise>left.

If 'compromise' is the weakest candidate, either left or right ends up winning. But if left or right become popular enough, and make left/right the weakest candidate, than compromise wins out over both extremes.

Frankly, this actually doesn't seem like that much of a problem to me. If we end up with everyone's second-favorite choice, everyone is at least second-most happy.

For example, in the USA - Without commenting on Gary Johnson's politics or experience, I think the USA would have been happier had he been chosen. Half the population is pulling their hair out over Trump. Had Clinton won, the other half would likely feel the same way. Most of the population would be less-excited to see Johnson in office than their preferred candidate, but relieved that at least opposing candidate didn't get in.
Quick serious question: How does this company plan to make money? They're surely well funded[1], but what's their end game?

[1] "We've raised over $30,000,000 from top VCs in the valley like Greylock, Benchmark, and Tencent. In other words, we’ll be around for a while."
Generally they all have a wired connection which is POE.
These machines do more than just push. They also buffer messages for each individual user to "potentially" push if they don't read them on the desktop client. This happens before the flow this article talks about.

We currently have 3 machines doing this for millions of concurrent users. At the writing of this article it was 2 machines.
I feel like Telecom may have been boosting the numbers a bit there to try and make the law seem extra bad for them; all they should really have to do is forward a letter.
About the Java 8 Stream API Bug
Your metrics might be different than other people's.

I think Berlin is cool, but I'd rather live Warsaw, for instance: less expensive, more money for the business.
It's also much more efficient for me as a developer to offer an export interface instead of having to implement all the reporting functionality myself.
> milquetoast

I actually had to look that up. Thanks for a new word that I can throw around. I don't think a personal attack on the author helps your argument, but that's your prerogative.

Also, thanks for clarifying your position. I disagree with you on the wholesale dismantling of intelligence agencies (they serve a purpose), but I think we can agree that oversight is needed and necessary perhaps regardless of the exact means.
There should be a list like this but more technical
It doesn't have to allocate a new DOM element for every line. It could recycle DOM elements as the terminal grows. This is a method that some JS libraries use, seems like Hyper probably doesn't.
I'll give a try.
React's event system is one of its strong points. Like with many alternatives, I stopped looking into them when i read "no event system" in the README. Perf is not the single most high priority in a framework.
Much like hotels, shelters are not responsible for the security of your things and I assure you that hotels have more thefts than shelters.

As for assaults, no shelter is going to allow an assult to happen and if an assault does happen, the police would be called. If you believe assaults are common at shelters, which they are not, call a shelter or the related police station and ask how many assaults they have had reported in the past year.

Everywhere has rules and polices, including hotels. Shelters are free and they have reasons for the rules.
The difference between software developer and software engineer is ~$10k.
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/S...
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...
Akka streams?
I ordered at launch and it was sold out for some time.
How teens using metadata found a whistleblower in two hours
The vast and free source of power that we often overlook
I'd believe it. Do you have pointers to anything more with experience about this? What falls down?

(That said, I don't see needing to go there. My house has, from a quick mental count, about 52 total switches. I'm probably missing a few, but that's the right ballpark. A 300 switch house sounds like a monster.)
I'm not really sure what this would achieve, aside from a shift in the topic of smug comments like this
Film Buff in the making here: there's a lot of fast-food movies out there, but there's also still a lot of art being made. Maybe your local theaters stopped showing indie releases?
Maybe you eventually saw so many movies that 'heartfelt, based on a true story feel-good movies' lost their sheen because the tropes are just too familiar to you?

Not sure. I feel like I go and see plenty of good movies (admittedly, I can sometimes see the commoditization in the blockbuster releases trying to be deep), and forgive them their flaws and consider their virtues.

Check out those indie releases!
DataLayer: Porting Zendesk's Existing App to GraphQL
ReactiveX seems to have documented notions for it:
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava/wiki/Backpressure

Highly recommend the Reactive series of libs. They're typically very well done.

The guy below is right that Akka is perfectly suited.
Free speech. First Amendment covers source code and similar expressions. Regulating free speech is virtually impossible. That is where the whole project stops.
OK I said based on, where the email the OP cited uses "derived from" - I'm uncertain there's a meaningful distinction.