skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their model of the 2016 US Presidential election reflected the same polling error that all the other models showed. They gave Trump a 30% chance of winning, along with some commentary about ways that systemic error could easily swing things in his direction. Trump then won the election with results well-within their error margins, but that wasn't enough for some people.

It's hard for some members of our society to acknowledge that 30%-chance events happen on occasion, so 538 takes the fall.
I used to work on x-ray equipment that still used serial/rs-232 ~4 years ago. I'm sure they are still around. I had to set up multiboot laptops that ran win 95/98/xp, because we couldn't virtualize the serial connection properly. And yes, the USB-to-serial rarely worked either.

Man that job was frustrating, but it sure was a lot of fun!
"In short that 99% of the head’s thinking activity consists of trying to scare the everliving shit out of itself."

-DFW, Infinte Jest

I feel like my brain is always looking for a threat, a very valuable skill when whacking around in the brush, less so when sitting safely in an office, at home on the couch, or otherwise. I'm not convinced we've evolved fast enough for our brains to recognize the massive decrease in need for this anxiety.
In that case, you put your Windows 10 stuff in a different .dll that doesn't get deployed on old versions of Windows.

The article has an example.
It's not really surprising given the lack of updates.
What happens if you mark the file read-only?
> quiches were quiches

Kind of interesting how remnants of culture wars of 35+ years ago linger today, and from the perspective of 2017 how anybody could have gotten annoyed at people who eat egg-and-cheese pies.
It makes me think of point #1 here: https://qz.com/846940/a-yale-history-professors-20-point-gui...

"Much of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You’ve already done this, haven’t you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom."
Does everyone really want a pure meritocracy? The original intent of the word was not positive, Michael Young coined the term as a pejorative description of a new kind of discrimination. Silicon Valley then seems to have embraced the concept without the slightest hint of irony.

But that semantic issue aside, I agree with your point but would take it a step further. I chafe a bit even at the idea of "shared understanding of merit". Not that there aren't objective differences in performance, but that they vary across roles, and even within a specific type of job, different employees may have wildly different yet equally successful approaches.

I've come to believe the concept of A, B, and C players to be fundamentally flawed. The truth is that people perform differently in different situations. If you are hiring for a major brand-name corporation you obviously need some aggressive filtering to get through all the applicants, so I don't really fault the Googles and Facebooks of the world for their hiring approach. But I have always had success by shaping roles around the employee's strengths in practice, not based on some abstract ideal I'm searching for. Many of my best hires have come from unfamiliar backgrounds which I could not evaluate objectively, but whose diverse experience ended up paying huge dividends to the entire team.
No, since the verification is done using signatures received from the server, without any reputation system involved.
I literally have the opposite concern. I am amazed that [people think Wikipedia] is urgently endangered by the fact that their edits about young startups and science fiction characters are rejected.

I think this mischaracterizes WhitneyLand's fear. The worry is not that the individual edits are crucially important, it's that without a welcoming community Wikipedia will eventually run out of editors willing to do keep the site alive. While the content of Wikipedia won't disappear as a result, one fear is that over time the information will become static and eventually outdated. Perhaps this is acceptable, as older encyclopedias can be a snapshot of their time.

A greater worry that some have is that Wikipedia may change from being a relatively unbiased collection of information to cherry-picking and displaying only one side of the facts. I think it's a legitimate fear that some revisions are being refused because they don't match the desired narrative, and that the "rules" are being (selectively) applied as post-hoc justification. While this may not be an overwhelming problem yet, it's possible that a more inclusive community will prevent it from becoming a greater problem in the future.
I suppose for the later church St. Alfonsus Liguori would be a good starting point. Pope Gregory XIV was actually a relaxation of rules by Pope Sixtus V.
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Trump seems to enjoy the fight; I wonder if he finds it stressful.
Ask HN: WeThePeopleOfThe.US – What should this be?
I own wethepeopleofthe.us. what should I do with it? I've owned the domain for years and always wanted to do something worthwhile with it. It now seems like the right time but I'm not sure what to do. Should I develop something? Should I give it up for a good cause? Should I sell it?

I don't mind developing something with it but don't want to be the target of anything as well. Maybe I give it up to an organization that isn't worried about backlash? What would you do with it?
Data Design at the foundation of your stack
Are there any models from Lenovo/Dell/HP that have a good keyboard (obviously there is some subjectivity here)?

If Lenovo made a model with the thinkpad keyboard from 10 years ago, I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
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Aframe.io + bunch of cardboards

Easy as HTML, with option of adding more complexity via javascript. Very rewarding from the start, children get into VR from the very beginning.
>US could get much more if they would be allies since technically there are no obstacles

It's weird, it's almost like pioneering and supplying technology (VBIED's) to kill American troops, and founding terrorist organizations to kill American allies somehow sours the relationships between the two countries.
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They're used by ISO 2022 in general. Free version: https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec...

Of course Unix didn't interpret them; the terminal did.
I'd argue that they are a check on the President. Wasn't the main objection to Obama that he didn't actually accomplish much of the "Change" he promised during his presidency? Most of that is because he had an opposition Congress that obstructed every major policy change. Much of the rest is because the President doesn't actually have the power most people think he does - he is largely powerless to positively influence the economy, for example, and he's completely unable to predict or control technological breakthroughs that may throw millions of people out of work.
How long should robots live?
It's a question of costs and benefits. RAID absolutely does reduce the risk of data loss. The extent to which you want to take further steps is a question of how valuable your data is and how much of it there is. It can be perfectly legitimate to decide that, given a particular risk profile and a finite budget, you can't afford both RAID and backups and the former is better value than the latter.
It seems to be the case where crime is getting worse where it already was at high levels: Englewood, Harrison, Deering, Austin, Gresham.

https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/3f33d4ba/18/#
Or you can use a laptop with touch screen and/or a digital pen...

And Google and microsoft have note taking apps that makes your hand writing searchable.

Edit: wow, some people on HN really dislike touchscreens...
All I want for Christmas is a Democratic candidate whose name I didn't learn in grade school.
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Cardboard instant camera
I can't wait to retire my 2013 MBA and set it aside with my OEM 8800GT (nVidia's iconic desktop GPU). Both represented the best combination of tradeoffs with the tech that was available at the time at a price point that led to ubiquity.

I'm not sure what my next portable computer will be, but if I want it to fit into that criteria of iconic hardware, I doubt it will be an Apple computer.
I was responding to the later sentence where you asserted that it wasn't illegal. No, I don't think everything in the California labor code (or any other for that matter) is in accordance with what is moral.

You can have an unhealthy power dynamic without ever directly threatening someone's career. Do you generally hold that when an employee is put in an uncomfortable position by a superior, they can't complain if they could've just gone to HR and hoped that they would be receptive?

Calling my speculation disingenuous when you tried to use the fact that managers have colluded to keep employee wages low without any evidence Tesla's in fact did that is pretty hypocritical.
IIRC signaling NaNs aren't trap representations: they're fully-defined values which support operations like isnan().
Over the year they declined, but were up YoY in the 4q. Early year declines show people were waiting for an update and then purchased when one came out. We'll have to wait for 1q 2017 numbers to see if the releases keep the trend going back up.
And fun to compare with the statements from Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital Management Founder and CIO.

@ 2:35

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-01-25/kyle-bass-b...
My impression is that vue is one of the first sane approaches to actual simple gui components for the web that works (delivering on the promise made by Web components).

Do you really feel the mess of multiple files react seem to dictate is much better? (Honest question, I haven't really used either in anger).

From what I can gather more radical approaches like elm and clojure script - seem promising, but are ultimately (for now) let down by the frameworks doing "too much" - in effect working against the rich vms browsers have become.

I'd like to hear/see more of why you feel vue leads to (demands?) giant controllers as opposed to facilitate real re-usable components?
Makes sense with Apple's current terrible product line setup. Both the retina MacBook and 2016 MacBook Pro are much more niche than their last generation. Also much more confusing as the MacBook Air successor is $500 more than the 13" Air was (The non-touchbar MacBook Pro is the spiritual successor to the air.) The true 13" Pro for 2016 is also $500 more than the last gen.

The 12" MacBook is there...but it is a super niche product compared to the old Air or even the old Pro. It's performance is probably enough for most people, but at that point you could just buy a cheaper windows ultrabook and get similar or better performance for a much lower price.

A huge market for Apple used to be college students. Now in 2017 what Apple laptop do they buy? an underpowered MacBook, or an overpriced pro? The best solution for most is buying an older model, but part of the appeal of buying a Mac is having the "latest" thing.

Then you get to desktops...and there isn't much to say there. Apple just doesn't do them anymore.

This is coming from someone that has used a Mac for the past 10 years and is typing on a 2016 pro. It is nice, but connectivity wise it is too far ahead of its time. In 1-2 years it will be fine, but right now it is just in early adopter territory.
That's all well and good, but there is absolutely no indicaition that congress would have produced anything resembling "good, long-term" legislation.

In my completely made up system, if we started at 0 and add up the number of points in favor of averting Climate Change, Obama probably added 3 for a few years with the Paris Agreement, CAFE and some of the EPA rules were also pretty beneficial, maybe net 4 over his term. Call it +10 for Obama. Trump's going to reverse many of those decisions, probably make some of them much worse within the next few years. Let's say he wipes out all of Obama's work and does 50% more 'damage' in this system. So by 2020, we're at -5.

If we had left it to the Republicans in Congress, we would have been at least at -5 every year since 2010..

So -5 net with Obama/Trump's dueling executive orders or -50 with Republicans in Congress.

Yes the system is made up and the points don't matter, but there is absolutely no way we would be in a better position. It's the height of naivety to dismiss what they promised to do and to assume they would have suddenly changed their views 180º to support action on climate change for 'the limelight'.
Oh wow, I didn't realize the option was still there, let alone on by default. Madness.

The embedded system argument makes no sense to me (understanding that you're just repeating it, not defending it). If there's no other source of randomness then there's no good source of randomness, period, and you're screwed. Better not to even try, then.
The hypocrisy from the right was just a bit more blatant if I remember correctly.

2001-2008: Respect the President even if you disagree with him.

2009-2016: Obummer is a Kenyan Muslim dictator.

2017- : Respect the President even if you disagree with him.
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Where is the line between "Check to prevent abuse" and "Roadblock that stops any meaningful change"?
So America shouldn't support a progressive Saudi monarchy attempting to break the control of their religious bloc, but instead support an Iranian regime dedicated to export their religious revolution. Makes sense.
He's not worrying about Terms of Service, but about being logged and traceable later on.
What's different in the CDN use-case is that the content that reached a 3rd user through the uploading user would've reached the 3rd anyway, just from the original server.
As a user i find going the other way more troubling.

Say i want to use a UWP file manager on Windows 10. Out of the box the folders i can access are limited, and adding more require that i use the age old Win32 file picker window.

Similarly both Google and Mozilla stopped developing a UWP native UI for their web browsers, as it would only be active if the browser was set as the default one. Something that is not always desirable.

So from a user perspective, UWP feels bolted on rather than a integrated part.
The BEAM VM and lightweight processes seem amazing - I just wish they could be tied to a language syntax that wasn't so radically different from c/java/javascript and the like. Go code is almost immediately understandable because of this, whereas Erlang is perplexing.
- Maybe api:s aren't meant to last, maybe rewriting more is the piece missing from the puzzle. Always leaving evolution up to others doesn't really work if we all do it at the same time, and your brain is as good as mine when it comes to recognizing truth.

- Picking frameworks is a bit like picking presidential candidates, the whole game is rigged from the start. Once upon a time software was about solving problems, about working creatively based on your own experience. We can still learn from each other, and share code; but I feel the push towards standardizing on over engineered, general purpose code is misguided; like we're staring at fingers pointing at the moon, arguing which finger is the perfect one.

- New frameworks arise because needs aren't being met by the current status quo, hence we need innovation to get out of here. Where did this obsessive focus on popularity come from, anyway? I couldn't care less who did what, as long as we keep moving forward.
They made a lot more money in 2013 and 2014. So it might be better for developers, but maybe not the bottom line.
There are media outlets all over the political space, so it's just a matter of dropping your stuff to the ones that are interested.
Has anyone here used the MBP touchbar on a daily basis? Does it improve productivity or is it just a gimmick?
Eyeglasses -> Us nearsighted spread our dirty genes.
I assume you meant "with US federal agents". ;)
This Attack on the man is flawed. Cold war lasted longer than his 6 years in power.
The interesting thing with my son was that he caught on to the tone of voice that I use for dry, adult humor very early on. I'd say some risque double entendre in a matter-of-fact kind of way, his mother covers up her mouth (out of his view), and the 6 month old cracks up.
The Trump administration could do much more to damage Americans’ health than just repeal the Affordable Care Act and leave people without access to hospitals and medications.

And somehow they manage to tie it back to Trump
Success is harder for black folks. If they don't leave the poorer areas they grew up in, did they really succeed? There's an increase risk of being a victim if you are richer than most in a poorer area. if they leave, they are socially isolated from their comfort zone and friends, labeled a sell out, have to conform to social norms of the new environment. In both cases friends and relatives constantly beg for money. The worry of losing it all is very real. Yes, life is harder for blacks in America. A black African that succeedes in Africa doesn't have as much stress.
(too late for me to edit; took me a while to find online)

Another good source on the design of ASCII is Inside ASCII by Bob Bemer, one of the committee members, in three parts in Interface Age May through July 1978.

https://archive.org/details/197805InterfaceAgeV03I05

https://archive.org/details/197806InterfaceAgeV03I06

https://archive.org/details/197807InterfaceAgeV03I07
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> Wrong, it is freedom to do whatever you want with your property while freely associating with others.

You're adding in free association, which I accept. I still find that a massively stunted definition, which omits many important freedoms.

> Protecting national borders and addressing illegal immigration should be done anyhow.

...Which restricts freedom of association and the movement of labor.

> He talked about tariffs a lot, I would disagree about this.

Sure, flashy protectionist silliness. We'll see what congress allows there.

> Not sure what "hard-right" means for you, but what I read from here is that any social engineering from the right wing is wrong while the same thing from the left is okay.

Interesting that you don't deny it, at least. 'Hard right' to me includes many of his appointees and vice president.

> Interestingly enough, libertarians that agree with Thiel feel freer now since political correctness is no longer the dominant doctrine

Interestingly enough, libertarians hurt feelings (billionaire or not) have little to do with freedom of speech. You're talking about freedom of consequence from one's speech; in other words, the consequences of saying things that offend others[1]. I'm talking about the threats to "loosen up libel law" (which isn't going to work very well for technical reasons, but nonetheless), the desire to beat the press into submission, etc.

In other words, I'm talking about freedom of speech, not people whining about other people talking back.

[1] I don't know when "political correctness" has ever been "the dominant doctrine"; perhaps other people feel much more threatened by whiny college kids than I do. In any case, if someone can't handle the marketplace of ideas, I tend to think they should toughen up a mite to stick to their preferred media bubble.
On some Windows & Linux machines that have an Intel mobile CPU and a discrete graphics chip, it is possible to switch the display to the Intel GPU. Is something like that possible on a MBP?
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Amish actually use power tools, and often have a community phone for emergencies.
Mostly you're straight on, but the latest iMacs are among the best desktop PCs ever built. And they're still a good deal.
I think people overlook how much time they spend with their body in discomfort. Too hot, too cold, legs asleep, chair is too hard, back aches, hungry, full, itchy sweater, dry skin, rash, sickness, disease, injury. I think, if you let yourself focus on it, it's rare to truly be comfortable in your body.

It's why it's so important to be comfortable in your mind.
You are assuming there are no malicious employees who are economically inclined to steal from your company. If this is allowed as the norm, your wonderful "friends" from work who stay at your place would smile the entire time they are making millions selling you out.
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Are there any resources you recommend for learning convolutional neural nets?
Neural Net Learns to Play Atari “Qbert”
A map zoom-in feature would e handy
Why is making connections to prior experience, turning knowledge into wisdom, and gaining a unique perspective on truth. It's a completely different game than stacking facts on top of each other. Why is creative, and what is created can never be taken away; how is useless once obsolete.
Many hotels have open WiFi in their lobbies, for convenience.
Yeah, discontinuing the Air is crazy. The "entry level" laptop from Apple now (excluding their late-year models they kept around) is now $1299 and features a Core M3 processor. For people with a 2014+ Air that is a downgrade in performance for more money than they paid initially.
I strongly believe that Obama was net good in large part because there was so much opposition to him. As such he couldn't ram-rod a one-sided version of anything through.

Similarly, I feel that Bush's and Clinton's best years were the periods where they had opposition, and couldn't use party allegiance to push things through.

I've felt that one-sided rule is net-negative essentially every time it's happened in my adult life, regardless of party.

Trump will just be an especially hard to ignore version of this anti-pattern, as he's made clear that he'll punish non-conformity within the GOP; and the GOP has made clear that they will do anything he requests, even when it stands against every major conservative principle.
This is not really surprising. The FDA has to be very careful with how they manage their resources. Before being allowed entry to the USA, the company must file information about what they are doing and where and who they are. They must also have a representative in the USA. All this information allows the FDA to quickly find the source of problems and stop them should a situation arrive.

If we handled this in any other way it would place an undue burden on either the taxpayer or the companies. Who should pay the inspection fees for a company importing very small volumes?

In the end, yes it is shocking, but the system generally works.
Ah, that's clearer for me.

There are a couple ways to handle depending on the scenario. If I were dealing with a static text under my control, say a direct insert of the text, I would either just enclose it all in traditional ' characters or come up with some unique quote text between the $$.

If I'm dealing with arbitrary text coming from, say a blogging website, I would either handle traditional SQL escaping in my input sanitizing code (or thereabouts) since I have to do that anyway ($$ is great for handwritten code where escaping introduces cognitive load, but not necessarily important for machine generated code) or I might create an inserting PL/pgSQL function with the article text as a parameter... that will get escaped without my having to do anything assuming I simply insert the text directly from the parameter.
True, but I think this is actually what an MRI can help with. If you can see soon after birth that a baby has suffered serious brain damage, you can avoid getting the parents' hopes up, just to have them crushed later.
Thermite + vigorous stirring.

Oh, you mean a usable laptop?