skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is bullcrap and here's why: A large number of people out there have no social media accounts, they don't read news on the Internet, and they don't give two shits about Trump except they wanted to send a message against the system. Do you really think 62 million people were propagandized into voting for Trump? You're insane if you think that. But go right ahead and keep on believing whatever you want.

The real truth is that all news is fake. I sat in the airport a week ago with CNN blaring and I can tell you first hand that Wolf Blitzer is nothing but a propgandist himself. Who is he a messenger for? Beats me, but the quality of what passes for news from all media is extremely low and getting worse.

Discounting why people voted for Brexit and for Trump is done at your own extreme peril--but by all means, keep poking a the sleeping giant.
Smoking in public seems a bit extreme, but for instance smoking in bars/restaurants was introduced in the country where I lived first in 2006 and tightened in 2011 but a lot of bars still just kept doing it. Especially in small villages. Until some of them were fined; the fines are so high that they basically have to close and have debts after that. Even for 'rich' people this is a too much. Since a few of those were made public, no-one dares to do it anymore. But in public seems ... very hard to enforce.

So one would think, with plastic, just fine the people giving/selling the plastic bags. If you give/sell a non degradable plastic bag it has to carry a return deposit of $25 per bag or you get fined, as a shop, $200k. Plastic bags will be gone in no time flat. Far easier to enforce and too rich, also for the rich. Good for companies and the world as they can sell paper bags and biodegradable bags.
It's a host of things, generally I've seen:

- Poorly defined APIs/types that allow vendors to diverge.
- Legit driver bugs.
- Vendors preferring optimizations to following the spec(including skipping memzero requirements).
- Hardware that doesn't behave how it should(fp32 falling back to fp16 silently for instance).

Overall you don't really win any points in the market for correctness, instead performance and efficiency are highly valued.
So I just reviewed the official GOP platform for 2016[1]. Contraception is addressed twice, specifically in the context of providing contraception or abortion counseling to teens in schools (they favor teaching abstinence) and in opposing abortion drugs such as RU-486 and over-the-counter availability of "morning-after" contraceptive drugs.

I don't read anywhere any opposition to contraceptives in the context of family planning, nor have I ever heard any conservative outside of Catholic church clergy speak against use of contraceptives in that context.

[1] https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/static/home/data/platform.pd...
The amount of shills infecting HN with the deluge of petty posts from mostly fake news sites is far more annoying.

What's next? An OMG???!! article about how Trump once ran a red light (that was actually yellow when he crossed it)? Where's the downvote button?
When was the last time you paid a paper bill? Or are you not using credit cards for some reason?

I do most of my streaming through a set-top device, so I add credentials once, and ... that's it. If I happen to watch through a browser, then there are password managers, which seems like an appropriate solution for the few that choose to do this.

If there were a 'manager' that streamlined all of this, that would be great, but a 'bundler' by definition doesn't let me pick and choose services.
As long as you use the new semantics, the unsafe parts of the language are barred to you, so it's like a different language.
Vulcan is unsupported

Where? Windows, Linux, Andriod, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have rolled out support

Apple is the only people who haven't because of Metal.
OK, so why the difference?

I'm using Firefox 51.0.1 with Privacy Badger 2017.1.26, NoScript 2.9.5.3 and Adblock Plus 2.8.2.

Edit: OK, so I had doubleclick.net, facebook.com, google-analytics.com and mxpnl.com untrusted in NoScript. After trusting them all, Privacy Badger still reports no tracking, but lists these trackers:

cdn.embedly.com
connect.facebook.net
www.google-analytics.com
fonts.googleapis.com
www.google.com

Strange. So is Privacy Badger failing to detect tracking?
I don't get it. I get downvoted for expressing the most populist, freedom-loving ideas. Are you all hopeless statists? What is wrong with you people?
"Scout combines science fiction and journalism to bring you weekly online dispatches on the future of technology."
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What an idiotic premise, "the logo is the focal point of the page". No, the question and answer are the focal point of the page. Did you learn nothing from the thing that you claimed to have learned something from?
> Trump lacks intelligence

I keep seeing people say this, but I'm not sure it's true.

He took a loan of a few million from his father and turned it in to a billion dollar empire.

It's difficult to do that without some measure of intelligence.

He almost lost that billion dollar empire in '94, but recovered and built it back up again in to a billion dollar empire.

It's more difficult to do that without some intelligence.

He also out-played all his Republican opponents in the primaries and then Hillary in the general election.

It's even more difficult to do that without some intelligence.

I remember all the pundits talking about Trump's strategy to win the election and how he didn't have ground game, and it was stupid to be doing all those rallies and campaigning in the states he was campaigning in, and yet it was that very strategy that won him the election.

And all those outrage inducing comments and tweets that keep him in the media spotlight and earned him some $2 billion in free advertising..

If Trump is not intelligent, what does it say when Trump seemingly always manages to outsmart his opponents?

How many times does it have to happen before you can no longer dismiss it as dumb luck?
On Mac, hit control+command+space, type "not equal", and hit down then left, choosing ≠.

Certainly longer than typing !=, but far easier than looking up hex values.
Thanks for this detailed answer!

I was thinking more about production costs, of course it makes sense to sell the content based on number of viewers. I'm not very aware of who pays what though.

In an alternative universe cable would work like the internet: content carriers. Netflix is basically the most popular thing (normalized for traffic) and even they are basically paying ISPs to help get served better.
Why civil rights groups are siding with telecom giants in the net neutrality war
Power distribution will always be a problem until power distribution is no longer a factor, solar will generate power locally.

Fuel prices go up, solar prices go down, it's inevitable those two will cross and you'll be burning money by using a two stroke bike.
If you like math you may be interested in my companion piece
Optimizing Differentiability in Weighted-Frequency Color Coding at https://modalduality.org/posts/optimizing-color-coding/ where I try to choose the most distinct colors, weighted by the number of speakers of the language.

I'll try to answer any questions too.
Yeah, you just cut out half of android with those requirements.

If I were ever to use it in production I'd def want a 2-tier system that works with older hardware and does the texture generation CPU side.
Facebook is still trying to figure out how to censor news and bury voices without too much backlash. The twitter way.
Obama had minimal qualifications, himself.
No way to offload it to the GPU? I remember reading about ffmpeg extensions for doing that...
If your attitude is to keep talking down Trump voters as being idiots don't expect any sympathy from me when Trump gets re-elected. In fact, the more you marginalise them the more radical and United they will get, before you criticize others for acting against their own self interest realise that you're doing the same.

> It's possible to be the victim of your own desperation, which is just what such people perpetually have been throughout history. Everyone sees that kind of person as a rube, Left, Right, and Center... it's always just a fight for their hearts and minds.

Yes, and the guy offering a bad solution looks better than the guy offering no solution.
They're bordering on "too big to fail" at this point, but if they did go, they are just a payment provider. Switching from Stripe to PayPal to Square or whatever for credit card processing is a heck of a lot easier than switching from the Apple App Store to your own hand-crafted store.

For example, you can bang together your own store with Magento, Spree, or any number of other ecommerce store kits and pick one or more back-ends without a whole lot of sweat. This presumes you know a thing or two about web development and security, which is not necesarily a given for any group of developers. If you do know that, the difference between Stripe or PayPal is a few lines of configuration and API keys, if that.
Haha. :) Thing is, I'd probably have to show my HN credentials and whatever an^T^T digital probing they do to let you in, so they'd know it was all premeditated and then I'd be in real trouble. (I'm in Straya).
No idea if that's true or not, but who cares? It's saving lives.

Most billionaires just hoard a few more islands for themselves.
This is awesome, I'll take you up on that offer. Can you write a poem/haiku about Swift Demand itself? Coins have been sent.
I've said it a billion times on HN and I'll say it a billion more, we are super fortunate to have the work that Nadia Eghbal does.

If you've not read Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure I highly recommend you do [1]. Her podcast is also great [2].

[1]: http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/ro...
[2]: https://changelog.com/rfc
If javascript did not exist HTML/CSS/SVG would have evolved...

Perhaps it would. Perhaps if JavaScript did not exist then we would have developed better tools for building what we now call web apps instead. Perhaps if JavaScript did not exist, those apps would be using something separate to the Web, and the Web would have remained a mostly non-interactive, read-only medium. I'm quite sure that with the wisdom of hindsight that we enjoy today we could have designed much, much better ways to do what web apps are doing.

But the thing is, JavaScript does exist, and it's being used to provide sites/apps that many people find useful, arguably much more useful by now than the original purpose of the Web. Meanwhile, those hypothetical alternatives do not exist, and so obviously they aren't providing any of that desirable functionality to users.

This being the case, I think reverting to the Web being a very limited medium that doesn't offer those benefits is no longer plausible. It would set the development of useful and/or enjoyable technologies used by billions of people back 10-15 years, and there's no guarantee that whatever would actually evolve to replace it would be any better.

I'm been developing for the Web professionally for many years, and a programmer for many years more. I'd be the first to agree that what we have today has problems, some of them serious, and that we should try to do something about them. But no-one's going to stop the train or turn back time, so any realistic solutions have to start from where we actually are and provide better practical alternatives, not start from where some of us might have preferred to be and provide wishful thinking.
I'd be more fearful of corruption in those countries. This is where so much foreign aid falls apart, it's siezed by the government, distributed to their favored constituents, and never makes it to the people who really need it.
Interesting. I've tended to call it the "ooohhh shiny" approach. Building new stuff and adding shiny graphics is always more enticing than housekeeping work.
Even the quote you've pulled doesn't claim the outcomes are due solely to the efforts of charities. The Gates foundation has a strong focus on health issues (just about everything listed in the report, for instance) and not the sort of aid the books you mention are criticizing.
And that's why I canceled my Sling and PlayStation Vue subscriptions -- in the end they just turned out to be crappier cable than cable. So now I just watch more Netflix, which is the only company that seems to have the future of TV (mostly) figured out.
Except that's not true:

http://fortune.com/2016/12/11/bill-gates-john-doerr-venture-...
The big Silicon Valley tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) have been using similar mechanisms for at least a decade to predict which ads people will click on and increase their likelihood of doing so. You can actually see what Facebook has predicted you're most interested in, based on their like/click/commenting/view behavior:

https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/edit/

This is the first reported case of these techniques being used to influence an election, but that doesn't mean it's the first time it was used to influence an election. It's very likely that Obama's campaign used similar techniques, considering it was staffed by Google/Facebook/Twitter data scientists who were certainly familiar with these techniques. It just appears in the press now because the Trump campaign & administration leaks like a sieve.
Where I live giving a homeless person who is an addict a gift card can end up in them selling the gift card at a great discount to someone else poor. I have seen this happen on more then one occasion. That said I think it's better then giving cash to the authors point.

Also lots of people are afraid to interact with homeless because lets be honest some have severe mental disorders/addictions, and it can be scary in general to deal with someone you don't know homeless or not. A safe gesture that I find is well received is in the safety of your car as you pass someone begging ask them if you can pick them up something from a local fast food chain. The whole transaction can happen through the safety of your car and there is no cash or gift card involved.
I'm not quite as old as you, but I'm old enough to remember when not littering was considered laudable and not simply common decency.
Boston Dynamics adds wheels to its already chilling robots
I'm going to take a wild guess here, It's probably NoScript preventing the tracking code form being loaded before ABP can perform detections?
Legend has it that he'd call in to tech support for various products his company made when he couldn't get them working just to see what the experience was like.

Say what you will about Gates, he's a pretty normal guy at heart.

I remember when he was in town for the Windows 95 launch he was just poking around in various local shops, checking things out, no security detail or anything, just one scruffy haired guy going about his day. It's just like, oh, there's Bill Gates looking at bonsai trees.
Good thing the post you're replying to isn't worshipping it and in fact is based on a study using DEXA scans instead!
Actually if you just hit "Alt" + "=" on the Mac it will insert the ≠
you'd also be surprised how much venues charge, worse than rent.
A worthy topic, especially given the known typical contentions between engineers and management (see Dilbert).

However, the exact answer to how an manager can measure ones progress (if only internally) still seems open-ended.
From Apple's official YouTube channel, here's the teaser for the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RInsFIWl-Q&app=desktop
Subtly different: I think there exists a likelihood that BTC goes to zero before the BTC are sold. (BTC will not be returned to creditors directly, I predict with a fairly high degree of confidence. They'll be sold as a block; Kraken might be separately engaged to transfer money to foreign creditors who might take their transfers in BTC.)
Public Smoking ban has been largely effective in India. You rarely see people smoking in public areas. The effectiveness of these laws are that it allows concerned citizens to raise their voice when they see law is being broken.
StackOverflow is making a whole host of bad decisions lately. I worry for developers everywhere if they keep making missteps like this. Its not like "free Q&A site" is a long-term sustainable business, especially if they keep messing with users like they are.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645996
New Mac malware presumably by Russian hacking group
Looking more closely at your link, the white catholics were more likely to vote for Trump than protestants were (higher than anyone except evangelicals), and as I understand it, it's white catholics that are the most prominent in congress.

Sorry, I meant politicians (as the parent referenced the GOP) rather than laypeople.
Reverting an Octopus Merge
> Put another way, if 100 tickets at $50 sell out in a day, and scalped at $500 sell out in a month, yes, the same amount of tickets is sold. But 'ticket availability lasting for a month' is only there because the scalper has removed the ticket availability for the $50 purchasers.

Economic theory say that this isn't true. They should sell out at similar speed regardless of reselling happening or not.

And from personal experience: efficient markets are better than inefficient markets. I've seen quite a few inefficient markets and they're ... well they're stupid. They impose ridiculous costs (like having to F5 continuously so you can "deal" with the shortage, but that's quite a trivial one).

And yes, scalpers make the market more efficient.

The presence or absence of scalpers does not change the basic problem : not enough spaces for everyone who wants to go. That cannot be solved by introducing rules against scalpers. In fact, the opposite is true. Seriously, the opposite approach would likely improve matters far more : create a large-scale scalping company that would pre-purchase large amounts of tickets as an investment and resell them later. The presence of this company would massively improve ticket availability by enabling and incentivizing artists to make more spaces available, and this would make everyone's life better.
People will keep explaining it with regular explanations.

But the rise of AI threatens all our systems that rely on the inefficiency of an attacker.

The first one to go is trust in the media.

Look at facebook and how it uses big data to manipulate people into spending more and clicking more and posting more and checking notifications more. Even if it means echo chambers. Think about your own experience. Are you more addicted today than, say, 5 years ago?

People think that they make their own decisions but when the best ideas are aggregated then it's you vs an entire big data server farm crunching numbers. Soon your willpower won't be enough, because peer pressure, media stories and even laws will bring you back to increasing their metrics. They can micromanage more and more interactions, get dossiers on everyone, and they will outmaneuver old media more easily every year.
> I always find it funny when people say they're tired of being called racists.

You mean the people from the Middle America? Well it helps to live there for a while. I did for a about 10 years. You know what most people there don't think when they first wake up? That's right, racist thoughts. They think about getting groceries, hopefully kids did their homework, when the bills are due, why Steven is being a jerk at work and so on. They don't yawn and stretch thinking "I hope all the people with certain skin pigment different than mine fail!".

> they want people like them to succeed they're called racists.

I have never heard anyone say "I want people like me to succeed" based on race. Maybe I wasn't hanging out with a bad crowd. But I've heard them say "I want to succeed" or "I want my children to be successful" is that racist? I am an immigrant, is it wrong to say "I want immigrants to succeed". Am I racist now? Oh oh.

> always find it funny when people say they're tired of being called racists.

I am wondering. How do you expect people to respond when they are called racists. Let's imagine you walk down the street. Someone turns a corner wearing that stupid Trump hat, you yell out "You racist!". What would be a realistic positive outcome from that?
The point doesn't need to be to amass followers. It can be to share knowledge and spread news. There could be a more useful variation in this medium than today's Twitter.

Writing also helps develop ideas. Trying to explain things well in short sentences helps develop your mind. Surely this isn't useless.
And compared to the kinds of technologies used for copy protection and telemetry in native applications, what JS can do within a browser is still very limited.

Yes, the browser executes JS code from untrusted sources, but only if you visit a page that loads scripts from those sources, and always (barring security bugs) within a sandbox that limits their capabilities.

I fail to see how this can possibly be any worse than installing software in other ways such as running a native executable you downloaded from somewhere, or following a "curl | sh" installation process as advocated by plenty of popular OSS tools, or allowing native software that you already installed to install arbitrary automatic updates that it fetches from remote sources.

The argument netsharc made was essentially that turning off JS would disable a lot of useful functionality for a lot of people, and that providing that functionality would still involve similar risks if it were done some other way. The reply from mikegerwitz argued that JS is different, but I still don't see how. The relevant comparison isn't against just turning JS off, it's against turning JS off and implementing the same functionality some other way, and compared to the sandboxed environment of JS, the most likely alternatives with today's technology would be even worse in terms of security and privacy.
> Undefined behavior is the result of a design decision: the refusal to systematically trap program errors at one particular level of a system. The responsibility for avoiding these errors is delegated to a higher level of abstraction.

Sounds a bit like an argument for Checked Exceptions: If you're going to write code for one layer of abstraction, your code should only emit errors that match its own tier. (And not raw naked primeval stuff occurring many layers down.) ( http://imgur.com/iYE5nLA )
Mean of lognormal distribution: e ^ (parameter + (other parameter ^ 2) / 2)

Mean of pareto (power law) distribution, where parameter < 1: infinity
Local governments in India (mostly all of them) tax disposable plastic already.
So by your logic it is OK because there are worse things?

Do you use that metric in all aspects of your judgement?

If so you must be able rationalize a lot of questionable behavior because you can always think of something 'worse" that you "could" be doing instead.

What's so hard to understand is that your logic is pretty twisted.
Disturbing.
This is one of many downsides of PDF ticketing. Fraudster buys a nosebleed, edits the PDF to fake a great seat. Ticket scans just fine at the door, since it has a legit barcode. (If the scanner displays the real section/row/seat for that barcode, the person working the door could cross-check it, but I've never seen that happen.)