skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we just had an article that facts don't change people's minds. The fact is that, in the presidential race, a black vote is worth 92% of a white vote, an hispanic vote 75% and an asian vote 59%. You can try to hand wave it away, but facts are facts: there is racial disparity in presidential votes due to the electoral college. And yes, that is an uncomfortable fact for non-racists.

Of course it isn't as bad as the raw state to state disparity: 3.6:1 for votes cast in Wyoming vs California. I'm not sure how they got "voter power index" because it seems like Wyoming would obviously have the most voting power.
Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes (2017-03-07)
Yeah man you need a new Job. Tons of people are looking to hire here in Santa Monica.
Okay, so OpenAI is not open source but a private company.
The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people – The Guardian
Why not the subway?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail
> This comment was immediately down voted on Reddit. Someone is seeking to control the narrative.

Reddit has been beyond terrible the last year and it didn't recover post election. There always used to be a bias but you could usually drill down into some good back and forths in the comments, now you will only find that if it even exists in heavily downvoted posts along with troll posts.
You forgot living in the information and stress age, where everything is a crisis, or Trump's fault (or to his credit). We have no life to ourselves anymore, sex is like drinking, for many it serves to soothe the stress of just getting by, for others it serves to reinforce our deflated ego's, and for the rest of us, it is a low priority thing we can afford to, pardon the phrase, blow off...
> It definitely feels like getting developer tools bootstrapped/funded is harder than other things sometimes

Is this backed by any concrete data? I am working on a developer tool/application myself, and was pleased to find programming tools was an item listed in YCombinator's RFS. What is the general consensus here?
James Baldwin, the Art of Fiction No. 78 (1984)
I am afraid I fall into one of these extreme camps. I don't see room for a gray area on this issues like I can on other issues. I see no practical downside and lots of benefit to vaccines.

Children, plural, Children have died in my home city because of this anti-scientific attitude and the "serious side-effects" are either non-existent or so rare as to not be worth discussing.

There is no link with autism, and this is the main point that most anti-vaxxers use. Once you get to real side-effects you get to things that literally have around a 1 million chance for mild side effects, and much less frequent for serious.

The risk of most diseases is much higher than the the risk of its vaccine, so it makes sense for that individual and it makes for the population. I really don't see any wiggle room on this one and I don't understand this recent softness towards anti-vaccination.

When real deaths are on the line in much higher percentages than any real side-effects there is definitely a moral high ground. Let's revisit the vaccine issue one the diseases are gone, I don't see a need to vaccinate in North America for smallpox or polio and if we organized well we could make that the case for many other things we vaccinate for.
Did you even read the HN comments on the article [1]? They were predominantly critical of it.

Either way, that's not really what the article here shows. It assumes everyone of a particular race votes the same and describes the power of a homogeneous voting bloc (which doesn't exist), not the power of individual votes of people of those races.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810764
I agree advanced automation would be needed to maximize capacity. A basic system only needs cruise control, lights and cameras installed at the merge points and a transponder like fasttrak that monitors your speed and automatically fines you if you hit the brakes.
Adaptive cruise control, lane assist, higher standards of maintenance and driver skill don't seem like too much to ask of a select group of people and vehicles licenced to use the lane and would help to maximize capacity and minimize incidents without getting too futuristic.
We have a similar bit of bullshit in British Columbia, where government health insurance is paid through premiums, administered outside of the tax system

Those premiums come no where near actually covering the cost of government health insurance.

Ontario has a similar scheme - although administered inside of the tax system - which brings in approximately $3.5B from health premiums. The province spends over $50B on health and long-term care.[0] The health "premium" should really be called a surtax because that is what it is.

Looking at BC's provincial budget[1], which plans to cut them, MSP premiums will bring in just over $2.5B in revenue this year. This is inline with a previous year's forecast[2]. According to both of these sources', BC spends over $17B on health care.

Its 2017 budget claims that BC is the only province which charges health premiums - I suspect that this refers to the method which BC uses to charge people. In Ontario, the "health premium" is collected along with provincial income taxes.

[0] http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/ontariobudgets/2016/ch3b.... Scroll down to table 3.22 for expenses

[1] http://bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2017/bfp/2017_Budget_and_Fiscal_Pl... Table 1.7

[2] http://bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2015/bfp/2015_budget_and_fiscal_pl... Table 1.7
WikiLeaks: CIA Can Hack Android Phones and Samsung TVs
I see a lot of people in this thread saying that's not possible, so here's the math:

As given by squarefoot, you can record human voice at 1200 bit/sec = 150 bytes/sec. A day is 86400 seconds, assume people are talking (generously) 10% of the day, so 8640 seconds * 150 bytes = 1.3 megabytes per day uploaded to Amazon.

Does anyone doubt that _the company that runs AWS_ is incapable of dealing with barely a megabyte per device per day?
I haven't met one that wasn't an idiot.

Around my location they are all claiming that vaccines cause autism or deferring to Jesus for his medical opinion like he actually exists.

EDIT - Downvote away, but I would prefer if you demonstrated I was wrong by presenting a sensible reason to allow mass anti-vaccination.

I understand there legitimate reasons for an individual to avoid a vaccine, like immune deficiency or allergies, but that is not a pass for the whole population.
Data scientist here. It is 100% possible to do things with kids, but you really have to be motivated to do it, AND it really helps if you have a support system of other people to help take care of your child. I wrote about the dangerous deception we have in American culture, and particularly tech culture, of people who "have it all," but in reality have a bunch of help in the background here[1] and here[2].

If you work full-time and you want to go above and beyond, you're essentially working three days: work, before school + after school, and then your third day is learning or development.

Whatever that means for you in terms of reshuffling energy and other commitments will vary on your personality, energy level, etc, etc.

When you have a small child, it is extremely hard to multitask. So I wait until she is asleep. All after work time and weekends are for her.

Here is the way my schedule works: I pick her up from daycare, do dinner, playing, and then she goes to bed. I then take half an hour break, and delve into whatever I have going on, for about three hours.

I'm currently taking a Java class, writing technical blogs, and working out some Python. So I'll usually do an hour of reading/Java homework, then start a blog post, then finish off with whatever else I was working on.

Over the past three weeks, I developed this talk on big data[3]. That was probably the hardest because I needed a lot of time to write the code, test the code and concentrate, and all of my energy was just sapped.

All of this is to say that you can do it. For me personally it takes a lot of reshuffling and work and giving up things, but that's how kids work.

[1]http://blog.vickiboykis.com/2015/09/we-are-not-getting-the-f...
[2]http://blog.vickiboykis.com/2012/07/sheryl-anne-marie-and-ma...
[3]https://veekaybee.github.io/data-lake-talk/#/
> having the shells explode at a carefully determined distance above the ground made the shells especially effective against German ground troops

It does. WWII tanks' armor is mostly concentrated to the front and sides, because those tanks are designed to force enemy lines against ground-bursting shells, field pieces, and other tanks, all of which fire mostly on low trajectories; what's on top is much thinner, because no one expects to need to withstand a lot of damage there. Bursting a shell above ground level throws a lot of fragments at that weak armor, where a ground burst mostly wastes them against armor designed to withstand direct hits from much more powerful weapons. For infantry, it's even worse; the whole point of a trench or a foxhole is to put a thick layer of earth between you and all the metal that's flying around at ground level. When an airburst can send fragments right down into the hole with you, that earth doesn't help one bit.

Fun fact: "daisy cutter" bombs work the same way. Up until Vietnam at least, their proximity fuse was on the end of a rod protruding a few feet from the nose of the bomb. Low-tech compared to a radar proximity fuse, but fearsomely effective; probably the only reason you wouldn't find it on a shell is that, unlike an air-dropped bomb, a shell has to withstand the force of being fired from a gun, and I doubt any such expedient could. (That's also why bombs tend to be so much more effective than shells, even when no more accurate. When the strongest force involved is 1g, you can spend a lot less mass on structure, and a lot more on explosive.)
I completely disagree about the reusability of time. I live in Boston and my commute on the train is only about 20 minutes, but that's plenty of time to read a few pages or catch up on the news. I see plenty of commuters reading books as well, so I'm definitely not a special case. Reading a book while standing on a crowded train is not that hard...
> the omission of emails pertaining to russia creates a narrative.

Maybe Assange dislikes the taste of polonium in his tea, or something.
I'm not sure what your point is.

Edit: thank you for the clarification. I don't see anywhere in the article where they imply these racial groups are voting in blocks. They seem to be breaking down individual voting power by race.

Taking an average doesn't imply voters vote in a block, it is simply quantifying the average disparity.
Is it legal to access the docs on wikileaks? is it legal to post a link here to those docs?
Yet his Twitter posts show he has worse insight into these documents than a complete outsider like myself. This is not the "first public evidence USG [is] secretly paying to keep US software unsafe." The government has already explained that it keeps some vulnerabilities for itself and has even publicly explained the process. https://epic.org/privacy/cybersecurity/vep/
Ask HN: CIA is spying on you. Now what?
Knowing (assuming) that CIA has the capability to and in fact spies on US and non-US citizens alike on a massive scale, what do we do? Are there effective/practical means to resist/subvert such attempts? To take the government to task? What if anything will this knowledge change in your life?
They can redirect the toll money to things that benefit the poor while allowing rich people to save their time which is objectively worth more.
As already mentioned most new investors will want to see a version of your up-to-date cap table before investing. Beyond this, equity management software such as eShares (where I work) allows companies to give investors real-time access to their cap table (after they invest), so investors can check your cap table anytime without having to ping you or your lawyers. Over 80% of companies do this--whether sharing their full cap table or a summarized version.
Wow, great post! I have a question: would you consider having me as a remote intern at Scrimba?

Just putting my neck out there. :)

Some more context about me:
http://rodrigo-pontes.gomix.me
> Worse yet, it forbids the agency from passing any “substantially similar” regulations in the future, so the FCC would be forbidden from ever trying to regulate ISP privacy practices.

This part really stood out to me and I don't fully understand how it can occur.

Would the government (or rather its citizens) be better off if permanently banning future legislation wasn't allowed? Is there any case in which a permanent ban on future legislation would be, or has been, productive or reasonable?

edit: distinguishing between constitutionally-enacted and simply legislator-enacted bans on future legislation.. If this ban is supposed to be based on unconstitutionality, how would it be spun in such a way?
Also applies to frameworks and languages?
Why cache it when the vdso has already solved the problem? Seems best to not stack another mitigation on top of it.
Depends on where in the budget it (doesn't) appear.
As obesity keeps rising, more Americans are just giving up
Perspectives can be wrong.

They are gaining benefit. Ever wonder why non-urban menengitis outbreaks tend to happen in churches that preach some non-sense about vaccines being bad and not to groups that vaccinate?
I suppose feedback / question: I'm a Mint user, and it wasn't clear to me why I should consider switching to this? I'm potentially interested since I do care about this stuff.

Here's my reaction reading the faq:

// What makes Penny different from other apps?
// Penny makes your finances less intimidating and stressful. Many apps have lots of useful features, but they’re often hard to use and time-consuming.

Would appreciate more specificity. I'm not intimidated by Mint, though manipulating it to tell me what I want to know is not always fun / easy / possible.

// Penny automatically organizes your finances, explains them simply and clearly, and tells you what you need to know, when you need to know it.

Mint automatically categorizes transactions too (is that what this means?). Mint also attempts to provide understandable / actionable information.

If Penny can do something that I care about much better than Mint, I'm interested, but this seems to be making an "overall polish" argument. That's a toughie, as new startups are generally not more polished, the attraction is usually something specific that is important and done better, even if there are rough edges.
Well arguably the definition of inheritance there doesn't meet the poster's idea of inheritance. Prototype 'inheritance' is a kind of delegation and some prototype OO languages make that explicit by using different terminology (Self says 'delegate' and not 'parent' for example).

But then arguably in class-based OO languages, classes don't "inherit" either and really just delegate to other classes.

(FWIW I wrote a big chunk of the prototype-OO article on WP at one point. Not sure how much of that text still exists)
This is beautiful. Higher order functions and closures are a big reason why I enjoy functional programming languages. To see these applied with method chaining is very exciting in a systems programming language.
Republican+knives+out+for+their+party's+health+bill+•+THE+WORLD+INFO
Nope, the goal is not to make the rest of the world love the US. It is to further our own national interest while fucking over our enemies. Just like any other countries that ever existed in the history of human civilization.
Uber doesn't let you put in a destination as a driver.
Agreed, and I think this is a lesson learned far too late in life. I had a job early in my career that gave me immense satisfaction which I gave up to live a life in a bigger city and a bigger salary. If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell myself to stay put for as long as possible. Sanity at your job is worth its weight in gold. Fortunately after many years and a few more job changes, I've found a spot that gives me the same satisfaction again. Sure, I may not make the huge salaries as some of my friends do, but the pay I have is decent by any measure and comes with great benefits and a high quality of life. I plan on riding this one out until I retire and that feels pretty good.
20 minutes standing on a violently accelerating and decelerating train while strangers' bodies are touching you is much more fatiguing than 2 hours at a standstill in a car (BART is far and away the worst part of every workday, while even the slowest trips to Monterey or Tahoe are a blast, but maybe that's just me).
As would I!

Mostly, I'm EFF's International Director, but as of yesterday, I've taken a temporary secondment to work for six months with our development (read: fundraising) team.

We're facing a number of challenges on many fronts, and like many of our colleagues in the non-profit world right now, we're having to ramp up quickly to face them.

We get a huge amount of expert advice and moral support from technologists here on Hacker News, but we only really ever chip in with the occasional technical comment.

For the next six months at least I'd be delighted to talk with anyone who is as interested in supporting us financially, or understanding better how that works. You can mail me on danny@eff.org or comment here.

This is a bit of an experiment for me (I'm more comfortable talking about global censorship and surveillance than asking people for a few bitcoins), as well as for EFF. To keep with the mod rules here, it's probably worth trying to keep on-topic to this post, but happy to chat offline or arrange or more general conversation.
This. Although how dedicated you want to be with this is up to you, e.g. you didn't mention this, but I assume your relationship with your spouse is important as well. This is what works for me for my relationship with my kids as well as my wife:

- Evenings after work is family time. Focusing on kids if necessary.

- Wednesday evening after kids go to bed, as well as early Saturday morning, is skill building time for me.

- Every other evening after kids go to bed is time spent with my wife.

This tends to be a good mix that keeps everyone happy.
I'm sure he's referring to the fact that, while there is an extensive and efficient rail system, it's nonetheless pretty uncomfortably packed during the times when people commute.
So the only things I'm seeing in the linked circonus code that differ from illumos:

1. no use of a kernel supplied page, determines skew/etc itself in userspace
2. stores information on a per-cpu level, and tries to execute cpuid on the same cpu as rdtsc.

I'm presuming you're talking about #2 (and #1 is just due to the linked item being a library without kernel integrations)? Perhaps with some more kernel support so that the actual cpu rdtsc ran on can be reliably determined?

This still doesn't clarify the part about "shared page in which the time is updated" and is read from. This statement appears to imply TSC is not (necessarily) used (otherwise I'd categorize it under "uses values from memory page to fixup TSC", like Illumos' current implimentation). I'm still not sure how that can be done reasonably.

Is there just a 1 micro second timer running whenever a user task is being executed that is bumping the value? Wouldn't that be quite a bit of overhead? Or some HW trick? I mean, you could generate a fault on every read, and have the kernel populate the current data, but that seems just as bad as a syscall.
Public trust is a pretty low tier item on the list of priorities for global intelligence agencies. They exist to do their job and be effective at furthering our own national interest while screwing over enemies.

Public trust is a PR problem and there are other people that manage it.
It's used for the UK, but it's not assigned to the UK. Like EU, it is a specially-reserved country code.
> out-dated junk

You just accurately described half of the Intelligence world accurately
There are several reasons. I'll devide them into to groups.

Fundamental reasons:

1) The tram is a heavy vehicle running on rails and uses heavy spring shocks with one degree of freedom of movement (to tilt side to side). The bus is a light vehical with softer shock springs which have 360 degrees of freedom of movement. That is, that the bus can shake up/down, side to side, forwards/backwards and anything inbetween. This is the biggest difference. It is much more comfortable to be in a stable vehicle than one that rocks like a boat. You can read much more easilly on a tram than on a bus.

2) Related to the first reason, the tram has no rocking caused by breaking, as the forward/backwards up/down rocking motions are impossible due to the restriction of movement caused by the rails and the weight of the vehicle

3) The fact that the wheels are hard means that it is much more efficient.

4) Tram cars are significantly wider than busses and therefore have much more comfortable inside spaces.

5) Since the rails are always in the same place, you can design a tram with almost no gap between the platform and the floor of the tram, so that a person in a wheel chair/with a stroller can ride in without any ramp!!!!

6) Due to the heavy build of the tram, and the fact that there is no internal combustion engine or batteries that would wear out, trams last cca 3x longer than busses. This will always be the case. It is like the difference in lifespan between a brick house and one made of mud.

7) The wheel wells of the tram are shorter, making for a much more open, less awquard space.

8) Due to the width, stability, and length of the tram, it is possible to walk to the other side of a non-crouded tram to get away from an alcholic person.

Non-fundamental reasons:

1) Electric is better than deisel. Deisel busses are noisy, vibrate, and make toxic fumes which give many people nausia. (this isn't fundamental to busses, you can have trolley busses, or electric ones)

2) Trams have much larger windows/more window space making for a less claustrophobic ride.

3) Trams use a cellphone based tracking software for determining which stop they are at, which makes for very very smooth audio indications of where you are. The anouncment system on busses is manually controlled and sometimes the bus driver forgets to announce a stop. We even have digital reader boards with the amount of time it will take the tram to arrive, and those numbers are accurate. For busses this system also exists, but it is worse.

4) On rainy days, the bus comming into the bus stop may splash you with mud, trams never do that.

5) The trams have closed cabins for the drivers, meaning that stupid tourists cannot be tempted to ask the drivers for directions, thus delaying the journey and causing everyone stress.
Short story: because its role as a crypto hash function is sort of obsolete given that it's been proven to be broken, and faster, more secure alternatives exist.

But for all practical purposes, SHA1 isn't about to disappear. MD5 has been shown to be broken since forever and people still write new code using it today.
The constitution / bill of rights is one fairly successful example of that.
It certainly depends. In LA's metro system, they play a constant stream of announcements (often at ear-splitting volume). Even reading is difficult unless you get lucky and the system's broken.
But the NYT, along with the rest of the world, was misled by the Bush administration. Sure they could have been more circumspect in evaluating the "facts" as presented by Colin Powell - but why do you jump from them being notably mistaken on a handful of occasions to believing they are "often" "in conspiracy mode out to destroy the little guy"?