skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"people no longer trust the MSM because they're being told not to by politicians, and the fact that they're often caught misreporting stories doesn't help this."

Chronologically implausible. Trust in the MSM has been collapsing for decades; politicians only recently began telling people not to trust them. Politicians telling people not to trust the media is an effect of the fact that trust had already collapsed, not the cause. If people had trust and regard for the media, then politicians, another group that people have little trust and regard for, telling people not to trust them would have had no effect.

Personally, I can't help but notice that almost nobody seems to propose that if the mainstream news organizations want to fight "fake news", maybe they should make the effort to become more trustworthy. Not make an effort to appear more trustworthy, but to become more trustworthy. I think it says something profound about our era that this hardly even comes up.
I don't know about London, but my very normal flat (currently renting below LHA rate) in Cheltenham is grade II listed.

There are about 2000 - 3000 grade 1 and grade 2* listed buildings in London. 92% of all listed buildings are grade 2; the other 8% are grade 1 or 2. So there's likely to be a fair amount of properties that are listed.
"it was clear that remaining in the single market would not have delivered the majority of leavers wishes"

Well, with a 52:48 majority for leave and with almost all Remain voters probably preferring "soft" to "hard" Brexit, it would only need to satisfy a tiny % of leavers for it to have more a mandate than the "hard", no-deal Brexit cliff edge the government seem determined to steer us all over without any debate.
Apply this to gas grills as well. Spend $500 at Lowes/HomeDepot and you will have a pile of rust a few years later. At least in the grill industry (for now) you can still choose to spend higher $$ to get much better quality. An AOG (http://www.aoggrill.com/) will cost you 3-4x the Lowes grill, but it is 100% stainless steel with a 10yr full warranty. That thing will outlive me. Unfortunately you won't find these at your Big Boxes. You have to go to a smaller specialty grill store.
While there is of course value to tackling a more long term project, the following excerpt of Art and Fear comes to mind:

" The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the "quantity" group: fifty pound of pots rated an "A", forty pounds a "B", and so on. Those being graded on "quality", however, needed to produce only one pot -- albeit a perfect one -- to get an "A". Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the "quantity" group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes -- the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay. "
A plan would have been nice, or really any thought to what happens when we exit without a deal.
Perhaps. How would or could I determine this?

I think there is a difference between reciting BS on the internet and believing it.

Just for kicks i am going to ask my acquaintances if they use FB, why and how often. Could be a good conversation starter.
On newer cars, that's exactly what they do already.

https://www.android.com/auto/
http://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/
toxin build-up? That's a made-up thing from when we use to think bloodletting worked.
My initial best guess is that the style of analysis you're suggesting (TV guides, etc), doesn't offer sufficient safety margin in the event that a prediction is wrong. If reducing the safety margin was an option then there are probably lots of things that can be done, but if the goal is to maintain a safety margin akin to the current one then my instinct is that the gains to be had are minimal - and that the interesting work is in power storage (battery tech, cryogenic storage, etc.)
Aloha! Not from Hawaii but would be happy to move there once day :D
i'm excited to see what comes next for AR/VR, but without any prototype or demonstration, it seems more like investor fodder than real tech.
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Naive question maybe: why do news articles not cite sources and have a references section at the end, like academic articles?
U.K. To Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks
Never, but not surprised. How is Uber doing in Nordic countries?
Imagine Uber built by a team of 10 people making $75,000k each in the midwest. That would not be the worst profit share / stock payout.
Why do we call it “remote” UX testing, not “in-home” UX testing?
You're mixing up hash joins with hash indexes.
Not with cellulose, and likely not from the ground up. Space elevators are typically imagined as being bootstrapped from a starter cable lowered from orbit. And the tensile strength for a safe one is an order of magnitude or two higher than good steel, to say nothing of plant fibers.
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Originally when the vote was announced I was pro staying in, but like the above, the more I looked on to how the EU is run, how decisions are made, the more I didn't like it.

I have no issues with immigration, I'm all for people settling in whatever country the like!

I'm pro leaving the EU because I do not agree with how it is run and the direction it is heading.
Such lawsuits rarely destroy the defendants. Uber has been working on autonomous vehicles for several years now so they probably have some patents of their own. Most likely outcome is they will pay Alphabet (Waymo) a few hundred million $ and agree to cross-license all of their patents.
They don't like the EU telling them what to do. Freedom is something people hold very dear, and will risk their lives in pursuit of it. They also don't like the huge number of immigrants, especially Muslims who refuse to integrate into their culture, and expressly want to turn the whole place Muslim.

Big business will hurt leaving, but they will manage (that's the reason for all the bad press). But for the common man it really is a good thing.
Polling shows people's opinions are stable. More information isn't changing people's minds.

You are making some big assumptions about why people voted. For instance, you're assuming that because one or two people made some claims, everyone believed them and voted accordingly.

Speaking for myself, I expect there to be no deal at all between the EU and UK, I expected that before I voted out, I expect it to be very tough for everyone including Europeans, and I still support Brexit and want it to occur as quickly as possible. "More information" about how little the EU cares about cooperation with the UK obviously isn't going to change my mind at all.

I think you'll find many voters are like that: they aren't changing their minds because they didn't base their opinion on the things you believe they did to start with.
This is correct. After a lot of study, especially of people who eat a lot of eggs, they found them to have negligible to no impact.
Not even a dating app would be profitable if you just spent VC money on paying for (subsidizing) users' dates ;) It would be very popular though.

Hey - brb!
yes Nasim Taleeb has been arguing modern experts are wrong about alot and have no skin in the game.

This article blew my mind.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
Not if he controls the company (which by all appearences, he does)
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I think Apple's play here should be around making iPhones amazing online clothes shopping devices. I would kill for a way to see how shoes or a shirt would fit before buying them online.
I left #1 for #9 closer to two decades ago. Personally I find the Australian society more open and inclusive, and less concerned with material wealth.
Being first is irrelevant when it comes to being mainstream. Apple's iPod was not the first mobile digital music player, nor was the iPhone the first smartphone.

Being novel also isn't that important. For example, Apple's white earphones played a major role in getting the public to see that their devices were mainstream, but there was nothing truly novel about them.
I totally agree with you, but my point is, why would US?
Agreed on this - jbhatab, what do you propose for security? If you are telling your friends in the Bay Area that there are drug problems, then immediately following it up with "and everything the President is suggesting is the right way to go about doing it," then sure, you will be labeled a Trump supporter, since you are supporting his vision for what to do.

If you're just saying there is a drug problem, though, and you have different ideas about how best to stem the influx of drugs, I still don't understand how you are getting labeled a Trump supporter.

As sanddancer points out, simply building a wall does not seem like it would be a reasonable construction project nor accomplish much for the ultimate goals. Using a bunch of tech, from IR cameras on drones to other detection methods - including for underground tunnels - seems like a much more useful approach. And of course, not cutting the Coast Guard would be important to keep the flow of drugs as low as possible, too.
Not even that comparison is fair to uber. From Uber's point of view, his actions are indistinguishable from someone who hailed an uber and changed their minds.

Now, I don't know why uber didn't offer him the benefit of the doubt, but they were well within their rights not to refund. They did nothing unethical.
The amount of glue used to produce the wooden windows is so huge, that PVC windows are a much better choice both environmentally and for your health. There are different colored tapes that can be applied to make it look like wood. But they are still uglier.
As for why Chrome didn't implement it early on, they likely just hadn't bothered to use the newer APIs/use the APIs properly.

The reason why subpixel rendering is disabled in modern/WinRT/UWP apps, as I understand it, is likely to do with rotation. Modern apps are designed for tablet use, where the display may be oriented in any particular direction. Subpixel rendering depends on knowing the layout of the pixel elements themselves (the position of the R, G, & B elements relative to the greater pixel). When rotated, the layout changes and subpixel rendering makes things look worse.

In an ideal world, subpixel rendering would be turned off only in situations where the display is rotated. It appears that at least the rendering surface for Edge does use subpixel rendering, just not UI elements, which is an improvement over no use at all.
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does audio still have that much innovation, isn't it now a good idea for dolby to look elsewhere for patents?
Nothing against wood, really. But if you've been to the UK, you should agree that the unmaintained, not-properly-fitted, wooden frames that they use in most old windows are just crap. They let in huge amounts of wind, cold, etc, through the unsealed seams. Anything that improved that would be 10 times better, regardless of the yellowing, etc.
That's not correct, there are two options, always on, and no access. Uber still works fine if you refuse to grant access to your location, you just have to put your location in manually. If you've already granted permission, you can revoke it by going to Settings > Uber > Location. Apple aren't going to kick Uber out of the App Store if it works fine when you don't grant permission.
You would probably be best served with a nice introductory book. It would teach you the fundamental folds, and also how to follow printed origami instructions. If you get stuck on any particular exercise, there are certainly video tutorials on YouTube that may also help.
Devaluation of currency is what every central bank is after for the last 10 years. Apart from you having less money when buying foreign things or traveling abroad, this is actually a good thing for the British export economy as it is now more competitive than before, simply because things are cheaper now.

It's basically why Germany sees this enormous trade surplus - the bad economic shape of southern states such as Greece, Italy, Spain "artificially" keeps the euro low, and Germany profits from that in a major way.

Of course, this isn't 1:1 because the devaluation of the GBP also means that trust was lost in the GB economy, which might hurt British companies in the long run.

Anyways, charts that show upwards/downards trends are not always bad/good and should be taken with a grain of salt. Especially if used by either party for making the other look dumb. This is true for the US stock market right now as it is for the GBP.

ps: I'm German and I do not support Brexit, but the world is not black and white.
I presented data that appliance lifespans are getting shorter, and you're somehow convinced its because people are throwing them away before their time. Okay, why?

Selection/survivorship bias isn't something you just get to make up... it's also not a smart guess, in this case, because the common anecdotes don't make the mistake of saying "oh, most of these washers are new, therefore old washers must suck." That would be selection bias, but no one is saying that, as far as I can tell. They are saying, the average age of appliances at replacement is decreasing over time. Selection bias would not explain that.

Now the GP, whose train of thought you seem to relate to very closely here, suggested -- without evidence -- that labor costs have gone up, explaining why you both seem to think people simply throw away good appliances now, instead of repairing them.

The problem is that real labor costs have been stagnant for middle class workers (i.e. appliance repair people) during the period for which I actually cited data. So it's very unlikely that would be the explanation. Can you generate another explanation for why people would throw away good appliances now?
Userless User Authentication for Mobile Application
Until you hit the problem of needing to iterate over your table (batches).

As far as I can tell, the only real way to do efficient iteration over postgres tables is to continually bound ID at either end and then take an offset. (SELECT * from <foo table> where id > <largest id from last batch> limit 10). With btrees on UUID you get lexicographic ordering here I imagine, so it'll work. With hash indexes no dice.

Cursors don't end up working out because if you kill long-running queries or idle connections (which most websites should, in production) you'll kill applications using cursors. With pgbouncer, at least, reading from cursors doesn't seem to bump idle timeouts.
I bought a $250 grill at Walmart 8 1/2 years ago. I still have that grill but I think I'll only get one more summer out of it.

I have had to replace burners and heat shields twice but it still works. Every part that isn't stainless steel is rusting away but fortunately, the internals can be replaced on the cheap.
I assume they are speaking to the fact that the amount they pay out + management costs can be higher than they the amount they take in as premiums. It is because all those premiums are invested in the stock market and other vehicles which is where their profit comes from. A know of insurance companies run at -0.5% but the stock market averages up to 8% over any 20 year period.

Basically, we could all do this the same way. Take all the money you pay into insurance and invest it. When you have an incident, take it out. The only downside is if you have an incident larger than what you have invested so far. People also have set up collectives that do this as a group inside of paying others.
How Aristotle Created the Computer
This is really cool. I've spent some time thinking about a similar idea in the past [0].

My idea was to parse the CVE database for bugs in open source code, then identify the patches used to fix the bugs. From the patch data, you can get an efficient diff of what the "vulnerable" code looks like and what the "fix" for it looks like. You can then convert the code to abstract syntax tree or feed it to a static analysis engine to use as "signals" in training a machine learning algorithm. Then you can apply the machine learning algorithm to open source databases and identify possibly vulnerable code paths.

Looks like this paper had success doing something similar. Awesome!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11573547
Youtube.

I learned first by borrowing books from my local library and then from Robert J. Lang books I bought. But that was before the Internet. Nowadays YouTube is an excellent resource for learning some foundational folding principles, some base folds, and getting past tricky "folding bottlenecks" that were always a huge frustration for me when I was learning from books. It's just really hard to clearly convey some 3D folding steps with only 2D diagrams. For example some of Robert J. Lang's phenomenal insect models (https://www.amazon.ca/Origami-Insects-Robert-J-Lang/dp/04862...) are hundreds of steps, and it's super frustrating to get stuck at say step 130 with only 45 left to go.

Anyway, I prop up an iPad up with Youtube and work through models with my 6 year old son, and he's learning way way faster than I did when I was his age.
> Calling the EU a cult may seem extreme, but to me it's not:

> The EU and its supporters are not interested in debate on the future of Europe.

> Reply and debate instead

What kind ofdebate do you want when you call the other side cultists and that they don't want to debate?
It's a fucking washing machine, 10kg extra isn't going to make any difference.
Nope. Apple's biggest advantages were always a sensitivity to untapped consumer interest, and marketing genius to get consumers excited about products that integrated smoothly into their lives.

The latter has certainly disappeared. See e.g. the stampede away from the Mac.

For the former: it's debatable how much untapped consumer interest there is in AR.

Glasses would work if they were slim and stylish. But if the motivation is to "beam content into the eyes of the user" and not to empower users to do non-gimmicky cool new things they couldn't before - that's not going to happen.

It's the difference between a power tool approach and a menu approach. If you give people power tools and let them play with them, they'll do amazing things.

If you give people a menu of options - tweak a photo, tweak a photo a different way, take a 180 degree panorama, passively watch a VR movie - that's extremely unexciting.

Cook has always been more of the latter type than the former.
I think the last MP3 patent will expire by the end of the year, I always thought AC-3 is younger than MP3 but well. (Almost the same age) MP3 is also an example of prolonged patent validity, it was approved in 1991, published in 1993 but the last patent expires in 2017.
Corruption does come in all shapes and sizes, but what you just described doesn't sound like corruption to me.

Selling off properties to foreign owners isn't necessarily bad policy (it can bring in foreign capital, that is then transferred to a local owner or resident)
Once you have a self-driving fleet sure, you can start printing money, but it makes no sense to sacrifice revenue today by starting an unsustainable price war long before the tech is ready. All this does is shorten your runway, and you don't even know how long a runway you will need, given that reliable, fully autonomous driving is so hard.
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Talk about defending a strong idea without giving it much thought. Yes, you may disassociate yourself with someone who does drugs - but do you want to? What if it is someone you care deeply about? Shouldn't we try to shield people from doing things that may affect them negatively in the first place?
Given that you expected it to be "very tough for everyone" before the vote, care to elucidate why you think this is the proper policy choice?
This was the Phoebus Cartel where the major light-bulb manufacturers all agreed to do this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

But I guess in the end the free market did bring about it's demise, when Scandinavians produced cheaper alternatives.
Why wont the News Media take responsibility for their content being so poor that it's increasingly hard to tell between what's "real" and what's "fake"?
Which outcomes - economic?

I'm not from the UK, but my impression was that for many it wasn't about economic optimization, it was also about the notion of freedom - being less intertwined with the EU (and thus its regulations, economics, security concerns, etc.). Immigration was probably an issue as well.

If freedom was the issue, you get the freedom and work out the consequences later. Some people would rather feel like their nation has more control over their destiny, even if that destiny isn't as comfortable as it could have been under someone else's control.

I would also contend that as long as Brexit hasn't happened, there are plenty of forces that would want to keep the status quo and would therefore try to project as much negativity as possible.

Also, I'm not an economist, futurist, or a stockbroker (so one can correct me if I'm wrong), but humans aren't always great at predicting things in these areas. So it's not fair to assume that there is no positive outcome.
Cool! I didn't honestly expect to see more Go code from BurntSushi. Thought he was a Rust convert :)

(not that someone can't be both, of course)
Polling where? I've not been invited to vote in a poll
Not sure, my last trip there has been around 2012.
https://www.mtailor.com

I've used this for a few flannel and dress shirts. It works pretty well.

I initially thought Amazon has to buy this. They would dominate retail if they can flip those last remaining shoppers for clothes who need to buy in person in order to try on clothes.

This app has incrementally improved over time, and added products. Initially you could only buy shirts. Now they have pants, suits and just recently added jeans. There's a lot of potential there...
The iPhone already is an AR device though, and one of its first major apps was an AR application - Layar, back in 2009. One of its major apps has an AR component (Pokemon Go).

I could see them making a Google Cardboard-like mounting bracket / dock for the iphone I guess, maybe with better cameras and sensors.
I agree most buildings won't be listed and most landlords are cheapskates. But there are quite a lot of listed buildings in London:

http://londonist.com/2011/06/all-listed-buildings-in-london-...
I know they're different things, but isn't the main reason to do hash indexes in a relational db to then to a hash join?

More to the point: even if you're just talking indexes you can't load/use half a hash table, so wouldn't the point also apply to isolated use of a hash table.

I know it's not what was asked for, just a related point.
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> (not that someone can't be both, of course)

Indeed! I've been writing Go code daily for years. My open source life is just a bit more consumed by Rust these days. :-)
While developers might get "priority" immigration you still have more overhead compared to the "no fuss, just find a place to rent" deal those developers would get in other European countries.

For example, I would consider UK after brexit only if I get a substantially better deal than anywhere else in Europe. Otherwise it is just not worth going through the "immigration" process.
By keeping their prices below costs in order to undercut the competition.