skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a pretty strong correlation between outspending and winning elections. The losing side usually spent less. In aggregate, much more money is spent winning elections than losing them.

A lot of money is wasted on lost elections. I did say "equal", but my point was a lot of advertising dollars fail.

Barney Frank: "If the voters have a position, the votes will kick money's rear end any time. I've never met a politician-- I've been in the legislative bodies for 40 years now-- who, choosing between a significant opinion in his or her district and a number of campaign contributors, doesn't go with the district."

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/461/t...
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Agreed. And sadly, starting about 5 years ago schools started churning out kids that had studied app development, marketing and business models.

And they're still churning them out...
For all the younger people reading this.

This is just one of the numerous media stories on how donation money always ends up paying multi-million salaries for top execs.

Sadly, charlatans are everywhere. The Red Cross is just a another brand used to con gullible and well intended people.
Actually, as Baudrillard himself readily admits, most of the ideas are not his - he formalised and presented to the academic world the philosophy of Philip K Dick.

As to the Marxist tendencies - i think it’s more of a reaction to the totalitarian worlds he and dick foresaw. It’s certainly what’s pushed me leftwards over the years.
School Official: US IT Jobs Offshored Because 'We Weren't Making Our Own' Coders
I don't think it's about "dodging responsibility" but just an examination of the tradeoffs involved in development. The code we're developing is becoming more transitory, not less over time. How secure does a system that is going to be replaced by the Next Cool Thing in 4-5 years need to be? It really depends on what you are protecting as much as anything.

The incentives for someone to break into a major retailer, credit card company, or credit bureau are much different from Widget Cos. internal customer service web database. What I think the article is missing, even though it makes alot of good points, is that if there's a huge paycheck at the end of it, there will always be someone trying to exploit your system no matter how well designed it is. And if they can't hack the code quickly, they'll learn to "hack" the people operating the code.
The Necessity of Judgement: On Montaigne
Oil was but one strong American industry. And oil itself didn't turn out to be in such high demand until the mass production of the automobile, which was another American thing.
Your assumption is that the position is tenured for life, which is not.
iPhone X and the Main Features of iOS 11
Guitar Hero was reverse-engineered and fixed without using the source code
Note that Python has greenlet and gevent, though. It works by monkeypatching all blocking calls in the standard library (and common external libraries such as database client libs like psycopg2).
Please note that your formatting is totally screwed, making your fine comment almost unreadable.

See also the "help" link next to the edit box: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
Trotsky opposed centralised technocracy, and he was right - this was what ultimately killed the ussr, as corrupt and incompetent centralised bureaucracy could not respond rapidly enough or appropriately to external conditions. Production was a mess, goods would be in dire shortage in one oblast and vast excess in another. Those who held the central reigns of power funnelled everything into their own pockets - cf. the incumbent oligarchy.

Had Trotsky succeeded Lenin rather than Stalin, the world might be a very different place today. But he didn’t, and it might not have made any damn difference.

I guess we need to run another experiment.
How to accelerate affinity maturation?
Amazing fail by me, there is a little blog post with some details and visualizations: http://makaroni4.com/2017/07/10/guitar-bro/
Except it's not about DRM.

Except the P2P network is not blocked, only the official gateways subdomain to acess ipfs content from the browser.

Except is not blocked for everyone.

Effectively only 1 ipfs node dns cname has been hijacked. Content can be accessed using any other nodes. Works as intended.
LEAD your Junior Engineers and MANAGE http://www.netmba.com/
Please don't take what I said too seriously, it's not meant as "life advice you should follow to the T". It was merely intended to provoke a discussion about an alternative to the way most people deal with personal finances.

As I mentioned, there are plenty of people who practice 'financial independence' who have done this before, what I'm saying is nothing new. Early Retirement Extreme [0] is a good introduction to the subject. Mr Money Mustache [1] is a bit less extreme. These are still rather extreme examples though, so no not everyone will be able to retire in 5 years, but a lot of the advice they can follow, and at least save up an emergency or investment fund of a decent amount.

I think it's irresponsible and dangerous to live paycheck to paycheck, and take on mountains of debt just to buy something you don't really need, but plenty of people do that every day.

[0] http://earlyretirementextreme.com/about-the-blog

[1] http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
Yep, it works only in Chrome (it should show a note in non-chrome browser).

Problem is only Chrome allows tuning FFT precision now.

More details here: http://makaroni4.com/2017/07/10/guitar-bro/
I went to Haiti last year for a vacation. I met a lot of people there working for NGOs and upper class Haitians. From what I heard from them, there are two major money leaks in the country:

NGOs: They pay their employees heaps of money, to do relatively small amounts of work. These aren't the people we see on TV who get out there to work 12 hour days and save lives. These are people who go there because they need a job and like traveling. They're the people who get the office jobs. These are all young people who spend massive amounts of time and money on leisure. Most of this money ends up in the pockets of already rich Haitians, like restaurant owners and rental agencies. The UN seems to be one of the worst at this. I've seen UN people living in $4000 a month houses full of Apple stuff and expensive cooking equipment. They would write reports that were then dismissed by the government.

Corruption: A lot of NGOs try to work with local organizations to get stuff done. This is good, because it gives the locals a chance to earn money by working to rebuild their country. However, what often happens is that higher-ups in these organizations disappear with donated money, or just suddenly have new cars. This is actually quite a big problem there, since the country seems to be inherently corrupt, something I've seen multiple times during my short stay there.

From my experience, Haiti feels a lot like a failed state and most people I've spoken don't think there will be any improvement in the next couple of decades. They're also fearful of what would happen if the UN were to leave, since they'd lose a massive inflow of money and the poor might revolt, causing for even more chaos.
I personally love working close with my team in an open-setting. That's the reason I go to office every day even though my employer offers WFH.

I just prefer turning around and asking a question or have a quick discussion. If everyone is working from home or in their personal offices, I hate having to get on a call or schedule a meeting to gather everyone to a meeting room for a quick discussion.

Sure, at times it can be distracting - I usually put on my headset if my tasks demand uninterrupted attention. My team also understands this and won't disturb unless necessary.
Facebook relicenses React in the face of open-source dev backlash
Telstra to connect ASX to more international exchanges
Says Captain Obvious...
It's an interesting time. Anyone paying attention knew that AI was the up and coming topic of interest for the last 5 years or more - which is why we're at a point now where several major providers offer cloud services and APIs dedicated to machine learning.

The problems to solve are many, and relatively few people are actually looking at the enterprise market because the challenges associated with big consumer data are obvious, profitable, and data is widely available for research.

The high dollar hires right now are primarily people with masters and phds that are highly relevant, but that will change in short order IMO like the whole market did in the mid-90s as markets grew out of nowhere. I think in three years - after we have a bit of a slump and nobody is investing in mobile apps or IOT anymore - we'll see a real rise in AI workflows that apply to mid-size enterprises.

To get ahead of the game, start paying attention. Take the suite of AI courses from coursera, fast.ai, etc. Participate in Kaggle. Then find a job that is loosely related and allows you to keep pace. Three to five years down the road you'll be leading the way in a gigantic shift in the enterprise market.

It's worth paying attention to distributed computing as well to understand how the whole data pipeline comes together. Not everybody will be structured the same way, but constantly changing large datasets are valuable and there are only so many ways to handle them.
If you subsume Megachurches under religious charities, I can point you towards a few nice examples of abuse. Say pat Robertson funding an African diamond mine with donation money or pastors conning the poorest into sending their paycheck because "god will maybe repay them manifold in hard cash"
How is this different from e.g. AppDynamics or Dynatrace for example? Technically speaking, not free/commercial.

From the documentation it doesn't look like much, except probably the biggest downside is that you have to add your instrumentation points manually? i.e. there is code change required.
"I am seriously concerned about the food situation in India….Last year we had a grievous famine in Bengal through which at least 700,000 people died. This year there is a good crop of rice, but we are faced with an acute shortage of wheat, aggravated by unprecedented storms….By cutting down military shipments and other means, I have been able to arrange for 350,000 tons of wheat to be shipped to India from Australia during the first nine months of 1944. This is the shortest haul. I cannot see how to do more.

I have had much hesitation in asking you to add to the great assistance you are giving us with shipping but a satisfactory situation in India is of such vital importance to the success of our joint plans against the Japanese that I am impelled to ask you to consider a special allocation of ships to carry wheat to India from Australia….We have the wheat (in Australia) but we lack the ships. I have resisted for some time the Viceroy’s request that I should ask you for your help, but… I am no longer justified in not asking for your help." -Churchill to FDR

War is hell. Thank goodness we had leaders like Churchill. And thank goodness the Allied forces won.

Source: https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-t...
It would appear there is no consensus about that.

I'd agree with them, by the way. I don't think we really have that many solved problems. I'd consider that to be hubris and see many things that can be improved on, across the spectrum of ideas and implementations.

In fact, I'm hard pressed to think of much of anything that is a solved problem. Most everything can be improved.
Spammed-out emails threaten websites with DDoS attack on September 30th
Largest by the number of packages right? Including the likes of leftpad, the eleven byte library.
Thanks for the amazing feedback, when developing the game we were singing all the time! :)

Yep, I'll add sandbox mode today/tmrw!
"Most of the old hands and historians of the moon shot point to the public in the 70s no longer being afraid of the Russians in the way they had been in the 50s, and the successful moon landings helped assuage their fears."

That's what I realized about 10 years ago. The primary political motivation for the space missions was to establish higher ground in a military strategic sense, and once that was accomplished, most people didn't care about it anymore. There was also an element of prestige to it, at least from Americans' perspective, that because we had reached a "higher" point in space than the Russians did, that gave us a sense of dominance over their extension of power.

You know this already, but people should keep in mind that what got the ball rolling was the launch of Sputnik in 1957. The message that most people got from that was that the Russians controlled higher ground, militarily, and that we needed to capture that pronto, or else we were going to be at a disadvantage in the nuclear arms race.

It also created a major push, as I understand, by the federal government to put more of an emphasis on math and science education, to seed the population of people who would be needed to pull that off. I've heard thinking that this created a generation of scientists and engineers who eventually came into industry, which created the technological products we eventually came to use. There's been a positive sense of that legacy from people who have reviewed it, but I've since heard from people who went through the "new math" that was taught through that push. They hated it with a passion, and said it turned them off to math for many years to come.

The more positive aspect I like to reflect on is that Sputnik inspired young people to become interested in math, science, and engineering on their own, and they really experienced those disciplines. A nice portrayal of one such person is in the movie "October Sky," based on Homer Hickam's autobiographical book, "Rocket Boys."
What is the biggest problem Google Play Store is suffering from?
>>Dude, Churchill was fighting the most horrific forces of fascism and evil that the planet has ever seen

He did no such thing. He was simply protecting the United Kingdom from getting invaded by Germany. As far as political ideologies are concerned, Britain was no saint. They had their own 'We are superior to other races' projects going on in other parts of the globe.

>>you're going to blame him for a famine halfway around the globe?

Yes, because he was responsible for it.
Why shouldn’t copyright law apply on the Internet?
Sadiq was one the more public anti-Brexit campaigners, and was one of the anti-Brexit debaters in the main televised debates.

Translation: if you were from Blighty, you'd know that the previous poster was being sarcastic.
I started working on http://statemaps.org to highlight inequality among states within a country.

I realize that a lot of attention is being given to inequality among countries but even within a country, some states are much less developed than others.

In statemaps.org, I am trying to present all this data through maps so that it can be easily comprehended. I have released for one country as of now and will expand based on response
Is it just me or the site name(alternet) and the article content seems to be targeted at Donald Trump and his constant stream of confidence?
FTA: "This wiring between the code: it better be code! And this is what DevOps was all about with it’s “Infrastructure as code” mantra."

Also FTA: "As the result, serverless today lacks the established operational frameworks, patterns, and tooling that are required to tame it’s complexity. It requires an uber-architect to invent the end-to-end solution and tame complexity. These uber-architects are blazing the path and show success and helping the patterns emerge. But as Ann from Gartner pointed out at the (Emit) conference panel, there will be no widespread serverless adoption until the frameworks and tooling catch up."
No, it's not.

If you have suffered something that you think is a crime, call the cops (in the UK they are pretty okay for these things).

If you had a very bad experience, but maybe not a full blown crime, you might decide to make a 1.0 star rating and complain to the company.

There could be systemic problems (racial discrimination), but even in those cases, there are concrete victims, that can report it to authorities (to the TfL for example).
It's always been thoroughly tongue-in-cheek and has for a long time referred to users of its comments section as "commentards" for example.

Please never ever confuse elReg with the Daily Fail: elReg cares about facts and consistency and even truth.
Mh. On the one hand, the backup feature has saved my ass more times than I can count, but on the other hand for some software (hello nginx!) and their conf.d directories it can get nasty as well - not cool when you reboot the server and nginx doesn't start because there's a backup file with duplicate directives...
I really love 2048 when I'm bored in the unemployment line. I'm there because I was playing games on my previous employer's time.
> as evident through the absence of standalone playback in their own Podcasts app, let alone an app at all

This is moot. If Apple wanted were to put their podcast app on Apple Watch they would just use internal APIs that third parties can't use, like the default music app.
Depends on the size of the company and how complex is their infra. May be the founder can rollup his sleeves and get things done when needed. Nothing wrong if that's what it takes for the business to survive.
Then if safety is really the concern why taxis and cabs can operate given that they are way less safe than uber?
I would rather use the safer option, but instead I'm forced to use the less safe options.
Yes. What about it?

It's a useful feature to have, as it makes Lisp reader more flexible. See the summary of the discussion by the committee here: http://clhs.lisp.se/Issues/iss286_w.htm.
My apologies, I'm an Australian, and anything that an Australian says should be assumed to be sarcastic until proven otherwise.
It's solved from a technical point of view.

You might want to find ways to optimize it form non-technical aspects, such as, how to get more users, how to write better titles, etc. But there's nothing that is technically challenging about it.
The idea that the company doesn't exist was first highlighted to me in "The Software Hegemony" and it's been a super useful mental crutch since.

You are absolutely right. The company doesn't make you promises, offer you raises, or in fact owe you anything, people do.
I would suggest it's probably a matter of time, rather than any judgement of infeasibility. Apple uses an iterative 80/20 rule approach to functionality. Podcasts didn't make the cut, because more people listen to music, and they hadn't even finished LTE streaming of Apple Music yet, and generally they service their internal apps/services first, before enabling competing third parties.
That’s hard to accept given how utterly rubbish the Apple podcast app was for many years. It took them ages to get it right.
Germany’s election results in charts and maps
It always puzzles me when someone mentions the cost, because it really depends on what you do. Even then, the costs are hard to compare. Usually people say things like "Yes, it might be mote expensive than bare metal, but you don't need an admin, so the TCO is lower". Call it what you want, but you need a specialist in the infrastructure you're using, and AWS has some very specific quirks you need to know. Not to mention that normally Lambda is just a part of a more complete setup.
Using machine learning to name colors
The art is in knowing when you can play, and when you cannot.
Why training Siri to be a therapist won't be easy
Podcast is by no means an Apple trademark or invention.
Porsche Mission E – production in 2019
> The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new report asking Americans to just do anything at all for Christ's sake for 30 minutes each day.

http://www.theonion.com/video/health-officials-urging-americ...
I'd say rather that as alternatives were discovered and developed, these became unprofitable.
Yeah, Britain did want to feed a few farmers and peasants, that is because they wanted the next generation of slave labor to be ready from whom they could grow, snatch and tax heavily to build awesome infrastructure and quality of life for people in Britain. So please this whole facade of a benevolent imperialistic power is just pointless.

>>Thank goodness we had leaders like Churchill

Thank him for him for considering the entire Indian subcontinent as some kind of lesser people and race compared to whites? What exactly is the difference between this and the race superiority theories of Adolf Hitler?

>>And thank goodness the Allied forces won.

Oh please. Europe created an untenable political situation in Germany by imposing upon them harsh punishment in forms of war reparations of WW1. Then you create a vacuum for a dangerous political ideology to rise, and then try to stop their imperialistic ambitions.

Beyond all this, why does Churchill expect Indian people pay the price for whatever political blunders any party in Europe had committed.
Google might be targeting high end enterprise needs, but breaking into that market is a long, painful road predicated on strong sales/IT relationships. Hence why you don't see ODMs eating large portions of the market, Dell, HP and Lenovo offer essentially the same product, but with sales and some support.

From what I've read on other threads about high end Chromebook Pixel's, getting them repaired if there is a manufacturers defect, or worse yet it gets damaged is very inconvenient and costly. Comparatively, replacing a smashed screen in a T440 is a $50, sub-5 minute affair, and Dell & HP's enterprise laptops seem just as repairable (albeit parts are 40% to 50% more).
Even more dangerous to cyclists are the cyclists themselves.

At least in Amsterdam there is something called "Amsterdam Red" meaning: red does not neccesarily mean stop to cyclists.

When a car/truck is parked on the cycle lane they will happily move to the car lane without looking...

Helmets. They are not mandatory, and nobody uses them.

So yes, drivers need to look, but cyclists might want to start following rules and best practices as well.
Imagine if the creator of the ideal windowing system wasn't aborted in the 1960s.
> [...] were also bug contributors. It's also worth nothing [...]

I think you have a couple of typos here. Probably you meant to say "big contributors" and "worth noting".
How to Lie with Numbers
I used to roll my eyes at crime television shows, whenever they said "Enhance" for a low quality image.

Now it seems the possibility of that becoming realistic are increasing with a steady clip, based on this paper and other enhancement techniques I've seen posted here.
Guitar Hero is 10 years old?!
Author seems to slightly miss the point of Node. It’s designed for IO-bound work, and essentially nothing else.

If you have a long-running synchronous algorithm, you should not be running it in Node, or alternatively you could dispatch to another process/C lib and have it run in a true thread and asynchronously wait for the result.
Do an MS level Linear Algebra or Statistics course. If you don't ace them you are going to be calling api's.
"stream of confidence" is a great phrase. It's quite apropos.
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Both of your examples, more users and better titles, can absolutely be technical improvements. Both of them could be, for example, improved by using machine learning to attract more users by appealing on an individual level and doing things like optimizing titles for the individual and pushing those individualized results out.

I'm sure there are even more technological advancements that can be made - and I suspect there always will be.

I'm not saying that it is currently ineffective, just that it isn't solved - meaning that there are still solutions to improve efficiency and efficacy. I actually see 'solved problem' as a kind of defeatism.