skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Trump didn't magically get votes that Romney didn't. Instead, the data shows that Hillary didn't get black voters to turnout in the numbers that Obama did.

It was even worse than that (for HRC and the Dems). Did she even visit Wisconsin during the campaign?

Also there are reports that Trump received a higher fraction of the black vote than Romney got.
> Instead, the data shows that Hillary didn't get black voters to turnout in the numbers that Obama did.

It also shows voter suppression by Republicans hurt Democratic turnout in critical states (Wisconsin).
This is a really great list, but tbh the site is enormously wide, the text is small, and there are no images. This would be far more parseable in the form of a github readme, since it lends itself to categorized lists like this:

https://github.com/brillout/awesome-react-components
> Mountain View, a city of 80,000 which also is home to Mozilla and 23andMe, has committed more than $1 million over two years for homeless services, including money for an outreach case manager and a police officer to help people who live in vehicles.

Why are local governments treating these people as dysfunctional when the dysfunction is in the government in its ability to provide an environment that is safe, stable, and affordable for otherwise functional members of society.
Another angle is that when you build something a certain way, people who come and stay are the people who are attracted to that certain way. Those people are not going to like it when you take away the thing that attracted them.

It's impossible to know for sure, but what if Threadless had started out their "new" way?
Arguments on both sides here are about what people "like to do" - with hyperbole in both directions. But the fundamental problem is with what people actually do - and given the scale of the problem, and apparent lack of solution, it doesn't seem unfair to say that not enough is being done. Quite a large chunk of the non-homeless population in the US is living in a relatively precarious situation[1], which leaves them both practically unable to help and presumably also afraid of ending up on the street themselves. Hence it's not unreasonable to expect the response to come from governments, like Utah's did.

1: https://secure.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-...
Why not stop participating altogether? It's not hard to leave this system of slavery[1]: it just requires sacrifice.

You don't need to live on the major coasts or in a major city. You can live off the land in the woods, hunting and growing your own clean food, drinking clean water, etc.

[1] https://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/n...
Multisig can be a nice compromise between security and convenience. There is a service that allows you to store Bitcoins in a 2 of 3 multisig address where you control two keys (one in offline wallet one in hot wallet) and the service has one key. When you do a transaction they send you one time code (SMS or something like that) if you respond they sign the transaction. So to spend you need to receive their code and your own key. This is kind of 2FA. If the service disappears you can take your offline wallet key together with your hot wallet key to unlock funds.

Sadly I forgot the service name :(
Ugh. He completely misunderstands what PoW (or PoS) are for. The entire point of PoW is deciding between two valid & correct blockchain states.

Alice owns a bitcoin. Alice validly signs a transaction transferring that bitcoin to Bob. Alice also validly signs a transaction transferring that same bitcoin to Charles.

WHICH IS CORRECT? Neither is a forgery. Both signatures are valid. If Dave downloads the blockchain, or receives both transactions, he can't just look at them and determine one of them is fake. Neither is fake. He needs a way of arbitrating who actually has the bitcoin now - Bob or Charles.

PoW is that arbitration process. Dave looks at the competing blockchains (one with Bob having received it, and one with Charles having received it) and can trust that everyone in the world will respect the chain with greater PoW behind it.

Paul's system has no way of addressing this other than "trust the central authority to process transactions in the order they receive them". Thanks, pal, that's called e-cash, and was invented by David Chaum in 1983.
I know many scoff at this (because I have this same opinion and get scoffed at) but this is so true. Video game addiction is very real. Very, very real. Just as debilitating as any other addiction. The only "advantage" I would say is you don't get as much physiological damage as you do with substance abuse, but even that can be debated: bad posture, bad blood circulation, carpel tunnel, eye strain and migraines, sleep deprivation, etc.

Obligatory Don't be afraid to ask for help! Many counselors are now specifically trained for dealing with video game addiction now! Especially if you are college it's probably free!
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It’s a bit of a flamboyant way to say we want to move our parts as little as possible.

But that is a massive difference from traditional manufacturing and many assembly plants.

So it is an insight in terms of Tesla manufacturing philosophy.
Well, no, I'm not describing Linked Timestamping (hereafter LT), because LT is a system for creating trustable timestamps, and I'm talking about a system for auditing the state and operation of a service. Hash/block chains are common and going to get more common. LT, Git, Certificate Transparency, Bitcoin, and now what I'm describing.

And, further, I'm not suggesting you trust a third party, but if you feel I am, please point specifically at where.
You've answered your own question... more people are learning to program, from fewer and more professionally run sources, which preach a gospel that prizes engagement, conversions and ease-of-use, over empowerment, functionality, or choice. Plus, with this larger and more mainstream community, where 'coders' are pulled in off the street with little technical knowledge (let alone passion) who never grokked complex apps anyway, produce what they know. The end result is a sea of gimped, appliance-like 'apps' that do little more than funnel users towards business objectives.

And when the business died, their software still ran. Hard-won expertise kept it running. No stupid CEO or developer could stop you, and neither could they pull the rug out from under your feet with a sunset or some other shitty move. You bought your software and that, mercifully, could be the end of your relationship with that publisher.
I don't know that either is particularly gentle with its burden of knowledge; you say SCII is very clear, but truthfully I can't really tell what's going on in most pro games except for Cheese games with commentaries (I think there's a youtube channel called When Cheese Fails which I watched a few episodes of). As someone who grew up with Warcraft and Diablo eating up most of his time, I never played Star Craft and honestly the strategies used in pro-matches are so far removed from what I would do as a kid in the few games I played that it was a new game altogether.

I do agree that League is a downright mess in team fights, but at the same time, it's pretty true for SCII as well; when the armies, regardless of what stage of gameplay they're at, collide, I'm usually pretty lost as to why one is just eating the other or why this match up is a scenario that requires a retreat.

League has put a lot of effort into spectator clarity, with many of the status effects now having pretty clear symbols, the team-fight view with relative "power bars" that just give you a generic look at which side is faring better, and the commentators are usually fairly good at their fight recaps. A completely uninitiated is still going to miss the majority of nuances in matchups, trades, rotations, and all other such meta-game aspects, but Riot has done a pretty decent job of adding a simple interface for seeing what's going on in a match at any given time, and very simple meter for who is ahead in a team fight.

(It's still a mess to figure out sometimes, eve if you played for several years like I did. Sometimes I can't pick out what's happening until the casters walk us through it on the instant replay)
The pictures on the first page look exactly like what I expect graduate students and professors of Stats to look like.
You're right, you do mention proof of stake and dismiss it quickly. There is also delegated proof of stake, where validators can elect a leader without needing a proof of work arms race.

But you should really look at Ripple's consensus and study it:

https://ripple.com/build/xrp-ledger-consensus-process/

As well as HashGraph. Both of these do NOT require proof of work!

But in any case I think consensus is the wrong long term goal for technology powering currencies and other things. See my other comment in this thread regarding that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646385)
Decentralized-Cloud IPFS file transfer
I kinda feel that UI developers should work with crappy, old PCs. Then they could optimize to the point where things are barely usable to them, but then they'd be snappy for everyone else.
Every single one of those statements was subjective. Don't be fooled by my use of the word 'metric'. It is, frankly, amazing that people here expect one to have facts and citations for every little nitty point.
A lot of taxis are already run 24 hours a day, switching off between drivers at shift changes. The per-mile gas, maintenance, and depreciation (ignoring any fixed per-day or per-year costs) are already much more than 10% of the total cost of a ride.

I came across a (possibly outdated) Uber pricing model for LA of a $5.60 minimum fare and a $0.90 per mile charge, and among other fees, NYC cabs are $2.50 per mile. Compare both of those numbers to the IRS mileage rate of $0.53 per mile to get a very rough lower bound on some of the costs.
This argument generalizes to everything, though.

Do you not like owning a car/tractor/printer running proprietary software that you're not permitted to modify? I guess you should have bought a 20 year old version and upgraded it yourself.

Do you want a choice of food that you trust won't make you sick? Then you probably should have worked for that lettuce from planting to harvest, not just complained about safety standards.

Total independence from the actions of others isn't impossible, but no one posting comments online is practicing it. And if "working for it" can include learning to use solutions other people have built, then it can also include writing this article on what's change and what's missing.

If you live in a society, talking about your preferences isn't an alternative to working for them, it's part of that work.
What makes you think there are jobs in cheaper places to live?
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I haven't personally done the math but my understanding is that the current (possibly subsidized) rate for Lyft/Uber is in the $1.00 to $1.50 per mile range. The IRS rate for car usage is about $0.53/mile.

Presumably the cost for a heavily utilized vehicle is going to be lower per mile. OTOH, any commercial fleet service is going to have costs on top of the base mileage cost. (The $0.53 figure also ignores any distance the vehicle might have to travel to pick you up.)

So it's probably reasonable as a back-of-the-envelope swag to assume that, if a fully autonomous vehicle were available today, you could probably undercut a "ridesharing" service by about 50%. It's definitely not suddenly going to be almost too cheap to meter just because you take the driver out of the equation.
What's scary about TPMS not functioning correctly? Honest question; I've only had a TPMS incorrectly tell me there's an issue so I disable it.
USCIS is challenging an unusually large number of H-1B applications
> but it does not mean that something with a huge amount of detail could not be as aesthetic

Yes, that's why my initial comment indicated I agree with jmull.
This post seems to have brought the concentration of corporate power / regulatory capture HN critics out of the woodwork.

I am so happy to see and read all of you.
https://www.dnielectronico.es/PortalDNIe/PRF1_Cons02.action?...

Googling suggests that they might be another user of the ~~infected~~ infineon SLE78 platform.
The corporate culture to release a product in time rather than having it perform fast ruined the IT world and is infecting the FOSS ecosystem too. Just throw away all VM-constrained or interpreted languages (or use them only for prototyping) and the problem is almost solved.
Then make everything work offline unless it is absolutely necessary to do the opposite (backups, updates etc). Rediscovering the lost art of optimization would also help a lot.
Awesome!
Why are routes added after the server has started? That makes me a bit worried, I would like to initialize the app completely before accepting requests, that's more or less necessary when under high load...
To understand why printing comes off of cheap T-shirts, see CottonBureau's excellent comparison of screen-printing and "DTG" spray-on inking processes.

https://cottonbureau.com/faq/materials-inks-and-fit
This is part of the reason Go is gaining so much popularity. It gives you back all the power and speed of typed, compiled language but without all the tedious parts of C like managing memory and complicated threading.
As for Elon being one of the driving forces behind the transition to electric - Rock on Elon, nice damn job - as far as L5 AV - umm, you're so full of it you need to drag a septic tank - I'm just a little fella, and I do admire the primarily visual approach, but this all really boils down to 'You look, but you do not see' - I've been in an out of machine vision for a long time, and the one thing that's always been true is that we fail, and fail again, when we ignore the gigantic cognitive stack that is processing that visual data and making decisions based on it (and if we don't ignore it, we are forced to admit we can't handle it) . L1,L2, L3... yeah, sure, it's not that hard -I think 'Logan' got the freight trucks in 10 years spot on. L5 - I'll believe it when Elon and the Times author leave NYC for a late fall drive to check out a VT ski home, say about mid October - storm gone thru, cloudy/foggy night, poor visibility, and the only brains you got are in that car - better hope it knows that leaves get ripped down then and piled up in the twists and turns of backcountry VT roads - my guess is there will be a funeral, or it's gonna be a multi-day trip - the ability of a machine to go 'I have seen this before' has nothing at all to do with 'I understand what I am seeing and can draw rational inferences' My 2c, admittedly playing with midget systems, but the failure modes are pretty much the same
I feel like asking: did they solve the problem?

Let me see if I can state the problem: Neural Networks are non-linear because of their activation functions. You need a differentiable function in order to take the derivative so you can back-prop the error, more or less.

The consequence of the non-linearity is that you can't do some kind of short hand calculation to figure out what the network will do. You have to crank through the network to see the result. There is no economy of thought. That is to say, there is no theory.

I am excited that they are working on it, but I would love to have a summary or overview of how they approach what I consider to be the basic problem.
Me included - which is why I would provide the bare minimum, and would provide it directly as services rather than dish out benefits for people to spend in the economy. One of the most depressing things on TV here in the UK is a genre of poor people documentary porn which show benefits recipients who commonly have a Sky TV subscription, massive flat screens TVs, latest consoles and phones, plenty of money for ciggies and booze etc, and that appear deeply averse to work but are not so averse to intellectual effort that they aren't able to understand the intricate details of the benefits system necessary to keep their benefits flowing in. Unfortunately I think the only way to discourage this dependency culture is to make working aspirational - and how do we do that? Attitude change yes, but I would argue also making life on benefits less attractive, whilst still remaining humane.
"but I think that if everyone spent time optimizing the size of things to be 100x faster we could get back to snappy UIs."

Quite possibly. Who's going to pay for it, though? And who's going to make sure the frameworks are still easy to use and not buggy?
Immediate access to the vehicle and monetary returns from renting it out when not using it.
I've since built systems based on flash that boot in tenths of a second, with over a thousand times the memory of that ST. I'll point out that the PC BIOS the ST was competing with was also in ROM, and only spent the last couple seconds of its execution loading stuff from disk -- I think the test was more than fair.
That accomplishes the same thing, but that doesn't make it equivalent in the important senses. That requires everyone to change their core interface with the currency. It's not a trivial thing!

The analog in national currencies would be if everyone had to immediately stop using the old notes and replace them with new ones that a new anti-counterfeit feature. Or migration to the Euro.

When banks are hacked or whatever, they have some kind of insurance that just replaces the money. They don't have to get the rest of the system to update anything.
Google datacenters most certainly have enough storage. I'd bet youtube uploads more data / day than these USPS cars would.

Don't forget that the cameras on the cars would not need to have 30 fps uploaded at 4k resolution.
Thanks! Java8+ is what you make of it really. The syntax and standard APIs are still a bit clunky compared to $otherJvmLanguage, but you can make great APIs in Java.
Anyone have any insight as to why they call `bind/flatmap` `chain` instead of just `flatmap` (given `bind` is already taken in JS)?
Wasn't there an internal Apple document about the importance of free promotions its products receive in movies and shows?

Found a quick link from google.

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-biggest-marketing-secr...
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Technically, no, because you have to be enrolled as a student (not just a student of life ;).

However, Quora seems to think you may be able to sneak in, at least sometimes:

https://www.quora.com/What-does-Stanford-do-about-non-Stanfo...
> The client is getting a rework soon.

Interesting, where do you get this from? Been waiting for this for years now but haven't seen any official message from Valve themselves about this.
bizzare that tech workers do this mecca thing when remote work exists. It's so strange.
How are you going to merge if you have different spends on the forks you're trying to merge? It's not a matter of whether or not you care about ordering. It's a matter of one branch's spend being invalidated by the spend in the other branch.

If the answer is to stop caring about double spend, how do you anticipate that working?
Am I right that the second graph on this page does not support this headline at all? Remove two data points and the whole idea falls apart.
I think the point is that, hypothetically, some non-financial systems don't require ordering or conflict resolution and thus such systems don't need PoW.
Corner cases. Relatively rare until exploited.
A good GUI can be navigated with the mouse, and a good CLI can be navigated with aid from teh mouse, so the dichotomy just doesn't make sense.
What speeds you up forwards can probably be used to slow you down if pointed backwards
On low price/toy grade quads, it is usually because they get out of range of the transmitter so you can't tell them to stop. If you check out some reviews on YouTube, you'll see the reviewer throttle up the quad and turn off the receiver to see how it deals with losing connection. I don't know enough about pricier drones to comment on why they would fly away - software glitch?
The Word processor on my 8 Bit Computer (BBC Micro) is ready to type into about 2 seconds from when I switch the power on.
You've got a good point. I can see a future where "car culture" is considered just as uniquely American as "gun culture", where every other country has banned human-driven cars but the US keeps driving their own.
Thanks for reporting back and happy to hear it was just a flaky connection, even though we want to make IPFS make better on flaky connections.
Relevant post on keyboard latency here: https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

Takeaway: today’s keyboards are slow. Even gaming keyboards marketed as fast are slow. There’s more latency just in today’s keyboards than the entire end-to-end latency in an Apple II system from 1977.
Awesome, but to me this stuff is also terrifying, and I can't quite place why.

Something about dissecting intelligence, and the potential that our own minds process things similarly. Creepy how our reality is distilled into these uncanny valley type matrices.

Also, I suspect it says something that these images look like what people report seeing on psychedelic trips...
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art can take any form, from poking the viewer to challenge misconceptions and beliefs to anything else. it can be a series of photos of you dropping something sacred and valuable or just a really well done drawing that tool a lot of time and skill.

art is also like music, if there is ANY music you like, then there is an ART you will like.

last. don't feel weird not getting or liking art. you are coming at it from wrong angle.
Somehow I'd more or less forgotten about it (even though I'd read it twice myself by age 9). So what we thinking, it'd be ok for a 6yo? How about a 4yo?
I think what he's saying it may be giving with the right and taking with the left.
Isn't violating embargo different? I thought most reviewers agree to that explicitly.
I thought it was at that museum, perhaps it was another. The statues were clearly incomplete. The arms and legs were often still just a block of stone, uncarved. I'll dig through my photos later to see if it was a different location.
You can add them before starting the server if you want. I usually put them after just because I like separating them out. Should only take a few milliseconds to add them.
This title should be edited to reflect the actual title of the piece:
"Texas Gunman Once Escaped From Mental Health Facility"

The difference is important.
Companies should be using auto-remediation with AWS Config and Lambda to detect any S3 bucket that is publicly available and immediately removing that access unless the bucket is whitelisted. An indicator is nice, but if your policy doesn't exist as code, it doesn't exist.

Disclaimer: We built this at my current org to prevent people from cutting their fingers off with self-service S3 access across application development teams.
I'm still thankful for https://tinyapps.org even well after it has gone nearly read-only!

To qualify for TinyApps, a program must:

1. Not exceed 1.44mb

2. Not be adware

3. Not require the VB/MFC/.NET runtimes. Also, preference is given to apps which are 100% self-contained, requiring no installation, registry changes, etc.

4. Preferably be free, and ideally offer source code. Shareware will only be listed if there is no freeware alternative.
Uniqlo.com has a good quality, but prints are less creative than from Threadless's artists.
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