skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Still, factoring in the unprecedented liberal media headwinds faces by Trump, I’d say his numbers are amazingly good

That's true in the sense that it's true that Nixon's outgoing numbers were pretty good given the time of the media coverage at the time; there's not a lot of evidence, though, that measuring support relative to media coverage produces any kind of useful information.
Agreed. Kerchoff's principle isn't really up for debate.
It is very difficult to tell the difference between some reds and some whites. It's a bit like telling the difference between red cheddar and white cheddar. However, anybody could tell the difference between a young cabernet sauvignon and a reisling -- anybody. Go ahead and try it if you don't believe me.

Is there anyone who can distinguish between any two wines? No. Are there wines that anyone can distinguish between? Yes. Are there some people who can distinguish between a greater set of wines than other people? Yes.

Probably most people who are inexperienced with wine would be surprised at how many wines they could identify with a little bit of practice. Probably most people who are experienced with wine would be surprised at how many wines they fail to identify despite their considerable practice. But failing to identify a wine when you are sure you got it right is at least half of the fun.
How can satellites have low latency? The current average ping times seem to be around 900ms. Isn't this almost unusable?
Talking microservices with the man who made Netflix’s cloud famous (2015)
Audit of regression models
Recent post about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/8830oa/and_n...
Today most Mormons drink Diet Coke instead (which I can say tongue in cheek as a Mormon sipping a Diet Coke.) I've never tried Postum myself, heard of it though.

Curiously what the Mormon code of health actually prohibits is 'hot drinks' which would include Postum (but not Diet Coke!) But historically it has been interpreted to mean Coffee and Tea (and any drink derived from Coffee beans or Tea leaves, hot or cold.)
It's 1am where I live right now, but tomorrow I'll take a picture of the two in my backyard and post it. They're only just starting to leaf out after winter, but you can get a decent idea of what they look like.
I sort of get reddits reason to hold the post ranking algorithm secret. So that it is hard to game it.

Until there is a way to easy 're-key' such an algorithm if someone found a way to abuse it, holding it secret is the best solution for them.

I currently can't think of a better solution to avoid gaming of ranking algorithms than holding it secret and changing/adapting it often. Maybe some machine learning algorithm?
There are some developers who think that OOP is a bless; other developers think that OOP is a sh*t and try to stay away from it as much as possible.

I think that just like everything else in the world, it has some benefits and some downsides.

For me, the greatest benefit is that it enforces some sort of code modularity/standardization and helps people keep their code organized. Note that i am not asserting that any OO code is inherently better written.

While designing libmodule, i always focused on that, plus being simple that, imo, should always be the primary goal while writing any library.
The study you’re referencing on not being able to distinguish white and red wine was performed on undergraduate college students, not wine tasting experts.
What this pays no attention to is the fact that every election won by a Democrat or Republican is won against third party candidates, and that is where targeted psychological manipulation was particularly effective, especially at making Trump supporters out of voters that might have voted third party.

The 2016 US election was - for a very significant portion of voters - about what candidate you hated or feared the least, not which candidate best expressed a voter's ideals. Targeted advertising took this fear, and exasperated it in many voters.
Not sure if the Carbon suffers from this, I've had awful Wi-Fi experience with ThinkPads (edit: same Wi-Fi module as in the Carbon). 5GHz connections just drop randomly and take a minute or two to be willing to reconnect. Pretty sure it's not the AP's problem since I've never had this problem with my USB Wi-Fi module connecting to the same network, only the built-in one. Anybody had a better experience (or know how to get a better experience)? I'm forever in shock at how they've let this happen without fixing it; it's extremely frustrating.

EDIT 1: Judging from the quick upvotes I suspect I'm not alone... (but actually, this was obvious just from my earlier Googling).

EDIT 2: Funny, I'm getting downvotes now :-) confused what the message is, but whatever floats your boat!
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I had power steering disable itself randomly in a 2005 VW Polo. The required steering forces below 40km/h were suddenly extremely large. It was about 5 to 10 times the force that I remember from a heavier and larger car without any power steering that I have driven prior.

I guess you are lucky that your steerimg system is designed to fail more gracefully.
> "a relatively small number of extreme right wingers"

Like the sitting US President:

* https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/trump-obama-muslim-b...

* https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/10/opinions/why-trump-clings-to-...

* http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/time-donald-trump-talked-birt...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-b...

* https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-proud-birt...
IIRC the experiment tricked them by colouring the whites red and vice versa. So even if you could tell the difference you might not be so confident that you would know a trick was being played on you.
It wouldn't be much different from how it's handled in traditional ecommerce. If there's a legal dispute, or something "disappears", the're ways to find out where it went missing, you could go to court. You're still using package services for physical goods.
The money would be held back until both give the Ok and the dispute is resolved.
SpaceX satellites will have a very low orbit. That’s also why they need so many.
It does indeed appear to be an .861, likely circa 1969 given its serial number.
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More like a rogue actor sending you a truckload of parts that are not what they're supposed to be.

Take for instance the blockchain De Beers (the diamond cartel) says it wants to create to track diamonds. Things like country of origin, quality etc... Tracking diamonds is especially important because you want to make sure that the diamonds you buy are not from a conflict zone, the so-called "blood diamonds".

Now imagine that you have a completely trustless bitcoin-like blockchain to track this. What prevents an African warlord from pretending to be Canadian and create fake entries for its diamonds into the blockchain pretending that they were mined in America? Then he can trade them without issue. The blockchain is unable to detect that a user hasn't the right nationality, nor can it track the physical origin and location of a diamond without having to trust somebody to tell it. Ergo your trustless blockchain is no more valuable than a random file on pastebin.com.

To solve this issue you'd need some trusted certification authority that would audit miners and grant them access to the blockchain once they've asserted that they are who they pretend to be. But if you do this then you have a trusted 3rd party and the blockchain can advantageously be replaced by any regular database of your choice managed by this 3rd party.

You can apply this reasoning to any physical good, from organic produce (how do you make sure that the producer isn't lying about making organic oranges?) to paper rolls (how do you know the producer isn't lying about using sustainable foresting techniques?). You need trusted third parties certifying and controlling these things to weed out cheaters.
> anything they ask, tell them it’s now their role to document it.

Depending on how you interpret it, this advice is either great or terrible. If you read this to mean that the new person to a project should start out by documenting the things they don't know, then this is bad:

- There are definitely Open Source projects which have this attitude and don't write user-facing documentation, expecting new-joiners to write it. This makes it both hard for a new person to join a project and hard for the project to market itself.

- If you are just starting out on a project, it can be hard to know what are the key concepts that a person should really know in order to be efficient and what is incidental. It may or may not be a good idea for them to spend a bunch of time documenting ways in which your test setup uses selenium after running into some really weird end-to-end test bug.

- If you don't know something, it is really hard to write a coherent explanation of it. You have to both empathize with ignorance and have the knowledge. Otherwise, you can just end up stuck/lost. If you don't have anyone willing to help you un-stick yourself...

But that doesn't sound like the interpretation you mean.

From the rest of your post, it very much sounds like you mean that the new person should turn a vocal explanation into a written one as a way of both confirming their knowledge and passing it on to others. This sounds great. It will generate lots of draft docs though, so you probably need some habit or person to keep them organized and keep them from getting stale.
> Of course, fork() is not especially fast

fork itself is pretty fast, relatively speaking (unless you have a large virtual address space and 4K pages or similar). fork+execve+process-runtime-initialization is much slower.

On my X201 (anno 2010), with 10000 iterations, sequential fork+exit(0)-in-child+wait takes:

$ /usr/bin/time ./forkfest
2,49 real 0,38 user 2,19 sys

while sequential fork+execve("/usr/bin/true",...)-in-child+wait takes:

$ /usr/bin/time ./forkfest2
10,99 real 3,10 user 7,94 sys

EDIT: also, My X201 is clocked at 1199 MHz (50%) for power saving reasons
“This is so disappointing, wonder if there is a way to hire for integrity. We are probably focusing on the intelligence part and getting smart people here who lack a moral compass and loyalty.”

The sheer lack of self-awareness in that statement.
Yeah, it varies depending on your dictionary or stylebook. For example, MW lists:

> "résumé ... variants: or resume or less commonly resumé"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume
Didn't know about that! But it seems they were able to break the system only while the Germans where sending the settings of the plugboard in the header of each message. Once that was changed in the early 1940, their decrypting techniques wouldn't work anymore.

Btw, from the wikipedia article: "lazy cipher clerks often chose starting positions such as "AAA", "BBB", or "CCC"" Weak passwords were an issue already back then.
As long as your explicitly factor in the number of sales being lost in the calculation
How do you use that darn stick accurately and efficiently? :-) It's straight velocity control, there's no position control at all. How do people aim with that?
I was hand-waving there. From the study I had in mind:

> A white wine artificially colored red with an odorless dye was olfactory described as a red wine by a panel of 54 tasters. Hence, because of the visual information, the tasters discounted the olfactory information..

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093934X0...

To be clear I didn't mean to expressly claim that "experts cannot tell a red from a white", for any particular interpretation of those words. I mean generally that every time I've ever heard of a study examining whether wine-tasters consistently discern what they think they're discerning, the result is always that they don't.
Service Workers arrive in iOS 11.3, bringing offline support to PWAs
There's no proof it'll work, in fact the proof is it won't work at it's current value.

The idea itself is incredibly flawed from the known products, like Theranos it should be obvious what the issues are to a normal person.

But what Theranos showed was even if the product is flawed in a very obvious way, investors will still invest. The investment itself can't be used as proof it'll work.

Hence the comparison.
> My guess is that the author of D86 ... made use of some of his inside knowledge from his Intel days.

I continue to be amazed at the amount of backward-compatibility inside the average Intel x86 CPU. If something stays out of long mode, it can still do all of that. Impressive, really.

And... I hadn't thought through to the point of considering what you were using D86 for :)

I agree, things like sound emulation leave a lot to be desired. I only use QEMU for its networking and HW-accel virtualization - DOSBox runs rings around it with eg Win3.1...

Have you tried PCem and 86Box?

> Maybe I should patch DOSBOX on stream sometime and submit the patch to the maintainers.

Now that would be really awesome. :D
I was slow to join Facebook and I signed up in late 2006, several months before this article was written. The author here was just out of touch.

In September 2006 Facebook opened to everybody. At the end of the year, Facebook had 12 million active users, roughly doubling their number from 2005. By April 2007 they had 20 million users. By the end of the year they had 50 million. The author wrote this piece right in the middle of Facebook's meteoric growth and they didn't even notice.

The press had the same blindness over AOL Time Warner. To 13-year-old me, that merger sounded like a dinosaur from the Cretaceous combining with a dinosaur from the Jurassic, but for some reason all the papers thought AOL was the business of the future. They had no sense for what was cool.
An alternative: Dell 7520 line. Runs Linux nicely out of the box.

* No camera or mic is an option (I took it)

* No HiDPI display is an option (I took it)

* 32 GB ram

* 1TB very fast class of ssd

* Legit quad core Xeon

* Discrete GPU (decent)

* Real keyboard

* Charger is approximately size of an actual red brick (blah)

* Laptop is bulky

* I love it, best Linux and Laptop I have ever owned. Let's just leave it tied with my 2015 MacBook.
They won't judge you, but your health insurance rate might go up for unspecific reasons.

See, most comments here are a bit on the side of So what? Who cares?, but fitness data is health data and health data is considered extra sensitive. And I guess rightly so, because of this: http://www.tearsheet.co/data/allstate-is-watching-you-how-th...

My prediction is that most health-related apps will be regulated in the near future. It's already happening with the GDPR to some extend, which classifies health data as sensitive requiring extra protection (and extra consent from users).

A breach like that (if fitness data was leaked) could result in heavy fines under GDPR (or something like the Medical Device Regulation, which is starting to extend to medical/health apps), if it becomes clear that the company didn't take security seriously enough.
when they're the same temperature?
Guessing from the article, the fix is replacing a few bolts with more corrosion resistant ones. The labor around that should mostly be about reaching the parts in question and maybe some minor recalibration on the steering column.
With Roman concrete, you're talking about very recent discoveries in the grand scheme of things. Some of the important research is less than a year old.
In linux, renameat2() with RENAME_EXCHANGE on directories ought to be a very helpful primitive.

Does anyone know what the state of glibc support is? The last thing I saw was this thread: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00459.html
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And I’m not. But I think even you would agree that the overwhelmingly negative press coverage - almost all of it opinion based - has some effect on the disapproval ratings. 50% was going to be built in from the start. Somebody should do the math to figure out the correlation between the ratio of positive to negative press stories and the disapproval ratings for both Trump and Obama. I think you’d find that if you normalize that ratio for both of these guys, Trump actually wins that race.
Why is C++ less portable than C? In my experience, non-portable code happens when the interaction with the OS is not well isolated. Since the major OS interfaces are C header files, I don't see why C++ makes it any worse.
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Cheers. Looks like this most recent work was primarily front-end:

> "When we set out to rewrite our code to solve these problems, we wanted to make sure we weren't just fixing small, isolated issues but creating a new, more modern frontend stack..."
I surely hope for them that we don't see a repeat of Segway. Millions and millions in funding to eventually end up being only used by Segway tours for tourists and the odd policeman.
Rugby Union legal battle brewing as players set to fight for right to 'data'
I’ve got a T430. Had an X201 before that. It took a month to get used to it but I’ll be honest and say that I’m happy with it now. I dismantled it and wedged some paper under the trackpad though to stop it being pressed. That helps.
A designer can just write HTML or some toy language.

A programmer will translate it to something manageable eventually anyway. A trivial automatic process can convert HTML to a DSL. Although making code sensibly refactored and readable is usually a manual job for the programmer.
I would say that a lot of people jumped on board with Swift before it should really have been used so widely. Objective C was - and still is! - a totally acceptable way to build an app for iOS.
Layout in code is something Flutter is doing. And Flutter will be used in the mobile OS Fuchsia.
I'm not really familiar with how the electoral system works in the US with regards to this, but there's something about this that really confuses me (even leaving my own politics and literally all science aside with regards to climate change and particulate pollution).

It seems like it would be really expensive to roll all of these policies back just to reinstate them later, but isn't that inevitable when the pendulum swings back to the left?

(i.e. Won't the next left-leaning administration move to redo everything that's been undone under your current administration?)

Is there some structural feature of your electoral system that would prevent this kind of flip-flopping?

(This isn't a put down by the way - I say this being from Northern Ireland, where our entire political system is based on a single divisive issue, at the cost of getting literally anything else achieved.)
Follow the guide along with infographics in your solution. including some various paths, you may consider. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-way-to-learn-Adobe-Ph...
If you like creative stuff and algorithmns you could try to use a creative coding framework like cinder, processing or open frameworks. I like implementing some easy algorithmns like bird flocking simulations, circle packing etc. There are many good examples on youtube (e.g.: The Coding Train)
Those are fast and easy projects with the benefit of reaching a goal quick (after you learned the framework), getting to know algorithmns, getting to know languages and having visual feedback.
Holy crap, they are right! The OED does mistakenly define yaupon as having emetic properties!

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/yaupon

How does one get the OED fix such an obvious error?
It'll be interesting to see where this one goes.

To my non-lawyer sensibilities it seems that while they might have claims on data protection and FOI terms, I don't think they can claim copyright, or ownership based on the claim that they "create" the data.

And one other thing:

"If a club believes a player to be prone to say concussion, they may well not wish to sign him."

This sounds fair enough to me!
Do anyone related to tech really use out-of-the box software?

I'm always installing a Linux distro of my choice or a clean fresh windows image if i need it
I've done (literally) blind taste testing. I could do it, because I knew what was being testing, but it was trickier than I anticipated. One member of my group got a couple guesses wrong. It's not such a ridiculous thing that even an expert (whose expectations have been betrayed by red food coloring in a white wine) might stumble.
I know you have some solid points here, but all I can think about now is that we live in a world where a sensor exists that can detect cow farts at a rate of 8k per second.
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I have worked on factory floors before but honestly I don't see how it's relevant. Toyota and similarly competent manufacturers are are perfectly capable of using centralized databases to track the motion of parts around extremely convoluted manufacturing plants. Blockchain primarily solves the double-spend problem of a distributed spreadsheet. So some supplier can't claim to have sent the same parts to two factories on some spreadsheet. That's solving a non-problem. I expect blockchain to have a massive impact on industries primarily concerned with abstract ledgers (finance), but I have serious doubts about the utility of the technology when applied to problems involving meatspace. I would be happy to be proven wrong.
there's not a lot of evidence, though, that measuring support relative to media coverage produces any kind of useful information.

There are studies proving that the media does in fact have an effect on overall opinion. So if you believe those studies, then you have to also believe that the overwhelmingly negative media attention received by Trump would have an effect on his disapproval ratings.
It’s not click bait - the article is literally about how it was forgotten for centuries.
I think that letting a foreign entity know about your financial status is pretty "personal", at least for a guy like me it is. Back to the article on point, I remember criticizing the US's need to ask for fingertips from potential visa applicants 12 years ago, in a discussion with my former co-workers. Since then things have gotten worse and worse in terms of privacy (this being just the latest example).
> Are there some people who can distinguish between a greater set of wines than other people? Yes.

Do you know of research to that effect?
The USA is a joke when it comes to security. They've got all this stupid and expensive beauracracy for coming in and out of the country that does nothing but irritate people.

I recently flew through the US on a connection flight from the UK and needed to give details of my employment history and my birth place amongst other things. In Tampa I got interrogated for looking nervous, which I was because we had landed late and I had very little time to catch my connection. My phone was searched, my WhatsApp messages were read, and they asked me all sorts of personal questions such as my girlfriend's birthday and the names of her cats.

After all this nonsense and their military-checkpoint style TSA procedures, I was able to continue on my journey (after the almost 20 hour delay).

So if they ask for social media profiles and phone numbers it's just a minor addition to the existing useless questions. If I wanted to hide something I could easily lie and they'd have absolutely no way of checking. Quite honestly I hope I never have to go anywhere near the US border ever again, I would rather pay an extra £200 for an alternative flight.
I have last year’s X1 Carbon and have had no issues with WiFi (using Debian unstable). Certainly no connection drops. Maybe it’s a bad combination of AP and WiFi module?
I wasn’t referring to Uber. I am well aware of how and why their pricing structure works. There are jurisdictions outside the US however. For example, here in London black cabbies can charge less than the maximum, they simply never do.
I like the options but with its weight of 2.8kg I don't consider this a competitor to the X1.