skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brit here. How often, and for how many posts do you typically vote in elections in the US? It seems like everyone down to the local Librarian is an elected official. Are these votes held one at a time, or is there one massive election for a couple of dozen posts all at the same time every year or something? What's the typical turnout for these elections? How is it decided which posts will be elected and which ones are appointments, and does this vary from place to place?

In comparison, we generally have two elections every 5 years. One for our MP in Westminster, and one for our local council and these are often held simultaneously. For many people, that's it. Some cities also have Mayoral elections, and there can be town or parish council elections as well but whether these exist or not is very local. I don't think we have any direct elections to administrative positions, unless you count Mayors. There might be some rare local exceptions to that but they're most likely purely ceremonial.
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Also works pretty well with zooming the browser out.
He meant the "extreme" low battery mode some vendors like HTC, Samsung[1] and Sony implemented, which soft reboots your phone into a power save mode where all you can do is make calls and send texts.

[1] http://m.androidcentral.com/using-ultra-power-saver-samsung-...
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The CTO of a company I worked for had a solution for this problem that, while crass, was effective.

Any time he saw an unlocked and unattended workstation he would set the home page of the browser to a hard core porn site.

Then later after the person was back at the desk he would claim to need to check on something real quick. He'd fire up the web browser, and up comes the porn site.

Then he'd pretend to be all pissed off and start yelling at the person for browsing porn at work.

Eventually, he'd explain what happened and made his point.
No, I wasn't familiar with that. Still, the present issue seems one step worse than that.

Digital music sold used to have DRM, because it just couldn't be avoided since the licensing terms of the content required it. The Primecast seems likely to be the same.

It's more like them saying, "Sorry, user, we can't let you do that."

Where as this (and what Apple does) is more like, "What's that user? You want <competing thing>? Well, fuck off!"

Thinking on it though, massively slowing down deliveries of books from publishers Amazon doesn't like was actually the first time I've seen Amazon do something like this. So this actually isn't the first time; now its a pattern.

Side rant: Amazon Prime's media crap is also especially annoying to me personally, since I spend most of the year outside of the US, where it doesn't work at all. (Go Netflix!))
Nice demo. And nice touch to mention the cache, which was on my mind.
Wasn't that because Apple wants 30% off all sales? Microsoft had a similar clash with Apple over Office for iOS. The apps were free, but if you wanted to buy a license to use them, you would have to purchase that license directly from Microsoft because Apple wanted a slice of the upsell. This would have added a 30% tax on top of the universal service fee Microsoft was selling, even if it was just a link to the website from within the apps. I don't know how that was finally resolved, but this is just how Apple conducts business.
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How do we set up tests to simulate this? He mentions Emulab testbed but essentially says it is unavailable.

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II agree but was highlighting the fact that being to blatant ala the OPM hack can backfire.
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It does not do much other than sampling from the image and outputting a square shaped character character with same color. So if your sampling is 1px, it basically takes each pixel and render it as a square
If I ask my broker to buy some stock, I want it at the lowest price. My broker, left to his own devices, may prefer to buy at a higher price because it is more profitable for him.

This rule seems designed to protect the consumer when the consumer and the stock brokers goals are not aligned.
For example. But with a focus on a budget as well. The problem now is governments overspending because in a way it helps the current politicians to be re-elected. But in the long term debts are not good. I think Greece is a very good example how things can go wrong that way.
Why aren't they used? I heard paris has a general unaffordability problem, complete with height restrictions and a museum city planning policy
I think you can love it. Brutalism is the clear representation of how a few people (mayors, architects, ...) brutally decide how people can blossom and prosper.

It's tragic and beautiful (in my opinion).

Those visual representations ask a lot of questions too!
For example, if we choose that stuff to live in at a certain time, what did we clearly decide on others politicals levels way more abstracts?
They also have a pretty interesting Voxel fantasy console: http://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php.

This was funded through a Kickstarter, and a lot of backers are pretty bitter over the progress and direction of the project - just check out the forums.

I love the idea, but I'm very sad that this isn't open source.
If Steve jobs was alive today, what would you ask him?
Still, if the team is not really tight, this kind of prank is dangerous for the team. I can see the situation deteriorate pretty fast. If he was chief of security or something, I'd understand that. I understand the manager too, but a co-worker? No.

That said, I use padlock[1] on my laptop, especially in 'hostile' environments and I'm pretty happy with it.

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"domain privacy" is just another extortion scheme.
"What the world really need is a mechanism to prevent governments from overspending."

If governments run a supply the private sector has to run a deficit. Mathematics don't lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectoral_balances
lol, they didn't take photos of the worst neighborhoods. Actually most the photos here were taken in good or ok places. Even Nanterre is fine. I wonder why the photographer didn't step into Val d'Argenteuil ... plenty of brutalism there... pun intended.
This does look interesting, and from skimming it this seems to be about introducing the same sort of atomic primitives as found in clojure, ie. Atoms. And as far as I know they were introduced to address the problem of shared, mutable state in a concurrent environment.

If Javascript doesn't have "real" threads, just unordered, asynchronous execution, what need do we have for atoms? You won't be having concurrent access to the shared, mutable state anyway.

Am I missing something?
I have only checked up the Swedish law, but it distinguish between something given for free and when money or services are traded. The consumer protection laws are designed to identify a customer - merchant situation and then regulate it. FLOSS projects should have nothing to worry about here, and the only issue that I have heard is when projects sell CD's.
If you want to learn a new technology that is in big demand, and probably will always be, i suggest learning frontend web development. It's extremely easy to learn, pays well and shouldn't go out of demand any time soon. I know that you were looking for a specific language to learn, but i consider frontend development as one (HTML/CSS/JS)
My jaw is practically on the floor - the brutalist architecture I'm used to in the UK is not a patch on these buildings. I had no idea they existed!
the premise is they might add value in some circumstances, but in the mean time they extract value 24/7

>When they do start doing something stupid, then they will lose money and be punished

hehe no, trades will be reversed, people that "maliciously took advantage of poor algo error" will be punished instead
I disagree. Many of these look great despite the 'post-apocalyptic crumbling architecture' framing, with large terraces, big windows, views on the water, good location, etc.

You can't live in the Louvre, and even if you could, you'd have to be rich.
Ahah :)

The title says poetic, not realistic!
Oh for sure it's about "staying on theme" but it's arbitrary. Based on some of the amazing stuff people are doing with Pico-8 it seems reasonable that more space could make it even more interesting. The fact that processing speed isn't a limitation reveals that even such a truncated screen can communicate beautiful things.

As a programmer who's not good at compressing stuff, it would be annoying to have to spend time bashing code to fit an arbitrary limit.
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This could, I think, be classified as sexual harassment. At least in Sweden ("sexuellt ofredande") where I live.

If my boss did that, I'd probably quit. So yeah, I guess it's "effective".
They are used. These images are real in the same way a fashion shoot is real.
> Though not a part of this specification, we intend for the role of "threads" to be played by Web Workers in web browser environments.
Just being picky, but because Edge was released after all other browsers, technically there isn't any other "more modern browser". There are just the other browsers.
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Greece has been sacked by a bunch of oligarchs and, then, sacked again by their European partners trying to save the European banks but, their real problem, is that they are not a sovereign state anymore. You can't be a sovereign state if you have not control of your money.

States are not households. The debt of a country is a very different animal that the debt of firm or an individual.
Your missing the point, it has nothing to do with download speed.

32k is not a pita, its the point, this is a fantasy retro consol, giving it 32 MB would do what ? make it pointless probably

Its also a excellent opportunity to show off, for example, nobody would have thought you could make this on a C64 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kJz_XfbxX0
They will optimise for probability of a search leading to purchases and likely see 5s searches leading to fewer purchases than 90s searches.

You get the same phenomena in retail. You get intentionally confusing layouts in shops, hidden exits, difficult placement of essentials and related items spread at different ends of the store, no clocks etc. to maximise the amount of time a customer spends in their store. It works.
The referenced paper is a bit vague about this:

An alternative to side bitmaps is a bytemap, a bytegrained
data structure on the side. Bytemaps trade an 8×
space overhead to avoid synchronizing on each set operation
(if we assume support for atomic byte-grained stores).

I think the idea is that, since a bytemap is less dense, two cores less frequently access the same cache lines, leading to fewer invalidations. Though, I wonder if it pays off, since it also gives less locality.
But you still can't use the Cast button from your phone to launch on those devices. My Xbox One shows me the option for YouTube videos, but nothing else. There isn't a one-stop option right now.
Has anyone checked to see if any Facebook access tokens were saved unencrypted in the database? They mention that users who logged in with Facebook instead of username/password would be completely safe, but if access tokens were leaked, then many users could have their Facebook data mined.
Stunning, especially the pictures 'José, 89, Les Damiers, Courbevoie, 2012. (Laurent Kronental)' Livable and beautiful brutalism.

Opposed to 'Les Tours Aillaud, Cité Pablo Picasso, Nanterre, 2014. (Laurent Kronental)' which appears like a regular tower high rise, but with round windows.

While 'brualism' is a term that refers to concrete structures built in the 50s/60s/70s, take a look at a castle on top of a hill. It is brutalist. Take a walk down a street in London next to multi-story pre-Victorian office/official building, it is brutalist. Early US inner-city multi-story apartments (when the elevator started to become more commonplace) equally. The tripod stlye Hong Kong housing estates (central life block, with a corridor leading off at 120, 240 and 360/0 degrees, with 6-8 apartments per corridor).

It is brutal. It is beautiful. And a lot of think is evident. It isn't to be confused with high-rise in general, which be it office or housing, is dreadful: "We have some land, put a building here, make it tall." That fails.
Just an innocent question , does it really need to be in the spec ? I mean typed arrays make sense, but isn't that too low level ? Things like that, just like async or even promises concern me. Javascript, the language, shouldn't be concerned with async programming at its core. What I mean is, a js environment that support threads directly, doesn't need promises or async stuffs. Isn't putting memory management or concurrency into the spec limiting JS environments to a certain model of memory management or conccurency model ? there is no notion of event loop up until ES6 in the spec.
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Remember when Google TV used to do that?
This is disgusting.
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All they have to do is expire their secret key and all the access tokens will be invalidated.
The best one is the Bangladesh National Assembly Building: http://architectuul.com/architecture/national-assembly-build...

I think a lot of brutalist architecture gets a bad rap because it became so commonplace in the mid 20th century. Just like anything that's done "too-much", it became overdone as lesser and lesser architects created less inspirational designs.

PS. Also loved the old Best stores, with ACTUAL crumbling facades as a self-aware statement of consumerism: http://www.failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-pos...

So good.. you could say they were the Best.
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Yeah...

On topic- Today we want to ban app that allows you to say something about someone, tomorow we will censor every comment! It's like reversal of china: instead of "don't speak about gov." it's "don"t speak aboit me!". It is sad how oversensitive and afraid of their own shadow people have became. Good thing it's not all people that are like that. Only specific group. Same gruop that likes to criticize and even dox people they do not agree with...
So how should one react to an anecdotal comment like this?
The implication is that several vacuum cleaner repair stores have made reports and they reflect badly on Dyson as against results from other manufacturers? So where's the data?

For all I know, 'Dysons' are dreadful machines (not in my experience but who cares? - maybe I've just been lucky) but it's nice to see evidence before making general accusations.
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SharedTypedArrays, though whether this should be specified at the JS or WaASM level I'm not sure. What it lacks at this point is a defined memory model but they do seem to note they may want to add fences & so forth.
My experience has been different I guess. I run a small web-based business serving around 50,000 visitors a day. We don't do anything particularly bandwidth-intensive, but we spend less than $500/month on our server and bandwidth.

This guy's traffic would be considerably lower than ours I would think. Most of his resources are going to be going to the scanning effort. But that can run at a continuous rate around the clock, which is the most efficient way to utilize resources. And it doesn't need to be done completely quickly: it looks like he'd be fine completing a full scan in under a month. That shouldn't require particularly high-powered hardware.

So, I can't imagine this guy could possibly be spending more then $100k/month on hosting. Honestly I would be surprised if it was more than $10k. I was just trying to clear up what I saw as a misconception.
a) Probably not -- I'm a Chrome user on desktop, and uBlock works sufficiently for me.

b) That's a good feature idea! Thanks.
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Much appreciated ta, will give it a look.
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Is it really needed? As developers our lives would be so much simpler if there were no IE. :(

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This totally reminds me of Family BASIC. It had a music editor and level editor, and I had a fond memory of playing (i.e. programming) it at a friends house. The biggest problem: its memory storage was only 2Kbytes. A program had to fit in basically one screen. Also when you use the music editor, you had to give up the memory for programs. I kept saying "Phah! Mai-con (abbrev. of "Microcomputer") is so much better!" just like I do today.
Like any research project I think it's no surprise that they consume money instead of making any, at least in the short/medium term.

The real news would have been that they have made money instead of burning it.
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Intercepting system calls seems like the easiest way (I expect most of these failures are in I/O). Use LD_PRELOAD to easily hook the libc wrappers, for (almost) anything C-based.

Deeper simulation is possible, but this should get you the low-hanging fruit.
If companies are going to spam me I'd rather they did use MailChimp. At least they handle unsubscribes properly and seem to actually honour them.
The lexaloffle forums? I don't see much bitterness there?
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Hey does anyone know how this compares, or works with greensock?
I've been following this since it appeared on HN as fwd, and would actually quite like to use it in an upcoming project. How far off is the python client?
That's pretty devastating to anybody who gave up their data to support things they enjoy. I would really like to see services getting hit with massive fines so they actually "take security very seriously" before they get owned. It's far too late to care about it now, there's a lot of compromising data in that leak.
There are competitors producing U2F keys, I see one for £4.99 / €5.99 on Amazon.(co.uk|de|fr).
Compared to the average high-rise I find these absolutely stunning.
Maybe a dumb question: who exactly is locking your desktop supposed to protect against? Do some offices have untrusted people running around with access to workstations?

I can see the necessity of locking when you go home, so the maintenance staff does not have access, but presumably this happened during the day.
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The particular thing I find shady is their reasoning for it, that they don't want to sell devices that won't work with Prime Video. That's all very well, but the reason they don't work is because Amazon haven't put the effort in to make it work - there's nothing preventing them from adding Chromecast support, and I doubt Apple would reject support for Apple TV.
Now if they would implement the HTML5 file drag & drop api like literally every other modern browser then may be people would actually use Edge.
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