skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No. I am angry at people for mistreating me to no one's benefit.

I'd say you're angry at the system (and rightfully so!), and taking it out on the ones who are just trying to feed their families. You're quite literally cutting off the nose to spite the face.

And I still maintain that you are yourself just as sadistic and hateful as the system you bemoan, if not more so.
Given that it's a Russian voting system, I'm not sure that this is unintentional.
(Not directed to you) but how pathetic has this nation become. When I became naturalized, I didn't do it for the $. They sold me a an apparently fake bill of goods, asserted that I have certain 'inalienable' rights. To see an entire nation subject themselves to being treated like cattle ... what a sad spectacle.
It appears that that's the intent of using an obscure acronym like that; people can drop it casually in conversation, and then people search for it, and then someone edits the Wikipedia article to crow about how many people are searching for it.
> You can buy a whole state's worth of data for a couple hundred bucks or a few cents a name.

Where is this data sold?
Why the emphasis on government ? I have heard this argument from the private sector as well. And louder.
> > revealing what candidates or parties voters chose

> This did not happen.

The list of fields at http://www.databreaches.net/wp-content/uploads/DataFields.jp... does include 'party', although I suppose that information is only as confidential as the voter registration anyway.

EDIT: The replies indicate that my last sentence was unclear. Contrary to what it seemed to say, it meant that, since the voter registration isn't confidential, neither is the party information (except that sometimes the voter registration is confidential, as discussed in the article and my 'uncle' comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801570 )). Maybe I should have phrased it, equivalently but more clearly, as "that information is as public as the voter registration anyway".

The point of my comment was just that it is not true that "voters' parties weren't revealed", which I took to be part of dfc's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801543 ).
The only difference from the rest of reflective stuff (armbands, pedals, wheel wire wraps) is the ad-hoc nature of the stuff. Me, I'll stick to the traditional reflective strips (plus lights).

The real issue is this: the protective elements are already widely available (to cyclists and pedestrians alike) and cheap - how is this more attractive to the current unlit and dark-clad "ninjas" than existing alternatives? In other words, the product might be useful to people who already do use other safety elements - how is this aimed at the ones who don't?
The process of creating cross links in one's mind that are actually still available when not staring at google.com works far better when in sitting in a library and reading actual books.

I think science (as opposed to hype like "big data") will progress faster again once the Internet goes out of fashion.
Thanks for ruining Christmas, hoverboards
I believe this was a change in the last maybe 10 years. Before the current line-up of S40's and S60's, their cars looked almost offensively boring (to me); and, with ugly faces. With the new S40's and S60's, I think they are downright pleasant to look at.

This may be my perception of that particular coming out of an old generation of looks, and catching up to the current one, though.
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Wonder why it took 1 week to get posted.

Anyway, we've actually just now published packaged builds for Linux distros, available at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Am...
Many of us assume everything is mostly online and so it's our first port of call for any research or knowledge gathering. But I think many people underestimate how much information in books isn't online and just how much useful information is still tied up in those books. Your example of Urbana public library, for example, shows how dangerous it is to wrongly assume that non-fiction books past a certain age must be out-of-date and therefore useless.

Here's a repeat of an anecdote that I've posted before in similar threads: a few years ago I was researching the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. I wanted to find out about his famous housing complex called Unité d'habitation (Housing Unit) first built in Marseille in France. I started my research online looking for floorplans and commentary or critques. I found very little (there is a lot more available online today, but not when I was looking).

Consider that Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the 20th century so this was a surprise. Eventually, I did find what I was looking for by...(yes, you guessed it) going to the library and visiting an architecture exhibition. I ended up scanning some floorplans from a book (and putting them online). From the exhibition, I came across a video of Corbusier talking about the Unité d'habitation - a great find, and I ended up transcribing sections of that interview. None of this information was available on the web.

It's very easy to fall into the belief that the information you find online is likely to be the best or most recent information available on that topic - so the thought of further offline research at a library never crosses your mind. But there is a huge amount of information and knowledge found in books that has never made it online. If you never go to the library, you simply won't realise what you're missing.
At risk of repeating other respondents, you can just go. You can find a tour organiser and simply book onto one of their tours, or you can organise your own through the DPRK state tourism companies. Going with an established tour organiser is by far the easier way to do it. I went with Koryo Tours in 2012 and it couldn't have been easier; filled in the form, emailed my details, paid a deposit and the rest at the start of the tour.

But to reiterate, you can just book on a tour. There's no problem or difficulty doing it.
My dream is to start a company with sufficient traction and revenue that I can demand investors take common stock if they want to invest. Such a situation would be a huge recruiting advantage, and combined with a generous and transparent employee equity plan would enable a much stronger team than traditional arrangements allow for.

The only problem is getting that level of traction is far from easy.
> If all this were generally true of blue light, then a television monitor tuned to an all-blue channel would be just as effective.

If it hits the same frequencies.

The frequency of the light is important here, because our body/eyes pick up on and react differently to, well, different frequencies. Just because we perceive two lights as producing the same color does not mean that we will get the same reaction, physiologically, from both of them.
> Why put "breach" in double-quotes? That's a very serious privacy concern if voters did not want this information to be public.

I think that this is a very important point. It doesn't matter how important it is to you that my information is public; the seriousness of its exposure depends on how important it is to me. (I am using 'you' and 'me' here not to argue with you specifically—in fact I agree with you!—but rather as generic pronouns.)
> Thats like saying you dont know how to fish unless you learn the detailed operation of 10 different types of fishing boats.

No, that’s not like saying that. `man tar` tells you which option to use for each use case; not the detailed algorithm of each compression algorithm.
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The Secretary of State's Office in each state is usually responsible for maintaining and selling copies of this information.
I was thinking something similar.

Light therapy is a common treatment for seasonal affective disorder and depression. Just speculating, but this sounds like a public health version of that, something like adding iodine to salt or fluoride to drinking water.
Forbes' “ad-light” experience: ~4% content, 96% ads
My biggest trouble with cyclists at night, as a driver, has always been the ones that don't have any lights on their bike. Sometimes the reflectors don't even reflect very brightly (or aren't present).

When a bike is all lit up, I have no trouble seeing and reacting appropriately to them.

I'm probably not a typical driver, though.
There are a couple of sporty offerings [1] from their in-house tuning company, Polestar (like AMG for Mercedes, etc.). And the 240 Turbo is still a entry-level rally favorite in Scandinavia. You can easily get 300 bhp, 50/50 weight distribution, manual shift and rear-wheel drive in a '94 model for about $6000, then spend about $1500 prepping it for the entry level rally class. (There is an even cheaper rally class called "Folkrally", where there is a rule to keep the cost down that says at the end of the race, anyone can offer to buy your car for $1700, and you're not allowed to refuse or you lose your rally licence.)

[1] http://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/new-models/s60/s60-polestar
$200k for journalism and media studies was a bad investment. It's a tough message, but you have to invest in education more intelligently than 'throw money at it and hope for the best'.
It goes back a long way too. The ubiquitous three-point seat belt was invented at Volvo. Rather than keep it for themselves as a competitive advantage, they opened the patent so everyone could benefit.
I also enjoy this "trend", but I think it's worth noticing that a small number of prolific posters can create a meaningful shift in the content that makes it to the front page.

E.g. rspivak who posted this submission, has also shared a number of other very interesting language related submissions over the past couple of weeks, many of which I remember seeing on the front page [1].

I take this as a reminder both that (a) individuals on HN can shift the conversation and (b) for that reason, if you think there's something missing in what's visible here, you can fix that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=rspivak
A great game on HN to play with titles with question marks is to guess whether or not someone has mentioned Betteridge's Law yet. Herbig's Law says that within 5 minutes the chance is close to 100%.

And yet, Betteridge's Law does not apply here. Everything is an argument of some sort. It is impossible to completely divorce personal beliefs and biases from anything. The best we can do is recognize this fact and try to come close.
In my home state, your registration is printed in a poll book. It has a line number. As you come in to vote, you sign a log and the poll worker marks that you voted. The way they used to mark that you voted was by writing the sequential sign-in line number you signed in on. So, signature 73 would match up to James Smith.

We then implemented electronic voting machines with voter-verifiable paper tapes that allow to you see your votes and could, if absolutely necessary, be used to do a manual recount using paper records. These tapes were on the same type of paper used for other receipts, but were fed from one reel to another and stored in a locked box on the machine.

During the first election these machines were used, I went with another poll watcher to the precinct where a politician who was so set on how secure and wonderful the machines were and kept my own log - which of the five machines people used as they signed in.

So, at the end, I had my log (line 73 to machine 5, line 74 to machine 1, etc), the nice sequential sign-in sheet that matched easily to the easy-to-read printed poll book, and the paper tapes (required to be open to inspection).

We were able to match votes to people for all but seven of the votes (the last seven, actually, and we had a good idea who matched with which). The politician flipped his shit when I was able to demonstrably prove he voted for someone other than his party's candidate for governor.

The poll procedures were changed the next election cycle. The paper tapes were not allowed to be produced and the poll workers used a tick mark instead of a number in the poll books. The machines remain in use.
I knew of this reasoning previously, hence my using of "good reason", but none the less appreciate the reply. +1'd it as it might be educational for someone else, especially as you clearly stated the "logic" they are likely applying.
Yeah, I can see it being an essential skill for nutritionists, but I don't think e.g. surgeons need to know how to cook.
Benefit of the doubt is nice, but delivery has been poor to nonexistent.

Microsoft is barely taking back its own declining market of non-phones -- while making a wild bet on augmented reality.

I feel like the media wants to paint a comeback story a la Apple a lot more than one actually exists.
For anyone that was actually interest on the blue light effect: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/12/13/can-blue-co...
worrying != worryingly pernicious

The bill does nothing of substance. That's the problem. It's a waste of resources for the EFF and frankly makes me wonder how they're spending my (and others') money.
You're absolutely correct, but the main benefit of working in a startup, from my personal experience, is you have your hands in the product from end-to-end, and have to wear many hats in the process of getting the product to market, and probably even have discussions and input on both design and business decisions going into the product.

You will probably not get significantly better at process and architecture design in a startup, but you will learn how to get the damn thing to work no matter what, at every stage of the process, instead of being responsible for one little feature here and there and working on tech that is likely 5-10 years old and in maintenance, bug-fixing mode.

I think working in both environments is valuable, as you probably won't see the value of unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and senior mentors in a startup environment, but being able to see the entire lifecycle gives you a perspective that other programmers that stay with big companies aren't as likely to see as well.

Also, I've worked in corporate environments with much worse development practices than startups, as well, mainly companies where software is not their main business. It goes both ways.
I suppose it depends on ones definition of "high payload". How many books to a Hellfire missile? Granted the military drones used for attack missions don't do VTOL, and aren't ready for autonomous take-off and landing (yet). But I believe there's lot of research in the area, and it doesn't seem inconceivable that a company like Amazon might get use from short, purpose-built landing-strips for similarily purpose-built drones.

Speaking of military delivery - I wonder if it might be possible to build one-off "drones-as-packaging" with maybe a parachute for breaking and a quadcopter-like design for final steering that allows for dropping "smart" packages from the sky down to a porch...
It's been forked due to inactivity, the newest release is available from http://www.secretchronicles.de/en/
I run a cycling forum in London and a Volvo dealer recently approached us to advertise this and offer it for free for some cyclists to try.

Whilst we don't do advertising at all, and whilst this isn't for me I thought the free offer may be something people wanted to take up so I asked.

The response was loud and clear: Cyclists see this as victim blaming. As a way to externalise responsibility away from the operator of a multi-tonne vehicle to the operator of a 10kg pedal bicycle.

Of those who replied, most were angry that things have already got to the point whereby even wearing high-vis, helmets and having very capable lights... one of the first lines in any newspaper report on a cyclist being involved in a road traffic incident remains "the cyclist was wearing a helmet and a high-vis jacket". No mention of whether the lights of a vehicle are in working order, or the driver was paying attention and looking for other road users.

In fact, the onus seems to be wholly on the cyclist to be a beacon.

If a cyclist is hit by a vehicle, then the cyclist is presumed to be at fault if an overwhelming amount of evidence cannot be immediately proffered showing how visible the cyclist was.

That was kind of the thing that made me not want to try it either, but others found the words a hell of a lot better than I and there was real anger there.

All that said, Volvo have taken the unique stance of saying that they as a company will take responsibility for incidents where the cause was one of their automatic driving systems. For that they deserve considerable praise, but for this paint... no.

BTW: Dupes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9318144

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9288521

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9288896

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9527506

One of those pointed to this road.cc article where the comments are revealing:
http://road.cc/content/news/147107-paint-yourself-visible-ni...
Riding (cycling) without a helmet is considered dumb only in certain areas of the world. Last time I checked, some countries refused to make it compulsory because evidence was mixed (no references to hand, but the gist of it was that direct impact head damage at cycling speeds was less of a problem than whiplash/concussion, and the helmet only adds weight).
When the Market, Including San Francisco, Built Housing for the Low Income
Indeed. Although I have respect for the highly educated journalists... the industry has been demolished by online blogs.

The popularity contest that is the online blogosphere is more important financially than hard work and legitimate, high-quality journalism that they teach. There's almost no money in that business anymore.
Public opinion changes when mainstream entities (people/organizations) validate something new. Microsoft has been coming out with good stuff for several years now, but that opinion has been restricted to a subset of technophiles. If in 2014 you told someone about tablets and styluses, you'd either get a dumb look or the standard Jobs like ("you're doing in wrong")

So what happened in 2015? Well, Apple validated (copied) Microsoft's work. Today you can tell someone about a tablet stylus or keyboard cover and they'll enthusiastically agree it's good, because did you hear? The iPad has it.
I would dearly love to see a full-blown Modula-3 revival. It's one of these old, moribund languages that I have a huge soft spot for, especially since I'm a Pythonista and large parts of Python were lifted directly from Modula-3.

I also kind of have a thing for innovative languages that never really took off. Not just M3, but I'm also deeply fascinated by Algol 68.
> I think they're well on track for that.

Please tell me you are joking or at the very least you are a paid spokesperson for Volvo. This is a goal that the hammer division of Stanley Tools will never be able to accomplish; and they make a product that does not contain any logic circuits, its just mass at the end of a stick.

ADDENDUM: Nuance Elimination

In addition to the problem of "user error" I do not think that Volvo is going to be the first company that creates a 100% error free product design, operates a production line that never suffers from quality control issues and masters supply chain management to such an extent they never utilize faulty/defective components from third parties. Finally there is also the "Eve and Mallory" problem. Do we really need to have a discussion on HN about the likelihood of unhackable firmware/software?

Never seriously injuring or killing requires absolute perfection in every aspect of design and implementation. In my opinion merely entertaining the possibility of that level of perfection requires a terrifying amount of hubris.
You may be better qualified to judge political correctness than I am, but "economics" seems much closer to what's going on that "science" does. That is, there are probably no controlled experiments, but the value and economic use of ingredients is considered.
Yes, but. They seem to be taking it to a greater extreme or encouraging people to, where they remove even female friendships and social contact from the table.
Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line" is a more in depth take on this topic: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
Yeah, I agree. The only thing this has is being new and "cool." To me, it's just more inconvenient than wearing traditional stuff.

Bright blinking lights are the best way to increase visibility, and many people (in NYC at least) don't even bother with those.
> you have to invest...more intelligently than 'throw money at it and hope for the best'

You do realize you're on a ycombinator website right?
Never cosign a loan. There is one reason that lenders required a co-signer -- they know that the borrower is high risk for defaulting.

If you can't afford or didn't save for college, go to a cheaper school. In-state tuition and fees at most state universities is more than it used to be but still generally under $10K a year. There is no reason to go into six-digit debt for an undergraduate degee.

With very few exceptions, once you get your first job, nobody cares where you got your undergrad degree (if even then).
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All valid points. I think it should be possible, at least for Microsoft DLLs, to specify a flag that you are willing to load only those signed by Microsoft. A malicious version.dll wouldn't probably have a Microsoft signature. The signature verification would be done by the OS and thus would be future-proof. Even a OS-local whitelist for exemptions could work, where an admin could add some unsigned DLL hashes to the list that would still load. None of the downloaded malicious DLL files would pass this test.
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It does not have candidates voted for (how could it?) Just party registration, which is public. All of the data in this database appears to already be public records.
Cool product. Sadly I don't think it would make a huge difference in London, as even the examples shown in their video suggest that the driver saw the cyclist but crossed their path anyway. I find London drivers (and pedestrians) see cyclists ok but are very poor at judging a cyclist's speed and stopping distance. Also a big part of getting around in London is about aggressively claiming space and navigating obstacles, drivers are far more concerned about collisions with other cars and large vehicles and are quite ok with pulling into the path of smaller vehicles and assuming they will stop.
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try buying a whole head of cauliflower and roasting it for 45 minutes at 350F with some olive oil and salt/pepper on it. i just eat it like a steak.
$200k for many majors is a bad investment. There are a handful of careers where that kind of education investment will pay off (technology, medical), but most will not.
It was $129k for the journalism degree. The $189k is the combined figure for both their sons.
The year after Tony Hawk did the 900 and came out with Tony Hawk Pro Skater on the playstation and n64 was a rough Christmas too, I bet.
To the comments that pointed out that JS and MongoDB aren't related, I'd argue they are, if only because the communities have related them.

The "MEAN" stack exists, MongoDB is popular in the JS community, and I feel they both exhibit many of the same hints of a fundamental lack of understanding about tools from a significant number of users.

As I said, there are great JS devs, and I'm sure there are some people using MongoDB for the 'right' things, but I don't think it's the majority.
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