skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would imagine, if Moscow is a city comprised of similar election districts, that election results in that districts will form a continuity.

There would be a few outliers and a massive core of "typical" districts with similar results in them.
We're even bound to get Gauss distribution of results or something similar.

However, for Duma election, there's no continuity. There are two distinct profiles. There are a lot of districts with one kind of results, a lot of districts with different kind of results. As if it was two different cities, possibly in two different countries. Or if election results were rigged in a large subset of districts.

Why would that be?
Correct, but https is often called encryption too, in these contexts
In a JIT for a dynamic language, you generally have to predicate your more aggressive optimizations on some runtime condition, e.g. "this variable is actually an integer", or "this object has the same method layout as other objects did before". These conditions are checked before relying on the optimization, and if they fail, the generated code jumps into a runtime that may decide to use an interpreter, generate deoptimized code, etc.
You might have one that short from time to time, but typical is 20-30 minutes in my experience.
Both CHAdeMO and SAE Combo can do 100kW+. They're installed at lower amps because the only customers plugging in are Leafs and hybrids that don't need that capacity yet, not because the standards don't allow higher power. The supply will come to meet the demand when it actually shows up. A 45kW charger that exists on your route is better than a Supercharger that doesn't, too.
Most meteorologists gather their data from the same place, the National Weather Service. All they do is basically create pretty charts around it and put on a suit.
Try http://äppärät.com . It uses a REAL die. And you can look at it on an iPad.
This guy made a table:

https://twitter.com/vorobyov/status/716731020880568320
The most immediate way would be taking on 12 hrs per week of freelance/consulting iOS work . . . network and make connections. (Try not to use upwork/online sites try to network and charge 1.5 to 2x your 9-5 hourly rate.

(Taking care to work with in the bounds of your 9-5 job/contract, I wouldn't bring it up with your boss/co-workers but make sure you're not breaking rules in case it would every come up). Get an EIN number and work as a 1099 contract dev with clients, LLC if you're bringing in lots of hours over the year.

I'll mention the app store seems like minimal return on investment if any for most iOS devs so I wouldn't expect to make money off that. If you enjoy it just want to roll the dice without any expectations more as a hobby but sounds like you want to bring in revenue.

Beyond that investing 12 hours in building an audience for a product (ebook/training/info products) might be worthwhile.

Give this podcast a listen . . .
http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

Microconf talks
https://vimeo.com/user12790628/videos

Building a product or SaaS app times time/is hard but having recurring revenue down the road is a huge payoff . . .

Congrats to letting your wife pursue her dream.

Good luck.
Neat, but I wish he had explicitly stated that he controlled for kit contamination. It doesn't sound like he did. Perhaps the collectors had bacteria on then when they went up, then the combination of low pressure and UV light made them look weird, and voilà: "alien" microbes. Claiming that you work in a clean room and are careful isn't enough, you have to have negative controls.
Reversal on “Encryption Needs a Side Door”
No invoices against the contract? This is only part of the picture.

It's a time and materials contract which means the contract award is the "ceiling", but you have to perform work billed against it to get paid any of that.

Plus, the second page details several extension options that could increase the ceiling to $1,176,280. Were those options exercised?
> I think any person in the "west" would be delighted to see free elections in Russia.

No, they will be delighted to see the candidate they (westerns) like more - win, they won't care who most people really voted and supported in Russia. Putin won on the recent elections and I did not notice any "delighted west media" after that, even thought as I said in a separate comment - vast majority of the people in Russia actually did support Putin vs other candidates. It's hard to see from the outside, but most people in Russia are actually supporting Putin, I think the reason is that those who were against Putin have a better reach to international media since they speak english and are more socially active thus from the outside it looks like most of the population dislikes Putin, which in reality is not true.
https://www.google.com/#q=http:%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F...
Would you mind elaborating a bit more about the treatment/diagnosis. I believe I am facing something similar, been having swings positive and negative, but it has been become mostly negative now.
The best link with a lot of examples is on the top of previous discussion, by saurik:

http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/resources/imagenet_c...
TERRORIST ATTACK
I did not find these references in the linked BBC story. Where is this quoted from?
Keep in mind that the definition of "disabled veteran" for the purpose of government contracts, while often involving actual disabled veterans, can also be very different, as in the case of Braulio Castillo, who legally obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in disabled-veteran contracts because he once injured his ankle playing football at a military prep school, despite having never served in the military at all.
"Tesla's network outside of California is so sparse as to be useless for most people."

This statement is exaggerated beyond all connection to reality. Yes, there are holes, but coverage outside of California is still quite good for the most part. If you live in or need to travel to Arkansas or West Texas or North Dakota then you're going to have trouble, but the vast majority of the population is covered at this point.

Non-Tesla chargers vastly outnumber Tesla chargers, but the speed just isn't adequate. Most of them are far too slow for long trips. The fast DC chargers that are out there are just barely adequate. You'll top out at maybe 150MPH of charging, while Tesla's can hit 360MPH.
How much is he able to influence the British Virgin Islands? As they seem to be one of the top havens for years.

If he is, and being a leader in the push for reform, what was on his agenda for BVI?
This actually sounds more complicated thank thinking ahead how to define your abstraction in more precise terms. (So that you don't need to perform optimistic optimizations that you might later need to roll back.)
One way it could be made insecure would be if it didn't use a good source of randomness, so the arrow direction could be predicted. A worst case example would be if the app just cycled through a fixed table of "random" choices like "L R L L R L R R", then the attacker could just watch the pattern and position himself in the line appropriately to make sure that his buddy Joe is the one to screen him. repositioning is easy, just dig through your bag and say to the guy behind you "I can't find my passport, you can go in front of me".
Using a spatial metaphor to make self-improvement easier
While a nice human interest piece, the most surprising part (to me) was that Goldman has 9k software engineers! Wow!
BTW, here's Merton's explanation [pdf]: (http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/students/envs_5110/merton_...)
What about non billionaires? These arrangements aren't overly expensive and are very much suitable for perfectly "ordinary" people.
> If robots are actually cheaper then why haven't they being deployed yet?

Easy: because software is hard.
Then why are they focusing on Putin's "associates" who are not even in the government?
Really? Every time I give Ruby another chance (admittedly, not too often), I end up feeling angry. I can stare at five lines of code for several minutes, and have no idea what it will do. Not even Haskell.

I mostly feel the same, but the reality is that Ruby is used by plenty of programmers when they have the choice, even if they use something else at work.

Is garbage collection the main culprit?

The author didn't say it was.
I work a lot with architects in our IT department and I have had that title before. In my view an architect that doesn't keep coding will be outdated within a few years and most of them know that they are not really needed. Coming up with an architecture should be fairly easy for experienced senior developers if allowed to do so. Actually implementing it and adapting the architecture to real-world problems is the hard part.
While this is an interesting idea, restaurants are booming right now. In many cities you also see the proliferation of cheap(ish) tasting/dégustation menus, and higher end food in more casual settings. If the choice is between a 60-70 dollar menu in someone's home vs. 60-70 dollar menu at a restaurant, I think the restaurant wins most of the time.

Then there's the fact that this is basically illegal in much (most?) of the US, Canada, and likely elsewhere. You can't prepare meals for the public without the food being prepared in an inspected and licensed establishment. Just like you can't run a hotel without the proper permits.

Also, as a side note, I was a cook/chef for 10 years (now an older university student), my last gig being a head chef job in a fine dining restaurant. I've toyed with the idea of starting a food-related business. I would personally love to be able to serve people in my home instead of spending $100,000+ (actually more like $500,000) on a small restaurant, or $50,000 on a food truck or other mobile establishment.

But allowing unlicensed establishments to operate opens up a huge can of worms - what happens to businesses who pay thousands of dollars in taxes, who buy liquor licenses often for upwards of $100,000, who are forced to pay exorbitant amounts of money to build a kitchen which follows the various health codes? Will they be compensated? Will the meal-sharers be forced to upgrade their kitchens? Will they be inspected?

We have to decide, as a society, if we want to allow businesses to operate in residential areas. We can't simply encourage people to break the law because it makes some guy with an app money...

Edit - just found a good article about the legality of food sharing/underground dining: https://lawreview.uchicago.edu/page/regulating-underground-s...
Why don't you comment on petra's post then?
> Ideally Airbnb will be good citizens and monitor things like multiple hosts having the same mailing address or telephone number, that is something all businesses should do.

Why should that be suspicious? It's conceivable that someone would run a rental management business with multiple clients that would each list the management company as their mailing address and contact number.

It also doesn't seem like it would do much good, since it's a simple matter to get arbitrarily many different phone numbers or PO box numbers (or PO box equivalents that don't parse as PO boxes if PO boxes aren't allowed).
> This should be titled "A Ruby programmer looks at Rust". There are now a very large number of programmers who have zero experience with anything below the level of a scripting language, and have never had to think about memory allocation. To them, Rust is rather intimidating, and this writer is trying to make it simpler.

C++/C doesn't have ownership concept, it may be similar to references but when starting on rust I had to change mindset and constantly fought compiler.

Article itself is interesting because it explains why there is certain syntax, and not a tutorial how you should code in rust.
> (1) Automated style checker. By adding a pre-commit hook to validate code style in an automated way, the amount of noise in PRs went down dramatically.

Would you mind sharing your precommit hook? We have a simple one that prevents console.log etc., but nothing super fancy.
I'm really not exaggerating. Look at that Supercharger map again. Put a pinpoint on it randomly, and imagine this is where you live. Put another pinpoint 120 miles away, and imagine this is where you have family in the next city over. 99% of the time, there will be no Supercharger anywhere near the line between you and your destination. That's the kind of trip people actually make and have range anxiety about -- visiting the grandparents for Christmas -- not the road trip to the other side of the country where you can plan on driving the wrong way for 70 miles to get onto the nearest Tesla-covered route. It's these trips that the Supercharger network is pretty useless for, because it only exists in this weird east-west-north-south grid with entire states empty in the middle of half the lines it draws. Chargers aren't like cell phone stations; they don't provide "coverage" to some radius, they're single points of utility.
I wanted to make a comment on your "person of the correct ethnicity" remark.

These requirements, sometimes they're mandatory and are called set-asides, sometimes they're not mandatory and are called aspirational targets, or they might have any number of other names. They all serve a worthwhile purpose; they help combat years or decades of preferential treatment by procurement officers to pick people of "the correct ethnicity".

Like, by now it's been pretty well-established that people tend to hire people that look like them, i.e. one of the factors that contributes into the disproportionate representation of various groups in the tech industry we often talk about.

Same thing has been happening in purchasing for a long, long time, and what you end up with is a situation where minority-owned firms will have been largely excluded from government contracting. When this happens for very long, it becomes self-reinforcing and self-perpetuating; there's no institutional knowledge in ethnic community A that passes from one generation to the next about large-scale project bidding or management, and you end up with this sort of disproportionate representation and the ensuing economic effects.

The set-aside or aspirational target is at least a start at countering that. Like everything, it gets abused by the people with the power and the money (which is where you get the minority contractor who acts as a pass-through to give the real work to the majority-owned firm; that minority contractor isn't building any business of their own, certainly nothing they could pass onto their kids or whatever), but it's better than what we had before, which was a system that perpetuated an even more unfair system for a lot of people.
This assumes all inefficiency is accidental, or done out of a lack of knowledge.
Bill Gates AMA – Feb 11, 2013
Why is there a ?lobsters qs on the submitted url? Seems to load fine without:

https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/tsa-randomizer-app-cost-336000...
They have been looking for Kuiper planet X on the cover of Scientic American last year. They ruled out a gas giant planet because it would have been bright enoungh in infra red from the heat of self gravitation to already have been seen.

The kuiper planet x modeling can only constraint to about a quarter of the sky, which is large search.

By Keplers Law a highly elliptical planet x orbit would spend most of its time far out when itbis dimmest and slowest. This planet x could be 40 times further away than pluto where it could a thousand times dimmer and a hundred times slower motion across thevsky than hard to see pluto.

The extinction planet x is even farther and slower.
Show HN: Click-Flasher, a simple FPGA design written in VHDL
No, not for free, but in a voluntary exchange for the benefits of not having to wait in long lines or deal with the cashier.
Retry it. It took a couple of attempts to load for me.
What if the device with the arrow leaks EM radiation which can be used to reconstruct the random seed, thereby allowing an attacker to predict which way the arrow will point after n presses? Then, you can just time your place in the queue to get the result you want, as long as you can discreetely measure the device from a distance.
The X refers to the planet being mysterious / unknown, not the Roman numeral for 10.
Why would autonomous cars be here sooner than Google thinks? Their talk is a fairly slow roll out of selective autonomic-like features in specific contexts. They've said probably 15 years before there's full autonomy in cities. And outside of cities it'll still be a desert.

Full autonomy is very challenging. More standardization among the manufacturers is needed, like the recent braking standard they've announced, but also that includes local governments to stop doing crazy things like different sign shapes, colors, fonts, messages, even vertical vs horizontal traffic lights. There's a lot of work to be done by more than just the car manufacturers.
They seem to be taking over control of the transmitter, not using ambient WiFi data. So they're really a beacon system. There are lots of those; here's MoteTrack, from Harvard.[1] There's a commercial one, Estimote.[2]

The WiFi industry is working on a standard, called the Fine Timing Measurement protocol, which is now part of IEEE 802.11.[3][4] That provides 100ps resolution timestamps in WiFi packets. That takes care of the RF layer, and provides resolution to about 3cm. (Real world accuracy won't be that good.)

As with GPS, you need at least four fixed stations to get a fix, and preferably line of sight to five, so you can compute the error. You might get that in a big room such as a convention center or gym. If you need it in a house, you'd probably need some additional nodes that are mostly for location, not passing data traffic.

There's no technical problem doing this; it just hasn't been valuable enough to be deployed widely yet. It will probably be a free feature in fixed WiFi nodes soon.

[1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~konrad/projects/motetrack/moteT...
[2] http://estimote.com/indoor/
[3] http://www.wi-fi.org/beacon/rolf-de-vegt/never-lost-indoors-...
[4] http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2014/asbt-kbstanto...
On the DAO framework and what it means
I thought I'd miss physical buttons, too, but I don't. I really don't. It's very easy to use the touchscreen in a Tesla. Plus, you do have physical buttons available for climate: they are on the steering wheel (if you decide to chose that option).
It really seems like the best thing a company could do for its share price is conspire with analysts so they have consistently low expectations, and then it can constantly "beat analysts' expectations" which is apparently how most people value companies.
Sure, if you had one giant FSM.
> and data plans approached a level where streaming music wouldn't explode your bill

Don't forget much of the world (I'm in the UK) already has generous enough data plans that many people stream without thinking twice. The US is an outlier in this regard.
Sometimes companies you'll get your first paycheck on the second pay period that you've been there . . . or maybe you get paid a week after the end of the pay period.

I'd reach out to HR again to express your concern and see how it's supposed to work, maybe ask a co-worker hey what are the pay periods and when should I expect my first check.

After that if things don't see proper, reach out to the founder and express your concern on the pay periods/delay of your first one, is this going to be resolved and back on a normal schedule.

Good luck getting back on track.
Large portions of people that live where it snows will only drive a front wheel drive (or all wheel drive) vehicle. My first car was a $400 rear wheel drive beast, so it doesn't bother me - but a lot of people think I'm crazy driving my (rear wheel) Camaro in the winter.
I submitted it to Lobste.rs with that on the end of the URL, and someone must have submitted the URL without stripping that :)
Sourcespace EEG NFB links subjective exp with brain activity while meditating[pdf]
The market for undergraduate textbooks is completely different from that of post-grad level specialist texts. The economics are very different due to the fact that the people making purchase decisions (i.e course directors, etc.) are different from the people who pay (students).
"if we want to allow businesses to operate in residential areas"

Residential area without businesses sounds crazy. I have three bakeries and around ten restaurants within 300m of my current apartment, not counting general stores.

I uses to live where there was a handful stores and nothing else, and moving was one of the best things I ever did.
However, curiously, at least over here (Finland), the old Communist sympathizers seem to still be friends of Russia. Or vice versa: if someone is uncritically repeating Russian propaganda (re Ukraine, Donbass etc) then if he's standing in the election he's most likely with one of fringe communist parties.

It somehow goes beyond just hating America and NATO which are good common enemies. It is weird of course, as some of these people are very wealthy and in a real communist revolution would clearly get a bullet in the back of the head.
A segfault implies a pointer to an unmapped page in memory. An array out of bounds error isn't the same class of error. The former implies that what pointers can point at isn't constrained; instead of pointing at unmapped page, it could point at the inside of some sensitive data structure (think: web response buffer pointing at database credentials). The latter implies that indirections are checked; this is a very different guarantee.
C and C++ have very strong concepts of ownership. Anything you allocate must be deleted exactly once. Any use of an allocated object must be during that object's lifetime, before deletion. Access beyond the end of an allocated object is prohibited. Violate these rules and your program will crash, garble data, or be exploited.

But C and C++ don't provide any language level help to programmers who must make their code obey those rules. Rust does. That's the great advance in Rust. The ownership model is explicit and checked.
The source for HN has changed a few times, the original was here and contains the breakdown quoted above:

https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-...
Could you give rough idea of cost - dev license/prod license?
Their own site is 'Contact Us', & Google is not turning up anything of use either.
> The market for undergraduate textbooks is completely different from that of post-grad level specialist texts. The economics are very different due to the fact that the people making purchase decisions (i.e course directors, etc.) are different from the people who pay (students).

Yes, I am aware of that.
A capitalist is a capitalist, regardless of minority status- they're still agents of exploitation.

EDIT: #yolo
Seriously. 336k is absolutely nothing. Think about how fast that gets used up adding up the numbers of the per hour of those involved, and how many people it is (not just the developer who does it)

You can argue that you don't need that many people, and certainly for a start up that's often true.

But in enterprise software, you actually do need a ton of people because of the expectation.

I'm in the Business and came from start ups. I'd VASTLY prefer to do things in small groups to just get things done.

But even though I want that, no one else does, including the customer. They want all the bells and whistles of a ton of people. It makes no sense at all.

Hell, one of my current projects has about 20 people on a phone call, and 4 that actually understand anything going on. Think about all the money wasted in all of that, and yet... It's the way business "works".
Most people hire lawyers via a referral. What I want to know is, do all these prime ministers and robber barons go to the same crazy parties? I'd love to see the annual client dinner invite list.