skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, first you have to make your site work. Your site says that I'm not registered to vote in San Mateo County, California. But San Mateo County's site, "https://www.shapethefuture.org/MyElectionMaterials/default.a..., says that I am.

Also, you collected my email address. That's mandatory before you do the registration check. Why? I don't want to be "onboarded", and if I was, I want to be "offboarded". I just wrote to "info@vote.com" about that.

From your terms:

We may use Personal Information:

To send you informational communications that we believe may be of interest to you.

To send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.

...

We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services.

So this is really about building a mailing list you can spam, while tracking users to collect their behavior patterns.

FAIL
Why would a MW faq address criticisms of the Copenhagen interpretation?
Any reason why you couldn't instead have an optional drop-in Shim that allows developers to use the current/modern HTML5 Notifications API syntax, where the shim simply adds supports to older/other browsers? I hate introducing additional APIs if it's not necessary. In the future when the browsers you care about support the Notifications API it's easiest to simply remove the shim.
Office Code Pro Light has been pretty great:
https://github.com/nathco/Office-Code-Pro
I've found that apple music is extremely reliable, performant, and has a seemingly complete selection of all the music I'd ever want to listen to.
Yeh, I know, the idea that mathematics could in any way model reality is garbage.
1. Back4app.com : It was the earliest Parse Hosting adopter. Service is smooth and the migration is easy. The support was really nice, especially because I could directly chat with you guys. The dashboard (the Back4App dashboard, not the Parse Dashboard) was missing some elements, and was not very intuitive. I think I had sent you my comments before.

2. OurSky: They had no free tier or even free trial option. And their migration is REALLY expensive.

3. NodeChef: This is a really nice service. The best thing about it, is that you get an actual machine pre-populated with all Parse stuff. So, you can monitor your machine, upgrade it, … You could consider it, basically, as if you’re having a DigitalOcean one-click-app bundled in a service. I don’t recall disliking anything about NodeChef to be honest. They also have a nice way of uploading cloud code. They have no free tier, though.

3. ParseGround: They look quite decent, but they didn’t launch yet.

4. RunParse and NimbleParse: look decent, but I didn’t try them out, yet.
1. Employing twenty people and making a profit.

2. Per app server we paid less than the cost of a macbook pro. Between 0.001 and 0.0015 USD in hardware costs per thousand ad views, which makes it irrelevant to the company bottom line.

3. Europe, global-ish market.
"Useful" is "creates consumer surplus", best I can tell. I don't know as well that hedge fund managers do that nearly as much as a guy selling produce on the side of the road.

It depends on what you mean by "earned".
What problems would be well solved by Reason/OCaml?
I've never used cobol, but I'm pretty sure doing so would fail. "node-exec-path.cbl" is for this, you can give it a path to a script to run. The example uses it as

CALL 'EXEC_NODEJS_FILE' USING "example/server.js".

Alternatively, you can escape double quotations to \" and they'll work with node -e (I'm pretty sure it's not doing this automatically though).

I think I found another bug too, my only experience with cobol is the 10 minutes spent trying to understand this, so maybe someone can explain? Since in EXEC_NODEJS, NODEJS_CODE is defined as "NODEJS_CODE PIC A(100)", doesn't that limit it to 100 alphabetic characters, so even the example of "console.log('Hello World!')" would not work because of the period, parentheses, and exclamation mark?
I was really hoping the article would provide at least some semblance of an answer to the posed question.

Instead it postulated the already known givens.
I moved away from Apple because of their awful software.. their Podcast app was probably the worst one. Granted, I was stuck on iOS 7 because I had an iPhone 4, so maybe they stopped supporting it, but it was basically unusable.
You know, that's the problem with programs that have millions of features. You can do lots of things with them, shame their users would never know it.
There is some small value in reviewing and voting on content, and I have a feeling that as long as that content is made for other humans, AI will at best be additive to the reviewing and voting by other people. if we see an increase of content produced, we'll need an increase consumed content to make it worthwhile.
No by not voting you are implicitly giving them half a vote each. You don't get to opt out of the decision of who wins by not voting.
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The pipe operator's still there.
I guess I've been mistaken in my understanding of the whole process. I was under the impression that all the controls are in place specifically to restrict the juror's natural inclination to infer, because humans really suck at logical inference (and not just because of bias). I'd always assumed that an an innovation in natural language processing and combination with formal logic would be welcome in the court room, but it doesn't sound like that would be the case if empiricism is preferred to rationality.
For better or worse, economic "usefulness" is directly tied to you having food in your belly. We can talk all we want about how "primitive elitist Malthusian" it is, but it doesn't change the fact that economically useless people go hungry, and we're all about to become economically useless. Fully automated economy can run fine without us.
> and there really isn't much of a difference except for the curated lists.

I recently switched to Play Music, because they seem to be much friendlier to my battery life than Spotify. I also prefer their algorithmic discovery features to Spotify's primarily human-curated approach (which inherently favours what's mainstream over what I like).
The problem with a Hosted solution - from my perspective - is, that you don’t have complete control over your app, still. And since Parse shutdown, I guess a lot of people have that fear of other services shutting down and being vendor-locked in again. So, I would want to know where my data is, where my files are. I would like to have the option to export my data (the same way it is possible on Parse), and I would like to be able to see, browse, or download my files.
The advantages with a trusted hosted solution are many of course. Always being up-to-date, hassle-free, no maintenance, … all that.
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Related, here's Andrew Kim's reimagining of the US ballot: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/america-elect
It hijacked my back button in Firefox for Android and took me to their home page. I had to press back two times in rapid succession to come back here.
In the limit you get one shareholder who owns the entire planet, a compliant AI consort, self-replicating production machines that are the AI's hands and eyes - and everyone else is disposable.

And probably dead. Except for some tiny proportion of slaves who are entertaining and/or useful.

The one shareholder will be the most aggressive, narcissistic and psychopathic son of a bitch, because those are the qualities competition selects for.

I thought this election cycle was bad. It's almost reassuring that much worse horrors are possible.
You mean 'un-reasonably' similar ?
Facebook has many projects that are already written in OCaml, and Reason provides a path forward for seamlessly, and incrementally moving projects over to the new syntax/style.

Feel free to take a look at some Reason in the wild, used inside of the Infer project at Facebook:

https://github.com/facebook/infer/tree/master/infer/src/IR

Apart from that, although syntax is the "user interface" to a language, and user interfaces are very important, there really is so much to a language beyond the syntax. I see Reason's syntax as a way to make the really good parts of OCaml exposed to a wider audience, while making existing OCaml developers more productive in their editors.

Some things you might appreciate about OCaml's core language (which Reason provides a new interface to):

- World class pattern matching.

- Excellent type inference.

- Bare metal compilation without a VM, but alternatively the ability to compile into JS.

- Great predictable performance, even without a ton of performance optimizations (because the runtime is so simple), but take a look at 4.03 which includes a new F-lambda optimization pass. Even without F-lambda the perf is competitive with other systems languages, and F-lambda buys you another good 10-30% reduction in CPU or so.

- Multicore support is progressing. Here's a PR from today to add multicore support to the native backend (https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-multicore/pull/47)
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Its funny, a couple of months ago I wanted to programmatically generate videos from any body of text and have people guess as to what story it was telling so using nltk/some statistical threasholding/ and some random vine api/endpoint I was able to whip up[0] something to play around with my friends. It was pretty cool to see how accurate (or not) it was, but mostly amusing since I haven't seen anything like that in the wild. I had in mind that maybe it could be useful for screen writers to generate prototypes to test out quickly, but moved on with other stuff.

I also agree with the blending, reality thus far seems to be one big mixing matrix of mass energy, and our classification of what is AI vs what is human seems pretty moot in comparison.

[0]: http://infinite-dusk-4495.herokuapp.com/stories/1-1427256350...
> If that were true, why wouldn't the government try to push mandatory voting laws when it had leadership from the Democrat party?

Because the Democratic Party prefers to expand voting by expanding access (making it easier to register, and easier to vote by expanding times, methods, etc.) rather than by personal mandates and threats of punishment.
Meet the women trying to rid Pakistan and the world of polio
I forget which interview I was listening to about doing LSD research but I remember the gist of the quote: "We tried doing double-blind studies, but 15 minutes into the experiment we realized it was pointless. The people who were given LSD... they knew they'd been given the real stuff, the scientists knew very obviously who'd been given the real stuff... There's no way to give someone LSD and not have everyone in the room know what's going on."
Can anyone explain why everyone should vote?
This is entangled, so both. And "serve" has connotations of power, which isn't necessary.
There's a history screen. Tap on the player (if it's minimized to the bottom) To the right of the Fast Forward icon, there's a list icon, that opens the history.
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I have no metrics but Android (Linux) and Chromebooks (Linux) would heavily skew the graph. If you ignore mobile you would probably see something similar.
It may not be intentional, but it is implied by the widely unbalanced attention given to the presidential election.
Luckily, almost all of the H*R stuff has gotten ported to youtube content. It's a little sad to not find the random easter eggs anymore, but the stuff is still there for your eeeemail pleasure. (preeeow paper noise)

https://www.youtube.com/user/homestarrunnerdotcom
Check out the Twilight Zone episode "The Old Man in the Cave" for one example.
The way I explain variance is with a "bakers and chefs" example. Chefs turn ingredients into food and bakers turn dough into bread. Since dough is an ingredient and bread is a food, you may think all bakers are chefs. But this isn't true, because a chef should be able to handle any ingredient, and a baker may not necessarily know what to do with broccoli.
How so? C99+ support/conformance is a compiler feature. That feature breaks/conflicts with some aspects of C90 support, an existing, older feature. So you need a feature flag. Inside comiler there are various places where you have the equivalent of "if C90 do this, else do that".
I strongly disagree. He made the project on a Raspberry Pi 2 and mentioned how this affected his design in several ways:

* he used Raspbian Jessie (almost but not quite Debian Jessie) and followed instructions for setting up the necessary packages on that distribution

* he tweaked his code to perform adequately on the Pi2 and described the performance limits on that hardware

* his code uses the Raspberry Pi camera library

* he used the Pi camera's field of view in his distance calculations

It's true that you could adapt it to different hardware, a different operating system, a different distance, or a different purpose. Even if you're doing so, it's still useful to have a concrete example to work from. (For example, knowing that the Pi2's performance is marginal for what he's trying to do may help you set expectations for performance of your hardware in your situation.) Without including the specifics you object to, the article would be short, abstract, and basically useless.
It should be the latter, but what mostly happens is the former.

Whenever you go to work to earn money for your bread; whenever you adjust your price to equalize supply and demand; whenever you change a product to make it more profitable - you're serving the economy. Single humans and single companies (hell, even most countries) are too weak to dictate how the market works.
Various meanings of jiffy
But will they Carlie Fiorina you on the ink?
History says yes.
I would agree with that actually, Spotify is great if you already know what what you want to hear. Pandora is great if you want to find new music.

I can't think of anything that Apple Music is great for, which is not very Apple-like.
No demo?
After lots of complaints of working for less-than-competitive salary at SpaceX from people who have worked there, here's another one.
According to the sidebar in the Wikipedia article on voter turnout[1], increasing education leads to increasing likelihood to vote.

38% - No high school
43% - Some high school
57% - High school graduate
66% - Some college
79% - College grad
84% - Post-graduate

Though, possibly, being educated isn't the same thing as being informed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout#Socio-economic_f...
Despite starting by talking about "college tuition" in general, this article looks at public colleges only. It doesn't even try to explain the tuition increases at private colleges, which if anything have been larger.
Yes, I do believe in constitutional rights for everyone. If I have led you to believe otherwise, please tell me which constitutional rights I am implying should be withheld from which group of people. If it's freedom of speech for paedophiles, then I believe the Supreme Court has set clear precedent that the ban on child pornography is an allowable restriction on speech, correct me if I'm wrong.
Obligatory: I'm dealing with a package so old that lts-1.0 has a Base too recent for what I'm dealing with. But it's research code whose recent versions have gone in a totally different direction from what I need right now, so I have to cope.
This is the new low of search engine unfriendly :-(
Why don't we offer the masses an opportunity to create a new world? Humans are becoming useless at roughly the same time, the cost of space travel is reaching a cost some 10 - 20% of the traditional cost.

The problem is that we value human life and would never subject people to the dangers of space even if they willingly accept the risk. Life is too valuable!

But what happens when a human life is worth nothing? What happens when a human's contribution to humanity is net negative and every person is, by default, a waste of resources? What happens when a person is cheaper than a machine for some tasks?

It wasn't too long ago that people threw themselves to the ocean in the hope of establishing a better life somewhere unknown. People died, but no one found the cost too high to bear. Life wasn't too valuable then.

We have an opportunity here, but we have to devalue life to take advantage of it. And btw, I don't delude myself. I am sure that my children or grandchildren, no matter how successful I may come to be, will be part of that generation, Generation Zero, the one without value. But I hope they have a purpose, at least.
I've been syncing basically the same profile for 6 years now. FF lacked that at the beginning.

Firefox Sync (formerly "Weave") has actually existed since 2007, it just was delivered as an extension instead of being built-in.
Not a fan of apple music, mainly because I find my chord with Spotify earlier. But pinning the unpopularity (or rather low popularity) of the app to Apple "not" being an internet company or being a hardware-first company is probably near sighted.
Which app has a universal "reliability and likable UX design"? To each its own! I feel a lot of "new" users might be (and am pretty sure are) finding their good vibes with apple too.
After being done with the Hosted solutions I tried setting up my own Parse Server on DigitalOcean. Which was quite the hassle. It took me a day and a half (I’m not a system engineer, so I’m not really familiar with the server setup, and I was merely following the tutorials from DigitalOcean.)
Is it really a "bridge" when all you do is shell-out to a Node interpreter? You can’t even call a function and get its return value.
To translate the article, "the tech [..] still isn't ready" means management thought it would be cool to build memristors but they have no clue how. Some engineers will be fired. They came up with a new idea, the Machine instead. They will probably get a bonus.

Surprisingly, promises to invent never seem to materialize. See thegrid.io.
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It's not exactly 100%; there are dozens of dead people who don't vote.
> which have insane margins and are a "status symbol" that doesn't relate to quality at all...much like Apple itself.

Except Apple stuff is generally quality. My macbook pro is still the best laptop I have ever used 3 years later.
If they were going to buy just a streaming service they should have bought Rdio. But–and this was kind of the focus of the article–Apple has an internal bias towards hardware. They saw a music-y hardware play with a huge markup and a ton of brand capital and went for it.
Procs and Lambdas: Closures in Ruby
off-topic, but is there a difference between the how many cents you use in this idiom?
Compulsory voting's advantage is giving people an excuse to vote.

If you are legally obligated to show up at the voting booth, even if you elect to spoil your ballot at that point, your employer can't fire you for taking off work to do so.
A YSlow Alternative for Making Web Pages Faster
Ada. I personally lean more and more toward functional languages these days, but despite that, I'm incredibly impressed with modern Ada. Particularly the Spark subset of Ada, which is perhaps the best-thought out, more coherent, most secure language around for general programming. It's the epitome of a well-engineered project, with excellent tooling, and formal verification options to boot. If I had to build something safety critical, I wouldn't hesitate to choose Ada.

And it looks like some folks have already been using Ada on the ESP8266, here are instructions: https://github.com/RREE/esp8266-ada/wiki/Steps-for-building-...
Why would one wait in line to drop something into a mailbox?
> The people who guided that transition (Netflix's) could offer their insights

I was there for the transition. IT wasn't all that much of a transition. Netflix was always a company that was digital and used data to make decisions. We just switch from delivering disks to bits and then had a whole lot more data to work with.

Apple would need a DNA change -- they treat their services as lead gen for hardware sales, as the article mentions.

There is no secret, other than they would need to treat their internet services as a first class citizen along with their hardware group, instead of as something to make their hardware worth more. But that would mean acknowledging that there are other hardware platforms out there.

One of the main reason Netflix is currently beating a lot of the other players is because they work on so many different kinds of hardware from many competing companies.

If Apple bought Netflix (as this article suggests), it would kill Netflix unless they let them keep making a 1st class Android app. And that is what Apple has to do if they want their internet services to be taken seriously -- they have to start acting like Apple hardware isn't the only hardware out there, and also that maybe people aren't only using Apple apps on their iPhones.
Ask HN: Gather proof of MITM on college wifi
My college requires installing certificate profile for accessing wifi in some circumstances.
HTTPS sites and apps that use cert pinning (banking stuff) reject the network without the cert; however, G Maps and HTTP sites work fine w/o using cert. I never installed anything, but a guy in IT who did use it confirmed that even with the cert, his banking app rejects the network (due to cert pinning). So, it sounds like the college is doing decryption of everyone's traffic, but I need advice on how to prove or dig deeper.

The campus website downplays the change as if it's related to piracy and stuff, but staff told me it had to do with FBI compliance and subpoenas. I guess the college has enough people using network to be considered an ISP by the gov. And the cert is supposedly only for authorizing students to the network so we don't need to enter passwords anymore. But if it's only for network auth, why does it break cert pinning? Or is that just a consequence of network auth, where everything breaks? That seems unlikely, but I'm fairly clueless here. Anyway, what the heck should I do? I'm somewhat familiar with Wireshark and the Charles proxy but haven't grasped using Fiddler very well. Thanks for any tips.
The problem is, its extremely rare that all of the elections taking place that day are like that.
What is "synchronous distributed design"? Where all nodes have to respond and the entire system blocks until they do?
It takes an awful lot of data to fully capture the instantaneous state of a superscalar processor, too. Instruction scheduling, register renaming, cache lookups, branch prediction, speculative execution, and so on.
Serious question - why not just open it up to third party developers? Just provide a sanctioned API to play (& save offline) tracks, and then let independent apps compete to come up with the best interface, tailored to individual tastes, as long as the end user has an Apple Music subscription.
plus 1 to ballotpedia. also +1 to the need for an easy to read calendar. honestly, if someone builds something we can use, we'll put it up at vote.org and promote the heck out of it.
So, I just mean that I find the mental imagery humorous when someone mentions a "placebo" for magic mushrooms.
Readers would also be interested in this excellent Raft consensus algorithm visualization : http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

As well as : "Ice cream & distributed systems" : https://brooker.co.za/blog/2014/10/25/ice-cream.html
That shouldn't be an issue, why aren't you using tmux/screen in the first place? It's what most people use to persist sessions across logins (and much more, like terminal multiplexing). I personally use Byobu with the tmux backend on all my servers.

If you don't want to use extra software, a simple cron job running every minute would suffice.