skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article doesn't mention 2 and 3, but just as with 1 the module loader spec that is not yet implemented would also happen to help address 2 and 3 by providing plugin mechanisms to support name mappings like automatic file extensions and mapping canonical module names like 'lodash' to file paths.
And in the last 25 years we've had Iraq (twice!) and Afghanistan, in addition to smaller incidents all accruing to more than a million casualties[1].

Past glories do not allow for an infinite amount of goodwill.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terror#Casualties
That's absolutely fascinating, thank you. I need to finally suck it up and go read Discipline and Punish.

As much as I'm not on board with "confession through torture", I wonder if non-boolean guilt could help sort out some of the dumber quirks of our legal system. As is we just have "innocent" and "guilty" (which is either 51% chance of guilt in civil cases, or 'beyond reasonable doubt' in criminal ones).

But we're clearly fumbling around for new values. The Supreme Court decision about retrials (that "probably would have been found innocent at original trial" is not enough to justify a retrial) clearly makes more sense in terms of real-valued guilt - we can then set some actual standard for retrial, which is different from the standard for conviction. Perhaps you get convicted at 90% guilty in criminal cases, but don't get to open a retrial unless your estimate drops to 70% guilty.

Now I'm fascinated. What would real-valued guilt look like in a modern system?
You are right that the real world is always more complicated. However, I think the idea holds. If another dev needs to use the flag in another area of code, the flag cleanup branch should be maintained with this change.

The point is not to make flag cleanup automatic. It is to front-load the work of cleaning it up when the complexities involved are fresh in your mind. That way, when it comes time to clean it up, it is much easier to be more confident that you found all of the edge cases.
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Online voting (the kind you could do in the comfort of your own home) suffers from manipulation in the more traditional form: I sit at your house with a baseball bat and make sure you vote for my candidate of choice. Voting at a voting booth prevents that.

I'm generally in favor of overhauling the voting system with technology (especially open source technology that can be publicly validated), but I think there are still benefits to having people vote in a supervised public space making sure people can vote anonymously and safely
I have read that LSD can induce your brain into learning states similar to that of a baby, where new connections (and disconnections?) are able to be formed effortlessly. Given your experience, I wish there were more research being done. It could be another tool to help people overcome trauma or personality disorders.
Hey Debra,

have you thought of open sourcing the voting backend so that cryptography and security experts can help to make sure that the votes are fair?

Also technology is good enough to be able to prove cryptographically the number of voters and to prove that a signature was taken to account. There are many ways to do this, but a professional cryptographer is the best to help in designing a system like this, not me.
> Also that in response to someone claiming it was harmful that your response, in context, suggested that coffee was more harmful?

He didn't say "more harmful", he said "more carcinogenic". That is a very specific form of harm.
Weird. Their status page for me says everything is fine, but their website can't be found. Email isn't working from my location either for me or others I've reached out to. We're in San Jose, CA.
The government takes steps to encourage many of the things you've listed.
Does seem rather obvious when you see it like that.

Were any other berries gathered thusly? If not, I'm not sure why they were so quick to disregard.

It also seems highly compatible with them being wild originally, and still being called strawberries. You probably wouldn't get them like that on a farm.
You don't have to like it, but you do have to accept it, or accept that your users will have an inferior user experience, ultimately degrading to no user experience when flash is finally switched off.

It sounds harsh, but it's a reality. The history of IT is littered with the corpses (and zombies) of dead tech, and Flash is fast on it's way there.
"The DAO" in this instance sounds like it'd be a great target for a fuzzer. ;)
Good idea! We forgot to push a RSS feed. Here it is: http://horizon.io/feed.xml
> Monsanto has taken California to court to prevent such warnings on Roundup.

Source for this?
A camera flash also gets the message across.
This book should be required reading. One of the best experiences I've ever had with fiction was reading this in high school. It's a massive read, I think I got through it in like 8 days over Christmas holiday.
Group A: Group B isn't informed. If they were, they would vote for Group A.

Group B: Group A isn't informed. If they were, they would vote for Group B.
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Yes, but you also have loads of Eurotunnel (car and truck carrying trains) and Southeastern High Speed (non-international) trains on those tracks.

Add the capacity of those in.

Say 3x Eurostar, 5x southeastern hsr and 4x eurotunnel.

The new e320 trains have 900 passenger capacity (could be more with less first class, so let's call it 1000). With 12x departures per hour that's 12,000, and there would be more spare capacity left over because there wouldn't be local and express trains mixed together which kills capacity.

I think you could easily do 15k p/h on Eurostar + related infrastructure. Maybe more if you used TGV Duplex double decker trains.
> Sometimes you have to be crass to put a spotlight on bullshit.

The issue isn't being crass in the sense of profane, but of calling names and using uncivil rhetoric in arguments. You can't do that here. This holds regardless of how right one is, or believes one is, or how wrong someone else is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Your comment history unfortunately includes a great deal of incivility, though not usually as egregious as in this thread. Please edit all that kind of thing out when commenting here. If you want, you can set the 'delay' property in your profile to give yourself up to 10 minutes to edit your comments before they appear to other users. (That's what I do.)
Chrome on Android does support push notifications from the browser. Facebook makes use of this and you can actually get push notifications from Facebook without using their app. Facebook requests in the Chrome browser to use notifications and then you can receive them without even having the browser app open.
Indeed. If homelessness would be caused by lazyness, encouraged by free money, nobody in europe would work anymore... yet things are not remotely like that. If you get in trouble, you are cought and helped back on your feet (a favor usually fully repaid in taxes). The few who have mental issues get into mental institutions, not under bridges or in jail. And the few who have enough issues to be unable or willing to get/keep a job and house, even with help, but are not troubled enough to be forcible taken in an institution are the only ones on the street. And lo amd behold, it neither results in massive taxes nor everybody stopping with working.
Odd that the phone records were needed. If I thought the victim was telling the truth about beimg abused then the records wouldn't matter and if I had reason to doubt them then I don't see matching phone records satisfying the doubt.
Why would it require HTTPS? This is a javascript library that allows you to hook into a native browser function (showing desktop notifications). There are no web services involved.
It will be interesting to see how the methods to increase voter turnout will affect who comes out and what their voting patterns will be due to anchoring/recency/etc. It's possible that this demographic may be more apathetic at the moment and thus more impressionable. On the other hand, we could have segments that are politically motivated but do not have the reasonable means due to socioeconomic circumstances such as not being able to miss time from work, family, etc.
Yeah well Paul Graham is also losing touch. A massive policeforce doesn't scale.
How is this not more secure? This actually has a chance at being an accurate vote count while we know that the current system can never be accurate.
If it's in a database, then people without access to your phone can still identify you.
Vote by mail suffers from the baseball bat problem, yet it's not uncommon in the US.
I get where you are coming from. I think the sanctity of thought needs to be maintained so you can examine new evidence with minimal bias.

However, as something to consider. There is a very long history of things people assume without evidence being wrong. Abstractly, unsupported ideas are random in nature and the number of true ideas are vastly outnumbered by the number of wrong ideas. So, IMO the default assumption for unsupported ideas should be they are false.

Anyway, nice chatting with you.
Those projects are related, but definitely different. The first is about email metadata. The second is about re-identifying cellphone location data. This paper is about telephone call and text metadata, which is what the NSA collects.
Yes, this clarification is accurate. I was thinking of 'canary launch'-style releases, where you release the new thing to a small group, then a larger group, etc, until everyone is getting it, and you don't need the flag any more.
Kubernetes has a "PetSet" proposal that looks like it has some overlap with Supergiant.

See https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/260
For the details, but the gist (as I understand it) is to support applications that depend on state and ordinal identification of nodes. So for example, a PetSet will keep a master database node and it's persistent data together.
Here in the HGST EMEA lab, you will often find an engineer listening to a drive spin up with an induction pick-up and amplifier, muttering something like "Yep, this one's running firmware XYZ", or "Hmm, sounds like this one has the older, unmodified ramp".
Nothing is dystopian about the idea, it's the execution that will be the important part. What information are you imagining these contacts will display?
I can hardly see any country-specific aspect in this problem. Unless you've eaten enough media content about that evil Russia though :)
In many places this is (or used to be) part of a high school diploma. My elementary school had assemblies where firefighters would come talk to us about fire safety. My middle school had a Home Economics class where they talked about grease fires and using burners correctly.
No, it's not. It's built into every non-Windows OS. You don't even have to create a document to use it.
That doesn't explain Washington State, where the Democrats didn't use their state-provided primary at all (all of their primary delegates were allocated by a caucus you had to attend) and the Republicans did (though only one candidate is running now, so it doesn't really matter).

The Democrats made you physically get up on a Saturday and go, unless you had a valid excuse. Elections in Washington are by mail, so to vote in the Republican primary, you only had to walk to your mailbox.
> best candidate

Erm, how do you define best? (I know how _I_ define it, but not anyone else.)

More importantly, what sorts of people are simultaneously motivated to vote and NOT good at picking "the best" (translation: my preferred) candidate? PLENTY.
We should consult with the assistant vice coordinator of human resources assistance.
Musk plan:

1. Announce Hyperloop to the world

2. Let someone else build it with tubes

3. Go to Mars

4. Use everything people have built - and went bankrupt - in the thin atmosphere on Mars with success without expensive tubes.

Now the SpaceX plans, the Mars plans and Hyperloop come together.
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It's definitely an "it depends". I'm in a Purple state (Missouri, about half Democrats and half Republicans, sort of trending Red, but with plenty of independent spirit and all that), and being about to buy a home made in 1910 in my home town, I looked up the city's code. I can do wiring entirely by myself, IF I submit a plan, and get the wiring inspected, just like is required for professional electricians.

Which is exactly what I will do, because though I've been doing wiring of various sorts at a smaller scale since the '70s, I very much want someone double checking my plans and work. And this makes sense in many ways, e.g. there's about a foot separating my and my neighbor's garages, and while more between our houses, if mine were to catch fire, the fire department would have to earn their pay to keep it from catching on fire.

And echoing others, yeah, all people, pro and diy types, most certainly cannot be entirely trusted to do it right.
Can he make my car get 10X the mileage first? Or my wireless have 10X the range? Argumentum ad Musk doesn't seem like a particularly powerful way to make a point.
You're right. I was actually just about to edit my post to comment on the fact that absentee ballots still suffer that problem, so perhaps my thoughts here are invalid.
>Most of the examples you gave are historical.

Historical doesn't mean "belonging to lore" or "ain't gonna happen again". It precisely means "this things happen". And I don't consider stuff from 40 and 60 and 80 years ago as "deep history", like it's the Roman times or something and now we're totally different. In some cases those that did or suffered those things are still alive. In others, their direct 1st-gen legacy (sons, proteges, people they mentored etc) still rule.

>I think when you compare the US government to the likes of Russia and China, you'll see that the US is really not "out to get you"

Not sure what this means. With 25% of the world's inmates in only 5% of the world's population, I'd say it's very much out to get a heck of a lot of its citizens. And in prison conditions that compared to places like Germany or Sweden are like third world dungeons. The only way not to see this is to conveniently consider all those people are somehow subhumans, or criminals who "deserve it" (then one has to wonder why in the US 10x more of the population "deserve" such a fate compared to those in the German or the French population).

Or maybe let's talk police shootings? One is much more probable to get shot in the US ('walking while black' et al) than most parts of the world, China and Russia don't even compare.

Or are those not part of the government, and those laws and that climate is not fostered by government policies and political demagogy?
Realistically it's really whether you expect them to do a better job than major states like California and Texas. Nobody is producing a special Rhode Island edition of a textbook.
So. You want prevent, through the use of force and the rule of law, private citizens from taking photographs of people in public places and comparing those photographs with a voluntarily provided corpus?

Enforcing such rules would take nothing short of a totalitarian state.

There was no privacy when we lived in villages, and we will return to that state in the mid-term future. The anonymity of the modern metropolis and the accompanying sensation of privacy in our day-to-day lives is but a temporary aberration in the history of the human experience.

Do not get used to it. It is not long for this world.
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I have yet to meet one that knows the basics of biology.
On a tangent, how long-lived are feature toggles usually?

I have very limited experience, and it points to a wide range from a few days to few months. When I stumble about a 1y+ old flag, I tend to delete it (and the dead code path that it comes with).

What's your experience?
Continues its decline?
I thought that decline what only in a certain metric or ad type
Debra, how would you feel about an Australian-style fine for failure to vote here in the U.S.? I assume Vote.org work primarily on technological ways to promote voting, but will it also deal with social structural or institutional ways to increase voter turnout?
Bigger countries can pressure smaller countries to adopt their invasive legal system, unless it benefits the most powerful people like for example tax havens. I don't think there are so many countries that we can afford natural selection to take place.

Anyway, What is the relation between this app and legislation? As I see it this app is perfectly legal right now, even if I don't like it.
For me Firefox UI feels... well, sluggish. Not sure why.

OTOH I happily use Firefox Android.
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Each potential voter decides if they are informed enough. Or at least interested enough. And the two probably go together.
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How is it partisan? I know plenty of people whom I consider informed on the issues with whom I am in complete disagreement politically.
Java is responsible for 91%* of security attacks. Backblaze's code is native to Mac and PC and doesn't use Java. -- is this real?

Anyway I'm going to be a backblaze customer for $5 a month!
Thanks! I'm now subscribed :)

It would be even awesomer if you could include the articles in the feed so I don't have to leave my cozy RSS reader :)
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Is this really different from what Face.com offered in 2010? They claimed >90% hit-rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face.com

One nice mashup of that Face.com and Facebook APIs was the "AutomaticDJ": the computer will start playing the favorite music of the person in front of the PC, great for parties:

https://github.com/gleitz/automaticdj
In canary launches, you might want to roll a new feature out to 10% of your users, then 20%, etc. Once it is released to 100% of your users, you might want to remove the check, since it is a no-op.

I'm not aware of any authorization libraries that let you grant access to a percentage of your users, but maybe they are out there? It is a strange use case from an 'authorization' standpoint.
I had the same problem, and it was annoying as heck. Try running a multi-process build (Nightly/Aurora/Beta) and see if your experience gets any better.
Firebase does support a REST API that I've used successfully from Rails. So back-end access works pretty well.
Let me know when we go a week without a security breach, and I'll let you know when online voting can be secure.
Do you know of studies or other hard data that tracks _why_ people don't vote?
The article claims it is the difficulty of the process, but I would have guessed the top reason is voter apathy (which isn't really a technology issue).

Here's one thing technology could help with: identify which polling places are facing long delays on Election Day, so additional resources can be allocated to speed them up.
Without being "partisan", I've noticed that areas with lots of college students and minorities tend to have much longer delays than affluent mainly-white areas (I wonder why that is...)
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Unfortunately, someone else can come along and patent a trivial, supposedly non-obvious "next step" invention, and the original inventor would have to pay to license the slightly improved version to remain competitive. With a patent on the main technology, they could probably negotiate a reciprocal deal at the very least.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713289 and marked it off-topic.
While some progress is being made, it worries me that it's taking so long to get this functionality into the release versions. I'm not suggesting it should be rushed out, of course. But the Electrolysis efforts date back to 2009, if not earlier. That's a long time to make users wait!
...or patience works, too. We have been slowly prepping our land by cutting the plants we don't want as soon as they flower. That way, all the non-germinated seeds from prior years are used up, so we don't have a resurgence when we get a good rainfall. And no more seeds fall, as we kill them plants at that sensitive point in their lifecycle when they have expended all their energy, but not yet produced new seeds.

Over 3 years, the weeds are mostly gone, leaving us just with what we have sown, and doing it this way builds plants that naturally "win" vs. weeds, in our particular soil and microclimate.
Massive youth unemployment in Europe tells a different story. We're talking about a massive lost generation.
Nope, but that doesn't matter - as enforcement is the concern, and there prior art shines. If the motive is purely defensive (and I don't include the menacing of a portfolio in that category), then it is the ideal move to make - as bad actors waste more energy filing poorly researched and easily refuted patents.
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Presumably grandparent post was paranoid that http websites have some lower status in terms of being able to send notifications. Not a likely scenario, but not an entirely unreasonable question.
Django is probably pretty bad for this. The ORM is easy to use for easy stuff, but trying to write efficient queries with it takes a fir bit of practice.
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Hi Debra,

Why do you want to increase turnout? Have you read some of the work on voter ignorance, which shows that voters have very little political knowledge, and are deeply influenced by various biases? This work shows that non-voters are have even worse prejudices and are less knowledgable than voters; how would getting these people to the polls help?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter
Please stop making the thread worse. Other people already pointed out problems with the article; there was no need to pile on by calling names—which the HN guidelines ask you not to do—let alone take the thread so tediously off topic.

Even assuming you're 100% right, hauling in barrels of garbage and dumping them in the commons is not a good reaction.
To those commenting with some variation of "only informed citizens should vote," pause and consider how much overlap there is with your idea of what an "informed" voter is with race/class lines. You may be unwittingly (or wittingly in some cases?) insisting that voters in the US should be, disproportionately, wealthier whites.
Hmm. This is a different kind of feature flag than I've used, to solve a different kind of problem.

If the feature you're writing takes several man years of effort, you can't have a feature branch living for several months; continuously keeping it up to date with the trunk is expensive and easy to procrastinate.

Migrations are expensive and you want to front load them to make turning the feature on less stressful. And you may want to let customers use the feature on a beta basis for a few months before committing to it, and then it may take a year or more before all customers have moved.

For a big feature that cuts across large segments of a big app, I don't think there's an alternative to if statements.

Different apps, different business models, etc.
It's funny, because there's actually criticism in the comments that the problem with that video is it implied Pilot-Wave Theory is true.
Right, with HTTP2 and caching, you'd actually save on bandwidth if you didn't have to deploy a new build whenever an individual file changed.