skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was anecdotal but I think once you factor in rent it's definitely lower.

Average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment in centre of Toronto is £750. In London it's twice that and probably not in the centre. Plus tenants pay the taxes on property in the UK.

Taxes are also higher in the UK than Canada. Travel cards in Toronto are fixed at £75 a month. In London you pay for your zone which starts at £124.50 going above £300+ for Zone 9. No doubt it's a better network but Toronto's flat rate system is better on your wallet.
Then the only standing ones would be site owners who care enough to make sure they don't allow malware on their visitor from their site. What's the problem?
How odd! But I believe you are right [1], all two dozen Apple keyboards have the option (aka "alt") key, including the "British" one, but not the "English" one... (Who's the imperialist now ;-)) Perhaps the idea is that the average user only needs the option key for non-ascii characters like £, so Americans won't need it.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794
The irony is that neither you, nor any of these people are really done.
Get permament resident status :-)

I don't think UK will exit EU, it sounds like their government is trying to get a better hand in negotiations that's all. UK leaving EU would destroy post-WWII order.

Having that said - it's right of their society to vote whatever they feel is right, permament resident status is the answer.
> and I can securely communicate with people

At best, we have achieved this with major caveats such as:

a) Only if your device is not compromised
b) You trust a CA to verify the identity of the remote host
c) You trust whatever cert/key you see the first time for a given entity

Even in your proposed solution you have replaced one hard problem (voting) with another (key distribution & mgmt) and completely ignored people's desire for elections to have certain other properties (anonymous, uncoerced).
Well, since we are stating what we want in an editor, my most wanted feature is fuzzy autocomplete on everything. Functions, variables, whatever. It must understand the context, so if I am about to call a class function on a class, it should only give suggestions that are in that class. It must be fuzzy, because I want to type whatever letters in a row I want, and if it exists in the name, it should suggest it.

This mostly needs compiler/linter/interpreter support. I want it to just work. It should detect the language I'm using, and just search/download/connect everything up so I have my awesome fuzzy autocomplete.

Why is that not a thing?

There are projects like https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe and other ones for Vim and Emacs, but they are not yet what I want them to be.
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If the author means clojure.spec by "greenfield development" (I don't see what else he could mean)

EDN, Transit, reducers, transducers, clojure.spec

(I'm not saying any of these things are bad or anything, just pointing out that there was a lot of green field development done in the past few releases)
Any help on a board that supports multiple cards and lots of RAM?
Not at all. Flow is reached the moment I tackle a challenge that is just a bit above my skills. Then I learn. Learning something new does not have to be unpleasant. It is not easy to find the adequate challenge at each moment but it's possible and that's why some teachers, courses, books etc are much better than others.
Emacs helm mode: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm .

In Emacs, usually a language support library (like ensime, ycmd or ggtags) just give you a list of things user can choose from.
This list is often passed to a function like completing-read. You choose the implementation for complete-read. Helm is a very good option for fuzzy matching implementation. There are more advanced options like icicles, that let you switch between completion modes (including fuzzy) on the fly.
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> Have you considered that it's blatantly sexist and right?

I buy an average of a hundred items on Amazon a year, among them all my – male – clothes. Your algorithms are just plain shit when a single purchase five years ago is somehow weighed more than the whole rest.
There's currently no commercialized herbicide resistant GMO tomato. There is currently a highly developed practice of selective herbicide application for tomato crops, for example:

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r783700311.html

One of the next likely GMO strategies for tomatoes would be something like the BT crops that produce their own insecticide. So that wouldn't lead to less herbicide, but it might reduce overall application of pesticides.

(The actual first GMO tomato, the Flavr Savr, made changes aimed at extending shelf life. It's not being commercially grown anymore).
Fundamentally you could buy people off. However you'd need to get the people counting, and the officials, and people in different parties, and not be spotted by any of the public that watch. And then do that again, simultaneously, in thousands of other locations, and not get caught or have anyone you tried to buy out go to the police.
Web-GL raindrops animation that took realism way too far
Did you not read my post? "One might come up with ways to surveil the booth (whether in general or through the coerced voter), but at least we have a chance at detecting this."
Or sponsored, which is fine by me.
I'll give you famine relief, but geo-political force projection is the same thing you said was the entire goal of the military. A military that can make people who fight you regret it is the same military that sends the message "if you fight us, you'll regret it".

I do not agree with this, and it's important to understand why I do not think it's the case.

"You're going to regret it" does not the end of a war make. We have already reached the point where, for cases of conflict involving all but a few nations, we can make them regret it. Fairly easily. Yet we see the use of actual force happen more and more. Why? Because my proposed definition of the military was not to hurt people or make them regret picking a fight It was to make them stop fighting.

I used to think the military was for blowing up things and killing people. As it turns out, you can do a helluva lot of blowing stuff up and killing people and you've got just as much of a conflict as when you started. War is not an equation to be solved by some new McNamara. It is also not a spectacle meant for some foreign national command authority. Yes, it might work that way in a very few large cases, but we know that in every case the goal is to get them to stop fighting.

We are buying very expensive hardware for edge cases. These edge cases might occur. But even then, we should look at other ways of winning instead of out-spending and out-producing the other guy. We're trying to build too many expensive systems that do too many things. I don't even want to think of what force readiness looks like in some areas. As one general put it many years ago in a similar situation, we're destroying the artillery in order to have troops able to do civilian police work. What if we need the artillery? The USMC D2D ratio is heading south. F-35 is a Charlie Foxtrot. I could go on. If you stand back and look at it objectively? It ain't good.
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> It's so blatantly sexist

Hmm, isn't "being sexist" the whole raison d'etre for recommendation algorithms? I mean, sexism or other form of chauvinism are basically estimation of individual traits based on group affiliation.
backup was on the todo list for next week
I'm a pluviophile & I like it.
It might cost pennies for wealthy countries but might be a good chunk of money for poorer countries.
UK here, it's just a cross on a box. Nothing as complicated as these hole punching machines.
Do you have any evidence of whatsoever or do you think there's a conspiracy behind everything? I know the author and he doesn't strike me as someone on China's or Russia's payroll.
I learnt to program in 1990s at Glasgow University with the same team who created Haskell. We programmed (in Pascal and Haskell* ) with proportional fonts, bold, italics and tabs. Later we had to use literate style: the essay documents (by now in LaTex) could be run as code was tagged and everything else was a comment.

As I recall, if you handed in a proportional printout your assignment was marked down if marked at all.

With high res screens and beautiful on-screen fonts (on Macs & Suns) it only seemed natural at the time. In my opinion it was the arrival of Linux at home with tiny monitors and low-powered PC (coupled with a slightly macho overemphasis on editing in the command-line and a disdain for GUIs) that took us back to proportional fonts.

Shame.

* Actually, Gofer, Mark Jones's variant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_(programming_language)
> All of the strategy stuff that you guys attribute to Microsoft, as if it were a single person, are childish naive views of how companies function.

Exactly this. What's the deal? They open-source cool things, community benefits, they earn money. So what? It's become a crime to earn money?
Routing in Angular 2 revisited
This is a valid argument only for people who disable javascript wholesale"

Not only. My older relatives happily click on "Congratulations, you won a million!!!" ads and end up with yet another browser bar or worse. No JavaScript required.
Third parties and surveys e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulation_Verification_Counc...

Similar to Nielsen ratings for television, they're approximate.
We published this a few days ago.

Initially, we got a few comments asking why we did this as folks seemed to think this would be "used by competitors"

However, most of the feedback has been positive.

And most importantly, we've received 11 inbound emails for companies that meet the criteria. We're looking at them but on the surface, 2 look somewhat interesting. None of the 11 were companies we'd heard of either so this def has revealed companies we would not have known.
So who do you trust enough to be distrusting parties? This to me seems to be the same problem as making it proof of work: if the incentives are big enough, the scheme collapses. Look at the creativity that lead to caging and other forms of voter suppression
Disrupting Law as We Know It
We have a chance at detecting purely electronic hackers also. For example, hackers made 574 attempts to connect to one of my servers as root since the logfiles were rotated.

This idea that physical is somehow categorically better than electronic is just magical thinking.
When people write articles like this I always assume they are going to say something like "I used to have an iPhone and I've found that the x is the same but better, and I used to have the iPad and I've found y is the same but cheaper". But instead it's a list of complaints with no solution.

I'm done with Toyota cars because they always run out of petrol!
With you on Google lock in. I'm off all significant Google services except Gmail. Still waiting for a paid, web based mail provider with quality search.
Thanks! I forgot about that name change. We've come full circle:

Mac OS 9 -> Mac OS X 10.0 -> OS X 10.8 -> macOS 10.12
I think the real problem with discussing guns in the U.S. is that the issue is muddled.

There's one problem, that causes two completely separate issues:

The fact that you can *very easily* get a gun when you shouldn't be able to.

This allows gang members, terrorists and other criminals to obtain guns. And it also allows mentally ill people to be able to obtain guns. In the Orlando case, I guess both of these apply, and neither, since he was licensed.

Unlike many liberals (and I'm super liberal), I don't have any issue with most people being able to get a gun. But I don't think that having to wait a while (a few days or a few weeks) should be an issue, but it is with the NRA and other gun advocates.

And I think that tracking a gun from initial manufacture thru the end of it's life should be something that we do as well.
Publishers can blacklist ads, so unless they have tried to do so and failed then this is a way to shift blame from themselves on to a system that has been helping them all along.
If something hijacks your computer and uses excesive resources, you should assume it has hostile intentions. It is not your job to inspect packet to find out what is going on.
Ugh how so? I have a lot of issues with Obama, but just because he believes that a direct military intervention is not the best way to deal with the problem, doesn't mean that he "fist-bumped Putin".
He does see Russian antics as a threat (other than a few delusional paleocons, pretty much everyone does), but just as it was with Soviet Union, Russian greatest weakness today is economic, which is where the pressure is applied. It's not nearly as effective as it could be due to the boneheaded attitudes of a few people, but hopefully that changes soon enough...
No party has dominated elections in India over the years since the EVM has been introduced. The Election Commission is the autonomous authority responsible for conducting all elections in India and there has been no information of corruptions regarding them till now.
Well, the brief was to "throw the whole thing out", including select (which is bad) and poll (which is merely adequate).

The machine traps are interesting in that they should only be generated locally - there's no sensible case for injecting SIGSEGV into other processes. Arguably we should learn from Windows "structured exception handling" here. There are two sensible things to do with traps (other than sudden death): hand over to a callback of some kind (which should be told about the state of the stack), or turn into a language-native exception and throw that.
The usual scheme is, buyers pick up sellers and drive them to polling places. Police is usually on the look out for cars that frequent the polling stations. Or park just around the corner. The sellers usually are homeless-ish/addicts/etc. Large amount of such people raises awareness. Sometimes approaching such people and asking what's up is enough. They don't bother to lie and just tell they sold their vote to some guy in black BMW for €xx.

Now if online voting was allowed, the buyers could just take the seller's signature device and do voting himself. 100% the vote is correct. No possibility to get caught at polling station. The sellers don't hang around the polling station, thus less chance to raise awareness.

In addition to that, buyers could buy the device en masse from the addicts/homeless/etc and have a ready-to-use voting farm.

All in all, yes offline vote buying happens and it's not rocket science. But online vote buying would be much easier, quicker and less chances to get caught.
Why is it even possible to make changes after the audit?
Rust's safety comes at a cost as it is not as fast as plain C. If Checked C's checks are run at compile-time it would be as fast as C.
You'll find yourself in opposition to Major Hayden, the author of the headlined article, who wrote in May:

> automatic management of running daemons shouldn’t be handled by a package manager.

There's also the argument that determining whether a daemon should or should not be automatically started very much is the province of the service management subsystem, as automatic service start/stop/restart is very much what service management properly deals in.
I worked at a bank in 1998 porting applications from VB6 to Java, and not they weren't browsers applets, there were servlets which were available since mid 1997.

There are still a niche for C++ in banks (i.e transactional server applications) but pretty much all the business logic applications (that counts for 80% of the code of most banks) were starting turned to Java by that time
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What's wrong with herbicides? I can understand why people fear insecticides, but herbicides are pretty harmless.
Yes, the problem with societies is the security of their voting mechanisms.

Physical ballots are manipulated and forged all the time. Doing it online just dispenses with the pretense of legitimacy altogether.

In the majority of elections, voting is an empty ritual that dresses up a transfer of power that was already decided among a tiny minority of essential power brokers.

Voting should be done online if onlyso that people will stop believing the fairy tales it facilitates.
I did? How do you know? Stores give away magazines all the time, do you feel like it's stealing to rip the ads out of those?
iOS 10 will let you delete most of Apple’s default apps
Eye-tracking is actually rarely what you really want. The problem is that it tends to cause severe eye strain in a short amount of time as you manually take control of your eyes and overtense your muscles.

Try visually typing out a sentence on a keyboard by looking at the keys in sequence as a demonstration. Your eyes naturally will want to be imprecise and move away from the points you care about, which will cause you to fight the tendency to saccade, creating both visual disturbances and muscle fatigue.

Eyes are meant for looking, not pointing. :-)
> In fact, online voting is such a dangerous idea that computer scientists and security experts are nearly unanimous in opposition to it.

Stopped reading.

Online voting is not just about electing presidents.

If you can poll the people easily, you have a democracy where people directly chose, instead of having a mafious bunch in a grand building making what corporations want the law, ahem I meant doing what is good for you.
Sure there is; that's what DoubleClick for Publishers is for: https://www.google.com/dfp
Jeez, what a jerk. You'd almost think he's writing clickbait headlines on top of a stupid rant just to get attention.
I agree, though none of the theme engines I've used regularly crashed. There were two KDE theme engines which managed to crash in their gtk variant, but those had more issues than that. No crashes whatsoever with all of gtk2-engines and also murrine or aurora.
HTML5 ads are like small webpages. So you can still use javascript to load tracking pixels from within the creative.

https://www.richmediagallery.com/detailPage?id=9017
I recommend FastMail, it's refreshingly fast after Gmail and the search works great. They have a free trial.
Though I'm a pretty heavy emacs user, I have a great backup suggestion that I've really been enjoying: Visual Studio Code.

MS has built a really great editor for lighter text work. Markdown editing with it is great and language support is getting better each release. Actually most features of it are getting better with each monthly release. I've been very pleasantly surprised with it. It's been gaining a number of begrudging converts at work who use it on their MacBooks as an alternative to Sublime.
Which is why I like layered approaches like IPFS that separate the merkle-tree layer (hashed content) from the naming layer (IPNS, DNS, Namecoin, etc.).

There are definitely valid uses of blockchain tech but requiring it as central part of the architecture is a recipe for (re)centralization because eventually it will always grow beyond home-computer scale.
Apple has always said it's "OS Ten"

https://support.apple.com/kb/TA22541?locale=en_US
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This question gets asked on Quora over and over and over and over and over again. The article makes three main points, that carriers are expensive, vulnerable and useless. All three points are wrong.

Sure, $6 billion looks like a lot of money. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the Carrier Battle Group. You need a lot of ships to properly protect a carrier.

Sure, in a conflict with a major international power, our carriers won't stick around. But first, 48 hours is a long time in the context of modern conventional warfare. Guerrilla warfare lasts as long as the people involved want it to last, conventional wars are decided in time periods measured in hours. So a carrier battle group isn't particularly vulnerable. Sure, new tech like ASBMs will force us to change tactics, but we're developing new tech too.

Also, nobody is predicting another war with a major international power. The game changer isn't carriers and hasn't been for decades. The game changer is nuclear weapons. If Russia or China decides to target our carriers, the response will have nuclear components. Nuclear weapons are the only things keeping our carriers afloat anyway, if they didn't exist, we'd have scrapped them a long time ago.

So, 48 hours. During this time, each carrier, with it's compliment of an entire fighter-bomber wing, has destroyed much more than its share of enemy military targets. Also, the battle groups don't have to actually see battle in order to be useful. A carrier is essentially a floating air base that we can put pretty much anywhere we want, giving us the global strike capabilities that make it so, if we have to threaten a petty tyrant with utter destruction, he doesn't just laugh us out of the room.
Thanks I didn't know those terms.
Back when I had a iOS device I put all of these in a folder named "Crapple".
If by same difference you mean "one is being developed in the open, with editors from Microsoft, Firefox, and Facebook and the other was developed in private and has the company's name in the API"... then yes, same difference.
Great Line:

the tedious dull work was also what paid the bills. The easier it is to do that stuff automatically, the less people are willing to pay for good quality work.
For the most part sugar is selected against. People don't measure the sugar content of fruits and vegetables before they buy them. So breeding hasn't optimized for that. Instead we measure how big and round and perfect they are, so that's what gets optimized.

Similarly with grains, the elevators pay based on weight. I've always worried we might accidentally select for really heavy but useless crops. Similar to the Swedish farmer who replanted only the biggest kernels of wheat. And got a crop that produced single giant kernels of wheat.
Wow. I spent a lot of time thinking about names and how they influence us. This has to be one of the stupidest ideas I have ever seen. They are just throwing out hundreds if not thousands of years of nomenclature etymology and replacing it with three randomly chosen english words.

Even Vonnegut's idea of reassigning everyone new last names in Slapstick made more sense than this.
Let's say I'm an abusive husband. If my wife has the choice of voting online, I can force her to choose online voting, make her vote at home and in front of me, and nobody has any way of detecting my coercion. If my wife has no choice but to go to a polling booth, election observers absolutely do have a chance of detecting my coercion.

> This idea that physical is somehow categorically better than electronic is just magical thinking.

No, it's a demonstrable fact. You have created an "electronic hacker" strawman here. The problem I am raising is that of coercion, not a man in the middle. You have not been able to provide any means of mitigating it when not using a physical polling booth.

Problems such as "electronic hackers" are only problems on top of the problem of vote coercion, which is clearly made much worse with any ballot system that does not use physical polling booths.
It's as much in your control as a user as it is for the publisher; both actions involve complaining up the chain and/or boycotting the upstream service.
You don't have to use a timer, you can also do it when you're about to use the token, or after the token has been rejected if you're so inclined. I.e. before you make a request you check the validity of the token and if it's not valid you refresh it; or if you don't do this validation you'd have to deal with the server rejecting your token, doing the refresh, and then trying the original request again.