skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologize for not referencing more evidence for the counterview.

So let me bring up some exhaustively prepared articles from the past. A lot of these are from the late 2000s when the "voter ID" issue was in play, but I do not think the electoral landscape has changed that much since then.

A report on voter fraud in 2007 from the Brennan Center concluded a very low rate of voter fraud in 2004.
http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/The%...

News21 (part of the Carnegie Knight media initiative) created a database of voter fraud. They found little.
http://votingrights.news21.com/article/election-fraud/

We have this Washington Post reporter who tracked voter fraud, and found little.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...

And... another paper on how "voter fraud is in the eye of the beholder." (Harvard Law Review)
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/anso...

So... that's a lot of data (I could link many more reports from this era) that indicates that, frankly, voter fraud from any angle really hasn't been a big issue before (and that any perception may be due to political bias, perhaps). I do believe there's plenty of inefficiencies regarding the American electoral process, and that might be right ("inaccurate, costly, and inefficient" as the Pew Center on the States alleged in 2012, that I buy -- http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_as...). But there's a difference between incompetence and awful systems, and outright fraud.

I must acknowledge that this isn't the only paper alleging fraud in the 2016 primaries (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6mLpCEIGEYGYl9RZWFRcmpsZk0...). I will note however that, for this one, Snopes was skeptical in that the numbers had not been peer reviewed by independent parties (http://www.snopes.com/stanford-study-proves-election-fraud-t...) and note counter-viewpoints ala Joshua Holland of The Nation (who does not think much of "exit poll conspiracies": https://www.thenation.com/article/reminder-exit-poll-conspir...)

This is why I'm very cautious. Bias is huge in politics; it may be exhaustively prepared, but if they are using bunk statistics, it's not worth much.
Look forward to it.
All new trucks use DEF and burn low-sulfur diesel since California requires it. That has been the case for at least 10 years, if not more. The only trucks on the road that do not are older trucks and some "gliders" (new chassis and body with an overhauled engine that is older and doesn't have to meet the regulations). The vast majority of big trucks run cleaner than cars or pickups. By the way, trucking is one of the most highly regulated industries.
Throwing it back to the DC
Somewhat related, "The Agile process of software development is often perverted by sick politics"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-agile-process-of-so...
The virtue of not caring: Lessons from the unnamed generation
...it's a Windows box.

(Just kidding.)
Corrections to the article have been made, and it is now at http://gabordemooij.com/index.php?p=/manifesto

The power of peer review!
> From a software perspective you can't imagine how you'd feel if a critical piece of your business software was reversed engineered and copied by a competitor?

Definitely, could definitely understand if it was about money/business. But that is never mentioned when designers get angry about their designs being stolen.

I think it's not about money/business. I think it's a different mindset where a "stolen" design devalues your own contribution. A developer who makes a breakthrough never feels like their contribution is devalued if someone else copies your idea; quite the opposite, copies validates that you made a genuine breakthrough.
I got a LG G3 (3GB RAM model) earlier this year and it meets those requirements. I've really enjoyed using it so far.
I thought North Korea were the master worldwide bogeymen hackers?

Or wasn't it Chinese hackers doing everything.

Neither the Republicans nor Democrats trust evoting.

Standford Uni even went so far as to say evoting gives HRC a 9% advantage over Bernie ! [1]

Which reminds us of when HRC called foul in 2004 [2]

But Diebold were accused of a 7% bump for Clinton in 2008 [3]

We don't need foreign bad actors.

[1] http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/12/stanford-study-...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/voting/index.h...

[3] http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5540
The following comment is rather speculative, but I'm laying out a potential argument to demonstrate that there can be second-order effects beyond the questioned voting districts.

• There were emails in the DNC leaks that hinted at a suspiciously cozy relationship between the party and media organizations.

• During the DNC primary process, media reports often included superdelegates in Hillary's delegate count, making Bernie's case seem impossible. Media often failed to even mention the existence of Bernie Sanders in many cases, or calling him "unelectable" even while he was polling ahead of Hillary or Trump.

• In prior elections, some news channels may have gone as far as not even listing a second-place candidate they don't like in poll numbers.

• Voters can be influenced by a belief that their vote will be wasted by voting for someone who is not a "sure thing".

• Therefore, (assuming) the media manipulation or incompetence, DNC bias in favor of Hillary, and vote manipulation to give the impression of momentum to Hillary, even an insufficient number of delegates won by "cheating" could have swayed the election by second-order effects.
* they want to provide wireless internet for surveillance.

Facebook's raison d'etre is to surveil you.
Sure, from Google's TOS:
https://www.google.com/policies/terms/

Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as the content is sent, received, and when it is stored.
I think what you're explaining is actually reality (not shown on the salary graph).

There's a large donut hole in ops. The truly high demand people make way more than the salary listed there. However, developers are within the normal range.

I.E. - Developers make more on average, top end Devops pays more.
>That is hard for someone to hear who doesn't consider themselves a fascist but supports Trump because it challenges them to see that both statements that they hold to be true, can not be true. To sway their feeling of cognitive dissonance they attack the facts and assert bias and cherry picking.

I wonder what people's thoughts are about a "crying wolf" type of phenomena developing? What if people just started shrugging their shoulders, and saying if I support Trump and that's fascist, then I'm a fascist, oh well? Kind of like "racism" as a term is starting to lose its sting. People just say, "I thought everyone was racist", and "I thought there is no such thing as race (so therefore you can't be a racist)".
As someone who has thought Go was a poor choice for almost any project for a long time and argued that many times, I used to come up against the argument that Go package management was superior to other languages. Six months ago I said:

> Packaging and deployment aren't problems in Go OR Python if you're only solving trivial problems.

> With a larger project, you might have an easier time packaging and deploying Go code, but that's largely because there are no libraries to package. Admittedly packaging can be a pain in Python, but that's usually because of poor choices in dependencies. Packaging Python with a few mature dependencies isn't hard in my experience. It's the projects where some idiot has pulled in every 0.x versioned library in pip that are hard to package. When Go has as wide a variety of libraries as Python people will run into the same problems in Go.

> You could argue that at least for now Go doesn't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot that way, but I'd rather have the option.

> I'm not defending Python in particular here. I'd say the same things I've said here about any mature language with extensive libraries.

> If you're espousing Go because of easy packaging and deployment, I strongly suggest that you consider whether that's actually a feature Go will have long term, and whether you're currently paying for that feature by having no libraries available to you. The only lesson I would take away from Go's easy packaging is to only use mature dependencies that pull their weight.

And in a different post:

> give it a decade and Go packaging will be just as miserable as packaging in any other language.

I've been coming up against that argument a lot less lately. It looks like my prediction is coming true a bit ahead of schedule.
Ask HN: Are SF and NY the best cities for programming jobs?
The Framing Effect: Simple Tweaks to Stop Losing Money
Or better engineering for the tires, emphasizing also their sound profiles. Tire tech has advanced a lot in the past 20 years, I imagine that adding another coordinate for optimization would be doable, albeit hard.
This. Patents should be at most 5 years in IT, should they exist at all. The Macbook Air was first published in 2008. It's not a new idea anymore, not a new design, if you want to be the leader then create new products, and be happy if you're the one setting the trend for the whole design industry. For example Apple could remain first by creating an OS that customers trust. I wouldn't trust a Chinese design (not yet, for now) for my professional stuff because of malware, spy kits, bugs and even just the cheap materials.
Another example of technology's double-edged nature. I'd add the Internet's burgeoning conspiracy theory community to the list of unhealthy outcomes from social networks.
Fedora or Ubuntu running Gnome 3 with Dash to Dock extension are the perfect alternatives to macOS.
Because there are people in my household who commute to work evenings in Issaquah and Everett.
Not at all. The housing administration had some discriminatory practices in the past that did much of what the original suggestion was. It was a disaster. You want a community to be as diverse as possible across any sort of metric (income, race, religion, etc).
Alameda
Part of altruism is the understanding that you are sacrificing energy for a cause that you may not see realised. All altruism is, unfortunately, a gamble. This will hopefully not put anyone off future altruistic acts, as all movements must start somewhere.

If you have used moment.js in a project then please consider contacting the author with a note of appreciation. This won't solve everything, and won't change the world, but will hopefully alleviate the depression and anxiety of someone who has made your lives easier.
So with hardware sha256, can this mine bitcoin cheaper than an ASIC?
Let's not act like Apple has not been known to steal ideas and package them with the Apple logo. It's just part of business.
As I remember, they argued that this is perfectly fine and there's totally no problem with that.
Then you're in the android ecosystem which is heavy Google.
In another 10 years the iPhone will be about as exciting as a refrigerator, even in the US. Innovation has slowed greatly on the phone product such that they need to start focusing more and more on vendor lock-in to maintain their monopoly.
Eh, I still think The Martian was a good book. It had the plot and humor to make its concept stand up. And the very fact that some people have made complaints about the accuracy of its science is a testament to the fact that it did take its science seriously to some degree: Most fiction doesn't show enough work for you to question it.

RP1 was okay. Cline's next book, Armada, was similar, and that's where it really starts to fall apart.
If you alone hold the copyright to a piece of software you can change the license at any time.
15, but I loved it.
ISRG (Let's Encrypt) Root X1 Inclusion in NSS
I regret reading before sleep. I think I've conditioned myself to sleep anytime I read now. I can rarely get more than a five or six pages before I start to drift off.
Presumably if the motors are beefy enough to accelerate that 20-ton truck, they're beefy-enough to regeneratively brake it as well, right? I mean, still not as quickly as friction brakes can, but at a comparable level to passenger car regenerative braking.
"typically the estimates are that the planet is warming at a rate of perhaps 0.5 to 1 Watt per square meter of Earth’s surface area."

Uhh... there's no time unit in that measure.
Jumping shift? We don't just use a PC for gaming all day. Read the article, please.
Just FYI, but your local vote counters hate you. I've done it before and write ins are a pain. If you know people who want to hold office, why are you writing then in instead of getting them on the ballot?
Ask HN: Do you have to read a lot of text as a programmer?
I have lack of confidence in my ability to read. I think I need to get help from an educational psychologist. In the meantime, I was wondering if I would be fine relying on videos for the most part. I seem to read slow, and I seem to be able to read small amount of text and conversational text fine, like I'm reading here.
A bunch of the people attacking him, "ironically" were putting the parentheses in their names, and Assange was trying to find the pattern. that understandably upset some people, since it was meant to be a malicious "pattern", but that was neither his fault nor sufficient cause for a bunch of people to just straight up lie about him.

After he got called out on it he went into damage control, I mean seriously it would really compromise his mission to out of the blue just make an intentional overt anti-Semitic remark.
Yes it makes perfect sense that they're selling it. I'm not saying it doesn't.

What I'm saying is that the comments here to the effect of "Microsoft has changed their stance" don't seem to be in touch with reality.

Microsoft has just realized relatively late that there's certain things that they can't make money on yet are still strategically important, such as core .NET technology, or JS engines.

That doesn't mean that they'll keep open sourcing stuff, or that they're not likely to pull back the second they think it services their commercial aims.
TA10: Ten Startups to Watch in 2016
Regenerative brakes can handle hard braking, but you need some place to dump the energy. Locomotives use big resistive iron grids and fans for this. Those are in the "ears" seen on the sides of modern Diesel-electric locomotives. Electric cars usually don't have that.

A heavy truck, though, probably should. Dynamic braking is great for going down long grades, because the motors and resistors can handle the load continuously without overheating. Some power can go back into the battery, but the battery may not be able to take it all, due to charging rate limitations.
I use 1Password like that. I'm starting to explore other
options because I'd much rather pay for open source software. Dropbox and 1Password are the only proprietary software I really depend on... cause it's 2016 and everyone else got the memo, even Microsoft is changing.
Most of crypto hashes implementations in Go are hand written assembly for specific platforms.
Ask HN: How to market an android app?
Can wavelet decompose be trained for classification of feature vectors with many dimensions?
This article is very good at explaining what the UI for Tesla's AutoPilot is -- much of the discussion of it recently on HN has been from people who've never seen it.
Your URLs 1 and 2 seem broken. This a bug somewhere? Could you repost them please? Also on 3 and 4 the mean wage for Software Developer, Applications and Systems seem quite a bit higher than the other category you've highlighted (though Web dev is not so much).

On another note, I'm going to make myself sick reading about this stuff. I find that the reality is a bit of info is helpful for guidance, and too much is like tabloid journalism or sickly sweet candy.
> My research resulted in this discovery that the Olympic rings are no longer under trademark protection (according to Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olympic_Rings.svg

Where does Wikipedia say that? In fact, that page says:

> This work contains material which may be subject to trademark laws in one or more jurisdictions.
ok mentioning Go here is a bit pointless. How did Go help compared to any other language when Arm has hardware instructions for SHA1&2?
Isn't iCloud Photo Library already better than this for media? It's also just an "intelligent local cache". It downloads device-optimized previews. It has a sharing system (photo streams). It has data centers that handle scale.

Furthermore, it has native device OS integration. That means it can handle syncing that cache with the cloud better. It can do it while the device is otherwise alseep, i.e. overnight. Third party apps need a hack to keep the device awake. Notice Upthere has a setting for this called "prevent auto lock" which it recommends enabling for "large" uploads. That's really suboptimal. iCloud is also native to the Photos app. Upthere has to compete with all the library features in Photos too, like all the machine learning stuff that's coming in iOS 10.

Maybe it's somehow better for other documents / as a straight Dropbox or iCloud Drive competitor. Maybe the core tech and team makes them a good acquisition target. But for the "rich media" that takes up the bulk of local storage, it's going to be hard to move the needle as third party app.
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Antonio%20Gramsci/1924/11/dem...

"[F]ascism and democracy are two aspects of a single reality, two different forms of a single activity: the activity which the bourgeois class carries out to halt the proletarian class on its path[.]"
It was a typo in my post, I meant sha2 and not AES.
If we replaced every car in America with a Tesla with Autopilot, do you think we would see more road fatalites or less?

Less by a long shot. We ignore tens of thousands of deaths per year and focus the one fatality of someone who was using autopilot incorrectly.

People are much better at killing themselves and each other than autopilot is.
Mr Wood, thanks for the great library that I use almost daily. I believe that leaving was the right thing to do. Take care of yourself, live your best life, and everything will be fine (including Moment.js).
If the hypothetical Linux/OSX Edge lives up to Windows' one's battery life promises, it would be great as an actual primary browser.
"If you want to buy a million dollar home using shares, you have to liquidate them and pay capital gains. "

Just to note: you don't :)
In fact, if you wanted to pay all cash, and had enough shares, you'd generally take out a portfolio loan against the shares at some very low interest rate (probably not lower than current mortgage rates however) rather than sell the shares at all.

Whether this is better/worse than a mortgage depends on various things.
I hope we will find a way to pay a developer for contributing to open source projects, and maybe even make open source software the primary distribution available.

Unfortunately, one can make far more money selling SaaS then to adhere to the definition and spirit of libre and open source software.

I want to have my cake and eat it too, but I can't.
So, I am more on the plasma side than the laser side, unfortunately, so get a second opinion :) but I'm not sure it would. First of all, when talking about heating, you're mainly relying on dielectric heating[0], which depends on the dipole moment (perhaps) and polarizability of the things you're looking at. The wavelength might play a role but the idea is dielectric heating is a classical phenomenon, not quantum. I'm don't want to misunderstand your idea, but it sounds like you are applying intuition from QM regarding a material's absorption spectrum, which is,obv., quantum and thus selecting regarding wavelength. Dielectric heating will affect both species regardless given if both can be polarized leading to heating.

Now, say one is more polarizable than the other and so is heated first. However, a more important consideration here is that this is a heterogeneous mixture, so I think what is more likely is heat will be even distributed between the species. You're essentially trying to achieve a non-equilibrium state (high temp in one species and not the other) when one species is on top of the other! On shorter time scales, the more polarizable/polarized stuff might be "heated" first but that heat will eventually move to the other species from collisions leading to equal heating.

So it all depends. Will your target species be heated to melting before that heat transfers to other stuff? This does depend on the coupling of the laser energy to the particles but it also depends on the time scale it takes to melt too and the collision frequency between target species and other species. So, as you see, it depends specifically on the materials you're thinking of, which you could probably look up.

Honestly, you could try something much simpler, like just choosing species based on their melting point. Obviously, your question seemed to imply that they melt at similar melting points and you make to make species A melt before species B. If you just choose species with diff species with diff melting points, you don't even need a laser, just a heat bath.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_heating

This might be helpful if you want to learn what effect material properties has on effectiveness of dielectric heating. First google scholar result :)

[1] http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1998/cs/a82721...
or find the private key of a bitcoin address faster?
Great job on Moment.js, and I'm sorry it caused as much pain as it did to Tim.

I think he fell victim to being too nice and accommodating. I remember 'follow'-ing the Moment issue tracker on github at a time when I followed a few other high-profile libraries, like pdf.js, requests, redis, Joda-Time... and Moment.js's issue tracker was flooded with an extreme volume of issues that made it difficult for me, a much-removed, half-interested third-party, to continue using Github.

Many of these were bug reports, but even more of them were feature requests and usage questions, and I am frankly surprised that Tim served as maintainer for as long as he did, given the cognitive load.

It's easy to be wise in hindsight, but I truly believe that more aggressive moderation by a dedicated team, and more efforts to intentionally limit scope would have benefited Moment.js and its community.
The same Jony Ive who blatantly copied so many Dieter Rams/Braun designs?

http://b-i.forbesimg.com/anthonykosner/files/2013/11/jony-iv...

(I'd use the phrase "has been inspired by and has applied to the contemporary times" instead of "copied", but if he likes that verb more...)
you are aware that Samsung Edge by itself is out selling Applier iphone? Seems that when Samsung concentrates on just hardware it does better than Apple...not to say Ive doesn't do good work..but Apple has some obstacles to risk taking that Samsung does not via hardware design due to the fact that Samsung's phone division is just one small part of Samsung...ie they can take a slightly larger planned risk than apple at the moment on hardware design.
As a programmer, I read a ton of documentation, technology articles, tutorials, and news to learn more every day.

Reading code is certainly important as well; this comes naturally for me after working with a code base for some time. (Blocks of code become more and more familiar as I work with them and I need to peruse less and less. This is especially true for well modularized code bases and code bases with good issue tracking.)

As a programmer I read a lot.
Wikipedia seeks to speak your language
yes really.

It is not simply 'semantics', there is a research basis to suggest that these semantics are used in specific ways in specific situations that bring into question the intentionalality and choice behind them.