skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What astounds me the most is that party membership in the United States is actually very high compared to most other countries (except for India).

Fewer than 200,000 Australians would currently be members of any political party - representing less than 1.5% of the total voters (around 14 million) - and that's being very generous with estimates of party membership figures. Most AFL football clubs would have more members than the major political parties.

Perhaps Australia is too different to compare the United States - compulsory voting (90% turnout this year), shorter campaigns (this year's 8 week campaign was twice as long as usual), elections being held on a weekend, preferential voting (third party votes are still valuable) and the parliamentary system (you never actually vote directly for the leader of the country) obviously result in a very different attitude toward elections and politics.
It's still work in progress. Only a few articles for the moment.
I would be happy to hear your thoughts about the best way to teach functional programming to kids.
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Interesting is logging into UNIX servers like HP-UX and friends and getting the real VI, not the improved ones.
link to the investor presentation if you want to read it:

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/254764622...

After the deal closes, expected to be Q4 2016, the ownership split will be:

93.5% Tesla / 6.5% SolarCity

Interestingly, this is an all shares deal. With most people assuming Telsa will need to raise another large round soon to fund full scale production of the Model 3 it will be interesting to see what sort of terms, if any, Tesla will need to give investors to raise.

Current shareholders don't seem too put off the by constant dilution of this acquisition or the constant equities raises. Tesla's short interest is high as always, so they continue to be one of the most polarizing companies around:)

Fun note in the presentation, Solar City has a shop window in the deal where they can take this deal and shop it to other companies to try and get a better deal. Anyone want to take a bet as to whether or not they actually try and shop this deal at all?
I don't see how this would be different from any other election with new candidates from both parties.
The link I posted above is a common SQL land usage. Dimensional modeling in a star schema is very widely used in BI projects.

There's actually two competing philosophies on data warehousing (Inmon and Kimball), but I've only ever used Kimball's method, which favors denormalization.

http://www.computerweekly.com/tip/Inmon-vs-Kimball-Which-app...
My point stands. It doesn't matter if you're bribing someone with seashells or hundred dollar bills: it's still a bribe.

Corruption can exist in any form of government. Just because a form of government might be moneyless doesn't mean that you can't exert influence with power or wealth.
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Are you planning to start something online? Maybe a website or a blog? Be prepared for the challenges you will encounter. One of the most confusing tasks is to choose between various hosting packages. Shared hosting is ideal for newbies. But, it can be risky as well if your website is likely to expand very soon. Moreover, if you are planning to set up an online store which requires high end resources, then probably choosing shared hosting will be the biggest mistake of yours. It is better to choose VPS hosting (Virtual Private Server) offering advanced features, improved advantages and the most important- better security.

Just deciding to make a switch to VPS hosting is not enough. If you want to select the most appropriate VPS hosting provider for your website then you will have to do some exercise. Don’t worry; the exercise is all about taking into consideration certain factors which will help you to select the best VPS hosting provider for your website.

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Easy scalability when needed -

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I tried, and even filed a bug report. It's "as designed":

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769359

The whole idea around this and the way they decided it to work is a mess.
Except I'd venture it would not be a good sample as it's not necessarily very statistically representative of the whole population (ie. random)?

Of whether the people choosing the candidates have to be or even should be statistically representative of the whole population can be argued. The choice of candidates or order on ballots in many countries is decided by various less-than-representative groups.
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Not to mention refactorings such as rename, extract method, etc.
I was thinking about spam resistant mail. Maybe one day I will do this as a service. It's greatest strength is also major inconvenience. So I hope it would work not only for technical minded. Probably it could be dealt with by having good UX/UI.

Basically the point is to give every interested party separate address to write to. Giving user a button to generate new random address (120-160bit random number encoded with Crockford's Base32). A bit like user+whatever@gmail.com that gmail supports, but my idea can't be easily gamed by not having constant part (like user@gmail.com). User can register to various services with different address and can detect when his email address was compromised.

Inconveniences: giving address to friends, writing them down on paper forms, dictation via phone. Maybe it would be a bit like having multiple telephone numbers - separate for every one.

For leaving out address for random people like on mailing lists or blog posts, there could be additional step of sending introductory e-mail with certain subject prefix required that would work a bit like CAPTCHA. Than you could reply from new address - designated for this person.
These 9% were not a random sample.
What an interesting juxtaposition of idioms :)
Sorry, that was 25Gb/month in data, not speed. I'm sure there's more choice out there, I'm not very familiar with the US market on satellite Internet.
You sound a bit too critical to me.

It's a nice incentive for small developers and I can't see how this could be regarded as a waste of taxpayer money, given the small scale of it. It's similar to temporary funding for lyricists or artists, by far not enough to live by, but not bad as an additional incentive or 'token of appreciation'.

In comparison to investment funding, 1.2 million for various OSS projects is nothing. So why not just create another project of passion (I agree with you on that), and get a few extra bucks from the government for it?

I wish I could participate, but as a German living abroad I can't.
Hard to compete when the government interferes in favor of your competitor. Many western companies investing or competing in China don't realize how stacked the cards are against them. Either you're left with a very tiny share of the market, or your joint Chinese partners are going to plunder your IP and start undercutting your business.
Acording to UK's Companies House search, Uber's nature of business (SIC) is 74990 - Non-trading company. This is quite vague but it doesn't mention technology.

Interestingly, they were also called UBER TECHNOLOGIES LTD and UBERTECHNOLOGY LIMITED at some point in time, but these companies are now dissolved.
You can Google for silent truncation for a quick example. To be fair, MySql > 5.6 has fixed some of these issues and it also has some flags that can be set to help prevent them.

The by design part is referring to early versions of mysql and discussions around it purposely did not care about ACID. Speed was the number one driver.
Two incidents 35 years apart?
the implication is that given interest / participation of a greater percent of the population, the candidates would be different. unlikely.
From the wiki:

> K-219's full complement of nuclear weapons was lost along with the vessel.

> In 1988, the Soviet hydrographic research ship Keldysh positioned itself over the wreck of K-219, and found the submarine sitting upright on the sandy bottom. It had broken in two, aft of the conning tower. Several missile silo hatches had been forced open, and the missiles, along with the nuclear warheads they contained, were gone.[13 [a book reference]]

The official story, then, is that they were recovered. What are you suggesting?

I suppose the 1988 Soviet media had a few reasons to lie. But still, there are only a few places the warheads could be: In Russian control - they recovered them quickly and didn't want to advertise the capability, and simply didn't tell the Keldysh or the public. Or perhaps the Keldysh's story is true, and they know that because they were the ones who pried open the silos. They could be in American control - we somehow stole them from the sub between the sinking and the survey, and kept it a secret. It sounds like that's the story we are meant to believe. They could be on the sea floor, fired or dropped onto the bottom to make recovery more difficult, or the Keldysh's report was a lie and they're sitting in their tubes on the sub. They could be in the control of some rogue weapons dealer who recovered them, but that seems much less likely than any of the above options. Or perhaps Dirk Pitt used a secret NUMA submersible to recover the missiles from the dangerous Soviet menace, and the warheads are decommissioned and sitting in Admiral Sandecker's basement.
This is especially cruel because it doesn't take much to be labeled a felon in the US.
Bit buggy though, the animations stop if you scroll too fast, including the one that counts up to the number of million people in USA, if you scroll past too fast it ends up below the actual number, causing confusion
The problem is, we've basically lost L4. Too many networks (firewalls, and especially NATs) just don't pass anything but protocols 6 (TCP) and 17 (UDP). Even ICMP is not always reliably available (leading to all sort of weird PMTU issues[1]), or heavily filtered.

I think that's why many good protocols (e.g. SCTP) are rare sights and frequently aren't even considered as an option.

[1] Yes, some idiots just block ICMP completely because they heard it's "secure" and make DHCP or PPP cap MTU at 1200 with "uh, it works just fine" attitude.
More depressing is the ~40% of the eligible electorate who don't vote at all.
> Except I'd venture it would not be a good sample as it's not necessarily very statistically representative of the whole population

That's pure conjecture as the article doesn't address the sample at all. It just basically says "The sample is 9%". It doesn't say why this is bad.
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I definitely agree. The article appears to be painting a very dark picture that 91% don't want the candidates.

Where as this is just stating the obvious of what happens in every country that first puts forward a leader of a party that is contending to win the overall election.
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an airman [...] dropped a socket from a socket wrench, which fell about 80 feet (24 m) before hitting and piercing the skin on the rocket's first-stage fuel tank, causing it to leak

This made me think of the wonderful book 'Ignition!' that has a similar prophetic passage in it:

Say that somebody dropped (accidentally or otherwise) a greasy wrench into 10,000 gallons of 90 percent peroxide in the hold of the ship. What would happen — and would the ship survive?
The design of MySQL has a lot more silent failures, silent coercing of data, and other ways that it attempts to do what it thinks you might mean (because you're an incompetent PHP programmer) instead of what you ask. The obvious example is that SELECT 0 = 'banana' returns 1.

A typical takedown would be the likes of: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else (which also touches storage engine configuration things that are easier to defend against by an experienced organization). Unfortunately this sort of takedown solves very few discussions.
It's 9% of the most politically active and engaged section of the population. It's not a random cross section of the entirety of the US population.
I think perhaps that getting defrauded so much money that it sent them bankrupt must feel a bit like failure to them
Github works on MySQL and they got pretty good at it. Ubers engineers made a respectable decision by switching to a lower-hyped database purely on excellent engineering.
> Why do the browsers let the website know which plugins I have?

Just a guess: perhaps because sometimes, those plugins need to be interacted with from within javascript?
Are there any recommended resources to extensively learn about databases?
ESPs have tons of IO. You could add IR to it if you want.
Where did you hear this from?
> Two incidents 35 years apart?

That we are aware of. What's your acceptable threshold for accidentally vaporising a city?
It's absolutely unsafe to handcrank windows while driving, but when is that ever needed? I long for my old hand-cranked-window MB 200D days when my newer Toyota has 3 failed electrical windows out of four. And it's costing so much I only fixed my/driver side window.
I don't think anyone ever marketed the Zero as being $5 after shipping, or even said it'd be $5 in every country.

I can buy a nearly endless supply of $5 Zeros at my local Microcenter, so it's not all marketing. They are manufactured in-house and for various reasons haven't kept up with demand.
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"if psych/soc pressures don't stabilize the population by themselves."

Since at the moment, the evidence strongly suggests that they are, "population control" measures sound even more evil to me than they did before.

The problem is that when you go to concretize the abstract question, you end up with the question "Who gets the power to decide who lives and dies?" (or reproduces) and one need not study history for very long to become very nervous about the possible answers. Those of you who casually assume you'd be on the "live" side are unjustified in your confidence.
Our voting system really needs to change, it's completely absurd that it hasn't just moved to a weekend or received special treatment as holidays.
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I'm not sure the idea that we may be able to travel to uninhabitable hellscapes in the future fundamentally changes the basic problem here.
> Stripe is a developer's dream

Unless you're using the JVM. Their Java API is so awful that it feels like you're just shelling out to cURL.
"The New Jim Crow" is an excellent book on this. There's a chapter about how this disproportionately affects young black men and disenfranchises them.
It's called 'hacker news' and no longer 'startup news' for a reason.
I am a user of both. At this time, I'd have to say the only reason I use Atom is because its markdown support is better (nicer code highlighting right out of the box and a real nice side-by-side live preview plug-in[1]).

Away from the speed thing (which is definitely noticeable on my two year old box), and from non power user perspective, I'd say they are pretty close to equivalent.

[1] https://github.com/atom/markdown-preview
Maybe growth has slowed, not because of an inherent limit of technology, but because we just don't have problems as big as our great-grandparents. The biggest enemy we have left is ourselves. We crave attention more, overeat, and look forward to a retirement where our minds waste away.

There are some exciting advances we need to extend the modern world to all of humanity without destroying the planet. But for those of us already living with the best humanity has to offer, our biggest limitation is ourselves.

I keep trying to come up with a reason for how recent advances are improving our lives without increasing GDP. Does anyone have a compelling one? Things like wikipedia are valuable and don't contribute to GDP. But then shouldn't people be happier than 20 years ago?
While I agree, that it should be changeable independently, there is a very strong correlation between language and temperature units.
It would be hard to ship a full compiler and still be a lightweight text editor... :)
Theoretically this isn't an issue as this is just two political parties choosing the candidate that want to support for the general election. Political parties may choose their candidate however they like; they could pick a name from a hat if they wanted to. The issue is these two parties are so entrenched in the government as to essentially be legitimized as the only viable parties.
Why wouldn't you use the default Vintage plugin? What's better about Vintageous?
Initial email is even more impressive - huge respect for this style.
The whole manipulating code as date just always seems like such a rich target for exploitation like that ruby yaml bug from a while ago [0]. It seems like a features that would be great if your code never needs data from anywhere else but as soon as you gave data coming in from other sources it would be a bit of a nightmare.

0: http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2013/01/10/rails-remote-cod...
You're getting downvoted because this article is actually not an example of the NYT's slanted coverage. Don't get me wrong, they've had some shamefully distorted articles (especially the infamous updated Bernie article), but this is just a short data visualization.
Mandatory post :)

Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2012/04/economist-meets-...
Respectfully disagree: An important reason why they lost competitiveness is that they shared a currency with Germany, which worked well for Germany in terms of trade.

You can make the moral arguments like "they shouldn't have.." but the truth is they are an institution not an individual. They should suffer for taking loans, but so should the institutions that offered them that new better.
I was sort of thinking the same thing - though more about how I hope they extend this visualization to past presidential elections.
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How do you find the credentials you have in the .ini file?
Get a WeMos D1 and use their examples and read the WeMos/ESP2866 forums. If you want to save $2 per project you can get a USB/TTL adapter and use plain ESPs.
Or for macports: `port install curl +http2`
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And by "all" certification exams, they mean "one" exam
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Honestly, no - I don't think so. The site has ebbs and flows based on whats happening in the world just like anywhere else. HackerNews constantly seems to have a higher level of discussion than reddit, or any other place for internet comments, and I don't mind that it changes (just like everything else does) with time.
Let's not forget Chile
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/sep/08/sciencene...
It's a problem in the current context of how U.S. elections work, where those 91% of the people feel "forced" into voting one of these two parties or candidates, even though 50% of them are registered Independent.

If the U.S. electoral system easily allowed for other parties to exist and thrive (such as with a proportional representation voting system for Congress, which drastically increases how well people are represented in Congress, and could lead to much less "gridlock") then this wouldn't be an issue. Because those 91% of the people could easily ignore the Democratic and Republican candidates if they were terrible (which seems to be the case this year), and just vote for another party's candidate in the general election.

And they could very much still do that. The problem is there's both a legal and unofficial collusion between the two main parties to control the elections in various ways (such as making the rules for who gets to debate), and between them and the media, who normally completely ignore other candidates, and don't treat them nearly as fairly, so their chances greatly diminish.

There are a lot of things that could be done to fix this. But people need to support politicians willing to overhaul this system.

Larry Lessig (on who the DNC changed the rules mid-game so he doesn't get to make his case in a debate) had some great ideas [1], and so does the Green Party [2].

Jill Stein also supports ranked choice voting, and I believe multi-winner ranked choice voting, too, which is a form of proportional representation [3].

Unfortunately, you're not going to hear about all of these ideas from a media that has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, and you'd have to rely heavily on the Internet and social media to grow this movement (and do it before Google/Facebook/Twitter start ramping up their censorship to help their favorite candidates, as we've already started seeing them do).

[1] https://lessig2016.us/the-plan/

[2] http://www.gp.org/democracy#demFreeSpeech

[3] http://www.fairvote.org/proportional_representation
Sorry I wasn't clear, but Godel's theorems have not made the formalization (in the sense of writing machine-checkable, or at least fully explicit proofs) impossible or undesirable. The reason we don't write up the proofs in mathematical papers as Coq files or something equivalent is purely practical: doing so for most mathematics is exceedingly tedious with our existing tools. In addition, proof assistants have a steep learning curve even for mathematicians, as they are designed by mathematical logicians who have a very specific kind of mathematics in mind.

What these theorems made hopeless is the formalization of the concept of "the" natural numbers. Previously, it was taken for granted that our definitions of the natural numbers entirely fixed the truth of all of the statements you could make about them. However Godel showed that we have to pick a particular formalization, which will necessarily leave some facts about the natural numbers undetermined. Even simple theories which formalize the natural numbers and nothing else (e.g. Peano arithmetic) suffer from this problem.

This results in things like non-standard arithmetic[1], which no axiomatization of the natural numbers can possibly avoid entirely. Most of mathematics is not about the natural numbers directly, but virtually all mathematical structures can be used to model the natural numbers with addition and multiplication in some way (e.g. Dimensionality of vector spaces) so similar restrictions apply here too. But none of this gives us any reason to avoid formal proofs; if a mathematician feels that an informal proof truly omits an important step or is missing full justification of a statement then they would regard the proof as incomplete (at least until the issue is clarified).

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_model_of_arithm...
Short for saying combine HR, accounting, etc. but it's still always annoying to read.
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On a side note: I think this page is really well done.

It's rare that that much (programming) effort is put into a simple newspaper article.

Anyone agree?
They had to...remember the recently unveiled master plan?
Yes, I came onto this thread to post about that book - it's an absolutely gripping read from start to finish, and tells two stories in one - a specific one and the more general one of nuclear weapons development and safety. I'd thoroughly recommend it to anyone who wants a "thriller" which is realistic (or, indeed real!)
I can confirm Android detects it and sternly warns you (but allows you to keep doing it if you want).
The problems you describe are all well understood to C programmers and hence not really a huge issue. You are severely overstating their difficulty.
There are endless modules to attach. There is both an IR one and a 400MHz radio tx/Rx one. IR is like 50 cents, radio is like $1.50 I think on AliExpress. The radio is probably better than IR since it works pretty damn far and without LoS.
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