skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that the writer started with a concept along to lines of "with electronic voting systems [that are connected to an external network], it is impossible to physically prevent manipulation and maintain control", which is true. I would guess that (s)he then allowed the hyperbolic urge to switched the formulation to "physically impossible." This is trivially false in a literal sense, an appeal to a qualitative notion of "impossible", which brings the argument into a context that is very familiar to Scotsmen and their imitators.

Within this context, there is indeed a double standard, as indeed it is no more possible to prevent a true Scotsman from committing electoral fraud with paper than to confound him with electrons. However, a claim may be misleading, unfair, or erroneous irrespective of whether it involves a double standard.

I believe that you make an error in seeking relief from the double standard. Essentially you are establishing that if we are to accept the first patently false assertion, we must equally accept the second (which is true)... and then agreeing to accept both.

So we are already quite far into the woods when we come to my reason for responding to you.

What you have presented is an example of the 'appeal to link' fallacy. You have suggested (and believed, probably) that there are countless examples of electoral fraud, and offered a link.

However, the document you have linked does not present or even suggest that there are countless examples of electoral fraud. It is a wikipedia article that enumerates specific methods of electoral fraud, loosely defined.

Furthermore, the document implicitly assumes the truth of the original assertion that is the subject of debate, namely that there are categories of fraud to which electronic voting systems are uniquely susceptible.

I was tempted to conclude that "this is why we can't have nice things", but the truth is that we could have much nicer things if we took a moment to step back and examine what we are discussing just a little more carefully.
If they put the amount of effort into their box as their website, I'm afraid I'll have to pass.
They use the term Hackintosh in their FAQ.

Maybe they refer to hacbook to make it seem more like a brand of laptop/machine rather then just the general term hacintosh.
Should work fine if the locked box is sent first...
Yeah.. having to have the complete drive train and battery replaced really undermines this:

> The Tesla isn’t a typical prissy $100,000 car. It’s meant to be driven, and driven hard. It’s not just a daily driver, it’s a high performance yet practical and extremely safe car. It’s better than a traditional car in so many categories it’s fall down funny.

Makes it sound like you almost have to drive it it hard to be sure to wear out the motor and battery before the 8 years is up so you can get the free replacement (extrapolating from his anecdote, to assume many have to get both replaced at 76,000 miles; probably not valid to extrapolate, but the whole post was encouraging others to extrapolate on the positives by giving his low maintenance costs, etc.).

The door handle replacement costs seem outrageous too; I wonder if the energy-efficiency savings from them over the fleet makes up for the total labor/other-costs involved in producing and repairing them.

(disclaimer: I own some TSLA stock)
Depends how much damage they can do
From Kaggle to Google DeepMind: An Interview with Sander Dieleman
iPhone 7 Launch Date Confirmed
King's Quest 8 just came out recently ... they've kept with the times:

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/kings-quest-the-complete-...
One answer is that it would break tons of old school websites that have things in popup windows which communicate with the main page. Up to you whether you think the ire of millions of people stuck using old corporate web apps is worth the marginal security.

I also think Chrome's popup filter already normally blocks target blank links.
I like this list, but I would also add "Don't worry so much about these rules.". At least for me, I've often wanted to contribute to an open source project or participate in a discussion, but I was scared to because I was worried that I would say something wrong or not follow some implicit norm. Probably, the whole "RTFM culture" (or at least my perception/worry of it) had a net negative effect in my case because I ended up not contributing in cases where I probably could have positively contributed.

It really depends on your personality, though. If you're the type of person who naturally just speaks your mind without hesitation, then it's nice to slow down a bit and be more thoughtful, especially if you're dealing with a complex topic or your comment will be read by many people. But if you're more shy, you shouldn't feel the need to go through this checklist 5 times before submitting any comment or PR.

Similarly, if you're maintaining an open source project and someone breaks one of these "rules", be polite and be thankful that they're trying to help out. Allowing people to make little mistakes and learn from those mistakes is much more welcoming and human than "you must read this giant list of docs before you're allowed to speak". There's a balance to everything, of course, but you'll get a stronger community and help people grow if you're more welcoming.
Don't people check their assumptions before asserting them as facts?

I don't know why it's a terrifying concept either.

Anyway, Chromecasts can be configured to allow guest access at the device level. Phones that are even on distinct networks can still guest-Chromecast via ultrasonic noises emitted by the Chromecast. It's pretty nifty. It's nice to have a bunch of people over and have a shared YouTube queue. For more details (https://support.google.com/chromecast/answer/6109297?hl=en) expand the section "How do mobile devices connect with a Chromecast in guest mode?".
> We have announced plans to spend a trillion dollars on more nuclear weapons

The U.S. spends a trillion dollars on nuclear weapons per 20 years. [1]

I agree that disarmament is a credible and the optimum mechanism for reducing risk of the use of nuclear weapons in war and in testing. I think that using hyperbole discredits earnest efforts to this aim. The broadside against secret profiteers ("the usual suspects"?) compounds this.

[1] http://www.icanw.org/the-facts/catastrophic-harm/a-diversion...
Amateur football app to find missing players for Android
> ten minutes once a week, maybe, if you're really destructive

If you do a lot of active machine development, where you're iterating on that machine setup, it's an extremely slow process. Perhaps it would make sense to iterate in Docker, and then convert that process to Vagrant once you finish.

> similarly worrying about "light" when you have 16GB of RAM and a quad-core processor

It's a concern when you're launching many machines at once to develop against. Docker tends to only eat what it needs.
Also, while I think everyone should have a 16GB machine, there's quite a few developers out there running 8 or 4GB machines.
Did you consider buying a camper van? They are quite common as a lifestyle traveling around Australia, in the US people use giant RVs but these are not practical at all and not a conscientious selection.
Warren Buffet advocates an Earned Income Tax Credit. It's very similar to UBI except more politically possible.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/better-than-raising-the-minimum-...
So why didn't he just buy an RV? Not to take away from his accomplishment, but isn't this just the most engineery thing to do? Instead of leaning on another industry that has spent decades perfecting exactly what he is trying to build, he spent all the time he could have used actually exploring the world building what is certainly an inferior solution in every regard.
I would leave in your situation in a heart-beat. If leaving is not a credible option the company won't pay you a fair market rate and won't treat you with respect. I am not a lawyer, but if the company comes after you with a non-compete it seems reasonable that you could sue them for your back pay. Assuming your non-compete is for a year or so this is almost a wash in terms of salary especially when factoring how much more money you'll make over the long run with a higher salary.

The fact that you are even asking this question means you probably know the answer already - you have the most information about your situation so ultimately you should treat all advice here with a grain of salt.
Ah, yes, I didn't notice that the emphasis was meant to be a quote. Thanks.
The question of whether DNSSEC "puts control in the hands of whatever government controls the domain" was addressed in the first link I sent:

http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/#government
http://blog.easydns.org/2015/08/06/for-dnssec/#dane

Basically, whereas any CA (controlled by any government) can issue a certificate for any domain, with DNSSEC you at least get to pick which government you trust to secure your domain (or run your own generic TLD and not trust any government).

My counter argument about the strength of the keys was because he was the first to mention "1024 bit RSA". Did you miss that?

Finally, I used the term "FUD" to borrow the language from that EasyDNS article, the second sentence of which is: "Sadly, there is a lot of FUD out there and we wanted to both debunk that FUD and explain why DNSSEC is vital to the security of the internet." Hopefully people are reading both sides of the story here.
Serverless architectures: game changer or recycled fad?
> putting a kilometer^2 scale transmitter in orbit isn't a problem, putting the similarly sized receiver for it on the ground is

Wow, I would have guessed the exact opposite. What's the reason(s) for the higher difficulty on the ground? Planning permission? Cost of the land? Needing multiple sites in multiple countries for non-geosynchronous orbits?

> Disclaimer: I worked with a company that does terrestrial optical power beaming.

That sounds fascinating. Could you elaborate? What's the power level and the application?
I'm also confused about the involvement of David Revoy with this project, although it seems he isn't involved at all. I wasn't endorsing the campaign owner, I'm just sharing the love for David Revoy himself. If someone wants to support David, the best way would be to use his patreon page!
I also remember the reddit thread. There were a LOT of people questioning your decision to tour Africa, with some scary sounding warnings.

Have you run into anything as dangerous as they made it seem?
SETI Is Investigating a Possible Extraterrestrial Signal from Deep Space
There has been a bit of a dip in rents, possibly due to Europeans wary of immigrating.
In case you are curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Correction: Model 3 will offer supercharger access as a subscription in addition to a [paid up front] bundle included with the purchase price.

(it's never been "free", just added on to the purchase price as an option, and later as a standard feature)

Ignore the editorialized headline. The actual quote is:

>The obvious thing to do is decouple the Supercharger Network from the cost of the Model 3. So it will still be very cheap—and far cheaper than gasoline—to drive long-distance with the Model 3, but it will not be free long distance for life unless you’ve purchased that package. -- Elon Musk http://www.plugincars.com/model-3-owners-will-pay-access-tes...
T-Mobile Tweaks New Unlimited Plan After User Complaints
That's minimalism taken to an extreme, which is just as thoughtless as hoarding.

A screwdriver costs less than $5 and takes a minimal amount of space to store. Yes, the slippery slope is when you have a thousand tools falling out of your closet, but again, thought and moderation.

The "if I haven't used it in the past year" rule is a great idea overall, but it's not appropriate for this example. Now if we're talking about a ball-bearing extractor, yeah rent/borrow that unless your livelihood depends on it.
Get a high paying job in an overfunded startup. Save aggressively. Build alternative income streams.

If crash comes: ride it out on savings and alternative income streams.

If crash doesn't come: congratz, you're rich.
The Trolley Problem? A self driving analogy
It's roughly right, but it's not cache obliviousness that enables the violation. For the argument to work out, you have to evaluate it within a model that has an explicit cache and hence, treats big O results as being parametrized over the cache width.
And it is perfectly reasonable for devs to ignore the annoying steam of +1s and do what they want anyway.
Thought so too, but the timelines don't match, since she mentions stuff about Xmas.
Still, my jaw dropped a few more cm after reading those sentences, and believe me, it was already on the floor after reading the medium piece.
An airborne radar signal processor. We were using telecom-ruggedized IBM blades to run a large-scale (for an airplane) clustered signal processing application. The processing was divided spatially, but needed to be implemented as a grid because the workers had to move in lockstep through the stages of the pipeline.
Isn't nearly impossible to update these darn things? I mean it might work fine when it ships, but will it not become useless once an update is needed?
There are inarguably items that should be held"just in case", like an epipen. The interesting discussion is how to identify those items - factors like cost of acquisition, immediacy of need when it occurs, cost of storage, etc.
I believe that this is the DIAL (http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/) protocol. I know Netflix and YouTube use it, as well as I presume others. Personally I don't think it is as cool as Google Cast as it requires an app/server installed on the target, where as Cast can open any website.
What defines a startup? Everything that did not IPO yet is referred to as a startup. Sure everything starts at some point, but should Dropbox, Uber and Airbnb still be called start ups? Aren't these large companies?
It's fixed now. I released new build. It's available on the website. All the users will receive the update automatically tomorrow. Thank you
>, I have a pee bottle and a 5 gallon jug. Line the jug with two trash bags, and cover the poop with kitty litter. Then toss it in a dumpster.

1.is this legal to dump trash in somone else's dumpster without owners permission?

2. Is it ok in the US to dump poop in dumpsters? I know nursing homes incinerate poop but not sure if there is a law specifically against dumping human waste.
One word: Stealth.

He can park this van on virtually any street in the world and sleep for free, and nobody will be the wiser. Try that in an RV and many places the police will be called on you in 30 minutes.
Maybe they are comparing it to the non-retina MacBook Pro, as described here: http://www.geek.com/apple/psa-non-retina-macbook-pro-13-inch... (which does have an i5, regular HDD, and 4GB of memory)
All of the work to make this van livable could have just as easily been done to a shack in the woods. The biggest hurdle these days is reliable internet if you want that. You would need a better bathroom situation than "the nearest McDonalds" too, but well water is often an option.

The one question he didn't answer is how he bathed. It's very easy when you're living as a lonely bachelor to slowly morph into Grizzly Adams because there's nobody in a thousand miles who cares about you or how you smell.
I don't know where you got those numbers from.
You're still alive! I remember reading about you and everyone tore you up for your route in africa.
An economist and a reporter were walking down the street when a $20 bill blows into their path on the sidewalk. The economist looks at it, smiles knowingly, then steps over it and continues walking. The reporter says, "Why didn't you pick up that $20 bill?" The economist replies, "If it was really a $20 bill, someone would have picked it up already."

By the economist's reasoning, someone already has a strategy to take advantage of index funds. Actually, a lot of someones already have every possible strategy to take advantage of index funds. So none of them really make significant returns, because the dead whale is eaten by a million scuttling isopods, each taking one or two bites before it's all gone. So the real money is in taking advantage of those guys, perhaps with fees or paid reports or little boxes that light up and go "ping".

Of course, just because all the free money is already being picked up, doesn't mean you will never catch a flying $20 bill if you decide to make a grab for it. No market is perfect, and there's always an opportunity to grab some free money somewhere.
I have no apps that have access to the sound output. The problem persists even if I run ONLY Chrome.

I am not the only one - you can see such an issue on the Chromecast support forums for many users. I have tried all recommended solutions like media router enable/disable etc. including using the Canary version. No luck! I have also raised this with the Chromecast support team like 2 weeks ago. I haven't heard from them since then.
Btree vs. LSM
I think as of this July post, you can't send audio when mirroring your Desktop from a Mac: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chromecast/jGSayxcIng...

"Grace Y. said:
Hello,

Thanks for your patience. Currently, audio is not supported when casting your desktop from a Mac computer/laptop. However, casting a tab does support audio. We're always looking for ways to improve, so your feature request has been duly noted.

Best,
Grace"
If I understand your basic argument, it's that shit is broken, and so fuck it, we'll just not bother with it. At what point do we decide that we should fix it?

New DNS record types not being returned, yes this sucks, it means there are a lot of firewalls and resolvers that need to be fixed. But IPv6 has the same upward battle in terms of router support, finally making a lot of headway. As people start demanding DNSSec, anything that is blocking that will need to be fixed.

RSA 1024 keys should be replaced, but again, we should be working to fix this, should we not?

> it provides us with a 1036th CA. One that just happens to be run by world governments.

Validating a different set of data though. On top of that, TLD's can start to be ranked based on their reputation.

Just because things don't look good right now, doesn't mean that we can't work to fix them and make them better. Similarly we need to start pushing for BGP to get secured, as attacks on that network are significantly on the rise. I don't think we should just ignore the lower stacks of the network.
If the work is CC-BY, attribution the one thing that they are compelled to do. That's the whole point of the license.
The device itself runs chrome. So I don't think of the sender as the influence in the name. Plus chrome has a good mind-share which helps marketing.
The author assumes throughout the article uniformly random memory access. This is the worst case for a cache. If you're going to get down to the nuts and bolts of your implementation and come out of the high world of mathematics and Big O then you cannot just consider one element, namely, in this case caching. You should also consider your access pattern which very likely is not uniformly random and therefore probably does not fit the authors analysis. In fact, the only reason caching works is because the authors premise is generally wrong.
So, same definition as AI?
Well no need to be so aggressive I guess. Many of the points make some sense. But ultimately for me I get the feeling that although the managers might be happy with Go, I'd definitely not want to be such a programmer day-in day-out.
> It does not make a difference how wacky or weird f is compared to g below t. It can contain all these crazy memory hierarchy artifacts, it could contain a short burst of exponential slowdown, it could contain anything.

Yes, but if you continue reading the next post, the author is essentially arguing that the cache hierarchy extends indefinitely due to 1) the speed of light and 2) the amount of information that can fit within a light cone of a certain radius.

In that case, cache hierarchy effects aren't 'weird things that happen below t', they represent the asymptotic behavior we can expect due to the laws of physics, no matter how far out to the right we go.
Nope, not one single thing. And I've been talking to many, many people traveling here, including people backpacking, and they are loving every second.

People here are extremely friendly and welcoming, and the landscape is breathtaking. "Africa" does not deserve the reputation it has.

I've never met anyone that has traveled in Africa that would say otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_pivot_irrigation
Something in the Coachmen Prism range is not that much more expensive and has a shower. You can find some interesting deals on them because people tended to buy and realize RVs aren't for them.

I guess you could also buy an RV chassis as one heck of a do-it-yourself project.
To compare SourceTree and Fork performance you can open a large repository (>10000 commits, like React) and try to check the initial commit.
That's exactly what they plan on doing. Musk even implied as much. Though it will take a few years to get to that point. First they have to deliver all the pre-orders and the purchases that follow. Then there's the matter of states creating a legal framework that allows for cars with no occupants.
We are back to Ecclesiastes without the tacked on Epilogue but with a touch of Blade Runner.

I have two problems with this realization(not that it makes it any less true).

First, anything truly goes then and we are back to "might is right". Any state/laws some subset of humanity creates is no less right than any other subset of humanity which includes various levels of psychopaths.

First problem is not such a bad one as long as your own morale code more or less coincides with the society in which you reside.

Second problem is more personal. How do you choose what is meaningful given how truly short the life is?

At 40+ I realize that life can end with a whimper at any moment.

Barring some truly Kurzweilian breakthrough 40 more years of enjoyment is most I can hope for.

I truly enjoy the little pleasures of life parenthood, food, drink, chess, biking and so on. At the end of the day, you realize there is no hope of working on that unsolved math problem, that huge programming project, that great novel.

Unfortunately there is so little time and no time for any grand works unless you already showed some promise at early age (ala Thompson).

So far the only solution is somehow to delude yourself that what you are doing is meaningful to you.
A quick search for padlocked box will show many, many such boxes. It seems more common for there to be space for two or more locks, than for just one.
The cost alone would be a major motivator to go the van route. Class B motorhomes are the least expensive and even they are about $50k new from what I can tell. Sure you can save money buying used but I figure for an apples to apples comparison you'd want to limit it to new-only.

That said, I'd probably agree that a better solution would be had for spending the additional money. But this project is pretty darn cool.
Sep05, 11' - 1154.23
Aug22,16' - 2181.67

up ~ 89%

although, sept was down about 200 points from may and oct. And were only up 60% from the 07' peak.