skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Register to vote by mail -- it takes three minutes and you don't need a California drivers license.

Then select one or more organizations that you trust, and when each election approaches, google their "slate cards", which will tell you how to vote.

Obviously, you should feel free to investigate the specifics of any ballot measure or candidate if you have the time to do so, but if you don't, you're better off going with the slate cards than not voting.
I feel like the KiCad support is lacking. As the community EDA of choice, support for it is quite important.

What I would really like to so is a repository of 3D models. Footprints are a dime a dozen and faster to churn out than 3D models. Also, most EDA suites support creating footprints/symbols but few/none support 3D modeling.

Also I've had SnapEDA provide me with footprints of similar parts that in actuality were not similar enough. A fair chunk of time was wasted on that.
Here's the link to the video on YouTube, I tried to load the linked page about 12 times and it failed each time, turns out the video is on YouTube anyway.

https://youtu.be/f5uik5fgIaI
Let's not pretend like the scope of a CEO's job is even remotely approaching that of the President's.

Not currently. There have however been "CEO's" in the past that have.

The Presidency Armies come to mind first but there are others. The key distinction now is if they control nuclear arms.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_armies
The correct answer would have been to pick a reasonable assumption (before you ask, your own judgement determines what is reasonable) for what "useful" is, and to clarify that that was the assumption you were using.

We don't have to question whether or not anything means anything in order to engage with every topic every time, but I appreciate the exercise.
Google finally released its first official smartphone
I think this is right on. People use rational thought to evaluate decisions, but they use emotions to make decisions. If you take away a person's ability to feel emotions, they become paralyzed with indecision. There are at least a few real-world examples that have been studied.

There's a strong argument that our rational intelligence evolved to serve the drive to survive--and that emotions are the signals of that drive. It's becoming more clear that even though most animals aren't capable of symbolic reasoning and language, they do experience emotions and make decisions accordingly.

Who is programming a computer to feel emotions? I'm not aware of any significant work in the direction. (If anyone is, please link it!)
Done, done, and done. That was the first thing we did. Facebook was only the initial mode of communication - now they communicate by text, which I can't control.
The freeway revolts had nothing to do with NIMBYism. NIMBYs say, "I agree that people need a place to live -- they just shouldn't live near me" or "I agree that we need prisons -- just not near me."

The freeway protesters believed that freeways shouldn't cut through any municipality. Not just theirs -- nobody's.

If you think something shouldn't exist at all, you're not a NIMBY.
I did my driving education during the summer and got my license. Got my first car during the middle of winter and just learned to drive in snow (we did have a 2 hour course on a slippery track as part of the driving education). It isn't really hard. Just have proper winter tires and don't go too fast.

Also driving the shitty back roads in Finland was a lot of fun in my old Honda Civic which didn't have power steering or ABS (let alone any kind of traction control and stabilization you have in newer cars). Driving a modern car with all the modern aids is very easy on dirt. On snow some of them can hinder you though (some automatic gearboxes just don't know what to do when none of the wheels have any traction) but for the most part it is very easy too if you have winter tires.

Driving is very easy. Too easy I think which causes people to drive way too fast for the situation quite often.

Main issue for driving on dirt roads/snow for automated cars I see is just seeing the road itself correctly not with controlling the car.
I used their openstates repo a while back and found it amazing how well they could distill the data. I had tried writing scrapers before for the same purposes, but it took forever just to get a fraction of what they had. Best of luck to sunlight devs in the transition.
It's not doing much for your reputation (or that of your employer) that you still haven't clarified whether you are the engineer or not - even after deliberately referring to yourself in the third person and being called out for it.
> Unless the discloser was the US Government and the request was actually a court order.

If this were the case, I think it's actually the best reason to disregard the request of the discloser and disclose, as it's now in the public interest (ie, closing a possible backdoor being used to surveil dissidents, etc), not merely part of a private agreement.

But yeah, if mozilla signed an NDA on this, that seems like it was a bad move from the get-go.
LibreOffice can run online: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/online/

Also there's Collabora Code which does the same with a container.

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

In fairness they're modeled on Microsoft office more than Google Docs.
I dont think bittorrent is particularly suited for small file caching and thats how a lot of video is served these days (think about how adaptive rate streaming works, a video is split into thousands of small files containing a few seconds of video at certain bitrates).
Totally agree. The nature of VR is such that it's as immersive an experience as possible, which just isn't best platform for every type of media consumption. I think it will become more of a niche thing once the hype dies down.
Posting this for two reasons --

First of all, these organizations don't pop up or maintain themselves magically, it takes a leader to get this started and a smart team to keep it going. They deserve to be recognized for truly great work.

Second, I think having open government data in a truly ACCESSIBLE format is extremely important. If you've ever tried to look up data on the FEC site, you'll know what I mean. Not to take away from the FEC data site -- it's an incredible data resource, but tech companies certainly do a better job productizing these large amounts of data from the government.
I think he/she is referring to 2.0 which is fully autonomous.
Ask HN: Harder to learn- spanish or php?
Isn't asking people where they would like a new subway line a case of asking people what they think the solution is rather than what problem they would like to have solved? Wouldn't a survey of what journeys people want to make be better? Sure, processing the results is hard, but in the grand scheme of building new transportation in SF it's trivial.
This idea is beyond my expertise, but I will say that SF gets a lot of money from the feds already for transportation projects. Applications are driven by SFMTA staff, and they have a lot of success (such as small starts grants) because the SFMTA matches many of the goals the Department of Transportation wants, such as reducing dependency on cars and reducing green house gasses.

As an aside, one grant that the SFMTA didn't get, but you might think is a shoe-in, was the Smart Cities grant (http://smartcitysf.com/). This would have created a program to increase cycling by innovating around car and bus automation. With the saved space from the eliminated parking, the city could convert those areas to housing, community centers and parks.

SF lost the grant and the funds went to Columbus, Ohio. The videos of the presentations are online if you search for them.
I wish we could get those texts, we could train NN on keeping the scammers busy.
Science is the Great Giver
Screw the god damned ribbon menu interface!
The moment you agreed to a fixed bid, the incentives between client and customer are directly in conflict. Any additional thing that the client wants has to be renegotiated.

If your development is in any way exploratory or creative, my experience is that hourly billing frees everyone up to focus on making the best product. It also lets the developers and designers be creative and figure out the best way to build something, rather than having to build exactly what was drawn up by some idiot (usually me!) who isn't actually the one doing the work.

Yes, you have to trust that the hourly worker isn't wasting your time. Yes, they may have to raise their rates as they get more experienced and more busy.
> The actual amount of in-person voting fraud is incredibly tiny... something on the order of 30 cases per billion votes

It doesn't matter what the national rate is (though it's likely higher than 30 per billion votes), what matters is that it happens. Plus there is more than simple impersonation. There is multiple voting. There is voting by ineligible voters. None of these can be stopped unless we can get to a place where verification can happen.

For example, a single county in Virginia has thousands of people who report on their jury duty forms that they are not citizens but who then go on to vote in elections.[1] The point is if they were not citizens then they were voting illegally. And if they were citizens but lied on their jury duty questionnaires they have committed a felony and thus ineligible to vote.

[1] https://pjmedia.com/blog/massive-non-citizen-voting-uncovere...
I want to personally thank you! This I feel will quickly become a very useful tool for me when I design projects for Burning Man. The libraries for Eagle can be very very lacking.
Yes. The Apple II was the first computer that was affordable and approachable to consumers. How have we forgotten history this quickly?

In terms of Tesla, their entire plan was to make affordable cars for everyone. They are using high end car sales to subsidize the lower end production.

Palantir has consumer products?

Do you consider sales to finance (where they started) B2C or B2B? I would say it's more B2B - but irrespective of that - the point is that private technology companies like Palantir have to make all of those same evaluations that the president stated weren't happening.
20W meat computers with stereo mics and low-res HDR cameras are level 5 autonomous, don't underestimate digital ones.
"your service is 3x more expensive than alternatives like Nearline (aside from bandwidth), which themselves can be used as a backend for Attic (just mount GCS locally)."

Well, our storage platform is online and random access so it would be inappropriate to compare it to either nearline or glacier.

The appropriate comparison is to S3 - or in this case, the multi-regional GCS option that this discussion points to.

In that case, our attic/borg pricing is 3 cents as compared to (roughly 3 cents) for s3 and 2 cents for GCS - and that assumes you use no bandwidth. Since we charge nothing for usage/bandwidth, the comparable prices from amazon/google would be slightly higher.

It sounds like a steal to me and every day plenty of people agree enough to commence using our services.

Also, unrelated, you know you can just drive up to an rsync.net location and get your data - even if the Internet is crippled.[1]

[1] http://www.rsync.net/products/oob.html
Thank you!
I think I can manage buying a `.co.in` domain, sometime soon. Now that I see it's useful for quiet a few people, I'm convinced it's worth a buy.

Thanks for the offer. You are awesome!
Official TensorFlow GPU Support Available for Windows
jQuery doesn't do that on its own by default just by the act of loading it though. Angular does.
Would you elaborate?
agreed. but buses instead of subways no?
Mostly because there isn't a well intentioned government program in the US that actually runs as it's supposed to, isn't abused, isn't bloated, ever shrinks in costs or gains efficiency, etc.

And I can't leave a comment like that without addressing the inevitable reply about the current state of healthcare, so to clarify, the current state of healthcare in the US is also the fault of the federal government for a bevy of reasons - most notably, incentivizing workplace health insurance that removed insurance coverage from the consumer market entirely, removing its costs and the natural market response to them and simultaneously removing the cost of healthcare itself from that same marketplace.

The federal government has what I like to call a financial firehose that it aims at different problems and every time it aims that firehose, things get worse. Whether we are talking about healthcare, farming, higher education or housing...everything just gets more bloated and expensive when you remove price from discouraging demand in the basic economics of supply and demand.
There are two ways the disenfranchise voters:

1) not being allowed to vote, despite being qualified to do so (your vote doesn't count)

2) voting, but allowing people to vote twice. (this dilutes your vote)

Many people attempt to address one of these problems but not the other. Specifically, avoiding any sort of identification fixes (1) but not (2).

The Supreme Court has found that there are some ID laws that address both of these problems and do not impose any undue burden on people greater than that of normal voting. [0]

Specifically:

1) voter ID is free

2) you can vote up to 30 days before the election

3) you can vote once and only once

In this case, since you can vote far before "election day", you do not have to worry about being "turned away", as you mentioned.

Now, not all voting policies address both of these issues. Some address (1) by disenfranchising people, while other policies address (2). However, the Supreme Court said that the Crawford case is a perfect example of a policy that ensures that every qualified person gets a vote, and nobody can vote more than once.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Elec...
Regarding your first point, the trouble (at least in this instance) is that this logic doesn't apply when you're looking for Roger Waters and calling everyone in the phone book with his name. Each time someone picks up the phone it probably won't be the person you're looking for, but you certainly had reason to believe they could be.

They didn't find a strange phenomenon and point out it might be ETI, in which case you're right, the hypothesis wouldn't make sense until you had ruled out basically everything else. They made a hypothesis about what ETI would look like, looked for it, and claim to have found things that could fit the bill.
This "vulnerability" can be only exploited in specific cases when Angular is used in an unintended way - for example, injected in a web page from extension context in Firefox (which is wrong anyway because it would conflict with scripts on the page).

I tried to understand whether the same is possible in Chrome - injected scripts there have less privileges and use some form of isolation - but the manual [1] doesn't give a clear answer. The injected (and exploited) content script has lower privileges than an extension but has some API methods not available to scripts on a page. For example it can send messages to an extension and it could be exploited too.

But generally Chrome extension architecture provides more isolation and looks more secure especially when extensions are written by not very experienced developers.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts

UPD: Firefox uses the same security model for its web extensions as Chrome so both browsers are equally vulnerable.
Most likely. Angular evals stuff from the DOM. Chrome extensions share the DOM with the webpage like Firefox extensions.
> there's a 100% chance that someone can write code in plain JS that is vulnerable to the same attack

This is plainly false - please don't spread fear where it doesn't belong.

I'm sure you can think of some things that, when written into the privileged environment of an addon, create vulnerabilities that aren't possible in "plain JS."

There is nowhere near a "100% chance" that this is a problem for web apps that don't run as browser extensions.
You aren't inheriting the debts - you are inheriting the estate after all debts have been settled. So the estate could be worth 0, but you'll never inherit a negative estate.
Modern marketing and iconography is so bland. The new MetLife logo looks like a feminine product.
Hi Robert, thanks for this feedback. We'd definitely like to add a KiCad plugin next. About 10% of our users use KiCad so it's definitely a community we want to focus on.

Over the past few months, we've made a lot of changes to how parts are linked. In addition to no longer showing related parts (this is where a lot of confusion was), we have also added notifications when a part hasn't yet been validated. As a startup, our team is constantly improving this too!

In terms of 3D models, you can toggle to the 3D model tab to see an example of the 3D models we're starting to incorporate. Example here: https://www.snapeda.com/parts/ATMEGA328P-AU/Atmel/view-part/ (toggle to the 3D view). These are currently a premium feature, but our goal is to make these also free at some point too.
> There was no net impact in that accident.

Only after a particularly tortured interpretation of highway safety statistics.

If you exclude pedestrian deaths (Few jaywalkers on the interstate), motorcycle deaths, deaths in conditions where autopilot cannot be used, and deaths due to collisions of lighter, less safe, older, or poorly-maintained automobiles, then regular highway death statistics start looking better then autopilot-enabled ones. [1] [2]

Again, there's a great gap between the hype of Tesla, and the reality.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601849/teslas-dubious-cla...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/07/05/adding-...
I would consider hiring a designer to redo your website and launch via kickstarter. You will likely be able to get significant traction there and since you have a working device and have put in the time already, it is quite likely backers will back with confidence. Ideally, you would've wanted to get the demand signal from the market first, but it could be a worthwhile product.
Quoth the SFMTA's Liz Brisson:

There’s no way that autonomous vehicles running on surface streets gets you the level of capacity that grade-separated high-capacity transit gets you. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone argue that it will. E.g. a 10-car BART train with 119 passengers per traincar running at 24 trains/hour today and 28/hour in the future with ATCS upgrades.
Is the secretary of state's trip planner reading your email?
Isn't it a little soon to be judging them at all? We don't even know if this affects regular use of Angular (on websites) rather than just on rare use cases like browser extensions.
Um, this is not a new idea, this is actually the way many large and "respectable" companies work. Just look at HP for a prime example. Or Amazon for that matter (for service quality, not product quality). A lot of people claim Toyota is doing this now.
The Voice of Siri, Susan Bennett, on Achieving Flow State
This is a sign that computer science lacks a decent unifying theoretical framework.

Yea I think that's probably true as well. Do you consider the VonNeumann architecture to the the unifying theoretical framework? If not then what?
Everyone who is discounting this criticism is assuming that it's either self-driving cars occupied by a single person each, or mass fixed-rail transit. That's a bogus assumption. Self-driving uberpool-like services, self-driving buses, etc. will also play a role.

Building fixed-line transit at this point is a massive waste of money. But construction is where the action is in local corruption, so they'll keep doing it.
I don't think we are going to be able to NOT have ubiquitous surveillance. The tech won't go away and only gets better.

The question is not how to prevent it, because we can't (my premise.) The question is, who gets to use it and for what?

We're going to have to learn to live without hypocrisy.
Arq sounds almost ideal, except its still intended more for "backup" than "storage". Its more like an Apple Time Machine.

From what I read, you can still offload data from your local machine by choosing to "archive" a directory.

But thats an extra step and I haven't read how it handles conflicting directory that are created in the future after archiving the original.
I second vonklaus' opinion. Go to kickstarter, sell your first two batches there; get traction, etc.
I skipped the last few generations of Nintendo hardware, but there are a few 3DS and Wii U games that I still really want to try. If Switch is backwards compatible with Wii U and 3DS then it's an instant buy for me.
That'd be like moving from a beat-up frame-and-tarp survival shelter into any long-term, well-built house.. and still sleeping on dirt.
I was specifically refuting the claim that the radiation problem is a blocker, when in fact it is just a minor nuisance. Storms posed more of a danger to the first ships exploring the new world than radiation will to Mars colonists, and that didn't stop anyone.
I actually think you're quite wrong.

My NVIDIA Shield Android TV box is Tegra based, and it drives 4k games pretty darn decent. It's no PS4 but I don't need that (and PS4 can't do 4k games) and you don't need that to run good (non-VR) games. And Nintendo is apparently using their own custom Tegra SoC so it's likely a step above the couple year old Tegra that is in the Shield.

Also the promo video shows Skyrim being played on it. Whether it's real footage or not, I don't know, but it doesn't look bad at all, and requires some decent GPU heft.

And if they're smart about this the switch to an ARM SoC means they'll be able to iterate more quickly and produce new higher spec'd or cheaper models to follow up and keep market, like they should have done with the Wii.
I tried playing that mode when it was first introduced to the series and I didn't much care for it at the time. The manager/bird's eye view is what was intriguing to me, transfers, seeing the game and implementing real time tactics and decisions.

>The biggest area has to do with the use of space; when to expect other players to make runs, when to receive the ball and pivot and switch the sides. I of course would have those instincts from playing for real, but having gotten to do them in-game (with a nice top-down view) has helped me think about my play in real life.

I get how this could be, but I learned so much more from my coaches, from what moves to learn, to when to make a run, when to make certain decisions. Anything I might have picked up from FIFA was subconscious.
For a sufficiently large monitor I'd expect you to generate multiple five-pointed stars on the first try.
It helps that the Xbox One and PS4 are basically lower-spec value gamer PCs.That's not the case for any of Nintendo's hardware. It's even lower spec, without any potential crossover compatibility in architecture.
The responses to you are assuming some dichotomy between fixed-line transit and automated cars carrying average one person each. That's a very bogus assumption. There would clearly be automated uberpool-like services, and everything else from single-rider to buses.

It is indefensible to pour billions of dollars into fixed-line transit at this point. But construction is where the action is in local corruption, so they'll keep doing it.
Chrome extensions are less of an issue though, no? IIRC Firefox addons are significantly more powerful than Chrome extensions, so locking things down tighter makes sense anyway, a low threat on Chrome could be much higher on FF.
Same here. I opened it in incognito mode using Vivaldi and it worked fine though.
Could someone turn this into a business? Then it would hopefully survive on its own.
It wouldn't be ideal, but the Wii U allows some of this with the stock controller and using split screen.
I actually just purchased this course a couple of hours ago. While it's not free, I certainly think it's worth $20.

https://www.udemy.com/react-redux/

Edit: I also signed up for the free React.js Fundamentals class from http://courses.reactjsprogram.com/