skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, there's probably something to be said for stringent limitations on the kinds of technology you can use as an antidote to ease of spending every waking moment looking at a screen. If I wasn't allowed to use Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, an OS with nonfree drivers, any DRMed media, and so forth, I'd probably spend a lot less time screwing around. I'd miss out on a lot too, of course, but the tradeoff may not be all that bad -- my life would, in all honesty, probably be substantially improved just by not having a smartphone to look at constantly.

That's a pragmatic assessment about lifestyle, of course -- it's not germane to the rigor of Stallman's ethics (or, more accurately, the apparent lack thereof).
"You just look at the probably of all events that can happen not just one outcome."

You're probably committing the Gaussian fallacy, which is to assume that all events are always drawn from a Gaussian distribution. Drawing a series of events from a Gaussian distribution centered around zero will tend to at least stick close to zero, sure, but there's no reason to assume that fraud distribution will be Gaussian. Especially in the face of hostile and intelligent entities who know you're making that assumption and will abuse you with it. Very little math or math intuition is structured for dealing with intelligent hostile exploitation. (Game theory, of course. And a lot of math involves assuming the worst of your counterexamples, but that doesn't really come from an intelligence with goals, even if we sometimes are tempted to think otherwise.)
There are several voting systems built on top of Ethereum.
Especially if done using a ZKP like ZCash supposedly does. That would be great.
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I'm not sure your single variable alternative explanation of this effect warrants such a dismissive tone to the hypothesis in the article. Using such rhetoric is Truthy, by being plausible and socially and rhetorically effective without being backed up by any research or even data. Claiming you have greater expertise through attempted ridicule of the original is not a valid argument. Such a rhetorical tactic likely has a fallacy named after it. (Any debaters here cars to chime in? )

What are your justifications for your beliefs, and how are they superior to those in the article?
Capitalism is far from exploitative. It is based on mutually beneficial trades by both party's choice.

Maybe those people are working because it offers better pay than other jobs, even if the conditions seem bad to you? (this may not be true in all situations)
ability to hire tester maybe. allow others to fund project with you.
While its definitely true that corporate companies and startup-ey companies each have their pros and cons, what really gets me is the holier-than-thou attitude that seems to be at the core of modern startup culture.

I mean how often do you hear somebody saying that you should "quit their startup job to come work in the corporate world"? On HN for example, there is a pervasive view that the ultimate nirvana for anyone's life is to do your own startup or "side-project".

That said I'm not saying you shouldn't do a startup if you want to or that they are even a bad thing. Larger organisations, especially in the IT industry, have definitely benefited from some of the practices made popular by startups. Just don't try and tell me that working in a startup will be in any way more enjoyable than working for a corporation. It will be for some people, but I'd argue not most people and certainly not all.
And isn't Twitter a simple, single-purpose app, too? (At least before they purchased Vine and Periscope.)
When all else fails (web link, incognito), learn to archive.is:

http://archive.is/Wh2iM
John Podesta emails - ""US not a democracy" - https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23756

For receipt of this message to reflect in any way on Podesta, you need to establish a pattern of communication and reliance on the advice of the sender.

Imagine you think this reply to you is really stupid. Does that stupid then automatically reflect back on you?
> CNTK allows to
OT pet peeve: the tech culture's distaste for pronouns has made this all too common. It doesn't even have to be a pronoun: "users", "people", "clients", etc all work -- but without it, the author is referring to a thing is never specified. That offends me as a technical person far more than pronouns ever will.

In particular, project descriptions and readmes are rife with "X allows to".
Here's a link to slides from a talk Ronald Rivest gave back in March 2016 at ACM-IEEE:

"Auditability and Verifiability of Elections"

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/Riv16x.pdf

It covers a lot of what I'm sure is going to be discussed in this thread, including vote receipts, coercion, verifiability that your vote is counted.

Edit to add:

And heres a good talk by Ben Adida speaking at Google for a "Theory and Practice of Cryptography" TechTalk series entitled "Verifying Elections with Crytography" from 2007. Good stuff there, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDnShu5V99s
I read somewhere about someone redefining goto as goat, but I can't remember where.

Might have been the Lua Programming Gems book...
mtw's message was in reply to someone talking about credit cards, as opposed to debit cards ("most people use the CB, but"). But maybe he didn't notice. And I don't know if the figure quoted there is good. Elsewhere [1] I found 20 million credit cards, instead of 34.

[1] https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/market-studies/ms14-6-2-c...)
Not at all surprising that Apple is trying to vertically integrate as much as possible. If it were cost efficient to do so, I imagine Apple would love to actually produce their own chips (though given how much scale is needed, I they are definitely a long way off from that).
Why attack the investigative journalist? The information is in video form. Ignore his interpretation if you feel the journalist isn't any good, that doesn't invalidate the evidence.
TL;DR:

You have a very specific problem P you want to solve. It's too large when specified to pitch successfully, so you compress it with a destructive, one-way generalization function G, getting you a general problem G(P). You spend so much time pitching G(P) that you forget what P was.

The problem: customers don't want you solving G(P), they want you to solve P. But G is a one-way function, so you can't get P from G(P).

Solution: note the problem P down somewhere before you start pitching G(P). Reread the notes when you get your funding.
We already have a standardized alternative to AMP; it's called HTML.

Just cut the crap.
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You could use a white desktop background and GifCam[1] / WebMCam[2].

[1] http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/

[2] https://github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam
You could use WebMCam.

https://github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam
For the wallet to be useful, the person you are beating will either know who else needs to be beaten, can be compelled to withdraw their funds under duress, or in the case of a centralized counterparty, like a bank, can be trivially compelled by a government bearing a lawful order, to sign off on a money transfer.

If none of those means of getting you to pay work out, they can always leave you to enjoy your internet money in jail.
I was responding to your question here:

Wouldn't it be cool if engineering projects called in a team of artists?

By saying it does happen. Could it happen more, sure, but it does happen quite often, and for more than just murals.

Regarding the general debate here of engineer vs artist, I gave up on it. We have to first agree on what is meant by "art". By some definitions, engineering is very clearly art. By others, it's very clearly not.
It seems like a few get pretty close. The Dell U2417H and Benq EW2750ZL look nice, if small bezel is what you're looking for (24" and 27" respectively, but those are just examples).
Rediculus. This paranoia has to end. I don't know wether people in general have a fear of being stalked by a racing FPV with a shoddy CMOS camera at the beach, or if they fear some lunatic strapping a handgrenade to one.

FPV is pretty much what makes drones fun to use, I don't see why you would outright ban "drones" instead of just making regulations as to where you can fly with a camera.

EU will practically ban drones too in the near dystopian future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCyiO6shKGI
When was that, and why did we stop?
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Spare me the No True Scotsman fallacies. In the Communist Manifesto, Marx lays out the agenda:

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production...
> Its webrtc, so direct peer to peer connections during gameplay.

How does one player knows I'm connected without a server that tracks remote connections ? please explain.

edit: no need to explain, the library you are using does use a server, off course, I quote your comment :

> I believe PeerJS does use a server to broker conmections.

this isn't serverless, since it relies on a server. This is an important point and shouldn't be obfuscated by "serverless" buzzworld. Furthermore I doubt your project is going to run if I double click on an HTML page on my harddrive to launch it, it has to be hosted somewhere.
Except in this case the cop would've been actively looking for anything suspicious in the car, while the driver would've been focused on the road most of the time he was in the car.

How often do you look at the passenger's floor as a driver?

As for the excuse, that might be the first thing to expect, but that doesn't automatically make him a liar. The onus is on the law to establish that it's not grandma's. Plus, grandma actually did have a prescription for the narcotic, so even if the excuse might sound shady, it's certainly plausible.
Two solutions for this to my mind.

(1) Give voters a paper receipt like they get at an ATM. They can confirm their vote, leave the receipt, and the paper trail is there for anyone to recount. It would be extremely complicated to tamper with both the electronic and paper ballots and have the results come out the same.

(2) Improve the science of exit polling. Right now exit polls suck due to sampling biases and the inability of independent firms to cover enough territory [1], but this kind of independent verification--if done expansively and competently--could provide an independent verification on the final vote tallies. If the tallies drastically differ from the exit polls, then an investigation is warranted.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/upshot/exit-polls-and-why-...
>This is the 4th article that people have submitted from my blog in the last hour

I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are some people who run ml or simpler algorithms to suggest posts- I at one time experimented with this kind of stuff on Reddit (ShittyCommentBot sadly got banned for some reason, and now appears to be deleted (thankfully))

edit: Also- cool blog
ok, I finally found it. Note that it's still from 2012 and we've moved along from that dispute.

* http://www.thread-safe.com/2012/07/the-oauth-2-sky-is-not-fa...
* https://hueniverse.com/2012/07/30/on-leaving-oauth/
This still depends significantly on the airport. At somewhere like LAX, even Global Entry and priority boarding is a far cry from "walk straight to the gate".
If every single edit you made was reverted, maybe they weren't really constructive edits? Just food for thought.

> If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. - Raylan Givens, Justified

On a more serious note, I always hear people complaining about getting reverted. What they don't realize is that, often, their edits really are just bad. Here's some of the stuff I have to revert daily:

* Test edits/gibberish

* Vandalism

* Original research [0]

* Changing stuff to match their variety of English [1]

* Making the grammar worse, or going against the Manual of Style [2]

* Improper tone [3]

* No edit summary giving a rationale for the edit

A lot of the time, the changes people make are just arbitrary or don't improve the article. If you ever feel you were improperly reverted though, you can always bring it up on the talk page.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Nati...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_artic...
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The basic reason we're okay with it is there is almost no compelling reason for an individual to falsely claim to be other people -- at least none where the risk/reward factor pays off. The reward for casting a false ballot is almost certainly zero, and the risk factor of, say, a friend in the polling place saying "Hi Steve!" when you tell the people you're John is enough to tip the scales.

Almost any effort to rig an election involves falsifying hundreds or thousands of ballots (or, as we've started to see, depriving said number of their right to vote).
Until then: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Startup+Scho...

:)
Absolutely agree with the article. We do boring stacks at Stack Overflow (we are proudly a ASP.Net MVC/SQL Server shop) and our performance stats are pretty damn good.

Our average page is rendered in less than 20ms on cache misses [0] and we do over a billion page views per month with 9 web servers at 5% capacity. [1]

Sorry but it does get annoying when people suggest we "improve" our stack with $fancy_new_stack.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/790527231600787456

[1]: http://stackexchange.com/performance
It's not really bandwidth that causes the issue. Javascript is just really slow, both in parsing and execution. According to Chrome dev tools, parsing jquery takes 20ms on my 4.4 GHz desktop CPU. Now imagine how long that takes on a mid-range smartphone. Then add in a dozen other javascript libraries and shims and polyfills and the site is barely usable.
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"Globalization never embraced the free movement of people."
Precisely the principle globalization rests upon. Everything mobile but the workforce.

"Connections, beauty and brains will permit upward mobility."
Plus ça change, plus c'est le meme chose.
eLance merged with oDesk and became UpWork - all a shoddy marketing play. I had a similar story. I ended up winning my dispute with a client, after 2 months of my account being suspended. Honestly UpWork doesn't care about freelancers, they make money on the clients; freelancers are just a replaceable commodity to them.
Not at all. I have a lot of friends who do this and travel. Especially in business you aren't fighting for overhead space. If you can do carry on only, you definitely should. It makes travel significantly easier.
I hope they will look at Erlang/OTP instead of Java EE for inspiration.
I totally agree! That's why I check out the new stuff in the first place. It's not just "keeping up with hype" as most people say. Generally, new tech comes up with it's own way of doing stuff (which may be exactly what you need to solve your problem).
Jonathan Katz et al showed that turnout among AAs hasn't noticeably been affected by voter ID laws, although that was almost certainly the intent.

See: http://jkatz.caltech.edu/research/files/wp1267R.pdf
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The problem with asking for stronger authentication at the polling place is that we live in a third-world country [1] that does not have a free, mandatory national ID card. Those aren't just cards with photos - they're tokens of a national system for authenticating citizens' identities, which they must use in order to participate in daily economic life (get a cell phone, open a bank account, sign a lease, etc.) Since in a sane country everyone has one of these (usually on their person), requiring people to present it doesn't present an extra burden. Whereas in the US, in which a shockingly large fraction of the population goes about their daily lives without any such government-authenticated identity, forcing people to obtain such an identity just in order to vote is more likely to disenfranchise them than to get them to go get an ID.

Case in point - under the Help America Vote Act, you do have to present identification on the first time you register (or in practice, the first time you vote after you register by mail)... but in order to avoid the disenfranchisement issue the list of allowed forms of identification is so enormous as to be meaningless.

[1] I exaggerate. A little.
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Unlike Bitcoin, where Satoshi probably mined 5% of all BTC before other people noticed? Or unlike Bitcoin, where developers get paid by layering centralized startups on top?
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mpg isn't really relevant, though. If you fly a few international flights a year, or even coast to coast, you can easily rack up many more miles than you would drive. Flying easily dwarfs the carbon footprint of driving.
You are missing the point and mistaking my comment for a partisan one (though I can understand why). My point isn't that Podesta is nice or evil. Only that the people making the political structure of the US parties (here the Democratic party) are self-aware and cynical about the current situation. I agree that in a vacuum this email alone does not tell you much. You could very well argue that this is not an admission of guilt from Podesta. And that's fine.

However: 1/ the sender isn't a nobody. 2/ there are an amount of other elements that makes it highly unlikely that somehow one of the most influential back office advisor of the Democratic party isn't aware of the very unethical crap that is going on the field.
At that price I could archive a few million online works of art, at the least.
The point seems to be that the court would actually have to order you to release the funds, as opposed to the current case where law enforcement can seize physical funds without a court order, putting the burden on you to get it back if the seizure wasn't justified.

The court reference you replied to is saying that the court system protects you from having a state actor use force to take your property before you've had your day in court.

ETA: That said, I don't think you need anonymity for this, so it would apply to any currency you can use as cash and secure with a password. I guess the anonymity just makes it more like physical cash in that nobody can track how much or where you spend/receive it. For tax purposes, it would be no different from cash in terms of ability to work under the table and be called on it or accused of it by the IRS.
Why would giving a ballot to anyone on the list be a huge issue? If people try to vote as other people they will quickly get caught which is enough deterrent I think. What is the scenario you are imagining?
Here's a question: I can see the value in an anonymized blockchain for use by individuals...

...but, is there a reason that anonymity would be good for use in a blockchain for use by businesses? Or, is it categorically better for a business-centric blockchain to have the most identity possible?
But in reality, it's also more mundanely exploited by Facebook and Tumblr to drive traffic.
> Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
Well, Angular 1 still seems to work pretty well, at least for now. It's not a requirement to upgrade to Angular 2 yet, and it's not like Angular 1 apps will suddenly break and lose all their functionality, at least not without intentional decisions made by browsers to not support it.
There is, perhaps, some implementation of capitalism which is not exploitative of people. We haven't found it yet.
The focus of this argument seems to center around people casting multiple votes, "dead" people voting, etc. The problem is that there's no vote-verifiable trail and serious security issues with electronic voting booths.

There was even a video interview with Howard Dean where he shows how easy it is to dink around in the MS Access database on voting machine and change the votes [0].

This [1] paper from 2003 sums up some of the issues nicely:

Voters can cast multiple votes without
leaving any trace. Voters, as well as voting staff or others with access to the machine,
can perform actions that normally require administrative privileges, including viewing
partial results and terminating the election early. Furthermore, communications between
voting terminals and the central server are not properly encrypted, allowing a
malicious man in the middle to alter the content of the communications

I have zero faith in Diebold voting machines (or machines like it). And I'm very skeptical that people with malicious intent haven't already attacked and plan to attack such electronic components.

[0] http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2724

[1] https://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/pub/hackavote2003tr.pdf
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Don't really agree - what they're doing is very different compared to what, for example Ember does (which they call 'convention over configuration').

Next's routing is much more similar to Jekyll's which quite literally is based on your filesystem file-organisation.
Progress demands risk.
Right? It's not like the cop is Judge Dredd, he gets time in front of a judge...
Another altcoin. This one has a 10% pre-mining cut for the founders:

"Zcash's monetary base will be the same as Bitcoin's — 21 million Zcash currency units (ZEC, or ⓩ) will be mined over time. 10% of that reward will be distributed to the stakeholders in the Zcash Company — founders, investors, employees, and advisors. We call this the “Founders Reward”."

Here's a list of the other 709 altcoins.[1] 373 of them are still tradeable. 88 have a market cap in excess of $1M. 27 have a market cap in excess of $10M. 4 have a market cap in excess of $100M. PayCoin, which was last year's heavily promoted new cool coin with a "guaranteed floor" of $20, is now at position 415 with a value of $0.002606 and a market cap of $30,247.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/