skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I misspoke in saying "receipt". You're right that we can't rely on voters keeping their receipts for a recount. I meant a paper record of the vote kept in addition to the electronic record.

I'm not sure where I might have given the impression that a recount would not be necessary. A paper record makes a recount possible and the election system auditable.

The linked Wikipedia article on end-to-end auditable voting systems provides an overview and links to different methods of making voting systems more trustworthy. There's a lot of thought and details that go into it, and if it's something you're interested in, I suggest following up on some of the links and spending more time. I know it's taken me reading a lot of different articles and implementations, and I still need to look up different parts of it.

I did find this slide deck from Ron Rivest helpful:

"Auditability and Verifiability of Elections"
ACM-IEEE talk March 16, 2016

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

Were there particular areas that didn't make sense to you?
That sounds awful.

We have work-related chats, which are 95% serious with the occasional joke - same as we'd make at our desks - and we have offtopic and specific-topic rooms (literally, #offtopic and #videogames and #music, etc.)
There are a handful of (commercial) email address verification services, which could automate some of the logic for you:

* https://kickbox.io
* https://www.emailhippo.com
* http://www.briteverify.com

The pricing might be prohibitive for your usage. I don't know if any of them offer discounts/free usage for open source projects. (Not endorsing any of them; they've been sitting on my own list of things to investigate.)

Also, as an aside: SendGrid may not be suitable for transactional email you need delivered consistently quickly, unless you purchase their dedicated IP option. (And if you're bouncing a lot, a dedicated IP could actually be counterproductive for your delivery.) Recent incident [https://sendgrid.com/docs/Classroom/Deliver/shared_ip_thrott...] and discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142728].
UK to increase national cyber-defence grid
Replaced with what?
Heart attack.
Not moving heaven and earth, just fixing it in a week when you're notified that there's a critical vuln that's actively being exploited against your users. Yes, Google could lower the bar two two weeks, or three, or four, but IMO, even a week is way more than should be necessary: for actively exploited bugs of this magnitude, disclosure should really be 24-48 hours after notification, tops. Perhaps 24 hours to other vendors like Firefox / Opera, and 48 hours to public.

This is not a "wait until the next release cadence" kind of issue, but more like a "scramble all jets and work through the weekend" kind. If I were a Windows user, I don't think there's anything else I'd want MS to work on over fixing an actively exploited remote priv escalation vuln.

Google's security team worked through their Christmas vacations when they had an attack awhile back. To give other companies 7 days to patch their software is really quite generous.
1) What date range was picked? That was a choice. Look back to the last Ice Age, and you would see more variation in the data.

2) What colors are picked for the background? We are in white now and going to red? What if the colors showed us in blue, and global warming moving us to white?

It is a total lie to say raw numbers don't lie. Every part about making an infograph lies. X axis. Y axis. Colors. Labels. We could take the same dataset and draw many different conclusions.

(Not that global warming isn't true, but that infographic isn't enough)
Does anyone really like these heavily designed "article experiences?" It seems like lots of online publishers have decided that no one has the attention span to read anything longer than a few paragraphs unless it is dressed up like this. Maybe they are right.
To paraphrase the late Andy Grove, it's mostly about understanding your subordinates and selecting the optimal approach.
Nope, don't trust their security practices.
>, if a person says, "I don't know, but I still believe," is that not an example of faith? How, then, can you claim that atheism and/or, shall we say, "sciencism", are more rational belief systems than Creationism, Christianity, etc, given that they both ultimately rely on faith?

Quite simply, science gets results, religion doesn't.

What do you think if last Thursday is? Because the rest of your arguments apply equally to that and neither have real world consequences.
If the residents of the eastern side of your street were, on average, more intelligent, wealthy, and altruistic than those on the western side, while being frequently victimized by west side residents who proudly declared their resentment of easterners, then yes, I believe it would be in the eastern residents interest to form a community separate from the westerners.
>For roughly a year, I actually outranked my boss. I did the engineering, and he dealt with schedules, priorities, communicating upward, etc.

That doesn't sound like you outranked him. He scheduled your time, set your priorities, and was gatekeeper to the broader organization.
You're right they are all hitting the wall at the same time. The 7 nm node is going to be a problem node for all of the companies [1]. Popular opinion is that Intel always has enough tricks up it's sleeve to effectively be a node ahead (even when on paper it isn't), but I've never been able to find a source on that. But honestly the industry has been hitting this wall for over a decade, and making less progress then it appears on paper (through not fault of their own. Moore's law has been dead for a long time now. "Node size" has only a loose relation to the size of any structure on the chip and is really just a marketing term.

[1] http://semiengineering.com/7nm-market-heats-up/
While I applaud the effort, this sort of thing suffers from the same problem any "quick introduction" to something rich and complex has: it's easy to see the complexity and discern the unfamiliarity, but requires effort to discern the value. No one has ever been convinced of the value of TeX/LaTeX, Vim, Emacs, Awk, Lex, Lisp, etc. by a fifteen minute intro. They're convinced by pushing themselves (or being forced) to use the tool for a substantial period of time (usually weeks) over several significant projects until they discovered the familiarity, power and utility that it affords people who are sufficiently familiar with the tool. In a machine shop, a lathe isn't an obvious choice for a project until you already know how to use a lathe.
Dragon Caught on Tape During Storm
I have worked with several people who were born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, which is about as mid-Atlantic as it gets. One had very earnestly replaced her accent with that of her adopted Austin, Texas. The other two tried to outdo each other in snobbishness whenever there was a conflict. I don't find it to be a very pleasant accent, but then again, I'm not from there.
Shane Harris from the Intercept said the following on Twitter: "FWIW at least five outlets including The Intercept have been looking at this for weeks and decided it didn't add up"

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/793264979399045120
Not exactly. It has more to do with how deeply you process the stimuli, at least in a lot of situations. For instance, I enjoy parties, but then I think off and on for a few days about what happened, like what I learned I could make use of, what I would like to say to each person if I met them again, and so on.

If I have too much novel social stimuli, then I get a backlog and don't want to deal with people until I have time to process it. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to get all done right in the encounter and are eager to go right on to the next one.
Another iteration of the endless cycle of image hosting sites?

The cycle goes like this:

- people want a bullshit-free service to upload images to, so that they can link to them, and there's no option available

- somebody starts such a simple, bullshit-free service

- as time goes by, the service realizes hosting costs money and they can't operate on a loss forever

- they start adding bullshit to try and bring in some revenue

- site turns into the same bloated crap it replaced

- somebody starts a new bullshit-free site, and users migrate

For instance, imgur is at the last stage of this cycle now. If giphy is taking serious investor money, it spells an accelerated period of crappifying the service - investors need to get their return somehow.
I would wager those are "normal" things, not good. When did hunger, poverty, death etc go up outside wars?
2) Does that include the carbon cost of manufacturing, distributing and installing the tiles?
1. Some Zen practitioners.
2. Philosophers.
A lot of what you're saying is about the history of DOM. You even admit that some of your complaints don't hold anymore, so I don't understand what is the point of holding on to them. And I don't think it follows that just because SGML wasn't designed for SPAs in 1986 that the browser infrastructure we have today is not good for applications. Von Neumann architecture computers weren't designed for playing MP3s, but somehow they manage to do it pretty well.

Because I look at all the GUI toolkits out there (and in the last twenty years I've used a LOT of different ones), and none of them are idealistically "good". I don't see anything particularly special about other toolkits that makes DOM look particular bad. In fact, I tend to think of DOM as being pretty good in comparison, if only for the fact that it works on everything.

"createElement and then set attributes one by one" is no different than any other toolkit. They pretty much all have a simple, static editor syntax for doing bulk element creation and attribute setting, and then a verbose API for dynamic element creation. It's low level because your use case is not the only use case it needs to support. I've seen--and built--a bunch of systems that have tried to simplify it and it always loses something in translation.

So maybe you're complaint isn't with DOM. Maybe you just don't like user interface programming in general.
Ψdirony?
They have done the same for Microsoft, extending the 90-day deadline multiple times.

Why they didn't in this specific instance is probably because it was being actively exploited in the wild, but that's just a guess.
I think "Mid-Atlantic" in this case refers to the accents commonly found from Delaware and Maryland south to the northern parts of North Carolina.
Fundamentally disagree, as I've seen many a community tear itself apart over logo arguments.
So that's 35% of $10bn right there, paid for by the US government. You've got to love financial engineering sometimes.
And all the British bands who have strangely Midwestern accents.
You two are over here arguing cost when I was talking about how much less of a hassle owning a EV is due to the reduced impact to my schedule.

I think there are more people like me out there in the world than there are the financial independence types that scrutinize over marginal TCO discussions. And, those people aren't buying new cars anyways.
You think maybe part of why there haven't been more numerous malfunctions might be because of rigorous NHSTA testing of various parts of the automobile?

Also just because a person on birth control gets pregnant doesn't mean we start pushing pills with unknown success rates in order to get people to use condoms.
> n 2 or 3 years, no one will be selling phones charging with Micro-USB

> In 3 years, USB-C will dominate the market,

Which is another type of fallacy, but that's besides the point -- why will they change? Because everyone wanted a different charger or because some company decided to be "brave" and "courageous" and change them?
Voters should not be able to prove whom they voted for; enabling them to do so opens up the door to several kinds of fraud (vote buying, coercion, etc.).
I suggest reading the following article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...

The plot 2/3 down the page compares Intel's process with competitors. It's a bit out of date in the sense that it only shows projections instead of the result after-the-fact, but the plot shows that Intel is still ahead.
Sounds like the government is saying, we'll pay 200,000 cars X $7500/car -> $1.5 billion to help fund electric vehicle development. This is like $5 per capita (1.5X10^9 divided by 300,000 people) over 2-3 years.

I'm having trouble getting upset.
I used to do all my own maintenance as well. I guess I'll eventually have to do maintenance on the EV, but so far it's just been tire rotations (free), wiper fluid, and tire pressure.
Yeah, "Please do this tastefully and don't overdo it." Submitting your own article four times just because it didn't get the attention you wanted doesn't really fit into that.

If I was stupid and submitted an article in the low traffic hours and it got no comments or upvotes, I sometimes consider reposting (though frequently I just pass). If I post during high time and it gets no attention, no way, it had its chance, it's a dud, time to go do something new.
Well, there was that time when the outgoing administration removed the 'W' keys from many of the keyboards and did other damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/us/white-house-vandalized-...

Given the animosity of the Democrats towards Trump, if Trump wins, I would say there is a non-zero chance that some petty vandalism will also likely occur.
I agree (and I am no fan of Trump, and would never vote for him).

"Tea Leaves" makes one other interesting claim:

>Different in every way from traffic seen on adjacent servers managed by the same server company, this specially configured server has been exclusively corresponding with Alfa-Bank and Spectrum

If he can back up the claims about IP restriction (how could he really prove this, anyway?) & the traffic truly being different from all other Cendyn mail domains, then this does deserve some further scrutiny.

>Tea Leaves claims -- but also does not provide evidence for -- that the DNS records for Trump-Email.com were pulled after Alfa Bank was contacted for a statement.

I actually have access to some of the same research systems and can confirm that that part is accurate. (I can provide full evidence if you like.) It doesn't necessarily mean anything nefarious, though. The Trump campaign formally stated it was an old record that's no longer in use, so decommissioning the domain isn't necessarily unusual.
The utilities may well need to rely on energy storage systems to time-shift generation to usage, but having Powerwall + Solar systems in place effectively drops peak power usage, which should be a net gain to the grid's peak-to-average ratio.
L.A.'s traffic battle plan: More rail, but also Uber, bicycles
> 'Diversity has come to mean complete agreement with the establishment or you are out'

Way to prove him right. Now I'm going to see his whole speech.
> there's nowhere on earth where a full tank of gas costs $150 (or even two full tanks).

My vehicle holds 30+ US gallons. Filling up once is USD$75 at Costco (yesterday). Figure $90 at a regular station. (depending on the price of gasoline.) Filling up twice will probably exceed $150.

The 30+ gallons get me about 500-540 miles typically.
It means the other two examples aren't relevant.
Recently just built and deployed an enterprise (on-prem) offering for my startup https://commando.io.

The single biggest problem by far was ripping/replacing 3rd party SaaS services that we use/pay for with native code. While building a SaaS it is wonderful to use 3rd parties to save time and complexity. Examples include Stripe (payments), Rollbar (error tracking), Intercom (support/engagement), Iron.io (queue and async tasks), Gauthify (two factor auth)... Howerver, when you go to on-prem often times the servers don't have a public interface, so your entire application has to work offline.

2nd tip. While it may seem like a good idea to create a separate branch in your repo for on-prem (i.e. enterprise branch), this is bad idea. It ends up being much better to just if/else in the master branch all over the place:

if(enterprise) {
// do something
}

If/else in the master branch is what GitHub Enterprise does as well (at least was told so).
I've heard these numbers from Forbes come from a very pro-nuclear estimate.

Does anyone more knowledgeable care to comment? What other estimates are there? How are they calculated?
> in a conf, hotz mentioned working on time based depth inference instead of the traditional stereo camera setup

This sounds like structure from motion, SfM, which isn't new at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_from_motion
It's quite possible.
And it's surprising how many people pay.

Me? I just insert the URL of the image I actually want.
Isn't the new tech that comes out of R&D patented?
Worse? Did you miss the part where this vuln is being actively exploited? I'd much prefer if Google disclosed this sort of thing to trusted software vendors immediately and the public within 24-48 hours of finding out.
I agree with you completely, but there are people who aren't okay with big black rectangles on their roof (or are married to someone who isn't okay with big black rectangles on their roof). People tend to be emotionally attached to and have strong opinions about the appearance of their house, which is perfectly understandable. Rather than expect everyone to hold the same opinion about the attractiveness of solar panels, Tesla has made a product for those who think solar panels are ugly. If that means some people will install solar who otherwise wouldn't, I think that's great.

The one downside I can see is that HOAs may require the new kind of solar roof, even for those homeowners who would have preferred the old black rectangles (which would presumably be cheaper). Rules about what an HOA can and can't demand will of course vary by jurisdiction.
Tesla did the right thing considering, they built a toy that wealthy people wanted. That opened a lot of doors for them.
Giphy search almost never yields relevant and funny results and I really wish my coworkers would stop using the Slack integration.
That just shows you how close to the precipice the Australian economy is teetering on.
Sounds like you're communicating with your manager.
Snipt.net is closing
Oh, also, another resource if you want to roll your own email verification: https://www.scottbrady91.com/Email-Verification/Python-Email...
Show HN: KQ – Simple Job Queue for Python Using Kafka
I've been happily using the nitrous.io service for 2 months to play around with Meteor. It is a great service. I quickly defaulted to the shell with tmux rather than using the IDE. Hosting was only $19/month which hit the sweet spot between shared hosting and a VPS.

Shared hosting for Meteor is not an option as a 'meteor update' always runs out of memory and gets killed for using too many resources. You can upload a config, but this is unwieldy and is antithetical to the whole point of Meteor.
This is one place where you don't need to be too concerned about tech giants. They're massively invested in reducing the cost of their datacenters by making them:

1. Less wasteful of electricity. This means less cooling and a relentless drive to push manufacturers to produce more performance for a given watt-hour, which also generally means less waste heat.

2. Less reliant on active cooling: this means that their designs can use ambient air until the air outside reaches a certain temperature. It also means a lot less wasted hardware in the event of an active failure.

3. Less enclosed space: they want to reduce the physical footprint whenever possible because every square foot of enclosed space is maintenance even if you don't have to actively climate control it.

Google, Microsoft and Apple all share these goals, and as such are quite active in the space. Lots of data on youtube for the casual inspection.
Why shouldn't Google care about customers that use Windows? A large percentage of them also use Google services so it's in their interest to inform them.

>If I were Microsoft I'd tell them to mind their own damn business as well.

What would you tell their customers that were infected by their negligence? Let me guess? "Mind your own damn business".
Maybe (hopefully!) things have improved since I last looked at it, but OpenStack is (was?) a complicated, unorganized, over-engineered conglomeration of independent parts.

I sincerely hope that's not the case anymore but that lasting first impression has stopped me from looking into it since then.
A Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging Russians Cultivate Donald Trump
It was actually happening in Hawaii until the state put a stop to new installs.

The death spiral isn't obvious at first. It can take some time to really get going. In the short term, there will even be the occasional benefit for the utilities, such as avoiding an upgrade. The death spiral is still there though, even if it gets off to a slow start.

In any case, it just makes sense that:

1. all customers should pay a fair share to support the grid, even if they are exclusively selling power

2. pay for solar-generated power should be according to current (this moment right now) value, at wholesale rates, discounted due to fluctuations and the inability of the utility to choose when they buy it
Isn't Google's approach dependent on expensive LIDARs and high resolution 3D maps [0], or have they changed that? I don't see that kind of system scale well.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXylqtEQ0tk
Unedited title:

A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump
Selectively misinterpreting them or removing them from context has similar flaws.
Except Donald Trump skips the Y part of your equation. He just states it will be the "best" or "great" or we'll do it "bigly".
One of the problems with JS is the unbelievable amount of churn. It's not uncommon to see libraries have version half-lives in the days or weeks.

The firewall issue is always going to be a problem on corporate networks. I don't think we're ever realistically going to get away from having to self-serve dependencies if you want to ensure that things are going to work, particularly if it's software that is deployed in on-premise, internal servers.
How Zcash Tries to Balance Privacy, Transparency in Blockchain
I was trying to find some sort of self-deprecating humour to explain this kind of obvious hyperbole, but it's not there. If the author was a linguist worth their salt, then they should know the perils of normalising such statements against trivial concepts.
Yes. Hit up Google Scholar with "life cycle", "co2", and "photovoltaic" as terms if you want to understand in more detail.

This report looks pretty good if you want just one document: https://www.nachhaltigwirtschaften.at/resources/iea_pdf/repo...

It's from the International Energy Agency and it is recent (which is important, because commercial PV technology is evolving rapidly).
In Argentina, the previous president (Cristina Kirchner) refused to give up the twitter account @CasaRosadaAR.

http://www.latintimes.com/pulse/cristina-fernandez-de-kirchn...
I would suggest reading the following article to see a source for comparing Intel vs competitors: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8367/intels-14nm-technology-in...
Most importantly it tells MS "fix your shit when your users are being attacked". Seven days ago was a Monday. That means they had a full week and a weekend to fix this. I understand that big bureaucratic organizations move slowly, and that the fix isn't trivial, but this is really the kind of thing for which they should have "scramble the jets and fix it" processes in place if they care about their user's security.

When there are known exploits attacks against users, giving a short time to get out quick patches to trusted software vendors makes a lot of sense, but I don't see a good reason for giving more than 24-48 hours before public disclosure.