skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting, particularly for presidential elections, is the ultimate exercise in pointlessness. Not only is it statistically completely insignificant at your individual level, but in fact the US voting system is designed to not always reflect the opinion of the majority! Not to mention the uncountable cases of fraud.

Things you can do to make your political voice heard:

- call/write to your local representatives

- go out and join a protest (better, start a protest!)

- donate money to a cause you care about

- volunteer (i.e. donate time) for a cause you care about

- write a blog, start a podcast, distribute flyers, etc. etc. etc.

But voting is certainly not in there. And not only is voting a completely insignificant act - its utmost importance is forced through the minds of children and adults all across the country as if it were the most important thing a citizen could do, and not voting is socially less acceptable than clubbing baby seals. Of course, those in power know that, but voting is convenient for them - it lets them give a semblance of control to the people, all the while the things that really matter can be controlled behind closed doors, where the average citizen has no leverage. A population that just goes out to vote when they're supposed to (with their votes easily manipulated by the media establishment) and forgets about the political machine the rest of the time is an easily controlled population.

A good essay:
http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/03/your-vote-doesnt-count
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> They are entering Comcast's market in Seattle

They aren't really competitive in most of Seattle. 6-12 Mbit vs ~50 Mbit at the same pricepoint. I don't hate Comcast that much.
I think this is exactly right. There is some fudging with the cost (this seems to be a common theme with Elon) by pre-including savings and rebates Etc, but the fact is this makes a solar roof something different than a set of panels across an existing roof. The durability question, and the weight per sq foot will be interesting.

That said, the combination of the PowerWall and the roof might actually make it more amenable for power companies since you could grid tie "for emergencies" but lower your total overall power budget and help avoid the evening surge (max grid usage in the Bay Area is about 5:30PM, solar is off-line and people are coming home from work, firing up appliances (like cooking dinner, getting a beer from the fridge which turns on the converter) environment systems (heating/cooling) are activating to bring the house to the 'occupied' temperature, Etc.

If your house uses its PowerWall for all that energy you'll appear as a much smoother non-load on the grid.
Cool! Caddy webserver supports something similar I think —minus the google sign-in: https://caddyserver.com/docs/multipass
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But webasm isn't exactly going to solve that.

Unless you go 100% no-js you are still going to need to interact with it, and even if you do completely remove JS in your stack, the DOM APIs are still geared toward JS, and work in ways that make sense to JS.
Maybe so people can't claim the new president said something they didn't? When you change avatar and name, old tweets update their design.
I know lots of people with 3 or more cars in the household.

If you get outside of urban areas, car ownership is much higher, since you can't get anywhere without them.
Thanks for checking it out! Sorry I wasn't more clear about it. It's still just bits and pieces of the initial design, and is clearly not in any sort of useful state. I'm not yet asking anyone to try it out--just pointing to the link in case you want to track the development.
I tried Nitrous a few times and thought it was nice, but I kind of feel like it's the wrong decade to start depending on a proprietary dev tool you can't host. Being able to install Cloud9 on your own computer was great if you were xx - xxx ms from a server or offline.

Hopefully their software resurfaces with new opportunities when it's open sourced.
Could use "μmanagement," which includes side-irony.
The main beneficiary is Facebook and other hyper-scale operators for whom datacenter operating costs is not a competitive advantage.

Google and Microsoft are arguably in it to look "open" and/or they are trying to reduce their hardware R&D costs (like how they use Linux).

AWS are staying out because they consider their hardware proprietary and a competitive advantage. I don't think Google has made their latest and greatest stuff open (particularly network infra).

If you don't have the scale to order your own hardware then you should probably be considering one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Ask HN: As an app developer, do you care if an SDK is open source?
When integrating a third-party SDK, via Cocoapods/Carthage/Gradle/etc., do you look up the SDK to determine if it is open source before using it?

Does your company have strict requirements around this type of thing?

Does the decision change if it's for iOS vs. Android?

In short, if you were to build a new SDK today, how hard would you fight to make the SDK open source from day 1?
There's Codenvy[0], whose beta is built upon Eclipse's new Che[1], which can also be self-hosted.

[0]: https://codenvy.com/

[1]: http://www.eclipse.org/che/
Looks like 16gb is out of stock i dont see it too, you can buy another 8gb one and upgrade to 16gb for $40 from newegg.
Unfortunately, you are correct. And if you refer back to my first comment, you will see me saying something very much like that ;-) However, that is not the original intent of a paper, which is what my later argumentation referred to.
I worry about polarization to such an extent that administration N might spend millions of dollars to develop tools useful for the running of the nation and, upon transition, these tools are negated to administration M almost purely on an ideological bases.

In other words, we are not supposed to be developing software and tools at the White House, or anywhere else, to support a particular political party but rather in support of our nation.

Not saying this is what you have done. I just have a sense that if Trump wins those not sympathetic with the right might cripple the infrastructure that was developed or let it rot and become useless. This isn't good for anyone.
Container folks currently advise to not put the database into a container unless you really really really know the internals of both. Even Kelsey Hightower stressed this in a talk - "if you want to keep your job, keep databases out of containers". ReadMe had no prior Docker experience, and they started by putting Mongo (which is complex to manage as is) into a container. This would make me uneasy.

Does Replicated assist with this database/persistence layer? Perhaps by helping you to spin up the DB as a separate VM on the clients' side?
Modern POWER is ppc64le so no use for this. On the other hand nearly every arm machine can run big endian.
I'm going to give Apple one potential benefit-of-the-doubt point here, despite the fact that I think there's also good reason to suspect they're not above succumbing to the incentives they have to hobble the web vs native.

If they're primarily about tablet and mobile devices now (lots of indicators that's the case), they're going to be concerned about battery life, performance, and other impacts on user experience. If history repeats itself, they're probably concerned about these things at a level of fussiness that other vendors often don't share. They might well not be on board with wasm for related reasons, or they might take longer to conclude it'll be OK, or work out whatever efforts make them feel good about it.

Or they might just lurve their walled garden a lot.
I think it's far more likely that the NHTSA was caught flat-footed by Tesla's autopilot system, and didn't react in time, with fatal results. Now they're seeing a scrappy startup trying to dive into the same space where multi-billion-dollar car companies ought to fear to tread, and they've done their best to nip it in the bud before every tom dick and harry with a webcam and a graphics card starts trying to send their car on solo missions.
Ah, the about page is outdated. Thanks.
There may still be time depending on how quickly Comey moves ;)
You can remap caps lock to both escape (when tapped) and control (when chorded)! Works on OS X and Linux.

http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...
Can't disagree with that. The way it functions and the plethora of apps you get with it are good enough for me
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U.K. Startup Powa’s Failure Sparks Cross-Atlantic Spat
Now you can fire Trump or Clinton
But Apple could have upgraded the Airs.
Your comment prompted me to read the article in question. I did so with an eye out for the descriptions of DNS. I didn't get the impression of DNS being sinister. Writing about a technical topic like DNS for a largely lay audience (slate.com) can be challenging, but nothing stood out as particularly grievous to me. I'm admittedly not an expert. What about the article did you take to be foggy or sinister?
There is http://pub400.com which'll give you free terminal access onto an IBM iSeries
If your primary bank allowed you to “link” your other banks, would you do it?
Similar to how mint.com and other financial aggregators allow you to see all of your financials in one place, would it be valuable if your primary bank allowed this as well?
The Most Incomprehensible Document: Certain Bimetallic Cylinders from Japan
To me, "drone" has some different connotations. It usually seems to mean either:

- Ability to operate out of the pilot's line of sight (through streamed cockpit video or autonomous operation)

- A lazy term for a multi-rotor (3 or more) aircraft
Powerful Invoicing Tools Businesses and Freelancers Can Use to Create Invoices
I have Retina MacBook and can tell you that two years after the RMB introduction the USB Type C ecosystem barely exists.

Although to be fair I don't plug much into my machine any more so it doesn't really affect me.
Facebook 'still fails Napalm girl test', says Aftenposten
Nice no-nonsense shutdown post. I kinda miss the nonsense though.

Like why are they shutting down, are they keeping their static-hosting service Pubstorm, and if so, how - at $5 per month - can that be more economical?
I'll second that from personal experience, roofs are definitely an emotional decision. They can look great, be artsy, and even cover your house in the most visible of manners.
Distrusting WoSign and StartCom Certificates
why can't i fire Soros?
This is known as a fallacy in economics. You should have a time horizon on your decisions, and of course, it should not exceed, let's say, 10 years less than your expected lifespan.

So something like 50-60 years is the longest considered timespan. Rewards on that sort of timeframe have to be extreme (essentially 1.0450=7, as in 7 times ROI would be the risk-free rate. For an investment with minimal risk a factor 30 or so would be required)
When Will Robots Take All the Jobs?
Or maybe they'd rather just start selling their product immediately in China?
Better GPU? I wonder how the 13" will fare when hooked up to the LG 5K screen coming out in December.
Regarding the ports, I think it's worth pointing out that the specific set Apple is offering is the most powerful possible. Inconvenient at present, perhaps, but consider that a USB Type-A port can't do USB 3.1 10Gbps, can't do Thunderbolt, and can't charge the machine.

USB-C, on the other hand, can do all of these. By having four of them, the laptop is maximally versatile (USB, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, power input, configure as you like) and offers maximum peak I/O bandwidth.

Keeping one of the older ports would be more immediately convenient (no need for an adapter), but would mean a less powerful machine overall if that means sacrificing a USB-C port.

The lack of an SD card slot is sad, though. Losing MagSafe is maybe a shame, too, but you do gain a standardised port (so one companies other than Apple can make chargers for), a power cable detachable from the brick, and the ability to connect it to either side of the machine.

I guess the best way to describe the port configuration is “far-sighted”. It's extremely future-proof and capable, and will be great once USB-C is everywhere, but it's painful right now.
Even better, "The system worked, sometimes better than everything on the market."

Oh boy, I just gotta have a self-driving system for my car that can sometimes work really well!
Ex-Googler Debuts Platform to Let You Build Your Own Pokémon Go
Hardware is hard and expensive. I doubt there is enough industry support financially to commit to designing an open source CPU to be compatible with software designed for Intel CPU's. It's just the cost of doing business.
Interesting https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
Renderbot: Powerful and Affordable Blender Rendering in the Cloud
Why would you buy an adapter to connect your printer? You can get USB-C to B cables for printers, and USB-C to micro USB for pretty much anything else. There are USB-C/A sticks.... transitioning to USB-C will be pretty neat, you'll just need a few new standardized cables. Migrating from SCSI to Firewire and then to USB 2.0 was a lot more hassle...
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How he reconciled (b) with his generational ignorance of SCM would be interesting to hear from him.

(a) better late than never!
They might be "exaggerating"...
> would that, and thousands of other packages, be feasible without a workable POSIX layer?

I think my problem is the core concept. POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface (and X stands for Xtreme?). In an age where we spin up entire operating systems to start a single application, why are we defining portability at the operating system level when network portability works so much better?

Keep in mind, this is also an age where systems like Qubes OS can make separate VMs cooperate with each other.

The only sell for POSIX I can think of is performance, and I don't know if I buy it anymore. Why do programs have to be cross-compatible when the concept of an operating system no longer means owning the hardware?
Actually all my money was on google, i expected them to drive into the scrapfield, after the car companys and Tesla pushed each other into a early market situation and upped Legislation, kicking themselves out of the market, with a carnaggedon.
But they backed out, because their managers want the chicken to exist before the egg. So, why not bet on the outsider?
The guidelines ask you to please not do this. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12841226 and marked it off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you expand on that? I feel like you're onto something, but I don't want to put words in your mouth.

So what is the story with calibration?
Show HN: DotConfigs- Framework to auto-configure and sync between linux machines
Most of new games built with Flash are using Stage3D which runs on the GPU. These games however don't really rely much on the vector capabilities and animation timeline, which still uses the CPU. Adobe could probably make a vector renderer run on the GPU though. Some people have made vector animation renderers as a proof of concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmgRiMhP4q4
Always a nice win when you can use tools to speed up your code. The only unfortunate part is that it's platform specific.
Show HN: Cloud mining cluster for Zcash with Docker Swarm (screen and gist)
Email filters and autoresponders are a bit convoluted to expect wide adoption. A TXT record might work though. Is a referral in a TXT record any worse from a security perspective than a referral in an MX record?
From a green house global warming perspective, we want as much light (and heat) reflected back into space as possible right now.
Postmates confirms $140M funding round at $600M valuation
Many solar cell installations use maximum power point trackers with an internal high voltage DC bus - you could presumably tap that and distribute it directly throughout the house (often it's also directly attached to lead-acid battery banks, if used). In fact, you can often take ~170VDC and directly power many passive PFC power supplies with it. You still need inverters for AC motors though, which are a big portion of the load (compressors, fans).
I would take Eich at his word that there is support within Apple's browser development team. They have, after all, managed to reach ES6 compatibility faster than anyone else.

Apple's lack of public engagement probably has more to do with management's priorities. Apple's lack of community engagement is a problem: they drag their feet on WebView, block 3rd party browsers, and stymie adoption of open codecs like Opus and WebM.

However, Wasm can be polyfilled, so it can reach critical mass without Apple's explicit cooperation. At some point, not supporting Wasm will mean losing market share (and thus revenue) to Firefox and Chrome.
>whether or not science ought to be the way you describe it,

I'm assuming a charitable readership - but its frequently stated, and I agree, that industry is for high value things we know will work, science/research/academia is geared for less certain / more speculative projects difficult to commercialise yet.

> If scientists aren't reading what their colleagues publish, that is not a failure of research

Well, maybe?

Or maybe the paper authors hoped the results would be amazing, but they were only mediocre [research issue]; but they decided they might as well publish after getting the results (which is good), and some people skimmed the abstract; but it wasn't as interesting to others as the authors hoped (diverse perspectives; good); or the whole field went a different direction; or the specific competition found a better technique/result in the interim [research issue] and got all the love.

That's all just how research goes - doesn't mean anyone is failing to communicate necessarily.

> This is not a failure of research, this is a failure of science.

Maybe; maybe not.

I agree there's lots of problems in science, but based on my limited experience, I'd expect and think its OK for lots of stuff to be unread; lots of dead ends.

Lots of startups should fail too, that's not a bad thing; its like there's simply a high bayes error.

IMO real failure is things like people making up data, or doing research they know is bunk (maybe they hacked their p-values or left out data, or something) or continuing research they discovered is useless but their Adviser is politically wedded to etc.
Nature and Science, kinda. Those articles, though very good, can be very buzzfeedy in their 'zeitgeist-ness'.

I got to talking with one of their editors a while back, they know they are the 'gatekeepers' to a scientific career, and they hate it. The guy said that in the first week of the year, the submissions that they have for just the first week for the first issue are so much, and of such high quality, that they could just shut down the rest of the submissions for the year and see no drop whatsoever in quality. Getting into Nature or Science is so prestigious, it will make your career if you are grad student. Unfortunately, it is effectively a lottery to get in them.

Not to say you can't "make it" in other journals, but Nature and Science are sure things. If you are a post-doc in some fields, you pretty much have to get in Nature or Science, sometimes twice, to be considered as a faculty recruit worth mentioning. It's a giant god-damn mess of a system. It is very 'up or out' and as such, we waste billions training students that have no chance, doing work that languishes in unranked journals, and generally loosing the trust of the public that pays us.

NIH is trying to help, but it and the NSF are so inundated with Bullshit Artists and Yes-men that I doubt they can get away from their sclerotic bureaucracies and change.
I'd call a dongle a short cable whose only purpose is to provide an adapter from socket A to socket B.
I concede, my friend. They do have the character.
Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?
I regret to have regretted too much. Especially the ones i tried to fix.
It's not hard to understand ("you have the key, in a form of file or a hardware token, use it to open your account" is something average grandma can grok - no harder than passwords), but current UI and UX are terrible. Then it's chicken-and-egg problem: no one uses certificates because they're unuseable, and no one works on their usability because no one uses them.
Is testing who can sound the most competent while pulling a number out of their ass really the best test to determine the right candidate? There are good consultants out there, but there are also the horror stories.
That's not exactly 'more fundamentals'; it's a much shorter, less informative, and more biased piece. The linked article goes far more in-depth, is far more objective, and after reading through the first 5 articles I feel a little bit more edified about the issue.

Now I understand the core beef: that a schema change to this voting software caused all votes to be stored in their relational DB as doubles instead of ints, and a good way for observers to verify that an ordinary election isn't behaving as a weighted one behind the scenes was never added, which makes this voting system insecure and not what a reasonable person would consider "observable".

The article you linked, on the other hand, made me feel patronized, skeptical of the author's central premise, and a little bit uncomfortable.
North Dakota pipeline is nice example of an operation receiving a good dose of government funding that arguably goes against the best intentions of the future population
Ultimately every conception of rights is subjective, but property is generally recognized as that which we acquire through First Possession (a principle observed throughout the Animal Kingdom), and Homesteading (taking unclaimed natural resources and reconfiguring them into a more valuable resource).

First Possession at least has been shown in Game Theory simulations to lead to stable equilibriums, so it's not surprising that property rights are so widely observed. I think observance of the Homesteading principle naturally emerges from observance of the First Possession principle.

Where it gets fuzzy, in my opinion, is property rights over natural resources like land, which derive almost all of their value from their natural form, rather than the value done to them by their original appropriator.
This is great. I cannot wait for projects like Scala.js to compile to WebAssembly, to bring some more language diversity to the browser.
Please don't insult other community members like this here.
What if computer technology now is like space technology in the late 70s? After 40 years of continuous progress, suddenly the rate of improvement in technology completely flatlines and all the future predictions of going to the outer planets and such don't come true.

How will the future be different?
Thanks for the comment, you're very right; but these two were mass production units that still preserved much of what the earlier units great. We have a few earlier Apple alps kbs you mentioned, but I'll shoot the Model F to our slack channel.
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SourceLair, ShiftEdit
I don't even see how it will show you that option-shift-2 is the Euro symbol. You'd have to already be holding down option-shift for it to show up, wouldn't you?

So you'd have to already know most of the shortcut.

This product seems like a solution in search of a problem.
There is still sourcelair.com
Is there any option to store the source trees in a compressed filesystem? It won't help with the .git directory but on my ZFS NAS I get a 20% saving on that kind of content.