skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Minnesota Taxes the Rich, Pays Workers More, And–Shocking–The Economy Improves
You seem to forget the second world war somewhere... That's not socialism which killed all those Russians, just the Stalingrad battle alone killed 1.2 million soviets.
The machine I used in early voting also had a paper trail - when you submitted the votes, it printed them as a secondary record. It was moving too fast for me to read all the votes as the paper went by, but the ones I caught were correct. So there is a literal paper trail there.
If I may I would recommend the work of Sherry Turkle[1] from the MIT. There are several talks from here on youtube, and I particularly like her conversation on the good life project podcast[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle
[2] https://soundcloud.com/goodlifeproject/sherry-turkle
I program and manage CNCs for a living. They are subtractive: they remove material; they don't add it. The abbreviation is not merely literal; its used to denote machining. You could call a 3-D printer a CNC, but they're not actually called that.
It's also regional. 90% of cars in the UK are manual. I don't know why exactly, but I guess it is mostly momentum and the fact that they are cheaper to buy and maintain.
You dont have to assume when you have google, yeah it seems to be a bit below 200 miles per 12h shift..
I've found the 'You Don't Know JS' series very helpful for understanding JS from the ground up. In book form or for free via !gh, https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS.
I hope to God you refused and reported this. That's completely illegal and could get you in a lot of hot water - not to mention the potential for enabling vote fraud.
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Seems best that they found this out at this stage instead of when they had 3 humans setting on top of it.

While the loss of the cargo is regrettable, it in no way is as damaging as the loss of 1-3 lived would have been on SpaceX.
The popular election of senators (instituted in 1913) has been an abject failure. It took responsibility and attention from state legislatures, promoting corruption, and centralized government in unaccountable and distant federal bureaus.

And the senators are still almost all millionaires and celebrities while billions in campaign cash still determines who can make a run at office.

So the change we're tried hasn't worked to democratize anything and has disastrous side effects. It's not an encouraging sign for abolishing the Electoral College.
This sounds like the thing Google is able to do with WaveNet.

Just imagine the possibilities. Now we can have all Wikipedia entries read by Peter Jones, Morgan Freeman or Darth Vader.
I like the design choice of chilled music and graphics which contrasts with the game objective of typing fast. Makes me want to type as fast as I can while remaining perfectly relaxed.
You're not alone brother.
At first glance, this seems irresponsible from the part of the author. Contact Apple first and let them know, only release your repo if you don't get an answer, and make sure to let the world know in your README.md.

The engineers at Apple are just as human as you are.
The East Bay should get more attention from investors and the startup community. The area includes a world-class university with huge student population (UC Berkeley), a less NIMBY atmosphere, beautiful natural settings, and proximity to San Francisco, for significantly more affordable costs. Why is that still not the case?

I am not sure about the NIMBYism though. It certainly exists but I feel it's less intense than in Silicon Valley proper. Could someone with more knowledge of the issues share your opinions?
I moved from living on the beach in California to the mountains of Central Arizona in 1998. From my perspective, AZ is a very good place to do business: very affordable housing, inexpensive locally grown food, clean and healthy environment, and with so many jobs now being remote, why not live in a beautiful and inexpensive area?

My hourly rate at my current remote job is about half of what I made at Google living for a while in Mountain View, but with the local very low cost of living, I am better off financially with my current job.

I hope the future is more distributed, with people and companies taking advantage of beautiful and cheap places to work and live.
It seems to me that gerrymandering is the bigger issue that needs to be fixed.

I don't know enough about the US to understand why it's accepted. It's a blatant disabling of democracy.
That so many high performance programs are starting to manage networking at the interface layer speaks of this phenomenon to me.
On your first point, Most people would find it unacceptable to vote against what the voters voted for, so in that sense it's largely ceremonial:

Two hundred seventy one electors—a majority—voted against what the voters voted for in 2000, choosing president Dubya. So that doesn't seem to be much of a problem.
This also bothers me. There's something soul-sucking about screens once you spend more than 4 or so hours in front of one. And because I can't really put my finger on what it is about screens that has this effect, I can't come up with even a sci-fi version of a solution to this problem.

The closest I've come to even an inkling of a solution is the idea of a high-refresh-rate e-ink display and doing everything in a fullscreen terminal, because somehow my kindle doesn't have the "screen" effect on me. But I'm really not sure if this would actually be helpful, let alone plausible.
Mixed reality: a new direction in computer interfaces
I enjoyed lemmings 3D, it was clunky but ahead of its time :)
Missing Dvorak support in the phone
But on the other hand regulating will hold back innovation
The electoral college was a compromise from two centuries ago. I don't see any reason why that compromise is necessary anymore.
GM is sitting on $25.7 billion in cash, I can't imagine why they haven't built out a nation-wide charging network yet. Seems foolish to be that far behind on a fundamental piece of infrastructure while you're moving into selling mainstream EVs. Here's hoping they aggressively catch up.
Seems like a variation of this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxVcgDMBU94 :D
I see the propaganda of the cold war is still alive and well! When Venezuela is falling, it's the fault of socialism, however when Haiti is completely broken compared to Cuba, this time, it's not a failure of capitalism, it's the fault of external factors!
Just wait until he pulls that silver dollar out of his pocket. Then you will see.
Most of them new comers are on welfare and they lead rape and criminal stats. Not really a success, we rot inside.
Quick note; economic freedom is expected to reach %100 in socialism too, as the necessity of planning should reduce over time. Even if it is an obivious indicator, I recommend against using it as a "socialism detector".
Nucleun JavaScript
Bundle of isomorphic javascript modules.

Called `nucleun` if you want to check this out:

https://github.com/nucleun
https://www.npmjs.com/~nucleun

thanks
Who keeps submitting these stories with clear political biases to HN?
I concur :) As mentioned, in the short term it was either no source or release it as is. I'll try to release cleaner versions over time.
Note that if every state used the Maine/Nebraska system, Trump would be guaranteed to win next week. There would not be another Democratic president for many years at least.

Obama, for instance, would not have won in 2008 or 2012.
Well, this was useless.
Govt will always find a work around in the pretext of patriotism :)
> Why can you not just do paper voting with simple ballots, like in Canada?

Some places do - voting is handled at the state and county level, not federal. For example. I vote on paper in the county where I live.

> You've had some problems with your ballots 16 years ago, and we're not sure why you haven't fixed this by now.

Those were paper ballots, what you see now is largely an attempt to avoid similar multi-day challenges and recounts due to hanging chads and ambiguous markings on paper ballots.
I am honestly curious... Do you feel like putting out fires is a matter of opinion? Do you think firefighters are leaders and not worker bees? How does this rhetorical statement speculating vaguely about firefighters support your argument that leaders should have strong opinions about an issue even when they don't fully understand the issue?

FWIW, since you used the word "prevent", firefighters only put out fires that are already burning. The people leading in fire prevention aren't firefighters. Other people think about how to prevent fires. One example is the Forest Service in the US. The Forest Service is having nuanced debates about how to prevent forest fires, and one side of the argument is that many forest fires are natural. Fires have historically always happened, and they are part of our ecosystem. So, some of the thinking goes, we should let them burn. We are actually doing some ecological damage by putting out fires that start natually. We are also doing financial damage spending tax money on a "problem" that will never go away, and isn't a problem if we stop trying to live in the forest.

Other people who have properties & cabins in the woods would prefer that their choice to build a cabin in the woods was protected by firefighters no matter how the fire starts.

What is your opinion about whether naturally occurring forest fires should be fought?
Tired of Waiting
As a non-touch typist, what is a good score or wave to reach if you are a fast touch typist?
Wyoming is very unlikely to ever determine a presidential election result.

Wyoming determined the presidential result in 2000. Doesn't seem that unlikely to me.
This is very anachronistic and factually untrue. Design has only been a commercialized and institutionalized occupation for the later part of the modern era. Before then the roles were reversed. Art before then was always the heavily institutionalized and rigid practice. An artist studio during the renaissance was more akin to a factory with highly educated staff churning out stylized and "functional" artwork for church and state. This all changed in the 18th and 19th centuries when the artist became more associated with bohemian life and the mode of production and the art market changed (became more privatized and merchantilism expanded). Design and architecture on the other hand changed from something that lowly "craftsmen" and random educated people engaged in on a hobby basis into a regulated industry. This processes got crystallized with the ideals of modernism and functionalism in the early 20th century. Ideas which prevail to this day.
The last paragraph of this article exemplifies what is wrong with political discourse in this country. I'm a right leaning individual, and I was interested in the data in the article, but the insult at the end of the article was unneeded. It was a great way to take a relevant story with good data, and turn off any reader who leans right with a petty insult at the end.
No intrinsic motivation.
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/inmotiv.htm
You have completely missed the point. A developer should not have to take packaging into account when writing their first line and adding dependencies. You are prepared to do it, good for you. But not every developer is like that. If you force your developers to do that, your packaging system is broken. Check out the Snap [0] and FlatPak [1] projects. They have emerged as a response to this problem.

[0] http://snapcraft.io/

[1] http://flatpak.org/
I agree with the general sentiment, however SpaceX and others have said that this particular explosion would not have harmed any astronauts. The Dragon 2 crew capsule has a launch abort system - if an explosion happens the Dragon launches off to a safe distance using its own thrust.
Because you are part of the herd. Now shut up and go buy a mcgadget.
Right to vote should be restricted to those with knowledge qz.com/796962
The machines I use for development usually run some sort of UNIX or UNIX-like OS (i.e. Linux). Sometimes I have to use Windows as well though for development.

From direct comparison I can tell that Windows still sucks for general-purpose software development (if you develop Windows software you'll be fine, obviously):

Installing, maintaining and running common development tools takes considerably more effort.
Many of the tools used in software development come from a UNIX background that often just doesn't quite fit the Windows way of doing things.
The Windows command line - though greatly improved in recent years - is still playing catch-up with its UNIX equivalents.

Basically, what one commonly ends up with to make Windows usable for development at all is installing some sort of UNIX environment (Cygwin, Git Bash etc.).
I think you saw "Kirk", and stopped. i.e. you missed the entire point of my comment.

I wasn't claiming that Kirk was a good example of math. I used it as an example of how changing the requirements can lead to a different solution.
Show HN: WoofJS, a programming language I built for my students based on Scratch
The first thing that pops into my brain is how memory allocation works on a computer. In that context, indirection works really well. My program makes a general request for memory resources. The vm handles talking to the operating system for me. The operating system deals with the virtualized and real addresses for accessing the memory my program needs. In most cases, I'm okay with this arrangement.

This issue is really all about systems in general be they computer or social. As things scale bigger, representative indirection becomes MORE important, not anachronistic as the article suggests. Said representation helps contain complexity and provides for a simpler interface.

And that's what the electoral college does. It simplifies things. It allows states to take care of their own election details. The central government doesn't have to much micromanage the details of every state. Their primary concern is who gets to that 270 electoral vote threshold. The fed level hopefully doesn't get too wrapped up in details of how ballots are cast or how votes are counted.

And yes, I concede that it's not necessarily "fair" and that there are edge cases that are unfortunate. But it is a reasonably stable and well-engineered system all things considered.
I second this suggestion.
I'm a backend developer(barely, mostly a sysadmin who happens to write Go backends for various reasons). I wanted to learn some frontend because I wanted to make some internal pages for my users. I tried React, but found the API surface I needed to learn to be productive overwhelming.

I tried Elm on a whim, and found it very focused on being productive.
Functional programming was very new to me, but I spent a weekend with https://pragmaticstudio.com/courses/elm and it was enough to get me started.

The Elm Guide(http://guide.elm-lang.org/) and Elm Slack http://elmlang.herokuapp.com/ are both fantastic resources for learning the language.
How does this show the need for e-voting? It just shows the need for decent engineering. It's silly to pretend a computer is the only solution here. You can add on instant counting, too, with a camera and slot to drop the ballot in.
Indeed. But this cheaper, faster method might also lead to too many people hearing about the band and liking the music. We wouldn't want that. We would rather sell 100 cassettes for $2 each and have 20 true fans.

Seriously though, I would not be surprised to see MP3s from these bands as an additional marketing tool.

The cassettes are likely to be viewed by the audience as collectibles, creating word-of-mouth marketing. They are "social objects" to use Hugh Macleod's insightful phrase.

My son was wearing a t-shirt made by a tiny shop in San Diego. You only own this shirt if you know the maker. He was touring a college to see if he wanted to apply. He was accosted by a student. "Where did you get that shirt?" They were both friends of the maker.

This creates a sense of "I belong".

Interesting side note. This shirt -- and the tiny company -- wildly and deliberately violates trademark law. Not to make money, but for the same reason (I think) that musicians use samples.
I would say it was about five-something years ago. You weren't expected to have a smartphone that coddled you like a baby, and people would be more willing to help you out. Example – I was in New York by myself, and without a smart phone. I had to find my way around with maps + asking people. I ended up talking to quite a few interesting people, and hanging out with a stranger as we both were going the same way to a popular landmark.

Today the iPhone in my pocket completely replaces all of those interactions, since I can (and am supposed to be able to) map my way to absolutely anywhere in NYC.
> What mechanism, if any, is in place to prevent voters from being coerced or bribed to cast their vote a particular way?

If imcoerced into voting a particular way on my mail-in ballot, I can go to the polling place in Election Day and fill out a provisional ballot hat will be counted in place of my coerced ballot. Not perfect, but this year it allows me to vote even though I'm out of the state next week.
HTTP Live Streaming
The best solution to daylight savings time: dump time zones
Look down at your functions keys. Surely you can read them just fine without being directly over them?
In a fashion, you can also do this with sudo -u

sudo -u ff_user firefox

This way Firefox is run as a separate user within the current user's session, with all that entails. Of course, that would be a serious pita for your average user to setup.
Original article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6312/aaf5239
Yes, at surface it looks like re-inventing the web/html, but to use HTML for defining app you would need to add all the native elements as HTML tags to the vocabulary and that would be a lot. HTML was made to make hypertext with things which were imagined in early 90s, NAML (native app markup language) 25 yrs later should support all the bells and whistles we expect from native app UX 25 years later. I would say attempts to reuse/extend HTML for native app UX definition (Titanium, React Native etc) are more terrible hacks than creating new clean room markup language as here is done.
The storage necessity myth: how to choreograph high-renewable penetration
Hi HN, developer of Woof here! I've been working on this for the last few months and really eager for feedback. If any of you have students or children who use scratch, I'd love to hear if you get a chance to try it out with them.
Uneducated, ignorant people have always existed in democracies. Those democracies still exist.

Being "Highly intellectual" is therefore not a requirement to participate in a democracy.

Just look around you, man. There are stupid people everywhere.
Read and follow "A Study Plan To Cure JavaScript Fatigue" by Sacha Greif.
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/a-study-plan-to-cure-javascr...

FE arch: mountain of coal.
Sacha Greif: time + gravity.
His post: diamond.
Why you ask people phone number?
i could track you by ss7 or even inject and record ALL signal calls over remote explotes (google pegasus nso)

Signal is the worst mobile security software on planet.

Moxie, why zrtp do not use cache or previous key???
weak implementation

I am a goverment reverse engineer for 10 years
Isn't this essentially why consulting firms exist?
Adopt US$ as your national currency http://qz.com/260980/meet-the-countries-that-dont-use-their-...
> Is Python a different language if written in Cardiff, Liverpool or Plymouth?

No, but that has zero relevance to the comparability of scores between universities.
In principle. Best way to keep astronauts alive is not having to use the launch abort system.
PDF: http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/201310...
Why do they not use this continency for saving the capsule & non-living cargo, as well? Surely the recommissioning costs would be less than full replacement of equipment+cargo & would give working knowledge for any future "live cargo" aborts.
Boreal app
There is no such less NIMBYism in Oakland. The stakeholders are just different. There is also a racism problem: I sat at a round table forum where the most successful developer in the city (he's building that Brooklyn Basin project) said banks don't want to lend in Oakland when they can just lend to Developers in SF (500/sf is not good enough to deal with minorities, etc). But you're right, East Bay cities ought to get more attention. The person above is right though - Prop 13, as well as CA ballot system is killing the cities and making them museums to car-centric suburbs of the past.
How hard would it be to port this to the vive?
As long as you can convince the prosecutor or jury you're not guilty, you can shoot someone on the street in plain sight with video evidence and get off free or without charges.

It's up to the prosecutor whether he'll be persuaded by your elaborate scheme. I'm sure he's heard worse.
For the same reason there isn't a network of GM gas stations. They're not in that business, and companies that are have done the job already. There are more CCS fast charger stations than there are Tesla Supercharger stations, and the Bolt isn't even on the road yet.

As far as catching up (while already ahead): https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/03/obama...
By "gigantic" I'm sure you really mean is the 1200-1800sqft tract ranches from the 1940s-60s that consume the majority of the developed suburban land, right, because there are almost 0 gigantic houses in the region compared to literally every other major metro in the country. And that's one of the problems: too many people stretched their budgets to buy crappy $1m houses, they can't really afford to do it again, and prop 13 (plus impending rising mortgage rates) actively disincentivize anyone from selling after they manage to get into this market, no matter what their house is like.
I wish there were more technical information, like how was it powered, for 7 years!
> Australia exports minerals but is relatively well-developed.

Have to say that's a significant understatement. Australia now has the world's #1 or #2 richest median household in regards to net wealth. Their economic boom the last 20 years was almost entirely due to commodities + China.

Canada is in the same boat as Australia. Highly developed, well off middle class, high wealth creation the last 20 years. Almost entirely due to the commodity boom over that time.
> What happens when they fire you and kick you out of company housing?

That would depend on what your contract with the landlord says.

Anyway, consider that universities offer student housing. Nobody makes students live in that housing, and students don't expect to continue living in it when they are no longer enrolled. Nobody seems to think that is a problem.
Are you saying that there are people in the UK who are skilled in software development, who cannot find jobs developing software? Or that there are people who have studied computer science (e.g. at university) and cannot find jobs developing software?