skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's a risk you have to take, at some point. you eventually have to trust that someone isn't lying, somewhere along the chain.

what else could be done to further vet volunteers? you can't interrogate people or drug them with serums for the truth, so I think it's safe to assume registering is enough.

so, to answer your question, I doubt there is any "guarantee" other than the fact that these are volunteers and you'd have to be a real idiot to falsely register to ensure you can tilt the scales...of bipartisan pairs of Arapahoe County poll volunteers.
Exactly this.

If stuxnet is possible, a voting machine should be a piece of cake.
What's wrong with Vue? Sure it isn't as widely used as React or Angular but it isn't a small fry either and growing quickly. Plus it is a great first framework because of the fabulous documentation and learning resources available. I also found it to have a much simpler syntax than Angular (I can't comment on React).
they're the worst. about 6 years ago i applied for a job at expensify, and they gave me a take home test. when i sent it back, they couldnt read the code. they asked me to condense it all into one file called main.php. (i separated into controllers / views for a web app)
Why don't you make your own?
It occurred to me the other day to do this. I want some experience with hardware, so I'm going to install a microphone next to a drawer and a speaker on the drawer itself. I'll be using a Raspberry Pi and figure out what else I need, if anything, as I go. I'll be using it for the main thing I talk to Google for: to manage time.

I hate the fact that I can't tell Google to cancel an alarm for example. If I say "Cancel my alarm". It should ask back - if there are multiple alarms - "which alarm would you like to cancel?"."List alarms" should answer back with my alarms. "Cancel my alarms" should return "Would you like to cancel all of them?". That kind of thing.

If I ever have any need of invasive suggestions - which I don't - it's just encouragement to learn some DL.
>The science is pretty settled here. No such thing can exist...

Thanks, this more neatly sums up the attitude I was attempting to describe then anything I could come up with. The hubris that is endemic in much of the "scientific" community is simply amazing. Another glaring example of the gap between education and intelligence.
I don't know about the system in that particular county, but the system in most democracies is that any candidate has the right to appoint a representative to be present. In practice this means that the parties run down their lists of volunteers; depending on how many volunteers they have in a particular area it might be very easy for someone to get appointed as such. (In the last Canadian election, I turned up on election day to volunteer for a friend who was a candidate for a major party, and six hours later I was an Official Candidate Representative scrutinizing the vote counting.)
A touchscreen on a laptop is as much use as tits on a bull, I'm glad Apple chose to do something different.
"But we're using a lot of the crust."

39% of the surface area is used by agriculture, and 3% by urban areas. That excludes oceans & Antartica. Including those, the number drops to less than 10%.

Mining takes up less than 0.05% of the surface area of the earth.

I think we're good.
Timed coming to groups in couple of weeks.

Documentation is also getting a refresh in 2 weeks.
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> that's a risk you have to take

Well, obviously. But the risk can be high or low, right? You could either let any random voter you don't know walk in and become a volunteer after filling out a form, or you could let maybe ~50 people that the party's head/nominee personally trust pick a set of volunteers nationally based on e.g. personal knowledge or some concrete evidences of their past contributions and allegiance to the party. Or something else; there are lots of possibilities here. So I'm asking what the criteria are so I can understand how likely it is for something to go wrong here... I obviously understand nothing 100% bulletproof, so there's no need to point that out.
Because it wasn't measuring and making suggestions, it was a scare tactic. I should have screenshotted the notification - I've seen notifications before like what you're talking about, 'X program is causing Y system issue, consider Z.' That's not what this was. It was more along the lines of those bouncy 'Your Computer Has A Virus! Click here to Scan!' banner ads of yesteryear.
FWIW, I just moved towards my laptop screen until the top of the keyboard was out of my peripheral vision. My nose was almost touching the screen.
this is all good info. especially the take homes.

when i interviewed this time around for a new job, the most frustrating part were the take homes. lots of companies expect you to do a sample project that only grants you an audience to a technical phone screen. like, what? didn't i just pass your technical test? if i still have to show my technical prowess doesn't that mean you don't trust my resume, or trust that i honestly completed your assignment?

i also agree these take homes are not 4 hour affairs. they give you no direction so you can't sacrifice ui/ux for functionality because you have no clue how they judge it. i failed a large company's take home even though it was feature complete, but i sacrificed really slick/nice ui for a workable ui that i felt was passable given no direction.

i got a thanks but no thanks reply back.

as with regards to luck; another company i interviewed at, i aced their take home. then i interviewed with ~6 people who all said they liked me (or at least that was the feedback i got). but when i interviewed with the vpe, i failed a question about semaphores, (i knew what they are, but just didn't have the answer to a specific question the vpe asked) and failed the job app.

the job position was to be a front-end developer.
I think to socialize with random other individuals most people need alcohol or a pretense - pubs provide the former, temples provide the latter.

There are societies where this concept is pretty foreign. I live in Thailand and when I tell Thai friends that foreigners often sit down at a pub and talk to complete strangers, many are quite surprised.
There is a monumental amount of "faster horse" in modern OS deployment. Hypervisors, and their ugly cousin - secure monitors, are an example of Conway's Law. They exist because there are different groups involved in writing the kernel, user land, and server deployment.

The author seems to feel that everything will concentrate at the hypervisor level - kernel and user land just a "detail" as they are single-purpose. However, you should spot that really the kernel and userland can be compressed into one layer. So why are there 3 layers at all? Then we have kernel and user land again and hey we just came full circle.

Again, it's just a reflection of how the organizations are arranged. Given a single organization with authority over the entire stack, it would be a terrible waste to have that 3 layer stack.
...without it immediately getting posted online for anyone to download, and no money going to the artists...
That's probably exactly how the argument went at apple. However, doing dev without any external screens or keyboard is the exception not the norm. If tou are already bending your neck like that day to day then sure you have bigger problems.
This book captivated me as a child and explains many interesting possibilities about manufacturing in space: https://www.amazon.com/third-industrial-revolution-Harry-Sti...

All kinds of interesting processes become feasible in weightlessness. For instance, some kinds of alloys just aren't possible on earth because the metals' densities are so different that they don't mix properly. No so in space.
And you reported this right?
> My own dream system would be one where every "package" for my operating system is a filesystem image with `/bin`, `/lib`, `/etc`, and possibly `/var`.

Take a look at NixOS and the Nix package manager. It works along these lines [0].

> then, `init` would spin up each service in complete isolation by spinning up `chroot`s

Systemd employs container features, some automatically like cgroups and some via configuration. There was an article on HN just the other day about some of its new sandbox features [1]. Parameters such as PrivateNetwork=, ProtectSystem=strict, PrivateTmp=yes, SystemCallFilter= provide chroot-like capabilities in a number of different namespace dimensions. It has support for chroot as well through the RootDirectory= parameter. See [2] for a good overview of these featuers and [3] for the reference.

Hopefully as these features mature and gain adoption, system software will operate more like what you're describing over time.

[0] https://nixos.org/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12874731

[2] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/security.html

[3] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...
let's take this a step further: two republicans, one falsely registered as a democrat, have been paired off at the polling station in Araphaoe County. the lie was bought, the fraud complete. now what?
Yeah, nuke them. Like it's any different anyway. If you invade a nuclear nation, you're going to get nuked. Which makes it idiotic to invade them. That's why regime's want nukes so badly, it makes them untouchable.

And yes, if you try to shutdown a $600 billion dollar a year industry, someone who benefits from that system will defend their way of life by bumping you off. Politicians have been offed for much lesser things. Don't kid yourself that everyone plays by the rules.
dont forget documentation
That still doesn't help much with lining up the offers, but I guess that's less of a concern when you're unemployed (I.E. you'll take the first decent offer you get). However, I feel like I have often read accounts of people with a job interviewing at 6-10 companies and I always wondered how.
While I don't disagree and I expected an article on Android/iOS, did you read the article? It specifically talks about server OSes and Docker.
It takes time (few months) and plenty of iterations to create the mental map and learn the proper patterns.

I suggest to create a simple app and iterate/refactor until you feel comfortable that you got it.

Boilerplates are good but they do take away a lot of important concepts that you should learn.

I'd start with react, redux, redux forms, react router, axios and webpack.

Also keep in mind that you're inadvertently learning ES6 as you dive in. So I'd start with that first.
I have read every word of the links you posted. If anything, they make my point.

I am not claiming that the 1st amendment and libel law do not intersect. They are quite intimately entwined! Libel laws exist for a reason: because a person has a right to maintain his or her good name in the face of false allegations. The ability to bring suit is one of our legal system's methods of protecting that right. Libel laws (which provide truth as an absolute defense) have been found to be constitutionally valid in multiple court cases over the years.

I am a bit puzzled why there was even a settlement at all. Had this gone to trial, there are enough living witnesses to the creation of email as we know it in the early 70s that the case should likely have been dismissed as without merit.

There's clearly something going on here that's not in the article, but it's not first amendment shenanigans.
Does it? By "bring in", I assume we are talking about placing into a convenient orbit, because I do not see a reasonable way to bring a large asteroid down to the surface in the forseable future.

However, my (non laywer) understanding of space law is that it is prohibited (by treaty) to own celestial objects. You can own samples you minded from them, but not the objects themselves. If this understanding is correct, it means that after you park the asteroid in orbit, you are allowed to mine it, and sell the ore. However, so is everyone else; despite the fact that you invested the money in moving the asteroid.
Plus, in a hostel, you're never going to see those people again.

I've stayed in tons of hostels and for me, that relieves a lot of social pressures that I otherwise find overwhelming at home.
> let's take this a step further: two republicans, one falsely registered as a democrat, now have been paired off at the polling station in Araphaoe County. the lie was bought, the fraud complete. now what?

I don't know, but you seem to be completely ignoring my point. I'm trying to figure out the probability of this happening. I'm NOT trying to figure out what to do after this happens.
lovely! more paranoia about the upcoming competition for a single political position.

as if I needed more of a reason to say "wow, this is rigged", now I see this!

I can't imagine how well this will go. november is a cake walk. january is where the fun starts.
If you used a one time pad you could skip the whole hack the election part and generate a key that reflects the actual totals after they've been published.
Good to know -- thanks for the anecdote!
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Well, look for companies that are willing to do interviews during your lunch. Those are the companies you'd want to work for anyway, since they have enough empathy to understand that 2+ hour interviews are risky if you're already employed.
How are the paper votes tabulated? If it's by machine you've just kicked the can further down the road.
The largest democracy India has e-voting.

Works fine for them. Why are other countries not going the same way.

There is a move in India to get all voting machines to print out your choice which the voter can drop into a ballot box.

Not sure if that is implemented yet. Surely something like that will work fine.
It seems to be that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/voting_techno...
The earth crust is estimated to be in the order of 10^19 kg. The 6x10^24 figure you mention is the mass of the whole earth. So your calculation if off by 5 orders of magnitude.
In Florida in 2000, we had these old voting machines where the voter would go into the booth, hit a bunch of buttons, and submit the vote. The voting card in the back would fall. There were often errors on them via ineffective button pushes, incorrect push, last minute mind change, and it would result in dubious votes. Some votes were discarded. There is no doubt that sometimes the vote went to the wrong candidate.

During the very close presidential election of 2000, these voting machine issues clearly showed the need for electronic voting machine booths with the added feature of instant vote count.

The current problems that are appearing are temporary and fleeting. With enough time and research these problems will become obsolete and resolved.

But your point of paper ballots requiring greater participation of people is interesting. Indeed, when more people participate even in mundane and simple tasks, there is a healthy feeling that spreads among the community.
Why can you not just do paper voting with simple ballots, like in Canada?

As much as I like Canada's easily audited voting system, there's a good reason for the US to not use a simple way of counting votes: They don't have simple ballots. Rather than just voting for one MP, as we do, a typical American might be asked to vote for a President, a Senator, a Representative, yes/no on 17 state propositions, a State Senator, a State Representative, the BART Director, the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees, the San Francisco Public Schools Board of Education, a Superior Court Judge, and yes/no on 25 city measures.

In order for those to be counted the same way as we do in Canada, you'd need to hand the voter a book of 51 ballots and have them dropped into 51 separate boxes...
Does anyone know the history of where the word "trivial" started being used to mean "easy" instead of as "unimportant", like the author does here?

It drives me crazy - but perhaps I'm the one that's wrong. Is it correct to use "trivial" to mean "easy"?

I keep thinking it comes from people misunderstanding the meaning of "non-trivial", as in complex
Are you in the SF Bay Area by chance? We're putting on a 2-day React & Redux workshop where you build a full stack e-commerce app. We developed this workshop after hearing similar feedback from students frustrated with the lack of tutorials and workshops that teach you how to build a real app with React. It could help you to wrap your head around how to use React in a production application. More details at https://universe.com/realworldreact
Oh thank goodness, now we'll always have Morgan Freeman.
I would be much more interested to see a study of profoundly gifted children, IQ of 150+. My intuition, from interacting with kids in this range in a regular basis, is that the result would be different.
Did a bit of research on Tom and seems like he knows his stuff.

Thanks for the pointer, otherwise I wouldn't have checked out the comments section.
I honestly think it's more likely, given my own experience. I don't have any studies to back that up of course. But in the 90s computer/intellectual kids where I grew up were the most bullied relentlessly.
By hand.
Because it's easy. Digging a hole even a mile deep is hard. It might be worth it, but again, it might be easier to just grab an asteroid.
It looks like titanium costs $4/kg [1], and a SpaceX LEO launch is $2719/kg [2]. I'm not sure how much Ti is in "ferro titanium", but even if it's only 10%, the numbers aren't even close. Am I doing this wrong?

[1] http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/ferro-titani...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Launch_prices
Milton Friedman compiled statistics in "Monetary History of the United States" showing that volatility increased under the Fed's management.
That's what Wolfram Alpha told me, sorry. But my $956 quintillion number is about as relevant as the article's $700 quintillion number. Even 5 orders of magnitude off, we're still not supply limited. The only number that matters is the $32/gram number.
> A gram of titanium in LEO is only about 20% more expensive than a gram of titanium on Earth.

Can you elaborate on that? I can't parse that statement in a way that would make it seem correct, so... What exactly do you mean?
It's very easy to forge paper records, though. I seem to recall reading about a rigged election in a questionable democracy where the ballot counters were given several file boxes full of fake ballots in addition to their local precinct ballots, with official anti-tampering seals intact.
The truth which a lot of Moxie fans don't want to admit is he thinks there is nobody better to be entrusted with this project. I don't think this was ever meant to be a community project -- he just opened some parts so he could pretend it is. Also he is a limelight hogging security diva who always wants to be in the news and have people talk about him. If he allowed others to contribute and be recognised, he worries they might overshadow him.
What space mining is good for is having construction materials for space ships that don't have to be boosted up out of Earth's gravity well.
Getting it out of the crust means digging very deep. Asteroids will have higher purity and minerals available on the surface.
This is what socialism looks like. Bernie fans take note.
Speech Dispatcher – Common interface to speech synthesis
The candidate gets no benefit from doing your take home test. In an interview the candidate learns something about the company. Also the ~1h requirement just isn't realistic if you give an open-ended test - you penalize the people who actually spend 1h and reward those who spend more time.
Agreed! I know it can be so so overwhelming, but just hang in there. We have had these problems with the web from the very early days of JavaScript, but we have only reached an inflection point in the past 5-ish years where we have solved these problems. So these new and successful JavaScript abstractions/frameworks/layers/patterns are here to stay.

And yes, things like React, Redux, Flux, Backbone (if people still use that) etc etc etc are based in some solid grounding CS and technology architecture principles. Let the burden of engineering load not get mixed up with your ability to embrace and understand application of the fundamentals that underlie here.

I complained about something similar about a year ago, and the Facebook guys told me they felt the pain, but said that the investment would pay off, and it already has in the shortest amount of time. Just. hang. in. there.
> "i also agree these take homes are not 4 hour affairs. they give you no direction so you can't sacrifice ui/ux for functionality because you have no clue how they judge it."

I had a take home for a UI position that I spent ~10-12 hours on. It was some pretty standard UI stuff and they had 5 points of functionality they wanted you to code. Make it responsive, have these sections in a different order on mobile, make X do Y when you click Z, etc etc.

At the interview, two technical peers walked through what I had submitted. Their questions made it really clear they had no idea what problems I was supposed to solve.

- Why didn't you write a complete RESTful backend to serve this data? (the instructions literally said not to)

- Why didn't you use a CSS pre-processor? (the code required ~30 lines of CSS)

- Why doesn't this button work? (it wasn't supposed to)

- Why doesn't this code work on a mobile device? (it worked just fine on mobile devices)

Really just a strange, strange experience.
src: http://linuxfr.org/news/gnu-linux-s-ouvre-a-de-nouvelles-voi...
Don't they have your contact list? And isn't there a mobile number associated with the account?

Edit: OK, I get that maybe these are non-issues.
Law is a high-latency side-chain of authority.

When / if we get to mining asteroids, and generally inhabiting space, either personally or via robots, treaties / laws will be remapped to match the reality of the times.
He didn't invent email.

He built something and named it "EMAIL" after email already existed.

Then he marketed himself as the inventor of email and married Fran Drescher.
Wire can use e-mails or phone nunbers for IDs, so you can use the same ID on multiple devices. But the mobile UI is worse than Signal's and it's also it's not federated. The source for the clients is on Github. It does have desktop apps for Windiws and Mac and a web app that works in most modern browsers. It's in many ways better than Skype. You don't have to link it to your phone in order to send messages - just use an e-mail account. It's also run by a Swiss company, so the servers might just be outside of the US.
I wonder why countries don't use India's simple and scalable electronic voting systems. The latest ones have voter verified paper audit trails. They even have pooling systems to prevent counts from any single voting booth become known to prevent voter intimidation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_India
also trivial for attackers to have replacement plastic seals is their pockets
Drunk History just did a version of this story: http://www.cc.com/full-episodes/0kxro9/drunk-history-sibling...
Nope, it's all me. Platinum is $32/g. Titanium is $4/kg. Mixing the two up results in nonsense.
Does she need to be at UCSF Parnassus or Mission Bay? Either way, there are still housing options at the edges that actually let you get to UCSF quickly and cheaply (like Sunset/Richmond for Parnassus, or Lower Dogpatch for Mission Bay).

For a reasonable place in a good location, you'll end up at about $3000/month (there's a 1 bdrm at 246 2nd St). That's definitely expensive compared to nationwide averages, but you won't need a car if you both work in the city. As another poster mentioned, UCSF at Mission Bay (and elsewhere actually) has lots of purpose built housing at below market rates. Contact them!