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> Politicians have been offed for much lesser things.

[citation needed]

Seriously, you are incredibly confident that anyone advocating real change in the United States will be murdered. Not verbally attacked in the press or by their opponents, but murdered. So you should have no trouble naming, say, five. Go ahead.
You can find it as a good quality PDF from the internet but there isn't official version sadly. As someone who reads 99% of my books in Kindle or on iPad it's a shame you can't even buy lot of books in electronic format.
Not sure yet if I like it, but for the "on churn" parts I will leave some respect here.
This all seems beside the point. So what if I can verify that my vote is correct? How does that stop somebody with access to the software/machines from tampering with the vote tallies?

I have worked as an election scrutineer for a political party. You just can't beat having several people standing there -- each representing a different political party -- watching each ballot be unfolded and counted, confirming the exact count for each candidate, contesting any spoiled or rejected ballots, recording an independent copy of the vote totals for all candidates, and signing off on the official vote total.

The fact that each ballot box has multiple eyewitnesses and that all of the counted ballots are sealed in a signed envelope makes the whole process very transparent and easy to audit. None of this is true to anywhere near this extent for electronic voting.
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This. I'd say Amazon has had an insane impact on e-commerce as a whole and that Bezos doesnt get the 'genius/visionary' tag enough.
Hmmm. I'm not claiming to defy physics although I see how it came across that way. That was not my intention.

If you read the literature you can see why I was phrasing it like that so perhaps I too was misled.

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/eng...

The potential energy harvest from a hydro setup must be 90% of available energy.

In practice half is lost due to the reasons outlined in the low tech magazine article I linked to. So the electricity production is lower than if we had the turbine hooked up to a motor. The other possibility is that small scale hydro is of a lower efficiency and that this explains the paradox. That is: the literature is talking of a large scale operation that can achieve 90% efficiency but smaller schemes incur losses that explain why converting a small hydro setup back to providing mechanical energy can double the output.
"Thoughts from an office full of hoodie-wearing white guys" was probably a super-bad way of stating the article's subheading, then. If it's perfectly fine that the office is full of hoodie-wearing white guys, then why make a big deal out of their presence?
that's about what I figured. I can't see a clear benefit or advantage to having one rogue false registrant make a single pair weighted towards one party or the other.
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Sure, but it's only in far north rainforests. Poison ivy is all over the place in North America.
"Time" has always been linked to sun or moon or the stars.

In English you say o'clock because it is the time of a mechanical clock, it was normal and way more precise to use the sun for a long time in history so 12 was the time the sun was the highest(Zenith).

Astronomers used the moon and stars for calculating time with extreme precision, and they continue doing that.

This always gives you local time at the point of the observer. The man that writes the article probably lives without contact to the environment,in a city,goes to work to a building without the light of the sun but for those of us that do not, knowing when the sun is going to be the highest, the rising and setting of the sun is a great idea.

With GPS enabled clocks, like Apple watch and future smartwatches, every person could carry in his clock the real local time, the political local time zone time,and UTC. No need for globalist trying to force us into doing that.

In America and specially New York it looks like the only important thing in life are first money, then the economy. Instead of money and economy being in service of the world, in those places the world has to serve the economy and money.
Global warming is going to require a massive, species-wide effort to counteract. The problem gets worse every day. When do we decide to stop?

We're already pretty far gone. Now it's a matter of controlling how Earth-shattering the damage is.
The linked Don Hodges article about Level 256 is particularly fun to read, complete with a few proposed patches & a way to make the startup checksum still pass:

http://donhodges.com/how_high_can_you_get2.htm

A fun quote - it certainly seems better to have an ending, even if it is not intended:

> "It is probably a good thing that Pac Man has this bug in its program. If it didn’t, expert players could conceivably be able to play the game indefinitely, because whenever they get tired they can just park Pac Man in the hiding places and leave the game to go eat, sleep, or whatever, and then return to the game and continue playing. The only limiting factor would have been the length of time that the game could run without a power outage or suffering from some other hardware failure. Experts would have been able to play the game for weeks, months, even years, or more."
I see. That should be possible, yes. If the ffmpeg from electron is built with the necessary features for the CLI and cutting to work. It would however require some quite complicated build scripts, I can imagine.
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Hardly.

Before the Brexit mess, several senior members of the British government (and other senior politicians) would cycle to Parliament, and make sure people knew about it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2015/dec/2...

It's also a stereotype of particular type of man: living in SW London or around London, 40+, very high income. They used to buy sports cars, but anyone can afford that, much better to spend £4000 on a bike: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mid-life-crisis-r...
A factor in my leaving the state was the tax rate.
I know, right? This issue of trust is really problematic right now, and not just for voting. And it's not just government and mainstream media. At this point it seems any source is potentially suspect in someone's eyes. How do we rebuild that?

I want to believe that it's solvable, because the vast majority of people I meet day-to-day are good people. I'm not willing to accept the alternative.

I do think a big part of it has to do with figuring out how to talk about contentious issues, of finding common ground (no matter how narrow), with people we might disagree with on other issues. We can't let our disagreements get in the way of making progress on our common goals.
Here's a fun thing though:

Japan adopted the 9-5. But Japan is on solar time, and thus the sun comes up at 4 AM during the summer in Tokyo. Japan also doesn't do DST. So 9-5 is actually 11-7 in "equivalent sunlight"

The idea of time zones is to keep people in sync, but most of the world is not even on a "12PM=Solar Midday" schedule! So when the sun comes up at 4, if feels weird, because it doesn't match what you see elsewhere on the same longitude.
It's not outdated. Of course, if the only thing you do is programming and you never intend to leave the house, then it may be outdated. Otherwise, most establishments still have working hours - that may not be exactly 9-5 but pretty close to that framework - and people still have breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and there are a lot of business and social conventions based on those assumptions.

Some jobs have the luxury of ignoring that, but that's just a perk, not a wide tendency. Just as if remote working in software allows one to work in one's pajamas, it doesn't mean all other clothes besides pajamas are now an outdated concept.
Err, is too. As one simple example, when the electorate is heavily skewed towards older people (and in Japan, and this skew is further exacerbated by how low-density rural areas have higher weight in the Diet), politicians will enact policies that favor the elderly at the expense of the young, Japan's increasingly Ponzi-like public pension scheme being a prime example.
Assembling and paraphrasing your information:

Turning the shaft horsepower from a hydro turbine into electricity, transmitting it through wires, transformers, etc, and turning it back into shaft horsepower through motors, etc is inefficient due to conversion losses. Just using the shaft horsepower directly incurs none of those conversion losses. They can be substantial enough in some situations to approach 50%. This doesn't mean you can harvest more energy than the water can provide, it means that by eliminating losses you can USE more of the energy that the water provides, instead of losing it to heat or noise or whatever other conversion losses.

That's an explanation. What you have linked to and hinted at is only the start of one.
My apps are handling events from devices, a great many of them, probably ~1k/sec. That said, it could certainly depend on the app.
IMO vim has one of the best syntax highlighting of all coding environments.
Unsplash is a really cool resource. We actually use it (paired with another 'sister service' called Unsplash.it) to provide ever changing and semi interesting 404 error pages for our web app... I blogged about how we do it a while back - http://devan.blaze.com.au/blog/2015/11/3/errors-dont-have-to...
I get the impression Americans don't use 24-hour clock much. In Europe it's pretty much standard if you want to communicate time reliably. Or am I mistaken about the American love of am/pm?
What's the fun in that ;) And how am I going to make any money with my investment books and advice?
You understand wrong. When that author typed ":syntax off" in Vim, he was actually disabling possibly the best syntax coloring engine there is.
As I've first read Murphy's law and some other humorous "laws", there was an impression of the author making an insight and then formulating it in a minimalistic way typical for the real scientific laws, which is what makes the laws interesting and funny on two levels at once: there's an "a-ha" moment and the "similarity" to the "real" laws.

As I've seen enough cartoons, for me this list appears just to be a clumsy description of some gags. It fails on the appearance of insight and it fails on the appearance of the real-law minimalism. That's why it's not funny. YMMV, I see there are people who like it.
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1) There's an irony that Vox of all companies is complaining that Facebook rewards click bait and punishes thoughtful pieces that require time to read and digest.

2) The article takes an interesting attempt at being even-handed: "it's not just right-wing Trump supporters who are being evil, but also left-wing Bernie supporters!"

3) The solution that Vox is suggesting is for Facebook to appoint a high council of editors who approve which stories are worthy of being allowed to be shared, and which are evil and duplicitous. For some reason I strongly suspect that the set of stories they want deemed good are those that align with Vox's editorial philosophy.

4) I'm curious how they would handle something like the Iraq war, where the two legitimate sides promoted by serious, responsible folks like Ezra Klein and the NYTimes were liberals who supported a humanitarian war and conservatives who supported a pre-emptive defensive war. How likely is it that the people who should have been banned from public Facebook discourse are those conspiracy nuts who thought the USA should stay out of Iraq?
> You have completely missed the point. A developer should not have to take packaging into account when writing their first line and adding dependencies.

I think I didn't miss. Author of the article wants his software in
distribution. He should clearly take into account how distribution works and
maybe constrained himself to the dependencies already in the distribution.

Then again, he should take into account that the dependencies are in large
part liabilities, and it's not only that the distribution may not have them
packaged (left-pad again!). Maybe he just lacks experience that he happily
uses whatever gets into his hands.

> If you force your developers to [think of packaging], your packaging system is broken.

It was working for over a decade without many issues (after "RPM hell" was
more or less resolved), why would it suddenly stop working around five years
ago? Around the same time version and tool churn popped out?

And this Flatpak thing looks like "let's bundle all the OS libraries" (I may
be wrong, but it's hard to come by a technical description on its website, so
I'm forced to extrapolate). In this regard it's not far from static linking
and all the bad things that it leads to.

EDIT: The other one, snapcraft, says clearly that it bundles all the
dependencies. Why did they choose Zip format for Linux/unix-only tool is beyond me,
though.
Yes I had trouble finding it too. I guess it's because the ffmpeg API is so enormous and evolving all the time, that if there was to be node bindings for it, it would have to be maintained by the ffmpeg team. I think the CLI is the most stable API contract to the outside world, and everyone in the node world uses the CLI. I had an idea to use node-ffi, though. Which doesn't require linking or bindings or anything. Just call the native ffmpeg code directly from nodejs.
Or you could avoid all of the technical mumbo jumbo and friction for voters... and use a convenient and easy to audit medium (paper) whose process can be understood by anyone.
I think he may have a point, but I think there's a minimal highlighting configuration that is helpful, yet not obnoxious: one where comments and constants are highlighted in their colors.

Comments are pretty much universally "skimmable" if what you want to get at is the code, and also completely unrelated to actual code (other than describing it), so I think they deserve their own color and that it is helpful. Also, conversely comments in their own color stand out from the code so that if you're looking for descriptions, they are easier to find.

Colors also being useful for constant values (strings and numeric ones alike) because at least I really want something hard coded to stand out. Sometimes it should be hard coded, sometimes it shouldn't, but pretty much always, what the hard coded content _is_, is of interest.
If I find any software defaulting to opt me in, without asking, it gets turned off and stays off. If it asks, I almost always permit it. When I have customers ask me about the same (when prompted by their software) they tend to agree with my thinking.

There is an exception though - since Windows 10's enforced telemetry, I have turned off all of the telemetry for all of their software across the board. Until they start to conduct themselves respectably again, they can do without my drop in their ocean.
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These are just fancier promo reprints of cards already available in other ways, though.
His comment works better the other way around.
> In 1995 I went to downtown LA. The air looked like your picture of the Red Fort. In LA at the time I could not see more than 2/3 of a mile.

Delhi and LA have similar problems in that they are both at the foothills of a mountain range (in Delhi it's the Aravali mountains). This makes it much more difficult for the pollution to dissipate once it's there, because the mountains obstruct wind and airflow. LA has been making efforts for decades to reduce emissions, but the payoff has been incredibly slow for this reason.

Of course, Delhi is a much larger and densely populated city - the Delhi metro area has almost the same population as the entire state of Texas - and it's also nowhere near as wealthy as LA. All three of those factors make it much harder to address pollution directly and much slower for the benefits to actually start manifesting.
It's not about missing the privacy discussion it's about the public at large not giving a flying duck about it, regardless of what you think.

Pick a random person on the street and ask them, you need to understand that by enlarge simply by knowing about this site you are already part of a tiny subculture of of the general population, and most likely living in a walled garden as far as your social connections goes.

People don't opt in, but they don't care about their privacy just look at the amount of people that would sign up for a mailing list/club benefits at a store they'll only visit maybe once in their life for a 5-10$ worth of discount that they'll never lose - for that they'll be willing to give up a whole lot more of personal information that GA or NVIDIA GFE collects.

This doesn't excuses the practices, it's just the reality we live in.
Good point - so Apple care about some users, but not others. Even my partner, not a geek at all, keeps hers charged to support her 30+ tab Chrome habit. The collateral damage is all over, and won't be apparent until the next generation where the 'normal' users find out.
Those are just alternate versions of existing cards.
Postbox is basically Thunderbird with system integrations, last I looked. I tend to find Gmail easier (and more pleasant) to use than Thunderbird, but I also haven't checked out Postbox for awhile to see how it's progressed.

It's sure to be more powerful, as is the Mailmate client mentioned earlier. I'm just not sure how "Maclike" the UIs will be.
>I'm not comfortable with any given group of people doing such sort of approval

Historically, that's exactly what newspaper editors did. The algorithmic approach has the potential to offer greater transparency, but not if the algorithm isn't published.

Furthermore, now that Facebook is in a near-monopolistic position when it comes to picking winners and losers in what we read, acknowledging that fact publicly would be the bare-minimum first step they could take towards accountability. Then we can have a more open discussion about how news stories ought to be judged and propagated (or not).
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Yup and in combination with this... https://youtu.be/ohmajJTcpNk the world will be easier to fool.
It's not surprising that China, India and other developing countries are going through the same pains "the West" experienced up to 20 years ago - which stopped right about the time we outsourced our most polluting industries to... China, India and other developing countries.

What is interesting is watching how they try to fix it. There was much noise about pollution during the Beijing Olympics - how is the situation there, right now? Can it be a model for Delhi? Will these countries have to walk the same path we did, or will technology let their manufacturing capabilities survive?
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I think including everything is super cool because I had the app installed and running in under 10 seconds. What wasn't cool was that I asked to cut a short 15 s video to the first second, and there was no feedback but the spinning gear for 5 minutes.
"By continuing to work on Windows 10 Mobile, Myerson says, Microsoft generally gets better at working with cellular devices and with ARM processors — the same kind of energy-efficient chips for smartphones that Apple has been using in its latest MacBooks, but that Windows for PCs has never fully supported."

T1 for the touch bar aside, does Business Insider think the new MacBook has an ARM processor?
How do they make sure the submitter of the image is actually the rightsholder/owner?
How much does that generate?
> But this editorial is pretty light on actually supporting that.

Why would it need to? This smacks of not having tried to understand the many, varied, and changing rules trying to tie locality to time. One inch into US Arizona's boundaries and you're off by an hour, if you are at one point in the calendar vs another. How many man hours have gone into maintaining this system, and continue to?
Your comment was (rightly, since it's false, off topic, and unsubstantive) downvoted by a user who happened to see it less than a minute after you posted it. This is hardly unusual on a high-traffic site.

The comments you're referring to were rightly flagged by users as containing nothing more than empty political rhetoric. We don't need posts on HN like "This is what socialism looks like. Bernie fans take note." This would be just as true if you flipped all the ideological bits.

I've given you many detailed explanations in response to these insinuating comments about HN, and already asked you once to stop. Every sinister claim you've made has had a simple factual explanation. If you are open to changing your mind, you now have lots of good information; if not, that's your prerogative; either way, it's high time you stopped posting these harmfully misleading comments here.
Many of my Indian friends are posting their air-quality readings on Facebook as a sort of macabre competition. The rest of the year isn't nearly this bad, and conditions have gotten much worse in recent years. I think many Indians are well-aware of the problem.
Vim's syntax coloring is more powerful than what I have been able to find in other systems. It can handle nested constructs quite well. If you have a situation in which two languages can be embedded in each other.

I am using Vim dynamically, calling it out of CGIT. For example:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/genman.txr

When you access this file, CGIT runs a syntax highlighting shell script where you can hook in multiple approaches (e.g. based on file suffix). I hacked this script to run Vim via Expect, to load the text and save the HTML with :TOHtml.

As you can see, the TXR pattern language and TXR Lisp are nicely separated in the output. The identifiers are colored differently---even in cases when they are the same! Look for a purple (do ...), which is a directive in the TXR pattern language to enclose and evaluate a bunch of Lisp, and green (do ...), which is a totally unrelated construct in TXR Lisp: one of the forms that support explicit partial evaluation.

When I'm coding in TXR, Vim is quite accurate in identifying mistakes like string literals not being closed and parentheses not being balanced and such, or various tokens being malformed and whatnot. It can figure it out in spite of levels of nesting. It significantly reduces such errors.
Do you really need to "keep up" with whatever changes are happening?

Are you using frameworks to solve your problems or are you learning about them because of some vague idea that you should?

I start my JavaScript projects with just an index.js and no dependencies and take it from there.

If I turn out to need some actual complex UI updating stuff, I'll throw in React and use it in the simplest way I can.
>To my knowledge, there is no reliable mechanism (beyond PGP and the web of trust) for authenticating that a certain sender actually sent an email message.

You can use S/MIME as well, which has its own tradeoffs like all PKI but also somewhat more widespread and mildly more seamless support. But your basic, unless the e-mail is cryptographically signed in some manner there's no significant authentication for email. If cryptographic signing was more widespread then issues with spam, phishing/spearphishing, etc could be significantly reduced simply by virtue of elimination of spoofing. That day does not seem likely to come any time in the foreseeable future however, given that if anything end-to-end cryptography in email (be it for signing or encryption) seems to be going backwards, not forwards. It'll remain an irritating situation for a long time to come.
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