skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spec [http://gavwood.com/Paper.pdf] has been to revert on errors since day 1:

> Just as with contract creation, if the execution halts in an exceptional fashion (i.e. due to an exhausted gas supply, stack underflow, invalid jump destination or invalid instruction), then no gas is refunded to the caller and the state is reverted to the point immediately prior to balance transfer (i.e. σ).

The Oct 4 commit just optimizes the way that reverts are implemented in go-ethereum (use a journal rather than deep copies).
I guess this is true (and another comment implied it has a lot to do with the first past the post system) … It seems just like a lot of other people it's hard for me to be neutral/objective in this when I care more about some issues (Trump's "negatives") than others (Clinton's)

Thanks for your input.
FWIW, my experience of Google's hiring process wasn't like that at all. Sure, it was hard, and they did do whiteboarding problems in the interviews (all seven of them), which is in its own way terrible, but it was all done with people who really did know the stuff they were asking me about.

I didn't get the job, but it was an interesting experience. Certainly selects for a certain kind of engineer, and would not be my preference for how to hire people if I was setting up my own operation.
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I really wonder why. Motorola has been building a great brand over the past years, while Lenovo - in my experience - never built a decent smartphone. This will probably result in the pollution of the Moto-brand, causing people to trust it no longer, unless the Lenovo-smartphone department and the Moto-department are also merging.
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Not only from a socioeconomic point of view, but I would guess that having parents who are involved enough in a child's life to pay for, drive to, and participate in these types of activities is more likely to be a source of a "mental health boost"
Different plants. BoF vs. unibody.
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> There are some bigger problems: States have a winner-take-all system to magnify their impact in the election. This encourages politicians to spend all their time on a few key battleground states.

That sounds like a tragedy-of-the-commons type of situation.

Anyway, so it seems that your vote means more depending on which state you happen to live in. Suppose we wish to preserve that property, why not simply weigh all votes in each state by the number of representatives that that state would have today, add everything together, and on those numbers decide which candidate becomes president?

Edit:
For example, we have states A and B. State A has 3 representatives and 100 inhabitants, and state B has 2 representatives and 50 inhabitants. We have candidates X and Y. In state A, X receives 60 votes, and Y receives 40 votes. In state B, X receives 20 votes, and Y receives 30 votes. Now we calculate the winner:

X receives (3 * 60) + (2 * 20) = 220 "votes"

Y receives (3 * 40) + (2 * 30) = 200 "votes"

X wins.
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> Amusingly, the sellers require a license and are not supposed to purchase stock to sell.

Correct, it's a schizophrenic situation that pro-legalization and liberal parties have been trying to solve for a while.

However, since 2002 more conservative, christian and/or centre-right parties have been ruling who ideally want to criminalize again so it's not getting solved any time soon.
If a language isn't popular enough to have Qt bindings available already then it probably isn't popular enough to use for your first game.

I mostly avoid the cycle you mention by having a single strongly preferred language and focusing my library knowledge there.
I am from India and I have seen middle class people talking about sexism, racism as major points while discussing candidates.

But when people are worried about leading a respectful life and make the future of their children safer, you cannot expect them to vote on sexism and racism as major topics in an election. You need to sell them a future.

And Trump sold them a future with "Make America Great Again". And Bernie was also selling people a future where corporations don't decide ur life. Hillary was basically telling America is great already. Think of people who are anxious economically hearing that.
I would suggest you start with “An introduction for information retrieval”. You can find a free version here:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/
The least proud people will probably be the families of victims- and they matter the most.

I agree there is a balance to be struck, the American system seems to be the other extreme.
Trump won the election after nearly a year of using Twitter extensively to reach his audience in a way that no other brand or celebrity has ever done. Twitter doesn't have a massive audience but it appears to be extremely influential and many have started to acknowledge just how influential his tweets were on voters in this election (even if they were not Twitter users themselves).
On my first run, 2 individuals learnt(?) perfect play in 3 generations.
Unfortunately, Trump is extremely popular with white nationalists so no, these are actual nazis. Pretty gross.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/clout/400560361.html?mobi...
How is he going to remove their support - Paul Ryan was still reelected against Trump's wishes.
> Most people think it's normal to have to beat on a flashlight to make it work. We do it without thinking. It's almost as if it's coded into our DNA.

Can someone (perhaps older than me (I'm 38)) explain this sentence? I have no idea what it even means to "beat on" a flashlight. You push a button, it turns on. What is there to "beat on"?

edit: Weird. I guess I've never used a cheap flashlight, because I've never had this experience.
I see that as a good thing.
I believe Trump inherited his billions and actually lost money overall so he didn't made any $$.
Ask HN: Will you ever trust CNN again?
I have watch CNN fairly regularly - before the elections - I thought of them as a quality channel.

I know my trust for CNN has never been lower.

I can't imagine believing in any of their polls in the future
This isn't a problem with insurance. You just let the ones without die off.

It's a problem because humans are wussies that can't live with their decisions.
wow! last night I got inspired to create exactly this concept while watching this interview https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_can_a_divided_ameri...
Could you provide a reference for your claim that the OrangePi Plus 2E has a fully libre stack? I was under the impression that it used out-of-tree kernel patches and binary blobs, which Wikipedia confirms.

I'm looking for any such (fully libre, no blobs, not even in firmware) hardware, but I haven't found anything so far except for some heavily modified old Thinkpads running Libreboot (sold by a vendor with shit customer support, as in delivering months late and not communicating for weeks at a time).
Except that's not what happened.

Go read the article and read up on them: they only took on VC funding later when they had a solid business that had been built from scratch and was beyond the Apple II era of its existence.

This wasn't a case of somebody just having the idea to sell clothes online and then heading to VCs: it was a business that started out well, took on VC funding, and then started to tank.

Your comparison is unfair to both Apple and Nasty Gal.
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Most programming classes suffer from teaching everything in the abstract: isolated code. In contrast in real world programming there's usually an existing code base you're working on.

Never tried this, but what if teaching was more like real world? Given an existing code base the students would have more context for why the code does what it does, and get a more holistic view of coding techniques.
It's almost done I think.

I have high hopes for it Globalscale made great stuff with the Sheevaplug and Dreamplug.
The point is people now feel emboldened to shout slurs and act like it's okay. White Nationalists are literally celebrating in the streets because Trump got elected. That is a huge problem. I don't want fucking Nazis in my country feeling validated.

>The guy wants conversion therapy, I want a billion dollars, you want safe spaces. Not everyone gets what they want. Deal.With.It.

No, I'm never going to just "deal with" white supremacy and fascism. Fuck off.
every economist also said market was going to crash yesterday. Free trade is a horrible idea, specially when your trade partner dont play on the same rule you play on.
That sounds more like STV. IRV is only for single winner elections. You can't get coalitions or anything like that from single winner elections. The 2 major parties would still dominate any single winner election under IRV.

The problem with IRV is demonstrated in more detail here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q7rzqJ0YS8

I think it's still better than FPTP, and it does let third parties at least get some attention. But there are other, better, systems. IRV has been adopted in a few places in the US, and then abandoned shortly after. I think systems like approval voting have a better chance of catching on.
I'm a CO resident, and I was honestly astounded that the measure passed with such a wide margin. I don't think people read or understood the measure. CO generally has a big libertarian streak (we're one of the states Gary Johnson did best in). I'm guessing the measure won on the strength of the name alone and not the merits of the actual law.

Now the usual suspects lined up against it, and that's who NPR interviewed: the Christian right out of Colorado Springs. However, I saw more opposition to this in my middle class gentrified neighborhood than I saw support or opposition for any measure, except maybe the tax measure to support the cultural district. This neighborhood is anything but conservative and this is one of the rare cases where seeing signs on the neighbors' lawns made me look deeper and actually change my vote from the reflexive "yes" to a "no".

The good news out of this election is that Prop 107 passed, which makes it harder to get constitutional amendments on the ballot. One of the things I dislike about living here is how the state is used as a political laboratory for everybody's pet poli sci project.
FYI: This reply is exactly one of the "smug styles" that the original article highlights:

> Christianity, as many hastened to point out, is about love. Christ commands us to render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. If the Bible took any position on the issue at all, it was that divorce, beloved by Davis, was a sin, and that she was a hypocrite masquerading among the faithful.

> How many of these critiques were issued by atheists?

> This, more than anything I can recall in recent American life, is an example of the smug style.
I believe it's AAAAABBBBBDDDEFFFGGGGGGGGHILMMMNNNPQQQQSTTTTVXXY now.

http://nonbinary.org/wiki/List_of_nonbinary_identities

Please, stop discriminating and being so misogynistic. You're hurting people's feelings.
> Republican voters said loud and clear that they haven't
liked being disrupted.

This is a perfect comment.
Hey!

You might be interested in a solution that uses less blocks (i would be). I might have been lucky, took me 2-3 minutes to find this.

https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?level=10#taj4p4

Does anyone know of a better one?

Edit: just as i posted this i saw that you dont even need the first "Move Forward", so it is 10 lines total with 4 blocks left
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At least in my area I do not have an impression that scout kids are from richer families than all school kids (which should be a pretty good reference point; a little lower maybe because some of the richer parents take their kids to private schools).

I do see scouts take lots of active outside trips which can help with mental balance. Doing white water rafting, being thrown overboard, fighting elements, being cold and wet, seeing occasional physical injuries and the beauty of the stars in a desert can put minor life disappointments into perspective for a long long time. My 2c.
Well, I can't think of a single organization that got the polls right so I'm not sure why you would only blame CNN.
It's sites like this that make me love the Internet.
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Well isn't that basically par for the course if you're going to break the rules?
I remember having a contradictory discussion at work about the design of a emulated eeprom driver for some embedded product. We had the flash memory hardware rated for a number of erase/write cycles. The question was what should we do when the cycle number is greater than that rated number. I said we should continue functioning and eventually raise a warning or something. But my colleagues were saying we should simply kill the hardware and brick ourselves. I was adamantly against this but they were citing safety concerns that maybe the flash could get corrupted and we weren't supposed to support that long of a lifetime anyway. We had a lot of safety mechanisms and redundancies baked in so data corruption would not happen. And my argument was mainly that, yes, if unrecoverable data corruption happens, brick it, but until the hardware forces you to close shop, the SW should continue running as long as possible. I don't know what they ended up implementing because I soon left, but I think they went with the self-bricking option.

Anyways, I just wanted to share this nice anecdote and I can't help but think that maybe somewhere, some Intel engineers had some discussion very similar to my own.
Many of those terrorists where farmers, who got sold out for a quick buck by neighbouring villages. And then met the chain of irresponsibility. Nobody wants to be responsible if the bad guy gets out, so the taxpayer pays for a cheap hotel the rest of their lives.
Just guessing, but if the reputation of Belgian prisons is true, most prisoner would be prefer to sit in a Dutch prison, even if they don't understand anybody around them.
no. i think the lesson here is stop regurgitating old news, and stop upvoting yourself.
I guess legalizing actually poisoning somebody is just a step further than legalizing selling a poison.
You could also say that because there was no compaigning in there state they feel less involved in election. When you get down to it no matter what the current electoral college system is isolating and is not representative of true democracy.
Why? You can use it not at all for free!
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Sweeney didn't actually pay $15 million. He just gave up the right to develop on a piece of land he wasn't ever going to develop on anyway.

That's an odd way to look at it.

Let's say I donate a car that's worth $10,000. I never plan on driving it again. Does that mean it's not worth $10,000?
Not GP, but maybe I can shed some light:

The last 24 hours I have catched a glimpse of it as a number of people have emptied their heartfelt contempt for

* uneducated white males,

* every person who voted Trump

* etc

I don't like Trump. I was surprised at every step that he got so far. I wouldn't have voted for him myself.

But since yesterday I might have started to understand why Americans did.

Sorry to all reasonable democrats (I guess you are the vast majority) but I think your allies actually might have secured Trumps victory.

Sincerely,
Someone who lives in Europe

Edit: won't answer your question on why he would be a good president, only the question you didn't ask about why he became a president-elect.

Neither will I say that he won't become a good president, cause frankly at this point I don't get it more.

I will continue to respect democracy and American people and their rules for choosing presidents.
Please, tell me all about Ahmed's clock ("Wow, you put some scrap electronics in a pencil case? You must be good at the science! Come to my science fair!") and the defunding of NASA.

At least Trump said this: "I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-Earth orbit activity—big deal. Instead, we will refocus its mission on space exploration. Under a Trump Administration, Florida and America will lead the way into the stars."

I wouldn't call him anti-science and I'm wondering when a president has ever been called "pro-science".
So this prototype actually predates the Macintosh itself, which was 1984?

Fascinating. And also to see them already using the Chicago font, too, which must have been designed that very year.
Had another look before I saw your comment, down to 3 blocks left now (12 lines). Thought my previous one was a bit messy, much better now, not sure if it can be optimised any further. Will check your link next. :)

EDIT: Nice. I was doing it slightly different to yours, https://blockly-games.appspot.com/maze?level=10#foif9x , two if statements instead would have fixed that, and the pattern becomes perfectly clear. Cheers. :)
I'll let the paradigm and the code speak for themselves.

Other than that, I did not say that all node.js engineers are clowns. I said that clowns tend to use crap like node.js over better alternatives.

Don't ask me for better alternatives without saying what you want out of your tool, though. Node.js does a little of everything but is pretty weak at all of them. Now, if your main requirement for a programming language is that it better be as crappy as your frontend technology, then node.js is the only choice you've got :D
I'm sure being sent to a (disused) prison would be a wonderful welcome to a country.

I mean I'm all for helping newcomers but sending them into a prison might send the wrong message ;)
> we like them and we prefer to be friends with them.

How true is this? Every Finnish person I've ever met has mistrusted and feared Russia.
yet another grsec shill thread.
One reason I'd oppose that is because you're making the federal government choose how each state votes. You can already go to a small state and campaign for changes to the voting method. Moving it to the federal level takes that power away from your local community or state. If you forced every state to vote the same way, I predict that method would never be touched by any politician ever again.

As an example, Maine just passed Ranked Voting, as did Benton County, Oregon. That kind of incremental change would be impossible if you moved it up to the federal level.

http://www.fairvote.org/maine_voters_adopt_ranked_choice_vot...
Whoa, hit a raw nerve there. Seems like you feel 'people' have been a bit holier than thou, a bit preachy about this whole 'I'm doing my bit why aren't you'?

I got to break it to you, this is not about making sure you get your fair share of the pie. This is about there being any pie at all.

And whatever the reason is that people are deliberately choosing massively more costly vehicles (in terms of gas and capital costs), there needs to be a lot more persuading of people in their purchasing decisions. It needs to be not cool to buy a truck to drive to the office.

I'm sure their will be an electric F350 (massive torque! The Model S P85 weighs half as much but has 50% more) but do we all need to drive one to work?!
> Would you be offering Linux support in the future?

Answer can be inferred from my previous comment :)

Seriously though, thanks so much for the interest. The tech stack is C# and WPF specifically which Microsoft does not appear to be keen to port to any other platform.

If this version takes off when finished, I could be convinced to recreate as a web or Android app.
Forking Joxa (https://github.com/joxa/joxa) could be a good place to start.

Might I propose Cloxure ("clock-jur") as the language name? :)
A "simple majority" means 50%+, not a mere plurality (its the same as just a "majority", it's generally used to contrast with a supermajority.)
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After Trump election you can forget about them.
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At least in almost every horror movie there is a scene when somebody goes down to the basement. Their flashlight starts flickering, then turns off, then they hit it with their hand a few times and it works again. Finally it inevitably fails again and the person gets eaten.
I've i'm not mistaking, the deciding factor should be how many pipes it past.

But here it is: "should it flap the wings or not"

What's the difference? Is this a better way?
> Can someone (perhaps older than me (I'm 38)) explain this sentence? I have no idea what it even means to "beat on" a flashlight. You push a button, it turns on. What is there to "beat on"?

I think it has to do with cheaper flashlights that basically consisted of not much more than a plastic tube, a bulb, and some springs for the electrical contacts. Because the tolerances were so poor, the battery terminals would often lose contact with the metal springs. One solution would be to open the flashlight up and re-set the battery. But usually, giving the case of the flashlight a few whacks was enough to bounce the battery back into a place where the circuit would be completed and the flashlight would turn back on.
This is a shorter video from the same source as the other reply that deals specifically with IRV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ

>Unless I misunderstand IRV, there is no "vote stealing" due to your vote automatically dropping off to your next-preferred candidate.

The problem is that they drop to your next preferred candidate who has not been eliminated.

If you're thinking about the problems that occur with plurality voting, it's easy to imagine your second choice will always be a popular "safe" choice, but if third parties get stronger (which is surely the point?) those safe choices can end up being eliminated before your second choice can help them.
Nate Silver has been wrong in everything he has predicted about Trump.

Again its not about ism although they play a part. Its about establishment vs anti-establishment. Hillary Clinton was the candidate of international finance and military complex.
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Ummmm... MFC?!?
I'm 39 and I know exactly what he's talking about. Pick up your average dollar store or Walmart incandescent flashlight, flip on the switch, and no light comes out. This is on a brand new, just out of the package flashlight. Tap or beat on the side of it, and suddenly the light comes on...for a little while. Then it flickers and goes back off, causing another round of tapping and beating.

This is due to the bottom-of-the-barrel cheap components and construction of low cost flashlights. Often the components aren't lined up correctly, or the switch isn't making perfect contact, or the spring is too compressed to push the batteries up against the positive contact (which is often the base of the bulb). I can't count the times I've had to disassemble and repair a cheap plastic flashlight right after opening the package, just to get it to turn on and off reliably.
The old ones that had two to four D cell batteries in serial in them would often get so the connections between the batteries and the terminals in the flashflight casing would be corroded or misaligned. So you turn it on, the light doesn't come on, then you whack it a few times, and things line up and the circuit gets completed to turn on the bulb.
Howabout a meetup, no need to restrict to work right?
It also sickens me that all these threads get flagged. Jo trump supporters is there no place for freedom of speech anymore?
Often times corrosion on battery terminals, or loose connections to the bulb, can cause a flashlight to not turn on when you hit the button. In this case, hitting it into the palm of your hand a few times usually solves the problem, and the photons are free to flee the front end of the flashlight.
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