skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/net_election...

Technically, tampering. Yet-to-be-adjudicated in the same way as someone doing something illegal doesn't always get prosecuted because stare decisis (or political backlash) is so crazy-overused that you rather avoid going forward than lose on technnicalities or by a small margin.
At one point, VBA in Microsoft Word was my only available programming outlet. I was able, easily, to access DirectDraw and create a faux screen saver. DLL imports are available in VBA, so the entire win32 API is available (in addition to the normal Office automation stuff like sending email, modifying spreadsheets, etc)
Google builds two of the perhaps most popular desktop linux's ... Android and Chrome OS.
I know it sucks but it's good that you at least voted provisionally. If you get any kind of receipt, etc, it can help if there's class actions following the election. Given the state of this election... there very well might be.
Don't Europe's Uber drivers also live in tall apartment buildings?
Customary semantics
The idea of colonizing another planets is so surreal it makes me wish I would live another 100 years. Having mars as our launch pad, I wonder where we could go from there.
A basic introduction to Julia in Data Science

https://www.coursera.org/learn/julia-programming
Curious as to why you chose to go with AWS-China vs Ali's service?
Is this Nano GPS Chip for real? How does it work and how much does it cost to make such currency?
If these sorts of things aren't interesting to you, then I'm not sure why you come here. This is half of this site.
As luck would have it, I've recently started work on https://tillbill.in - kept thinking it would be great to have an easy way for individuals and small businesses to run the work cashless.
From the tutorial:

>> the-values hold information about variables received. At the moment, these come from PATH (GET and POST are on the way). You can access them in the same order they occur in path.

Well, this is kinda the crux of the situation isn't it? Query parameter parsing, and POST body parsing, can't do much without these. Is this to be implemented in cobol? I really hope not, parsing anything is quiet untenable in cobol. I believe gnu/open cobol has pretty good .so binding, so you could conceivable use third party utilities like apache apr request parsing.

Why is parsing untenable in cobol? Becuase idomatic cobol doesn't provide dynamic memory allocation, or associative arrays, so you have to build up all that infrastructure from scratch.

But, the absence of dynamic memory allocation is also a characteristic that makes cobol extremely stable and safe, and mainframe applications legendarily bullet proof. All memory is required to be statically declared at compile time (similar to c-sects in assembler). So the runtime can ensure user programs play nice with each other.
No, I'm not. My point is to only draw an illustration of just how small the overall marketshare for "non-Windows PC users" actually is. I go out to meetups all the time and everyone wants to act like I'm some sort of weird outlier because I'm the only person with a Windows machine in the room.
Yeah, that's nuts, there are 20 other people with my name just living in the bay area. That system could wipe out some non-zero percent of the Irish vote.
Those things are more cumbersome to use than local currency. At some point it becomes cheaper to just pay your taxes.
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A lot of that will probably be subject to corporation tax. Government still gets a nice boost.
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Programming and coding are the same thing. I think the distinction you were looking for was engineer vs. programmer/coder, and programming is simply the implementation part.

What you described seems more like a managerial role and/or an engineering role that also encompasses product/UI design. In my experience, most of the design work - the actual creative part - is delegated to other people, and the actual implementation of these designs is the task of the engineer. As engineers, we're working on the least creative part.
Compared to factory workers of 50+ years ago? Certainly.

Compared to programmers 25 years ago? Absolutely not. The pay is worse (inflation-adjusted), and the working conditions are far, far worse (see: open-plan offices).
I am going to suggest something that is not usually suggested. But I have seen it work wonders. Find a place where it is legal, and grow marijuana. If it suits you, smoke it, but ultimately start a garden and grow the plant.

People refer to the medicinal values of marijuana, but the one fact that is scientifically proven that is often left out is that having a garden and working in a garden is good for your mental health. That is not speculation.

This part is speculation. I believe a marijuana is the perfect plant to grow if you are fighting depression. First off, potentially you can harvest every 60-70 days. That means every single day you have to take care of the plants, but every day they grow significantly. Problems one day are disasters the next and if you can just stick to it every day, there's a harvest which can be rewarding monetarily or just intrinsically. If you are really good at it, you will find out that you are actually helping a bunch of people with all sorts of medical conditions. So the reward is comes fast, and then you can start again! Also, one more point, the grow lights can be another form of light therapy.

I have journaled about this stuff in the past, this is just a brief overview of my feelings of the hidden benefits of cannabis. Like the title states, this is just One Road and often the one less traveled...
After giving this some more thought, I realize you're right. We already deal with programs starting on xx:30, now we'd just get used to things starting at x.25, x.50, and x.75. Instead of running from 8:00 to 8:30 PM, a show might run from 8.00 to 8.25.

6 minutes is too much time though, if you tried to fill that with ads you'd lose your audience fast.

Dividing into thirds doesn't really work in a decimal system.
Interesting. What quantities do economic DSGE models measure for example? And how accurate are these models?

Is there some way to play with these models? Or do you need lots of input data, which isn't freely available?
I wonder if blockchain technology could some how be used to improve the voting system?
I never thought any politician can make such decision. Modi just made something really big announcement for making India much better than we guys can imagine. I love this move.
Two very strong counterarguments should be made:

1) Going for analysis of ecosystem evolution and trying to predict new business avenues from there leads to "too-early" failure cases. Lots of startups fail because they were too early to the market. More startups fail because there is no market than because the market is crowded, and arriving to a market before it exists is probably the worse form of failing because of market absence.

2) First mover advantage is not that much of an advantage. It is important, but lots of unicorns are second movers. Comments here already highlight a few, I'd like to add Apple. Apple mostly refined products that were already in the market and profited handsomely from that (no negative tone here, pretty much the opposite).
This is quite big. An expert says that 87 percent of all of India's cash reserve is in 500 and 1000 Rupee notes. It might reduce black money. In any case, the next few weeks are going to be interesting. Almost an emergency atmosphere right now in front of ATMs at 11 pm in the night.
I think in more recent Androids an app can defer obtaining the permission and then fail to perform the action if it was not granted. I've had a few programs do this (specifically ask permission to access external storage only when attempted) and was pretty happy with the experience.
Also selenium grid docker containers. Unfortunately their Python documentation isn't the best (though there's some excellent third-party created Python documentation available). To save you the head-scratching I went through, it's basically just:

- Start a 'selenium hub'

- Start up as many firefox/chrome 'node' containers and link them to the hub.

- Point webdriver at the hub port and url.

I will eventually get around to building some Alpine containers for this, one day. I find the official ones a bit 'heavy' given all it really invoves in installing openJDK and running a jar file / browser driver.
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There are many technical arguments on both sides, but the business argument i've been given is that Excel sheets are the most audit-able, especially when they are self-contained. Auditors like this, especially after Sarbanes Oxley. Excel sheets fall into a different audit classification as compared to "systems" (a python script might be considered a "system".)
I could be wrong, but it seems like none of those apps are really mass marketed to consumers (versus power users). The goal for Signal is to make it something that could gain mass adoption, and requiring users to install plugins in order to do simple things like attach photos would be a serious hinderance there. It's hard enough to convince non-techie friends to install another messenger as it is.
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That NGC seems to be a rumour.
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your falsehood claims are no better, Joe. telegram puts their money where their claims are. and you cite reuters as reputable source. just wow.
you mean Stockholm?
Imagine deep sea exploration. Someone finds something very valuable and worth extracting despite the cost. There are treaties for this, of course. But would it work the same for Mars? Or, would we revert to force, as you say, if the Mars colony declares independence and says, no more Earthlings or only Earthlings from Country X who pay us handsomely.
It could be OCD, or it could be the downfall of most young men (many of whom I'm friends with) when they leave tech companies in bay area to strike out on their own: "for fame and fortune". Thats your problem.

You need to do it because you are passionate about the problem you are trying to solve and genuinely interested in the work you do.

You were frustrated with the rest of your life because you were looking for it to supplement your job, because you werent excited about it for the right reasons.

It's not just a problem with you, so many high level VCs are sick and tired of seeing really smart engineers come up with ideas that clutter the system with another food delivery service or the "next facebook".

When you are aiming for fame and fortune, youre aiming to emulate people who have already come up with original ideas, instead of focusing on your own originality.

That's why the bay area is filled with so many "me too" ideas while the rest of the world has multi billion dollar low hanging fruit begging to be worked on. Because they exist in neighborhoods that arent cool or hip, that do not resonate fame or fortune, when it is precisely when you leave the things you are trying to emulate that you find what you are looking for.
Why not use LLVM IR instead, which is simpler?
Swapping your vote is not technically tampering. And the practice has been adjudicated. See Porter v. Bowen. Of course, since that was only an Appeals Court ruling and not SCOTUS, the legality is strictly dependent upon your state and whether it has laws on the books expressly prohibiting swapping. But, those laws could be challenged if one desired to put Porter v. Bowen to the test.

PS: The article you linked dates from 2000. Porter v. Bowen was in 2007. You really ought to check the dates on things you read. A lot has changed in 16 years. Look at Citizens United.
So obviously, early results from exit polls aren't reliable because we don't know turnout numbers.

But after the election, we know exactly who voted, so it seems we could use exit polls at that point to sanity-check the results. Given a paper trail, a significant discrepancy could trigger a recount.
I know of a retail bank using a huge and complex Excel spreadsheet for their entire loan approvals process.

Did it have bugs? No-one knew.
Definitely.

EDIT

I hrhmmm, hope there is some evidence of my ballot.
The reports of "voter intimidation" on the electionlandstrends map matches the boundary of this racial demographic map.

http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_nhwhite.gif

Here's those two maps combined:

http://i.imgur.com/eKT5s0h.png
If you're spending 30k, paying an extra 20 for a banker's draft is insignificant. And it's not like you buy a car every week. (I also can't imagine feeling safe carrying anything like that much cash around. What if you lost it?)
> This is more or less a way of saying it's "rather pointless to have secure messengers on iOS".

No! that is not at all what is being said. There is no way to use signal that doesn't give Google or Apple remote code execution privileges in the process.

This means that for people who aren't already exposing themselves to these companies use of signal is a step down in security.
Insects, algae, lichens, bacteria etc. are might be stronger contenders than inorganic self-replicating machinery. They're pretty good at surviving harsh environments already, evolve pretty quickly, and often have life cycles adapted to multiple types of environment and timescales of activity, much like multi-stage spacecraft.
Isn't it clear from the article, like everyone else pointed out, that things going forward in Icaza's org are open? As in cloud and developer tools?

You're talking about older things.
The 900 series (at least the 980) has a new navigation system.
cash has always been a hot potato, particularly in india, due to high inflation.

the elephant in the room remains real property registration / valuation / tax reform.

only a matter of time. This is one of the silver lining's of the modern surveillance state.
Edge core got open sourced they even made a fork of nodejs that used it
i agree, I linked more for the similarity in experience between the gp and the author in regard their unlearning

I prefer your clarifications when considering the function of capacitors

That said, water does attract water.. the term used to describe the phenomena is cohesion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_(chemistry)
I think his primary point was that there are more developers on Windows than on any other OS.

Did you find any data relevant to that point?

I tend to think that it's true. There are more developers on Windows. Way more.
Landing the booster stage of rockets is really new. Building mass-market electric cars that are supported by continent-spanning fast-charging networks and can drive themselves is really new.

And with that, I'll stop feeding the trolls.
> The harsh conditions on Mars might make such unlikely events more probable if the outcome—say, bright orange skin—was very beneficial.

Make Mars Great Again.
Then they should open source Visual Studio and TFS and make them free. Dealing with those licenses is a major PITA.
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The point is that they do recommend it, just not in the tiny print. 99% of what they say is "eat more", 1% is "with care".

The advertising shows combinations of items, the staff offer upsizing for a deal, etc. Their business model clearly takes advantage of upselling and impulse buys.

SSM is a story about what happens to someone who doesn't know any better and just goes to the convenient restaurant, eating the standard portions they sell. It's best viewed with that other documentary, about the guy who got skinny eating at McDs (and exercising!). It's not (strictly) the food that does it, but the portions and lifestyle it encourages.
or how that really has any impact on the general "openness" of microsoft.
>Sometimes it's ok to remain a small club.

Well, it appears that other members of this community have different ideas about what this community "should be". And that's okay too.
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The complaints don't see to be about a functional language so much, but that you need to cut+paste and have lots of boiler plate.

You'd have the same problem in C, without pre-processor abuse (which is how I've fixed this in the past), but I'd not want that problem in a modern language.
I love that quote. Somehow it just highlights the irrationality of it all.
Academia has some of these qualities (and more). Depending on the school and or department you could be doing anything from basic full stack web dev on down to lower level comp sci work. Deliver good results and move around (big university) every now and then and your pay will go up pretty quick.

Just don't expect the big software firms to be knocking on your door if you need those bullets on your resume (unless you have a PHD).
Unlike New Orleans, Hong Kong was not a part of its current country just 19 years ago, but was under the control of Britain. It's also one of the world's most important financial centers. So it is deeply connected to the outside world and its existence and current status are owed entirely to outside forces and agreements with them.

Hong Kong may be a part of China but China does not own the people of Hong Kong like some sort of property.
Cool. Where's the Windows and Office source? I've got some changes I'd like to contribute.
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Where does the selection pressure come from though?

I have enough faith in our race that even if we have someone who is genetically less fit for mars we won't just let him die before he reaches a reproductive age.

So will it be by their potential partners? It would be pretty funny if they end up developing martian dating apps that requires putting their DNA sequences online just like how height and race is currently required.
http://amasci.com/ele-edu.html There's more, lots more. ;-)
I actually liked COBOL. I wouldn't want to use it anymore, but as a language it was as straightforward as one could ask for.

You can clearly see how it contains the foundations for more 'modern' languages.

Well done for taking the time to explore something that's now off the beaten path.
I think it is 5 days but I am not really sure.
We've asked you already to comment civilly and substantively or not at all. Please stop posting like this.
The point of my comment was not that bloomberg was an awesome reward. I only stayed a year, and yes it was noisy as hell. The floor sounded like a drum when people walked on it. My point was that I went from a blundering buffoon in an interview to passing a notoriously difficult software engineering interview in 8 years (with a few jobs in between).
My sense is that this is mostly a gimmick as far as curbing the illegal economy is concerned. (1) Illegal cash is a fraction of illegal income which is a fraction of illegal wealth. Destroying a further fraction of that cash will not be a huge setback to the illegal economy. (2) Some (and perhaps a lot) of the illegal cash will get laundered through family and friends and deposits by businesses which operate in cash and do not have to keep detailed accounts (3) This is a game that you can play only once. Once people know that such currency 'reforms' are possible, illegal transactions will move to alternatives to domestic currency. Dollarisation of the Indian illegal economy is one possibility.
Not really (or at least you would lose privacy part), one reason why voting is anonymous is to prevent 1) intimidation 2) paying people to vote in favor of specific issues.

If block chain would be used it would be easy for someone buying votes to verify that the people who got paid voted in certain way.
>The Chinese government gives approximately 0 shits about Hong Kong's silly foreign ideas

That's why it must be crushed and CCP members' families flayed alive before them.

A full scale airborne landing from Japan and Korea on Beijing. Finish them!

What concerns the HK situation. There are only 4, possibly 3 proper military garrisons in immediate vicinity of HK. Only one hosts a modern and trained mechanised force. In case of mainlanders pulling the trigger, striking that garrison before forces stationed there will be mobilised will leave PLA with nothing that can strike on day one other than lightly equipped forces on machine gun equipped apcs/armoured cars. This will leave defenders with three threats on day one: guys with assault rifles trying to swim across from the new territories, air bombardment and assault from sea. Air attacks are inefficient in densely built up areas with reinforced concrete buildings. One can simply run into any multi-storey concrete building to hide, anything below a 1 tonne bomb can't outright destroy it.

The naval landing will remain a threat. Yes, even if PLAN will send disembarked ship crews alone without marines it will be enough to outnumber defenders and overwhelm them without use of heavy weaponry. PLAN does train ship crews to double as a landing force. The likeliness of Beijing ordering the navy to capture HK using what ever means possible, at any cost is high if their land forces will be rendered impotent. The above scenario of disembarked crews being used as a land force was simulated in recent military exercises.

Here, a third force intervention is definitely needed to prevent this outcome. With a cooperation of the defenders and a third party, HK will be able to stand for 3 days for sure.

High displacement ships (read a big frigate sized and above) can't navigate close to the shore all around HK island except for the West Lamma Channel between Lamma and HK island. A capable pilot familiar with local hydrography can get close to land in the region of Shek O village, but the likeliness of that is low and the locations is strategically unfavourable for naval landing. This leaves the control of waters south to Bluff Head as the main concern. There, scuttled civilian ships can be used to block access to the Lamma channel and provide radar clutter to disable enemy long range anti ship weapons. A defender allied ship, can then hide in the channel behind the cover of scuttled ships to prevent landing from smaller crafts.
Yeah but the maps I'm showing don't follow general population density so the point being made by this comic doesn't apply in this instance.
I'm not exactly sure how to classify it. Would you consider early institutional investors in Microsoft, Amazon, or Facebook?

Anecdotally I've heard that lots of VC firms passed on all three during their very early days, but I'm not convinced that those are good examples of completely new markets.