skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ireland has at least one representative per 30K people [0] and that works reasonably well. At least you can usually meet and speak in person with your representative in the run up to an election.

Of course the flip side is you probably get a lot more 'parish-pump politics'. Candidates looking after their one tiny constituency to the detriment of the country as a whole.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1il_%C3%89ireann#Number_...
You can either wait around for the market to catch up with reality and account for the externalities of environmental damage, or you can pass government regulations that help fix or mitigate the damage NOW. Case in point: the bans on CFCs and agricultural DDT.
Is feidir liom! But, um, not very maith.
but how much would it cost to operate such a channel?
no reason to believe they are vulnerable.
Why is that my job? Why would you even believe my summary?

If you want to be informed on a topic, at least read the abstracts of my links.
It will be interesting to see how an electronic voting UI is built for this that is simple enough for non techy people to use. Almost all examples of this on Wikipedia appear to be paper ballot based.

I was part of counting a Ranked Choice ballot in my college but it was again paper voting - not online
From my research, if a LLC has a single person behind it, the protection offered is lower. "In many cases, the court will agree and the single member becomes personally liable for the business debts." (http://markjkohler.com/are-single-member-llcs-worth-it/#stha...)
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I imagine some folks are dusting off Cindy Sheehan at this very moment, now that criticism of the President will be fashionable again.
Capitalism has no problem with pricing the environment. It is governments which have prevented it from doing so. Privatize the skies, oceans and lands and you would clearly see the prices come into play. Now we could argue about the merits of doing such, but claiming a man tied to a chair is incapable of walking is incorrect.
> Ach, ar aon nós, táim an-shásta bheith ag léamh faoi Ghaeilge ar hn. N'fheadar liom cé mhéad atá anseo a bhfuil in ann sí a labhairt.

I've wanted to learn it properly since I took classes in Paris, but never really dedicated enough resources to it. I still enjoy watching TG4 and listening to RnaG/Failté from time to time but never went the distance. Swedish and French, being so closely related to English, they came much faster :)

I can just about hack my way through the national anthem, for no good reason other than it's a cracking song. Maybe when all my free time isn't spent on 'asset building' I'll get back into some of the fun stuff!

Tell me, how do you get on with (Scottish) Gaelic? I understand there's a large degree of mutual intelligibility between certain dialects and it'd be a fascinating area to study, like Welsh/Cornish/Breton also. I've seen some BBC Alba programming aimed at music-lovers/youth where an Irish performer was interviewed in Scottish Gaelic, replying in Irish. How set-up it was, I don't know.
I also initially used rss2email but ended up spinning it slightly for my own needs. It's a excellent tool to get over the first barrier of rss -> email though!
I mean if you were just in a car crash...

So in that case, lets have $YOUR_FAVORITE_SYSTEM for emergency medicine and capitalism for the rest. The vast majority of medicine consumed is not consumed in an emergency situation.

This is not American doctors doing this (or at least, not the topic of this article): This is American businessmen who have no background in medicine that are making these decisions.

So are Indian businessmen with no background in medicine more ethical?
Yes if you're looking to be a primarily .Net developer, it's not so widely used outside of the .Net community but in many .Net shops it's become the standard tool for mobile development.
You're hitting a confirmation bias.
Character matters, though. Some might argue it matters more than a checklist of policy positions.

On the other hand: a label like "democrat" or "republican" in many ways accomplishes what you suggest. Many people just vote the party line knowing what the party typically stands for.
With the respect to that last point, though, that's part of how in the 90s we've wound up in the (lack of) regulatory regime we're currently facing: at the time the regulations passed it looked like there might be enough competitor technologies for internet access that the technologies might effectively compete among themselves roughly enough to keep each other in check. Some of the competitor technologies didn't pan out (power line communications being a big one people talked about at the time, which never quite lead to broadband capabilities) and the rest of them were already "captured" to existing niches/hegemonies (the current big three: cable, phone line, cell tower) where providers were already well established due to predecessor technologies.

We can keep hoping for a disruptive technology to wipe the slate clean and give us new players/niches, but infrastructure "disruption" on that sort of scale still tends to lend too much advantage to existing players in the infrastructure game: the natural place to add microwave beaming is between existing cell towers, the satellite internet providers too mostly get bought up by existing infrastructure companies like AT&T and Verizon to shore up portfolios and make FCC mandates that they at least pretend to offer broadband options in rural areas, etc.

Beyond that, too, spectrum is finite and in spectrum auctions tends to favor existing players with war chests over disruptive newcomers. Outside of electromagnetic spectrum hopes, you are back to figuring out how to get physical wires from A to B and dealing with existing physical wire owners (the Google Fiber issues today). Something truly disruptive would be finding a way to do something crazy like IP over Quantum Teleportation and you can't exactly plan for when a breakthrough like that might (or might never) occur.

All of which tl;dr is that technological disruption is more often than not a false hope we tend to use to avoid properly regulating today's technology (or more cynically: yesterday's ancient infrastructure fiefdoms) because it may need to compete with some future technology that never actually arrives.
Even though the content of the video is fairly commercial (AdWords and and GA being used on-screen) it's still great that Google is giving exposure to issues that are important to its staff, and indeed the broader public.
> Approval Voting makes the most sense, seeing as this concerns the election of a single individual.

Approval voting is probably the only system that's worse than FPTP. Under approval voting, the candidate who is the least-objectionable wins, regardless of whether voters actually prefer them to other candidates.

So, you could very easily end up with a single-issue candidate being "approved" by the vast majority and winning, even though absolutely nobody would choose them over any of the other candidates.

> Mathematically, for a single candidate election, it gets extremely close to the optimum Condorcet result.

It's misleading to refer to a Condorcet winner as the "optimum" result - the Condorcet criterion is one criterion that an election method can satisfy, but it does not guarantee the "optimum" result by any other criterion.

It's also doubly-misleading to refer to the Condorcet winner right after advocating approval voting, which does the exact opposite.
I'm going to have to push back on this clear scope creep.
The English NHS has a similar problem.

firstname.lastname AT nhs dot net

Or firstname.lastnameNUMBER if there's more than one person with your name.

Since the NHS is one of the largest employers in the world you'll find things like john.doe58@

It sucks.
I'm falling for the "someone on the Internet is wrong" trap, but neverthless: Anarchocapitalism is fundamentally flawed because it rests on the assumption that capitalist markets optimize for the best utility function. They don't. Further, even in the optimization they do provide, they are flawed. Capitalist markets are powerful optimization systems, but they routinely fail, in pretty well described scenarios. Namely:

1. Wherever there are externalities, capitalism fails. For negative externalities, individual entities are motivated to capture the positive value, burdening the whole with the negative. For positive externalities, individual entities are not motivated to absorb the negative value when they can't capture the positive one.

2. Capitalist markets are, on aggregate behaviour, short-term oriented. This is a risk reduction strategy, but society requires some long term investments. Some of these long term investments also classify as positive externalities.

3. Pure capitalist markets have no provision for wealth redistribution and tend to accumulate wealth. While this is morally defensible, huge disparities in wealth tend to produce revolutions. Revolutions are undesirable.

4. Due to (3), pure capitalist markets devolve into monopolies and oligopolies, producing local maxima in the resource optimization utility function usually associated with capitalism.

All in all, anarchocapitalism is a naïve view of capitalism, where a good optimizer is mistaken as the perfect optimizer.
The answers are basically party platform. Party activists would temper dishonesty, because they want their party to achieve their publicly stated goals. Why would you join an anti-abortion party if you believe in abortion?

People think politicians don't keep their promise, but they actually keep their promise far more than they don't: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-kee...
Well, an orderly transition of power and a functional government are clearly a requirement for forming any new country, peacefully or violently. If you didn't set up a government, you've got no country because you have no way of managing anything.

As I said, with Baltics I was specifically referring to 1991 which was largely non-violent. Yes, not entirely without violence, but these modern countries were not forged by military power, they were forged by the will of the nation.
The article makes this point in the very first paragraph, congrats on only reading the title.
I use VS2015 a lot for .Net ASP dev, but when I do Xamarin iOS dev I tend to do it in Xamarin Studio on the mac.

Much better experience, fast deploys/builds. I miss Resharper but can live without it.
Not sure about 'nice'... (said one of the 250k human translators on planet Earth).
The cream has never been evenly spread. It likely never will be, although it could be improved. In order to evenly spread it, you have to be able to measure contribution. Good luck with that.

Previously VCs got most of the cream, founders got to ride out the public markets for their pay day, and early employees had to hope they were working at a Microsoft.
If anyone is interested in using Single Transferable Vote for unofficial uses, I recently wrote an implementation in Elixir and wrapped it in a small JSON API. It is a toy in its current state (it uses cookies to see if people have voted and the link to close an election can be somewhat easily found even if you are not the creator of the election) but we use it around or office for a few things and I would be interested in continuing work on it if anybody would like to jump in. I have an instance of this running on my site; ping me if you'd like to try it.

STV Algorithm: https://github.com/carrigan/elixir-stv
Phoenix API: https://github.com/carrigan/vote-service
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As we've told you many times, you're banned from HN and can't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950423 and marked it off-topic.
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Are you saying Sublime Text existed prior to Eclipse?
Somewhat odd that in setups this large emails to all are unregulated. I'd expect those to go through some "approval" channel.
No no no. Finish is a machine gun language. And a broken one at that. Everything sounds like ratatata ta ta.
PS: Too long working for Nokia, I guess. ;)
This takes the tech community's propensity for Monday-morning quarterbacking to a breathtaking new level. Yes, I'm sure you came up with a much better solution in your sixty seconds of thinking in your comfortable chair than the people on the spot, faced with literal Nazis, did at the time.

Just hide them! I wonder why Nobel laureate Niels Bohr and future Nobel laureate George de Hevesy didn't think of that.
Can anyone explain why people leave their servers configured to allow arbitrarily long To: lists? Any large organization is just one mistake away from a Reply-All apocalypse.
Your way of looking at it is perfectly sensible. But a sensible person might also say that a uniform prior over strategies is appropriate in the absence of any information about your opponent. Choice of priors is always going to be partly subjective, and reasonable people can make different choices.

I would point out that in a real world scenario, a uniform prior is barely any less realistic than the a prior derived from the assumption of mutual knowledge of perfect rationality. Is your poker opponent equally likely to be doing their utmost to lose as to win? No. But on the other hand, they're not likely to be tracking 100% of available information and making the mathematically correct choice all the time.

In general, the question of what you should assume about an unknown opponent's strategy is a tricky philosophical question, and reasonable people can gravitate to different points of view on this issue. I think that might be why so few people give the answer you want. I was just suggesting that explicitly mentioning mutual knowledge of perfect rationality might help.
Mentor bought, and then killed, CodeSourcery. They had a great ARM/gcc toolchain but no more.
Ask HN: Choice of secure private-data email host?
I've been meaning to switch off Gmail to something that doesn't copy my data as its subscription fee. Preferably something that's also secure against e.g. generalized external monitoring or govt. requests, presumably by supporting PGP.

I've found three different possibilities (FastMail, ProtonMail, and Runbox) without even particularly looking; I am having difficulty comparing much about them beyond their price-points. Presumably other such services exist that I haven't found.

What would the HN crowd recommend for this?
I was replying to cesarbs, who literally said "Being a leader does not justify being an asshole."

Edit: And yes, the conversation pivoted to being a leader because that is a critical difference between Knuth and Torvalds which seems very relevant to this sort of comparison.
Pro tip to escape this kind of situation : reply to the last email but spoof a fake email address as sender. Now, for everybody who's gonna use the last email to reply (your email then) your email address doesn't appear anywhere.

You might need to repeat this process a few times since people don't always reply to your email, but it works pretty well.
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Really cool. The link only looks at single-candidate elections, though. It's unclear to me that this is superior to party-based systems.

Particularly Congress could use some proportional representation.

EDIT: Wow, would never have guessed that IRV gave such strange results...
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> A fleet of self driving cars equal to the maximum needed simultaneously can move around ferrying first one person then another to their destination.

A fleet of taxis or cars from similar services could do the same. I don't see how the self-driving aspect changes the situation, other than possibly reducing cost by eliminating the driver.
I think that the near-rise of Bernie Sanders, and the successful election of Donald Trump, proves that the establishments of the two parties don't have a complete stranglehold on power.
If people want to spend their money on a ring then I have no issue with that. Personally my wife is quite frugal about signs of material wealth (raised in a family with money that drove old Honda's etc) and had very strong opinions about not wanting an expensive ring. Instead we spent our money on a honeymoon exploring Asia and Europe - I wouldn't trade that time for any ring. Travel may be a privilege but teaches you a lot more about the world and the person you want to spend the rest of your life with.
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> I'll look at your links, but I'm skeptical of one's motives when you just this out links.

Are you similarly skeptical of the motives of every poster who posts a story on HN? They're just links too after all. That just seems like a bizarre statement.

Either my links contain valid criticisms by recognized authority figures, or they do not. I don't see how adding more verbiage of my own makes the information I presented more or less trustworthy.
> you can build apps that are virtually indistinguishable from Swift/Java apps

That is a very tall claim to make without any citations. All the cross-platform toolkits lag behind native swift/java apps by at least some margin, and the claim that JS indistinguishable from swift/Java is highly questionable.
That's exactly the idea behind the term "smart grid". Rather than a network which has a relatively static set of inputs and outputs, new nodes in either category can join the network at any time. The US is doing research on smart grids, though I don't have any real familiarity with it - would love to hear more from someone who does.
Uh yeah I know about that.

Since when does Google == All Big Tech Companies?
> In the case of climate change, we can't even get to the cost/benefit analysis part of the conversation

Sorry? We were already at the "let's bribe farmers to grow extra corn and then burn it for fuel" stage, years ago.
This gives me a lot of hope. Its time we looked at alternate voting systems seriously.
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I'm finding that the book by Entrepreneur magazine called _Start Your Own Business: the only startup book you'll ever need_ is very helpful (no connection with me).

EDIT: specifically, in the index entry for "business structures" and the chapter on taxes. I also bought a few "personal MBA" books, & on marketing etc, but this seemed clearly the best one to start with; those others I think I'll come back to, later.
Very recently Microsoft introduced VS for Mac (although I understand it's sort of a preview version).

I don't know about OS X, but I used Xamarin Studio on Windows and it was horrible.
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I don't know. I'm the only American-born scientist in my research lab (though not only US citizen), but is that really uncommon in tech? So maybe my situation is different? Living next to UCLA probably doesn't make it easier to mix with Trump supporters. When I was in China a few months before...well, expats aren't exactly known for being xenophobic white people.
This is correct. The problem isn't capitalism, except in that we don't have enough of it. Our framework for private property won't recognize rights in air or running water, and so they become an easy sink for externalities.

If someone contaminates your land (say, by spilling heating oil), there's a well-defined path for recovering the damages. But since we don't recognize an owner of air or water, when those are contaminated, there's nobody who can claim damages.

By not fully recognizing property rights, we lose the ability to prevent polluters from externalizing their costs.

EDIT: s/Or/Our/
>You might need to repeat this process a few times

You're suggesting adding millions of extra emails to the system here. I think the best thing to do is wait, or create a rule based on the subject line.
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Hey, thanks so much for passing this, Maine!

I'd love to start a group (or get involved with one if there is one) to bring this to my adopted state of Washington.

Though I often groan at the "laboratories of democracy" turn of phrase, it is kinda cool to see this stuff implemented somewhere. It means there's a model we can use to bring it to where we live.
"Do you really want to send this e-mail to 1,000,000 people?

[Yes, really] [No]"

With the latter option being focused by default and emphasized?

Yes, doing that is tricky deployment-wise with open protocols, but isn't the whole point of solutions like Exchange to enable system-wide shortcuts like that?

With an open solution the next best option is probably to have the mail server send a confirmation request email back to the user with a link to click if they really wanted to send it, instructions on how to reply with a confirmation etc.
Sure, the Democrat was the spoiler there. But your characterization of kevlar1818's comment doesn't make sense.

Advocating RCV is the exact opposite of propping up the two party system. And the terminology itself is neutral -- it's only because the American democracy has suffered under (or, as some would now say, outright failed due to) the two party system that you associate "the spoiler effect" with a third party candidate.
Tldr other countries are just reiterating what America is doing. Trump's platform was that America was no longer strong enough so other countries are just agreeing.
I think you've missed the point of the article. People who don't use public transportation subsidize those who do, but we're OK with that as a society in large part because many need to use public transportation; the young, the disabled, anyone who can't afford a car and or to live next to their work and a grocery store. Similarly, we subsidize schooling and school lunches. But subsidizing parking is the opposite of that: the poorer pay for the richer. No one would be concerned that the ultra-rich are forced to subsidize parking they're not using when they take their private jets instead of road-tripping.
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Can confirm. It's just "the NHS" wherever you are.
What has been removed is just syntactic sugar that can easily be acheived in other ways. I think it's a good thing that Elm's core is kept as clean and simple as possible. There are enough other languages with a kitchen sink philosophy.
You can get some app lists (top apps, etc) from App Annie, and some unofficial apis for it like https://github.com/modeset/app_annie

Might help a bit.
How does that build/refute the position that dogma is required to deal with anti-science in public discourse.

I ask because while I think its an awful conclusion, I've seen and experimented enough for more than 2 decades, to recognize this same appeal from the days people first started spreading climate FUD which has metastized to what we see today.

The conclusion is that this is NOT a scientific communication problem - because science has been DESPERATELY trying to do that in whatever fair and logical manner they can.

It's been met by concerted efforts to confuse, muddle, emotionalize, subvert, defund, ridicule, and physically attack people on what used to be "boring nerd territory".

This is a political/emotional problem, and for that, isn't dogma a horrid but simplistic solution.
That makes sense. Rightly or wrongly, I perceive Mentor as having lots of users who cater to companies in industries like telecom, medical, or A&D who aren't very pro-FOSS (on a corporate level, at least).

It would be cool to see them open up access to their tools somehow though; Library Manager, Valor DFM, maybe even something like HyperLynx. Not sure how open people would be to some sort of royalty agreement in exchange for access to CAD tools.