skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would still be able to go chain-hopping with a self-driving car, you would just be paying to keep it engaged the entire time, rather than getting a separate car for each hop and only paying while you're actually in it.

As for everything else, I totally get that not being able to keep stuff in your car is inconvenient. But there are billions of people out there who don't own cars who already deal with these issues every day, and they can be overcome. For instance, I live in NYC and I don't own a car. When I'm out of the apartment for longer periods of time I bring a backpack with me, packed with water, a Kindle (for amusing myself on subway rides), additional clothing suitable for the day's weather, an Anker battery pack to recharge my phone, and other stuff.

The big advantage is that you are no longer paying the substantial costs of car ownership, which should more than make up for the slight decrease in convenience. If it doesn't for you, you could always buy your own self-driving car.
Personal experience. It is great that the replication issue is getting attention, but really that is a minor aspect of the problem. Producing reproducible reports of your research is supposed to be the easy part... The real difficulty is how results are interpreted.

What I was taught to do (along with basically my entire worldwide cohort of research colleagues) is test a "null hypothesis" rather than my hypothesis. Then when the null hypothesis was deemed to be inconsistent with the data, I was supposed to conclude my hypothesis was supported, with at most some hand-waving about other explanations.

A crucial part of scientific research is distinguishing between different explanations for the results, and this is almost never found (at least for fields like medicine, psych, etc). If we can get the public eye to look behind that curtain, oh man...
Quarterly tax returns are a thing if you pay VAT.

Technically you should of been declaring that self employed income regardless of its total, it's not separate from your main income, in terms of tax liability - I believe it's combined with your main income.
There is hope that Trump will be appalled by drone strikes and the horrible number of deaths of bystanders they cause. I had the same hope with Obama and he disappointed me bitterly. Let's see how Trump will do.
How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself
The Genealogy of the MacBook Pro
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_gubernatorial_election,_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_gubernatorial_election,_...
Yup, Japanese is a machine-gun language. Spanish, too.
Don't first-preference votes count twice as well, since they're counted in the first round, and also in the second round?
Not so much for reading, but in Japan I actually saw quite a few places that were offering lessons to teach people how to become better at writing kanji, since the vast majority of communication is over phones and through computers where simply knowing the reading and having a decent idea of what the correct kanji looks like will suffice

Also in college every single one of my Japanese friends had a business keigo book they were constantly studying in their senior years to prep them for communicating in the working world.
That seems like it would reward strategic dishonesty and be ripe for abuse. For example, right now if a candidate says they're in favor of passing Generic Placeholder Policy, but I believe they're lying about it, I can vote against them. But if that's part of their official platform and "Do you approve of GPP?" is an official question on the ballot, how do I respond?
I do think your larger point is interesting, but by editing your comment to take out the part that's driving these responses you've broken the continuity of the discussion a bit.
What is the difference between 'fake' news and true news thats inconsistent with prevailing narratives?

By letting 'the people' choose what trends, at least you are being honest.

Most real news is fake anyways.
If you mean the list of domains in the popup in your toolbar, you can scroll down in it. (That is a bad UI :-\)
I always go with the stack that I'm most comfortable with, unless I'm using an existing stack at a company I'm working for. Learning a new stack because it's "popular" is a recipe for disaster if you're incorporating into a product you want to use or want to charge others to use. You'll spend time trying to figure out how to do things that you already know how to do in another stack.

Any stack will get the job done. Use the one that yields you a shippable product in the end.

My stack is ExpressJS, AngularJS, PostgreSQL, NGINX, DigitalOcean, Route53, PM2. And I fly through it.
Huh. The solution is to not handle icmp type 3 or "hire official anti-ddos services"? I assume there's a way to maintain ICMP type 3 functionality while still mitigating this attack...?
Yes. Nobody who understands the risk-adjusted rewards of startups does it for the money. Best odds of getting rich? Go work at Google and bank your check/bonus. At best, startups are a faster way of getting experience. [1]

Employees don't even know they are making that bet, though! Most don't even know the details of what they are getting, let alone how to evaluate it. I've been working with AngelList to help fix this, much more coming very soon.

[1]: http://startupljackson.com/post/135800367395/how-to-get-rich...
Mathematical algorithms calculate social behavior
I've been doing Xamarin for about 6 months and I get most of me reuse in services. Sure, manipulating the UI is mostly native code but the rest can be reused such as the DB layer, API layer, and anywhere else you have business logic.
how likely are these situations to arise in practice?
Lots of problems with FPTP as well. I'll look at your links, but I'm skeptical of one's motives when you just this out links.

We needed to eliminate the two party oligarchy.
Copyright James Lyons © 2009-2012
Latest reference is Stinson, Douglas (2005). "Cryptography: Theory and Practice"

intro to classic crypto. Not so practical in 2016?

Wheres the circa 2016 https?
Don't be a rude person and you'll never have to worry :)
> Pretty sure we saw how that worked out in Iraq with Blackwater. No thank you. There's a ton of flaws with this philosophy once you start thinking about it and following certain aspects to their logical conclusion.

Blackwater contractors don't actually have to live in these places, they're just there for a short time to get paid, and then they get out. Arguably the incentives are different if you're an actual member of this society. I recommend Friedman's book if you want a proper introduction to anarcho-capitalism, instead of forming an overly simplistic view based on Wikipedia's introduction. His book addresses many of the naive counterarguments most people consider to be 'devastating' to anarcho-capitalism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machinery_of_Freedom
Which voting system is best? (2011)
The main cost is hiring an accountant to do the tax return for you. Or figuring out how to do it yourself using software like TaxTron.

Not that I have anything against accountants, but what kind of effort are we talking for filing the taxes yourself? 5 hours vs 1 for a personal income tax return? 10 hours? A weekend? How many pages are there for a corporation (in the simplest case -- I'm sure there is quite a range)?
how can i test some of the server i use?
According to discord (https://discord.engineering/using-react-native-one-year-late...):

Unfortunately Android devices have much
greater variance in performance and tend to trail significantly behind iOS.
We were able to get our app running fairly quickly,
but the performance — specifically on touch events was not at an acceptable level even on higher end devices.
In addition at that early stage there was still a lot missing in the React Native Android feature-set that would
have made getting our prototype to production level more time consuming than our iOS effort.

This was posted on the 7th June admittedly. Does this still hold true?
Ensuring Parity Between Development and Production Environments
Was stuck in the Paris train station at 5 AM at the end of a Eurail-pass trip. Needed to get a tram ticket to get to the airport in ~1 hr. Tickets cost €18 in coins, or a chip card; I had only paper money. After ½ hr of panicking, I found a shop that had just opened and I asked the shopkeep, while holding up a paper bill, what basic (and probably incorrect) French I remembered from high school:

"Avez-vous du coin?"

Caught the plane with 3 minutes to spare.
Used to work at Siemens. Their open-source policies were onerous from a consumption point-of-view. Every revision of every approved open-source product had to be reviewed by their open-source legal hawks to ensure that nothing had changed. I don't remember their mandatory training on open source but I especially don't recall any encouragement to publish open source projects and to contribute to them. Great company but it certainly treated open-source with a sentiment that I can only describe as fear.
Microsoft Is Bringing Visual Studio to the Mac
Then instead of asking questions about positions directly, take a page from the Elder Scrolls games and ask questions whose answer imply a certain thinking process.
Oh, I completely agree that I have massive single point of failure here, believe me! But it's such a convenient and easy-to-use single point of failure that it is almost irresistible, as I mentioned in another reply I would love to be able to bring the functionality that I get from IFTTT inside by network and run it on something like a Raspberry Pi, that would be great.

At the moment I'm relying upon lots of discrete apps all glued together with one web service, now if the web service stops working I can still turn the lights on and off using the LIFX app and I can still control my heating using the Heatmiser app; but what I can't do it any of the logic stuff that I find so useful, turn the heating on at X time and make the lights are lovely warm colour at the same time sort of thing.

I'd love devices that respond to simple post requests that I can run with bash scripts, over 10 years of experimentation that seems to be about the most stable system I've seen.

But yes, if IFTTT stops working tomorrow and it's going to be a major pain in my bottom and I'm going to have to recreate a lot of my systems from scratch. Which is why the search for robust systems under my control is never really going to end.
This initiated bill provides ranked-choice voting for the offices of United States Senator, United States Representative to Congress, Governor, State Senator and State Representative for elections held on or after January 1, 2018.

https://votesmart.org/elections/ballot-measure/2128/an-act-t...
The first article talks about logistics of doing it in practice, which as other countries and Maine will see, can be done.

Another article pushes Ranged voting which is in the same family as IRV.

Overall IRV > current process.
what is the sweet spot? I'm faced with developing a fairly simple thing and it would help to know a little more about learning curve ( I use react ), downsides, etc.
Ha! I wasn't aware of the context because I don't closely follow Maine politics, but some of the other comments here cleared it up for me.
With Thunderbolt 3 (via the four USB-C ports), you could quite easily run desktop class GPUs in a relatively small enclosure. There's a couple of them previously available on Amazon, but I'm sure the offerings will skyrocket after the first of the year given the new laptop.
> To say "yes, I still want that policy, but I want EXACTLY the bundle of goods that I want forced on everyone, not some other basket of goods" seems like special pleading.

If everyone is pleading in this manner, then it isn't so special.
Google translate does a nice job of translating Irish. I was surprised till I realised that it is an official language of the EU.
Yeah who would have thought that the "wrong person" would ever get their hands on the drone program and huge domestic spying program. It's inconceivable! /s

This is what all the civil liberties peoples feared: you make a big pot of juicy data and unilateral executive powers, and it invites expanding their uses and mis-uses. The misuser may be GWB, Obama, Trump, HRC, or the next guy, but because they exist they will eventually be mis-used.

It may be rank hypocrisy for everyone to freak out about it now, but I welcome people getting freaked out about it.

That said many fewer people seem to trust Trump and he is an unknown quantity, so it's easy to see why the freak-out exists even if in principle it was late in coming.
Regardless of the other content in the article, I think it's time people stopped calling names when referring to the president of the united states. It's just doesn't look mature.
Nearest I can tell... the client app is trusting the user ID sent back to it so you can login with your own (the hacker) user name and password and then replace the userid in the returned value with your victims and many mobile apps will let you continue assuming you are the victim.
There's pretty good HLS tools and other things to work at a high level. The real difficulty is on verification, RTL synthesis, material checks, fast simulation, etc. Altium lacks a bit of these whereas Cadence is huge. That Mentor was so tiny in market cap despite having something good for every part of the stack, even software side, made them the best buy.

I have occasionally recommended Altium to people designing new hardware just because they have a nice cost/benefit ratio. So, did Tanner on PCB's and analog. Mentor bought Tanner. Now we're back to Mentor. :)
> If you saw my email in $DEVICE, please contact the manufacturer, if you really want to talk to me, place $VERB in the subject of your email.

Never underestimate desperate people's selective deafness; when you want to solve a problem, you will filter out everything between you and it, and will see only "place $VERB in the subject of your email". The false positives from this method will be the most desperate, and probably the least congenial.
Can I ask the products you have worked on with Xamarin?
I occasionally go on rants when remembering the WPF days and realizing I now spending 30% of my time fixing dumb stuff like NPM breaking, gulp going crazy, or realizing I'm using 6 month outdated tools because the kids found a better one. I felt like I really had a chance to learn WPF.
America Has Abdicated Its Leadership of the West
In this thread so far: "but, but, Obama!"

Yes, if you actually read the article it's extremely critical of his policies with drones & surveillance.

That doesn't mean Trump is somehow the same.

We're dealing with a President-elect who has said he knows better than Generals & intelligence agencies. A man whose lack of temperament for the role has been apparent his entire life, a man who uses threats and intimidation along with poor self control, a man who has a history of using political power to pursue personal vendettas.

... that is - to put it mildly - rather concerning.

(voted down for pointing out the facts of the article, stay classy HN)
It makes the title less useful to focus on the gendered, social relationship than who the girlfriend was as a student. In the case of my friends, "girlfriend" could mean anything from "basically math illiterate" to "has a PhD in a technical field that isn't ML and doublechecks my proofs cause she's smarter than me".

The author decided not to tell us anything about who he taught -- where on that range she fell -- just what her social role was... His.

That's what people are objecting to: in an article about teaching your gf something, why not make it about who she is as a student and what she learned instead of her social status as your mate?

It's that fundamental phrasing and framing of her, as it being more important to know her social status than anything about her academics, that people object to.

(All that aside, this is a silly thing to complain about. But it isn't nothing.)
Run the commands from the article?

hping3 -1 -C 3 -K 3 -i u20 <target ip>

ofc that assumes you have access to hping/hping3. I plan to check my own server as soon as I can.
From the article I don't think you need to MITM the victim's phone. You just MITM your own device and then are able to login as the victim on your own phone. Which is far less complicated.

So assuming the app doesn't use certificate pinning it'd be easy enough. And even if the app does use certificate pinning you could probably crack some of the apps to bypass the check since it is your own phone after all.
The Nobel Prize medal appears to be about 2.5 inches wide, which would make it immensely unsatisfying in at least one constraint.
One thing that's been useful for me on this topic is to keep a simple dev diary. Mine looks like this: https://github.com/jrheard/voke/blob/master/dev-diary.txt . I use it to get as much project state as possible out of my head and into git.

For "10 minutes figuring out where I was", I can just look at the end of my last diary entry, where I've often left a note like "this is what i'm working on: foo" or "do this next: foo, bar, baz" or "currently stuck on baz". And if I haven't left a note like that, I can usually deduce one by scanning the last few paragraphs of the last day's entry.

For "15 minutes researching how to do that next bit I want", that has to happen no matter what, but I like recording that research in my dev diary so that I can search through it later if I run into the problem again or want to remind myself why I settled on a particular solution - and I find that forcing myself to write down my analysis of this research helps keep me on task during the research process and helps prevent me from getting distracted.

You get the idea. I don't have any written-down rules about how to keep a dev diary, what goes in there and what doesn't, best practices about solving X software engineering problem by implementing certain dev diary techniques - I just have a freeform text file that I write my thoughts into every day when I'm working on my project. It seems to be a useful technique for me, maybe it'd work for you!

I used to do the don't-break-the-chain jerry-seinfeld thing, but I find it too stressful, it starts to really affect my quality of life (and the quality of the work that I do!) when I've got a chain going that's more than a month long. Plus, if the point is to prevent thoughts/state/meta stuff around the program from slipping out of your mind over time, writing it down seems to me like a good (better?) way of solving that problem.

When I find a problem that recurs in my dev diary without me coming up with a solution, or I have an idea that I'm not going to work on now and which I worry will be lost in the folds of my diary, I find an issue tracker like GitHub's (eg https://github.com/jrheard/voke/issues ) helpful.
Any vote that makes it to another round of counting is 'counted twice', yes?
>Sooooooooo private security firms for law enforcement? Pretty sure we saw how that worked out in Iraq with Blackwater. No thank you.

A firm hired by the government, using taxpayer dollars, to carry out government orders, is not a good example of anything an anarchocapitalist is proposing.

> So you only use 2.5 miles of a highway to get to and back from work - right? Should you pay for the entire highway or just the parts you use?

It would be bundled together the same way other goods are, determined by the balance between ease of charging and the scale of the good. Maybe a road company would charge a flat fee, or maybe a per-mile fee, or maybe a fee varying by congestion. All these things can be and are done now with toll roads. Road companies would have to determine the optimal scale, just like any other company.
This guy very much reminds me of Dave from the Republic of Dave in Fallout 3. A little quarky but he thinks he can do it. It's interesting to see if he can do this as it would set an interesting geopolitical precedent for the area.
What if parking were plentiful but cost $16?
Radical new economic system will emerge from collapse of capitalism
> In the nineties, there have been many attempts to create digital cash, but they all failed.

Centralization enabled government take-down :(
This reminds me of the story Larry Osterman told about Bedlam DL3 [0] at Microsoft. I feel like this is a problem with few good, problem-free technical solutions.

[0] https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/2004/04/08/me-t...
New Zealand Earthquake Rattles Experts
How is it splitting hairs to correct the (implicit, through use of the phrase "The Spoiler Effect") blaming of third party candidates when it wasn't a third party candidate who was at fault whatsoever? In fact that's the central point of this ballot proposition: so that we can vote for better candidates than the Democrats are willing to put up without fear of your blame if we don't reach enough to defeat the other side.

Even worse, your post is just factually wrong. By placing the fact that a 3rd party candidate split the vote once in a sentence where you mentioned the governor failed to reach a majority twice, you conflated the two in a manner that almost looks willful.

And yes, I was referring to the 2010 election because the plurality for LePage was much less convincing then.
That goes both ways, though, right? There are people who are isolated in the community because of the actions of hyper-critical people. The presence of people like Torvalds is isolating to others.

I mean, sure, you may think that Torvalds provides more value than the people he isolates, but either way people are getting isolated.
The Fate of Reading in a Multimedia Age
As long as there's an example on the ballot, it should avoid confusion. Ex:

"Rank candidates in order of preference. E.g., #1 - most preferred, #2 - second-most preferred..."

The counting system (to me) is more complicated than the voting process.
Arrow's theorem[1] demonstrates that no voting system can be "efficient" in the normal sense of the word. That is, no voting system can guarantee:

1. If every voter prefers A over B, the electorate prefers A over B

2. If no voter changes preference between A and B, the electorate's preference of A and B is unchanged

3. No single voter can always change the electorate's preference

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
120 replies ( as of lunchtime ) out of 1.2 million recipients is a remarkably low ratio for a non-technology-focused organisation.

Looks like there are lot of sensible folk in the NHS, or else they haven't yet all had a chance to check their e-mails between shifts...
New York City is definitely the most ethnically and linguistically diverse place in the world, and because of this you have a myriad of different lifestyles taking place side by side. I don't think you need to live in Manhattan to understand that.
Something like this seems to happen, and make the news, every couple years...

Is it not possible to configure their email server to disallow emails with over X recipients from sending?
Adding an Overlay to Your Graphics with CSS
I had a Japanese conversation course for only 1 year at the Japanese embassy in Berlin. I forgot everything except "tenki wa ii desu ne". Still it was a very good experience, because the politeness system built into the language is very interesting and there were many other interesting phenomena (like particles for count systems, topic marker, etc.) that helped me later for my work in the philosophy of language and semantics. I also learned a lot about Japanese culture in that short year.