skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Learnt a bit malay and indonesian during my school time, I got hired as a programmer recently because I can code decently and translate english to malay/indonesian for the targeted countries.
Ask HN: Why have the 2016 Michigan Election results still not been called yet?
Here are the results from the Secretary of State in Michigan.

http://miboecfr.nictusa.com/election/results/2016GEN_CENR.html

Is there a reason why news outlets are hesitant to call the result in Michigan, but comfortable to confirm New Hampshire with its slim margin of victory of 0.3% ?
And unfortunately, related to all of the points you mentioned, this need of the poorer suburban/rural people to own their own cars is what spurs on the subprime auto finance market. If you're making minimum wage there's a good chance you have bad credit, and your only option to get to work is getting a vehicle financed at a smaller, less reliable dealership who charges huge markups on decade old vehicles with 100k+ miles, and exorbitant amounts of interest, and they won't hesitate to repossess if you miss a payment.

In the past couple of years in the US the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the FTC have started working to help these types of car buyers and protect them against deceptive practices in advertising and unruly markups, much to the chagrin of the so-called "Buy Here-Pay Here" dealerships. The recent election and the deregulation culture surrounding it, however, does may not bode well for the consumers. I wouldn't be surprised if the CFPB is dissolved entirely.
Intel->Altera,

Siemens->Mentor,

It'll be interesting to check Siemens' Modelsim - Intel edition
and to see if they will eventually move to Qt for the GUI!
21st, although it's not a like-and-like comparison:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
I refer to this as the "LePage Law".
> Open office[s] and Agile are already well established in corporate America.

Corporate "agile" is often a misunderstood and cargo-culted version* . Same with big-company open offices: An open office for a team? Probably OK. A (single) open office for 300 developers in a department working on different things? Not so much besides a recipe for noise and distraction.

* My employer uses an "agile" process, it was designed by a bunch of PMs and middle managers. Team empowerment was not on the agenda.
It's definitely not Pareto efficient.

If you're a member of the party establishment in one of the big two parties of a system, you stand to lose a lot by moving to an instant runoff and nothing to gain.

Unfortunately, most of the power to change the voting system is in the hands of these kinds of people, so it's going to be pretty hard to change it. Kind of a Catch-22.
Except that it's not even that. You're right that a lot of crypto is broken, but usually because of implementation bugs, not because people use vigenere ciphers.
I do. If that were the case here we would have a much nicer town to live in.
Sucks too, because with my new $100,000 -- I'd have been kicked back on a beach in Cambodia right now. Making Extended Vacation Great Again.

At least I got some of your money on PredictIt.
Then just enforce the existing rules against parking on the street! This is not difficult. Indeed, it's easier than trying to centrally plan out exactly how much parking each house and business needs.
Also, this video by Exploratorium has great examples of paradoxes in Ranked Choice / Instant Runoff voting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJag3vuG834
Let's say that startups do indeed become less attractive as time goes on. Do coding bootcamps prepare their students for jobs at BigCorp?
Lots of problems with IRV:

* Realities Mar Instant Runoff Voting
18 Flaws and 4 Benefits, http://electionmathematics.org/ucvAnalysis/US/RCV-IRV/Instan...

* Instant Runoff Voting: A Cure That is Likely Worse Than the Disease, https://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/langan.htm

* Instant Runoff Voting: Looks Good--But Look Again, http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/irv.html
Your taxi driver in Bath is embodying the stereotype of the taxi driver who is ignorant of the subject. Xe has alas conveyed that ignorance to you. What you state as second-hand fact is anything but.

The law that covers taxis and private hire vehicles in Bath is Part 2 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976. It is at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/57/part/II . B&NES Council is one of several local authorities to have adopted what are essentially uniform local bylaws. Other local authorities retain their own (sometimes much earlier) bylaws, but their differences from the Act are usually that they are even stricter.

The person to complain to is not the dispatcher, but the Taxi Licensing Enforcement Officer of the local council, as explained at http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/business/taxis/private-hi... and at http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/services/business/taxis/hackney-ca...

It is interesting to contrast the actual U.K. law (which has been around since 1976) with discussion on this WWW page.

* It is illegal under section 69 of the Act for either hackney carriage or private hire vehicle drivers to prolong journeys.

* It is illegal under section 48 of the Act for licensing authorities to refuse to licence private hire vehicles simply in order to render licences a scarce commodity.

* It is illegal under section 64 of the Act for someone to park something other than a licensed hackney carriage on a hackney carriage stand (one of the ways that people could impersonate taxis).

* It is illegal under section 71 to tamper with taximeters.

* Section 66 of the Act prohibits the practice of charging something greater than what is on the meter just because the journey ends outwith the jurisdiction of the licensing authority, and "those rules don't apply out here, mate".

Examples of even stricter non-uniform bylaws are bylaws that ...

* ... require that the driver assist with luggage and not refuse a fare with luggage if the vehicle is designed to carry it;

* ... require that drivers carry all lost property to a police station;

* ... require that the meter not be run when not hired, not be hidden or obscured, and be lit at night;

* ... have detailed requirements on furnishing, such as cushions; or

* ... prohibit advertisements on the windows of such vehicles

... which can be found in various jurisdictions.
Perhaps it's a cleanup-run before adding new stuff. Removing need for arcane syntax seems like it could simplify the compilation pipeline.
Apparently our interpretations of the article are very different.

Most of the paragraphs are criticising obama and democrats that supported his efforts.
Good news: Kids as young as 6 are building a joyful robot swarm
Japanese expends a lot more syllables to say the same thing that English can say in fewer. Even more if you use the polite form (e.g., speaking in a business context, train announcements, etc.) Grandparent post was not the first person I've observed to notice this.

Japanese syllables are often shorter than English syllables, and a native speaker can articulate then quickly and fluently, but it seems to take much more linguistic "mass" to say a thing in Japanese compared to its English equivalent, unless you use a blunt direct form.
You're comparing the circulation of the physical magazine to online metrics of Drudge Report. Not good, my friend, not good.

Do the right thing, and compare unique visitors of SciAm website to that of Drudge Report.
Seems like a decent overview of the technical aspects.

But doesn't it miss something important: whence cometh the value? Why would I, or anyone, actually want to own Bitcoins?
How can Facebook fix its fake news problem?
Samsung to acquire connected car firm Harman for $8B
Such cross platform apps are meaningful only if your product doesn't need great UX. But the question is, if your app doesn't need it, why do you need a native app? It's better sticking to a web-app. Make a web-app and cover all platforms at once.
I don't have the rights to the dataset, so unfortunately I won't be releasing it.
The canonical opposite example of this is a nationalised healthcare system. Rich people pay for a healthcare system that they don't use.

Due to economies of scale the NHS in the UK costs less than half the money the American systems costs and has better outcomes. The government in the UK being very right wing are slowly trying to destroy the service. Numerous mostly Tory MPs are paid cash by private healthcare providers!

[1] http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/selling-nhs-profit-full...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/03/healthcare-...
Many flavors of libertarian agree that in order for any court's decision to be binding, all parties to the dispute have to agree to grant it jurisdiction.

This, like most parts of Libertopia, is completely dependent on a robust reputation system. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to determine whether the proposed court is likely to be fair and impartial for your specific case.

If you can't find a single judge that you can both agree on, you basically become Hatfields and McCoys, and then the rest of the county pulls their own guns, and decides which gang gets to be out in public on which days of the week.

In a government court, jurisdiction is just assumed. In Libertopia courts, you can never skip that step. You also can't skip the part where the litigants post cash bonds to the court, to pay the judge and jury, and guarantee some of the judgment award.

Filing suit as plaintiff in your own court seems like a slam-dunk until you realize that no defendant with an IQ higher than broccoli would ever be insane enough to grant you jurisdiction to hear your own case against them. And they definitely wouldn't pay you to do that.
How many lines of code are you at? Have you written tests?
No, double-tax is when you pay both federal and provincial income tax on the same income. Or when you pay corporate income tax on profits and then pay dividend taxes after that.

EDIT: though as a3camero pointed out, you get tax credits for this later case in Canada, so it's rare to get double-taxed in that case.
Agreed. The template stuff blows me away, feels completely foreign to me. I'm barely catching up to C++11's features and looking at the '14/'17 stuff gives me that feeling of being assigned a ton of homework.
If a large portion of the population does not value or understand science, how can you have a rational debate on values?
> I also carry worker's comp and liability insurance

Would love to hear ballpark figures on this stuff. I know it can easily be apples to oranges, but I don't even have a rough idea where it would be.
"There is talk going on about a possible Bank Run."

Stop spreading false rumors that will cause fear or alarm to the public. It's an offense, according to Section 505, in the Indian Penal Code: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1198526/
Parable of the polygons
People forever confused the company I work for, Shadowcat, with a london hosting provider called Black Cat and with Sleepycat (i.e. the berkeleydb company). Even once both of those ceased to exist, it was a couple years before the effect trailed off entirely.
The PCB design team at my job almost all use Mentor Xpedition. From my experience with those guys, they would not appreciate modern software UIs in their CAD tool at all. Half of them refuse to upgrade from Windows XP because they don't see a point. If an update to Xpedition suddenly had a super clean/minimal UI someone might actually have a stroke haha.
Given that major companies have been built on what was not seen as cutting-edge stacks at the time of conception -- Facebook on PHP, Github on Rails -- maybe Rails could still be the sensible choice? RoR might itself not be fast, but on the upside, its community seems to be pretty forward-facing in building plugins for client-side tech, i.e react-rails [0]

[0] https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails
If you like the stagnation of a two-party system, and want third parties to always have a near-zero chance of winning, then yes, plurality voting is the best system. Those two parties can consolidate their power and permanently keep out third parties, regardless of how corrupt/disliked the two parties become.

Instant runoff, among other things, keeps major parties on their toes and more responsive to the electorate's needs, since if voters are sufficiently angry they have a realistic option of putting a minority/third party in power.
So, what's the current recommendation on accepting public ICMP these days? There used to be some debate on the tradeoff between usefulness and security.
Hear, hear! It can help with vocabulary, especially if you know a little bit about how things changed on their way to some Romance language you're trying to communicate in, e.g. working your way back from Spanish "hongo" to Latin "fungus" (the "f" -> "h" switch is pretty common, e.g. ferrum -> hierro, facere -> hacer).
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Because if your building catches on fire, the people inside could die and it could spread to other buildings. Classic externality problem. Nobody is going to die because the owners of buildings get to choose how much parking their building needs, any more than they will if they get to decide how many bathrooms their house has.
Of course we have such neural nets. Measurements of arousal and eye tracking show clearly that people from both sexes react to these stimuli even if they pretend not to.
Latin grammar doesn't help you with English grammar, of course. Latin vocabulary can help you with English vocabulary, but the effort of learning Latin, then transferring that knowledge to English, is much larger than the effort of just learning English.

I had some Latin in school, and yes, from time to time it comes to mind when encountering a new French or Italian word. But even if you want to learn several Romance languages, I'd guess that just learning them and recognizing/exploiting relationships is easier than also learning Latin. It does add a common denominator, but it also adds a lot of cruft.
The relevant RFC lists a couple of options. .test as TLD is valid as well
its hard to do an objective value based analysis because it's hard to put a price on environment. That's the problem with capitalism. Making the world better for our kids does not maximize shareholder value. We can at least be honest with ourselves instead of simply denying facts to justify our decisions
Same here. I started learning Dutch at university about 10 years ago and kept at it.

I can absolutely relate to your experience. At least in casual settings it's very difficult to speak Dutch because everybody will default to English upon realising you're not a native speaker.

I like Dutch culture and I'm in the Netherlands several times a year. In terms of benefits, knowing the local language helps with both navigating everyday life more easily and better understanding society.
Are people are just fucking with him because they saw an opportunity do so?
No, I try to avoid any kind of hub because I don't want to be locked into one particular way of doing things. That's why I chose LIFX over Philips Hue, LIFX bulbs are just plugged in, connected to Wi-Fi and controlled from an app on your iPhone, iPad or laptop and away you go. I didn't want a cupboard full of hubs controlling lots of discrete bits of the house, a hubbard if you will.

So if there is any centre to my system then it is my iPhone and iPad, and I make sure that whichever piece of home automation I buy it has some ability to connect to If This Then That. This has been made infinitely easier with the new Make channel, which means I can just send a POST request from any old bash script to trigger any number of actions.

I've never heard of any of the three things you mentioned, but unless they were all capable of being controlled from the one device, in this case my iPhone then it would be virtually impossible for me to use them. You see the iPhone has world-class access for disabled people, I can do everything with one switch on my wheelchair that an able-bodied person can do with their two hands. Normally disabled access to devices is some terrible and crippled subset of functionality that we've been stuck with, that's when those of us with motor skill difficulties are even thought of at all, for most people disabled means blind and deaf and that's doubly true in technology circles. There is no other group of devices that a quadriplegic and just take out of the box and start using within five minutes then the iPhone, iPhone and any of the computers running OS X, believe me I've searched!

At the moment I have one iPhone with a series of apps, I also have DragonDictate for Mac on my laptop and iMac which allows me to pair up voice commands with AppleScript's and bash scripts. Which means that the number of things I can do is literally endless as long as the piece of hardware I bought has some ability to be controlled via the network.

That's what interests me so much about this project, I would love to bring something that can do what IFTTT can do in-house and maybe run it on a Raspberry Pi so that I'm only reliable on my local network and not the Internet. That would be awesome.

Anyway, I'm going to stop rambling and hope that I've answered some of your questions! I'm happy to answer any you might have, I'm also open to any new idea that would help me control bits of my house more easily.

I have a couple of websites where I detail this sort of stuff, robotsandcake.org is my not-for-profit stuff where I give talks at places like Google and for the UK foreign office in Mexico discussing how technology impacts the disabled, and I also have inventability.net which is basically a collection of hacks and tricks that my partner and I have learned over the past 10 years of my being quadriplegic. That's only been going a few months, so it's still a little light on content but if there's anything you see missing and you'd like me to explain I'd be happy to make a post about it!

Anyway, the people at IFTTT are lovely and I don't want to hurt their feelings by cheating on them behind their back with this young upstart! :-)
They also seem to be bad at parroting baseless claims, like faulting Apple for not releasing a processor that doesn't exist yet.
Yes, I know that... my point is if you wanted you could take down Hacker News for example; pretty easy if you thought about it for a while right? You don't need this bug or a massive botnet.
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Actually, the piece barely mentions Poliakoff, and not even by name:

> As you can see in this video from the University of Nottingham, dissolving gold is a slow business. The narrator (who looks like he was cast by Mel Brooks, but is presumably, the real deal) explains that nitric acid loosens the gold atoms, after which hydrochloric acid moves in, using its chloride ions to surround and transform the gold.

I really don't see where you read that he's been knighted, other than Wikipedia. From the videos YouTube page I didn't get his name either, and there are no comments in the article.
That sounds amazing, but the dependency you're getting into makes me feel a bit uneasy. Surely your stuff can be ported somehow if something happens to the infrastructure you're relying upon?
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NHS send-to-all email causes turmoil
Fair enough, but I think you're kind of splitting hairs. You're referring to the 2010 election, I think. The 2014 election has the Democratic candidate take ~43% if I'm correct.
Has anyone seen analysis of elections nullified by vote?

For example, voters would be allowed to put the status of any and all candidates as null and/or a top vote as null. If the majority of votes cast as were null, another election would be run with all candidates from the prior election removed.
Interesting read and great points. But the reason I'm shopping for a diamond is precisely that it is too expensive. It's supposed to be proof that I am glad to make sacrifices for her. If we wanted to do something nontraditional we might choose some completely different kind of ring, but to choose something that looks super expensive and is not would make me feel like I had cut corners for my fiance.
I think this is a mistake, but probably not for the reason you think.

We need to stop thinking about politics so statically. Positions on issues can and should change as new information becomes available. Your current preferred position on an issue is really just a rather poor proxy for your preferred method of problem-solving or thought process that reached the conclusion of your preferred position.

You want to elect the person that "thinks and learns in your preferred manner", so that when they are asked to reach a conclusion on a totally unexpected issue, they reach the "correct" conclusion.

I'd almost rather just have all candidates take an IQ test or something and then elect the top scorers.
I sleep less than 12 hours per day... I only type on my keyboard maybe half the day, so I could share a keyboard at work to save huge amounts of capital on a world wide basis.

The dystopian world of the future looks like life on board a nuclear attack submarine, where no one owns a car, everyone works at home, two people have to share a bed (involuntarily, mostly), no one is allowed to cook their own food, only a tiny percentage of the population have the intelligence and social skills to survive it but everyone is united that everyone should be forced at the point of a gun to live exactly this way, all your time and your entire life is planned out by big brother with little to no care about your own personal concerns, living density is extremely high, no one can have kids, the whole lifestyle is financed by hand waving and ridiculous unsustainable and unscalable financial scams, constant uncontrollable interruptions, energy all comes from green (ish) sources which are ecologically harmless unless some pipe springs a leak and then an entire village dies horribly, apparently people do nothing when off duty and have no personal hobbies other than getting drunk in cheap dive bars as often as possible, your life depends on a minimum of 500 CPUs all programmed by the lowest bidder with a literal army of people trying to crack security which would result fairly inevitably in your rapid and painful death. But other than that, its pretty awesome.
I think a lot of people don't need to infer scientific illiteracy from policy, they can take it from the horse's mouth.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/26/mobile-cli...

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-argued-ev...

Etc etc
Email storm:. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_storm
Its a 4 zeros business. Decent side income from freelancing. Monthly invoicing using Freshbooks. End of year accounting using TaxAct.

If things got any bigger or I went at it fulltime I would prob setup an LLC. But keeping taxes simple at this point is preferable since its just me. I have owned plenty of LLC's previously.
Is this for Presidential contests or only ones up to the state level?
Overstaying a visa is not a criminal offense. It is a civil offense.
I'm not familiar with the history of their tools to be frank. I was talking about their current offerings, which are as I said mostly designed to run on Linux, with Windows support added in as an afterthought - if you're lucky.
Using IFTTT as part of a system to tune insulin delivery https://twitter.com/danamlewis/status/788209253722918912
The syntax was hardly 'arcane', and I doubt it was necessary to remove these features for the purpose of streamlining the compiler, that sounds a bit ridiculous. In fact you could argue that throwing an error on functions' is actually doing more work. That really is a style thing and something best left to a linter or the like.

Evan hasn't mentioned anywhere that he's been removing features for the last year or so just to give us some big features later. If he has said that I would love to see it.