skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An example of IRV's misbehaviour:

* 8 people vote: A, C, B

* 5 people vote: B, C, A

* 4 people vote: C, B, A

IRV eliminates C and elects B, but the majority of voters prefer C over B (12 to 5). The order of elimination dropped 8 ballots' information that they prefer C over B. To put that generally, IRV ignores the secondary preferences of large demographics.

Perhaps another example of why I think single winner voting systems should take all preferences into account (as Condorcet methods do):

* 100 people vote CentristX

* 101 people vote PolarizedCandidateA > CentristX

* 101 people vote PolarizedCandidateB > CentristX

* 101 people vote PolarizedCandidateC > CentristX

* 101 people vote PolarizedCandidateD > CentristX

The example is a bit contrived, but it highlights how disregarding secondary preferences (IRV's main feature) isn't a good idea. 403 people prefer CentristX over every other polarized candidate, yet CentristX is dropped in IRV's first round.

Disclaimer: I run modernballots, a voting website that makes use of the Schulze-family of voting systems: https://modernballots.com/elections/zombies/vote/
Maybe tell that to Donald.
From your own link:

The terms "National Health Service" or "NHS" are also used to refer to the four systems collectively.
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Did you notice, that out testing framework quits on the first failure? It probably should run all tests, collect all failures and present them nicely. This is what we are going to accomplish today.

Feedback and shares are super welcome. Also, tell me if you would like to see a screencast of me implementing that :) (even in different language)
I really wish a group of really smart dev get together and come up with a new language based just on the modern C++. Perhaps even call it MC++ (Modern C++). Make it's syntax as simple and easy to learn as Python and yet give us the performance close to the compiled C++.
I'd take that knowing very well that I can't do all the powerful stuff I could with C, yet I have a safe and idiot-proof language to work with in my hands.
Ireland currently uses a PR-STV system, and if you ask any Irish person about their politicians, you will probably get an ear-full.

STV pushes majors parties to sit on the political middle, where they might not collect as many '1's', but will collect a lot of 2s,3s,4s, etc, as more divisive parties/candidates will be ranked highly by a segment of the population but very lowly by the rest.
It does that as a reply all? Do you have any idea why it does that?

EDIT: Maybe it's a mailing list so there's just one address.
Just an observation here, I dont think there was an implication that the independants were a spoiler. Parent implied that democrat and independent candidates were similar in ideology and therefore a spoiler effect was present.
Partly as a result of the current political climate, I've decided to try to learn Yiddish, which doesn't currently have a large number of native speakers, in the US at least. I've never been very good at learning languages (nearly failed French and Latin in high school (both required), took a course in Japanese that did not go well). But if nothing else, I can probably use it to annoy neo-nazis on the internet.
A friend of mine who has a passion for language tried to get me to learn Lojban with him for a while. It's a complete waste of time in terms of its usability. I have never even heard of someone other than this friend who has spent any time trying it out.

What is interesting about learning a conlang, especially one with such an interest in being unambiguous, is that it aggressively points out how weird language actually is. I'm a native English speaker and the sort of person who just shrugged by all of public school English via the "it sounds good" argument. I really have no conception of what the structure of English is except in my own ability to use it.

Learning even just a small amount of Lojban helped connect my ideas of natural language to similar ones in logic and semantics. It did so even more effectively than learning Mandarin has even though I've learned far more Mandarin.

I think if you're interested in turning your analytical eye toward your own use of language in order to better understand what does and does not make any sense about it then learning a bit of a conlang is probably a good bet. It's the next best thing to having a linguist friend.
At the very least, the operations accounts, security, newsletters and Simon Stevens himself should have the ability to send a network-wide email - outside of that there's no good reason for Johnny intern to be sending an email to that many people.
In Colorado, drug-related charges are only down 23% post legalization

It would drop the prison population by about 15%

I mean those are pretty huge numbers really. An almost 1/4 reduction in charges (which are the starting point for imprisonment) is massive IMO.
No, my characterization did make sense because at the time I commented (kevlar1818 has since edited -- read the whole thread), kevlar1818 explicitly blamed an independent candidate for splitting the Democrats' votes, as if they owned them.
Hugely. It's possible to build extremely tall buildings in certain specific areas of Manhattan (and New York in general, like in Downtown Brooklyn), but most of the city is "maxed out" to its zoning - that is, the tallest building that can be legally built is already there. Indeed, in many places, the existing buildings are taller than the zoning code allows - so if you demolished an old building, you'd have to build a shorter one in its place!
Exactly. Siemens has already proved it can build motors for electric plane and they could easily become major player in electric vehicle industry.
When I needed a vpn, I chose to use tinc VPN. Openvpn was too complicated for me.
That'll be a no, I think. If you can carry over your discipline in inbox-zeroing, you can set up mutt with gmail and never have to suffer a clunky, slow interface again... Tagging and saving 'do later' messages into a 'Snooze' and 'Done' folders wouldn't take much setting up.
In the mean time between the next election (with all the time it would take to find/vet brand new candidates!), would the incumbent keep his/her spot?
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This may be a mailing list, rather than a simple 'Reply-All' thing (and the media have misunderstood). The reply box will be a single address if that's the case.
Let me refer you to this part of my comment: "A parking lot is not a high value salable area for a property developer and so unless he is building it for the 1% who value and pay a premium for such, there is no incentive for him to do so"

You appear to be commenting from the POV of the US or Canada where land is plentiful and people build independent houses in towns and suburbs.

In the cities I mention, owning an independent house means your wealth is in tens of millions of dollars (mere millionaires would struggle to afford independent houses). The average middle class person is very much dependent on developers constructing multi storey apartments - and it's not in their economic interests to solve for parking requirements unless compelled as I explain above.
You could pick it up quite quickly. I haven't seen or heard much Gaelic but I could get the gist of the stuff inscribed in the stonework around the city of Edinburgh from my Irish.
> I would challenge that notion that using an aggressive and diminishing language doesn't imply being a jerk.

It's 100% a cultural difference. While you see it as personally aggressive and grating, a lot of people see "overly polite" language as a sign that you don't care about the topic being discussed and/or are trying to address an issue politically rather than by merits of a strong argument. Neither of these perceptions is really right or wrong, it just has to do with the perspective you have based on where you grew up and who you've interacted with the most.

From an engineering perspective it'd be optimal if everyone had the same universal expectations for how a conversation should be held, just like how it'd be optimal if everyone spoke the same language. People don't really work that way, though, and just like with languages we try to accommodate each other as much as possible and find middle grounds, etc.
Radio/infotainment devices in automobiles are the wild west of development. They're not tightly engineered software like firmware controllers. Its usually a shoddy linux distro with some window dressing and as you can imagine a bunch of scripts keeping it all together. I imagine curl is used to grab some information from the web like updates, weather, etc. Because the copyright must be displayed somewhere, I imagine enough button mashing gets you that notice with his email pretty quickly on the radio head-end, thus the emails.
While may not agree on how an alternate voting system should work, I am glad that we can finally acknowledge the system we have in place desperately needs fixing.
Angular 2 or React front end, Scala / Play Framework 2 / Postgres backend for some serious scalability.
That's what I'm referring to, yeah.
Rust?
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The problem with GDP as a statistic is that it is just a sum total. We net it across the whole country. So if California could make twice the entire country's GDP in 2017 but the rest of the country's GDP were to fall to zero, then this is a win by this simple metric. But it is not a win for the country, if the rest of it were to become derelict. One might still say it is an economic win, objectively, because this holy number has doubled. But politically it is a fail, because California won't determine the government on its own, so even dispassionately you cannot call it a political win.

Therefore perhaps GDP needs to be measured as a weighted average across the States. Perhaps not a simple weight, because maybe people are more sensitive to declines than improvements.

Ultimately though the government is not solving for a higher GDP but rather for higher votes. And economic variables are only as good as their ability to predict where votes will go.
And that's why the property owners have been lobbying the councils to hold off on those big stickers - because then how could they afford to do the work that they'll totally do, within X years, if the rents drop?
Yea, I was confused by this narrative. Startups are raising so much money but they are paying lower salaries than the big cos. Where is that money going?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12950830
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What I meant was which of the four NHSs (which have a lot of different infrastructure) does this apply to? Or to all four - which in itself would be interesting.
Also because your coastline can fundamentally change how it affects you - the gauges near Christchurch measured 0.5m appx at the highest, whereas an (empty, thank goodness) house at the end of a funnel shaped bay in the same vicinity got hit by an estimated 2 - 3m wave.
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Canada is currently consulting on alternatives to FPTP and videos like this really make me weary of Ranked Ballots/IRV over some Proportional Representation method. It seems to me that in situations like Canada, where you have multiple parties, IRV ramps up the complexity, and encourages voters to do strategic actions which may actually hurt their favoured candidate.
> Like evangelicals don't think human made global warming is real because humans can't alter gods creation

Certain types of Christian denominations tend to strongly profess biblical literalism, which encourages this type of thinking, but this isn't representative of the entire group. This type of thinking is what enforces the problem I mentioned. I am an Orthodox Christian, and I have yet to find some type of scientific discovery incompatible with my faith -- how silly would this be regardless. If science is true observation of God's earth, and God is indeed the creator of all, the contradictions only arise when we use flawed logic or reasoning (for example -- biblical literalism and mis-interpretation). The problem is, as I mentioned, when we use science as political tools, or to draw vague conclusions or hasty generalizations.

Side note: evangelicalism, while being the loudest and most representative form of Christianity in the states, doesn't even crack the top 10 of largest denomination of Christians in the world. Catholic is first, Eastern Orthodoxy is second, then the various Protestant denominations are all after.
Agreed. Pare it back to someone who doesn't have kids. If I had no kids I would still want a society where most people are generally educated. I benefit from that public good.
I've watched a couple of programmes on BBC Alba, and understood a good bit. It was somewhat like hearing Dutch as a German speaker, except maybe easier.

There has been talk of an "Idir-Ghaeilge" reunified language. The Irish online magazine Nós had a nice article on this recently http://nos.ie/gniomhaiochas/teanga/idir-ghaeilge/ (in Irish).

Could become a reality in the unlikely but beautiful event of a post-Brexit Scotland uniting with Ireland in the "Celtic Union".
I have read some fairly negative comments in this thread. I have experienced many of the negative aspects myself, and while I don't disagree with them, I would still say that it is worth learning this technology.

Microsoft's strategy with bringing a phone to market appears to have failed so they're going to have to take the next best thing which is owning the development tools. I expect the outlook for the software to be extremely bright and if you plan to be a professional mobile developer I strongly suggest learning it.

Of course, this does not excuse you from learning how to develop for iOS and Android natively, but it is a great addition to your toolkit as a developer. It's also another box to tick for the recruiter or hiring manager.
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Trump doesn't want to drone people and spy on Americans. Drone strikes will go down and so will mass surveillance of Americans.
i'm not employed in the field, so this is mostly uninformed guessimation.

a) there are companies working on products with tight security requirements. if this is a respectable company, you'd probably spend most of your time examining and evaluating existing solutions and maybe review the use of said solutions by your own programmers. (i'd say this is usually more "security" than "cryptography" though)

b) there are companies working on their own cryptography schemes. those are not per-se snake oil, but ... it's complicated. few have the resources and the structure to do this right. skype, for example, rolled their own closed source implementation. back then we've been told: "trade secret, but trust us, we've done it right and we had independent experts review this."

c) security review: be the company/expert that skype hires to evaluate their cryptography while under an NDA (?)

d) pen-testing: maybe? not sure if this is realistic. get paid to check company security (network, servers, general infrastructure) for weaknesses. they might employ cryptographers?

e) research: probably the most likely area. crypto development usually has to happen in the open, otherwise it's not trustworthy.

f) intelligence agencies. NSA and co.
Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse? I couldn't make a connection from ICMP Destination Unreachable / port unreachable packet to the BlackNurse? (not that it matters, I am merely curious).

Also - PoC is for IPv4; does anyone know if systems fail in a similar manner if ICMP6 Destination Unreachable / Port unreachable (ICMP6 T:3, C:4) is being used? (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4443#section-3.1)
For a CRM the database is probably more important than the programming language / framework.
Would you prefer some alternative like approval voting or range voting?
so does this mean we will get the info about the operations going down in area 51, he might slip up after getting his hands on top secret info! I can only imagine the technology they have in that place and what advancements they have come across without notifying the rest of the world. With essentially endless funding and resources it would be awesome to work there!
OK, point taken... so maybe still roughly 25:1 in favor of science isn't real? [1]

[1]: https://www.quantcast.com/scientificamerican.com
Whatever one gets you to market the fastest with the features you need. Which is usually "what your team is most comfortable with"

For our team that would be Node.js with a React frontend, with probably MongoDB as the database, but every team is different.

As a side note: APIs are very important for CRMs, but as long as you design your API well you can swap out, move around, and refactor your backend as it makes sense.
Fantastic, and nice to see them bringing down the Asian instance prices too.

One thing I really wish they did however, is adopt Google's "Continuous Usage" billing. There's just too much mental overhead, uncertainty and risk with buying and reselling reserved instances. I end up losing hundreds of dollars a year in potential savings on AWS because I have a bad habbit of shying away from fully reserving my usage.

And then when I do, I always seem to get bitten. Case in point: a few weeks ago I reserved 1 year of heavy usage for a m4.xlarge. Looks like I could've saved 10% had I waited a few weeks.

That said, I do prefer the AWS ecosystem a lot more than Googles, but billing is something Google does _much_ better and that is something that is something that is really tempting me to switch.
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I've never been to a doctor in Germany that doesn't have office staff (though I suspect that it would be possible). You still need someone to deal with incoming calls, organizing the file cabinet and looking through the insurance rule changes of the week. Usually this is done by people who do limited medical work on patients as well (think nurse). Having one employee per doctor is not uncommon.

Doctors only send their bills once every three months and payment takes a while after that - a week would be a dream. Insurance can deny payment if they determine it wasn't medically necessary (and they do checks if they find a trend) but that comes out of the doctor's pocket. And for expensive things (like psychotherapy or dental) it needs to be preapproved by the insurance but they are are very limited in what they can deny.

And good digital health records? I don't think I will live long enough to see that in Germany. The only thing that leaves your doctor's office digitally (within they are free to work with paper or computer or whatever they wish) are the procedure and a short code for the diagnosis. If you need to see a specialist, paper still gets send around.

Edit: I just read the Germany chapter of that book. While it contains some (not really significant) errors and is a bit outdated (now six years old) I would still recommend that book based on this chapter.
I think you're getting hung up on too specific an idea (unbundling costs). In the linked page on "anarchocapitalism":

"They use the term “anarchist”, but at the expense of their credibility — why? Because their self-definition doesn’t hold up to even the most rudimentary questioning."

Basically peddling "more of the same" and trying to sound cutting edge by adding "anarcho". It lacks intellectual honesty in the first place. We've been down the laissez faire path (a label pointlessly added before capitalism anyway given the traditional values upheld in capitalism; it wants to be left alone in the first place).

It was a disaster, and would be again if we allowed it anymore rope to hang us all with.

He's basically peddling that which he rants against: Monolithic economic policy that fits with his preferences.
> I am computer literate! I have 22 years in computer systems engineering and operation.

good grief. that poor cent os person.
I found this extremely insightful, specifically Arrow's impossibility theorem [1]

It really seems like this should get more attention: Every voting system is flawed. You cannot design a voting system that will, in every possible case, be "fair."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...
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If this is the case, it just shows we need to further urbanize.
You're being downvoted, but the original uncorrected title was "Ask HN: Did knowing /learning a not-so-famous language benefited you?" (copied and pasted from browser cache) and didn't have the caveat that this was not a programming question. So have an upvote for an interesting story in the spirit of the original question.
wanted to go and test this against my home network. read page: "NOT AFFECTED: pfSense"

Damnit, I'm protected by the glory of FreeBSD-based firewalls.

I still tried anyway, but nothing happened :(
Sometimes people defer loading of unnecessary JavaScript, like trackers, until after the page is "loaded", so that's why you might see the page appear to finish loading then more blocked requests appear in the seconds that follow.
A well reasoned and cogent argument. Yes, there's a lot of cognitive dissonance in the anti_trump world right now. But I think there's just as much on the pro-Trump side. he's already started furiously backtracking on many of his key policies which he swore he would implement, such as scrapping Obamacare, building a wall (now fence!) across the Mexican Border, and I'm sure many more to come. Who knows what his approach to Cuba will be, he's both told opponents of rapprochement to get over it because it's been 50 years after all, and also committed to burning down the agreement and pulling out US staff. So part of the cognitive dissonance for anti-Trumpers is we don't actually have any idea what the pro-Trumpers voted for, as against what they think they voted for. Other than 'Not Hillary'.
Once I landed back home in Paris on a Sunday. I couldn't find any grocery store open. I couldn't find any restaurant open. I lived there 20 years and I was honestly lost... I literally forgot how different NYC and Paris were. I ended up eating at McDonalds...
Oddly enough, I have a perl script that checks my "mailing lists" mailbox and turns that to an RSS feed. To each his own...
Logged in to upvote your comment, hopefully you won't be disuaded by downvotes. Maybe this whole "deal with my being unpleasant" thing stems from people seeking to justify their unwilingness or inability to practice self-control. Whatever the reason it is detrimental and worthy of being opposed to. It's one thing to be unpleasant to people who are obstinate. It's another to be unpleasant to people who are ignorant. And yet another to be rude to people who you simply disagree with.
> 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.

This is true, but not necessarily a bad thing at all. Democracy is a proxy for violence to prevent violence. Someone that everyone thinks is merely okay sounds better to me than one that is liked by a third and hated and despised by a third.
When I was at Berkeley, a colleague did the same. Came into the office one morning, said "[girlfriend of 5 years] and I just decided to get married today, come down to city hall with us at lunch for the party."
The whole “Cogito Ergo Murder” trope isn't very realistic at all, and Ex Machina if anything seems to be very subtle in this regard: Ava might be just a goal-maximising algorithm with a very broad toolbox, Kyoko (insofar as she transcends her programmed limits and deeply surprises her creator) might be the “True AI” in the show.
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Can you explain what you mean with "famous"?
Bryce is one of my favorite Twitter follows from the VC world. He's one of the few who seem _down-to-earth_ for lack of a better phrase. He's also one of the few who has ever responded to a random email I've sent (I live 4 hours south of SF and have zero connections to that world).