skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "either of the two" do you mean the Democrat and the independent? It looks to me like (assuming voters voted for the candidates that would have got their first preferences under RCV) the Democrat could not have won under RCV in 2010 and the independent could not have won under RCV in 2014.

RCV should be used for gubernatorial elections, to address vote splitting but in the last two such elections in Maine, the candidate placed third on first preferences could not have won under RCV.
It all looks good until someday another car loving group might erect something else that harms others.
> The more stuff that becomes compiler magic the worse the language is going to get IMO.

Not sure what you mean here. Elm 0.18 has less compiler magic, not more.
It's not just poors who voted for trump. So I think calling a vote for trump a vote for survival is a stretch.
Note: this is a good BuzzFeed article with exclusive news.
I'm building a personal CRM to help me manage my personal relationships (https://simplerm.co)

Stack is two separately hosted apps.

Frontend: react, redux, webpack as a single page app
Backend: Rails for an API

Why? I wanted to learn react and redux and I like using Rails for my backend and was comfortable with that.
Next.js – Is this the next big thing in JavaScript
Introducing Real-Time Desktop Notifications and Mailbox Refresh
This has been wreaking havoc for matrix.org and riot.im all day - we blogged about it earlier: https://matrix.org/blog/2016/11/14/ssl-issues-with-chromium. Tempted to move off RapidSSL wildcard certs to a bajillion LetsEncrypts...
Dünyanın En Popüler İçeceği Olan Kahve Nasıl Keşfedildi
Trust me, people know about this.

This was a big issue in Florida during the 2000 election. The panhandle of Florida is in the Central Time Zone and polls are open 1 hour later than other parts. The state was called for Al Gore while the polls were still open in the more "Red" panhandle area [0] and there were rumors is skewed the results or caused people to not go out and vote since the state had already been decided. [1]

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/08/us/the-2000-elections-the-...
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I love the coast guard picture.
I removed

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Agreed.

In the article the important thing is not freedom, but having facebook, twitter, google and other American companies restricted or not.

Given that after 9-11 free pass on the US gobertment directly controlling those companies in the name of security, the people using those products are not that free at all.

We need decentralization, we need trusting our hardware does not betray, report and inform to the overlords, that would be real freedom.
Choosing Your First (Engineering) Job
Clickbait.

The TLDR:

A) Polls were biased and we don't have many elections on which to build good models.

B) Social media created echo chambers.

C) Other people's politics are sci-fi and more people should agree with me.
Realtime Apps with Om Next, Untangled, and Datomic
Le Pen Party Taps Russian Banks to Fund 2017 Election Campaign
Trump's election sets stage for H-1B reform
Wow getting back to the McCarthyism.
“It’s not a crazy idea. What’s crazy is for him to come out and dismiss it like that, when he knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season,”

In the future, you might look back at this and wonder how these kinds of stories got through the ^fake story^ filters in your browser.
The PMC can (should) invite active members of the community - there's no fixed size, the PMC can add members at any time.

There's no need to worry about ratios of people committing code - the PMC is about guidance, not about writing code.
This is the first time I've heard about this but I really like what I'm seeing based on what's on the site. This sounds like a really good way to get the candidate you need if you're a BigCorp. I wonder what the acquisition cost of going through Launchcode is vs traditional channels?
We use wildcard certs for a number of domains to support affiliate subdomains. So affiliate.example.com and affiliate2.example.com are all served by the same servers and thus all need to validate with one cert.
The title alone is already worth my upvote.
Thanks for posting this quote! It's super awesome and is very close to my own thoughts on the matter :) I'll be sure to cite this link in any future blog posts on the topic.
Trump and Brexit: why it’s again Not the economy, stupid
It's worth reading what appears to be her last piece, which provides some calm perspective that we could use right now:

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/blog-post/end-sight

It is titled The End is in Sight. I wonder if it had a double meaning? :(
Max, notice the irony of non-traditional sites with more authoritative news than MSM.
I think he misunderstood the venerable proverb, "a bad workman blames his tools." It's pithy, and people often overlook the the "bad" adjective and misinterpret its meaning.
I remember seeing a few years ago when Carnegie Mellon ran the entire series of Star Trek through facial recognition. They were able to tag every instance of each character on screen.

http://gizmodo.com/5228470/carnegie-mellon-demos-the-power-o...
You would be surprised how many people get ValueObject wrong. Most of the time the wrongness is due to how value objects are implemented as such. The concept of instances that are consistent with equals (immutability) comes later in most people's career. It doesn't help that hugely popular languages like Java seem to push people away from immutability.
I'm speaking about the pictures on the website OP links to. They even say "As you can see in the example below, the upsampled image looks blurry – one would hesitate to call it enhanced." It's blurry, because they use an algorithm that produces blurry images. Lanczos, for example, would produce a much sharper picture at the expense of some minor artefacts.

They don't show A+ results anywhere in the blog-post at all.
Unmanned Hueys Are Coming
Civil disobedience is an important part of democracy
I don't think this would work because the particles are free to move within the water stream. Say you used something like a magnetic pinch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch_(plasma_physics) ) to focus the stream... my hunch is that all you'd achieve is to compress the iron particles with little or no compression of the water since the iron is just floating in the stream.

It's a good idea though.
Just some feedback — it's kind of hard to understand what your product really is. If the idea is "Heroku for microservices on top of AWS Lambda" I feel like you might want to call that out somewhere to make it clearer.
I cannot agree. That Motoko is a Japanese woman is not irrelevant. What makes GITS interesting to many Westerners is precisely that it is a Japanese take on humans and technology. Instead of Hollywood's man vs machine it is a complex, deep marriage between the natural and the artificial.

Kusangi has the ghost of a Japanese woman even if the shell she has is a mass manufactured generic. I'd prefer Motoko to be a Japanese woman because that is just more interesting.
Does anyone have a clue to earn the $15 000? HackMyFortress 15 000$ REWARD
Small to medium sized apps (not games) where you can sacrifice some UI polish to get them delivered quicker and on both platforms. Have a look here https://facebook.github.io/react-native/showcase.html If you know React, learning React Native would be pretty easy, plus you can use many of react libraries like redux, etc.
I wasn't being condescending, but you said:

> I like how the author of this piece talk about Sir Martyn Poliakoff.

> But the article predates his knighthood. (and presumably youtube fame)

And there were no mentions to Sir Poliakoff around, neither in the article nor the video. Still, it was interesting reading about him, and he surely has become an internet celebrity, but that doesn't change that your comment was out of place to begin with.
Taylor's followup (according to wiki) is icing on the cake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle,_Oklahoma#Controversy
Thanks, I found a donate button in your first link and sent them some $.
Congratulations on the money, but it doesn't really proof anything, especially not (B). There were hundreds of people working on this, considering all sorts of possible sources of errors. Any bias that is "obvious and easy to undo" was priced in.

And the polls were actually not as bad – the difference was below the 3% from 2012. It just happened to swing the result.
Web3j Android port now available for Ethereum
> Does anybody really miss any of those things?

Yes? I take it that you don't? I have a few hundred CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays that I like having access to. Generally, I'll access a floppy once, and just store an image on a USB drive for later use. My building is so jammed with wifi signals that sometimes the best option is to string an ethernet cable across the room, and the access point can't be configured over a wireless interface anyhow. I use serial and parallel connections (DB9 and DB25) to access various little hardware projects and pieces of network hardware I've got around.

I've got USB-based hardware for most of those. For others, I keep around some older computers. It feels "clean" to have a computer with fewer ports, but sometimes I wish I'd chosen a machine with a few more of the connections that my previous machine had.
There's a Dutch traffic design principle that states traffic lanes should be separated by speed and mass. Pedestrians, cyclists, car drivers, and transit operators each have their own independent infrastructure, because lighter/slower road users are by their nature much more vulnerable to harm when they collide with something faster/heavier. This traffic design principle is at the core of Vision Zero, the goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities. The difference between politicians in Holland and San Francisco is that the Dutch actually implement principles like this one to reduce traffic deaths, rather than using Vision Zero as an empty platitude at election time.

I'm furious for my own safety when drivers block the bike lane on Fell St. Cars are pouring down the hill at 40mph+ and not expecting a cyclist to take the lane, yet cyclists don't have a choice when their only other infrastructure is blocked by a selfish driver.

Yes, parking in San Francisco sucks. We can all agree on that. But, if you're going to park illegally, use a driveway. It's way less dangerous than blocking a bike lane, and it inconveniences fewer people too.
I have always used "value" vs "identity" to distinguish these classes. e.g. "Two men called John" (value, equal, no identity) "That man called John, and that man called John." (with identity, so "non-identical", buy may have the same value is some aspect). Every comparison must first be distinguished by whether you are comparing identity or some value of the object. With that distinction made, the arguments about referential integrity (and when it matters) is easier to digest. Pretty obvious I guess, but coming from C++, it is amazing how many people fumble through without having this distinction clear.
I'm an experienced developer from startups and recently as an independent contractor, and would also like to better understand what kind of tangential consulting opportunities are out there. My hunch is that most are really really niche, i.e., "we need someone who can tune a massive Postgres cluster to run at peak performance next week". I'm really good at doing code audits and helping improve their style but I haven't found a way to package that into a consulting service.
100% agree. It's hard to fully capture how stupid religion makes people, because a lot of the root beliefs are rarely forced to surface. Gay rights vs. the church is a good example where a lot of Christians harbor pretty intense hate toward homosexuals. But, no one ever asks their opinion and we only see snippets of the hate when a flower shop refuses to provide flowers at a gay wedding or something.

The other thing this article overlooks is the role that breadth of experience plays both in liberal ideology and Christian proselytizing. If you've never had a black friend or never really talked to a women who is not content with the sexism inherent in the Bible (or any mid-evil religious text, really), you might not be able to understand why someone is afraid of the police or why anyone would ever opt for abortion. Further, if you never take the time to understand carbon dating you might never have reason to question stuff like new-earth creationism. This factor is more severe in my opinion and is grounds for keeping narrow minded individuals out of academia.

That education correlates with liberal ideology should not be ignored. It's actually one of the first things that helped me escape from an evangelical/racist/homophobic/conservative family/community. There were a lot of steps but considering my own ignorance was the first and biggest step.

Side note: I would love to see a study linking capacity for empathy with political leaning. My suspicion is that anyone with a "strong" conservative mindset has low capacity for empathy.
Wine is an emulator if you're running 16-bit apps.
Completely agree, I think she was the smartest and most insightful person on the NewsHour. She had a knack for asking penetrating questions that neither the viewer nor the interviewee saw coming. Just the sort of person we need more, not less of, in the Trump era. Very saddened by this unexpected news.
From Kubernetes to a complete application development tool [video]
The FBI just got its hands on data that Twitter wouldn’t give the CIA
Thanks! You are a better Googler than me. When I tried, I got a whole host of other articles on setting it up, not this page.
Not banned / save the conspiracies for another day / "dissenting" / "surprise"
Too Little Too Late: FCC Finally Realizes AT&T's Zero Rating Is Anti-Competitive
Are you familiar with her work? I think she's was breath of fresh air compared with other baby boomers in the industry. I, for one, will miss her.
I interpret a lot of AGPL projects I see as "we're willing to negotiate a secondary license to your private business". If you're the best in class (or just the only available public option) it can make sense as a way to try and make money. If there's a more liberally licensed substitution, however, it's probably best read as a "don't use me for your business" flag...
China threatens to cut sales of iPhones if 'naive' Trump pursues trade war
> const p1 = {x: 2, y: 3};

> const p2 = {x: 2, y: 3};

> assert.notEqual(p1,p2); // NOT what I want

> Sadly that test passes. It does so because JavaScript tests equality for js objects by looking at their references, ignoring the values they contain.

What? Has 'assert' been standardized?

Shouldn't it read: "It does so because my assert function tests equality for js objects by looking at their references, ignoring the values they contain."
You are clairvoyant :) I'm working on this area. Some distros have this problem with their default Gnome-based desktops too.
As it stands, power is solidified in a dozen or so swing states, which make up about 20% of the country's population and aren't particularly representative. The electoral college isn't distributing power, it's concentrating power in a few fairly arbitrary places.
Build and Launch an ASP.NET Core App from Google Cloud Shell
I understand who owns the website.

Who owns my browser?
I have already tried this kind of app and I feel a bit stupid : I don't understand the use case.

In which situation do people read documentation on their phone ?
I am in China, when I open baidu.com, zhihu.com, Chromium will throw the private error.
There is an interesting solution, on the page of private error, input "badidea", the browser will automaticly redirect to the targeted website. But it may be a "bad idea".
Now I use Firefox to open these sites.
ML: Detecting Clusters of Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks [pdf]
It showed up under "news" for me. Not anymore, though. I assume they've fixed it.

Edit: actually, it's still there if I use a desktop browser. It's on the main results page, but in the "in the news" section, not just in the main results.
Are they going to stop ads on the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the other mainstream media sites that suppressed bad news about Clinton, while pushing fake and manipulated news about Trump?
I mean long story short the Google guide is common sense — write high-quality original content for people, make it easy to crawl, expose as much structured data as you can, use clean URLs, etc. I don't feel like there are any real secrets to be found (maybe that's a good thing).

I find running PageSpeed and Webmaster Tools periodically and looking at Analytics regularly is all you really need to do. Maybe I've just been doing this too long and what feels intuitive to me isn't the same way for everyone.
I think city infrastructure can learn something from the open source software community in situations like this.

The city has a ton of work to do, but it is really picky about how it is done and how it gets paid for. If it planned out the work out in advance, community organizations like the SFMTrA could claim the low hanging fruit and comply with the official requirements. If it fails inspection the city can tear it down just like they are doing now.
As a pedestrian it's a horrible idea. I've almost been struck 5 times (and counting) by cyclists riding the wrong way down avenues. It's incredibly frustrating - and definitely gives me a very jaded view of cyclists and their respect for traffic rules.
Based on the entered "policies" so far, it seems like you've created another liberal echo chamber.
>I do maintain that whoever named them made a mistake.

Nah, they're named fine, you're just doing the incorrect mental-shortcut that I used to do: because there's 'low' and 'filter', you're ignoring 'pass'. The lows or the highs (respectively) pass-through the filter.
That sounds like the worst case to me. They are doing their demos with 7500 psi from an outboard pump and thinking that it's going to be a minor detail that can be worked out after the kickstarter succeeds to generate a workable pressure from 15A 120v.

If they told us the pressure they're using for their demos, some smarty with a slide-rule might call them on getting that from a normal wall outlet.
Mocks Aren't Stubs (2007)
Elm + Postgres.
if the xamarin cross platform sdk maps closely to one mobile platform, how does make it intuitive for iOS developers? Or are the classes aliased for each target platform?
> My suspicion is that anyone with a "strong" conservative mindset has low capacity for empathy.

Probably.

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.
— Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
It's kind of cool but also kind of messed up that this is the starting point of porn J.A.R.V.I.S.

Porn Jarvis, show me something with a blonde woman between the ages of 30 and 45 featuring oral and anal.
PGI releases free community edition compiler suite
A precise instrument to determine the Planck constant, and the future kilogram
I haven't in years but everyone who isn't technically savvy in my family still does. I don't know if that's indicative of anything larger than my anecdote but I work with people who are very involved with technology who still sync all of their stuff, with a cord, using iTunes and their iPhone 6s / 7.

No idea how common this is but I feel like it's common enough that it should have been handled better.
If the license doesn't allow applying or distributing third party patches I would be annoyed. If it allows it provided each party has paid for a license I would be happy.
>There is real desperation in this country. That's why Trump is President. People didn't vote for him because they are racist. They voted for him because they worry about putting food on their tables. They worry about being left behind in a world that has fewer and fewer ways for the average Joe to dream about a future. They're angry, rightfully so, and in Trump, they found someone willing to listen

How do you square the poverty story above with the fact that trump ran on a fiscally conservative platform, within a fiscally conservative party that promises to reduce the safety net?
>so what would you trust?

Physics. Their not being an unnoticed second camera/microphones/etc.

If you main concern is that your computer will be used to spy on your physical life, then having verified switches can give you confidence from first principles that it it has no way of observing you (modulo secondary sensors that you did not notice.)
Luckily they also thought about that! You can replace both the religion and reference to the Queen with:

"To uphold our Scout
values, to do my duty to the
country in which I am now
living"
He also used GPLv3 which Apple hates. They even stick with a ridiculously old version of bash (3.2.57 from 2007!) since it had since began using GPLv3 in subsequent versions.

It's the details that matter. :)
If you want such jewelry and dislike diamonds, it can be worth it to choose something casually similar to diamond that you both appreciate, so that you won't generate as much unwanted "OMG WHY NOT DIAMOND" nonsense and have to explain to practically everyone who looks at it. They'll just assume you meet their internal idea of an engagement ring and not bother you with the [n+1]th set of questions about it.
There's also the point of view that the franchisees are in the burger flipping business (and employ burger flippers), while Mc Donalds the parent corp are actually in the real estate business. (It's not _entirely_ true, but it's a quite plausible explanation of how their business works...)
> by remotely disabling CT enforcement in Chrome

A) why is this possible, and B) isn't the whole point of the expiring list to provide a stick? Why remove the stick at the last moment?
I haven't had any issues. I have them on my resume but they don't sound very adult oriented. Most of them have innocent sounding names that yield no search results. When they do, you can't tell much more than they do e-commerce.

I do however say that my photography work has publications in Playboy, Maxim, FHM, etc. I added that deliberately to filter out companies that would have issue with it. Didn't want to work at companies like that.

I did have one company express concern during an interview, but my response was basically "What does it matter what I do in my personal time if I'm not bringing it to work". They seemed fine with that explanation and ended up hiring me.

I don't have any of my production side work on my resume. I know people more involved on that side, particularly female pornstars have more issue finding work after that but they usually are not pursuing jobs where there is way more demand than supply like in programming.

I can't speak to the film industry.
> We are a democratic republic but most people think of us as a direct democracy.

A direct democracy is one where voters vote directly on issues rather than representatives who make decisions on issues; basically no one thinks the US is like this, though many individual states in the US incorporate some degree of direct democracy via initiative and referendum.

I think it would be more accurate than your formulation to say "We are a federal republic with a very loose approximation of representative democracy, but most people think we are, or at least should be, a representative democracy (which would still be a federal republic, but also a democratic republic.)"
Mercury Programming Language
You can use SAN certificates to avoid wildcards while still validating for a number of domains.

They don't even need to be subdomains.
An App Saw Trump Winning Swing States When Polls Didn't