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It seems unlikely for the result of the election to change even if one state was hacked, so it's not like anyone's skin is even on the line.

You don't seem to have followed this story. The whole point is that we have a very realistic possibility that Trump's unexpected win was due to manipulation of electronic polling machines. Possibly by Russia.

To be specific, Clinton was projected to win Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. If she had, she would have won the election. Instead Trump won all three by around 1% each. Across those states, Trump did about 7% better in precincts that used electronic voting than in ones that didn't. A recount of the ballots cast can tell us whether he really earned those votes, or the machines were manipulated.

This kind of manipulation of electronic voting is well within the abilities of US security experts. It is also within the abilities of countries like Russia. Russia had an obvious preference, and has demonstrated the willingness to use cyber attacks to manipulate elections.
We don't allow businesses to ignore other ethical responsibilities - private companies theoretically aren't allowed to discriminate against or assault people. We shouldn't allow private companies - especially companies that effectively act as common carriers - to shape the messages we're allowed to see.

If your ISP refused to carry, eg, The Guardian because of the fake Duggan headline, would you be pissed off? I would.
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For now opening them in a new tab will work :)
> Just to echo... Amazon S3 with CloudFront. No contest.

Yeah, until someone decides they don't like you and downloads a few terabytes of data over and over. It costs about average $0.09 per GB from CloudFront out to the world, and add in the costs from S3 to Cloudfront itself.

I had a $200 bill one month due to that, and the next month went with CloudFlare (no usage based billing) and github.
I guess you can pay nothing but it does seem a little mean considering how cheap the suggested minimum prices are for the bundles and that it's all for charity.

I say thanks O'Reilly, promotions like this are why you're still so great after all these years.
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I host some odd static sites with my fast mail family account. Has webdav file access and a dns control panel. Since I am buying the email service anyway it's free :-) Lets you set up different hosts serving from different folders.
>Election results must be beyond doubt.

It's been so interesting to see this turn of narrative after months "questioning the outcome of an election is undermining democracy." I wonder what happened between Sept-Oct and now that changed all that?
We all second guess ourselves. The long term impacts of lasik are not fully known yet. It may turn-out to be just fine over the long haul. Don't beat yourself up too much.
Ah, sorry for misreading that.

At least after quickly Googling, it looks like some people have gotten that 12" MacBook to work with various distros (most complaints being about wifi not working).

I'd be interested to know if you can get it working, since I'd like to try it again too.
I greatly prefer a desktop that has searchable menus and decent Hi DPI support (although the older version in F23/Q dom0 isn't quite plugnplay). Personally I think that KDE also looks better. Especially XFCEs window decorations are just so... 90s "design".
How is this not getting more upvotes? It seems pretty critical to me.

I've worked as an election judge in Minnesota, which has model election law, and the highest turnout in the nation, election after election. One nit I'll pick with the author is that I believe spot checks work. In Minnesota, we use Scantron machines to count ballots. Spot checks are used to compare the machine count to the actual ballots. Discrepancies force a full manual count. A significant number of discrepancies in the spot checks would immediately be noticed. If there are no discrepancies, the count is forwarded to central election authorities.

Beyond the spot checking and ability to do a recount (and Minnesota has gone through two full recounts in recent memory - the famous Al Franken Senate race, and a governor's race a few years later), there are strict rules about the handling of physical ballots. All election judge ballot handling must be done with representatives of at least two different political parties present, and signed off by both. This makes it much harder to cheat the paper, especially at scale.

Paper-free electronic voting machines are just incredibly stupid, dangerous technology. It's a sad commentary on our society that they became fashionable in response to problems with Florida's "hanging chad" paper ballots.
This video from 31c3 explains some reasone why it's not that simple. The speaker is the author of the OP.

https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6344_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412281...
Hiya, great ideas! Love the calendar one. We're working on all of those things, and they're on the roadmap to be released in the next couple of months (or weeks in some cases).
"Mark Zuckerberg — Facebook’s CEO — is the most powerful person alive today. He may even be the most powerful person ever.

Traditionally, the president of the United States has been considered the most powerful person on Earth. After all, President Obama controls the most powerful military on the planet, and has considerable influence over the $18 trillion US economy."

Seriously? Someone actually believes that Mark Zuckerberg is the most powerful person in the world? What kind of bubble do they live in? Why write an interesting piece with such a title? Do they realise how many countries have nuclear weapons? Do they realise that there is 6 billion people on this planet without Facebook? Less than 50% of the US population used Facebook last month.

I'm reminded of Stalin's comment: "How Many Divisions Does the Pope Have?"
Apparently Thomas Sowell retells the tale too, but also as as a story "...is said to have asked..". I wonder where this tale originated from then.

How an incredibly complex, high-tech economy can operate without any central direction is baffling to many. The last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is said to have asked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "How do you see to it that people get food?" The answer was that she didn't. Prices did that. Moreover, the British people were better fed than people in the Soviet Union, even though the British have not produced enough food to feed themselves in more than a century. Prices bring them food from other countries.

https://books.google.com/books?id=oVaNBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT21&ots=...
Any information about the performance implications of this library? This looks quite nice to use, but I imagine it has some performance cost versus more traditional ways of writing Fortran code, which could (sadly) mean this won't ever get much use in real-world code. Nonetheless, it's awesome that a language that's been around for 60 some-odd years is still evolving and making use of modern programming techniques. It's something to think about for people making languages now.
My optometrist confirmed what I've worried about for decades. We are finally at a point where there are older people who had LASIK 20+ years ago and it's not good. It complicates cataracts. It's also less effective to start with for people over 40. Glad I never got it. But then I had a thought. Since I'm past the age where my lens has hardened - can't focus up close - I asked if I could just get cataract surgery NOW. He said yes, and the lenses won't get cloudy later and I might never need glasses again. I asked about focus up close and he says there are some magical progressive lenses they can use - I'm not sure how that works and neither was he. Only problems: 1) It's 5K per eye and not covered by any insurance because its cosmetic. I think that's well worth the price. but 2) I have astigmatism which can be corrected but they have to get the lens within a couple degrees of the correct rotational angle or you'll need glasses anyway. He said there's about a 2-4 percent chance of that even with the best guy doing it.

So it's still glasses for now.
Yeah, I got it done a couple of years ago.

I splurged and spent 7200 on possibly the most reputable place in the area, and they took great care of me.

The best advantages for me is that I can just wake up and go, and I can buy sunglasses/safety glasses easily, without spending lots of money on custom lenses. Plus when I wake up, I can just look around and figure out what time it is.

I don't really see downsides here, I'm sure that other people have worse experiences, but my experience has been a) don't skimp and b) be happy.
To the OP: I also purchased this at $10, thank you!

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I did a search for coupon codes and I found the exact coupon code from [1].

Can I ask, what would the problem be if the code was affiliated with an affiliate promotion?

The end user pays $10, which I think we can both agree on. It's a "NET" benefit for HN users to learn something new very cheaply.

If couponkoo negotiated with the vendor of the product, so that they can advertise a coupon and get some kick back, you know because they too have to keep the lights on.

Is that such a big deal now on HN? Can you please explain yourself because I don't see an issue here personally!

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The most painful week of my life was the week following PRK. Constant scratching and burning in my eyes. In the end my vision never came in properly. I have halos and slightly blurry vision, but the experience (almost a decade ago) was so painful that I refuse to get it fixed. Hugely regret it.
That probably explains why its also stripped from React's not-so-accurately named "DangerouslySetInnerHTML" method..
We're glad to hear it!! The mind map will be released soon, so keep an eye out :)
I have worn contacts 7 days a week for over 20 years, can't stand wearing glasses.

Modern daily disposable contact lenses are so easy, probably takes me total of no more than 25 seconds a day to deal with them and once they are in I have great vision and cannot feel them at all. I literally cannot tell whether I am wearing them other than the fact I can see properly.

Last time I did the math on LASIK the cost was equivalent to about 5 years worth of lenses. The convenience and flexibility of lenses outweighs the risks of LASIK for me.
I don't know what level/classes you're taking, but I'm doing graduate classes in economics at the moment, and most concepts in macro are time-based (studying transient/long-term dynamics of systems, finding steady-states etc.).

In fact, it reminds me a lot of my undergrad electrical engineering classes.
I read the wikipedia article on the shooting (which admittedly may contain errors)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mark_Duggan

It does seem like it's going to be hard to know what actually happened at the incident.

The Guardian may have had a left/right bias here certainly, though it doesn't seem totally clear cut in this instance. It could as much be a case of "the reporting could have been more considered" rather than "deliberately misleading".
I'm focusing on the fact that there's a real possibility Russia hacked the election. By de-emphasizing the possibility that it might have changed the actual election results, it makes it more likely that this won't be a partisan issue.

Russian hacking of the US electoral system is a far, far greater threat to American democracy than Trump being President.
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I ended up getting PRK in August 2015. Recovery was a pain (nearly a week before I could mostly do normal things), but within 3 months I was at 20/15 in both eyes.

The halos and "starbursts" around lights have faded somewhat, but are still present, after over a year. I was assured throughout and after the process that they would fade away completely. There's definitely a bit of misinformation around that; not sure if the doctors were deliberately misleading me, or if they were also misled by previous studies that showed a much lower incidence of side-effects.

Fortunately the dryness did fade after a month or so, and I don't need to carry around eye drops like so many others do.

Overall, though, I'm happy with the result and still glad I did it.
About 7 or 8 years ago now, my wife and I did a ton of research into this. She had gotten the go-ahead from her eye doctor to get this treatment (apparently, they want your vision to stabilize before giving the all-clear). We knew about many of the LASIK drawbacks, and she had heard first-hand accounts of the flap coming loose and halos.

We decided that PRK was the best option, as it presented the fewest potential side effects. It also helped that she was able to take the time off work for the recovery. Many years on, we still maintain that it was the best money we've spent. Her life without glasses and contacts is so much better, and she doesn't have any long-term side effects to worry about.

I really do recommend PRK strongly to anybody who is considering LASIK.
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I mean, yeah, I guess I see your point... As long as you're willing to criticise e.g. black nationalist/culture movements just as much.
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Well, the first one is they really recommend you don't open your eyes as much as possible for 3-4 days. Coupled with a dark living space and darkest glasses you can as well. It made it so i needed someone helping me do even basic things for those days, and listening to music and podcast kinda gets pretty boring after the first day.

The rest of the days were just blurry vision and general "pain". If you've ever wore contacts for too long, it's the burning sensation you get after you take them off, multiplied.

After those were mostly gone, then I was pretty sensitive to light, and for the later weeks, I had the problem of my vision being way too sharp, so I had trouble focusing.

But I would do it again in a heartbeat!
I think the constraints around centralization pertain to the economy as a whole, that the tree is decentralized, but not any particular leaf on the tree. I'd say its a matter of qualifying around scope, not some absolute unrestrained organization in all places at all times.
Go and Chess AI are SERIOUS and REAL problem. It is something which goes back for thousands years and will be remembered for another thousands years.

AIDS and other contemporary diseases will be soon forgotten after their extinction.
Been using Linode for ages. Excellent performance and support. Typically Python (Django, Twisted, aiohttp).
I recently injured my ankle while traveling in Vietnam and decided to learn some Lua by writing a roguelike.

I discovered that the 'best' (most complex/featuresome/interesting/interactive/playable) dungeons available today are apparently almost universally accepted by the roguelike community to be those in the game Brogue, which I was so impressed with that I tried to share here twice but it never got upvoted. It's really impressive, check it out: https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/

Why is it impressive? As it turns out, modern dungeon generation does not simply produce a map, but rather iteratively improves upon a map given assumptions around playability (minimum connectivity / maximum dead-ends), density (don't put all the interesting stuff in a corner), proximity (some things must occur near other things), etc.
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Coercion won't be a problem at all if voting places are just like in secret ballot voting. Online connection to a central server isn't even required. Just have an audited code and its verified executable run in a physically secured system.
I started doing a similar calculation http://kybernetikos.com/2007/06/08/plastic-surgery-to-make-o... while I was at waiting for surgery which just goes to show how irrational I am.

I think most people just hear the good things about it and don't properly evaluate the risks. I know I didn't.
> user engagement is direct correlated to value IMO

It is not. At RethinkDB we had great user engagement, but people were unwilling to pay (or unwilling to pay enough to keep the business going). The heuristic of getting money in early avoids markets with bad fundamentals (developer tools is one instance of such markets).
Climate science is the most obvious comparison. Both involve:

- a few basic axioms, based on principles well understood at certain scales but not universally accepted to work in combination and on a bigger scale

- a lot of very messy empirical data, such that you need to be well versed in statistical techniques to understand whether it supports a hypothesis or not

- predictions that are on a small scale frequently wrong and little agreement on magnitudes, despite scientific consensus over the general direction of movement

- a lot of debate over whether proposed regulatory or technocratic solutions will actually do more good than harm and relatively little evidence of the size of the benefit they might bring that isn't contingent on trusting said imperfect prediction models. And a fair bit of inertia about doing the regulating because the companies that proposed to be regulated have a pretty good idea about what they stand to lose.

- a lot of arguments over whether it's all a big con, driven far more by politics than understanding of the subject matter
tl;dr...

> Do we really want tech companies to turn their attention away from beating board game players and producing business products to start 'solving' social problems? The answer to this question should be an emphatic "no."
For heaven's sake, there were economies and debates on the organization thereof long before the United States ever came into existence. Please take off your historical blinkers and read up on some older civilizations - Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, whichever you find interesting. People have been arguing about the appropriate role and scope of the state for thousands of years. Conversing with someone who thinks exclusively in terms of American governance is like trying to discuss landscapes with someone who insists on viewing the world through a cardboard tube.
That's a nice list of things that I don't have and don't plan on getting!

Kaby Lake: I recently replaced my laptop, and I'm not looking to replace my desktop.

Windows 10/Edge: I've got a license and a backup image containing the install, but I don't intend to use it.

Premium account: Meh. It's just me and my wife, and we don't have anything over 1080p. No point.

This reminds me of the Vista-only release of Halo2, when Microsoft insisted that there were technical reasons that it couldn't be made to work on XP. Then someone overrode the OS version checks and it worked fine.
So, your point of view is that concern about Russian hacking of the US electoral process is stupid, because people were also upset Trump suggested he might reject the outcome of a legitimate democratic processes?
26 here, halos for days.
I got PRK a year ago. No real issues, 20/20 vision, but the persistent dry eye is annoying. It's really bad in the winter.

Artificial tear eye drops help a lot, but sometimes I have to use them twice per day.
Yeah, there are some, check Wikipedia for all it's worth, ya might find some interesting stuff.
Last "unpure" shtick was in 2007 I think.
They have a long history with lies simply because they have a long history period, like many others.
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I'd buy that. As much as I hate Microsoft, they have a much more fun ecosystem to work in than Android's (or so I've heard). C# isn't my favorite language, but there's less brain damage than there is in Java.
I just finished watching the entire 16+ hours of the course.
It's pretty good, but it doesn't go too deep (or at all) into the new concepts in Vue 2.x like render functions, virtual dom, server side rendering and more.

I think the docs are very good and more than enough not only just to get started, but also to keep you going.
Nice article but parts of it can be misleading. The article mentions the "fake news" polemic but the example presented are targeted ads with no fake information.
You can cut off any part of the body and still have consciousness as long as blood, oxygen, etc reach the brain. That seems a little stronger evidence of causality than mere correlation.
Still it could be, I suppose, that the brain does not hold consciousness, but is in fact merely an antenna to send and recieve consciousness...
probably from a lab at NASA, via interactions with virtual particles, providing propellentless mental acceleration across space and time
Obviously no one should meddle anywhere at all--I'm the first to condemn American overreach and its role in the repression of millions during the 20th century.

That also gives me the right to call for other countries not to interfere in American electoral processes.
I also find this interesting: in the week leading up to the election, Trump was asked repeatedly, "If you lose, will you accept the results?", to which he said he'd have to assess the results at the time. He was roundly criticized for this.
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It sounds like what you're really asking for is a proper e-book format, like EPUB. PDF is not an e-book format, it's a presentation format, for print-equivalent documents. They aren't interchangeable.
Somewhat painful? Try the most miserable four days of my life (not sure where several weeks came from but mine only took four days).

I had LASIK in one eye and PRK in the other (not as any sort of test, there were medical reasons, I would have preferred to have LASIK in both). The LASIK eye took roughly four hours to heal to point of no discomfort and the PRK eye took four days. My PRK eye sees about 20/15, and my LASIK eye sees about 20/20.

I would 100% do it all over again if given the choice.
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No. Clinton did not fund ISIS."
Well, good to hear that from Gilad.

People not trusting big media corps will surely take this as a complete truth.
And a good way to make this whole piece look a lot worse than what it was before that sentence.
Feel free to say, "must be free from doubts by reasonable observers."
The third option is tracking down a specific person who voted against you (and was paid to / promised to do otherwise).
It can! For a capture that lasts until the mouse button is released:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/set...

Or for a capture that works even if the mouse button is not pressed, and remains until the Esc key is pressed:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Loc...

The first option would be the one to use for right button dragging.
If you're happy with your screen setup, there's not that much benefit imo, but I made the switch a while ago and have been happy with tmux.

Highlights for me: better support for vertical splits/panes, better mouse support, and more convenient scripting features (for instance, integrating xclip and the tmux copy/paste buffer).

It's possible that screen has caught up in the last few years, but I haven't followed its development.