skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am actually from Europe so I don't know the specific details of your voting system. Mail-in ballots are of course a weakness, but it doesn't mean that we should further weaken the current system.

Here in Czech Republic we receive voting tickets by mail about a week before election and have to physically put them into a box behing a curtain in a voting room. I also see weakness here, and don't understand why we receive voting tickets by mail, because it allows you family relatives filter your tickets. Better system would be if the voting tickets were available only in the voting room.

Still it is better than web app. There are more security concerns with online voting, you can read more about it here: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15417/online-go...
The new ISO is coming very soon. We've just been busy with consulting we do to support the project and there were some issues with gpg2.

Wayland is one huge reason why we aren't even calling this "beta". Wayland is absolutely part of the plan. We are working on integration now.

Flatpaks: probably not. Different vision. Flatpak is an 'appstore' type model, not sure we will want that in Subgraph OS, but it's worth a deeper investigation than the thought I've given it so far. There are things in Flatpak that we can benefit from, such as the UI advantages of "Portals". We'll probably be adding support for it to Oz.
Yes, just like water-resistant vs water-proof. Subgraph OS is like hacking-resistant, not hacking-proof.
While your argument makes sense for Tesla/SolarCity specific case, there's no reason that the same efficiencies of scale could not be applied to flywheels overall for energy storage.

The additional benefits of batteries over flywheels however is that utility-scale energy storage can be achieved with a wide range of battery quality. What I mean by that is that say, for example, a batch of batteries doesn't pass QC to make it into the Tesla cars by virtue of having only 85% of their desired capacity. They can still be used in energy storage facilities.

Same goes for used battery packs from Teslas that have degraded to 70-80% of their original capacity over the years. I surmise it's quite more efficient to use these packs for grid storage than to recycle them right away. Space is probably not a huge constraint for them, so it's not a big deal to use packs that operate in the lower capacity ranges.

Think of it as a big energy storage cloud like Backblaze's storage pods. They mix and match consumer grade hardware, but because of scale and redundancy, they can get away with it and still provide reliable storage.

Same goes for energy.

I'm not quite sure what the scales are for flywheel manufacturers compared to Tesla's gigafactory, but they're probably at least an order of magnitude smaller, plus flywheels generally can't be used as the main source of power in cars or portable electronics, while Li Ion cells can.
This is one of the classic procedural algorithms. I wrote my first version fifteen years ago; it's quite nostalgic :)

The other classic algorithm that I've gotten the most mileage out of is: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Basic_BSP_Dungeon_... . Using rooms the size of entire subdivisions (instead of the smaller ones on that page) makes a nice contrast with the cellular cave algorithm.

The only algorithm I've come up with that's nearly as nice as these two is competitive flood fill. First you randomly pick center points for rooms, create a priority queue of [distance to room center -> room + tile], and add the room centers to the queue. Then you repeatedly pop tiles, add them to the corresponding room, and add their neighbors to the queue, until all tiles are in rooms. This is basically a discrete version of a voronoi diagram, but the trick is that implementing it this way allows you to safely mix different ways to measure distances, and you get wild shapes when some rooms use manhattan distance and others use euclidiean distance. (Some day I'll do a proper writeup of this, but not today.)
BUG: I can't read the terms of service or the privacy policy unless I log in. :-)

Update: I can cut and paste the policy and TOS urls and they work in a different browser window. For some reason, when I am at the registration page for the beta and I click these links at the bottom it sends me to a login page.
Banning Nazi symbols does not stop Nazi-like regime.
It beats trying to write HTML via Markdown.
Thanks, I'll update that
Care to put out a vm image, invite folks to hack it?

That is a lot more interesting.
Amazon made good on its promise to delete “incentivized” reviews
... and both of them are pretty much word salad rather than serious attempts.
Thanks, those are great, I'll add them in.
This doesn't address the root comment at all. Does Amazon actually think MXNet is the best? Or did they simply choose the next best thing that isn't already backed by another "big four" company (Google -> TensorFlow, Facebook -> Torch). It's hard to believe this is actually about scalability without any data.
No, it hasn't. It is nothing like that at all. You will have to provide much, much more evidence to support that if you wish to try and make that assertion.

And the Supreme Court was always an appointed position, even in the time of the Founding Fathers. Having judges be elected is a terrible, terrible idea.
Who’s Working in the ‘Gig Economy’?
From TFA:

> The results [of a previous study], published in October 2014, showed that some patients developed problems that adversely affected their day-to-day lives, such as difficulty driving at night or in sunshine. But it was such a small number — less than 1 percent — of the patients in the study.

> On Wednesday, the group released a follow-up report in JAMA Ophthalmology that provides more sobering information. The study suggests that the percentage of people who undergo LASIK and wind up with new visual symptoms — such as double images, glare, halos or starbursts — may be much higher.

> One interesting component of this study was that the survey showed that the percentage of people with symptoms may be much higher than what has been previously reported in studies involving direct interviews with health-care professionals.
There is a new study that has quantified the effects better.
> We know how to make them faster.

Well... Seems the reason for the "multicore revolution" that started around 2005-ish(?) for desktop/x86 server CPU's was largely that CPU designers ran out of ways to make cpu's faster. Previously, there was always some micro-architectural feature waiting to be exploited (say, caches, pipelining, superscalar, OoOE, branch prediction, etc.) that enabled processor designers to utilize the transistors Moore's law gave us in order to increase single-threaded performance. However, it seems that at about the same time we ran into a triple whammy;

1) at about the same time that processor designers ran out of new tricks (with massive payoffs) to pull from their sleeves.

2) existing tricks ran far into diminishing returns

3) transistor scaling wasn't as good as before (the "power wall")

tl;dr: We seem to know a lot of tricks that can increase performance a bit, albeit at a heavy cost in power consumption.
This is a step in the right direction (in the sense that we should sandbox applications harder), but in my opinion we have to change fundamental aspects of our stack (e.g. Proprietary Firmware <=> Linux <=> GNU-System-Libs <=> X <=> GTK <=> Evince), to gain more security.

In particular I think it is harmful that all applications share the same view on the FS and have in principal the possibility to use e.g. full unixoish capabilities. My bet is that the solution is via better type systems, e.g. an application that is a desktop game could have something like

exec :: GameConfig -> WindowControl ()

where GameConfig is e.g. some CFG specific to the game and WindowControl is similar to IO () however limited to interacting with a drawing library (e.g. OpenGL) and input systems (keyboard and mouse local to the window).

At the moment every application just implements `main()` and is good to go and we separate between kernel- and user-space (and a VM on top e.g. Android and Apple), and maybe this is too coarse.

I think pledge (http://man.openbsd.org/pledge) is also a step in the right direction however I would prefer it to be the other way around: an application goes through a setup process where it gains the capabilities it needs (in pledge it's the other way around, you ask to drop them).
Sure they are related. But its not black and white, and not an absolute correlation.

macOS itself is actually designed in a very modular way if you look at the message based integration of components via XPC and "do one thing" daemons.

I have accepted that I must forfeit some personal preferences in the Apple ecosystem, but I choose to draw the line with not being able to disable intrusive and privacy related features/components.

A similar complaint can be made about Windows, which is more monolithic in its design in my view, but it offers (as mentioned in my top-level comment) proper descriptions and a UI to disable services. Also there are many tools like Win10Privacy and such available which disable a lot, without making the system to constantly misbehave.

"trains on time" - While I appreciate the metaphor, when considered carefully, it is more likely linux and the pragmatic approach that makes the "trains run on time" in many fields. (embedded and server-side)
Israel has a trade agreement with the US so DMCA is at the least partially enforced, most trade agreements have a bilateral enforcement of trademark and copyright protection laws.

Israel is also a member of the WTO so there is that avenue also.
Even today it's not "free". Try selling methamphetamine, or buying advance information from insiders on Alphabet's next quarterly earning report.

What we have are markets that are designed to be safe, fast, easy, clear, and beneficial to society.
I had it done nearly 10 years ago and ever since, my eyes are much more sensitive to light and I do see halos around lights at night. That said, I'd still have it done again without a second thought - the benefits for me far outweigh those drawbacks.
My biggest gripe with this bundle is that they are all digital. I'd rather have less books but then in a printed format. I have noticed that I can't concentrate on reading books when they are presented to me on my computer screen. I do have a kindle (1st or 2nd generation) and that device doesn't support PDF well, furthermore it is rather slow. It works fine for regular books though, where I don't have to flip through chapters back and forth often.
Rubbish. Many animals are territorial; once they find a patch of land they like they consider it to be theirs and will use force to either defend to acquire it. This is true at the genetic level in many cases; for example, kittens prefer to stick with a particular nipple when nursing from their mother and resist efforts at encroachment by their siblings: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19259990

You seem to imagine the state of nature is one of carefree mutualism or somesuch, which is self-evidently not the case. Eusocial animals (which I consider to include humankind) are if anything more competitive than lone or pack animals.
The article says "it just isn't done" is an institution.

A good example would be, "MSNBC utterly failed to fact check 2016".
They say "name your price of $1 or more."
The $1 tier is great for anyone just starting out with bash or Unix. The $8 is amazing value, that's beginner through intermediate Unix skills, basically as much as most anyone would need. The $15 tier, IMO, is completely optional unless you know that you need those books. And at that point, you probably already have them.

Good sale!
1 cent wouldn't cover a credit transaction fee, they'd be losing money if they let you do that.
The alternative is "might makes right", where you give up anything you have to others through coercion.
> It not a "future" warship. Its an existing warship that keeps breaking down, despite the fact that its new and cost $4.4 billion to make. It just broke down again in the Panama Canal. That's a picture of the actual, existing-in-the-present ship.

It's in the Panama Canal going from it shipyard to homeport. It isn't yet in service. Apparently the combat systems are not even installed yet. I believe that is what your parent poster means. [1]

[1] http://navaltoday.com/2016/11/22/uss-zumwalt-breaks-down-in-...
Why freemium? In my opinion, a 14 day trial, and then $5 per month pricing is good enough. Sometimes I don't understand why so much software is given away for free.

I'll happily use it for free, of course, but it seems like value is being given away without a compelling reason.

Most business people get that our vendors have to pay to keep the lights on. Because this product enhances productivity, I doubt many business people would decide not to use this product, simply because it's paid. If so, they're probably not going to be in business long anyway.
Ok so for you "nationalism" in a predominantly white country equals "white nationalism". Well, I guess there's not much I can say against that definition, except that the term is usually used in a much more emotionally charged way (and with much more negative connotations)
Really looking forward to trying this out, but definitely need this first. Seems fine for users, but would rather not force my support team to log in with their social accounts.
Ideally, yes. Sometimes, though, you just need to pay the rent. That's the sucky part.
Because it has been doing pretty well lately, economically speaking. People go where jobs are, and Denver is one of those places these days.

As to why that is... this is still a matter of debate, but here's one take.
http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/why-denver...
There's no science required here. Walmart is a minimum wage body shop. Plain and simple. So at best, their presence in a community only displaces other minimum wage jobs, or creates more minimum wage jobs.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/03/walmart-can-afford-15-minimum...

The paper cited is a typical right-wing conservative position that corporate ladders with management positions provide workers with more opportunities for advancement, and thus possibly higher wages.
I think saying that "evolution selected consciousness for a reason" is a potential category error. It seems a bit like saying that evolution selected blood pressure. Evolution selected circulatory systems - blood pressure is an inevitable phenomenon of a circulatory system. Similarly, it might be that evolution selected information processing and decision making systems, and that consciousness might be an inevitable phenomenon of sufficiently complex information processing systems.
What about the idea often proposed by Graham Hancock where consciousness is not generated in the brain but rather the brain is a sort receiver for it?
Trump says he’s going to get Apple to “build a big plant” in US
Please contact me at ben@exocortex.com so we can chat please. I am a large contributor to three.js and use it extensively. I would appreciate understanding what you feel are needs for a rewrite. You seek like you know what you are taking about.
From the pictures it doesn't appear any copper wires were removed, the large conductors are still very much there. They got a few 480V breakers, which aren't worth much, maybe $50/ea on eBay. It appears to be sabotage to me.
> glare, halos or other visual symptoms

As someone with LASIK, I'm not actually sure what these mean.... My gut reaction to reading this is, "Wait... do I have those?"

That being said, I do think its fair to say that we haven't studied the potential side effects of LASIK as much as you'd like to, but the fact remains that in doing so, you are accepting that there are risks.

If the risks aren't worth it to you to remove your eye impairments, then don't get LASIK?
Don't bother, what parent most likely would link to is so taken out of context as to not be worth your time. Why do you think parent didn't post a link, and instead just made some vague statement?

But if you insist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#O...
Not that many admittedly, about 10k requests from 1.5k unique users in the past month. With that said 10m requests would still only come out at $4 so it's still a good choice for most low traffic sites.
Yes, they do, but they also say, "Pay what you want"
You can actually pay $0.01, you just don't get anything for it. So "pay what you want" is true, you can pay $0.01. But if you want to get the books, you have to pay at least $1.
Hey thanks! I prefer the CMJ (http://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/college-mathematics-jou...) to AMM etc. because your proof is ultimately undergrad math - some calculus, complex analysis, change of coords and inequalities. It's a pity the CMJ is not as well known. My professor used to circulate copies in class and we learnt more from it than from the grad journals which went out of the way to make things abstract.
You also have a fantastic blog on Harris Benedict equation, which I have combined with an ML approach on WeightGreat - truth be told, this was one of those miracles that happen when you read Hacker News regularly. You find someone has worked on the exact same problem you are interested in, using a different approach, and you can combine that with your own insight to come up with a very promising idea.
Viwwr Is Looking for a Mobile Engineer (Ionic Framwork)
If all parts of the iPhone were built in the US of A it would cost $100 more according to the University of Syracuse. Solely because we lack nearly all logistical and infrastructural capacity to mass produce technologically advanced industrial components at scale and with dynamic parameterization.
To be honest, lack of understanding about money and currency isn't particularly likely to be alleviated by reading a polemical tome by an anarcho-capitalist gold bug, unless it's a small subset of the reading you do with the objective of understanding how some of today's monetary systems most ardent opponents feel about it
(probably paired with David Graeber for an equally extreme critical view of the monetary system from a different perspective and entirely different history of how currency came to exist...)
Most Western media report on Mosul being infested by "ISIS" and being "liberated" by the Iraq/US coalition, whereas Aleppo is a stronghold of "resistance" and viciously "attacked" by the Syria/Russia coalition. Of course, no proofs are given of any way, and it blatantly ignores reports that in Syria, "rebels" and "ISIS" are mostly one and the same, with individual fighters simply fighting for whomever pays better at the moment.
I'm argentinian and it's a challenge LOL
Next design says the word "spanish"
>She shouldn't have a veto.

Absolutely. Regardless of how likely or unlikely manipulation is, an independent group should be able to request an audit.

If for not other reason than she could be silenced by a tacitly threatening to endless prosecute and summon before congress on some unrelated matter if she makes any trouble.
Because voting is way more important than home banking.

And voting through a web app is wrong on so many levels:

- "Electronic voting": Electronic voting machines already have a bad enough track record. If nothing else, it makes large-scale attacks easier. Voters have to trust the ballot operators (different from home banking, where (a) you can choose your bank and (b) manual banking wouldn't be better either).

- "Electronic voting, at home": Assuming [1], it wouldn't be coercion resistant, wouldn't be independently verifiable, couldn't guarantee vote secrecy to voters and be susceptible to ballot stuffing, open against technical attacks (eg. as simple as DDOS, or malware).

- "Electronic voting, at home, in a web app": No local (non-attacker-controlled) code means you must trust server completely. And its basically impossible to really isolate the voting from everything else.

All these problems for what? Paper ballots really aren't so bad. Especially if you eliminate two of the obvious problems US elections have: get rid of voter registration, and move votes to sundays.

[1] Assuming you don't use a cryptographic voting scheme; these have their own problems. It's an entire field of research that just can't be summarized in an HN post, but key problems are: a) impossible to understand by voters, b) some desirable properties are mutually exclusive, c) computationally prohibitively expensive (even with state level resources), d) some problems aren't technical in nature and can't be solved technically (think coercion).
Yup. Subgraph is a nearly 7 year old open source software company. We wrote a web scanner (Vega) that's sadly neglected, though still used regularly by thousands of users. We also do consulting, like pentesting, etc.

The name was inspired by work I was following at the time (10 years ago?) by Halvar Flake etc, on applying graph theory methods to reverse engineering / runtime analysis.
And this is why I bit the bullet, and went for the longer healing, but less side effect Lasek[1] (although this applies to PRK as well)

It was a "fun" 3 weeks of healing ( versus 1-2 days for lasik ), but PRK based procedures have substantially less of these side effects.

edited: to note that i had lasek done.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy
Ill give it a shot. Ive been feeling quite vulnerable on 16.04 due to the absurd amount of unfixed bugs. I have a couple of questions

- its mentioned that it does not have access to documents and downloads within the user folder. When it wants/needs read access, how am I told?

- if it doesnt have access to these folders, does it only write to its own subset?

- is it possible to make my home downloads folder an aggregate of the application downloads?

- when uninstalling/purging, since its sandboxed it deletes all of the content or keeps it? Can I force removal as well?

- how does subgraph deal with shared services/folders/info? Can I share a service with another user? Can I share the network setting modifications with other users?

- how can I prevent an application from using the network without my knowledge?

- are the tools like nethogs/top for subgraph that can take advantage of the compartments to show a more realistic view of whats going on?

I think this has a lot of potential!
It'd be hard to get even one physical book online for $1, let alone several of them.

As long as I have two screens, I've learned to like digital textbooks. It's hard to ctrl+f on a piece of paper.
Not yet but I plan to add it
> Cool, you can store a whole website in a URL now.

As long as it's shorter than ~2000 characters [0]

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximu...
To each their own. I actually think this setup is much simpler. I just have to push to git which I'd be doing in any case and it automatically deploys everything. If I were to manually sync I'd both have to remember that and I'd have to figure out a secure way to store the credentials.
No way :|
The cost is insane, I randomly looked up the price to buy one locally and they run $3k to $8k.
You have a source for that 2000 cycle number?

In reality, with somewhat deep discharges, the number is actually closer to 600-700, before experiencing significant capacity losses of ~15-20%.

At 2000 cycles, I'd imagine the capacity to be somewhere in the range of 50% of initial. Now that doesn't matter for utility scale, because you can easily keep that 50% pack in operation, as long as your total capacity stays the same (adding new packs), but for smaller scale, it's quite significant.

Look up Nissan Leaf range degradation and you'll see what I mean.