skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demanding a recount is so quaint in this age of electronic voting machines which can be untraceably hacked.

If the voting machines (or vote counting machines) have been compromised, no amount of "recounts" are going to do any good.

If anything, a recount puts a fig leaf of legitimacy over a thoroughly broken system.
I had the same experience with Facebook and with Google AdWords. Zero sales, not that many clicks.
Here is the link to the theoretical paper:
http://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.101...
It's not a weasel word. It's a fact. Law isn't about what's right, it's about what works. H1B worked for a while, but now it doesn't. So take it to Congress and stop trying to support an overt xenophobe like Jeff Sessions who also is a garbage fire when it comes to LGBT rights. It's just not gonna happen.
Not sure if we have the stats for it, but as with most advertisement it depends heavily on who you are targeting (as well as when) and what you say on the ad. It's complicated... Which is why consultants exist in this space.
Some of the paranoia around ME is the possibility of undocumented commands or magic byte sequences in software or via network interface that give an attacker invisible control of the ME without the user enabling AMT. The NIC is probably still powered and active for WoL.

It's also conceivable that a state-level adversary could have hidden arbitrary DMA instructions in a NIC firmware, that only activate with a signed request embedded in a random packet. Some of the largest firmware blobs on Linux systems are for NICs.

Most people aren't facing state-level targeted attacks, but without open firmware, it's nearly impossible to know for sure if one is vulnerable. And, with botnets and worms, it only takes one non-state-level attacker discovering the backdoor for everyone to be affected.
Does it worry anybody that China owns the top two positions and the US supercomputers in places 3-6 aren't even close to the top two in terms of performance?
Datomic is awesome. However, I am concerned about the Datomic Starter tier which states "The Datomic Starter license is perpetual, but is limited to 1 year of maintenance and updates." Previously we could download and use Datomic without registration with some sensible limitations. This was ideal for small projects that don't need support. We could update our Datomic instance to keep up with bug fixes and feature enhancements. Are we now locked into a 1 year window of code quality and features based on our registration?
The number of people that picked "never check in or commit" or only do it "once or twice a month" but that also rate themselves as a 7+ makes me a combination of sad and irritated.
1474335! That's Numberwang!
True but the brittleness still remains, smash too hard into something and your bone will crack.

Also theres blindness, cardiovascular, and other issues as well.

Definitely needs more research. Also makes me wonder about Elon's plans to bring people back, might not be possible after a certain length of stay on Mars.
Because me being openly transgender doesn't oppress people? Whereas white nationalists demand the full scale deportation of native born citizens who aren't white?

See the difference? If not, I think you're trolling then.

Also, if you want to talk about my comments in that thread, none of what I've said is contrary to common sense (i.e. supporting civil rights). You're the idiot that decided to conflate a patient having a disease and respecting their civil rights with giving civil rights to the disease itself. That alone pretty much puts you in the "I'm bad at being a good person" category. If you want to apologize and start over I'm game. Until then, I'm going to skewer you on these points.
It's real. I asked all my digital marketing friends for advice too. I made ~20 iterations, tried different pictures, headlines, targeting schemes to no avail.

There are def ways to make it work, but it's not an easy thing. If I were to try again, I'd make an audio-less video.
No, children are not fucking idiots. I did some dangerous stuff as a teenager (mostly involving fire) but I knew it was dangerous. Many products can cause injury if swallowed but in most jurisdictions people are recommended to keep them away from children under 3. Past that age it's expected that parents will advise them about what is or isn't edible.

If you are telling me that a 13 year old can't comprehend a clearly written warning then I call bullshit. If parents and children and toy stores ignore the warnings then the responsibility lies with them, not the manufacturers. I am not willing to live in a society where everything has to be dumbed down to the level of safety for a small child.

The manufacturers brought this upon themselves by not controlling their supply chain properly and by resisting better clearer warnings.

What does the supply chain have to do with consumer behavior? Total bullshit. Why don't you think that parents, toy stores and older children are immune from responsibility when they are given clear warnings of the danger? I take responsibility for myself and any kids that are temporarily in my care, so you should you and so should everyone else.

You're literally arguing that adults should be able to have nice things because some people are too fucking stupid to follow directions. No. Once they've been properly informed and still choose to do stupid shit, it's their responsibility, not mine or yours. Why are you arguing so intently for treating everyone like children just because some adults refuse to accept responsibility?
Some States still have paper ballots. For example, in Virginia, I fill out a paper ballot and it gets scanned electronically to capture the vote but the ballot is still available.
I don't like to recommend books in these situations, but in this case you might find "Command and Control" interesting.
It describes a huge number of near-disasters that I, for one, had never heard about (e.g. armed thermonuclear weapons accidentally dropping out of bombers in populated areas). Mind you, I am not even suggesting getting rid of the stockpiles, merely limiting them to the level required to constitute a reasonable deterrent. What we have today is far too great of a risk for the safety they are supposedly buying us.
I make constraint based short term implementation decisions

You sometimes resort to short cuts to meet deadlines.

They, are hacks who don't know how to code.

But yeah I never consider myself to be a great developer until interacting with other developers.
That's not how it's supposed to work. You want DBAs to be able to tune the existing data model with indexes and materialized views. The optimizer should be smart enough to rewrite queries and, in your case, look up the necessary data from the index only. I don't know Postgresql, Oracle's optimizer has been doing that for years.
The expensive part is shipping.

Option 1: Ship to paying customers. This is the ideal outcome.

Option 2: Ship everything back to the seller, or to a storage place, etc. Expensive because Amazon has to have labour go and retrieve it all (look up videos for how Amazon stores its items- it's madness and it's awesome). Then you need to essentially pay for one or more pallets of stuff to be shipped, which is cheaper than shipping individually, but not free.

Option 3: Destroy it all. Amazon charges you because even destroying it isn't that cheap. It's cheaper than shipping it, yes, but there's still a lot of work involved.

I think if you want to help these guys out, encourage people to buy the game.
Omg perfect timing. I was just looking for something like this. Y'all are the best.
Sorry, late response, but most countries (including France) require a work visa for things like unpaid internships, or being compensated in any way. Paying for board/food counts as compensation.

Look at it from the perspective of the US -- you can't just recruit programmers from India, have them come over "on vacation", pay them in room/board, and expect to not have any problems with border control. Work is work.
More specifically, UIColor and NSColor store a reference to a colorspace and a set of components (plus alpha). The colorspace defines the number of components and their meaning. So all of the RGB colorspaces define 3 components, Red, Green, and Blue, which means UIColor and NSColor need to store the color using those 3 components (plus alpha) whenever they're using an RGB colorspace.
Great. Will Intel still disable those features on lower-end chips, thus ensuring that the market share for such features to make sense for developers won't be reached anytime soon after release?
Google trends is not good for this kind of analysis. Google trends is based on the number of searches for a particular term relative to all other searches. So you see the same trend when you look at other tech topics like Linux, programming, SSH, computer science, etc. It's not that these things are necessarily becoming less popular, just that tech oriented people were over represented on the early internet, and thus Google search. As more non tech people started googling stuff, tech topics fell in their relative importance.
Even giving them away cost's ~$6 per unit to ship them somewhere. We're looking into donating a bunch to schools / libraries / other non-profits.
There is not a lot of code overlap in most cases, even between ed and ex. The relationships are generally more about command sets than direct forking of code.
Watch the "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" series for an excellent science fiction exploration of this
I've heard a lot of similar experiences using both FB and Google.

I feel like the entire ad-tech industry is a house of cards that is bound to topple over at some point.
I think it depends on what you're making through it. For board/card/tabletop games, it's quite possibly the most popular way to get initial funding to make your game. But a game is not a business, it's the start of a product — a massive pre-order system if all goes well. Many that get into the game self-publishing game aren't doing it to make money, they're doing it to make a thing and get it into people's hands. Kickstarter is a nice way to raise money and have a central micro-social-network of sorts for your game.

Social media will do its thing, but most of the games that I've kickstarted are ones that I've seen at conventions, I've tried them myself or watched a demo live, found myself interested, signed up for a newsletter at the booth, then got an email about the kickstarter. And lucky me, I'm batting 1.000 with actually getting a game from the things I back.

(Source: I've been working on a tabletop game for a couple years now, and have been doing a lot of board-game-based research on kickstarter.)
I think this exposes a great deal of how money and wealth concentrated at the top is flowing to people not based on merits but by their socioeconomic lineage.

Imagine that $15 million dollar invested in $50k USD increments into 300 startup ideas, the jobs that will be created, increased human capital and impact on their respective local economies, that are not there because of risk adversity (it still amazes me VCs would shun risk but still throw around "venture") towards people of lower class then them. For example, somebody coming straight out of university vs. the daughter of a CEO at a large company who also attends the same country_club/religious functions, suddenly looks like a safer bet.

It looks like a pretty hopeless situation for Theranos but it also exposes the crony capitalism that you'd find in other parts of the world with ease, with heavy hitters like Henry Kissinger (wtf) sitting on the board.

He will most likely never see that money again because he thought he was mitigating risk by piggybacking behind a powerful individual with powerful connections that's accessible by blood.

It's hard to feel any sympathy.
I do a lot of marketing, and I smiled seeing what you spent money on. I've been most of those places with bigger budgets and similar results. When I'm working with good companies it usually turns into something more like product management with some relevant search or contextual advertising.

> We fell into a trap. We thought marketing meant we had to come at people sideways to get them to give us money. Turn’s [sic] out, the game’s just good and people want to play it.

One small suggestion: you're not doing a great job on the up/cross sale. I went to your site and added the game to the cart. But after reading about the expansion I WANTED the expansion. Make it easier for people to add them on. Every large ecommerce store does this. It's helpful to your users, increases RPS, and (when done right) relevant enough to not be annoying. Make sure to find a non-popup solution that won't get blocked by ad blockers.

I'll be buying the product and an expansion based on the Amazon reviews: good luck making some money!
Well, function prototypes in the first ANSI standard were a fine addition, if you ask me. After that...
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Yeah I've seen videos about that, its useful to keep the decay at bay but its still in issue.

Also there is blindness, cardiovascular issues, and more. I hope they can figure out how to mitigate or remove these issues.
It's quicker and easier than submitting any patches upstream. They don't care about support past product release.

Usually the SoC vendor provides the forked version, and the manufacturer forks that again, so they are twice removed from upstream. If they ever upgrade Android versions, they port all of their patches onto a new fork from the SoC vendor.
It's got a 6.8 rating Board Game Geek which is actually pretty good. Anything above 7 is a solidly good game in my experience. Nice article too.
So there have been several suits from investors / lenders at this point. I read earlier an interesting point that these suits are essentially Theranos' investors & bondholders for priority in the inevitable bankruptcy.

Because in a bankruptcy judgments are given priority over debt, if you holding Theranos' debt you can try to jump to the front of the line by suing for fraud (etc), in the hopes that you can get a judgement in your favor.

So the real takeaway is, it seems all these companies have concluded that bankruptcy is inevitable.
Can you elaborate on "datalog queries blows SQL out of the water"?
I view Kickstarter contributions as a form of gambling: even if the Kickstarter reaches its goal, the odds are heavily stacked against you that something will actually get produced and shipped, but if it does then it's pretty sweet.

The trick, as a backer, is to keep your expectations low and not get too emotionally attached to whatever you are backing.
Muchas Gracias :)
> It is not unlike the whole of Wikipedia disappearing overnight.

Yeah, if Wikipedia required you to pass a frickin' interview before you were allowed to read it. http://rocknerd.co.uk/2016/11/19/what-the-death-of-what-cd-f...
It's either that or the investor feels they have been defrauded.
I dislike it because it is almost all politics discussion with many toxic posters. And they upvote snarky one line responses while downvoting anything that is remotely on the right as the other poster wrote.

It is basically a slightly more civil /r/politics with news stories only.
Especially given that their final conclusion is "just trust that our game is great, because it really is Fun to Play for All Ages." I thought this was a good and interesting post, but it's so transparent I thought they would at least hang a lampshade on the fact that this is clearly another strategy they're testing.
>The API seems a bit weird though...

Oh my God, you weren't kidding.
I was referring specifically to the case studies listed on that page's sidebar.

Where did that 1300 number come from? I'm seeing so many random numbers for how often kids are swallowing magnets that I'm doubting the good faith of the CPSC now.
My Nexus 5 glass broke last week, I am in exact position as you, after looking at market I thought there is no way I am buying another phone from Google(let alone other manufacturers).

Now I am happily switching to iPhone SE which I am 100% sure will get supported more than pixel phones.
For one, getting data into AWS is a problem for scientific computing. For example, the Large Hadron Collider experiment generates 27 terabytes of data per day and has its own network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_LHC_Computing_Grid
Indeed, early 2015 year a couple VC friends warned me that Theranos was a bunch of crock and everyone knew it, and that it was going to be the company that would send rippled through the venture market in 2016. Well 2016 was sure a cold year for venture. When I think about Elizabeth as an entrepreneur, on one hand I respect her for trying something so audacious, and sticking with it for so long. However, the one thing that the valley doesn't teach you (in fact quite the opposite) is that there are actually almost no short cuts in startup, get capital and deploy it building a strong and resilient product and business around it, then take it to market. Elizabeth got really caught up in taking absolutely nothing feasible to market, and that's a damn shame.
Yes, Amazon charges 50 cents to recall an item.

Sometimes they offer free recalls (right before q4 when they wanted to clear out their warehouse, for instance), but then you usually can't send the same item in for some time.

They really don't want people using them for long term storage, they've been pushing for people to only send in inventory that will sell soon. That's why they have extra fees if you have something there past 6 months, and again past 12 months.

They also started charging extra for storage during q4 (November and December).
I did the same thing, except I turned it off after $500. My professional opinion is that Facebook's platform is very accessible for anyone to get up and running with (good). And in terms of offering advertisers good analytics and actionable feedback, it's pretty much garbage (bad).

My background: I spent a couple years optimizing Google PPC campaigns as a full-time professional when I was at a digital marketing agency. I held Adwords certification for a couple years. I added this so people don't think I just couldn't figure out how to do PPC in general.
Thanks for putting the effort. Though my knowledge is limited but I don't get this. Why React is different from React Native? Ideally web should be another target just like iOS or Android.
How about sending some free copies to board game cafés? Only if they want them, obviously.
> There is a ARM ISA

If only. It's possible to have two (32-bit) ARM processors with no instructions in common.
I can't speak definitively for any specific project, but I gather much of this is due situations like this:

SoC Mfg designs a new chip, heavily leveraging IP from an old chip. Since some old IP is still around, and already (mostly) has kernel support SoC Mfg, patches the existing code to work on the new SoC, publishes the bin/source as an SDK, and declares their work done. (The linux-meson/sunxi geeks will eventually clean this up and mainline it anyway).

In the mean time, Board Mfg needs to get a product out the door, so they start with the SoC and SDK, and find that a bunch of the work done in the SDK is really specific to SoC Mfg's reference board, and requires a few tweaks, so they hack on the SoC Mfg kernel tree until the device mostly works, declare a success and publish a board SDK. (Those same geeks from above will handle the mainline work if they want to run a mainline kernel anyway, so why should Board Mfg bother?)

In some cases, this cycle gets to repeat yet again when the board gets OEM'd into a half dozen devices, each requiring slightly different kernel tweaks.
You're not making a projection based on data, you're generalizing from things you personally happened to notice, which is practically the definition of sample bias.

It's extremely common to do this (I'm not picking on you personally!), but such generalizations have no objective value and lead to repetitive, low-quality discussion, which is why I think we're going to add a guideline asking people not to do it.
Great point. Presumably a good number of these "back room deals" work out and people never hear of them.

This one blows up and then, to a certain extent, it exposes the cozy interconnections of "socioeconomic lineage"
Interesting insight into selling via Amazon.. I didn't know about the long-term storage fees and whatnot. I guess also getting the game into some retail shops might help? How much would it cost to get those games back from Amazon to some other storage?
Apologies this is interpretation not actual experience, so grains of salt.

It's not strictly clear to me, but reading through what they're doing, the ME isn't re-engaged or its unclear how it recovers itself.

Unless the ME is operating with a recovery binary somewhere that isn't covered by Nicola's neutralizer and the subsequent flashing, I don't think it comes back in to normal operation.
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All the electronic voting machines I've used in Illinois create a paper trail. I believe a paper trail is a requirement for any voting systems in our state. Even if 90% of people don't check the paper copy at the end, the number of people do who check would almost certainly ensure that any fraud would be detected.

In order for such a hack to be successful, you'd need to keep the paper trail the same and modify only the digital results. The only way that would be successful is if you only hacked machines in races that were unlikely to be audited. Close races, and races with unexpected outcomes are almost certainly the most likely races to be audited. If the race isn't close, then why the fuck are you hacking the machines in the first place?

Quick edit: If you were going to look for examples of hacking, you'd probably want to look for reports of non-functional paper trails. Surely the paper trail is the most likely part of the machine to break since it has moving parts, but you may be able to detect races where the machine broke at a higher rate. You'd want to check the machines that broke for voting totals that were significantly different from the other machines/voting methods at the same voting location.

A direct comparison to other voting methods might not be relevant, since particular demographics might be more inclined to choose one voting method over another.
Indentation! Not much in this world upsets me as much as inconsistent indentation. Ruins my day any time I have to actually read 500 lines of it.
Shlock. The writer is satisfied with the world he inhabits, is not particularly aggrieved by the powers that be, has not been particularly failed -- and therefore takes umbrage at the suggestion that the established order might not be both benevolent and competent.

But guess what? This isn't the general experience! Most people are constantly, crushingly immiserated and failed -- a societal "failure mode," as he so charmingly terms it, has already come to pass. It's unclear, in fact, that we've ever /not/ been in a failure mode -- begging the question of /why/ things are so consistently fucked up.
How about adding an ad on reddit?