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Not on topic for Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Since HN has been on a political binge just like everybody else has, we're going to do what some people do after a festival and have a cleanse. Starting tomorrow, it'll be Political Detox Week on HN. During this week, all primarily political stories will be off-topic. We'll kill them when we see them and invite users to flag them. We'll do this for a week, just to see what happens.

We need to clarify what HN is and isn't. What HN is: a place for intellectual curiosity and thoughtful discussion. What it is not: a political, ideological, national, racial, or religious battlefield. Accounts that use HN primarily for the latter are abusing the site. We ban such accounts.

Note that word "primarily". This seems to be a good test to distinguish ordinary HN users, who are here for a wide range of interests that occasionally include political ones, from the ideologically committed sort of commenters who don't seem to care about other things and come here to argue against their enemies. We'd like those commenters to understand that they are really looking for a different kind of site. They need to find another, or maybe start a new one.

More here for those interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13096750.
You're conflating two different terms. As was pointed out in another comment, your understanding was more or less true under the Articles of Confederation but stopped being the case with the ratification of the Constitution. The American word 'state' is a relic.
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Those would solely be rural problems, and we have a long tradition of support the urbanite and crush the ruralite whenever possible, so it would be politically consistent to do exactly that.
Sure, the FBI can legally hack anywhere in the world in the same sense that Russians can hack anywhere outside Russia: it's legal in their host country.

But if a Russian hacker leaves Russia, or if a FBI hacker leaves the US, they can be prosecuted for those hacks. That's not what most people expect as the outcome of a "legal" action.

I think "government sanctioned" is the word we usually use for these cases, not "legal".
While this is sub-optimal, I would suggest that everyone should assume this is where most countries will eventually land. I would not waste too much energy debating this, in my humble opinion.

Even if we don't all end up in dystopian bubbles that have some legal tie back to the U.S., the focus should be around proper architecture, defense in depth, plausible deniability by design, etc. If you are not required to keep logs, then don't. If you are, encrypt them with half of a key. You get half of the key and your customers get half of the key. Yes, logs per tenant. This is getting _somewhat_ easier to do these days. Design decentralized or partially centralized systems that permit delegation of control over encryption of data so that lawful intercept is less useful and so that hacking a thing is less effective both technically and legally. I.e. encrypted data-stores that you and your customers can partake in the legal custody of the data. Once you receive the NSL, you won't be able to talk about it and warrant canaries may not always be feasible either, so design your systems with that in mind.

If you code products that folks will use to protect their families freedom and/or way of life, then please consider the attack vectors and generalize your way out of them and/or create really easy to read docs that people can take away action items from and implement.

I only mention this because HN is full of intelligent creative thinkers, engineers, architects and highly experienced attorneys. Hopefully a few doc/tech writers too!

...now back to my really bad coffee.
Sadly, the banks don't do much about it, because for US card-not-present transactions...they have no risk. Any fraud is paid for by the merchant seller.

It's too bad, because if there was an anti-fraud system that had access to ALL transactions + ALL data, it would obviously work better than any other solution.
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I haven't done this because I'm trying to stop chording: pressing two keys simultaneously with the same hand. I'm pretty sure it causes RSI (try Googling chording and RSI).

When I have to type all caps, I find myself chording a lot. The alternative is to always use the right shift for capital letters on the left and vice versa, but that doesn't work well for all caps words. Therefore I'm trying to learn to actually use caps lock.

Admittedly it's not going very well
I am the OP of the Facebook post. I just wanted to clarify some points:

1. The dept that I have dealt with is called the Advanced Resolution Group (ARG). No one from basic customer care or tech support or out-of-warranty-repairs has heard of them. So far, I know of only one person in ARG, Prawin K. He first told me that he had no manager. When I spoke to a supervisor from tech support, she told me that she will speak to Prawin's manager. When I pointed this out, and told him that he had lied, he said "You are assuming too many things. I did not lie because my manager does not take calls and I AM the HIGHEST point of contact". Since I had complained to BBB, he told me that no matter who I complained to, it will all circle back and I will end up dealing with him each time. Repeated to pleas to get my case tranferred have fallen on deaf ears.

2. The tech support initially (read, October) ran diagnostics on my laptop using remote access. They said that it seemed to be a software issue. After the laptop reached the depot, I was told that it is possible that someone spilled something on my laptop when I was not around, and so the damage is customer induced. I was asked to pay 450$ for the repairs (motherboard, keyboard, mousepad). I could not pay such money upfront (I paid only 800$ for the laptop) since I felt that it was a lot for repairing a 1 year old laptop. They sent me my laptop unrepaired.

3. After reasoning with them I was asked to pay $350 for the repairs. The out-of-warranty dept was frank enough to tell me that the replacement parts will be refurbished ones, but the seal will be broken by the techician in the depot.

4. After paying for the repairs, I was told that I will receive the shipping box within 1-2 business days (email proof). It took them 11 days. First due to delays because of the weekend, and then for some reason they wanted to verify my address to mail me an empty box.

5. After getting the laptop back, it still has the existing issues in addition to the old one (screen becomes white along the edges). The only way to get rid of it is it keep tilting the laptop. The way I look at it there are three possilbilties : the replacement parts are faulty, the laptop itself has issues that they are unwilling to accept, the technician screwed up and did not check my system before shipping it back, all of are Dell's mistakes.

6. I finally got fed up and asked for a refund. I gave them 4 options:
Refund 1200$ so that I can take my business elsewhere
Refund the out of warranty repair charge so that I can recover at least some money and rest peacefully
Give me a replacement system of equivalent cost (i undestand the problem of depreciation of cost)
Give me an extension on warranty on the replaced parts (it only has 90 day warranty). Since the parts failed in less than 2 hours, I find it impossible to believe that the next set will last as long. I do not want to end up going through this cycle after 3 months, again.

7. I have been told that this beyond the ability of the onsite engineer and the only way is to send the laptop to their depot again.
I use alt-[keystroke], which changes to normal mode and executes [keystroke]. So if the first command I intend to execute in normal mode is simple, I get that plus the mode change in one keystroke. If the command is complicated, I just use alt-l (moves the cursor one space) which I find easier to hit than ctrl-[ or esc.

As a bonus, it works in readlines vi mode as well.
We've banned this account for a history of posting unsubstantive comments and then this egregious violation of the guidelines for civility.
> Would you also propose re-drawing the borders of every EU nation every 30 years to reflect population movement?

Yes.

Just like there’s currently a discussion about redrawing the borders of the states within Germany – which are also independent legal entities, many having existed for many centuries.
This is brilliant! "Virtual Reality models and animations galore!"

Quite a slice of history. It's amazing how much the internet has become gentrified since the days when a plain hypertext document sufficed for one of the biggest space agencies in the world.
In my opinion, these types of articles should stop making the front pages of Hacker News. They aren't generally relevant in anyway to the greater community of readers on here. There are plenty of different sites that specialize in non-geek culture related things, but that isn't why the bulk of us come to this site. Just my opinion, however I also agree, I could just as easily not click on it.
Part of why I didn't go into it is because the post was already long, another part is because frankly, it's not my area of expertise and I didn't want to misrepresent it. Please remember that I'm not directly involved in tokio's development, and so this is always my understanding, I might be wrong in places, and you should ask someone on the team to be 100% sure. (The post above is stuff I'm sure about.)

What I will say for sure is that it wasn't "hey we use Unix so we're doing what we know and we'll tack on Windows support", it was made purely on technical merits of the two models. I also know that it was related to allocations.

At a high level, my understanding is that the situation is this: the unices have a rediness model, windows has a completion model. If you want a cross-platform abstraction, you can't get around needing to map one to the other. So the question becomes "is it cheaper to simulate readiness with completion, or completion with readiness."

I _believe_ that the situation is something like this: the completion model requires that you allocate a buffer up front, whereas the readiness model doesn't. So to map readiness to completion, you'd end up allocating the buffer, then doing your calls, then filling the buffer. But to map completion to readiness, you can do a trick: make a call for a zero-byte read, and when that comes back, allocate the buffer, and make another call. There's still a small amount of overhead here, but it's less than the other direction.

Again, I might be wrong here.

oh also, shout out to wio, which is mio, but focusing on just windows: https://github.com/retep998/wio-rs I haven't kept up with it as much as this stuff, but I like the idea.
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Very insightful, thank you!
Either corporations are people--and will therefore be taxed as such--or they're not--and thus have no rights.

Which is it?
omg, "3d models"!! VRML!!!!! Truly this is a wonder of the era
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It should be reminded that emails exchanged between Protonmail and any recipient who use ordinary email server are not secure. In order to achieve security you have to mail with other Protonmail user or use PGP.
Excellent UI/UX for a 1997 website! I wonder if they changed at some point.
Totally. I'm a secret FBI lizard man of the Illuminati. Busted!

Maybe I'm just finally fed up with all this garbage extremist crap being posted and upvoted everywhere. It's getting really really really old.
Haber-Bosch is only a partial solution, and only for nitrogen. It is a relatively neat solution, because the entire planet is enveloped in nitrogen, and methane is readily available, for now.

Phosphorus and potassium are still problems. The primary sources for both are mines deep in the ground. We can't pull those out of the air. It looks like phosphorus is going to be a problem earlier,[0] so there are pilot programs to reclaim it from sewage. Those are going to have to scale up quickly. Eventually, potassium will also be a problem.

Technology might solve the problem, but it is not a given. It will take investment and work.

[0]https://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/does-peak-phosp...
I once had this idea that all these revelations done with the documents given by Snowden could be done on purpose by the government itself in order to make what was previously secretly done common knowledge and thus easier to use later on. There would be a period of time of outrage and maybe some regulation that wasn't there before, but in the end they could do more or less the same thing publicly and everybody would be like "yeah sure, that is what it is like". Not that i believe this is really what happened but it certainly feels like this is where it is going to.
Long before a Hyper-loop will be viable, this is the map of where all our high speed rails should have been placed.

Currently, only the California high speed corridor is under construction (Florida has stalled and I'm not sure if the Cascades ever got funding).

We are decades behind the rest of the world in viable rail. To people who say rail can't work in the US, just look at this map. Only the NE section has decent rail and it's saturated for commuters. Building out the rest of the rail infrastructure we need will reduce the need for cars and help deal with pollution. Once cities are connected, I think we'll naturally see the expansion of urban/commuter rail to solve the last mile problem.
>US states are not merely administrative divisions (like provinces in other nations) but are literal independently-governed states

i think that's kind of exaggerating the situation a bit. They maybe have a bit more control over their own affairs than most country's provinces do, but the degree of autonomy a province has varies quite a bit from country to country. there's nothing that fundamentally make a state different to a province besides the name, and comparing a US state with an EU member nation is just silly.
Remember when you could browse the internet on a 56k modem? Can you imagine trying to do that today? "Here download 1meg of JS because i want to have a link, but didn't want to write <a href="blah">"
Can you recommend specific resources?
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Please don't post empty generic dismissals on Hacker News. They don't contain any information, and that's what we're all here for.
I think yummyfajita's point is that a traditional statistics approach begins with some understanding of the system being modeled, and that you create a model using that understanding. There is usually a high focus on parsimoniousness and explainability, while in ML/AI, you don't really care what the underlying model is or how the model comes to a particular conclusion. The focus is on accuracy at the expense of explainability.
Morally correct? That's a pretty questionable statement.

The protesters tried to cause a privately owned herd of buffalo to stampede into the construction site... This resulted in a number of buffalo and a horse being killed.

The protesters are causing damage to construction equipment owned by individual owner-operators. Small businesses. This isn't right. This isn't standing up to the government, or civil disobedience, it's destruction of private property.

And before someone accuses me of not caring about the people there... I grew up about 30 miles away from where the main protest is happening. These are my family members... on both sides.

You going to give up your car and not use any oil? If so, great, you've got a leg to stand on. But we have thousands of miles of pipelines across this country. Pipelines are more efficient than trains or trucks... as long as people still use oil, we still need oil pipelines. What's the alternative?
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Vim solution: type in all lower case, then select what you just typed and press ~.

Admittedly it doesn't help for non-Vim applications, but I don't find myself typing all caps outside Vim very often. It's usually to type something like FOO_BAR, but then you can just type FO<Ctrl-N> and that usually works.
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I love the link to the "all text" version.
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They ceded a specific and enumerated list of powers, reserving all others to the states.

Here is a small sample that shows some thoughts of the primary drafter of the Constitution(reference is Federalist Papers 45):

Within every district to which a federal collector would be allotted, there would not be less than thirty or forty, or even more, officers of different descriptions, and many of them persons of character and weight, whose influence would lie on the side of the State. The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.

I chose taxation as a topic only because Madison gave concrete numbers. Here:

* Using the number of tax collectors as a rough metric, the federal government was planned to be about 30-40 times smaller than all individual states combined. I don't know the 2016 figures.

* He affirms that the federal government "[...]will be exercised principally on external objects", which would seem to oppose redrawing state lines for the convenience of local matters(such as city boundaries). Though, if all states in question consented to having their borders redrawn, it does seem like the federal government should still at least approve.

So I'm not sure I buy this argument that the Federal government was designed at the outset to be this all-consuming entity that can stomp all over states however it pleases, though there certainly has been a recent trend that way. Hopefully the upcoming Supreme Court appointments can reverse this trend.

Given the topic, this sentence is also worth reading:

If the new Constitution be examined with accuracy and candor, it will be found that the change which it proposes consists much less in the addition of NEW POWERS to the Union, than in the invigoration of its ORIGINAL POWERS.
Facilities = more capital. Just the yard to park and service 9000 vehicles is a lot to buy and then there's the buildings: if each car needs service just once a year you'd need at least half a dozen service bays running full time.
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> The marketing laws in Norway are pretty strict, so doing side-by-side comparisons I'm not sure if is something we can do.

Ok sounds reasonable.

So I'll be honest here, I really am hoping this is all that you claim it to be, but since I've followed what is considered the current state of the art, a bit, I feel skeptical.

As someone who would love to have this (I know I don't want a tablet, I don't want apps, I want a book... that I can read and I scribble on, just digital, dammit!), I want this to be true and your video hasn't convinced me yet. That's all :-)

Basically I'm hoping for something that you can get me from 'super-cool-me-want' to 'here-take-my-money'.

Wish you the best. I'll be watching you guys.
Yes, exactly. I'm not saying I either want or don't want more west coast ideas in congress, I'm saying if people say we have too few senators for the pop. a solution is divide. Also, I'm not certain a "Jefferson" would be the same politically as So. Cal and Bay area.
And in PHP 7.0 (because who wants to use something earlier) you have:

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I am afraid you misunderstood. OP's point isn't that it's unsupervised learning, hence not ML. His point is that it's no learning at all. IMHO.
If you travelled back in time to ancient Greece, what would say to people who described polytheism with great reverence and said they believe in Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades because they represent the ultimate truth?
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You should learn more about a topic before posting.

It's very much like the EU: Each state is independent, and there is an overall governing body - the federal government, which for the most part can't tell states what to do, it can only give or withhold money to induce them.

There are specific rules about what the Federal government can and can't tell a state.

One difference that does exist is military, where EU states can have a military (as far I know), but US states can not.
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Nice! I recently got my PocketCHIP[0] which has PICO 8 on board and I'm working on some small projects when in on the go (airplanes mainly). Great to see what other people are doing; PICO-8 is nice to work with so far!

[0] https://getchip.com/pages/pocketchip
If you think I'm going to give an economist the same clout as an actual scientist, you're out of your god damn mind.
Sorry @dang, I missed that.
When they standardized what the Pico8's specs would be, I thought it was too underpowered for a whole slew of ideas, but since then I've been consistently proven wrong. Really impressive.
I appreciate your explanation and have a question for you (and I mean this with genuine curiosity): what about where God came from then? Is he/she/it a reflection of some other entity's perception? Or does it just not matter (like, this God is a singularity of cosmological understanding -- it is not possible to know what's beyond that level)?

This same question can of course be asked of any explanation of how the universe came to be (religious, scientific, or otherwise)... which is what makes this question so fascinating to me.

It makes me realize that some things just can't be understood by causal logic alone.
I can't connect, and the Google cache is unreadable. Can anyone repost on a mirror?
At 3.2 maximum transactions per second it would take approximately 500 days of non-stop voting to get through all 146m registered voters in the USA (and during that time the BTC market would be doing nothing but voting). So to answer the question a BTC-based voting system where a transaction is used to cast a vote won't work.

For this to work you'd need a different network with different speeds and abilities, but then you lose the benefits of the distributed BTC network.

We can't even get all states to do an ID check before voting because of disenfranchisement concerns. I don't think a block chain idea is going to get very far.
It's extremely amusing to see someone nostalgically complain about huge JS assets, when every subpage on that site has a 56K *.gif image as a <body background="">[1], i.e. something that would have taken a full second to download on a 56K connection. Just like 1MB of JS takes about a second to download & render on your current >1MB/s connection.

Back in the day people used to complain about these huge background images just as much as purists today complain about >1MB JS/CSS assets, which given Moore's law & the increase in network speeds works out to be the same thing, relatively speaking.

1. http://mars.nasa.gov/MPF/gif/rca.gif -> 56K =~ 55854 bytes
The difference is where the "sovereign" source of power is.

In most countries, even with highly autonomous provinces, the central government can simply pass a law to change their status at will.

In the U.S., it cannot. The U.S. federal government only has the right to legislate in a small, whitelisted set of areas and does not have the right to change anything about the States' status or individual State laws beyond that.
Wait, is GP saying that IS true in php?!?!