skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top/bottom of the ballot thing is rubbish. Basically each senator is aligned with a political party, if a party has 2 or more candidates in the running for senator (I think?) then they get an "above the line" box. And if you desire, you can tick the above the line box to let that party place your vote for you.

So what ends up happening is instead of a diversified senate with plenty of conflicting opinions and a broad knowledge base acting as the gatekeepers of whatever ridiculous legislation the lower house can dream up, we end up with the two major parties controlling the whole senate.

And whenever that's not the case (which sometimes happens due to the preferential voting) the media runs a huge billion dollar campaign about how the entire country is going to stagnate into a giant flaming pile of shit unless one of the major parties gets a majority in the senate and is allowed to push all their horseshit through unopposed. Then next election the uneducated masses vote against their best interests in droves once again.

The system is fucked. I don't see an easy solution, it's not like forcing below the line voting would be any better because then all the braindead racist bigots like Pauline Hanson would be voted in in a landslide due to sheer media coverage and we'd lose any lesser named senators that managed to grab an infinitesimal piece of power by aligning themselves with a major party.

Maybe if someone has a good solution they could enlighten me, I'd love to hear it.

EDIT: I should mention, if you elect to vote below the line you have to literally number every senate candidate, which is generally 50-100 boxes. The system itself is imposing a huge barrier to the average person placing an educated vote.
There's a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier has 2GB of space, limited number of FTP accounts and limited PHP functions (file sockets, cURL are disabled). You can basically run a Wordpress instance, but not a complex application. The bandwidth is also shared. These limits don't exist in the paid tiers.

But if you really just want to publish a smaller PHP app (they give you a MySQL DB, too), this is perfect. Combined with CloudFlare, the performance is more than good enough.

Edit: Another major factor is their scope. They are only somewhat internationalized, the english translation is more than lacking. Plus they have only 50k users (you have to login to the admin panel every 3 months or your account will be frozen, then slowly removed).

Edit 2: Their FAQ btw. explicitly states that you are allowed to create multiple accounts. I have had two accounts for a little over 3 years now, and they are working great. Their nameservers can be a tad slow if you add an external domain, but at least that's a free feature.
> Because the central amygdala is involved in so many different behaviours, she says, future research needs to tease out the precise neuronal circuits involved in hunting. “The central amygdala has been linked to escape and flight — this is completely different from that.”

In other words, don't be precise and your soldiers will run away instead of attacking the enemy.
Yup, there are instructions on this test page: https://browserleaks.com/webrtc#webrtc-disable
> DotTK and now Freenom have been great enablers for many smaller hobby sites. Get free webspace from bplaced, domain from freenom and CDN from CloudFlare and you have a pretty decent, ad-free infrastructure for a quick-and-dirty web project. A scratchpad solution basically.

Agreed. But never use free .tk domains for anything serious. DotTK is notoriously for deleting domains registered for free from a user's account without any notification to the user as soon as the domain gets some amount of traffic according to many reports online.
Look at the sandbox used for SubgraphOS (Debian/Jessie only)
https://github.com/subgraph/oz
Full Disclosure: I work for a private VPN company

This depends on the VPN provider. Private VPN services share IPs between customers, and the extra layer of privacy they provide comes with high potential for abuse. Some providers care more about preventing fraud than others. Cloudfront is likely just blocking IPs that have behaved poorly in the past, so I'd suggest you look for more reputable VPN providers that actively weed out fraudulent users.
My builds are broken because they have dependencies on github repos.
A brain map for drugs
I'd say it's more like a terminal multiplexer for window management, if you're familiar with screen or tmux. (Using XMonad for windows and using tmux for collections of shells / terminal apps have followed similar tracks in my life.)
From Denmark, 80.80.80.80 is actually slightly faster than 8.8.8.8, but the difference is tiny.

80.80.80.80 is always 12ms. Appears to be in Amsterdam.

8.8.8.8 is between 13-60ms, usually 12-25ms. Somewhere in Sweden.
They are typically lighter, but may not have as much "fancy" features such as GL-rendering and HW-compositing.

Basically don't bother if your main objective is for things to be "faster".

These are all about efficient and keyboard-driven UX.
We always have nukes
Numbers from South-East US:

Freenom: ~9ms
Google: ~9ms (actually 0.5 ms quicker)
Local ISP: ~33ms
Time to become a (big L) Liberal. ;-)
I have the fake personas too, and it works, but if I were all fired-up to say something "as myself" on the internet (I'm not, particularly) then I wouldn't wait until I'm as rich as Thiel. You just need to be living off the interest on your capital investments, so that your income isn't dependent on people liking you. That happens a lot sooner if you're good at saving money.
I'm getting <1ms from a server in Amsterdam, some hundreds (3-5) of ms from the UK, with some even timing out.
This is nothing new. Those on the right have felt the same squeeze you're describing over the Obama years in the form of politically targeted pressure from the IRS.

The lesson /should/ be that when the government is powerful enough to use against your political enemies, it's powerful enough to be used against you. Unfortunately, the allure of what you can do with that power next time you run the show seems strong enough to override a lot of rational concerns.
Not sure why you're downvoted. I've lived in multiple countries, including a dictatorship and a very corrupt democracy. The dictatorship was definitely preferred to the corrupt democracy - nothing worked in the latter. It was just deadlock after deadlock.

The US isn't as bad as that very corrupt democracy, but I do not share many people's views that when a country switches to democracy things will improve. There are far too many factors in play, and people voting is only a small factor amongst all of them. The culture of the people probably matters a lot more than whether they get to vote or not.
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Meanwhile, today is Friday the 13th.
Ask HN: Examples of very basic concepts worth internalizing?
I often see people have to think for 7+ seconds to answer this sort of question:

How many integers are in the range [2, 10]?

How many integers are in the range (3, 18)?

How many integers are in the range [4, 9)?

In my opinion, it's worthwhile for any programmer to internalize this to the point they don't have to think. Just know this:

- The number of integers in an inclusive range is 1 more than the difference

- The number of integers in an exclusive range is 1 less than the difference

- The number of integers in a range inclusive on one side is the difference.

Are there any other examples of very basic concepts worth internalizing that some people seem to miss?
After an absolutely massive engineering effort to make the browser multi-process, Firefox is starting to roll out OS-level sandboxing with Firefox 50.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/12/21/update-on...

The statement quoted in Slashdot is really unfair.
Shunt – A tiny Unix-like shell installer for Windows
I would also mention that the method used to design the new LSTM units is much less interesting than another recent paper on designing LSTM units, using reinforcement learning NNs: Zoph & Le 2016 http://openreview.net/pdf?id=r1Ue8Hcxg "Neural architecture search with reinforcement learning" (in addition, tested on a more relevant sequence task and performs better, not just similarly).
It's working fine for me (Wisconsin, USA), did they fix it already?
I use JSPM on my projects and I have several dependencies on github repos that aren't in NPM. Anyone have any ideas on a fallback solution for when github goes out like this?
Why would the NSA need to own a DNS server to get DNS information from everyone?
Since I can't push to my repo, I'm gonna say no, it's not back.
What do you think about r/machinelearning? That community is much more informed, but there are still very few comments probably because it's much smaller than HN.
I'd say forget about the money just live a normal low-stress comfortable life doing what you enjoy.
Actually, why don't you sell it to some credulous enemies?
Practical Redux, Part 7: Form Change Handling, Editing, and Feature Reducers
Yes, people on HN are very enthusiastic about ANNs and Deep Learning, because they've heard it's a big technological revolution and they want to keep informed. In their enthusiasm, some say things that don't make sense (my favourite is a comment that proposed to train an ANN to acquire an imagination- presumably by training it on pictures of unicorns and elves as examples thereof).

On the other hand, I think there's also enough people on HN who know enough about those subjects, that the comments that get the most upvotes (and, consequently, rise to the top) are the ones that make the most sense.

Edit: to be fair, all the stuff about brains and singularities is not the fault of HN users. Very prominent researchers (Hinton, Schmidhuber, others) keep pushing the "based on the rain" line, for instance.
This is a teaching moment for you then. Minimize external dependencies when you've moved from "thank god it works" to "this is production ready."
Race and "continental origin" are only vaguely related.

For example: what race is the current President of the United States? Most would say "black" (or "African American" if they're trying to be politically correct). And yet his ancestry is half European.

This is hardly an isolated example. The average African American has about one quarter European ancestry. About 10% of African Americans have a majority European ancestry.

Yes, you can use genetics to divide up humans into related groups. But those groups will not match with how we divide up races.
Portal for Apple II
Can anyone comment on using phages to kill bacteria. I read the this was developed extensively in Russia during the Cold War.
This sounded like the old "Discussion Topics" from SNL in the 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_Talk#Discussion_topics
I think I must have got myself confused at some point, disregard my previous comment.
Guess you read this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13389935
From Texas:

Freenom: 140ms

Google: 2ms

Level3: 1ms
Does it support those geoip(?) things? Like I know that Netflix uses "DNS" to provide you with the closest netflix streaming server. So if the DNS server is located in NYC, but I am in SF, then it won't work.

I am not sure what the term for this is, but Google DNS supports it.
You mean copy of failed solution to the problem.
Instead of Gogs it is now recommended to use Gitea, since it has more activity (~400 more commits last time I checked) and is community driven: https://gitea.io/

According to their Blog: Gitea is a community fork of the popular self-hosted Git service Gogs. We’re a growing group of former Gogs users and contributors who found the single-maintainer management model of Gogs frustrating and thus decided to make an effort to build a more open and faster development model. https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/
I've configured one remote with two pushurls and set this remote to all my branches.
This way I always push to BitBucket and GitHub at the same time. Just wondering, how this would work if I was not the single user contributing.
I feel strange that this is the first time I've ever heard of app.net. I assumed it was something Microsoft related, apparently not. I suspect the combination of these things is why this failed.
I find these conversations extremely frustrating.

I would like to ask you a question and I hope you can answer it honestly: do you believe in the notion that there is a difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law?

I believe there is, and I think it is in part the problem all of western society is suffering from in these conversations. My core belief, I guess, is that all is not well in the scientific community. I genuinely believe there is substantial peer pressure applied to any scientist who does not toe the line. It is plausible that speaking out could literally end your career. That there are relatively few people complaining is not necessarily proof that there is no problem, that could simply be the effect of the silencing.

Is this true? I don't know for sure, but there are signs. If it is true, even partially, I think it is a big deal. I would hope HN would be a place where we could discuss such things in good faith. My perception is, that's not happening. My perception is that any point I raise is dismissed on a technicality.

Take for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13386058

"And climate scientists are responsible for Donald Trump getting elected how exactly?"

Of course no single person or group is responsible. So take that same logic and go through all of the speculated causes, and each of those you can say "<x> is responsible for Donald Trump getting elected how exactly? And your end result is, you have discarded every single one of those theories, when the reality is, it was likely some combination of many of them.

I think I'll leave it at that, you can choose how you'd like to react to this.
Changing the world requires caring enough to do something. We'd be in a much worse situation if a friday afternoon's clicktivism wishes were the governing force of western civilization.
A better dataset for testing RNNs in general and LSTMs in particular would be the UCR Time Series Classification Archive [0].

[0] http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/time_series_data
This submission is a shitpost.
And "not knowing about" a service is enough of an excuse to hide any errors of those services it's configured to run?
Is there a way to be able to point JSPM to a different, non-github repo? A remote clone of the repo might work then.
>Obama is laying the groundwork for policy that has huge potential to be abused. I am confused, because if anything you would think he would do the opposite,

Why would I think that? During his campaign in 2008, he switched his stance on the issue and voted for more surveillance - something he had promised to vote against only months prior.

Since his time in office, he has stuck to this reversal.

This is nothing new - he's been doing this for the last 8 years.
The GameCube was the only Nintendo console I've never owned.

Sure, Melee was fun, but I played all the time at my friends' apartments. I didn't need to play it at home: multiplayer was where the fun was at. Usually after a class (I was in college during the GameCube's heyday), a classmate and I would go over to his apartment and play Melee for a few hours.

I might have bought a GameCube if it had a decent Mario platformer (and I felt burned by the N64 too... Super Mario 64 was a huge disappointment to me... the Galaxy games were the first 3D platformers I could stand, and I didn't really get the 3D platformer I wanted until 3D World).
Looked like it, from the video. Guy holds [A,3] and draws [3,3,3].
Could you give an example for the curious?
36 Mind Blowing YouTube Facts, Figures and Statistics – 2017
It does look quite a lot like a koala.
> The idea that race is scientifically invalid is complete nonsense. You can argue that race doesn't correlate with phenotypical characteristics that we care about (okay, but it does though), but arguing that race itself is just in our heads is nonsense.

You couldn't be more wrong.

My mother is Puerto Rican, and my father is mostly Irish (with some ancestors from other European countries). My 23AndMe results show that all of father's genes are from Europe, and my mom's come from Europe (mostly Spain, but with a tiny bit of Ashkenazi), Africa, and the Caribbean (Native Americans, likely the Tainos).

My genetic makeup is roughly 7% Native American, 14% African, and most of the rest is European; some percentage is inconclusive.

You may be able to guess that I mostly look white, and you'd be correct. However, with my mother being roughly half non-white and half white, what would you guess? I'll tell you right now that I wouldn't guess that she's from Europe, but she does have relatively light skin. Her sister, however, could easily pass for a black person.

To think that your phenotype can be determined just by looking at your genes is ridiculous, and it's clear to me that you have very little experience in diverse environments. Things like skin and hair color are complex and are determined by multiple alleles, and there's no way to know which ones are going to be dominant.

Even aside from genetics, the social construct of race is even more complex, and I challenge you to do more reading on why that's the case.

Edit: To add more fuel to this, most of my girlfriend's genes come from China and surrounding areas in the Southeast. If we have a child, what will they look like?

Roughly 3.5% Native American, 7% African, 39.5% European, and 50% East Asian. Tell me, what race will they be? What about their phenotype? There's simply no way of knowing. Scientifically, race just does not exist.
I watched an interview with an economist from the IFS this morning, it was their research that prompted this news, the economist clearly stated they don't really know why this is, they know some things it isn't but it needs more work.

Hence I can only assume this article is speculation at best.
You can choose to build whatever ethical framework you want for yourself. I personally prefer simple, robust principles or an "ethical framework" that doesn't require me to know or worry about every minute detail about everyone I intentionally or unintentionally "support". I wouldn't be able to get to work in the morning if I cared about what my neighbors were up to.

In more realistic examples than the one outlined I believe it's almost always the case that:

(a) people are doing a bad job qua something, such as journalists not having journalistic standards, etc, or

(b) people judging someone outside of their "known" domain almost always over-react and misunderstand (see witch hunts for people that should be dealt properly by, say, the justice system). I.e. the side effects are generally more harmful, at least if you impose it on others.
next step: notify (email/slack/twitter/chrome extension/sms) subscribers when a service is back (or down?)
Facebook has 8 letters?
My experience with AngularJs and ReactJS
It seems now without Jobs, Apple is just repeating mantras without asking themselves "why?".

When the company was working on iPhone, iPad, such secrecy made sense. For other stuff, no.
Pen names have a long and glorious tradition in calling out authority figures in the US. From Silence Dogood to Mark Twain to Raoul Duke. The words on the page are to be the focus, not the person composing them, so to speak.
Prior to 2001, it had a very low history. Two bombings in the country in the 90's.

UAE had no history.
btw: login with github, unlucky today
one in a billion... he's the most ethical hacker and political actor i've encountered...
I don't think so.

Unless they figure out a non-invasive technique that spatially samples brain activity with a high resolution at high speeds (think sub-millimeter @ several kHz), that is also cheap and wearable, there is NO way you can extract any high level information. It just doesn't work.

Current non-invasive methods mostly involve EEG - electrodes that measure the electrical potential across the brain surface. The potentials are a mix of the activity of every single neuron - almost all information is lost and you can't get much out of it at all, even with infinite computing power.

It's comparable to the task of reading the contents and activity of a CPU by attaching sensors to the surface - but without knowing the type of CPU, OS, what programs are running, what the user is doing etc. It's clear that it can't work.

Mind reading simply sounds sooo good in a news article and makes people dream of a sci-fi-esque future, I don't expect it to go away soon.
Mine :)
Powers of 2 is a big one for me.
https://try.gitea.io/gitea/gitea
Could i cut a few zeros off that if i trained a NN to beat drunk players online at 1am on a Friday?
Been working on a down detector type app, its like half baked at the mo, hopefully I can build up a data set that allows people to fairly compare the reliability of different SASS products such as github and bitbucket

https://young-forest-39406.herokuapp.com/sites
Could you provide some more advice (or links to advice) on this? I'd like to set up whole-house, always-on VPN, but I'm concerned about service quality issues, specifically blocking. (i.e. the wife will make me take it down if it adversely impacts her ability to watch Netflix or inconveniences her in any other way)
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I don't think it can really be considered copying another company when both companies' logos are basically a Font Awesome icon[1,2].

No offense to either company; their logos are pragmatic.

1. http://fontawesome.io/icon/check-circle-o/

2. http://fontawesome.io/icon/check-square-o/