skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Focusing on voter fraud is critical to sovereignty, especially with future elections coming up.

A nation needs strict voting laws or it is not a nation. Besides non-citizens voting, there were also multiple votes across county and state lines as well as dead people voting. So I'm not just blaming illegal aliens.

Ultimately, this argument is not going to go anywhere, so how about this: How much money would you like to bet, that IF there is a voter fraud investigation, there were over 2,868,520 fraudulent votes cast across the nation?

Approval ratings are far greater than 36% already BTW.
I wish there was a legal way to try Adderall. It's not even legal in Australia by prescription, and since I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD as a kid, there's basically no chance I'll ever even get try the similar dextroamphetamine.

I'd love to see what effect it had on my focus and productivity. I've had a few amazing days before, but they're few and far between. Being able to switch that on with a careful controlled dose would be fascinating and useful.
There's a lot of denial on HN about the magnitude of Obama's foreign policy belligerence. I guess it challenges Dem's beliefs that he was a 'good' president, since foreign policy is the one item that is fully attributable to the POTUS.
Heart and Love, or Ghosts in the Machine.

You learn what is evolving, and you grab onto it, and evolve right with it. This is easy territory for flame wars and "whatever fits you"/"there is no best stack", but that's not the full picture.

Your survival depends on what you know, life is full of surprises, death in family, cancers, car accidents, addiction, breakups, and depression.

Imagine a warrior, ask him, "what is the best weapon?" and can you really imagine him saying "There is no best weapon", no, s/he would never say that.

You go on the most popular code hosting website, you sort by number of stars and begin at the top.

To give you a specific answer "iOS, Android and a Web App" in context of "Inventory Management - Dealer Management - Accounting - Payroll - Analytics" is Apache Cordova, (iOS, Android, and others), you use npm/node this way you will have one code base, you won't have to write the same code in multiple languages (just imagine scaling a live data sync requirement in one app and then standard REST in another -- keep it all in one language, or you will fail.)

"Inventory Management - Dealer Management - Accounting - Payroll" is all pretty simple (but, please explore ideas like http://vorpal.js.org/ just to develop your API before getting to G-UI, finish your programs in the terminal first.

Don't pretend programs are written GUI first, they are not. GUI is a leaky abstraction to say the least.) Don't fall for redux, relax and use https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx for actual GUI, (by the time you get to this part https://vuejs.org/ will rule)

And for your Analytics front-end D3, it is a departure from standard JavaScript but it has a lot of love inside.

Finally, remember develop commands/API first, get your apps working in the CLI and you will finish your program before starting it. Think about using the power of Unix (https://www.npmjs.com/package/commander), for the love of all that is mighty think about IRC, NOBODY! has time to learn to use your apps/GUI and NOBODY! ever needed to learn how to use Siri, so create a Command Line Interface version of your program and before you jump to React/Vue meditate over https://hubot.github.com/ and programs like Siri.

Finally, if I was facing your requirements, I would build a wiki/forum where your users would interact with bots. Over time I'd rip put some of the robotic guts and boldly go where humanity needs to be headed, I'd replace them with what I call Artificial-Artificial Intelligence, networks of Human Mechanical Turks where anybody could participate.

Neural networks are easy to train, but they are also easy to trick. Nothing will beat a random sample of Humans from across the world reaching a consensus on a tough decision.

In closing, People, Real Hearts, Human Minds, powering your network would share in your profits, and you'd do your part in battling what ails us all, World's Poverty.

If a mother in Rwanda and a Boy in India participating in your Mechanical Turk can find their way out of poverty, by helping your to detect fraud in your circuit. Then, you did your part, to help Humanity grow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk <3
An Iranian researcher barred from flying to US for new job
I literally cannot understand why this is being downvoted. Prescribed heroin would save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in ER OD cases and the acquisitive crime that this disorder causes. Shame on you HN.
Detroit is just one city (http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/12/12/re...). How many others are there?

That's plenty for the seeds of doubt, especially given how easy it is to vote in several states.
Also, i feel like there is a chance where Trump can have his cake and eat it too - I am not entirely sure how a ban for Turkish nationals would immediately affect his business. The dynamics is very different in Turkey - i don't even try to understand.
Researchers have egos and do not honestly report shortcomings.
How many of those previaled because deportation is politically unpopular in certain areas? There's a lot of places that won't deport you even for murdering someone, and indeed our prisons in some states are filled with loads of murderous foreign gang members
HN is still small enough to feel like a group of friends having interesting discussion

You and I experience HN very differently.

I'm glad it has been so positive for you. But things generally run smoother when it is recognized that not everyone has those kinds of experiences and the concerns of those experiencing more friction should not be simply ignored.

I don't believe politics is likely to go away, but I may start flagging more political discussions myself. I flagged two today. I don't do a lot of flagging. Perhaps that will change. (You can still read them and even participate if they are flagged off the front page, but not flagged to actual death. This would not interfere with your enjoyment of the site.)
His first meeting is with Vladimir Putin..
Nope, anarchy also has rules.
Majority of Android VPNs can’t be trusted to make users more secure
I don't think the OP was blaming the Democrats, but rather asking the legitimate question of whether (and how) they are planning to resist.

So far, their actions have been rather dismal. For instance, they've voted for most if not all of Trump's cabinet appointments.
Whoa whoa, was I mean? I tried to be as clear, polite, and light-hearted as possible. Can you tell me which part of this chat you thought was mean?
(Assuming this isn't a troll.) Really? He was quite clear about the actions he planned to take on immigration: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-...) His actions since his inauguration are entirely consistent with his statements before the election, on this and many other issues. I'm sorry you're surprised now, but you shouldn't be.
"President" Trump and his neo-Nazi advisor Stephen Bannon can shove this fascist crap where the sun don't shine.

Regardless of how strongly you feel, how heated the discussion, or how others are behaving, you're doing yourself and your argument no favors with the name-calling. Even if you feel that you're just calling a spade a spade, you're just providing others with ammunition to dismiss you and anything you say as just an angry, unreasonable rant. And if you're not actually addressing the people who you don't agree with (which means you're addressing the people who already agree with you, or at best, people who are on the fence), is it really worth saying?

You make a lot of good points at the beginning of your comment. These figures need to be kept in mind, on all sides of these discussions.
Lots of articles and graphs about what happened to medallion prices in the last few years.

http://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/6471/2016-03-08/uber-ly...
Absolutely sickening. No other words to put it.
Ricegum EXPOSED
Ask HN: Gig? Seeking Gig? (January 2016)
Please lead with either SEEKING GIG or SEEKING FREELANCER, only post gigs that can be done remotely. For freelancers post skills. For gigs post budget or RFP (request for proposal) and 3 sentence description.
Because Iran is a threat to Israel, and Jews have a lot of influence in America. That's why.
A patriotic American can simply renounce a foreign passport.
> I dunno why everyone thinks they will

Probably because we constantly hear stories that they have combined their OS teams. The recent problems with PDF Kit seem to confirm that there is a convergence and quality / features of the macOS side of the house are not a priority.
This is a surprisingly primitive and simple system. A twice replicated file is a huge space overhead for not very reliable storage. (I mean the probability of losing two disks at the same time isn't high, but it's also not immeasurably low)

For example fb talked about how they use erasure coding to use 1.4x space overhead for far higher reliability.

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/-under-the-...

While erasure coding can have performance impact (although mostly only on failures) a multi-tier storage system will eliminate that. I presume that most attachments aren't read more the a week or two after being received.

So while it is definitely nice to get some savings through deduplication there is a lot more gains that can be had by more intelligent storage of the data.
Let's not forget this:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/25/technology/uber-ceo-trump/
I don't think the two systems are fundamentally different. If a British PM has a Commons majority and retains the support of their own party, they can basically do whatever they like.

Conversely, if Congressional Republicans wanted to stop Trump, they could pass legislation stripping him of much of the power Congress has delegated to him (and override any veto), they could pass a joint/concurrent resolution censuring his policies (and even calling for his resignation), they could begin impeachment proceedings, they could refuse to pass the budget until he gives in to their demands. (They may well not do any of these things – but if they don't, it is because they don't want to, not because they lack the power to.)

So I'm not convinced the US system and the UK system are fundamentally different here. Both give the executive utterly vast amounts of power. Both give the legislature the ability, by somewhat different routes, to remove the executive.
Deep condolences to you and to their friends and families. x
Do you even know the meaning of the words to use ?
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action. -- Ian Fleming
FYI, even if you renounce, you'll need to continue paying the US gov taxes on all worldwide income for awhile (I believe 10 years).
He had Congress entirely against him, that's why. The threat of everyone below you turning on you (remember the government shutdown?) and kicking and screaming against your actions no matter how you compromise (remember the nightmare it was to even create the ACA?) are normally deterrent enough from abusing executive orders. Heck, even Obama was heavily criticized for his use of executive orders, which was pretty high compared to previous administrations. But now that there is no internal opposition with a fully red government, it's smooth sailing to get these things done.
My library’s eBook selection stinks
Just as every one of Hitler's cabinet-level ministers was deemed at the very least complicit in that regime's crimes against humanity, so it every single one of Trumpf's cronies guilty for being an enabler of these disgusting, hateful, racist and un-American violations of fundamental human rights.

Every last one of them needs to be brought to justice and called to account for their inaction in the face of ethnic cleansing once this illegitimate "president" is finally impeached (and mark my word, that day is coming much sooner than you think). Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This disclaimer can be found in most Elixir books such as "Elixir in Action" and "Programming Elixir".
I don't personally know anything about Uber, but I would be very surprised if it wasn't against company policy to provide such a figure (if it's even internally available) given the divisive and intense political climate that Uber operates in.
100% yes - and I am guilty of this myself. I've always found CSS miserable, so I'd just Stack Overflow things to "just make it work" ASAP.

Yesterday I took the time to read the specs for the flexbox feature. Spent an extra hour or two to build a cogent mental model of how to lay out various components, and voila - it's fun now; it's a brain-teaser and a game.
Maybe you'll find this persuasive? http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
God this is a sappy piece that sounds like it came straight from the marketing Dept.

Does one of the things you do for your drivers include not giving a shit about them? Because last year Uber left Austin Texas rather than comply with the cities background check requirement. Overnight an estimated 10,000 Uber drivers lost their jobs and Uber didn't really give a crap. I find the notion that they give a shit about a few hundred of their drivers stuck overseas laughable
I think there is an awesome episode of Air Crash Investigation* on this. And it turned out that failure of an engine was just a coincidence.

Update:

* s13e06 Into the Eye of the Storm
The rational behind that expression is only confusion on the practical difference between ends and means.
Yeah that worried me but I just presumed all persisted data is at risk of corruption, and the library simply provided some options to help manage it.

Im not really very clued up in this area though. Does the way NeDB saves data (serialised json to plain text files) increase the chances of corruption?

I don't really know how I'd handle a corrupt data file
Nick, there's something broken on your website.

/s
I doubt a Jewish Israeli computer scientist poses a threat. But posing a threat isn't the criterion. We don't just take anyone that isn't especially dangerous.

America is a nation and only those that further the aims of the existing nation should come. Even then it should be very few of those because America is already full.

We can't build enough space to live and infrastructure for the people that are already here. And our natural environment is already threatened by overdevelopment.
George W Bush inherited the Iraqi No Fly Zone with regular bombing sorties from Clinton who inherited it from George H W Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
Unfortunately, people often get credit for popularizing ideas rather than being the first to conceive of them.
> I believe Google would be happy to have him in London, Zurich, or Canada. We have solid engineering teams in all of them.

As I understood it, he had gone through the interview process and been offered a specific role in Mountain View, for which they then couldn't get the visa. This was back in 2015, so no Trump craziness yet then, just the ordinary bureaucratic stuff.

And just to express my butthurt, Israelis don't even get visa-free tourism to the United States.
Who really cares what this hypocrite and other US based technology CEOs like him think.

For them it's fine to totally to run companies who:

* Abuse user privacy.
* Constatntly pretend they are driving positive social progress.
* Track people in a non-transparent, disrespectful way.
* Build echo chambers to keep people ill-informed and hooked on using services.
* Avoid paying tax.
* Automate people out of jobs, while not contributing to wellfare systems.
* Get rich off state owned infrastructure and give little to nothing back.
* Give money to political parties.
* Exploit cheap labor.
* Censor things for government agencies.

However, as soon as profts are at risk, they decide to come out swinging.

Where is the outrage when a child goes hungry in Africa, or a person is bombed in Syria by a US drone? The billions and billions of dollars tied up in these companies should be going back into communities, education, medical and food aid. Not on "moonshots", and ambiguous charity initiaivies which only go towards lining their pockets further.

It's companies that operate in this way which gave Trump a voice, knowingly or unknowningly. Trump didn't just magic himself into the Whitehouse, did he?

I feel sorry for anyone affected by this but having CEOs throwing bullshit into the bonfire won't help.

Everyone is responsible for the current situation, it's not just the actions of one man.
Just so we're clear, 412 people have voted this up in 2 hours, with another 226 comments, but not one has signed the petition?

EDIT: I just signed the petition, and with email verification, and it's not showing up. Anyone else having that problem?
Who gets to make the rules as to what can or cannot be consumed, and how do you enforce those rules?
When did "virtue signalling" become the de facto insult against people standing up for human rights? I've been seeing it a lot around hacker news and from various alt right outlets. I've seen it exclusively in dismissive tones to imply that advocacy only exists in a performative dimension.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
New York has a similar law: http://www.amandaslaw.org/

As both a maker and a firefighter, I would be _very_ surprised if CO from a laser cutter was actually the cause here. Laser cutters can absolutely emit harmful fumes, but CO needs to be in the hundreds of ppm range to be fatal, and that's a _lot_ of CO.

For context, we had a call a while back where a guy was running a gas powered (two-stroke) rotary saw [1] for a couple hours in a poorly ventilated basement. CO levels were in the 300-400 range (and he was certainly feeling poorly).

[1] Something like this: https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/0804841
And that a businessman with vested interests could take over it
Israelis don't even get visa-free tourism to the United States.

Israel harbors a very large and hostile Moslem citizen population.
Fan diameter is inversely proportional to speed, for the same volume of air movement.

Large, slow fans are much quieter (and easier on bearings!) than high RPM fans.
We were busy having a "no political posts" at HN.
The main reason I fell in love with the HP 48 calculator series was the RPL programming language, which could be described as the pragmatic lovechild of Forth and Lisp - think Forth with higher-order functions.
If you think there was silence about immigration issues pre-Trump, you simply were not listening.

But yes, the current situation is several orders of magnitude worse, if you simply measure the number of people affected. Therefore, people's will be much more vocal.
They prevailed in immigration court, where many defendants are forced to represent themselves in complicated legal proceedings without counsel and are as a result deported. I don't think public sympathy with immigrants is the most powerful vector is; I think it's the rule of law that's keeping them in the country.

It is numerically, overwhelmingly the case that immigrants to this country aren't a threat to its citizens, and that we have more to fear from lawnmowers and lightning strikes than we do from the people who are being turned away at the borders today, including people coming to the country to work on computational epidemiology and, of course, the spouses of our own citizens.
I am not convinced that that it will reduce overdose or trafficking. It depends on the drug's economics and pharmacodynamics, ease of production, addictiveness, LD50, etc. What's better? More people using high-grade heroin in a controlled, safe environment, or less people using low quality heroin in an uncontrolled, dangerous environment?

If the LD50 is very easy to arrive at in everyday usage, then I don't see this helping out very much. You could sell heroin in doses << LD50 for a high regulated price, but then you will end up with black markets which sell much larger doses at lower prices (if the substance is easy to produce in various quality levels). If the price to get "safe" heroin is not artificially increased, then it would be way too easy to accidentally have too much, especially if herion is highly addictive, which, it supposedly is.

People would just end up riding their doses up to dangerous levels, in which case they would now have a dependency on heroin. Would it bet better for everyone to have a safe, controlled dependency on heroin, or for 5% of people to have an unsafe, uncontrolled dependency on heroin?
Yes, indeed. This goes for any course correction, the longer you wait the more extreme the correction will have to be until they are accurately described as 'violent'. The French Revolution comes to mind (not that that was such an example of exclusively positive change but it definitely was change).
It works in some countries

> Heroin assisted treatment is fully a part of the national health system in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin-assisted_treatment
Thanks for the link. The initial results there are definitely problematic. If I'm reading the article correctly, they're expected to run a full audit to see if the results are confirmed, correct?

I'm particularly interested in what types of machines and other voting procedures were in use there. It looks like they're optical scan machines, so hopefully they have the paper ballots on hand to do a proper audit. That, along with the voter rolls, should be able to determine what the issues were. That's a strength of using the optical machines as opposed to the purely electronic ones.

You're right that Detroit is just one city. It's also a city that's deeply troubled on many levels, so I'm not sure if it's fair to consider it typical. That's by no means excusing what look to be issues there. Those should definitely be looked into, and exhaustively. You're claim above is that there were enough fraudulent votes that Trump would have over 50% of the popular vote if they were removed. Detroit alone isn't enough to do this.
Use HTTPS when it is available
Media Matters Caught Secretly Plotting with Facebook to Stop Alternative Media
If you're thinking about constitutional change, how about starting by electing the candidate that got the most votes?
it also brought us pgp and tor
Even if I was a saint, I'd rather give this message to an asshat with an audience.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine. I know competent developers who interrupt me and simply say "X doesn't work". For the most part I appreciate that they're just using the phrase as a conversation starter and they do have more context to share. But why not share it in the first place? I either have to wait for them to elaborate, or ask for more information. Either way, the verbal dance just prolongs the interruption for no obvious benefit. I think of it in the same way as someone messaging me saying "hey" or "are you there?". Genuine question: am I being unreasonable/irrational to be frustrated by this?
>So we should invite traitors and collaborators into the USA?

I'd like to see you call the Kurdish interpreters I served with in Iraq traitors. Do you actually have any idea what you're talking about, or just spouting nonsense? These people are fighting for their lives against terrorists, too. And at much greater risk than we did.