skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally how the Dutch election system has worked for years, ever since they stopped with the voting machines (which were admittedly a mistake).

The recent change has to do with how the votes were tallied. Basically the way they were transmitted wasn't really tamper-proof, and there wasn't a system in place to determine the difference between the result of the ballot station and the publicly announced result.

Of course they've 'solved' this by replacing the electronic tallying system. Which I can't help but feel is a very misguided way of fixing those problems.
We don't need to produce at night, we just need to consume from batteries, the topic of this post.

Grid scale lithium ion storage costs about $0.30/kWh right now. Residential is probably about $.40-.50/kWh.

Dropping by a factor of two and some time shifting is most electrical use, and the electricity is similar to rates in many parts of the country, just with peak rates at a different time.
WebOS was hardly a failure from a technical perspective.
That was the idea behind 'jury of your peers'.

If you're a starving peasant, who poaches on the King's land, do you want the jury to be filled with other starving peasants who poach for survival or aristocrats who cannot understand why you have robbed them of a chance to hunt pheasant next feast day?
Context: 27 y/o, fiance, no dependants

4:45 - alarm goes off, start getting ready

5:05 - go down to garage and prep bike

5:10 - meet those that I am riding with

5:15 to 7.15 - Ride and then coffee(s)

7:30 get home and shower and take already prepared bag

8:00 take train to work

===

On the days where I do not ride it is essentially the same but replaced with gym.

Cycling changed my life; would not be the person I am today without it.
I use sshfs for that. `sshfs username@remoteserver:/directory/to/mount mount_point` lets me edit the remote files locally. Then I compile and run (via mosh, which is like ssh but better, particularly if you have crappy internet) on remoteserver.
And therein lies the problem, teampass's last commit was quite a while ago and does not address the recent PHPMailer CVE as far as I can tell.

I have a rogue install of teampass that I'm trying to get stamped out and would love to find a proper alternative.
Agreed - the criticisms here are pure ad hominem. If there is a problem with SpaceX components, then that is surely more important and relevant than who wrote the article publicising it.
Lower pay doesn't mean abundance. For example, professors for mathematics, theoretical physics, geology etc would be low paying job but its also hard to find people with great skills in these areas.
Really? Sure the concept is a little silly, but it'd be a neat little project to whip up.
I get the code bit, I was more curious as to how they in particular get that slipstreamed in there. Load balancing deployments as others mentioned below seems to be the most feasible.
I don't disagree that "Having that piece of documentation from an accredited school means something"

If one can go to a top or mid-tier school then one should go. But that is not a reality for some people. There are also a lot of people who went to a university but after a few years wished they had studied something else.

We wanted to give people a dead simple way to replicate a degree/minor path if going to a "real university" was not available or to inconvenient.
Lego Social Network for kids
Ah yeah. I'm going to write a blog post on this in a few weeks, but basically I'm running tests using `wrk`. Here are the results I just got with a test (this is actually a bit abnormal), but note the requests per second, latency, and the transfer speed per second.

wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com
Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-swift.herokuapp.com
12 threads and 400 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 265.88ms 78.37ms 1.29s 84.87%
Req/Sec 119.55 39.81 254.00 67.32%
14230 requests in 10.09s, 79.67MB read
Requests/sec: 1410.00
Transfer/sec: 7.89MB

wrk -t12 -c400 -d10s https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com
Running 10s test @ https://gitignoreio-stage-node.herokuapp.com
12 threads and 400 connections
Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev
Latency 945.65ms 136.05ms 1.29s 73.12%
Req/Sec 35.57 21.97 140.00 65.52%
3783 requests in 10.09s, 19.31MB read
Requests/sec: 374.81
Transfer/sec: 1.91MB

And yes, for my Swift backend, I'm using Vapor[1] and the source code is here: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io.

[1] - https://vapor.codes
I will never cease to find levity in the playful acts of children.
via Linkedin...

Sales Managers, Sales Directors, Senior Sales Mobile Specialist, Sales Finance Manager, Senior Sales Manager, Sales Operations Manager EMEA, Agency Sales UK, Sales Manager Continental Europe etc etc

Account Managers, Account Directors, Agency Account Manager etc etc

I've never spoken to anyone at Facebook on a phone - but have spent a substantial amount of cash on the platform. On Twitter when we setup - there was onboarding, performance checkins etc - the biggest difference though we couldn't get an ROI from the platform (This was 2 years ago though so things may of changed?).
It's easy to work out the cost of full time security. Lets say you need 2 people on rotation, they do 12 hours per day each (doable because they get to relax while client is at home etc.) then multiply by a reasonable salary for skilled labor like 70k then you get to 140k per year per person easily.
pouet.net and scene.org

In particular, http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371
Sorry for the belated response.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225

The "it's a big mess" excuse is just a fig leaf to cover the functional US policy in Syria, which has been to support Jihadists against Assad.
Oh come on, it amused me for a couple minutes. Little silly grins are worthwhile.
Well we must have broken it. Wouldn't give me a response after 5 minutes
Clean of what though? Burning emissions have an actual impact on the environment, so yes, "clean" does make sense in this case. Vegetable glycerine vapour does not.
None of these things is of any importance to me. I would not consider them when applying for a job.
That is not how hardware works.

At least 2 EEs, another couple EE techs to fix prototype up boards that come in and prepare development boards for the software work.

You will have a couple people doing just regulatory work. Sign off on BT, USB, batteries, etc.

At least 1 ME, at least 1 industrial designer as well. 1 person in charge of optics.

1 software person to do board bring up, another person who specializes in Bluetooth because Bluetooth is a nightmare and you will have to work around different bugs on iOS and Android. Finally someone to do the actual firmware. You may get away with just 2 people, or you may need more, depending.

Someone had to design the box they come in.

The vending machines likely had a team behind them as well.

Then there is the marketing of the product, the glasses went viral fast, there was a team of people responsible for that.

And once all that is done, now you need a manufacturing team.

If the team was incredibly agile and efficient, maybe 20 people at the bare minimum.
The world will always include bad actors. That doesn't mean we should encourage or tolerate bad behavior.
This is cool. From what I understand from paper, its DSL has set of algorithms as building blocks that learn the input/output function. Deep learning algos are trying to do the same but with more generic blocks where assumption is that a lot of these blocks will be able to learn algorithms too. Deep learning is trying to build with a more generic approach in which transfer learning is helping to reduce number of examples needed by reusing algorithms learned.
> Feels like this has been 2-3 years out for almost as long as "native apps" have existed

Yup. I've been reading about the imminent demise of native apps forever, but even Steve Jobs couldn't sell that vision. Web apps on mobile are the way of the future, and always will be.
Ask Spectrum if they offer the "Everyday low price" tier. It's $15/month where I live for 2/1 Mbps down/up but they don't advertise it. This isn't a promotional rate.
I worked on the debug inline values feature. Let me know if you have any feedback/questions regarding that. Its currently disabled for evaluation purposes but you can enable in settings via "debug.inlineValues": true

http://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_9#_inline-variable-v...
Pointing out an author's bias isn't fallacious. Using that bias to disregard facts is.
Except that the journalistic track record of an author is additional information.

Imagine a person who you know to have a large bias against something. Now imagine they tell you a narrative about that thing. You, being a reasonable person, would use greater scrutiny about that narrative than someone who you know to be uninterested or even marginally interested in the subject.

I agree that the public has an interest in finding out about issues in the rockets its government purchases. The above commenter isn't saying "disregard, it's the anti-SpaceX guy!" It's just more information. Gathering information has a cost; and we can't all fully research every opinion.

I didn't downvote you; it's a reasonable argument to make, and I don't mind giving the counter-opinion in the least.
> you might ask, "Check it down?"

In a heads up game? Really? "Check it down?" ???
Running the project on donations IS a business model.
The Selfless Leader
Why should we trust these numbers?
Do I have this right?

1. Kalanick joins the council.

2. People who don't like the president are critical of Kalanick for serving on the council and start a hashtag campaign telling people to boycott Uber.

3. Kalanick leaves the council.

I'm disappointed. I want talented people in government, but there seems to be many groups interested in shaming people who would be involved.

I don't have any unicorns under me, but I've had a few successful companies. I'd be proud to advise any president. It's really a shame to see civic work being slandered like this.
Yea, is that $40,000,000 in stock for 1 year of work?
The average Snapchat user
In the same way that companies benefit by being able to pollute their local environment by pumping chemicals down the local river.
> you also won't convert 50% of those iOS users

There's more than 1.5 billion Android phones. You don't need 50% of iOS to get to 500M DAU...
SummitDB – NoSQL DB, Geospatial Index, Raft, Redis API and Fencing Tokens – v0.4.0
SpaceX addressed the issue with the turbine cracks today in an email Reuters:

SpaceX said it has "qualified our engines to be robust to turbine wheel cracks. However, we are modifying the design to avoid them altogether,” said spokesman John Taylor. http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-idUKKBN15H307
"Radical black hate groups?" Your slip is showing.
This is very exciting! Thanks for sharing!
I know, I read the same reviews so I was pleasantly surprised. I even went back to the store a few days later and bought dad his first smart phone for Christmas. It really is quite criminal how slow android is on machines that would have been unimaginably high powered desktops not long ago.

Firefox/gecko has always been great on "underpowered" hardware though. A few years ago I bought an unusably slow android tablet. This thing couldn't play an MP3 without long pauses every 5 seconds. Chrome was absolutely useless but with Firefox it became a half decent web browsing machine.
Continuous Integration: A War Story
I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months (2014)
> taxpayers data in 1427 was digitized and made available online

Wow, the Renaissance was really ahead of its time.
Alternatively I have been using IntelliJ with the Go plugin for about a year and now the Gogland EAP.

It has some really cool features like VCS integration, "TODO" panel and "goto" functionality that works through interfaces. You can "Goto Super Method" to jump to the definition of an interface function that the highlighted function implements. You can also do the reverse which is to list all the structs that implement an interface, or a specific interface function.
I would have assumed that they are secretaries, but I suppose, in this case, they are more likely to be independent researchers who report directly to the CTO in an organization that is hierarchically structured.

Too intelligent or useful to let go, but too independent to toss into the regular worker pool. I would say that they are mid-level management ranking, maybe less depending on the business.
Don't evaluate developers with quantitative metrics
capacity decays with each charge down to 50% after 500 cycles

Not true with modern EV batteries. Tesla's packs typically show less than 8% degradation after 100,000 miles, which would be approximately 500 cycles.

https://electrek.co/2016/06/06/tesla-model-s-battery-pack-da...
I am more inclined to believe it is a CULTURAL trait.
Mozilla is a global company. It would have been nice to do the right thing and inform all the people affected before a public announcement, but people love to leak when they've already been let go. Shame that people might have learned they lost their job from a news site because their colleagues didn't respect a confidential memo.
You frankly should not be heard in a discussion about American politics and media if you are so ignorant of the subject that you can't recall a few instances of bias from Fox News. And I'd say the same about CNN. Either you've never watched these networks or you are unable to think critically about politics.
This has been happening for a while. This 2012 article from Nielsen [1] wrote that while app downloads were up (in 2012), user time spend in all apps was flat. It also notes that the 4 of most popular apps were Facebook, YouTube, Google Search, and Gmail.

This 2014 recap [2] of a comScore report notes that more than half of all smartphone users download 0 new apps a month -- this started the catchphrase that "the average user downloads 0 new apps a month", which has both been supported and challenged by additional analyses on old and new data every year since. Whether it's 0 or 1.5 [3] isn't the point -- the growth is measly.

Aside from a select runaway hits, most of today's most used apps are the same as 4, 5 years ago. The app boom has been over for a long time. Occasionally, one can still strike it rich, but it's the exception, and not the norm.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/02/19/exclusive-...

[2] https://www.quora.com/How-was-WhatsApp-built

[3] https://www.tune.com/blog/no-the-average-american-does-not-d...
I presume you've done this already. But make sure you run all windows updates.
Not really.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/02/slowchat/
Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure
Neural Nets and the Coming Transformation of Medicine [pdf]
Why won't Google tell you that?
It works out to be $230k p.a of revenue per employee, which is on par with the better larger SaaS co's like Atlassian and Github .

The employee counts of the later don't get a second look on HN, and they aren't growing at 6x revenue (or whatever it is) like Snap is.
> The part I'm still concerned about is UI performance - it's still miles off native.

Many times needlessly low expectations of both developers and managers are the blame for this. Yes, there are certain elaborate UI effects that are genuinely difficult to do well on web. But when there's a full second lag after pressing a button, or a menu slides into view at 3fps, the platform is not the problem.

A native app that has incredibly choppy, laggy UI for simple interactions wouldn't make it past many engineering managers or PMs. But when there's needlessly a full second lag after pressing a button on a web app everyone shrugs, inaccurately blames it on the web platform (instead of piss poor engineering), and it's out to production furthering the stereotype that web apps are inherently jank.

As a web development community we need to stop this cycle. Web engineers need to stop building, and engineering managers need to stop approving, web apps with needlessly janky, laggy UI for even rudimentary interactions.
I had no idea there is a separate "Dropbox Paper" app
His demo is likely younger, and thus uses Snapchat more frequently than instagram
I definitely agree with you that attempting to blindly replicate another country's success is a recipe for failure. Success stories like Israel and SV, or even Taiwan in the semiconductor sector, were formed due to very specific circumstances and needs, and probably arose without anyone really intending them to.

I guess what I was trying to say is that I'm hoping Tunisia learns what it can from Israel and other successes. I think we have the environment and the human capital to at the very least attract foreign companies to setup offices in Tunisia. Ideally, we would start our own local companies to compete on the global stage. And as you've kindly mentioned, this requires serious interest by the government, and from what I've seen, this is starting to become the case.
One of the benefits of publicly traded and soon-to-be-traded companies is that they release things like DAU in their S-1s and quarterly reports, so we don't have to rely on anecdote.

Disclaimer: I work at Facebook (but don't follow this sort of thing beyond reading the quarterly reports every once in a while)
video transcoding wouldn't it be better on FPGA or some DSP? and storage - compression? I mean are all those images that different from each other? Different people make photos and videos of basically the same stuff.
I'd also recommend reading Aaron Ross's updated book

https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Inevitable-Hyper-Growth-Co...

for software engineer's approaching marketing for the first time.
This is the real Rust 1.0 for me. So excited!! For anyone that has been hesitating to try Rust, I wholeheartedly recommend that you dive in now.
Because they publicly filed for IPO today and released all these numbers.
Oh no; 27 can't be old. I can't be old D: 27 isn't old!
So c'mon man, don't leave us hanging. What are your marketing strategies? I'm the dev of a really cool product, we have very little money for marketing and we're looking for ways to gain new customers. Our numbers seem good to us, but we're new to this so not sure.

Our visitor to registered user conversion is 4%

Our registered users to paid user conversion is approx 10%

This seems ok to me, but not sure. What we really need is a cost effective way to move forward. What do we do!! Thanks for your help :)
Agreed! Thanks for the sources.
More likely to be underflow.

-296, when interpreted as an unsigned 32-bit integer, is 4294967000, which exactly matches the balance the person was seeing.
> relays

Can't be taken seriously if he's going to malign the utility of an entire class of components.
The first asynchronous ui-morphing language that got to popularity is js! Not saying it's awesome, but as Rich Hickey would say, Javascript _reaches_. Considering that, until the next [really good] iteration of ui-affective languages and browser-integrations comes along, js is what we have, as a world of devs, to work with.
Elon Musk: Regarding the Meeting at the White House
At the companies I'm familiar with, they're either programmable pundit (technical pre-sales or social marketing) or project manager for trendoid stuff beyond the interest/budget of engineering.

In larger companies, CTOs have become like VPs at a bank - lots of them with little if any strategic influence. The "office" can be so large that a member may never see or even talk to the CTO proper.

I once looked into one of those jobs but decided I'd rather be honest and work in sales or marketing.
They targeted the wrong public for their first devices. There are many enthusiasts like me that wanted rather powerful FFOS devices, and would have paid for quality apps. By targeting low end devices and poor countries first, there was very little demand for app developers to release to this market.
Odd take on the range issue. I have a surprising number of friends who appear to rent a vehicle when making long trips rather than drive their own car. They'll drive their 15 year old car around town and to work and back. And then when they go on a road trip they rent. If it's just them they rent a compact car. If 4 other people a large SUV.

These people generally wouldn't be bothered by a car with an 80 mile range.
Victories in Encrypting the Web: News and Government Sites Switch to HTTPS
We Want a Copyright Office That Serves the Public
I'd be really surprised if an app like Skype could overlook such a simple bug.
If you go for rocket I believe you'll be back on nightly, it uses some codegen that goes above and beyond what serde/diesel use in order to define routes the way it does.
Right on. For those who are encouraging dialogue, please show me one instance in the past 10 days where Trump has shown the least bit of ability to listen to the other side. Sometimes, brute force action is the only way to make your voice heard.
I haven't thought this completely through perhaps, but I've often thought one extremely simple regulation that might have a lot of good effects would be this:

ISPs must charge customers per byte transferred. In other words, no all you can eat plans allowed, usage based pricing only. This has the benefit of aligning consumer and ISP goals in the sense that providing fast service allows ISPs to make more money, so they are incentivized to provide high quality service built on high quality infrastructure. If the Internet is not working, they make no money. If it is slow, they make less. On the consumer side, it incentivizes efficient use of bandwidth.

Of course, this is only one piece of the puzzle. The other piece is that most ISPs have a defacto monopoly in their region. Not sure how we can solve this one. This is partially caused by bad decision by municipal governments, industry collusion, and it seems in part by just the nature of running physical utilities to homes and businesses (many regions also have electric, water, sewage, and gas monopolies).
No do not do -Wall and -Werror as Wall is arbitrary between compilers and versions.
Never mind sufficient adoption to challenge iOS/Android, what are the chances any of these other OS's even manages to survive?

* Windows Phone

* Tizen

* Ubuntu Touch

* Sailfish OS

Honorable mentions: CyanogenMod, Plasma Mobile
Came here to say much the same. GPL / non-MIT generally = avoid, because IANAL and don't want to figure out if I'm in the right or wrong.
solve the problem of making EVs useful for city livers and then we can start to talk about real adoption - suburbia has luxury of charging EVs overnight when affordable but people living in apartments/condos/etc and parking on the street every night do not have accessible EV charging infrastructure
Once there's a critical mass of EVs out there, I think we'll see a third-party industry cropping up doing battery pack replacements/rebuilds at competitive prices.

Third party pack upgrades already exist for some of the most popular EVs, like the Nissan Leaf.
How is that "interesting"? They're just saying they use ECDHE which, by definition, provides forward secrecy.
with modern material and computation advances it would be reasonable to raise the bar
I suspect it is not so much round as rounded. You don't really need more than two significant figures for the number.
> It's nice to know that other companies have taken this approach as well, my team honestly didn't know if we were doing it "properly" or not (if there is such a thing as properly)

Incidentally, I was thinking about doing a blog post about that too.

That's good. You're confirming there's an audience for my writing. Thank you :D