skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "While they cite that the popular vote strongly favored Hilary, they forget why the electoral college was created. To help rural America from being completely ignored while the cities with denser populations sway the votes towards their issues."

It doesn't prevent rural people from being trampled on by city people, it gives small states a disproportionate number of votes. Rhode Island and the District of Columbia are not rural, yet they get far more electoral votes per capita than California. And most of the rural population is actually located in the states that have fewer electoral college votes per capita, California is more than the Bay Area and South California.

Plus, the larger states can still win by themselves, you only need the 17 largest states to win the election. However, because of the electoral college you only need 22% of the population to win too.

And this wasn't what it was designed to do either, it was designed for two reasons;
1. Halfway between popular vote. This was the first time in modern history a population would have direct voting rights over the government so it was taken a bit slowly by having a buffer of electors that were free to cast the vote in anyway they wanted.
2. Handling the slavery issue. Slaves weren't citizens so they couldn't vote, but the South still wanted more influence since they represented more people than those eligible to vote. The solution was to have a base number of electoral votes even though the country had few eligible voters.

The reason it stayed is because people believe the modern narrative of representing the rural population, but it's really because no one bothered to change it since US political tactics have evolved in this ecosystem. Why change a game you already know how to play?
You may disagree but Google relationship with Go looks lot more distant as compared to C#-MS, Java-Oracle, Swift-Apple. Here Dart-Google looks more appropriate. Those Dart people always keep telling us about Adword's usage of it. Google organizes Dart's conferences whereas for GopherCon doesn't even have Google as sponsor.

Go looks far more independent from Google in branding, sponsorship and references from official Google products.
I think alt-tab is just a poor mechanism. With fast-switching virtual desktops, I find that the advantages of multiple monitors are quite small, though I still prefer to have two.
I'd try aggregating the various food deliveries like Ubereats, Foodora, Menulog, Deliveroo etc.

However I was being tougue in cheek, with a 20m population it probably not worth focusing on Australia first. Wait until you are a unicorn.
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Replying again since I can't edit my comment: Idris, Elm and PureScript.
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Is everything other than programming, "bullshitting"? Far from it. I am referring to a multifaceted spectrum of skills, no different than one every other non-technical professional has to contend with. Linguistic skills, logical fallacies (recognising other peoples' bullshit), arguing pro and contra, team dynamics, business knowledge (if you're in line of business software, which most of us will be in), testing (a science in itself)... and yes, the softer skills such as marketing yourself and trying to present your work in the best possible light.

I would also recommend learning how politics function in the workplace, if only so you can defend yourself from other peoples' black magic.
Still, even with that difference, they have the big advantage(for managers) of having their security tested(to some extent, it is a different implementation) at such a large scale at bitcoin.
> We just jammed 4 bits from our opcode right into the ALU select

That's how it is meant to be used, so props to you for picking the right (and shortest) path.
I'd guess that the calculations are essentially a reverse radon transformation. Each string should be analogous to the sensor reading for a cat scan of a density field matching the portrait.
Yes, that site was poorly designed. Unfortunately is true of most sites to varying degrees IMHO. I browse in desktop mode on mobile (because I don't want the sites to treat me differently) and then use reader mode to read (because then I get a consistent experience).
AlphaGo Is Not AI
> the block size being 16 bytes for dual-channel DDR, 32 bytes for quad channel.

For most practical purposes I believe in x86 computers, the block size to consider should be at least a cache line, so 64 bytes.
I'm very tired of this myth. When I see these arguments they usually only cover major labels that operate in big budget, mainstream releases that might indeed be unfavorable to the artist.

However the fact that labels come in all forms and colors is often ignored. There are truly caring small, independent and successful labels that serve as curator rather than expensive middleman. Artists can absolutely have fair deals with a label.

Furthermore for music enthusiast seeing new releases on a favorite label is a strong indicator for quality. That is a valuable service.

Spotify is a problem if it's not sustainable - and it doesn't seem to be for the company and artist alike.
One of the attractive features, as I understand it (which is quite superficial) is that there is traceability --so that if I were a recipient of some kind of subsidy/assistance those monies received could be tagged for certain things like say rent, food, medicine, but not vice, or entertainment. Of course, that does not prevent someone from receiving such 'traced' good and bartering them, but it adds a disincentive.
See also: http://kunststube.net/encoding/ - which I personally prefer / is more thorough in my opinion.
One of the four studies asked a panel to evaluate pro-, anti-, and mixed essays about religion. Maybe this was what interested Templeton. A bit could be spun as an attempt to make religion acceptable, assuming the default that it is instead preposterous, or as a subtle positioning of atheism as just as dogmatic as theism:

> Finally, intellectual humility was inversely related to the extremity of participants’ views about religion. People who recognize that their beliefs are fallible may maintain less extreme positions both because they realize that most issues are not incontrovertible and because they believe that extreme positions are, in general, less likely to be correct than moderate positions.
I didn't leave IT. I left the hotshot tech companies.

After a few years in which I became really, really unhappy to the point of depression due to certain events at the company I used to work I went to a small organisation which is currently starting to get into technology to support their consultancy business.

It's a much friendlier place to work, with people who honestly care about each other. If I knew this was possible I would have done it ages ago.

A small thing I would also like to add: people claim the problem in technology is men. This is not the case. The problem in technology is assholes. And they exist at both sides of the gender divide.
> But writing Python is a pleasure

This sentiment seems commonly shared, but by no means universally.
Not sure how many do this, but you're basically describing my situation, 8 min commute to Mitte, and relatively cheap. Due to the rent control, rents only jump after tenants change. An identical flat to mine, below me, was just now online available for rent for about 20% more than my rent is - and got rented out within a month, so there's demand.

I don't think there's a fear for displacement yet, there's quite a few plots to build up, or abandoned places that are torn down (e.g. Stattbad), and a bunch of new modern apt buildings coming up. But for now, it looks like Neukölln is the more desirable next-hip-thing.
Same here.

Lack of an API and no real social aspect are the two big pressure points for me to move to Spotify.
Tim Ferris has done quite a few episodes on meditation. I like the podcast with Tara Brach. But he also recommends Headspace and you can easily find quite a few references with a quick search.
What does a professional philosopher do? Philosopher working as programmer asking...
No, just inflation taking the rest of the universe over the horizon - I believe it’s the dynamic effects of being in an inflationary universe that mean that the standard GR results for black holes don’t apply, at least according to the references I read. (I can’t pretend to be able to derive this stuff personally.)
Only if badly designed. Plants store water, shadow the soil and keep the water in the area. A park "creates" its own water.
Awesome! Hope you enjoy it! Also, if you find "daily" to be too many e-mails, we have a weekly recap option now, so keep that in mind :D
http://reedbeta.com/blog/programmers-intro-to-unicode/
sha3 will probably get hw accel eventually. Blake2 is less likely to. It's like the dilemma between chacha20 and a stream cipher mode for aes. An argument could be made for either, depending on application specifics and available hardware.
RAM technology hasn't stood still. There's multiple levels of cache, wider channels, etc. There will be different levels of performance for a while now.
One of the primary effects of meditation is weakening and eventually undoing harmful habits of mind and behavior. Everyone has quite a lot of those, and clearing one layer of gunk often reveals a subtler layer to be worked with. Because of this, it can feel like the work is never done with meditation, and the practice is still beneficial. There's a lot more to it, but hopefully that helps.
What is a "float?"
Life as an Entrepreneur in a Violent Mexico (2016)
L2 cache is several nanoseconds. DDR is much slower.

This page says 100ns: https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

This one says 60ns: http://stackoverflow.com/q/4087280/126995
I built a working computer in Minecraft, and ended up going with exactly that because the decoding circuits would have been too complex for the project otherwise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9XT-dyfEiU

This build could be improved in a lot of ways as I've grown as a developer and engineer in the years since I built it, but back then, "Jam the opcode bits into the ALU" was the simplest thing I could think of at the time, and worked quite well. If I ever tackle something like this again (a year's worth of Redstone is... I'm not sure I have the patience for that anymore) I'd like to try an 8-bit system just for the challenge of packing the opcodes down a bit. The 16-bit opcodes I used here were rather inefficient.
> welfare-receiving meth addicts*

> * it's a joke, relax.

What part of this is a joke?
I don't view "own your own domain name" as an ICANN-exclusive solution. There are alternative DNS roots. If ICANN's administration of the root DNS servers becomes truly untenable, then it is possible to make a switch and end-users won't even need to know due to recursive DNS resolvers.

If your domain is a .com or a .net, you are also relying on VeriSign. If your domain is in a different TLD, then you are relying on that registry. Beyond that, most of the DNS roots are operated by organizations other than ICANN.

I think that the long history of the Internet and the Domain Name System lends it additional credibility over that of web services operated by companies like Google.
Worked in the industry for the last 20+ years as a network engineer, sysadmin, test engineer, systems programmer and security analyst.

As I've gotten older (almost 50) and IT employment has become more structured (with new approaches devised to make business and processes more profitable and controlled (agile, devops)) my interest in the field has waned. I still like the creative aspect of the work where it pertains but if I was in corporate IT (instead of small scale hybrid cloud, HPC and scientific computing) would rather do something else.
I'm about to leave IT. Resignation letter was submitted last week. I'm looking to do something around leadership and business consulting focused on improving communities. I'm not sure if I'll regret it. I obviously very well might if things don't work out. I think I'll always read HN. I still find this forum and the discussions that take place hear valuable in business contexts.
Debugging keyboard shortcuts is the first thing that comes to mind. Esc is also used regularly.

I always bind my keyboard to use the fn# keys without pressing "fn", usually in the BIOS, so I only press "fn" for the other special features (brightness, media, etc., that laptop makers map arbitrarily to the fn# keys)
Even Tim Ferriss in his book has stated Naval's perspective are far above the rest.
Maybe not Haskell, but a lot of ideas from Haskell and Haskell-like languages such as typeclasses, Option types, type inference, etc. have found their way to Rust, and it makes programming in Rust an absolute pleasure.

Rust, I'd argue, is the correct choice for many OSS projects. In fact, for security-focused projects, it should be the only choice. C-like performance without C-like vulnerabilities? It makes no sense to choose C or C++ any more.
The implementation is what needs to be tested. Consensus algorithms are generally proven rigorously (given certain empirically verifiable assumptions).
I don't what the problem is. They are extremely transparent with development and internal timelines. No one expects the game to be finished anytime soon, but there is continuous progress.

(I'm not backer, just interested in the game)
Or maybe 3x9 if you are doing wild random accesses in big area, or even worse in huge area if your TLB and then caches start to not hold enough and you effectively need to do multiple accesses for each single ones, but you are right: DRAM is faster. However, caching Optane with real DRAM seems a really good idea (or maybe using Optane as swap could be useful too)
Depends what kind of meditation. For the practice the author is talking about (vipassana) It became much more enjoyable and that didn't decrease the benefits I got. It moved beyond working through letting go of patterning, into understanding the nature of my human-ness and being able to work with that better(insight). And... I'm certainly not done with patterning haha....

I do think it starts to S curve on the benefits received against time committed. When you get to that point though, your overall life will be more than likely at a fantastic point.
I'm curious - do you know how Amazon gets more than 0.2 cents per person minute of value from your app, or apps in general?

If they don't, I can't see them sustaining this business model forever.
Situations like this one are just sad yet unfortunately quite common in the enterprise segment.

There's this dilemma that the people buying the software and mandating its use aren't the ones who end up having to use it. So, often ridiculously complex workarounds happen in order to comply with company policy yet still be able to get any work done at all.

This quite likely is one of the largest productivity sinks in industrialised societies.

There are ways to amend these issues but they require a change both in company policies and in thinking: Allow departments and teams to choose their tools. Have a repository of internally developed tools (Excel spreadsheets, bespoke CRUD applications, shell scripts etc.) for others to share and build upon. Put an emphasis on software quality and user experience.
I think the problem runs deeper than you're considering. The entire purpose of this service, as you're describing it, is to allow web sites to access information on what other sites their users have visited (and, presumably, to read "reputation" annotations made by those sites), and to use that to make access control decisions. The privacy violations involved are inherent to that purpose; you can't wipe them away by throwing "but with encryption" at the problem.
Won't OS just have a service to 0 out all the RAM, definitely on shutdown for security reasons, with a performance hit in time and write cycles on your sdd. Same mechanism at boot?
Kinda like the radon transform [1] used in tomography.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon_transform
OpenPGP is probably more secure than whatever system they are using.
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Admittedly, "rewrite all the net code" is still a thing. Part of this is supposed to land in 2.6.2 ("soon"), while the bulk of it is targeted at 3.0 later this year. They're perpetually behind schedule in a lot of areas, but at the same time they're showing of some pretty impressive stuff.

I was a $20 backer on the kickstarter campaign and have since gone in for about $100 total. Obviously I wish it had come out years ago, but I'm still optimistic about the project, and fine with the drastically expanded scope. The alpha releases are far from perfect, but I've already had more fun with it than some other games that I paid much more than $20 for. That's what pushed me to back it further. There's just something incredible about the level of detail of the world, going from first person through a space station, out the airlock, walking over to the landing pad, hopping into a fully detailed spaceship (not just a disembodied camera in a cockpit), and flying off to fight space pirates.

This is a game that wouldn't be possible to make with the traditional publisher driven funding systems. Maybe it'll turn out to be impossible to make this way too, but I don't think so.

If you have a couple of hours to put videos on in the background, the last three "Around the Verse" studio updates have been pretty good:

March 2 (Frankfurt) - Hurricane and Character Customization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGzDI2wUqf0

March 9 (Austin) - Weapons: The Game's Arsenal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_v-hMu_h5s

March 16th (Manchester) - Level Design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2DogQL95o (watch past the credits for in-progress ships)

Or for a quicker coverage, here's a list of short excerpts from the last video. Quality isn't great, but it gets the point across: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5zu3of/atv_gfy...
Dunno - depends a bit what you are interested in. For some reason "Shutdown of Textile Business" http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1985.html sticks in my mind.
They're great value, but I'm not really convinced that they're bad from a total revenue perspective for artists: http://www.recode.net/2014/3/18/11624668/the-price-of-music

And digital has much lower distribution costs than CDs; you don't need to pay for physical CDs to be made, you don't need to pay for shipping, you don't need to deal with retail's huge markup. And on top of that Spotify's paying customers are paying 2-3x what average CD buyers were paying.

There might be issues with the split of revenue between artists and studios or super popular artists vs long tail artists, but the actual revenue going to music license holders seems to be very healthy.
Feel free to reject them. You'll still only truly know when you see the data.

If I knew the world was round, and you kept saying it was flat - why would I have any reason to do more than let you know it wasn't so?
Meanwhile, the Raspberry Pi is using a garbage microSD controller that corrupts cards… the divide between cheap and high end stuff is just mindblowing these days.

Also, normal (NAND) NVMe M.2 SSDs are still TWICE as expensive as good old SATA ones, at least in my country… And they want to push Optane into the consumer space later this year… who even needs that much performance at home?
Anyone already said English?
America's Monopoly Problem: Big Business Is Killing Innovation in the U.S
Does this mean that the most vociferous protectors of the environment may come from farming and rural areas where kids pretty much spend the majority of their free time outdoors?

I'm not sure there is a connection, or maybe this speaks only to people who are generally removed from nature and only see it in spurts?

In any event, the more conservationist (within reason) the better --just not sure these results mean much.
Yes, I’d lie to you: Dishonesty in politics is nothing new;
From an infrastructure improvement point of few, state funded fiber beats all other uses of infrastructure tax dollars (I've been doing research as part of my 'Sunnyvale Fiber' project). At the state level, legislative support for a 'digital' easement allows for emminent domain type land offset cases (where the state comes in and says "for this parcel we're going to require an underground easement for fiber transit". The good news is that you can (if you choose to) bury these things 50+ feet down which protects them from most threats. Horizontal drilling capacity (some sitting idle in fracking fields) can be employed to create the necessary conduit for generally long lengths (up to nearly 5 miles or 25,000' by some estimates)

Adding water, power, freeways, and airports all cost more, and generate fewer net commercial opportunities.
I expect it was due getting early traction with indie filmmakers, particularly through its early support for high-definition videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimeo
Have anyone already said English?
The hash function may not matter for overall git performance in virtually all dev machine setups, but there will be a (maybe tiny, maybe larger, depending on the repo and disk io speed) difference in cpu utilization and heat generation, right?
The game library on the Super Nintendo means that I could play nothing but positively rated games every day for a decade without scratching the surface of what's out there. Problem: Good games aren't fungible, timing matters, and people want what they can't have. There's social value in being able to take part in talking about the games that my friends like.

Let's see: 183 games listed on my Steam account, 54 of those are available for SteamOS+Linux. A lot of those 54 are great games, but so are a lot of the 129 others. In my game catalog here, I've got about a 30% chance that the game I want to play right now will actually run in my current OS without rebooting. I don't like those odds much.

Wine? It's got the same issues that complex compatibility layers usually do. I consider it an option of last resort.
"I’m always surprised at the number of people who recommend mapping `,` as their Leader key; it’s almost as useful as its counterpart, `;`. I suspect that such people never learned vanilla Vi and use `f`, `t` and related line movement commands."

I've been using vim for years, but I completely disagree with your statement. I rarely find the "," key useful, so to me it was a no-brainer to switch to using it as the leader. I just have ",;" mapped to the functionality that "," used to do.

I use ";" all the time, but searching backwards just barely comes up. Usually, I'll hit "home" and then repeat my "f" search if I need it.
Clojurescript a lot of its success to the use of the Google Closure compiler, which really shines when you transpile because you can ensure that the resulting js is suitable for the Closure compiler.
Venezuelan government decides bakers are responsible for bread shortage
I have not left IT, however, I left the tech and any for-profit company. A year or so ago I came to the realization that working in big tech, although provided a space to grow and challenge myself, the ultimate goal of what I did was meaningless to me. So I decided to switch over to the non-profit world (within IT). Although there are quirks for working at non-profit (limited resources for example) the workload was less stressful and the people you worked with was more reasonable in terms of timeline. The work that you do even though may not be directly contributing to the cause will have an indirect impact on the cause your organization is trying to improve.
They are also online

Partnership letters 1959 - 1975 https://www.rbcpa.com/WEB_letters/WEB_Letters_pre_berkshire....

Berkshire letters http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
Nitpick: "de jure" is not the same thing as "du jour".
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