skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does away with one of the key characteristics of the vote, not being able to demonstrate to someone else who you voted for. This makes it easy to coerce/buy votes in Oregon. If you don't want this property in your voting system (and you definitely should) doing Internet voting can actually be a safer solution in plenty of ways although it's still extremely tricky to implement properly. And I'm strongly against any form of electronic voting.
It was the radio Q&A segment. The speaker had a British accent, but I don't recall the name.
>"Unplanned interactions" is very annoying thing

Most on HN would find the most fulfillment in improving their social muscle, not their calves.
I'm also not able to access the link: the connection was unexpectedly terminated.
If there's a discrepancy, you count the paper receipts. You can order a million simple chips for like $0.03. They chip vendor isn't going to know who is running for dog catcher in 2018. You test a random sample to ensure they can count. You use simple code that is open source and write it to the memory exactly once and blow the fuse to prevent tampering.

We can put people in space. Verified hardware and software is a solved problem. Well, assuming you don't make it absurdly complicated. All it needs to do is eliminate manual counting - while providing a paper printout should someone need a recount.

You don't even need special tokens to make sure the person in the booth is only voting once. You can be as simple as making it flash an LED to be monitored by the election officials. They have volunteers from the various parties already there watching. Watching a light may even be easier.

It doesn't need to be complicated. It need only be a glorified abacus.
Don't believe it has to do with being "universally and undeniably right" but rather freedom to have gay marriage and marijuana legalization.

Nothing to be "correct" about.
Two Swedish officials resign over data breach fallout
Thanks for the reply. I had not (yet) posted on the forum as I was methodically searching through the previous replies to ensure my question had not already been answered. Thanks for crestle recommendation. I will now look into it. This should simplify my tool setup. If I still have questions around tool setup after posting, then I will at-mention you. I think the mini-MOOC (for people like me) is a great idea. I get lost in basic tooling (that many experienced devs can skip). So, if you guys include a mini-MOOC on tool set up, then this would benefit people like me tremendously and help us get up to speed with everyone else.

Will the revamped course in October be offered online (like the current version is) for public viewing?
This is the type of example scenario where I think 'AI' could come in handy - or really posting bots - as to insert at minimum a link to when certain phrases or statements are detected on public or semi-public forums and the like. A lot of misinformation can quickly get shared, generally one side or the other using as propaganda.
I recently had to give up buying an item from a web shop. They were asking for my address and forcing me to include a state (my country, and thus my address, has nothing like it), but then complaining that my address wasn't the one associated with my credit card.
https://www.xkcd.com/501/
Land tends to gain value over time. Houses depreciate just like cars.
Since we're on HN, I'll assume 'his crowd' is software development.

How has apple stopped catering this crowd? Let me give you my opinion.

The new macbook pro's main feature is one that is totally useless to professionals. The touch bar is an interesting idea for the casual user, but for anyone who uses any software professionally, it provides no value as it is much slower than keyboard shortcuts. Not to mention that the lack of tactile feedback means you need to look away from the monitor to use it.

The new design has force a redesign in the keyboard, giving it much lower travel, and it is now a lot more uncomfortable to use (this one in particular is quite subjective)

16GB is just not enough in the era of containers.

The price. It's just absurd and some of the most expensive features (TB) are just useless as I stated above.
instead of making it a legal matter they could just start giving bogus information to the scrapers.

They have no legal obligation to provide accurate information to scrapers.
Excuse me, by "no lock on your car" I meant "ability to exfiltrate car and/or its contents without a key." Better?
Ostensibly "ethical considerations" are a precursor to a law being ratified, and will also be used when a law is not sufficiently specified as to obviate the decision. If a party is not denying their activity in court, but rather claiming that it doesn't match existing laws, this would come into play.

But if you contest that or have an issue with the specific terminology I used, perhaps you'd prefer this terminology instead: "I don't think this is a good framework for interpreting the CFAA and establishing legal precedent."
What you're missing is that your rage is very selective.

Michael Mann has used unknown backers to sue National Review and Mark Steyn, and has managed to draw the lawsuit out for over 6 years with no end in sight.

He gets almost no bad press over this fact.

There was nothing unprecedented about Thiel's behaviour. It's quite common. Gawker just had particularly bad behaviour, yet for some reason it felt invincible.
Not sure why you're being down-voted, the Web were designed to be public. If you want to prevent me from taking pictures of the exterior to your Cafeteria on the public street you'd have to build a wall / put it behind a login. But then don't complain that you are loosing customers because they can't see it or can not find information to your site through search engines.
I must admit I'm only vaguely aware of him. Which of his stances are misogynistic?
How does iSCSI work for Windows then?

I setup iPXE to boot Windows 7 (Embedded Standard technically) to boot off an iSCSI target and it shows up as a disk in Windows. Does Windows still allow for int 13h handlers or is there some other special handling?
AMD Powers Project 47
Mapping traffic signs on OpenStreetMap with Mapillary
This is really useful because of the attached explanations.
The Myth of Success
> Moreover, if you invoke these functions multiple times they will produce different results

No this isn't true! Again, you clearly do not yet understand Monads.
Please read Phil Wadler's paper.

What you have successfully demonstrated, is that the JavaScript snippets you have been advocating are not sufficient to understand Monads.
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Will be happy to answer any questions :)

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Does the pool have any recourse if you proceed to bypass the ban? Do you have to re-enter to pool to bypass it, or does sending in confederates with their own badges to continue your work also bypassing the ban? How about sending in new motorized cars?

The analogy is starting to break down, but I think it's still instructive for the problem of applying a simple first principles approach.
Discovery Communications Agrees to Buy Scripps Networks for $14.6B
The website can't really kick you out though, it can only kick your agent out and you can trivially create a thousand more. The website can politely ask you to stop just like the pool, but it can't actually do anything if you ignore it.
Businessman Paints Terrifying and Complex Picture of Putin's Russia
I read through this a little while ago when trying to decide if I should try out Elixir for a side project. The language is really intriguing, but I don't want to start a project without grokking how a more complicated project is laid out. Can anyone provide an open source example of a relatively complex project?
I find scraping fascinating.

Are there "societies of scrapers"?

Inside, are certain sites more worthwhile - and which ones (eg reddit, eBay, trade union websites, whatever)

How about scraper brokers? Do they exist?

Are there scammy scrapers? Make up BS and sell as scraped data?

How big is this?
> This article is very much at odds with my 15-year (1988-2000, 2001-2004) experience writing software at NASA (albeit at JPL, which is to say the unmanned space program, but still NASA). In my experience there was just as much politics, marketing hype, and general bullshit as I've seen in the commercial world.

An institution's philosophy is almost always bullshit. Whether it is Google's "Don't be evil" or north korea's "worker's paradise" or our own "capitalist democratic paradise".

The media isn't a fount of journalist integrity. The government isn't a found of "goodwill towards its citizens". The military isn't "defending the peace".

It's sad but the more you work and the older you get, the more the facade crumbles. At the end of the day, it's just fallible humans trying their best to get by.
Look up Scantegrity. It provides the ability to prove that your vote was counted as cast, but not the ability to prove who you voted for.
License plates aren't exactly common on wood splitters, irrigation trenches, concrete mixers and other towable equipment that's small enough to be a two man lift but they're required. In some states it's a higher end misdemeanor to not have your papers in order when traveling on public roads.

I know that's not something the typical urban/suburban HN visitor deals with on a daily basis but it happens.
Contributor here. Happy to answer any specific questions or address feedback.
I mean that's just the standard way non altruistic entities interact with the law isn't it? Appeal to it when it benefits them, ignore it when it doesn't.
This is the crux of the issue, it's my impression that the CFAA doesn't have any language that sites have to take precautions to prevent unauthorized access.
Yeah, but overall, I think it's useful since it highlights some cornerstones in JS.
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And Scantegrity lets you further confirm that your individual votes on the ballot were counted correctly, but still keeps the whole vote secret.
Let me add one, pertaining to my corner of East Europe that drives me crazy whenever I try to look up places on Google maps:

- Residential buildings can be identified by the name of the street they're on and a number.

For whatever reason, we decided that naming streets and numbering the buildings on them is too passé, so lots of our cities use Section + Number (where the numbers carry no geographic meaning), in parallel with Street + Number, but every building is addressable using only one scheme.

Concrete example with the city of Sofia, Bulgaria - consider these two buildings [1] [2]. They're both next to Vasil Kalchev street. One is a kindergarten, the other is a block of flats. Let's see what the address for each is, if you want to send a letter to them. The kindergarten is, obviously, St. Pimen Zografski street No. 5... well OK, that's the street on the other side of the building, nothing too strange; while the block of flats is zh.k. Dianabad bl. 54. The abbreviations mean literally "residential quarter Dianabad, residential building number 54". No, the building is not addressable via the street, you cannot send post to that building or locate it on a map via "Vasil Kalchev street, No. X" for any X. There are, in fact, no numbers on Vasil Kalchev street. And the residential building numbers aren't geographically meaningful - directly east of said building 54 is building 53, but directly west of it are buildings 42 and 43. There is no building 44. There are, however, 33, 33A, and 33B. They are just ad-hoc numbers (maybe with letters) that you need to have in a database, like you have the locations of streets and where the numbers on the street are geographically.

So what does this have to do with Google? Maps doesn't understand the Section+Number address system. 90% of the residential buildings cannot be found on Google maps using their official address. If I need to send my address to a friend, I can only do it as coordinates, because entering my address, the one on which I receive mail, will result in either no results, or worse - Maps will try interpreting it as a place name, do a partial match, and send you to some completely unrelated building, maybe on the other end of the city.

They're getting kind of better, because people are adding buildings to the map as "missing places", but it's still much safer to just use our local maps site. What I do to plan routes using Google Maps is first locate where the place is using our maps, then match the location on Google's. At least it has pretty good road data.

[1] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/Kindergarten+49+Radost/@42....

[2] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/42%C2%B039'53.7%22N+23%C2%B...

Edit: P.S. I just checked and OSM understands my address, and even shows you building numbers when you scroll around the map.
With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
The obligatory video from Computerphile and Tom Scott is obligatory.

Describes all the problems with electronic voting and why it's an awful idea. It's short for what it is, a fantastic eight minutes.

https://youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI
It depends :-)
Some seem to have a fall-back or fail-safe that isn't overwritten. Even with flashing known firmware, the reliability of the little guys was questionable. Random lockups and very touchy to power source.
https://mic.com/articles/86797/8-ways-we-regularly-commit-fe...

I wouldn't call any of those exactly 'common', but they're far from criminal.
If buses arrive uniformly every 10 minutes and you arrive at a random time, your wait on average will be 5 minutes.

However, if the buses arrive independently and by a purely random process on average every 10 minutes (i.e. a poisson process), your wait will average 10 minutes.

I always remember this result from probability when waiting for something. It helps me feel less unlucky: of course, I tell myself, it's more likely to land in the time interval between widely spaced busses because those intervals take up more space on the timeline.
Building an RC car controlled by the Twitch chat in real time
Phoenix

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

Ecto

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto
I'm of the view that the best we can do is restrict the information available to these companies, and only to the extent we can control it directly, and only to the extent that one can tolerate various disadvantages in so doing.

For example I don't upload images of any photos I take from my smartphone and I don't use social networks at all. However my spouse does, my friends do, and they all refer to me and pictures of me they've taken and there is nothing I can do to stop it. I can ask them to not do that and to minimize it if they must do it anyway but that's the extent of my control as far as that goes.

I could be completely disconnected from the internet, but my view is the disadvantages there, due to the aggregate mass populace's use of it, are too much for me to tolerate. So I use a popular browser and engage in various online activities.
Every one of those numbers sounds an order of magnitude too big to me. Is it wrong to compare Twitter at 3000 people with Instagram at 20?
that 1 second of "stable hovering" really sold me.

(spoiler: it didn't really look that stable)
Here's a logarithmic graph: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831547.0;all

It doesn't look like it's in bubble territory.
Actually, no.

It's more like complaining about others selling tickets to view said painting from the sidewalk. HiQ repackages and sells data it scrapes from LinkedIn.
Wow! Awesome to see Elixir School here. I'm the creator, happy to answer any questions or listen to feedback!

We've got a lot of big things coming this year. A whole new site, new lessons, and a few exciting new additions.
Ah, the grand benefit of value - no matter what you call it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unincorporated_Man
19 trillion dollars are in the US stock market, and the total amount of US GDP in 2016 was 18 trillion. We have to stop pretending that the almighty US dollar and the federal reserve is so much better system than bitcoin and the developer community behind it. I bought plane tickets, food and beer with a bitcoin visa debit card and the merchants didn't know the difference but of course the majority of the bitcoin I owned is saved. Saving more than you spend is a good thing.
I think the key problem with electronic voting is the possibility of a "class break", as explained here by Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/01/class_breaks....

If there's a flaw in the system -- and there will be flaws, the only question is how soon they're found -- there's a risk that the whole thing can be compromised in one fell swoop.

Whereas pen and paper voting, counted by hand, is slower and less accurate and has plenty of its own flaws, but there's no simple way to compromise the entire vote at once. You'd have to fool a whole bunch of different people in different ways, and/or recruit them into a huge conspiracy.

Other countries use pen and paper and it works fine. Electronic voting machines should be banned.
From TFA: "You might have got the imperssion that there are a lot of Bitcoin-related posts on Hacker News lately."

A typo in the first sentence means to me that quality control on form, and possibly content, was neglected when writing this post.
Would be nice if there was an ANSI/ISO standard for addresses like we have for dates.
The Lindy effect and survivorship bias are one in the same. That's kind of the idea.

Take programming languages for example. If I asked you to bet on 30 different programming languages which would still be in use in 10 years, and all you knew about them was how long they had already been in use, you'd probably correlate your bets to some degree with their age.
Here's a few twists that would be interesting to see how they held up in court...

* What if someone had a few oDesk workers to manually enter in the LinkedIn data?

* What if someone wrote a scraper that parses the Google cache version of the public LinkedIn page?
BuzzFeed has a lot of BS, but they really do support quality journalism as well.
Brigham Young University maybe http://www.byui.edu/student-honor-office/ces-honor-code/dres...
If you don't want to bother with dealing with Dell, they do provide official repair guides on their site telling you exactly how to do it. I bought the prior generation of the XPS 13, and for $25, an Intel 7625 wifi card. Took me about 20 minutes to swap it out.
Ask HN: Why are you leaving Ruby?
Fewer and fewer people are talking about Ruby or create things with it. What drives you away and where are you going to?
It's not to the advantage of all parties to ensure everyone can vote
My ISP give me permission to view the Web, probably so does the ISP which HiQ is using. Problem solved, no need to file any CFAA lawsuits.
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I don't follow. Would you mind naming some examples of the types of places you're thinking of?
Well, it's pretty simple to legally dodge these kinds of threats.

If you scrape regularly, then pick up a dozen or more machines around the world, in less than friendly areas to US law. Pay with a rechargeable credit card or bitcoin. And the buy servers and set up a hadoop cluster that handles scan-jobs.

The worst case scenario is that LinkedIN, YELP, and others get some of your servers shut down. Wash, rinse, repeat.

EDIT: please note, this was only a thought-game to bypass rude and destructive laws like the CFAA, which weaponizes TOS'ses, EULA's, and other implicit contracts of adhesion (as in, you have to agree to see). Ideally, we would be better off with both these laws to have a sane scope, and for companies to not expect things to happen with content in public.
MacPaw bought Unarchiver
Howdy @siscia! When I wrote Elixir School the intention was never to be a full fledged tutorial or to "hand hold". The purpose of the site is to get you familiar with the topics, wet your appetite, and enable you to go out and learn more on your own.
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Maybe in the time of the Medicis. The Roman Catholic Church doesn't give much of a fuck whether you give them a dime today. It's not that kind of organization.
<sarcasm>
I find your production model very attractive and your assumptions about other usage(s) persuasive. You must
be an expert!
</sarcasm>
Why the Arrest of IT Trainers in Turkey Affects Us All
The value of wood derives from utility. You can see and understand the utility of wood and yet do not see the absurdity of cutting down trees and burning them as 'proof of work' for zero utility simply because 'you' want to use it as a medium of exchange and speculation?

This is what current crypto currencies are doing. How long before people notice you are wasting wood for no purpose and put a stop to your activities?
There's that one guy in the office who'll totally disregard the emailing, bug system, and chat system in the office because he just HAS to come to your desk and stop you in your tracks, instead.

I bet you have that person, too.
The Gawker fiasco absolutely did spook other media outlets and has made them nervous about publishing negative stories about other media figures.

Whine all they want. What needs to happen now, if the big media companies want to defend their constitutional protections, is that some media company that isn't Gawker and doesn't behave in the same recklessly malicious manner needs to win a case. Thereby confirming that the actual details of the Gawker trial are in fact relevant and so long as they act like sincere, responsible journalists who treat their 1st amendment protections with a modicum of respect and humility, they don't have to worry about a jury slapping them with a $140 million punishment.
I can spend any amount I want without being restricting by anyone, that's pretty basic, but in some countries you just can't do that.

I personally have found ways and can manage Bitcoin's volatility just fine (relatively predictable income/expenses + fiat reserve + futures) (of course you could just sell for a fiat currency/USD), so I really don't have a single issue with Bitcoin, apart from not being accepted yet to more places.
Perhaps the author of the page really isn't the author of Copyfish, and they phished us all with a page about getting phished.
>He's gay, so the women at Uber don't have to worry.

Genuinely, these comments always open my eyes to how and why the toxic cultures pervasive to tech still survive and thrive in our industry. Anywhere else, I'd have to expect this to be a joke or a troll - but no, it is a dead serious discussion regarding whether being a homosexual male grants you automatic impunity to having prejudices or bias. It isn't like the Kalanick committed every action of misogyny at Uber. The reason it's especially concerning is that it's a systematic cultural disease there perpetuated by the inaction and/or encouragement of management.
You can start counting during the election. So, counting the last hundred or so ballets in ~1hour gives plenty of time for accuracy.
Why You’re Being Invited to Fewer Weddings
I don't follow recipes, but make tons of vegetable stews in the pressure cook.

This video -- http://joshuaspodek.com/20-minute-vegetable-stew -- shows how I do it. The video isn't supposed to be entertaining or glamorous, just showing how I make a half-dozen meals in about 20 minutes' preparation time.

People give the stews rave reviews. The same technique as in the video with different vegetables gives very different stews. Following the same process as different vegetables come in and out of season... I've never tasted the same result twice, but they're always delicious.

I hope it helps.
1. I don't buy a chocolate bar.

2. ???

3. Cocoa farmers make more money.
Generally curious, how come? I believe I understand why Gawker was disliked. But I must have missed out on BuzzFeed.