skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm a Lisper (and Pythoner) (...) It boggles my mind that Lispers haven't taken that problem seriously. I have taken it very seriously and have been working on it for years.
I just started publishing my results.
http://breckyunits.com/the-flaw-in-lisp.html

Honestly, there is no flaw in the parentheses. You just need to write more Lisp.

The parentheses are one of the best things in Lisp.
There are a bunch of sailing clubs in Stockholm. Before you purchase a boat yourself I'd advise you to join one for a summer. Go sailing, talk to people whos lives revolve around boats. You will get loads of useful advice.

I don't live on a boat myself, but I sail a lot and I know people who do or did live on a boat. In my experience, it's awesome for a few weeks at most (longest period I did was 3 weeks).

First off, it's going to cost a whole lot more than you imagine. I'd say triple your initial cost estimates. Everything on boats break all the time and cost a tonne to repair.

> I'm worried my social life will suffer, I might lose friends. Can't invite people home. People don't want to date a hobo living on a boat?

Your social life will change a lot. Having a friend who lives on a boat is great when it's still new and novel, but soon they become the guy that who's always on a slightly different schedule than everyone else.

The vast majority of women will not be interested in going home with someone who lives on a small sailboat. Some absolutely will, but most really are not interested. You're seen more as that quirky guy who lives on a boat who they can tell their friends about, rather than a potential romantic partner.

So socially, it really depends on you and what you make of it. Some people will think it's really neat that you live on a boat and others will look down on you for it.
In the US, there are very large variations in house interior volume, insulation, and usage patterns. Upper-middle class house built on a slab with standard in Dallas with a stay-at-home mom, for example? I wouldn't bat an eyelash at 100kWh/day on the hottest and wettest days. Condo apartment in downtown Houston? That would be excessive.

US insulation requirements in Dallas is R-20 in the walls [1]. The PassivHaus standard is R-40 to R-60. I believe Germany requires R-5 at a minimum. Mainstream US construction design and practice still doesn't account for thermal bridging, so that defeats much of the insulation we're throwing into our buildings.

[1] https://eepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Texas-2...
right the point of u2f is the physical token
What open source hardware would that be, and how can everyone eligible to vote be able to understand how it works and be able to observe that it really does work?
So where is he? It surely can't be secret, regardless of who arrested him?
Thank you sir! I thought of you while I was writing it, and hoped that I would not make you feel embarrassed on my behalf.
You can stuff ballot boxes, but it's hard to do it in a way that isn't transparently obvious that it has occured.
@pcwalton

I'll take that as canonical, then. I'm probably showing my naivety, but I don't grasp the reaction to the comparison. Both are basically C-family languages, there is a distinct Mozilla connection, and recent Rust development does seem to be web-focused. Rust has a lot of features that one would like JS to have, or get right, if it does have something comparable.

I think I'm missing some details. Is there a back story for why Rust developers wouldn't care for that comparison?
> And while we're at it, what are "table stakes"?

(business) minimum entry requirement for a market or business arrangement OR (poker) limit on the amount a player can win or lose in the play of a single hand [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_stakes
Yea but to his previous point, the auditability of a digital system could be much more sophisticated then paper
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I've wanted to buy a boat for the past two years and now that I'm out of my apartement I felt that the moment might be right. I love sailing.
You can blame the French. It was a good choice though. Vietnamese and Korean are probably the easiest East Asian languages to learn to read.
A quick comment from a 30+-year boat owner: you always overpay. You may think you're getting a deal, but it's never actually true.
you can choose any area of the card, say 5 letters and a few keywords.
Fair, and Levine points this out in the article. He also observes that part of what makes bitcoin tricky and non intuitive is that if it worked like a company spinoff, not much new value should be created. Post split the price of BTC plus BCC should more or less equal the old BTC price, but that hasn't happened, because these are tulip bulbs.
And if you want the benefits of computers (fast counting, ability to prove your vote was counted correctly) without sacrificing the secret ballot or the paper audit trail you can use something like punchscan or scantegrity.
You need a system for point of use verification of system integrity by the voter as they are voting.

It also doesn't need to be "simple enough" for anyone to do it. You just need a system in place to enable voters to verify the authenticity of the machine (a relatively easy way is a public voting ledger where the voter can match the id the machine shows with what shows up in the ledger a minute later) and those with the know-how will do so.
Yes, since they could change the JS without notice from to do something different, and could conceivably be ordered by a government to do so generally or targeting a specific set of users.
Thanks, I'd forgotten about that. Although it's pretty clear (imo) from the activity that it would have worked better as a special SO tag.
100% agree with this. I relax a lot of the rules for my personal projects. I want linting to tell me when there is a potential problem. Other than that it just slows me down.

If a computer can lint it, it can also beautify it. Leave me alone and take care of it for me automatically.

Stop wasting my time and breaking builds because I forgot a comma after the last key in an object and dumb stuff like that.
They would need to ask the FBI, not the Marshals.
>Do you think it's possible and worthwhile to change attitudes?

Depends.

>If we once believed (and no doubt some still do) that black people are worth less than white people, and so black people were effectively forced to accept less (though nobody was holding a gun to their heads), was that an acceptable state of affairs?

Yes. Westerners didn't arbitrarily decide that blacks were worth less to them, it was because they were. Blacks could not contribute anything to the westerners other than slave labour... and they were too ignorant of the western power structure to organize themselves to fight for equal worth from the states they were in. When they figured it out however, they did get the same worth from the states they were in.

>What was in it for any of the (non-black) people to change anything about it?

Not sure about all non-blacks but the Republican Party of the US which was founded by anti-slavery activists who believed in independence and freedom for all people. They already had examples of free blacks who were just as capable of learning and contributing to the society and letting some people own some of them and treat them as animals wasn't acceptable to them and a lot of others. So, they used it for political leverage and were very successful.

>Given the stories we regularly hear from female employees in the tech industry (of being harassed and/or left out of the "inner circle")

Nobody is stopping women from having their own niche occupation where they make their own inner circles... oh wait there are those occupations, they are called nursing and teaching. Men and women in general have different life goals and different preferences in their careers. Also, "harassment" happens to men too (specially when everything is harassment)... men just deal with it differently i.e. by not complaining about it to others and doing something about it themselves.
I have two open-ended questions on the subject of technology in U.S. voting.

(1) Why doesn't our electoral system require public disclosure of each voter's record? What would the ramifications of publishing each voter's identity & ballot online be? My thinking, like other comments here, is that a transparent voting system would make results more easily verifiable, if not easy to verify.

(2) At what point could we transition toward more of a democracy (in contrast to the representative, republican system) through the use of digital voting, which has a lower "barrier to entry" than turning out to a polling center? Particularly on nationwide issues like healthcare, I presume there are relatively few technological barriers to letting every citizen vote individually on a bill and immense political and social consequences. I can't fathom the outcomes -- do you know of any discussion of such a system?

Non sequitur: I've always wanted to see a "name brand" professional sports team run, down to the minutiae, by online fan voting. I know it's out there in small leagues already.
This sends a clear message to the global whitehat security community: travel to the US at your own peril.
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To protect voting, keep up with transparent urns and paper ballots
> It is, as most political differences are rooted in mutually exclusive ideas.

The reason I disagree is because I get to be exposed to these mutually exclusive interpretations in several different countries. My lack of indoctrination and context gives me an additional perspective based on the present, which primarily reveals an inefficiency that gives me an advantage.

For example, the first mutually exclusive topic that came to mind was ..... some extremely polarizing human rights topic you feel passionately about? I bank on you spending all of your energy on that while I try to get a say in the 900 other things lawmakers - or the agencies they delegated authority to - actually do.
Using lithium-ion batteries for stationary storage is interesting because their original advantage was all about light weight (lithium is the lightest metal element).

Now, it seems the development effort devoted to lithium-ion has paid off so well that they are the best OVERALL battery solution. The single-minded effort we put into cell phones and cars is so strong that it now reaches all the way to homes and the grid.

To me, this suggests that all sorts of cool technologies might be possible if we as a society could concentrate on making them work.
Perhaps true (likely - but I am not completely familiar with that religion); but doesn't this make the assumption that if you are Muslim, you are automatically Islamic?

Yeah, I know that's how it's kinda played out (much like how the BKDs here in America insist we are a "Christian Nation" - despite things like the Treaty of Tripoli and other documents to the contrary) - but that doesn't make it objectively true.

Of course, in some cases (even here in the west), if you dare mention such a thing within 'the faith' - you could find yourself on the other side of an honor killing by your own family (especially if you are a woman; such enlightenment).

To think, this is the exact same place many evangelical Christians want to take our nation too as well. Lovely.
I'm aware of the guideline, which says most posts, not all posts. That's why I made a comment explaining why it's an exception to the guideline (which isn't a rule).

You should finish reading the guidelines if you want to play metamod.

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I'm all for giving people opportunities to get out of poverty. I do not think such opportunities should be limited to a particular race. Pell Grants are a good example. The grants aren't racist in that everyone can apply. However, the odds of a randomly selected Pell Grant student being black are twice as high as what should be expected if Pell Grants are evenly distributed amoung college students, but it isn't a race-based opportunity. You can give people opportunities to get out of poverty without practicing racism.
Not if you grep locally. How big is this data set? It can't be much bigger than a AAA video game download.
>security questions matter

This sucks and I wish I could turn it off on accounts that I've set up my yubi key on. It's a strong password at best and my mothers maiden name at worst.

Name of childhood physician:
dr. EeNohsh3yaiw3vaHaic4
this isn't really a weird/normal issue. People have all kinds of likes and ideas and preferences. If you live in an apartment or a tiny house or a detached suburban house with a long commute, you will be the kind of person with those preferences and be more likely to attract people with those preferences, or who are at least open to it.

I'm a transportation cyclist who went car-free while I was single in a car-centric inland US city, where "not having a car" is generally seen as being completely irresponsible, not having your shit together, and not being a serious person. I still dated people with the normal frequency, eventually got married, we now have a one-car household.

If you love your lifestyle, and think it's worth doing, and aren't a huge burden on other people, then other people can appreciate what you see in it too.
Coding bootcamps essentially a “tax” on qualified workers without social capital?
> Is he wrong? Did Tesla not prove to the rest of the auto industry that electric cars are not only viable but also profitable and inevitable?

From your "context": "What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B?"

$5-10B Losses doesn't translate into "profitable".

> Would we have the Bolt, Spark, Fiat e500, eGolf without Tesla?

Maybe? Electric cars existed before TSLA and electric cars will exist after TSLA.

What is with you? I'm a fan of TSLA. I like electric vehicles. I just don't believe in the cult of it.

Honestly, I don't expect crazy comments like "What are the accumulated losses so far? $5-10B? Even if Tesla were to spend another $50B and go bankrupt, I would still maintain it's great. "

to be upvoted on HN.

Maybe on reddit or some other social media, but I feel there is a higher quality of people here. And when I see something odd, I'll point it out.
> Adolescents are horrible at consequence extrapolation: it's why they're famously risk hungry and blasé about doing stuff grownups would be terrified of. Why they never think they'll be the ones who die or get pregnant or fail.

With that in mind, I think the worst effects of smartphones/social media/etc are yet to come.

Kids these days broadcast every last embarrassing detail of their lives all over the internet, and smartphones make it possible to do so conveniently from any location, so there's no time to reflect or consider whether it'll come back to bite you. When these kids grow up and realise the extent of the embarrassing (or possibly incriminating) information they've shared about themselves (and how little control they have over that data), it's going to hurt.

Whether smartphones themselves have 'destroyed' a generation is debatable, but the combination of smartphones and social media is certainly going to cause some mental health issues in the future (if it hasn't already).
Isn't the parent's point that they are not profitable?
Well, I meant more that, in contrast to an asymmetric keypair, you can't leave a criminal alone with a lock for as long as you please. With enough time to gather information about a specific lock, someone can eventually use it to get a key - no amount of time with your public key will, at present, give you its private counterpart. The lock itself is not inherently secure in a way that having it won't compromise the key, so its security comes somewhat from the obscurity of the internals of each lock.

It's not an exact metaphor, I admit, but it's relevant to the fears of OSS - people think leaving all your public information on the table is enough to compromise the system, because in a physical model, it effectively is.
o/

I actually only had to evacuate once when it hit subzero temps! Also would totally do again, maybe with a bit more prep this time
Launch HN: Meetingbird (YC S17) – A Calendar for Teams
Hi HN! We’re Henry and Paul, cofounders of Meetingbird (https://www.meetingbird.com) in the current YC batch. We're building a calendar for teams.

Calendars have traditionally been built for individuals, not teams. As teams grow, calendars become so busy that optimal scheduling and time management is nearly impossible without software. Meetingbird analyzes participants' availability, meeting rooms, and other constraints to quickly find the best meeting time and location. When team members' calendars are completely booked, Meetingbird understands which meetings can more easily be rescheduled than others, and inputs that to the scheduler. The scheduler improves as it better understands everyone’s calendar preferences. Our goal is a calendar that makes scheduling easy, allowing everyone to spend less time scheduling and more time getting things done.

For individuals, Meetingbird serves as a beautiful (we hope!) calendar that makes scheduling as easy as sending a link or picking a time from within Gmail with our Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meetingbird/joheck...).

We first became interested in this problem because we experienced first-hand the pain of scheduling working at companies in a variety of industries, from tech to finance. The process of building Meetingbird and talking with hundreds of employees at mid-to-large-sized companies has confirmed how time-consuming and frustrating scheduling is for everyone.

We’d love to hear your feedback and your ideas about calendars and any frustrations of using them as teams!
Yeah, I recently did a project in Javascript (as a longtime C++ programmer) and was bitten by this exact problem.

Javascript is great but sometimes I miss the predicability of the STL.
In addition to being costly it also gets very crowded. Went to Amsterdam and couldn't see the Anne frank museum due to a huge line of tourist. Then went to italy's main square, couldn't get inside the Basilica. Then we went to Louvre, same thing. I just don't have patience to stand in line for hours, so it is kind of my fault. Still, I think it's best to avoid the main tourist attractions because they are generally all booked by tour operators and each groups now contains hundreds of tourists.
It was an awesome post!
And if the FBI won't say either?

https://twitter.com/MabbsSec/status/893146424753500163
Product classification using keras, word vectors, and images (with code)
OK, but why should a business care?
The mainstream digital voting method, that is a digital only ballot totaling everything is basically impossible to audit. It shouldn't be used anywhere.

Yet, there are ways to make digital voting auditable. There is an inherent conflict between a system being auditable and anonymous. You can't completely satisfy both, but paper satisfy none, so there is plenty of margin for improvement.
There is a strong circumstantial case for WikiLeaks being either compromised or having caved to threats from someone. Most of the evidence points to Russia but in the intelligence world you can never be sure. Could just as easily be someone who wants us to think it is Russia. Welcome to the puzzle palace.

I think WikiLeaks started with noble intent but it's really the depths of naivete to think a small volunteer org can play spy games with the big boys.

What we need is a fully decentralized WikiLeaks type platform that is easy enough to use that regular non crypto nerds can use it. No identifiable centralized organization can really be trusted to be objective or impartial or to be resistant to compromise.
> What good does it do for AAPL's business focus to sit on cash for years?

To be able to vertically integrate at a moment's notice.
In Portugal. Called Escola Moderna (Modern School). not sure if this is a more national methodology or international.

The main idea of the kids learning is through experimenting with things. They are also VERY keen on parents going there and spend the day with the entire class talking about their jobs, or just general things (some parents did gymnastics, other baked cakes, my ex-wife did a hands-on demonstration of what a paramedic may do on an accident. I mostly focused on science stuff, built paddle boats with them with rubber bands to teach them about physics, made the games mentioned before, etc)

If this isn't available, try Montessori schools as they share a lot of the ideas with Modern School.
Google Play will now downrank poorly performing apps
You get a transaction id for your vote when you vote, and you can verify it against the open ballot. If they don't match, either the machine or the ballot was hacked.

The public ballot is much easier to secure, since you can just use a trustless ledger. Spinning up a ton of processing power to protect the voting process day-of elections isn't infeasible.
Open source voting software is not sufficient. Paper ballots are better, but I suspect that electronic + verified paper receipt + an audit process is a fuller solution. Paper alone can be more easily locally subverted, electronic alone can be more globally. But if you have to alter both an electronic record/reporting and the paper ballots in a way that correlates then you have a better resistance than either paper/electronic alone.
There are many people here in Florida that live on boats, some of them go to school or work on temporary contracts then sell the boat when they leave. Some anchor out in the river and so are truly off-grid and pay no rent.

Your entertaining style will have to change, true, especially on a small sailboat. Instead of inviting people over to watch Netflix or whatever, why not invite them out for a sail? (Oh yeah, and keep your living space tidy, no one wants to hang out in someone's moldy cluttered bedroom :) )
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we would need so much more info than this to give you helpful information.

For instance, when you move do you already know where you'll be working?
What kind of work do you do? (I assume engineer, but could be wrong)
What kind of things do you enjoy doing (outdoors, drinking, museums, nerd-core, fancy food, sports, etc)

General Tips:

- North Beach has some nice bars and restaurants for a chill night. (I would avoid the touristy parts near the piers though)

- Mission district has some world famous burritos and you may want to check Dolores Park

- Polk st has decent night life if you want to drink/party

- If you're gonna work in tech you'll likely be in SOMA or Financial District so take a stroll around market street and then down the embarcadero to the stadium

- A lot of people tend to go to the piers in the north of the city for seafood. If you want to do that, I'd advise going to Hog Island in the ferry building instead.

- Checkout Meetup.com and look for any meetups happening that weekend so you can perhaps meet some locals and get a feel for the community you'd want to be involved in
You may be right, and GM's revenue remains massive so it's a fraction of revenue.

The only area of concern is the growth presumptions in the pension fund. They are often around 7.5%, whereas real growth was 0.5%, putting a potential damper on the profit line (but I do not know that relative magnitude of that).
> What the hell? How does something like this even happen? Surely they can't just take somebody away and keep it a secret?

You absolutely can. [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...