skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Again, 5,000 independent districts, and every single district manages itself independently. There is no way whatsoever to ensure proper implementation.

Right, so the evidence that the US sucks at implementing paper elections should be used to advocate the implementation of an incredibly more complex system that somehow will implement itself?

>We have a ton of provisions implemented to curtail significant attempts at fraud of paper ballots. And in paper ballot and absentee voting, there are large numbers of problems virtually every election cycle in various jurisdictions.

Most of the world runs these kinds of elections regularly without issue and electronic means only makes this worse. You not only don't make the count any more accurate you also add complexity and enable a bunch of denial of service opportunities.

>This isn't even close to accurate. If there is a wide margin in a result, it isn't officially contested, even when we have evidence of corruption. When the margin is small, and a recount could possibly swing the vote, then the electee becomes unconvinced and demands a recount. (Or when the election result is simply too extreme, and the necessity of a recount is obvious)

All of that is true in the US yes, but again that's because the process is poor enough. Other places have extremely close elections that don't require this. You have such poor confidence in your election process you sometimes have legally mandated recounts on a low enough margin.
> It honestly feels like some of the mods are on a power trip.

Feels? There is no feels there's a clear desire for mods to push their personal agenda on Stack Overflow.

Closing, Merging of questions is slowly killing the site.
> XFS has received some very serious performance improvements in the past couple of years to address indexing, large volumes of metadata, and so on, so that'd be one very relevant thing.

That's probably the difference right there. Thanks for pointing that out.
If you're interested in learning Rust by watching someone work, the author did several long screencasts of himself working on exa: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoBjY7TeCXzOULdiE40Ig1w
Brand recognition by repetition? Even if the brands themselves aren't buying ads, maybe there's a bigger chance that in the future you'll feel more comfortable buying that item again. So it's better for Amazon too.
a thousands separator is a good middle ground
> Every time I interact with any sub-21 year old person, I ask them 2 questions

You sound like a fun person - JK. But among my conservative, Midwestern sub-21 family and acquaintances, the answer was surging to Snapchat around Christmas. Then they moved lifestyle posts to Instagram, and moved communication/socializing back to Facebook. Also, they don't often interact intentionally with the Discover section.
Because when you become aware that an injustice exists you should consciously try to do something about it? One of the easiest ways to do something about it is by buying and supporting work by female authors.

And of course a writer's identity will play a role in the work that they produce. No one is writing Toni Morrison besides Toni Morrison, and a Fanon essay is a Fanon essay because he experienced being black in France and Algeria.
sha1sum is giving different results.

/tmp$ echo "p@55w0rd" | sha1sum
8633c4a8b38a8826132414d8861af7b6a8371976 -

This is a different value from the one given in the blog post: "ce0b2b771f7d468c0141918daea704e0e5ad45db".

The python sha-1 hexdigest comes out right, though:

In [13]: import sha

In [14]: sha.new('p@55w0rd').hexdigest()
Out[14]: 'ce0b2b771f7d468c0141918daea704e0e5ad45db'

In case anyone else has passwords they want to check, this will binary-search them: https://gist.github.com/coventry/5df7885fb0d5caeabb39fcd0e2b...
The most worrying part is tech industry buying news media. Steve Jobs wife bought The Atlantic. Bezos bought the washingtonpost. As the news properties become cheaper and the money floods the tech industry, I'm sure they'll snap up some more.

We really need a more diversity media landscape. It's entirely liberal with pockets of conservatism. We need less liberal, more conservative and much more moderate media.

It's unhealthy for the media to be heavily skewed to one or the other side.

Not only that, we need this is academia and corporations and the banking sector. More diversity. More competing thoughts/ideas.
We created dogs, they have no natural place in the wild before them the canids were Wolves and Coyotes.
Enron definite yes, AA to the point where people pretend that they never worked there even if you knew them back then. Uber not yet, but maybe one day.
To be fair, you're ignoring the "by default" part. Yes, when you want to see uniform units, you can add a command line argument.

HN is so predictable that I knew someone would complain about this the second I read it, including ignoring the "by default" part so that they can by contrary.
This is not necessarily true. I believe in the US, fundraising would make you an accessory, just as encouraging someone's criminal action where they have clear intent to commit a crime would be.

Fundraising for legal actions is certainly speech, and the effort Southern was supporting was in accordance with international law.
I support 5 people on Patreon. A blog, two comics, and two web serials. The blog (Wait By Why) and one of the comics (SMBC) do any kind of creator-marketing; the other comic (Kill Six Billion Demons) has rewards, but they're all KSBD content. Neither of the web serialists (Wildbow and Erraticerrata) have no rewards, and I've never seen anything from them.

It's probably depended on content type; a lot of the value of some art - say, paintings - comes from the artist; whereas the value of the genre fiction is entirely contained within the fiction.

So one group pretty much does need to market themselves as an artist, whereas the other just needs to market their art.
I have seen my fair share of javascript-based console applications. My guess is that the author tries to assure us that exa is no such thing but behaves reasonably for a console application (not gigantic, not incredibly slow) and makes his statements in that light.
This is a form of personal attack and such things are not allowed in HN comments. The vanishingly rare case where you might be correct is massively wiped out by the damage this causes in every other case.
Dear Kickstarter
I just hit "delete" on yet another one of your emails.

Over the years I've pledged support for dozens of campaigns, over a hundred I think. Some with excellent results and a few that have been "interesting experiences". Still, I really enjoy supporting interesting tech projects on your platform.

Throughout these years there has been one thing that has remained common to all of my pledges:

I back technology oriented projects.

And by that I mean, fully 99% of my pledges are for tech campaigns.

Imagine my frustration when you insist in sending me email after email, week after week, month after month, year after year with projects that are utterly irrelevant to me as evidenced by my history on your platform. It isn't hard to look at my history and conclude "this dude likes tech".

Your emails, therefore, fall somewhere between the category of junk mail and irrelevant advertising.

I haven't unsubscribed because it has been a bit of a game to see if someone in your marketing department finally gets it.

Here's a hint:

Your emails are titled "Projects We Love:..".

Who cares what YOU love?

Really. Think about it. If it is what YOU love it is far more likely to be SPAM to me and tons of others who might not sure your perspective.

How about switching to "Projects you might love:..."?

You my history. Why do you send me irrelevant crap all the time?

It's OK to promote other projects. Send out emails where 75% to 90% of the content is relevant to the user and 10% to 25% is other stuff. I would not mind if I got ten recommendations where eight are in context and two unrelated projects. That would be cool.

I truly don't understand years of out of context emails. I have lost out on a few really nice tech projects because I never knew they were on Kickstarter. I can't understand why you would take this approach.

Anyhow, here's hoping you'll read this and give it some thought.

Thank you.

A mostly happy member.
That's exactly what I said, the tabulation at at central office would be to verify precinct counts. I'm not sure I see an issue with multiple counts, if they don't come out the same then the system should be reviewed for issues.
Weren't you detained in a similar way when you traveled to the US to attend Defcon (without the arrest part)? Are you able to discuss how that all went down?
Hi,

I'm a security engineer at Patreon. Like most companies we take security reports from folks via security@patreon.com and support@patreon.com. The dedicated security email is the quickest route to the security team.

We also have an invite only HackerOne program where we've invited the top reporters on HackerOne. When folks send us a valid report via email we also add them to our HackerOne program for reward (we've paid out >$17,000 to security researchers to date). As with any developing bug bounty program we're still improving it and we plan to open up our HackerOne program soon.
> It is a real shame not to be able to trust "science" anymore.

I agree. My brother (Aerospace Eng.) and I (Software Eng.) talk often about this with our Dad (Electrical Eng.).

Given that big business and BIG money has now been proven to have hidden the truth about Monsanto Chemicals, sugar and many other things, how many other things in our would would big business pay billions or even trillions to cover up if they had a study that showed it was somehow harmful?

Just to throw out some ideas, how many trillions would they spend to hide that cell phones are bad, or TVs or "new car smell", or plastic containers for food.

It's quite clear that almost everything in our society that is sold for profit is now backed by trillions and trillions of dollars, and they would hide any ill effects if they could.

It's not that "science" failed us, it's that we let money buy it out, much like democracies too (i.e. unlimited campaign contributions)
I assume this is a case of implicit bias from the training materials used.
The best I can say about the Touch Bar is that I'm able to customize what the function keys can do in whatever placement I want. Overall its OK, but I don't use it the way Apple intended. I do wish the ESC was a hardware key.

http://imgur.com/a/no8MQ
>terminal emulators (like terminator) recognize output

iirc, if your terminal emulator is doing something funny with the output of `ls` it's because they've re-implemented it as a function and are intercepting the call to ls and running their function instead, not because they're recognizing the output.
There are multiple reasons for this thing being wrong, but at the same time it is completely understandable and reasonable that it exists.

However, I believe Stellar[1] would be a much better fit for the majority of token sales that have happened and will happen.

[1]: https://www.stellar.org/blog/using-stellar-for-ico/
Ask HN: How are you treating your child's internet addiction?
My son is 5yrs old.

His mom and I made a terrible mistake when he was around 2 to allow him to watch YT & YTkids videos (which have a vicious algo of horrible content [1]). My wife and I are in tech, but we try our best to not use devices around him and promote 'quality family time'.

But nothing helps.. His addiction grows, even though we forbid all phone use and their games ( which i was hesitant to do..as they were at least challenging him).

These days, all he asks for is to watch his netflix shows. Over and over.. like a crack addict..he simply can't control his desires for the eye-cocaine.

We've tried setting strict time limits and rules for when he can watch them.. but it's not helping.
The only thing left to do is purely ban it. But the cat is out of the bag and he took a huge dump.

Recently I discovered tech solutions like DNSlearning [2] which I feel is just starting to constructively attempt at finding a balance - I wish there was more being done.

Honestly I'm starting to get REALLY worried for him and society in general.

Everywhere I look, social quality, focus, reflection, empathy, and critical thinking - is exponentially dropping.

How do we as digital leaders/parents/inventors take on this challenge?!?

I've asked this on other parent forums[3]--no luck.

Are children are expecting responsible loving guidance.

Daddies, Mommas, what has worked for you??

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14910125

[2] https://dnslearning.org

[3] https://parenting.stackexchange.com/questions/30073/5yr-old-addicted-to-mobile-devices-need-advice
If you're only looking at mental hobbies (vs. going out and being active), I suggest learning a new natural language. It has countless benefits especially if you only speak one language at the time.
Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman if you are interested in WWI.
> Does it do OTAs

It's a car. Nobody updates them. Certainly nobody drives to the dealership to get updates. Nobody outside of tech circles even know what that means.

> Can you buy it outside of the dealer?

So Tesla is going to win because they can do something their competition is legally prohibited from doing? If it actually started to hurt existing automakers you would see those regulations disappear faster than you can say, 'protecting the American auto industry'.
There's a part of me that just wants to set up a Patreon, link to it from a few places with enough content to have a profile (Github, Medium; if I ever finish an article), and if it starts getting traffic, do more of that content. See what happens.

(Unlikely to be anything without marketing, but, why not? Cost of the effort is low.)
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Seems like it comes on by default in Ubuntu/Debian based systems for bash. Also, if you want to see the file sizes in MB, KB etc. then use 'ls -lh' command.
You never know. I have an old friend from college who has, in his entire life, eaten exactly one potato chip.
The design of btrfs allows for mismatched disks to be used in an array, and the btrfs RAID will keep the right level of redundancy while using the maximal amount of space, e.g. with a 4 TB, 2 TB, and 1 TB drive:

mdadm will give you 1 TB in RAID 1, or 1.5 TB in RAID 10 (constrained by the smallest drive).

btrfs will give you 3 TB in RAID 1 (constrained by the sum of the smallest drives).

btrfs also allows per-subvolume raid policies. So you could, for example, give users an "archive" subvolume in their home directory. You could then mark this as RAID 1 or RAID 5 (because you don't care so much about performance) while the main /home filesystem is RAID 10.

Unfortunately the RAID code is all horribly broken.
I wouldn't say it's bullshit, just a difference of opinion.

38 kilobytes of executable isn't small, it's tiny; there's no way exa could get to that level without compromising its featureset or development, and even if you did, you'd just have another ls, and we already have ls.

If it's not small, what would you call it? Medium-sized? Something of that size means "download tens of megabytes of runtime and scatter files all over your computer" to me, and exa's smaller than that.
Facebook's war on slow webpages
Interesting that the WannaCry bitcoin account was emptied at about the same time.

https://qz.com/1045270/wannacry-update-the-hackers-behind-ra...

Makes me wonder about this guy's real connection to that.
The feature I'd be most interested in here is the integration with git, but I don't see an example on the site that demonstrates that. If the author is reading this, could you please add one? (Or maybe point it out, if I'm just missing it?)
If the NSA is literally everywhere, it shouldn't matter where you step foot, should it?
use X windows - middle-click-to-paste usually gets around these 'no paste here' thingies. :)
Which is why you add a randomized wait/sleep before responding to an invalid login attempt, to, hopefully slow down "tries" having a cache for recent tries by IP as well would assist in mitigation. The strength of the hashing is also of issue... for example pbkdf2 is very compute heavy.

If you're working in an environment that has a FaaS (AWS Lambda, etc), it may be worthwhile to have this as an async function call so as not to block your primary application. Another option is to break authentication into its' own application, and have that return a signed auth token to your application.

There are lots of options.
Yep .. traffic has been 67.7% desktop .. but agree that mobile should be a first class experience nowawdays.
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That just looks like standard IRC bantz though. Do you know if he was actually trying to sell/weaponize the malware he was developing? (I assume he was, given the indictment, but can't hurt to ask.)
I remapped my Caps to Esc, and recommend doing the same; as a vim user it's great.
That is a non-sequitur response, as this person has not been arrested for violating terms of service, sharing files through torrents, alerting people to security flaws, selling Canadian pharmaceuticals, or trafficking in undersized lobsters.

They were arrested for building and selling software used to harvest Amazon logins, bank account logins, and credit card numbers from botnets.

Your logic could just as easily be used to dismiss an indictment of any crime, from undersized lobsters to murdering someone with an undersized lobster.
Map your Caps Lock button to ESC
"I ask her if it would be okay for me to try and hack all her stuff."

Why would he ask that? It is strange.

It is also strange how he tries to trivialize what he is doing. From his perspective it is trivial, but for some people it will not be trivial, why would he write an article about something that he believes is generically trivial.
Another alternative is that he does not understand that it might not be trivial to some people.

I did read the article... just quoting is probably not going to answer my question.
So basically, it's becoming harder to know which science to trust ?
Hes 5....take it away from him, and teach him other things, remove tv all together (even for yourself).
yeah, too much time w/ iphones — i meant uuid.

i tried to fix two things with my proposal: changing votes and adding votes.

let’s hear some concrete criticisms and suggestions.

i dont feel like the current systems are particularly thoughtfully designed. we could probably do better in this HN thread. :)
I really want to know what the deal with hot_sauce_formula being 1G is. That must be one hell of a hot sauce.
> I'd be arrested for selling a thief an apple if he paid for it with stolen cash

Welcome to anti-money laundering law. KYC regulations basically mean, for anyone handling large volumes of money, it's the vendor's business, and liability, to know where customers' money comes from.
Specifically, you list which extensions should get what colors. So it's more like telling ls "Color anything ending in .jpg or .gif in red", as opposed to "Color all images red".
Unless you want to take into account their reaction. An upset dog will growl and bite. A happy dog has certain behaviors. It is not robust communication, but it does exist.

In the beginning perhaps humans used dogs in an exploitative way, but many of the relationships now are mutual. Most dogs owners I know treat their dog as if it were "man's best friend", and they generally seem to reciprocate. The machines in the matrix wanted us for our value as a resource not for companionship and they certainly didn't respect us.

I think exploitation and benevolence are opposed if not mutually exclusive.
I tend to agree, but I wonder about the longer term economic trends here. As the middle class disappears, the segment that can't afford a car and/or a garage will grow. And as our infrastructure continues to crumble I wonder about just how much of the road system we will continue to support. We have way too many nice, expensive roads going to places that surely aren't supporting them, tax-wise.
Great! Where are my colours in `foo | less -SR' on the terminal?

It's not "the sane thing" to differentiate output on STDOUT's attributes. grep
doesn't have the --colour option ternary for nothing.
I'm a big fan of this colorization. I like that I can quickly scan permissions, take note of the user, and figure out what kind of file I'm looking at. With regular 'ls', I usually have to do a double-take on all of those.
Reminds me of this video from the 70s/80s about Ford knowingly distributing an unsafe car - "Milton Friedman on Ford not recalling the ford pinto"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jltnBOrCB7I
I also should mention that I only started getting into the Smalltalk stuff a year ago, and am by no means an expert. But reading about it and using it (Pharo mostly) really changed the way I think not only about programming, but computing more generally. If you ever watch a Kay lecture you won't really get what he's saying until you've used one of these live environments, whether it's Smalltalk or an interactive Lisp.

I recommend getting the Adele Goldberg "Smalltalk: The Language and its Implementation" (colloquially known as the "Blue Book"). I find it to be the second best programming book ever, aside from The Little Schemer.
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"Like an engineer deeply in tune with his machine, Exa feels the world's component error deep in his bones, fractionally before anything has literally gone wrong." — from Sam Hughes's Ra (https://qntm.org/ra)

It was originally going to be a command-line "file explorer" like ranger, and exa is kind of short for explorer, but I like this quote too.
You said that it's almost certainly the case that people building their own crypto are doing it solely for their own purposes and that people won't even bother to complete their work. Obviously: no.
Audi RS3 VS. Mercedes-AMG A45 – DRAG RACE
I've grown to prefer it as well. Except the noise.
I would have voted not guilty if I was on that jury. Seems like the First Amendment should protect your right to give advice.
I think what he meant is that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply to private actors, which uhhh, is true.
As a maintainer of a CLI program in Rust that runs on Windows, it is mostly a pretty nice experience. The only painful part was getting colors working in both MSYS terminals and cmd/PowerShell based terminals.

I do have a Windows 7 VM setup for testing, but I also bought a cheap Windows 10 laptop to test on as well.
As a 21 year old, the way I see it right now is Snapchat is used for more private photos (not that kind, but more for friends to see) and Instagram is used for photos that people wouldn't mind being seen by anyone.

A lot of people post everything to both, but Instagram usage has massively increased over the last few months.

Snapchat is still my go-to, but I've been peer pressured into posting Insta Stories as everyone else is now there.

Edit: Oh and I never use the Discovery page, neither do my friends. It's annoying and mostly useless.
I took a philosophy of science course in college and still never got what it was that Kuhn was saying. My memory is the professor spent many lectures telling us what he was not saying, but I never figured out what he was saying beyond a "science goes through fads" simplistic interpretation. Is there a good short overview of it?