skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You own second citation contains the following passage:

>ridges removed the five votes from the final count: four for Rossi and one for Ruth Bennett.[32] No evidence was brought before the court of any of the illegal votes benefitted Gregoire.[32] The final margin of victory for Gregoire over Rossi was 133 votes.[33] Rossi did not appeal to the state Supreme Court[34] and the Washington State Republican party settled the case after paying $15,000 in court costs to the Democrats.[35]

Judge Bridges' ruling was seen as a comprehensive defeat for Rossi. The judge admitted nearly every piece of evidence the Republican Party offered and then wrote a thorough, tough opinion rejecting the Republicans' claims (while criticizing the administration of the election, particularly in King County); Rossi was left with very little legal ground for a successful appeal. After receiving such a negative verdict, Rossi declined to appeal to the State Supreme Court, claiming that the political makeup of the Court would make it impossible for him to win, thereby ending all legal challenges to the election of Gregoire as the Governor of Washington

The plaintiffs, the Washington Republican party wasn't able to provide any evidence that improperly cast ballots disproportionately went to the winner of the election. Additionally the judge noted that many of the "illegal ballots" were simply improperly cast provisional ballots. That means that people casting them weren't trying to commit a crime, they just messed up.

Even in this case, there is no proof of substantial voter fraud deciding an election. Or even proof of substantial voter fraud. In fact the judge found that King County had poorly managed the process, which is not a matter of in person fraud, which again, isn't a real problem in the US.
https://www.demandrush.com/
Criminals are great examples, because their OPSEC failures are often detailed in court records, reported in the media, and discussed online. One of my articles on IVPN's website uses several such OPSEC failures (Silk Road, Sheep Marketplace, etc) as examples.
Google would've easily found a bunch of supporting articles to what I stated, but here:

https://www.space.com/23017-weightlessness.html

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/a...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/20/health/your-body-in-space/inde...

https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_h...

tl;dr version:

> In space, without gravity, bones lose more than 1% of minerals and density per month.

> Astronauts also experience blood volume loss, weakened immune systems and cardiovascular deconditioning since floating takes little effort and the heart doesn't have to work as hard to pump blood through your body

> "It changes their visual acuity," Charles said. "They're not able to see things up close. It's like advanced aging. That sort of thing happens at a sort of an accelerated rate."
I can't really talk about most of them, but I described one example down here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589020
You are looking for a problem. It should be a problem that a) a lot of people have, b) you can fix, and c) people are willing to pay real money for.

Have you found anything that meets all three of these conditions? That would be something to jump on with both feet. But not a lot of opportunities like that come along. So how about a two out of three, with the third question being unknown? That might be worth trying, at least.
Gamepass is $75 right now.

Back of the envelope, every viewer of MNF would need to pay $200 just to keep MNF and one wildcard game. More to get Sunday, Thursday, the playoffs and the Superbowl. Easily $300 - $400 per viewer a year.

That's a hard sell.
US Deputy AG wants companies to keep plain text versions of encrypted content
I'm pumped cause this will popularize theorem provers and pump a lot of money into their development. There was that Stephan Diehl talk on the front page yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15582429 where he concluded that it's gonna be a while before see a language based on homotopy type theory.

He made a good argument. But these developments make me question whether crypto wont make them popular. This "early future" is kinda amazing.
Your problem isn’t hiring people, it’s hiring illegals willing to work for cheap in the Home Depot parking lot.

Finding legal casual labor is tough because good workers with strong backs move up quickly, and you’re left with illegals and drunks.
> Trying to trade purely off technical analysis is a disaster waiting to happen.

Watching purely a leading indicator can get you in trouble with false positives; while a lagging one means missing some of the trend. Yes, you can take it too far, use too many indicators, or look for trends in ranging markets and other mistakes.
So.. why hasn't history been updated? Is this super recent or not credible?
Test F.I.R.S.T
Stupid question, isn't this the Halting Problem?
Apple Is Facing a Double Standard
I'm not sure if you realised yet or not but this post itself is an idea on it's own - "Help potential great team without ideas finding ideas".
Being afraid of a crowded market is one of those counter-intuitive mistakes most people make. It's much easier to find a niche within a crowded market than to try to build something within a small market.

I entered a huge market as a solo founder with no industry experience and now get about 1% of the traffic that the big players with thousands of employees get, and I make a very decent income from it.
Amazon commingles everything, even "sold by amazon" products, unless they've changed that recently. Everything goes into the warehouse by SKU and has no further tracking.
Good point about the SNR.

The hand curation is coming back and not only at Google and there's a weird feeling that in the end we want "humans" as much as "results". Even the most satisfying algorithmic result don't have the same as a collection made by a group (considering that algorithm cannot pass some SEO version of the Turing test of course).
Pretty good, but also quite niche. I think many people who build fences are not doing it just to keep things out, but also to keep things in, mark territory, provide security against more than just deer, aesthetics, etc.

However, on the fence industry, I could see a shake-up of fence estimation software. Perhaps one that uses ML to take the data necessary for an estimation (geographic data based on asker's location + parameters, materials & prices needed for the job, labor, etc) and create an estimation at the click of a button rather than from human input and calculations? Could help to bring your fence cost down (marginally, but still).

My dad was in this business his whole life, and said the software in the industry right now is shite. Ripe for disruption.
I am not being paid. Also it was good planning of me to set-up my account 908 days ago.

I just have a passion for protecting parts of football by regulation. Not every sport is about TV rights.
The Law of Demeter in the era of microservices
Who says we need a monetization method?

The web existed and was great pre-advertising.
Device is $999.

But cost of training personnels is probably thousands more than that..
Many people expect similar UIs for better branding and easier workflow.
Monday Night Football matchups are usually unimportant and/or lobsided.
Exactly. And since that piece is missing, I wouldn't describe that team "great", but at most "good" or "promising". Maybe "promising but incomplete" is the best description.

As a team leader (or manager) one of your most important tasks is to choose the members and to get them together. If you didn't fill in all needed roles, you haven't finished that task.

(I wanted to add a Tom DeMarco quote here, but I don't recall which of his books described how to build a software development team - perhaps "The Deadline"?)
As for not paying the NFL enough to make it worthwhile:

Someone will pick up the rights to show the games, or the league will offer their own service, or the games won't be played on Mondays/Thursdays and will go back to just being a Sunday sport.

Regarding losing their audience and destroying their value:

I stopped following the NFL not because of politics (the kneeling thing hadn't yet started), but because their product was no longer worth my time. Thirty+ years as a fan, watching nearly every single game the local team played and I turned it off a couple years ago. It should not take 3+ hours for 60 minutes of "play", the bulk of which involves no action. It became so overloaded with commercials that it hit the point I was no longer interested. For a short while there was hope, they had the "game in 60" replays on the NFL network. That could have been amazing. Unfortunately, they screwed that up too, showing "all the action" in the first half (good!), then a shortened version of the halftime show (why?), then "all the action" in the third quarter (good!), and then they'd jump to the end of the fourth quarter (wtf?). Why did we need a halftime show when the whole thing a) is being condensed down to an hour, b) is a replay, and c) they sacrifice showing comebacks in order to bring us talking heads?

I think they've been losing their audience for a while; the politics is just the latest (and possibly biggest) factor in their decline. If they turn things around, great. If not, I won't feel sorry for them.
Can anyone summarise the difference between BrowserView and a Webview for Electron? I'm not getting the significance between them.
Except these red herring concerns are the exact same fake concerns that those who are interested in suppressing voters come out with.
Umm no. NFL took in 15 Billion in 2015, 2/3 of the revenue came from TV, new stadiums over the last 20 years have totaled only $15 Billion of which almost half was financed by tax payers[0].

NFL will not weather well a continued hit to ratings, which were down 8% last year and dropping again this year

[0]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19smEPxvpHQE3pByhDDPb...
Microsoft employee installs Chrome mid-presentation because Edge keeps crashing
mmh ...too much noise pollution. Mammals will learn quickly to visit the area at night.
You need to identify the next big waves and decide which one you're most passionate about, and where you can add value. You shouldn't shy away from a crowded field. If the opportunity is large, a lot of people will enter the field before/after you so you need to figure out how to differentiate your product.

Here are a few tsunamis to think about:

1. Self-driving cars - which part of the value chain can you make a difference? Manufacturing, tech, ride hailing, financing, or others?

2. OTT TV - eventually, all content will be streamed. Where would the new value be created? What is the ideal experience in a world where you can watch anything, anytime on any device?

3. VR gaming/entertainment.

Everyone can see the big waves on the horizon. Not everyone knows how to ride them well...
It's so annoying. I was working on something and had a cryptography question. I said crypto and everyone jumped up, then I said, not bitcoin and everyone moaned. Hey, we saw this with the term "hacker", unfortunately, I think cryptocurrency is going to win. :( There are more people interested in it that cryptography. When you think about it, who really owns a word or phrase? Society does. So if that's were society has moved on, so be it. Don't get too worked about it.
If you're using Apple CarPlay, don't upgrade (yet?). On iOS 11 it cannot even keep up playing music without glitches. Crashed twice on me when receiving a phone call. Never had those issues on iOS 10.3.

Rebooting helps. Feels like trying to use Windows on a cheap desktop to watch an HD movie in 2001.
I'm still buying from Amazon, but only items they stock, and I'm sticking close to well name brands. Nothing shipped from anywhere else, I've just been burned far too many times.

For the same reason, I avoid Chinese-produced goods if at all possible - plus, I swear they're using gasoline as a solvent when they make anything plastic. What a stink.
Don't look for ideas, look for problems you want to solve.
The nice thing about this idea, is that even if it flops you get to have a lot of fun flying drones around!
That’s fantastic! My only suggestion would be to not require JavaScript for the page to load any text at all.
I haven't seen anybody hating on making pages "adhere to the AMP standard." When people express loathing of AMP, we're objecting to exactly what this article describes: an expansive and dishonest land grab by Google.

It is reasonable and correct to hate both web page bloat and Google's so-called "solution" that breaks the web.
Still no scale/scanner combo support, coin dispenser, or any way to use a non-overpriced receipt printer. Once again, Square is stuck doing a meh job replacing the cheap cash register and nothing more.
You can look at the raw stats yourself here[0].

I did some quick calculation here, and it looks like attendance is not lower, in fact, it's slightly higher. 2016 average attendance was 66,586, while this year's average attendance so far is 68,925.

(This doesn't account for lower-attended games towards the end of the season for poor-performing teams; end of the season games often don't sell out for such teams, and these stats may be skewed because we haven't reached the end of the season yet. If I were to guess, by year's end attendance will be slightly lower for 2017.)

What is down is ratings. That is well-documented[1].

[0]: http://www.espn.com/nfl/attendance/_/year/2016

[1]: http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/20/media/nfl-tv-ratings-week-2/...
What makes you say that? There's a (small) learning curve when using any payment system, and the existing Square app is pretty easy to use.
Or a substantial cost savings over total product lifecycle if the system is intuitive and helps to prevent errors.

Cashiers can be high turnover...
I am the lead contributor of a python library called Featuretools[0]. It is intended to perform automated feature engineering on time-varying and multi-table datasets. We see it as bridging a gap between pandas and libraries for machine learning like scikit-learn. It doesn't handle data cleaning necessarily, but it does help get raw datasets ready for machine learning algorithms.

We have actually used it to compete on Kaggle without having to perform manual feature engineering with success.

[0] https://www.featuretools.com
What do POS systems cost typically? For example, what does a standard credit card reader cost, and is there additional transaction fees ontop of what credit card companies charge?
I want a Gallina implementation of an interpreter that I can extract to OCaml using Coq.

UPDATE: found it thank you.
HATEOAS is for humans (2016)
Are POS units actually cheap? Seems to me like one of those areas where things are potentially way more expensive than it seems they should be.
Website & terminal integration that reads last ~30 lines of stdout&stderr and suggests a solution/elaboration with links back to stackoverflow/forum post that it came from. Launch as open source and sell to enterprises that want to incorporate internal knowledge bases (extract Q & A from chat logs is huge) without leaking data outside the company.

Program that takes an AST and valid transformations, learn what kinds of ASTs humans prefer and offer a high quality auto restructure code tool that guarantees no side effects.

Company that I can pay a small subscription to that works to protect my attention, ad blocking has been done fairly well for free, but that is far from the only attention hog. Most app's notifications are just distractions and should be batched, only to be looked at at the end of the day. Should be easy to take a picture of paper spam mail and have the company get it to stop. Stuff like that.

Company that picks up anything from junk to valuables and either charges or pays you based off of the value of the stuff. As a customer I'd like to take a picture of the items, receive an estimate of cost or price and only have to interact with the company, no coordinating with craigslist rando.

IoT company that produces cheap place-and-forget devices that monitor long term potential problems in houses (major changes in how vibrations carry through the walls, moisture in basement)

EDIT more:

A purely audio interface to email, specific goal being usable while walking/driving to work.

Text preprocesser that estimates what you already know (tracks what articles you read, how much of them you read) and greys out/deempahsises stuff you likely already know. Having an estimate of what someone already knows could be huge for manipulating the forgetting curve & estimating the likeliehood of understanding what is in a piece of text.

Reddit/HN like site that ranks based off of amount of work done on the item, try to be more popular than bitcointalk. Plenty of ads targeting crypto holders.
I moved last year and ended up using some street corner guys. Cost me the same as pros, more or less, but just easier for me personally. They're largely undocumented workers and a strictly cash business, though, so app-izing them would be difficult if not impossible.

However- I did also learn that it's easy to hire professional movers to just help you load a u-haul for a couple if that's what you want. Working with those companies and app-izing that labor is something that should be possible.
exactly; anyone who doesn't see the use case hasn't built a business based around unity (not recommended btw!)
That was the most valuable takeaway for me with installing and managing retail POS systems. It doesn't matter how much time you put into planning and inventory control, if the staff doesn't implement it correctly the POS will never reach it's true value as a tool. It's very important to not only have effective training, but re-training for the humans using the systems.
The problem of monopolies and cartels isn't new. It's systemic and why government enforced market regulation is necessary to protect the interests of citizens. The newer question is perhaps how you effectively nationalise or even just police organisations that are as international in their operations as google or fb. The most effective approach so far is simply to ban them in your country and grow your own as the Chinese have done.
Look friends, all I'm saying is, the NFL has other options. In its current form (IE: non-live except for pre-season) I get that the customer base is small. BUT, if ESPN or other parties drop the ball, the NFL could monetize their games through a direct-to-consumer model, IE: just because the games aren't live today doesn't mean they couldn't be in the future. Would I pay $200/year for every NFL game sans commercials? Heck yes.
or an old outdated family laptop that's several generations old and wiped clean.
I've gotta say this seems to be putting the cart before the horse.

This means that you want to be in business for the sake of it.

I've always wanted to be in business but it's always on the back of a driving sense of something that I want to do / make happen.

Just seems strange to have assembled all the ingredients without a recipe.
It should be noted that this is an unsubstantiated HUMINT report. They explicitly state they have not evaluated the information. The people who write these have to pass on the information they receive, even if it is completely unbelievable. There could be claims on fairy tail creatures, and it would still be written with the same language. There would have been additional follow ups to determine reliability and things like that.
If retailers actually started using the EPC standard this would be easy. EPC is the RFID equivalent of a UPC barcode, and it has the capability to also transmit a unique serial number for each product. If this were actually used, it would be simple to deploy an interface for a customer to verify when/where the product was manufactured through when/where it was sold. Unfortunately it seems the adoption of EPC has stalled in the last few years (AFAIK, I'm no longer as involved in the retail supply chain), which is interesting because I had high hopes for it. I remember buying a package of socks 5+ years ago that already had an RFID tag embedded in the packaging.
Holochain
> Can't watch ALL games live right? That's hardly completely superior.

You can't on television, either.
It's never been corroborated - besides photographs of uncertain provenance and this hearsay-of-hearsay memo, the only evidence of Hitler in South America is conspiracy-theory grade.

These documents were released to the FBI Vault site in 2015 (although I think they may have been declassified even earlier) and keep reappearing every few years, usually when someone gets the bright idea of reposting them on 4chan.
Not a stupid question at all!

An invariant that is true of all loop iterations is true of all loop iterations even if the loop diverges. Again, I'm not sure what the implications are for divergence in this setting but it doesn't prevent one from proving loop invariants.
Should You Get an AWS Certification?
It's sad that such great books are only available in paper form
No cash drawer?
Square is a privacy nightmare. They track your purchases across stores and tie your email to your credit card. The worst part is there is no "opt in" either. There is no privacy policy or terms of service that I agree to. My only option is to either pay in cash or not shop there.
Training usually isn't bad, Square's POS offering has few features. Remember that you'll still need a receipt printer ($300) and a cash drawer ($100 to $200). Not a terribly impressive offering IMO
The point is more that creating patents doesn’t add value whatsoever, nor is it representative of adding value in some other way.

The only people that see a net gain on patents are lawyers, and big corps- that’s why they spend billions on them.
And we know it's humans who made the increase of CO2 from the measurements of the carbon isotopes in the ice cores, which stored the state of the air from the earlier times. Human burning of the fossil fuels changes the isotope ratio exactly: it is certain that just humans, burning the fossil fuels, are those who change the CO2 concentration through the years.
I'm itching to set one up as a side project...
Philz in the dogpatch already has one of these and it looks pretty cool! They should keep their distinctive white design though because it was instantly recognizable as a Square reader.
That sounds like the webpack development server was somehow started, which definitely is not required (or even recommended) for production setups.
It's simple. Add another person to the team who has a brilliant, world beating idea but no working capital, great team, etc. You can talk to several to see who has the "best" idea. For a start on this process you can contact me :-)

PS: I use google's email service and have the same id there as I have on YC.
It is correct to hesitate to guess ethnicity based on names. Quite sure there are plenty of people of color named Smith and Johnson.

Also, even if these were Caucasian names, the article states that the system disproportionately targets people of color; looking at the 10 most common combinations proves nothing one or another with respect to the assertion in the article.
* Doesn't respect parking minimums

* Doesn't respect sebacks

* Inadequate green space

* Floor-area ratio way beyond acceptable.

Complete planning failure!
Contact me https://www.linkedin.com/in/alain-richardt/

would like to chat in private! :)
Hey, I have great idea but not capital. I'm sure there are many from the YC rejects batch that feel the same, and a few that are probably correct. Perhaps you should call for those, and see if there's an idea that got passed on, not due to a bad idea, but rather to perhaps lack of a solid team. I'm a solo founder working part time on my idea and don't have a team, so I'm sure that contributed in me getting rejected.
Following that same logic you probably should stop using a lot of websites out there.