skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data Scientist with a Master of Public Administration degree here (don't ask). My proposal for solving this has always been to frame it as an optimization problem.

You have a certain number of census tracts (essentially, neighborhoods) with known populations and geographic areas. You know you need to divide the state into X congressional districts.

You should simply assign census tracts to districts such that 1) you end up with X districts, 2) each district's total population is within a Y% tolerance of state population / X, 3) you minimize the average of the lengths of the district borders (to force maximum geographic compactness).

Given available data from the Census, some mucking around in PostGIS or ESRI, and a state-of-the-art commercial solver like Gurobi, there's absolutely no reason this couldn't be done.

It'd also be trivial to add on requirements for balancing demographics or political affiliation within certain tolerances as well.
ask the dev ( who is very friendly ) to add a list of apps to filter out ;-)
Apple has joined AOM is different to Apple announcing support.
He lives in Estonia, that is a very "strange" place when it comes to the use of public key encryption.

Most places using chips for payment is a continuation of the magnetic strip and pin, only that now the chip can attempt to verify that the payment terminal and bank connection is functioning correctly before accepting the pin and approving the transaction details the terminal is sending to the bank.

In the end the transactions are basically ledger entries, be them manual or digital.
Party list systems reward party insiders you don't get a direct say in who represents you which is the down side.
IMHO this is sending a strong signal to people like myself who mainly use an iPhone for privacy reasons. Regardless of whether or not the data is only stored encrypted at the 3rd party, their willingness to compromise in this regard is a strong indicator for their future actions and their commitment to privacy and security.
Not OP, but I live in the US and don't pay fees on transfers between my brokerage account and checking account. They take a few days to clear though.
Is it not possible to just not connect it to the Internet?
Yes, it is separate. However, Ort der tatsächlichen Geschäftsleitung is Germany. That means you should pay taxes in Germany (if you do is another mattter, but if you don't and the Finanzamt finds out, you are in for a rough ride).
Writing an API Wrapper in Elixir with HTTPoison
TI makes some MEMS devices for automotive applications, but I don't know of anything in automotive with the type of complexity involved in a DLP. Their mixed signal integrated controls are pretty nuts but not mechanical.

The reason I'm not to worried about reliability is more or less as follows.
The fact that TI makes other automotive parts is important because they know exactly what kind of environment these parts will be subjected to, they know how they will be handled when they are assembled from the chips TI ships into automotive boards, and what corners will be cut when those boards are sold and turned into assemblies which are sold and turned into cars. They have plenty of experience in determining what kind of reliability intervals will be required.
TI built their first DLPs back in the 80s. They made their first commercial ones in the mid 90's. They probably never turned a profit on DLP until the mid 2000's which is about when they first demonstrated working prototype DLP headlights. They then spent 10 years refining them before taking them to market. TI isn't Facebook, they don't move fast and break things, they are an old school technology company that moves slow and reliable. If they get a reputation for poor reliability they stand to lose decades of investment and future revenue and they know it.

Another thing a lot of people probably don't know is that every TI part that fails in an automotive application gets returned to TI where a team of engineers meticulously dismantle it until they determine the exact cause of failure. They are legally obligated to do this from contracts with auto manufacturers but the net results for TI has been the development of one of the worlds most sophisticated semi-conductor reverse engineering capabilities.
Dataset to model email/communication
Anyone have a public dataset (besides ENRON) that is/well-models the internal communication mechanisms of a company? I've explored the ENRON email database and have looked into the option web crawling blogs/chat forums, but for my purposes most of them lack a specific-enough topic such that there is context behind all the data that can be analyzed in conjunction with other related data sets. In other words, I would like to model the internal datasets of a company, but am having trouble finding enough data sources that all have some level of related background context.
If Bitcoin is an illusion, then so is your 401(k)
> Yes, in Signal you for example still cannot share one photo

Well, you can in a group chat.

I also wish that Signal had better search capabilities, and export/import on iOS.

And also support for non-phone accounts.
Proportionate by whatever groups the voters self-select. If there are 13 seats then any group of 1/13th of the voters that votes for the same candidate should get that cantitate election.
Because without local representation, the representatives will almost always be from wealthy urban centers, and the only time they'll ever be out into communities that need their representation is for photo shoots.
Coderpad's Show HN launch (2013)
I think the main motivation for a developer who believes that ETH will solve the scalability challenges at some point is to master these technologies early on. I have lots of doubts about DApps but I can see why it's good to learn them now.
>Are you surprised that the legislature creates laws about how the democracy functions?

You seem to be deliberately missing the point.
Don't try to equate living beings with non-living things. Doesn't work.

My argument is that all living things can feel pain, regardless of how it manifests for them.
Check out Bill Miller's investor letter where he discusses the "certainty" of storied investors that Bitcoin will fail. Miller is the most successful mutual fund manager in history.

https://millervalue.com/certitude-not-test-certainty/

Also a good read is Miller's letter on Bitcoin from 2015. He put 1% of his fund into Bitcoin (now 50% of his fund due to the meteoric rise in price): https://millervalue.com/a-value-investors-case-for-bitcoin/
It should not be the goal of any elected official or member our federal or state governments to pass laws that violate the U.S. Constitution or state constitutions. I agree with you that judicial review is an important tool to remove such laws after they've been passed, but the current trend in U.S. federal and state legislatures is to find both blatant and subtle ways to circumvent our constitutions.
> Is there a particular standard...?

Well in this case, the legislator literally admitted to gerrymandering. See the opinion:

Rather than seeking to advance any democratic or
constitutional interest, the state legislator
responsible for drawing the 2016 Plan said
he drew the map to advantage Republican
candidates because he “think[s] electing
Republicans is better than electing Democrats.”
Ex. 1016, at 34:21–23. But that is not a
choice the Constitution allows legislative
mapdrawers to make.

I don't think there's an easy way prove gerrymandering. The only antidote is to require serious (and audit-able) bipartisan cooperation when re-drawing districts.
It’s been my belief for a while now that there’s a market for premium dumb TVs. They would:

- Use high end best binned panels (lowest possible image retention for OLED, etc)

- Traditional LCD models would have very high standards for backlight consistency

- Do little to no image processing

- Be designed around being hooked up to external media boxes

- Have a nice modern OSD text

- Allow you to use your phone as a remote via Bluetooth (and control other media center components via IR cables and HDMI commands)

- Not have any means of internet connection or any other smart functionality whatsoever

Effectively, they’d be to TVs as studio monitor headphones are to audio. Enthusiasts would jump all over something like this despite inflated prices, I have no doubt.
How do you get to a huge legislative majority from the voting pattern, except via unrepresentative districts?
Have you lived through a bubble before?

One ad in isolation doesn't mean much. It's the whole picture. Bubbles have a certain look and feel.

I am 39 which is like 80 in programmer years. I've seen a lot of fads and bubbles in my lifetime. The downside of being older is that you're not quite able (for many reasons including lifestyle and family) to work like a 20 year old, but the upside is that you've had a chance to develop a ton of meta-meta pattern recognition. Your neural net has accumulated a lot of training data.

Like I said I've lived through two mega-bubbles: dot.com and housing. This looks exactly like the tail end of those.

Deja moo, man. Deja moo.

If I held a lot of Bitcoin I would start dollar cost averaging out, like yesterday. It's better to miss out on some of the last waves in a bubble than to get caught in the monster riptide when the crash comes.

Edit: if you do get caught in the crash, do this:

If you can't convert to USD/EUR/etc., take your Bitcoin or whatevercoin and transfer it out of an exchange and into a private wallet that you control. If the transaction fees are high just eat it. Better to get it out of an exchange that could collapse at any second. Then just sit on it. Be prepared to sit on it for years. It may eventually regain at least some of its former value. In the meantime buy popcorn and watch the show.
I would describe 4000 square feet as enormous.

2000 square feet is plenty of upkeep if you aren't paying someone to do it.
> I am reasonably sure will still list near the top, 10 years from now.

There's no reason involved here, you're just guessing.
That is an argument for local government not for how we elect our representatives to a national body. Do we really want representatives pulling spending to a particular geographic region? It seems to me that people in San Francisco have more in common with people in New York than people in Fresno. Even cities may not be appropriate to divide up the population. Maybe we should divide representation by occupation, education level, or wealth. After all geography is mostly just a proxy for wealth.

A good first step would be proportional representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
You're grossly missing the point. If your kid steals money from your wallet, you catch them and punish them. That does not make what they did right just because they were punished and you deemed their behavior unacceptable. What if you didn't find out? Or what if you decided to look the other way because it was only five dollars?
Yeah I’m with you on that but mostly because I’ve grew up on shitty chat apps that would allow glitches and wouldn’t handle participants correctly. For example in MSN you could write as the other person in a 1-to-1 chat. The first time someone did that to me I unpluged the ethernet cord from my computer.

Anyway these are small issues because the attack still doesn’t reveal any messages to the attacker. These are more about UI/UX issues.
Making sense of Meltdown/Spectre with Sysdig
Good question. Preload that actually renders the documents includes running enough javascript and parsing enough CSS that the initial document will render. With a non-constrained document, that can include fetching resources not on Google's servers and which can peg the CPU, causing jank.

If you do constrain what can run in your preload to avoid these, you end up designing AMP.
Personal anecdote:

I know of a retired magistrate judge that acquired over 30 residential properties via tax-delinquency sales.

These properties, not in the best condition, were used as Section 8 HUD housing, with no improvements made.

Tactics included keeping the utilities in the landlord's name to be able to shut-off water, electric, or gas at a moment's notice.

Many of the tenants were former defendants with the magistrate court that the judge oversaw.

Additionally, barter was used in lieu of security deposits and partial rent payments - the tenant could fix-up the property.

However, the tenants lacked any ability to properly repair anything, and the repairs caused further damage to the properties.

The wife of the landlord, insisted he divest himself of these properties before his death, so she would not have to continue to deal with this.

However, he did die, she inherited the properties, and is too old to have the energy to deal with this.

As you said, "too old or bothered to do it themselves".

Some of these properties now sit unoccupied, but cannot pass inspection because of the substandard repairs, and further disintegrate.

I know of one particular property that was not winterized (unoccupied), and I am certain the pipes have frozen and cracked.

At this point, the property should be razed (roof issues, structural issues, mildew, pests), but that costs money too.
I wonder if chips like the new Intel with AMD integrated GPU would change things. You should be able to simply hand off memory to the GPU to do its thing and read the result by just mapping physical pages back into your address space.
Those who can’t make it to the middle of nowhere DMV. Texas was particularly egregarious about this, at the same time they made voter ID required, they closed down DMV offices in poorer democratic areas. Heck, the reason IDs are so contentious in the first place is that southern states have abused them in the past to suppress minority voting rights.
That's not a district plan, it's a different way of apportioning representation. Hence my confusion.
False equivalency. Look more closely at the kinds of things being done by both parties and you will see a major effort to concentrate wealth, destroy government, and institute a more theocratic and plutocratic society on one side, while there are more relatively minor infractions on the other. The left, by and large, is the reasonable side at present. It has its problems, but at least they aren’t cancerous.
If the state is 50/50, why isn't the legislature? The whole point of the democratic process is for the lawmaking body to be representative of the people. One person, one vote. Gerrymandering undermines the very foundation of democracy.
If I'm an american and want to buy something in china, I need to pay renminbi. Typically this happens via some proxy financial institution, who will process the transaction through the various distributed global currency markets.

The same could be true in the future of crypto, although national borders may not be the defining trait, but rather the relative properties of a currency and preferences of the sender or recipient. There are enough nuances between crytpocurrencies that there is room for more than a handful.
I have a friend who's been investing loads of cash into BTC and doing well. My advice to him (and others) is to take a certain % out every time it spikes and transfer it to a more stable currency, while leaving enough in that it can continue to snowball. This is doable.

For instance, he took $2k and turned it into $12k in a few months. I told him, "Take 4k out and put it into an index fund." That way, he comes out ahead no matter how you slice it, even if he loses the rest of what he has in BTC. If what he has remaining in BTC goes up to $18K, I'd take another $4K out and move it into an index fund. Rinse and repeat.

It's not as risky if you run it that way.
One word of advice to everyone thinking about Stripe Atlas living outside of the USA: Please discuss plans to incorporate with an Accountant beforehand. You are still liable to pay taxes in the country where you effectively operate from.
> What made said tokens currency was not the metal, but the stamp.

No, at least not always.

IIRC, in Ancient Greece the money was the precious metal itself and its value of a coin was reckoned based on its weight and purity. The stamp was just an indicator of purity. The very largest amounts of money were measured using weight units (e.g. talents).

It would have been impossible for it to be otherwise, since there were so many competing coin standards (e.g. a drachma in one city could be made to a very different standard to another, with standard weights possibly varying by as much as 50% or something).
Note also that Google doesn't show AMP for desktop user-agents.
Apparently there is a way, but it's complicated and probably doesn't translate from cake to maps (you don't end up with neat slices, but rather a collection of different sized pieces):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-algorithm-solves-cake-cut...

And it's not clear if one of the cake cutters could sacrifice their own slice to benefit one of the others (in return for a bribe).
Representatives are always from wealth centers in the status quo.
Except bitcoin isn't speculative, bitcoin has real value. It makes a great hedge against inflation and the global demand for it is a testimony to that.

While it's true that we could be seeing over-inflated prices now or in the future, I FULLY believe that the value of bitcoin will always increase over the long term.

It's a principal of the technology it's deflationary.

That's not a bubble my friend.
Our 5th iteration in 100 days
It would also be abused "Papiere, Bitte"
How to Halve the Cost of Residential Solar in the US
What are you on about?

The title is a little clickbaity, but the article is talking about AV1, it's a sort of hybrid between Daala, VP10 and Thor. Nothing to do with VP9 (well not directly).

Daala is an attempt to avoid patents by avoiding techniques used by current encoders. VP10 uses google's patents that the MPEG LA tried to fight but backed down once the DOJ got in the middle, and Thor uses Cisco's patents.

What you should get is something similar to the opus codec. A patent free state of the art codec. Preliminary tests that I know of (early 2017) showed it only slightly better that HEVC, but the goal is to have 50% better compression rate than HEVC/VP9, if they're going to achieve it or not, I have no idea.
> Anybody who's seen the sun rising east and setting west knows that this is true: the Sun rotates around the Earth.

Just small remarks: technically it's not East and West, it changes.

Well, according to the basic physics laws: also yes. Yes because it depends on the observer. No, because it depends on the observer. The Copernicus book was about a theoretical model of an observer outside the planetary system (he didn't even claim that it was true "it was just a theory" - that's why he had no problems with the funny Catholic guys who burnt people for less).

But back to the point: both claims a true: Sun travels in space around Earth... and at the same time Earth does the same around Sun. All depends on the observer.

Maybe with the software it's the same?
They are called condominiums.
related: guess why the state legislature radically altered the UNC board of governors
Redisplay the stop sign in the (TI DLP) HUD.

Outline pedestrians, similarly.

Give me a distance, stopping reaction countdown, and alert me to children doubly so lest they suddenly break from adults. I would think that indication that pedestrians are facing towards or back to traffic is important for me to get quickly as well.

This kind of information would greatly reduce my fatigue when driving long journeys through England's west country and any area with narrow twisting, often tree covered, roads.
Historically this was to ensure that rural areas had equivalent representation to urban centers. Agricultural areas, for example, might have very different opinions about tariffs on foreign products because it would effect their livelihoods in a significant way whereas the city dwellers probably wouldn't notice too much.

Our lives and our industries are tied to the land we live on. It's not just rural and urban: there's coastal and landlocked, desert and forest, tropical and arctic, etc. Each of these areas have unique concerns when it comes to policies that effect their land and the industries that their land lends itself to.
Changes to fuel costs aren't totally inelastic. The problem for altering consumer behavior is:

1. The decisions that change fuel consumption - what car to buy and where to live/work - are taken infrequently, and so make feedback slow.

2. People are bad at weighing costs that don't show up in the sticker price. This is addressable and addressed through incentives applied at the time of purchasing a car rather than purchasing fuel.

Issue 1 also applies to business users (automotive and industrial alike), and is inherent to any big infrastructure transition - even with a ban, you'd still have this long lead time.

Issue 2 is solvable on the consumer side with proper structuring of incentives. Both the American subsidies for electrics and the European punitive taxes on gasoline cars seem effective at changing public behavior, and have made EVs competitive earlier than they otherwise would have been (hence spurring a lot of private R&D money that would not have flowed otherwise).
I gather that ES6 is most of the way to SES, and the Frozen Realms proposal linked in the article is the last bit needed.
Thanks. I wasn’t aware that a story could be down-weighted as a result of being flagged, without it showing as “flagged”.

I’m in the process of building a tool that will detect which stories have been torpedoed (for any reason) so that people don’t miss out on discussions that are popular but deemed inappropriate for HN. It seems a lot of these stories are political in nature.
I hadn't heard of this startup, but it's a really cool idea that seems simple to implement. Those are my favorite kinds of ideas.
While you're not wrong, this strikes me as the cost of doing business in China. For comparison, AWS and Azure both operate under local partners in China.

e: "strikes me as" == "is"; it's not really optional.
They don’t but this can easily be fixed by having the admin send a special encrypted message to the group as proof that someone was added/removed.
Elon doesn't believe in public transit. Too many plebes packed into too little space. He'd rather move people in their cars instead, and if there's anything New York City does not need it's more cars.
The road was obviously not designed with cyclists in mind, it was designed to enable cars to merge into the road quickly. The punishment is exactly what you describe: "we failed to anticipate bycicle traffic and so we'll make it impossible to go fast because we made a bad design."
Can you expand on this? Are large businesses spread across the land in these areas?
Elon won't save you here. You gotta wait for his magic gridlock-reducing self-driving cars.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-t...

“I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time.”

“It’s a pain in the ass,” he continued. “That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”

When the audience member responded that public transportation seemed to work in Japan, Musk shot back, “What, where they cram people in the subway? That doesn’t sound great.”
Well, constitutional amendments aren't laws, for a start.
Groups maybe, but sometimes I do not want groups as people I share photos to speak different languages for example.
I'm curious why you would need to block MAC addresses. Why wouldn't just not plugging in ethernet and not giving it the WiFi password be sufficient to stop your TV from going online?