skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that voting is secure and accurate. So, they are the ones claiming the voters to be reptiloids.

No, they are not. They are claiming the normal state of affairs - that the vote is what it appears to be, and the voters that appear humans are indeed humans. The challenger makes extraordinary claim - that some of them are instead not what they appear, but reptiloids wearing human skin as a costume. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Claim that humans are humans do not require proof. Claiming that voting process is not fraudulent is not extraordinary, since this is indeed a common case in vast majority of the situations.

> She's asserting statistical anomalies that can be clarified with additional information

Which anomalities? So far nobody named even one.

> the state's assertion of security without sufficient proof.

It's not a proof, just as I have no proof you are not a reptioloid from Nibiru trying to undermine human race by casting doubt on electoral processes. I just accept the normal case that you are human wanting honest elections, even with slightly misguided logic - because this is the common case. That's what you have to do to be sane - in fact, there's specific form of insanity where person suspects all surrounding him is an elaborated setup to trick them and demands extensive proofs of most mundane things like that drinking tap water won't instantly kill them and that their relatives are not secretly plotting to murder them - and it is almost always an extremely severe and debilitating condition.

> A simple one would be paper-receipts with anonymous identifiers that tie votes to tallies published on-line.

What prevents one from faking 10000 anonymous IDs voting for $ones_favorite_candidate? All anonymous IDs look alike, how do you verify they are true? In fact, sine you have no idea which of the IDs is yours, how you even know your vote has been recorded properly? How do you know the hardware just doesn't print one vote for $favorite_candidate after each vote against, with fake (or just unused - e.g. dead person's) ID?

> Speaking of hashes, there's also block-chain.

Oh of course. How could I forget, every problem in the world has one simple solution - use blockchain.

> but start by at least closing known vulnerabilities

Sure, that is sensible. But for that they should be known - and so far, the statistician in question didn't make them known, but only implied and hinted at. That's exactly my complain. When I say "there's RCE vulnerability in current version of Linux", you say "ok, show me the exploit", not "well, now it's on Linus Torvalds to prove there's no RCE in current version on Linux, and he must spend as much time as that guy wants to prove it to him". I would like to see the same approach in this case, that's all.
This. AppEngine assumes an "always on" mentality and is far from "pay for use" unless your "use" is 24/7.
Yes, it's easy to write a TI-BASIC program on a TI graphic calculator. It's barely less easy to open your web browser, type in "jsfiddle" or "shadertoy," and get coding environments that have considerably better and more instant feedback than what's available on your TI. And that's before opening up your app store and searching for "compiler" or "IDE."
China is a bad example with its hukou system in place. Sure you can migrate to the city for a better job but you have to leave your kids behind (no public school without hukou). Labor mobility but at great costs.
It's a standard feature in Android phones in general.
Would that bring a testosterone boost then, or like milder balls or something?
This is what P-values are for
GCF still suffers from JS lock-in, as they currently only support Node, thus you can't make a .NET comparison in the first place. That being said, of the various offers I really like the UI and the like.

Disclaimer: I am at Google, but not on GCF.
True, the Streisand effect in action. But even if they can accomplish their goal of keeping people from English language information there's plenty of people that know English already and will spread what they learn. "Information wants to be free," is a truism.
Is it callous of me not to worry about the testosterone levels of professional athletes? Because they seem to generally have enough. I worry more about people with RSI who often depend on overuse of anti-inflammatory meds and aren't demonstrably professionally masculine.
Qgrid: An interactive grid for sorting, filtering, and editing DataFrames
In a way that was my point, I just wasn't really good at relaying it. Of course there are many incompetent male engineers but it's more noticeable when they are a "diversity hire".

I don't present my situation as anything more than anecdotal, it's just what I've noticed. And to answer your question no the manager does not treat male developers the same way, they're held to a higher standard. In fact the "middle-aged white male" has to be above average at this particular company to be kept on.
JIT Fuzzing Solver: experimental constraint solver using coverage-guided fuzzing
Okay, so ibuprofen impacts testicular function, acetaminophen/paracetamol causes muting of emotional response (along with the liver toxicity), many other painkillers are related to ibuprofen, and opiates are Right Out.

Is aspirin at least reasonably safe as long as the blood thinning isn't a problem?
The population has grown such that urban areas have far less acreage per person than they use to, so there's more competition for housing in that neighborhood.

Plus, income distributes follow a pareto distribution: in DC a 60th percentile family earns between ~35% more money than an 50th percentile family does, and a 70th percentile family earns ~35% more than a 60th family does, etc.

Those two factors are behind the explosion in housing prices around the nation. The same number of people can afford to pay substantially more for housing than they could previously. When you were growing up, your parents were competing with median income families for housing. But today, you're competing with ~70th percentile families for the same housing (per your income assessment).

The solution is to tear down low-density suburbs and replace them with high density residencies. But there's no incentive to do this because people are more than willing to just spend more time commuting so they can have a yard to mow on the weekends.
No, the title is correct. One of the sources described that the satellite burned up in the atmosphere. And sure, it could be a smokescreen.
Fireplaces make sense, as now I recall that you get subsidies if you have a car which is able to turn gasoline into electricity.
I wanted to play with the Rift and develop some apps for it, but the Mac isn't supported. So I got an external GPU to power it. Using Windows, because they abandoned Mac driver development. That's EUR 449 for the Rift and EUR 699 for the eGPU incl. the respective GPU. EUR 1198.

I eventually returned the Rift because I couldn't find a reasonable way to get it working with my Mac. I was checking out the Vive because everyone seems to be using it for development. It's EUR 699. WOW. That's when I thought: "screw it."

I would love to build something with it. It seems to have so much potential. But I really think that the current prices for the headsets are simply outrageous.

For me, it's far too expensive for a hobby. Maybe when it's more affordable. I don't want to know how much the "Pro" will cost.
This Is the Fascinating Way Blue Eyes Get Their Colour
Rust 2018: Use Relentless Positivity
> If you're going to be handling http requests it's almost a given you'll be using AppEngine rather than Cloud Functions

Why? Cloud Functions support HTTP.

I mean, if you can stay within AppEngine’s free tier quotas, there's a clear reason to use it, but otherwise it would seem to be a matter of weighing pros and cons, with HTTP alone not deciding that you should use AE over CF.
Yes, that is part of her job, but it wasn't covered in the interview process from what I've been told.
Yeah I guess so. But it is such a slick and effective solution compared to the CV thing that the Rift uses. It really wasn't doing it for me and the tracking/occlusion was not great, especially for moving/turning around more. That being said, the optics and controllers on the Rift are superior hands down.
At 1200mg/d, I feel like destroying your reproductive system would be the least of your concerns.
It's not the same argument in the least; it's just shock value nonsense you're pedaling in hopes of coming up with relevancy.

>>which is really discouraging and fits with the trend of discourse on HN for the last year or so.

Yeah, the guy who is posting terrible rape analogies is the guy I trust to judge what is or isn't discouraging with regards to the value of discourse on this website.
> Sources say the secretive Zuma satellite was lost by SpaceX

> As of right now reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally

Headline is in complete contradiction with the content of the article.
You are wrong on the long term goal and vision for FxOS: in 2.6 we started to add very webby stuff to the overall UX with "pin the web" features.

And I wonder who the platform team was supporting then, because they were not supporting b2g either...

I'm sympathetic to the idea of building a great desktop browser, but at this point in time that should not be MoCo priority #1. Hopefully the platform improvements done recently will be reused in a different context.
Rrrright. That's what they want you to think.
So these morning gym workouts are killing us!?
The A380 is hardly flown by anyone, never mind US carriers. Airbus is likely going to end production if they can't land another large order in the next year or two. It's an amazing aircraft that just doesn't fit the modern market. Airbus read the preexisting market trends correctly when deciding to build the A380, hub airports were becoming incredibly crowded and increasing the passengers per plane seemed to be the obvious solution at the time. However, they didn't foresee the market reacting to overcrowding by paying a premium to fly out of smaller, more local airports.

My local airport is a perfect example of this. It has gone from hosting just single digit numbers of regularly scheduled flights a day, with all of them being ~20-30 minute connector flights to nearby hubs on regional jets, to hosting well over a dozen 737-sized flights each day. All of that has happened in just ~15 years and it's partially down to the growth of my area but also how dissatisfied passengers were with driving 90-120 minutes to the 2 nearby, overcrowded, oft delayed hubs. I held off from committing to using my local airport up until this year as the price difference was $200 or more, but demand has risen to the point that the difference has fallen to around $100. The convenience alone is a winner but the savings in parking alone make up a third of the difference even if I park at the airport instead of taking an uber.

Article: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/15/the-airbus-a380-is...
I did the same thing, but instead over the phone. The customer support rep didn't hesitate to switch over my service.
> and take your time

That's the catch. In some cities, you have to shovel snow in front of your house by a certain time or get a ticket. If you have responsibilities (kids or whatever), have to get to work, and have to shovel before heading out or take a fine, you don't exactly have time to do it slowly. Health be damned.

So I live in a condo and hire people to do it ;)
You might like this blog post from John Myles White: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/03/22/modes-medi...

It compares mode, median, and mean as each being specific implementations of a more general concept of discrepancy.
Most millionaires acquired it, largely, via inheritance, not hard work.
I found the documentary "Orange Sunshine" to be a very illuminating tale of licit (and then illicit) synthesis and distribution of psychedelics, mainly LSD-25 but they do mention psilocin, etc.

At one point they had produced 10,000 doses in one synth, a grief-fueled synth. An anecdote to be sure, but a hell of an anecdote I won't ruin by paraphrasing any further.

This naturally leads into the story of ALD-52, also known as Orange Sunshine. The analogue people liked more than LSD-25 itself. Which is an entirely new interesting tale of injustice and prosecutor overreach, with an entirely new bunch of folks.

"...And Justice for All" indeed.
https://blog.searchencrypt.com/tech/search-encrypt-work/

This is more info on how we encrypt your searches.
I haven't been following the case all that closely, but one person quoted mirrors my feelings, and that is that the government case was a "slam dunk". Seemed clear to me: these are the rules, Bundy blatantly broke those rules (almost baiting the government, IMO), so it's just a matter of doing the paperwork.

So why, oh why, does the prosecution screw this up? Habit? Incompetence? It was not as "slam dunk" as we amateurs thought? I'm trying to give the prosecution the benefit of the doubt, but I'm having a really hard time of it.
> That's a defensible approach, even today

Not if you are dishonest about it. Not if you refuse to learn from the past couple decades.
sleeping with them - I broke 5 pairs sleeping with them (well, QC20). I now use $5 earbuds from the local dollar store which are much less of a headache to replace.
>If someone is incompetent and also happens to be from a minority group then everyone starts complaining about how they are a "diversity hire" but with incompetent white males they just shrug and go "that's the way it is." In other words, it is so common with white males that no one even notices.

You could be right this is definitely a possibility. I did not intend to suggest that all white male programmers are awesome, certainly not the case.
Ask HN: Need help with distributed application infrastucture design
Hey HN,

I hope some smart brains here can lead me to the right direction. I am looking for a simple yet robust data replication and transfering mechanism for a web application i am writing.

The main things i need:

1) Replicate login & configuration data to X nodes (email servers)

2) Count emails by status (dropped, forwarded, ...) [statistics]

3) Save (some) emails back to the Web application [logging]

4) 2 & 3 are A LOT of data. It must be able to handle that without losing any

The guys from the postgres IRC made me realize that multimaster is not only overkill (and many people are afraid of running them) but also simply not the right solution.

1) is easy using Postgres master slave replication

2 & 3 however are not so easy in my head. And 4 is kind of out my knowledge scope.

I've thought about the following 3 implementations:

a) Doing a Master-Master replication. Having the secondary master doing the hard work. Like replicating to others, plus receiving statistics (directly over network). I am not sure how smart it is to use the same database, even more in such a approach.

b) Doing statistics (and most likely also the email logs) in a seperate database, that provides a thin API my application can query & cache. Statistics are everywhere in my interface, so i would likely still replicate/cache the relevant data back to my main application. But the heavy writing does not directly impact my web application.

c) Maybe using something like logstash to handle the information load and drip the relevant info out into the web applications database.

I realize this topic is just hard, however i feel like i am missing something obvious.
There's really no citation available so to speak for my comment, unless you want citations in Economics texts. It's fairly rational activity by landlords (or anyone who has controlled supply of any good/service) to take. The vacancy rates aren't surprising to me but there are other effects that cause that number to rise/fall, not just rent control (though the arrow is in the expected direction based on policy).
There is more detail available in the benchmark runs at https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/tree/master/benchsuite...

However, those are from 2016, and so it's hard to tell what might have changed in the meanwhile.
some people can't handle the effect on the stomach. but if you can handle it, it's a good choice. Or marijuana
I mentioned this to my wife (who is a doctor) and her response was basically "no duh." She said they learned about this in med school. Her explanation was that this is typically happening to people who rarely exercise and then all of a sudden are physically exerting themselves for a sustained period of time.
It is not so uncommon to have problems with electricity distribution during heavy snow fall in the country side. Especially when the temperature is close to zero, the snow is heavy and may cause the trees to bend on power lines causing power outages.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16098676

640+ comments
Yeah, whatever, maybe some other stuff too. I should have written `epsilon N s.t. N is a minimal set that satisfies Peano's axioms`. The point is that it is not true that set theory implies some encoding. When Hilbert's epsilon is used, there is no encoding in any meaningful sense.

The main difference between type theories and set theories is that type theories have particular syntactic discipline. Everything else is or can be a feature of set theories, too.
JAMES DAMORE vs. GOOGLE, LLC Case # 18CV321529 [pdf]
for examples like this it is much better to explicit ignore error:

_ = index.Index(identifier, your_data)

it will also pass https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck check

eventually we can just panic error

if err := index.Index(identifier, your_data); err != nil {
panic(err)
}
Credit cards barely exist there :)
Brain Surgery in 3-D: Coming Soon to the Operating Theater
isn't a cell phone just the most recent folk devil? [1]

It used to be rock and roll.

Before that it was dungeons and dragons.

Trace it back far enough, and you get to the moral panic when people started reading books.

the fear of new technologies is a cyclical phenomenon. maybe one day the fear will be well-placed, but the historical record suggests that contemporary individuals can't tell the difference.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_devil
The green stuff might have been the VMX register files - those things were pretty huge (128 registers per thread, each register 16 bytes, so 212816=4 KiB per core). While the L1 cache was higher capacity (32 KiB) as a general rule of thumb faster memory uses more die area per bit.

But I seem to remember being told that the green areas were the VMX pipelines. I don't remember clearly, and the hardware people I asked at the time were uncertain - they were too far removed from that aspect of the hardware.

The other reason to assume that the blue is the caches is because it is closer to the cross-bar and the cross-bar is what connects the cores to the L2. Incoming data from the L2 goes first to the L1 caches so they would logically be on that side.
You can visit http://archive.is/vqFuM to view the paper.
You're ignoring what they said. They're not you, so stop trying to force them to either become you or be better than you were. Just let your kids be kids and grow on their own.
I'd rather not say which exact states, but she was non-pregnant and not considered disabled by the state or the federal government despite applying for it, having the statements of her doctors, and having had a kidney transplant, chronic pain that prevented sitting and standing, blood clots, and lupus. So in the eyes of the state, despite having no income, she was not eligible for medicaid. They did tell her that if her kidney started to fail again then they _might_ consider her disabled, but she shouldn't expect another transplant because you typically only get one.

She was recently determined medically disabled by the federal government and now just needs to get through the financial eligibility steps.
KEXP Radio Alarm Clock in Bash and Cron
I'm guessing the kids want the notifications and the mom doesn't want to go in and modify the setting in all the apps across all the phones (I sure wouldn't). I think an easier approach would be to simply put them into do not disturb mode.
> a way of merging multiple HyperLogLogs together and still have a reasonable cardinality estimate?

HLLs can be merged together with the same sort of result as if you ran the whole set over the same HLL.

The merge can't do better than that, but it can do that even if you mess around a bit with the HLL sizes (like, HIVE-18079 is fixing p=14 bits to be p=10 accuracy by default, while retaining old HLLs as-is).
Maybe saying that the payload was lost, it's part of their plan to keep whatever was launched as secret and confidential as possible.
I always try it because it works really well when you're somewhere it's supported but I still feel like I'm half reaching for my wallet every time I use it, just in case it fails.

My local grocery store (3min walk from my house) supports it, most coffee shops and drug stores and the like do as well. Hell, I don't even carry my wallet most days.

I got some odd looks using it in Canada and NZ but that was when apple pay was newer; I think it was about using my phone, not about contactless.
Linux kernels did not make use of PCID until version 4.14 but your hardware was capable on processors from 2010 onwards.
I sometimes imagine, with horror, what would happen if after 500 years of progress, humanity were to realize that almost all cultural practices they painfully, one by one, undid, were all sensible to begin with for reasons that humanity didn't previously understand.
I tend to use naproxen but something tells me that would kill me as well
I mean, I guess some consider that you don’t have to maintain the servers and therefore it’s transparent to you and “serverless”.
Nope, Atlassian's HQ is Sydney. Definitely Australian-based.
Aptiv and Lyft’s self-driving BMWs are picking up CES passengers
You technically can hack it to work:

https://medium.com/@salmaan.rashid/running-net-on-google-clo...

Native support for more languages is coming.
Why So Cold? Climate Change May Be Part of the Answer
I wonder how this addresses the screen door aspect of VR? I notice it particularly in Fallout 4 VR, and really would like a resolution upgrade. It runs smoothly enough already on a 1080
That's interesting. I've travelled to the US about 20 times during the past 6 years, and each time has been reasonably smooth. I have found the CBP officers to be reasonably polite and efficient.

I recall only two instances of being asked more than 2 questions:

1. Once when I had two trips to the US with a very short gap (a business trip to my employer's head office, followed a week later by a job interview for a non-US job at a US-owned company, at their HQ in a different US city).

2. Once (~10 years ago) when I travelled to the US on a whim to visit a friend, and didn't answer clearly a question about who I planned to see when I was in the US (because I hadn't yet called to arrange to meet all the friends I wanted to see).

In both cases the CBP officers asked reasonable questions, and were polite enough. It's probably useful for them to act in a way that makes people a little nervous, though.