skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just asked for an example. I'm in EU and I guarantee you that those less wealthy were hurt more during the whole crisis. They couldn't get money out of their accounts. Some couldn't buy food. There were accounts that got the haircut with money for their salaries and so on. The top 0.1% likely knew what was coming and got their money out in time.

But the whole thing is not really all that relevant to the original point - that money in your bank account is controlled by the bank, not you. Many different people may decide that you should not have access to it after all. Currently you can have your account frozen because you had something to do with Bitcoin. Maybe next time the reason will be that you supported EFF. Sounds ridiculous, right? Well the present is ridiculous when you look at it from some years ago.

And to be clear, there are many cases where the fact that it is the bank that controls that money is a good thing. Especially when the governments, central bank and banks excel at what they're doing.
Music is no longer a social movement. Back in the day being a fan of the Clash went far beyond music you were joining a social/political movement, something you believed in. Katy Perry might sing a catchy tune but its all about her personal ego, Joe Strummer say himself as a Che Guevara, a revolutionary socialist leader, a lot more than just a singer of hit songs. Songs became hits because they gave you a vision you could believe and participate in.
In the future, would you mind typing the word "photovoltaics"?

It's a bit frustrating to have to leave mid-read to define an acronym.
Mandatory voting is ridiculous. President McPresident face doesnt need any votes.

It makes voting more expensive, and not more representative. What you need to make is voting easier, not forcible. If you could cast your vote online you would see a surge in honest voting.
No, he's not trying to minimise the area between the test curve and the 'popularity' curve; rather, he's trying to maximise this area (which will be negative if the test curve is mostly below the 'popularity' curve).
This has nothing to do with the tax plan. It's a $5 billion additional investment in US operations over 5 years, most likely due to competitive pressures and regular business growth. If you want to thank anyone, thank Google/Amazon/Microsoft for forcing Apple to do this.

That $5 billion over 5 years is nothing for Apple, since they get about $100 billion in revenue each year from the US alone, with a large percentage of that in pure profit.

They don't need repatriated cash for this $1 billion/year investment.

It's a pretty small US investment, really.

That's why they spend their cash on dividends. Dividends basically means they a company has better idea on what to spend their money on than to just give it back to their shareholders.
YouTube is like Walmart.

- There are people who just need to do some work and get out of their house and aren't motivated by earning money.

- There are those who make it their career and want to work up the chain. They will be minimally affected.

- There are those who are part time and but can't make it into full time any time soon. Let's hypothesize that they're not actively trying to be the best workers so let's just get rid of them. No harm done.

That sounds like a pretty scary world.
It depends. The typical stuff, that most people encounter, the Vietnamese "version" (called "nước mắm"), has a lighter flavor than the Thai "version" because, as was told to me by my mother-in-law who grew up in Vietnam, the Vietnamese prefer it to not smell or taste like fish. But, there's another type of fish sauce, that is Vietnamese, that is a little more rare. It's called "mắm nêm" and it has a very, very, _very_ strong fish odor and taste. I tend to steer clear of it but my wife and mother-in-law love the stuff.

edit/ For reference, I'm just an average white guy from the midwest and I married a Chinese-American woman and now live in SoCal. Through her, I've discovered, and love, most of these foods. Vietnamese fish sauce doesn't really register as "fish" sauce to me, either, rather it just tastes quite salty.
Python 3 is older than Go, and PHP 5 is even older than either, at least as for Go version 1. C++ is fully backwards compatible, as is Java. I don't see this point. And, we'd first need to see if a hypothetical Go 2 will be backwards compatible, anyways.
Electronic voting systems are more vulnerable to large-scale tampering. It's a lot harder to rig an election when the votes are spread out over millions of pieces of paper vs. one database.
Now divide by the amount of GDP growth you'll see from massively simplifying transit between two of the largest cities in the US, and see how they look.

I doubt most state roads would fare well in that kind of analysis, frankly, but we still fund those...
or Early voting. In GA we have nearly a month of early voting.
but the charity that took the donation decided the best use was to sell them and use the cash for their activities. This is exactly what money and commerce are for. Would it be better for the charity to be less efficient and do less for their cause?
They lost me as a user at step 2.5: Have your user data breached[1] and let the world know that you store your passwords as unsalted sha1 hashes, cuz you know, growth hacking's far more important than security best practices.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_LinkedIn_hack
I think the point people are trying to make is that even your supposed unstable examples such as python don't do big, breaking changes on small time scales. python was originally created in 1991, python 2 came out in 2000, and python 3 came out in 2008. Even if we assume that python was only stable after the release of python3, it has been pretty stable for about a decade whereas Golang has NOT EVEN EXISTED for that long.
The problem with SNIis that it happens before all that negotiation.

This is why today your browser sends the SNI info even if the site will never need it.

And that also means for eternity all TLS1.3 or lower connections will continue to use SNI.
Google’s Project Fi now caps data bills at $60
I don't disagree. There's another aspect to this: the deterrent aspect (for some) of spending time with hardened criminals.

Also, sometimes 1-2 days completely alone sounds pretty good.
No, it isn't. It might be unconstitutional if mandatory voting required you to choose between a fixed number of candidates, but there's nothing stopping voters from putting whatever they please on their ballots.

You are legally compelled by the government to fill out tax paperwork every year. Being (much more lightly) compelled to fill out a ballot is no different.
Oh. I assumed the "some donated to..." meant she donated some of what she bought to Eastern European charities.
This attitude is why public transportation in this country is third-world level, and why all our projects cost an order of magnitude than they do in the rest of the developed world.
PSA: For those of us in CA, fill out the form online at http://registertovote.ca.gov. If you don't have a CA driver's license print and mail the form. If you do have a CA identification the entire registration is handled electronically. The only requirement to be a resident is that you live in California with the intent to make it your home.

Once you're registered mail in the vote-by-mail form elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/vote-by-mail/pdf/vote-by-mail-application.pdf.

From that point forward they will mail the ballot to your house anytime there is an election. Check the boxes and drop the pre-paid envelope in the mail. It really is very easy.

Often municipal elections are decided by narrow margins. If everyone working at startups in the bay area registered and started voting it could easily swing the outcome of various propositions, housing policy, etc.

We like to think our industry is non-political but as software eats the world we are only going to increasingly be involved in politics. Voting is the bare-minimum in civic duty. If we don't make our voices heard we'll keep getting restrictive zoning on the local level and DMCA/CFAA garbage on the national level.
Fun idea. The bundle size for the javascript is almost 700KB though, which seems widely excessive.
maybe something more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_cryptanalysis ?

I suppose it could be capturing EM emissions from the printers rather than acoustic, but that would make it fundamentally more like the other TEMPEST hacks as a way to exploit unintentional emissions, rather than as a sneaky covert channel where you have control over the computer equipment, but don't have access to external interfaces to offload your stolen data.

Unless I'm misunderstanding some part of your description, anyway.
Even if you can do it securely (I do all my taxes electronically, as is the case with all other contacts with public services and authorities), there are issues with elections.

E.g: someone cold drive around “helping” elderly people to e-vote. This type of thing has to be done “visibly” if you have to bus people to polls. Basically, if you want to cheat you have to do it in public.

Polling stations are a good invention. The ceremonial act of physically voting and seeing others vote also has value.
What means did you use to share your concern? AFAIK there's a reason a phone call is recommended: letters barely matter, and emails/electronic form submissions are basically equivalent to not sent.
Have an empty spot you can vote for. So they still have to go through the steps and send it in, but they don't actually have to speak/vote on something
Where the database that holds the dollar amount is located doesn't matter, what matters is where it's taxed and where it's spent.

The US government _forced_ the companies to pay this tax, that point is irrefutable.
Why would our company do this when our company can vote with it's dollars thanks to Citizens United. They have a better way to shape policy than let its employees choose.

I'm being a little sarcastic but also speak with a tinge of truthfulness.
It appears this is the study cited: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/legosti/fy98/24772.pdf
See also MSWorddit: http://pcottle.github.io/MSWorddit/
I'm an experienced Scala dev but after reading the "fun and profit" ebook F# looked really interesting. Naturally I tried to take the next step of creating a small webapp with it on a Linux dev machine. Unfortunately I ran into a lot of problems identifying and setting up the needed tools and frameworks on Linux and eventually gave up. My assumption was that the tooling+frameworks were likely "not quite there yet" (late 2017) for Linux but I'd love to be proven wrong. Any suggestions for an up-to-date tutorial on "web development using F# on Linux"?
I use Lambdas for just about everything. The API for my package tracking app is a Lambda function, and I have another function that checks a few subreddits for specific keywords and emails the posts to me. I have another Lambda that checks my cellular data usage every half hour and sends me a text when I'm close to my data limit. The signup form for a Slack community I run is powered by Lambda as well. If I wanted to run each of these in their own isolated server, it'd be at minimum $4/service/month for a t2.nano instance, running me $200/year.

Thanks to Lambda's generous free tier, I've paid literally nothing for these services. I could handle 100x the current load and still pay nothing.
why is mail in balloting not on this list?
Elections every Sunday might be a bit much.
The mere concept of enforcible private ownership of land is invented by the State.

To be honest, this would be easier to do if we had Land Value tax, making all california land be worth a fraction of what it is today.
This is a myth. If people arent voting its because they are too lazy to vote.

- the exact date of voting is known well in advance, years even

- voting works almost the exact same way every time

- voting info is readily available

- early voting is wide spread
> The fact that they are deploying that capital here indicates some level of belief that the American economy will thrive under this tax plan.

This statement is fiction. There is nothing from Apple indicating this.
Interesting - never heard about plivo before; many thanks for the tip! EDIT: Though it looks like they sell virtual phone numbers ( https://developers.plivo.com/getting-started/numbers/ ), I wonder if it would be possible to set up my private mobile phone# as the sender...
In here they stayed free for several years, but in the end they started charging a service fee at around mid-2014. They penalized the lack of anticipated planning, i.e. the earlier you made a reservation, the less you paid. Likewise, if you were planning for the following day, you would pay the most, regardless of how many travels were being advertised for that day. I don't know if that's the price scheme still today, I haven't used it since then.

There was a big movement of users to Amovens and similar clones. And, some big Whatsapp groups were created by people who do some trips regularly and wanted to avoid paying. Still today some of those groups exist, they are almost always full (max. 250 people or so in Whatsapp groups) and there are waiting lists of people interested in getting added. I assume similar groups exist in Telegram.
I took some glassblowing classes and the first day safety lecture included a bit about this. Eye protection, closed toe shoes, and cotton clothes, precisely for this reason.

Especially when we were first learning, it was easier than you might think to spill or splash 2000F liquid glass on the ground when gathering it out of the crucible, and that'd turn synthetic clothes into napalm.
Compelled speech.

You could probably write the law in a way that avoids first amendment implications. For instance, require that people show up at a polling place, but do not require them to submit a ballot.
Who provides the First Amendment right?
haha, I really like to see how US ruined by the American!
I'd point out the crucial detail that terminal handling arcana is not really "low level" thing; from abstraction point of view it sits pretty much on the same layer as DOM details or whatnot. You could know everything from low-level kernel innards to latest front-end framework fluff and never encounter terminal handling in any way. Text terminals are ultimately an evolutionary dead end (or at least so it seems currently), almost all modern stuff diverges from it instead of building on it.
I don’t understand the excitement about mandatory voting either. It just seems like a way to increase the number of votes cast by uninformed people.
A fairer comparison might be python3. Even if you assume python has only been stable since python3, it is still older than Golang since Go came out in 2009 and python 3.0 was released in 2008.
You can easily do that, if you do it in one of those other states you called, what was the term, "hellholes"?

The fucking arrogance
This is actually the way Oregon does it. You don't mail it back, there are dropoffs (located all over the place).

You are also automatically registered by default, but can elect to opt-out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vote-by-mail_in_Oregon

It's pretty convenient. (I live in Oregon.) Dropoffs are all over the place, you can do it right up to the end of the day on election day, but really you have 2 weeks to fill it out and drop it off.

I believe it's resulted in Oregon consistently having one of the highest voter turnouts, which is notable, since there's next to nothing spent in the state in terms of campaign advertising, and the senate races are not particuarly contentious.
Correct, it is not scientific. And that is because science currently is too restricted to be able to cover this area. Therefore, this area can currently only be explored in an empirical manner. I know it's frustrating to learn, but science cannot cover and therefore cannot explain everything. But does that mean that we should be closed-minded about other possibilities?
Just implement all vote by mail. Washington State did it a few years back and we haven't looked back.
I don't see the corruption here - unless the charity doesn't use the funds they raise for their stated cause.
A few ways advanced tech is changing how cities respond to calls for help
I reproduced it twice before I left the original comment. Now I'm not getting it anymore either. I reproduced it in Chrome and Firefox. My only extensions are adblock and privacy badger.
Allow early voting. Isn't early voting a thing?
anyone can complain, but what will you achieve.

Let's rate representation from 0-100, with 0 or a negative being a drunk lawyer, sleeping through the trial, and 100 being the dream team, 10+ lawyers with unlimited funds.

What if your lawyer rates a 15 (scale 0-100) and simply says that that's what I really believed, given the evidence and resources avail ? Who is going to disbar /blame him when he recounts the challenges he faced?
That would be favoring one form of speech (voting) over another. You just have to make people want to vote without directly giving or taking something away from them for it.
Unfortunately the UK is the same as the US in this regard. Elections are always held on a Thursday, and employers aren't required to give time off to vote.
1. This is a terrible idea. Government compelled speech is never a good idea. The fine will be paid in mass by people who are poor and overworked.

3. Why two days? If you're trying to increase voter turnout why not make it a week?

4. This is really in conflict with all the other points to increase voter turn out. Increasing the number of ways of submitting your vote should be the goal. I would imagine that a huge portion of the population doesn't care about their vote being anonymous or non-verifiable and would take the convenience of voting instantly in the comfort of my own home. I would. Do whatever you need to make it secure, have people to a TSA-precheck style interview if you must. Require a government provided 2FA.

5. Ha, all you've really done is politicize the electoral commission. Doubly so when they also have control of redistricting.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Do you know what ruling supports that? https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment

And this article seems to support the idea that it would be feasible, and specifically talks to the First Amendment issue: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/a-feasi...
You have every right to leave the ballot blank.
Does punishment work as anything but a deterrent?

Can we actually change adult behaviour positively through our penal systems?
Preferential voting is a fantastic idea. It would be simple to implement and go a long way towards ending our dreadful two-party system that only promotes tribalism and fails to represent many people.

As an aside, there's a lot of interesting theory behind different voting systems. It's a subset of computer science and involves issues of computational complexity and the like. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_social_choice
Hasselblad’s new 400-megapixel Multi-Shot camera captures 2.4GB stills
Okay. Let's start this new strengthened eminent domain policy with your land.
There is a growing list of stumbles as Mozilla pursues additional market share, but the the company is building the browser pointed in the best direction. Hopefully there is a happy medium somewhere between "a mistake has been made" and "the end justifies the means" but it's still being sorted out.
In case you missed it, the extensive discussion was here last month:

Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730

Firefox is on a slippery slope | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

I hope that HN's 'downvote to disagree' squad doesn't reduce your collection of random internet points too severely! I personally try to upvote every comment worth replying to. I would love to see the ratio of upvotes to downvotes & number of 'flags' associated with each account as kind of a 'degree of genuine participation' indicator.

PS. It's not the mods... 'ain't nobody got time for that!'
Any non-commercial canonical resources you'd recommend for serverless security architecture?
doesn't work in browsers that care about privacy
yea what does "corrupt landowner" even mean?
If combined with automatic registration, it helps fight the incentive for political candidates to suppress voting in districts or among demographics they know will hurt their chances of winning.

It also makes elections a more accurate reflection of everyone's preferences, instead of just the subset of people who are motivated to vote and able to get to a polling place.
Why is voter turnout considered important?
Which election day? The Sunday that I sit down at my leisure with the voting guide and fill out my ballot? Or maybe I'm busy on Sunday and do it Saturday. Or maybe I'm actually on the ball this year and do it a week early.

I've been trying to find downsides to mail-in voting since Washington implemented it. Haven't found any, but I'm open to ideas. Don't have a stamp? Fine drop it off at the drop-off box on the way to work. Can't even do that? I'm pretty sure the local $SENIOR_ORG will drive you if you call them.

Oh, and mail-in gets rid of the "day off work" problem, too.
> The expectation of a large corporate tax cut was certainly there throughout 2017

No it wasn't. Most people thought that after the health care debacle that Trump would've pivoted to infrastructure. Especially given the tax cuts were so fiscally reckless which would've alienated moderate Senators like Collins or McCain.

> and may very well have had a large influence on the Reno decision

Apple has other data centres. They were largely driven by their own needs and not to do with macro economic effects.
Elections don't happen every week, and early voting exists.
Why eliminate a holiday? We have few enough of them as it is.
But what about the effect of removing criminals from society? Or the perceived harshness in the eyes of the public ("he only got a three week sentence!")?
Discrete Mathematics is the actual term “integers, graphs and statements in logic” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics
It’s also just a general bad idea. Turnout is a measure of the validity of an election result and support for the democratic process. That’s lost (no, blank and absentee does not send the same message).

What you want is to make it easy to vote, and encourage it. Remove registration requirements. Make sure it never takes more than 15 minutes. Make sure it’s easy to know/find/access the polling place. Make elections be on holidays or sundays.
I've voted twice in my life. The first time was in 2012, where I waited for over 2.5 HRS in pretty cold weather and saw dozens of folks leave the line because they had to go to work, school, or just couldn't wait that long because they had kids or were elderly.

The second time I voted was last year, since 2012 I've moved to Oregon. I got a voters pamphlet in the mail weeks before the election, and while we all knew who the presidential candidates where this pamphlet provided a great way to catch up on state and local races. I spent 2-3 days reading the pamphlet and researching the issues. I filled out a form within ~10 minutes and dropped it in the mail. It was great.

More states should move to vote by mail.
Is eminent domain used widely in other countries infrastructure projects? I think part of the issue might be that the US is very large, esp. compared to European countries with better transportation systems.
What's the rationale for 1-3? I don't understand why they would be good ideas.
BART is one of the worst public transit projects in the western world... if you ask "would we have been better off with BART or something else?" the answer is probably something else.