skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may be dependent on a country's tradition, but voting is not speech, it is one's most direct participation in democracy. Who doesn't vote ignores the system and thus (in my humble and personal opinion) is not a part of it.
Only if you equate society and State, which I don’t. But do you believe that anything is made morally right when the State does it, e.g., confiscating property?
Actual title: "Sweden sends leaflets to 5m homes on how to prepare for war with Russia"
Jazz is just really, really hard. Good improvisation is incredibly demanding on both a mechanical and cognitive level. A jazz pianist needs the physical dexterity and skill of a classical pianist, but they also need to think like an arranger in real-time.

I tend to agree, but it's unlikely that jazz players possess all the skills of classical musicians plus other stuff. At some point, both start to bump into limits.

I remember Grappelli answering a question about classical. An interviewer asked him if he considered playing more classical pieces, and his response was along the lines of "I suppose I could, but why? I could take a few months to do it worse than a top classical musician would achieve in a few days. However, I do have other skills - for instance, I can improvise."

I like this answer, because Grappelli is really, really strong technically. But in the end, if you're going to spend the time developing the mental fluidity and improvisational ability for jazz... eventually something has to give. Top classical players can take on certain technical pieces that probably will elude the top jazz players.
Largest employers in the USA:

- United States Department of Defense : 3.2 million
- Walmart : 2.3 million
- United States Postal Service	: 574 thousand
- Amazon : 541 thousand
- Kroger	: 443 thousand
- Yum! Brands	: 420 thousand
- International Business Machines	: 414 thousand
- The Home Depot	: 406 thousand
- McDonald's : 375 thousand
- Berkshire Hathaway : 367 thousand
- FedEx	: 335 thousand
- United Parcel Service	: 335 thousand
- Target Corporation	: 323 thousand

And so on with Walgreens, GE, Albertsons, Wells Fargo, AT&T, PepsiCo, Cognizant, Starbucks, Deloitte, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lowe's, TJX, Ernst & Young, and UnitedHealth Group.

......Does anyone else get the feeling that maybe this would have a biased impact?
I meant the used book store case. I have a hard time thinking of used books with high resale value that the needy need. Maybe they exist. Valuable used books are generally out of print due to low sales. Or they're specialty books that weren't ever printed/read in large numbers. I'm happy that I got some expensive-on-Amazon old books from the free giveaway shelf of a technical library, but I don't think the needy are often looking for Opioid Analgesics: Chemistry and Receptors in the first place.
Three unmentioned problems with mandatory voting:

1) General incompetence at polling places (they're frequently elderly volunteers). Anecdote I worked at a polling place in high school and never got paid for it because the paperwork was lost. What happens when people show up and still get fined?

2) Should Joe Green be able to take off from his job at a fast food register because he neglected to vote in the morning? Will he be able to fund legal action if his manager fires him for doing so?

3) What if Allison Green is disabled and has no method of transportation or means of voting? What if her mail in ballot is lost or never sent?
For #3, shell is a language for dealing with processes and the file system. And that's exactly what you need to bring up servers / containers / cluster managers like Kubernetes. Also stuff like OpenStack and distributed file systems. Shell is universally used to automate these projects.

I think you need to actually do it to have an appreciation for this. Other people here have made the same points I'm making, but if you don't try it, you won't viscerally understand it. I would just caution against the attitude of assuming that people who use a tool you don't like / don't want to learn (understandably) are using the wrong tool for the job.

As mentioned I should write a blog post called "Python Is Not an Acceptable Shell", in part based on this post, which is very in detail, but I think proves the opposite point:

https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-r...

Of course, bash has significant downsides for this task too. That is why Oil exists!
Yeah, that's a super plan and all. Doesn't work that way. And all foreign contact risks are quantitatively evaluated, for naturalized and US-born individuals.
Um, no. Me and mine is me and mine, regardless of what a government may think. And if you try to take or cause harm to me and mine, I have natural right to stop it from happening, regardless of the presence or non-presence of a government.

I cannot fathom disagreeing with anything more than I disagree with your post.
Stop doing your job. Start doing you
Australia would beg to differ on point 1. It's not unheard of.
"appeasing corrupt landowners trying to hit the jackpot" is a strong claim considering the government is stepping in and forcing people to sell land that has been in families for generations. For you to so brazenly say it's the right of the state to take it and not adequately compensate people who use land as a source of income (via agriculture) and that we should strengthen the governments ability to do so has virtually no place in this discussion and it is a disgusting and ignorant stance on the matter. The state already does it's best to go after the central valley folks with high taxes and regulations paid for by coastal elites who are too wealthy to be negatively affected, do we really need to now steal their land?
Good question. Probably my favorite thing about voting in Washington State.
Overall, I'm in favor of this, but there may be unintended consequences. For one, having it on Sunday seems like it disproportionately disadvantages those that work in retail and food service, which tend to be lower wage earners, as those are the individuals that are more likely to have to work on Sunday. Additionally, it might make it more difficult for individuals with children -- Tuesday is a school day so there's free childcare. Though overall, I'd say the benefits outweigh the costs.
This sounds almost identical to how we vote in Australia. Except voting is done on one day, which is a public holiday.
The report that the article cites is behind a paywall.

This piece seems like a hit piece on Tesla.

>Navigant actually ranks Tesla dead last, alongside Apple, out of 19 companies.

>The larger problem, though, is that Tesla just doesn't seem to be making progress as rapidly as others in the industry. Tesla's attention has been consumed by the extremely slow rollout of the Model 3—Tesla delivered a paltry 1,550 Model 3 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2017. And Tesla's Autopilot division lost a number of key engineers and managers last year.

I am not a Tesla fan but Musk's ability to get people to drink the Koolaid is extremely impressive.

What I mean by this, is that people not only want his product, they are willing to wait for it, even if it is late and or there hiccups along the way. His ability to get people to buy into his vision is outstanding.

[1][Jim Chanos: We think Tesla is worth zero](https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/14/jim-chanos-we-think-tesla-is...)
[2][Tesla’s junk bonds are trading under water — and it could spell trouble for Elon Musk](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-junk-bonds-are-trad...)
Also worth noting is that you now "post-pay" for the data you used at the end of the billing cycle instead of pre-paying. I know that it works out roughly the same, but it always struck me as unnecessarily complex that I had to guess how much data I would use, get billed for that, then get refunded for what I didn't use.
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I have a question : What is the difference between Apple paying taxes to Trump's Govt, which will make sure that the funds will be used to create jobs.

Vs

Apple getting all the money and using to create jobs on its own.
People praise Goodwill a lot here but I can't really condone their business practices and exploitation of handicapped workers
Related: Colorado ended long-term solitary confinement in 2017. Colorado no longer keeps inmates in solitary for more than 15 days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/opinion/solitary-confinem...
While I agree with you on many of these, [most] politics is about incremental change, and it is messy. The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good here. This website and project is a terrific idea.
The current system appears to vastly under represent the young and poor and over represent the elderly. The politicians exist to represent everyone's interests so any statistical disconnect undermines the system.
The group of people that don't vote because of work obligations do not come from a homogenous social class. Hint: it's not the executives that have this problem. The motivation for increasing voter turnout is to make the vote more of a representative sample.
Yeah that doesn't help me understand what you're trying to say. What was your theory that I confirmed?
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If you have a product which makes $2 a day using it then it is.
And for election of senate and house, a representative system with different weight factors.

Common in many other places is that one of them is strictly by population, in the other each state gets one seat. This ensures the representation of both the small states, and every citizen.
Generally you need unobstructed line of sight, so you need to go around or above trees. Sometimes you can mount an antenna _on_ a tree, but only sometimes.

Unfortunately, to rain on the parade a little: note that it is hard using wireless (due to technical limitations to do with Shannon capacity) to compete with a copper coax provider. It really doesn't work notwithstanding the OP's claim that they can deliver 75Mbits/s to subs. I really don't know how he is doing that unless they are all fed with dedicated point-to-point links (which won't scale and costs $$).
The people using company holidays to coordinate vacations aren't the people the holiday is supposed to help.

There's a difference between "I decided to go to Cabo that day, so I didn't get to vote in person", and "the last three people who asked for some time to go vote were quickly fired for bullshit that everyone here knows was just because they wanted to go vote. Guess I'll just stop voting."
Strong ownership laws are a fundamental requirement of a State that is deemed worthy of investment. Why would anyone bother if the government could just take all your shit without compensation.
Now the bottle neck to publish data getting the API and dB to be hosted somewhere because that part is still not trivial for many
In my opinion I don't think it's enough to let people leave their ballot blank because I think that participating in the election process is a form of speech supporting the institution.

To me it is definitely a political statement to abstain from voting or abstaining from the political process entirely so its only logical that participating is also a political statement.
Re point 2:

Instant-runoff voting can punish voters for prioritizing a 3rd party candidate. IRV does not satisfy the monotonicity criterion. See this article [1] for more information.

In general, IRV is a poor system that is almost as bad as plurality voting in terms of how the outcomes reflect the voters' preferences (plurality voting is what the United States uses for most elections).

There are many systems that are better than IRV or plurality. I like approval voting [2], which is a system where you can vote for any number of candidates (instead of one candidate like plurality). Unlike IRV, you don't rank your choices. Approval voting is very simple (the simplest option other than plurality) and produces good outcomes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonicity_criterion
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
I don't think any such distinction is recognized legally.
I'm not a native English speaker, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I think English needs a new word related to pepper spiciness, for me sometimes is difficult to translate it. In Spanish we have "picoso" to describe pepper's hot feeling.
Since spicy in English could describe a long variety of spices, flavors and sensations. Maybe 50 years ago it wasn't necessary since they were foreign flavors, but now that your food and taste has evolved and globalized it could be necessary.
> Can you use bitcoin to pay for some food? Or to get your roof fixed?

This is a bit of false argument. One of the most universally recognized value stores is gold. Yet, can you use gold to pay for some food?

Try marching into Tesco, grab some groceries, drop the gold bar on the counter and expect change...
Yes, if you overpay it 50-times (a 1 oz gold bar for 20 EUR groceries), someone (cashier, other customer, anybody) will accept it on their personal risk (maybe it is fake? who in sane mind would pay with gold at grocery store?), pay for you, take your gold and give you the groceries.

But by definition: no, you cannot pay for food with gold/Bitcoin/diamonds/stocks/land/weapons/tobacco/alcohol/other food... At most, you can barter it.

One of the most ridiculous cases I have seen lately is comparing Bitcoin fees with paying for coffee. Do you pay for coffee with gold bars? Do you pay for coffee with international non-SEPA bank transfers (expect 30 EUR fee, more than BTC, and weeks-long fulfillment)?

Yes, Bitcoin was originally intended as "pay-for-coffee" currency. No, it isn't that anymore, it shifted more towards value store, settlement money between large entities, alternative to global bank transfers.

My favorite counterexample is: Can you run from war conflict with money or gold under your shirt? You will be searched, stripped from cash and possibly detained. Or learn 20 English words, run naked and input those 20 words into the computer on the other end of the world.

Do you think this is a overinflated example applied only to the worst parts of the world, where nobody have the money with them anyway? We, in the civilized world don't have any of such oppressions, right? Try leaving European Union with more than 10 000 EUR...
During my business flights (especially to Arabic countries, where people were returning from shopping trips in Vienna etc.), I have seen quite a few folks detained just because of the cash they had on person.
Walmart has said that the bonuses will cost $400M, so that's not $2.3B going into the economy. Only some employees are eligible for a $1,000 bonus: some will receive between $200 and $1,000, and employees who earned less than $11/hour prior to the raises are not eligible for a bonus.
I have a similar theory but with torture. For minor offenses instead of imprisoning people just subject them to extreme pain for a short period of time and send them on their way. It has all the benefits you listed and it will interfere less with any job they may hold which should substantially reduce social harm (self explanatory) and recidivism rates (which have been shown to strongly correlate with employment).

For anyone who likes parents theory and dislikes mine, I'd be very interested in knowing why.

(I don't really think this theory is correct - but it does seem plausible)
Preventing people from voting is one of the main ways elections are turned from 'the will of the people' into a rigged game. Force the vast majority of people to vote and candidates need to focus on the will of the people not playing a game.

EX: Energizing my base while discouraging their base has nothing to do with how you actually change things.
Denim Batt at 12:39

https://youtu.be/8NC79e0oztM?t=12m39s
I think we may be talking to different customers. I talked with ~200 customers last year, and the most common question was "What do I use ML for?" and the second most common was "How do I get started?"

Put another way, the average customer has ~zero ML usage today. I'd guess that 95%+ of all businesses have ML usage today. Further guessing would say that <1% of ML usage actually care about levels of accuracy beyond "it's better than the hacked together set of rules/filters I use today." These are very large businesses with lots of money to spend on a solution.

There are many ways to measure "better", and AutoML does apply here. This includes "better == faster to train or develop" [1], "better == you need less data" [2], "better == lower error rates"[3]. While I agree that many of measures do not apply across datasets, most customers only have one dataset per problem.

[1] Predictive accuracy and run-time - https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/104210/2/19...

[2] Less data - https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03400

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10994-017-5687-8

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow
Technically speaking the only reason to avoid JQuery now is because DOM manipulation is more costly than dealing with a more efficient Shadow DOM to manage the lifecycle of UI updates on a screen.

JQuery may be a fast download but JQuery applications can be quite costly to run especially in a non-browser-refresh environment.

I'm sure your JQuery applications are quite efficient, but I am an advocate for choosing modern tools that developers want to work on when you inevitably move on from your projects/customers. I do also advocate for tools that are going to be around to stand the test of time, and in your favor JQuery is a ubiquitous library used all over the place, people do know it, and a customer of yours will have no issue finding someone who is willing to work on it.

I by choice avoid those projects, and have worked with quite a few folks who do things the JQuery way when we are using React or Angular.

Enjoyed the debate today, but my question was largely left unanswered. I was curious if you worked on a large team with your framework/JQuery or if it was a smaller deliverable managed by you and another person or maybe just you.

I have witnessed React and Angular apps with as little as one developer, but up to 30 in some cases all on the same application. Complex applications like Trading Systems and Document delivery with multiple connected users.

I'd wager it's tough to get all of that done without some documented tools and complexity, given the complexity of the business problems at hand.
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> This would get rid of the abuse of plea bargaining

I would argue that there is little or no "abuse" of plea bargaining.

The current system has evolved from a fitness function which encourages more laws, fewer prosecutors and judges per capita, less time per defendant to plead their case in a courtroom, and more incentive for prosecutors to appear to "win" the vast majority of their cases.

There is no place in that fitness function for justice or ethics. Those who appear to get those luxuries get them entirely because they have the means to leverage the legal system (usually before/during the crime, not after the arrest).

It's unrealistic to expect that mere mortal humans to know all of the laws that govern them (I doubt most people have read more than a paragraph of state laws that govern them), let alone to understand them with the expertise of a lawyer.

There's not enough resources for cities or states to allow more than ~5% of people to plead innocence in a courtroom so the plea bargaining system isn't being "abused", it's a necessary evil in order for the extremely expensive society we have.
I wish that list could be sorted by product type, instead of alphabetically.
I just switched to Project Fi this month. The service has been totally acceptable and the support has been really helpful. Before today's announcement I found myself constantly checking the Project Fi app to see how much data I had used, something I never did on my old provider. This change is much appreciated. I'm especially a fan of them simply rolling this out, no need to opt in. The only way I would know of improved plan options on my old provider was by having a conversation with a sales rep after a support call. I do wish the price per gig was slightly cheaper but I'm comfortable with the increased cost for the improvement of service.
Or write Big Bird in.
Live demo at the Computer History Museum, of an IBM 1401 playing music via AM radio bus emissions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPk8MVEmiTI

You can see the 1401 demo'd on Wednesdays and Saturdays -- although they don't do this in the regular demo, just read cards and print on the line printer.
Or finding an alternative energy source. I'm pretty convinced that the not-distant future will be wind/solar cached in batteries.
They are indicating it by doing it. That cash doesn't have to remain here; they simply have to pay taxes on it. The only reason that a rational corporation would keep it here is because they believe it's a good investment.
Score/range voting are so much better than ranked voting systems. They don't assume that people have a single "top choice". Just like any job, there isn't one "best" candidate, there are multiple viable candidates. When we vote, we should be able to voice our opinion about which candidates, plural, we think would represent us well. Ranked systems, as with first past the post, change the whole focus of the election to be about winning and popularity. It's very frustrating.
Logging by sound? I love it.
Do you at least acknowledge the reality of how laughable your “natural right” to resist would look against even a minute fraction of the state’s power?
Maybe I just don't want to participate in your charade of false consensus
Whoever told you that is lying to you. "progressive forces don't control the state" , well then who the fuck does? Aliens? Or wait, let me guess....Russia
Well, there's at least one definition that's pretty noncontroversial, if not terribly satisfying or precise: it's not a JIT if you compile well in advance of any indication the program needs to be run.

Whether that lazy-compilation strategy is fine-grained or not isn't clearcut, I believe. I think if you distribute a C program with a bash bootstrapper calling plain old gcc to compile and run the C code only when needed, even gcc might be considered a (coarse-grained, rather rudimentary) JIT in that context.
Fair enough. My personal writing style tends towards the narrative "start at the beginning and tell the story in chronological order" but I certainly understand the desire to "get to the good part".

If I ever write a blog post about scrypt and all the work which has come after it, maybe I'll skip the lengthy analysis of how Tarsnap customers inspired me to investigate the topic of password-based key derivation. :-)
My strategy has been to remove connections with people who post like that. It has served me well. I recommend it.
That's also common in the U.S., but it varies by state. 37 of the 50 states have early voting, while 13 have only election-day voting. Map here: http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/absente...
How is this train going to be useful again?
BART has the highest farebox recovery ratio of any public transit system in the United States (excepting the very small, tourist-oriented Vegas monorail). It has among the best farebox recovery of any system in the world, with only a handful of systems (Tokyo, London, Osaka, Singapore, Taipei) higher.

It has seen massive ridership growth over the past decade.

What metrics are you using to claim it is one of the worst transit projects in the world?