skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that electronic voting as the single source of truth is a bad idea, but electronic voting as a method of making the process more efficient is not a bad idea.

Voting machines should print off a receipt of your vote, which you can then confirm and seal in an envelope, like you would a paper vote, and put in a box of paper votes. The machines will also need to have a method for voters to correct an incorrect vote somehow.

If there are irregularities, or a recount is needed, the paper votes can be counted. There should also be an option for a normal paper vote, if the voter so choses, like how in an airport you can choose an Xray or a pat-down.

Upon saying that, I don't see what's wrong with paper votes. Elections don't happen very often, and paper voting scales perfectly fine with population.
You can only support customers that generate revenue. The billions of customers only generate revenue by being mined for revenue whether thats analyzing their habits or their content for revenue. Or in the absence of that the billions of customers are loss leaders hoping to be upselled into a commercial product.

In any event there's no way that Google can provide the level of support that any company who's revenue is directly tied to the products that are purchased.

And it's obvious support is extremely expensive because companies that spend a lot on it give great support (like Apple) and companies that spend a little give very little or very limited support (like Google).
I completely agree. Scientifically proven methods like independent verification are very important. Yet, it could very well be custom "own" crypto that is verified and then used.
If you see this, and don't mind, could you please email me at hn@ycombinator.com? I have a random question for you.
> Notice that there's no recommendation to avoid e.g. Samsung phones.

True, however from a propaganda standpoint focusing (first?) on a nation that is already viewed with suspicion and xenophobia by many Americans might be considered a sort of "baby steps" way of the US adopting a more adversarial stance with respect to foreign manufactured hardware.

By focusing on China the question of motive becomes much easier to sell (because of pre-existing biases).
I agree that having a lot of parts suppliers is complex, but that's still vastly simpler than manufacturing every single part.

The real difference IMO is the variety of vehicles Toyota produces not simp,y scaling up production.
Tensors are the way to effectively execute things - modeling things is about the "human interface" to the data, but when you need to do stuff with very, very, very large quantities of it at a good performance, then you'd want the system to transform the data and desired operations from your "human-friendly" model to a "machine-friendly" model, and that's generally going to be homogenous blocks of memory, and "vectorizing" processing as much as possible so you have less or no item-specific logic but instead have matrix operations that do the same thing to many data items at once in parallel.

It's just like with OOP in game programming where performance matters - even if you want a nice object model for programmer convenience, you'd also want to ensure that you can store the object data into a homogeneous array sequentially in memory, as that gets you a major performance impact; I seem to recall that Carmack had an in-detail article about that some time ago, but can't easily find it.
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Samsung is not a Chinese company no?
And we know they don't because they're hated by advertisers. And the FBI evidently.
I don't think any languages make use of İ but not ı; perhaps when you press the İ key on your keyboard the actual character sequence that gets entered is the decomposition "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I (U+0049) COMBINING DOT ABOVE (U+0307)"? OpenType has tags that allow you to describe where arbitrary combining diacritics go relative to a glyph, so maybe the font knows how to assemble those two code points into an İ, even though the font designer didn't explicitly design for Turkish. Just speculating here.
That’s actually not true. I work for a fairly small contractor (a few hundred people) working on a fairly large government contract. It started with a handful of people when the company was a fraction of the size.
>The perceived frequency of a sound or note.

I think the claim that pitch is a partial function of loudness is about perception. If pitch is defined as the 'percieved' frequency, then it includes whatever synthesis of sensory data the brain uses.

The most obvious, is a comparison to concurrent or recently heard sounds. A b-flat preceeded by a c really does sound different than one preceeded by a g. (At least, it really does for me).

Edit: But my understanding of pitch has also, always been pitch = frequency.
The reason is probably that Samsung caved to the US intelligence industry while Huawei and ZTE did not.

It was laughable that the Australian Government forbade NBN bids that included Huawei equipment, but happily accepted gear from Cisco.
Without disagreeing I would encourage you to provide an alternative solution to the current (as you describe) broken system.

The system was put in place to protect us, if it isn't serving its purpose we need to be more objective and declare how it could be better implemented.
What about cross-discipline? What if a problem comes up that would be better solved with technology Y instead of X and you are an X master but random intern happens to know Y. Are you still the fastest? What if the intern is better at making slides for code reviews that show important trends? Or they can write fantastic documentation? Or tools?

I'm sure you're a quick learner but at least in scenarios I've worked in there are often many, many possible solutions and no specific "right answer."

After all, it's hard for anyone to be right all of the time.
In many simple cases, Heroku is effectively serverless. But there are situations (in particular monitoring and billing) where you're forced to think about the individual dynos your app is running on.
That thing facebook does with demanding your phone number, that's my favorite dark pattern. Apple does the same thing with iOS upgrades.

First you pose a seemingly innocent question, like 'would you like to give us your phone number so we can keep your account secure?' or 'would you like to upgrade to new iOS?'. Then you take away the NO option. You replace it with 'i'll decide later'. And by doing so, you make it not a choice for the user. You make it a statistical guarantee that sooner or later, most users will cave in and hit yes, even if by accident. iOS is an extreme example of this - when you say you don't want to upgrade, you are immediately prompted with a pin code request as if your device just locked itself, and your reflex is to punch in the pin to unlock it again. But if you read what it says at the bottom, it's asking for your pin to get permission to schedule the upgrade that you just said no to.

Whoever the designers are who came up with this stuff, fuck them. This shit is going to be in ethics textbooks in a decade or two. I hope someone from the facebook UX team is reading this, I hope they know their day job is to make the world a worse place.
Commodity DDR4 costs $10/GiB on Amazon.

The part you linked costs $16,497/GiB at Digikey.

That's 1600x more expensive, not even counting board fabrication costs.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Single-PC4-19200-288-Pin-Memo...
I just wish they wouldn't call them audiophile. Words are important.

This crap is basically almost the complete opposite of audiophile, convenience and physical size obviously put so far above sound quality.
I don't believe they will ever touch federal government pensions. Municipal maybe, but not federal.
I think a great place to start is on kits. There are TONS of great materials these days on:

https://learn.adafruit.com

https://learn.sparkfun.com

They basically trade you knowledge in the hope of you buying some of their kits, which I wholeheartedly endorse.

Past that, you should consider eventually diving into making your own PCBs. I think this is a transformative skill because it replaces breadboarding and wires. I created a couple of free low-investment tutorials using the open source layout program called KiCad:

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/getting-to-blinky/

There are lots of forums out there as well to start asking your questions. I hang out at the following:

https://eevblog.com/forum (ranges from beginner to advanced)

https://forum.contextualelectronics.com

https://forums.adafruit.com
What's best . I always had this issue when I work with someone, in the initial weeks I find him/her best and smart but as time goes buy I just see them as average or below average just putting up a facade or may it's me - I just suck at judging people. So the point is best is very misleading thing to look for and very referential
"aren’t companies are supposed to say what the phone number will be used for when asking for phone number"

Not yet. Can't wait for the EU general data protection regulation (GDPR) to come in effect, which includes such a requirement - it won't affect USA users directly, but hopefully it will force some companies to change their behaviour worldwide.
I also see many planes passing through each other.
"The law doesn't concern itself with the technical implementation of bitcoin"

That's an astounding statement to make without citation or qualification. In general, the law (at least in the form of U.S. appellate courts and congressional bodies) is very good at including public-policy consequences in its decisionmaking process.
Thank you! Yes, there is currently just a whitepaper we're publishing with Stanford and that was also reviewed by colleagues at MIT. However it isn't up to snuff yet to be posted publicly, so shoot me an email mark@gunDB.io and I'll send you the link.

For non-academics though, I did a comic strip explainer for the layperson (as distributed systems are often hyped up with elitist jargon) here: http://gun.js.org/distributed/matters.html !

The prototype shown in the video was specific to append-only data and was done last year, we recently rewrote the system to be more generalizable using a radix trie structure and have released an alpha of it with the Radix Storage Engine (RSE) in the main repo: https://github.com/amark/gun

Let me know if you need help with any/all of that, or more links/resources (docs are somewhat scarce on it currently, sadly), and I'll do what I can!

Although, I can't resist but to leave this one last animated explainer gif that shows what a radix looks like: http://gun.js.org/see/radix.gif
Ask HN: How do you handle configuration management?
I ask for two reasons:

1.) My company mandates the use of Jenkins for "all the things" CI/CD related. A significant component of my team's domain is a heavily customized off-the-shelf commercial product. This product comes with a plethora of configuration. We are tasked with using Jenkins to deploy config changes to production, and this has proven to be an inflexible pain in the rear.

2.) My company has an enterprise Puppet license, which to me seems a much better fit for our use case. One major caveat is that my company is devoutly beholden to its shareholders, which means it favors FOSS (extreme emphasis on FREE) solutions as much as possible. This has me thinking Ansible.

I'm curious as to what you use and why you use it. I'm also open to any suggestions as to how I can convince both my manager and upper management that Jenkins just isn't cutting it.
Odd that I remember him pushing to increase their budget then: http://www.govexec.com/management/2016/02/obama-would-hike-i...

In general, it does seem true that Republicans haven't been interested in funding the IRS, even though they seem to believe testimony that more funding would increase government income.
We need off-grid housing with SpaceX satellite internet, Tesla car pods, Tesla Solar, and Amazon Prime deliveries.
> Letting people use your property gives them the idea that they own it.

The idea may not be without legal support, see, generally, the legal concepts of implied easements, prescriptive easements, and adverse possession.
Sigh, thanks ;)
Thank you for the feedback.

Yes - more screenshots / a properly filled out marketing site are on the list of things to do. Good idea about an "About" section. Workshop is the name of our blog where we show / discuss Kwoosh as we build it.
Many Obama phones are Huawei.
Is that the same image they used in the article "Japan's anime is obsessed with power lines" ?
Doctors defer to the experts when they need some javascript written. Maybe do the same when you're so clearly out of your depth?
I don't think reform's actually that hard - with unbiased intentions (whose lobbyist is that?).
To be honest, it would be hard to fuck things up any worse than they already are.

Technically competent people (in the field of the patent) should be performing the reviews, they should be given the time that they need to do so.

I believe there is a shared commercial justification for both patents and copyright: protection against your work being co-opted as soon as it's produced provides a period in which production costs can be recuperated and profits made. This is a significant motivating factor in the production of works.

I do not believe that the law currently provides adequate coverage against the production of similar works.
Look at the situation with Facebook or Blizzard (WOW), rapidly copying novel new features from smaller competitors to prevent them from ever getting any hold in the market.
Or with Zynga, et al wholescale copying games with total impunity.

(If a period of even 3 years protection was provided for simple yet novel mechanics, there would be a far greater potential for successful titles from non-major development houses.)

I would put protection for all forms of work under a single unifying law.
The period of coverage should given consideration to the quality and the novelty of the work in question, and provide the justification behind the decision (if this justification is proven to be unreasonable or incorrect the protection should be voided).

Exemptions must be provided for breaches demonstrably in the public good.
The post seems to make its point by dismissing just about everything. Bright is "just another Will Smith movie" and Stranger Things is "pistache by design." Game of Thrones is probably just another fantasy-book-to-TV translation and The Wire is probably yet another crime drama.

Through that lens, is anything going to impress you?
But you were logged in, right? I mean, that's still not the best security but this message sort of implied you weren't logged in.
Netflix has already peaked.

For some reason people think of them as the new hot thing, but the reality is they have been around for longer than Google. With competition in the streaming video market only getting hotter, I can't see them going anywhere but down. Any one of Amazon Video, Hulu, Disney, or HBO could unseat them.

The growth expectations implicit in their 200+ P/E ratio seem way out of sync with their actual potential. If I owned Netflix stock I'd be selling it all now.
I bet they didn't realize that deploying software updates to an embedded computer/OS like this effectively makes them an operating system vendor, and that they now need the same operations expertise as Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. I hope they take lessons from the software industry and don't spend years relearning update best-practices.
Trump won, so I imagine Assange will go free eventually.

I'm glad Hillary lost, but don't believe the ends justify the means.

In the end, this has all been a farce designed to fool us all. I suspect some of it worked, some of it did not.
Regardless of what side(s) you take, it really is a blessing and benefit of the US system, there can be an open, lively, and free discussion without comments or commentors disappearing as if a phrase would topple an entire system.
I wonder when the FBI would take similar action on white nationalists who murder innocent immigrants.
Yet more reasons to never, ever let people use your property for anything but explicitly temporary purposes?
I've seen and heard 'codes' in scientific computing, but nowhere else. Seems to support your hypothesis
> Where else are you going to connect up with old friends and remote family members?

Wait, are you really suggesting that Facebook is the only way to keep in touch with old friends and remote family?
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The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets
Transgender Woman Breastfeeds Her Baby After Experimental Treatment
A better way to frame this would be to consider if the artists were sculptors who were allowed to leave their sculptures for free on this property. Pieces of art that are not attached to the building make it more clear that destroying the art would leave the building owner liable for damages.

Similarly, the artists who painted murals should have had the opportunity to remove their property from the building, which seems to be what they are arguing.
You can use their API from your own system.

https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041

I strongly urge you to paper-trade the live market before risking real money. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/am/am/managea...
Never seen spam in Meetup. I hooked up my personal calendar with Meetup and it added quite a bit of events into my calendar which was a bit spammy but it's only because I had told Meetup I was interested in all that stuff and it was easy to shut off and filter out.

WeWork bought Meetup recently so I don't know if any of that will change now.
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I recall seeing that segment. If I remember correctly it was focused on the Chinese stealing trade secrets and intellectual property from US companies. One example they gave was Cisco source code that was found in Huawei network devices.
Please Callback me. Promise?
It's bad because people can manipulate email. It is not absolute. An overzealous email admin/exchange admin can work horrors.

But maybe that's just me. I've been an Exchange admin.
I use ansible to do remote execution, and upload more complex scripts to do tasks. Doing everything with Ansible is hard and most often you spend more time learning the quirks of Ansible and not solving problems.

Ansible for remote execution and your write your own scripts, tha has been a good combination for me.

Very resently I remake all my bash and makefile scripts to use just python scripts with https://github.com/mariocesar/boot.py, taking advantage that all my instances have Python 3.6 by default.

Have python3 for scripting makes doing sysadmin work joyful.
Your account isn't banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16376165 set off a spam filter. We've restored it and marked your account so it won't happen again.
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Might as well link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY

I don't think it's intentionally racist as far as disparaging black people, but it does imply that black skin is "dirty" and wouldn't fly in, shall we say, less homogeneous cultures.

See also Darkie/Darlie toothpaste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie
From the documentation on arxiv:

> Variables not defined anywhere, implicitly become index variables.

That seems like a bold choice. Wasn't there a trend in programming languages, even very high level ones, to encourage variable declaration?
Hi Bron, not related to TFA but I am a happy fastmail user and just wanted to say thanks. I really appreciate Fastmail's stable standards based services. These are increasingly hard to come by.
The most underrated comment of the whole page.
Once you send an email to someone, you can't change it. It's that simple.

It has absolutely nothing to do with what you can do to your own inbox. The entire point is that you should be able to rely on the fact that what you see in the emails you receive from a sender cannot be modified by that sender.

If someone sends you threats over email, you just archive them as evidence. Now with amp, they can send you threats that only show a threat the first time and then load inane text the rest of the time.

I'm sure someone thought this was a good idea but I can't imagine they used emails very much themselves because this is idiotic. Email isn't a web browser.
I would say, not to let people use your property for aextended period in a way you are uncomfortable with becoming an entitlement, except with an explicit and explicitly revocable grant of permission delineating what is allowed.
For those wondering about MPEG-2's applications (compared to, e.g., MPEG-1 and MPEG-4), it's the primary standard used for DVD-Video. Blu-ray makes some use of MPEG-2, especially for the FBI warnings, but it's not too popular for the actual features. It's also used in ATSC and DVB broadcast video, but I'm not sure how popular it is compared to MPEG-4.
Pretty sure GSuite data is basically separate from everything else, you'd have to look at the ToS for the details, but it's kept separate to keep corporate customers happy.

This leads to issues for anyone who has tried to use a Google account setup through GSuite for consumer apps where they basically don't work at all.
At the risk of venturing off the topic of the main thread... Could that behaviour possibly be explained by timing rather than location? My Android gives me commute data around 7:30AM, regardless of where I am or whether I'm moving. Perhaps they simply guessed you'd be at home.
>What if your old 2006 car decides to die while you're going 60+ on the highway because it's old, and you die because it doesn't have as many safety features as newer cars do?

Is there some middle ground? My 2007 Toyota Tundra drives fine, and has few software components (certainly nothing that is updating OTA). Is the 2018 really that much safer than 2007? Even the body style was only updated a couple of years ago.
It seems to me the only reliable way to favour general purpose computers over specifically manufactured hardware would be to change the algorithm periodically.
Awesome. Stuff I found interesting:
Triangle and Square waves have only "odd" harmonics: 3x, 5x, 7x of the base frequency and so on...
Sawtooth has even & odd harmonics.
Sound "brightness". Everyone speaks about it but it's something that you learn to recognize by example.
For instance it is my impression that sines sound "brighter" than triangles (triangles reminding me of my Atari 2600...)
The convergence slider was an excellent addition.
Chords have recognizable shapes. Never thought of that. Makes sense.
Thank you. This has been a great interaction from my perspective, I really appreciate your comments about the issue. Obviously there's much more I need to learn but your comments have given me some excellent info to pull apart further.

Seriously, thanks again. It's great having a Internet based conversation that doesn't end up a shouting match!
Netflix:cable::Uber:taxis
Not sure you can win at this game. I wouldn't be surprised if facebook pushes engagement notifications to you friends saying 'Person X commented on product Y with all caps comments! Exciting? Shocking? You decide! (After a short 45s pre-roll video ad)'
I suspect that at least some audiophiles are going to judge the HomePod in the context it’s presented, understand the constraints and limitations of any speaker system so small. I’m not going to compare what’s essentially a bookshelf speaker against a pair of floor-standing speakers or a 5.1 system (or in-ear monitors, for that matter): they’re going to compare it with something of a similar class. That’s part of what being an audiophile (or someone who dives into any domain) is: understanding something in the proper context. I don’t know how it compares with other similar speakers, so I’m not going to say it’s audiophile-quality or not, but that’s beside the point: judge it for what it is, not what it isn’t.