skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but who is doing all this "jumping on a tree's branch" ?? We are worse now than in Cold War times! These unspecified retracted stories' authors are traitors! I won't blame Putin for WW3, I will blame them!
In Estonia they allow you to vote multiple times and only the latest vote counts. They even allow you to then go and vote in the booth which renders your e-vote invalid. I don’t know the internals of how they store the votes but I can’t think of a way to do this without the side effect of knowing who voted for whom.
I've just finished watching the Stuxnet documentary. State funded attacks on critical infrastructure are going to be a world-wide norm. No matter how good your security, you will be vulnerable eventually. We'll have to go back to analogue style systems to be protected.
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I like how the example ballot on that wikipedia page has Alex Jones running for president.
1100 साल बाद नवरात्री में बन रहा महासंयोग ,इन 7 राशियों पर होगी जमकर धनवर
Signal processing is a fascinating field that I wish I had explored further in college
A simple util to make rollback easy in complex nested promises
Worldwide, most of the energy that comes from wind and solar is a tiny fraction of the primary energy supply mix. Where it's growing it's mostly used for additional energy, not to replace the exisiting fossil-fuel consumption. This does not help one bit for climate change.

First graph at the top left (which is actually energy consumption, close enough): https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...

The important thing in this grap is the absolute values of each source, not their relative importance.
You'll note that despite renewable growth (of which solar and wind is only a fraction, there's also biomass and various other stuff), fossil-fuel consumption is still growing faster.
Indeed, historically, new energy sources have never really replaced 'older' ones. Each time, the new sources just provide additional power on top of the old ones.

So much for 'decoupling'.

Edit : the US energy article on Wikipedia has an interesting graph that shows something similar (except for a partial switch from coal to NG): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/m...
The Swiss have very frequent votes, with direct votes on several issues 3 or 4 times a year. That’s in addition to electing representatives. Of course they are the oldest continuous modern democracy.

You could argue from the Swiss example that more voting occasions wouldn’t change the main issues of modern democracies, but it doesn’t seems to lower the importance of voting either, with a similar turn out that elsewhere.

(Also, a technical solution to constant voting and flexible, transferable delegation of voting power is the main goal of the fluid democracy movement.)
Back in my day user generated content was sent by mail. You would have to mail in your upvotes and comment sections were published in news papers. The whole process was very slow and cost money. Glad the internet was invented.
To ALL security 'researchers' out there:
PLEASE don't disclose 0day's before they where fixed by the project owners!
You maybe interested in their most recent paper and blog post from today: https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/using-evolutionary-a...
> This is not a first. The USA made a nearly identical claim in this retracted story in 2016

Er, no. The story was retracted because what the original version said that authorities claimed was not what authorities actually claimed. It was a journalistic backtrack (WaPo retracted their original reporting), not a government backtrack.

An erroneous media report of the government making an accusation is not an example of the government making the accusation that would, then, invalidate a description of the government later actually making a similar accusation as being unprecedented.
No need for expensive high tech solutions. Just provide one of each possible ballot and a pen in the privacy of a booth. Fold the ballot, step out of the booth and give it to one of two officials which puts it in the ballot box for you.

Now you can take as many pictures you like of whatever ballot which proves nothing.
Crud apps and java with spring boot.

Dot net and sql server

Strangely I see a lot of nodejs for IOT thinks with big companies as well.
Ukraine was geographically and culturally part of Russia for centuries, only becoming independent in 1991 when the USSR collapsed.
I wasn’t too surprised about getting downvoted. I suspected that some might find “the solution is simple” a bit brazen, but I wasn’t sure how old the thread was, and wanted to draw some attention and critique before the thread died. My next line was more honest “I suspect that the reason…”. :-)

As for why a curling stone is different than a beer bottle or upturned glass on a table, that wasn’t the goal of my thinking. I was only trying to explain the curling stone. In any case, while having some similarities, the two scenarios are still pretty different. As laxd points out below, the beer bottle and glass have higher centers of gravity which make the “leaning forward” line of thinking seem more reasonable.

As for the effect of pebbled ice, it seems reasonable that the difference between the static friction coefficient and kinetic friction coefficient is greater for pebbled ice than for smooth ice. And if static friction and kinetic friction are approximately the same for smooth ice, then this effect would not contribute substantially to curling on smooth ice.

This was a fun problem to think about. I had hoped that a smarter physicist would tell me why my hypothesis was bogus. As a friction expert, Nyberg almost certainly entertained this idea at some point. I may send him a message to see what it is that I’m missing.
There should really be a law against this sort of thing.
Security researchers are needed and they provide a valuable service to the world, but please don't get ahead of yourselfs. In recent months there were many instances where people just disclosed vulnerabilities without making sure there are fixed available. This is wrong and legally should be equivalent to hacking.

In the past, when vulnerabilities with no fixes were disclosed were after months and months of trying to contact the developers of said software and patch it... Nowadays it seems everyone is eager to ride their 15 minutes of fame...SAD :)
I suspect the envelope with the good ballot is sealed in some way. All they would have to do in that case is force you to take a picture of the sealed ballot with the non-desired ballots next to it.
It's part pricing the risk but mostly a deterrent to behave according to rules. If the rich guy pays the same fine as the poor, it's effectively cheaper for him, so he can allow himself to break rules more often.
Not a user but I would guess follow up on user complaints
I happen to like quite a few things from it, but... there is a Big Fat Hairy Difference(tm) between "safe" and merely "safer". Make it "guaranteed to be safe" (which will most likely require tooling) rather than merely "safer" - and I will be the first one to promote it myself :-). Also - it would be gr8 to reduce the number of different concepts developer needs to remember about while programming. In OP (assuming that tooling does exist) it is quite simple: there are only 3 concepts, with 2 of them ('naked' and 'owning'=unique_ptr<>) being already very familiar; OTOH, current implementation of SaferCPlusPlus reminds me of ALGOL68 - where it was possible to specify _everything_, but choosing the right thing was so time-consuming that it never really flew.
There is a difference in helping and destroying competition.
I wonder if these types of comments are designed to trash free market-ism and not communism ('Look, free marketists are so dumb. Ha ha ha')
Reminded me of Steve Jobs refusing to put a license plate on his car.
There was one by Peter Theil where the whole thing could have been summarized into "Make a monopoly that doesn't look like a monopoly. E.g. Google claims to be an advertising company."

It's not easy to summarize as a 5 min video as the entire video was an elaboration of this concept. But it's easy to summarize into a couple of sentences.
There is only actual damage if you are exceptionally unlucky. Almost everyone speeds to varying degrees, with wildly successful runs of luck.

Ergo, speeding is not a crime, it is an easy revenue target for greedy municipalities with overpaid cops.
Of course. The point is that (IF there is enough interest in the idea) these rules are simple enough (in particular, they're inherently local, i.e. don't require analysis to go beyond one single function) to be enforced by a tool (say, built on top of Clang-tidy).
They did pick the cheapest. IBM was the only bidder.
I think I'd take the other approach than exorbitant fines for the rich. Perhaps they should grow (a $3,000 fine for a billionaire isn't unreasonable), but the more important part IMO is here:

"For people living on the economic margins, even minor offenses can impose crushing financial obligations, trapping them in a cycle of debt and incarceration for nonpayment."

I think it is reasonable that a speeding ticket for someone earning minimum wage could have a lower (say $50 instead of $150) penalty. The fines are made to disincentivize behavior, not put people in debt.
At lease some kind of mention of equality under the rule of law should be done and refuted.
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Even when only 70% of the votes are counted, it should be pretty clear who got more votes than another. The problem in this case is that no candidate got a majority, so the top two will need to have a run-off election.
The parliament has a history of extremely rarely rejecting proposals - the patents one is ancient history. But normally, it’s just not done - tweaked, yes, outright rejected almost never.
> The end result is that good GC-based memory systems tend to perform better than malloc/free style APIs

Citation needed.

GCs promise wonders, and yet in practice they are going to eat your memory, trash caches, and slow everything down. Performance benefits are typical "in some applications, in some use cases, etc." not "tend to"
The fine should be the same. No free lunch for someone who chooses to be a nurse instead of a portfolio manager.
Absolutely ! Store policy is : please write out your complaint about our returns decision in triplicate, and submit the first copy to our office in Chersky, Siberia, Russian Federation (tiny small detail: town only accessible during the summer months, and even then, it's a bit of a gamble). Opening hours are from 9:00 am to 9:01 am, 3 days out of every decade, announced 2 hours in advance.
Your friends can't exercise some level of long term financial responsibility unless they're presented with pretty graphics and a slick UI?

The lack of financial education in the US really makes me sad sometimes. And it pisses me off that companies like RH will take advantage of that.
Eh, use a limit and you’re fine
I don't know, I get this exact attitude when working against Windows Server, Oracle and WebSphere isn't so bad in comparison.
NY Daily News' online readership plunges in wake of paywall
Good effort for trying, at least we have some potential even if it fails.
Yeah, worst case scenario use a limit
You can open a Vanguard account and buy $VOO for zero commission too.
I thought that was done legally by leasing a new car every few months. And that loophole is part of the motivation for the new temporary plates in CA.

Edit: reference https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/07/steve-jobs-loophole-clo...
This woman's hotel room hack is a game-changer
Also could use "homomorphic encryption" [1] which allows you to perform arithmetic on encrypted data without decrypting it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Why not just a voters ransomware? Lockdown the computer except for access to the voting tool, activate day-of, and it lays the stakes out: vote for our guy or say goodbye to your data.

You don't need a physical presence to coerce, it's simple to click and deploy, and even easier to Target phishing sites when you know what people are looking for.

I easily believe that an interested party would drop big cash on a good exploit for such an event.
The interface looks pretty attractive
For the end user it’s an app
While it's just an introduction, what I am actually missing is the proper introduction of the neural processing model. How it works in the physical brain, with potentials and a couple of ! different neurotransmitters is a whole different matter!

By using just the model of neural processing one can achieve amazing results. Whether a neuron activates its output links, depends on the weight sum of the activated input links. If the sum is strong positive the Neuron activates its output, if it's strong negative the neuron even inhibits activation of successor neurons. But, even that basic tidbit is missing in the text.

"The neuron adds inputs in some way..." Really? Oh man. I consider myself an engineer, but that article doesn't say anything about how neurons and neural nets specifically work.
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Zero-knowledge \o/
Zapier conveniently replaces web hooks and adds some mapping between fields.

Try it out, they have a connector (Zapier calls this an Action)for airtable that works great.

Edit: direct link: https://Zapier.com
Chief exec indicted for creating highly-secure smartphones
The real world as your playground: games with Google Maps APIs
Ask HN: Quit job to avoid burnout?
Hi HN!

Apologies for throwaway, I'd rather minimize chances anyone I know reads that.

I could really use some advice here. I'm a 28 years old robotics engineer working at a small startup near one of the most expensive cities in the world (my partner received once in a lifetime opportunity here).

I feel like I'm heavily burned out. I'm the most senior person in my team (at 4 years of experience!!!) and for the past six months I've been doing nothing but writing documents, presentations and coaching junior devs (that's actually the most enjoyable part). What contributes to me feeling burned out is the management micromanaging everything I do and undermining most of my decisions (even though they don't have engineering background and and are quite open about not knowing much about technicalities). I brought those facts up to my manager attention lately but it didn't change anything.

The only way I grow my technical skills is through learning at home or making side projects but I feel I can't catch up properly with any technologies after hours.

I've been trying to find some alternative job but find it quite difficult because of language barrier, not having a CS degree and the fact that there are not many robotics companies in the area. I sent out over 20 CVs in the past month and I received negative answer for every one of them.

I have enough money to support myself for 6-8 months and my partner willing to help out if things go really south. I also have one freelance project on a table that would add another month support. I also have a SaS idea and a hardware startup idea that I think could take off if I spend some time on them.

I'm your view is it worth it to quit without having secured a job and go into freelance/consulting? I would need to earn 1000 Euro a month to pay my bills and have something to eat.

I would love to hear your opinion and experiences.
the point of a fine is to act as a deterrent... billionaire isn't going to care about $100.

They aren't going to care about $1000 either, but at least it's doing more social good.
Both of your examples share the same language and culture. Europe is much more diverse and that’s a huge barrier to functional politics and democracy on the federation level.
> They know people enjoy the emotional high of seeing the green numbers in their account when they open the app. This isn't a tool for high net-worth individuals, people that want "traditional" (Vanguard, Wealthfront, Schwab) wealth management investing with long-term planning, or advanced traders looking for Bloomberg terminal-esque features. This is designed to allow the average person to play with their money and see if they can "beat the market".

And this is exactly why these sorts of people will continue to remain low-net-worth individuals. Far be it for me to tell anyone what to do with their money to have fun, but these are exactly the sort of people who should be targeted for an easy to use solution that just auto deposits some amount of money into an index fund or target retirement date fund every pay period. It might not be "fun", but they'll be pretty happy later in life when they actually have retirement savings.
Thanks for clarifying. :)

Jake lists both kinds above; it's true that the project chapters are "follow along", but there are also suggestions for doing some extra stuff on your own.

Regardless, I think your overall point is correct: tons of projects is certainly not how we've structured the book. It is a thing some people want and would find useful. We'll see in the future.
Kotlin. Have been using it for a couple of years in production code. It does almost everything Java does, but with much less characters.
Well, no, it is a crime, in every country. Even in Germany only some autobahn, and often only certain sections of those autobahn, have no speed restrictions, because the roads are of a type (wide, long, and without pedestrians, oncoming traffic, or sudden turns) that make accidents less likely.
Python professionally. Use it every day at work and for side projects.

My favorite "for fun" languages are TCL and Ada. TCL because of its simplicity and elegance, Ada because of its type system, oop model, and compiler.
To be honest it's a good sandbox.
Reminds me of how David Foster Wallace described it:

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
If voters can sell their vote, they can also be COERCED to sell their vote at an unfair price. Coercion can disguise itself as "free will" when combined with privacy.
So because there is a vulnerability, and confirmed by what you describe as "unimpeachable" Trail of Bits.

I cannot dislike the way CTS-Labs has handle this? And I cannot question their motive behind this? Given other facts we have including questionable parties?

May I ask, is that what you are suggesting? Given also the numerous comment you have made in this post.
We used to have this concept that utilities were regulated monopolies. On the one hand, they were told exactly how much they were allowed to charge, and what services they had to provide (and where, and to whom). On the other hand, they were assured that they had no competition and that they would always be slightly profitable. It was good for the stock market, too -- a utility would have exceptionally low volatility and pay regular dividends, being nearly as safe as anything can be.

Then we decided to deregulate.
So you just need to take N photos with the correct voteon every ballot. No matter which will be discarted.
Because that would be easily verified, and the election would be thrown out. The attack wouldn't accomplish anything.
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It will put strong pressure to align the law with implementation. If the implementation treads into injustice, it (the law) is explicitly designed to be against those who can shrug it off, rather than drown.
That was "busted" in a Mythbusters episode.
> So this basically reduces democracy to "moneycrasy".

"Plutocracy".
The parliament gets to amend (and extremely rarely reject), but doesn’t make the policy - only the Comission does. That’s very unlike the traditional (“real”) democracy where the parliament is fully in charge of creating laws. The principle of separation of powers is important, even crucial, for democracy. In EU, executive branch blends with the legislative.
It's very disturbing. I used to drive across the country on a yearly basis (i80) and would have to clean my windshield of bugs at many of the gas stops, by the time I arrived the nose of the car would completely covered. Last year I made the same trip, similar time of year as previous trips, and didn't clean the windshield once.

Things are getting really out of wack, and I'm not looking forward to being around for what might become the collapse of our ecosystem.
"No free lunch for someone who chooses to be a nurse instead of a portfolio manager."

That's true. Portfolio managers are wined and dined pretty frequently by brokers and others who earn fees from the portfolio managers' employers.

Nurses might occasionally get a $10 box of chocolates from a grateful patient.
Percental equality is still equality, even improved equality.
Well there's no need for an elaborate scheme like this, certainly no need for video. The buyer gives a paper ballot that's already marked for Dr. Evil, and asks the vote seller to bring back the empty paper ballot to get paid. It's that simple :( and being done in the places which still uses paper ballots.
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Correction: Aroga, Swiss company, used blockchain to tally and track election results.

Older thread below.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16578872
Why not just do away with fines all together rather than trying to come up with a complex system to try to make them fair. Perhaps instead of fines a more appropriate punishment should be that you're forced to sit in your car for an hour making you late to whatever you were in a rush for.
Here in Turkey, you can get arrested for wearing the wrong t-shirt.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hero+t+shirt+antalya+arreste...
The Swiss have a relatively low turnout for their voting. 47%
http://www.electionguide.org/countries/id/207/

It seems people only vote on what they care about. Which I think can be expected if there are many votes.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/yes-no-or-sometimes-_most-swiss...
Woof, that's rough.

RE: Robotics firms - start looking at adjacent industries that value sensors/hardware/computing knowledge - things like IoT, manufacturing, or home automation all seem reasonable side jumps.

RE: Consulting - you have a specialized skill set, so the initial set of jobs may be harder. If you feel you can learn quickly on the fly, it may work out. From the euro comment, you're overseas? I'm unfamiliar with labor law, so I don't know how bad/good consulting is in your area.

I'm open to chatting more if you'd like - email is in my profile. Us robot folk have to stick together.