skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In-person voter fraud is vanishingly rare (0.0003 percent to 0.0025 percent, according to a recent meta-analysis[1]). A severe penalty in this sort of case serves no meaningful deterrent function.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud...
Anyone who told you SpaceX was losing money on every launch was lying. SpaceX's cost per vehicle is among the lowest in the industry. And it's not just "but we work so hard that's why we're winning," it's due to a carefully designed rocket that is simply cheap to manufacture and has design features that allow you to hit economies of scale that are usually extremely rare in space launch. (And a lot of these things can be copied, but the people who are copying them are trying to compete in the far smaller smallsat market.)

Partly that's due to clustering: They produce hundreds of Merlins per year vs their competitors which only produce like a dozen or so (often less) engines per year, so just from the learning curve they can save a lot of money.

And unlike essentially every other rocket in the industry, the two stages are largely similar, using the same pressurization scheme, same propellants, same diameter tooling, just differing by the length and number of engines (the Merlin Vacuum engine is significantly different than the Merlin 1D sea level engine, but same underlying cycle type and same heritage), so it's almost like they only need to maintain half the production line as their competitors and get the economies of scale of producing more of the same thing.
Also, they're reusing the vast majority of the hardware on roughly half their flights, now, which is, unhyperbolically, a game-changing development in commercial space launch.

SpaceX has a LOT going for them right now. Falcon 9 is a very inexpensive launcher given its performance.

The thing about rockets is that there's a huge advantage in having a higher launch rate. If you're not launching a lot, you're still paying most of your labor and facilities cost just to sit idle. And SpaceX, just producing a single rocket family that is launching more than anyone else in the world (and reusably), is at an enormous advantage there.
Correct me if I am wrong, but it doesn't have to be inside cmd. A lot of people use cmder/conemu, and it works great with WSL. You can even put your own shell on top of WSL (zsh, fish, etc.), if you are inclined to do so.
Nah, I don't think they're in any legal risk. I'm sure their ToS says they can shut down anyone who uses their service for any reason. In addition, it's not like this is an overnight move or they're deleting people's information -- they're giving them weeks which should be more than enough time for affected customers to migrate to a different service.
Minds Launches a Blockchain-Based Alternative to Facebook
I've been in the freelance game for the last five years.

If you're based in the US or Europe I wouldn't waste my time with Freelancer.com or Upwork. The competition for jobs on these platforms is usually too high.

Here are my best resources for finding freelance jobs:

1. And Co's gig list
And Co is a true life saver for me as a freelancer. Their app is 100% free and does everything I need: invoicing, contracts, payments, time tracking, etc.

They send out a weekly newsletter with lots of opportunities from all over the internet. It's kind of a hidden gem. Lots of value >>
https://www.and.co/gig-list

2. Angel List

3. Remote.io

However, there are lots and lots of other platforms. I recommend you look at this article https://www.and.co/freelance-jobs
>The basic problem is bandwidth. If you don't decentralize hosting with something like BitTorrent, then only a few large organizations have the bandwidth to safely host videos that could go viral.

Video storage would be out of scope for the index, and for good reason; other projects do it better than a completely new project not focused on decentralized file storage could be expected to.

The solution to the bandwidth problem would in fact be to just support existing storage solutions like bittorrent, ipfs, etc. So long as the video player supports it and the upload process is not complicated for non-technical users, problem solved.
The term is not being used incorrectly.

The primary definition is now "underdeveloped countries" - because language changes over time.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/third%20world
Some options:

Hey, you're not on the list, you can't vote.

Hey, you're not on the list, use the computer in the corner to enter your details and see if you're eligible.

Hey, you're not on the list, here is a provisional ballot, we will verify your info and if it clears, your vote will be counted.

You should not get 5 years in prison because the election board is incapable of securing their processes.
That's a forehead slapper
But they are not just banning ICO-related businesses. They are banning all businesses involved with cryptocurrencies. That seems pretty heavy-handed.
I'm pretty sure that's one of those things they tell you in the Executive Onboarding. As well with how to get around it.
Interestingly as the number of people in the garage is limited the traveling tech side of a f1 team also double or are stand by for the pit crew.
Minds open sources blockchain social network Facebook killer
Agreed. Looking forward to when Azure, GCP, and AWS have more equal marketshare. That will fix some current cloud shortcomings. Like stupid high egress rates. Or Amazon's lack of a real Spanner competitor.

Though, I get some of the egress upcharge in GCP. Their global network is worth some premium. Just not the current predatory pricing.
I'm with you there. I think the article is bullshit. We are in control of when we go to sleep, and ultimately that determines our circadian rhythm. Not some mysterious unknown force. The correlation with alcohol and drug abuse is a cause not a result.

I was very much in the camp of playing video games all night long but I didn't kid myself about early class times being the cause for my struggle.

* Disclaimer: IANA doctor/biologist. Point me to a study that says we can't control when we go to sleep (aside from other health factors including insomnia).
Can't answer iTerm2, but I use Cmder daily. I don't think the Windows Console can (as I want for day-to-day usage)

1) show the Git branch in the prompt
2) display nice colours
3) open multiple tabs

Looking forward to being proved wrong :) Cmder works well for me but I'd rather have something core to Windows to use instead.
>It reads more like it was to silence dissent.

Which makes his response read all that more hollow. Calling it a straw man? The post seems to have been an all out justification for immoral behavior by an executive. I can't imagine a Jr. Engineer or someone fresh out of college with their MA in Stats feeling super comfortable hopping in and going, "Hey this sound unethical and if people saw you saying it they would think we're hella fucked up." I'm relatively low-ranking at another big SV company and the thought of needing to stand up to a high ranking employee like that is more than a little intimidating.
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If you are sleep deprived to the point of "torture" you will fall asleep right during the day in noisy place.

No study of teenagers sleep patterns found that they are tortured via sleep deprivation. That is lie.
No, it's more like Go is (not enough to be) new Python or node.js.
I do not think unjust systems induce any more opponents than just ones. The history of the World would be much different if the onew who thrived were peoples that minded their own business and let their neighbours alone.

But agreed on the broader subject of "secrecy tax".
Please write this up in longer form (or point out where you have already) if you get a chance! I'm vaguely aware that the French FOSS community is possibly the strongest (which includes having strong institutions like Framasoft) in the world, but know hardly any details, and I think very few people in the English speaking FOSS world even have that vague awareness.
I don't want just me to have these videos, I want them to be on the internet for everybody to have whichever video they want. Just stashing away MY videos is a tad bit selfish but work, no doubt.

Also leaves us with no way to discover future "favorites"
Different strokes for different folks. My parents who live in my grandparents old house still have one of those big ol’ toilets that do the job with only one flush and visiting it is glorious. I hope they will it to me, like a family heirloom. I’d pay to ship it out to California but I’m afraid we probably have toilet cops prowling the neighborhood looking to catch flush felons.
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> it exploits libraries that have existed in Windows since NT

I use uTorrent on my mac.
Well, the biological rhythm can be impacted by much more than just late-night activities. I'm not talking about short term things like jet lag. I'm thinking more chronic things like insomnia, chronic illness/malnutrition, emotional trauma, etc all come to mind. So it would be unfair to place all the blame on students playing WoW or partying instead of studying, for example.
The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant
Slowing down is fine, but lowering the amount of development effort overall is not so great. Windows 10, at least outside the kernel, still needs a huge amount of bugfixing and polishing. Mere maintenance is tolerable but not good.
Yeah, very much alive in blue collar and white collar jobs.
Discussed a couple weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16584980.
>Having 10k of obviously fake accounts following you is a massive hit to your reputation.

What sort of people do you hang out with?
I think he was also dressed and on the ice during practice when Varlamov was handling his civil trial and Pickard was sick, since he would have dressed as the backup goalie, but Pickard ended up being healthy enough to play.
Interesting that https://1.1.1.1/ has a valid SSL Cert when you can't issue public valid certs for IPs
School ends at 3pm though, so even if early means getting the kids to school, what about getting them back from school?

Of course there are school buses but then those apply to the morning as well.
Organizations don't seek enough feedback from underlings about their bosses. They mostly use top-down feedback. Thus if boss X makes his/her boss happy, boss Y, boss Y then gives boss X good ratings even if Boss X does not treat his/her underlings well, which includes helping them be productive.

The idea can be taken too far, but there is a nice balance in there. Feedback from both directions should affect a boss's performance rating.
Python Idioms in Rust
The final option (provisional ballot) is what happened. The problem is she also signed an affidavit stating that she was eligible. It is a completely victimless crime and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Long ago there was a ms dos. program called “rude dos” that if installed would replace the all commands with versions that randomly and rarely would refuse to work with various rude messages. I always ran it before letting my little brother use my computer :).
> and anyway provides a fallback to direct streaming (HTTP), so that any browser can interact.

Ah, that's awesome. That definitely assuages my fears somewhat.

> [ActivityPub] In no way it defines how you access media.

ActivityStreams (which ActivityPub builds on) does define an attachment property for messages [1]. Is this not a standard mechanism for clients to access ActivityPub media (via the attachment's type and url)?

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attach...
If you're planning to have children, they might not be able to see a giraffe in their life. Think about that for a moment.
Yep, this. During summer internships in college I easily transitioned to a fully-functioning 11PM-7AM sleep schedule, but university's manifold distractions pushed me to a 2AM-10AM schedule. And in high school I was chronically exhausted because I'd stay up playing Counter Strike until 12AM every night (in retrospect this probably also limited my achievement in XC and track...). Of course this is all anecdotal.
I think the same of real life.
I was about to ask you what the hell you are talking about, and ask you to take your SJW bs elsewhere, but now that I think about it, eating steak and such is portrayed as masculine, for no reason at all.
There are many:

- Math.js: http://mathjs.org

- Numbers.js: https://numbers.github.io

- Numeric JavaScript: http://www.numericjs.com

But the thing is, they are not suitable for such simple things like number % 2.
I wasn't quite sure if widget lease amortization? would be the same for a small widget as opposed to a car. And no - they would not purchase.

Monthly service subscriptions for SaaS/PaaS are priced how?

Total cost of doing business/number of clients+profitEpectation/time etc?
I appreciate the DRY-ness of it, but that requires you to type 'up ...' which is longer :(

A while ago when I was bored I was thinking of golfing those aliases to say (pseudocode):

for i in 2..6:
alias '.'*i=cd '../'*i

but I didn't know all the shell needed and just wound up leaving it as is.

Edit: turns out Zsh has a 'repeat' built-in:

alias $(repeat 7 echo -n '.')="cd $(repeat 7 echo -n '../')"

Still, non-portable, less clear, not worth changing the aliases.
It was shown long ago that your brain doesn't fully wake up anyways until something like 10 AM I believe, if not more like 11 AM or noon. Having students get to school at 6-8 AM is just wasting resources. As some have pointed out though, this runs much deeper than people give credit for. The 8-4 schedule of schools isn't due to random choice, it's built around the entire country from the ground up operating on that type of schedule. People need a system where kids can get sent off to school in a way that doesn't impact adults getting to and from work. If schools started even an hour later, I'd bet at least a few million parents would face hardships in adjusting to get their kids to school and maintain their current job.

Of course there are more efficient times that we could use for school, but they would break the fragile system the US already has in place.

Block scheduling has alleviated the knowledge loss to an extent(imo). By changing from the full 7-8 classes per day schedule to 3-4 classes every day, students can retain more information because they are in each class longer. That also means your homework schedule is drastically less stressful.

I don't see any major changes coming to school times. The issue needs to be discussed, but what really can be done about it?
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Memos like this allow for open discourse within the company. Leaks only encourage companies to be even more closed off. Facebook could easily hide their language in corporate speak if they really want to encourage people to drink the corporate Kool Aid.
a journalist whose salary is paid for by advertisers, a journalist working for a concurrent of Facebook (in terms of ad revenue), a journalist who's probably complaining how internet 2.0 has killed his profession, how Social Media has killed Traditional Media, etc...

Plus how could a journalist suggest a nationalised alternative that would stop at UK's border, instead of a global one connecting people from all countries? It's extremely short sighted and closed minded.
Allegedly, Google's confidentially demands go well beyond not disclosing product launches, as a lawsuit that, to my knowledge, has not been concluded, has claimed: https://www.scribd.com/document/334736972/John-Doe-vs-Google...

Furthermore, you can see in this letter from Brian Katz, the head of stopleaks, more or less everything discussed here, and certainly, it coming from "management": https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/05/22/katz-letter-google.pdf (Actually, everything here is useful/interesting: https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/05/22/discovery.pdf )

Note that he expressly suggests bringing concerns to a manager rather than speaking publicly about them, which likely includes concerns about working conditions or illegal conduct. He also cites the whole "damages our culture" aspect that is extremely relevant to the topic at hand.

Edit: Removed off-topic addressing of removed content from parent post.
There is remorseful guilt, they know that deep-stalking everyone on the planet with a phone is not good.
Very clean! If you don't mind sharing, what's the tech stack?
Just installed Xming, "apt install xfce4-terminal".

DISPLAY=:0.0 xfce4-terminal &

After that, it about 90% of typical Unix setup with all the control key bindings for copy-paste, etc.

I wish WSL 's bash environment can run windows programs/utilities like Cygnus.
I really dislike how it is just relabeled projects from others.
Right, I can understand arguments for "you shouldn't lose the vote in that case", but that's a separate issue from "given that her vote wasn't valid, she was disenfranchising someone".

And "no franchise" does not imply "not human", unless you're saying that every country should allow foreigners to vote in their election or else they're deeming them non-human.
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Nah. Many carnivores will kill a large animal and eat only its liver and a bit of the meat. We should know better, though.
Can't the government do the same with cryptocurrencies though? They can also "arrest the criminal and return the stolen cryptocurrencies". Not very practical 99% of the time though...
This reminds me of something I heard about restaurants not too long ago (paraphrased):

> Avoid restaurants with too many things on the menu. It means the cooking staff doesn't focus on quality, instead opting to offer many choices to appease as many customers as possible.
They have? Because last I checked puberty and physical growth tend to peter out around 13-14 for females and 15-16 for males (male growth plates seal at about 15; in females, about a year after menarche, and menses itself stabilizes about two years after menarche).

Does it make his nebulous conspiracy theory more or less believable that you somehow think the age at which we stop warehousing kids actually has nothing at all to do with physical maturation?
The most likely reason the spam filters go crazy because there is a huge amount of bona-fide ICO and blockchain related spam, and they can't tell the difference between that and emails that users actually want.
Some people learn to do advance math without education at all. why do we teach math to kids anyway, clearly useless.
To be explicit, the old Lisp convention I know of, which is not a super common one but one I've definitely used quite a bit, is that you might name a slightly lower-level/more primitive version of a function with a %-prefix.

So if we have a user-email function that is just an object slot accessor, We could have %user-email that actually does a database query. I can't remember for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'd seen a double %%-prefix used, too.

You don't always want to put those functions in separate packages (traditionally in Lisp, packages are relatively heavyweight--e.g. an entire web server framework might have only one or two packages).

Another similar example might be the convention of defining a macro with the name my-macro, and a function that actually implements much of the macro, or is an equivalent of the macro that takes a thnk, that is named my-macro*.

(24 years of lisp here--I wouldn't be surprised if the conventions of mainstream lisp during the earliest six years were somewhat different than the following decades.)

Edited to add: Now that I think about it, this convention may have been heavily used in the Macintosh Common Lisp community.
I like that some of these employee's think they work for a company that is not evil.
Python has had this for a decade or more, too :)
Some sub-species are dwindling and others are thriving, there are farms in South Africa where they are raised, not unlike how you raise other animals for food consumption and then they do the whole trophy hunting thing with some of them. The hunting funds the the efforts to care for and breed the animals. Depending on the value of the Animals, farmers will spend big money on the care of the animals because there is profit to be made from it. Given how corrupt the governments are in that part of the world and the poverty this may be one of the only realistic options for preserving some species. When the population doesn't have the basics, let alone disposable income, funding for conservation tends to be de-prioritized.
A "continuous platform" was more aspirational than fully realized. I bet I could find some of my DirectX9-era games of mine that won't run past Windows 8. But the lack of an hard artificial churn like consoles combined with an open continuous API made PC gaming feel resilient in the face of the chaos.
Is increasing income inequality a fact or a myth?
GitHub has gotten a ways there socially. Repositories which are not on GitHub are not socially first-class for many subsets of contributors, because the only habits you can rely on them having in easily-accessible brain memory are based on GitHub-specific workflow. So if you are used to Git and not GitHub, projects you want to contribute to may ask/demand that you do the GitHub-specific thing instead (and feel justified by norms in doing so), and contributors to any projects you publish may do the same in the other direction (more likely, just quietly give up if they can't use GitHub to interact with you). When that happens, you can't move your repository around and still be able to collaborate even if your server's publishing on perfectly good Git-accessible protocols, because the centralized convenience has turned into a necessity in order to keep up / because it was common enough.

That's far from the perfect opposite of “distributed and open”, since these habits can be more fluidly shifted and alternate versions of the convenience processes can exist in theory, but it's also far from what I usually hear people implying when they expect things to be socially distributed as well as technically.

(I'm told that GMail similarly changes the nature of email by making it socially unsafe to operate email addresses in certain ways, but I believe this effect is weaker and I don't have real experience with it.)
They know about you though. :)
If you want to write a linked list like you do in C, just use pointers instead of references, mark your code as unsafe, and basically you have it.

I'm not suggesting this is a good idea, but I'm tired of the linked list argument which kind of implies Rust is much harder than C for an equivalent linked list implementation. If you explicitly choose to lose the extra guarantees, Rust is about as easy as C to write a linked list in.
I don't know about this man... I get your point but it's a little over dramatic.

My 13 year old girl lives with us half the time. Her other parent the other part of the time.

They let her keep her phone with her all the time. She can completely skip sleeping entirely for more than 2 days when she has her phone all night, texting with friends. She's having fun, but then she crashes and burns HARD when she comes back to our house. Get's sick, can't focus, emotions out of control.

At my house we take her phone away at 10:00pm, and she is passed out 5 minutes later. Funny thing is, I sometimes take away the phone on Sunday, in the afternoon, and she will pass out 5-10 minutes after that too.

Her body just needs a lot more sleep than it is getting. This is probably true with a lot of adults too. We use electronic stimulus to keep us going far beyond our "natural rhythms". Take those away and people can sleep.

If the natural rhythm of a teenager is to be unable to sleep until 2:00am, what are they supposed to do if they ever change time zones? People may have a naturally tendency to be a night owl or whatever, but that is hardly the most important element in the sleep deprivation story going on right now.