skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those interested in the court's opinion, which includes summaries of the works in question, you can find it here[0].

[0] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-yor...
I’m eternally grateful you picked that up! :)
Which is all the more reason why you should be thankful that you can motivate them without surrendering equity.

"Rather than make you a millionaire in N years, why don't we give you 10 free haircuts instead?" SV Engineers: "DEAL!"
Please don't try to sell the world on working this way. It's just terrible and lazy. You can learn enough git to use it productively in 5 commands. It's not even difficult.
Is it equally obvious that lawmakers have the right to cite a copyrighted work and deprive it of copyrighted status?
>in fact it's strongly incentivised to make what they're looking for as difficult to find as possible so that they'll spend hours and hours binging vacuous addictive content looking for something but never quite finding it and getting no satisfaction from the experience.

Reddit and Original (as in when it was college email addresses only) Facebook are / were really good at this.

You may go to either one with some idea of what you want to check out but hours later realize you went down a rabbit hole that never ended.

I'm not too sure Youtube is anywhere near as good as Reddit is or Facebook used to be but some people are right in saying that some of the changes Youtube has made makes it easier for a user to snap back to reality and realize it's time to get off of Youtube because it's not serving you anything you want to watch -- because like you said it's hard to find by design.
What's the whole point of sports competition in the first place if the thing that makes the difference is a simple layout of $250?
More like an English description of the software followed by the source. The problem is that if the first part were sufficient to define the law then the second part would be unnecessary.
I found this really cool to read into. Some of it went over my head but a great read none the less. Thanks for sharing.
There was a poll that normalized the data by assuming 98% of African Americans were in favor of Clinton based on a minuscule sample size heavily dependent on African American women which didn’t raise a red flag for me BUT that poll assumed that Black voters would come out with a greater turnout than for Obama which I thought was ridiculously untrue. Now this was a public poll and not their internals, but after reading that I placed some friendly wagers that trump would win certain states (he won 3/4 I predicted).

At the time I thought Clinton was a superior candidate to Trump, so I did message a Clinton campaign member my concerns and was ignored. I posted on a Clinton forum and got blocked for being a right wing troll and was told they were ahead in Arizona and competitive in Texas, so there’s no way they need to be concerned about the states I mentioned. The group think was absurd. No dissent allowed.

I bought Chasing Hillary by a NYTimes reporter and that absurd elitism and overconfidence and refusal to hear any real dissent was a recurring theme in that book. (I wouldn’t reccomend it, but the biggest lesson I learned there was the Clinton campaign played everything so safe. A dozen reviewers checking every joke, every line, every answer so every comment Hillary spoke became devoid of substance and too safe and many good plays were shot down if any of a handful of people disagreed with them).
I suspect thats actually possible if you use Turbolinks and made an app using their Android and iOS wrappers.
And Aaron just has so much more. If I'm remembering correctly, he wrote an essay every day for a year at one point.
Fido U2F...?
I've always found the five perfect solids kind of interesting for that reason. Seems so weird for the set to be so finite.
currently using bullettrain.co fairly happily. It's geared towards B2B SaaS.
Are you sure? Dunno what to tell you. I see a blank page with a reddish orange bar at the top. If I enable a few JS sources I get the content, revoke them and it goes away.

I'll beef hooked if I'm going to read an article about what "tech journalism" needs from a site that already shit the bed IMO.
It's because it disenfranchises people without ID for no good reason. Fraud of this type doesn't happen. All voter ID does is make it harder to vote as it requires people to do more unessessary work to vote.

From a "systems design standpoint" it's adding a feature for a high cost that that isn't needed and makes the result of the system worse as fewer people will participate. Overengineering at the expense of the user.

In a perfect world I understand your point and in an ideal system everyone would be easily able to get the ID they need. In reality some people will find it harder than others to obtain the ID. The difficulty could be raised in areas where people in power wish to suppress the vote by limiting supply and people with less free time or money may not be able to get it.

Making it even harder for people to vote is undemocratic and there is no reason to add this extra layer because there isn't really a problem that is solved by it. If there was strong eveidence then the trade-off might be acceptable but this really isn't the case. There is also a high added cost to the system. The discussion only exists because fewer voters generally means proportionally higher turnout for republicans and this is why they are cynically suggesting it.

The true intentions of the populace in an election would be effected much more by the number of people who are excluded by a voter ID system than they ever would be by the statistically insignificant levels of direct voter fraud.

I genuinely hope this helps you understand the other point of view.
Spot checking isn't enough. To claim that spot checking effectively enforces integrity is turning a blind eye, and shrugging at cut corners.
My jam is to wait for a few use cases before creating a new abstraction or process. I want to see how they are similar, and how they are different too in order to form a generalized solution that will serve the use cases at once. Dealing more and more with tooling for other developers, this applies especially to the tooling APIs.

I apply this to DRY, coupling, encapsulation, APIs, etc. Also, I prefer to focus on consistency and readability over most other concerns. I mentally, or physically!, note areas of code I want to improve but don't feel like the time is right now, right now. During future work that touches that code I will refactor it if a solution has presented itself.

These days I prefer languages with bomber language services and tooling to make refactor in the future as painless as possible(types). I prefer explicit over implicit(sorry Ruby and Chef), and configuration over convention(looking at you Gradle).
Too much abstraction?... Or not enough abstraction?

$project_folder = "/whatever";
$input_folder = $project_folder . "/input";
$output_folder = $project_folder . "/output";
That's only in theory. In practice, my solution is less hassle.
Chameleon:An HTML/XML template engine for Python
first up, awesome post! I grew up in much the same way(i'm 35, from lower middle class/upper lower class). If it was at all possible to do it our selves, we did because didn't have much choice.

Today I live on a hobby farm and I still use all the same things I learned back when. i keep a hefty stock pile of "junk" for re-purpose and have rebuilt most of the building, motors, and tools I have.

I've got 2 sons and they both think it's funny watching me fix random stuff with other random stuff. But it's a skill I've watched them pick up. i'm happy knowing they can fix what needs fixed and they're confidence never wavers when they want to build something.
PG&E is publicly traded (PCG.SG), the debate in the capitol is how much those stock holders should pay (through reduced dividends) vs. ratepayers.

PG&E is making the argument that the cost to too high to be paid off by investors. If they state allows the cost to be fully covered by rate payers (keeping profits margins unchanged) what is the incentive for PG&E to take actions that reduce fire risks in the future?

This issue has come up in the past as well, e.g. the San Bruno pipeline explosion and what resulting safety upgrades should be financed though state approved rate increases vs. investors (reduced profits)
Integrity and privacy for all streams.
It's a self-esteem problem. One easy thing you can do is not to express it too much. For example, avoid to be sorry about stuff you're not responsible for.

About the "career", it's an HR meme. You're supposed to be the perfect guy who is never wrong and always healthy.

Don't buy what the others say even if it's told by someone who is supposed to know (like someone on tv or a teacher). Make yourself an opinion on everything.
That is both a) cool and b) proof of what we were dicussing...that web assembly provides a means for embedding into these scripting languages that vanilla Rust does not.
Inside the Cosmodrome: Where Russia Launches Americans into Space
As a dual UK & Australian citizen I'd be keen to see 'Brexit Mode' - I imagine that other EU passports suddenly become more desirable...
Git's UX is horrible for people who don't know git, i.e. git beginners. All the documentation and error messages are written as if the user is already intricately familiar with the inner workings of git. As a result, it's very hard to learn because you don't know what you're about to do without hours of googling cryptic error messages.

Perfect example that happened to me today:

$ git push
fatal: The current branch insert_branchname_here has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream origin insert_branchname_here

What does it mean to "set the remote as upstream"? That phrase makes no sense to me. Is that going to overwrite master on origin? I have no idea, but I'll be damned if I am going to hit enter and risk overwriting my upstream branch, so I Ctrl+C out of there and had to read a bunch of awful reference docs posing as a tutorial.

Git is just plain terrible in almost every way. It just happens to be less terrible for certain workflows than CVS/SVN/mercurial/whatever.
"They did not ask to be part of a law"

How do we know that they did not ask?
A video of somebody using a snippet, wow.
I don't fully understand the state part. Could someone provide an example of what the OP is talking about? thanks!
Uh, how does that follow? In what other domain do you get a pass for doing a little unnecessary harm because you could have done much more?
None. Read MDN (like the QuerySelector page).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/qu...
I think you're describing the opscan machines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_scan_voting_system

Doug Jones is the recognized expert on these particular systems.

http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/optical/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_W._Jones

Of all the available and proposed systems, opscans are the least bad, for the USA. (Better would be manually counted ballots, but that'd require some unpalatable changes to be feasible.)

If I was king, I'd require open source (hardware & software), hardwired to boot off a WORM media (eg mini CD-ROM). The media would be purpose burned per election, enumerated and notarized, and their physical chain of custody guaranteed, to be warehoused for future inspection.

The tabulation would be RAM only, with a report printed when the polls close.

Source: Election integrity was my issue.
"They did not ask to be part of a law".

This is mostly false, actually.
They exist as model codes to be a part of building codes in a lot of cases.
They serve no other purposes.

Nobody is sitting around making building codes as a hobby that are accidentally getting incorporated into law.

Additionally, in the case such a thing did happen, the authors would have have recourse - not against the public, but against the government, for a taking.
My favorite example of forbidden ingenuity is the "sucker car" (Chapparal 2J) which used a plastic skirt to seal the car to the ground, and pump that sucked the air from underneath the car, producing an insane amount of downforce. It was outlawed of course after blowing away the competition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J
Asbestos still isn’t fully banned in the US
I am seriously going to start doing this. Great suggestion and the authority and insight with which it was presented gives me a lot of confidence it'll work out. Thanks
Carl Malamud takes donations, and is funded by a lot of good people.

He was also behind the efforts to scan federal reporters (see https://yeswescan.org/index.court.html) , etc.
It's a decent audience, plenty of mainstream products started with a HN audience. reddit, dropbox, etc.
Premature abstraction. Especially endemic to large enterprise projects.
There is a quote by Linus Torvalds that is relevant here:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."
Impressive! You can add the third one to the url manually, e.g. http://multinational.io/best_passport/the%20United%20States+...
Thank you for the further explanation.

I'm intrigued by this part "... isn't charged with failing to follow a law that was not publicly available ... the straightforward resolution would be to find the law invalid on that basis."

Are you aware of any cases where this has been tested? How would one go about finding such a case if it exists, or satisyfing oneself that no such case exists?
The blue SJ territory between Greenland and Russia is Svalbard, part of Norway. (not a bug in the map!)

It's not part of the Schengen zone, so will allow people to enter visa free but presumably you need visitor rights to the country you're coming from (compare Andorra).
Well, more state in code usually makes it more difficult to do things like run the code concurrently. You have to worry about managing data races when there is a lot of shared state, whereas in stateless code no complex managing is needed
For some people, in some communities (that lean left, weird), obtaining and maintaining physical photo ID is non-trivial. To the politicians that those people won't vote for, they have exactly zero incentive to improve their access to voting.

If getting a state-issued picture ID was free, easy, and convenient, I don't think nearly as many people would object to the requirement. But somehow that's never mentioned by those that want to "ensure election security". Because for far too many of those people, what they actually want is fewer minorities and low-income people voting.
You all miss one important advantage small sites have over the media giants:
Attention economy for giant sites allocates zero to nothing share for new content creators, smaller content creators occupy proportionally more space because the userbase is smaller.
Its much easier to get to top 1000 or top 10k when there much less users, regardless of quality or talent.
This means more representation in search results, categories, related videos,etc.
Notes—I haven’t found a better general note taking app and have grown to enjoy using this as its lack of features leaves me focused on just taking notes

Things—makes following ‘Getting things done’ task management easier
> How many attempts at decentralized social networks have failed? All of them.

This is why we have to keep trying :)
While I can't cite a source, it also would be very believable to learn that lobbyists from some of the larger standards orgs (the ones that more or less stand alone, like e.g. the NFPA) are encouraging politicians to actually reference "the standard" rather than write "law language" to define something already present in the standard. Potentially with a "back of the mind" thought by the lobbyist of "this will drive more sales for us".
That's pretty easy. All you have to do is extract the first zip, go into the directory, run `git init; git add -a; git commit -m first` then unzip the second one and run... Hey wait a second.
I wonder how long until we can get a sample of this? It says they're trying to miniaturize it and get rid of the battery.

Forget that! Give it to me now! I don't care if it's massive, heavy, and requires constant charging and a belt back battery. I would love this device!
Tech has the same problem entertainment and fashion reporters always had. The CJR appears to agree that most tech writers are hacks trading fluff jobs for access, swag, and perks.
> It is not true that our ignorance is infinitely unbounded

Well, if you define our ignorance as information we don't yet have. Then if the Universe is infinite, it means our ignorance is unbounded.

In fact, if any type of infinity exists, then it means in general our ignorance is unbounded, because we will never be able to have full knowledge of that infinity.

For example, you can make as many assumptions as you want about the properties of the rational numbers in between two other numbers, but unless you are able to somehow "know" all of those numbers, then your ignorance about them is in part bounded by their quantity, and if it there's an infinite amount of them, your ignorance about them will be unbounded.
FYI, Voter Action (now defunct) proved in a court of law that Kerry won New Mexico.

Among many other problems, their touchscreen voting machines didn't count spanish language ballots.

Part of the settlement was NM had to junk all their new machines and go back to opscans.

Given the circumstantial evidence and coverups, it's entirely reasonable to assume that election integrity problems were widespread. But we'll never know, because the evidence was destroyed, often illegally (eg despite federal injunctions).

As for why non-Republicans don't talk about this: Because it's a trap. Priming the public with the idea makes it easier for someone else to come along and seize the initiative, despite any reality. And few non-Republicans know how to wield the bully pulpit.
Thanks ericabiz for the follow up. These are definitely the interesting points I was searching for in the article given the headline.

It certainly seems there are indicators that the market and economy could turn south. On my personal list, I also have the structural instability created by the current tariffs and escalating trade war, geopolitical weirdness, and the long term increase of inequality.

I look forward to reading your next article on this.
Which one do you use for auth? Any recommendations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
I'm not arguing that it should be deprived of copyright protection. Just that it should be accessible. That access could be provided by means other than removing copyright status, e.g. through fair use exceptions, or by having the government buy copies for every public library, or for every household.

But even if the only way to fix this were to extinguished copyright for the referenced works, this doesn't add a huge burden on lawmakers. They created copyright, after all, and the same powers they used to create it can be used to weaken it.
Will the train come close to my home so I can unload my shopping bags?
It says they took samples of it even though it was just sewage
Lol on being downvoted. I was a writer and editor for Wired for a decade, including writing the first story ever about YC, covering security and breaking news on the NSA and AT&T's spying of Americans.

But sure, what journalism needs is "neutral reporting of facts."

F*ckin' engineers should spend less time debating React vs. Vue.js and try the humanities some time.
PSI: Pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO
The MIT model is so naive in its construction it's worthless as a tool to understand the real world.

Random events significant enough to alter one's life trajectory once set are the exception, not the rule. Furthermore intelligence is only one small component of what precipitates financial success.

It's almost as if the researchers went into their research with their minds made up already, trying to construct a model to confirm their initial prejudices.

Among the constellation of positive traits people can have, many unique combinations may lead to success. Intelligence is certainly very useful, but determination, focus, affability, vision etc are all independent of raw intelligence to some extent.

It's fashionable among cynics to believe and advocate that meritocracy is dead, but meritocracy is alive and well.

People who possess the big 4 positive traits of focus, intelligence, likability and ambition will find success in any number of different fields and life paths, regardless of the circumstances of their birth. Of course it's easier to reach the top if you are already at the top and harder to reach the top if you are at the bottom, but there are many more ways to live a "successful" life than simply being in the top 1% of wealth.

That poor person who dedicates themself to their work with vigor and intelligence will very likely do better than their peers who do not, barring exceptional circumstances. If success is measured in terms of a stable comfortable life, such a person will very likely merit and achieve this success.
Horse riding was much less popular than you think. What was much more popular was horse-powered carriages, which are much more convenient than riding, and also less dangerous. Horse riding was pretty much a hobby, a hobby of the rich at that. Try reading some books from the era. For example, in Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” there is a quite funny moment when Hamilton sons were going for dances, when two older brothers already took family buggies, the younger didn’t choose to ride on a horse, but did something quite different, which made his mother very unhappy.
It harkens back to the "Best Viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4" days, for me.
Ask HN: What open source software you recommend for eCommerce site and why?
A common definition of 'recession' is a period of two or more quarters of negative GDP growth. Early 2016 saw 0.5-0.6% growth.

The dip isn't a coincidence, but we didn't quite cross the 'reccession' threshold.
Yes. Web search: "Amazon diapers.com".
What should competitive Fortnite look like?
Lots of bits of KVM turned off, though. Makes it really interesting when I work with people on Open Source stuff. I find out all sorts of things KVM can apparently do that mostly leave me going "you put WHAT in host ring zero?!" :)

(note: as implied, I work on our userland QEMU replacement)
Bash, brew, tmux, vim, git, and vagrant.
Per the article:
> “Before we carried out these experiments, I did not know how straightforward it could be to positively affect the flow of traffic,” Jonathan Sprinkle, the Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, said in a statement. “I assumed we would need sophisticated control techniques, but what we showed was that controllers which are staples of undergraduate control theory will do the trick.”

If it really is that simple shouldn't it be possible to put this into an app that if 1/20 drivers had installed would also solve the problem?
Hacking
How to start hacking ? What is the first step for it ? It is any language or os ?
Foreign held debt.
This is an example of some of the best performance art on hacker news