skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can create auditing systems that require a secret number the user is given at the ballot.

You can also have paper ballots. They are understood by everybody and do not rely on a handful of high-trust individuals to come up with flawless software. You can ensure votes are counted without revealing identity by using scrutineers.

> many voting areas have completely curtained off booths

Closed off booths are a legacy of lever-pull voting machines. Semi-open is fine and allows officials and scrutineers to spot people photographing their ballots.

> To have any effect in modern elections you'd need to carry out an extensive system of vote buying, which is illegal

You can also just make it impossible as well as illegal. It's worth noting that even in elections where vote buying and vote menacing don't change the result, they cause harm in themselves. Some individuals are deprived of their vote by fear and the overall legitimacy of the system is corroded.
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Can we have a TL;DR from somebody who knows what this fella is talking about? I've spent 15 minutes on the page trying to get the gist of it, but feels like a sequential collection of scattered thoughts rendered on a webpage without having been reorganised for somebody else to read.

I get that it's about a technique for fast learning a foreign language, but I don't want to have to read it in its entirety to make my mind if it's a great idea or just some crazy ramblings. Given the layout of the page, I suspect it's more of the latter...
This isn't how it turned out historically.
> The greatest marketing trick the NYT has ever pulled off is presenting themselves as the last bastion of objectivity in the trump era.

Considering most of the nation doesn't trust the NYT, not sure it was much of a trick. People trust foxnews more than the NYT. Think about that.

The real trick that the NYT ( along with CNN, MSNBC, etc ) pulled was forcing google, youtube, facebook and much of social media to give it an unfair privileged position to increase network traffic. They got a short term boost but it wasn't as significant as they'd hoped and it certainly won't last. Already, the subscriber growth has declined along with overall traffic.

Keep in mind that if we get a recession, the first thing the new subs will cut is the NYT subscription. I'm speaking from experience here. Also, as people get older and have more experience reading the NYT, their mistrust of NYT increases. Not a good sign for a trust based product.

And their activities ( hirings, stories and agenda pushing ) isn't helping.
My Chinese colleague can't write the character for "sneeze" without looking it up. Anecdotally, that suggests that Chinese script is somewhat harder than others.
You can get enough calories and be still malnourished [1]. We should instead calculate how many people can be fed so that all of their dietary needs are satisfied.

The calculation should include logistics, nutritious food that can't be transported unspoiled to the people in need does little good.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition#Dietary_practices
Just saw this prototype in the newspaper today. It is covered with solar cells, and apparently, it recharges 18 miles of range if you leave it out in the sun all day.

https://www.dn.no/nyheter/2018/08/09/0926/Motor/testkjorer-s...
Don't worry, FB will share it with random app developers on your behalf.
> and it's out of stock

You can get clones from china on ebay for about $5.
> tech bubble

I think OP misread the quarterly figure as an annual one. “Tech bubble” usually applies to companies with much less than $100 million of profits.
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FC660M is Cherry switches. M suffix stands for Mechanical. You get Topre switches in the C version, which means Capacitive.
Notes on API design in Go
I don't think it's against the rules of HN or GitHub. To be fair, it is a small fee, and helps fund the adding of new devices. At the end of the day, dev time is not free, and this took many days of research and development to perfect :)
> This common view has persisted for decades despite prior influential reviews refuting it (Matsumoto, 1999, 2002; Matsumoto, Kudoh, & Takeuchi, 1996; Oyserman, Coon, & Kemmelmeier, 2002; Takano & Osaka, 1997, 1999)

Odd they don't cite sources promoting the common view (Except for Hofstede, later).

> The common view is problematic because it takes this country-level difference and interprets a cultural dimen- sion of the country—for example, that American culture is individualistic and that Japanese culture is collectivis- tic—and then further applies that culture-level difference to individual members of those cultures. American indi- viduals are treated as if they are all individualistic and Japanese individuals are treated as if they are all collec- tivistic; that is, the common view essentially imposes a country-level effect (I/C) onto individual members of those nation cultures.

So they are saying that Japanese culture is collectivist, but Japanese individuals aren't. Makes sense to me. I litter more when in China than when in Japan.
>highest rate of anti depressant use

I could restate this positively as "highest rate of treated depression," so I'm wondering if it also has abnormally high rates of depression?
I didn't know that was possible, so I used to do the same thing via IFTTT, that probably still works.
There are numerous biological mechanisms which seem to have evolved only once. That's not to say there is not a better way, but the task of outcompeting an established incumbent is formidable. RNA, DNA, mitochondria, flowering plants, much of mammalian brain structure (including emotions), offhand. Various enzymes and hormones are remarkably consistent across vaast swathes of the genetic tree.
> Make a simple app from scratch ~ 10 hours (maybe a timetable or a to-do app to bring together most concepts we have been learning and get them excited about making new stuff)

Time tables or todo apps may bore many children to death. Maybe you can find a JavaScript-based 2D game engine? That would certainly be more engaging for them.
Are you the sort of person who likes paying protection rackets?

Assuming (correctly) that web sites are untrustworthy data collection bandits, why should they behave well only because a user proved their submission (and their gullibility) by paying them?
>> There have been no studies of large groups of people who have followed the currently popular versions of the Paleo diet for decades to assess their long-term health effects.

> You could say similar things about climate change. The science is, and always will be, out. That's the nature of science.

This is a false equivalency.

Science requires experiments to support or refute hypotheses. The fact that new experiments may cause us to revisit a theory does not mean that one can assert any arbitrary theory to be correct.
Maybe you just happen to want to do something which requires a lot of memory, and don't want to spend the money to upgrade RAM right now, or you're on a system where upgrading RAM is impossible, or your want to complete the task now without delaying it until you have installed more RAM.

My laptop has 8GB of RAM, enough for most use, but it proved way too small when trying to compile Chromium (where the linker would get OOM killed even with 8GB RAM + 8GB swap). If I was instead doing that on a system with <24GB of RAM but with a beefy GPU, using some of the graphics memory as swap instead of a relatively slow SATA 3 SSD would've been attractive.
> Weaponizing old, out-of-context tweets is just the new alt-right playbook

No, it was the cultural mainstream that made it acceptable to fire people over communication mistakes. See the "Just kidding, I'm white" tweet[1], Tim Hunt getting fired by Twitter before even getting off his plane[2], or in tech: Donglegate, where people on both sides were fired.

NYT should totally hire Sarah Jeong, but as a leftie, I have to agree with the "alt-right" that the double standard is ridiculous. The Verge sums it up pretty well[3]: Nobody should attack our journalists for their tweets, with the implication that firing everyone else was a great idea.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-t...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/13/tim-hunt-for...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/2/17644878/the-verge-new-yor...
I think your disagreement mainly stems from using different terminology: naturalgradient uses "left" as in "socially left/socially progressive", while you use "left" as in "economically left/socialism".
I think the idea of comparing to the tech bubble is that it has skewed our perceptions of how much a company should make per employee, and how fast it should grow. Indeed many bubble companies are making little or no profits, but they don't have 3700 employees to pay every month + printing presses, buildings etc. The ROI is very different
"Because that’s not how we use the web. People don’t visit a single site to seek out content. They search then nimbly hop from link to link building knowledge from an amalgamation of sources. The entire web is one big site."

"Given these usage patterns, paywalls fail miserably. The typical consumer would have to sign up to hundreds of properties, costing thousands of dollars per month. If they consumed every bit of content at the New York Times, the $25/month could be fair. But they don’t, leaving them with a glut of extremely underutilized and over-priced subscriptions."

https://artplusmarketing.com/paywall-not-paywalls-8474092276...
One big difference (if claims are correct) is that when looking at an object your eyes can actually focus just like if they really exist. In VR, there is only one focus plane so eyes tried to focus but they brain realized there is no point. This is one of the big issue in VR to use headset more that hour because it will cause headechs.
Mobile Chrome do that when you copy the URL.
The first section on the page is that this feature is going away. It was pretty self evident upon clicking the link.
You can actually return specific errors using verifier library.
Check out documentation: https://godoc.org/github.com/storozhukBM/verifier#Verify.Wit...
Newspapers in the US were absolutely valued for their ability to generate profits. Local classified advertising revenue alone was enough that throughout the 80s and early 90s it was a very lucrative business to be in.

They're also tools that can shape or sway the public opinion. And not all markets have been profitable: in the UK, for example, the desire for political influence generated so many competing national newspapers that most of them lost money.
Empowering India’s female entrepreneurs
Not sure how the academic languages/tools can play a role here when all these papers talk about very simple programs which are nowhere near the complexity of a full fledge software system. On the other hand we need to understand that there is something called "management", and that is responsible for so many things like deadlines, cutting corners etc that we always end up with buggy software no matter what.

Given enough time and very strong testing and verification processes you can write good software using current tools.
I've been dealing with OCD for about 2 decades now (I was around the same age as the author when I got these compulsions).

A lot of it centers around health and death, it goes hand in hand with hypochondria and thanatophobia (fear of dying). It's related to my stress for sure, and I often get panic attacks because I can't let go of the thoughts of having become ill or dying.

It does affect my daily life, I have 'repetitive thoughts' almost the whole day. Not per se bad thoughts, sometimes just worrying about my eyes hurting from wearing lenses - I keep thinking that until it starts hurting.

I have some kind of 'pattern' when it comes to thinking and if I move outside of it, I start repeating myself. One of these is that, as a bilingual person, when I mix up languages in my thoughts that is 'wrong' somehow and I need to start the 'train of thought' again.

Sometimes - the moments I am most stressed - I end up in a cycle of causing more OCD moments by having stress, which causes OCD, ..

At times it just depresses me that my thoughts aren't "normal", I know it's not rational to keep repeating things to oneself, but if I don't do it I have a nagging feeling that just pushes me to do it.

I also think that OCD is not something only the person who has it suffers from, it surely does take a toll on the people around you at times - especially when it makes you seem stressed out all the time and like you're on "edge". At least from my experience.
Ask HN: What Would a Kubernetes Desktop Client / IDE Look Like?
Hi,

I'm putting out a feeler here. I find myself working with a desktop client / IDE type program for all kinds of daily tasks: SQL editing, writing code, blogging etc. Many times the equivalent web versions are just not up to par or too slow.

For Kubernetes work, the Dashboard is pretty OK, but falls a bit flat when compared to something like Mesosphere's DC/OS. Also, switching between multiple clusters and getting an overview OVER multiple clusters is not very elegant.

What (other) use cases would you like to see if there was a Kubernetes desktop client / IDE?

P.S. I'm aware of https://kubernetic.com/ but it seems half finished and abandoned at this stage.
It's already possible :)
Sorry; I didn't mean exclusively at all. I meant "why have a site for 20something devs when they (and everyone else) already have HN?"
That is a really good idea. It might be a little more complicated to teach graphics/simple physics but maybe it would be worth it.
”One reason I choose to live in Japan is the respect for others.”

Interesting. For me this is one of the worst things about living in the UK.

It’s quite normal for many people to go the park or the beach and just leave all their litter on the ground when they’re done. Or to tip out all the litter from their car into the street when they’re done eating a McDonalds meal. Things that would be totally unacceptable in Japan or even many other European countries!

In the UK I don’t think it’s lack of respect for others that is the real problem, however. People are generally polite to each other, willing to help people out and form orderly queues. It’s more a lack of respect for the environment around them (picking up litter is someone else’s job) or lack of awareness of how their actions affect others (I had no idea that revving my loud ass motorbike on a residential street at 1AM was annoying people)...

Sometimes I wish that the UK was more like Japan!
The post I am responding to is talking about the Advance model, not the original.
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Somehow I can't help but read you've smuggled endorsement for: It's ok if the product is more dangerous when bundled with the benefit that we can blame it on some organization.
What does feminism have to do with the far left? Neither the USSR nor Maoist China were particularly trailblazing as regards feminism.
Yes, the OmniPod has no direct connection to the Dexcom CGM, I have to observe BG moving up and enter the number into the OmniPod for it to calculate a correction dose. So, for example, overnight this could still mean programming multiple corrections throughout the night after a slow-carb hard-to-dose meal.

For the last year we’ve been going to Clara Barton camp which is for kids with T1D. Most of the counselors are also living with T1D and one night they did a panel with several of them and a room full of parents.

We got to hear some very important perspectives, but one thing we consistently heard is that every kid with T1D will go through these burn out periods.

While of course it’s a health concern and we never want to see those high numbers, there will be time periods where blood sugar control slips and the A1Cs head up and it’s a totally legitimate reaction as a teenager to be seeking some space from this condition which just never lets up and insists on setting us apart from our peers multiple times throughout the day.

Just like us software engineers will hit a wall and “burn out” from pushing too hard for too long, I think it’s not possible for the human brain, certainly an adolescent brain, to handle the constant never-ending burden of carb counting, dosing, checking, correcting, day in and out.

Switching devices might help, but of course is also a massive investment in time and energy to come up to speed on a new system, nevermind the financial side of it.

One thing we heard from several of the counselors was that in those periods of burn-out, they didn’t need their parents to “fix” anything and often rushing in to try to make changes to fix it ended up counterproductive because it’s ultimately not something that can be fixed but just be overcome. They didn’t need to hear how important it was, they knew that better than we as parents even. Burn-out is a real thing that they are entitled to do. Listen, let them vent, let them cry, let them cheat even if it causes a temporary high, not because that’s the lifestyle you want to encourage but because somehow you have to find these moments to get space and control and feel like it’s not the T1D dictating everything all the time.

Even with OmniPod which is a neat little device, there are weeks when one child will just say, “You know what, I just really don’t want a pod on this week” and we pull out the Lantus from the back of the fridge and do injections for a few days, and yeah BG control goes to shit, and then we go back to the pods with renewed appreciation for the convenience, yes, and the trade-offs.

The Dexcom CGM is cloud connected, and of course you configure which devices can see your BG and also what times of day it’s shared. So we also heard some interesting and at times hilarious stories about the power struggles of college kids sharing (and not sharing) their BG numbers with their parents.

Most importantly just know burn-out is universal and inevitable and also will pass.
I think the fact that there is a distinction between doctrine and dogma, both of which exist, and with the boundary between them subject to serious scholarly debate, just shows how dogmatic/doctrinaire (which are synonyms in everyday non-Catholic English) the Catholic Church is.
One technique I've seen work well for getting bosses to care is showing them how much slower their sites are than their competitors - nobody wants to be worse than their competition.

In SpeedCurve, for just around $8/mo per page/site you can set up daily synthetic checks for the business and its competitors, covering multiple profiles: mobile/3g, tablet/4g, desktop/fibre.

You can use both the metrics (Start Render, SpeedIndex, Hero Paint) [1] and the filmstrip videos to literally show them how they compare side-by-side [2] – this is super-powerful as it's so visual.

Disclaimer: I don't work for SpeedCurve, just a fan of the tool.

[1]: https://speedcurve.com/features/synthetic/#benchmark
[2]: https://speedcurve.com/demo/video/?tests=180102_1T_d12fa882f...
I actually use JSX without React thanks to Typescript, I wrote an HTML builder myself (anybody can write one, it's easy) and it's quite handy since I don't have to rely on any framework/view library anymore.
I feel your pain. I'm a very early user of the site (3 digit user id from when it was initially a closed beta) and used to answer questions regularly in my specific area of expertise. But the torrent of low quality questions from users who severely lack any fundamental knowledge in their subject area became too much.

I gradually drifted away from participating and imparting my knowledge. I'm not going to spend time explaining the basics to users (who often show very little gratitude or appreciation) and cajoling them to provide other information that might help me solve their problems.

It's a damned shame because the idea of SO is really good, but the site is overrun by vampires and I'm all out of stakes and garlic.
AWS console slow or not loading?
AWS console seems to be down for us.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ap-south-1.signin.aws.amazon.com
> e.g. American Indians, they lasted 10,000 years in North America in a much more sustainable fashion.

Sure! And why did they change their lifestyle as soon as they could? Before it was MUCH more comfortable!

Cheap energy has revolutionized the world. It is unfortunate that, for the moment, we can only find cheap energy in polluting fossil fuels but, short of discovering a less polluting cheap energy source (if it ever exists), there is no going back! You'll never be able to convince billions of people to give up their car and air conditioning to go back ploughing the fields.

Climate change will get irreversible if we don't drastically lower our quality life? OK, let it be! Let's accept it already and start doing what we can do to adapt. But don't talk about going back: nobody will listen to you.
To be clear, Facebook has ended the ability to automatically post _anything_ to a personal profile.

More details: https://betanews.com/2018/08/02/twitter-facebook-crossposts-...
By calling it "personal politics," you are saying something against it. Nobody should invent some subjective opinion and then bring it in to the workplace, but it seems fine to expect doctors to refuse kickbacks from drug reps, or for soldiers to decline to carry out war crimes, or for civil engineers to refuse to sign off on a cheap blueprint that will save a lot of money but probably collapse. The debate is about what "professional ethics" means for software development.
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> I've used Flow in 2016 and getting it to work on code editors was a huge pain.

Typescript also has support for js-doc style type declarations, at a basic level, IMHO it's less painful to use than Flow. Does Flow even has a compiler that doesn't rely on OCaml?

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/JSDoc-support-i...
Nope. All automated posting to a personal profile is now blocked.
Bitcoin: we don’t expect new highs in 2018
Why wouldn't equipment end up in asset column in case of a sale? Equipment is a fixed asset so it'll just be a transfer of asset at book value with gain/loss recorded in the sellers income statement.

EDIT: When you talk about "asset column" I'm assuming you mean the asset column in the books of accounts of the buyer.
I wouldn't say it is normal but it is definitely common enough to make me pretty angry on occasions. And then there is fly tipping, which seems a real problem where I live here in Fife - which is really odd as there are excellent council run recycling centres that take every kind of waste (admittedly with a charge for businesses).
> Weaponizing old, out-of-context tweets is just the new alt-right playbook. James Gunn is the other obvious example.

They merely adopted left's usual tactics.

Personally, I don't support firing people over their private views, but in this case it's blatant hypocrisy. For example, a few months ago NYT fired Quinn Norton for almost the same thing[1]. Almost, because her old racist tweets weren't targeting white people.

>Yes, these people posted things that were bad ideas. They also apologised, made it clear they were not serious about what was said, and moved past it.

Sarah did not apologize. All she did was claiming that she's a victim.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/business/media/quinn-nort...