skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Electronic voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet. I don't think software development in this field is that retarded. They can still be hacked of course, but the delivery mechanism would at least be some local network or more likely compromised firmware upload.

Most likely some computer somewhere in the chain of voting machine counts -> official "verified" vote totals is connected, but you could say that of vote rolls coming from manual punch ballots as well.

A lot of people suggest the solution is for electronic voting machines to produce at least an actual vote paper trail, but I don't see that helping as a hacked machine could spoof those just as well as bits.
> Isn't that how we ended up with Facebook's ad targeting algorithms controlling most people's web experience? Running a cheap experiment testing how alternatives might work seems like important if you care about not having network effects giving a couple of companies significant control over the web.

A social network doesn't mean Facebook. It could be an open platform like RSS or Mastodon (the latter I think is more closely aligned with Mozilla's mission, and could use the funding). Friends sharing content with me typically do so over Slack or Discord. I don't know how many people could be convinced to use an app that will algorithmically find something cool if you let it watch what you do all day. That's creepy and the value generated is pretty minimal.

> That was never generally true and it really hasn't been accurate for the last year or two, where performance has been very competitive depending on what you're measuring.

In my case, performance has been slow/stuttery on macOS to the point where I keep actively trying to use it, even enabling WebRender, and falling back to Chrome or Safari. I've also noticed the performance issues on Android. It seems fine on Windows, but not noticeably faster than Chrome or Edge.
Or if you live in an outer neighborhood of a big city.

I have a 2br in Chicago and its very affordable on one income
Sounds like a theme issue with the online search (we had also problems with search when theme was older or newer than mkdocs), do you experience same behaviour with other themes?
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Number 1 is the scale of the problem.

Voting software needs to solve adversarial distributed trust across hundreds of thousands of polling stations. That's way harder than distributing control across three cooperating, redundant avionics packages. Really, it's an unsolved problem in computer science, but that doesn't stop people from selling solutions...

Number 2 is the cost of failure.

The worst case scenario for avionics software is a plane crashes and everyone on the plane very publicly dies. An engineer is unlikely to be motivated to cause this on purpose, and if they do then everyone knows about it immediately.

The worst case scenario for voting software is a single engineer gets control over the political direction of the entire country, and nobody notices, ever. There's a ton of motivation to do this.
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A philosophy I have for founders is if it is too much money to early exercise all of it, covering the cost with a sign on bonus, you should be giving RSUs at that point.

82b sign on bonuses are cheaper than the actual cost, since the money is really the employee's marginal tax rate, since early exercise money comes back to the corp.

That is typically around series A or B, which is a lot earlier than the typical switch to RSUs.
Azure already offers load balancing. I'm not sure how much differentiates all the products out there now. I've never seen a load balancer be a bottleneck in any system I've worked on.
> It seems very reasonable to me and I wouldn't call it traumatic.

Well, I'm glad we've got you here to tell us all that he didn't feel how he felt.
This. AMP was a blessing for me honestly. I can now maintain a version of our new site that isn't bogged down with tracking and flavor-of-the-month JS feature garbage.

I've been fighting against adding additional tracking forever, but constantly get railroaded by marketing because "they're the ones that know how to make us profitable."

Fundamentally I hate what it means for the internet, but I finally have a little power to say "no we can't do that."
The housing numbers look poorly researched in general. Sunnyvale for example is not that hard to find a 2 bedroom apartment for under $3k - I'm paying $2700 a month myself for one with over 1k sqft and modern appliances.
I think you're reading a partisan meaning into "equality-enhancing" that is not what the speaker intended, and then kicking a strawman down the road. Are you sure that's what she meant, or is it just an easier thing for you to argue against?
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Now somebody should make a PR to get rid of the nag notification for logged out users...
True. However, the fact that something nevertheless is driving even the company who brands itself privacy-first to still explore in this direction tells a lot either about Mozilla or about how strong the forces in the Web ecosystem are right now.
Is it not the norm? It certainly was until quite recently.

A young family with one breadwinner and a couple of small kids might reasonably want to live in a 2BR, in many countries not just USA.
Definitely doable if you're not in places where real estate has gone completely bonkers. There are lots of places where it isn't unreasonable to rent an entire house on a single income, even though most incomes there are fractions of a Bay Area salary.
I'm not sure you could prevent the client from providing the body before you're able to stop it and tell it to redirect instead - so there's a high risk you end up with everything being uploaded twice.
I'm not too familiar with how far an EV car can typically go on a charge. I looked at our typical trip on https://chargehub.com and there are three sections where there is a 200 mile gap between charge stations. Can a typical EV vehicle carrying say 7 people with all their gear, kayaks, roof top luggage shell, etc. go 200 miles between charging stations? Two of the sections would be through mountainous terrain with steep climbing if that makes any difference.
I wonder of all of the options what the speeder would have chosen - I suspect he would pay the money and move on.
I agree with this. The main question for me, is: programming in place of what?

Free play which involves the whole body and develops balance, motor skills etc.?

What is the brain development cost of replacing this with a frozen position in trance-like state in front of a screen?

Instead of socializing, or in any way interacting with human beings, picking up empathy, humor, refining public speaking, leadership, communication skills? Because these are the skills that lend VC capital, C suite jobs and fat exit checks.

Lastly, after working with a few high quality offshore teams, the future market for programmers is very likely in China, Russia, Ukraine etc. and the pay will sooner or later equalize.
> Gold is good, but as a chemical engineer, nuclear chemistry is a real threat.

I never thought I'd run into someone who believes in crypto and practical alchemy at the same time.
I'm pretty sure the GP is suggesting the article doesn't provide a compelling reason why the dialect/language in the article should be preserved beyond just being a note in a book somewhere. There are tons of things which we keep a copy of, but for no more reason than just to remember it.

With regards to Chicagoese, maybe I was just listening to the wrong people, but I grew up in Milwaukee and went to Chicago basically whenever I wanted for most of my young adult life, and I never heard the term Chicagoese until reading this article. I actually thought the article was satire on first read, and I would agree with the GP that there isn't really a compelling argument for it, any more than I would suggest that we preserve the idiosyncrasies that my deep-woods Wisconsinite grandparents would come up with as I grew up, even if everyone in their region used the terms.

I really don't get the thrust of the article's argument other than being upset that Chicago was ranked the accent as unattractive in the YouGov survey.
If you think the homeless people smearing fecal matter on scooters are of sound enough mind to be consciously “fighting” anything, you’re sadly mistaken.
All JSON is valid YAML, so you can format your YAML that way and be just fine.
The issue is that distributional losses historically have been significantly underestimated in terms of scale and persistence or glossed over as insignificant. Economists traditionally have held that workers who lose their jobs to free trade, while losing their job in the short term, find a new job elsewhere and ultimately are better off. This is turning out to not be the case, some workers persistently remain worse off.
This is a fantastic list.

I would add, “phones” are mostly not used for phoning now yet for some reason in 2018 your call still blocks the entire screen, out of the blue. This means your call could be ripping an E-mail draft out from under my fingers, or my place in a document or a game. I universally hate calls.
Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Why would they? They already have all of this technology and it's not like BackBlaze have a massive number of customers they could acquire.
Right. If I want to add that location based context it is up to me as a user, and not automatically assumed.
> Someone steals your wallet with USD, whats the difference?

I don't store the majority of my money in my wallet.
It might help to note that in 2009, Australia imported 900,000 tonnes of urea. Gonna take a long time before they meet that demand.

Australia's an energy importer, big time. Sure, bargeloads of coal go out to places like Saudi Arabia, but tankerloads of oil and LNG come in.

If you want to export your energy cheaply, look at Aluminum (sorry Aussies, Aluminium to you) instead. It's safe, made from local ingredients, and stable. That's why gulf petrostates are putting huge aluminum smelters in- much cheaper to make the aluminum with their natural gas than compress and store the stuff.
Is this new initiative strictly for an API between the official banks or there's a chance that a regular company or, let's say a private person, can use it to access its own data & submit transfers?

In a related note, I do hope that the German "lastschriftmandat"/direct debit gets also replaced with something more transparent and with a better control. Similar to an e-invoice concept used by a few other countries like Estonia.
There is certainly more accountability when real lives are in danger. Voter fruad doesn't have the same sort of repercussions and so it's ends up being an easier target. You can't harm someone by changing who they voted for.

This is conjecture on my part, since real lives aren't on the line, I would also imagine that error checking isn't held up to to the same standards.
> as if the officers hauled him off to an interrogation room

And if they had done that—well, he did accidentally steal $3, didn't he? And then you'd be right here saying "...as if the officers locked him up for the night". And if they had done that too—well, he did accidentally steal $3, didn't he? I wonder what you'd be saying here then.
A quick summary: iOS has very coarse-grained controls for app permissions to the contact list, either allowing all access to data about every contact, including free-form text notes that could contain arbitrary sensitive information, or no contact list access at all. The App Store's policies controlling use of contact list data are too weak without technical enforcement. (It's also noted that Google has the same problem with Android and the Play Store, but the author argues that Apple is more hypocritical because of its public pro-privacy stance.) To correct the problem:

> the first step is obvious: Restrict [apps] from getting any information from users' lists beyond phone numbers and email addresses. The next step is redesigning the controls of the list to allow users to encrypt or decline to share certain contacts. The names in a contact list could be benign, or they could be revealing—a doctor's patients, a dealmaker's network, a journalist's sources.
While that would be much more useful, factoring in state/federal/city taxes including brackets is going to be very high effort in comparison to what was done here.
> Outside of that is a joke. ... copypasting bitcoin (or various alt coins), then promoting it as a world changing idea

> As I develop my own coin

How is your coin different from copy-and-pastes?
You can eat shitty food and still be healthy. It won't be optimal, but just because you're eating burger king does not mean you have to eat to excess.
I wrote a somewhat related article a few years back that I think is very relevant to this: https://kolemcrae.com/the-internet-killed-the-rock-star-and-...

The days a massive rock stars is over - it's not too bad though...
> The word and concept of “hormone” only date back to 1905. Before that, what did we believe was regulating our bodies?

This question seems to give too much importance to naming a thing, in terms of how much it means we understand that thing. It's not like before hormones were discovered we knew nothing about biochemistry. And even a hundred years later, there's still so much we don't understand.
It's quite the norm.
As someone who grew up in Michigan, left, and visits familiy regularly throughout the year...I can't imagine anyone thinking the weather is desirable. Like pmiller2 said, summers are humid af, 80-90%, on a regular basis with 80-95 temps just isn't enjoyable.

The winters are rather cold, with quite a lot of snow and gray skies for months. Winter bleeds so far into spring. I remember years as a kid, where we'd get a foot of snow in Mid April. We lived just outside Metro Detroit, and I grew up there in the 90's/Early 00's...
> Even if the volatility were that extreme, you could easily mitigate it.

How?
this is just like reddit RES that's pretty cool

I was meaning to write my own userscript / chrome extension to show a button if there's a reddit-thread with same URL trending in hackernews, so you can click and go to those comments. It would say how many comments there are, and pull up the one with the most upvotes/comments within a 6 month timespan.

Haven't gotten around to it yet unless someone else wants to make it

I made one for my favorite notetaking app though, that I use fairly often. I made a write up of things I learned to write it

http://vincentmtang.com/2018/06/29/adventures-in-writing-a-t...
My guess: many humans were caught in the purge. I've seen people explain that Twitter locked their account, asking for a phone number for verification. While they were locked out, they were subtracted from the follow count of the accounts they followed.
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I can think of a few factors:

1. For any piece of software, a person in the right position should be able to sabotage it. Ken Thompson's Turing acceptance piece (Reflections on trusting trust) showed a trivial example of sabotage...

2. It is REALLY difficult to diagnose software while it is running.

3. Risk vs. Reward. Planes have tremendous performance characteristics versus boats or cars. Elevators provide a means for disabled people to get to different levels on a building. But in terms of voting we're trading the security of paper ballots (which humans have spent centuries putting safety measures on ballot stuffing) for convenience.

4. The potential number bad actors with voting is high. While the number of people that want to alter a plane or elevator for nefarious reasons is hopefully limited.

5. Political legitimacy is a very important concept for governments. In democracies, their legitimacy is largely based on ballots. It is really bad for citizens to question the outcome of an election.
It's all of the above really.

More Simply: It's not solving user problems better/faster/cheaper than current solutions.

It's an order of magnitude harder to create 3D content than it is 2D content. Tying 3D content to the real world in a way that is useful and persistent is incredibly difficult. The AR form factor (phone or HMD) is still wonky and nonstandard. Too many other factors to consider still.
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If my car wants to highlight the liquor store that sells my favorite beer at the best price or the hardware store that has the thing I was looking at on Amazon for a better price, etc, etc then it's fine by me. If it starts trying to highlight BS local singles in my area I'm gonna be amused but not pleased. Geographically relevant ads are usually higher quality (local businesses don't want to associate with scummy advertisers that make them look scummy) and less obnoxious than typical internet ads and you can only distract drivers so much before lawyers get involved so I don't think there well be as much abuse as we see with normal online ads.
>For example, I remember (but can't find) a feature for a high end car that showed IR camera display to highlight unseen deer on the road.

IIRC that was Lincoln, or perhaps Cadillac. I remember the TV commercials from my early teens.
`Expect: 100-continue` lets the server control this. If it responds "100 Continue", you upload the body. If it responds with a redirect, you redirect without uploading the body.

This is standard HTTP/1.1, and it's used by the S3 API for PUT requests.
this guy hasn't replied yet, so i'll bite.

i can probably help you find what you're looking for.

shoot me an email (it's listed on my profile) and we can chat.
> The issue became public when the client, Beijing Qingbo Data Control Technology, on Sunday posted a statement on Weibo, a Twitter-like social platform in China, saying that it had suffered a data loss on Tencent Cloud on July 20 after using the platform for eight months, and that all of the company’s data – including backup files – were lost and could not be recovered.

The fact that both the production and backup files were affected is really concerning for others using their services.
While it is common, it's more common to have both parents working, 61.9% are dual-income. [1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/famee.pdf
Are you getting stock or options? Because the 83b election applies to grants of stock, not options.

If options, then I've only ever heard of doing an 83b election in concert with early exercise, so that you are effectively making the election on a stock grant.

I'm not sure whether you can choose to do within 30 days of every tranch of vesting. I've never heard of this, but I'd be interested to know whether this is actually possible.

[1] https://blog.wealthfront.com/always-file-your-83b/
Absolutely this.

We know that income is generally power-law distributed, so we also know that the majority of incomes will be below the mean. An analysis like this is bordering on nonsensical. It's too sensitive to outliers to be useful, in my opinion.

A worked example: the median income per capita in Boston is $37,288[1] and there are 685,094 residents. The total income of people in Boston is then 685094*$37288 = $25,545,785,072. According to [2], Tim Cook's total compensation was $377 million in 2013. If Tim Cook moved to Boston, the mean per capita income would rise from $37,288 to ((25545785072+377000000)/(685094+1)) = $37,838. One person moving can make a 2% difference in mean income by moving to a top 25 city in the US, nevermind any of the smaller cities on that list.

1 = https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/bostoncitymassa...

2 = https://www.therichest.com/rich-list/world/top-10-people-wit...
Its a trusting trust issue. Generally when you ride an airplane or an elevator you are trusting that the engineers who designed it know what they were doing. They have strong incentives to design safe systems, and more importantly and excellent track record.

In the case of a voting machine, who are you trusting? The state governments and some random government contractor. What are their incentives? What is their track record?
Can you be more specific? The modeling/models don't look TOO insane - need some refactoring, but not too far off.

If you think this is a rails mess - you haven't seen anything yet. I am still able to hop in and reason about what this codebase does with no onboarding - a key benefit of rails. I've worked on codebases where all those niceties were thrown out the window.
I starred this issue nearly ten years ago. It's kind of hilarious.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35876441
> If you can find a better way to convince large organizations that page load speed is a valuable metric, and more important that whatever other resource they want to load today, I'd love to hear it.

Yes...do all the same things but without requiring Google proxy it. There are several things orgs will do to optimize SEO, conforming to AMP rules can be another. Gaming SEO is a concern for all SEO requirements so surely that's a poor excuse for proxying.

EDIT: But it did give me an idea on how to tell websites you aren't happy with something: https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/91
Wonderful 6-year-old hardware.
Have true rent control rather than what SF does.
We love MkDocs! When we originally discovered it we believed it was "good for small projects" but as our product got more complicated we actually never hit any issues. It's amazingly easy to use, extend and customize with great results:

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Speaking for myself: 3.7 is the newest release with all the nice shiny, new features. Knowing that I could actually use the most current tools makes AE much more attractive than it was before this announcement.
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Could just be the attitude of the companies. I know bird and lime bike are trying to enter Somerville and Cambridge MA despite being told no by the local government.

Some people have taken to throwing the bikes or scooters into the rivers when they show up now as a "fuck you" to the companies who are giving a "fuck you" to their town
I live in Spruce Pine, AMA.