skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure who the two authors of this piece are but they are distressingly naïve and their sweeping statements ignore the real issues.

> The reason we have electronic voting machines in the first place was due to the "hanging chad" problem in the Bush v. Gore election of the year 2000.

The reason electronic voting machines are now so common in the US is indeed a result of the 2000 presidential election, but it was at the time a panicked reaction that also ignored the advice of computer security professionals (and followed the wishes and claims of voting machine vendors)

> After that election, a wave of new, software-based, voting machines replaced the older inaccurate paper machines.

A nice statement, characterizing paper-based machines as "inaccurate" and implying software is not. But there has been no serious study of this issue, which implies that people don't care either way.

> ...If [accidents vs. intentional attack is the] measure, then voting machine software is fine and perfectly trustworthy. Such machines are no more likely to accidentally record a wrong vote than the paper voting systems they replaced -- indeed less likely.

Again, a sweeping, unsupported statement. When I work on software that people actually care about (e.g. system control for power plants, trains, aircraft and other vehicles; medical devices) there's a huge amount of attention paid not just to classical security but also reliability, resilience, correctness etc. Audits of voting software have never shown concern for these matters -- everything I've seen has been written with the same level of care as for an e-commerce website.

> To repeat: software is better than the mechanical machines they replaced, which is why there are so many software-based machines in the United States.

I could assert, and repeat, that the moon is 90% made of quartz, and for all I know that could be true, but I have no real data on the question.
>It’s illegal to sleep in an office. That legislation, like many others, was put in place to protect renters and workers

how did it protect workers/renters?
> Bitcoin is like the ultimate in law enforcement.

That's the stupidest thing I've heard all week. And it's been a long week.
Not in our lifetimes. Any American not retired or who doesn’t own a home most likely wants to move to the Bay Area, and most likely because there are jobs. The only reason they don’t is the rent rates.

Housing by market value is a losing proposition.
> No girl is dumb enough to be their girlfriend.

Being smart has nothing to do with it. People don't make a rational choice while choosing a partner. I am not even remotely good looking compared to many handsome men around. What works is rather simple, if you can do funny things bravely, you'll get the any girl you want.

Now, i am from Eastern Europe and Ashkenazi Jew. I am naturally not good looking compared to many other handsome men. But I still don't feel ugly and i am able to attract any woman i want.

Many women here threw insult at me but i laughed them off, they are just checking what you are made up of and how difficult it is to agitate you or make you sad, a manchild can't handle this without breaking into tears.
Readable version of your bullet points:

- the ability to easily get Electron help on StackOverflow, etc. by sharing the exact code you're running

- one click (or close to it) examples of every single Electron API (I often find examples jsfiddles to be a much faster way to learn how to use a new API than digging through documentation)

- possibly making it easier for people who are new to coding to get their feet wet in programming a desktop app without having to open a terminal. This is especially true if they can start with a working app and just tweak small things and see their tweaks reflected in the running app.

(Don't use two space indents to force code style except for code samples.)
Backstory: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/moving-to-gcp/
"amazon warehouse deals" is where all the returns go. And yes you can get good deals.
Fortunately, this isn't required for the project to be successful :-).
> Here in Germany we have a group of diabetics helping each other with the system

Can you give some more details please? I ask for a friend of mine. Thanks.
That’s how this works. Wealthy people don’t develop out of kindness. They do it to profit.
I think once you are entering actual manufacturer part numbers you are better off deferring this to a parts database or search engine. In my uses I have been deferring this to an Octopart search. You can see this working on e.g. https://bom-builder.kitspace.org (enter something into the description field and click around on the wand icons).

We are planning to include standard part naming schemes such as Pro Electron [1] and JEDEC [2] to recognize common diodes and transistors where it makes sense. The more interesting approach to me is to actually try recognize transistor descriptions such as "npn sot23 125mW beta=200 ic>=200mA". There is some work in progress, by dvc94ch, for both approaches (if I recall correctly) on the antlr branch: https://github.com/monostable/electro-grammar/pull/4

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Electron
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC
Didn't work on Safari, but it did on Chrome.
This is an interesting legal move: using a warranty to claim that a resold good is 'materially different' from an original, and therefore is not subject to first sale doctrine. If it held up in court, it seems extremely dangerous for consumer rights.
Anyone knows what happened with the stolen coins?
The rats have been contained to the walls thus far, and pest control comes periodically but it can be hard to lock down an old house. Such is life.
Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
Electron is a lot more convenient than a browser as soon as you want to access resources on the computer. Browsers are really good keeping you locked into a sand box.
> Different forms of taxation can have different economic consequences.

Yes, of course. Car tax has different economic consequences than [real] property tax. But a tariff on cars looks a lot more like a tax on cars than it does a tariff on real property.

Actually "tariff on real property" (meaning [high] property tax owed only by foreign nationals and corporations with foreign ownership) might be one of the best possible methods of generating government revenue.

> Thinking of tariffs as "taxing somebody else's economy" betrays a misunderstanding of the concept of incidence (as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence), since you're raising prices for your own imports.

It's not misunderstanding it, it's understanding it perfectly well. It's not that exactly 0% of the burden falls on the domestic economy, it's that it disproportionately falls outside of it.

When you have a tariff, there are two ways for a foreign supplier to lose.

The first is that there is a competitive domestic market for the same product. In that case the price won't change much if at all (minimal impact on consumers), the production will just shift to domestic suppliers who hire domestic workers. Then the tariff doesn't generate much if any direct government revenue, but it shifts a bunch of domestic citizens from collecting unemployment to earning taxable income, which is great in a different way.

The second is any case where the producer has to eat a tax in general, e.g. because there are substitute goods preventing the producer from raising prices, so they can't pass the burden on to the customer.

The domestic market only pays if domestic producers can't make [more of] that product and consumers are still willing to pay the higher price for it. But even then, it's not worse than generating government revenue from a purely domestic tax, it's just not any better in that unusual case.

And in practice it will typically be some combination -- domestic producers will appear charging slightly higher prices (but more than making up for it by creating domestic jobs), and then the foreign producers have to compete with them (and other substitutes) so they have to eat most of the tariff but not all of it. So the burden falls disproportionately on someone else's economy, as opposed to domestic taxes that fall primarily on your economy.
Real backstory: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...
I don't think you made an honest effort to understand the parent's point. They are saying that the jurors might have been biased against Monsanto due to the widespread fear of GMO, and glyphosate being a symbol of that fear.
Can you please lay out the differences between this and Dask?
https://dask.pydata.org/en/latest/

I work on a parallel programming framework for python myself. Not geared towards performance, but the ease of use.
http://zproc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I get what you're saying, and I get the same feeling from most modern languages. They lack conceptual integrity. It's sort of spreading like a virus, even C++ fell into the same trap lately. Whole system design is difficult, really difficult, tear your hair out difficult. Accumulating features is a Sunday walk in the park in comparison; until the pile tips over, that is.
Meta thought: is this article wrong? (Partly tongue-in-cheek, partly not)
In America, all it takes is a developer not making their money back (i.e. not wanting to be a “risk-taker” anymore) and these sorts of laws magically disappear.
> Why the person who doesn't like it just quit and go home.

Pleanty of cultures that people think are toxic are legal and people do just leave the company. This one crosses the line into ilegality because of sexual discrimination so there is a lawsuit. It's pretty simple, only certain types of toxic culture are illegal.
I wonder what the sound insulation looks like. Particularly in the context of student residences.
I suppose that a lot of this advice could also apply to someone who suddenly became worth $300M after the company they founded went public or was acquired.
Jeanne d'arc is a myth in French history. Just like the other shows about King Arthur's and Les trois Mousquetaires.
The park is more about culture and folklore than royalist propaganda.
Show HN: Started learning JavaScript and what API is by implementing HN API
I said the same thing elsewhere. This isn't just about an outsider who didn't want to conform. She was just regular straight up harassed when she wouldn't sleep with someone.

No matter how much you support weird non-conforming work environments, surely you support her right to not have an sexual encounter without repercussions.
GKE is fantastic to work with, we rolled with that on a nascent project in favour of Heroku and other PaaS. We had one or two rough spots but we’re not paying nearly as much as we would to have the entire thing managed by other parties, along with the accounting and awareness overhead that incurs. Kubernetes has a learning curve but it delivers an elegance too.

The ulterior motive is that understanding Kubernetes now has serious professional value in and of itself, so if the product fails your experience certainly doesn’t.

That said, I’m surprised Gitlab didn’t announce a new nav redesign at the same time ;)
Here are transcripts and documents from the case as its progressed of anyone is interested in how the jury was convinced: https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-round...
This was a turn-off: https://www.getlektor.com/blog/2018/1/lektor-31-released/#su...
It’s hard to take seriously the idea that swift and c++ have equivalent complexity if you have delivered products using both languages.

It’s not even close. Swift is (still) minimalist by comparison to C++.
Apple Pushes Ads in Safari Web Browser
Sat an my desk this morning and opened a new Safari browser window and it loads an ad for an iPhone X from Apple.

I quit the browser, restarted it, same thing. I suppose this is something that I'll be seeing every time I use Safari from now on.
Yeah. But my point is that value set A logically implies restrictions on freedoms within value set A, and it doesn't matter how much you want it to not be true.

Really you want law enforcement to find actual financial crime, but there are many people who draw an ABSOLUTE line against the police taking a look at your financial dealings after getting probable cause.

And they have these values at the same time.

Back to bitcoin: People want to use it to get around restrictions on moving money around. Often laws. Then when money gets stolen they want the police because stealing is a crime. This is just another way of saying "I want to follow only the laws I agree with, and others should always follow the law I want them to follow".

But in civilized society you can't just pick and choose which laws to obey.

I'm not saying you, but bitcoin is so full of these people that I'm just so sick of it.
> Sexual harassment is not just an edge case in a "one size fits all" world. It makes the company liable. By all means, see how far you get trying to defend it.

I don't think it's proven yet that someone was actually harassed. What if she made the advances first?

About the liability, that's something shareholders should be worried about, executives are here to fulfill their own fantasy. Any executive would have made enough money to glide through life like a hot knife cuts butter. The only thing left according to maslow pyramid of needs is self actualisation of which fulfilling fantasy is a part.
It is sad to see the SNI encryption isn't in TLS 1.3. I'd say that unencrypted SNI is the single biggest issue with TLS 1.2; it is a very obvious leak of information. All of the improvements in TLS 1.3 are nice-to-haves, but they are mostly shoring up systems that are already pretty secure, whilst we leave the largest leak open.
According to an op-ed [0] in The Guardian there was evidence that Monsanto was behind many false reports that RoundUp was safe:

> Testimony and evidence presented at trial showed that the warning signs seen in scientific research dated back to the early 1980s and have only increased over the decades. But with each new study showing harm, Monsanto worked not to warn users or redesign its products, but to create its own science to show they were safe. The company often pushed its version of science into the public realm through ghostwritten work that was designed to appear independent and thus more credible. Evidence was also presented to jurors showing how closely the company had worked with Environmental Protection Agency officials to promote the safety message and suppress evidence of harm.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/11/one-mans-su...

Edit: Could not find detailed information on the court case (among plenty of general articles), URL welcome.

Edit 2: jakewins had already provided a link to court proceedings: https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-round...
Once the target IP is resolved and the actual request to the site takes place the ISP can see the SNI of the resolved host.
Pairs of small colliding galaxies may seed future stars
Actually yes. Doctors have told me that I should wait til 25 to see If I am candidate to eye laser operation because that is the average age where people stop developing his muscle eyes.
None of these seem especially significant relative to the consumer benefits.
Not sure if it causes cancer or not, but this is like a security hole in the scientific process (ie mostly only the company that produces X will fund studies of X). It's interesting to think security holes more generally - Nick Szabo got me thinking along these lines with his recent pinned tweet:
"Giant companies are the security holes of capitalism. The more centralized industries get, the more they attract socialist political activists. The Bolshevik Revolution was a violent version of this vs. railroad stations, newspapers, etc. Now activism is focused on tech giants."
Bella is python post-exploitation data mining tool for macOS
Of course, how else would they feed their families and why would they put their capital at risk if there is no possible profit? The question you should be asking is "why is the regulator slowing down the housing market?" - because the profit margin would be much lower if they weren't, as more competition would be allowed to grow and it's a well-known fact that competition leads to better services for lower prices.
There are many different credit scores. The range of valid FICO scores does not include zero, but internal acquisition and behavior scores that banks use might.

But in this case it's irrelevant because average balance is independent variable (input of the scoring model).
This looks a lot more sophisticated than currently operating satellite wind mapping, which uses radar deflection off water to estimate wind speed and direction. I hope they make data as easily available as noaa:

https://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/datasets/ASCATData.php
Someone from CA or who's more familiar with the actual Prop 13 should clarify, however from what I recall reading in prior threads...

I believe the benefits can also be passed in some non-sale transfers of the property; IE passing it on to loved ones. So if something stays within the family those benefits are locked in at the old rate instead of hitting the new rate. Which while it sounds nice for handing off a property among married couples creates an entirely new class (literally) of people as land ownership flows through family generations.
A useful thing to know about this case is that the plaintiff took pains not to base their case on the carcinogenicity of glyphosate, but rather of Roundup, which is less than half glyphosate. During their opening statement, any time they referenced a study about about glyphosate, they'd say "but remember that study only looked at glyphosate, not Roundup, and as we all know, more than half of Roundup is other stuff".

They seemed particularly interested in promoting a theory that the surfectant POEA had something to do with the illness.
In the full ATC audio he says he thinks one of his engines is going out before the crash and only has a few hundred pounds of fuel left (started with 3000lbs). He did circles around Mt Ranier, barrel rolls over Puget Sound, and went over to the Cascades.
> I share 1BR for $2000

You literally share a bedroom with someone you're not in a relationship with?
It didn’t.

That’s just what it was “created for”.

In other words, that was the rhetoric the council used to clear their conscience while helping their developer friends fill vacancies. It makes sense if you don’t think about it.
I hosted my VPSs on Scaleway but moved away from them after a lot of trouble and shady stuff.

Now, I exclusively host my infrastructures on:

- OVH

- PulseHeberg.
It's a tool, but it is (in a small way) a normalization of mass surveillance.

(I guess I should clarify that my argument is not "SSL inspection is bad and therefore TLS 1.3 is bad" - my employer monitors all my SSL traffic from work-owned machines, and could do so very easily with a browser extension or something instead of SSL inspection if the protocol somehow made middleboxes difficult. The proxies are currently designed to permit a few websites through without interception, which is the specific thing that there was debate about doing, but I don't think there's any real reason why my employer wouldn't just monitor everything if they had to. So I don't think there's anything the TLS spec could have done to make my employer more or less likely to monitor traffic, and I don't think that this affects the argument about whether the monitoring itself is immoral.)
The link to the solution just goes to a 404.
Prof Engel's marvelously improbable machines
As I recall there was a CA that either after external compromise or via a rogue employee issued a cert for *.com at one point. But it is definitely not something any respected CA would do willfully.
And since composition is seamless, and they're relatively trivial to implement; they make great glue/DSL/process description languages. Take off as in replace C++ or Java, probably not. I see them more as a complement to existing languages, a more convenient way to glue the pieces together. Even wrote my own [0] to see how far it's possible to push that idea in C.

[0] https://github.com/basic-gongfu/cixl
It’s honestly really funny how a lot of people, even the folks on HN, have no idea how the elites live and how much better their lives are than the rest of us.

People that work at JS (and 5R and 2S and to a lesser extent FB and Google) have their pick of jobs because they are a hot commodity. The rest of us aren’t so lucky because we have no signal to suggest we are brilliant and likely don’t have the intellectual ability to pass similar coding interviews. It’s tough.
But the cost of Heroku on free, or nearly free tier, isn’t comparable to GKE. When I tried to launch a demo cluster it was basically launching numerous VMs just to support itself. I don’t know the monthly total, since I abandoned that idea pretty quick. But I imagine it’d be over $50/mo to run a tiny web app.

My point is that every offering has its place. Heroku is great for getting going.

Recently I’ve been experimenting with Dokku. I think it’s a totally viable alternative to Heroku. I do value my time, and understand the value of PaaS. But when Heroku starts charging insane amounts for Redis memory, it made me look for easy alternatives and Dokku fits the bill well.
4 days of box stacking. 8 years of permitting. Multi-unit projects like this which require discretionary permits and approvals are too slow of a response for the housing crisis. California state senators enacted laws in 2017 (SB 1069 and AB 2299) which allow Accessory Dwelling Units to be built in backyards of single family homes. They're full living units with kitchens and bathrooms, and the state law requires that cities approve them strictly based on zoning within 120 days of an application being submitted.
Gandi.net for both (nothing complicated on the hosting Side)
>Plaintiff Kalman Isaacs alleges the announcement was aimed at "completely decimating" short-sellers.

So, what's the point? I think it very well did, but how that's a crime?

It is like music companies suing Napster for them going bankrupt. Or for a person who bet on a losing horse to sue the winner for making him "loose money."
Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life'
Nothing to do with them then, it's not their product you're reselling as it's "materially different" - oh right, so for copyright purposes it's an exact copy, but for any natural rights the consumer should have it's a different product.

This sort of evil should be stamped on hard by government.
No elevator? They're going to get ADA lawsuits before it even opens.
Sweet! Thank you for letting me know! Problem solved :D
If they were so smart they'd form a union
Hopefully it will stay up a lot longer than 4 days...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716970

Maybe I'm just old, but I've always had this uneasy feeling about prefab construction.
here's the code for the broken link at the bottom: https://git.habd.as/jhabdas/fetch-inject

after medium removed commenting I don't place any stock at all in it as I'm acutely aware of it's tragedy it will take in the annals of webfail
No, I’m in a relationship with them. But the quarters still feel tight sometimes.
Look at how we have commenters here running around downplaying it or suggesting that she’s making it up. A legal case is going to expose her to much greater scrutiny, and it’s both expensive and time consuming even if you win. It takes time to prepare for that even if you’re confident that you’ll win.
Did they notify consumers that they were bundling a warranty, sounds like all the purchasers should be due a partial refund and any people with damaged discs should get replacements, under their warranty.
not defending monsanto here, but this particular argument is garbage. your urine is safe to drink - will you do it in front of me on camera right now?
Why does this dumb story keep getting posted on every GitLab thread? GitLab started the move to GCP way, way before the acquisition from MS happened. They are not related.