skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He said that, a decade ago, the threats came primarily from “dishonest insiders or dishonest candidates” or criminals but that “everything changed in 2016.” Russia’s efforts to penetrate states’ and counties’ voter registration systems and to hack manufacturers’ software “presented a substantially new and much more serious form of threat.”

In short, as long as the ballot could be reliably corrupted only by the locals who'd been bribed the device manufacturer in the first place, the corruption was stable. But now there's an outside player.

Electronic voting is bad, and Ireland gave up on it, but it's not the only issue in election integrity. See also: gerrymandering/redistricting, voter roll purges, etc.
How is this dystopian though? If you can't provide for your children why have them in the first place?
Chrome and other Google softwares, by default will install a system-wide auto updater (Google Keystone[1]) set to run every 5 hours. The Keystone Agent cannot easily be removed, and will reinstall itself on every updates. There has also been an exploit[2] of this auto updater service.

If what you need is Chrome developer's tools, installing Chromium (or building your own, for the paranoid) seems like a much better choice to me.

[1]: Note that it has nothing to do with the google/keystone project on GitHub

[2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=14...
https://github.com/pycket/pycket - development is active.

> There are currently two different modes of evaluation that we refer as OLD and NEW. The NEW Pycket uses linklets and bootstraps the Racket using the expander linklet exported by Racket (version 7+). The OLD Pycket, on the other hand, uses Racket's binary to fully expand the program and generates json asts and evaluates them.

More on linklets: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/linklets.html Status of Racket-on-Chez (2018-Jan): http://blog.racket-lang.org/2018/01/racket-on-chez-status.ht...

Back in 2015, a previous thread[2] mentioned a Pixie issue[1], which was closed with "I worked a ton on this, but ran into time issues before the Strangloop conference. At Strangeloop I got talking to one of the authors of Pycket. Unfortunately it sounds like their implementation isn't much better than mine. The amount of load that is put on the JIT due to this sort of interpreter is quite large. In short, I'd rather have a mutable fast interpreter than a immutable mostly fast interpreter. Shelving this work for now. The PR will still exist, but I'm not convinced the features are worth the cost." Pixie's most-recent commit seems a year ago.

My brief unsuccessful search for current Pycket benchmarks did turn up this[3] 2017 thread/paper on the Nash (Guile) tracing JIT.

[1] https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie/issues/312
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545628
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773796
I'd like to see a comparison of this against Contiki.
Relatively, yes. Sure, startups have existed for decades, but their popularity now is at a completely different level. Y Combinator, for instance, had 43 startups funded in 2008, and 274 in 2018. I am not even talking about the growth of the entire startup ecosystem, including angel investors and VCs. In 2008, startups were mostly only a thing in the US. Now there are tens of startup hubs across the entire world.
Slightly related: in the linked article from the answer, iOS is proposed as the privacy preserving alternative to Android. But I am having a hard time to agree to that. Are there anything else?
I suspect much of the high costs are largely due to the policy factor. We should be able to build plants much more cheaply than 50 years ago.
API to get web site meta data by passing an URL using Artificial Intelligence
I use containers as well, but do you keep them outside your home at all times? There's no substantial difference between a trash container and a garbage bag if you're talking about the containers that fit three - five bags of garbage or so. In my locality you can be fined for leaving the container - or loose bags, or anything really - out on non-pickup days.
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CPM, for a personal blog, is going to provide negative revenue (the cost in time and upkeep of the advertising platform and integration). Do blog posters really think that alienating someone over their decision on what to render in their browsers is worth that 2/10th of a penny?
Don't frame it as "build an illegal feature". Frame it as "build a feature" and hand it off to an enthusiastic junior dev eager to please their manager and get ahead. At a previous employer, I had a manager ask if, when implementing certain functionality, I could do it in such a way that it coincidentally broke third party tools attempting to interact with the component. They were very careful to phrase this in an offhand manner and never discuss it over legally discoverable mediums (only face to face). The entire matter seemed dubious and I certainly didn't want my name associated with such a move in the source control history, so I never implemented that request, it was never mentioned again, and nothing ever came of it - but a different dev might have jumped much faster at it.
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The Major scale is Ionian (the first mode).

What do you mean order of change from Major scale, wouldn't it start from Ionian (I)?
For those of us who want to switch to alternate electoral methods like RCV, approval voting, multimember districting, etc, using machine counting is a big deal. If you are paper only, the increased labor to do repeated tabulations (as is done to an extent in RCV) is significant. It is the reason a bill to implement RCV in a state I used to live failed, after passing the state house and being discussed for some time in the state senate.

Whatever counting method you are using and whatever reporting method you are using, it needs to be verifiable. I still can't believe we had ballots from 2016 that were destroyed after brin subpoenaed, without any consequence for those who had charge of their possession and safety.
> corporate feudalism is deeply entrenched in consciousness

Is there anything about Amazon being a corporation that really touches on this, as opposed to their simply being an employer? I feel like an analogy like this is of limited utility anyway. It's too easy to point out all the myriad ways that the existing system is different from feudalism, and it's unclear whether the negative aspects of feudalism continue to apply after having undergone such a radical transition.

> Instead of meeting basic needs being seen as a responsibility of public authority, to be addressed out of tax revenue, it is seen as the duty of the employer to whom employees are bound.

I mean, isn't the point of feudalism actually the former -- that the public authority (the feudal lords) address the basic needs? It is much easier to switch to a different employer than it is to switch to a different public authority. So it seems like what you are advocating is a return to feudalism, rather than trying to remove it.
Firefox easily. They're not as good as Chrome's, but Safari's lag behind.
Indeed! Nukes provide about 60% of the low-carbon energy in the USA. They emit about 12 gCO2-eq/kWh (vs. 40 for solar PV, 11 for wind, 490 for gas, 820 for coal). They net save millions of lives simply by displacing air polluters. They contain and pay for all their waste (where other energy systems dump their waste right into our lungs where it kills hundreds of thousands per year). Accidents have hurt relatively few people (0 died or will die from Fukushima, while a gas explosion just happened and we already forgot about it).

The operating plants now are struggling because fracked gas pulled out the electricity revenue rug below their operating costs, and post-9/11 upgrades have been expensive for operation and maintenance.

But the capability of atomic energy is just so darn intriguing it's hard to just give up on fission now, even though it advanced fission has struggled through the years.
For 1 week at the start and at the end he eats no sugar or carbohydrate.

For 1 week he the middle he drinks water and takes magnesium.

That's it.
It's much easier to get worldly facts like this right, which mostly come from multiple news agencies anyway

In a nutshell, I'm not so sure that the effect really exists in any significant way.

In the case of "worldly facts" news, the really significant part is often the emotional impression of the text. The way this plays out in physics/science, world news, and politics are all going to be somewhat different. It results in factual errors more often in science news, which often amounts to making people feel like they're informed, but the emotional games played in more political news are different. (The exceptions are climate science and evolution, where the topics are more politicized and the emotional games are more political.)
True, but also not that good. All of the heat/cold/only on Tuesdays stuff should have been baked into the original experiment, really. Not that they should be able to take into account everything, but 60% replication does not indicate a very high standard. I mean it's not much better than if you just took and educated guess, with no data, since you could probably do better than 50/50. The whole point of the study is that it is supposed to be better than an educated guess.
Maybe. I just thought it makes sense to share what the "official" DDG position is when calling them out for being a simple "skin".
Pretty much my thoughts.

Regarding Ms Kennedy, I imagine her to be a newswoman first and foremost and I wouldn't expect her to have to take responsibility for the business end of things. That would be the board in my view of things, and also in my view its the board that is steering things from the aft these days. Geraldine was a blip, we're seeing IT's real colours (blue) these days.

IT is still suffering from a few spectacular business blunders in the late 90s/00s, but who knows how many people personally benefited from these mistakes. That's modern Ireland.
I really didn't expect this to happen, congrats to the ipfs team! A demo link over here:

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmS4ustL54uo8FzR9455qaxZwuM...
I think Safari dev tools are great; however, I am not heavy into JavaScript, so I can’t comment on those specifics. I think it’s a full-featured as the others for the most part. There hasn’t been anything I’ve needed that Safari doesn’t provide.
I don't think it makes a great argument to say the USB Audio is great, it's just USB is a problem. They both need to work for USB Audio to work.
What's curious to me, in the light of your explanation, is why the app size didn't slowly build to 500MB over time, but jumped from 200MB to 500MB within the span of weeks/months.

What could have added 300MB to the total so quickly?
My main point is that Google doesn't define market comp, they define top-of-market comp. If you are a software engineer expecting to make Google money then you need to make peace with the fact that there are very very few places where you can earn that. It doesn't mean that all other companies are somehow low-balling or cheating their devs just because they don't have Google's money hose of a business.
Understood - that's also the name of the actual article, although on reflection this article is a bit weirder then your average click bait.

Normally a rise and fall, etc, is only a title looking for eyeballs - what's most odd about this otherwise well researched article is that the last two paragraphs actually proclaim RSS's death, when this is clearly not the case. It's not as prominent without a flagship corporate app like google reader, as noted by the author, but it's nearly everywhere and there are a large number of very usable readers on mobile.

It is a good argument against corporate walled gardens, however.
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I've often had the same experience, people's workflows are pretty ingrained (in general, not just screenwriters). But I've done some pitches where a writer had a lightbulb moment, and realized that collab and versioning really would make things easier.

I put great emphasis on the app behaving similar to current screenwriting tools, and the collaboration/versioning features just being there when they are needed, so the change in somebody's workflow can happen gradually.

I'm curious which approach you had considered. And would love to get feedback from writers/filmmakers of all backgrounds: m@arcstudiopro.com
Norway is completely different :) I'm american living in Norway. I'm not legal to drive, but my Norwegian spouse is and I've gone through buying a car and figured out some of these differences. He thinks the American system is insane (and is right, comparatively).

You do have to renew your drivers licence every x years, but in some states you can do that online at times. Instead of the population register, where you update your address, most places in the US do that through your drivers license. Most people's main form of ID is their license as well and most states want pictures to be updated. Some states have different backgrounds for those under 21 (the drinking age) as well.

Buying a car requires a trip to the DMV as well. There is no option of simply waiting for your papers in the mail. To complicate things further, in some states the physical license plate isn't associated with the car, but with the person owning the car.

In many states, you have to also register your car every year and update your plates. Some states you can do this online, however, in many cases.

That is on top of things like getting your drivers licence, learning permits, and all of those little things.
3 month after launch we think we have a very good product/service
We launched 3 months ago an App that works like Siri but with a Human hive mind. The service is available just in 3 cities now as we are preparing to launch in more cities the next month. Can you guys give a honest feedback about it and what would you think can improve the service.
Anyone know thecoderdude?
We have been trying to reach him for several months. A lot of the authors on his website has not been paid. We do not know how to reach him. Can someone please help?
Large employers fake GOOG certificates and spy on employee's search queries.

They usually won't do that for DDG and smaller portals.
A better metric would include all subsequent wait times:

Adjusted wait time = avg(wait_time) / (1 - p_disconnect)
Yes, fountain can be both imported and exported.
>VW was small fines

https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/29/investing/volkswagen-diesel...

$30 billion is not small fines, add to that that it isn't over yet. It's already more than what BP paid for their oil spill, and the oil spill is thousand times worse in terms of its environmental effect.

At least in this article it's the biggest fine for any corporate crime levied.

https://www.alternet.org/economy/17-worst-corporate-crimes-2...

There are very few fines that have been higher. Hyundai only paid $100 million for their emission scandal one year before, with not much fanfare:
http://time.com/3555696/hyundai-kia-fined-carbon-emissions/
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I've been a long time Google Search user that used to complain about DuckDuckGo's results. That changed and I'm now a full time DuckDuckGo user, on desktop and mobile.

For one I became aware of privacy implications, so went to my Google account and deleted all apps history I had. To their credit they let you delete your data (although under GDPR companies now no longer have a choice). I did this because looking back I was amazed at how many things they could infer from my searches over the last decade at least (my Google account is from 2004).

Without that history Google's results became visibly worse than before, worse than DuckDuckGo!

Also once you become privacy aware you end up being concerned with the actual searches. For example I'm now following a ketogenic diet for weight loss and I also have hypothyroidism issues, so lately I ended up doing a lot of searches on weight loss, diabetes, ketosis, hyperinsulinemia, heart disease, interpretation of cholesterol results, high uric acid and gout, etc... some of these issues have been for my own education, but I cannot in good conscience let Google know of my potential health issues. I was careless enough to join a local T2 diabetes group on Facebook and now I'm getting ads for diabetics.

Whenever I searched for a subject on DuckDuckGo, I never noticed subsequent "relevant" ads following me around the web ... although you can get them via Google/Facebook enabled tracking planted on the landing pages themselves, but I'm armored with an ad-blocker, Privacy Badger, plus Firefox's FB Multi-account Containers.

I cannot investigate DuckDuckGo's implementation of course. This is not open source. So there's always the risk of betrayal. But the difference is I already know what Google is doing and I want none of it.

And as far as quality is concerned, I got used to it, plus I now have better peace of mind, coupled with the blocking of trackers and with a good VPN of course. Once the privacy mindset infects you, it's really hard to go back unfortunately :-)

BTW, I don't know if DuckDuckGo is the best choice. For European users, it's still hosted in the US which might be a concern. Here are 2 other alternatives:

1. https://about.qwant.com/

2. https://www.startpage.com/
https://twitter.com/thecoderdude?lang=en
You're going to have to do better than "...but in Europe they sell really good."
That's the whole point. We think the Distributed Web is cool and coming and we want to accelerate that happening. Hence the time and effort to make this happen.
This is a silly statement.

I'd be amazed if you somehow managed to question this and still make it related to the Linux kernel...
>some of the happiest people are farmers

Farmers and soldiers have notoriously high suicide rates. One explanation is that it's caused by a lack of control. From that perspective, it's certainly frustrating to watch your company succumb to inefficiencies (e.g. politics), but as a white collar worker, it's much easier to solve than for farmers. White collar worker can move laterally to a new job or upward, but farmers are looking at selling the family farm (social/career implosion) or controling the weather (impossible).

>Simple and a slower life is not such a terrible thing.

Agreed.
>This is not true for the journalist who reports international events and affairs - these are based on much simpler facts such as "which government decided what" and "which spokesperson of some organisation said what when".

People often divide news content into two spheres: Facts and opinion (e.g. editorial). News articles are believed to be facts, and then they separately have opinions and editorials. The common advice is to be wary of the latter.

In my experience, though, the news is really divided into three spheres: Facts, opinions, and context. You'll find that almost every news article contains both facts and context. The context portion of the article is there to tell you why all this matters. Contextual statements are also facts, but they do not involve the immediate events. It is in the choice of which contextual facts are included in the article that bias creeps in.

As a simple exam, in 2003 Michael Jackson was charged with child molesting. I recall almost all the articles I read mentioned in the end that he had been similarly accused in 1991. Yet none of those articles mentioned the details and outcome of that investigation.

With international affairs, once you've studied a topic for long enough, you'll quickly become aware of the contextual biases, and you'll want to scream at the authors for omitting what you think are very relevant contextual facts.
I initially thought that there would be a high mental cost of switching from Google to DDG - but now that bangs have become muscle memory, using privacy-conscious DDG by default and then using !g if the results aren't helpful feels seamless.
OT = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation, for those not in the know
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The sentence you're referring to is not a definition of AI, but rather it's most suitable intent. If you have truly deterministic systems, you don't need any sort of intelligence, other than the intelligence of the human that put together the system. The machine is simply executing the intelligence of the human and not providing any of its own or adding to the picture, other than providing leverage by means of automation. Waffle irons aren't intelligent, even tho they automate the process of making waffles. If your definition of intelligence renders the machine to be simply an executor of intelligence from humans, then that's not particularly useful and then you might as well just say "computing" whenever you say AI. I tend to believe that AI is best suited to solve problems that can't be easily solved with deterministic, programming approaches. Machines can be trained to provide value on the logic and decision-making side rather than just on the decision-executing side.
If there are communities where AirBnB is deliberately breaking the law, those cities ought to be collecting punitive fines.

In a civilised society, you don't get to pick and choose which laws you think are worth following, and just ignore the rest. Don't like a given law? Then engage in the political process to seek changes to it.
You can avoid losing muscle during a diet by doing resistance training: https://sci-fit.net/bulking-deficit-gaining/
If the linear no-threshold theory (i.e. if 100 people taking 100 aspirins each kills 100 people then 1 person taking 1 aspirin will kill 1 person) was reconsidered then it'd be ok to treat background-level radiation more reasonably. Then I think these costs would be much much less. To get here I believe someone's going to have to convince the public of low-dose hormesis convincingly enough (that is, if it's real) that they'll start making radiation dose appointments at the salon for health reasons.
Would you be so kind as to look at my resume and give some feedback? I know I'm an internet stranger asking for your time - I'd understand if you don't want to do it, but I'll be very grateful if you did! :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n41w2zja8au26wp/shankar_resume_cto...
When is the last time you used DDG? I switch about a year ago. I've used the !g trick 3 times when I didn't find what I wanted, and in all cases google didn't find what I was looking for either.

I can't speak for you, but I find DDG is good enough to replace google for search. Is google better - maybe, but not enough to overcome their downsides.
Wow! 20 years ago I was helping my ex father in law with some construction work. He and all of his buddies were tweakers and a lot of them smelled funny. I always thought it had something to do with meth but now I'm guessing they were just burning muscle.
Isn't this the same in Firefox as well (safe browsing protection)?
Should this list include aquisitions that were shuttered?
I've been using DDG for years now, and the results are exactly as good as Google. I've never had a case where going to Google returned better results for me. Maybe it's because I tend to search for programming/hardware questions, but that's my experience.

Also, I don't use bangs, I use the browser's built-in searches. So, for example, "i <movie name>" will take me to IMDB (actually Rotten Tomatoes nowadays) by searching for "site:imdb.com ! <movie name>" on DDG.