skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There seems to be an assumption that low voter turnout is driven by something other than the poor quality of the candidates offered and a rational assessment of the value of voter time versus the marginal value of a single vote.

It's not obvious to me that higher voter turnout leads to better governance.
The Democratic Party continues to fawn over tech barons despite the fact that the general public has a negative view of the Silicon Valley elite.

edit: you would think 2016 would have taught the tech elite that they can't just downvote their way to an outcome...this is so typical of HN
> The option is available in the Crypto tab of the Cloudflare dashboard.

I'm not currently seeing this in my account.
Just out of curiosity, how did Trump win? (From what little I know, I've read his team focused on getting electoral votes while Hillary's team focused on some fancy data science strategy that ignored important districts. But, everyone else keeps saying it was fake news and Russian covert ops.)
alfred nobel - he invented the nobel peace prize because he didn't want his legacy to be being remembered as the inventor of dynamite and profiting from arms sales.
Seems like an awfully inefficient system. They should replace the trials with talent shows, and convict whoever has the least interesting entry.
I'm not sure if you remember a month or so ago, a HN commenter mentioned how infuriating the experience of browsing Cloudflare sites on Tor is, because he get's the "Not a Robot" captcha every-single-time, I assume this also helps improve the experience for Tor users to show as a legit user when browsing other Cloudflare sites, so all in all the traffic looks clean.
probably as long as I've waited for that.
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I wouldn't call the Inca Empire a "tiny fiefdom", at its height they had 10 million citizens and covered 2 million km2
I believe "academic writing" usually refers to original research. One notable exception is a survey of recent advances in the field.
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I’ve written a few academic papers on my own time after grad school. It wasn’t much harder than writing papers while in school, it just took some nights & weekends time, and I had to work a little to find people willing and capable of reviewing the papers and giving feedback. It cost a bit of personal money to present at a conference whenever a paper was accepted, but it was what I wanted to do so it never bothered me.

I’m not sure I understand the question though, what seems like the hardest part of writing, what is stopping you from doing it now? Lots and lots of people write in their spare time, and there are plenty who write on academic topics and submit papers to journals and conferences. Is it finding the time, or doing the research? Being motivated, or fear about being accepted as an academic while not part of an academic institution?

FWIW, you can certainly research & write on academic topics without trying to publish in journals. Plenty of people have blogs with articles that could be journal papers if they had only a splash of formality. Lots of people are more interested in doing the reading & writing than they are in publishing. Quite a few people like that here on HN.
Of course they do, because they have a captive audience (you have to buy through your employer) which life insurance doesn't have.

Besides I haven't seen any of those incentives that really had teeth (usually you can avoid the penalty by not being fat, or by doing something silly and ultimately meaningless like meeting with a diatician).
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Aren't they supposed to be judging whether the prosecution has presented enough evidence for there to be no reasonable doubt that the defendant did commit the crime?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

Reading this made it seem to me that this tech can be extremely effective. By pinpointing exactly who was worth their time talking to (i.e. if husband of target answers the door you ask for target otherwise politely leave) the Koch brother's were able to overturn an initially very popular public transit bill.
I see every comment on HN about Cloudflare and so I saw that. Every time Tor/Cloudflare comes up I talk to the team about fixing it. Today is part of the fix.
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I would recommend an academic career, especially at a minor institution, only to some of my worst enemies.
Poor pay, bureaucracy, days and nights grading, boredom. Yes, you might spend your career investigating something you are interested in, but there is also something in variety.
I’ve gotta agree. I’m morally OK with the death penalty for certain crimes, not so much for punishment or deterrence but for the same reasons you’d put down a rabid dog. But when prosecutorial misbehavior comes out in the news so often, I couldn’t abide sentencing someone today unless there was overwhelming objective proof that it was actually them.
Oh yes, I confused 'manuscript' and 'monograph'. I agree with your clarification.
Attach the tracker to your dog, it will be happy to get the steps in for you, and it will look natural as they are at least a little bit random.
the point was to document current shortcomings in debug info generation and identify opportunities for improvement. the executive summary is that there are many ;-)
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The design has improved significantly over the years.
The actual network clone is faster than that. The slow clone that I'm speaking of is cloning from one place on my hard drive to another place on the same hard drive.
Nothing, looking at the replies to this thread.....
Dropbox did.
> It's not obvious to me that higher voter turnout leads to better governance.

Higher than what?

Anyway, I think you’re projecting a lot of rationality where there’s just apathy.

In any case, low voter turnout tends to harm the democrats, as demonstrated by the ludicrous variety of ways various state republican parties have made voting difficult for working people, poor people, non-english speakers, felons, etc etc.
I'm interested. I've been on a week long meditation retreat in the past. I meditate 3 or 4 days a week, sometimes with Insight Timer app and sometimes without. I'd estimate there would be interest, mindfulness is very popular in the UK right now, but it might be saturated.
I was thinking Vapid is like http://getlektor.com and is a static renderer with a built-in admin UI. But you maybe correct that node.js is serving the files.
I seriously can't imagine this taking off, and even if it does, staying strong and growing bigger than other matching platforms that charge their customers for verification and other features.

Facebook is already quite creepy and needy. [1] Please dissuade people from using this service if you can.

[1]: http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/facebook-you-needy-sonofabitc...
WOW

That's an astonishing presentation of data/intent.

I will have to see if I can find that as a vector and/or get a large format print. That's beautiful!

EDIT: Here's a vector! https://cdn.makezine.com/uploads/2013/07/integratedspaceplan... (Found via Google, searching using "The Rockwell International Integrated Space Plan")
A million times this. I’ve drilled into my kids’ heads that they’re never, ever to talk to police until we’ve gotten a lawyer involved.
Yes, odd how that works. Being outspokenly left seems to have few consequences, being outspokenly right appears to have worse consequences. At least half of developers appear to be some form of right wing but you’d never know it. Indeed, most of us have learned to shut up.
It's being discussed: https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed
There was definitely an anti-trust investigation when the merger was proposed, but the deal somehow went through.
>Why would you ever need to go below the abstraction level of your high level language to debug.

I don't know what you mean by this. If you don't have f.ex. printf available you have to come up with something else.

>You don't need printf's if you write directly to your screen which is easy to do.

What if the hardware you're debugging doesn't have a screen?
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"Clever" is a matter of opinion; it's hard for me to imagine what aspect of a wig-and-sunglasses stunt there could be which would make it seem clever, but I suppose it's possible.

Perhaps Jobs' strategy for avoiding license plates was "antisocial criminal activity" and perhaps it wasn't; I'm not a lawyer, and I don't really care - but what does that have to do with the question of whether or not it was a hack?
First, this is a great, thanks.

Second, hijacking 'CTRL-F to focus' makes searching through all the data extremely unpleasant.

Edit: There are multiple complaints about this on your discord. Maybe give us a little checkbox? Something we can disable if we'd prefer to do it a different way?
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There is certainly gate-keeping at decent journals. For instance, not having an affiliation with an institution or a company known to carry out research is not the best presentation you can make.
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Specifically, he won the election by edging a thin margin of electoral votes in key swing states, while losing the popular vote by millions. How exactly that came to be is stil a matter of debate.
The article observes that there is considerable metadata encoded in the QR code itself, as opposed to, say, a single hash that needs to be xross-checked with a unified database.
I think Github was way better than Bitbucket in its early days.
May I ask why IPFS instead of ZeroNet that's explicitly build to be a P2P distributed website platform and it's far more simple, lighter and clear than IPFS?
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This allows an increase in functional diversity without an increase in genomic complexity.

is it not more like the genomic complexity is moved from one place in the DNA to another. Something has to code for the the RNA editing.
Take it from a political organizer (who has a day job in tech): there is in fact a large opportunity for tech to play a role in affecting voter & civic engagement. But knowing what those opportunities are isn’t going to come from a tech vacuum. It will come from working closely with organizers and recognizing their pain points, vs. treating voters like customers & assuming there is a universal solution.
Bright colors reflect light, dark colors absorb it
The term Waif was never defined in the article. It's used 6 times counting the title. After googling, it seems to mean a homeless person or low life.
I commented on Zig elsewhere in this thread. Since Jai is unreleased I don't know a lot about it, but their AoS/SoA convertibility was an interesting feature (you can do this in user space in Kit via term rewriting) and I wanted to make it similarly ergonomic to pass around custom allocators.
Exactly...can you imagine anyone at Google's fabled cry-session in 2016 coming to the mic and asking why it is so awful that they voted for Trump? They would have had an immediate impromptu review followed by termination.

Instead we get everyone telling the mob what they want to hear and no one can figure out why the votes counted don't reflect the "consensus".
This is a good feature. Still, appears you are hitting Cloudflare first via an exit. I would say if whatever service you are using has its own onion, use that instead. I assume the way Cloudflare is determining if I am using Tor is by doing an IP lookup match w/ known exits? I would expect this feature would reduce bandwidth on the exit nodes which is great for decentralization. However, if you weren't to trust Cloudflare, this could be bad as its now opening up a central company to route traffic for Cloudflare customers, making it a central location for traffic analysis attacks (again, if you don't trust Cloudflare). At least exit nodes are a bit more distributed (but not much as there are still a very limited number, and you have to trust them too).

Also, since OnionBalance doesn't support v3 services yet, what is Cloudflare using behind those onion services to make them HA? Or are they each running on single machines acting as gateways that load balance after that?

Also, count me as one of those people that don't see much value DV certs have for onion services. A v3 onion is itself proof you have the ed25519 private key, so DV adds little on an identity and encryption front. EV has extra identity verification of course. I've read the EFF mailing list post in justification, and I'd say if features of TLS are a requirement (e.g. benefits of HTTPS), you might as well allow self-signed certs instead of having people use a CA. Granted, it's fairly harmless to allow DV for onion services, I just don't want to see it become the norm for HTTP-based onion services via promotion of the concept.

Shameless plug, here's a toolkit to create your own onion services easily in just a few lines: https://github.com/cretz/bine (including non-anonymous mode like the CF onion services). You can fire one up for your own site and give it as an HTTP alt svc.
I think it's useful to think about evolutionary pressures forcing species to be "smart". Brain is an incredibly expensive organ, so it better be more useful than its energy consumption. We don't even quite know why primates have larger brains; we have some theories such as primates, being arboreal, might have evolved to process snakes and spiders visually (this also explains why they have poor olfaction compared to other mammals) [1]. Afaik, and please prove me wrong, we have fewer evidence why great apes have even larger brains and humans have even even larger brains. Might be better communication, group hunting, problem solving (using tools), caring for babies better, or something else, or a combination. It's interesting to think these questions with respect to pigs, octopi, dolphins, cats, dogs etc... Every mammal comes with their own supercomputer pattern matcher that is neocortex, and it's interesting to think that earlier mammals needed more computational power to survive than other animals.

[1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/10/did-snakes-help-build...
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Will do. Thanks for the reminder!
Off-topic, but I think GitLab has incredible good (fast) marketing. If there's any inconvenience their CEO and his minions are there like in a second.

Are there specific tools for that?
"Weird" does not mean "bad" — just different [from what we commonly expect]. Anyway, there are also some aspects to the physiology that you might not expect, such as the esophagus running through the center of the executive brain. A bit of crab shell might pierce it, for example.
That is the whole point I am making, it isn't there regarding being a secure kernel.
Suppose you were born an octopus, with your current level of intelligence.

What would you do? How would you demonstrate it?

Note how difficult it would be to communicate.

I think many animals are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
Working for a tech company that does research and at a level that is high enough is no small feat.
At least Obama had a message. That's something I don't see today.

My man Bernie had a simple message: free healthcare and college education. And love him or loathe him so did Trump: build the wall. Clear, to the point, and instantly everyone knew what they were promising.
Even if the type of person who browses HN religiously is your exact target market, just posting at a bad time or being unlucky enough to post right before other relevant big news comes out is enough to get buried.
The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! By bot, by bot!

Good god, this mass delusion needs to stop. Or perhaps people need to read up a bit more on history and realize that influencing each others' internal affairs to nudge popular opinion about is what great powers do to each other and everybody else, going back to Sumer and Akkad.

I do find myself asking cui bono? with this this whole situation. There are such extensive efforts to pump up the story.
> however some people prefer the feeling of lashing out.

usually they are on twitter trying to cause people to loose their jobs.
> The company is profitable, they just set a target for year-over-year revenue gain that has not ever been met in the company's history, so that they'd have an excuse to pay less. And now everyone's pissed and the best folks are walking.

Doesn't sound like that "excuse" is working for them.

> I am pretty sure it was deliberate, a way of cutting way back without having to give severance or make the news.

It's the absolute worst way of doing layoffs. As you observed, the people walking out are the best performers who have great options elsewhere. Guess who stays?

Adverse selection in action.
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For a fun example of (2) look at GWT.
Apart from Nag, I second.
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The meals also need to be pretty calorie dense too though so that soldiers can carry them and quickly get the energy they need.
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The docs say it supports Markdown. https://docs.vapid.com/content-types#html
My hunch is that Trump simply thought of this type of foreign assistance (and the hush money payments) as business deals. You help me with the election, I'll help you with sanctions and we'll build a better relationship: win/win.
The title is a bit misleading. Expected the drawings to be more directly responsible for the exoneration.

Still a very interesting story.
Any introductory reading you might recommend?
Sorry but you're still missing my point (though I didn't really make it all too clear).

User friendly design is about understanding user behaviours, UI/UX, etc. It's about designing sane workflows and user interfaces. Whereas writing cross platform code is a technical complication regarding the internals of a particular application. The crossover is between cross platform development and user friendly design is just which UI toolkit you choose to use (ie Electron, Qt, native platform-specific widgets, etc?) and even that is really just an implementation detail rather than a fundamental roadblock in designing user friendly applications.

Thus the requirement for something being user friendly shouldn't affected by the requirement for something being cross platform.

This is why I say the cross platform point is irrelevant. Not because cross platform solutions aren't important but rather because they're not the reason many solutions aren't user friendly (the reason is much more simple than that: they were designed by technical people to be used by technical people).
Cool! It looks like the metrics view you build on top of the values and labels table makes it _reasonably_ easy to query. I still worry about how you get good autocomplete in Grafana, though.

Supporting receiving data from Prometheus is nice, but for people who aren't already invested in that it would be helpful if you either

a) picked an agent (e.g. Telegraf or Collectd) and taught it how to submit to TimescaleDB directly

b) picked a protocol already commonly used by agents (e.g. graphite plaintext protocol) and taught TimescaleDB to receive it
p4merge also display 4 panels as you described. It's been my go-to merge tool for years now.
I do this. For me it's fairly easy as I left academia and simply carried on working with former colleagues/acquaintances, in my spare time. My contribution as a %age of the overall workload has dropped, but is still meaningful.

Obvious caveats are:

* In some areas such as CS, you'll want to publish at a conference. If you submit a paper, one named author will have to agree to present it. If that has to be you, you'll have to pay the travel and registration cost for the conference.

* IP / ownership issues are big, particularly if you work for a BigCorp in a field close to that you are publishing in --- these tend to be pretty inflexible on this. I found it difficult, but not impossible at the BigCorp I worked for. I'm in a small consultancy now, and it's a breeze.
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$99 for this?

When there's git cli, magit, fugitive (which you should be using if you're really really in need of a GUI (and which is also better than whatever the demo is showing))?

I'm all for paying for your tooling if you can afford it but overcharging much?
> Assuming artists could predict demand and supply (versus spending time creating music)

I assume they pay people that are good at this to do it for them.

> they should only play large venues (which Live Nation controls)

Not all of them. Most, but not all.

> And if they were mainly concerned about money (which some are) then they'd only play the largest cities every year.

For the most part, I think you just described the concert industry as it currently exists. Usually, the only thing indicating whether an artist will book theaters, arenas or stadiums is how likely they are to sell it out. Only the biggest artists can do stadium tours.
Isn't the proof-of-work algorithm itself a DDoS? PoW requires all nodes in the network to see a consistent state of a transaction for it to be correct. By definition this violates the CAP theorem.
This one is incredible.
This isn’t new: https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/14/apple-ad-blocking-app-c...

Apple has said that they’re not permitting VPN-based content blockers for a while now.
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I think he won because he was not overtly hostile to white people. Deplorables vote too.
Only because of the context.
Thank you so much for your answer, it has been really helpful.
That's so awesome! Especially because it's inspired by Candide Thovex's One of those days. Link for those who aren't familiar(he also used CGI for some of the things that would be super dangerous, he skied the line, but people weren't actually there): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygxufRprWpY
For most applications you don’t need variable pitch blades on a quadcopter, they’re also very delicate and break easily on drones.

I used to fly r/c helicopters before drones became popular. The pitch mechanism was routinely a source of problems for me. It’s pretty amazing to watch it work though.
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Pretty good history of #badgelife. Here's my coverage for anyone interested in the specifics of the DC26 badge contest: http://www.deaddialect.com/articles/2018/8/17/badge-story
Cool article, but I’m not seeing the “unlikely” angle. Hacking and tech in general is ultimately about creativity, and these badges are more of a physical example that can be easily seen than most.
There's an amazing documentary on how terrible the system is on HBO:

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4299972/
I've noticed that press releases often miss critical details like that and/or carefully craft the narrative to make the police seem more evil and the victim more innocent. Why is that? Are they paid to push that narrative by someone or some organization?
Only if you wish to persist a violent system aiming to wreck lives. We could instead try to help everyone involved heal from the event(s) and initiate processes to uncover systemic issues leading to them. I'd rather the latter.
> the stupid trick

Funny how "stupid" can be interpreted in multiple ways here. One entirely appropriate, the other very much not so. I certainly am not smart enough come up with a trick like that!
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Thank you. I hope this will work!
There is no debate - we do not elect the President by a popular vote.
I, uh...I know a little C++ :)

I like to think that when I'm writing Kit, I'm writing C, so I am writing in a "real language." Total interop, no real drawbacks.