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Voting is one of those problems that is, on its face, very simple: write a name down, count how many people wrote each name down, person with most names wins.

This seeming simplicity, combined with the fact that no one thus far has seemingly gotten it right, lends itself strongly towards all kinds of armchair opinions from anyone at all related to any of the fields involved.

I'm a software engineer, for example. "Design and build me a system that collects votes and produces results." is in the format of the requests I get at my job on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, so I can take it and run with it, as I am trained to do. I can come up with all kinds of additional requirements in my head, tons of edge cases, different scenarios I need to watch out for, etc etc. Basically, as can anyone who does my job, I can turn it from a (immensely vague in this case) business need into a set of technical requirements.

However, I am wholly unqualified to design a ballot device, despite the seeming simplicity of the request, and how it seems to fit nicely into my professional intake. Will that stop me or anyone else in my position from offering an opinion? Probably not!

Thus, you get the constant "re"hashing of "old" arguments, because people see these problems as "simpler" than they actually are, and "re"voice the same ideas and concepts, because it seems like some obvious problems can be solved with "just a little" modification to the existing systems.
(I work at Stripe)

> I imagine developers won't get the ability to customise the UI available on the PIN pad in the first release

Actually, you'll be able to configure the splash screen in the first release, and will open up more hooks over time
I can see why they wouldn't want to include all disconnects in their adjusted wait time because that'd include everyone who disconnects accidentally and disconnects because they figured it out some other way.
Super cool application, and can teach a lot about why you should use === instead of == in JavaScript.

The only legit case to use == is if you are

1. Insane

2. The kind of person who changes Java 1 object to equal 2
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How big a company? Did they have a CFO?
Ok, so LNT may describe the damage but not necessarily the all-cause mortality. I can live with that.
Good section in that article "A BS detection Heuristic"
Yeah, but this happens everywhere, in real life, online communities etc, here in HN.
"miss the point" feels a bit strong. Rather, I get the impression Alacritty's values don't match your own values in a terminal emulator, and that's totally OK. Historically, input latency hasn't been considered a big pain point by most users.

That said, we do have a plan[1] to address this issue and be both high throughput _and_ low-latency.

[1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673
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Hi, Michi - congrats!

Not sure about your future plans, but there's a huge need for good collaborative writing/editing programs for traditional book publishing. Collaboration with developmental editors, copyeditors, agents, publishing staff, etc is both essential and extremely painful.

From the looks of it, the structure and output needs for book projects are less demanding than what you've already implemented, so it might be a worthwhile adjacency to explore.

Hope this helps.
Said the unsuccessful entrepreneurs.
I guess by definition, as long as they lose money, they lose money on each Model 3.

But really what you're implying is, when Fremont is a closer to full produciton, each Model 3 will net a loss. Best engineers say no. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2018-tesla-model-3-munro-...

Even Tesla's public financials show they lost more money, when they made less model 3s.
One thing I'd like to see is that every ballot gets a UUID assigned when it is cast. You get a receipt. All votes get published on a public web site. You can tally the votes yourself if you want to check the accuracy of the reported totals, and you can check your own ID to see that the vote was recorded accurately.

It's not a perfect idea, but I like the upsides more than the downsides.
Ya, I'm not sure why we're nit just talking about raising the minimum wage. I suspect they're worried it would hurt small mom and pop shops who also rely on paying their employees below the poverty line.
How to persistently do valuable and enjoyable things without burning out.

Whether that's fixing cars or writing code, if they enjoy it and can do it long term, they'll probably be successful.

It's just that writing code is usually lest dangerous than saws and welders and brake dust, so, choose wisely.
why are allergies supposed to be affected by fasting?
Factor in CO2 costs, indeed.

Factor in also nuclear waste disposal costs. It is not fair to leave that to the tax payer.

Taking all that into account, nuclear may not be cost effective.
Better than our office couldn't print story. The admin was in a car accident in the late 1990s.

She was gone 3 days before we could no longer print.
I remember talking to her and her complaining that we were using too much space for emails, and whoever set up the Network put the email and the print spooler on the same drive. I told people if they cleaned out their inboxes printing should work again, and it did. She returned a couple weeks later and fixed the problem in a more permanent way.
So you disagree with the actual definition of a word? This is absolute nonsense. From a legal and a linguistic perspective, neutrality is well defined. Sometimes people just don’t want to hear your crap, and the particular flavour of crap is of no relevance. Sometimes people just do not wish to be disturbed. It’s not a power struggle, it’s basic human decency. It’s understanding that you don’t necessarily know what other people at work are going through, and it’s also none of your business.
So when a friend talks to you about a product they recently used and loved and think you'd love as well (and I don't mean a friend on MLM payroll), you aren't interested in hearing about that recommendation?

And I'm guessing you skip over any HN posts that are about a new product or service you weren't already aware of?

There's a reason word of mouth is the most influential medium for converting to a sale, and it's because a recommendation from a friend is typically not "polluted" by advertisers lacking scruples - so the "pitches" you hear are about things someone who knows you decently well thinks you'll like, and only for products/tv shows/services that the person actually thinks are good.

It's also part of why recommendations motivated by affiliate rewards or MLM sales are seen with such disdain, as it's behavior from a friend that crosses a love for acceptable behavior.

If we only saw ads online for things that matched our interests AND are very good products, we'd have a different attitude about advertising (but that will never happen, as it requires prisoner's dilemma type agreement across too many parties).
I had a physics professor that ran a Gamma Ray observatory in a high altitude balloon. (He accidentally spotted a few nuclear powered satellites in the process!) The way it worked is that instead of having a lens/mirror and an aperture pointed at a specific part of the sky it had a cube of sensors. Based on which sensors are triggered you can determine direction because high energy Gamma rays cause a cascade of different radiation when they hit a target. (Compton Scattering I think...) The downside of this method is the angular resolution is super low.

Some Gamma ray telescopes are directional like Swift, but yeah, these Gamma Ray Bursts can be detected by non-directional observatories.
I don't know how IPFS handles this currently, but TOR has the same problem (there addresses are basically a hash of the server certificate). The TOR community handles this by widely advertising the addresses of a few entry points. From there you use classic link traversal and bookmarks. In general, bookmarks become extremely important once you can't memorize addresses.
I don’t know. I have mixed feelings on net neutrality. I’m sure I’m to the right of a lot of HN, based on comments, but I lean left on a few issues too.

I’ve recently moved to the greater Seattle area and where I live my choices for internet are Comcast and centurylink. I was pretty disappointed as I had fios at my last house.

In general principle I am pro letting Comcast throttle whatever. Mainly because of property rights. But at a personal level it would totally suck if they throttled Netflix to the point that it affected me.

But forcing Comcast to be “good enough” by law might be an adequate bandaid for the short term, it actually helps reinforce their local monopoly.

When a service is subpar, that opens the door for competition and disruption. Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17948412

Chris is charging a lot for his service, but the differential from existing is enough he is surviving and growing.

When a service is good enough, competition has a harder time.

So giving the incumbents enough rope to hang themselves might be better in the longer term.
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Fixing 1960s and 1970s electronics is hard. But they're fixing IBM's good stuff, not junk.

It's rare to see a transistor opened up today to see what went wrong. From the 1950s to the 1980s, the USAF did that on occasion. The USAF had a project, the Air Force Reliability Program, to make electronics more reliable. About 1% of the electronics boxes in the USAF were stickered with a note like "USAF Reliability Program - do not repair in the field, replace and ship back to ..." Back at Reliability Program HQ, technicians would figure out exactly what had broken and document it. All the way down to the individual component level and below. Transistors would be opened up and photographed under a microscope to see exactly what went wrong. They found problems like this bad transistor in the 1401, where a lead wasn't attached properly.

The USAF followed up by naming and shaming manufacturers. Microphotographs of bad parts were published in Aviation Week. Parts got better.
Sounds like you need to get a better tax accountant. If you only spend a few weeks a year in New York, then you shouldn't be paying much tax there at all.
Instead of advertising that their quality is better in some way, they employ FUD to say that Google is bad because they tailor their results to the user.

Notice how it's always Google that is under attack and never Bing, which has 20% of the US desktop market share and, incidentally, provides their web results.

What a pathetic way to market a product.
"So yeah, in practice the confusing rules of JS equality comparison don't really matter all that much."

I run into this all the time. Plenty of junior devs I work with do this. Unfortunately we haven't implemented typescript yet. Yea === solves this problem but I wish there was a deprecation path for ==. Why can't we figure out as a community how to deprecate horrible javascript apis? Why can't we as a community figure out how to have a good standard library?
> it worked for every industry

... says the guy commenting on a massively-distributed network that is the poster child for decentralized access to “industry”.
This is what i call: 'People are dumb'
The Clinton campaign absolutely did not believe they were going to lose days before the election. You could have made a defensible and germane argument by saying you predicted the outcome of the election, but, nope, your rhetorical reach exceeded your grasp, and you "predicted" something that the press got right and you got wrong.
What I don't get with any of this stuff is that it actually works. Maybe I'm weird, but every time I see that ads actually work and people actually buy stuff as a result, it's a shock to the system. Perhaps that's from enjoying a predominantly ad-free existence online, but I can't for the life of me think of a case where I've actually clicked on an ad, let alone completed a purchase.

I'm much more used to clicking on links that are organically ranked high in DDG or Google, when I am specifically looking to buy something. I have to admit, I barely make a handful of purchases per year, so perhaps I'm just totally disconnected from this whole topic.
I don't see how that's possible. Low value would skew it even more versus 2.9% + 30 cents, because you'll have more debit cards for low value transactions. Debit card transactions (pin or not) are cheaper post Durbin amendment.

Open to stats that say otherwise.
> #1 — Google tracks you. We don’t.

I'm not convinced this is a problem. I have commented before that even after 9 years on facebook they still suggest totally irrelevant groups for me to join (for example, facebook recently suggested I join a group for progressive asian-american christians. I am not asian or a christian)

>#3 — Get unbiased results, outside the Filter Bubble.

I read Eli Pariser's book and it was terrible. Full of "might" and "could" and little hard data. I am highly skeptical of the effect of a filter bubble.

>#8 — Our search results aren’t loaded up with ads.

>For many Google searches, most of the entire first page is ads. On mobile it can be even worse.

Really? I have not encountered that many ads on google searches.

>#9 — Search without fear.

Being afraid isn't really a good reason to switch in my mind.

More power to DuckDuckGo but the main thing that will make me use it is if it has good search results.
China spends ~$60B from 2017 to 2020, lower than what I expected but as we are approaching the end of 2018 So far they have nothing to show yet.

>Of the 78 fab construction projects starting construction between 2017 and 2020, 59 began construction in the first two years (2017 and 2018), while 19 are expected to begin in the last two years (2019 and 2020) of the tracking period.

There are only a handful of construction project from SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron, TSMC, UMC, Samsung, GF, Intel combined. And that represent 80%+ of DRAM and NAND market as well as 80%+ of Fab market. Where are the rest of these 60+ construction projects coming from?
it was just a one time experiment as he wanted to do a 7-days water only fast and decided it would be better/easier to do a 7-days keto diet the week after and the week before.
It's not something he does continuously all year long.
>This is a trait of UNIX culture, which never cared about doing cool UIs and GUI oriented development stacks, with NeXT being the exception.

The idea of UNIX is more productivity through shared conventions, where the system behaves as expected and newly introduduced programs don't increase the cognitive load that much, because you already have gained experience with those conventions through those other programs in your toolbox.

The idea of modern GUIs for professional tasks is kinda the same, reducing coginitive load and reducing the barrier of entry through aquired familiarity with similar GUIs.

UNIX the GUI way means getting away with not differentiating between professional and casual users, and scaling complexity horizontally by using programs in conjunction with other programs, or task based contextual adaption of UIs in larger programs, where e.g. your sidebar changes depending on what you have selected instead of stuffing all options in the UI at once.

Apple and it's ecosystem of apps have figured that out, there are not really two worlds like in the Windows ecosystem, where there's a hard cut between casuals and niche professionals.

On a Mac you might find your way around Sketch if you've only used Keynote before, or in Logic Pro coming from Garage Band or Final Cut. It's this similarity that adds up and gives generalist creative people superpowers, like those Unix wizards on the command line.
> SMS verification

I am sure the scammers are not deterred lol.
They list themselves as having money transmitter licenses across the US.

see e.g. https://stripe.com/us/payments and https://stripe.com/connect (under "Rigorous Compliance" and "Compliance respectively").

You'll also find them on CA's directory of money transmitters. http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Licensees/money_transmitters/money_tra...
Here's the recently updated Wiki page, it's not super in-depth, but please let me know what you think :)
I'm willing to bet decriminalization of weed is a huge factor of keeping kids out of prison.

Just hope we continue to learn how to build a system that restores dignity, treats the causes of criminal activity and focuses on keeping people out of the system. Hard to do when many prisons are moving to for-profit private facilities.
Fusion 360 for both CAD and CAM, and specifically, a lot of great machining knowledge, including a lot of stuff on tormach CNC: https://www.youtube.com/user/saunixcomp
at least on the surface it looks like a subsidy for companies that pay too little (and workers can accept "too little" when in conjunction with said subsidies) . If it was too little to live off, with subsidies removed, workers would demand more pay and we'd stop underwriting businesses that do not warrant their underlying resources (the workers).
You seem to be holding a grudge.
Protonmail would be great with some usability and feature improvements. Right now it has limited support for imap, smtp, pop3. You're basically limited to the biggest desktop clients. The desktop web client is okay.

But the biggest drawback right now that I can see, is mobile. Their app does not support threaded conversations or any of the newer features that we've come to expect because of Gmail. You also can't use a third party app like k9. So for me at least, it's not good enough yet to use as my primary account. Really wish it was though.
The first paragraph of this comment responds to things I actually said. The second looks like you may have accidentally spliced a reply to a different comment into this one.
I think he was talking about the news content, not about analysis.
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I assume this is an allusion to the fact that the standard Commodore 64 disk drive had an identical CPU, lol. A legitimate computer all to itself. You could even expand the default 2KB of RAM up to 48KB. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541#Hardware
> You might expect that the 132 hammers align with 132 type slugs, so the matching hammers all fire at once, but that's not what happens. Instead, the hammers and type slugs are spaced slightly differently, so only one hammer is aligned at a time, and a tiny movement of the chain lines up a different hammer and type slug. (Essentially they form a vernier.) Specifically, every 11.1 microseconds, the chain moves 0.001 inches. This causes a new hammer / type slug alignment. For mechanical reasons, every third hammer lines up in sequence (1, 4, 7, ...) until the end of the line is reached; this is called a "subscan" and takes 555 microseconds. Two more subscans give each hammer in the line an option to fire, forming a print scan of 1.665 milliseconds. 48 print scans give each hammer a chance to print each character, and then the 49th print scan is used for error checking. (For more details of this timing, see Manual of Instruction, page 37.)

Based on this note at the bottom of the article that seems impossible, could be I'm just misunderstanding what he's saying though.
Please don't editorialize in titles here. That's in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

(Submitted title was "iOS 12 released. - What do you think? - What is missing?")
The problem with current government support, AFIACT, is that getting off it may be plainly unprofitable: the take-home sum decreases as your wage slightly increases, and you're no more eligible. This needs to be fixed.

Having relevant experience is so important that people go to unpaid internship programs to gain it. But the key word here is "relevant"; IDK if minimum-wage jobs provide a lot of it. They could, though, it less sexy industries than IT.
This is what’s wrong with modern marketing.
I think the onset of election season has caused these types of articles to become in-vogue. I have been surprised by the reactions of what is mostly a tech savvy community. Full disclaimer, I work at a voting tech company as an engineer, and just wanted to give my 2 cents.

- Paper ballots and Risk limiting audits do not actually constitute a perfect solution to this problem. They do not constitute what is considered an End to End verifiable voting system. You cannot actually definitively know that your vote was counted in the final tally, and cast as intended. The Risk limiting audits as currently structured can only verify that a computer counted a small sample size of votes as a human would. It cannot confirm all the votes were counted, or that your vote was not tampered with.

- Paper ballots also do not address the needs of folks voting over seas, or those affected with disabilities.

- When current election systems are often described as easy to hack, the systems referenced are often hardware that is 10-20 years old. If you look at the landscape of the Election's industry, there are only 3 vendors that account for over 90% of the public election market share in America. These system's were put through certification many years ago, and continue to operate through those certifications. The result of an inability to innovate in this space, is that we will continue to use those systems (that many perceive as vulnerable) for the foreseeable future.

- Smaller election vendors are encouraging the idea of recurring certification, as well as more stringent certification requirements.

Most people who use these forums are very capable of understanding concepts like Asymmetric encryption, checksums, and other tamper proof methodologies for high value data. If you can trust the idea of an Encrypted e-mail server ( e.g. Lavabit ), or encrypted chat servers (Signal), it should not be hard to imagine that there is a secure way to conduct elections electronically and through the internet.

Finally, given how the past few decades have progressed, it seems that you would be on the wrong side of history to say that electronic voting cannot be done safely in a digital form. The process needs to be secure, but it also needs to be convenient, safe, fast, and trustworthy. Observing a few votes being cast in your polling station is nothing compared to observing every vote being cast for a given election.
Do you have sound off?
..and by DDG, you mean Bing.
I may be wrong, but cherry picking a number of successful products and an equal number of unsuccessful products and then attribute to the one that "price first" tag and to the second ones the "not price first" tag doesn't seem to me a valid method of demonstrating anything, at best is anecdotal data (and with some major oversimplifying of both the reasons for market success or failure).
Rockets seem to have all sorts of other toxic materials in them though: hydrazine comes to mind.
> the US has the highest real net disposable income of all OECD countries.

A higher disposable income does not necessarily lead to a higher discretionary income. If the non-discretionary costs (food, shelter, etc.) are higher than elsewhere, discretionary income could actually be lower than in other countries with lower disposable income.