skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is the US so set on voting machine to begin with? They clearly aren't secure, and apparently they are't as user-friendly as the paper ballots they're replacing?

A few months ago it was announced that Denmark is dropping all plans for electronic voting in the foreseeable future. There a to many issues with the voting machines and holding a paper ballot election is neither expensive nor complicated.
For California at least, it's free within the US. Though I had to put a stamp on to vote from abroad.
I don't mean to reduce the work of whichever researchers published in 1983 (are you thinking of Rumelhart et al 1986?), but gradient descent and reverse mode automatic differentiation are way older than 1983. Adaptive filters were being "trained" in the 50s using stochastic gradient descent.
It's not clear to me that they'd be irrelevant if not explicitly specified as company communication in a shareholder letter. In any case, the past-tense "funding secured" is precisely what makes the statement lose the protection of speculative forward-looking statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement
Europe, long counted out in high-tech startups, has become a major player
Oh it can still happen, didn't they just "lose" 4500 mail-in ballots over on one of the states earlier this week?
> Comcast are smoking something very unhealthy.

This is not news, sadly, and is pretty common for telcom oligopolies around the world. Consumer apathy is a real problem: people know Comcast and have 'no reason' to switch, so Comcast can do what they like and people perceive it as normal.
Aside from something illegal like knocking over all your precinct's evoting machines domino-style, to force the precinct to issue paper provisional ballots instead, I think the proper remedy is to get seriously involved in your state's Secretary-Of-State election (or equivalent).

It seems like there should be some sort of nationwide ActBlue campaign to specifically focus on whatever Sec-Of-State races are relevant for that election season.
Via https://twitter.com/richard_florida/status/10558811125039431...
Actually, iPhone SE is still good. Supports the latests iOS and runs quite smoothly.
Memory Model Verification at the Trisection of Software, Hardware, ISA (2017)
I said one of the most. I didn't declare it the most...
This is fanciful. No short seller held a gun to Musk's head and told him to call people pedophiles, tweet about funding he never had, smoke weed on some idiot's podcast or have the personal life of a hip hop artist.

Also just because they're innovative and are solving climate change doesn't mean we all just have to look away all the time.
Sort of depends on what you consider a consumer app.
CryptoKitties and Loom Networks' ZombieBattleground and DelegateCall have some decent numbers. Then of course there is wallet software that interfaces with blockchain (e.g. Metamask), which could ask if consider a blockchain app or not.
Exactly. The technical term for things like "best ever" is puffery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery

"Best ever" is a subjective statement, and most people would not take it as a neutral statement of carefully researched fact. Official corporate financial projections, on the other hand, are taken very seriously. People expect they might be wrong, but not that they might be fraudulent or negligent with regards to the truth.
Efficency/cost, speed of results, no 2000 hanging chad nonsense.

I still think they should be paper, but those are the reasons.
I love that the proposal fit on a one-page mimeographed form.

I also find it kind of funny that these are museum pieces now. I played a lot of Asteroids as a 12-year-old - the neighborhood indoor archery range bought or leased one, and nearly every day after school there was a small gaggle of kids playing it. This and "Battlezone" were part of my arcade gaming coming-of-age in the early 80s.
That's the beauty of paper ballots!

It's not impossible to change votes on an individual level, but all the attacks against it don't scale at all.

How many votes do you need to sway an election? There are about 50 precincts in my county, which is one of 67 counties in my state.

Even if you somehow manage to rig each precinct flawlessly, that's still a lot of people that have to know about the rigging, over a pretty large area, and not one of them can get caught or the whole thing is over.

And if the elections are done right, there should be a number of people from the public at each precinct watching those ballot boxes all day, counting along when tallying votes, and ensuring nobody casts more than one vote or tampers with the box. Hell, you don't even need to speak english or have gone to high school to help secure an election like this, literally anyone can do it.

Paper ballots don't break down, they don't have glitches, they don't require 24/7/365 security to prevent tampering, they don't require nearly as many ballot workers or helpers, they can't "underestimate" voter turnout and only have 2 machines in a precinct to make people not want to wait hours to vote, and they aren't going to be able to be hacked by one guy at the dock yard alone with a shipping container full of voting machines.

It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than voting machines, mechanical or electronic.
Reasons for an _honest_ person not to take their company public. Doesn't seem to have stopped Elon Musk.
> However this is also necessary since we have about 125 Million pixel in the retina but only about 1 Million “cables” in the optic nerve.

Just switch to a busable protocol. I don't see what the issue is here.
You are right that this figure includes hybrids (PHEV), but the vast majority, 652.000, are pure battery (BEV):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_energy_vehicles_in_China#/...

I did check that before but copy pasted the wrong line.
You're right, it is unusual. Journalists being falsely accused of lying, on the other hand, is depressingly common.
OpenBSD has that, but X was still kept setuid so the non-modesetting drivers would still work. Well, since yesterday obviously: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=154050453117246&w=2
Haha! You're arguing old games bad new games good?! Is that not NPC behavior worse than the NPCs of Quake? I think those old school games had more depth, but I'm guilty of having not played any new ones for more than a minute or so.
The Texas Hart eSlate machines do not provide receipts or other forms of paper trail

So, they fail Voter Verified Paper Trail (https://www.verifiedvoting.org/verifier/#year/2018/state/48). In this case, it doesn't matter what ever you see on the final page, what is stored in the computer can't be audited. It's been 15 years since technologists have been stating that we need a voter verified paper trail.
What did Python remove?
How to Use Machine Learning to Make Your Security Automation Platform Smarter
> in some cases I can see why some people might be reluctant to engage.

Within the tech community, it's really just ego and myopic view points and experiences.

>convince people of this basic truth when they find unfriendly receptions.

As a matter of practicality, it's easier to deflate the obstacle.
Here is the archived piece from their old ntinternals.com site:

https://web.archive.org/web/19970605083609/http://www.ntinte...
This is from 2012, so it makes more sense to be surprised that it doesn't mention git being a crowdfunded, gamified, phablet-compatible cybertool as-a-service on the cloud.
I don't agree with that. The oldest blockchain known has its hash codes published each week in the New York Times. I would agree that having the ability to prove the history hasn't been modified by externally retaining the hashes could be a component, but git qualifies for that as well.
H-1B lottery change could help big tech companies, hurt outsourcers
This is exactly how i feel too. I used to be a big fan of windows desktop but MS lost me with win8. It is a joke that i cant delete the millions of crapware that they preinstall as a default on my windows. It is not an accident that there is a version of win10 for enterprises that does not have this crap. I guess when your biggest customers just tell you that they stop buying unless you remove candy crush & co you have no other options. I wonder why MS thinks that bon-enterprise customers are any different. Is it worth to rape your customers when you can just give tham a clean simple version of the product which would be much more popular?
If you're frustrated by the lack of a strong type system in Go then check out Rust. Rust has type parameters and type constraints that let you write generic code. The authors have also been super attentive to the good parts of Go. Rust has great tooling through Cargo, it has rustfmt for formatting, rls for language server support.

Rust also adds real sum types and a tuple type. Multi-value returns are just tuples, they aren't a special case of the semantics. Result types let you avoid writing if err != nil everywhere, but we still believe in the mantra of not panicking for things that are not truly exceptional.

Rust is also closer to C++s performance, and it's a strongly community driven project. We also have great concurrency primitives. We have channels, but we also have futures, which can be scheduled on green threads in a CSP style just like Go, or can be run behind the Actor model, using async/await syntax with polling... there's a lot more flexibility there to align the language to your business needs.
Hackathon! Hack.LA Mobility
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Epic Games Received an Investment of $1.25B
Does that translate to more media sales? Is all the "whack-a-mole" game even worth the revenue increase? In any case does the increased revenue benefit the australian population?
You're almost certainly right that the part about this being a "criminal probe" seems wrong, but there are possible legal issues from a civil perspective.

While it's not enforced that tightly by the SEC, it's common knowledge in banking that, for instance in the process of an IPO (or in the offering of any security to the public, i.e. quarterly reports), you should always show pessimism in your outlook. Take Snap's S-1 [1], for an example-- I linked to the Risk Factors section, and you can see a huge amount of bullet points of everything that could possibly go wrong for Snap, even going into how Google could raise prices on cloud storage and screw them over.

While, again, I totally agree with you it isn't criminal, Tesla could be in trouble if they gave very idealistic estimates.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1564408/000119312517...
Using React.memo() in React 16.6
Georgia lost applications, not ballots. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/politics/senate-house-... However there was an incident in Arkansas where the Democratic candidate for secretary of state was left off the ballot. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2018/oct/22/garland-coun...
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> be made either through Ethernet or by reading values from RAM

Ok? This is not a rebuttal of the parent comment at all. You could also read and write the data on notecards and compute with a mechanical calculator, but that's totally irrelevant to the parent's point. Hardware matters a lot. Other things certainly matter as well, but saying the structure of the computation is fixed doesn't mean hardware can't change the performance (in absolute perf, perf/W, and perf/$) by many orders of magnitude.
3D NAND: Challenges Beyond 96-Layer Memory Arrays
Exactly!!!!
What other interpretation can "funding secured" possibly have other than "we've got to funding to go ahead with this"?
Hm... A non-optimizing compiler? Nice hobby, but I don't see the point of this. Even folks doing safety critical stuff (like in failure = dead people) use -O0 and are craving for some optimizations. E.g. why no DCE? Constant propagation? With a proper representation (SSA?) some of this near-trivial.
> There's already incentive to disable odometers for vehicle resale value

And yet almost no one does it. And even if people do do it, that's not a reason not to use that method.
Often times when writing a macro or a function that should appear as though it's a part of a DSL, the advantage of turning off parenthesis can shine here. That's why parenthesis are optional with a lot of the Ecto macros.
A comic is not evidence of systemic executive lying. It's a comic.
I don't think Elon Musk is dragging us down. I think he's bringing us the future. Happy to be forgiving of his quirks since he's literally sacrificing his life to bring the world awesome stuff.
Ask HN: What are the best slack groups/communities you are part of?
I'd love to hear what Slack groups you all are part of, and why?
What value are you getting?
What do you love?
What annoys you?

I am specifically interested for members of my team Slack groups aimed at:
- COOs
- CTOs
- CMOs
- Heads of Product
- Product Mangers
- Project Managers
- Dev Ops
- Software Developers in RoR, Angular, etc etc...
Disorders are classified by more than just one or two observations. The problem is people thinking that normal reactions to life is are the result of a disorder.

Case in point, there's a range of responses to trauma. Having bad memories or occasional nightmares as a response to trauma is normal. PTSD is not normal. Less than half of people involved in severe traumas will have problems coping normally and fewer develop diagnosable PTSD.
Divining the Witch of York: Propaganda and Prophecy
Can Tech Get Better at Confronting Ethical Challenges?
The funny thing is if you put forth such a good argument that it changed everyone’s perceptions of the value of old cars then market forces would drive that price up, possibly invalidating the argument in the first place. So... shhh, keep it a secret!
You don't sign the ballot. You sign a paper that gets sent along with the ballot. If things are done properly, the person checking your signature doesn't see your vote and the person counting your vote won't see your signature.
Measuring Unintended Neural Network Memorization and Extracting Secrets
GPP – general-purpose preprocessor
The 2008 Ford Mondeo doesn't have lane assist, only lane departure warning, so it wouldn't have done anything other than signal when you start leaving a lane. Ford didn't offer lane assist until the 2010s.

I can't comment on the Volvo, since you don't say what model it is.
Microsoft Will Sell Pentagon AI and Other Advanced Technology
I don't totally agree about the evil company idea, but it is totally true that useful programs like vim or editors could be reimagined for better throughput!
It's also worth keeping in mind the WSJ has a very bad track record for climate change denial.

See, for example, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

This article is highly questionable given their history.
Without a doubt, the best is rands-leadership.slack.com -- very active with dozens of channels, intelligent conversation among knowledgeable people.
This is "news about potential news".

> Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are examining whether Tesla misstated information...

FBI agents look into a LOT of stuff. That's literally their job. Frankly, I'm not going to think one-way or the other unless the FBI comes up with an official statement.

I think investors might need to be worried: you know, buy the rumor sell the news sorta thing. Investors / speculators are super interested in trying to predict the future, even with unreliable information like this one.

But for the typical person, we shouldn't make an opinion of the matter until the FBI at least brings forth a case.
Apple's SDK has an EULA that says it cannot be deployed on a server and made available as a service. Why can't mongo just create a license that says such a deployment requires a commercial license from them?
git predates the creation of bitcoin and 13 years after the invention of blockchain.
The harmonica-playing Texan who just won a Nobel Prize for cancer immunotherapy
That article is the WSJ Opinion page which is very different from their reporting.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but have you talked to your customer about this? Such issues are covered by insurance plans that are common for US companies. It may be as simple as your customer makes a police report and then provide it to their insurance. Then 60 days later they get a check and pay you.
Gaming Prank. Then it turned deadly
In case someone is wondering why this only discusses curry being a naval tradition, although both the Army and Navy had the same beriberi problem—the Army solved it the same way as the Navy. Curry is as much a staple meal in the Army as Navy, just not celebrated as a culture as much.
I think they're being reimplemented in Kubernetes. Kubernetes provides scale-ability, fault tolerance, and the pieces you need to build robust distributed systems. There's no need for this from the language itself. It's actually disadvantageous to mix Erlang and Kubernetes, because Erlang really wants a stable set of node names.

It's not a good fit for the way in which we're doing fault tolerance in the cloud. Erlang focuses on not crashing the BEAM, by letting processes crash while allowing graceful degradation of service. Supervisors are akin to Kubernetes deployments. Processes are pods. The pods themselves should be designed to crash gracefully.
Seam more like it is very good at blending images than creating new ones.

Still very cool but not as cool as it initially appeared when I saw it.
So I am a C++ dev by day and I write some go and rust for side projects or smaller projects at work. Go is SOOOOOO much simpler to write (unless you get into crazy threading data race stuff) than rust. I like rust (a lot), but the mental load is a lot more to take on than go.
Great idea!

If a game has micro transactions, then treat it as gambling.

Problem solved.
If it's user error, there should be reports of votes being switched both ways. Why do I get the feeling that's not actually the case? I can smell a pile of BS that big all the way from Massachusetts.
It seems to me like Oracle has figured out a sort of secret formula for making a lot of money through shrewd business practices while managing to avoid the public hatred Microsoft and IBM attracted when they did likewise.

Perhaps because they market to business leaders who could stand to lose a lot if Oracle unleashed the legal hounds?
Really?

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2015/08/11/its-not-just-th...

You can downvote me if you want.

It doesn't stop the WSJ being a highly objectionable source for anything related to climate change.
We hear about companies who "missed their numbers" daily. What we don't hear is news of the CEO being given jail time.
The head start for charging in Europe is considerably less than in the US. Plus there are _many_ players building up charging networks all over Europe.

China seems to already have a charging network that does not include Tesla at all.

From a purely US point of view it might look like Tesla is the only game in town for the foreseeable future. In European cities I have seen more Car2go electric vehicles/charging stations than Teslas.
> “The Hart eSlate machines are not malfunctioning, the problems being reported are a result of user error — usually voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,”

That reminds me of the Therac-25: "They determined that data entry speed during editing was the key factor in producing the error condition: If the prescription data was edited at a fast pace (as is natural for someone who has repeated the procedure a large number of times), the overdose occurred." (http://sunnyday.mit.edu/papers/therac.pdf)
There was tons of Malarkey, but it’s mostly over.

Musk was offered a settlement, he refused at the 11th hour, the SEC threatened to sue for everything, then he settled for a higher amount than the initial offer.

What remains is convincing a judge that the settlement is just.
In case you didn't know, most companies would feel very uncomfortable with situation 1. Creating a situation where someone is managing their significant other is asking for disaster.
“The reality is that if you have a smartphone your data of where you are traveling is already in existence,” Wiener said.

Wiener bringing this up in context clearly puts the surveillance option on the table.
> What remains is convincing a judge that the settlement is just.

"Judge approves Elon Musk's settlement with SEC" (Published 9:36 AM ET Tue, 16 Oct 2018 Updated 3:29 PM ET Tue, 16 Oct 2018)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/judge-approves-elon-musks-se...
Berlin has extensive rent control. So it likely the same situation as San Francisco: a significant portion of renters enjoy a privileged rent price and aren't affected by rising housing costs. While people in non-rent controlled cities like Seattle accept development, people in rent controlled cities oppose development because they don't want their neighborhood to change and they are insulated from rising rents.
I wonder if one or the other party is more likely to vote expressly straight-ticket, i.e. check a box that says "just vote for all Democratic/Republican candidates"
How to Break Bad Habits (And Why That's More Important Than You Think)
The phrase "opportunities for coercion or vote buying/selling" in the above post refers to opportunities for a malefactor to be physically present while a voter is filling out the ballot and coerce/bribe the voter to fill out the ballot a certain way. Voting at a polling place guards against this by requiring that the voter cast a ballot privately, out of the view of anyone else.
Excalibur: A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
I'm now in my early 40's, and it's mostly the same as when I was younger... but it's like there's some memory corruption. I'll remember a concept but lose the word, or when interrupted it just take a moment for me to shake out of where I was, and then have to ask the person interrupting to repeat what they said.
I don't think Blu-Ray can ever become a non-helldamned format.

"Blu-ray is a bucket of hurt." - Steve Jobs, on why Apple never supported it.
Unnecessarily installing binaries as setuid... for how long now? So much for secure by default.