skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some bad actor employers or supervisors may exert pressure upon the employee to not leave that day. There's a great many methods to force people to do something yet still stay within the word of a given law. Especially in those states that have the "at will" employment law, because you could be fired for sneezing incorrectly and have no legal recourse.

That, of course, is another subject for another day.
How free-willed or "alive" an object is, from one subject's perspective, will have a lot to do with how _unpredictable_ the possible futures of the object seem, relative to that subject.
You could keep the ballot sealed but tied to the voter's ID. Once the polling center closes for every mailed-in ballot they check if they have an in-person vote. If so, they discard it, otherwise they add it in the urn before it's opened for counting.
LibreOffice QA Report: October 2018
Kahneman is supported by research.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1280801
DigitalCatapult|Machine Intelligence Garage:the best-kept secret yet in the open
Upvoted. I live in Oregon, and VBM is excellent.
The letdown: It's just another podcast about Bitcoin. I was actually pretty excited reading the headline because I thought it was a cryptography podcast. A (properly-understood) crypto podcast that got Apple to ban it would undoubtedly be interesting. Bitcoin and blockchain? Not so much.

I can't wait for the blockchain fad to die, so "crypto" can mean something sensible again.
According to Wikipedia, it has not been updated since 2006. Gimp has improved a lot since then.

Also, this:

>In a March 2014 discussion,[9] Moschella states:

>I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

>I don't have a project site for it. I became discouraged after this whole ordeal and I let it slip away into obscurity. Gimpshop was a fun little 'prank' that got bigger than I ever expected. Sad what it has become, though.
Yes, it's the nocebo effect. I personally think it figures prominently in psychosomatic pathologies actually.

People with [psycho]somatic symptom disorders, with medically unexplained symptoms, are more likely to report negative side effects in response to placebo, for example.

When I've read about it, the research is often focused on perceived negative symptoms rather than lack of therapeutic effect, but that's just my impression and I suspect both happen.
There's an extension for that :)

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rafaelma...
I just saw a demo by a team of 30 that had worked on a super secret project for a client for the last 3 years. It was a web page that let you enter in SQL queries and select which database from some set of databases they've integrated to run it against...and then save the query with a name.

In my area, we've literally built something more or less like that a few times in the same time with one or two developers each time. In fact, I found out after the demo that much of the core logic came from a repo a guy on my team wrote in his spare time to plug a hole on a minor side project he was doing.
You do realize votes are tallied by computer currently, right?

In Switzerland, were you vote on referendums up to three times a year [which can be pretty complex issues] votes are cast on paper and counted manually.

Vote counting is semi volountary, but rather well paid, at about 32$ an hour in Zurich.

First results, with the exception of parliamentary votes, which are more complex, are in two hours after the polling places close. Final results usually don't take longer than four or five hours.

Please don't come with the argument that it's a small country, which can not be compared to a huge country like the US. Its' a matter of scaling appropriately on a communcal level and being willing to spend money on it.

Of course this has a price, but the question to ask is: Is it not worth the price to guarantee the integrity of your democratic system?
> However I’m not in anyway implying that a child’s behaviour is 100% down to nurture. Clearly there is going to be a biological element as well.

I think we're basically agreed here: yes, other influences exist, but there's a huge biological element. Even if you remove TV, other family, etc it wouldn't surprise me if there's similar results.
Roadmap: Evergreen skills for working with servers
Money does motivate me to an extent. Ownership really lights my fire, though. Given the opportunity to really own a thing, to take responsibility for it, is something I've been looking for in employers and potential jobs.
The same reason many apps don't use the iOS AppStore to monetize... Apple's tax and the high friction of your business customers doing business with them.

If you sell software for businesses, it's pretty painful to actually buy software with their volume programs.

Both Slack and Remote Desktop are free apps that access non-free resources on the back end.
The practice of medicine is at the service of the patient: the doctor should not make decisions for the patients unless he has to: the final say is always from the patient.

If the doctor lies to the patient, the patient cannot make a proper decision for himself.

So yes, it truly is an ethical dilemma.
Why People Choose Dapps Over Apps?
Spain and Russia agree to set up joint cybersecurity group
> removing one party votes. people need to choose, we don't need drones

The first time I voted, I remember being shocked at the premise that you could tick a box and vote for one party across the board.
It's already a struggle to find enough polling stations that are large enough in some places.
I think the "lots of eyes" really only apply to the iOS App Store. sales on the Mac App Store aren't that great from what I've read. As a Mac user I know I never use it, expect when some link from an application website sends me direct to it.
Do you have any data at all that backs your theory that the major barrier to voting is lack of issue/candidate information? Because at first read, I'm not sure how ranting about "ignorant people to cast poorly-informed votes" is different than "I don't want those people voting."

I vote in one of the most complicated areas in the country: San Francisco. I had to make 40 different choices for a variety of different local, regional, state, and federal offices, plus 14 ballot propositions. There was an excellent local ballot guide, which voters receive on paper and can view online. [1] The State of California produces a good guide as well, again on paper and online. [2] For areas where I needed more information, there was plenty available. The nonpartisan League of Women Voters has a nice site with general information [3] and both the local and state chapters produce their own good-government recommendations on ballot props. [4] Plenty of organizations have recommendations as well; I looked at several different ballot guides produced by individuals and organizations.

And you know why I did all this work? Because I had to vote. I was not particularly informed on the intricacies of bond funding and government budgeting before this. That's how it has always been. The first time I voted at 18, I surely made some choices I'd now regard as woefully uninformed. Until then I had no skin in the game! But each election I vote, see the outcome, and have more incentive to do better next time. And I do.

So no, the bottleneck is not information. There's a ton of it out there. The bottleneck is also not information access. If well-presented information doesn't land in one's mailbox (and it should!), it's a Google search away. The problem is that voting in America is needlessly hard.

How do I know? The nice people at the Center for Civic Design [4] actually research this. They have done hundreds of interviews with voters. And they write about the problems. [6] We also see, both historically and currently, that people seek partisan advantage by making the registration and voting process needlessly difficult. If those barriers didn't work to discourage voters, self-serving politicians wouldn't be putting them in place.

I have helped register hundreds of people to vote. Not one of them wasn't excited to take part. Not one of them struck me as unserious about exercising their franchise. So I am 100% for voter registration, GOTV, and removing artificial barriers to voting. And I'm 100% for good schools, so that future voters are well prepared. And I think everybody in favor of democracy should be.

[1] https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en

[2] http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/

[3] https://votersedge.org/

[4] https://www.lwvsf.org/ and https://lwvc.org/

[5] https://civicdesign.org/

[6] e.g.: https://medium.com/civic-designing/the-epic-journey-of-ameri...
I made a chart of the download counts of the alternatives :D

https://npmcharts.com/compare/react-apollo,react-relay,urql,...
You are assuming your conclusion. If free will exists, it might exist outside the current understanding of physics. Most likely, it does (if it exists!)
Pretty sure they do that all the time?

Reminds me of the old joke, where a respected scientist is announcing he has some great cure for the disease of the day and is presenting the impressive results to an audience, when someone pipes up and asks:

'How did this compare to the control group?'

The presenter is indignant and says, "Excuse me? You're asking if I randomly selected half of these poor souls to be deprived of the medicine, just to see what would happen to them?"

'...yes.'

"Of course not! That would have condemned half of them to an avoidable death!"

'...but which half?'
I agree, we should restrict the franchise of voting to only the most informed and qualified. How about just white male land-owners?
The security industry turns your data into there money by reminding you that’s it’s protecting you from criminals turning your data into there money.
When Java and friends were being designed, it looked like 16 bits would be adequate. They didn’t insist on UCS-2 over something better, they chose what looked like the best option at the time. It later turned out not to be. UTF-16 was created to fix that problem without having to completely redo their strings from scratch.

Likewise, C was created in a time when it looked like 7 or 8 bits would suffice. That turned out to be wrong. UTF-8 was invented to solve that problem without redoing C strings from scratch.
The markets would say otherwise, when more experienced workers are generally paid more.
Pretty cool. All of the layout options for iOS are pretty subpar (coming from a web/android background):

IB/storyboard are trash (WYSIWYG is so 90s and dragging and poking around a huge visual editor is a huge time sink)

AutoLayout is verbose and complex, even with helper libraries.

It'd be super cool if we could use something like XML with Lima.
Not if you invested in an adapting basket of stocks (ie, an Index like the S&P 500) used dividends (2% to create a cash cushion) and had access to 0-2% short term debt (ie the Fed bank rate) during every downturn.
How can you disprove an interpretation?
"Young now calls his wife "probably the single-most important contributor" to the initial success of Red Hat. "Without my wife Nancy's sterling credit rating, I wouldn't been able to raise the money that got us to profitability," he says."

I can relate to this.
What you're describing is somewhat similar to pre-17th Amendment Senate elections.
Quangngotan95/go-m3u8: Go package for parsing and generating m3u8 playlist
I have been using a Mac exclusively for years and I have never once even logged into the App Store. Don't need it. Never once did I need something that was found only on the App Store.

My Mac complains that I need to log in in order to update apps that I never use such as Pages.
Since Adobe products aren't strictly necessary for any of my work, that's the primary reason I use alternatives now: the junk all over the system, the constant calls home for updates, and the hidden little launchers.
I imagine those are popular because for many problems there are not yet any real solutions.

Got a cold? A muscle tear, connective tissue damage? weird back pain?

There are no definite solutions to those. And ever smart HN person who think they know the solution to that, only knows a thing that they believed worked for THEM and won't necessarily work for ME and may not even have worked for them, it just got better with time and they think it was their special cross fit routine because of chronological fallacy.
You need to define "acceptable". I see this a lot: someone makes a bold statement saying "xyz isn't acceptable!!!" Why not? Who are they to make that pronouncement? And how exactly are they going to enforce this thing not being acceptable?

If Google raising prices obscenely "isn't acceptable", then what are YOU going to do about it? Nothing, right? Is Google going to change their ways because a few people proclaim "this isn't acceptable!"? No. Therefore, it IS acceptable.

I'm waiting to be proven wrong.... which will only happen if this price-raising is canceled, which I don't think it will be.
No offence to Americans reading, but speaking as an outsider, it seems to me that voting in the US is fucked up in so many ways that need to be fixed first before starting on "smartphone based voting".

I saw this short twitter thread listing some of problems that are especially apparent from a foreign perspective:

https://twitter.com/MackieJonathan/status/105996240724471808...
I'm not sure - CA has permanent vote by mail available to all eligible voters, and saw about a 38% voter turnout yesterday. Texas does not, and saw about a 40% voter turnout. If getting to the polling place is the bottleneck, I would expect CAs vote by mail option would increase voter turnout relative to somewhere without it.

(Cue someone saying I can't compare TX to CA - it seems like if I can't that demonstrates that there are other factors that matter just as much or more)
I'm wondering if we will ever reach a point at which even interpreted languages will be bottlenecked on memory bandwidth rather than cache misses.
> The right to it even if you are mentally ill, broke, bad at decision making or all of the above.

The right to be provided something is the right to take from someone else. There is no escape to this, its a right that infringes on the right of others.

Theft cannot be a human right, and i would strongly reject anyone that defends such a thing, including the UN.
Actually it's not just that. I believe sometimes people forget what enormous achievement it was to have _one_ centralized repo for all the apps a fragile, mobile device can have. Without AppStore, the dark ages of Symbian suddenly come into mind. And sure, Apple has had a number of flaws when it comes to AppStore policies and regulations, but part of Apple's sternness and rigidness is well justified, given the myriad of apps it has to serve, and safety and security of billions of devices that run those apps.
It seems to me that the medical profession already has enough bias to defend the fruits of their own research and claim ownership over a capacity to offer that which cannot be achieved through other means.

The idea that a placebo is as effective as some intervention is not evidence of efficacy of placebo — it’s evidence of lack of efficacy of the interventions ... if what you have to offer can’t beat doing nothing, then you shouldn’t be charging for it ...
They need to take out the "spirituality" aspect of it, full stop. Atheists by and large aren't "spiritual" for any meaningful definition of the word, and pretending that they are won't actually make atheists feel more welcome.
> it disallows the idea of a decision being undetermined and free to decide

That doesn't compute. A decision doesn't do deciding. A decider decides decisions. Any phenomena of "will" necessarily implies contingency on a prior. To ask for non-contingency is to ask for freedom _from_ will.
So this is clearly a funding problem and a date problem. I don't know what the situation is in the US, but in France it never took me (or my parents) more than 15 minutes to cast a vote. Most of the time I'm in and out within 10 minutes. Vote always happen on Sunday.
>The third group is those in despair. They see the problems in society, and they see fifty years' worth of politicians who have promised to fix them, and the problems are still here. They've given up on politics as an answer to the problems of society.

As someone who falls under this group, I've often suggested that we should allow more participation for the individual in the democratic process, seeing as how the fundamental assumptions and constraints of society have so drastically changed since the current system was designed:

"In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good."

-John Adams, Thoughts on Government 1776

Ironically, many of the same people who disparage others for not "participating" enough in democracy (by voting), see a more direct/participatory system to be out of the question, claiming people are too stupid to have more involvement.
According to Wikipedia the "Red Book" was written during an odd time for Jung:

>Biographers and critics have disagreed whether these years in Jung's life should be seen as "a creative illness", a period of introspection, a psychotic break, or simply madness.

Which makes me wonder about the context of what you heard in school. By that I mean people seem to agree that what Jung wrote makes sense to a lot of people, so there's something of worth in there.
What it doesn't make it is scientific. There's not a lot of people currently arriving at the same conclusions as Jung.

I'll admit I don't know anything about psychology (just what I've heard second hand), but I do find people like Jung quite interesting.
I'm with you on that but I was surprised to find out during the last Brazilian election that they seem to do most of their voting on electronic machines and it seems well accepted over there. At least when I mentioned that to Brazilian colleagues they seemed fine with it.

This video (in Portuguese) shows a "tear down" endorsed by the manufacturer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrMLzqgKEI

Both the tone of the video (unsurprisingly, given its "officially endorsed" nature) but also the comments seem overall pretty positive. Even though they mention that the software is closed source and you basically have to trust the manufacturer (and any third parties making hardware and software for the device along the way).
Do you have a reference for the dentist situation, fascinating result.
It shows both.
Also, I'll add that your comparison is apples-to-oranges. For the electrical part in particular, electric utilities in almost every country are highly regulated. They can't raise prices on a whim, even though they're monopolies; the government won't allow it. This doesn't apply to Google Maps. You're comparing services that are provided by a government, or are highly regulated, to a service that has governmental constraints whatsoever. If you don't like the price, don't buy it.
I know how to solve this problem. Upload a speech by each candidate to YouTube on election day. At the end of the day whomever gets the least downvotes wins.

Google's CAPTCHA and profiling will protect us from election tampering and make sure only the people who are allowed to vote will vote.

Might need CAPTCHA 4, though. The one where you go through a DNA test to verify your uniqueness, then get an RFID implant for truly secure 2-factor authentication. I'm not sure where blockchain and IoT will come in play, by I'm sure we will will find a place to plug them in.

(If by this point you didn't catch on that this was sarcasm, I'm not sure there is anything I can do.)

There is a much simpler solution for increasing participation. Don't punish busy people. Hold voting on a weekend, over the entire 2 days. You will get a massive surge in participation. Yes, it will be more expensive, but that can be optimized. Heck, just add a checkbox on tax forms that says "if you support weekend elections, check here and we will charge you extra X dollars". You will get tons of money for this initiative.
Something interesting is that numerous studies have shown that a number of psychotropics, including the monstrosity that's fluoxetine/prozac, perform at levels that is hardly better than placebo. In many cases the difference is not statistically significant. This [1] paper/article provides an overview of a variety of data. It also goes into how these sort of drugs manage to get approved in spite of negligible performance. The paper gives the example of vilazodone/viibryd. That drug went through 5 trials. They showed absolutely 0 effect. In some of the trials the placebo outperformed the drug. Undeterred, the company continued running trials. In the next two they managed to show a very small effect, probably similarly to how if you flip a fair coin enough eventually you'll get heads 10 times in a row 'proving' the coin isn't fair. Anyhow those two trials showing a minuscule effect were enough for the FDA which now states, "The efficacy of VIIBRYD was established in two 8-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials.".

I find this just completely fascinating. That prozac shows a negligible effect over placebo in blind studies is even more interesting to me because of the side effects. It has some really serious side effects - you'd know if you were getting the 'real' stuff, at least if you were allowed to communicate with the others who were. And the prozac brand alone was, at its peak, reaching profits of $2.6 billion a year. This creates a nasty incentive for pharmaceutical companies to target 'drugs' at conditions that can be treated by placebo. Because in these cases, you can always prove the drug works, without actually having to go through all that nasty work involved in creating a drug that actually works.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
Sketch is great, but it's Mac-only with absolutely zero intention[0] of supporting anything else.

I'm a Mac user and have a Sketch licence, and use it often for personal things, but if you're looking to build a piece of software that supports workflows with multiple people working on / implementing designs independently in a professional setting, expecting every company using your software to enforce a fully Mac-only office* is only going to get you so far.

[0] https://www.sketchapp.com/support/requirements/other-platfor...

* I also work in a pretty-much-Mac-only office, so I do acknowledge that this strategy is not entirely fruitless, it's just not going to replace Fireworks.
Well, disprove in the sense of showing that inconsistencies will lead us to believe that the interpretation is not likely to be as accurate as some other interpretations.
I believe they already have on GH. But I'm unable to find it. It was loud in the lobby when they said what repo it was.

I'll message them via Twitter and ask for the repo to build their device.
What alternatives do you use for Premiere and After Effects?
I use VS Code. Mostly for frontend stuff. It can bork on large files. Especially if they contain lots of inline binary data. And Intellisense works probabilistically across javascript dependencies. But generally positive the experience has been.

Tangential to IDEs are tools for data science and visualization. Having a shareable workspace, akin to Azure Notebooks, can be much more user (and scientist) friendly.

Another area where I think there is potential for innovation is branded cloud IDEs that actually understand cloud native development. Not just an editor, debugger, and console. But a single interface. Where you set load balancing, firewall rules, make data queries, analyze log traffic, etc.