skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What has happened to HN? The second paragraph of the article explains quite clearly that these apps display only the fact of a ballot having been cast, not the votes. Yet I count no less than seven posts here railing about exactly the wrong thing.

Yes, people: the secret ballot is an important part of democracy, and this has nothing to do with that. To be sure, it's one of those social network paradigms that have unindended consequences. And those are worth discussing. But only if you read the article!
My partner worked as a developer to someone who served as a middle man. People would give the middle man tech projects and he'd split them up between developers he knew and profit. I think Steve Jobs actually did this when they wrote a game for Atari.

People do this all the time with 14 day invoices etc. You have to be a little creative and very skilled but it's possible to make something out of nothing because you're providing value- especially when you get paid up front with a deposit.
Right, but it seems to be the direction we're headed in.

Imagine instead a premium model where you have the option to pay to hide your information (just like paying GitHub for private repos). Privacy for pay - this is we're headed toward as a society. Shame on YC for supporting this.
Sure they have been private. With the internet it has never been easier to learn every little detail about a random individual on the other side of the world.

Practically speaking, this information very much was private, using the definition of "private" that I define as "difficult to learn".
Communists in Soviet Russia thought this, too. How do you know your reasoning is sound?
I believe you're misunderstanding OP.

You're speaking of somms being able to distinguish flavor profiles - which of course is a skill and I don't think anyone would deny that.

What OP said is that cheap vs. expensive wine is indistinguishable (At times). There have been blind tastes tests with 2 Buck Chuck and expensive bottles, and 2 Buck Chuck won.

https://www.popsugar.com/food/Wine-World-Reels-2-Buck-Chuck-...
That’s fair. I do wonder if just smiling and making eye contact would be a better time. The ability to provide a modicum of human kindness might be refreshing; just a small token of humanity without the selfishness of personal media.
Staten Island has the SIR.
Just tried NixOS in the VM... the application launcher does not update after installing new packages... even after a log off or reboot. Running kbuildsycoca5 fixes it.

See, this is the kind of absolute shit that makes Linux hot garbage. This is a central and catastrophic bug for a new user. I can't give NixOS to anyone with this kind of a bug. They'll be calling me at all hours and I'll want to shoot myself.

Jesus Harold Christ. It has to fucking work. Get the basics down before you put out crap like this.

I want the old nasty Linus back and I want him to take over a whole distro and tell the people who make shit like this that they are goofs and they should feel bad.

Software without a benevolent dictator is trash. Think of the user experience. Can you imagine the kind of misery that this sort of bug creates for the user and the sysadmin alike?

NixOS is a great idea. First new distro I've tried in years. But Linux devs are still stupid crazy little shits who can't get a fucking package to show up in the menu after an install.

What the actual fuck?

Back to the hated MacOS. The ghost of Nasty Steve still lurks in its passageways, so it hasn't gone to complete shit yet... even though they're trying.
Isn't DC the only place in the continental US that has no representation in the Senate?
That's the schedule for the days nothing is broken.
The Stand is an actual classic, I should have mentioned it if I mentioned King. 11/22/63 is more of a less-epic, mature character work. Cheers to good taste!
The apps’ developers say they are simply democratizing access to these public records.

This is the exact same argument that is often used to push public surveillance: “Well, you were out in public and visible anyway, we’re just making it easier to access this data.”
They said most of the buildings burned in the late fifties. Can anyone local tell me if there's still anything there still worth the detour?

Visited my niece at U.C. Santa Cruz back in February and if there's something still there I'll check it out the next time I see her. I love historical places.
There is a law, the law says all this information if public.
In Finland anyone can check these online for free. For example the income of SuperCell and MySQL founders:

https://verokone.hs.fi/henkilo/1978Paananen%20Ilkka%20Matias
https://verokone.hs.fi/henkilo/1962Widenius%20Ulf%20Michael
That's interesting about aphantasia. I knew some people have incredible visualization ability far past the normal amount, but I never knew that some people have none at all.

I think my visualization ability is about average, although I do very well with visual thinking. Not sure what the correlation is there.

I've been a prolific reader since about 11 years old. I would say that in general, I don't try to visualize what the author writes. Whenever the author spends a lot of time going into setting up the environment with lots of visual details, I only lightly skim that. I don't bother trying to visualize exactly what the author is trying to convey.

So sometimes it does lead to a little bit of confusion later on in the story if something I read doesn't match up with my made up visualization, but generally I might only get a blip of confusion a few times during a book, it doesn't really amount to much or affect my enjoyment.

I'm not sure how much time Neal Stephenson spends on visual details in Snow Crash, but I remember the first 200 pages of Anathem being a chore to get through because of the incredible amount of time he spent on setting up the environment. Because I largely skipped the visual details in Anathem, there were parts later on in the story that were confusing due to the fact I didn't have a grasp on the layout of the monastery and such. Assuming he didn't make mistakes at any point.
If I’m being completely honest I just see 33 reasons why I still use JetBrains IDEs. Every single one of these features is baked in with the exception of the templates for directory creation which isn’t user configurable most of the time however in the few cases it isn’t baked in they also have a rich plugin ecosystem

Still worthy the money every time. I have to say though VS Code is still one of the best free editors you can get

None the less. Mad props! I think it’s great that they have a rich extension ecosystem
I can't speak to home prices but my anecdotal experience is that rents in New York are not outrageous. They're high, but generally you get more apartment for less money compared to San Francisco. Particularly if you look at living in uptown Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens or Jersey City the rents can actually be a pretty good deal on an engineer's salary. And because New York is much more dense than SF, commutes are generally also much shorter given the abundance of public transportation options.
> One of the obnoxious things about Google's NY campus is that it's on the west side of Manhattan, meaning to get a cheapish rent for a 40-60 minute commute

I don't think this is true. 60 minutes on the A/C/E lines gets you all the way to Jamaica. 45 Minutes gets you all the way to Inwood.

It's not convenient to every location, but it is convenient to some cheap locations.
DC proper isn’t that big. It’s only the third most populous jurisdiction in the area. Most of these Amazon employees won’t live there.
Yeah, what I meant by “ever heard of Texas Instruments” was expecting that people knew more about the company than the calculators that are literally 1% of its revenue.
So does this mean we will see people doing "silly walks" a la john Cleese, to avoid detection?
Well, as someone who use to live in that area. It sucked, I think “transportation desert” is very applicable. There are buses, but you only take them to transfer for trains into the city.
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Well, that's disappointing. I appreciate this answer though, thank you.
If done right, passwords are a very powerful and universal auth method, i.e. all credentials can be remembered and no third party or auth device are needed (e.g. you are still able to login even when you lost all your belongings while traveling). However, there are problems when reusing passwords and passwords are usually leaked to the remote party when authenticating, e.g. its trivial for a web service to learn what password or password pattern you are using. I am working on an open source project called FejoaAuth where we are working on a secure authentication solution that does not leak the password during login. This allows to reuse a password, e.g. to use a password for authentication and for data encryption. This makes true one
password solutions possible. Its an open source project so please get in contact :)
https://fejoa.org/fejoapage/auth.html
Forgive me not knowing how it goes in the United States, but here in my electorate there is generally only one or at most a handful of candidates who you can vote for in each party. It would not be hard to narrow down who you vote for based on the party you selected.

That being said, even knowing which side of politics your peers vote for would be sufficient to harass them over it. I don't understand why anyone would think this is a good thing.
Even if you're talking about reading the most vapid genre fiction here, you still looking at things from the view that the purpose of everyone's life is to always be moving forward, progressing, building, achieving, getting better. Some people's feeling of purpose is different; look at Epicureanism for instance.

It sounds like you're stuck in the mindset that every moment not spent actively achieving something is time wasted. That can be a stressful way to live. Maybe if you're really looking to "get past the existential crisis" as you say, and you want to read books but feel like you shouldn't, it might be worth thinking about what you really want out of life as a whole. But I understand that it can be hard to rationalize, because our time on Earth is so limited.

Maybe you could compromise and only read books that teach something. Even good fiction teaches you about people and different ways of thinking.
3 million people work in Manhattan. What will an additional 25,000 people do to the real estate market?
Is it true that most American whiskey is distilled in Kentucky?

Jim Beam is massive in scope in ways that are fairly incomprehensible. Add mpg and micros & I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not true.
Americans don't think that revealing party membership is violates any privacy. The reason it is available is that the parties need lists of their members, and campaigns and political orgs need lists of people to mobilize to vote. This helps us target slate mailers, phone calls, media advertising, as well as look at who is elderly and might need transportation to the polls. In California, the list of people who voted is posted hourly tomorrow, so I get to walk around and remind my party's people to get to the polls.
Their "Our Trusted Partners" does not encourage me to believe they are non-partisan.

YC stamp on this makes me a bit sad, but their actions have been swinging left for a while now.

edit: (their partisan statement is upfront)
Outvote empowers progressives like you to mobilize your contacts to get out and vote.
For those who remember it, the peer pressure and shaming implications of these apps remind me more of the season 8 episode, "Douche and Turd." Particularly how everyone in the town ostracizes Stan until he's willing to vote, even though he doesn't really care and doesn't like either choice.[1]

I guess South Park is like the Simpsons now... There's literally an episode for every situation.

[1]: http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Douche_and_Turd
This is false. I’ve been to Four Roses Distillery. Their operation doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity you are talking about.
Why shouldn't major accomplishments bypass the "random algo from a hat" that Software Engineering interviews have devolved into? If someone is a core contributor to a large, highly successful open source project, you have concrete proof of practical experience that you can discuss with the candidate. I'd put 100x more weight on that versus his ability to invert a binary tree on the spot.
"When a worker gets smashed by a car part on Tesla’s factory floor, medical staff are forbidden from calling 911 without permission."

This should be a crime. Full stop.
Well, there is/was an open source EHR called Vista and VA uses it. However, even that is being replaced by VA at a cost of $10 Billion over 10 years to Cerner (https://www.ehrm.va.gov/news/article/alias/va-signs-contract...)
Living in NY certainly isn't cheap but two six figure earners can more than live comfortably. Hell, if your household income is greater than like 75k then you're pretty much fine -- not living the high life but no real financial worry.
Same as property taxes. Sure, the tax on a parcel of land is typically public information, but I would consider it very rude to ask a friend how much they pay (in most situations). But all I have to do now is type their address into zillow, instead of having to request that information from the county treasurer's office.

That information was never truly private, but it was private enough that most people would consider it to be so.
Page 15 of the embedded PDF in the first link. Some other definitions say 1/3rd of a mile:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
Google Maps shows a towing company (very important, given the constant accidents on 17) and not much else:

https://goo.gl/maps/it4Pkk7ijiq
So knowing another person is from a different political party inevitably leads to harassment? I guess it really is 2018 in America. Back in my day voting wasn't such a tribal affair.
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There’s not many options for what it could be, so it’s pretty easy to figure out. The color is most important, with some additional info like utility (which are few and welol known) and width.
About 6 years ago, for the 2012 election, I wrote my first iOS app called SuperVote (http://supervote.org) where Facebook users would voluntarily share their endorsements on a shared ballot, allowing you to see how your friends and family plan to vote (especially useful for California, and all the ballot initiatives). It got about 100 users, but didn't really take off, so I didn't continue updating it.

At this point, considering the state of politics and Facebook, I would not go about the same venture anymore.
It would be cooler if they made drinks with the taste and psychological consequences of alcoholic drinks but either without reduced brain function the next day, or with an antidote to take the same night. Or maybe made it simple and affordable to store and replace most of the blood in your body.
the CAs are the only ones opposed.
"In the main approach to steelmaking today, iron oxide is placed into a blast furnace with coke, a hard, porous substance derived from coal...
This and other steps in the process pump around 1.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually, ... And that’s before taking into account the fuels required to fire the furnaces."

The coke is the fuel that fires the furnaces.
How many SpaceX could we have for one ITER ?
That's kind of the reason why most ballots are cast anonymously to begin with. I'm sure back in your day (which is a fairly arbitrary thing to say, really) this was no different.
Consider setting focusable=“false” on SVG icons for Internet Explorer
I find the lines:

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Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

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to be perfectly clear ... and suited to the 'common misreading'...

A poem is more or less ink spots on a piece of paper; it means what the reader finds in its deliberate ambiguity ... not what some 'expert interpreter' insists it means.
Those list dumps aren't particularly useful, as you have everything from Calvin & Hobbes and Tolstoy to Freakanomics and King James Bible.

- If you're looking for easy-entry, entertaining contemporary scifi, start with Red Rising, Hyperion, Old Man's War, Children of Time, or We Are Legion - We Are Bob.

- Classic Scifi is harder since some of it has not aged well. Easy-entry here would be I Robot, Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I am Legend, Dune, or Flowers for Algernon.

- Fantasy genre also suffers from repeated/common tropes, but some of the more inventive or engaging ones are Blood Song, Prince of Thorns (dark), The Blade Itself, or Sabriel (Audiobook by Tim Curry).
Anyone can use the apps, but executives say they hope to improve voter turnout particularly among young Democrats. The VoteWithMe app, for instance, is preset to show likely Democrats among a user’s contacts. Users must change the app’s settings to see the voting histories of all of their contacts.

This, combined with the “Our Trusted Partners” section, clearly shows that this isn’t about getting people out to vote in order to strengthen the democratic process - it’s about supporting a particular political party.

As an independent, this is really troubling. It will only result in more tribalism and more shaming for having “undesirable” party registration. Yeah, your actual vote is still private. But considering that mere membership of a party has been an issue in the past, this isn’t very reassuring.

Then again, maybe it will lead to an implosion of the party system and a shift to independent voters.
I read an article that did the math on the SF housing issue (it’s killing me that I can’t find it, but it was on HN).

It’s actually physically impossible to build housing at the rate that SF is growing. Even if you got rid of the politics. Even if there was unlimited land. The issue is that you literally cannot build housing at the skyrocketing rate of growth that SF is experiencing. That’s why this is a crisis, it’s essentially a mass migration to SF.
> Amazon executives met two weeks ago with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the governor’s Manhattan office, said one of the people briefed on the process, adding that the state had offered potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies

> “I am doing everything I can,” Governor Cuomo told reporters when asked Monday about the state’s efforts to lure the company. “We have a great incentive package,” he said.

> “I’ll change my name to Amazon Cuomo if that’s what it takes,” Governor Cuomo said. “Because it would be a great economic boost.”

If these quotes are truly representative of Cuomo's attitude towards Amazon, that's an incredible amount of pandering for the governor of the state containing New York City to be doing. Isn't large amounts of incentives for Amazon essentially a trickle-down economics policy? Interesting to see that Cuomo, ostensibly a progressive, would be for such a thing.
> The BSD school of hackerdom rejects intellectual property and its hassles. Ideally, BSD school hackers wouldn’t use licenses at all. [...]

Uh, no, that's not true. "The BSD school of hackerdom" doesn't reject intellectual property. What a ridiculous oversimplification.

Licensing terms are a business tool. The choice of license at any given point depends on what goals one has, and also what constraints one has. Assuming no constraints, I'd say that anything you feel you can monetize you should either keep proprietary, or use GPL for, while anything you cannot monetize should be licensed under BSD or MIT or similar. That's my take, and it's a common take for many of us who BSD license code or work on BSD licensed code.

Aside: how does one get compensated for BSD-licensing? Easy: a) other people's BSD-licensed sources, b) credit and reputation. Both are a big deal.
Does anyone else find this creepy and Orwellian?
Well, he looked at the current privacy climate (especially around social media) and thought this was a good idea.

I'd say it's safe to assume he isn't all that socially aware. I can say for sure that I received one of these messages from one of my contacts, I'm damn sure shaming that person back for using this service. I'm thinking twitter/Facebook post naming and shaming, along with an explanation about how that contact was clueless enough to share their whole phone book with this app. I for one don't trust them not to do anything shady with that info.
Visitors spend far more per day than long-term residents. I think there's a high likelihood that their overall contribution to the taxbase greatly exceeds the long-term residents per day of occupancy.

In other words, there's good reason to suspect that having a unit rented out to a succession of short term residents will produce more tax revenue for the city than having it occupied by one long-term resident.

As for stability, I don't think we're in any danger of destabilizing major cities from lack of long-term residents.

>>certainly would be incredibly peeved if I paid a million dollars for a unit and then the person down the hall turned their apartment into a miniature hotel

This should be decided by the contract you signed with your condo association when you purchased the property, not an arbitrary intervention in private contracts and property by the city.

Also, would it make any difference to you if the steady rotation of guests were not paying? If not, why not make the rule focused on the problematic condition, which is a large number of different people visiting/staying, rather than whether there was financial compensation?
As a neat coincidence, molten salt fueled fission reactors also need enriched Lithium. However, those need Lithium 7 which would essentially be the depleted Lithium from enriching Lithium 6.
Yeah most will live in Virginia, where the offices will be, where the housing is cheaper, and where the public schools are better.
It's not cheap and frankly speaking, it's infested with roaches, rats, and mice. Don't ever want to live in LIC or the surrounding area. It's expensive, to rent and own. you need to be making a very high 6-fig salary (180+ base) or greater to counter balance the mortgage/rent and taxes. Otherwise you'll be house poor. Plus MTA is going up in price per ride very often and the quality is going to shit.

good luck. Only the rich can afford to live in NYC and the surrounding boroughs. I used to live in Queens Village, Moves out 20+ years ago. Even in the late 90's and early 2k, queens village was becoming expensive the Neighborhood was getting worse. houses are old and they're asking too much for them, even then.. forget about today.. astronomical..

Peace
Letting robocalls go unaddressed for this long highlights the greed side of capitalism.

- Make money from problems. It is not in the best interest of companies to eliminate money making problems.

- Problems are more beneficial if they impact average joe. They won't be able to fight and choose to pay ransom for partial relief.

- The greed side of capitalism can only be handled by governments. Unfortunately, this helps comes only after a big collateral damage, in this case, millions annoyed with robocalls.

by Annoyed user who gets 3 robocalls per day, despite using all kinds of blocking mechanisms.
Not voting is a legitimate choice.
Sounds good in theory but is never going to work in practice. Even static functions can store state and access global singletons, disk or the internet. Java doesn't have a way to specify constness of arguments either so preventing mutating an argument is very difficult.

Is time and memory usage a side effect btw? :)
Fins has a point though.

I live in SF but was down in SJ recently and honestly... it's just nice suburbia with the same strip malls and everything that's copy-pasted across the US?

Am I missing something there that makes it... unique?
After watching the video I was left a bit upset. But I have to admit, I started by wondering, "do I care? Which side of the empathy line do frogs land on?"
What you find meaningful, others may not. It should in no way imply others are living a meaningless existence.
Nice job. Any plans to support saving files?