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> Elections consultant recommended to the director of elections that poll sites which were not ADA compliant (required by HAVA) be closed, because there was no funds to upgrade them.

That was the official reason, yes. Pretty much the entire mainstream press, plus the ACLU and other similar advocacy organisations, spun this as an obvious lie covering for what was in reality a Republican plot to suppress the black vote.[1][2][3][4][5][6] The candidates for governor spoke out opposing this and the board voted against it after a massive, viral tide of outrage based on the belief that this was a racist Republican voter suppression scheme, including "two packed town-hall meetings in which residents berated local elections officials".[2]

The closest I've found to any mention of the fact that the supposed voter suppression scheme - a claim which was and still is uncritically regurgitated in every major news outlet - would in fact have had the opposite effect from that claimed is a single quote from Republican secretary of state Brian Kemp in one CNN article: "I was the first elected official in Georgia to publicly oppose the plan to close Republican leaning precincts in Randolph County, which is under Democratic rule".[7] The rest of the article is spent repeating the original voter suppression claims. Even now, publications like the New York Times summarize it as a "recent proposal to close seven of nine polling places in majority-black Randolph County".[8] (Which is of course technically true - just hideously misleading.)

As for the North Dakota business, let me help you with that: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/nov...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/voter-suppre...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ill-fated-plan-to-cl...
[3] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/georgia-county-trying...
[4] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/20/opinions/randolph-county-...
[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/randolph-county-georgi...
[6] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/georgia-...
[7] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/24/us/randolph-county-pollin...
[8] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/us/politics/georgia-gover...
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Northern European countries haven't always been highly irreligious, where do you think that culture came from?
Premium is something like discontinuing JS engine people rely on, move to Graal where certain performance features are not free for everyone. Hidden test suite is like the JCK I can't download to test my non-OpenJDK-based open source Java impl against (or Harmony or whatever). Regardless of details, the point is that it isn't more open like a MIT licensed Rust, Go, (recent) .Net, etc. There are obviously differing levels of openness by language and runtime regardless of specifics and differing levels by stewards of these languages/runtimes to make money on them.
I get asked for single characters of mine a lot
"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine [random code fragments], will the right [code] come out?"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage#Passages_from_...
> What's the coolest thing you've done both in life and at work?
- What are your dreams?
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Hey, I ask a lot of these questions in consulting. What I’m looking for is to tell if a) you can communicate a point clearly b) if you can talk generally about your career and are growth oriented.

If you said that field evolves rapidly bit above that would be a good answer. If you span it as a joke “surely writing angular 25, the last web framework ever” even better.

I wouldn’t ask the dreams question, but the coolest question is loaded with coolest, I would say “tell me about a previous project you enjoyed working on” and see if you have had a good project you are passionate about.
I used to have the same thoughts until I did interviews myself. I don’t use these questions but I understand how other interviewers use them to get to know people. They won’t find your stuff cool (or maybe they do) or judge your cool stuff. And if they do you are at the wrong place anyways.
Ask HN: What was the smartest financial decision you've ever made?
What I often see in my local election is that 3rd-party candidates are often (not always, but often) very inexperienced, and might have platforms that don't make sense or aren't coherent. I've frequently got serious doubts about their ability to function competently - let alone effectively - in the position they're applying for.

With IRV, though, I could see a situation where they are much more likely to win simply because, nowadays, Republicans' and Democrats' general level of mutual disdain is such that I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being common for people who identify with one major party to rank the candidate from the other major party below every other candidate more-or-less out of spite.
It's good for music as well, and I even watch Twitch on my Roku with a custom PLEX channel. It's pretty flexible.
I have the 2014 Mini with 4GB. It is depressingly slow and the horrible part is that it replaced a slightly older Mini that died but that had 16GB of RAM in it which was my little workhorse. When I bought the 2014 one, I didn't know the RAM was soldered on. I have suffered for three years like this (I have other computers, but this Mini is the main "family" computer for storing photos and documents and gets backed up daily). It's relatively important even though we all have other computers at our house.

What is most sad is that a colleague gave me a 2010 i5 Mini with 8GB of RAM and that one is actually faster than the 2014 Mini with 4GB of RAM--OSX needs to manage memory better! WTF Apple? Why sell computers with RAM spec that doesn't work and then make them non-upgradeable? It's inexcusable.

My question is, should I get one of these Minis and is the RAM upgradeable? Or should I buy a refurb Mac Pro and get off the Mini ecosystem entirely? Again, I need a little desktop workhorse that isn't an all-in-one kind of dealie. Laptops are great, but I want a desktop type machine with ports for what I do with it.

I had a 2015 MB Pro in 2015/2016, loved that one. My current work machine is the 2017 Pro laptop, it's not quite as good. Dongles suck!

I was able to re-utilize that RAM from the defunct Mini by getting a refurb 2014 MB Pro for my daughter and adding it to that one instead. That one has also been a great little workhorse at our house.
> If you don't have enough ambulances to cover the interventions then just buy more ambulances.

But then we'd have to (melodramatic pause) raise taxes!

(Audience faints en masse)
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I suspect it’s a mix. Historically, it’s probably been due to poverty and documentation, and that persists. Now that ID is being weaponized against certain voters, deliberate disenfranchisement comes in helping to keep it that way.
"(investors aim at an ownership percentage and are willing to pay what will get them there)"

What is the reason for this?
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Runoffs are something people understand, IRV is conceptually similar and makes intuitive sense to people, it's very easy to explain to people, 'if nobody gets a majority, eliminate last place and redistribute their votes, repeat'.

Compare that to to some of the other systems which often have complex mathematical descriptions which are hard for people to wrap their heads around.

Another thing is how big a deal is 'non-monotonicity' is it actually going to be something that will affect elections all the time, or is it something that's more minor than say turnout which honestly has no solution and on one side you have USA where turnout is low so the game is all about making sure your base turns out, or on the other side you have Australia where voting is mandatory so making sure people who don't care, don't vote at random is a big part of the game.
It also doesn't look like it has a DisplayPort. If I wanted to hook it into my KVM, I'd need a USB-C to display port dongle.
The explanation I've seen most frequently is that process sizes aren't really comparable between fabs any more. In this case, that would mean that Intel's 10nm process is equivalent to another fab's 7nm process.
I'll have to try this again. I put VLC on my AppleTV4, and I don't remember having luck playing things off my Synology. I'm using Kodi on my Android TV-equipped Sony to stream from the NAS, which works, but the UI is a disaster for adding sources. I finally got it to work, but I never want to have to change anything again.

For me, using Plex is an utter and complete nightmare. Anything with transcoding and library reindexing is a no-go. I've tried to be happy with it at least 6 times, and each try was an unmitigated disaster. I just want a thing to play files from storage.
> As an aside, I don't know what your "supposedly" about the i5 is supposed to mean.

The tech specs page on the Apple site doesn't give the exact part number, so there's always the chance it could be some previously unreleased chip.
Tl;dr.

But Babbage’s machine was not différentiable.
Yeah, help wanted on the docs team :)
MIT study/poll measures human expendability for driverless car algorithm
I would imagine the real top 1% (if there were a good way to quantify that) never “apply” anywhere.
No idea why you are being downvoted. IBMs actions during WW2 are well known. [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II
While I think IRV is a better system than we have, I think it concentrates on the wrong problem. In practice it only really works on high profile elections where all of the candidates get plenty of public scrutiny. The lower houses like the Senate and House, especially at the state level, usually receive very little scrutiny compared to governors and presidents. But the real power lies more in these lower houses than with the heads of state. They really only have power because their political party already has a significant control in the lower houses. The lower houses usually have the power to override anything the head of state does, and the vast majority of the power the head of state has are just things the lower houses has designated to him/her, which they can just as easily take away.

So I think the real issue is to open up the lower chambers to third parties, and that's best done through the use of Proportional Representation. IRV will not work at that level, because very few races are scrutinized by the public very much. Proportional Representation also eliminates Gerrymandering (or significantly reduces it depending on how it's implemented).

Once you've got a significant number of third parties in the lower chambers, whoever is head of state really doesn't matter that much. Since they'll have to work with pretty much everyone in the lower chambers to get anything done.
I'm wondering if part of this is Apple adapting to people keeping phones longer? The cost is spread out over more years. Also, refurbished iPhones may be the new low end, and why not?

I don't use iPhones, but the MacBook I bought last year was refurbished and I'm quite happy with it.
With AMD closing the gap with Intel competition in the CPU market is back after a ten year abscense.

What I'm waiting for is an AMD GPU that can compete with a top-tier NVidia offering. Vega is nice, but not really a contender on the mid to top end. The G series cpus with vega inside are great, but where is the 2080ti, or even 1080ti, killer? Even something a bit slower, but close, would be great.

Is it too much to ask of AMD to handle both? I am unsure, but I would love to see NVidia in a price and performance war at the same time Intel is. Competition makes the resulting products better. Do you think the 9th Gen Intel chips would be octocore without Ryzen?
I've gone through interviewing recently and it was a rather frustrating experience. I thought that the most challenging thing will be some tricky algo questions I don't use in real life or never heard of it. It turned out that the problem was to get to the tech interview at all by convincing the interviewer to believe that I actually have the experience that I claim. Didn't always work. It was mostly because they didn't care to assess my skills because I think my resume sucks: I couldn't provide any big or even local big names thus they probably went with someone who could actually namedrop. This was in Eastern Europe, to add some context.

I finally got two offers, dropped the ongoing processes and accepted one, but before I had some dark days thanks to these negative experiences. My takeaway from this is that interviewing sucks, but one company will realize what you can do and happily accept you as-is. I was lucky that I was not forced to take a sub-par offer by giving it enough time.
Maybe get him on some real food. I apparently was an unholy terror that never slept and wanted to feed every hour; my poor mother was probably about ready to smother me with a pillow before my grandmother who had raised ten children convinced her to add in some apple sauce and cottage cheese and oatmeal and that sort of thing.
Yes I’m stating that as an absolute fact.
There are at least three prior examples of Reveal publishing falsehoods about Tesla:

* Intentional underreporting of injuries.

* Disallowing the use of yellow tape at the factory.

* Disallowing audible warnings ("beeps") on forklifts.
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I'm not trying to be snarky; I actually don't understand. Isn't a nanometer the same between fabs?
> The Microsoft tooling makes it easy for inexperienced developers to build poor software

So, by definition, you should choose a programming language that has no good tooling as a beginner?

Ps. I stopped reading after that
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I have personally experienced a CS rep accepting “it’s just a bunch of random characters” as an answer. Combined with the fact that you just went on the record as using that scheme, your opsec just took a dramatic hit.

Use plausible sounding, but random answers.
Normalization has nothing to do with it. Americans at large didn't choose this, nor are we comfortable with it, we're simply stuck under it with no perceptible solution to it and we have to accept the financial consequences of medical choices because to not is to invite bankruptcy.
I've seen you mention these inconsistent results twice here in this this thread, but have worked at MemSQL for 5 years and never heard of such an issue. Have you reached out to see if maybe your query / data is not what you expect? I've seen inconsistent results only once, and it was because the default date formats across RDMBSs were different (and was not anticipated).
A typical setup for HA would be 2 aggregator nodes and 2 leaf nodes. You can allocate the memory however you want. For example, you could give 32GB to all 4. Or give 16GB to each aggregator and 48GB to each leaf. (I'm a MemSQL Product Manager by the way.)
The Blackmagic eGPU is designed to be plug-and-play compatible with Macs. You can even buy it directly from Apple:

https://store.apple.com/xc/product/HM8Y2VC/A

Also, one nice thing about this eGPU is that it has two Thunderbolt ports, so you can plug a Thunderbolt display like the LG UltraFine 5K directly into it.
Is he waking up near the same time every night? If so, wake him up and re-comfort him before he wakes himself up. Breaks his body's habits, and resets after a week or two (YMMV on the length of time). That was the advice from our (general) doctor.

We also tried gas drops, as we noticed sometimes he just burped and went back to sleep after half an hour of extreme crankiness.
I've been noticing a lot of the topics on the front page have fewer comments than they used to (kind of disappointing to be honest). So yeah maybe the algo did change.
> If you could, would you share a time when you tried to interact with a different department and were unable to?

If this is what you meant, then my disagreement was misplaced as I never sought it out. By "access" I meant things like resource access on similar projects and the like. Watching 5 different cloud computing arms do the same siloed activities is what I meant. That open resource access is not fostered across the company by policy was my disagreement. Also, my experience predates Slack (but they did force us on Lotus email, ug).
To me “a lot” signifies “most of” which I think understated the amount of other skullduggery going on.
It's not illegal, but it's stupid except in dire need.

If your partner goes into cardiac arrest while you're driving, what are you going to do? Stop to apply CPR and while simultaneously calling 911? Start driving faster, running red lights, and hope you both survive the trip?
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The "sin taxes" would just be another and less efficient form of restructuring. You'd reduce meat consumption, thus screwing over some polluting farmers, but also equally screwing over other farmers who pollute less to produce the same product.

But on the topic of say EU farming subsidies: You'd still raise the taxes dramatically to price the externality of pollution, but could just on top of that decide to give tax rebates that would amount to the same net subsidy.

The reason it's important to do it that way is two-fold.:

First you want to as a matter of public policy see how much you're actually paying for this subsidy. E.g. corporations in the EU usually pay a reduced VAT rate via rebates, we don't pretend that the concept of VAT doesn't apply to them. We could see that we like farming so much that we're spending however many billions of EUR/yr on offloading pollution on future generations.

Secondly because such a tax subsidy could be structured to give more money to farmers if they pollute less, instead of them coming out even if they continue doing what they're doing now. Right now a farmer who releases way more CO^2 than his neighbor doesn't pay any more taxes, maybe you'd like to keep it that way for political reasons, but we could at least structure it so that his neighbor makes money by polluting less.
Who's explanation is this? Do you have a link?
Here's a runnable example of a bug that NLL fixes; remove the feature flag up top to observe the use-after-free: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=761478ea89b3cd1df50ee274cb7...
The purpose of the change is to move away from a two-party system, where people are forced to vote red or blue, because green and grey are too small to have a real chance. Only making the change within parties wouldn't fix that at all.
Eh, I liked it. Many writers in the tech space are trying to be as concise and clear as possible. If this article had been more 'academic' in that sense I think I would have lost interest after a few paragraphs because, well, nothing in this article is really new. It's just a fun anecdote about the reality of cyber security.
I am the Director of Product Management for MemSQL.

The 128 GB limit applies to the whole cluster. So if you have two nodes in the cluster they would each have to be 64GB or less. If you have four nodes they would all have to be 32 GB or less. To have a highly available system we recommend 4 nodes (a master aggregator, a child aggregator and two leaf nodes). You can read more about the cluster architecture here: https://docs.memsql.com/concepts/v6.7/distributed-architectu...
In the Nucleus, Genes’ Activity Might Depend on Their Location
Maine has put a whole lot of effort into making our RCV based ballot understandable, including providing this sample that clearly outlines how it works and several options:

https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/MarkedBallotExam...
Of course it does, it's not a gender problem, who said it was? How many of you have heard your friends and colleagues tell you, "wow I'm so lucky I got through that interview, there's no way I would pass it if I did it again today."

You shouldn't walk away from a good interview feeling like you nailed it. An interviewer should push you to your limits and the more you know, the more they should push. It doesn't mean you failed, it means you reached the limits they could push you in the time you had.

If you're rejected from the role, most likely you didn't reach the bar they needed you to be at, or you failed at the behavioral parts. Or, the interviewers you had weren't properly calibrated, which isn't to say anything about you other than bad luck.
It is. But what exactly you measure in nanometers is different, depending on how you define the "size of the structures"
> Taxing only your disposable income would mean that a person living in a mansion would pay much less than someone living in a small home, which is weird;

Just as weird as a corporation with billions in revenue paying a zero or negative tax rate? Or weirder?
A) Java isn’t a framework.

B) Not liking Java doesn’t make someone a purist.

C) You can solve business problems in other languages besides Java. It’s a common misconception amongst Java programmers, I know.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwX13bo0RDQ

Dr. Lisa Su is so inspiring when she speaks - very clear, sure of her product and confident. Hopefully I get there one day!
What sort algorithm is this and what is it's runtime complexity?
I've been involved into several major hospital construction projects in the last ten years, including the design, construction, and move of an entirely new replacement hospital and including front-line staff in the design process is pretty standard practice. Getting humans to all like the same thing is hard.
Tax credits == Deductions
As an OpenJDK user, thank you for your work.

While I acknowledge your frustrations, that's one of the points of free software. If someone takes OpenJDK, uses it, and has zero problems, they don't have any changes to contribute, and the license doesn't obligate them to contribute money.
Dang, I am so tired of hearing about imposter syndrome. I get it. It exists. Maybe I'm more comfortable knowing that there are lots of things I don't know, even as an experienced engineer? It seems like such endless studies and banter about a relatively minor thing that is (in my opinion) easily gotten over.
A nanometer is indeed a nanometer. The question is what exactly is being measured, and that is what differs.
Others keep calling Watts a "hard sci-fi author" and his work as "hard science fiction".

The "hard science fiction", as I learned being young adult, must present as less fictional hypotheses as possible, the minimum is none and reasonable requirement is one per short story or short novel. Watts keeps providing assumptions at the rate of one per ten pages, to exaggerate a bit.

I do not share your cultural background and 1) know nothing about Crichton and 2) do not love Lovecraft. But I remember reading translation of Martian Chronicles by Bradbury and he succeed with body horror in my opinion, to the point that I profoundly dislike his work up to this day. He wrote hard sci fi (without quotes - single assumption per short story) and to great success.

Again, I consider Watts a bad author with more or less interesting ideas - I keep arguing about them with others and myself. But I will not consume any new piece of his work because, in my opinion, they are very badly executed.