skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be in favor of software that makes it easy to pre-vote. Then, when I go to my polling place I could quickly print, review and submit my votes. Where I vote the process is tediously manual. If we could get, say half the voters in and out quickly, there would be more time for the election commissioners to assist everyone else.
> I expect more of politicians.

You might want to update this prior.
Religion is also a useful pretext if you are a merchant competing with Jewish merchants. Religion is real enough if you are promoting one religion as the only true way and there are people practicing another religion in the vicinity who seem to be going fine and undercut your claim of "the only true way." In that case you might find common cause with the merchants who want to get rid of the competition. Having an ignorant rabble hungry for loot at your disposal doesn't hurt either.
This is an engineering example, not a marketing one but the team over at FiveFilters manually created schema rules for extracting the text of articles for every single semi-popular website (ie. similar to how Pocket works), and sells an API for it.
I believe that placebo-like effects extend to other areas of life, outside of health. Tell people that they are victims of some historical injustice or discrimination and such, and these victim's beliefs will keep people from advancement to their best capacity. They genuinely can't advance. Similarly, in situations of domestic abuse or sexual abuse: whatever happens on psychological or biochemical level, keeps these people down, genuinely unable to properly recover or move on.

Seems to me that attitude is 90% of success in this world...
Minnesota had 78% turnout this year (for votes cast in our governor race, anyway). We have VBM but you have to request an absentee ballot specifically, and we have some early voting in person but it's not super widespread yet. Instead, what we have up here is civic pride. We've been the top turnout state for years, and we're darn proud of that.
Having worked with a number of attorneys, this would be fantastic to disrupt the status quo. Plenty of competitors acquire clients almost solely by having a huge budget for putting these all around the city. I'd prefer a more research driven approach. Seems unlikely now that I looked it up, most recent state was Alaska (by state referendum) in 1998.
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Moscow had plans for "chordal" roads that would connect radial roads in a faster way than concentric-ring roads do. But the land allocated for these roads was all built upon in 1990s, so the traffic problem stays.

As in e.g. NYC, subway in Moscow is generally a faster commute than a car, if there's a station where you need to go. Unfortunately, Moscow subway is also concentric rings + radial lines mostly, and has the same problem of getting somewhere "diagonally" without hitting the crowded central hub stations.

Moscow is still pretty walkable, compared to many US cities, with sidewalks, crossings, etc. Though in areas built past ~1960 you have to be ready to walk for significant distances.
A good example of how the increasingly data-driven use of advertising, is in large part responsible for the decline of media that rely on advertising: http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html
"The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. If Yahoo merely extracted the actual value, they'd have made less."
I read this. Thinking things over. Thanks for the thoughtful discussion on this topic.
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Anyone know of a code sample or available project that implements this? Would be a lot of fun to try at home and the office.
Amazon Artificial Intelligence – A Step Ahead of the Rest
> We see that all of the time... I recall working in a bakery in the mall in high school and chatting with a Vietnam veteran with chronic pain from a lung issue and a missing leg who would walk 8-10 miles on crutches every day at 5AM and sometimes do push-ups in our cafe area. He was the most positive person that I have ever met, which was striking when you'd see other folks with very minor issues grouse and complain and be visibly ill.

This might simply be that the Vietnam veteran happens to have much better and more stable chemistry than people with, say, depression.

It seems one danger with this placebo discussion is that we may end up at square one, blaming depressed/anxious/ADHD/BPD people for their problems...
> I am more worried about votes where we have to verify an absent voter simply because the chance of fraud increases
How high are the chances really? The work required to fraudulently submit even a single absentee ballot would just not be worth it. It reads as tone-deaf to place concerns of voter fraud above voter engagement when voter turn out is consistently so low.
What if it being $0 reduces to placebo effect so that it no longer is effective?
[Not far-flung at all](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newfoundlandireland.jpg).
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That's not quite what an anycast to those addresses does. It's more like an approximation of the nearest server.
It means they are being investigated on the basis of the LibDems selling them their data, and the other shoe hasn't dropped yet.
If it’s compatible with Rust 2018, then there’s no reason it couldn’t be in Rust 2018. Only breaking stuff needs to wait until the next edition.

It’s really not clear to me what exactly you’re proposing, but it sounds like breaking syntax, and so yes, it would have to wait.
From the article:

>You don’t even have to deceive the patients. You can hand a patient with irritable bowel syndrome a sugar pill, identify it as such and tell her that sugar pills are known to be effective when used as placebos, and she will get better
It wasn’t mentioned in the article, but I’ve always been curious if the paradox of choice / cognitive load of making decisions apply to choosing routes as well. In other words, does going to the same location (typically an office) via the exact same route at the exact same time daily reduce cognitive load? Does it have an effect at all?

As a remote worker, I’ve often wondered if I’d be more productive and able to “think more deeply” if I just went to the same coffee shop every morning at the exact same time, rather than stop and decide where to go.

Strictly adhering to a specific route seems to have worked for Kant. [1]

1. https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1963-immanuel-kant-the-errr...
Huh. The Merc used to have (still has?) a "bring your kid to work" type event on Columbus Day. They even brought us into one of the pits—back when they were still regularly open for business—to do a mock derivatives trading session. I guess it had never occurred to me before that those pits were being used for real trades on the same day—or maybe the brick and mortar exchanges were open, just "online-only", on Columbus Day.
How about we do Smartphone Taxes first?
'Test Pyramid' considered harmful IMO. It discourages people from writing tests against the public interface of their system , and instead encourages testing against internals.

This leads to a test pack that prevents refactoring, and can't be trusted to catch regression errors.

This is partly down to the widely confused definition of a 'unit test' (which a lot of people interpret as 'one test per class').

If you haven't seen it, please watch Ian Cooper's "TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM

Also, I thought continuous testing was having your test pack run all the time while coding, but hey ho.
City of Sao Paulo did as well, it is possible.
Perhaps that serves to emphasise just how little we actually understand it.
"Active fugitives." Here, the way drivers find out about adminiatrative license suspensions are police ALPR cameras on patrol cars alert cops to pull people over and charge them, causing them to pay for a tow, among other consequences.

Presumably these "fugitives" include parents with kids at the stadium who are behind on support payments or have outstanding parking fines, or perhaps something else that will initiate a high risk police encounter that will at best disadvantage them in a background check?

I've worked in privacy policy in government and the people building FR techs are equipping monkeys with guns.

Sure, someone else will do it, but at least weapons manufacturers have rules about who they can sell to.
Try PEGs

https://parsley.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta
Microsoft Broke Windows 10’s File Associations with a Botched Update
Both. It's currently being used mainly by academic researchers, and biotech companies are evaluating it as well.
How Prediction Benefits from Unsupervised Learning via the Objective Function
I'm not trying to undermine you, but can you share a link or source? I too, have a vague feeling that many "AI Startups" are trying to ride the buzzword train, and actually doing their work using humans.

However, I haven't read any good journalism actually showing that this is the case.
Stripe founders used to do manual implementations for customers in the beginning.
> The reasoning for such extremely strict geographic restrictions, I am unsure of, but surely it would also argue against mail-in ballots (and I would assume smartphone voting).

One reason is a holdover from the days when the eligible voter roles were physically printed on reams of paper to be lined through in pen as each eligible voter 'checked in' to be given a ballot.

If your system for preventing double voting is by a line drawn in pen across a voters entry in a paper printout, then you have to allocate voters to one, and only one, voting location (because you can't 'line through' in pen multiple geographically disperse paper printouts containing the same name quickly enough to avoid double voting risks).

> Side question: How are people temporarily living in distant areas from their registered county (working, attending school, etc) able to vote?

This is the purpose of the absentee ballot system. If you know you are "away" on election day, you apply for an absentee ballot and vote that way. Most of the recent "early vote" system has simply been an expansion of allowing voters to vote "absentee" by having them show up at the city/county offices before election day, fill out an "absentee" form (with less stringent requirements for proof of being "away"), get a ballot, vote, and drop it in the count box.
Hi, creator of Threader here, can you tell me on what device/config you have the scroll issue?
Some of you might be wondering why "a little over a dozen" people being booted from their ISP is newsworthy. This is figuratively the beginning of a very, very slippery slope.
Nice! I will definitely consider this option for my next projects! Also, I am starting to think that this sort of binding could be implemented natively by browsers, which could make many applications faster.
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Too many emergency vehicles near the hospital for it to slam itself into at high speeds.
I did address dualism. I'm not making any assumptions about whether dualism is true or not. If dualism is true, the immaterial part is just another form of state that is part of the self from which the decision emerges.
The case for all-remote companies
> one day we'll realise that many forms of advertising are effectively mental abuse.

I've often hoped that skepticism and recognition of manipulation techniques such as propaganda and advertising were formally taught in schools. Social media is a more recent scourge on the gullible.
I read a book on this topic but forgot the exact reference. Not all books agreed on this when I tried finding it back.
Metric system overhaul will dethrone the one, true kilogram
That's interesting. Telegram crowdsourced their own filters: https://instantview.telegram.org/#instant-view-editor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind
People working minimum wage jobs will still be working Election Day unless it’s very strictly enforced. Plenty of places are open on federal holidays; McDonald’s does not close on christmas.
Apparently he left the tech industry, co-founded the Alpinist[1] (he has sold it since), and started pursuing sailing on a competitive level.

He has also a sparse Github profile: https://github.com/marcewing

[1] http://www.alpinist.com/p/magazine/AboutUs
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The reason to vote within your registered precinct is partly because ballots may differ with local issues and partly just historical structure of how votes are tallied and reported hierarchically. The local officials are responsible for maintaining voter rolls just as they maintain other vital statistics.

You can vote by mail even as an expat living overseas. You register via the last address you had in the US and end up getting a more limited overseas ballot that only covers federal elections (and possibly state-wide elections if registered in some states?).
Absolutely! Furthermore, https://github.com/harc/ohm is the successor to OMeta.
I was talking about taking $100 (at 01/01/99 or 01/01/00), investing them in the S&P500 (with dividends reinvested), and paying out $7 every Dec 31. You would run out of money eventually.

Of course if you add cheap additional leverage at certain moments and time the market successfully you can do better. But that’s not the original proposal.
If we had fair elections, yes. When the republicans control the majority of local government they have no desire to make voting easier for the working class, or students.
Yes, and the question was whether it makes sense for Rust to target the GPU, not whether it's possible. I think most people would agree that in an ideal world you would have a different programming language for the GPU than you have for the CPU because the hardware is so different. CUDA uses C++ (and C and Fortran) because there is already lots of code written in these languages and it makes it easy to port code to run on the GPU.
Speaking of advertising, the power of words, and the power of laughter:

> Originally, all of the facets of our culture, whether they be in the arts or sciences were the province of the Shaman. The fact that in present times, this magical power has degenerated to the level of cheap entertainment and manipulation, is, I think a tragedy. At the moment the people who are using Shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers. Rather than try to wake people up, their Shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilize people, to make people more manipulable. Their magic box of television, and by their magic words, their jingles can cause everyone in the country to be thinking the same words and have the same banal thoughts all at exactly the same moment.

> In all of magic there is an incredibly large linguistic component. The Bardic tradition of magic would place a bard as being much higher and more fearsome than a magician. A magician might curse you. That might make your hands lay funny or you might have a child born with a club foot. If a Bard were to place not a curse upon you, but a satire, then that could destroy you. If it was a clever satire, it might not just destroy you in the eyes of your associates; it would destroy you in the eyes of your family. It would destroy you in your own eyes. And if it was a finely worded and clever satire that might survive and be remembered for decades, even centuries. Then years after you were dead people still might be reading it and laughing at you and your wretchedness and your absurdity. Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

-- Alan Moore
Thanks, updated headline to reflect the original article
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You solution to bandwidth congestion is for everyone to use 3x+ more bandwidth than they need?
Pen and paper is the objectively superior technology for the job; it's the Minimum Viable Product that is auditable by the most number of people. You shouldn't need to be a crypto expert to be able to confirm that your vote was counted. Public trust should be an explicit design goal, and arguably the most important one.
If you're doing this, it helps to also talk about the context and the constraint they were currently operating under.

The solutions by themselves don't illuminate unless you also illustrate what they were trying to achieve and how they got around the limitation.
Apple Is 'Not in Talks' to Settle Legal Dispute with Qualcomm
You'll stand out if you do that....don't stand out. Just add more noise to the signal(more transmitters, that randomly beam shape and increase/decrease gain). Better to appear neurotic than suspicious, IMHO.
x.ai: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-18/the-human...
Also a horrifically bad idea.
I agree.

I think that advertising is on dubious grounds when it exists as a substitute for payment (dubious because of the extremely low payout compared to the inconvenience / damage caused).

In public spaces, on transport systems and so on, things that can't be avoided and are either already paid for or aren't even being used (e.g. walking past an ad on the pavement which pays for nothing other than the land it sits on) it's completely inexcusable.

We're trying to encourage people to use public transport.

We need to do _everything we can_ to make it a better environment, more comfortable, more homely, etc.

Knocking out advertising would be an easy win. (Killing off the OTT announcements would be another one... but I digress...)
Unreal Engine 4.21 Released, Linux Now Defaults to Vulkan
Double-bucketing in A/B Testing
To reply to my own post.... attach wifi transmitting collars to the 9 cats you adopt.
Especially considering that there is more than likely no other option for service in the area because of the ISP totally not being a monopoly, totally not.
Thanks, I didn't even know there was a successor. I've been using Parsley for a while and love it. It's kind of like the object-oriented answer to parser combinators I think.
Unless something has changed more recently Photoshop was terrible with you acceleration and worked like crap on a 4k display. Most Adobe products completely lacked support for 4k and made them unusable. I was dumbfounded you had to manually edit obscure setting files simply to get hit or miss support for a modern display. They are a graphics company.
In Darwin's telling, Renous left his caterpillars in the care of a girl "that they might turn into butterflies", which isn't quite the same thing.
I respect all the sourcing and data, and I'll read the second and third articles in detail later so thank you for that. Your name is "hindsightbias", however, and you're citing "Americans who thought invading Iraq was a great idea" as a sign of stupidity?
I literally had my sibling say that solving global warming is just about stopping Africans from having so many kids.

Ummm, no. You need to stop commuting with full sized SUVs and living in a 4,000sqft home.
If video is being served via HLS (which it probably is in 2018), then the manifests support redundant streams, where multiple hosts can be specified for each stream. [0]

hls.js supports this, as do many other clients. IME it works nicely for providing some client-side switching in case one of your hosts/CDNs goes down.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ne...
There's also the huge problem of vote suppression in the US, either via gerrymandering or by demanding IDs which most minorities don't have and are inconvinient for them to get.
not terribly uncommon in the hardware world - injection moulds are expensive!
We prototyped https://www.moonlightwork.com without code.

Here was our basic workflow:

1. Marketing site set up using Squarespace

2. Developers apply using Typeform. We add them to a Google Sheet with Zapier.

3. New jobs submitted through Typeform, which triggers an email to us

4. We manually set up a new Google Form to collect proposals. We send the results google sheet to the client.

5. We manually search for developers that match the skills of the project and email them all manually to ask them to submit a proposal using the Google Form.

6. Project owner selects a developers. We docusign a contract to both parties.

7. We send a google sheet to the developer to log hours

8. Every week we go through the developer timesheet and manually issue an invoice using PaidLabs.com (with Stripe at backend)

9. When the payment gets deposited, we pay the developer (wire transfer outside USA, Payable.com inside the USA)

We slowly automated each step with a web app, which was published part-by-part as we finished automating a particular step. We did about $100K GMV with this no-code stack before we completed the end-to-end web application.

Today, Moonlight is profitable and bootstrapped. We still manually prototype things. For example, we came up with the idea of a subscription product on Tuesday last week. We had a client agree to it, so we issued an invoice through Stripe Invoices on Friday, collected the money, and are now starting to build subscriptions into the app.
Interesting concept, but I think until NLP improves it will struggle to be effective.

for example I put in a few articles I wrote for doctors (which are tongue in cheek)

"For the love of cock, how do you know when to stop if you can’t even explain why you are on strike in the first place?"

It suggested that I replace "love" with "adoration". On the flip side it did offer rational choices for replacing "explain" What would be nice is a "you've used this word recently" feature, attached to a thesaurus/phrase book.

again, until NLP can actually understand the proper context of a common phrase, this ambitious project will suffer.

Also, what do the colours mean?