skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Releasing this data in aggregate could be seen as suppressing future absentee voters in Georgia who do not want their information released in this manner,” he said.

This was my immediate conclusion. What a transparently detestable move.
What exactly would the use of that be? I have not the slightest idea what mine might be. It wouldn't surprise me at all if I have several, as I have registered in several different towns across multiple states over the years, and I don't have a lot of confidence that those records are cross-audited and resolved.
I thought Bixby was always based on Viv tech? Was it just in-house pre-acquisition stuff before?
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not to mention an investigation on bribes to have your billboards allowed.
Scanners are legal in all 50 states. In some states its illegal to use a scanner while breaking the law ( this I find funny for some reason )

https://www.zipscanners.com/resources/are-police-scanners-le...
Ups and downs on being a generalist.

- If I stuck with a focus on database programming from my early career, I would have a very valuable specialty.

- If I stayed more technical I probably would have weathered 2008 with more sanity.

But...

- Being a generalist opened up some international work.

- I met my wife on a career tangent.

- I get bored doing the same thing over and over.

- My last two roles (in a long career) have finally pulled everything together.
Well, my current commute is 30 minutes by bicycle (South Bay), but that's about to change.

And yes, I guess living in NYC for a while seems to have affected me in many ways :)
I'm only on my third year of being a programmer, and have worked in fullstack, devops, and academia. Those of my peers that have stuck with one thing seem to be much more easily employed. My resume looks impressive but when they realize I only have a year of experience instead of three in the thing they want, it goes down hill. "But I know all these other things (that you don't care about)!" isn't super useful.
It's also quite common to interview someone for a role and find the five years experience they claim is the first year's junior experience repeated five times.

Less common, but still happens, is companies having a role that delivers that ground hog day of the first year. Possibly more common in support than dev, but still exists and not exactly rare.

So experience alone counts for little. It's what was gained from that experience that matters. :)
that's like saying bullets are ineffective because most of them miss the target.
The notion that the state of Georgia tracks party affiliation is false. Georgia Does not have party registration. the only thing it tracks is which party ballot you pull in a primary election. You can make some inferences about party affiliation by looking at the voter's history....but that is not always a reliable indicator of true party affiliation.
Thanks for posting this! Here's the result of geocoding the above list with geocod.io for anybody interested:

Forward Geocoding (Converting the addresses to latitude/longitude): https://gist.github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/13c02d45089478182c3d1...

Reverse Geocoding (Converting the lat/lon to addresses):
https://gist.github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/13c02d45089478182c3d1...

Based on the above definition, geocod.io's accuracy for reverse geocoding of this list is 95.2%

Putting this together with dbatten's original findings, the list would look like this:

Google: 97% ($4 per 1,000)

Geocod.io: 95.2% ($0.50 per 1,000)

Mapbox: 95% ($0.50 per 1,000)

TomTom: 73%
There is no way your game server can verify that the clients are actually running in a hypothetical secure mode.

Any calculation or data that client could send to your server could equally be calculated or sent by a hacked copy running in an insecure environment.
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They're not consuming 3x bandwidth if they're bailing out after downloading less then a kilobyte of a video that's tends or hundreds of megabytes in size.

That extra bandwidth is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

It could be important, though, for the client to signal the server to close the connection. Theoretically the connection would drop after several seconds and the server would stop transmitting, but I could imagine some middleware cheerfully downloading the whole stream and throwing it away.
For non academic non controversial things I highly recommend citing wikipedia. Citing wikipedia transitively cites multiple usually high quality sources, provides verification that the sources actually more or less represent the consensus on the topic instead of being someone fringe idea, and is really easy to quickly find.

Incidentally, Wikipedia insists you site secondary (third party) sources on Wikipedia itself [0,1]. Wikipedia would be a tertiary source [2] though so I think this is language thing and not a real disagreement between you and Wikipedia's policy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing_sour...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_source
Meanwhile, on Monday

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/apps-public-v...
We've put together an (objective) comparison tool here: https://www.geocod.io/compare/
Hey, are your positions available to U.S Citizens only? I've got a lot of relevant robotics experience that I think would make me a great fit.

Thanks!
Just this Monday I sent email to 162,883 Floridians who had no record of having voted before: https://enki.org/2018/11/07/encouraging-people-to-vote/

The Florida data set which I requested has the same kind of information about absentee votes and physical addresses.

I am wondering if this kind of data will become less public.
i don't know, voice control for a TV sounds pretty cool. I generally hate voice control, but there's a few very specific tasks where I find it more useful than any other UI - namely setting an alarm or creating a calendar event. Changing the input on a TV could be one of those things, if only because every TV i've ever had has been so painful to change the inputs on.
And now I can't wait for Phoenix LiveView!
Since forever.

And they do it on the onClick event, so you are mislead to believe that the link is clean (as show on your status bar on link mouse over, until the very last second)

And they do that on GMail, calendar, and even on mobile apps such as google voice and hangouts. (i.e. if you long press and copy, it is a clean url, if you touch the link, it opens a tracking redirect on the browser --which chrome hides. But you should be using firefox on android as well)

Firefox (desktop and mobile) and Chorme (only desktop because google don't want you installing adblockers on their browsers) have an extension called "Skip Redirect" that works-around this problem.
There are some common threads though. Forcing a monoculture of Windows machines tied to a Microsoft-controlled software ecology that hampered innovation vs. forcing a monoculture of GMO crops tied to a chemical corp-controlled farming ecology that hampers farming innovation.

He is good at solving big problems by forcing everyone to work the same way. Which is good until that becomes a stupid way of working that hurts everyone.
You can get knocked for spam if you do that.
No, they only need to be able to contact you.

However, as far as I know, even if you change your listed address, your _past_ addresses are still published, unfortunately. There was some movement towards ending that, but I don't think it was successful.
In Indiana it’s illegal to possess one while committing a crime, so even speeding with one installed, whether you’re using it or not, invites more legal difficulty.
Not that I can find - it's a proprietary solution for internal use only.
Given my (anecdotal) experience with audio books, I'd have to agree. I tried listen to mostly non-fiction in the car while on the highway (read: not local traffic) and despite the fact it was only me and the road I found myself fading in and out so often that I stop listening and went back to reading.

Since, I've heard / read that setting play back to a faster speed helps - because of the novelty? - but I haven't tried it myself.
I know one person who volunteers at the local marathon as a radio operator. (Not sure why standards mobile stuff hasn't replaced it.)
We used a combination of Kafka + Hbase+ Phoenix (http://phoenix.apache.org/) for similar purpose. It takes some effort to setup initial Hbase cluster but once you do it manually once and automate with Ansible /systemd it's pretty robust in operation.

All our development was around query engine using plain JDBC/SQL to talk to Hbase via Phoenix. Scaling is as simple as adding a node in the cluster.
I am waiting for these devices to be declared unconstitutional. Many states already have.
Tactical voting is only a concern if people don't fully preference, which I always do (and encourage others to do). Surely if you can be bothered to vote "tactically" you can be bothered to fully preference
This publicly available information is an excel spreadsheet with names and addresses of absentee voters in the midterm.

The article mentions two specific dangers about absentee voter lists: targeting unoccupied properties and-- related-- discouraging the absentee vote on the next election. That and the lack of ToS meant that posting this list was a bad idea.

I followed your link but didn't find any examples of wrongly posting gratis downloadable absentee lists. Instead I read examples of problems with Democrats attempting to shame people into voting based on publicly available (though not gratis downloadable) data.

That is a different issue than giving the public immediate access to absentee voting lists the day after an election. We don't need links vigilantly posted from "the other side" about a different issue to remind us that people do bad things all across the political spectrum. Please save them for a time when a poster claims that Democrats take data protection much more seriously than this. (I.e., please don't ever post them.)
More to the point, we have very clear rules and laws on the release and use of the electoral role details:

https://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/About_Electoral_Rol...

And anyone has the option of removing themselves from the roll, if they don't want their neighbours to see where they live, where:

> having my residential address shown on the publicly available roll places the personal safety of myself or members of my family at risk...
There's a big market gap between terminal text editors and GUI editors. For me, a GUI editor is a non-starter.

I do think that emacs, vim, visual studio code, et al. fall into the "not quite an IDE, but not just an editor" category.

Also through the power of LSP, vim can do anything an IDE or visual studio code can.
They wrap on iPhone
I was just making a weaker claim because honestly I didn't have enough time to properly defend a stronger one on the internet and in my experience ascribing racism explicitly to things takes a lot of effort to defend (though in this specific case that isn't true). Apologies if it was insensitive.
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We are also way more sensitive about our personal information than we used to be for some reason. When I was a boy, the local newspaper published the previous day's hospital admissions and discharges every day. At some point they stopped doing it, and now we have HIPAA which would probably result in huge fines for doing the same thing.
And I suppose you also think that Social Security is completely self funding as well?

The USPS has borrowed up to the max legal limit from the government. (currently somewhere upwards of $15b in debt.) The government has to continually increase that debt limit to keep it from folding.

They also enjoy a government imposed monopoly on delivering mail to mailboxes, pay no taxes, vehicle license fees, parking fines, nor market rate interest on their debt load.

It's not that amazing. Borrowing from the government with no end in sight is the same thing as "getting money from the government."
Presumably, that's why you still have at least level 1 support: make sure they are able to filter out the noise and get 'real' issues sent to level 2. (aggregation can be part of the filter for complaints/feature requests that aren't bugs)

There are other ways to accomplish it, but the basic idea is to never let product development get too far removed from the actual customers. Large companies can get away with not listening to the customer (for a while at least), smaller ones not so much.
So you ran a red light? Everyone has a justification for their own behavior
One of my first experiences with microcomputer hobbyists was in 1977 when I heard someone call in to WBAI late at night and playing music generated from his TRS-80 over the radio. He used the radio frequency interference from the computer to make signals that were picked up by an AM radio. Then he held the phone to his radio when he called in to WBAI to demonstrate.

After that the radio host was intrigued, and the caller said he could play the program over the radio, too, so people with TRS-80s could record the program and load it into their computer. So for the next few minutes over New York's WBAI, listeners heard the sounds of a TRS-80 cassette program being broadcast over the air.

I was so interested in these computers that I did some sleuthing and found the caller, Nat, who introduced me into an entire seedy underworld of phone phreaks, hams, pirate radio station operators, and electronics hackers. Back in these days, my parents didn't think it was odd for a 14 year old kid to hang out with people in their 20s and beyond. And that's how my 35+ year career in computers and electronics, in New York, Silicon Valley, and Israel, started.
Thank you for the links, Pretty cool stuff i’ll Take a closer look in the weekend.

I found this when I was looking for art representation of mathematical concepts, like this one that i created (is not a really good one, and the code have a lot of space for improvement):

https://jpg.computer/cantor/

The page is in português (my main language), but it try to represent the cantor set in a two dimensional form.

Do you know were i can find more “math non-generative art”?

I’m specially interested in “math profs art” but I could not find much.
Right. The classic problem is having 4 different remotes and 4 different incantations to change inputs to the right "box". Having everything integrated into the same UI is a great step up.

Of course, if that UI is crap and then doesn't get upgraded, it negates all the advantages...

I wish HDMI-CEC worked better for everyone since it could theoretically solve the problem. It actually works well on our 7-year old TV. I don't even know where our AppleTV remote is (that one with the touch pad everyone keeps complaining about), we just use the TV's remote over HDMI-CEC.
Well, given that WHOIS information is sufficient to start a social engineering attack, people are rightfully concerned.
All my files and apps setup they way I want them on a single device that's with me 24/7. Complete privacy and security because my data never leaves my device (except for backups to a time machine or iCloud).

So you don’t want your data to leave your device for privacy reason but you back it up to iCloud?
I'm not sure where the complexity is that you claim, nor what it has to do with data historians?

So what if there are missing rows? This doesn't affect the database and any aggregations will work fine. Databases don't "fill-in" data, but you can definitely write whatever SQL you need to create averages and buckets to smooth out results.

From reading your website, it seems you're talking about the "last value recorded" as of a certain time, which doesn't seem to be a common query but is totally possible. KDB+ has "asof" joins and others can handle it with window functions using last_value().

We run queries on a table containing 2.7+ trillion rows of data that has no set pattern and infinite cardinality, and results return within seconds. Window functions and joins work without issue. Have you actually tried using a columnstore?
I do contract work for a company in the travel industry and the founder of that company told me that they did basically the same thing when they started. He set up a website with hotels, etc. When customers called in, he would make the sale and afterwards call up the hotels and try to book rooms etc. If needed, he would call back the customer and change the booking. Basically optimistic strategy with rollback :-). Interestingly, he told me that at first he had no agreements with the hotels and had only a vague idea of rates, etc. He would just make it up as he went along, meaning that sometimes they would get a huge margin and sometimes he would take a loss. After he booked several rooms with a hotel he would then call them up to set up a contract. He apparently also started up the whole thing carrying just enough debt to cover the billing gap. Took no outside investment. Totally ballsy way to start up a travel company, but it worked pretty well (Doing hundreds of millions in sales per year these days).
I subscribed to my state's monthly VRDB data dump for a few years. We Democrats were trying to better understand how and why voters were being purged. My Republican collaborators were using the same data to find fraudulent registrations.

Brian Kemp is a bad apple. But what he did here is unremarkable.
Or you could just look up the social media pages of people in the town you're interested in, and see who's posting pictures from the Caribbean.
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If the state runs a partisan primary, they often want to know which party you're registered in so they can give you the correct ballot.

Some state like mine put everyone on the same ballot for the partisan primaries, and the instructions tell you to only vote in the column for your party, and if you vote in multiple parties your ballot is tossed out. Hence, we don't track which party you're "registered" as, because we don't need it - with the tradeoff of slightly more complex ballots .
I'd call it offering hope, but I'm glad you sound inspired :)
Not necessarily. If TPMs/Trusted Execution Cores come into play, Microsoft can ensure that only trusted software can understand server communications. Most modern systems already have the hardware for this, as it is required for Secure Boot.

See: Netflix 4K requiring Kaby Lake processors for their on-die DRM solution.
The thing is, there's more than just a difference of scale if you can find out a bit of data about one specific person, or a handful of specific people, and if you can find out that bit of data about the majority of the people in a population. There's a difference between being able to find out specifically if Jo Doe is a member of group X, and being able to find out all the members of group X and noticing that Jo Doe is in that group.

People can be targetted - for advertising, for harassment, for enhanced surveillance - if public information is available in the aggregate, in ways that they cannot be targetted if the information is not.

There are some types of data about individuals, where it is in the public interest for that data to be available, but it also represents an invasion of privacy if it is. So the public benefits have to be weighed against the potential for harm. The thing is, the potential for harm changes depending on "how available" the data is. If the decision on whether to make data public was made in a time where getting individual pieces of data was time-consuming and inconvenient, and getting data in the aggregate was near-impossible, then if the data suddenly becomes available in the aggregate to anyone with a passing interest in obtaining it, the trade-off that was made to determine whether the data should have been made public is no longer valid.

So saying that something is "public information" is... tricky. There are cases where we should look back at the trade-offs we made, and re-evaluate them in the light of the technology that is now available to the average person.
Undergrad in physics. 7 years in the military. Medical school, self-taught computing (mainly Unix, web stuff, and python), surgical internship, more programming, residency, more programming. Now medical director of a clinical lab with 40 staff and major research in progress, published, overseeing clinical and research employees across 10 timezones, working across 13 time zones, have briefed to highest levels of government. Stayed married and my kids seem to be doing ok.

And the sword of Damocles hangs over my neck ever day. Worth it? Probably, but still not actually clear.
It doesn't matter if Apple's goal here is to get "desktop class" A-series CPUs manufactured and shipped at scale...as a precursor to an A-series Macbook.
This could be one use case of Intel SGX: https://software.intel.com/en-us/sgx
I assume there's some mulligans hidden in the VRDB to identify abusers. Like how map makers will add fictional features to catch copyright violations.

My local political party will "lend" our data to candidates we endorse. One of the perks we offer. We have contracts, with monetary penalties. Using mulligans, we've identified a few abuses, and made them pay up.
You just might be an authoritarian. https://www.theauthoritarians.org
More likely to see something like Redox take off.
here's an example of the decoding process

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkH5yV4__3U
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I am a hobbyist programmer; I have programmed a few very simple 2d games, a 3D texture mapped terrain renderer, and some other small utilities all in C for a bit of context. I am looking for some good, and frankly easy, very small projects to read for an idea how "real programmers" engineer software and to simply learn. I am not all that interested in fancy, tricky algorithms or anything, just coherent and well engineered (and easy to digest) software. Any ideas where to start?
Not sure that google is a good advert for this method. Their products tend to be increibly frustrating to use...
Remember when john ashcroft lost to a dead guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_...
Except that's not really what break-fix support covers. Specifically, support doesn't typically touch your infrastructure; it provides advice, documentation and patches which a local team needs to actually implement.